MsBabbi I wasn’t talking about spoilers for me, but spoilers for Lily. I forgot that in the beginning she actually said she read the whole thing, but my comment had good intentions. Also my username is literally a Harry Potter character lol so it’d be p funny if I hadn’t read the full series already and made my username that
Also, of course Draco recognised Harry! He just pretended he didn't. I believe he wasn't truly a Death Eater by his heart, he was on the wrong side just because of his parents.
RozzzA exactly, it is also never explicitly stated that Draco is a marked death eater in the books, it is only implied. in the end, I believe Draco’s only aspiration during the war was to avoid disappointing, while also protecting, his family
tbh when i was reading this I thought that yes, Draco recognized them but he was just so done by everything: being a Death Eater, having Death Eaters and Voldemort in his house, and having to torture people or whatever he was starting to realize he made a mistake and he was so done with everything that HE DIDN'T CARE if it was Harry or not. So that's why he said "I don't know" because he hoped that he would be left alone and Bellatrix or his father wouldn't make him do anything for Voldemort again and that all of this would blow over soon
I believe Draco had a redemption arc in him, but JK didn't really want to explore that. Imo the whole 6th book is Draco realizing his entire belief system was absolute bullshit and trying to deal with the enormity of the mistake his father saddled him with. I do think he absolutely recognized Harry, and didn't want to be the one to condemn him to death. He wasn't ready to die for him, or to commit an act of defiance that big, but he did what he could. As did Narcisa who was absolutely not gonna have her child die for Voldemort's cause. They're Slytherins through and through, and they protect their own.
RozzzA His mother was right about him. He was a child. He had no idea what he signed up for. Not that he had much of a choise, but I don't think he realised that from the start.
How many of you agree that Hagrid is an underrated character?? Like come on, he was the only adult who truly liked Harry for who he was and not what he represented! He deserves more love
I've always thought Harry and Ginny's daughter should have been called Ruby - mostly after Hagrid, but also kinda a Gryffindor thing like the rubies in the house points or in Gryffindor's sword. It just ties in so nicely with things Harry and Ginny love and hold dear. I mean, Lily Luna is a great name and all, definitely not the worst Potter-Weasley kid name. But I'd've liked Ruby better.
i think snape is a brilliantly written character, but i absolutely dislike him. it’s truly incredible how complex his character is the whole way through the series. his backstory (for me) makes his actions understandable, but not redeemable. at the end of the day, being in love with someone doesn’t justify child abuse. so his actions make more sense, but it doesn’t make me like him any more
The child abuse was really bad, but again, everything was seen by Harry´s POV, and under Dumbledore´s eyes. I trully believe Dumbledore is the main villain for allowing terrible teachers into his school
@@vilwarin5635 Unfortunately, I have to agree. Older I get, more I realize that Dumbledore wasn't the perfect wise old man we all thought him to be when we were younger. He made a lot of mistakes.
you wanting to reread is so me lmao. every time i finish deathly hallows i’m eyeing up philosophers stone like: should i?? nah probably shouldn’t... unless?
Saaame. I've re-read the series more times than I can count and am listening to the audio books at the moment 😂 my family thinks I have a problem, but I will just never get tired of this story. And I still, to this day, find new things to take away from it.
@@AutumnSun140 yeah I feel empty after finishing them so I reread them and it’s happy when everyone’s alive and then you know the books get dark. (Deathly hallow is my favorite though)
have any of y’all discovered another book to chase the high of this one after a hp hangover? i need to know what else i can read where i go on such a journey with the characters and there’s unexpected plot twists
@@IM26C4UU nah it's kind of beautiful; Lily was the only person his whole life who he loved, and he wanted her eyes to be the last thing he saw, I understand completely
Wow i think i've never met or seen a person who understood Snape's character so well like you do here right after reading that twist! I completely agree with you on everything you said after reading the Snape chapter. Way too many people glorify him & even ship him with Lily, like wtf? You're one of the few people who are spot on about him, he did something enormously brave but for the wrong reason. His obsession with Lily is messed up in my opinion, but still he deserves huge credit for basically being the most important player of defeating Voldemort (along with Dumbledore).
Agreed. Although I think that though he joined Dumbledore because of Lily, he slowly began doing it to genuinely help Dumbledore and fight for his cause
Cursed Child was such a giant disappointment. Jk Rowling should just do the world a favour and write a new series about the kids; a new evil. Have that series filled with equality instead of retconing every other character in the original series.
@@cole6245 Well, to be fair, she didn't write Cursed Child, she just greenlit it to go "into production", so to speak. It's nothing more than a very bad fanfiction. I've definitely read better ones -- ones that don't ignore all the characters' essentials.
There isn't a sequel to the series, that's a lie. "The Cursed Child" is totally a fake. BUT there's an amazing musical trilogy called "A Very Potter Musical" on YT that is so worth seeing :)
@@Quirderph Literally nothing after the 7th book exists. JKR went way off the deep end, and nothing she's said/written since then makes any sense whatsoever
When Alan Rickman was cast as Snape, Jo Rowling told him about that twist I think so he could adjust his reactions to certain things, like when Snape first sees Harry.
My favorite way to describe Snape is: he is not a good guy who did bad things for the right reasons, he is a bad guy who did good things for the wrong reasons. That's how I view him!
Not saying Snape's a good guy at all, but we have no way of knowing if his love for Lily was the only thing to keep him going. I mean, that assumption seems extremely far-fetched, and it never says in the book that he wasn't truly convinced of what he was fighting for in the end, even if he started it for the wrong reasons. That doesn't excuse his behaviour throughout the rest of the series at all, but I don't know where people read all this "Snape is only painted in a positive light because of his love for Lily" stuff - it never says that and, even more importantly, I don't think she intended it to be the case at all.
Ana Sofia Monteiro is it really for the wrong reasons though? towards the end it's clear that he wasn't fighting just for Lily anymore. Why would he save Lupin during the battle of the seven potters? Why not just give up and defect when Dumbledore told him that Harry needed to die if that was all he was fighting for? By the end, Snape was clearly fighting not just for Lily, but because he believed that Voldemort needed to be stopped and that the Wizarding world needed to be saved from him. Of course that doesn't excuse him being a complete asshole, but he wasn't just doing it for Lily towards the end.
@@flugsven I understand that point of view. But he never did anything to prove that except for working with Dumbledore. And even then his reasoning is *always* the same which is to take revenge on the person who killed the "love of his life" (quotes because he was kind of a stalker and the love was one-sided). Otherwise he really was just a child abuser who bullied little students and someone so obcessed with a girl he told voldemort to kill Harry and James but let her live, when he knew lily would've preferred to die and save her child. I really just find it impossible to sympathize with a grown man who abuses children he is suppose to be teaching :(
The problem with Snape is that everyone looks into his relationship with Lily instead of all the s*it he had with Dumbledore. All his work as spy, while forced to maintain a job he hated, not knowing if Dumbledore would cover for him until the end, and forced to kill his only ally, is what enhanced him in my eyes.
