As Harry Potter fans grow up and rewatch those original books or movies and TV shows, the wizarding world from an adult perspective has actually become different.
On September 1 this year, at King's Cross Station in London, England, Harry Potter fans held a "Back to Hogwarts" day event. Fans from all over the world gather here to celebrate another year of magic on the Hogwarts Express at Hogwarts Castle. Although fans couldn't cross the barrier between platforms 9 and 10, they donned their favorite magic suits and counted down together when the train departed at 11 a.m. to celebrate the start of school.
Of course, fans who can't go to London can also find their own way to celebrate, such as rereading the Harry Potter novels and rewatching the movies. Many readers of the original book first read the Harry Potter series of novels in childhood, and now revisiting the original book or movie show as an adult will have another magical pleasure. However, as readers and fans grow up, their views on characters and stories naturally change. The change gave them some awareness of the series that they couldn't understand as a child, and even changed their perspective on characters like Hagrid, Dumbledore, and the Golden Trio in some ways.
Hagrid has a problem with his personality
Hagrid is one of the most popular characters in the Harry Potter series, because many viewers and readers find him straightforward and cute, and he has proven time and time again that he loves Harry deeply, and his deliberately pretending to be a fool makes him even more popular with young audiences.
However, from an adult's perspective, Hagrid made a plethora of irresponsible decisions. Hagrid was an adult who went so far as to take the dragon to the top of the tower, and even worse, he asked an 11-year-old to help solve his problems, putting the child in serious danger and getting them into trouble. It would make sense if it were another young student, but Hagrid, as an adult, should know what to do and what not to do.
Ron's flying plan was outrageous
As children, the audience found the idea of Ron driving a flying car to school very interesting and completely logical. The entrance to platform nine and three-quarters is blocked, so he and Harry have to figure it out on their own if they want to go to school, and flying cars are a very "advanced" way in the eyes of a young reader.
But as an adult reader, when you look at this paragraph, you will find that the plan is very short-sighted, because the audience realizes that they have no idea what to do with the car when they arrive at Hogwarts. Viewers might have identified with Ron's bravery and intelligence when they were young, but now viewers finally fully understand where Mrs. Weasley's roar came from.
Medical magic is desperately inadequate
Medical ailments in the wizarding world are completely different from those in the Muggle world, and Hogwarts hospitals can treat ailments like bones disappearing or teeth growing to ridiculous lengths, both of which can be completely recovered with a little magic and a little patience.
So the problem is that while the hospital story is also full of novelty and fun for young audiences, the rules about medical magic are really strange and confusing for adult audiences, just like Luna can cure Harry's nose, but not his eyesight. Many viewers thought that according to the medical setting of Hogwarts, it should make Harry and Dumbledore's glasses redundant.
The performance of adults is a bit unreliable
At the time, it was not surprising and surprising that the young readers of the Harry Potter series repeatedly ignored children's advice by the adult characters, but the parents and teachers seemed completely incapable of solving any of the bigger problems, leaving Harry and his friends to solve the mystery and face them with cruel bad guys year after year.
Perhaps this is how children viewed adults back then, but these young readers as adults are incomprehensible to the dullness and even lack of sensitivity of a teacher like Professor Slughorn, especially when a child asks about something special created by killing, which clearly sends a huge red flag, but the teachers are completely oblivious to little Voldemort's misconduct and allow him to repeatedly use this cruel method to get what he wants.
The Dursleys should go to jail
Like the other adult characters in Harry Potter, the Dursleys are a little ruthless to young readers, but full of funny. The way they treat Harry is unfair, but it can sometimes bring some funny and hilarious plot to the story.
As readers become adults, they realize that the way the Dursleys treat Harry is simply disgusting, which completely changes what they previously thought was hilarious, and in the eyes of many, they were just outright bad guys who should be jailed and punished with the cruelest punishment.
Hermione should have been rated higher
In Philosopher's Stone, Hermione can be summed up as an annoying omniscient person who annoys those around her with all the books she memorizes. These traits diminished after she became friends with Harry and Ron, but she was still often considered Harry's most hated friend.
Reddit user Elle3444 shared that when they were kids, they found Hermione's stubbornness to protect house-elves to be a character flaw, but now they "think it's surprising that a teenager cares so much about the disadvantages that elves face." "In the end, Hermione is one of the most mature characters in the series, and she deserves more credit.
Harry is a character who has grown up extraordinarily
One of the themes of the Harry Potter novels is that love and friendship eventually triumph over darkness. This is all represented by Harry as a character, and despite his many hardships, in the end he triumphs and grows into a reliable good person.
For young readers, Harry's character is easy to accept, but for adults, they will understand that a person growing up in an unjust environment, including without the support of parents, is actually very easy to deteriorate, Voldemort's growth is like that, but Harry is a rare anomaly. When some viewers recalled reading Order of the Phoenix for the first time, they found Harry's anger very "annoying." However, they grew up realizing that it was nothing, and that Harry should have acted more angry and destructive.
The judicial system of the wizarding world is ridiculous
The Order of the Phoenix is one of the more controversial Harry Potter series, because Harry experienced the injustices of Dumbledore, Dolores Umbridge and the wizarding world as a whole, which were very difficult to accept, even before he was growing up, and felt that many of them were infuriating. And after growing up and understanding the workings of the judicial system in the wizarding world, looking back, the frustration will become even worse.
As a child, I thought it was a desirable thing to be a wizard, but as a child, I didn't understand that wizards in the wizarding world also had to succumb to the absurd judicial system of the Ministry of Magic. It is unfair and unacceptable that the Minister of Magic can even influence the entire trial just to ruin the life of a child.
Draco and Dudley are compassionate characters
For many young readers, Draco Malfoy and Dudley Dursley are the bad of the bad. They always bullied Harry mercilessly, and Draco's character in Harry Potter was the epitome of the frequent abuse of Muggles, which seemed to be the reason why the small audience really hated them.
However, adult viewers are more likely to recognize that Draco and Dudley are just the product of growing up in certain circumstances. Both of them were raised by bad people, and they really didn't understand things at that time. And when the two characters become adults, they are actually more sympathetic.
Dumbledore was extremely flawed
When Harry first met Dumbledore, he thought that the Headmaster of Hogwarts was a wise and straightforward man who could answer all the questions to his students until he came of age, when the truth about the headmaster was revealed.
This is the central theme of the book Deathly Hallows, and for those readers who grew up with the publication of this book, they must grasp the theme with Harry. At the end of "Order of the Phoenix", when Dumbledore is first discovered to have serious flaws, most of the audience does not fully understand, and some things are revealed that the audience never thought of as children. But the audience did grow up wondering if Dumbledore had told Harry even a little more information, a lot of trouble could have been avoided.