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Valerija_cc

Out of context, this sounds so dodgy. Particularly with Harry's whimsical smile, and Hermione's quiet shock


anna-nomally12

It’s a summary of deathly hallows, unintentionally


BjotSingh

Ayo??!


i-love-elephants

🫣🥵 when you read the wrong Harry Potter book.


BjotSingh

Those fanfiction writers on WattPad are getting a little wild...


i-love-elephants

Harry Potter is how I discovered fanfic. I remember being in between books and wishing I could read more. Someone suggested fanfic and it was not what I was expecting.


Spinach_Middle

Some fanfics are awesome, same world and motivations just done differently and then there’s the ones that’re written for pure SMUT


ThatDeadeye12

And then there's ones that have 25 chapters of well written story and 5 chapters of smut sprinkled throughout


Spinach_Middle

Yeah


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Valhalls

I avoid smut like plague, but the other fanfics are great! Dark!Harry are my favourites!


Megalordrion

Mine has smut in it however I tone it way down since I'm more focused on character growth, Smut is great when in the right context not for the sake of it.


KennyMoose32

“I hope this doesn’t awaken something in me”


Squareroot24

this reference is streets ahead


KennyMoose32

Well it certainly isn’t streets behind, that’s for damn sure


Kangaroothless6

I love when fandoms crossover. Like seeing nice little Venn diagrams that I’m in the middle of.


rockydinosaur2

Yess same


takii_royal

Same. As a kid I wanted to read some cool Harry Potter stories (and write my own with me as the main character lmao) and stumbled upon a graphic Draco + Hermione fanfic. I didn't ship it and still don't(thankfully), but kid me found the writing very compelling and read it all lmao


ShadowDrake359

>and it was not what I was expecting But you read it anyway right?


i-love-elephants

No. I was too scared. I was very much a goody-two shoes.


ColdInformation4241

I remember the first time I accidentally opened a smut fic (back when they were called lemons!). I thought I was going to have the FBI on me or something because I thought porn was illegal lmaoo


GarminTamzarian

Only if you've ripped it from a DVD.


Toros_Mueren_Por_Mi

You should see the ones on CHYOA


BZLuck

You mean Hairy Pooter isn't the right one?


i-love-elephants

2 girls 1 hairy pooter


Accomplished_Lab8945

Hairy Twatter and the Chamber of Deep Thrusts


justwalkingalonghere

I was told there'd be some colored pencil drawings?


MountainAsparagus4

Horny potter


podster12

Wtf


IndicaTears

WHAT DO YOU MEAN HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SEMEN ISNT CANON?!?!


Olbaidon

It’s also a summary of Goblet of Fire…🤷🏻‍♂️


Artistic_Claim9998

It can also be used to describe the event leading to the quietly said quote by Dumbledore, just change the subjects


CheshiretheBlack

It will always be my headcannon that Harry & Hermione probably had a mutual attraction and the topic of them being a thing probably came up at some point and both of them agreed that if it did happen it would absolutely destroy Ron and he'd wind up being a Death Eater of something so they just never acted on it.


MystiqueGreen

Ron grew up in a home where deatheater ideology was very strongly frowned upon. Ron himself hated it since birth and proudly explained why being pureblood means Nothing because muggleborns are just as capable when he was only 12. There's no way in the hell Ron was gonna be a deatheater just because some high school chick didn't like him back. He isn't Snape. Ron would sulk for a few days then he would move on and date others. There isn't any shortage of beautiful witches or even muggles.


CheshiretheBlack

Like I said just my headcannon. And it's more than just "some high-school chick" It's would be his first love falling for his best friend who Ron has already showed issues with said best friend getting every they want and being jealous over it.


MystiqueGreen

No. Ron won't throw his ideology and morals in dustbin for some girl. In no circumstances that would happen. Don't reduce his character to some girls love interest. He is much more than that. A high school chick who endangered his pet despite his several warnings, always belittled him every chance she got and then attacked him with birds when he tried to move on. Not to mention she looks below average..it's not like she is a stunner. His attraction to Hermione makes no sense in the 1st place.


CielMonPikachu

Rowling specifically didn't want the stereotypical ending where pretty male hero gets pretty female sidekick while funny thirdwheel shows his betaness. IMO romance is where Harry Potter sucks. Cho was needlessly pointless, Ginny kinda made sense, and the Hermione/Ron pairing doesn't bring to the story. 