Emmanuel Okoye True you can say that. But Snape and Pettigrews responsibility in it was basically just to get closer to Voldemort. Yeah Snape only heard half the prophecy but would Snape have had the same emotional guilt if Voldemort decided to kill the Longbottoms..... No he wouldn’t have. And that’s the part where Snape’s character is not redeemable, doing the “right things” for the wrong reasons. And even Lily called him out on his BS when they were at Hogwarts, bullying muggleborns and wanting to join Voldemort’s cause. But that’s the complexity of his character. I think Snape is written beautifully as a character but the dude has selfish tendencies and he seems to not want to take responsibility for his hand in Lily’s death. Rather or not other people are responsible Hell , even Sirius took responsibility for his part in their death and we could argue that it truly wasn’t his fault.
I think I was a Snape apologist when I was young and first read the series but I pretty much agree with Lily’s view of the character now: he’s a great a character but not a great person. I feel like one of the reasons many fans will consider Snape a redeemable and good person is because we formed our opinion of him when we were young and might not have understood the complexities of character. For me, at least, I saw it as Snape was on the evil guy’s side so he’s a bad person, but he’s actually on the good person’s side so he’s a good person. Rather than reading into the complexities of his actions and motivations which I honestly probably couldn’t comprehend when I was little. And then I just held on to those opinions as I got older until the discussions started showing online for me again and I had a chance to reframe my view. That’s how I see that whole debate.
Tasnim That’s a good point to bring up. When we were young, because of the way it’s framed (especially in the movie) it’s easy to not understand just how messed up the relationship actually is in reality. Because we just didn’t know any better at the time. As a teenager, it’s all or nothing in relationships, media also tends to reinforce that view (looking at you, The Notebook.) When you get a bit older and truly start to understand exactly what Snape and Lily’s relationship entails in the real world, you tend to do a double take and nope out of the situation.
Not trying to sound controversial but those Snape apologist made me see how people who are in abusive relationships take back their abuser, whether it’s physically or emotionally.
Yep, I hate it when people say that Snape was a good person. Nope. He may have been a hero, but he wasn't a good person. He was a bully and at times he was outright cruel.
kelly I mean... his character in the books was one of the best characters in the series. He is also probably the most complex character in the book series.
I think his character is interesting but I’m not going to say he wasn’t an ass... he’s still my 2nd favorite character. Most interesting character in the book in my opinion
It was actually explained by Sirius in OotP that Bellatrix and Tonks were related (in the chapter with the tapestry, when they're cleaning in Grimmauld Place). Bellatrix, Narcissa (Draco's mum) and Andromeda (Tonks' mum) were sisters and Sirius' cousins. :) Andromeda married a muggle born and was disowned for that. But yeah, Bellatrix is Tonks' aunt and Tonks and Draco are cousins.
Draco did regocnise Harry, Ron and Hermione in the Malfoy manor but he just kinda didn't want to say that. I believe he wanted Harry to defeat Voldemort somehow. In the room of requirement he didn't want Crabbe to wreck the room because he might bury the diadem. I think Draco believed that because Harry was looking for the diadem, it was gonna help defeat Voldemort which was true of course. He also shouted a few times that Crabbe and Goyle should not kill Harry. Idk that's just how I've always understood it.
Lmao Draco was unsure of that was Harry so he didn't say it out of fear of being wrong, not to help Harry. Also he wouldn't know about the Diadem being a Horocrux. He also didn't want them to kill Harry so he could bring him alive to Voldemort and get even more rewarded
@@Crazy_Peanutz I don't really agree with you. Why wouldn't he know it was Harry? Ron and Hermione were with him and when asked about them he didn't fully admit it was them but said something like "Yeah it could be". He didn't know about the diadem but he knew it was really important to Harry and what's important to Harry will be bad for Voldemort. But let's agree to disagree :)
Just thought I’d mention that Rowling definitely planned Snapes backstory from the beginning. It’s been revealed that: “The first thing Snape asks Harry is “Potter! What would I get if I added powdered root of asphodel to an infusion of wormwood?” According to Victorian Flower Language, asphodel is a type of lily meaning ‘My regrets follow you to the grave’ and wormwood means ‘absence’ and also typically symbolized bitter sorrow. If you combined that, it meant ‘I bitterly regret Lily’s death’.” (Found this particular quote in an article on Bustle) which is honestly really f*cking cool.
Love that you realised Voldemort never had to kill Snape. Harry won the wand from Draco by hitting him at Malfoy Manor. But to Voldemort the only possible way to win the wands respect is by killing.
half blood prince is god tier!! also my favourite! feels fairly wholesome considering how far into the series it is! love all the draco stuff too:) loved this series from the very beginning lily!:))
You had some important deaths spoiled!! Fred's death was such a shock for me, I'm still not completely recovered :( Thank you soooo much, what a great joy it is to see reactions to the books! I hope more people do them!!
So according to things ive read, Harry doesnt die cause he was "Master of Death" not just because he is the owner of the Hallows, but because he fully accepts mortality and is not afraid to die himself
@@Weareone0518 Most likely. I don't think he would've cared though. I've always thought of him as being on the asexual spectrum, where Lily was just a very rare exception to his lack of desire for sex or romance.
Your ramble on Snape was so relatable. lol Girl, same. I only hope that at some point when he's old, Harry becomes the official Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher.
yay for finishing! you're definitely inspiring me to re-read the series, there's so much I've forgotten or it's mixed in with the movies. in addition to you watching your old vlogs and going through the predictions, I'd also enjoy a "Lily finally looks at HP memes and is able to enjoy them" type of video 😁
10:45 Draco could actually tell it was Harry, he may be a "bad guy" but he isn't a murderer and selling the person out who he knows, could make sure his family aren't killed of by dissapointning the dark lord more and stopping himself from living in fear (as his clearly regretting his life choices lol) isn't a good idea. He mother also likely had similar thoughts but more thinking about her sons safety than her own when she lied about harry being dead.
