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MJ, 25, Portugal. Mostly Harry Potter + Every single cute person and couple on the face of the earth Makes for a preety schizofrenic blog

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HARRY POTTER 20TH ANNIVERSARY RETURN TO HOGWARTS | 2022

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Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts 2022

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You know how in the movies Nevilles kind of catch frase is “Why is it always me?” ? Well isnt that just bloody ironic because the one time it would have absolutly changed his life,Harrys life, their parents, the entire history of the wizarding world, it actually wasnt him?

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i wonder who chose what would be written in James and Lily’s toumb stone. Neither of their parents were alive, I very much doubt Petunia went to the funeral, much less bothered with details such as funeral arrangements, specialy since it was James funeral too. James had no siblings, and the one boy who had been as good as one had just been arrested for being a death eater and indirectly playing a part in their deaths. Peter Petigrew was believed to be dead.

There weren’t many people left. And I’m sure there wasn’t much time to prepare for it, the war had just ended there must have been other priorities. It was a heroes funeral no doubt, their deaths assuring the end of said war.

But who was it?? Its a rather profound sentence “ The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death”. Was it Remus? Dumbledore? It’s a rather Dumbledore like thing to say isn’t it? But then again he wasn’t family, Remus would have made more sense. But in light of recent events, I don’t think Lupin would have had such positive words in him, even for his friends last goodbye.

Maybe it was something they wronte in all the graves of those who died fighting in this war, who were part of the Order? So many deaths, so many funerals…

Or maybe it was something Lily and James used to say? A usual thing everyone knew this couple to believe in. Or, even more heartbreakingly, they chose it themselves. Maybe in a time of war and death they planed their funerals and what they wanted that message to be?

I don’t know I’m breaking my own heart here

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if Dumbledore or the Potter had insisted that Peter make an unbreakable vow on top of the fidelius charm they’d still be alive, because you know that little rat was all about self preservation and he wasn’t about to die revealing the secret he supposedly only revealed to keep himself safe

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it’s so interesting to me the way J.K constructed her books. The first 4 are essentialy devided into 3 acts.

The first, from the beggining of the year until Halloween. Here Harry, his friends and magic in general are explained as if to a begginer, in such a manner that you could probably read each one of them without any previous knowlage of the rest of the story. The school year starts preety much uneventefully.

Then comes Halloween and here things start to heat up. This is where all hell breaks loose. The trool is in the dungeon, the chamber of secrets has been opened, Sirius Black has broken into the castle, the Triwizard Tournament champions have been chosen. This is also the time when our trio get into some kind of trouble. Hermione is saved from the troll by Ron and Harry, they are associated with the petrification of Mrs Norris, Sirius is an apparent real threat to Harry and Harry is one of the champions.

Thus stars the second act. From Halloween until an unclear time near the end of the school year. This is the time for investigation, looking further into the mistery started at Halloween. Books are read in the restricted section, pollyjuice potions are concucted in the girls bathroom, spiders are followed, triwizard tasks are revealed and won.

All this culminates in the third and final act. It consists of the great adventure of that year. Harry meets Quirrel/Voldemort after going through the steps with Hermione and Ron, Harry goes into the chamber and faces Tom Riddle and saves Ginny, the trio faces meets Sirius Black and find the truth about Peter Pettigrew/Scabbers and Harry is portkeyd in the cemitery and witnesses the return of Lord Voldemort.

Which is when everything changes. From the moment Voldemort return the books become less structured. You can no longer come into it without previous knowlage. The books sort of become as dark and “confusing” as Harrys mind is at that point in time.

It’s also very curious that the turning point in the story, from it being *look how awesome it is three friend in a magic school with moving stairs!!* to sort of a mistery to solve, happens to be a day with such significance to the story,-Because not only is it Halloween, the night associated with spooky things, with wiches and wizards, it’s also the night Harry’s extraordinary story began. The night he went from being a ordinary boy to being an orfan with a great and terriying destiny to fullfill. The night his parents died trying to save him. The night Lily Potter gave her life for love thus protecting Harry from certain death himself.

