Geez that's dark. Upvote.

Books or movies? Book year 5

As I'm typing this out, I'm suddenly remembered of Um, Actually, and how this could have been a good question for the show

Another way to think of year five is that there was a terrorist attack on an unofficial school club's field trip.

Year three: alleged killer on the loose but nobody gets hurt

I mean, several students get attacked by a werewolf and 100 dementors in the same night, nearly resulting in 3 people (2 of them students) losing their very souls. And of course, poor Draco maimed by Buckb- uh... I mean, Witherwings.

Year five: strangely, no attacks on the school

That's a very diplomatic way to skirt around the governmental coup of the school implementing totalitarian control by a racist megalomaniac, restricting basic rights, turning students into secret police, and punishing discent with literal fucking torture.

Clearly, the High Inquisitor program was a success, and the fake news Daily Prophet was libelously alleging it wasn't.

At least in this case a bad guy with a wand was stopped by a good guy with a wand. Come on people.

Voldemort almost killed Ginny with a book.

If you see something send a howler about it.

Didn't Voldemort, like, grow an entirely new body after his previous one was obliterated? That's gotta count as some form of trans- prefixed thing, right? Like transubstantiation?

The school sorts you into one of four gangs for this express purpose.

I got the first and the second book from my mom when they came out. While i didn't love them per se, i liked them enough that they peaked my interest in becoming a reader, and i started to read more books, and i'm thankful for that.

Since then i had a few girlfriends who were super into HP and they made me watch the movies, and i have to say, these stories are not thought out at all, and are often dumb as hell. I don't really remember much, but just the fact that quidditch doesn't make a lick of sense is really telling. Or goblet of fire, they were okay to let them play with dragons. Everyone shrugged and told HP that well, he might die. Someone would've drowned if he didn't break the rules and people were pretty upset about the rule breaking. And at the end, Cedric died and everyone was absolutely shocked and devastated that someone died at the murder tournament.

True... What actually inspired that thought, indirectly, was thinking about how the anime I was watching (seven spellblades) felt like a more interesting wizarding universe than HP. Also fuck JKR.