History Headscratchers / HarryPotterOther

** I always thought of the Dementors as a NeutralEvil / TrueNeutral WildCard, myself. You know, as if switching sides instantly because the other faction has better prospects, draining positive emotions and ''eating souls'' wasn't at least ''some'' evidence for BlueAndOrangeMorality. Or possibly [[BlackAndWhiteInsanity Blue And Orange Insanity.]]

** Consider how a many sue has many attributes described but rarely shown. How they are often forced into situations they don't fit. How they are the best at everything and rarely have flaws. How the author really really wants you to like them. Consider Ginny. Fiery, nice, funny and with a sense of justice. Except that's not how she is written. That's how she is described. She snaps at other characters, mocks them, makes fun of them (Zabini, random students, Ron, Hermione), she calls people names like Phlegm or Looney Lovegood or calls them idiots and then gets mad at others for doing the same. Hexes them for things she too engages in. She is super pretty, it is mentioned more often than with Fleur and by detractors, is a great Quidditch player (because she somehow secretly practiced during the summer and wins the Quidditch cup) and gets invited to a special club all by her own merit unlike others there. What merited this was her casting her famous bat bogey hex that we as readers have not seen once. She is inserted inorganically between character dynamics and of course is the only one who makes Harry feel good. Inorganically praised by random characters. She is also very funny, we are told many times. What kind of humour does she have? The kind that is at the expense of others. She is also said to be nice. Luna mentions it many times here and there apopro nothing. She is sharp because she figures out frankly obvious things before characters like Hermione or the professors. Also she shushed Madame Pomfrey while Pomfrey was crying because she was the only one who noticed Fawks sing. However is it’s not entirely what she does as much as the way the narrative responds to her behaviour. Little she does is perceived as wrong by the narrative and little of her flaws are mentioned at all. Harry’s recklessness is mentioned often, Ron’s tripping because of his insecurities is mentioned often, Hermione’s know-it-all attitude is mentioned often. It is abundantly clear that the author wants us to like her, but it is done very unsubtly. The way the narrative treats her is what makes her a mary sue.

* So, forgive me if this was asked before but... As CinemaSins said (paraphrased), why the [[PrecisionFStrike fuck]] didn't Dumbledore do anything about the Dursley's treatment of Harry? If the goal was for Harry to not get a big ego and if Harry ''had'' to be in his aunt's home, why didn't Dumbledore just say "Oh, by the way, I'll come and check from time to time to see how he is doing." I mean, even when a wizard exploded half of their living room (tome 4), they still weren't all "They'll come back we have to be nice to Harry.". And, frankly, Dumbledore did know what was going on. So he permitted abuse for 11 years just so that Harry wouldn't be full of himself. So, why?

** I’m a published writer and I still need to buy books to read, [[IncrediblyLamePun because I know how my own stories end.]]

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* From what we overall know deep myths that Hogwarts founded itself on, the three brothers would have no choice but to accept their fate falling off that rotted bride and let Death do its job. So why did all three either reluctantly or worse willingly screw Death's ability to die by changing course of crossing the bridge. When that happened, Death REALLY wanted to drop a meteor of those three for a plan incomplete! But planned another scheme to kill the three by giving them [[BlessedWithSuck gifts]] so they learn not to cross him, or his anger WILL extend through their actions and words. Effectively, all magic-wielding huamns! This universe feels like so much a CrapsackWorld, letting the PowersThatBe do their jobs is a MERCY!?!?!
** It's a fairytale, which you are reading far too much into. Besides which, what makes it come across that the Three Brothers knew they were changing courses by conjuring a bridge and screwing over Death? By that logic, Harry should have been visited by Death and offered a 'reward' numerous times, considering how many times he's cheated death. And ''The Tale of the Three Brothers'' wasn't a myth that Hogwarts was founded on.
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* In the movies at the very least, you can't go a whole book chapter without someone's robes being brought up. But that's kind of my point, there are places in the movies where characters should be wearing robes but instead are just wearing slightly odd muggle clothes or just regular muggle clothes. Obviously, the Doyalist answer is that wearing robes all the time would be murder on the cast so they changed things up a bit but what about in-universe? Whole passages of the books make comments on how wizards wouldn't know how to dress in muggle clothes even with instructions but the movies show them having no problems at all. By Deathly Hallows Part 2, the only people left wearing robes are [=McGonagall=], Snape, and Voldemort. And the students but only briefly, though for some reason the students' robes had very conspicuous zippers. And by the time of the Fantastic Beasts series, absolutely no one is wearing robes (except for the students, strangely enough), not even Dumbledore.
** The in-universe explanation goes along with the out-of-universe one - in the films' continuity, wizards simply aren't as out-of-touch with Muggle fashion trends. You've probably noticed that ''Goblet of Fire'' emits the joke in which a male wizard insists on wearing a woman's nightgown to the Quidditch World Cup, presumably for this reason. [=McGonagall=], Snape, Voldemort, and (in his old age) Dumbledore only choose to wear robes because they all have a more formal or traditional sense of style, while the Hogwarts students do so because it's part of their dress code.

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** Many reasons: he made not expect a very good afterlife after all he has done, he may not want to be a ghost if that's one of the choices as ghost can't do really anything and he has a very big ego and wants to rule the world something that he needs to be alive for.