It is often said that if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all. That said, Harry Potter is still a load of trite.

Nevertheless, invaluable pearls of acumen can be garnered from these manuscripts of doom. Read our 10 things we can learn from Harry Potter, and be glad that whilst knowledge is power, good sales figures are what really matter…

1. A typical Harry Potter tale: begin the summer holidays at home
with nasty relatives, only to be rescued by some means, then spend the
rest of the school year foiling Voldemort’s evil plans between playing
the odd game of Quidditch just in time to go back home for the holidays
to repeat the entire process again.

2. Of course, it never occurs to Voldemort that the summer might just be the ideal time to attack Harry…

3. Hint: never trust anyone who expresses any interest in teaching the Dark Arts.

4. Any resemblance between Dumbledore and Gandalf is purely in your mind.

5. Ditto Death Eaters and Ringwraiths.

6. Ron Weasley is just the obligatory comic relief. Well, that’s what you get for having ginger hair.

7. We wonder if there is more to Snape than would first appear…

8.
Why is it always Harry, Ron and Hermione who solve everything? What
about getting poor Billy
No-mates who eats on his own at lunch time in
on the action for once?

9. Every school needs a bully, even if he is
a wet, blow-hard, blonde-haired ponce who would probably stop with one
good punch to the mouth.

10. Quidditch is really boring. And extremely violent. How did that one get passed the Board of Education?

Joke time: Two fish are in a tank. One says to the other: "You man the turret— I’ll drive."

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[story by James Hickey]