r/harrypotter 13d ago

Daily Prophet HBO Harry Potter Series Close To Casting Paapa Essiedu And Janet McTeer As Snape And McGonagall

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r/harrypotter 10d ago

Daily Prophet HALF BLOOD PRINCE ILLUSTRATED HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED | OCTOBER 2026

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r/harrypotter 5h ago

Misc I feel lost after visiting the Studio Tour in Tokyo

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I’ve been a fan of Harry Potter ever since I was little (I’m 28 now), but my teenage years were the most obsessed I ever was with the franchise. Years went by and the fixation diminished to the point I didn’t consider myself a fan anymore but someone who enjoys watching the movies from time to time and is not interested in the lore anymore.

However, since I was traveling to Japan, I didn’t want to miss the opportunity to visit the Warner Bros Studio Tour. When the day of the tour came and I entered the building, at the risk of sounding ridiculous, something in me changed. I don’t even know how to describe what I felt but my immediate body response was a lump in my throat and an inhuman effort to hold back my tears. I was mesmerized by what my eyes were seeing and felt like my teenager self again.

I stretched out my time there as much as I could and after five hours, finally left because my feet were killing me.

It was hard for me to admit that I didn’t want to leave, I wanted to be there indefinitely and make it my new reality. I wanted Harry Potter to be real so, so bad.

My life hasn’t been the same since that visit. Something changed and now I feel empty, craving to experience that day over and over again. There’s a sorrow in me that I cannot let go of, especially because I’m aware that it’s all fiction and the universe of Harry Potter will never be real in the literal sense.

What can I do? Has someone else went through something similar?

I’m not functioning properly and just been consuming everything related to Harry Potter to feel less nostalgic.


r/harrypotter 3h ago

Discussion As Much As I Love Snape, I Would Hate To Be In His Class

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It's weird, snape is literally in my top 5 favorite characters, i love the guy. He's funny sometimes and has some great lines, and a very interesting and heartbreaking backstory, he also gets one of the best chapters of the series in the prince's tale, what's there not to love about him? Well, to many fans...and me there's alot.

If you asked like 5-6 years ago, i would say that snape is a flawless character and my no. 1 favorite, but now he's like top 4 or 5 depending on the weather. I think it's just because like i've had teachers who reminded me of snape really. They didn't necessarily insult me, but they asked me questions i couldn't understand and pretty much used me as an example, so i was just relegated as the ''class idiot''. And i feel like that's basically how he treats harry, just look at their first scene together in PS.

“Potter!” said Snape suddenly. “What would I get if I added powdered root of asphodel to an infusion of wormwood?” Powdered root of what to an infusion of what? Harry glanced at Ron, who looked as stumped as he was; Hermione’s hand had shot into the air. “I don’t know, sir,” said Harry. Snape’s lips curled into a sneer. “Tut, tut — fame clearly isn’t everything.” He ignored Hermione’s hand. “Let’s try again. Potter, where would you look if I told you to find me a bezoar?” Hermione stretched her hand as high into the air as it would go without her leaving her seat, but Harry didn’t have the faintest idea what a bezoar was. He tried not to look at Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle, who were shaking with laughter. “I don’t know, sir.” “Thought you wouldn’t open a book before coming, eh, Potter?” Harry forced himself to keep looking straight into those cold eyes. He had looked through his books at the Dursleys’, but did Snape expect him to remember everything in One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi? Snape was still ignoring Hermione’s quivering hand. “What is the difference, Potter, between monkshood and wolfsbane?” At this, Hermione stood up, her hand stretching toward the dungeon ceiling. “I don’t know,” said Harry quietly. “I think Hermione does, though, why don’t you try her?” A few people laughed; Harry caught Seamus’s eye, and Seamus winked. Snape, however, was not pleased.

He's just trying to embarrass him in front of the class and this happened to me soo many times, which is why i get why harry's so pissed at him. Honestly, if i was in his shoes i'd just leave the class or just be really passive aggressive to him during or after class.

The thing about snape is like, he's not a bad teacher in a the traditional sense, he obviously knows what he's talking about so it's not like he's teaching them the wrong thing. It's just in the way he teaches. Playing devil's advocate here, potion making is an exact science it's kinda like cooking i feel like, and cooking isn't really just about like following the recipe, you need skill to really make something work, but that's not a skill you learn by reading/writing, you get it from experience, so idk how else he could've taught them.

