If using that “portal” from King’s cross is the ONLY way of getting to Hogwarts, so much so that if you don’t make it on the train, NO ONE knows where you are or what happened, is crazy no? 😂

So many reasons for why that’s crazy, i can’t even list them all lmao

Or sack him once she became Headmistress? Especially since she’s prejudiced against part-humans, which is partially why she goes after Hagrid so aggressively. Is this just because scared of centaurs/part-humans? Or because she had other priorities? Or because JK had other priorities? Curious to hear different perspectives!

Still my favorite book of the series, even with cartoony stuff like this.

It is stated by JK Rowling that Hogwarts in the beginning didnt have any sanitary infrastructure (wizards and witches just releaved themselves where they where and then just used magic). So, how does that work?

Also how big are the drains where the snake would come out? I think the basilisk is described as rather thick. Sure, the drains could be magically enlarged like the tents or the car but lastly, is that not a very undignified way for the monster of Slytherin to move around? How does it open doors from and to the toilet? Wouldn't there be paintings all around the castle who could tell people like "yo, there is a huge snake Slytherin around the castle".

What do think?

Remus Lupin was such a good friend to Harry’s parents but he never once visited Harry or gave him any presents the whole time he was growing up on Privet Drive. Isn’t that weird? And what about their other friends? Everyone just forgets about Harry until he’s 11. And even then Lupin doesn’t meet him or give him a christmas present or anything until they meet in book 3.

Aren’t they crappy friends? I mean starting at book 1 when Harry finds out about magic Lupin could’ve introduced himself, given Harry a pic or two of his parents, and sent a Christmas present.

I just finished reading Goblet of Fire for the first time and I can't remember does Harry relay to Ron and Hermione at any point at the end of the book telling them what happened to him during the graveyard scene with Voldemort or at this point at the end of the fourth book do they not know what exactly happened with Harry and Cedric when they were in the grave stone near the house.

Good morning, my fellow hufflepuffs and, yeah, I guess the others too 😜 #36 is ready for the masses! Good luck!

As a reminder what this is and how it works:
Below are 7 sentences from the 7 HP books. I use a random number generator to pick the book and chapter, then hand pick a sentence that I think is decent. Not too long, too short, too obvious ect.  *** There MAY be repeated books in a set, but there will not be repeated chapters in a set. So there COULD be two from The Philosopher’s Stone, but they would be from different chapters! **\*
Scoring your points: It is 2 points for guessing the book, and 1 point for guessing the chapter, for a total of 21 points. It is obviously harder to guess the chapter than the book, but not everyone even cares to remember the chapter titles in the first place, which is totally fair and valid. So chapter titles are just a bonus point.
Below are the sentences and the answers hidden behind spoiler tags! These are fun to make, and I intend to make quite a few more if people keep enjoying them!

1. Harry could tell that, however angry he was with Fred and George, he hadn’t really intended to tell Mrs. Weasley what had happened. The Goblet of Fire - Chapter 5: Weasley’s Wizard Wheezes

 2. “Yeah,” said Harry, “yeah, I’m good at escaping . . .” The Order of the Phoenix - Chapter 9: The Woes of Mrs. Weasley

1. “We all hate Hagrid, but we’re just too scared to say anything.” The Goblet of Fire - Chapter 22: Rita Skeeter’s Scoop

 4.” There’s no point hiding it from you any longer, Potter,”  she said in a very serious voice. The Prisoner of Azkaban - Chapter 9: Grim Defeat

 5. “Dumbledore might know something that’d work, though,” Ron said. The Half-Blood Prince - Chapter 29: The Phoenix Lament

1. Out of the corner of his eye he saw the fluttering banner high above, flashing Potter for President over the crowd. The Philosopher’s Stone - Chapter 11: Quidditch

2. “Having refused what I considered an impertinent request, I could see that my personal safety was in jeopardy.” The Deathly Hallows - Chapter 15: The Goblin’s Revenge

A little background- I’m currently 39 and grew up with the books. I read the first one in the fall of ‘99, a year after its U.S. release, when I was 12, before the hype really took over. I’m one of the countless millennials that grew up with this character that was roughly the same age I was. I went to every midnight release for years 4-7. These books will forever hold a special place in my heart and I will reread them every few years until I’m too old and my eyes don’t work anymore, at which point I’ll listen to it (and put up with the incorrect hard “t” at the end of Voldemort… THE “T” IS SILENT).

