Potterheads Discuss Unpopular Wizarding World Opinions About the Harry Potter Series in Entertaining Thread

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Eleonora Bader
May 22, 2024 11:30 AM EDT

You happily turn the yellowing pages of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, enjoying the warmth of the summer sun that is streaming through the open window in your living room. It paints golden squares on the worn pages, and you, curled up on the window seat, are drinking a steaming mug of tea. You reach the part where Harry receives his Hogwarts letter, the turning point of his magical life. You fondly remember the time when you felt anything was possible… oh, to be young. You read these books so long ago, and now, you are reading them again, reminiscing along the way. So familiar, yet so unfamiliar. You forgot what was written in the pages, and now that you're going over it, you have some critical thinking to do.

But Harry Potter isn't all roses and rainbows. You find yourself forming opinions about certain things, characters, and situations. These opinions may be… unpopular. Scroll down for an entertaining thread where Potterheads discuss their own unpopular opinions regarding the series.

For more Harry Potter stuff, here are Potterheads who are expressing their disappointment at Harry Potter post book reveals.

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    What's your ACTUAL unpopular opinion?
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    Not the "Harry is overrated" or "Romione is toxic" thing, I've hear it a lot. An unpopular opinion that is rarely said in this subreddit. Mine is that Tom Riddle was in some way much more dangerous than Voldemort. Voldemort was the most powerful dark wizard and one of the most powerful wizards of all time. There was almost no one who could even hope to fight him on equal terms, he had an army of followers who would do everything on him and arsenal of spells that almost no one could even dream ab
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    Volmemort was capable of limitless evil and he was a pure monster inside. But also also on the outside... You see him and you know he's pure evil. If he came to your house to a meeting with you, you would be terrified out of your mind. But let's look at Tom Riddle. He was a cruel satic ps~path capable of creating a Horcrux at 16, he m red at least 4 people (Myrtle, his father and
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    paternal grandparents) and committed unknown number of attempted mu rs and as ults before he even finished Hogwarts. He was incredibly dangerous for a teenager but adult Voldemort would've wiped the floor with him. So why was he so dangerous? His monstrous inside was hidden behind a very handsome and charming exterior.
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    If Riddlewould come to a meeting or to a party, he's someone you would gladly talk and make a deal with him. He is someone you could support, someone whom you can tell your secrets and someone who could've become a Minister For Magic. Tom Riddle could charm people and make them trust him because his monstrous inside was covered by his handsome looks and charming persona. But Voldemort? He couldn't charm anyone because he was monster on the outside as well.
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    OrganizationEven4417 2 days ago im not sure if this counts, but harry should have been much more interested in learning magic than he was, up until ge got taken to school he was ab d and neglected in a boring muggle house. the fact that he didnt fall in love with magic like hermione always baffled me. he didnt have to be a top student like her, but he had very little interest in learning magic and treated it like regular school work, sure he liked defense against the dark arts, but theres so muc
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    steeb 478 2 days ago I can see this, especially as in the first book it's mentioned how he's reading his textbooks and finds them interesting prior to leaving for Hogwarts, but we never see him exhibiting that type of behavior ever again outside of required work which is a shame A 809 Reply Share Aqquila89. 2 days ago It's even retconned in a sense: in Deathly Hallows, Hermione asks Harry if he ever even opened A History of Magic, and he responds: “I might've
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    opened it, you know, when I bought it... just the once..." But he actually read A History of Magic or at least parts of it; he found the name "Hedwig" in it. And in Prisoner of Azkaban, he uses it for his homework (and it's stated that he likes doing it). A 177 V Reply Share
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    Eastern_Watch_9610 2 days ago Hermione should have been more damaged after Bellatrix tc. .red her. After so much emotions and drama and how much she screamed and how Ron was on edge of break down, narration treated it like she just had a bad day, not a life changing incident A 595 Reply Share ...
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    Anna3422 2 days ago Harry is severely desensitized to violence because of his experiences imo. Of course he's upset, but he's able to view to re as part of life. I assume Hermione's tra na doesn't show immediately. She's laser-focussed on the quest and unable to process much in the short, busy time between Malfoy Manor and the battle. I think she'll have a hard time the year after the series ends. A 358 V Reply Share
