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I'm the loser house.
Haven't read all the books yet so I can't say which one is my favorite. I only had 1, 2, 3 and 5.
My favorite movie is the chamber of secrets, the prisoner of azkaban is also cool.
I have a doll of gilderoy lockhart and also ron so I guess they are my favorites.. I don't know why I like lockhart.. I don't remember how he was in the book.
I don't like ginny, she is very boring and annoying and I'll never understand why she and harry got together. Awful pairing, 0 chemistry, I hate it.
My least favorite movie was the half blood prince.
Didn't read the cursed child, don't even know what's that about.
I had the fantastical beasts book that was, well about the beasts and I like the one that were once humans that were turned into beasts by other witches and they're stuck forever in that form because they killed the witches that could undo the spell or something like that, idk, been years since I read it but I remember that and the mat beast that eats people, which made me afraid of my pillow for a while after reading it.
The movies kinda sucks and I didn't get what the hell was going on. Didn't ezra miller character die?
No. 156443
> What Hogwarts house are you?Recently accepted that I'm a Hufflepuff, even though I wanted Ravenclaw
> Which character is your favorite?Fred and George.
> Which character do you dislike the most?Umbridge is obviously the most hateable, Snape was not redeemed for bullying innocent kids in my eyes either
> Who is your favorite professor? Based McGonagall and Hagrid if he counts
> What are your thoughts on the spin-offs? (Cursed child, Fantastic Beasts etc)Haven't seen or read Cursed Child, Fantastic Beasts is ok but I barely think of it as HP related
> What spin-off would you like to see? A Marauder era series!! Full length, no detail spared.
> What is your favorite book + movie? 4-6 for both
> What is your least favorite book + movie? Book 7 for both
God please just give me a full length, high budget HBO tier tv series covering every moment of the books. Alternatively an animated series. And an MMO! A proper desktop game has so much potential. I think HP is way underutilized as a franchise considering how hugely popular it is, they could do so much more with it.
>>156440JK has fully redeemed herself by terfing out, don't speak ill of the queen.
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Thanks for starting the thread anon!
Love HP, Fantastic Beasts was terrible and I haven't seen any other spin-offs.
Our terven queen has also redeemed herself by writing the Cormoran Strike books, completely unrelated to HP but very good.
No. 156460
>>156424> What Hogwarts house are you?Ravenclaw
> Which character is your favorite?Hagrid. I would trust him with my life
> Which character do you dislike the most?Cho Chang, she struck me as very dull. I find most of the characters compelling even if I don't necessarily like them as people, but there's nothing compelling about a character written only as 'the love interest' imo.
> Who is your favorite professor?I'd love to have Lupin or Flitwick if it's in terms of who you'd actually like as a teacher.
> What are your thoughts on the spin-offs? (Cursed child, Fantastic Beasts etc)I had that Fantastic Beasts book they released for comic relief, with all of Ron & Harry's notes in, I thought that was nice!
> What spin-off would you like to see? It'd be great if they released more in-universe spell books! Any of the transfiguration spell books would be interesting (and handy for OC making, haha). Also, any of Lockhart's fake adventures!
> What is your favorite book + movie? I haven't seen any of the movies! My unpopular Harry Potter opinion is that I only really count the books as true canon, and the films are more or less visual fanfic. If you like them, that's fine, I just don't see them as integral to the HP experience. Anyway, my favourite book is Goblet of Fire
> What is your least favorite book + movie?I can't decide. I'm not as fond of 5-7 because I only had 1-4 as a child, so I know the first four basically off by heart and the last few have less of a personal connection for me.
No. 156465
There was talk of a HBO series earlier this year. Is this still happening?
https://metro.co.uk/2021/01/25/harry-potter-tv-series-in-early-development-at-hbo-max-13963293/>>156460How come you haven't seen the movies?
No. 156468
> What Hogwarts house are you?Hufflepuff which I don't mind because I value being loyal and hard working a lot. The common room for Hufflepuff looks like a hobbit house which I really love to!
> Which character is your favorite?Probably Ron and second place is Luna.
> Which character do you dislike the most?Snape he was such a bully and treated the kids horrible even making fun of Hermione's teeth when she was 13. He's a dick and should never have been a teacher.
> Who is your favorite professor? McGonagall because she's such a badass and has some savage lines in the books
> What are your thoughts on the spin-offs? (Cursed child, Fantastic Beasts etc)
The first Fantastic Beasts was okay the second was horrible, Cursed child was literally cursed kek.
> What spin-off would you like to see?Oh I'm not sure tbh maybe about the Hogwarts founders?
> What is your favorite book + movie? My fave book is the 4th and my fave movie is the 3th.
> What is your least favorite book + movie? Book 2 has a very boring first part imo, I think that the second movie i also disliked the most. The 7th movie had a lot of boring parts especially all the camping.
One thing I'm still very sad about is the pottermore website, I remember that it used to be a very cool almost point and click adventure game for free! But then they removed everything and it was made a boring blog.
>>156455Same tho, i hate how much they butchered Ron's character in the movie and how they made Hermione so boring. It also doesn't help that when I read the books as a kid Ron was my favorite character and I related alot with him.
>>156456It doesn't sound insane at all, I love the idea of a harry potter series that follows the book more closely!
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> What Hogwarts house are you?
11 yo me was a huge nerd so i probably would've ended up in Ravenclaw.msot tests i've taken give me Slytherin now tho
> Which character is your favorite?
McGonagall, i stanned her from the start. also love the Malfoy family
> Which character do you dislike the most?
Dumbledore.
> Who is your favorite professor?
McG 4 lyfe
> What are your thoughts on the spin-offs? (Cursed child, Fantastic Beasts etc)
i read CC and it was total trash, haven't touched anything else since
> What spin-off would you like to see?
none lol. the 7 novels are all I need. everything after book 7 was uniformly terrible.
> What is your favorite book + movie?
unpopular opinion buyt my fave book is HBP.
i don't really care for the movies
> What is your least favorite book + movie?
i con't really hate any of the books, but i'd say DH because of the insane plot contrivances and tahe fact that harry's dumbass and the narrative stick up for dumbledore even adfter learning he sux
I've always liked the profs and the parents' generation more than the kids ngl
No. 156477
>>156465I have seen the Philosopher's Stone, but I was very small and all I remember is Quirrell's face being turned to stone and shattering and being very in awe of that. In general though, I have a really low tolerance for child acting & I prefer books to movies in general, so they were never going to be my thing.
>>156468More about the Hogwarts founders would be amazing!
No. 156485
>>156484Kek that would be amazing
Maybe I'm too paranoid and dumb but I wonder if there won't be insufferable woke shit in the series, seems like every new media aimed to young people is infested with it now
No. 156488
> What Hogwarts house are you?
Ravenclaw, borderline Slytherin
> Which character is your favorite?
Dumbledore. Maybe not exactly my fave characters, but I also find Black family fascinating.
> Which character do you dislike the most?
It's not that I dislike her, but Hermione is way overhyped. Same with Snape.
> Who is your favorite professor?
McGonagall.
> What are your thoughts on the spin-offs? (Cursed child, Fantastic Beasts etc)
I avoid anything outside the canon core books. Didn't read, didn't watch, no regrets.
> What spin-off would you like to see?
Maybe something about first war with Voldemort or WW2 Wizarding World, but without Fantastic Beasts bullshit. No Marauders Era, how many stories about teenagers at school can you watch?
> What is your favorite book + movie?
Prisoner of Azkaban, but GoF was also fun. I despise the movies, but I guess 5, since it had really great visuals (prophecy room and the battle at the Ministry were the best of all HP movies).
> What is your least favorite book + movie?
Book 6, mostly because I was never a shipper and I got bored by teenage romance. Movie 6 was also shit, but 8 was somehow worse.
No. 156507
>>156505Yes it's super weird, Molly is a witch and could do whatever the fuck she wanted, yet she stays at home and does what? The dishes?
Speaking of gender role shit, I hate the changes they made in the movie based on GoF. Putting Hermione in a tight pink dress despite the book version sounding more like some medieval princess look, making all the Durmstrang students male and all the Beauxbatons students girls doing simpering dances. It's so rushed too.
No. 156536
>>156518The more I think about the Weasley parents the weirder they get. Though at this point in her life, it might have been hard for Rowling to imagine a better family situation.
I do like how the adult characters in the order of the Phoenix are all imperfect, although Lupin's moping made me like him less towards the end.
>>156529I don't get that ship at all. Draco did his best to try to ruin Harry's life. Is Harry supposed to have postive feelings for him after all that? No way.
No. 156549
> What Hogwarts house are you?
Gryffindor. I'd love to have a lot of fun and be adventurous in Hogwarts.
> Which character is your favorite?
Luna, Sirius, McGonagall. I quite like movie Harry, he's so goofy and says dumb shit all the time. Book Oliver Wood is fun too.
> Which character do you dislike the most?
Movie Ginny is like a stale bread. I don't like Voldemort, he's such a weak non-scary villain imo.
> Who is your favorite professor?
McGonagall, Mrs Hooch.
> What are your thoughts on the spin-offs? (Cursed child, Fantastic Beasts etc)
First Fantastic Beasts was cute, second one was horrible, they butchered Queenie's character. Cursed Child is terrible.
Not official spin off but I love Very Potter Musicals.
I love the first three games on PC.
> What spin-off would you like to see?
Marauders.
> What is your favorite book + movie?
Movies 1-2, they are childish but feel the most magical to me, really make me feel stuff.
Books 1-4.
> What is your least favorite book + movie?
Last book and the last two movies. So dark I can't see shit.
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which characters do you think would be the biggest terfs and why?
No. 156557
>>156550kek the filename.
Hermione of course. Remember when she called out Trelawney's woo by using logic. McG would tolerate no bullshit either. But the biggest
terf is the staircase in the Gryffindor tower that turns into a slide if boys try to walk up into the girl's room.
No. 156562
>>156540I'm sure they did, kek.
I remember reading somewhere that Malfoys always limit themselves to only one child, but that doesn't make sense if the kid dies suddenly and they need a spare one, so I'm pretty sure it was some fanfic.
No. 156583
>>156505>>156513>>156518WTF i hate the weasleys now.
>>156484Alan Rickman was a great actor wasted on a shitty character. Snape wasn't a poor tormented soul, he was a fucking incel straight out of wizard /pol/.
No. 156609
>>156456Based opinions, anon. Fuck, I want the resurrection scene with Harry's parents as the right age now too. I want breathing room soooo badly too–I feel like what makes the books really special is their portrayal of life at Hogwarts. Like, I love the mysteries and action and all that, but so much of what I love about the series is just spending time with these kids as they grow up. Their school lives have so much texture and warmth.
