Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 Reaction
Added 2024-06-28 12:54:42 +0000 UTC
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you girls have to react to fantastic beasts its in the harry potter universe there are 3 films so far!!
Bryant Bernal
2024-09-27 05:38:11 +0000 UTCSo does this mean you'll move on to "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them"? It's set much earlier than Harry Potter so you can see how things were a little different then.
Thom Hind
2024-07-08 01:00:32 +0000 UTCQuestion, how long are movies in locked early access?
Joshua Christian
2024-07-06 11:58:19 +0000 UTClikely the unbreakable curse ended with Dumbledores death
collect
2024-07-06 09:16:06 +0000 UTCSuch a great collection of movies! I can see why it's so popular.
Capo
2024-07-05 01:06:17 +0000 UTCSorry in advance for this VERY LONG essay but here are some fun facts/answers to some of your questions: Dumbledore was dying slowly and painfully due to the curse from the ring when he tried to destroy it, which is why he wanted Snape to kill him (as well as to protect Draco and cement his position with Voldemort). When Dumbledore said "Please" he was actually asking Snape to kill him. Voldemort created the Horcruxes in an attempt to cheat death. Appropriately, his name is French for "Flight of Death" or "Steal/Cheat of death". Also, he had planned to split his soul in 7 pieces, which means 6 horcruxes AND his physical body. Then he would become mortal and could therefore be killed. But he unintentionally made the 7th horcrux with Harry, therefore there were 8 pieces of his soul. The horcruxes were destroyed in the order they were created - diary, ring, locket, cup, diadem, Harry and Nagini. Harry being a horcrux could explain the ring affecting him like that when Dumbledore tells him about them in the HBP, because at that point the ring was destroyed. Maybe because it's the first time two Horcruxes come into contact. It could also be because the ring held the Resurrection Stone. The brothers from the Deathly Hallows story each have a parallel character in this film. Voldemort, like the first brother, seeks the wand that will win any duel. The second brother seeks the Resurrection Stone to bring back to life a woman he loved. Snape loved Lily and seeks through the series to redeem himself for having inadvertently caused her death. The third brother seeks only to hide from death with the Invisibility Cloak, which he ultimately gives up to accept his own mortality and he and Death meet as old friends. Harry inherits an invisibility cloak from his father, but ultimately sacrifices himself. At the crossroads between life and death, Harry meets Dumbledore, an old friend. Dumbledore himself, like Death, has at one point been in possession of all three hallows. Xenophilius Lovegood speculates that the three brothers in the story were actually, or at least based on, the three Peverell brothers. In the book, Harry and Voldemort are revealed to be descended from two of the brothers. Harry's Invisibility Cloak is in fact the one from the tale and the Resurrection Stone is inside Tom Riddle's family ring. As told in the Deathly Hallows story, the Resurrection Stone doesn't actually bring people back from the dead, it just temporarily calls the soul of the deceased back from the dead to Earth in a form somewhere between living people and ghosts. In the book, Harry stops on his way to the forest when he remembers the snitch. Seeing his dead loved ones not only gives him the strength and courage to go through with letting Voldemort kill him, their spectral form visible only to him act as Patronus' to get past the Dementors. Also, being the master of death doesn't make you immortal but simply means you accept death, as Harry did. Harry was in limbo (between life and death) when he met Dumbledore at King's Cross, so he wasn't really dead. That is because 1. He was the true master of all of the Deathly Hallows and therefore the true Master of Death, which doesn't make you immortal but simply means you accept death (which is also why he couldn't fight back). 2. It only killed the part of Voldemort's soul (the Horcrux) that was in him and made him mortal. 