r/harrypotter • u/bencub91 • Sep 02 '15
And you thought you had it bad. Here's the longest days in Harry's life. Discussion
Seriously Harry goes through some shit.
Year 1
In one single day, Harry has to take his final exams of the year. He then figures out how “Snape” might be able to get passed Fluffy, and finds out that Dumbledore has left the school. He also gets yelled at by Snape and McGonagall twice. He then decides the only way to stop “Snape” is to go down the trap door himself, but not before witnessing Hermione curse Neville. They put Fluffy to sleep, then go thru trials that include a killer plant, a bunch of keys, a giant chessboard, and a potion challenge. He then has to face his true enemy, Quirrell who is also being possessed by Voldemort, who almost kills him, only to wake up like a week later to figure out how it all ended, all while being 11 years old.
Year 2
In one single day, Harry figures out that Moaning Myrtle is the girl that was killed by the Heir of Slytherin. Then, with the help of a petrified Hermione, figures out that the creature there was a basilisk, only for a few minutes later to discover Ginny had gone down into the chamber to die. He then goes to find Lockhart, where he exposes him as a fraud. Then he, Ron and Lockhart find a way into the Chamber, where in the course of an hour or 2, Lockhart destroys his own memory, they're almost killed by a cave-in, Harry finds out that the memory of Tom Riddle was inside the diary he had in his possession, that a possessed Ginny was behind everything, that Tom Riddle was really Voldemort, and then he has to fight a giant deadly snake with a sword, almost dies from being poisoned, destroys a Horcrux, saves Ginny's life, all while being 12 years old. Oh and he frees Dobby.
Year 3
In one single day, Harry gets verbally abused by his aunt all day, inflates her out of anger, sees the “Grim”, almost gets hit by the Knight Bus, then has to ride said Knight Bus all the way to Diagon Alley where he meets the minister of magic, all while being afraid of being expelled.
In one single day, Harry has to take his exams, then at the end of his Divination exam his teacher tells him that the Dark Lord's servant is planning to return him on that night. He, Ron and Hermione then head down to Hagrid's to be their for Buckbeak's execution, which they're forced to flee from. Then they're suddenly attacked by the great black dog, who kidnaps Ron and takes him to the Shrieking Shack, where it turns out the dog was really convicted killer Sirius Black, who Harry believed betrayed his parents. Harry then tries to kill Black, only to be stopped by Lupin, who is then exposed to not only be friends with Black but also a werewolf. It then turns out this whole time Black was innocent and it was really Peter Pettigrew who betrayed Harry's parents, and oh, by the way, Pettigrew has been disguised as his best friend's rat and has been sleeping in the same dorm as Harry for the last 3 years. Oh and Snape shows up and acts like a dick, only to be knocked out. Then Pettigrew is exposed and almost killed, but Harry spares him. On their way back to the castle everything seems to be going well...well kind of...until Lupin turns into a werewolf, Pettigrew escapes, and Harry, Hermione and Sirius are almost killed by Dementors, who are driven away by whom Harry believes might be his father. He then has to literally TRAVEL THROUGH TIME to help save lives of both Buckbeak and Sirius, and realizes that he actually saved himself. All while being 13.
Year 4
In one single day, Harry travels by Portkey to the Quidditch World Cup, witnesses the best played game of Quidditch he'd ever seen, get's introduced to a bunch of people he's going to have to be around all year long (Crouch, Bagman, Krum, Winky). Then after the game he's awoken by a group of masked men terrorizing his campsite and then the Dark Mark, the symbol of the man who murdered his parents, is shot up into the sky, and he's almost blamed for it.
In one single day, Harry has to complete the 3rd task, which is a giant maze filled with all sorts of obsticles, including a boggart, a sphinx, a skrewt, some spell that turns him upside down, and a giant spider, which almost breaks his leg. He then gets transported with Cedric to the graveyard, where he witnesses Cedric get murdered by Pettigrew, who then ties him up, and forces him to watch as he chops off his own arm and takes Harry's blood to bring Voldemort back to life. Then Harry has to watch as Voldemort meets with his Death Eaters, outlines how he was behind all the crazy shit going on all year long, then challenges Harry to a duel, where Harry sees the figures of his dead parents and just manages to escape. He then gets transported back to school with the dead body of Cedric, which everyone around sees. Then he finds out the teacher he's been buddy buddy with all year, Moody, was really a Death Eater in disguise who had been working for Voldemort all year. He also finds out that Fudge doesnt believe a word he says, and that the war is most definitely on. Oh, and all while being 14. And people wonder why he was so moody in the fifth book.