Totally agree wrt Voldemort needing to actually just fucking die too, that disintegration shit ruined the moment. I also really didn't like Bellatrix's death–I'm not someone who usually notices issues with CGI, but it looked really cheap to me, and it undercut the really raw fact that Molly straight up murders her and doesn't regret it.
PoA is 100% the best. I get people's issues with what it cut, but fuck, it's the only one that FEELS like the books to me. I remember seeing the first scene for the first time so clearly, because I sat there knowing "holy shit this rules" IMMEDIATELY. Harry in his shitty little bedroom, messing with his shitty family! Cuaron just really fucking got the dangerous charm of the series, and how every corner of it has all these vibrant and bizarre details. The wizard reading A Brief History of Time in the Leaky Cauldron, the Dursleys being the family with the TV blaring total crap all the time, that wild ending shot, that adorable scene of the boys in the dorm goofing around with the candy–it's just got the perfect balance of ragged, weird whimsy. Every time it's on TV, I end up dreaming of how fucking amazing the movies could have been if he'd stayed on.
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Anyone else remember Makani's art? I was never really into the Malfoys, but if anyone could have gotten me to give a shit about them, it would have been her.
No. 156637
>>156561Yes, she is supposed to dote on Ginny as she is her longed for only daughter, and ignore Ron more because he is yet another son.
>>156609Completely agree about how PoA is the only of the movies that captures the books spirit.
Can someone remind me, what is the final shot of?
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>>156610God yes, her art was so cute.
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>>156637Can someone remind me, what is the final shot of?
This is litteraly how the movie ends, he gets the super fast broom as present from Sirius and then flys away. It's been a while since I read the book but I believe Harry in the book got the broom from Sirius like a while back.
No. 156651
>>156609I feel like the first two movies are still the best at capturing the atmosphere of the books, the comfiness and the wonderment of discovering the wizarding world with Harry. The books get darker so if course it couldn't stay that way, but I think PoA went in this direction a bit too brutally, the colors are too drab and I hate that Cuaron started the trend of the characters wearing normie clothing more often than wizard's (remember that ugly sweater Hermione wears on all the promo pics and posters?). The Yates's movies are trash imo, for some reason they feel super american (and I'm not even from the UK or US) and everybody gets noticeably retarded, they made me hate the HP franchise lmao.
>>156645Yes, he gets it around the book's midpoint after breaking his first broom, but he can't use it yet as it must be tested to see if it's not cursed, and he uneventfully gets it back a short while later.
No. 156658
>>156609While I love PoA and think it's a great movie, detail that I dislike about it is how they had the whole cast in casual clothes all the time. And very ugly and bland casual clothes. I understand the need for normal clothing even though it goes against the canon of wizards not understanding muggle clothes but it lost a lot of magic to me. Felt like they were barely wearing their robes. And unpopular opinion but I don't like Gary Oldman as Sirius.
I think the first two movies also captured the first two books very well. They had a lot of good design choices and set the aesthetic for the whole series (houses symbols, castle layout, quidditch field and the magical balls, character designs, robes, things like chocolate frogs, amazing music themes and so on).
I wish we got to see other house's common rooms.
No. 156674
>>156658>I understand the need for normal clothingWhy were the muggle clothes necessary? Was it for relatability or so the actors were more comfortable? That aspect was horrible.
>I don't like Gary Oldman as Sirius. Agree 100%, even post-Azkaban Sirius should look like a hot rock star (something like Hiddleston in Only Lovers Left Alive) and not whatever Oldman was.
>>156661>it just didn't have the same atmosphere as the main moviesWhat atmosphere do you mean, anon? I think
>>156651 described the issue with the atmosphere of the movies perfectly. Only the first two keep the comfy book atmosphere, the rest is a clusterfuck in that regard (maybe excluding PoA).
Personally, I really enjoyed the first Fantastic Beasts movie (the second was… confusing). I felt like it did better job of telling a story compared to most HP movies specifically because it was written for a screen and not hastily adapted from a book. I have zero problem with people disliking it though, I just disagree with all the original 8 HP movies having the same vibe.
No. 156689
>>156687I never understood either. James/Sirius and even James/Remus make more sense than Sirius/Remus.
I’m bias though because I used to be (still am) a huge huge James/Sirius nutter.
No. 156690
>>156685Weird opinion, but I half-agree with you: I never found Lupin all that interesting until he showed his ass in DH. I don't think he's a monster or anything, but I think Rowling did something really interesting in having the beloved teacher figure panic and indulge this massive moment of weakness when he tries to run off with the trio in DH (and, you could argue, when he puts himself in a battle he knew would probably kill him later on). I think it can be read a lot of ways, even really sympathetically–dude's had a really hard fucking life, and maybe wants it over. But I just think it's a really interesting portrait of how war can really fuck people up, and how much Harry's had to grow up crazy fast.
Related possibly unpopular opinion: I think a ton of shit people criticize as bad writing in HP is just Rowling being really honest about how crappy people can be to each other, even if they're otherwise good. The Weasley parents love their kids fiercely, and are also capable of being selfish towards them. Snape is a giant vindictive asshole who also did some really brave things. The Hogwarts houses aren't a perfectly transcendent system, they're fundamentally shaped by the fact that one dude defined his house, in large part, totally explicitly, by wizard racism.
It's really fucking weird to me in particular when people act like Rowling is unfair to the Slytherins. One of the biggest themes of the entire series is "people with entrenched power fuck things up"–the whole point is that the Slytherins have never actually cared about being just ambitious and cunning, but about blood status above all. The entire house and their whole little world of purebloodedness is all built to protect their obviously huge power in the wizarding world. They're not the benighted goth kids of the HP universe, they're the jillionaire prep school assholes who go to Harvard, become senators, and do a million favors for their other megarich friends. The wizarding world is magical and amazing and all that, but pretty early on, it's clearly also a reflection of our own world, and similarly affected by shitty human bias. I always think of religious schools where I grew up (in a southern US state) when I think of Slytherin–someone who's not familiar with their history might look at them and just think, oh, okay, some people want their faith to be that much a part of their kid's life, that's their cultural thing, ok. But in fact, a shitton of them popped up after schools were integrated. They're not called "Avoid Sending Your Kids To A School With Black Kids Academy," but that's baked-in, and it's still part of the culture, even if a lot of those schools have changed in the decades since. I think everything wrt Slytherin is a fantastic portrait of that kind of thing.
No. 156692
>>156689Same, Sirius being so hung up on James, living with him for a period of time and so on is really lending more credence to that ship than Remus/Sirius, and I'm not even a fujo.
Also the fact that Sirius played that prank on Snape without any regard of what would happen to Remus if he accidentally killed Snape is pretty awful in itself and further seals the deal about no high school S/R romance (they were about 16 at the time). There's also the Secret Keeper shit and Remus believing Sirius was a traitor all this time.
No. 156694
>>156684I loved the hbp prince and I know it's an unpopular opinion, but I like how it feels more slice of life-y than others? The vibe in that movie was really good, it had like a very high casual/funny tone and a really low sad/disturbing point so it was an interesting mix. That part somehow stuck with me and I watched all of the parts since the 3rd one in the cinema
I definitely agree with yates movies being american though, I felt it too and I'm an eastern yuro.
No. 156700
>>156658agreed with everything. oldman was totally wrong for sirius.
the casual clothes ruin the whole mafgical vibes. there's this awesome castle and lovely magical things all over and then the kids walk around in ugly sweaters. costume designers could have had so much fun with wizard clothing too.
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Has anyone been to the studio tour in London? How was it? Also interested if anons has been to other guided tours of filming locations.
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did anyone here play the harry potter ea games.. i think they were made for pc playstation etc. i played the second and third one on pc and i have to say they are still my favourite video games (which admittedly isn’t saying much because they’re the only ones i’ve played aside from lego harry potter for the nintendo ds)
the soundtrack in particular for the second game is so lovely and nostalgic. unfortunately i tried playing the later games on the pc but i suspect they are better calibrated for the playstation so they were a bit hard to play on the pc and i don’t really want to learn how to use the playstation controller lol.
so much nostalgia, i love the shitty graphics and i wish they remade them. unlocking secrets at hogwarts and just exploring was the best
No. 156812
>>156809The first two harry potter games for the ps1 were some of the first games I played as a child. They're far from perfect but I love them. I love how weirdly scary and lonely it feels to explore the castle, some places would
trigger these spooky sound effects when you passed them which freaked me out as a child. Obviously it feels lonely due to the consoles limitations but it created a perfect atmosphere that I love in vidya.
The empty enchanted knight armor that would follow you and slowly get faster and faster is still one of the scariest things I experienced in video games even though I played a lot of horror games kek
They looked funny and I know people like to make fun of the face textures but they're something special to me, and I replayed them recently and I still love them so it's not just nostalgia. Also, I love how they had some of the book stuff thrown in that wasn't there in the movies, like peeves, nearly headless nick's birthday party, some stores in diagon alley etc.
And yes, the soundtrack was really good too.
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>>156809I love the first three games on pc, I didn't have any console.
The PC games don't feel lonely or scary, just really comfy to me. Loved collecting the beans and finding secret places. I was obsessed with hippogryf flying in the third one and I loved how you could shapeshift into an animal with that one spell.
I also have a fond memory of a less known game, Quidditch World Cup. I remember I had smallpox when I was a kid and to keep myself from scratching, I just put all my concentration into the game. There's the Hogwarts teams on the typical Quidditch field but after you finish those, you could play with foreign teams on themed nordic/asian/australian etc fields. I completed everything that I could, played every team, collected every card. It was so much fun, even though it's probably mostly nostalgia talking.
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>>156809I played them all, my favourite one has to be OOTP. It's kinda open world, you can wander around the castle/outside and do whatever you want. I have fond memories of dueling random npcs, I think HBP was also good but I don't really remember
I'm super excited about Hogwarts
TERF Legacy to come out
No. 156840
>>156830Oh, I've always wanted to play the HBP one! Maybe I can play it as a warm-up before
>Hogwarts TERF LegacyI agree with everyone who loved the platformers. While they were simple and really could use a better budget, they had real heart for blatant cash-grab games. I loved walking through Hogwarts so much! The music was truly magical. It's so nostalgic to listen to it now.
I had the displeasure of playing a GBC game based on one of the early movies that was trying to be a JRPG and failing miserably.