Finally!! And avoid the Cursed Child. Seriously. It will ruin everything you love about Harry Potter. And honey, you have no idea. When you started talking about how you were pretty sure certain parts where discussed and planted in earlier books (absolutely yes, that's true. So many things!) and how the series might be better the second time around, it absolutely is. I've read through the whole series a couple dozen times now and I STILL notice things I missed before. Get the Stephen Fry audio books, I'm telling you. Just play it in your headphones while you work or driving in the car, wherever. Totally worth multiple reads. And as always, fantastic review and reading vlog. You're great and I love your view points. I'm so glad you finally finished the series and enjoyed it. Welcome to the best Fandom ever! #HogwartsIsMyHome #ProudSlytherin 🐍⚡ P.S. I love that even after The Princes Tale you still understand and agree that Snape was a dickhead. But don't get me wrong. I do agree that his character is one of the deepest, most well written and tragically sad characters there has been in literature for a long time. It does explain why and where his attitude came from, but in the end, he was still selfish, self-centered, arrogant, bullying asshole. Like, even behind closed doors with Dumbledore when they were making their plans he was still talking shit about Harry and calling him arrogant like James. Like, really? You're calling HARRY arrogant, Snape? He's a very interesting character. I'll give him that. But I don't think the fact he loved Lily redeems him in any way. He's not purely evil, but he's not good either. I think he deserves some respect for what it is he did, but at the same time. All of it is his own fault. He created his own pain. He had no one to blame but himself, yet he took it all out on Harry and James.
@@StarKllrr All I said about Cursed Child was that it would ruin everything she loves about Harry Potter. No, I've never read and/or seen the play in its entirety. But I've heard enough about it to know it shouldn't be considered canon in any way. Alot of the content of that play spits in the face of everything we know and love about the original books. The Trolley Witch being some shape-shifting demon with spike fingers and pumpkin pastie hand grenades? Draco CONVENIENTLY having a time turner all along. Ron giving his 14 year old nephew a love potion. Voldemort and Bellatrix having a baby? Albus making out with his aunt and suggesting they have another baby? The way Harry treats his son after everything he experienced growing up with the Dursleys? And that's just a handful of ridiculous plot points of that travesty. I'm not saying the story isn't well written. Maybe it is. I hear that watching the play is a fantastic thing. But the story itself and how it portrays the world and the characters we all know and love? It's sheer idiocy. And I have too much respect for the source material to even want to delve deeper. I'm all set.
Omg the observations you made were so good, i really want to reread it now. I think i was too young when i read it and now I would probably see so much more stuff i just overlooked as a child
This series has been my favourite on youtube, and I was so stoked when you finally uploaded today, you don't even know! I hope you'll read it again. I read the books every three years, and I still find details that I missed on my other re-reads ;O By the way, if anyone is interested in people reading HP for the first time, I strongly recommend listening to "Potterless", a podcast about a dude who reads the books for the first time, it's so fun and entertaining, as well as exciting!
Now that you're done with the series, I can finally CONGRATULATE YOU ON GUESSING THAT HARRY WAS THE SEVENTH HORCRUX SHSLSKSKSKSKSKSK WE STAN A RAVENCLAW QUEEN
I live for these videos. I've read these books countless times, but "rediscovering" them with somebody who's new to them (apart from knowing some spoilers) is just....really fucking magical. Thank you for capturing this journey, Lily, it's been SO fun!!
it's been a journey, watching you go through each book (esp harry potter and your guesses), refreshing your page and realizing some of the videos had been privated lmao. words cannot express how proud i am of you right now. wherever or whichever way you go lily, know that we fully support you!
I always hated that Harry named his son after Snape. I would've totally been on board with him naming his son after Dobby, though. I also would've accepted Rubeus or Remus.
@@vilwarin5635 I agree. And kids can have the same second name. All of my cousins and siblings used our Nana's first name for all of our first daughters' second name. I just wish Hagrid had been honored in some way. He was more like a father than anyone in Harry's life.
This video made me so happy! Thank you for recording your reactions and theories about the books. It felt like reading the series for the first time and I could truly appreciating them once more. I've read the Deathly Hallows 12 years ago and reread it multiple times since then, I am so used to the story by now that I tend to forget why I loved it in the first place. Your reviews felt refreshing! Thanks again, I really really hope to see you soon!
Lily, I just wanted to say thank you for the videos! You released all of these throughout a really rough period in my life and sitting down and watching the newest episode was really relaxing, hilarious, and insightful when I was struggling. I can't wait to see what you make/read next! Again, thank you for this wonderful little series! Thank you for everything!
15:45 if you go back you'd notice, Crabb was the one shouting the killing curse around, not Draco, and it was crab or goyle who started the fire, also not Draco :)
Thank you!!! Snape is so romanticised, idealised and overrated! He literally didn‘t care about Lily‘s husband and child died as long as she was spared, would have not switched sides had it been the Longbottoms that were targeted and was a vindictive, bullying ass of a teacher to the extend that he was the worst fear of a boy whose parents were tortured into insanity! There‘s a lot more than that too...totally agree on Albus Severus too
Sara D. It always kills me that he’s Neville’s boggart! Like after everything Neville’s been through, his potions teacher is still his greatest fear?! Like why was that not brought up in any staff room ever lol
He literally asked Dumbledore to save them all. Also Neville's boggart is so misunderstood. Neville just had a bad Potion class with Snape right before the boggart, meaning his fear of Snape was fresh in his mind and what most scared him AT THAT MOMENT show a boggart to him when he's visiting his mum and it would've turned to someone getting crucioed
@@Crazy_Peanutz Ehm. no, snape is his Boggart all the time. He would not see anyone being tortured; he never saw that; he was a baby at the time. I think Nevilles biggest fear is not being good enough and not being loved and not having value to the people around him. He's been living in his parents shadow his whole live and feeling like he's failed them. Snape is the one person that keeps telling him he is not good enough. He therefore represents that fear.
@@jveenstra7319 true and not true. Harries biggest fear was Voldemort, but right before the boggart appeared he started thinking of the dementor he saw. Which it became, hence, it does rlly show itself in your current biggest fear. The thing that scares you in that moment
Right? Like if you want to honour dead people by giving their names to your children then make it their middle names, but give your kids their own identity ffs like how can you be comfortable with that? and not to mention how much baggage comes along with those names for the kids... especially poor albus lmfao
@@kristyna907 And Fred was obviously going to be the name of George's kid. Ginny could not take that from George. Ginny's no pushover. I'm sure Harry would need her permission before naming their kids XD. Tbh they're both kind of terrible at it.
I can't tell you how relieved I am to hear your thoughts on Snape after years of appologists spamming every Harry Potter discussion. I really enjoyed going along with you on this journey, so much that after you posted your video on Half-Blood prince I kind of... reread the whole series lmao, just finished Deathly Hallows last week. Also, others have mentioned it but please don't read Cursed Child.
