![]() Why on earth didn’t Harry pick up his handy two-way mirror - y’know, the one which gives him a direct Facetime-esque communication with his godfather - to quickly check in? Nope, instead, he and his mates storm straight off to the Ministry of Magic, where… surprise surprise, Old Voldy’s set a trap, and Sirius later perishes in a grisly fashion. With this in mind, you’d think he might be a little cautious after seeing a vision of Sirius Black in mortal danger. Snape dedicates literal hours to spelling out how it’s vital that Harry practises Occlumency to stop the Dark Lord taking over his brain, and yet their first and only lesson ends with the young wizard departing after arguing with Snape and forgetting all about it. Honestly, I lost count of the number of times various characters warned Harry Potter that Voldemort would most likely try and trick him by planting false visions in his mind… only to be completely ignored. That said, Harry’s decision-making still leaves a little to be desired The icing on the cake? The unwavering support he has shown the trans community. ![]() On reflection, though, most of my positive feelings towards Harry Potter actually stem from my more recent love for Daniel Radcliffe - which began when I saw a photograph of him walking twelve dogs around New York and enjoying a cigarette during the filming for Trainwreck and only intensified when he started posting comedy videos taking the piss out of his own celebrity status. It’s partly because he stops being a self-absorbed do-gooder for once a full five films in, it finally occurs to him that it might be useful to teach his mates some magic, and he actually accepts his friends’ help when it comes to defeating Voldemort. ![]() Though he makes a series of quite stupid calls in The Order of the Phoenix, however (we’ll get onto those in just a second), I actually warmed to him this time around. Stroppy and self-centred, he makes Hermione do his homework, is consistently a bit of a dickhead to Ron, and lest we forget when he takes poor Parvati Patil to the Yule Ball and spends most of it moping around because he actually fancies Cho. I’ve got a confession to make: I always found Harry Potter to be incredibly irritating in the first four films - from the moment he buys the entire trolley of sweets on the Hogwarts Express, leaving not a single tasty morsel for anybody else. Studios Harry Potter potentially seems less annoying She’s like every power-hungry teacher or nasty interfering neighbour you’ve ever encountered and yet somehow four million times worse. Her smart pink twinsets might be serving Legally Blonde meets the Queen’s stylist, but make no mistake, with her authoritarian rule and love of torture and manipulation, she’s one of Harry Potter’s most terrifying super-villains.Īs well as banning music, student organisations, and the Weasley twins’ range of prank products, Umbridge insists on “proper dress and decorum” and decrees that “boys and girls are not permitted within eight inches of each other”. Lined with carefully displayed porcelain plates, each one bearing an animated, meowing kitten, Umbridge’s office gives her the distinct energy of a cat lady crossed with a raging royalist. Dolores Umbridge is the best super-villain yet These were my main takeaways from the fifth instalment. So, when I found myself stuck at home waiting on the results of a PCR test (ah, how times have changed since the films first debuted twenty years ago) with quite literally nothing else to fill my sprawingly empty days - and with the HBO reunion special arriving soon - I decided it was time to pick up where I left off. Though I devoured the early films, by the time the fifth film Order of the Phoenix came out in 2007, I was too busy trying my first sips of lukewarm Strongbow and listening to the Klaxons to bother watching it, though I’ve caught snippets of everything that came after The Goblet of Fire over my flatmates’ shoulders since then. As it turned out, I was destined to be a muggle, and my invite to the wizarding world never arrived. When I wasn’t dressing up as The Boy Who Lived for World Book Day - a big drag king move from me, tbh - you’d find me immersed in the latest Harry Potter book the same day it came out or waving around my light-up Toys ‘R’ Us wand and dreaming of the day my Hogwarts letter would land with a magical thud on the doormat. Like most primary school kids in the early noughties, I was wizard-obsessed growing up.
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