Harry Potter took the world by storm when he was first introduced to us back in 1998. To this day, the series of books, movies and spin-offs continue to captivate people around the world. The original novels chronicle the magical and whimsical lives of a young wizard and his friends. Harry Potter, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley all attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
One of the reasons Harry Potter is so wildly popular is because it appeals to both children and adults. The perfect mix of mystery and fantasy keeps readers wanting more. If you consider yourself somewhat of a grown-up Potter fan, you might want to visit the Facebook page Harry Potter Memes And Stuff. With 299 thousand followers, it's a glorious gallery of magical content. Bored Panda has picked our favorite Harry Potter memes from the page. Keep scrolling and don't forget to upvote yours.
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who do you think it was? some random actor from Dogma? :D
Load More Replies...Yes, for those wh do not know, this is an adjusted version of Mrs.Weaslys howler to ron.
"Doggy has heard of your greatness, sir, but never has he been asked to sit down by a (food) wizard!"
2023 marked 25 years since Harry Potter and his friends burst onto the scene in America. “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” was first published in the U.S. in September 1998. The initial 50 thousand copies flew off the shelves. Since then, the Harry Potter series has sold over 230 million copies in America and 600 million worldwide.
According to the publisher, the series has been published in 85 languages, made into eight blockbuster films, and the audiobooks have been listened to for over one billion hours. It was an unexpected success for the author J.K. Rowling, who was unknown before she wrote about “the “boy who lived.”
Bottom right is Warwick Davis he's still a live oh no it's not silly me. I can't remember his name. My mistake
Load More Replies...Wait.... who's the one with the black and white hair? UPDATE: Marcissa Malfoy?! Helen McCrory.
Let´s see (Top-bottom, Left-right): Hagrid and uncle Vernon, Fudge and slughorn (?), Narcissa Malfoy, dumbledore 1, Snape, Dumbledore 2, No Idea, Kreacher, Prof. Flitwick (or one of the gringotts goblins?), and finally Prof. McGonnalgal. So many lost.
I think they missed Fudge - top left is Barty Crouch Sr. with Olivander below him. Slughorn actor is still alive. The goblin could be either Paul Grant or Verne Troyer as both were goblins and both have died. The crazy glasses guy below Hagrid might be the guy who voiced the sorting hat.
Load More Replies...There are two different types of elves in this world. One that looks an angel, and one that looks like "It's Monday"
I suggested that my friend dress as an elf for Halloween, she didn't like the idea. It wasn't until later that I realised I was envisaging her as Galadriel and she was thinking the elf on the shelf... No wonder she was looking at me squiggle eyed
OTOH, I once knew someone who refused to see LotR because "that's not what elves are supposed to look like".
Joanne Rowling wrote her first book at the age of six. It was a story about a rabbit, simply called “Rabbit”. She wrote her first novel when she was eleven. This time it was about seven cursed diamonds and the people who owned them. The idea for the Harry Potter series came to her in 1990 during a delayed train journey from Manchester to London King’s Cross.
Over the next five years, she built up a mass of handwritten notes. Rowling had been scribbling on odd scraps of paper as she plotted out the series. When she moved to Portugal in 1993 to teach English, she took her Harry Potter notes with her. And by the time she returned to the UK, she had a suitcase containing the first three chapters of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.
Well actually, it's always been expensive in the world. Only exception was USA and Opec countries. Now we welcome USA.
Load More Replies...Radcliffe did turn out to be a fantastic actor - have you seen him in "Guns Akimbo", lol. No really, he impressed me so many times in HP; he just got better and better every movie.
Hey Tom! There are many ways to kill this one. Let the battery run down and have no way to recharge it. Now, where did I leave my hammer?
It's the only cell phone that will survive for archeologist to dig up later.
Load More Replies...As much as this seems like it would be just b******t for a meme, she actually asked that a whopping 15 seconds into the interview. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZ7vN8LTNrk
Rowling used her spare time to finish the book. And once she had a full manuscript, she sent the first three chapters to a bunch of publishers. Only one wrote back, asking to see the rest of it. It was “the best letter I had ever received in my life,” said Rowling on her site. The first Harry Potter book was finally published in the U.K. in 1997. Seven years after the idea was sparked on that destined delayed train ride.
YAY! Ive been reading the books and watching the movies with my family since I was in the womb! (Litterally, my mom watched the movies to whe she was pregnanrt with me
What does reading Harry Potter do for an adult? I read them in my 50s.