For all this years I’ve been so confused by Snape’s character and you just threw a bunch of light into it. You seems to get Jk Rowling really well and when I heard you talk about Snape I could imagine her nodding like yep, that’s what I meant and did and... thank you Lily I just *know* that what you said was just what it is. So true. So nicely caught up. Thanks. You surely should feel really proud about finishing the series ;) this videos were so fun to watch, don’t stop doing reading vlogs!!
I think your assessment of Snape has to be the most level headed and realistic one I've ever come across. I've enjoyed these so much, and I think it would be really cool if you did a reaction to your past vlogs!
Snape hated Neville so much because it could have been Neville instead of Harry chosen through the prophecy (both born at the end of July, same age), but Harry was chosen and thus Lily died.
There's also a (in my opinion) much better version of Cursed Child called Nineteen Years Later. It was a play based on a rewrite of Cursed Child by a TH-cam guy called Austin McConnell. It got into the Hollywood Fringe Festival and everything.
man i have missed you. It was so great seeing your first reactions and theories on the series, it was so refreshing. I feel like i relived the series by watching your vlogs, so thanks for sharing ! Also i really appreciated hearing your thoughts on snape i was really looking forward to that. people often are hard supports or hard haters of him, but you really understood the layers it had to it. ofc he was still a shit guy who abused kids but there was more to it
“Excuse me I need to mourn” is how we all feel throughout this entire book. 😂 YAS YOU FINISHED THEM ALL, PHEW! Bat-Hilda’s gone BATTY. Edit: I’m fairly sure J K Rowling told Alan Rickman the truth about Snape so he could understand the character and act it fully. (Like before the book came out.) How incredible is that?
Congratulations, Lily! From a stranger to a stranger I’m so proud for you! You will have so much fun going back watching your other videos. I had an amazing experience rereading the books, there is just so much in them that you don’t see the first time around. ❤️✌🏼
I know i'm a bit late to the party, but HI! 😊 Really enjoyed your HP book reactions!! I know it's been asked a few times in your comments, but i'd be interested to see a book vs movie comparison from you with this series. I'm curious to hear your thoughts 🌻
Hi from the future! You're making such a good point about the philosopher's stone that I also thought about recently. It would have been a bit cooler if the thing Voldemort pursued in the first book had always been the resurrection stone... almost same effect for the first year plot, BUT this item would have been around in the universe forever, some more loose ends connecting, more of a wow effect. How we got it, the stone is only a thing in this last book, not entirely a deus ex machina, but still philosophically (haha) feels a long way from Harry's beginning at Hogwarts
''i think Lupin will die, or Tonks, one of them''
me: oh no
Ahhh don’t spoil!!!
Sirius Black the book is so old by now, if you haven’t read it, expect to get spoiled
MsBabbi I wasn’t talking about spoilers for me, but spoilers for Lily. I forgot that in the beginning she actually said she read the whole thing, but my comment had good intentions. Also my username is literally a Harry Potter character lol so it’d be p funny if I hadn’t read the full series already and made my username that
Spoil what? The book she has already read?
Soldier 073 please refer to the comment I wrote right above yours :)
Also, of course Draco recognised Harry! He just pretended he didn't. I believe he wasn't truly a Death Eater by his heart, he was on the wrong side just because of his parents.
RozzzA exactly, it is also never explicitly stated that Draco is a marked death eater in the books, it is only implied. in the end, I believe Draco’s only aspiration during the war was to avoid disappointing, while also protecting, his family
tbh when i was reading this I thought that yes, Draco recognized them but he was just so done by everything: being a Death Eater, having Death Eaters and Voldemort in his house, and having to torture people or whatever he was starting to realize he made a mistake and he was so done with everything that HE DIDN'T CARE if it was Harry or not. So that's why he said "I don't know" because he hoped that he would be left alone and Bellatrix or his father wouldn't make him do anything for Voldemort again and that all of this would blow over soon
I agree that he knew. At the end of the day Draco wasn't evil he was just a 2-bit bully.
I believe Draco had a redemption arc in him, but JK didn't really want to explore that. Imo the whole 6th book is Draco realizing his entire belief system was absolute bullshit and trying to deal with the enormity of the mistake his father saddled him with. I do think he absolutely recognized Harry, and didn't want to be the one to condemn him to death. He wasn't ready to die for him, or to commit an act of defiance that big, but he did what he could. As did Narcisa who was absolutely not gonna have her child die for Voldemort's cause. They're Slytherins through and through, and they protect their own.
RozzzA His mother was right about him. He was a child. He had no idea what he signed up for. Not that he had much of a choise, but I don't think he realised that from the start.
How many of you agree that Hagrid is an underrated character?? Like come on, he was the only adult who truly liked Harry for who he was and not what he represented! He deserves more love
aw true that's sweet
I've always thought Harry and Ginny's daughter should have been called Ruby - mostly after Hagrid, but also kinda a Gryffindor thing like the rubies in the house points or in Gryffindor's sword. It just ties in so nicely with things Harry and Ginny love and hold dear. I mean, Lily Luna is a great name and all, definitely not the worst Potter-Weasley kid name. But I'd've liked Ruby better.
harry's son should have been called albus rubeus instead of albus severus 😔
chesarty True
Yes he was but the Weasley parents as well.
my man rubeus was right there, giving harry his first birthday cake, making him a family album, feeding him dinner, giving him his first pet
Who tf calls Hagrid Rubeus
@ only us intellectuals it would seem 😌
i think snape is a brilliantly written character, but i absolutely dislike him. it’s truly incredible how complex his character is the whole way through the series. his backstory (for me) makes his actions understandable, but not redeemable. at the end of the day, being in love with someone doesn’t justify child abuse. so his actions make more sense, but it doesn’t make me like him any more
THIS ! Also he was terrible to other children who had nothing to to his backstory. He was neville's bogger
The child abuse was really bad, but again, everything was seen by Harry´s POV, and under Dumbledore´s eyes. I trully believe Dumbledore is the main villain for allowing terrible teachers into his school
@@vilwarin5635 this is also true. Especially allowing snape to give hive occlumency lessons ? The fuck
Eleanor Ingoldby PERFECTLY said. His actions became understandable but not redeemable thank youuu
@@vilwarin5635 Unfortunately, I have to agree. Older I get, more I realize that Dumbledore wasn't the perfect wise old man we all thought him to be when we were younger. He made a lot of mistakes.
Never read cursed child. Just watch rant reviews
Potter Puppet Pals is better cannon for Harry Potter than Cursed Child.
The script isn’t great but if you ever have the chance to see it performed live it’s honestly magical and 100% worth it.
I rather read fanfictions
@@annalisamoretti271 I wanted to so bad when I lived in upper NY but it was too expensive
disagree, it's amazing but you have to watch it in theatre. :))
you wanting to reread is so me lmao. every time i finish deathly hallows i’m eyeing up philosophers stone like: should i?? nah probably shouldn’t... unless?