3. He chose to go back (Dumbledore said he could still choose to die). Also, the reason Voldemort had to be the one to kill Harry, as Dumbledore stated, is because Voldy bound him to himself when he took his blood during his resurrection in GoF. Dumbledore knew that Harry would have to face him and "die" by his hand in order to trick Voldemort into destroying the horcrux inside Harry. He just couldn't let Snape know that. Harry and Voldemort's final duel plays out very differently in the book. It's a super intense confrontation in the Great Hall with EVERYONE watching. Harry tells Voldemort the truth about Snape and the Elder Wand, before using a Disarming Charm to defeat Voldy once and for all. His death is very human as he drops to the ground and leaves a body behind (they filmed that version: https://youtu.be/rFMxRv2Zaj0?si=7pYEUvBtE6wlvAbN). I remember being on the edge of my seat while reading it. While the film version is more visually pleasing, it just doesn't feel as intense or final. It also goes against the original point that without magic Voldemort dies just like any other man, and he was never actually as special as he believed. That's probably what I am most mad about regarding the book-to-film adaptations. Voldemort caused his death in three ways. Firstly, by "killing" Harry he unintentionally destroyed the Horcrux, as Voldemort was unaware of that fact. Secondly, he possibly forgot about Nagini due to his determination to kill Harry and remembered her after she died, and thirdly, as he was not the true owner of the Elder Wand, it recognised Harry as its owner and allowed his killing curse to rebound and kill him. There is a theory about Snape's first line to Harry in the first film: "What would I get if I added powdered root of asphodel to an infusion of wormwood?" On the surface, this seems like nothing more than a really tough question intended to make Harry look stupid, but it's actually a subtle clue about Snape's love for Lily through Victorian Flower Language. Asphodel is a type of lily, which was often used as a symbol of death "remembered beyond the tomb", while wormwood is thought to symbolise "absence" and "bitter regrets". If you combine these two things, Snape was essentially saying he regretted Lily's death and felt her absence. Taking this theory even further, some fans have pointed out that asphodel and wormwood combined make a sleeping potion "so powerful it is known as the Draught of Living Death." So was Snape trying to tell us that his life after Lily’s death was like "a living death"? The deeper meaning of Snape's patronus changing into a doe like Lily's is the fact that Lily's Patronus only became a doe after she fell in love with James (to compliment his stag). In PoA when Dumbledore explained to Harry that when he cast his Patronus, it was, in a way, his father appearing to protect him (so Harry was partiality right that it was his dad who saved him). Snape's Patronus changing into the same form that Lily's used to take was proof that she was still protecting Harry. Snape hated James (for good reason), but if his Patronus changed into the form that Lily's had taken only when she fell in love with James, it would mean that he had come to accept the choices that she had made and was genuinely determined to protect her son. If you watch carefully in the duel between Snape and McGonagall, you can see that Snape deflects a spell cast from McGonagall, purposefully killing the Death Eater twins the Carrows behind him. This foreshadows which side Snape was truly on. And, while it's clear where Snape's loyalties lied, I keep seeing fans argue whether he was actually good or bad. But as Sirius and Dumbledore both said, everyone has a bit of both inside them. What matters is which path you choose to follow. For years Snape chose to follow Voldemort and was a legit Death Eater. He is a arguably the most complex character in the series. The way he treated Harry (in public) was despicable. Even if it was because of James it doesn't excuse it, or explain his treatment of other people. He was a bitter person and a bully. BUT, he had played the double (triple?) agent all this time and he did it to save Harry, or more specifically, Lily's son. He transformed and risked his life to save the boy for whom Lily had died. Snape, despite all his flaws, could love. His love for Lily and his selfless act towards her son made him good. The fact that he could love without having been loved himself is what made him good (as opposed to Voldemort). This next theory further proves this. Isn't a bit odd Snape puts up no defense at all when Nagini attacks him? In the HBP Snape made an Unbreakable Vow to protect Draco, regardless of the danger to his own life. And when Voldemort asks him who ownes the Elder Wand, Snape