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.
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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.
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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.
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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. When we do, we depend on our loyal, helpful readers to point out how we can do better.Like most primary school kids in the early noughties, I was wizard-obsessed growing up. However, despite our best efforts, we sometimes miss the mark. Our editors are instructed to fact check thoroughly, including finding at least three references for each fact. Our credibility is the turbo-charged engine of our success. Please submit feedback to Thanks for your time!ĭo you question the accuracy of a fact you just read? At Factinate, we’re dedicated to getting things right. Your suggestions can be as general or specific as you like, from “Life” to “Compact Cars and Trucks” to “A Subspecies of Capybara Called Hydrochoerus Isthmius.” We’ll get our writers on it because we want to create articles on the topics you’re interested in. Want to tell us to write facts on a topic? We’re always looking for your input! Please reach out to us to let us know what you’re interested in reading.
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