Saaame. I've re-read the series more times than I can count and am listening to the audio books at the moment 😂 my family thinks I have a problem, but I will just never get tired of this story. And I still, to this day, find new things to take away from it.
ME TOOOOOO!!!
@@AutumnSun140 yeah I feel empty after finishing them so I reread them and it’s happy when everyone’s alive and then you know the books get dark. (Deathly hallow is my favorite though)
have any of y’all discovered another book to chase the high of this one after a hp hangover? i need to know what else i can read where i go on such a journey with the characters and there’s unexpected plot twists
Snape's last words to Harry, "look at me" was to see Lily's green eyes before he died
OUCH
That’s kinda weird
@@IM26C4UU nah it's kind of beautiful; Lily was the only person his whole life who he loved, and he wanted her eyes to be the last thing he saw, I understand completely
Veronica Marie ...bit creepy tho innit
@@dtsotm Not really
Wow i think i've never met or seen a person who understood Snape's character so well like you do here right after reading that twist! I completely agree with you on everything you said after reading the Snape chapter. Way too many people glorify him & even ship him with Lily, like wtf? You're one of the few people who are spot on about him, he did something enormously brave but for the wrong reason. His obsession with Lily is messed up in my opinion, but still he deserves huge credit for basically being the most important player of defeating Voldemort (along with Dumbledore).
Agreed. Although I think that though he joined Dumbledore because of Lily, he slowly began doing it to genuinely help Dumbledore and fight for his cause
Regardless of what anyone says, there is no eighth addition to the Harry Potter saga, so just forget about it.
Cursed Child was such a giant disappointment. Jk Rowling should just do the world a favour and write a new series about the kids; a new evil. Have that series filled with equality instead of retconing every other character in the original series.
Alp Soker right she didn’t even write that one
@@cole6245 Well, to be fair, she didn't write Cursed Child, she just greenlit it to go "into production", so to speak. It's nothing more than a very bad fanfiction. I've definitely read better ones -- ones that don't ignore all the characters' essentials.
@@aberdeen0107 TRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUE
I will never accept CC as canon. It is just a bad fanfic that I want to forget
Movie commentary now; watching the Harry Potter films pleeeeease
Yes please!!
Deer Lord yes I would love this
I love watching movie commentaries!
@@QueenCloveroftheice Same. Pretty Much It and Dylan is in Trouble are my favourites.
Yes. Just yes.
"I wonder who has a doe patronus" JSJSJSJSJSJSJS girl omg
she didn't mention it later on but it would've been fun to see her reaction
I was like "did you figure it out in the end???"
Your whole monologue after The Prince's Tale is like EVERYTHING.
"Lupin or Tonks, one or the other is going to die"
... Yes, one or the other 😂
Mandatory "does Lupin or Tonks die?" "Yes" meme :D
There isn't a sequel to the series, that's a lie. "The Cursed Child" is totally a fake.
BUT there's an amazing musical trilogy called "A Very Potter Musical" on YT that is so worth seeing :)
AVPM is a true classic
I think she was referring to the Fantastic Beasts movies
@@edensylvester13 Better be safe than sorry 😅
@@edensylvester13 That's a prequel... which may or may not exist, depending on who you ask.
@@Quirderph Literally nothing after the 7th book exists. JKR went way off the deep end, and nothing she's said/written since then makes any sense whatsoever
When Alan Rickman was cast as Snape, Jo Rowling told him about that twist I think so he could adjust his reactions to certain things, like when Snape first sees Harry.
Yeah Alan Rickman was the only one that knew the reason why Snape acted the way he did.
100% right thats blown my mind way back, good move on jk.
Woahhh I had no clue that’s so cool. RIP Alan
“Laughing about Percy’s joke”
Me: *nervous laughter*
My favorite way to describe Snape is: he is not a good guy who did bad things for the right reasons, he is a bad guy who did good things for the wrong reasons. That's how I view him!
Not saying Snape's a good guy at all, but we have no way of knowing if his love for Lily was the only thing to keep him going. I mean, that assumption seems extremely far-fetched, and it never says in the book that he wasn't truly convinced of what he was fighting for in the end, even if he started it for the wrong reasons. That doesn't excuse his behaviour throughout the rest of the series at all, but I don't know where people read all this "Snape is only painted in a positive light because of his love for Lily" stuff - it never says that and, even more importantly, I don't think she intended it to be the case at all.
Ana Sofia Monteiro is it really for the wrong reasons though? towards the end it's clear that he wasn't fighting just for Lily anymore. Why would he save Lupin during the battle of the seven potters? Why not just give up and defect when Dumbledore told him that Harry needed to die if that was all he was fighting for? By the end, Snape was clearly fighting not just for Lily, but because he believed that Voldemort needed to be stopped and that the Wizarding world needed to be saved from him. Of course that doesn't excuse him being a complete asshole, but he wasn't just doing it for Lily towards the end.
Ana Sofia Monteiro that’s very well put ❤️
Ana Sofia Monteiro But I think he slooowly was beginning to become a better person. But it took a looong time because he was so messed up.
@@flugsven I understand that point of view. But he never did anything to prove that except for working with Dumbledore. And even then his reasoning is *always* the same which is to take revenge on the person who killed the "love of his life" (quotes because he was kind of a stalker and the love was one-sided). Otherwise he really was just a child abuser who bullied little students and someone so obcessed with a girl he told voldemort to kill Harry and James but let her live, when he knew lily would've preferred to die and save her child. I really just find it impossible to sympathize with a grown man who abuses children he is suppose to be teaching :(
the event of the decade
The problem with Snape is that everyone looks into his relationship with Lily instead of all the s*it he had with Dumbledore. All his work as spy, while forced to maintain a job he hated, not knowing if Dumbledore would cover for him until the end, and forced to kill his only ally, is what enhanced him in my eyes.
Nesseire Yeah but still at the end of the day Snape is responsible for Lily’s and James death sooooo......
Weareone 123 Hmm I think a lot of things/people are responsible for their death, Snape wasn’t the only factor..
Emmanuel Okoye True you can say that. But Snape and Pettigrews responsibility in it was basically just to get closer to Voldemort. Yeah Snape only heard half the prophecy but would Snape have had the same emotional guilt if Voldemort decided to kill the Longbottoms..... No he wouldn’t have. And that’s the part where Snape’s character is not redeemable, doing the “right things” for the wrong reasons. And even Lily called him out on his BS when they were at Hogwarts, bullying muggleborns and wanting to join Voldemort’s cause. But that’s the complexity of his character. I think Snape is written beautifully as a character but the dude has selfish tendencies and he seems to not want to take responsibility for his hand in Lily’s death. Rather or not other people are responsible Hell , even Sirius took responsibility for his part in their death and we could argue that it truly wasn’t his fault.