No. 156843
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I miss this Harry Potter art/aesthetic
No. 156858
>>156809I played all of them but the new/last ones for pc (5th was the last one I played I think) and the quidditch one.
I love the fist one for ps.
There's a certain vibe to it, idk how to put it, it's just really cool and I wish they would make a game with similar vibe but that you can create your own character. Idk anything about the new game though, I hope it's good.
The first game on ps had so many creepy moments imo, that armor following you around was the part I was most scared, also that creepy lava forest lmao. Nothing really scary happens there but I was nervous for some reason when I first played that part.
Running against Peeves was so hard too, I hated it.
I like that CallMeKevin plays all the hp games even the bad ones and cheap knockoffs.
Kinda vent: I almost always have my enjoyment of a vid drop when people have to put a disclaimer at the end when talking about hp 'oh btw I'm not a
terf and jk is a evil witch' like, stfu. (Not really about this vid but many channels I simply unsubscribed because of that crap). I came to expect men doing it, so I just get mildly annoyed and don't watch anything by them ever again, but it really breaks my heart when women do it.
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>>156583>wizard /pol/Kek to be fair, he always played these Claude Frollo tier roles because he was one of the rare actor who could pull it off. If I remember correctly JK Rowling wanted him specifically for Snape,but I always thought he was too old for the role.
Terf queen is one stupid fucking cunt, she could have milked the whole franchise so much more with tv shows/movies/books depicting the Marauders' school years or even Dumbledore child and teenhood. Instead we got a lazy fanfic play, alongside Flamboyant Yeast that sends us 10 years back in time with its shitty special effects and awful writting. The fact that the short amateur film "severus snape and the marauders" is way better than the 2 current FBs movies is sad as fuck too
No. 156874
>>156809I played the first two as a kid on my PS1 and they felt like horror games to me at the time but I loved them nevertheless kek. Super atmospheric with a great soundtrack
>>156858I love Kevin too!!
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>>156843Useless trivia: Mary GrandPré, the illustrator who did all the book covers initially declined the assignment due to her schedule, but later she was convinced by Scholastic Press. GrandPré says,
"By the time I was working on Book 3, we knew we were dealing with something very special." No. 156883
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>>156881Must be, they look like the ones he wears in the films.
>>156878I really like these minimalist ones by Clare Melinsky.
No. 156884
>>156876Oh, I wasn't sure if Mary GrandPre was also responsible for all those calendar illustrations. Good to know!
I bet she's happy she didn't miss out on illustrating HP. She made the right decision, like the one publisher that decided to give HP a shot.
I think I liked the Goblet of Fire and Half-blooded Prince covers the best.
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>>156884I haven't been checking out her Hp art before. This looks so cozy.
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>>156885I just realized that the art that I remember from my childhood has been done by someone else (Mark Braught). Here are some examples:
https://markbraught.com/portfolio/advertising/This picture of potions class has really stayed with me through the years!
Mary GrandPre's illustrations are super nice, though.
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>>156888been confused my whole damn life wtf is going on with Harry's legs here
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>>156876We had these kind of goofy but charming map illustrations inside the hard covers of the book. I really liked them as a child.
The first book also had a different illustration from the foreign ones. It came in a few versions because the illustrator made some mistakes (like drawing a tophat instead of the witch hat). The first editions are ridiculously expensive collector items now.
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>>156876>>156878I wasn't super into GrandPre's work when I was a kid
because I had a giant crush on Harry and wanted the characters to look like cute anime boys but as an adult, I'm so, so charmed by it. I love how her work in the earlier books is a little more weird and abstracted, and her use of color is amazing. Also, I hated her Snape when I was a kid, but now I think Snape with a greasy goatee might be genius
No. 156913
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Mary GrandPre's lesser-known HP work dump incomin'
No. 156951
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What are your favorite ships? And what ones don't you like?
No. 156954
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>>156951I know a lot of people don't like it, but tbh I really have always liked Ginny/Harry. It's shit in the movies, but I like the edge of meanness she has in the books and I actually kind of love the doofy chest monster thing. Also Cursed Child was shit, but I do love pro athlete Ginny and her does-all-the-cooking war hero husband as a concept
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>>156951Luna x Ginny is super cute to me. The first time I ever seen lesbians in a fanfic was for this pairing so it has a special pace in my heart.
No. 157104
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>>156951Snape x Sirius in underrated.
Tbh I like every HP ships apart from the weird pedo ones. That Snape x Harry famous fanfic still haunts me
No. 157169
>>157104oh lord which one, the tea one?
i feel like theres a lot of freedom to be had with hp shipping. all the characters are kind of versatile and…i dont know how to say it, they have a kind of blandness which means you can adapt them to fit with other people and other situations really easily. for this reason i never really feel strongly attached to any hp ship but im open minded enough to try giving almost all of them a chance
No. 157189
>>157104Snape/Sirius has a lot of potential, but fuck if the fics aren't shit. I'm shocked that such a big fandom, from the book that taught an entire generation to read, lacks decent fics. At least on ao3 the selection is so poor.
>>157169The tea series is overrated as fuck. Snape/Harry is shit in general for how fucking dull the fics are. Appalling, a
problematic ship with lots of potential, and all the fics thread the same fucking paths and points, go into disgusting ooc, or degenerate into the most boring BSDM/ABO/kinkshit porn imaginable.
No. 157192
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>>156878i know lot of people don't like them but i love the finnish covers the characters look so fun and kooky. i especially like prizoner of azkaban and goblet of fire covers, and order of the phoenix gets special mention for giving harry zits hahaha
No. 157194
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>>157192also lockhart looks fucking hilarious here
No. 157212
>>157192>>157194Lmao
Just why? You could scare children with these noses.
Anon do you know who everyone is on the third cover, it looks like two Harry's?
No. 157226
>>157207Pretty sure it's supposed to be Umbridge as she is described as toad like + the hair bow. Ngl I had to give it a good thinking because at first I thought it was a weird visual metaphor for puberty or something my fucking sides
>>157169>>157189Yes it was the tea one. Couldn't finish it because it was shitty and slow paced. Also Snape didn't feel like Snape most of the time, it's as if the author had forgotten how he was actually acting after writting for too long (but I feel like that's a problem with most fanfics))
No. 157233
>>157225Oh yes, that must be him! I wonder if the other person is young Sirius because of the black dog ears (?)
I can't get over how weird these are. What is the artist called?
No. 157235
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Out of curiosity I checked out how HP book covers look like around the world and the Japanese ones looks so atmospheric. Also love the Korean ones. Hate the minimalist covers, minimalism is so overused nowadays
No. 157237
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>>157235Interesting how the Danish went for the 70/80s horror-fantasy aesthetic
No. 157239
>>157226I've read it's Umbridge after I decided it's Grawp, literally lost my shit
>>157235also can't deal with Smug German Harry, The Epic Trolle
No. 157241
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>>157235That Japanese edition has some books split into two, so there are a couple more covers not included in that chart.
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No. 157245
>>157235I can't decide if I like the Dutch covers or not lol. They are atmospheric and leave a lot to the imagination but the illustrator was definitely lazier than in the other versions kek
>>157240haha right
>>157244Yeah, the French version seems really uninspired
No. 157252
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>>157233mika launis
also here's finnish dobby
No. 157271
>>156951>What are your favorite ships?Unpopular opinion, but I really like Krum/Hermione. That first-relationship goofiness they exude makes this ship very endearing to me. I also remember shipping Neville/Luna some 10 years ago, but after my most recent re-read I realized Harry/Luna and Ginny/Luna both have more chemistry.
>And what ones don't you like?I really don't like any ship involving Draco.
I'm also iffy towards the endgame ships. Honestly I would have just dropped the romance aspect from the books altogether, leave things vague and let fans tear each other apart over shipping wars, but JKR just HAD to have all the mains paired up and settled down in the epilogue.
No. 157286
>>157252That's a pretty amazing Dobby, ngl.
I really dislike how he looks in the movies.
No. 157297
>>157254I agree with you, Goblet Of Fire did some stupid things like make all the durmstrang students male and beauxbatons female but the scene where Harry gets out of the maze with Cedrics dead body always gets me. Especially when the happy march music starts, everyone is cheering and then everyone stops because they realise Cedric is dead.
One small thing I liked about the order of the phoenix movie was that during the battle at the end Sirius said 'nice one James' to Harry. I think it really shows how much Sirius sees Harry as his dad and while it was mentioned in the books by Molly that Sirius should stop seeing Harry as James I thought it was a nice touch in the movie.
>>156951Ok people are gonna shame me for this but i do ship Harry and Tom, but like young hot Tom. Not ugly old snake person Tom. It's because when I read the books as a teen, young vodlemort really did it for me, like I know that when he was young he was also super evil and a horrible person but I can't help it. Anyway you're all allowed to shame me now kek.
I'm also gonna be a hypocrite and say i don't really like any of the ships where characters have a huge age difference, especially teacher/students relationship. I also think that Draco is a super whiny and annoying character and if i were to ship him with any character i would make him super ooc.
No. 157300
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HBP is my fav book and movie, but holy shit was I disappointed that they didn't include the Pensieve memories depicting the Gaunt family. I love Merope Gaunt, I remember crying as a child when I read about her and the love potion event
Also kinda random but am I the only one who think that Dumbledore's sister Ariana got sexually abused by the teen muggles when she was a child?
No. 157301
Pls send me 00's shitty slash videos. Especially snarry and drarry cringe. I love them all
>>157286WTF no, what is that mouth. Even a Furby looks more like a house elf than whatever that thing is. That mouth is a nightmare fuel
>>157300>Also kinda random but am I the only one who think that Dumbledore's sister Ariana got sexually abused by the teen muggles when she was a child?Agree with that interpretation, though I will not be surprised if the third Fantastic Animals movie will debunk that (on purpose, of course)
No. 157307
>>157301Of course she will
>>157304kek
No. 157314
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i don't have any videos but i loved all the crack ship art, here's a koenta dump
No. 157319
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and i don't probably have to say who this is but deviantart harry potter fandom was the reason i became aware of mpreg
No. 157320
>>157315I just found out I share nationality with Ariel and I've never been more proud!
This video is really intense and dramatic, love the portrayed story LMFAO
No. 157322
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This was my favorite HP fancomic as a kid lmao
http://sundaycomicsdebt.blogspot.com/2017/04/harry-potter-relay.htmlThe artist (the better one, that I am pretty sure was japanese) actually made me consider shipping LupinxSnape, something that I'd never thought about before (RemusxSirius will always be my favorite ship)
It's pretty fucking stupid, but I'm glad I've found it again kek
No. 157327
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found this cursed fanart
>>157319I hate the art style, reminds me of "your boyfriend" game
No. 157339
>>157327oh, her. she ships herself with king Louis XVI of France, too. yes, the fat mf that got his head chopped off.