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    mioclio 2 days ago The way Arthur Weasley is fascinated by muggles, but doesn't actually know a lot about them is weird. He is said to believe in the equality of wizards, witches and muggles, but the way he looks at muggles doesn't feel like he does. It sort of reminds me at how some scholars looked at travellers in the 19th century. For centuries, travellers, Roma, Sinti and gypsies were seen as thieves and murderers, then came the Gypsy Lore Society. On the surface, these scholars appeared to
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    they were impulsive like young children. Don't get me wrong, if I had the chance to use household spells to clean my house and do the dishes, I absolutely would. But for someone who says that he studied muggles for so long, he is asking Harry some really basic questions. A 533 V Reply Share
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    OneToeSloth 2 days ago Hogwarts is a really poorly run school with major governance issues and a serious lack of professionalism amongst the staff... 210 Reply Share jamuntan 2 days ago Ravenclaw i agree but i don't think that's unpopular! A36 V Reply Share
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    mitiamedved 2 days ago edited 2 days ago Barty Crouch junior's plan was ridiculous. How many tons of PJ potion did it take? All that stuff just to get Harry to join and win the Triwizard so he could touch a portkey. Pretty sure he could have cut a few corners and not had to carry this out over 9 months. 432 Reply Share
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    ThePerfectHunter · 2 days ago You've probably heard this response before, but I believe he did that because it would be less suspicous for Harry to dissapear and die during the tasks than during the very beginning of the year. 196☑ Reply Share mitiamedved 2 days ago edited 2 days ago If the deed were done, Voldemort wouldn't care much about raising suspicions. Barty Jr plan to walk around in front of Dumbledore who knows MEM very well was far riskier in terms of raising alarms A 78 V Reply Share
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    dogSkillionaire . 2 days ago ✓ Hufflepuff Draco never had a redemption arc. Wimping out of being evil is not redemption. A 861 Reply Share dreadit-runfromit . 2 days ago IA 100%. He had a humanizing arc, ie. we got to see him be vulnerable and know that he wasn't a soc path, but that is far from redemption. A 350 Reply Share ...
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    DonkeyBorn7148 · 2 days ago I don't understand why everyone loves Tonks. Like... she's okay, and her de th alongside her husband was tragic, but I honestly wouldn't have missed her if she'd never been mentioned. A 640' Reply Share Qwintro 2 days ago She is someone I'd like to like. But she isn't really a character, just someone who's there. 322 V Reply Share
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    illegallysmolkate 2 days ago edited 2 days ago Movie Luna could be an absolute sweetheart, but people were right to be annoyed with her in the books. If I had a classmate who was constantly spewing ridiculous conspiracy theories in and out of class, I'd be annoyed too. A 50 V Reply Share miracle-worker-1989 - 2 days ago Lol good point for some reason I never contextualised Luna as a conspiracy theorist. Доту A 8 ☐ Reply Share
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    ThePerfectHunter · 2 days ago I also believe Harry was an idiot for not letting Sirius and Lupin ! 'l Peter. 396 Reply Share BiggishWall 2 days ago Well that's easy to say in retrospect yeah, but Harry's idea to turn him in to the dementors was definitely the best decision at the time, but obviously it didn't work out A 112 V Reply Share
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    ILikeCrunchyFood 2 days ago · edited 2 days ago Slytherin Madame No-r-r-ra is just a little kitty helping her owner because she is a good girl. Didn't deserve all the s' 't talking. Edit to say: Mrs Norris is the books in English I think. In the Brazilian version is Madame Nora A 273' Reply Share soulwind42 2 days ago Ravenclaw Okay, my new hot take is that we adopt Madame Nora as her English name too. Lol A 97 V Reply Share ...
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    JeffTheComposer · 2 days ago I enjoy the Chamber of Secrets movie the most. I'm a dad of young boys and I don't want to watch young people die anymore in movies, regardless of how good the movie is. I want the kids to get the happy ending. 332 Reply Share RealestGhost 2 days ago Agreed. This is by far mg favorite. Still plenty of peril and mystery with the "who's the heir" plotline. But also still gives me that warm fuzzy feeling as an adult. The first 2 movies, with the on-castle sets, uniforms
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    In the 3rd movie/book, things start getting dark. But Sorcerer's Stone and Chamber of Secrets still capture that innocent childlike wonderment of being in a new, magical world with unlimited possibilities. The movies afterwards are more toned down, more realistic as our characters become teenagers. A 119 W Reply Share
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    Old-Database-4717 2 days ago I don't agree with the narrative of so and so died for Harry. Like Remus or Sirius whoever else died at the hands of Voldemort, they c ed for Harry. They did fighting and trying to defeat Voldemort and his forces. The only people who actually did for Harry were his parents. Others didn't d''e for Harry but for a greater cause of defeating Voldemort. A 161 V Reply Share ThePerfectHunter · 2 days ago I'm pretty sure at least Sirius did for Harry since he came there to