@@Weareone0518 peter pettigrew says hi
King in the North I mentioned Peter Pettigrew so I don’t understand this comment
I think I was a Snape apologist when I was young and first read the series but I pretty much agree with Lily’s view of the character now: he’s a great a character but not a great person.
I feel like one of the reasons many fans will consider Snape a redeemable and good person is because we formed our opinion of him when we were young and might not have understood the complexities of character. For me, at least, I saw it as Snape was on the evil guy’s side so he’s a bad person, but he’s actually on the good person’s side so he’s a good person. Rather than reading into the complexities of his actions and motivations which I honestly probably couldn’t comprehend when I was little. And then I just held on to those opinions as I got older until the discussions started showing online for me again and I had a chance to reframe my view. That’s how I see that whole debate.
Tasnim That’s a good point to bring up. When we were young, because of the way it’s framed (especially in the movie) it’s easy to not understand just how messed up the relationship actually is in reality. Because we just didn’t know any better at the time. As a teenager, it’s all or nothing in relationships, media also tends to reinforce that view (looking at you, The Notebook.) When you get a bit older and truly start to understand exactly what Snape and Lily’s relationship entails in the real world, you tend to do a double take and nope out of the situation.
Me and Snape have a lot in common: we’re both Slytherins and we both love a ho named Lily 😌
Wholesome T^T
Writing this before I watch: I hope Lily isn’t a Snape apologist..
Update: YEEES THANK YOU BISH. queen
I love her even more now
Girl same
Not trying to sound controversial but those Snape apologist made me see how people who are in abusive relationships take back their abuser, whether it’s physically or emotionally.
Yep, I hate it when people say that Snape was a good person. Nope. He may have been a hero, but he wasn't a good person. He was a bully and at times he was outright cruel.
@@ina8099 if snape a bully what does that make james...
there is only ONE reason anyone likes snape and that's alan rickman, PERIODT
kelly I mean... his character in the books was one of the best characters in the series. He is also probably the most complex character in the book series.
I think his character is interesting but I’m not going to say he wasn’t an ass... he’s still my 2nd favorite character. Most interesting character in the book in my opinion
Totally I incorrect. I like his character for how complex and polemic it is
I like him cause he's a mess lmaoooo
It was actually explained by Sirius in OotP that Bellatrix and Tonks were related (in the chapter with the tapestry, when they're cleaning in Grimmauld Place). Bellatrix, Narcissa (Draco's mum) and Andromeda (Tonks' mum) were sisters and Sirius' cousins. :) Andromeda married a muggle born and was disowned for that. But yeah, Bellatrix is Tonks' aunt and Tonks and Draco are cousins.
She says Harry went to die "For the Greater Good", Dumbledore and Grindelwald roll over in their graves
OH MY GOD YOU FINALLY FINISHED IT ITS BEEN SO LONG
The fact that this didn’t take a year😭😭😭you have no idea how happy this shit makes me.
Draco did regocnise Harry, Ron and Hermione in the Malfoy manor but he just kinda didn't want to say that. I believe he wanted Harry to defeat Voldemort somehow. In the room of requirement he didn't want Crabbe to wreck the room because he might bury the diadem. I think Draco believed that because Harry was looking for the diadem, it was gonna help defeat Voldemort which was true of course. He also shouted a few times that Crabbe and Goyle should not kill Harry. Idk that's just how I've always understood it.
Lmao Draco was unsure of that was Harry so he didn't say it out of fear of being wrong, not to help Harry. Also he wouldn't know about the Diadem being a Horocrux. He also didn't want them to kill Harry so he could bring him alive to Voldemort and get even more rewarded
@@Crazy_Peanutz I don't really agree with you. Why wouldn't he know it was Harry? Ron and Hermione were with him and when asked about them he didn't fully admit it was them but said something like
"Yeah it could be". He didn't know about the diadem but he knew it was really important to Harry and what's important to Harry will be bad for Voldemort. But let's agree to disagree :)
Just thought I’d mention that Rowling definitely planned Snapes backstory from the beginning. It’s been revealed that: “The first thing Snape asks Harry is “Potter! What would I get if I added powdered root of asphodel to an infusion of wormwood?” According to Victorian Flower Language, asphodel is a type of lily meaning ‘My regrets follow you to the grave’ and wormwood means ‘absence’ and also typically symbolized bitter sorrow. If you combined that, it meant ‘I bitterly regret Lily’s death’.” (Found this particular quote in an article on Bustle) which is honestly really f*cking cool.
Love that you realised Voldemort never had to kill Snape. Harry won the wand from Draco by hitting him at Malfoy Manor. But to Voldemort the only possible way to win the wands respect is by killing.
half blood prince is god tier!! also my favourite! feels fairly wholesome considering how far into the series it is! love all the draco stuff too:) loved this series from the very beginning lily!:))
the speed at which i clicked this notif
Same 😂
You had some important deaths spoiled!! Fred's death was such a shock for me, I'm still not completely recovered :(
Thank you soooo much, what a great joy it is to see reactions to the books! I hope more people do them!!
I'm not either.
So according to things ive read, Harry doesnt die cause he was "Master of Death" not just because he is the owner of the Hallows, but because he fully accepts mortality and is not afraid to die himself
You: wondering if Bathilda is pronounced Bat Hilda
Me: why didn’t I think of that
I’ve always pronounced it as Bat Hilda🙊😳
It's pronounced 'Ba-tilda', like Mathilda
Snape told Harry to look at him because he wanted Lily’s eyes to be the last thing he ever saw.
Blair Kilgallon Am I the only one who thinks Snape died a virgin?
Weareone 123
D’you know what, you might be right!
@@Weareone0518 Most likely. I don't think he would've cared though. I've always thought of him as being on the asexual spectrum, where Lily was just a very rare exception to his lack of desire for sex or romance.
"Ron has cracked the shits" you're so Aussie, I love you haha
Your ramble on Snape was so relatable. lol Girl, same. I only hope that at some point when he's old, Harry becomes the official Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher.
I MISSED YOU OMG IM SO PROUD OF YOU FOR FINALLY FINISHING THE SERIES
yay for finishing! you're definitely inspiring me to re-read the series, there's so much I've forgotten or it's mixed in with the movies.
in addition to you watching your old vlogs and going through the predictions, I'd also enjoy a "Lily finally looks at HP memes and is able to enjoy them" type of video 😁
10:45 Draco could actually tell it was Harry, he may be a "bad guy" but he isn't a murderer and selling the person out who he knows, could make sure his family aren't killed of by dissapointning the dark lord more and stopping himself from living in fear (as his clearly regretting his life choices lol) isn't a good idea. He mother also likely had similar thoughts but more thinking about her sons safety than her own when she lied about harry being dead.
