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Is it ever directly stated anywhere that the full moon itself is what causes the transformation? I was under the impression that the magic part of it was that the transformation always coincided with the full moon.

That doesn't necessarily mean that Snape didn't show favoritism. Maybe he wasn't unfair with House points, but he favored the Slytherin Quidditch team several times, and was more likely to let Slytherins off the hook for minor kerfuffles while other Houses (particularly Gryffindors) got extra homework or detentions.

I've seen some fan art where both Harry and James were drawn as Indian. It looks really cool (though unfortunately, I don't know the name of the artist, so I can't direct you to any).

Given how deeply competent she is, McGonagall is absolutely the best Head of House, but I do feel a little bad that poor Professor Sprout has zero votes...

To be fair, Hermione isn't really known as "the Smartest Witch Her Age." That's only been said, like, twice in the entire series. Harry's the only one who really has a "title" to him, for obvious reasons, and it's clear that Hermione and Ron both get the shaft compared to him (remember, Hermione didn't really get that much recognition outside of schoolwork until Half-Blood Prince).

But this does make an interesting point. Harry and Hermione are both characters who have strong purposes that are easily defined. Harry is a hero; Hermione is a scholar. But Ron? What does Ron do? We know his purpose---to be the heart of the team, to remind his two friends with savior complexes to take a break and live a little---but that's not something that can be easily summed up in a subtitle. So maybe that's why people don't like Ron as much: compared to everyone else in the series, he's not very defined.

@GredandForge17 What's your reasoning? Why is he awesome?

It's a fun theory, but since it doesn't directly impact the story, I think this is one of those things where you choose whether you believe it or not and leave it at that. Personally, I choose to believe that it's true, because now that Sirius is gone, Harry doesn't have anyone who's directly related to him besides the Dursleys; it'd be nice if he at least found his parents' cat again, even if he never realized who Crookshanks was.

(Also, I believe Crookshanks is male.)

While she's realistically written and definitely overhated by the fandom, Cho Chang's character doesn't appeal to me. It's hard to root for a character when the majority of her interactions with the MC is just dancing awkwardly around their emotional baggage. I'm sure that if Harry had had more interactions with her past the year they were both hormonal teenagers struggling with PTSD, Cho would've seemed much more interesting and likable.

Harry looks the best, IMO. The animation style seems to suit him (the other characters...not so much. I mean, Draco doesn't look menacing at all!)

1. Snape didn't show up because Harry needed the people closest to him, and no matter how brave Snape was for his mission, he still hated Harry's guts for being James' son. Besides, there were plenty of dead people who didn't show up (Fred, Mad-Eye Moody, Dumbledore, etc.). That's not concrete evidence that Snape is alive.

2. Snape's body wasn't seen in the Hall because no one but Harry knew it was there. He had to leave Snape's body in the tunnels of the Shrieking Shack in order to defeat Voldemort, and he probably had someone go down and retrieve it after all the craziness was over. Again, not a strong piece of evidence.

3. Sure, Snape is a Potions master, and maybe he should've had an antidote on hand, but if he DID have an antidote, why didn't he use it immediately instead of going through the big dramatic death scene with Harry? (Adding to that, Snape's death seemed pretty solid, as the book describes his limp body and glassy eyes, both very hard to fake.)

I think this is just empty speculation, just like the theory that Dumbledore faked his death in Book 6.

Who wants to be referee? You're the one who enforces all those silly rules, and you have to put up with angry teams all the time. I'd rather be up where all the action is.

There were a lot of things that irritated me about the movies, but one of the biggest was just the sheer amount of material cut from the books. It's not like I want a three-hour movie with every single detail and moment crammed in, but there was a lot of good (and even crucial) stuff left out of the movies. Peeves was missing; the Marauders were barely mentioned at all; Cho Chang spills the beans on Dumbledore's Army instead of her less-loyal friend Marietta; the mirror Sirius gave Harry was left out of OoTP and then shoehorned into the last film (making it confusing for non-book readers); and worst of all, vital plot points that build on characters like Ron, Ginny, and Neville were left out, leaving their character development looking like a joke. If you've never read the books, you would have NO IDEA what you're missing out on.

Plus, the later movies are really dark---not just emotionally, but LITERALLY. I remember watching HBP for the first time, and when it came Draco and Harry's dueling scene, I remember thinking that if I didn't already know the scene from the books, I wouldn't have had had any clue what was going on, because I couldn't see anything. Talk about irritating.

Depends on the fight. Mountain trolls would be great in big-scale battles like the Battle of Hogwarts, but if it's just a small duel between two or three people, then centaurs are more practical (not to mention a lot safer).

Beater sounds like fun, but I think I'd work best as a Chaser.

Also, to be fair, forcing your followers to have a magical tattoo permanently engraved on their arm is a pretty serious way to make them show loyalty. Like Izzy960 said, the Death Eater's fear of Voldemort's power was more than enough to enforce their allegiance.

Other ideas: Marauders Era stories, how your favorite couples met, the stories of the Hogwarts school founders before they made the school, Remus Lupin/Peter Pettigrew's life before (or even at) school.

How did she recover in three hours?

HAH! These are HILARIOUS! More, please!

Hmm, interesting question. I won't say which book is the worst because all of them have their own strengths and weaknesses; however, the book I liked least was Order of the Phoenix. It was slow at times, and the constant barrage against Harry could get really grating. Harry was also dealing with some severe PTSD from Book 4's events while simultaneously going through his "dumb teenager in love" phase, so while his character's actions were accurate and brilliantly written, he can be really unlikable at several points of the story. Sirius was also the first fictional character I seriously mourned, so there's that.