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AN: This is just a rant on Harry Potter, read at your own risk and expect more to come.


Harry Potter, a terrific book series about good over coming evil despite the odds. At least that what we all thought the first time we read it. I personally have read every Harry Potter book, including the Beetle and the Bard short story book, and as I look back on the series after several years I've realized something, something that should have been obvious.

Harry Potter is horrible.

Now this may anger many people but I have good reasons and since this is basically a rant and I'm pretty sure I said this in the description so if you're here don't expect many positive things about it but do respond if you find evidence against this.

First point is Severus Snape, a man I feel true hatred for when I look back at his actions. For some reason Rowling wanted us to pity Snape and tried to explain his actions with his feelings of regret at what he caused by giving Voldermort the half of the prophecy he heard but one thing comes to mind when I think of his pleading to Voldermort before the Potter's were murdered. Spare Lily but kill her son and husband, not caring for either James or the infant Harry so I find his claim of wanting to protect Harry near the end of the Deathly Hallows hard to believe. Sure, he might have grown to hold the same love for Harry like he did for Lily but there was never actually any character development to me for him from Rowling throughout the seven books. Sure he may have been behind the scenes doing things that the reader will never know but from this viewpoint I see him as someone who never grew up. Bringing up the Prisoner of Azkaban now it shows he held onto a grudge against Sirius Black and was willing to send him back to Azkaban when he could prove his innocence, ignoring it and allowing the bullying he suffered at the hands of James and Sirius to make him want Sirius to suffer a fate called worse than death. Severus could have easily been better than Sirius, who is shown to keep to his bullying ways in the Order of the Phoenix almost as he refers to Severus as Snivellius, I don't know if I got the spelling right so sorry in advance, but Snape could have easily and I mean easily let his grudge go or at least put aside his feelings for Black for the sake of winning the war. Now I'm not blaming him for holding the grudge after Sirius went back to bullying him but wanting to condemn him to the Dementor's Kiss was just wrong. Well that's all I can think of right now so I'm moving on, if you disagree leave a review.

Next one is Lord Voldermort and his entire crusade to put Purebloods on the top of the world. A plan that makes absolutely no since. I don't even think its very clear what he wanted to do but I'm going to infer that he wanted Purebloods to rule the entire world...or something like that. Now let's infer, I know I'm doing this a lot but bear with me, that he actually managed to conquer the Wizarding World and moved onto the Muggle. Now this is where he will definitely fail at because of one simple fact:

Bullets are faster than spells.

Now you may be thinking, wizards have shield spells or can cast silently. My retort: bullets are still faster than whatever wizards can do. And this is just going with the weaponry of that time, nothing like the advanced in weaponry of today. So in the end even if Voldermort conquered the Wizarding World I highly doubt that he would understand enough of the Muggle World to actually take it over and if he began to attack then he would be massacred along with every Wizard, Witch, and Magical Creature in the world as paranoia and fear spreads through the Muggle World, something that will happen if they are attacked and in the end there will only be a genocide of everything magical in the end.

Next I bring up Harry Potter, the main and title character who in my eyes should be dead. In the end as I look back I find that he's an idiot who I wonder how he knows to hold his own spoon because of his actions in the book. First point, he goes after the Sorcerers/Philosopher Stone, admittedly after telling a professor who didn't believe him, but could have also just not gone as Voldermort would have never acquired the Stone without Harry arriving and the Mirror of Erised giving him the Stone. Not to mention he helped Hagrid, someone I find borderline crazy and should be kept far away from children, smuggle a dragon, A DRAGON, out of Hogwarts because the foolish half-giant decided he could raise a massive dragon in secret, somehow he thought that was even possible, and so when his foolishness comes back to bite him he brings in three First Years to take care of the problem instead of doing it himself and fa…you know what, at this point I could go on forever about Hagrid and how much I hate everything about him but this is about Harry so back on topic. Ignoring his escapades during First and Second Year I question his decisions during Third Year. Quidditch had proven to be immensely dangerous to him at this point, nearly being killed while playing a game both previous years, yet he continued to play it and act as the Seeker while employing completely ridiculous and downright deadly stunts at points to catch the Golden Snitch when it was called for. Any sane athlete would leave a sport that consistently endangered their life or at least look for ways to protect themselves from harm while playing but Harry only gets an even faster broom after falling off of his during a Dementor attack during the game by the end of the year. To anyone else a third time of almost dying would knock some sense into them and tell them it was time to quit the sport and move on but not Harry. Harry continued to play the sport even then and reached Captain, admirable if the sport wasn't so deadly to him most of the time and if his recent publicity from being the "Chosen One" which would have influenced anyone in Dumbledore's position to name him Captain eventually. I can list more but Quidditch was something that just irked me by Third Year since it nearly killed him in all three years he had been at Hogwarts by that time so I'm moving onto Fourth Year where he was once again a moron, trying to outfly a dragon in the First Task instead of using anything else like blinding the dragon with a flash of light or just summoning the egg to him if it came to it, I mean there were hundreds of possible strategies that played to his strengths but he chose to try and outfly a fire-breathing dragon because he was told to. By the Second Task he proves Snape's reasons for disliking him as he steals from the professor because he couldn't think of anything to do, something he also did in his Second Year with the polyjuice potion ingredients, and overall that entire year just managed to show how stupid he really was. After dealing with how fickle the people at Hogwarts and the Wizarding World in general could be nothing should have really bothered him and I can see why most Fanfictions I come across have a divergent at Fourth Year when the school turns against him.