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    ShootingStar440 · 2 days ago I don't think Cho deserves all the hate she gets. She was dealing with insane grief by OotP, and it's clear she liked Harry from GoF, not just after Cedric di d. A 111 Reply Share interesseret 2 days ago Definitely another round of the fanbase treating everyone like adults, when in reality she was like... 15- 16 during this and had just had someone close to her mui red. Not exactly a shining example of a calm psyche for a teenage girl. She made mistakes, yes, but not
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    StewartConan · 2 days ago The dragon egg competition in 4th one was morally dubious. Basically, they were stealing a mommy dragon's eggs for sport. The mommy dragon was panicking and angry about its eggs so obviously it was attacking the contestants. The so called good guys were bad guys here. Also, the magical world is afing dangerous and inhumane place, including Hogwarts. A 357 Reply Share
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    LazySleepyPanda - 2 days ago The magical world doesn't seem to care about other magical beings such as house elves, what makes you think they care about dragons? A 96 Reply Share Aqquila89. 2 days ago · edited 2 days ago They don't seem to care about animals in general. Turning live animals into inanimate objects or making them disappear are required tasks in Transfiguration class. Then again, when I think about it, is that so different from frog dissections at biology classes? 56 Reply Share
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    dangshnizzle 2 days ago nuance The movies don't work very well if you've never read the books. They rely heavily on the viewer knowing details and context not adequately given I the film. A127 Reply Share Vermouth1991 - 2 days ago Absobloodylutely. Starting with the sainted POA. A26 Reply Share
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    16 ComfortableTraffic12 2 days ago Ravenclaw Luna isn't as good of a character as people claim she is. She's also very annoying. And if she existed in real life, you would dislike her, because she's basically the wizarding world equivelant of a flat earther. A444 Reply Share Sophie_Blitz_123 - 2 days ago She was also completely different in the films. For some reason people perceive her as a character that was really well carried over but she was actually a whole other person. Film luna was real
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    Key Idea 9118 · 2 days ago Lavendar doesn't deserve the bad treatment she gets both in-universe and with the fandom. Ron's a pig for how he treated her - she liked him for him and yes, she's a teenage girl so she's going to do silly things (the nickname & the necklace) - but she never deserved the things that happened to her. Also, the idea that she may have survived in the books but did in the film is yet another point to the idea that the films are actually an AU canon (for example, the clock
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    LittlestSlipper55 - 2 days ago Trelawneh wasn't that bad of a teacher. Harry hated her, so of course the narrative is "Trelawney sucks, she's a fraud, an old diι _ `bat bla bla bla". But when you read between the lines you will see that Trelawney is actually engaging wuth her students. She never mocks them or puts them down (which yes, even our beloved McGongagall is guilty of at times), but instead is wuite encouraging and open to unlocking her students talents. Binns was a bad teacher. Standin
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    Yes, she had a flair for the dramatics with the doth thing, but she never used it to demean her students. She was a freaking irritating person, but as a teacher? Eh, there were worse at Hogwarts. A 293 V Reply Share Cam515278 2 days ago As a teacher, I honesty think Hogwarts is a horrible school. Snape shouldn't be a teacher, Hagrid shouldn't be a teacher, Trelawny is highly debatable, Squirrel and Lockheart shouldn't have been teachers, Binns shouldn't have been, even Moody is debatable. Dumble
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    Jebasaur 2 days ago My unpopular opinion, as far as I can tell... The Malfoys are not just a terrible family, but Draco does not deserve a "redemption" arc. I'm tired of the argument that he was trying to just please daddy. At first, yes. First few years, he was constantly talking about how he was going to tell his dad on people. But by book 5? Little is making his own decisions. He decides to join Umbridge's little crew and rat on people. Book 6, he's bragging about how he's on a mission from V
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    Book 7 comes along and he is only scared now because his entire family is no longer Voldy's favorite. They are a family of opportunity. The second they saw Voldy was losing, they switched. Fck that. Draco nearly ¨¨d Katie Bell, nearly ked Ron in a attempt to get Dumbledore, and then brought in but a werewolf who is happy to a not just death eaters ack children. F .ck Draco Malfoy. He's worse than his dad at this point. | :) That's my unpopular opinion. A 20 V Reply Share
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