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the fantasy genre turns people into royalists so fast. i’m not even talking about return of the true king fairytales here but i mean, like, when there’s a “who will become king/queen!” plotline and people immediately start genuinely talking about who has the rightful claim. can we all sit down and first agree that none of these people “should” be king or queen because that isn’t a thing that should happen to people. what century are you from. divine right isn’t real go back to sleep
It’s hard alright
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There's something that always confused me about the Harry Potter universe. I don't know if it's just me lacking functioning braincells or what. Disclaimer the answer might be in the books since the films missed loads but it could have also been explained in the films and I'm just dumb. I haven't read the books since I was about 14 and the films since 2018 so maybe I'm forgetting things.
So when Voldemort failed to kill Harry the spell backfired and killed him. He didn't permanently die because he had horcruxes (not including Harry at that time)
Why did it take so long to come back to life. Like I know he was chilling on Quirrels head for a bit. Meaning that he wasn't a full body and hadn't been a full body since the night he killed Lily and James (until the GoF)
Like surely he would just like take a week to recover from dying and then be back up and running.
Cause otherwise horcruxes aren't even that powerful if you have to drink unicorn blood and do a completely separate ritual to be fully back to life. Both of which apparently requires outside assistance.
Because you have to split your soul to make horcruxes which he'd done before. Which if Harry became a horcrux because Voldemort died and split his soul then he's died multiple times before that to create each other horcrux.
Like why did he remain a slug thing for years when he died at the Potters but not when he was losing every other horcrux. Surely soul splitting and dying is calm in comparison to having multiple soul pieces destroyed in succession.
Basically I'm not understanding how you come back to life after dying if you've got a horcrux and how long it takes to do so.