>Hermione >nerdy >determined to be the best wizard >brave enough
>Harry >brave >asks to be in Gryffindor >Sorting Hat obliges because he doesn't care
>Ron Weasley >scared >doesn't care about studies or what he will be >asshole >rides his fame train for 7 years >Gryffindor because his family is Gryffindor >Sorting Hat is lazy
Harry is actually a mediocre wizard who doesn't know many spells. He's actually a jock that's in the right place in the right time and has Hermione to help him out.
Harry should have gone in Slytherin because then Snape probably would have taken him under his wing. Snape would have humbled the shit out of him and made him into a great wizard, because Snape is a powerful wizard. Harry is just immature for thinking your house makes you evil or good or whatever, they're just houses, it's what's inside that matters.
Sorting Hat doesn't give a shit. He's like a jaded guidance counselor that tells students whatever they want to hear so they'll get out of his face.
Leo Bailey
sorting hat takes your choice into account, it's explained literally less than 1/5th the way into both the movie and the book you pleb
Ethan Lee
>>rides his fame train for 7 years oops that meant to be under Harry
Ron Weasley is the opposite of famous.
Isaac Parker
>inb4 that theory that to get into Gryffindor you have to be brave enough to ask
Jonathan Price
>sorting hat takes your choice into account
So why have a sorting hat at all if you can just choose?
What does an 11yo know about houses anyway?
Sorting Hat even tells Harry later on that he still thinks Harry would have done great in Slytherin. And he is right. Harry made the wrong choice and ended up being a mediocre wizard.
Jose Davis
So just proof that kids shouldn't choose their house.
Christian Smith
I think what I hated the most about that is that Harry adamantly decides that Slytherin = Evil and Gryffndor = The best house ever when he barely had any knowledge or experience with either of them beforehand.
I get that he was a kid at the time, but come on son. He didn't even attempt to think for himself.
Hudson Stewart
I think originally the main characters were going to be from different houses. Which is why Hermione is intelligent and Ron is worthless. So they fit in Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff.
But she decided it was easier to put them in the same house to make things simpler.
Gavin Johnson
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Robert Rivera
Has anything good ever come out of Hufflepuff aside from Cedric Fucking Diggory?
Christian Bennett
I woulda joined Slytherin and learned all the darkest of Jew magic so I could amass billions of Galleons.
Luke Myers
>Slytherin = Evil and Gryffndor = The best house ever when he barely had any knowledge or experience with either of them beforehand.
And Slytherin isn't evil. Malfoy is just a dick and Crabbe and Goyle follow him around because they don't have a brain and Malfoy is rich. Everyone else in Slytherin seems alright. In one of the movie ending Slytherin is celebrating with Harry and the gang while Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle are moping.
>Has anything good ever come out of Hufflepuff aside from Cedric Fucking Diggory? Hufflepuff is the best house, yo.
They're the laid back stoners. While Gryffindor is running around trying to win Quidditch like a bunch of fucking wankers, Ravenclaw is too busy studying to have a life, and Slytherin are hanging out in the depressing dungeons Hufflepuffs are just enjoying life, drinking pumpkin beer, probably puffin' on the old magic dragon. That's why Cedric is so cool, laid-back and well-liked.
Gryffindors are the assholes (case in point: James Potter and Lupin making fun of Snape) while Hufflepuffs are the genuinely nice and well-adjusted kids. Look at the relationship between Cedric and his dad and then look at the relationships between all the other kids and their parents: Hermione's parents don't get it, Harry doesn't have any, Ron Weasley's dad is a loser and it's a loser family, Lucius Malfoy is an evil, scared prick.
Connor Diaz
>Slytherins are known for their ambition and cunning >they're the "bad" house >implying either of those makes you bad
The Slytherin bias was real.
Landon Collins
Friendly reminder that the slytherins were right all along.
Wizard x Wizard = Almost no chance of non-magic babby. See: Weasleys Wizard x Muggle = Pretty good chance of non-magic babby. Maybe 50:50. See: Petunia Dursley Muggle x Muggle = Incredibly rare chance of magic babby. See: Hermione
So by intermixing with muggles they're diluting magic in the universe.