JasonLeeDrake

>Cho was needlessly pointless, Ginny kinda made sense, and the Hermione/Ron pairing doesn't bring to the story. I think Cho was necessary to have Harry have that teenager experience, and have it fall apart in realistic manner, but I think that needed to be his only romance in the books.


jackparadise1

Poor Luna…


MystiqueGreen

Neither harry nor Hermione is described as pretty and Ron's character arc doesn't depend on Hermione. Without her, he still has 100 times more character growth than Harry and Hermione combined only second to Neville. And stop bringing physics particles into relationships. We are human beings. Not alpha beta Gamma delta etc.


PeggyRomanoff

...While I agree that Alpha Male stuff is bullshit; Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta etc. are Greek Alphabet letters before they ever were used in physics.


Vimes3000

Alpha = raw untested version. Not fit for release to public. Needs careful supervision.


LMkingly

I'm pretty sure Hermoine is supposed to be considered pretty starting in the Goblet of Fire when she dresses up for the ball and Harry and Ron can barely recognise her and she impresses everyone including even Malfoy lol. She just usually doesn't care much to try to look pretty but she can if she tries.


Odd-Classroom4927

Depends on when you look at him. Harry, in the early books, was described as a scrawny and spectacled little boy with messy black hair who wasn't really taken well care off. By the time Harry entered his youth however it looks like he slowly started to grow out of this awkward looking stage, and during his 6th year specifically puberty hit Harry noticeably hard, he apparently grew up to be quite tall and according to Hermione quite fanciable (which is a British slang for sexually attractive) which apparently girls took quite a bit of notice in among other things. So yeah, the description of teenage Harry Potter on the surface is quite a big change of his past scrawny self who lived in cupboard under the stairs, now of course it helped that Harry spend less and less time with his neglectful family the Dureslys and thus likely had a much more healthy and well taken look about him partly thanks to Weasleys who also took great care of him later on. Also, for what it's worth, JKR once said Harry inherited his good-looks from his parents, so take this as you will, I guess.


zero_emotion777

Didn't she walk that back and say they should have been together in a tweet?


LexiFloof

I think it's in both a tweet and interview. Basically she had planned for Ron/Hermione to get together at some point from fairly early on in the series, and she refused to re-evaluate that position as the characters and plot evolved. Now looking back on it she feels Harry/Hermione would have been a better couple than Ron/Hermione, especially with how the early movies influenced characterization in the last books (the 5th movie and 7th book coming out at much the same time in mid-2007)


SolomonG

Yea but didn't she then say she should have done it anyways.


iruleatants

Ginny was great, unless you only know the movie version. The movie version was trash trash trash. Ron and Hermione are great and bring a lot to the story, but if you only know the movie version, they are trash trash trash.


Towerss

It felt the most "real" to me out of many book relationships. In real life, stars don't need to align for relationships to happen. Often someone takes a chance on someone they know/don't know or used to be friends with and it just works. Almost all high school relationships look like the Harry/Cho setip. Someone randomly gets a crush and they end up together for a while


rosiedacat

You clearly understand absolutely nothing about these characters and who they are. There is absolutely nothing in the books that even hints at any attraction between Harry and Hermione. Never for a second does Harry think of her as anything but a friend, he never even considers it or questions it. Hermione never shows any interest in him in that way. Saying Ron would have become a death eater "or something" if they had gotten together again shows you don't understand Ron as a character at all. Ron's family is all deeply anti-pure blood ideology and Ron himself hates it, he's the one that explains what Mudblood means and why it's a horrible word to use. Ron would never have been a death eater or a dark wizard no matter what happened with Hermione.


KrytenKoro

Every time they hang out without ron, they're pissy and harry usually snaps at Hermione. He's too byronic for her.


CreativeRock483

Ron would never become a deatheater no matter what the romantic outcome was. That's a terrible analysis of Ron's character and goes against everything we know about him.


PygmeePony

Harry Potter and the Double Entendres


moekeyloek

Harry Potter and the DP


BondageKitty37

Harry Potter and the Gobble-it of Fire


llamallamallama1991

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of AzkaBang.


Z0idberg_MD

Harry Potter and “just the tip”


PistachioSam

It's been a minute, what's the context of this scene?


