Amph Gaming Diagon Alley: The Official Harry Potter Thread/Hogwarts Legacy

But it was real in my mind goddamnit!!!!

 

J.K. Rowling writing prelude to Harry Potter

http://screencrush.com/harry-potter-prequel/

Focuses on Harry as a outcast before he is goes to Hogwarts

 

Yuck.

 

Why is it yuck? Shouldn't ur reaction be like YESSS more HARRY!!!

 

it's a stage play and she's not writing it.

 

I want some Butterbeer, does look good

 

Why did Voldemort kill Lily? It totally messed his plan.

 

It is pretty amusing to think that if Voldemort was slightly more kind-hearted, and have let Lily live as per Snape's request, then he'd have killed Harry and likely won. On the flip-side, if Voldemort has been a little more cruel and flat out ignored Snape's request and killed Lily immediately without offering her a chance to give over Harry and escape, then it wouldn't have caused the spell to rebound, as it wouldn't have been a pure sacrifice.

Voldemort was exactly the amount of good-evil to utterly screw up his plans.

 

I won't call it kind-hearted, it's more like "don't kill when mercy is going to benefit you".

 

Not only was Lily defying the Dark Lord, but she was a Muggle-born who was defying the Dark Lord. That he carried out Snape's request, if only for a moment, is probably the only "good" act Voldemort did after taking the title.

 

A true mastermind wouldn't mind some mockery, like Palpatine. Knock Lily out and give her to Snape is going to let Snape be 100% loyal to him, and Lily could not cause him any threat, it's also going to let him kill Harry without anyone mess up.

I think Lucius is the smartest villain in the series, others are too dense sometimes.

 

He killed her cause she wouldn't step aside

 

I guess my interpretation of Voldemort is different to yours, because I wouldn't compare him to Palpatine. Voldemort demands loyalty. You give it or you die, or worse. The only time I can recall Voldemort actually helping any of his followers was when he gave Pettigrew his arm back, and even that was actually designed to kill him.

Agreed on Lucius though, he was smart about trying to manipulate events for Voldemort's return while also achieving his own goals. Unfortunate for him that he didn't know of the Diary's true purpose, and how grave an error it was to allow it out of his grasp.

 

Yeah, I think he viewed anyone who dared to oppose or disobey him directly as foes that must be exterminated, but sometimes it's not the wise thing to do, even as a villain.

Still he and his family got away by betraying his master.

 

I agree completely, but I don't think Voldemort particularly cared about being subtle at the height of his power, as he thought himself invincible with the Horcruxes he had created. He did show subtlety at other points of his life though, such as when he wanted to obtain information from Slughorn, or even during his rise to power during the Second Wizarding War.

Yep, considering the amount of failure the Malfoys managed to be a cause of, they were very lucky to come out of the war mostly unscathed.

 

I don't think Rowling has said it anywhere but I'm sure that all three faced jail time. Not with dementors (I'm sure Kingsley used the most of the dictatorial powers of the Minister of Magic and revamped Azkaban) but they had done a lot of Unforgivable Curses. The Wizard Judiciary System isn't very merciful.

 

Double post

 

Triple post.

 

Kingsley dismissed the Dementors, and Umbridge saw jail time

 

Urgh. It didn't even post my paragraph. Here goes again...

I watched DH Part 2 again yesterday and when Harry is in the forest with the ghosts, he mentions Remus' son. However, he was never told in story. The only mention would be in part 1 during the poly juice when Tonks mentioned she had to tell him something. Other than that nothing.

Also, when Voldemort and Harry are duelling on the staircase, is Voldemort casting Avada Kedavra repeatedly? It looks like it and Harry is going all god mode on him. And what was up with Voldemort disintegrating at the end? They took a perfect book ending in the Great Hall and ruined it. I mean whose idea was that?

 

Deathly Hallows Part 2 had emotionally the most shallow ending of all eight movies and sort of made you wonder what was the point. Such a shame because earlier in that same film, the "Prince's Tale" sequence was one of the moving sequences I've seen in all of cinema. A good movie on the whole, but that terrible ending makes it feel very disjointed.

 

I've posted this multiple times before, but the ending of the Deathly Hallows book was just terrible. I truly can't believe that after the emotional complexity of the previous books Rowling found three pages of celebratory fluff after Voldemort's death to be a fitting end for the series.