I hope this is true. After all that is what the books were all about. Love over hate
you mean gaurding the sorceres stone? and its not cerberus, its fluffy. but white. the real fluffy is black.
This isn't a HP meme, it's a mythology meme also Fluffy is a Cerberus and it's three dogs all sticking their heads from the same hole
Load More Replies...Ok good meme but Cerberus isn't a Harry Potter only character, he's from mythology
The author had wanted to publish her book under the name Joanne Rowling. But the publisher asked her to use “J.K. Rowling” instead. They “thought a book by an obviously female author might not appeal to the target audience of young boys,” revealed Rowling. The ‘K’ stands for Kathleen, which was her paternal grandmother’s name.
When the book was published in America in 1998, the publisher chose to change the title to “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”. It was the beginning of a bunch of record-breaking successes for Rowling, who added six more books to the series over the years.
Tbf, it's probably not clear which one of her many characters one might be afraid of.
the reason their scared is because her caracters name is Beatrix, which is funny because my middle name is Beatriz! But, nobody is scared of me.
Well, actually (😁): Ginnys abduction had nothing to do with going to the toilet. She was brainwashed beforehand and the toilet just happened to be where the entrance to the place she was taken to was.
Both the author and the series have skirted controversy since the first book was published. Some accused Rowling of promoting witchcraft and paganism in her writing. And the books were banned and even burned in some places. “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” was the most frequently challenged book in the U.S. in 1999.
I have a color changing mug. In cold condition it just says "I solemny swear that I am up to no god." When the mug got hot it reveals the marauders map. And on the bottom of the mug is written "Mischief managed!"
I often thought about Voldi desiring Harry in an... inappropriate way. I mean to go to so much length just to be able to finally touch Harry...
You'd be surprised how many AO3 users write fanfictions with this pairing and very similar motif...
Load More Replies...he is also always found with his bff's (his followers)
“The Harry Potter series, three of which were published in the U.S. in 1999, made the list of the top 100 most frequently challenged books of the decade 1990-1999 (#48), even though they were only out for part of one year of the decade!" wrote the Office for Intellectual Freedom of the American Library Association. "And, of course, the series topped the most frequently challenged list of 2000-2009.”
She looks happy and she has HP and lives in the USA.
Load More Replies...I'm glad she's found a way to make it funny. I bet it's made more than one hateful person pause!
Ohh I thought it was the dementors that sucked souls
Load More Replies...Toss up for me between that one and when she tells Seamus & Neville to rig the bridge to blow up with her comment about Seamus' particular proclivity toward pyrotechnics... and Seamus' shiat-eating grin the whole time.
Load More Replies...and she says; 'I've always wanted to use that spell...'' as she clasps her hands toward her right shoulder, and grins like a 10 yr old girl...I liked it too~! Those guys were ready for business~!! Just waiting there all that time... and tore some holes up their a***s too~! I loved every single story, and asa 65 yr old man, (lol) I have a Hogwarts School sweater, and Dumbledore's wand(one of the very 1st ones too, not that Disnet plastic imitation...) and I have a lifelike Dobby right up over my bed to look after me while I sleep....nah~!...never too old for a great epic, and I've hoped they would start over with the new children belonging to the cast of the one that left after DH#2... God knows there were enough villains about at the Hogwarts School of Majic to have endless adventures....Why not a 3rd generation? my2¢
This always reminded me of Bedknobs and Broomsticks, where the witch does a substitutiary locomotion spell to bring medieval armor to life to fight invading Nazis
Hmmm, you have alot more hair on your arm than I do but still... for real.
Me too, Except I don't need a stick, because my friend actually made me a wand.
Load More Replies...Rowling has also made headlines for her controversial comments, unrelated to the books. As the BBC reported, “Rowling has been accused of being transphobic for her views on gender identity and for saying trans women shouldn't be allowed into female-only spaces.”
The author also challenged police to arrest her under a new hate crime law after describing several trans women as men. And she's had public spats with Harry Potter film stars Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson, when they came to the defence of the trans community.
What did people call Voldemort before Wormtail pulled him out of the cauldron? Nobody nose.
Load More Replies...It would be even better if there were head-shaped dents in the sign.
There's an ambulance waiting behind the sign to treat your concussion and broken nose.
