Harry Potter: 10 Unpopular Opinions About Harry (According To Reddit)

There are more than a few unpopular opinions on Reddit about Harry Potter, offering differing perspectives about his character and relationships.

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As The Boy Who Lived and The Chosen One, Harry Potter might be loved by millions of readers and audience members worldwide, but there are always those who see him a tad differently than others. Was he the phenomenal young hero that he is made out to be, or was he a flawed boy-to-young-man who was far from perfect?

Over two decades after the first Harry Potter book was released and one decade after the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 movie was released, fans are still engaging in thought-provoking discourses about Harry and his adventures. From taking a controversial stand on Harry’s character to shipping him with various other people besides Ginny Weasley, here are what Redditors are saying about Harry.

10 Harry’s Anger In The Order Of The Phoenix Was Justified

Reddit user CarefreeWinning states that “Harry’s anger in OotP was completely justified.” At the end of the fourth book, Cedric Diggory was killed and Voldemort was resurrected right in front of his eyes. Yet, the wizarding world insisted on not believing him. It was thus, according to this fan, only natural that Harry should be moody every now and then in Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix.

This opinion is rather unpopular since the fifth book is widely touted as one of the worst books in the series and shows Harry in a somewhat negative light. He behaves like an angsty teenager most of the time and doesn’t even treat his best friends right all the time, who were only trying to help him. Of course, this was a particularly difficult time for him, as even Sirius, the one person he had pitched all his hopes on, shockingly dies.

9 Harry Should Have Been Expelled In Half Blood Prince

In Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince, Harry uses the dark spell ‘Sectumsempra’ on Draco Malfoy inside the boy’s toilet. One now-deleted Redditor astutely points out that Harry should have been expelled from Hogwarts for using dark magic against a fellow student, because “dark magic is dark magic.”

This observation might be accurate, but Harry was only defending himself against Draco, who had, in fact, used the Cruciatus Curse to hurt Harry. That said, this was one of the most disturbing Harry Potter moments in the series and one that fans can’t forget.

8 The Hate Harry Gets From Fans Isn’t Fair

One of the curiously popular opinions about Harry is that the boy wizard himself doesn’t impress as much as some of the other characters in the series. Some fans even feel that most of Harry’s achievements came about through pure luck and a lot of help from his well-wishers.

But to counter this, Redditor salvatoreroses finds Harry to be quite great and feels that “the ‘hate’ this character gets isn’t fair,” as he came from an abusive family and was thrust into the wizarding world, which had high expectations of him. Of course, no one can deny him his infinite courage. But it’s also difficult to imagine Harry beating Voldemort without the battalion of people looking out for him.

7 Harry & Hermione Wouldn’t Make A Good Couple

Harry Potter’s pairing with Ginny Weasley had never gone down well with the majority of fans, who would have preferred Harry to pick his best friend Hermione as his partner. However, Greekgeek4 feels that “Harry x Hermione is a dumb ship” and wouldn’t have made a good couple at all. Another user, bornatmidnight, supports this view by stating that “Harry and Hermione’s personalities would not fit [together] at all.”

Indeed, the best friends could not have been more different. Hermione was the bookish, brilliant young witch while books were never Harry’s thing. Yet, this difference is what makes them a potentially good couple for millions of Potterheads who believe that there were many scenes in the Harry Potter movies that proved that Harry and Hermione were soulmates.

6 Harry Is Miles Ahead Of Hermione

Along the same lines as the last point, Redditor 7ootles states that “Harry is actually far more intelligent than he’s ever given credit for.” And he doesn’t bury himself in textbooks and spend all his time in the library, like Hermione. Instead, he works things out intuitively, implying that he had a spark that perhaps even Hermione didn’t.

Yet again, this goes against the grain. Sure, Hermione would immerse herself in books, but she was a quick thinker whose brain saved the trio on multiple occasions. And while Harry was instinctively smart and brave, popularly speaking, he would hardly be considered on par with the young witch.

5 He Is A Good Fit With Ginny

Similar to the previous point, here’s another Redditor, Lord_Parbr, who wonders why fans, in general, expressed dissatisfaction with Harry ultimately choosing Ginny Weasley. The user posts, “Personally, I thought they fit together really well,” and that Ginny Weasley, as depicted in the books, was every bit as awesome as the trio.

Harry’s romance with Ginny is not popularly favored since most fans shipped The Boy Who Lived with his best friend, Hermione. Many fans also found Ron’s pairing with Hermione to be jarring, to say the least, just as they didn’t love Ginny with Harry.

4 Cho & Harry Had A Natural Romance

Speaking of romance, this now-deleted Redditor voices their dissent by stating that Cho’s romance with Harry felt natural, “As banterful as Lily and James, and as instantaneous as Snape and Lily. Love at first sight.”

But Harry and Cho were never fan-favorites as a couple, and the latter infuriated fans in Order of the Phoenix when she was forced by Umbridge and her minions to give away the location of the Room of Requirements. However, as the first girl Harry ever had a crush on, Cho was tolerated. That said, Harry Potter fans have to look hard for reasons why Cho should have been with Harry, albeit not thinking Ginny was the right choice either.

3 Harry & Luna Would Have Made A Great Couple

As mentioned above, fans never quite got on board with Harry and Ginny, having been in favor of Harry and Hermione. Yet, Redditor jacklg_ uncommonly ships Harry with Luna Lovegood, with whom he had a lot in common. For instance, “They both experienced death of their family members.”

Luna was a good friend to Harry and an interesting addition to the series. But very few fans would have thought of the two as a couple. They do share a connection, both having lived through tragedy at a young age, but Luna’s partnership with Harry never developed enough for them to even be considered a couple.

2 Was Harry Potter A Good Friend?

Reddit user ykickamoocow111 raises a controversial question wondering if Harry was as good a friend to the others as they were to him. Harry, the Redditor feels, could “be extremely insular when it comes to how he views Ron’s and Hermione’s role in his life.”

This is controversial because one of the most important aspects of Harry’s adventures in the wizarding world is his bond with Ron and Hermione. The three share a relationship that goes deeper than simple friendship and have seen each other through the darkest of times. Harry was forever ready to lay down his life to save his friends and during the final Battle of Hogwarts, he met Voldemort in the Forbidden Forest so that more of his friends and well-wishers wouldn’t have to die.

1 Could Snape Have Been Harry’s Dad?

Finally, in a thoroughly controversial and unpopular opinion, a now-deleted Redditor wonders if the inimitable Severus Snape could have been Harry’s father, since “Harry spends literally the entirety of book 6 relating to and identifying with the Half-Blood Prince.”

One of the biggest twists in the tale of Harry was the revelation about Snape, who turned into a full-fledged hero in the final book, despite all the problematic things that Snape did throughout the Harry Potter series. However, although fans wept into their pillows when they found out about Snape’s continued feelings for Lily Potter, they would never have entertained the possibility that he could be Harry’s dad. Snape and Lily’s relationship hadn’t progressed that far before James swooped Lily up. But it never hurts to have a little food for thought!

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