says that it answers only to him. But Snape knows that the wand answers only to Draco. He has been Dumbledore's right-hand man for years and knows exactly how the wand works. Snape sacrifices his life because Voldemort thinks it belonges to him and kills him, but in the end it leads to his own defeat. If Snape betrayed Draco he would've broken his Unbreakable Vow, so if it had been anyone else he could have easily defended himself. But if he had escaped, Voldemort would have discovered the true owner of the Elder Wand sooner or later. So Snape was not only trying to save Harry but Draco as well. Snape saying "Look at me. You have your mother's eyes." to Harry is because Lily's eyes are the last thing he wants to see. In the book he simply whispers "Look at me" before he dies, basically meaning the same thing. And this is a bit of a stretch but there is a theory about Snape's first line to Harry "What would I get if I added powdered root of asphodel to an infusion of wormwood?" On the surface, this seems like nothing more than a really tough question intended to make Harry look stupid, but it's actually a subtle clue about Snape's love for Lily through Victorian Flower Language. Asphodel is a type of lily, which was often used as a symbol of death "remembered beyond the tomb", while wormwood is thought to symbolise "absence" and "bitter regrets". If you combine these two things, Snape was essentially saying he regretted Lily's death and felt her absence. Taking this theory even further, some fans have pointed out that asphodel and wormwood combined make a sleeping potion "so powerful it is known as the Draught of Living Death." So was Snape trying to tell us that his life after Lily’s death was like "a living death"? Not long after Alan Rickman started to play Severus Snape, J.K. Rowling told him, years ahead of the last book's publication, that Snape had been in love with Lily, and both his protection of, and antagonism toward Harry, came from that. She said she shared that with him because he needed to understand where this bitterness towards this boy, who's living proof of Lily's preference for another man (a man who had tormented him), came from. The scene where Snape is holding Lily's dead body is not in the book. At the same time, one of Snape's memories that are not seen in the film is Snape apologising to Lily for calling her a Mudblood, which is actually what resulted in James being so mean to him in the memory Harry saw in OotP (though James was a bully when he was younger, Snape was very much involved in the "pure-blood" ideology in spite of his love for Lily). Also, it is revealed that aunt Petunia wrote to Dumbledore in the hopes that she could attend Hogwarts. When she wasn't accepted she felt rejected by the wizarding world and therefore resented it, which only grew worse when Lily was killed. Petunia pretended to hate her sister when she was in fact just jealous and scared. Harry had realised this to an extent back in the 5th book when he told his aunt and uncle that Lord Voldemort was back. Vernon had no idea who he was but Petunia immediately became terrified. At this moment, Harry realised that, to her, the magical world was a place that had taken her sister from her when she was a child, rejected her and later took Lily away again for good. She resented Harry so much because he reminded her of all of that. However, she did appear to care for him on some level. In Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Petunia is mentioned as having died a few years after Harry's son Albus Severus starts studying at Hogwarts. It is revealed she kept the blanket Harry was wrapped in when he first arrived at the Dursleys, and after her death Dudley sends it back to him (Harry and Dudley would stay on "Christmas card" terms for the rest of their lives). In the book Harry learns Dumbledore's darkest secret: That he may have killed his sister Ariana, or at least inadvertently caused her death (she is the portrait that Aberforth has to help Neville and the kids travel back and forth). Ariana had trouble suppressing her magic as she accidentally killed their mother and required constant care and attention. In a duel between Dumbledore, his brother Aberforth, and Dumbledore's friend-turned-enemy Gellert Grindelwald (According to JKR, Dumbledore was gay and in love with Grindelwald), Ariana was killed, and none of them knew who cast the spell that caused her death. Dumbledore was reliving this memory in the cave when he