>>157321snapesnogger, and yes that comic is hers
early-2000s HP fandom was bonkers. legendary. unrivalled
No. 157368
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>>157363honestly love it, Umbridge might offend troons nowadays though kek
On the topic of covers the swedish ones have to be my favorites. They look so detailed on epic.
No. 157369
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>>157368I am proud of Sweden's covers after seeing the Finnish ones,kek
This one looks badass.
No. 157376
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Samefag but I remember finding out at 12 that some names were changed in the French version and feeling absolutely miserable about it bc I felt like I missed out kek. The translation for the first book was so incredibly sloppy, I guess it was because they didn't expect it to be such a worldwide phenomenon. Haven't read nor watched French versions since then. The most notable ones are:
>Tom Marvolo Riddle: Tom Elvis Jedusor
>Severus Snape: Severus Rogue
>Dolores Umbridge: Dolores Ombrage
>Argus Filch: Argus Rusard
>Draco Malfoy: Drago Malfoy (useless translation there)
>Neville Longbottom: Neville Longdubat
>Lavender Brown: Lavende Brown
>Oliver Wood: Olivier Dubois
Also Malfoy used to be pronounced Mal foi before the first movie came out
No. 157402
>>157368>>157369Yep the Swedish ones look super cool
>>157376Afaik the names were all changed in most of the translated languages. Snape's name in the Hungarian one was Piton, like the snake
>The translation for the first book was so incredibly sloppylmao why are the French so lazy when it comes to
both the book covers and the translation
No. 157405
>>157376Thanks for posting this Anon, it's always fun to learn about localizations. And don't worry, French wasn't the only language that mishandled translations. I grew up reading the first Italian edition, and for some unfathomable reason someone decided to translate both mudblood and half-blood as simply "half-blood", probably thinking the difference wouldn't be relevant going forward.
Later editions used a revised translation and the original names for the characters, but most people still use the localized ones since they're the ones they went with in the dub. Some of my favorites:
>Minerva McGonagall: Minerva McGranit (granite)>Severus Snape: Severus Piton (python)>Albus Dumbledore: Albus Silente (silent/secretive)>Neville Longbottom: Neville Paciock (plump/kind-hearted)>Gilderoy Lockhart: Gilderoy Allock (air-headed) No. 157412
>>157387They mainly edited out some long descriptions that ruined the flow and didn't translate well in French, they ended up removing a few interresting/funny things by mistake though
https://www.gazette-du-sorcier.com/biographies-de-harry-potter/autour-des-livres/harry-potter-les-passages-supprimes-des-premieres-editions-francaises>>157402>>157405>Literally Severus SnekI'm dying, McGranit got me good too. Kinda sad that they changed Dumbledore's name though
No. 157429
>>157376https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lijst_van_Nederlandse_vertalingen_van_namen_en_termen_uit_Harry_PotterThere is a whole list of names and places that where changed in the dutch translation. Some of it I understand but there are a few that are very different.
As example Minerva McGonagall was changed to Minerva Anderling. I wasn't sure why he chose Anderling but I looked it up and its supposed to be a pun on anders(different) and because she teaches transfiguration and can turn into a cat he thought it was a good name?
He also changed Dumbledore to Perkamentus (perkament = parchment), Cedric Diggory to Carlo Kannewasser(kannen = jugs so his lastname sounds like jug washer). Some of his choices are super weird but i guess because Harry Potter starts as a childeren book they thought it was a good idea to change all the britisch sounding names to be more dutch?
No. 157430
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> What Hogwarts house are you?
I’m Ravenclaw.
> Which character is your favorite?
Hedwig because owls have been my favourite animal since I was small. Wasn’t cool of JK to kill her off like wtf.
> Which character do you dislike the most?
Ron Weasley
> Who is your favorite professor?
Mad eye Moody because we share the same name lol.
> What are your thoughts on the spin-offs? (Cursed child, Fantastic Beasts etc)
They’re shit kek.
> What spin-off would you like to see?
I’d want to see a different wizarding school and the stories told there.
> What is your favorite book + movie?
Mine is the goblet of fire.
> What is your least favorite book + movie?
Probably the half blood prince
No. 157447
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>>157370according to what I've read and seen, it's actually silver. I think it's a bad photo, or a factory error (the way the word "Harry" looks points to a weird photo, though)
No. 157450
>>157376Oliver Wood was changed to the french word of wood just because of that one sentence where Harry thought he would get beaten up by McGonagall for riding a broom without permission. So changing a character's name just to keep what barely qualifies as a pun is
apparently important, but cutting entire chunks of text is okay. I was never a fan of translating names for the sake of puns, even when I didn't speak English I thought it was stupid for killing immersion. The only one that is acceptable is Tom Riddle to keep the anagram.
No. 157459
Seeing all the bizzaro translations makes me appreciate the Polish one even more. No names were changed unless they were important (tbh I cannot remember any except for translating Sirius Black into Syriusz Czarny, but that was only in the first volume when the kinks haven't been worked out). The magical terms, places etc. were translated A+ in my opinion, to the point I didn't want to read in English at first. Our translator left I AM VOLDEMORT and other stuff like this alone and provided notes explaining WTF was going on. He was based AF.
I'm surprised to hear that translators from countries that probably had been translating from English en masse (there was a notorious shortage of English to Polish translators at the end of the XXth century, which resulted in some low effort translations by newbies - mostly of trashy Harlequin books, but probably not only those) were making mistakes like confusing Snape with snake.
>>157450My parents were making fun of Frenchfags back in the late 90's for obsessively changing character names to something French lmfao. They could not talk about American TV shows with our French family cause nobody knew which character was being talked about, with Johns being turned into Jean Pauls and the like. Absolutely retarded
>>157456>Severus SlurTrigger warning: the s-word (Sn*pe)
No. 157461
>>157457oh god i love rumpeldunk, thank you for sharing this.
here's a list of name changes in the german version:
https://harry-potter.fandom.com/de/wiki/Original-Namen_von_Personencharakteren_der_Harry_Potter_B%C3%BCcherthe biggest one is hermione to hermine however. her name was basically pronounced hair-meen-eh.
No. 157479
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>>157405Lol, I remember Rowling complaining about Italian translation of Dumbledore.
Polish translation of HP was surprisingly solid, no translated surnames except for Fudge to keep Hagrid's pun in the first book and for some reason Draco was changed into Dracon, with "Draco" being treated as less formal, kinda. Since book 5 I read HP in English, I probably missed other kinks in Polish version.
>>157327Man, I love insane HP fanart.
No. 157481
i'm so happy to find international harry potter discussion, it never occurred to me to look up how things were translated, it's all so interesting!
>>157461>her name was basically pronounced hair-meen-eh.i'm sure krum will appreciate it kek
No. 157505
>>157271based takes, anon. Krum/Hermione makes me so nostalgic, it's such a sweet little fantasy, but without feeling ridiculous? Like, I loved it like a lot of girls probably loved it, for the "ohhh what if the hot athlete star liked me for my deep soul," but genuinely, it felt grounded and real to me. It makes Krum such a more real character.
Looove Harry/Luna. I just really buy Harry being so fed up with the shit the world has put on him that he ends up being very into Luna's bonkers shit
No. 157506
>>157300I was so mad about the lack of Merope too! Fuck, I loved everything about those scenes, and I believe the same thing about Ariana. I was really drawn to both of those characters when I was younger, and their place in the narrative. I wouldn't have articulated it this way then, but so much of it was like…I was so drawn to the fact that these two insanely important, world-shaping characters, Voldemort and Dumbledore, were shaped by the hideous abuse these women/girls in their lives suffered. It's hard to put it into words, but it's not that I liked the depiction of sexual abuse on its own, it's that the books paid attention to this kind of stuff at all, when it's usually hushed up. I might be projecting a little, given what we know about JKR's past and her feminist beliefs now, but it really mattered to me to that these books were full of different kinds of women,
and that terrible things done to girls had repercussions, even shitty ones. They happened, and it mattered. I just really gravitated to the fact that these crimes took up space in the story, and got attention. Aghhh I'm getting really into my feelings now, but it meant a lot that that was in the same books as like, McGonagall and Hermione and the all-women quidditch team. And I love that Dumbledore stressed compassion for Merope to Harry.
No. 157533
>>157526As a child, I loved that HP didn't treat a reader like an idiot with (obviousl and over the top) punny names. I never liked that.
Has Rowling ever confirmed that Snape was supposed to evoke 'snake'? I thin she took his last name from a teacher she hated? I think if someone wants to translate Snape, it should also be changed into sthg that makes you think of snake, but isn't exactly the word. Severe Snake is an absolutely retarded name.
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This thread is so comfy!
Which HP beastie is your fave anons? Mine is Crookshanks, what a good kitty, I want one!
No. 157561
>>157549All the HP critters are adorable, but Hedwig is the best for me. Speaking of which…
>>157254Her senseless death in the books made me so mad, the movies did the right thing in giving her a more dignified demise at least.
>>157505>it felt grounded and real to me. It makes Krum such a more real character.True. When I first read the book I assumed Krum was gonna be just a dumb jock since he's introduced as the youngest, most popular Seeker in the World Cup, but at the end of the day he's just an average looking, kinda socially awkward guy who doesn't really know how to handle his sudden fame. It makes perfect sense to me he'd fall for the book-smart, assertive girl. I'm kinda bummed the only other time we saw him outside of GoF he was being a bitter loser at Fleur and Bill's wedding.
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based
No. 157600
>>157505I like Krum/Hermione, it feels like a really wholesome pairing, but it's really hard to find decent fanfics with it.
>>157591Yeah, she was an incredibly skilled witch, even the narration admits so, but there's literally nothing about gender roles in HP, Bella wasn't the only female Death Eater, and what's worst she was madly in love with a disgusting self-hating moid who lost to a woman, a fucking teenage boy and an old scheming fag time and time again, and this is a fucking embarassing take.
No. 157604
>>157591Kek, what a incredibly dumb take.
>superior in intelligence, capability and skillShe was Voldie's favorite follower for her blind devotion, not because she was the best of Death Eathers (who was, Snape?). And honestly, she might be a good witch (or not, because she was beaten by fucking Molly ffs, who only uses her wand to stir soup), but she was dumb and fucking unstable.
