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[HP Fan]

it's (3 am) opinion hour!
or, well, however long it takes for everyone to speak their mind

here's how it works:
1. everyone states in one post their opinion on something bit (for example, mine is going to be why i don't think romione/harmony wouldn't work)
2. no retaliating to anything anyone says. if someone's opinion annoys you, keep it to yourself. it is their opinion and you are not allowed to attack them for it

again, one post, and no fighting with anyone on their opinion! not even over pm!

here's mine:
i don't ron/hermione or harry/hermione would work.
either pairing has never made sense to me, really. to me, they all would see each other as brother and sister. in one of the books, if i'm remembering correctly, molly weasley commented that harry and hermione were both members of the family- before mione got in a relationship with ron.
i just think that the three love each other, but hermione loves the boys in a brotherly way, and them a sisterly.

while it's honesty hour, even without what i wrote above, i don't think romione would work (and that dramione makes more sense)
ron is notably not as smart as hermione. hermione would enjoy having intelligent conversations, and, coincidentally, draco was just under hermione in everything school related...

i'm going to shamelessly use a few quotes from our queen to back up my statements:
“I wrote the Hermione/Ron relationship as a form of wish fulfillment,” she says. “That’s how it was conceived, really. For reasons that have very little to do with literature and far more to do with me clinging to the plot as I first imagined it, Hermione ended up with Ron.”

“I know, I’m sorry,” she continued, “I can hear the rage and fury it might cause some fans, but if I’m absolutely honest, distance has given me perspective on that. It was a choice I made for very personal reasons, not for reasons of credibility. Am I breaking people’s hearts by saying this? I hope not.”

Rowling also says that Ron and Hermione would have needed “relationship counseling.”

"I considered for a long time a romance between Hermione and Draco. They're both strong-minded people and Hermione could have helped pull Draco towards the light - been his saving grace - much like Lily was to Snape. However, in the end, I thought it was too much of a plot twist and decided that Ron was her best match." -J.K. Rowling

in other news:

5 revelations from a JK Rowling interview, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them creatures hidden in Universal's HP world!, and 7 HP Easter eggs that prove our Queen's brilliance
read them all they're amazing

wow. here's a massive wall of text that took me half an hour to type...
sorrynotsorry
i shouldn't be awake at 3 am...

[Feral Fangs]

My opinion would have to be that I believe that Snape didn't really hate Harry. He loved him in a sort of troublesome son sort of way. The only reason he's hard on him is because he's a constant reminder that he lost the love of his life to James Potter. He even says that he has his mother's eyes, but he also has his father's messy hair. And in the first book, Dumbledore explains why he 'hates' him, it's because his father saved his life. How he did this I do not know, but this also adds support to my opinion. In reality, Snape thinks of Harry as his son, which is why he goes out of his way to protect him until the very end, including him killing Dumbledore and allowing himself to die at Voldemort's hands. He knew all along that this was going to happen. If he really hated Harry so much, why would he kill one of his best friends and sacrifice himself to keep him safe? This opinion is also supported by the fact that Harry names his second son after Snape, and tells him that he was the bravest man he ever knew when he is worried about being sorted into Slytherin. And also, there's a special curse, the Unbreakable Vow. Dumbledore forced Snape to make one stating that he would have to kill him when the time came, as much as he didn't want to. Snape even says that after all he did for Dumbledore, that his plan involved Harry dying(because he is one of the Horcruxes believe it or not) in order for Voldemort to be vanquished, and this outraged him, he said "you've been raising him up like a pig for slaughter"

It's just an opinion, but it's a darn good one

[gwanu]

@slytherin's heir: I actually agree with you, throughout all the books I did get the sense that Snape never actually full on hated Harry, perhaps disliked him because he was the child of James, but he could never hate the child of Lily. Snape was looking out for him and I stand by this. I support you man! And I think that your opinion is fully valid, you put my thoughts into words.

@HP fan: Imma join into the honesty hour, I also never saw them as a valid couple, it just didn't seem like it could work. Neither of the two pairings and now that I've read fan fictions and thought about it and just sat down and got to terms with it, I think the best thing, the best plot twist that could've happened in the books, relationships wise, would be Hermione and Draco. I think it could've worked, it would've been interesting, they would be the pair and I agree with our queen, she could've pulled him to the light. Both of them are such strong characters and Draco has proven to be more than a just side character so many times.

I'm on the list as bang because that's the username I had when I joined, username change, obviously, I've had gwanu for a while.