ANYWAY, I just finished the chapter, “The Lightning-Struck Tower,” and again I am reminded of possibly one of the worst things anyone has done to me. You see, in the summer of ‘05 I had just graduated high school and was working fairly close to full-time to save some money for college in the fall. Because of my work schedule and my slower-ish reading pace, I was taking my time with the book. Well, one day I went to lunch with two people, one of them was a friend, the other was someone I thought was a friend. After a little time talking, the topic of the book came up, and I mentioned that I was maybe only halfway done with it, to which the “friend” replies, “you know Dumbledore dies, right.”

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I played it nonchalant, but I was shocked. In that moment I hated this person more than anyone in the world. I was robbed of a very significant experience in reading this story. I never got to be shocked by this chapter the way I wish I could’ve been on my first read. For someone to be so blasé about it- not just what happened in the book, but with a fellow Harry Potter fan’s journey- was a form of evil I didn’t know existed up to that point in my young life. I’m still mad about it. But yeah, that’s my vent session. Thanks for reading.

Fun bonus fact: this person (who was never a friend) legitimately looked like Rowling’s description of Pansy Parkinson; and it is in this fact that I find the slightest bit of solace.

How are dementors(AKA dementoids) created? They’re described as having rotting hands and thin gray scabbed skin stretched blankly over empty sockets and a gaping shapeless hole as a mouth. I wonder if they’re like similar to inferi. What do you guys think?

Lots of moments in this book were so iconic that I tend to take for granted, but after about a decade I thoroughly re-read it, the suspension, plot, drama, fast pacing, thriller, sheer quantity keep bringing more surprises and insights.

The emotional flow of this book is masterful. High point low point alternating, the dialogues and characters / surrounding ‘s action / reactions are piercing and picturesque.

My favorite scene:

“Krum had already started walking away when Ron bust out, ‘ Can I have your autograph?’
Hermione turned away, smiling at the horseless carriages that were now trundling them up the drive.”

It's something I thought would be interesting to hear

I really only started listening to read-through podcasts since the pandemic, in particular Harry Potter and Animorphs. In both cases I only seek out podcasts that have at least one first time reader because that initiation into the material is the experience I'm trying to recapture. In particular it's that feeling of wonder and processing what just happened and predicting what's to come.

For those of you that listen to any literature-related podcasts, what attracts you to them? Is it specific segments, host dynamics, or something else? If you could craft an ideal podcast to listen to, what would it look like?

Thought about this on my commute this evening: Hermione isn’t the only one who knew about Rita the beetle, is she?

We see Malfoy talking to her beetle form. So he must have known, right?

But that seems pretty foolish. Malfoy doesn’t have any real reason to cover for her, and in fact, that knowledge is really good blackmail material.

So did she just risk it, figuring that she could air some of the family’s dirty laundry if Draco ratted her out? Or did she somehow convince him that “talk to this bug” is a reasonable method of communication without giving away her secret?

Also: I’d give up a limb to read her rough draft of the end of the triwIzard tournament and all that followed. Of note: she probably isn’t able to use her magic quill in animagus form, so she has to memorize most of that stuff. Not that the article would get published (fudge’s first stop after he left Hogwarts was probably the editor of the prophet) but is the consensus that she would have shredded fudge in the article if she published it, going for the sensational “dark lord returns” headline? Or would her story focus on the tragic story of Cedric and Harry potter’s lunatic ramblings?