And what gender roles did she broke? She was trad as fuck.
lol @ considering a pickme a feminist icon, specially if you consider the play canon (please don't)
No. 157607
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>>156951Does anyone else vaguely remember the complete shitstorm that went down when JKR paired Remus up with Tonks in HBP? I was never a Remus/Sirius shipper or a Remus/Tonks shipper but I can remember a lot of the R/S fans going apeshit and saying stuff like Remus was still 100% gay (bi guys don't exist) and he'd been pressured into a relationship with Tonks by the Weasleys during that last HBP scene where Bill is in the hospital. That was the main dumb take I remember but of course there were others, another I remember was that he was with Tonks because she could change her appearance and he got her to morph into Sirius when they had sex. Then fast forward like 8 years and that Remus Pottermore bio comes out and the R/S fans lose it again because JKR says Remus being a werewolf is a metaphor for AIDs but doesn't make him gay/make R/S post-book canon (because it's woke to assume all gay guys have AIDs or something, never mind what that would mean for Greyback biting Remus when he was a kid). If the Fictionalley forums were still up I'm sure I could dig up some hilarious bullshit about all this but afaik they aren't. Remus/Sirius isn't a bad pairing in my mind but I'll always kind of view the shippers as wanky entitled idiots because that's how they always seemed to be when HP was huge.
No. 157614
does anyone remember noticing this little scene while watching the film because i didn't and wtf is this lol
>>157607i remember, though tonks and remus is dumb ship it came out of nowhere. it felt really forced, if they had interracted more then it would have been better i guess.
also ginny and harry had potential to be better because they could have bonded so much more over both experiencing being possessed by voldemort and getting closer to each other that way. it would have been interesting to see them talk about it just two of them together.
No. 157637
>>157565>>157561Tbh, when I think about Krum's PoV of the series, it makes Krum/Hermione seem like such a missed opportunity. He's got this sudden, terrifying fame, the Durmstrang head guy (whose name I can't remember) shamelessly uses him, he's thrust into the tournament….and then there's this brilliant girl in the library. And they go to the ball, and he falls for her so much he invites her to visit him, and even though she says no, they exchange letters. That's the shit of capital-r Romance there, oh my GOD how you could write Krum pining the fuck away for the cranky nerd girl in Hogwarts. Fuck, I think I'm seriously talking myself into loving this ship
No. 157668
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I hope I don't come off as too much of a dick but I think the girl who plays Fleur is way too ugly to play her. She's supposed to be 1/4 veela, a super beautiful magical feminine being, and everyone keeps calling her beautiful but in the movies she's literally the ugliest out of all girls. She really doesn't feel believable to me and I feel bad for judging her, but good looks is basically Fleur's one key trait and I can't get over it.
No. 157733
>>157671I recall Rowling saying in an interview that she regrets her final pairings and she just kinda stuck with what she intended originally. Not sure why she finished with couples even she didn't like that much.
And I honestly don't get why the movies had so many harry/hermione scenes while barely any hermione/ron or harry/ginny ones. If I was only judging by the movies, Harry and Hermione were absolutely in love, holding each others hands all the time, hugging, watching sunset together, always sharing an understanding moment, always brightening up around each other. Hermione and Ron didn't have any chemistry, no romantic scenes together and only argued. If they were gonna push this pairing so much they could've changed it so that in the movies they end up together lol
>>157668I remember being super disappointed by her when I was a kid. I always imagined they'd do some effects to make her hair shiny and flowing, or do something like they did with elves in LOTR (that soft glowing filter over them).
The actress is pretty imo but she's not the otherworldly beautiful type she was said to be. I think that if they changed her styling a lot it could work though. The actress that plays Luna with her styling is better Fleur than this Fleur is.
No. 157818
>>156424> What Hogwarts house are you?Slytherin…
> Which character is your favorite?Remus, Narcissa and Luna. Remus was one of my first fictional crushes.
> Which character do you dislike the most?Umbridge, I guess? She's a great villain though, and I don't usually use the word "great" to describe Harry Potter stuff
> Who is your favorite professor? Remus. Not only because I found him hot. I think he's a cool character. too!
> What are your thoughts on the spin-offs? (Cursed child, Fantastic Beasts etc)I only read the first one, Tales of Beedle the Bard, when I was a kid. It was okay, but I loved it a lot as a lonely child
> What spin-off would you like to see?I'm not very interested in them. I haven't cared about the series in a long time. I recently got a Luna doll though, it makes me incredibly happy-
> What is your favorite book + movie? Prisoner of Azkaban is both my favorite book and movie
> What is your least favorite book + movie? Least favorite book is the chamber of secrets. Least favorite movie is all of them minus Prisoner of Azkaban.
No. 157842
>>157733that's what I'm saying, she's not the ugliest girl on earth or anything but I honestly think ANY other girl in the movies would have played her better. Luna is cute and has an "other wordly" quality to her that Fleur should have had but didn't. Hermione is supposed to be very plain/nerdy looking but even she is miles ahead in feminine beauty. Ginny, Cho, the Patil girls - I think they all look WAY cuter and more feminine than her.
This Fleur just has very mannish features like a thick brow bone and deep set eyes, big nose and sharp wide jawline. And people act like she's superhumanly beautiful? I can't buy it no matter how much I try.
And on the Harry/Hermione topic I agree that it would have made sense for them to end up together, but I have to say I actually REALLY like having a really close male/female friendship portrayed like this and it NOT ending up in romance. We basically never get that in any media ever, we need to see more of this. There are still lots of people who think men and women can't possibly be "just" friends. I just wish they would have given Hermione/Ron and Harry/Ginny more romance too.
No. 157852
>>157842I'd agree about them showing a friendship but they did things that m/f or even same sex friends normally won't really do. I think screenwriters overdid it a bit. If they did it the way Rowling wrote them it would be a nice portrayal of a close friendship.
I don't that often hold hands with my friends or share a silent romantic moment while watching a sunset, don't spontaneously ballroom dance with them and so on. It would make sense if she was also at least a bit intimate with Ron. Usually at the end of the movie you have Harry and Hermione standing together sharing a moment while the credits roll and Ron is just sat somewhere near them.
No. 158290
> What Hogwarts house are you?Slytherin
> Which character is your favorite?Hard to say… probably Dumbledore.
> Which character do you dislike the most?Snape
> Who is your favorite professor? Firenze the centaur
> What are your thoughts on the spin-offs? (Cursed child, Fantastic Beasts etc)Fantastic Beasts is bad but Cursed Child is far worse. The plot is fanfic tier, though I kinda like Scorpius. Something about how lame he is appeals to me.
> What spin-off would you like to see?Non-perilous time period, set in Europe, unremarkable protagonist who isn't from any of the big families, focus on the world building and maybe interpersonal drama. We know a bunch about childhood as a wizard thanks to the existing canon so maybe an adult cast out of school instead. Hogwarts is also cool, maybe a story told from the teachers' perspective.
> What is your favorite book + movie?Chamber of Secrets and Half-Blood Prince are my favorite books. I don't like any of the movies, seen each only once.
> What is your least favorite book + movie?Bookwise Goblet of Fire but not by a huge margin. It's just the least appealing to me, I don't like tournaments. I almost walked out of the last movie because of the way they handled the battle.
>>157955Endgame as far as school romance goes, sure. It's pathetic that the main cast all married their first loves though.
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Anyone else super excited for this?
No. 158330
>>158327It's gonna probs sucks since it's being dvped by Avalanche
>Finger crossed for it to be actually alright>Finger crossed for it to make you select male or female gender in the character creation screenthem not adding a third option after JKR
terf gate would unironically be a based move
No. 158778
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>>157340>>157537>Tracing farmer-chan>B. Why is Emily and their children drawn in anime style while Snape is drawn more realistic? >At first these two are some kind of people from two totally different worlds and I wanted to make that even more clearer in my drawings. But in the end they should harmonize together, despite how different they are by personalities. I'm aware that not everybody shares my opinion that they match good together, but that is in this case, sorry to say that, not important to me. I like the way they look together and I draw Emily&Snape mostly for me and my friend and not to please others. In the end it's just purely a matter of taste.I love this crazy bitch, her content is the best. She's like a wholesome Nemu lmfao
I feel like I'm the only farmer who enjoys Snape greatly (in different ways and for different reasons), but I'm not gonna argue with anyone disliking him since women have all the right to scoff at
problematic male characters w/ redemption arcs. Very happy to have a Snape doll and I used to have him as my fb avatar years ago (as a joke on some similarities that I share with him)
No. 158829
>>157591This is the dumbest take I've ever seen
>>157599She literally worshipped Voldemort
No. 160114
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What do you think of the new mobile games? This one looks very qt (harry potter magic awakened)
No. 161315
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>>161268NTA but yeah, there is no way this new one isn't just a money sink like all mobile games are. Our only hope is that PC game they're working on.
No. 161327
>>157456I realize how ridiculous it is to reply to this a month later but child me is irritated all over again about >Svaart
Double A in norwegian is Å, which makes the name make no sense, just name him Svart, Høverstad din idiot, you do this shit for a living!!
No. 161591
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My gf just got me into Harry Potter. So far we've watched all the movies together, and we're slowly going through the audiobooks. My favorite part of the movies was Umbridge's office at Hogwarts. I would die to have a bunch of moving kitten pics hanging up in my room, wtf. My gf told me Rowling only gives cats to evil people in her books, but idc it was fucking adorable
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>>161591>JK only gives cats to evil peopleSo Hermione is evil now? And McGonagall is what, part evil?
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they're showing the 1st movie in 4k in my local cinema in two weeks! i'm so excited, nonnas. i bet i'll cry.
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>>169637thank you!!
>>169689i was 7 or 8 years old when i got into hp and when book 4 was released, but my mom never took me to the midnight releases, which i'm forever mad about. one of my school friends had her entire family obsess over harry potter, but they only bought one copy so the book had five bookmarks (parents + three kids) in it and it was passed around multiple times every day. sounds exhausting but also very cute.
also picrel, do any of you own the minalima illustrated books? there are two out right now and i want them so bad, but apparently it takes a year for them to release and i'm worried they'll stop releasing at some point and then i'll have an unfinished collection. i'll post more pics because the illustrations are so beautiful.
No. 169870
>>169749That screenplay is a fucking disaster so I don't want it to get made into a movie at all tbh. I'd like a Hogwarts prequel about pre-Voldemort times or something in the future after Harry and co are dead/irrelevant. I just don't think anything relating to the "dynasties" of the original series can work.
>>169785This is one of the cooler prints of this series, I'll maybe get it.