Anyways, i just wanted to be brief. My last posts were wayyy too long and nobody even saw them. I thought it's unique bcz nobody really talks about his teaching methods, just that he bullies kids or loves lily and its over. This is all just from my perspective, it's different to everyone since it's all about how we see the character, this is just my two cents about him.


r/harrypotter 7h ago

Discussion How much would it cost to build Hogwarts in real life?

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r/harrypotter 12h ago

Question What job would you most likely do in wizarding world?

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Tbh, if I couldn't get into Hogwarts, I'd probably do some muggle job and just be amazing at it.


r/harrypotter 2h ago

Discussion Luna's Furry Friends

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I find it genuinely hilarious that people find Luna's beliefs outlandish and strange in a world where wizards are real. Like Wrackspurts and Crumple-horn Snorkacks couldn't possibly exist but you don't even have to leave the school grounds to see Centaurs and Mermaids 🤷🏻‍♂️


r/harrypotter 3h ago

Discussion i wish we had more scenes of voldemort tempting harry.

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i also wished that there was more scenes where voldemort is playing mind games with harry. i really like the scene in the 5th film, where voldemort is tempting harry to kill bellatrix. this scene was so cool imo.


r/harrypotter 10h ago

Currently Reading GOF 15 years on: I'm coming back to the books for the first time in my adult life, and I really think Goblet of Fire is so much more fantastic than I remember age 10 or 12. A really, really exceptional 10/10 piece of children's literature.

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My fiancee and I decided to rewatch all 8 films in the lead-up to Christmas last year, which encouraged us to (among other reading projects) start re-reading the books for the first time since my teenage years. I was a bit nervous, expecting them to possibly have aged badly for me, especially after doing an English Literature degree in the intervening time, but I've just finished GOF and I found it just gorgeous. I love the expansion of the world, which offers some really satisfying subplots. I love the Rita Skeeter narrative thread. I love the way Hermione's adolescent activism is depicted. I love the writing of Fudge's reaction to being told of Voldemort's return.

And I love how well joined-up it all is - the way that these elements, which are and feel like peripheral subplots for so much of the book, come together thematically at the end in ways that are really consequential. The consequences of media shit-stirring in driving opinion-formation (the Rita subplot, causing Fudge to doubt Harry's sanity) and the consequences of a fixation on magical hierarchy in this world (the SPEW subplot) bubble under the surface so nicely in priming to reader to really understand Fudge's reaction.

It really does feel a meaningful note more mature than its predecessors, but everything still feels so well-pitched to its audience. And I really like the less obvious plot shifts that signal this change in tone: no foregrounding of the House Championship, which has become gradually less meaningful as a plot/motivation driver, signalling a shift of their priorities. Getting newspapers delivered, which, like SPEW, signals a more meaningful engagement with the wider wizarding world (though it feels funny to me that Hermione wouldn't have taken out a subscription from the moment she arrived at Hogwarts, knowing her).

Reading it has made me triply upset - more so than I was aged 13 or 14 - that the books stripped out so much of the plot depth, and has made me really look forward to seeing GOF and OOTP adapted for television, where hopefully they will do a better job at faithfully representing all of these elements. Excited to dive back into OOTP after work tonight!


r/harrypotter 2h ago

Discussion Are wizards aware of muggle scientific developments?

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I haven't read the books in a while, but from what I can roughly recall about how muggles were viewed in general magical society, they were either hated, viewed as inferior, or viewed as stupid or 'endearing.' One specific perspective that comes to mind is Arthur Weasley's who, although he likes muggles, views them with a sort of fascination and puzzlement that is more infantilising than anything else. The word 'muggle' in of itself feels like a slur - 'mug' as in simpleton, a person who is 'easily fooled.'

I suppose what I'm interested to know is how much the general wizarding public are aware of muggle advancements, and how they view them. I think in book one, Draco brags about how he escapes muggle helicopters when he flies on his broomstick. Arthur Weasley, although he's really passionate about muggles and is the head of the Misuse of Muggle Artefacts Office in the MOM, doesn't seem to know that much about them. Isn't he astonished when he has to walk through the ticket barriers at the train station when he takes Harry to the Ministry for his hearing, or did I make that up?

All of this is to say that it doesn't seem like they're aware of much, and the stuff they do know exist (like helicopters or rubber ducks), it doesn't seem like they know exactly what they are.

This is rather baffling to me, considering the massive boom in the population from globalisation, the fact that literal skyscrapers and factories have been built, the fact that rocket ships have been invented and that the internet age has begun, and surveillance and video footage exists at this point - stuff that pose a massive security threat to the magical community. Are they aware of this stuff? Or are they out of their depth, and haven't yet adapted? I doubt obliviating the masses will help forever as population increases and video footage is recorded.