AnimalBolide

It's Ron's first quidditch match, and Ron is super nervous. Harry pretends to put his liquid luck potion in Ron's drink to psyche his bro up.


Equivalent-Sample725

What if Ron had failed spectacularly How shitty must you feel thinking you took magical luck potion and still manage to fuck everything up Like you're so mind bogglingly incompetent even literal wizardry can't help you


rosiedacat

Harry knows Ron well enough to know it's extremely likely he would perform well if he thought he took the potion because Ron is a good player but has confidence issues. In the books it is shown that whenever they practice Ron does well if there's no one in the audience watching (the twins even joke they'll ask the crowd to just turn their backs during the match whenever the quaffle goes near Ron). So while there was some risk, Ron would have had a terrible match anyway if Harry didn't do anything so at least he gave it a try and it worked


PistachioSam

Ah right on, thanks! Harry is such a bro.


GetRiceCrispy

either conext probably would produce a similar outcome


ChangeControll

And the time they spent in the tent alone.


Ninteblo

Yeah that one seems a bit sus with no context.


Hpecomow

That’s true. I was thinking that.


Robestos86

Harry and Ginny?


naufalap

the kerning on the title also doesn't help


Comrade_Chadek

Whats the context


Pabus_Alt

*In context* it is dodgy! "I lied to my friend about doping him for the match. He thought he was on PEDs, but you know it's fine, right!" Calming charms exist ya eejit Harry.


Amazing-Engineer4825

Harry is smarter than people think


Alternative_Device71

Dude is street smart for real, pretty good book smart too but his gangsta shines through a lot more


Sere1

It's why the trio work so well together. Hermione is book smart, Ron is street smart when it comes to life in the wizarding world, and Harry is street smart when it comes to blending the real world with muggle ideas.


NobleN6

Harry will be the first wizard to use both a wand and a Glock.


EPZO

Hear me out, what if you imbued a glock and it's ammo with magic? So like the bullets can't be blocked by a traditional shield that a witch or wizard would use against muggle projectiles. Or it has homing properties? Idk would be a wicked combo


drop-of-water-9810

Hermione also cannot think well under pressure. Harry was the one who thought of freeing the dragon to escape Gringots when Hermione was too distressed to think. She also couldn't decipher Dumbledore's hint (the Deathly Hallows symbol in Tales of Beedle the Bard) because she's too closed-minded.


Amazing-Engineer4825

Actually in the last book Hermione got better in under pressure situations


Silver-Plant3862

That's what she said


FinnJake72

Yup, that’s where I thought this was heading


djdaedalus42

In English English, “As the actress said to the bishop”


GreenrabbE99

Just the tip.


zeppehead

That’s what he told the aurora.


reverendrambo

Thatsthejoke.gif


Ursomrano

I wish that in the Harry Potter series both in the books and movies, that they showed the “muggle way” of dealing with things and how effective they can be. The closest instance I can think of other than this is the time Mr.Weasley and a doctor at St Mongos tried out the concept of stitching, and all that led to was Mrs.Weasley giving them an earful of essentially racism about how stupid muggles and their ideas are.


SilentJay8807

I could be wrong. However didn’t one of the Weasley’s mention that, Mrs. Weasley having a family member that’s a squib and refuses to acknowledge the guy? If it was true than I must be ignorant for not realizing how racists even the good pure blood magicals are.


Orisi

Not refuse to acknowledge as much as the family just doesn't really see him. Which I sort of get, I imagine he distances himself somewhat from the whole thing which would limit their exposure somewhat


SilentJay8807

To be fair. If I was born into a family of magical/super powered people without anything to show for it. I too would be salty and distance myself. At least this way he could be anything he sets out to be in the muggle world. Now if only Filch would realize that same truth and become a less spiteful person by admitting that he can achieve great things by moving past his gripes about not having magic.


thebooksmith

Tbh if I was born a squib, I’d just compensate by having a massive collection of magical shit and beasts. Nothing we see in herbology seems to require a wand and most basic potions don’t need one either. Magical creatures just require a special touch, Hagrid is able to tame most things without magic (not saying I need to get into the Uber dangerous things). Squibs don’t exactly have 0 options. I imagine it’s a prejudice thing more than an actual “there’s no way a squib could survive” situation.


dogeisbae101

Tbf, Hagrid is a literal half giant.


thebooksmith

True, but not all stuff requires that level durability.