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I truly hope this meme was made unironically, I just love the idea of there being a group of die hard Trump Supporter Potterheads
No. 169941
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>>169930i think/hope so! the 1st book was released last year and the 2nd one a month ago. minalima also did illustrations for other hp/fantastic beasts stuff, as well as picrel. i plan on getting some of their classics, since i'm very picky with physical copies of books and these are just so beautiful and i'd love to have them in my shelf.
>>169870i actually caved last night and ordered my copies!
No. 169945
>>169941They're beautiful, I need to get them too.
>>169870I would rather there was a tv-series of the original HP story, so the plot could be covered more slowly, in detail.
No. 171686
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i've been re-reading all books for the past few weeks and i just finished the 3rd one last night. not surprised that i cried again at the end. it's weird, i loved these books as a kid/teenager, but i feel that i can only grasp and appreciate them properly as an adult. also i never cared about the marauders, but now the bond between james, sirius and remus makes me cry. when sirius and remus hugged, i had to put down my ereader and take a break because i was so happy for them to be back together. not even in a shippy way even though i don't mind kek also i know snape isn't evil but god, he pisses me off!!! annoying oily haired bitch.
No. 171688
>>171686>but i feel that i can only grasp and appreciate them properly as an adult.I re-read the books for the first time as an adult last year and felt the same.
The imperfect adults, accepting death…I appreciate them much more now.
>he pisses me off!!! annoying oily haired bitchPreach.
No. 171695
>>171687ayrt, if i knew them irl i'd hate them too, i think. i'd probably roll my eyes at their antics and call them cringe.
>>171688i've experienced this a handful of times this year. re-reading stuff i liked as a kid/young teenager and realizing that i appreciate the books in question much more now. i guess sometimes childhood faves do hold up.
No. 171700
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> What Hogwarts house are you?
Hufflepuff
> Which character is your favorite?
Fang
> Which character do you dislike the most?
Bellatrix
> Who is your favorite professor?
Lupin
> What are your thoughts on the spin-offs?
The only valid one is the little Fantastic Beasts book you get at the scholastic book fair (pic related)
No. 171731
>>171711true. voldemort is like Generic Evil Overlord #23, he doesn't even have an interesting backstory or complex motives beyond "power mwahaha"
umbridge is a much more effecive villain because everuone knows an umbridge irl.
and she's much more representative of the issues that plague wizarding society (and will continue to long after voldy is defeated).
No. 171835
>>171711Could the series be reworked to have Umbridge or a Umbridge-like character as the main villain?
A bureaucrat villain meddling with the education system in a way that actively harms the students to enforce government control. That's so much more thematically coherent for a series that's set in a school for the most part.
No. 171890
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>>171711Everyone hates Umbridge but I love her as a villain, the movie one especially. The actress that played her was a delight to watch, she was so playful with her role.
Voldemort was never scary or interesting to me, maybe in the first book/movie but after that he was mostly comical and a meme.
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>>176136>>176152>>176180Wasn't Tom Felton supportive at first, but then backpedaled?
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>>176199She has. I am weirded out that she wasn't hunted down for being a
terf sympathiser or something with how milquetoast her take was. It seems great only in comparison to all the other actors thrashing JKR.
>she hasn't completely lost her humanity honestly what the fuck
No. 176212
>>176199I think the worst one was the stage actress who played Hermione in the cursed child, Rowling defended her casting to no ends and always tried to support her
and you want she did when this whole cancellation shit happened, she called her a "transphobic white feminist"
Seriously you'd expect them to be somewhat grateful
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>>176186>>176220isn't he super into fishing? maybe he never uses sunscreen when he's with the fishies.
No. 176292
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Can we all agree right now that Lucius Malfoy was probably the best looking guy in Harry Potter, I mean the men in Harry Potter are all hideous as fuck
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>>176292I guess matthew lewis grew up to be decent looking, but yeah none of the male actors were particularly good looking
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>>176292I was never into him in the earlier movies, but after he has his fall from grace, I find him ridiculously hot. This whole scene in DH where he's unshaven and sad … I have no idea why I find him so hot here, but I really do.
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>>176292I had a crush on Fred&George but I wouldn't consider them good looking
Oliver was kinda cute
Nothing beats Lucius Malfoy tho, the only hot character for sure
>>176320ew, he looks slimy
Idk there's something repulsive in him, I liked him better when he was fat and clumsy
No. 176381
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>>176348Yeah in the early films he was just prancy and stuck up but near the end he stars to look more rugged and he had a look that I'd describe as dirty handsome
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>>176382holy shit event horizon gave me nightmares
>>176381Watch peter pan (2003) if you want the same raggedy lucious vibes, I love that movie
sorry for the off topic, I'm going to horny prison no need to ban me
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The earlier discussion on the book covers reminded me of how at least one of my hardbacks had fan letters printed in the sleeve or on the extra pages that would otherwise be blank. I remember writing my own letter, imagining that it might magically send to JK Rowling (perhaps like Tom Riddle's diary).
No. 176434
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Random question: do you admit to being an HP fan irl still? And how do most people react if/when you do? The marauders era was always the most fun for me as a fujo but I never talked about that much off the internet. I remember when fanfics about Sirius/Remus/James threesomes were popular kek.
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>>176434I own the slytherin quidditch jumper and people react positively. I think people in my country genuinely don't care about JKR drama. Most women my age are HP fans as well
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>>176688sadly, she played a smarty/stuck up school girl in the mid-2000 which is a recipe for disaster and attracts filthy moids. You don't even have to look at HP cosplay porn or hentai to notice it, just look at the way she was constantly sexualized even in parodies
No. 176693
>>176685I've always found her insufferable even in Harry Potter, though I guess her "acting" fit the role of Hermione as it was written for the films (not book Hermione). Then she continued doing the same shit in The Perks of Being A Wallflower, Bling Ring (worst fucking role ever, I wanted to deck her because of how annoying her "acting" was). I guess she was bearable in The Little Women, but I never personally pictured her as Meg… IDK, I'm not gonna say she should stop acting if she enjoys it, but I wouldn't miss it. Maybe at least take some acting classes for professionals?
Never planning to see that movie, but was she her regular self in The Circle?
No. 176713
>>176693>>176706There was period in the 2010's where it seemed like she was in every big budget Emmy bait flick, she was being pushed hard despite her acting skill never being up to the course
The Circle is probably the best example, she seemed so out of place and just lacking compared to the Veteran actors she was worth it
Emma Watson is always just Emma Watson, she can't play another character
No. 176726
>>176693The circle was trash. I wonder if it had a different actress it could be a little better. Felt like she only had 1 emotion, 1 reaction to everything.
>>176712Oh yeah, same. I feel like hp is perfect for tv. It can go for so many seasons (television loves that) and add the details the movies left out, buy I'm always afraid they gonna ruin it shoving gender crap and weird virtue signaling that makes no sense and shouldn't be there in the first place only to calm down the vocal "fans", people that wouldn't even waste their time watching it.
No. 176730
>>176728oh yeah and hearing that dan radcliffe was often drunk on set whilst filming the deathly hallows really solidified that feeling for me. no doubt if they remade harry potter (either film or tv i feel like it’s going to happen eventually) the cast will go through the stranger things kids experience.
no doubt most normie people wouldn’t care for virtue signaling and wokeness but i also think there’s a large portion of the fanbase who are hardcore shippers or y/ns for certain characters like draco who would much prefer only the later books be adapted
No. 176734
>>176730>>176728I refuse to watch any series with child characters cause In the back of mind I'll always know something fucked up is happening behind the scenes, plus fucked up adults who will stalk and harass the actors and most likely going to make erotica about them
an animated HP adaption would be awesome though
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>>176750JK rowling is a well meaning liberal woman, I don't expect her to be "based" on every aspect
regarding Marilyn Manson, she was a fan of his music and sent those flowers a year ago when he hadn't been outed as an abuser
No. 176766
>>176762Michael Gambon, Dumbledore himself didn't appear
as well as the actor who played Lupin, Professor Slughorn, Mad Eye Moody and Warwick Davis
No. 176785
>>176750>Damien EcholsOT but I need milk on this scrote so bad. All I know is that he got out of the prison and wrote like 3 books, including one about ~the incredible power of twu luv~
>>176762No offense but I don't know why would anyone expect anything else, honestly. It's not new Harry Potter content, it's
new HP cast content. Fuck that
No. 176791
>>176319>>176292Jason Isaacs apparently came up with Lucius' look himself. Great actor choice overall, Lucius is one of my fave characters nowadays. I also liked his relationship with Narcissa in the books, like the moment when she holds his hand when he has to give up his wand to Voldy. It's really nice how Rowling managed to make even some villains more complex.
>>176324I like Gary Oldman and Sirius is one of my faves as well, but all Marauders (and Lily) were miscast and way too old in the movies, imo.
No. 176809
>>176640They did it for their careers and because it was expected. That's not to say they secretly agree with JKR, they could very well think she's an evil
terf, but also who knows what they really think kek. Basically what
>>176663 said.
No. 179276
>>176791>all Marauders (and Lily) were miscast and way too old in the moviesThis.
Speaking of miscast, I still think that Bonnie Wright makes a bad Ginny Weasley. Ginny is supposed to be beautiful, to the point that even Zabini finds her pretty. Bonnie is far from ugly, but she has that "girl next door" beauty that doesn't fit with book Ginny. Also, like other nonas mentioned, they didn't even try when it comes to Fleur kek.
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How do you think Voldemort would have turned out if Tom Sr. decided to stay with Merope and been a loving father to Tom jr. ?
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>>179294He has mummy issues because pure blood mom died while giving birth, searched for dad, and found out he was a lame muggle. I love Merope, absolute femcel witch
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>>179294>>179296They don't outright say it was rape but I believe it was stated that beings from love potions(like Voldemort) are incapable of feeling love themselves, which means canonically there have been love potion date rape cases
>>179299I don't know if they included this in the films but it was a plot point in the books, Voldemort spent years believing it was his father that was the wizard and his mother the muggle, he believed his mother was some weak mundane muggle woman and that his father was some pure blood wizard who had his was way with Merope and his entire world view was shattered when it was the opposite
also ironically enough it was cause of his hated father that he came back to life, his followers used what was left of Tom Sr's body to make the potion that resurrected him
anyway he was kind of an asshole but didn't deserve to be date raped for over a year
No. 179369
>>179302it absolutely was rape, it's like hypnotising someone so they will fuck you (doesn't work irl, I know). And I think Riddle fucked off asap as soon as the potion stopped working.