and Harry went looking for the locket). Voldemort killed Snape because he thought the Elder Wand belonged to him since Snape killed Dumbledore. But he didn't realise that whoever disarmed Dumbledore is the one who owned the wand, not the one who killed him, which was Draco. Ao when Harry disarmed Draco in DH P1, he was the owner and master or the Elder Wand. In the book Harry uses it to fix his and then returns it to Dumbledore's grave in hopes of dying of natural causes, which would leave the wand without a master and cause it to lose its power. While breaking it is surely safer, it makes no sense why he didn't at least fix his wand first, since the Elder Wand is the only wand capable of mending broken wands! Neville being the one to kill the snake and essentially kill Voldemort is a great nod to the fact that he could have been "The Chosen One" as his birthday is also at the end of July and his parents had also defied Voldemort three times (as the prophecy said). I'm conflicted on the Malfoys. They were pure-blood fanatics (especially Lucius) and Draco was a bully. But Narcissa never seemed interested in any of it (she certainly wasn't a psychopath like her sister). She just wanted Draco to be safe. That's why she told Voldemort that Harry was dead (which made that the second time Harry was saved by a mother's love). Also, notice how Draco didn't come when his dad called him but as soon as his mum called him he did? I just wish they had kept one scene in as it would've been a definite statement from Draco. When Harry revealed that he was still alive, Draco was meant to betray the Death Eaters by throwing Harry his wand. The scene was filmed but not included in the final edit: https://youtu.be/V6m4vuT_pME?si=sYwtYueHmVskPSdD. I am still mad they didn't keep it in (or Harry and Dudley's interaction from Part 1). If you really want to cry: When Harry reveals himself to be alive and everyone reacts with joy, if you look closely at George he starts saying 'Fred' before remembering that he is dead. Before the scene was shot where Hermione is pretending to be Bellatrix, Emma Watson acted out the scene for Helena Bonham Carter so she would know how to act as if she were Hermione in this situation. So, essentially, this scene is Helena acting like Emma acting as Hermione acting like Bellatrix. Also, they couldn't use her wand because it was reported stolen so they would've known it was an imposter. Voldemort hugging Draco was not scripted but improv by Ralph Fiennes. Tom Felton genuinely didn't know how to react so the look of confusion and discomfort is real. Most of Voldemort’s speech was improv as well. In every shot in which Voldemort and Bellatrix appear together, she always moves so that she stands on his right, traditionally the position of the most loyal and trusted follower. JKR says she always knew Hagrid would survive because she had always had an image of a grieving Hagrid carrying Harry's body back to Hogwarts, which was fitting, since it was Hagrid who carried him as a baby and also brought him into the wizarding world. Before the final book was published, Daniel Radcliffe asked JKR whether his character would die at the end. After some silence, she gave him the very cryptic answer "You get a death scene". JKR has explained why the part of Voldemort inside Harry wasn't destroyed when he was stabbed by the Basilisk fang: Because he had Fawkes the phoenix to heal him. So before he could be destroyed beyond repair, which is what is necessary to destroy a Horcrux, he was mended. In the book, Harry becomes an Auror and eventually Head of Auror Office and Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement under Minister for Magic Kingsley Shacklebolt (Aurors are sort of the wizard police). Ginny becomes a professional Quidditch player and eventually the senior Quidditch correspondent at the Daily Prophet. Harry and Ginny get married and have three children: James Sirius, Albus Severus and Lily Luna. Harry is also very close to his godson Teddy Lupin and remains on "Christmas card terms" with his cousin Dudley. Aunt Petunia is believed to have passed away in 2020 (3 years after the epilogue). Maybe a bit obvious but Harry loses the ability to speak Parseltongue after Voldemort kills the Horcrux inside him. Hermione tracks down her parents in Australia and reverses the memory spell she cast on them. She works for the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures and pursues her dream to improve conditions for