[Feral Fangs]

Hey, can anyone help me think of a plot for a HP RP? The last one I did was where a runaway Death Eater takes a piece of Voldemort's soul and uses it to impregnate a woman with basically a reincarnation of Voldemort, but it never went far, and looking back, I can see why, it's not a really realistic idea, so if anyone can help me think of a new one, let me know.

I would start a new opinion, but I'll just state it, Voldemort's basis on blood purity was a bunch of nonsense, he wasn't a pure blood himself, he was a half blood

[Feral Fangs]

I have a theory I'd like to share.

Everyone knows Voldemort feared and hated Dumbledore, right? Why do you think this is? Most people might think it's because he knows Dumbledore is powerful enough to kill Voldemort without using Dark Magic. Well you'd be wrong if that's what you thought. Dumbledore was not fooled for one second by Riddle's charm, unlike the other professors at Hogwarts(as seen in Book 2). The first time he met him, in the orphanage, he was suspicious of his "obvious instincts for cruelty, secrecy and domination." Because Dumbledore knew all along that Tom was a bad seed, this is why he feared him. Now, another reason Voldemort hates Albus is because after he graduated Hogwarts, he applied for the Defense Against the Dark Arts Teacher. Now this might not seem important, but bare with me. Has anyone noticed that none of the DADA teachers have held the position for more than a single year, for different reasons? This was Voldemort's doing, he cursed the position when he was denied it by Dumbledore. Dumbledore has always been my favorite character for many reasons, the main being that he is the only person the main villain fears. Voldemort wasn't afraid of Harry, he didn't see him as a threat, more of a nuisance that needed to be gotten rid of. Heck, he probably would have also gone after Neville, because The Prophecy states that a child born at the end of the seventh month will defeat Voldemort. When you take all this in, it seems complicated, but it's really not. Dumbledore knows more about Tom than Tom does, and that's not normal. In Harry's case it is, because who in the wizarding world wouldn't know everything about the one and only person who survived the Killing Curse?

[HP Fan]

@ heir
"consider this: when Dumbledore defeated Grindlewald, Grindlewald had the Elder Wand. Dumbledore defeated him in a straight up duel, not through trickery or subterfuge. That means Dumbledore was better than Grindlewald -- the most feared dark wizard until Voldemort showed up -- even when he was at a disadvantage because Grindlewald had the most powerful wand in the world.

I imagine what it comes down to is that, in terms of raw magical power, Voldemort, Dumbledore and Grindlewald were all equal. At some point, you have enough raw power to do whatever you want to. It becomes a question of knowledge and how you use that power. Dumbledore -- of all three of them -- had the most complete understanding of magic. He knew how to use the dark magic that Grindlewald and Voldemort employed -- but chose not to. Or else, knew of its existence and chose not to delve further than he had to. As I remember the quote in the first book -- and correct me if this is wrong -- Dumbledore says that Voldemort has powers he "will never have". But not powers that he will never understand. That is a key difference. Conversely, Dumbledore understands and employs parts of magic that Voldemort is completely unaware of. And even after he becomes aware of them, he doesn't truly understand them."

found on here

[Feral Fangs]

While what you said is completely true, you're forgetting another important quote. When Dumbledore said Voldemort has powers he would never have, McGonagal states "you're too noble to use them" implying that he has the ability to use Dark Magic, but would never soil his good name by using them. Most of the stuff I said is directly from the Harry Potter Wiki, so there is a strong possibility that most of it is just fan written, and not actually canon. But I do believe that the position of Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor is cursed in some way due to all the teachers who taught the subject losing it after a single year. That said, it could just be an Easter egg that J.K. put in there for us to detect. But in my mind, if I was a person who sought power, I would be scared of someone who did not fall for my good boy act, which is the relationship Dumbledore and Voldemort had during his school years.

[HP Fan]

@ heir

everyone can use dark magic. it's just saying a spell name and waving your wand. harry used sectumsempra.

there is more evidence from jk rowling that voldemort was afraid if albus's power.

[Feral Fangs]

True, but part of why I think why Voldemort feared him was because of his perspective on death. Voldemort thinks there's nothing worse than death, but Dumbledore says there are worse ways of destroying a man than killing him. Dumbledore had a desire for power, and he knew that was his weakness, that's why he turned down positions in the Ministry. Voldemort believed he had no weaknesses, but Dumbledore stated that his lack of understanding that there are worse things than death is his weakness. And I agree with Dumbledore, there are worse things than dying, like living without a true family, losing the people you love, things like that. Dumbledore and Voldemort did have one thing in common, their Boggart was a dead body, Voldemort's being his own, and Dumbledore's being his younger sister.

[fandomstyles]

Hello again.... I'm going to go finish my Muggle homework now...