I need to look up quote on that power of love thing
No. 179376
>>179369It was even more tragic then that, Merope stopped giving him the love potion hoping he'd fall in love with her for real and stay with her but instead he immediately left and she was already pregnant with his kid
she didn't even know him really, he was just the rich good looking guy who she had a crush on and viewed as a knight in shinning armor to save her from her crappy life
No. 179482
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>>179376technically speaking he did unintentionally end up saving her, its strongly implied without intervention Merope would have been forced to marry and have kids with her own brother to keep the bloodline "pure", however Merope's brother and father ended up getting arrested by the Ministry of Magic when her brother used magic to assault Tom Snr. cause he was jealous of him, Tom was tall, handsome and had a natural aristocratic look that attracted women(witches and muggles born) and so her brother and father's arrested ended up saving her life
so he did end up being her savior indirectly
No. 179632
>>171711>>171890I like her as a character but the hate people have her for her is insane, like people really fucking hate her
I do understand why, one is not likely gonna encounter a Voldemort like figure IRL but most people will meet plenty of Umbridge's, petty and mean teachers or bosses who like having authority over everyone and may even be subtly racist
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what's everyone's favorite and least favorite hp book?
i started re-reading the entire series sometime last year and i'm now at chapter 4 of book 5. i remember getting the book for christmas when i was 11 because it had just been released and i was so bored and annoyed because i found the first chapter(s) so dull and boring. i didn't touch it for two years until the 6th book was about to be released and then i read the whole thing within a month and i actually found it enjoyable.
i also remember really liking lupin and hating tonks because 13 year old me had a crush on lupin, kek.
No. 182485
>>182479I had the same experience wih book 5. I felt that the wangst and drama with Mr Wesley's close call with death is reaching parody levels. When I went back to read the book a few years later, I enjoyed it because I knew what to expect (and I have developed a taste for angst and edge).
>i also remember really liking lupin and hating tonks because 13 year old me had a crush on lupin, kek.At least you weren't a fujo seething about Tonks getting in between their OTP. I hated that Lupin treated her like shit, I'm not gonna pretend that was a well-written relationship. Unless Rowling meant for it to be absolutely fucking
toxic No. 182498
>>182488yeah this.
i don't think i liked any of the pairings bc none of them have any chemistry whatever. i would've respected it more if the kids decided to lay off the relationships until after they left school since, yknow, they're still recovering from a war and all, and as for tonks/remus i really think it would've worked better as a one time thing that the both of them regretted as opposed to any actual relationship. idk why but that pairing in particular came across as kind of gross to me in the books anyway and it made no sense whatsoever
No. 182499
>>182479I'm reading through all the books for the first time now finally, when I was younger I only read to part 3 around two times before stopping and doing it again. Anyway I'm at the end of book 6 now.
So far, my favorite is book 4. The whodunnit plot was gripping and after watching the movies so many times I appreciated how different it was simply because it felt like a new experience. I'm not sure which book is my least favorite yet, but I have to say even though I found book 5 and 6 really interesting I feel like the kids can never catch a break so they both get tiring at certain points.
Unrelated but I have to share it somewhere, I had a nsfw dream involving Snape last night even though I never liked him as a character. In fact, in the books he's a lot more annoying than in the movies kek.
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I'm in with Sebastian and Ominis
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>>404013i love them so much nonna
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>>416241i really hope they'll take more time to go over chaaracter arcs that were neglected in the films. one of the real strengths of the books imo is that a lot of secondary characters get their own arcs and complex charactterisation (srius, dumbles, the malfoy family etc.) and of course they couldn't have fit all that into the films.
i also wasn't too fond of most caig decisions (expect snape). hopefully they stick closer to the books this time around.
i'm hoping they keep the long hair on lucius tho
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>>416241I hope they make Snape and Filch as hilarious as they were in the books and also give Dumbledore some nice clothes instead of those boring gray robes he wore in the movies. I want to see the little things the movies ignored, like, say, Filch being a squib, I think the squib thing was never explained in the movies and it gets mentioned later in the books, and speaking of squibs, the movies don't really have much of Dumbledore despite him always being there if you know what I mean, in the end of the movies I felt like he is still a mystery, nothing is really explained much. I don't expect they do a 100% adaptation but some things the movie glossed over really add to the story.
As for the casting I don't really care much, I just hope the guy they cast as Snape doesn't try to be Alan Rickman and does his own thing as book Snape. Also Sirius, Lupin, Lily and James etc be the ages they were in the books.
>>416247Oh yeah if they have to keep anything from the movies is the long haired Lucius, that was perfect.
No. 416276
>>416241Honestly my biggest hope is that the actors aren't woke and advocating for mutilating kids like Daniel and Emma while acting as if JKR is
problematic and evil when all she does is to protect women's and kids rights.
Other than that my dream would be that they cast people who look as accurate to description as possible, but I know they're always going to pick a good or famous actor over one that "just" looks the part and that can't be helped. Sorry but I'm one of the Fleur actress haters, it takes me out of the movie any time I see her on screen.
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>>416241That it will be as true to the books as possible. Of course, it's an adaption and it will put it's own spin to it, but please be as true as possible. In the casting call it say it's "inclusive" casting. So I pray there will be no troons.
I'm also really excited about learning what the general aesthetic will be. Do you think they will reuse the environments and props they had in the movies?
No. 416345
>>416294place your bets, i say that luna will be the tranny. she is quirky and girly and ethereal, everything troons want to be. tonks will also be an obvious choice because of her shapeshifting abilities, but i think she will be more nonbinary type of troon.
and it would be hilarious, but unfortunately won't ever happen because they won't have the balls to cast fleur as a tranny.
No. 416378
>>416345I feel like they'll put a troon in a position of authority so they can be all like "wow so cool so badass". They did it with House of the Dragon recently. I'n probably thinking McGonagall. One of the Beauxbatons will probably be a Youtube/Insta troon who pops up and says like two lines for social media buzz.
>>416280A feel like Fleur will be black. I don't know why.
No. 416385
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Not gonna watch unless they include my goffik vampire queen. Enoby has been overlooked for too long.
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RIP Maggie Smith. It's sad how all the iconic HP actors are passing away.
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>>416241I hope gingers will be cast as gingers - no hair dyeing.
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>>416241I hope they cast good looking people to play good looking characters. I don't care how good their acting is, if they're ugly they shouldn't ever get the role!
>>416280I must say the casting call stating they're committed to diverse casting is kinda funny. Are they really going to consider a black kid in a wheelchair to play a pale redhead? Is Hermione going to be asian now to push the smart asian stereotype or will they act as if her being black is canon now because of the play? Will Cho Chang be a southern american like in the potter musical kek
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>>421191i hope they cast actual blondes to play the malfoys… i hate it when they have actors looking like bottle blondes with dark eyebrows
i also hope they dig into voldemort's background like the books did. he's quite an ineresting villain but the films made him a boring generic ass evil cackling maniac.
in general the films were visually nice but they butchered most of the characters.
as a diehard minerva stan i hated maggie's mcG ngl No. 422378
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>>422165idk hbo also aired great stuff like succession so i'm still hoping we get something okayish. thise books deserve a better adaptation. the films left out so much backstory and plot points, hbp especially.
also i hate how much stuff in fanworks is influenced by the films. it's so hard to find book-accurate depicitions of certain characters. picrel is one of about 5 pieces of fanart in existence that depict my girl accurately.
No. 424672
>>424208iirc it was mentioned on pottermore the malfoys are slightly less inbred than some other families bc they tolerate the odd halfblood. Draco's just retarded bc his parents spoiled him
also why is it so hard to find voldemort content that isn't shipping him with harry or hermione? i hate crossgen ships and idgaf about harry hes a boring fucker
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I played Hogwarts Legacy for the first time today (love it btw, its so immersive. I'm only 4 hours in and it feels like I've barely scratched the surface) and I've been kekking all day at the fact that I literally immediately clocked the tranny barkeeper even though I knew absolutely NOTHING about this game. I wasn't even looking at my screen when he came up, i just heard the voice and was like "???" and then I looked up and was like "is that a man?". They can't even pass in fantasy worlds, sad.
No. 429236
>>429203As annoying as he is, I find it unintentionally hilarious how accurate the character is to real life troons despite being intended as a sympathetic portrayal. His voice and appearance are uncanny and instantly clockable, other characters can’t even mention him in passing without feeling compelled to point out how Brave and Stunning he is despite his utter mediocrity and he even
groomed ‘befriended’ the lesbian Herbology teacher when they were at school together when she was a lonely and vulnerable eleven year old and he was significantly older. IIRC he didn’t troon out until later so my personal headcanon is that he trooned out in response to her rejecting his advances in that classic ‘I identify as being attractive to you’ move troons often pull. Fortunately they’re not a couple. I think even the devs realised that that would be taking it too far.
>>429213There really is no winning with them. I hope the showrunners of the HBO series have learned from HL that there is no point in trying to appease them. HP is inherently evil to TRAs anyway, so putting in a few token trans actors won’t achieve anything except annoy the existing fanbase.
If they do troon out anyone, I hope it’s
Umbridge.
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Did anyone else play the Lego Harry Potter games as a child? I'm not into HP anymore, but I used to be obsessed with it and really loved these games. They were re-released on Switch and I'm thinking of emulating them on my Steam Deck for nostalgia. I can also remember trying to play the PC ROM games, but they wouldn't run properly on my dad's laptop kek.
No. 429254
>>429203Kek, they hate him because it's too realistic a portrayal. Troons don't want to be represented as they actually are, they want to be represented as the pornified female caricature they wish to become but will never be.
>>429237I'm not exactly a Harry Potter fan, but I
finished all the movies recently (I plan on reading the books, I swear) and then bought Hogwarts Legacy a few weeks ago on Steam. I wish I had the time to play all my new games, let alone that one.
No. 429320
>>429298I meant NPCs that follow you around while exploring, like they do during certain quests. But no I’m pretty sure you can’t have a familiar or any kind of animal that follows you around. I think the closest thing you get to a pet are the beasts in the vivariums or the random cats everywhere that you can pet. No Crookshanks or Hedwig, I’m afraid.
If they ever make a DLC or a sequel I really hope they flesh out daily life stuff. As it is there’s really no reason to spend any time in your dorm or common room or the Great Hall except to pick up quests (or ransack the place for loot). NPCs don’t even go to their dormitories to sleep, they just disappear. They do go to the Great Hall to eat but barely react if you jump onto a table and start confringo-ing the sausages. In Elder Scrolls games, NPCs get up in a huff and walk away if you kick their dinner onto the floor lmao.