Henry Stewart
It doesn't matter since its one of the dullest franchises in the history of movie franchises. Each episode following the boy wizard and his pals from Hogwarts Academy as they fight assorted villains has been indistinguishable from the others. Aside from the gloomy imagery, the series’ only consistency has been its lack of excitement and ineffective use of special effects, all to make magic unmagical, to make action seem inert.
Perhaps the die was cast when Rowling vetoed the idea of Spielberg directing the series; she made sure the series would never be mistaken for a work of art that meant anything to anybody?just ridiculously profitable cross-promotion for her books. The Harry Potter series might be anti-Christian (or not), but it’s certainly the anti-James Bond series in its refusal of wonder, beauty and excitement. No one wants to face that fact. Now, thankfully, they no longer have to.
>a-at least the books were good though "No!" The writing is dreadful; the book was terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time a character went for a walk, the author wrote instead that the character "stretched his legs."
I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that phrase was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Rowling's mind is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that she has no other style of writing. Later I read a lavish, loving review of Harry Potter by the same Stephen King. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these kids are reading Harry Potter at 11 or 12, then when they get older they will go on to read Stephen King." And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you read "Harry Potter" you are, in fact, trained to read Stephen King.
Anthony Murphy
Gryffindor = Reddit Slytherin = Sup Forums Hufflepuff = SJWs Ravenclaw = people with jobs and real lives
Ayden Edwards
Imagine if Harry had sat down on the train with Malfoy first instead of Ron and Hermione. Those two basically shaped his entire impression about everything since he didn't know shit about anything.
Robert Baker
Actually its all tumblr no matter how hard you wish to roleplay
Thomas Bell
>The writing is dreadful; the book was terrible. They're books for children you fucking dolt.
I read the first book when I was 10. For comparison I read Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment when I was 16 and loved it.
Nathaniel Campbell
WHY ARE WE STILL MAKING SO MANY HARRY POTTER THREADS
Matthew Reyes
They would have been books for children if they came out in the 1950s. As it stands, they're books for teenagers since kids can't literacy anymore.
Chase Edwards
>its a childrens book so its ok if its trash!! Low IQ pandering troglodytes like you are the reason why Minecraft Survival guides and poorly written YA novels run literature now.
Liam Flores
Cause it's fun to discuss.
Wyatt Lewis
>/lit/ compilation posts >thread about a movie adaptation
fuck off faggot
Isaac Adams
Well done logic, yes, well done
HOWEVER
race mixing
Wyatt Watson
Marketing for the new movie and memedditors like won't stop
Elijah Wilson
Actually on second thought Petunia's parents were both muggles.
Can't think of a good example of Wizard x Muggle.
Angel Wright
>dat fedora Yes, because children at 10 and 11 should be exposed to Tolstoy's War and Peace.
Take off your fedora and realize that by giving young children easy-to-read and entertaining books when they're young creates a love of reading and makes them carry that love into young adulthood when they can understand more.
If I read the Stranger at 12 I would have hated the fucking thing.
One of the exceptions is Little Prince, which I have read at 6, 10, 14, 18 and had a different experience each time.
Nathan Adams
Would this be better then??
Alexander Gray
It's a very common cliche in fiction only bad guys seek power good guys have it thrust on them. How many super hero's got there powers via accident?
Jaxon Allen
>avatar kys
Avatar was one of the worst movies of all time.
Lincoln Harris
this desu
Aaron Morales
>Avatar was one of the worst movies of all time Do you honestly believe that?
Nathaniel Cruz
Do you hate memes friend? :^)
Luis Edwards
The Hat is just a ceremony, the founders took an old hat and enchanted it to spew garbage and sort people by certain half-existing guidelines or to just put them wherever they want to be and be done with it.
Adrian Hall
That makes sense
What a lazy bitch
Josiah Gonzalez
Of course.