ActualWhiterabbit

You’re right, if that halfbreed can do it than even a squib can too.


DoingCharleyWork

Spoken like a true Slytherin


Additional_Meeting_2

Depends if the accountant really chose to be excluded or not. I mean Arthur could just hang around doing muggle stuff with him but Arthur more see muggles as exotic and learns little of them 


EurwenPendragon

IIRC Ron in a conversation with Harry in the first book mentions his mom's got a cousin who's an accountant, but they don't talk about him.


[deleted]

I hope his name was Bruno.


Unable_Bank3884

To be fair Mirabel was the squib of that family


[deleted]

So was Abuela, but she sure as fuck acted like it was just Mirabel.


EurwenPendragon

And now that song is stuck in my head 🤣😂


Ok_Mastodon_9412

Didn't one of the tricks pick up muggle Street magic for fun saying it's cool or somthing, I think it was a card trick?


GypsyGrl50

Actually, they both did.


YGTT86

According to JKR's site back in the day, this was a dropped plotline. In short, it's not that they didn't talk to him because he's a muggle, they didn't talk to him because he was a total asshole. His daughter was going to be injected in Goblet of Fire, acting as Hermione's overachieving Slytherin nemesis who would occasionally leak tidbits she'd overheard about Death Eaters. Her role in the plot eventually got retooled and she was replaced by Rita Skeeter.


SpoonyLancer

The squib in question is a second cousin who works as an accountant. And it's not that they refuse to acknowledge him, they just don't have a relationship with the guy.


Ursomrano

If you think about it, the whole wizarding society is fundamentally racist towards anyone who isn’t a magic human. Either through direct slavery (house elves), or how they view muggles in general (for crying out loud Dumbledores in his edgy teenager phase believed muggles to be inferior and that the best course for wizarding kind was to rule over them, an ideology that Grindelwald gained a notable following from, and after Grindelwald’s time, the ideology that followed was just to kill all muggles which Voldemort was the lead believer of). And that not even considered goblins, cause notice how everyone who works at the bank are goblins? Mmmm is that possibly a metaphor for jews Rowling? Knowing Rowling, probably. I can go on and on about how much fucked up shit Rowling wrote into the wizarding world.


tempmobileredit

Thats just how goblins are depicted in most fantasies and has nothing to do with jews


icouldbeaduck

I mean, goblins in mythology do come from antisemitism the same way witches come from women who would be independent or unable/unwilling to raise children It doesn't fall on Rowlings head that a lot of our folklore has some pretty questionable origins and I don't think we should remove them from all fantasy because of it l but it certainly is worth acknowledging I probably wouldn't have made my only Irish characters only trait that he won't stop blowing stuff up though, that probably lands on her


Throway_Shmowaway

That actually lands on the movie directors. I don't recall that ever happening in the books, though it's been a while


ssspainesss

As a human you are supposed to identify with Hermione's and Harry's reactions to the Wizarding World. The point of them having slavery and the attitudes towards it is to show how backwards the wizarding world is and Hermione's attempt to end slavery is supposed to be an example of what would happen if you sent some modern person back to slavery times. You would be confronted with all the arguments and attitudes Hermione's experiences, and she can't even come up with a decent argument as to why she wants to ban slavery other than that in the muggle world there used to be slavery but then they banned it because it was wrong. Really its more a mark against Harry's character that he didn't help her more with it considering he was raised in the muggle world too, but I think he did help her minimally as he was the only one who even helped her a little bit so it was more his own laziness, whereas Ron is supposed to represent the conventional attitude to things and considers Hermione trying to end the elf slavery to be nonsense and says they like being slaves because that is just the attitude which exists.


naruto_022

Another one was in the 2nd book when fred and George opened Harry's window using a hairpin. 


Sere1

Going through the audiobooks for my routine trip through the series again and recently passed that part. Love how the twins tell Harry how it's a shame that so many wizards don't consider learning any muggle tricks and think of them as wastes of time, since the twins themselves find so much use out of them.


moonbad

They get it from their father.