No. 429367
>>429339Really? Does that include the cast members who have been trying to distance themselves from the franchise? Honestly I wouldn’t mind if they got different voices for some of the main (child) cast, even if bad acting is slightly less grating in audio form.
>>429340I guess, but pets generally stayed behind in the dormitory or common room and owls stayed in the Owlery so you wouldn’t get to see them that much. IIRC the only people who took their pets with them around the castle and grounds were Ron with Scabbers (though that might just have been to protect him from Crookshanks?) and Neville with Trevor which turned out to be a pretty bad idea since since Snape immediately tried to poison him. IMO it would look rather odd to drag your cat along to go burn down poacher camps, so most likely the pet would just end up as room decor. I think that’s how pets were used in Hogwarts Mystery.
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I was doing the Jackdaw quest today and not only was I not able to collect all the loot cause I didn't have enough gear slots, but I also accidentally hit "abandon quest" AFTER I made it past the matriarch spiders and was on the ancient knights. It took me like 2 hours to get to that point. I literally had to just shut my laptop and take a nap after that. Picrel, me.
No. 429661
>>429241Didn't play as a child, played them recently with my mom on ps4, bought it on sale. Really fun. She watched the movies again to refresh her memory, many parts she was "the hell are we, who is that", couldn't remember much of the story but the beginning, good thing WB on cable tv is basically made of harry potter movies, every week seems to have a hp marathon.
Now some parts of the game we just got stuck for dumb reasons kek prob gonna play it again because my saves got wiped. I think the later years have better mechanics, also there were some parts of the game I remember thinking "how they gonna do that with lego?" And then exclaiming "well that's clever" some parts had a very smart way to tell a harry potter story while still making it very lego. It was really well made. Also my mom hates ron for some reason, she just hates playing him kek
No. 430093
>>429213This is why you shouldn't ever try to please troons; they will NEVER be happy. Even if you put all your abilities into making sure it's 100% what trans people want in the moment… that's going to change in just a few months and you will have committed transphobia because now what was previously accepted is seen as outdated and bigoted. Though I will say I know a few woke pro-TRA people who secretly played the game (while telling their other woke friends they didn't kek) and in private they absolutely used Sirona as proof/argument for why playing the game was fine and not transphobic.
>>429236>I hope the showrunners of the HBO series have learned from HL that there is no point in trying to appease them. HP is inherently evil to TRAs anyway, so putting in a few token trans actors won’t achieve anything except annoy the existing fanbase.I really hope this is true! It just looks so uncanny when you see a scrawny little Ellen Paige tif pretending she's a manly man like everyone else, or a hulking troon hovering above some girls and we have to pretend he's one of them.
And because it's set in the real world 90s UK, I don't think you can really mess around with the characters race without it having implications either. If Harry isn't white, or just half even, then he's uncle and aunt are automatically racist for abusing him. Unless they're also non-white now; which then means the non-white family are shown to be child abusers. If Hermione isn't white, then everyone disliking her for being a big nerd are suddenly racist too. If Ron isn't white everyone is going to go "you really seriously want us to think the filipino guy is a natural ginger and so is his entire filipino family too?". You just open up another dimension that weren't in the books and you just can't get around it in our current society without making it about race and racism.
No. 430146
>>430129No. No they haven’t.
You know how HP gets credited as the series that motivated a whole generation to read? Many of them never went on to read anything else, at least nothing beyond easily digestible YA slop, nor did they ever develop any kind of reading comprehension. The closest most of them have ever gotten to literature is watching screen adaptation featuring
David Tennant Benedict Cumberbatch the latest flavour of the month British sexyman actor. They’ll claim to have been fans of the source material for, like, totes forever but they’re lying. They’ve never read it. Hell, a lot of (ex-)Harry Potter fans have never even read Harry Potter.
No. 430219
>>430206Racism and classism are not the same.
A character in the wizarding world could have high perceived social standing, like being an accomplished ministry official for example, and still be a mudblood, because the discrimination is based off blood, not social status. Thus it's racism not classism.
>Draco and Hermione are both whiteAround the world there are countless ethnic groups that look similar to an outsider yet they have a long history of racial discrimination against each other. What's deeply American is the belief that you can only be racist against black people.
But by creating this sort of "wizarding racism" Rowling strips the reader from preconceived ideas and prejudice they might have on the topic of race, and instead she directly puts them in the perspective of the group that's being discriminated against. Because no matter their skin color, the reader is always a muggle.
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>>430219>Around the world there are countless ethnic groups that look similar to an outsider yet they have a long history of racial discrimination against each otherYou're contradicting yourself. You're saying that race has nothing to do with how a person looks (truly the most extreme form of 'race is a social construct'). Casteism in India is not racism. Xenophobia is not racism. Ethnic conflict is not racism.
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>>430199guess what noble families did to keep the wealth within like have you seriously never heard of nobility not being allowed to marry peasants before
No. 430318
>>430219It's still not racism in the books, it's wizardism/magicalism or whatever the heck you wanna call it. The discrimination does NOT stem from race, but from having or not having wizardry in the family.
A fullblood wizard of any race has higher status than a muggleborn wizard of any race - the race is fully irrelevant to them. They will discriminate against their own flesh and blood if they're born without magical powers too.
It's an allegory for every kind of -ism and discrimination without being directly linked to a real one.
No. 430383
>>430267>>430311>>430318Intraethnic group racism is still racism, including the specific -isms that fall under that umbrella.
Idk why you're so pressed about this, Rowling has said in interviews that death eaters are a metaphor for nazis and their ideology. She explained racism with pears and apples lol.
Parallels of blood discrimination in the real world are specific to racism, not classism and certainty not xenophobia lol, Hermione and Draco are from the same country. Even royal inbreeding had political and financial motivations, unlike something like the Gaunts who were dirt poor and yet insisted on maintaining purity of blood.
Not to say that there aren't themes of classism or other -isms in Harry Potter, there are, but blood purity ideology is canonically inspired in nazi race theory lol.
She literally created a fictional race distinction between magical and non-magical humans, so that you -the reader- would be put in the place of the oppressed mongrel no matter who you are or what your skin looks like.
(derailing) No. 430401
>>430386>>430390???
I literally said:
>Not to say that there aren't themes of classism or other -isms in Harry Potter, there are, but blood purity ideology is canonically inspired in nazi race theoryThe inbreeding thing is just one example, obviously inbreeding can also be found in other -isms, same with slurs, etc.
Blood purity ideology is an specific parallel to racism because of the sum of lore related to it, not just the inbreeding.
For example blood supremacists perceive muggles not only as a different race, but as a completely different species, it's even mentioned in the fantastic beasts book that some people campaign for muggles to be classified in the beasts division lol.
>>430394Discussing the nuances of the books is not derailing, plus I'm not even the one who started discussing references to classism in Harry Potter, just pointing out that that anon's interpretation is obviously not what the books intended to convey.
No. 430403
>>430401>Discussing the nuances of the books is not derailingIt is, according to mods. See
>>430267Are you trying to get us all banned? Leave.
No. 439441
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>>439436yup. alan rickman didn't help but back in the day there were snapewives for book snape too.
even now, if you look at the pro snape tags in tumblr there's a bunch of them insisting he isn't ugly in the books and harry is just a biased narrayor or w/e. you get fanart like picrel, they just interpret book snape's description in the most flattering way possible
No. 439497
>>436136I have started speaking my mind more after reading the books again tbh.
>>439436I hated Snape as a kid but rereading the books as an adult, I've started to appreciate his dry humor more. If he didn't argue so much with teenagers I actually would find his humor charming lmao. I can kinda understand why someone would read his personality as attractive even if his appearance isn't. Regardless, any male character with a sad backstory is bound to attract female fans, so even if he was a boring, ugly character he would still have fangirls.
>>439441>a bunch of them insisting he isn't ugly in the books and harry is just a biased narratorthe first book in particular is ruthless towards Snape, but that's because Harry is 11 and the first book is more mean-spirited than the rest. I can
maybe buy the unreliable narrator argument, if Snape is just in plain looking, but he should just be ugly imo. I hate when fandoms insist that every character is actually super beautiful
anime fandoms have the opposite problem, where they insist that everyone is actually uglier than they are. Harry Potter isn't that sort of book that puts emphasis on creating a "beautiful atmosphere" so most of the characters (with obvious exceptions like Fleur) should either be average joes or ugly.
I don't mind if people headcanon Snape as attractive for self-indulgent reasons, but they shouldn't say that it's canon.
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>>439436I'm the anon who said that and I stand by what I said kek while Alan isn't exactly the most attractive man he still looked pretty normal, I wish the costuming would go out of their way to really make Snape look like a disgusting creep. Honestly I wish it for all characters! I want them to be as whimsical and over the top as they are in the books, Dumbledore needs to look flamboyant and Luna needs to look more like the insane conspiracy theorist she is and not just like a sweet autist girl.
I know people will always still be attracted to the villains, anons mentioned girls shipping themselves with voldemort so you just can't do anything about that kek but still, I want everyone to look at them like "gurl, why the fuck?" any time they say they find Snape attractive. They did it really well with Pettigrew, he sure looks disgusting.
>>439497The only "Harry is a biased narrator" I buy is that all slytherins aren't as evil as him and Ron make them out to be. They're rival houses, Ron already was biased towards them from the second he met Harry, and both Snape and Draco are bullies to him so of course they'll be portrayed that way from his perspective. But even in book 1 we learned that Snape wasn't trying to kill Harry - but to save him.
No. 439532
>>439497The first book is
ruthless and I’m surprised I never see Rowling haters scream about her being fatphobic regarding Dudley.
>>439521I hope they go for more whimsical book-accurate casting and styling, too. While I like Imelda Staunton I really want to see an Umbridge who looks like an evil toad. This is the only instance where I’ll accept and even appreciate them hiring a trans actor. Eddie Izzard would be perfect for the role.
No. 439544
>>439532>Eddie Izzard would be perfect for the role.KEK but I'd still be against it, I don't want any man who claims to be a woman to get any kind of positive attention or to be part of the series.
>>439542>JKR writes some loving mothers>"Reeee why do you hate childless women??!?!?"It's just so obvious that yes a woman who is a loving mother is generally going to be a good person, as opposed to a woman who abuses her children. And even then JKR managed to write Petunia who is both!
>specifically that most of the characters she describes as fat are bad guys except for MollyHagrid slander, we love him. Neville was a good person while being a chubby kid, and professor Sprout was chubby too. You also have to remember obesity has been creeping up in recent times. JKR is turning 60 next year, during her upbringing there would generally be "the fat kid" in a school class and that was it. Fatness wasn't as common to begin with.
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