Using his point to turn over to Hogwarts itself I find it a disaster that continues to happen every year. First is the house systems, putting eleven year olds into one of four houses for the next seven years is almost painful to think about because it would make more sense to either resort them all every year to allow people to interact more and try to unite the different houses as friends were moved between them or simply not have them at all but it's not either so it's a moot point to bring up as the houses were very clearly divided even amongst each other. The House Cup just increased this divide between Houses as each began fighting the others to make sure they won and points became a major thing at Hogwarts. Bringing this up I find no sense in even having the points as there's no clear scale on how they are given or taken as Dumbledore almost regularly gave Gryffindor hundreds of points because of the Golden Trio's actions at the end of the year when other Houses would work hard to win it fairly only for it to be ripped out from under them by Harry Potter and his friends yet again. It's not even explained how someone gains power to take or give points as in Fifth Year Draco Malfoy could take points away anytime he wanted once he joined the Inquisitor Squad set up by then Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor Delores Umbridge. Also Severus Snape always takes points from Gryffindor for minor and mostly ridiculous things while giving points to Slytherin for ridiculous reasons as well but in my eyes this is understandably as the entire school seemed to view them as evil and his favoritism could be understood to give other students and professors a warning to not try anything against them. Still, in my eyes at least, it remains a completely pointless thing that only causes greater and greater problems.

Next I move towards Reberus Hagrid, a character I hate with such a deep passion that I can hardly put into words as I find the half giant a crazed maniac in the making with very little education and someone is asking for children to die if they place him within a hundred meters of them. Now you may ask yourself why I have this hatred and it is simple, Hagrid has caused more problems than he is worth throughout the books. One, during his few years at Hogwarts he kept a Acromantula and later released it, allowing it to enter the Forbidden Forest and spread into a massive colony that would later attack Hogwarts during the Battle of Hogwarts after his death and Hagrid showed actual shock for some reason when they tried to kill him when he attempted to visit, a completely ridiculous notion as those spiders would of course only see him as food, any animal would once the leader was dead and order was lost for a time. Now instead of reporting this all to the Headmaster and having it dealt with Hagrid didn't and if the spiders would have attacked or started taking students no one would know until he spoke up, something the idiot wouldn't do or if he did he would say they wouldn't hurt anyone. The man's blindness when it comes to dangerous creatures and items makes him a far worse threat than Voldermort in my eyes as his ineptitude as a teacher could easily result, and did result, in students getting injured and eventually dying. Sure Malfoy could have approached Buckbeak better but this is still Hagrid's fault, he was the teacher in that situation and it would have made much more sense to start off the lesson with something easier and less dangerous like any types of worm or just a lesson on safe and dangerous plants in the Wizarding World, but of course he doesn't do this and should have been fired like Malfoy said. This isn't to mention the fact that he constantly had illegal creatures during Harry's time at Hogwarts.

At this point I could keep going and going on this topic and basically make it a ten thousand word long rant but I figure I could separate this into chapters in the future and expand into my issues with fanfiction and the Harry Potter universe in general so I'll leave it off here but expect more to come.


AN: Well, how was it? Leave your opinions in reviews or a topic I should do next.