>unoriginal story >in-your-face morality >bird-riding, tree-worshipping, lovey-dovey hippies >meat-eating, hippie-hating, buzzcut-wearing caricature of a commander with Billy Bob and Cleetus
The plot is stolen from Pocahontas >conquerors come to the new world >find natives >handsome conqueror who is nothing like his countrymen falls in love with a beautiful native >John Smith joins the natives in the fight against the conquerors >love wins
The movie is the definition of a cliche.
Henry Sullivan
Seamus Finnigan. The kid whose shit was always exploding.
Isaac Jackson
Pretty much. They all get access to the same classes and teachers. It's not like different schools competing.
Nolan Rodriguez
Where did I say children should read those books? There are many childrens novels that are all better than your favorite poptrash series. the wind in the willows, through the looking glass, the Iliad and the odyssey, the adventures of tom sawyer, almost all norse mythology, the list could go on.
But Harry Potter? They aren't truly reading, they're just looking at words and imagining a bad fantasy movie in their heads.
Elijah Stewart
That would have been better as it would show that students from different houses can get along and hang out together rather than what we have now which is basically your house is your clique and you must hate everyone else and you're in constant competition with the other houses in quidditch and knowledge.
Noah Rivera
I'm sure you hated most of your classmates in school.
Daniel Brown
>Seamus Finnigan. The kid whose shit was always exploding.
He was just trying to kill Prods
Lincoln Robinson
Everything in Aavatar is said through visuals that's where real cinematic depth and emotion comes from, not pseudo-thoughtful explanatory monologues Cameron is a true auteur following his vision, a real master I'm not surprised an immature pottertard cant form his own opinion on his movies and just hate on it because it's not "grimdark" enough
Jason Green
That's a bastardised Schopenhauer quote
Nathaniel Morales
Needs batman vs superman to trigger redditshit plebs like who don't understand kino
Camden Perry
>through the looking glass I enjoyed that more as a 20-year-old than as a kid. Too trippy.
>the Iliad and the odyssey wut?
> the adventures of tom sawyer I agree, don't forget Huckleberry Finn. But that's because Mark Twain's writing is so easily accessible. Anything Mark Twain writes can be read by both children and adults.
I think Harry Potter is entertaining for children because it is exactly what you said, a fantasy movie in your head while you read. Why is that bad? Not all books are the same and sometimes you want to watch a book-movie in your head.
Alexander Ortiz
Then why did anyone choose to go to Niggerpuff house?
Easton Reyes
I did form my own opinion. I hated it when I saw it. You are just unable to accept a different opinion than your own and find rationalizations why you're right and I'm wrong. >Cameron is a genius He manipulated the audience into liking that movie. You may think that's visionary work, it's just being a trickster on the level of jump-scares in modern 'horror movies'.
Everything is not 'said' through visuals, it is literally served up on an easy-to-digest platter for the masses.
I'm not surprised a furry with a cat fetish can't see beyond the sexualization of aliens and gets a hard-on for the blue freaks.
Luke Bell
>I did form my own opinion Your opinion is nothing but copy paste opinions you've aped from social media sites. You know nothing about cinema
Aiden Sanchez
>Your opinion is nothing but copy paste opinions you've aped from social media sites. >implying I go to 'social media sites'(whatever those are)
>You know nothing about cinema >enlightened.jpg
Avatar is garbage, get over it.
Matthew James
>every opinion that is not mine is copy paste
strong arguments there
Justin Torres
too bad hufflepuff is useless as fuck regarding gryffindor i agree though
Caleb Harris
>Look mum, I posted it again
Julian Gonzalez
I'm certain you will watch Avatar 2-5 at some point in your life and bitch about each of them in turn.
Lincoln Cooper
>Avatar 2-5 Please no. :(
Cameron is a good director with an almost unlimited budget. He should be making masterpieces not furry porn.
Bentley Perez
Not unless someone else has made up his quote unquote "opinion" for him
Luke Perry
>Avatar >Kubrick shit
Pleb.
Isaiah Martinez
>if you don't agree with me it's someone elses opinion >if you agree with me you have formed your own opinion