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My guess is that we will see him in the early episodes, but they will be vague about what he is there for. He will take something from Flamel to keep it safe, but we won’t find out what until Harry does.

There seem to be set photos of Dumbledore with the Flamels, so that should be cool. I’m guessing that won’ be a flashback though, and they’ll just cut to Dumbledore visiting Flamel to borrow the stone in one of the early episodes.

I’m excited to see all the scenes that the movies cut. Especially all of the exposition. I’m hoping that the movies make liberal use of flashbacks. Let us see the marauders when Sirius and Lupin are telling us about them at the shrieking shack, let us see Hagrid and Maxime visiting the Giants, and let us see Kreacher and Regulus stealing the horcrux,

Did the books ever specify her accent, or are you just going off of Emma Watson?

I think they’re asking if Harry would have been worthy of receiving the powers of SHAZAM. If I recall from the movie, the basic idea was that anyone could be worthy. I think Harry would be closer to the ideal that the wizard was looking for than Billy Batson was anyway,

He didn’t trust Karkaroff, but the Ministry had commuted Karkaroff’s sentence. Karkaroff had every right to be there as Durmstrang’s headmaster. Dumbledore also knew that Karkaroff was in no position to ever return to Voldemort or the Death Eaters after he ratted them out.

The other spells have purposes beyond hurting people. Even though you can set someone on fire with incendio, you can also use it to light up a fireplace. This spell seems to be specifically designed to hurt or kill others.

I think Harry would have fallen asleep in that exam anyway. If it weren’t for the vision, he would have just had a regular dream.

If he had stayed awake he probably would have gotten a better grade, but he didn’t really seem fully prepared for that exam anyway.

That sounds exactly like what a robot would say!!

(I’m kidding by the way. I know you’re not AI)

There was a talking mirror in the Leaky Cauldron too. It criticized Harry’s hair and encouraged him when he was afraid of Sirius and the Grim. Maybe that’s Oesed’s Mirror?

The book isn’t from Ron’s perspective. We can’t really know what he thought. I’m just speculating, but I think Ron was just kind of lying to himself and the people around him. Like he wanted to believe that Harry did it to justify his anger with Harry, so he convinced himself that Harry did it even though he knew it didn’t make sense.

As for everyone else, a lot of people were convinced that Harry had unusual powers. I think what most people thought is just that Dumbledore let his favorite student get past the age line. That was clearly what Karkaroff and Maxime believed, and it would fit with Rita’s articles about Harry’s relationship with Dumbledore.

Everyone believed that Voldemort was dead, or as good as dead. There was also no obvious reason for Voldemort, or for any of his followers, to want Harry in the tournament. There are much simpler reasons to want him harmed. Meanwhile, it was very easy to imagine why Harry would want to enter the tournament. Everybody wanted to enter the tournament and have all the fame and glory that that brings. Rita was spreading the rumor that Harry had basically become addicted to fame due to all the attention that he gained for defeating Voldemort, and that he needed to keep doing more and more to keep that fame alive. After Harry survived Voldemort and cast the patronus and everything, it probably wasn’t too hard to believe that he found a way around the age line. Especially when Rita was spreading the rumor that Dumbledore favored Harry, and Dumbledore was the one who cast the age line.

I don’t think Ron really believed Harry put his name in the goblet. At least not after that first night. Ron was just feeling resentful and Harry’s newly increased fame brought back a lot of his insecurities about his brothers. He wasn’t being fair to Harry, but he was too upset to realize it.

The books never confirmed one way or the other whether Grindelwald saw socks in the mirror. Grindelwald never made that claim either.

Snape was a jerk. He hated James and he transferred a lot of that hate onto Harry. I think he also resented that Lily loved Harry so much that she was willing to die for him. Snape is meant to be an unlikable character, so he does unlikable things.

Why not? I’m happy to have someone disagree with me, but you’e not really adding anything to the discussion unless you actually refute my points.

Nobody deserves to die, but death is one of the major themes of the books. To explore that theme characters have to die, and some of those characters have to be innocent and lovable. If you read the death scene, Harry doesn’t just come out of it sad. He has spent the last several chapters doubting himself, doubting Dumbledore, and doubting his mission to destroy the horcruxes. Dobby’s death gives Harry a renewed purpose. It confirms for him that everything that Dumbledore has been saying about the power of his love was true, and it reminds Harry why it is so important to destroy Voldemort’s horcruxes.

I think it is also the logical end to Dobby’s character arc. He went from being forced to work against Harry and needing to fight tooth and nail just to give him a warning to having the freedom to lay down his own life to protect his friend. It also showed how powerful Harry’s simple act of kindness was when he gave Dobby that sock. To Harry it was just a small gesture, but to Dobby it meant the world. Harry was the first person to ever treat Dobby with kindness, so of course Dobby was willing to give anything to repay that kindness years later.

In what way? Which part of my post do you think was wrong, and why do you think it was wrong? I think everything I said was pretty strongly supported by the text, but I would like to hear why you disagree with that.

So what part of my reply did you disagree with? You don’t think it was a turning point for Harry’s character?

What am I wrong about?

Dobby’s death was essential to the book. That was the turning point where Harry really began to understand that his grief, and therefore his love, was what gave him the power to resist Voldemort, and it is what caused Harry to devote himself to going after Voldemort’s horcruxes instead of chasing after the Deathly Hallows. Dobby’s death helped to put Harry on the path to becoming the master of death.