I vividly remember the scene in like the second movie where the Weasleys were looking at their school supply list and Molly was like “I really don’t know how we’re going to afford it this year” after they had just risked life and limb to rescue Harry and Harry was sitting there eating their food like ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Harry ‘Dickhead’ Potter through a mouth full of Wizardburger Helper “idk…….that’s……wow that sucks i guess lol so i’m thinking about buying this solid gold cauldron what do yall think? a little over the top?”
“oh that’s wild lmao… hey check this out I’m gonna buy all the candy off the cart on the train”
“dude you guys haven’t been able to buy new robes in like 10 years….wow that sucks i guess kek but hey lets go get some butterbeer my treat but fuck you :)”
He was literally 12 years old at this point in time, as well as the fact that he always felt extremely bad about their situation and even tried to pay for things for Ron numerous times, however he knew that Ron was ashamed and prideful over his lack of money.
Not to mention he gave Ginny all of Lockharts Defence Against The Dark Arts books, and gave Fred and George his triwizard winnings in the fourth book.
And if you think, for even a second, that Molly or Arthur Weasley would have ever taken money from him then you don’t know that family at all.
Oh, and when he got all the candy on the train, he was extremely malnourished after being mistreated and abused from living with the dursleys, and made sure that he got enough for himself and Ron, whom he had literally only just met.
a literal child who, only hours prior, was in the process of being starved and abused by his relatives in a room with bars on the windows: *eats food*
is that more or less shocking than the fact that these two
were married in real life?
You just made my post 200% better.
Wait for it, because in real life:
Cheated on:
With:
Shooting That last movie must have been really awkward
oooooooooogurl
Me, listening to all of this Goddamned tea spilling:
Wait what
I think the Branagh/Thompson divorce actually got a brief namecheck, so to speak, in one of the HP books as well. Harry’s at the Dursleys and overhears news of “the divorce of a famous actor from his equally famous wife” on the TV, and if you add the timelines up it was probably those two.
At that moment, there was a diversion in the form of a small, red-headed figure in a long nightdress, who appeared in the kitchen, gave a small squeal, and ran out again.
“Ginny,” said Ron in an undertone to Harry. “My sister. She’s been talking about you all summer.” | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry reading some notes that Ginny wrote when she was 11. Ready to laugh his ass off, he just failed.
the stupidest thing in the entire harry potter series was when they go down to the slytherin dormitory and it’s all dark and slimy and freezing and shit. as if lucius malfoy would let his son live in squalor like that. the house with the highest concentration of spoiled purebloods are happy to live under the goddamn lake? no.
wow this is the #1 best harry potter criticism i have ever read
Actually this is much more realistic than you might think (and not remotely in a good way).
The British upper class have long since had a reputation for sending their kids to terrible boarding schools to “toughen them up”. And to put it mildly, uh… for those kids who found themselves swept up in the grand tradition and packed off to boarding school like their fathers had been… things far worse than squalor were there, and parental intervention was usually rather low. The boarding school horror story is virtually an entire subgenre of British literature, they were that bad. So despite the privileged background of the Malfoys, oh yes, I can absolutely believe that Lucius would let his son live in a dungeon, because Tradition and Discipline and Stiff Upper Lip and all that nonsense.
(In recent years, unsurprisingly, there’s been an absolute explosion of abuse stories coming out of elite and prestigious boarding schools, which is why I know any of this, it’s always on the news :( )
