Harry Potter Advent Calendar - Day 21
Posted by CapnRex101,
I hope the magical artefact expected on day 21 can equal the standard of yesterday's creature model, which was one of my favourite items in this entire Advent Calendar.
Find out after the break...
Amortentia is a powerful love potion, presented here in a heart-shaped nebuliser. I like the mix of pink colours and the pearl gold accents, with 1x1 heart tiles attached to both sides. However, this strikes me as a strange addition to the Advent Calendar because Amortentia is never represented like this in the movies, as far as I remember, unlike the other magical artefacts.
Overall - I think this is a nice model and a substantial one, but it also seems like an outlier in the Advent Calendar to me.
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Isn’t it like this in the Weasley’s joke shop in HBP?
One of the more disturbing things in the franchise. It was by being born from a completely loveless and nonconsensual get-together brought on by a love potion used on a muggle that Voldemort was so emotionally sociopathic from the start.
And everybody can get them!
Doing a quick Google, it looks like there's lots of Etsy and other consumer-based Amortentia bottles and this is themed along those lines. But yes, there appears to be no "official" bottle shown in the films.
@Prof_Physika said:
"Isn’t it like this in the Weasley’s joke shop in HBP?"
You're right, they do appear in the Half-Blood Prince when Hermione is checking them out inside Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes. You can even get a good look at them and they look pretty similar to the model.
https://youtu.be/LzLehyzXjtQ?si=ovM4sfUG_8Hd-t0b&t=41
I would have figured this was Umbridge's perfume bottle.
@Binnekamp said:
"One of the more disturbing things in the franchise. It was by being born from a completely loveless and nonconsensual get-together brought on by a love potion used on a muggle that Voldemort was so emotionally sociopathic from the start.
And everybody can get them!"
Yeah, I have some slight sympathy towards him in this regard. But the dude went past the sympathy phase.
@Lordmoral said:
" @Binnekamp said:
"One of the more disturbing things in the franchise. It was by being born from a completely loveless and nonconsensual get-together brought on by a love potion used on a muggle that Voldemort was so emotionally sociopathic from the start.
And everybody can get them!"
Yeah, I have some slight sympathy towards him in this regard. But the dude went past the sympathy phase."
This can be a complicated issue. In some cases, the mother may want to terminate the pregnancy, give the child up for adoption, or just ends up treating the kid like it’s all their fault. In other cases, the mother can recognize that the child was not responsible for the action, and does everything she can to make sure the child grows up to be a better person than their father was. It really depends a lot on the mother’s upbringing if they can learn to dissociate the cause with the effect. Not everyone has it in them to do that.
@PurpleDave said:
" @Lordmoral said:
" @Binnekamp said:
"One of the more disturbing things in the franchise. It was by being born from a completely loveless and nonconsensual get-together brought on by a love potion used on a muggle that Voldemort was so emotionally sociopathic from the start.
And everybody can get them!"
Yeah, I have some slight sympathy towards him in this regard. But the dude went past the sympathy phase."
This can be a complicated issue. In some cases, the mother may want to terminate the pregnancy, give the child up for adoption, or just ends up treating the kid like it’s all their fault. In other cases, the mother can recognize that the child was not responsible for the action, and does everything she can to make sure the child grows up to be a better person than their father was. It really depends a lot on the mother’s upbringing if they can learn to dissociate the cause with the effect. Not everyone has it in them to do that."
Ehm... in this case it's literally a lack of 'love magic' in his being. Which is apparently a thing in HP that can happen way too easily if you look at the world building