When my husband got made redundant (voluntarily) he sent a whole-staff email just saying "master has given Mikey a sock" and received many congratulations from colleagues.
I love how the scene where Lucius Malfoy kicks Dobby down the stairs was improvised. Actually, the director wanted to re-do the scene at first because he thought that Jason Isaacs (Lucius' actor) tripped. And he was like: "Nah, I hit Dobby with my cane and then kicked him"
Whenever I hear that an actor improvised something I want to know what was originally planned...
Just recently, Rowling was accused of cyberbullying, following her comments about Algerian Olympic boxer Imane Khelif. Rowling was named alongside Elon Musk in a formal criminal complaint. French authorities were asked to investigate alleged “acts of aggravated cyber harassment”.
Have you seen him in Quigley Down Under? That's an underappreciated movie.
Load More Replies...Bro this is actually what I want to do for my sweet 16 next year, I want to get a lot of butterbeer, candy, and friends for a marathon, no cake only butterbeer floats
This is how I'd get kidnapped. Seedy van pulls up, hey we got the extended versions of the Harry Potter movies and snacks, wanna come with us? Me: let's go!!
"Yes, well, some of them are quite a bit bigger than last year!"
Load More Replies...Those kids are drowned into presents, much too much, 1 or 2 for each are enough. These poor kids are overwhelmed. I bought an expensive, long selected present for my friends child - for her 5th !!! birthday party, Not for 5 years old, but 5 parties! She ripped it open and threw it into a corner. I hated my friend for this.
Right! Did Ginny get zero say in naming the kids or what??
Load More Replies...Hagrid is still alive. Both Dumbledore and Severus died; and both of them took on roles when they knew there was a very good chance that they would die. Can you even imagine what it would be like to be face to face with Voldie? Holy s hit! Just show up at his place and lie right to his face - someone who can literally read your mind. Then, under that kind of pressure, have to protect your mind from the mind reading while looking into his eyes. Hagrid mostly dealt with whatever came along; but, he and Olympia were envoys to the giants which could have ended very badly. He also got to just hang out with Harry, Ron and Hermione and be friends, you know, tell them how to get past the three headed dog.
Despite the controversy, and several attempts to cancel J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter lives on. Sales of digital Harry Potter books totalled $61.4 million last year, a jump from the previous year. Book sales via Bloomsbury were also up by 15% in 2023. Meanwhile, the artwork for the cover of Rowling’s first Potter book sold for $1.9m at an auction in June this year.
It seems kinda advanced to teach the concept of irony to 4th graders. I only learned the definition in my 20s 😂.
We have a cupboard under the stairs. In the basement. We call it the HarryPotter. As in “where is the extra soap?!?” And answer “in the HarryPotter”.
Same with us. It's the Harry Potter cupboard. At Halloween, we put a skeleton with certain glasses inside.
Load More Replies...Got one in my basement. Has been known as Harry Potter’s cupboard for years now
Come on, dementors aren't the nicest creatures but even they don't deserve it!
While in my opinion Order of Phoenix is the second worst book (after Half Blood Prince), this scene was extremely powerful, both in book and in a movie. Yeah, Cedric died before - but Cedric was important only in the 4th book and I wasn't overly attached to him. In my opinion Sirius was one of the most tragic characters in the whole series and his death before he either got his freedom back or at least was able to get some happiness was heartwrenching for me.
I heard that this scene was filmed the day that Daniel's grandmother died - they were real screams.
To be fair, maybe it's a good thing. I would've been crying watching it as well
OHHHHHHHHHHHH… 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Load More Replies...That’s like trying to eat your food with your toes. Not the same body part. It’s magic not DNA evidence.
Load More Replies...yeah, go around snapping pics of random strangers going about their day just because they somewhat look like movie characters.
I doubt that would fit with the natural aging process of the child actors. they would need to be replaced multiple times by the times of book 7
I mean if you technically turn out one season a year the kids would age in sync with the book. It would be hard though with the filming laws for children and for much time they can be on set. You'd have to alternate stories so they could use different actors each episode.
Load More Replies...Just don't let Disney do it. They did in Star Wars; They did in Indiana Jones. 'Nuf said!
Definetly he is! How else could he deliver that many presents during everybodys sleep times. He is magic.
No doubt; add a little polyjuice potion to disguise his assistants, couple that with a battalion of house elves (free and well treated we presume) and it's completely plausible...
