History Fridge / HarryPotterandTheDeathlyHallows

** On a side note, we now have a whole generation of students who ''know how to cast the Cruciatus curse'', and they’re probably skilled with it too, because they’ve had a whole year of being forced to repeatedly practice the curse by their teachers over and over again! It’s like the equivalent of equipping an entire school of children with portable torture devices and then forcing them to learn how to use these devices to become torture experts! And even though the war against Voldemort is over, having that many people whp know how to use Cruciatus loose in the Wizarding World can’t possibly end well, can it?

** On a side note, we now have a whole generation of students who ''know how to cast the Cruciatus curse'', and they’re probably skilled with it too, because they’ve had a whole year of being forced to repeatedly practice the curse by their teachers over and over again! It’s like the equivalent of equipping an entire school of children with portable torture devices and then forcing them to learn how to use these devices to become torture experts! And even though the war against Voldemort is over, having that many people know how to use something like that loose in society can’t possibly end well, can it?

** On a side note, we now have a whole generation of students who ''know how to cast the Cruciatus curse'', and they’re probably skilled with it too, because they’ve had a whole year of being forced to practice the curse by their teachers! It’s like the equivalent of equipping an entire school of children with portable torture devices and then forcing them to learn how to use these devices to become torture experts! And even though the war against Voldemort is over, having that many people know how to use something like that loose in society can’t possibly end well, can it?

** On a side note, we now have a whole generation of students who ''know how to cast the Cruciatus curse'', and they’re probably skilled with it too, because they’ve had a whole year to train with it! It’s like the equivalent of equipping an entire school of children with portable torture devices and then forcing them to learn how to use these devices to become torture experts! And even though the war against Voldemort is over, having that many people know how to use something like that loose in society can’t possibly end well, can it?

* Snape's memories provide a OnceMoreWithClarity flashback to his 'worst memory' and show that it's not the bullying that makes it the worst memory: It's that that is the moment that he lost Lily's friendship. The Fridge Horror? The bullying was an unremarkable everyday occurrence for him.

* Throughout the series, the student who Snape bullies the most besides Harry is Neville. At first, it seems to be simply because of Neville's poor Potions performance, but between Neville potentially being the other subject of the prophecy and the revelation that Snape loved Lily, there's another layer to it: if Voldemort had decided to kill Neville rather than Harry, Lily would (possibly) still be alive.

* Instead of leaving a corpse, Voldemort's death mirrors that of Professor Quirrell in the first movie.

* Moody insisting on taking DirtyCoward Mundungus Fletcher with him as his Harry impersonator seems to be a [[TooDumbToLive horrible decision]], given Fletcher's (lack of) character. But what if Moody planned it that way all along? He probably knew that Mundungus would bolt once things got hairy and didn't want to risk getting anyone else killed because of it. Conversely, he might have engineered himself as a decoy knowing that he wasn't likely to get out of there alive, and that Fletcher would be the only one cowardly enough to run because he didn't want to be there.

** Additionally, Hermione's parents are safely out of the way, and while Harry has dealt with the loss of loved ones before (he's been an orphan as long as he can remember), Ron's never had to. Of ''course'' he's the one most worried about the Weasleys!

* In the movie we see that a few Death Eaters pulled a ScrewThisImOuttaHere after Harry revealed being alive. It actually makes sense when you realized that, at this point, they know that Harry survived Voldemort trying to kill him like 7 times, ''including two Killing Curses'', the last one with them as witnesses. If they believed that the first time Harry survived the Avada Kedavra was out of luck, seeing first hand how Harry survived the second one make them think he's pretty much unkillable.
* Lots of people like to question why Dumbledore didn't leave Harry with another family, instead of the blood protection the Dursleys afforded at the cost of being abused. This book implicitly answers it--Voldemort takes on [=McGonagall=], Kingsley, and Slughorn, three very accomplished wizards, all at once, and holds his own. Quite simply, if Harry had gone to live with absolutely anyone else, they would've been slaughtered after Voldemort returned in Book 4 (which Dumbledore had always suspected he would).

** On top of that, if there's one thing the Weasleys know better than everyone else, it's family relationships. If you want your children to have a happy, loving childhood, marry a Weasley. Meanwhile, Harry never knew family love at home, and Hermione is a bossy know-it-all {{Workaholic}}. As great as they are, they don't make the best combination for raising a family.
** Furthermore, many of those fans are probably familiar primarily with the movies, which tend to elide many of Ron's bravest and most compassionate moments. Film!Ron does not have the chemistry with Hermione or the courage and loyalty to Harry that his book counterpart possesses, which can make it hard to see why Hermione would want to be with him. For example, in the novel ''Prisoner of Azkaban'' Ron stands ''on a broken leg'' between (who he thinks is) a mass murderer and Harry, declaring that Sirius will have to kill them all to get to Harry. Movie!Ron just lies on the bed and whimpers. Another example is when Snape calls Hermione a know-it-all; Movie!Ron agrees that Snape has a point while book!Ron passionately stands up for her.
* Mad-Eye Moody, Lupin, and Snape all die in this book. What do all three have in common? They were all Defense Against the Dark Arts teachers in previous years. Looks like the curse had struck once again, even years later.