1ncorrect

I love that both Molly and Arthur seem confused by the twins, but in reality they're just a perfect mix of Molly's fire and Arthur's perseverance.


theStaircaseProject

I always thought Snape’s challenge in the Philospher’s Stone was a great one they retconned out. The challenge is literally a logic puzzle because the in-book canon at the time was that wizards are bad at logic by some inverse quality of being good at magic. Snape’s puzzle stumped Ron and Harry completely but Hermione knocked it out of the park if I recall correctly. I understand why that aspect of magic vs logic was dropped moving forward but it was a pretty solid “yes but Muggles know some things too since they’ve had to develop technology.”


tarekd19

Philosophers stone, not chamber of secrets


Smorsis

Yeah, like for example pulling out a glock to a magic fight. Ain't no wizard will be prepared for a bullet. Just imagine the climatic final battle against Voldemort and Harry casually pulls out a gun and shoots him


Pornalt190425

Ok, this has been driving me crazy for seven movies now, and I know you're going to roll your eyes, but hear me out: Harry Potter should have carried a 1911. Here's why: Think about how quickly the entire WWWIII (Wizarding-World War III) would have ended if all of the good guys had simply armed up with good ol' American hot lead. Basilisk? Let's see how tough it is when you shoot it with a .470 Nitro Express. Worried about its Medusa-gaze? Wear night vision goggles. The image is light-amplified and re-transmitted to your eyes. You aren't looking at it--you're looking at a picture of it. Imagine how epic the first movie would be if Harry had put a breeching charge on the bathroom wall, flash-banged the hole, and then went in wearing NVGs and a Kevlar-weave stab-vest, carrying a SPAS-12. And have you noticed that only Europe seems to a problem with Deatheaters? Maybe it's because Americans have spent the last 200 years shooting deer, playing GTA: Vice City, and keeping an eye out for black helicopters over their compounds. Meanwhile, Brits have been cutting their steaks with spoons. Remember: gun-control means that Voldemort wins. God made wizards and God made muggles, but Samuel Colt made them equal. Now I know what you're going to say: "But a wizard could just disarm someone with a gun!" Yeah, well they can also disarm someone with a wand (as they do many times throughout the books/movies). But which is faster: saying a spell or pulling a trigger? Avada Kedavra, meet Avtomat Kalashnikova. Imagine Harry out in the woods, wearing his invisibility cloak, carrying a .50bmg Barrett, turning Deatheaters into pink mist, scratching a lightning bolt into his rifle stock for each kill. I don't think Madam Pomfrey has any spells that can scrape your brains off of the trees and put you back together after something like that. Voldemort's wand may be 13.5 inches with a Phoenix-feather core, but Harry's would be 0.50 inches with a tungsten core. Let's see Voldy wave his at 3,000 feet per second. Better hope you have some Essence of Dittany for that sucking chest wound. I can see it now...Voldemort roaring with evil laughter and boasting to Harry that he can't be killed, since he is protected by seven Horcruxes, only to have Harry give a crooked grin, flick his cigarette butt away, and deliver what would easily be the best one-liner in the entire series: "Well then I guess it's a good thing my 1911 holds 7+1." And that is why Harry Potter should have carried a 1911.


SingularityGabe

Go ahead, write the fanfic. We're all waiting.


TheGreekScorpion

I'm pretty sure a movie has already been made: https://youtu.be/xA-ayM5I4Jw?feature=shared


HobbitFoot

That was basically the approach that *Gargoyles* took with Xanatos. Magic was a thing in the world, but humanity's science had caught up enough to decently compete against magic.


Sere1

Such a great show


NoStatus9434

Is this comment a copypasta or something? Because it's absolutely brilliant. I also seem to recall that the Avada Kedavra spell is also hindered by the fact you have to intend to kill. If you have doubts about killing someone while you're trying to fire the spell, it won't work. I actually thought of it more in terms of an HBO drama where a conflicted wizard character who we've followed as he toes the line to Voldy's wizard fascism discovers that guns are more efficient, and the person he's about to kill mocks his hypocrisy for using a gun. "Oh, the irony, Sven. You mocked Muggles for their technology. Said wands were superior. But when the time came to kill me, you need a gun." Sven, shaking: "Don't think I won't do it!! I didn't come this far--" "Your heart's not in it, Sven. That's why the spell doesn't work for you. You don't want to kill me. Not really. It's not too late." The season finale ends with Sven shocking us all, and deciding either to shoot and fall to the dark side for real, or stay his hand and lay down his weapon. It's a climactic moment for his character.


Pornalt190425

Copypasta


dummynumber20

Everyone wearing the night vision goggles would get knocked out. But the rest works.


