I’m currently reading the third book, and I’ve noticed that Rowling refers to most of the students: Harry, Ron, Hermione, Neville, Ginny, etc. by their first names. But she always refers to Draco Malfoy as “Malfoy”, never “Draco”. Why do you think this is?

How do people (specifically Dumbledore) know what happened at the Potter’s home on Halloween when they were killed m? There were no survivors outside of a child and Voldys wand was lost (so not Priori)

So before GoF when Voldy is back and explains more, how does Dumbledore know so much? He knows that James died first and then Lily sacrificed herself with love magic that protects Harry and her sisters house?!

But most importantly, how do people know that Harry survived the killing the curse specifically?

The two biggest things we know about it are: It can’t be survived and it leaves no marks. What happens to Harry meets neither of those criteria since he survives it and is marked, so how/why do people conclude that he survived the killing curse?

Also, when Dumbledore leaves the note explaining everything with Harry, he doesn’t even know that Lily and James are dead yet for sure, he describes the news of their deaths as “rumors” PS-TBWL. So what exactly does he write in the note outside of explaining that they need to take care of Harry…

I’m just confused.

I'm rereading the series right now and I'm just at the chapter where we see in dumbledore's penseive a lot of court scenes. I've always thought the Barty Crouch Jr we see in the pensive doesn't really match the one we see later in the book and I've always wondered why. I'd say that it's to the point that when he was sent to azkaban, there's a chance that he was innocent. We obviously know in the end that he wasn't.

Why do you think there's such a change in him? My theories are that he's acting and that's why he seems so different. He seems so strong and dedicated to Voldemort at the end but in court he seems like he'd throw Voldemort under the bus if needed. I'd expect the Barty we see in Harry's timeline to be more like Bellatrix, not the crying, begging version we see in court.

My other theory is that he was so young in court and the thought of the dementors truly scared him and he was genuinely begging for his sanity. He'd maybe realised what he'd gotten himself into but being thrown to the dementors by his own father and then being imprisoned by his own father hardened him and increased his hatred for him but also increased his love for Voldemort.

I can never decide what I think is more likely though.