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Everyone can use any wand. But you may not be able to use its full potential if it does not truly belong to you. Voldemort could use such magic because he was the most powerful wizard after Dumbledore. In the books he tells Snape that he used his usual magic, his usual spells. But the wand denies him its full potential. So Voldemort was just a crazy powerful wizard and we can only imagine what it would have looked like if he would be able to use the elderwand’s full potential. No wonder Ollivander said Voldemort would have done terrifying but grand things with the wand.

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@Mina_Char29 @Luminouslead Really only came out of nowhere in the movies. The buildup in the books was much better

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@PPF_33 @JohnSmi12129095 @haxrcalled4chan They all got destroyed during the fighting in the ministry. Hermione said it in book 6

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@LeCoupDeGrace @haxrcalled4chan It can only be used to turn back time for a very short while. Also the time-turners got destroyed during the fighting in the ministry, Hermione said it in Book 6.

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@yallthemwitches The movies really watered that fact down…

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Molly Weasley was a wonderful mother to Harry Potter. She was also a very kind woman to that Ron boy who lived in her house.

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@TheDailyHPotter This is absolutely not what Voldemort was supposed to look like according to book descriptions.

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@Aurora_verdit “Tom Riddle hit the floor with a mundane finality, his body feeble and shrunken, the white hands empty, the snakelike face vacant and unknowing.”

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@TheDailyHPotter Neymar at Al-Hilal

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@Teslimatttt Not sure if it’s the worst one, but Riddle using Harry’s blood to resurrect is definitely one of the worst decisions in the whole series. Looks like a genius move at first but leads to his own downfall in the end.

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@Aurora_verdit @leemarh7099 100% not. Snape was in love with Lily, his whole life, until the end.

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Why the hell did Sirius Black never tell Harry about the two-way mirror?

I’m rereading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and there’s one detail surrounding Sirius’s death that bothers me more every time I think about it. Not the prophecy, not Harry falling for Voldemort’s trap, and not even Kreacher lying to Harry. It’s the fact that Sirius gave Harry a magical object that could have prevented the entire disaster, and somehow neither of them thought to use it.

Remember the two-way mirror?

Shortly after Christmas, Sirius gives Harry a wrapped package before he leaves Grimmauld Place. He tells Harry that it’s a way of contacting him if Snape gives him a hard time during their Occlumency lessons. He doesn’t actually explain what the object is or how it works, and he specifically tells Harry not to open it in front of Molly Weasley.

Harry, being Harry, immediately decides that he won’t use whatever Sirius has given him. He’s afraid that contacting Sirius might tempt him to leave his hiding place and put himself in danger. So he puts the package away without opening it.

Fair enough. Harry is fifteen, Sirius is a wanted fugitive, and Harry genuinely believes he’s protecting his godfather.

But here’s where things get ridiculous.

Later in the book, Harry breaks into Umbridge’s office and uses her fireplace to contact Sirius after witnessing Snape’s worst memory in the Pensieve. He wants answers about how his father treated Snape at Hogwarts.

Think about that for a moment.

Sirius is sitting there, talking to Harry through a fireplace that Harry had to sneak into a teacher’s office to access, even though Sirius knows perfectly well that he gave Harry a much safer and easier way to communicate with him.

And he doesn’t mention it. Not once.

He doesn’t ask Harry why he’s using the fireplace. He doesn’t remind him about the Christmas present. He doesn’t even casually suggest that Harry use the mirror next time.

This is particularly strange because Sirius knows how dangerous communication with Harry has become. The Ministry is interfering at Hogwarts, Umbridge is monitoring fireplaces, and Sirius himself is supposed to be keeping a low profile.

Surely, this would have been the perfect opportunity to say something?

And then we get to the tragedy at the end of the book.

Harry has a vision of Sirius being tortured in the Department of Mysteries. Hermione correctly suspects that Voldemort might be manipulating Harry, so Harry decides to check whether Sirius is actually at Grimmauld Place.

He breaks into Umbridge’s office AGAIN, contacts the house through the fireplace, and ends up speaking to Kreacher, who deliberately misleads him.

Harry believes Sirius is in danger, rushes to the Ministry with his friends, and sets in motion the events that ultimately lead to Sirius’s death.

But imagine if Harry had opened that Christmas present.

He could have attempted to contact Sirius directly through the mirror. No fireplace, no Umbridge, no Kreacher lying about Sirius’s whereabouts. Just a simple conversation that might have exposed Voldemort’s trap before anyone left Hogwarts.

The worst part comes after Sirius dies, when Harry finally discovers the mirror in his trunk. He realizes what it does and desperately tries to contact Sirius, hoping against all reason that he might somehow answer.

It’s one of the saddest moments in the entire series, especially when you realize that the mirrors originally belonged to James and Sirius, who used them to communicate during their own Hogwarts days.

So here’s my question.

Are we supposed to believe that Sirius genuinely forgot about a magical object he had personally given Harry just months earlier? Or did Rowling deliberately have him avoid mentioning it because the entire climax of Order of the Phoenix would have fallen apart otherwise?

I can understand why Harry didn’t use the mirror. He didn’t know what it was.

But Sirius did.

And that’s what makes this so frustrating.

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@deb_duckworth90 Which is why i said “I mixed it up with this interview”

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@SheehanWrites @Kieran10x True and it’s probably just not thought through enough. But I always got the impression that wizard children learn basically everything relevant at Hogwarts, except for reading, writing and maybe basic math.

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Prediction: When the Harry Potter series comes out people who only watched the movies and never read the books will say they did Snape dirty and that he’s too evil.

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@Luminouslead I loved it, put around 100 hours into it. But then i needed a break. Cane back after a year or so and it’s fun again, although not as magical as the first playthrough of course

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@deeks1704 @LordWolfeNJ @confusedtayo divorced Hermione already. I don't think that relationship would have done very well.”
Grint went further, imagining Ron unemployed, living alone in a small one-bedroom apartment, and struggling with dating. (2/2)

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@deeks1704 @LordWolfeNJ @confusedtayo Looks like i mixed it up with this interview, sorry! I thought it came from this terrible Cursed Child book.

In February 2016, Rupert Grint, who played Ron in the films, was asked what he imagined happened to his character after the books.

“I would expect Ron has probably (1/2)

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@LordWolfeNJ @confusedtayo Didn’t he become an alcoholic later and was divorced?

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@confusedtayo If you’re interested, this book covers the whole wizarding world economy and the financials of obscure commodities trading such as goblin-wrought silver. Fascinating read