Finally!! And avoid the Cursed Child. Seriously. It will ruin everything you love about Harry Potter. And honey, you have no idea. When you started talking about how you were pretty sure certain parts where discussed and planted in earlier books (absolutely yes, that's true. So many things!) and how the series might be better the second time around, it absolutely is. I've read through the whole series a couple dozen times now and I STILL notice things I missed before. Get the Stephen Fry audio books, I'm telling you. Just play it in your headphones while you work or driving in the car, wherever. Totally worth multiple reads. And as always, fantastic review and reading vlog. You're great and I love your view points. I'm so glad you finally finished the series and enjoyed it. Welcome to the best Fandom ever! #HogwartsIsMyHome #ProudSlytherin 🐍⚡
P.S. I love that even after The Princes Tale you still understand and agree that Snape was a dickhead. But don't get me wrong. I do agree that his character is one of the deepest, most well written and tragically sad characters there has been in literature for a long time. It does explain why and where his attitude came from, but in the end, he was still selfish, self-centered, arrogant, bullying asshole. Like, even behind closed doors with Dumbledore when they were making their plans he was still talking shit about Harry and calling him arrogant like James. Like, really? You're calling HARRY arrogant, Snape? He's a very interesting character. I'll give him that. But I don't think the fact he loved Lily redeems him in any way. He's not purely evil, but he's not good either. I think he deserves some respect for what it is he did, but at the same time. All of it is his own fault. He created his own pain. He had no one to blame but himself, yet he took it all out on Harry and James.
@@StarKllrr All I said about Cursed Child was that it would ruin everything she loves about Harry Potter. No, I've never read and/or seen the play in its entirety. But I've heard enough about it to know it shouldn't be considered canon in any way. Alot of the content of that play spits in the face of everything we know and love about the original books. The Trolley Witch being some shape-shifting demon with spike fingers and pumpkin pastie hand grenades? Draco CONVENIENTLY having a time turner all along. Ron giving his 14 year old nephew a love potion. Voldemort and Bellatrix having a baby? Albus making out with his aunt and suggesting they have another baby? The way Harry treats his son after everything he experienced growing up with the Dursleys? And that's just a handful of ridiculous plot points of that travesty. I'm not saying the story isn't well written. Maybe it is. I hear that watching the play is a fantastic thing. But the story itself and how it portrays the world and the characters we all know and love? It's sheer idiocy. And I have too much respect for the source material to even want to delve deeper. I'm all set.
Omg the observations you made were so good, i really want to reread it now. I think i was too young when i read it and now I would probably see so much more stuff i just overlooked as a child
I was kinda curious about your opinion on Dumbledore's past and his teens.
As well as Narrissca's attempt to save Harry
"Omg Ron, stop yelling.. fucking stupid" 🤣
Love your commentary for all your videos ❤
My heart skipped a beat when I saw the notification omg
same
The Prince's Tale was the best chapter and we got no recorded reactions. That's such a tragedy
I regret not recording that chapter so much you don't understand.
This series has been my favourite on youtube, and I was so stoked when you finally uploaded today, you don't even know! I hope you'll read it again. I read the books every three years, and I still find details that I missed on my other re-reads ;O By the way, if anyone is interested in people reading HP for the first time, I strongly recommend listening to "Potterless", a podcast about a dude who reads the books for the first time, it's so fun and entertaining, as well as exciting!
I love your enthusiasm. It just makes me want to read books and analyze them in detail
Now that you're done with the series, I can finally CONGRATULATE YOU ON GUESSING THAT HARRY WAS THE SEVENTH HORCRUX SHSLSKSKSKSKSKSK WE STAN A RAVENCLAW QUEEN
You’re making me want to reread the series with the sole purpose of focusing on snapes every interaction with harry and every other character
These videos give me life
I live for these videos. I've read these books countless times, but "rediscovering" them with somebody who's new to them (apart from knowing some spoilers) is just....really fucking magical. Thank you for capturing this journey, Lily, it's been SO fun!!
it's been a journey, watching you go through each book (esp harry potter and your guesses), refreshing your page and realizing some of the videos had been privated lmao. words cannot express how proud i am of you right now. wherever or whichever way you go lily, know that we fully support you!
I always hated that Harry named his son after Snape. I would've totally been on board with him naming his son after Dobby, though. I also would've accepted Rubeus or Remus.
He also named him after Dumbledore, who wasn´t better. BTW Remus is the second name of Teddy Lupin
@@vilwarin5635 I agree. And kids can have the same second name. All of my cousins and siblings used our Nana's first name for all of our first daughters' second name. I just wish Hagrid had been honored in some way. He was more like a father than anyone in Harry's life.
I think Luna in Lily Luna potter's name stand for both Luna and Remus..for Luna means moon/moonlight indicating a connection with Remus
I loved your analysis of Snape, that was just spot on!
This video made me so happy! Thank you for recording your reactions and theories about the books. It felt like reading the series for the first time and I could truly appreciating them once more. I've read the Deathly Hallows 12 years ago and reread it multiple times since then, I am so used to the story by now that I tend to forget why I loved it in the first place. Your reviews felt refreshing! Thanks again, I really really hope to see you soon!
WAITING FOR THIS FOR SO LONG
If Neville was the chosen one, snape would’ve never left Voldemort because he really doesn’t care about anyone other than lily and himself.
Thank you for sharing this journey with us! I loved your thoughts on Snape and the complexity and humanity of his character.
Hell yeah for accomplishments, glad ya finished it!
Half Blood Prince is also my favorite book in the series.
Mine too
I enjoyed every one of these Harry Potter videos. One of the reasons I subscribed! I look forward to seeing what comes next!
I'm rewatching this bc honestly these videos are just so much fun
Lily, I just wanted to say thank you for the videos! You released all of these throughout a really rough period in my life and sitting down and watching the newest episode was really relaxing, hilarious, and insightful when I was struggling. I can't wait to see what you make/read next! Again, thank you for this wonderful little series! Thank you for everything!
