I know they can wash sheets and towels and stuff, but what about clothes? Do these rich families who consider manual labor beneath them wash their own clothes? Or is there some exception in the house-elf magic that says they can wash clothes without being freed? I remember Ron saying his mom wanted a house-elf to do the ironing, so how would they iron clothes?

We all know Rhaenyra is the rarest Targaryen ever, her feats are unmatchable. But, Book Hermione and Daenerys are a close second. They all have many similar characteristics such as diplomacy, savviness, intelligence, morality, honorability, compassion, and patience. 10 years ago, most viewers glazed and drooled over the incompetent men like Harry Potter and Jon Snore. In 2026, I'm so glad they decided bare minimum men don't deserve praise and they praise Hermione/Rhaenyra/Dany as the absolute queens they are :)

So I’m currently re-reading (well listening as I’m a truck driver) the books. It amazes me how many missed opportunities there were for different things to happen in the books. What would you add or change to the books? I have a few and I’m sure some won’t be liked by some but here they are?

(((SPOILERS AHEAD OBVIOUSLY)))

. It was obvious from the 2nd book that Harry and Ginny would ultimately end up together. I actually much prefer Cho Chang as a partner for Harry. I really liked their dynamic together and also always thought that Ginny should have ended up with Neville. To me that just makes sense.

. When Fred died, not only would it have been far more impactful to have it be a death caused by someone, in my opinion Bellatrix, that would have given Molly even more reason to kill her but he wouldn’t have just been seen as death fodder, he died from an explosion, not a curse directed at him. I also think a prime opportunity was missed not having Fred come back as a ghost. Imagine Fred annoying the students of Hogwarts like Peeves or even helping to run the shop with George. I always imagined Fred’s ghost coming through the floor just after Molly kills Bellatrix being a Smartarse. “Geez Mum, you wouldn’t even let George and I duel”

. I always also wanted to see Snape and Sirius put their differences aside in Order of the Phoenix. Don’t ask me why, I just think seeing them as friends, although not close friends would have been nice. They both died hating the other. I think a conversation in the book being overheard by Harry along the lines of Sirius - “look Severus, this isn’t going to work if we can’t be on the same page, we both want to come out of this on top, we need to stop this hatred, I played a horrible trick on you when we were younger, I was out of line and for that I’m sorry”

These are just a few of things I would change or add in my perfect Harry Potter rule. What would you do?

“Not to fifty!”(different fandom)

I've made 50 of these now. 350 sentences over about a month and a half! Still no idea when I will stop, but I'm still enjoying making them!

As a reminder what this is and how it works:
Below are 7 sentences from the 7 HP books. I use a random number generator to pick the book and chapter, then hand pick a sentence that I think is decent. Not too long, too short, too obvious ect.  *** There MAY be repeated books in a set, but there will not be repeated chapters in a set. So there COULD be two from The Philosopher’s Stone, but they would be from different chapters! **\*
Scoring your points: It is 2 points for guessing the book, and 1 point for guessing the chapter, for a total of 21 points. It is obviously harder to guess the chapter than the book, but not everyone even cares to remember the chapter titles in the first place, which is totally fair and valid. So chapter titles are just a bonus point.
Below are the sentences and the answers hidden behind spoiler tags! These are fun to make, and I intend to make quite a few more if people keep enjoying them!

1. “Fighting them is like fighting a many-headed monster, which, each time a neck is severed, sprouts a head even fiercer and cleverer than before.” The Half-Blood Prince - Chapter 9: The Half Blood Prince

2. “Wanted ter make a clean job of it, I suppose, or maybe he just liked killin’ by then.” The Philosopher’s Stone - Chapter 4: The Keeper of Keys

3. “When did you do all this?” Harry asked as Ron stripped off his robes. The Deathly Hallows - Chapter 9: A Place to Hide

4. He reached out a hand and felt the air behind him.  The Philosopher’s Stone - Chapter 12: The Mirror of Erised

5. “Do we — er — have to join you to get across?”The Philosopher’s Stone - Chapter 16: Through the Trapdoor

 6. “I wouldn’t bet on that,” Harry murmured, watching Snape baring his teeth. The Chamber of Secrets - Chapter 11: The Dueling Club

1. “Got Potter’s best interests at heart, have you?” The Goblet of Fire - Chapter 25: The Egg and the Eye

If Voldy put a taboo on his name at the height of his power.

I dont believe its ever stated in the books or even intimated that Voldemort's name itself was dangerous when spoken in his heyday. It seems that everyone was just afraid to say it on the strength of how powerful and dangerous Voldemort and his followers were. No one in the WW except Dumbledore had the courage to say a name. That kind of fear deserves some kind of explanation beyond he killed alot of people. So did Grindewald apparently but people still say his name.

It doesnt seem like JK thought of his name being tabooed in his prime though. If we're to believe there was a taboo, Lupin would have been able to explain it when he vsisited the Trio at #12 in DH. Or at least offered that people who did have the courage to say his name were mysteriously disappeared back in they day. Lupin was just as confused about why they were tracked.

My headcanon is Voldy did taboo his name at the height of his infamy but no one figured it out til he did it after his resurrection. Someone off page put 2 and 2 together and that info trickled down to Ron.

The ominousness of the Dark Mark is discussed in GoF in how terrifying it would be to see it hovering above your house when you came home. But imagine being a proud anti-Voldemort wizard and speaking his name in the privacy of your own home or out with friends and Death Eaters pop up out of nowhere and start torturing everyone within sight? That would start rumors about Voldys name being cursed enough that people would literally shiver when it was spoken years later.