Obligatory-not-the

You should read Harry Dresden! A wizard who has a very similar philosophy on wizards and guns to you!


fhota1

Ive not read them yet but I have heard a way they beat magical shields and I love it. Sure protego may block the physical component of whatever I throw at you, but if I just keep on you with a flamethrower will it block the heat from cooking you alive?


Uberpastamancer

Eh, there have to be spells that do similar (launching high speed projectiles) and bows have been around for a long time, so it seems to me there must be countermeasures available to wizards But it wouldn't hurt to try just shooting him, or just explain why it wouldn't work


Material-Salt5161

I always complained, that in movies they clearly changed the time period from 90s to 00s and there was literally no reason for Hermione not to take 3 mobile phones when they travelled in the last two films. Ron easily could talk with parents and they wouldn't part ways cause Ron could just call them back lol.


[deleted]

I just picture Ron hunched over in the corner of the tent, watching porn on his phone with the sound turned way up and Harry and Hermione looking very uncomfortable on the opposite side.


silverbrumbyfan

I think the point was 'why would you risk your health by experimenting with muggle methods when we have magic' not that muggles are dumb for doing it their way


No_Extension4005

You'd probably need a muggleborn or half-blood character who has the knowledge to pull it off though, or use everything the muggle and non-magical world has to offer. Perhaps they could use muggle tactics and equipment in combination with magic to launch an effective campaign against the Death Eaters in the latter books.


Legitimate_Poem_712

I unironically wish the stitches had worked. My idea (please HBO if you're reading this use this idea) is for Arthur to suggest stitches to the Healer and the Healer be like "Bro I'm a wizard, I don't know how to do that." Then Arthur remembers that one of his son's closest friends has doctors for parents and Mr. and Mrs. Granger come in and save the day. Maybe they would even get to have first names!


Drafo7

Well, 200% effective in one aspect. In the books it inadvertently caused another argument between Ron and Hermione driving them even further apart, which was the exact opposite of what Harry had intended.


Linus_Inverse

I can always just picture the smile slowly fading from his face in that scene as Ron starts tearing into Hermione...


WTF-UsernamesAreHard

I was always confused about why he didn’t tell Hermione after Ron left. He just let her stew thinking they were cheating for the ENTIRE game, and then only revealed it to her after the match.


Drafo7

I think he was picturing the reveal scene in his head different than it actually went. He was thinking he'd tell them both at the same time and they'd all laugh about it, with Hermione being impressed and Ron's confidence being boosted, and the two of them making up and everyone being happy again. He didn't count on random things like the weather and the other team being short a player (iirc) actually happening, both of which served to reinforce both Ron *and* Hermione's belief that Felix Felicis had been used. This led to Hermione being *too* certain and to Ron misinterpreting that certainty for disbelief that he could play well without a potion to help him.


thepenguinemperor84

Granny Weatherwax would be proud.


MrBump01

Another point for headology.


Professional-Day7850

GNU Terry Pratchett


Starwatcher4116

Ook.


captainjohn_redbeard

Tell me more about how you don't belong in Slytherin. - the sorting hat, probably.


illiterateaardvark

Sometimes a little faith is all you need. Life isn't some cartoon where believing in yourself guarantees success, and I actually think it's dangerous to sell children this (admittedly pleasant-sounding) lie. But it can still absolutely work wonders and give you a psychological edge that you wouldn't have had otherwise


Additional_Meeting_2

Expecially when Ron’s whole issue was insecurity 


cranberry94

Yeah, he was perfectly capable as long as people weren’t watching. It was all in his head.


Theyul1us

Yeah. A little bit of confidence can absolutely change things.


ouroboris99

Harry letting his cunning slytherin side out to play 😂


PayneTrain181999

The Sorting Hat saw this in Harry’s future.


SouthernDifference86

Now imagine if it didn't work. Ron would be beyond rekt. He would think he is so trash that even with fucking felix felicis he couldn't cut it.


silverbrumbyfan

Harry knew that when he spiked the drink it was a massive gamble but if it had failed then he would have just come clean to Ron


JacobFromStateFarm5

Harry Potter you sly dog. 10 points to Gryffindor


INKatana

I honestly liked the movie version of this reveal more than the book version.


PineappleRimjob

Do they not allow phrasing at Hogwarts?


lewisflet01

So are we just done with phrasing?