15:45 if you go back you'd notice, Crabb was the one shouting the killing curse around, not Draco, and it was crab or goyle who started the fire, also not Draco :)
Thank you!!! Snape is so romanticised, idealised and overrated! He literally didn‘t care about Lily‘s husband and child died as long as she was spared, would have not switched sides had it been the Longbottoms that were targeted and was a vindictive, bullying ass of a teacher to the extend that he was the worst fear of a boy whose parents were tortured into insanity! There‘s a lot more than that too...totally agree on Albus Severus too
Sara D. It always kills me that he’s Neville’s boggart! Like after everything Neville’s been through, his potions teacher is still his greatest fear?! Like why was that not brought up in any staff room ever lol
He literally asked Dumbledore to save them all. Also Neville's boggart is so misunderstood. Neville just had a bad Potion class with Snape right before the boggart, meaning his fear of Snape was fresh in his mind and what most scared him AT THAT MOMENT show a boggart to him when he's visiting his mum and it would've turned to someone getting crucioed
@@Crazy_Peanutz Ehm. no, snape is his Boggart all the time. He would not see anyone being tortured; he never saw that; he was a baby at the time. I think Nevilles biggest fear is not being good enough and not being loved and not having value to the people around him. He's been living in his parents shadow his whole live and feeling like he's failed them. Snape is the one person that keeps telling him he is not good enough. He therefore represents that fear.
@@jveenstra7319 true and not true. Harries biggest fear was Voldemort, but right before the boggart appeared he started thinking of the dementor he saw. Which it became, hence, it does rlly show itself in your current biggest fear. The thing that scares you in that moment
why did harry name all 3 of his kids after his dead parents and teachers like how was ginny ok with that
Right? Like if you want to honour dead people by giving their names to your children then make it their middle names, but give your kids their own identity ffs like how can you be comfortable with that? and not to mention how much baggage comes along with those names for the kids... especially poor albus lmfao
cause hes the chosen one
she a groupie
Did you see what she named her pet? Harry did those kids a favour
@@kristyna907 And Fred was obviously going to be the name of George's kid. Ginny could not take that from George. Ginny's no pushover. I'm sure Harry would need her permission before naming their kids XD. Tbh they're both kind of terrible at it.
I can't tell you how relieved I am to hear your thoughts on Snape after years of appologists spamming every Harry Potter discussion. I really enjoyed going along with you on this journey, so much that after you posted your video on Half-Blood prince I kind of... reread the whole series lmao, just finished Deathly Hallows last week. Also, others have mentioned it but please don't read Cursed Child.
For all this years I’ve been so confused by Snape’s character and you just threw a bunch of light into it. You seems to get Jk Rowling really well and when I heard you talk about Snape I could imagine her nodding like yep, that’s what I meant and did and... thank you Lily I just *know* that what you said was just what it is. So true. So nicely caught up. Thanks.
You surely should feel really proud about finishing the series ;) this videos were so fun to watch, don’t stop doing reading vlogs!!
I've been here since the start and I'm so proud.
literally so happy to have gone through this journey w/ you
Your vlogs of reading the Harry Potter series made me want to finally watch the movies and thank you because omg it’s amazing!!!! 🙏🙏
Congrats on finishing the series! It's been really cool following your experience through these videos.
I think your assessment of Snape has to be the most level headed and realistic one I've ever come across. I've enjoyed these so much, and I think it would be really cool if you did a reaction to your past vlogs!
this series has been so much fun to watch!!! thank you for doing it!! 💝
I’m so happy you finished it!!! I remember your theories at the start were so smart and so spot on!! intellectual queen!!!
Snape hated Neville so much because it could have been Neville instead of Harry chosen through the prophecy (both born at the end of July, same age), but Harry was chosen and thus Lily died.
Okay
Never read Cursed Child
Just watch A Very Potter Musical
bertasu fair enough
And it's gonna be totally awesome
There's also a (in my opinion) much better version of Cursed Child called Nineteen Years Later. It was a play based on a rewrite of Cursed Child by a TH-cam guy called Austin McConnell. It got into the Hollywood Fringe Festival and everything.
Lady Marmalade I think I heard about it, but I never did much research. I might look into it!
Okay yes but also was rly waiting on ur Ron/Hermione reactions!!
Same
man i have missed you. It was so great seeing your first reactions and theories on the series, it was so refreshing. I feel like i relived the series by watching your vlogs, so thanks for sharing !
Also i really appreciated hearing your thoughts on snape i was really looking forward to that. people often are hard supports or hard haters of him, but you really understood the layers it had to it. ofc he was still a shit guy who abused kids but there was more to it
You reactions and speculations give me life!
And I love the part about Snape!
yesss so happy half-blood prince is your fav! I feel like it's a super underrated book in the series, and gets overlooked a lot.
“Excuse me I need to mourn” is how we all feel throughout this entire book. 😂 YAS YOU FINISHED THEM ALL, PHEW!
Bat-Hilda’s gone BATTY.
Edit: I’m fairly sure J K Rowling told Alan Rickman the truth about Snape so he could understand the character and act it fully. (Like before the book came out.) How incredible is that?
Finally!! So happy you finally managed to come back and read the last 2 books.
Thanks for making these!!! It's been a lot of fun watching your reactions :D
I would love to see you vlog your reaction to the Fantastic Beasts movie.
Congratulations, Lily! From a stranger to a stranger I’m so proud for you! You will have so much fun going back watching your other videos. I had an amazing experience rereading the books, there is just so much in them that you don’t see the first time around. ❤️✌🏼
Heyy, our queen is alive :)
I read the series along with you so I'm happy that I can also wrap it up by watching this video :)
Finally she has completed it!! And now SHE IS ONE OF US!!
Really enjoyed and loved ur every videos of HP....
This was 1000% worth the wait. You’re amazing
I'M SO HAPPY YOU FINISHED! I too have been having a hard time to read so this is very inspiring.
The Snape analysis you made was so soooo SOOOO good
Congrats on finishing!! Yay, love you and great video
The second reading will give you such a different feel, I highly recommend it. It will highlight how much foreshadowing there is in the saga!
please do a harry potter book ranking and movies when youve finished them
15:20 that face on Crabbe dying after casting so much Avada Kedavra curses😂😂 I can't, you're everything!
I know i'm a bit late to the party, but HI! 😊 Really enjoyed your HP book reactions!! I know it's been asked a few times in your comments, but i'd be interested to see a book vs movie comparison from you with this series. I'm curious to hear your thoughts 🌻
and btw i am just so happy that I didn't find your channel two years ago 'cause the wait would have killed me
Hi from the future! You're making such a good point about the philosopher's stone that I also thought about recently. It would have been a bit cooler if the thing Voldemort pursued in the first book had always been the resurrection stone... almost same effect for the first year plot, BUT this item would have been around in the universe forever, some more loose ends connecting, more of a wow effect. How we got it, the stone is only a thing in this last book, not entirely a deus ex machina, but still philosophically (haha) feels a long way from Harry's beginning at Hogwarts