underprivileged magical creatures like the house-elves. She becomes Deputy Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement and, eventually replacing Kingsley as Minister for Magic. Ron becomes an Auror but leaves after two years to work at Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes with his brother George. Hermione and Ron have two children: Rose and Hugo. Ron is also the godfather of Harry and Ginny's first son, James Sirius. Neville also becomes an Auror before changing his mind and becoming a Herbology teacher at Hogwarts and, eventually, Head of Gryffindor House. He also marries Hufflepuff Hannah Abbott. While the two don't have children, Neville is the godfather of Harry's second son, Albus Severus. Luna becomes a famous Magizoologist, discovering numerous magical creatures never before introduced to the Wizarding World. She marries Rolf Scamander, the grandson of Newt Scamander who is the protagonist of the Fantastic Beasts series. They have twin sons: Lorcan and Lysander. In my mind, Neville and Luna ended up together in the books too. The Malfoys are pardoned for their crimes because Lucius provides evidence against his fellow Death Eaters, and likely because of Narcissa's lie as well. Draco doesn't really have a job because he's so rich but he dedicates much of his time to the pursuit of alchemy. He marries Astoria Greengrass, the younger sister of a fellow Slytherin. She is not welcomed into the family because she doesn't share their racist pure-blood ideals, even after Draco stands up to his parents. The two have a son named Scorpius Hyperion. Unfortunately, Astoria dies young from a blood curse. Draco raises his son to be far more accepting than he was. At Hogwarts, Scorpius and Albus Severus, both in Slytherin, become great friends. McGonagall takes over as Headmistress and Hagrid stays in his position at Hogwarts. Finally, Umbridge is put on trial, found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment for her crimes. I recommend reacting to the 20th anniversary special and maybe Fantastic Beasts (at least the first two). People like to shit on those films but the first one is great and the second and third goes more into Dumbledore's past, especially with Grindelwald. Although I haven't seen the third one and I don't agree with how they let Johnny Depp go. I also suggest taking the Sorting Hat Quiz on wizardingworld.com (formerly Pottermore). My house is Hufflepuff, my patronus is a rattlesnake and my wand is a spruce wood with a unicorn core 11" & slightly yielding flexibility. Lastly, this is hilarious - "Harry Potter in 99 seconds" Original: https://youtu.be/y57sYHIDP_Y?si=GWj6Ei5_fTEn1Ny5 With lyrics https://youtu.be/N9U_jFImWds?si=vcfstIEIuHg24hm6 With video: https://youtu.be/iu3IuyE0vLc?si=zBL4cuEI1HOrIEKh Lego Stop Motion: https://youtu.be/1ECJINd9MHw?si=EGuWSjYYcmu3thCE
Heida
2024-06-30 22:21:28 +0000 UTCThe books are well worth investigating. There is so many sub-plots and richness that the movies don't even begin to touch upon - for example, there is no hint of Hagrid's "Blast Ended Screwts"!
Stephen Paynter
2024-06-30 21:25:25 +0000 UTCGreat reaction to the whole series!
Kawliga48
2024-06-30 20:58:11 +0000 UTCI hope you ladies really enjoyed the Harry Potter saga! It's one of my favorites for sure. Even though I've never read the books, I've watched the saga countless times and still find new details each time.
Brandon
2024-06-30 16:42:12 +0000 UTCThere are so many differences between the novels and the movies. The novels are 100% better than the movies. For instance, are the end of the Battle of Hogwarts, Harry uses the Elder Wand to repair his own broken phoenix core wand before destroying the Elder Wand. In the movie, he leaves himself without a wand!
Edward Olson
2024-06-30 00:11:05 +0000 UTCIf you had a public mailing address I would buy you all a set of the Vietnamese translations of the Harry Potter novels. I have done this for many friends (well, always in English before, but I know they are available in Vietnamese).
Edward Olson
2024-06-30 00:07:50 +0000 UTCNow our Harry Potter journey is over.😭 It was a real pleasure to watch the movies again with you ladies, I enjoyed every second.💜 You are the best reactor, keep up the great work.🙂
Digitalversager
2024-06-28 15:43:52 +0000 UTC🙏🔥Please react to Man On Fire (2004)🔥🙏
Blackwargreymon00
2024-06-28 13:18:09 +0000 UTCAHHH! I'm so excited LETS GOOOO! I'm getting comfy right now. Let's do this.
Sarah_M
2024-06-28 13:18:08 +0000 UTC
