All posts by Kates39
@MrSiriusBlack Yes I can. Thank you for letting me know. I just added the Secrets Of Dumbledore to the top navigation. Thank you @Voidedgalaxies for pointing it out! 😊
I liked the two together, but I didn't ship it. I think it would have been better if everyone in the trio had married other people. People don't tend to end up marrying their closest friends like that, or people they know at a younger age, and loads of characters did. That's the issue with shipping - it's just a fantasy. I loved their friendship, and would have liked it if they had stayed like that.
Of course he was a hero. You can be both a bully and a hero. I think he's a perfect anti-hero.
And a case think about: James Potter was a bully, but he still saved Snape when Sirius nearly got Snape killed. Would you consider that action heroic, but still accept he was a bully at that point?
That's what these novels try to teach you: "Besides the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters. We've all got both light and dark inside of us." It's about what you choose to do in the end, and he chose to do good.
</p><p>Now the Credence thing will be another waste of time if this is not Credence's true family (the film having already spent the whole time making out he was a Lestrange). It is not a good thing when the only thing you achieve by introducing what should be amazing twists is complete confusion, and then expect everyone to wait 2 years until you tell them how it apparently works. It's not good writing even if you somehow make it work. Maybe she will say things in the meantime in light of the problems and negative reception, but many fan theories don't add up either. You have to manipulate a lot to make an ounce of sense from it. </p>
</p><p>I think she's now the kind of author who is in the moment and is manipulating and ignoring what she once wrote to tell the story she wants to tell now. And that is wrong and she needs to stop doing that. She gave a timeline for McGonagall. She wrote an excellent story for the Dumbledore family. She does not need to change or manipulate that. If she had given the proper effort and had the proper perception of her whole world, she would have been more than capable of an amazing story. Rowling used to be better than this. Her plan for the original Harry Potter books was perfection and very thoughtful. I want to know what went wrong. I don't know whether that was intentional or she's lost her way, but if she cares about the story of the Harry Potter world, I hope she learns from this and improves in the next film before she digs even deeper problems. I might let this one go if she does that! But I am worried because this is the second time she has wrote a story that has these kind of problems. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child was strike one, this is strike two and she doesn't want a strike three unless she wants a mention on a future "Authors who Lost the Plot" article (pun intended). </p>
It was basically alluding to the fact that Bellatrix loved to torture her victims before being done with them / killing them. There wouldn't be any other perception of it, it's what he meant. :)
The above two comments are wrong. As stated in the books, there can be Slytherins who were muggle-born. They are rare, but they can happen. Salazar Slytherin is long gone. He is not able to make the choice. It is up to the Sorting Hat and the hat is fair! (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - "there ain't a lot of Mudblood Slytherins.")
Yes! The Sorting Hat places children in each house for how suited they are to the traits of that house (i.e. cunning, resourcefulness, ambition for Slytherin, to name a few) - never by their blood status.
Percy meant that Snape had wanted the DADA job for years, which was Quirrell's job at the time. Quirrell had only took the DADA job that year. He was actually the Muggle Studies teacher for a while, then he left in 1990 to go travelling, and returned in 1991 as the new DADA teacher. The job was thought to be cursed by Riddle in around the 1970s when he was told he couldn't have it! :)
He saw his family, particularly his sister Ariana alive and using magic.
It was a combination of things, the main one being this:
When Voldemort used Harry’s blood to return to life in the fourth book, he helped increase Lily’s protective power around Harry. When she died, her sacrifice created a powerful force that tethered Harry to life and ensured he survived the Killing Curse both when he was a baby, and when he let Voldemort kill him in the forest.
When Voldemort “killed” Harry a second time, he only manages to kill the fragment of his own soul that is clinging to Harry’s protected soul. But the Killing Curse still hurt Harry, to the point where he could have picked to die if he wanted. That is what Dumbledore meant when he told Harry he could board a train to move on, or return to life if he wanted!
Lily and Cedric - Lily so she could raise Harry, and Cedric because he was just a kid in the wrong place at the wrong time!
I would probably change everything except Albus and Scorpius's friendship! The time-travel would have to go. Delphi next. I would make it a fun adventure with the kids at Hogwarts, perhaps looking for something and exploring more of the castle, as well as staying in the future and showing what it's like (Teddy, Professor Longbottom, Minister for Magic Hermione), rather than making it something so harrowing and unbelieveably world changing.
When Ron was splinched, Hermione applied three drops of dittany to the wound and it healed immediately. Ron was still pale for a little bit but within a few hours, he looked fine :)
Dumbledore of course. He pulled all the strings, even in death!
Dumbledore! I love Hagrid but he wasn't the best teacher, while Snape picked on his students. Dumbledore was an excellent teacher, and kind to the students, whatever else you think of him! He would be the one you should go when you need guidance.
Gryffindor won! At the end of the second book, Harry wonders whether "his and Ron’s four hundred points for Gryffindor securing the House Cup for the second year running" was the best thing about the end of year feast :)