It’s amazing to me how beautifully and crafted Harry Potter is as a collection of books!

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Did anyone else in this great big fandom that is Harry Potter have difficulty identifying with one of the houses, and figuring out where they belonged?

I’m 22, I’ve been reading HP since I was 7 and yet only 2 or 3 years ago did I really identify as a Hufflepuff.

I never felt like I belonged in anyone of them, had anyone of the traits that define each hogwarts house. Then pottermore came along and I was select into Ravenclaw and it just…didn’t feel right?

And then I went through a rough patch, really fell down the proverbial rabbit hole when it came to mental health…and when I sort of dug myself l just…I was a Hufflepuff. And then I re took the pottermore sorting house quizz and low and behold…Hufflepuff.

I guess my question is did anyone else find that? Cause it makes me think about how those kids are selected into their houses at the age of 11 before life has really had a chance to happened (except for Harry). And how could you possible know who you are so young. And how your life changes and you change with it.

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The first Hogwarts house we learn anything about in the books is Hufflepuff. Not Gryffindor. It’s closely followed by Slytherin but Hufflepuf is the first.

Malfoy says first he’d rather not be in Hogwarts at all than be sorted into Hufflepuff. And right after Hagrid  says eveyone says Hufflepuff is a load of duffers!

Its such an unfair first impression! And it goes on through the books. Its the spare house, with the people who don’t fit into the other ones!

But fuck that! We are all the best thing from all the other houses. We are who others wish they could be! When I think of good people really good people I think of the best traits of an Hufflepuff.

So when sweet inocent Harry says he bets he’s an Hufflepuff despondently…he was wrong! Gryffindor is a great house, and thank God he was there to be with Ron and Hermione and build his family we now know….but he would have been beeter than fine with Hufflepuff

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I think a lot about the first time Harry goes to Kings Cross on his first year.

First, I’m always shocked that the Drusleys just leave him there knowing he doesn’t know where he is going. An 11 year old they are supposed to take care of. And they just leave him all alone in a busy train station, drive off laughing. Who does that? Did they come back later and look for him? Did they assume he got to Hogwarts safely? Did they just not care? I always think what would have happened to Harry had the Weasleys not crossed his path at the exact right time.

And on that note how do all first year Muggle borns know how to get to the train? Not all of them stumble across the Weasleys. And as far as we know they just get the same letter Harry did with no further information, leaving them perhaps even more clueless than Harry. What do the their parents think. I’m always curious how did that morning go for Hermione?

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“A lot of the things we read in fiction in Harry Potter were actually believed in and enacted upon in history in the past.”

HARRY POTTER: A HISTORY OF MAGIC (2017), a documentary narrated by Imelda Staunton

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You don’t want to go making friends with the wrong sort. I think I can tell the wrong sort for myself, thanks.  

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I’m rereading Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone and it kinda hit me, the Centaurs knew that Harry would die. Firenze saves Harry and all the others get angry, saying they are not to set themselves against the heavens and points out “have we not read what is to come in the movements of the planets”. Firenze tells Harry before he leaves that he hopes they have read the planets wrong. Firenze, Bane and Ronan knew Harry Potter would die in that forest by the hand of Voldemort, only not when. So when Harry shows up in the forest and is nearly killed by Quirell and Voldemort that inhabits his body, Bane and Ronan believed this is what the planets meant. Firenze saving him goes against that. They were not angry he helped Harry but because they believe Firenze interfered what was foretold. Even Firenze refuses to tell Harry why they are angry, because he can’t bring himself to tell an 11 year old “you are supposed to die in here”. Of course, what no one knows is that the centaurs will be right. Harry will die in there by the hand of Voldemort, only that it will happen 6 years later.

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Harry Potter + saying goodbye to his cupboard

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Harry Potter, the boy who lived… come to die.