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I come across this every time I move (too many times) and consider opening it, but never have! I ended up at a midnight release so I had already read half of it by the time this copy arrived the next day.

I found an old Reddit post of someone saying they had the same, but that was 10 years ago!

More exciting pictures of the box: https://imgur.com/a/J7sikk5

My childhood is complete.

Rereading books. And a few scenes scenes stood out -

1. Harry polishing a Firebolt (assuming Ron was right that it cost more than 7 Nimbus 2001's so ballpark it to 2000+ Galleons)

I doubt Arthur Weasley made that much in a year. He's just polishing it on the floor while one of the Weasley kids binds an old torn textbook with Spellotape.

1. More subtle, but dropping his entire money bag into the fountain of magical brethren after winning the case. Probably what Arthur made monthly??

Old Arthur has to watch a kid go ahead and drop it for charity. A good cause, and I'm sure Arthur didn't mind, but in my mind another unintentional flex.

1. Dropping a Galleon at Puddifoots for two coffees. idk what coffee costs but that's gotta be over 100% tip

Has anyone caught any others I missed?

EDIT: Glad this post got so many responses. Really interesting to read all your perspectives. Couple things - Firstly, I don't think Harry is flexing as in "I'm rich and you're not" My intent was just to point out contrasts. I tried to frame it as an unintentional flex but I see the word "flex" rubbed some folks the wrong way. Just a contrast of wealth vs just getting by.

Secondly, I don't think Harry was wrong/silly for doing what he did. He's not consciously making money decisions. The polishing of the Firebolt is all well and good just him taking care of it, giving money to charity is great - the poor boy was relieved, tipping is good too. The example many of you mentioned about the train was such a kid thing - I'll take ALL the candy lol.

Def not trying to attack a character that I have spent most of my life reading about.

I just see new angles to the books with every re-read. And shared one of them.

Thanks again for all the comments it was great to read what y'all think!!

There already is Reparo, which is used to repair everything. Why is there a specific version for just glasses? And even then, Oculus means eye, not glasses, so it could just fix Harry's near-sightedness immediately. There are spells that can fix up the human body (see Lockards Brackium Emendo to fix Harry's broken arm or Vulnera Sanentur, although that's more of a counter-curse)

Rewatching Harry Potter got me questioning why Dumbledore didn't even do a background check on Lockhart. Whether he right for the position of DADA or a fraud. This scene proves this MF definitely knew and just wanted to see how things would go down.

In a moving tribute marking the 10th anniversary of Alan Rickman's death on January 14, 2026, Tom Felton shared previously unknown details about his co-star's quiet generosity on the Harry Potter sets.

Felton recounted how Rickman would often host small groups of visitors at the studio, casually introducing them as his own friends or family members to avoid drawing attention to his charitable acts.

According to Felton, Rickman understood that these children didn't want to meet an "actor"; they wanted to meet Professor Snape.

To ensure their experience was authentic, Rickman would often remain in his full Snape costume (wig and all) even while queuing for lunch in the canteen to maintain the illusion and show the visitors that everyone on set was "in this together".

https://www.unilad.com/celebrity/news/alan-rickman-harry-potter-tom-felton-remembers-10-049872-20260114

Pity they don't seem to get much education in math or physics at Hogwarts. Unlike their typical muggle counterparts, they actually could be using this stuff in their daily lives.

I looked it up on IMDb; the actor's name is Ekow Quartey, but the character is unnamed 😭

You cannot, as a man- 13 years older than your wife, try to convince her not to date you because you are a monster- and then marry her anyway? Even though you were clearly against this. “I should never have married her” BROTHER YOU HAVE FREE WILL. Nobody made you twin, you are 13 years older than her buddy- simply don’t marry her?

AND THEN he has the audacity to impregnate her and LEAVE! Remus, WHAT?!? You don’t even go back until a teenager tells you off with the dead dad card and makes you go back to your pregnant wife who you left?? He is 37 btw.

Edward Cullen is taking notes Remus. Edward Cullen did like exactly this Remus. Except Edward Cullen never actually ditched his pregnant wife so point 1 Edward Cullen, point 0 Remus J Lupin.

Edit: wow! This ended up way bigger than I ever thought it would be. People have made some really good points in the comments and I want to apologize for the implication in my post that all age gap relationships are bad, I’m so sorry if that bothered anyone because it is not true. I personally have always been a little uncomfortable with Remus and Tonks age gap for various reasons but I made it sound like all age gap relationships are problematic and I really apologize for that. I guess a reformed version of this post (which was initially mainly meant to be funny and not a serious breakdown of Remus’s morals and life circumstances) is that while I don’t have a problem with Remus being conflicted over dating Tonks- I do have a problem when he agreed to marry her and therefore made a commitment to be with her and support her- only to run away to Harry for “her own good” when she clearly wants him in her life. I think if he wasn’t ready to fully commit to Tonks he shouldn’t have married her, and when he left her that was him being a bad spouse. I get why his character would think and act that way and while it’s understandable because of his life’s hard circumstances (which I am very sympathetic towards but don’t always think about because they aren’t often shown in story to my memory) and is a well written trauma response and makes sense for someone who has been consistently ostracized, I don’t think it’s an excuse for leaving her, even temporarily, and for me personally it was a really bad mistake that if I were Tonks, I don’t think I’d be able to get over, and that decision has always had me a bit pissed off at Lupin. I am glad that in the end he went back to her and I don’t think that one action makes him evil. I just enjoy calling him out on that and playing up my outrage because it’s fun for me to rant about HP and have a silly little grudge on a fictional character on Tonks behalf.

I will stand firm that I don’t like the trope of “you shouldn’t be with me because I am a monster” I’ve always found it a bit annoying and it usually ends up with the man dismissing the woman’s own agency in making their decisions. I don’t like when Remus did it or when Edward did it but Remus at least got over himself and had actual reasons to not want to expose Tonks to his life and put her at risk whilst being genuinely conflicted because he wants and deserves to find love. Edward was just a grade A terrible person who needs to shut up. Remus is obviously a better person than Edward but to be fair, Edward technically never left his pregnant wife, so 1 point Edward. He just stalked her as a teenager and consistently removed her agency which is so so much worse. -5000000 points Edward.

So yeah, lot more nuance to this than my original post suggests- it was intended to be a comedic comparison but I should clarify that I do understand and appreciate the nuance and I don’t think Remus is a bad person, but because of his trauma and his life experiences he can make bad choices and be a bad spouse sometimes.

So this is a picture my mom put in a scrapbook and she said I was probably eight years old here which means it would’ve been the year 1999 when this was taken.

Say what you want about the Malfoy family, but they did NOT play about Draco.

Harry is not right handed he uses his left hand!