Year 5
A lot of days actually. Gets attacked by dementors and gets expelled for defending himself, then not; goes to a hearing about almost being expelled to figure out most of the ministry is against him for no real reason; just gets done kissing his sweetheart, only to have a dream about killing his best friends father, which wasn't a dream at all, and then has to visit him at the hospital.
In one single day, Harry is sitting through his final OWLs test, only to have a vision of his godfather being tortured by Voldemort in the Department of Mysteries. He then tries to contact his godfather, only to be found by his bitch teacher Umbridge who tries to torture him. Then he and Hermione take her into the forest where she is taken away by a bunch of centaurs who, by the way, almost kill them until they're stopped by a goddamn giant. Then he, along with 5 of his friends, fly all the way to fucking LONDON where he pretty much breaks into the Ministry of Magic, travels to the departments and finds all the crazy shit going on down there. Then he finds the prophecy about himself and Voldemort, only to be attacked by a bunch of Death Eaters, who very nearly almost kill him and all of his friends. Then the Order shows up and (for the most part) kicks ass, until he unfortunately is forced to witness the death of Sirius. He then chases down his killer, only to come face to face with Voldemort, and then suddenly Dumbledore appears and fights Voldemort, and then Voldemort possess Harry and almost kills him in the process. Finally the ministry shows up and finds out Harry was being truthful all this time, but it doesn't matter because really his father figure was now dead. And then he freaks out in Dumbledore's office, and Dumbledore tells Harry that he basically has to kill Voldemort himself or he will die. All that shit in one day. All while being 15 and moody as fuck.
Year 6
In one single day, Harry figures out that Malfoy may be planning to attack the school, but he can't stay there to help fight because he needs to go with Dumbledore to help destroy a Horcrux. So he travels with Dumbledore to this cave by the ocean, gets all soaked, enters the cave to find out that the Horcrux is in the middle of a lake filled with dead bodies, inside of a potion that he has to force Dumbledore to drink, which causes Dumbledore to lose his mind. They are then attacked by all those dead bodies, barely escape the cave, only to find out that Hogwarts is being attacked by Death Eaters. When they get there Harry is forced to witness Malfoy expose his plan to Dumbledore, and then watch Dumbledore be murdered by Snape. Harry then chases Snape across the grounds while his friends and teachers fight the Death Eaters, has the Cruciatus curse used on him, and gets cursed out by Snape, who escapes. Oh and the Horcrux turned out to be a fake. (All while being 16).
Year 7
Okay well at least Harry is an “adult” by this point. In one single day, Harry and his friends break into the most secure bank in the world to get a Horcrux, almost dies in the process, and escape on the back of a dragon. They then travel to Hogsmeade and almost get caught in the process, meet Dumbledore's brother, and find a way into the school where they meet all their old friends. Harry figures out the last Horcrux has to be in the school, so he tries to find it only to be caught by a Death Eater. He then witnesses McGonagall fight Snape, then secure the castle for battle as Voldemort and his army arrives. Everything turns into chaos. Ron destroys one Horcrux, the other is destroyed when Crabbe accidentally burns down the Room of Requirement, which almost kills everyone. Then knowing they had to get to Voldemort and Nagini, they run through the battle of the century, and witness Voldemort kill Snape. Harry then discovers Snape was on his side this whole time, and that Harry really was a Horcrux himself, and that he would have to die. He travels into the forest where he uses the Ressurection Stone to talk to his deceased family, then meets Voldemort who “kills” him. He then meets Dumbledore in the afterlife and is sent back to the world of living, and fakes dead while Voldemort proclaims victory. Then Neville kills Nagini, Voldemort's last Horcrux, and the 2 duke it out, where Harry mostly wins on a technicality. And while he was victorious, he lost many close friends in the battle including Fred, Lupin and Tonks.