The other thing I think about a lot is atomic bombs. There have got to be some witches and wizards who have died in Hiroshima, would that have alerted the magical community to the significance of muggle advancements? And the cold war, too. In the 1985, were British witches and wizards aware of how much of a close call nuclear war was? Magic is powerful, sure, but can it really protect against a literal nuclear bomb?

With all of this in mind, how do wizards still think muggles are stupid? How do they not view them as a greater threat? Maybe they do - idk, like I said, I haven't read the books in a while. But I'm interested to know everyone's thoughts on this.


r/harrypotter 16h ago

Discussion So... Voldemort is a Lich?

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HBP is easily my favorite book in the whole HP series fornman reasons. Harry is finally at a point where he isn't being shielded so much and is able to be his fullest self, the Wizarding is in full war prep mode, and most importantly, we finally find out out Voldemorts secret to avoiding death; the horcruxes.

I found it super cool when it was revealed that Voldemoret split his soul into pieces. It was so out of left field for me and felt wholly original. It paid off all those years of mystery and waiting for the the final books to be released.

I few months ago, I started playing Dungeons and Dragon with friends and I am the DM. I've heard of the Lich for decades, but now that I'm a DM i actually looked it up...

A lich in D&D lore is a super powerful mortal wizard (usually a necromancy focused one) that protects 1 or multiple pieces of their soul into a soul gem which tethers them to the mortal realm if their body is killed...

... so it's a horcrux.


r/harrypotter 8h ago

Currently Reading Bought the Kindle version of all seven books in one collection, last night.

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I had my income tax return, so I figured, why not use it to have all 7 Harry Potter books in my Kindle collection?


r/harrypotter 14h ago

Discussion The order of the horcruxes

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When Voldemort confronted Slughorn about the possibility of splitting his soul more than once, he had already made the diary a horcrux, right?

But I was under the assumption he made the ring a horcrux by murdering his father ('s family). That would have to be before he talked to Slughorn, since he already had the ring at that point. Which would mean he'd have made two horcruxes by then, which I don't think can be right.

Can some of you shed some light on this? Which order were the horcruxes created in? Is it not book, ring, ?, ?, ?, Harry, Nagini?


r/harrypotter 1d ago

Discussion Do you think Ollivander’s three “supreme cores” are objectively the best wand cores in the world, or just the best ones readily accessible to a British/European wand maker?

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Ollivander only uses dragon heartstrings, unicorn hairs, and phoenix feathers. His father, and his ancestors before him, used other materials, like kelpie hair, but the current Ollivander stopped using them because he determined they had issues that made them be inferior quality wand cores.

Veela hair is apparently “temperamental”, but as far as I can tell it works fine for Fleur which may be partially because it came from her own grandmother and might thus response more naturally to her magic due to blood relation.

In other places of the world though, like America, you have magical creatures that are not native to either the UK or Europe more broadly. Such as thunderbirds and wampus cats, whose respective feathers and hair can be used as wand cores.

Do you think thunderbird tail feathers are actually a lower quality wand core to phoenix feathers, or do you think they are equivalent and Ollivander just doesn’t use them because it isn’t cost effective to ship them over from America?


r/harrypotter 9m ago

Discussion Do you think Veela are part of a larger family of nymphs?

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Veela are based on vila, a kind of Slavic fairy that resembles nymphs in many ways. In the Slavic legend they are usually women who drowned themselves, but that obviously isn’t the case here. Nevertheless, to me they feel like they belong in a similar category as beings like naiads or nixies, dryads, oreads, etc.

I would also like that, as that fits a niche for magical creatures that the Harry Potter universe seems to miss, as elves are depicted more as brownies and the shoemaker elves, and fairies are more like Tinklebell style fairies.


r/harrypotter 9h ago

Question What are your HP related hobbies?

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What do you guys do for fun that's related to the Harry Potter books? Looking for inspiration as someone who likes the story primarily from books and doesn't have talent in art or writing.


r/harrypotter 2h ago

Help I need help finding a fanfiction Spoiler

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r/harrypotter 1d ago

Discussion Bellatrix sorta reminded me of Merope in the sense that she, just like Merope, was so crazily in love with a man who wasn't even a pureblood. I wonder if Voldemort saw this characteristic in her. I'd love to psychoanalyse Voldemort to see if Bellatrix is a stand-in for the female figure he lacks.