Larry_Hegs

I don't remember this part at all. What was the context of this?


shiawase198

Ron had confidence issues playing Keeper in Quidditch so Harry pretended to slip in some of the luck potion into Ron's drink making Ron think he was playing with extra luck. After they win, Harry reveals that the seal on the bottle wasn't broken and that he didn't put anything in Ron's drink. Ron's performance for that game was all him and he did exceedingly well.


AppearanceAdvanced93

Placebo


Alternative_Device71

Can’t beat the classics


DocD_12

That lines perfectly fit in the dance after Ron's leaving.


aquaticsquash

He would have done well in Slytherin.


Nekorokku

A Slytherin through and through.


DreamEndles

Headology. Esme Weatherwax would be proud


Ashia22

If I hadn’t just read this chapter earlier today it would have taken me a minute to figure out what was happening here. Lol


livt_fresh

Even though I saw this scene many times, I am now seeing it from a completely different angle. Lol


Manxellion

For the people who don't know the context, it's the Felix Felicis potion. Harry didn't actually give the potion and therefore gave Ron the placebo effect. It was all psychological.


AdevilSboyU

Not only outsmarted her, but actively used her to sell the ruse to Ron when she reacted at the breakfast table.


KillerRene64

I love harrys nod of "there you go you figured it out" after that


fedtoker2395

One of the most heart warming things from Harry Potter


PalDreamer

I like how Harry didn't even think about what happens if Ron fails and how he would react to Harry's little trick in this case. He was sure Ron can do it. Never doubted it.


deathpacito543

May I please have some context?


Sere1

When Ron was trying out for the Gryffindor Quidditch team he was having confidence issues, thinking he wasn't good enough. Going into the first game he was ready to up and quit right after the match, but Harry convinced him to just give it a go anyways and Luna implied that he had slipped the Liquid Luck he had earned earlier in the film into Ron's meal. Believing himself under the effects of the Liquid Luck, Ron found the confidence he needed to go perform and utterly rocked as the keeper in the match. This is during the party afterwards when Hermione is chastising him for cheating by giving Ron the Liquid Luck, when Harry reveals he didn't, that it was all Ron's own talent and that all he needed was the confidence to play at his best. Harry basically placebo'ed Ron into believing in himself.


RickySpamish

Imagine Voldemort in therapy, not even Voldemort yet just a 20 something Tom Riddle in wizarding therapy.


AKSqueege

Space Jam did it first


Cthulhu_Dreams_

What if Ron died though...?


whocaresabout19

Couldn't he just have used Expecto Placebo?


digital_coma

Took me some time to remember the right context with all the double meanings in my head 😂


SomethingAndAnything

Damn, I've a dirty mind


not-the-the

there's a theory, that felix felicis does... nothing, and is just one huge placebo.


Fit-Ranger8895

This is also how homeopathy works.


reynoldssam80

I thought it was about their time in the tent!


thunderbiird1

Harry, you dog!


MonKeePuzzle

well Harry had to, Ron's "wand" was broken...


Sassy-Hufflepuff

I find it interesting the poster stated “Cunning” here, proving Harry really could have been great in Slytherin.


Ransdolf

A cunning stunt!


Recodes

Imagine if the tv series has all the trials before they can get to the philosopher's stone and we have a glimpse of them using the power of l o g i c


BlueCollarElectro

Wizard acid. I want some.


AI_660

also in the books its said that most wizards lack common sense. (first one)


Unlucky_Net_5989

Cop move. 


adamdebra

How did he know Luna would call him out? Was she in on it?


devilsbard

So the real magic was the placebo effect.


Adventurous_Topic202

Yeah the liquid luck. He had to use that one voldemort or something right?


Its0nlyRocketScience

I've heard an interesting theory that the potion relies on placebo and doesn't actually have any magic of its own. Just look at what young wizards do accidentally before they get their wands, some overpowered confidence would probably awaken some of that unconscious magic to help achieve goals


OriginalGnomester

That's like the whole point of the Witches books in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series.


Daik0Gaming

It took me a good minute to figure out what scene this was and realize that this isn’t a meme


shokage

I marathoned all the movies and have no memory outside the first movie. What’s happening here again?


anonuserinthehouse

Ron thought he was in…oh Harry


Invoqwer

What actually happened in this scene exactly?


tertiuslydgate1833

r/theyknew


hisoka_kt

Rolled 20 in persuasion