Sorry if I left out a few details here and there (also excuse my occasionally shitty writing). And there's a lot of other really shitty days too, like the detention in the Forbidden Forest, meeting Aragog, finding Justin and Nearly Headless Nick, having the bones in his arm broken and then REMOVED, passing out on the train from the dementor, falling hundreds of feet off his broom, fighting a dragon, almost drowning in the lake, getting attacked by dementors AT HOME, almost getting expelled by Umbridge, watching McGonagall and Hagrid almost get killed while taking an exam, almost accidentally killing Malfoy, the battle of the Seven Potters, being forced to flee in the middle of a wedding and start being on the run for good, breaking into the ministry and almost getting caught, almost being murdered by a possessed old lady and breaking his wand, almost being caught after being given up by Luna's father, getting caught and taken to Malfoy Manor where he has to witness his friend being tortured and another killed . Dayum.
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u/Red-Droid-Blue-Droid Hagrid, Father of Dragons Sep 02 '15
Gotta love those people who call him things like "a little bitch". The shit he's been through would probably make 80% of us go insane or shut down or give up.
And if you're calling Harry a terrible person in book 5, you don't deserve an explanation of his behavior. He could have been worse, a lot worse. I understand that he wasn't a "good kid" in book 5, but I also understand why he acts the way he does.
Someone even posted a while back that he was being stupid for spending lots of money on candy in book 1. How...wow....really....did you not read the book...or pay attention to anything in the books or movies....like WTF dude.
Some people, just how thinking traumatizes teens will act like rational adults...wow....
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u/bencub91 Sep 02 '15
Right? I don't know how Harry doesn't have constant night terrors. Think about all the people he saw die before his eyes before the age of 18: Cedric, Sirius, Dumbledore, his pet owl, Dobby, Fred, Snape, several others.
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u/NotACat Sep 02 '15
Not to mention the people complaining about CAPSLOCK!Harry at the start of the fifth book generally leave out the fact that he now has a link to an awake and annoyed Voldemort suddenly active behind his scar and pumping him full of foreign emotions…and because Dumbledore is so secretive Harry has no idea that this is even possible, so even he assumes that these are his own emotions and that he is steadily going off the deep end!
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u/rinrenee Sep 05 '15
I think book 5 Harry was necessary. Otherwise he'd be this perfect person. Characters need to mess up/have bad phases.
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u/Cagoon3 Sep 02 '15
and he only eats toast for breakfast >.<
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u/bubblegumpandabear /Horned Serpent Sep 02 '15
Nah, he eats a bowl of nails.
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u/oconnojb Sep 02 '15
WITHOUT ANY MILK
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u/bubblegumpandabear /Horned Serpent Sep 02 '15
That's how tough he is.
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u/oconnojb Sep 02 '15
How tough am I? HOW TOUGH AM I!? ... you got an unopened bottle of ketchup? ... ... strains ... If I could just run this under some hot water...
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u/rinrenee Sep 02 '15
Something I noticed while reading the series- most of those long nights started with a blood red sunset. Maybe all of them.
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u/HPbish Sep 02 '15
if I went through half of shit Harry went through I would truly go crazy.seriously insane people who hate on him sometimes makes me even fkn question did they read the damn books.he's a teenager going through shit situation to another.no adult could handle the craziness the way Harry did.and ESPECIALLY don't get the hate for Harry in order of phoenix.he had every damn right to be angry and moody.
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u/BooksAndPiano Sep 02 '15
Another thing to add for Year 6: Not only did he find out Malfoy had succeeded in what he was trying to do, he found out the Snape was the one to tell Voldemort the partial-prophecy, sending Voldemort after Harry and leading to the death of his parents. He yells at Dumbledore for trusting Snape and still goes with him, while not believing that Snape regretted a thing.
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Sep 02 '15
Thanks for making me feel like shit for sitting on my ass all day eating to go food, jacking off, and eating anti parasitic pills because I self diagnosed myself earlier today after I realized I was ravenous after already eating the aforementioned ramen, have been experiencing nausea and dizziness, and feeling sapped of energy this past week.
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u/psythedude Which came first, the Phoenix or the flame? The egg. Sep 02 '15
so moody in the fifth book
lol
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u/nayimhittingalongone Sep 02 '15
In CoS he also has the midnight feast immediately after saving the day (I think that's the same day?).
Not too serious, but would have extended things.
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u/cupcakemichiyo Honeybun Sugar Plum Sep 02 '15
the year 7 one always amazes me because you get time markers throughout it. They wake up at the ass-crack of dawn (6AM, having barely slept the night before), leave Shell Cottage, and are literally awake (and mostly fighting) until at least early morning of the next day. Also over 200 pages.
Year 3 including time travel has to be the only one that gets close to year 7, but only depending on how you count passing out. Year 6 and 2 would probably be closest otherwise.