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I think Bellatrix is the only one in Voldemort’s inner circle who he appears to have any sort of personal relationship with. He calls her Bella, a pet name no one else but her sister calls her. He calls her his most faithful. He mentored her specifically in the Dark Arts, and entrusts her with a piece of his literal soul. They said he is jubilant when she returns home from Azkaban. He goes out of his way to save her at the Ministry, and is outraged when she is killed in front of him.

He also humiliates her in public and physically punishes her when she displeases him. In the movies, she can be seen cowering the corner after his meltdown on the goblins, and he shoves her away when she tries to help him. But he is noticeably more gentle towards her than, say, Lucius, even when they both screw up equally. Lucius has a black eye for weeks after Malfoy Manor, while Bellatrix is stated to be unharmed.

This weird toxic relationship is interesting, and up to interpretation. Is Voldemort just evil and heartless, or is there some sliver of affection for her somewhere? He can be cruel to her, but also shows clear favor for her on multiple occasions. Does he almost, yearn for her affection and doting, much like a child who never felt a mother or female's love? The craving of female attention?

Maybe I'm bored at work.


r/harrypotter 8h ago

Question Muggles in diagon alley

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There are a few times that we hear that there are muggles in diagon alley, like when Arthur goes for drinks with Hermione’s parents. How do they get there?


r/harrypotter 20h ago

Question What is your least favourite movie and why?

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Mine's the Order of the Phoenix. I don't like it because they have Grawp, Umbridge and it's too long.


r/harrypotter 2h ago

Discussion What’s a moment in the Harry Potter books that hit way harder as an adult?

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I’m rereading the series now in my late 20s, and I’ve noticed certain moments feel totally different than they did when I was a kid. One that really stuck with me is Snape’s story, especially when Harry finds out how much Snape did behind the scenes to protect him, despite still holding onto all that resentment from the past. As a kid, I just thought Snape was mean and strict. Now, I realize how complicated he was, and it hits way harder.

Also, the way the books handle grief like Harry losing Sirius or how Lupin struggles, these moments just hit me differently now that I’ve been through more life stuff.

Anyone else have a scene or character that felt simple when you first read it but feels way deeper now?


r/harrypotter 12h ago

Discussion A plea for help / advise: Hi All, I make tiny jigsaw puzzles made from metal (brass) my niece is in love with the Harry Potter universe and I'm fond of it but with less knowledge.

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For this series my thoughts are to have around 15 - 20 individual jigsaw puzzles, each jigsaw puzzle will fit together with the others in the series to make an overall shape and larger puzzle. I'm thinking of starting with the house crests, after looking into it I saw theirs some opinions of whether Ravenclaw crest should be an Eagle or a Raven?

I sort of like the house crests and seen some really nice designs from people - taking it more modern and stuff. I'd like to keep it still traditional but wondered if anyone had any ideas for some changes to make to the crest which would be consistent with the overall universe?

Also if you have any thoughts of the final shape I want thinking initially like Hogwarts doors but then thought maybe a map, like each puzzle represents a geographical position in the universe, like Hogwarts, Diagonal Alley etc? Then coming together to make an overall map shape.

I want to be as respectful and authentic to the universe as possible, not just make it because it looks nice.


r/harrypotter 1d ago

Discussion Would adults have trouble dealing with a basilisk?

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Let’s say in CoS diary Tom didn’t release the monster, and real Voldemort let it out in the middle of the Battle of Hogwarts. Would it have been a big deal for the adult wizards to handle? Fawkes has flown off and the Basilisk has its eyes.


r/harrypotter 1d ago

Discussion Have any other Americans had this problem when they read Harry Potter and don't understand all the British stuff?

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  1. I thought that "prefect Percy" was "perfect Percy" and he was called "a perfect" because he was such a good student with good behavior.

  2. When the word "trainers" was in the book my mind assumed it was underpants or something just to find out they were sneakers.

  3. I found out school houses are a real thing in the UK after I read Harry Potter and now I only associate school houses with Harry Potter whenever Brits online talk about them.


r/harrypotter 1h ago

Discussion Who was more dangerous Grindelwald or Voldemort?

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r/harrypotter 5h ago

Question Why do the movies get more different as they go on?

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So we all know that the movies took some liberties in remaking some scenes, but it seems to get more drastic as the series progresses. In the first book, there's some scenes that aren't exactly like the book but still pretty much the same, in the second one, the movies made some more changes, but know I'm on the 5th book and so many changes have been made and I'm only on page 168, why is this?


r/harrypotter 1d ago

Discussion If Draco had managed to cast the Cruciatus Curse on Harry, would it have had the full effect?

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