Load More Replies...truth, I refuse to watch the movies after dumbledores death!
There are only seven. (And if someone points out Cursed Child...what are you talking about? That doesn't exist.)
It's because the directors of the movies changed and the new director wanted Harry Potter to face more dangers.
I didn't notice the car at first, I was too busy staring at Ryan Reynolds <3 <3
While I was bored too in school, I don't know if we really wanted a school where the best pedagogical discovery is "we don't transform the students to punish them anymore".
To be fair, muggle schools also didn't get much further than "we don't hit the students to punish them anymore"...
Load More Replies...They can heal broken bones in an instant, but eyes are off limit it seems
Funny enough, at the moment that I'm reading this, the entry directly underneath this one is about another boy with glasses. And not only that, the topic of that entry is the fact that he wears glasses.
Funny enough, that's still Harry Potter, just with a disguise potion
Load More Replies...That's Hogwarts mystery. It's a free mobile game!
Load More Replies...not to mention the school has a forest on the grounds where potentially deadly monsters live.
In theory you've to be 17 (majority age for wizards). However, Harry was 14 at the time, so only one year older than when he couldn't go to Hogsmeade because he didn't have a permission.
Load More Replies...but like nobody ever Hogesmeade before....ever was it mentioned
A realization most guys come to about their partners.... Just look what happens around the house when Mom gets sick / goes away for a few days. Pandemonium.
Harry's name might be on the books, but Hermione was the most capable of them.
me, My entire family r potter heads, but im prbably the most intense ine
That is the sweetest thing I've ever read I've never cried for a post before but I'm tearing up now
Indeed, but the films do cut a lot of things out, so it makes sense to cut out Marietta. I hope that the upcoming to series will put a lot of things back in.
Load More Replies...I don't remember, but didn't they use veritaserum on her? Hardly a snitch if they torture and d**g you...
I always wonder, if he wanted Harry dead so badly, why didn't he just like, shoot him? How hard can it be to kill a child?
right? like, can't be too hard to put down the wand and just run him through, can it?
Load More Replies...But the underwear horcrux would lead to the book title "Harry Potter and the Cursed Shvantz"
Porn has a very long history of titles that are parodies of mainstream movies.I'm assuming there must be some that are based on the Harry Potter books/movies, and making underwear a horcrux would probably mean there are a few more.
Load More Replies...3rd step - magical spell to put laundry away ( versus letting it sit in baskets scattered thruout house)
I'm counting the days until mini dino can finally read the books
If you really want them to love them the way you do, read them to the nugget.
Load More Replies...Not for my kids. All I did was read Sorcerer's Stone to my oldest when they were 5. They're now 11 and know both the books and movies by heart--and my youngest at 6 is well on his way down the same path.
The bit where Amous Diggory (played by Jeff Rawle) realised his son was dead and is shouting "My boy, My boy" is completely heart wrenching.
Cedric died, but came back later as a vampire... something to blame Voldemort for! (I am already out)
If you've ever seen the heartbreaking scene in Love Actually where Emma Thompson's character cries when she doesn't receive the necklace as a present and gets a Joni Mitchell CD instead... Emma Thompson has said she drew on her own real-life experiences when acting in that scene. Take from that what you will.
I knew that Emma Thompson was married to Kenneth Branagh and that he cheated with Helena Bonham Carter. What I didn't realize is that that was him playing professor Lockhart. I love him in the Agatha Christie movies. I can't believe I didn't know it was him
Because it's not worth the anxiety of being around that many people riding rides that will end with me with a migraine.
You know why Delores Umbridge is the most hated villain? Because we all know, or have crossed paths with someone with similar traits. Ever have an educator who you were convinced hated kids? That was your Umbridge.
had 3/4, but threw up with the jelly beans
Load More Replies...I've often wondered: who'd taste-tested the booger-flavored jelly beans for Cadberry (or whoever made the versions we can buy)? It would not only be admitting one knew what boogers taste like, but also be able to guide the R & D people with assessments like "Hmm...no, not salty enough".
I've had three of the four... I actually have the Butterbeer cup in my cupboard.
Which one was your favorite book? Mine probably The Chamber of Secrets
I think it's trying to say that he won't listen to Petunia, will consider Mrs. Weasley, but if Hermione says no, she means no.