** Even [[spoiler: Harry isn't safe from this either: he became a makeshift DADA instructor in book five and is killed (temporarily) by Voldemort, but is given the chance to come back instead of moving on]].
** That means the only DADA teachers who didn't fall prey to the curse this year were Quirrel (who died six years earlier), Barty Crouch Jr (who was dementor kissed then was never mentioned again, but he wouldn't be a "person" anymore anyway), and Lockhart (who lost his memories and is committed for life at St. Mungo's). Lockhart seems perfectly happy, however, so he of all people actually got out (mostly) unscathed.

* In ''Deathly Hallows,'' Harry successfully casts Crucio on a Death Eater. Think about what this means. [[AgonyBeam The spell causes pain of a magnitude so great that enough time under it can drive the victim into permanent insanity.]] According to the text, you have to sincerely ''want'' to cause another person this amount of pain in order for the spell to work. And you have to go on wanting it while you watch your victim writhing on the floor and shrieking in mind-shattering agony. Harry's only response after casting it successfully is to murmur, "Bellatrix was right. "You have to really mean it."

* If Voldemort actually won, the wizarding world wouldn't be the only place in danger, considering his hatred of Muggles and half-blood types. If left unchecked, he honestly may have attempted to take out everyone on the planet that wasn't in tune with what he wanted. [[FinalSolution Genocide on a mass scale.]]

** They may have tried to get rid of her the old-fashioned way: [[BurnTheWitch by setting her on fire]]. Drowning is also an option.

* Why doesn't Kingsley question Arthur after the latter's PapaWolf moment when he hears his son has been hurt? Because it's total OOCIsSeriousBusiness, and it's doubtful if any of the Death Eaters would be able to imitate that level of concern for a blood traitor.

* In the movie, Voldemort hugs Draco in an extremely awkward way after calling him to the front of both armies. In Voldemort's backstory, it's revealed that his mother died in childbirth and was never shown any affection as a child. As a result, he was unable to feel any form of love for someone else. Voldemort has literally no clue how to express affection or love and was only doing what he ''thought'' was affection. Many viewers have described the hug as coming from someone who has "never seen or felt a hug in his life and only read about them in books".

* At the end of his life, Ignotus Peverell is said to have greeted Death "as an old friend." That may have another meaning -- considering that he lived to a great age, he inevitably saw many of his friends and family pass away, or in other words, he saw Death many times before he finally came for Ignotus himself. He went with Death gladly, not just because he had accepted the inevitability of death, but also likely because he wanted to reunite with the friends and family he had lost.

* Neville Longbottom offhandedly mentions that the Hogwarts "Dark Arts" classes post-takeover have involved practising '''the Cruciatus Curse'''. On '''first years'''. You know, the curse that inflicts horrible, unimaginable, incomprehensible pain? You know, the curse that ''drove Neville's parents insane?''

* In the movie, Voldemort hugs Draco in an extremely awkward way after calling him to the front of both armies. In Voldemort's backstory, it's revealed that he was conceived through a love potion and as a result, unable to feel any form of love for someone else. Voldemort has literally no clue how to express affection or love and was only doing what he ''thought'' was affection. Many viewers have described the hug as coming from someone who has "never seen or felt a hug in his life and only read about them in books".

** On the subject of Umbridge, at her first appearence in [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix Book 5]], she was a thoroughly unpleasant person, but she never expressed any of the explicit signs of prejudice against normal-borns she's oozing with during the "trial" in ''Hallows''. Now, maybe she was just hiding it, but then again, it could be that a certain event in her life pushed her over the edge and infused with particular hatred against "mudbloods". Namely, when a nomaj-born Hermione tricked her into being abducted by a herd of angry centaurs. NiceJobBreakingItHero.
** This troper had the impression that she doesn't actually even hate Muggles and basically just enjoys mentally torturing people — the current administration just being the convenient excuse to justify it. Which, depending on your view, can be even more horrifying.

** Is this truly Fridge Horror though? Since this was during an event where the Order was both flying and fighting for their lives. I'm sure Ron wasn't the only one who may or may not have killed a Death Eater during this.

** On the subject of Umbridge, at her first appearence in [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix Book 5]], she was a thoroughly unpleasant person, but she never expressed any of the explicit signs of prejudice against normal-borns she's oozing with during the "trial" in ''Hallows''. Now, maybe she was just hiding it, but then again, it could be that a certain event in her life pushed her over the edge and infused with particular hatred against "mudbloods". Namely, when a nomaj-born Hermione tricked her into being [[IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow abducted]] by a herd of angry centaurs. NiceJobBreakingItHero.

* A big part of Voldemort's M.O. was to achieve immortality. He died at age 71, less than the average human lifespan. An average ''muggle'' lifespan, no less. Dumbledore was around 150 years old and still spry when he died, while Hagrid is 63 when we meet him.

** Two things make it even worse: we don't know ''exactly'' how Snape's father treated him, whether he treated him with bullying, negligence, or both, but the bullying he faced at school may well have mirrored some of what he dealt with at home. '''And''', as far as we know, the Marauders never faced any kinds of consequences for bullying Snape, even though Sirius's prank nearly ''killed'' him.

* The fridge horror is in the realization that “Bathilda” was silent around Harry and Hermoine because she would speak in parseltoungue, and that would reveal her to Hermione.

** The cloak, in a sense, did help its master become undetectable by Death. No known master of the cloak die while possessing it: Ignotus only die after hand it over to his son, James only die after hand it over to Dumbledore, who only die after hand it over to Harry. And Harry survive two Killing Curses aimed at his face while owning the cloak.