Load More Replies...Weeeeell are they really though? I mean Rold Dhal had a half giant get beaten up by full giants in BFG, Neil Gaiman had a boy with glasses who gets an owl, Eva Ibbotson published The Secret of Platform 13 in 1994, Wizard of Earthsea was published in 1968, The Worst Witch was published in 1974, Longbottom leaf appears in Lord of the Rings and Neville Longbottom is interested in plants, Him we do not name was a reference to Sauron in lord of the rings. So yeah, both Harry Potter and Lord of The Rings are excellent in their own way. The main difference is Tolkien actually came up with Lord of The Rings from his own imagination.
Load More Replies...As someone who loves both, there is absolutely no comparison between the two. There are very few authors that can be compared to Tolkien and the magnitude of his work, J.K. Rowling is definitely not one of said authors.
Kind of makes Filch's line "it's just a pity they let the old punishments die out" hit differently.
The even more fun is that the guy playing Filch has also been the recasting for the First Doctor in Doctor Who. Now imagine the fanfics....
The book, they’re green. Daniel’s eyes are blue, and they tried contacts but they didn’t work.
It doesn't bother me that in the films Harry's eyes are blue but how hard is it to employ an actress with blue eyes too! They keep saying "Harry you have your mother's eyes" the only way he has his mother's eyes is if he has them in a jam jar by his bed!
Load More Replies...I think the fact that all the characters from Marauders generation were much older in the movies is one of the reasons why so many people hate Snape without any regard of his past. Snape was only 31-38 during the books, while Alan Rickman was 54-64. 50 y.o. who wasn't able to forget about school bullying and because of it bullied his old rival's child sounds somewhat unbelievable. But one can imagine that ill-adjusted socially 31 y.o. is still remembering the bullying he lived through when he was 16 and is taking it on a child who looks exactly like his former bully. He definitely shouldn't be a teacher given that he didn't work through his childhood trauma, but also I am able to somewhat understand him.
I bet you can't do that with the last book. Now which camping event is it?
If I remember correctly you can´t really "Learn" parseltongue. It´s inherited.
Not sure if it counts, but I thought Harry taught Ron a phrase in parseltongue to get him into the chamber of secrets in the last book.
Load More Replies...I dislike Harry/Ginny pairing, and NOT because of how soulless Ginny was in the movies comparing to the books. In the first books I was a bit creeped out by how obsessed she was with Harry. Later, she admited that she had feelings for Harry while she was dating other boys, and that she hoped that he'll notice her if she'll be dating other people. And when they got together, she behaved jealous and possesively. And she was constantly presented as "not-like-the-other-girls" girl - not to the degree Hermione was, but it was annoying nonetheless. She just rubs me the wrong way as a person.
Load More Replies...I'm okay with Ron and Hermione. But I think Harry should've ended up with Luna and Ginny with Neville.
I always imagined Luna with Neville - given her love for fantastic beasts and his for plants, as well as their characters (caring, loyal, emphatic and somewhat introverted) they'd be perfect for each other. Probably not only as a couple, but also in term of professional work.
Load More Replies...Reading the books you get the idea that the Ron/Hermione pairing was never intended but a late change of heart brought on by internet feedback that worked out very badly.
That's one of the reasons why I think that epilogue of 7th book shouldn't exist. I can believe that Ron & Hermione got together in a spur of the moment when they were both stressed and strunged out because of war. But I cannot believe that it would last. Hermione, while extremely intelligent, had tendencies to get prissy and overbearing. Ron has a long history of being jealous of other people, but he is somewhat lazy and not very ambitious. I think that they may work out as friends, but in a relationship they'd quickly start to despise each other.
Load More Replies...Even though JK has gotten loonier than the Lovegoods, the fans are still amazing. She will never get anymore money from me if I can help it, but I will support fellow fans and people.
no matter how misguided and/or awful JK is, this series is still one of the best ever made.
As if NO ONE ELSE in the WORLD is misguided and/or awful...oh please. Stop making these people more than they are. All she did was write some books...who cares what her opinion is????
Load More Replies...Even though JK has gotten loonier than the Lovegoods, the fans are still amazing. She will never get anymore money from me if I can help it, but I will support fellow fans and people.
no matter how misguided and/or awful JK is, this series is still one of the best ever made.
As if NO ONE ELSE in the WORLD is misguided and/or awful...oh please. Stop making these people more than they are. All she did was write some books...who cares what her opinion is????
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