It is called yard art!

Someone should do this…I would buy it for my dog

true!

Honestly he wasn't all that emotionally stable it just presented in ways most don't normally notice. His ability to assess risk and decide reasonable amounts of it was nearly non existant. "Hey that person mentioned the platform I'm after, gotta be safe", "Hey this girl I've never met but am pretty certain is brand new to this whole magic thing is pointing a wand directly at me, I'm sure that can't go wrong." "Oh hey, I think that teacher got attacked by a giant dog because he's dangerous, better make it clear I don't trust him." and that's just the first book/movie, his concern for his own well being drops significantly in each sequel.

I dunno. He ended up recreating his parents’ marriage, and then naming his kids both after his parents, and two people that had a huge impact on his life that wasn’t necessarily positive. I feel like if he’d had one more kid he’d have named them Tom.

I was raised by incredible people and I'm very emotionally unstable

Anyone that read the book can see that he had major anger issues. Not to mention his impulsiveness and constantly running into danger. He had a self destructive personality, which he LITERALLY followed through on. One thing I would NOT call him is 'Emotionally stable'. My therapist would have a field day with him.

I always felt that I was extremely strange that he was forced to live in a cubby hole underneath the stairs yet he acted like a completely normal person... Because that's absolute nonsense. ..

Some people have horrible parents, and triumph anyway.

That's the beauty about people! Some can weather any storm while others splinter with the smallest wind. Our greatest strength is our ability to create ourselves. Regardless of the environment or what is inside us, once we get past our purposeful excuses, once we admit responsibility for all the parts of ourselves no one or nothing else can touch, then, and only then, can we live as and reveal our truest selves. It's better to focus on a world where everyone can be better than settle for a world of problems and half-hearted solutions. We are free, right? But, in so many cases, it just seems like we are free to die without any purpose. Free to live a life like a tree falling in a forest with no one to hear it. It's like the free, generic version of freedom. Tell me we can't do better.

Reading this whilst watching Harry Potter and thinking the same thing

Every child reacts differently and has different natural resiliency based on a range of factors.

Now that was magic!

I maintained a level of suspended disbelief from the very beginning.

Emotionally stable? He makes the glass disappear and dumps his cousin into the snake pit when he gets angry enough. Hagrid asks him if he'd ever "made things happen". The story doesn't elaborate but the snake pit incident should be an indication of his ability. Not every abused child grows up to be a psychopath. Some of them grow up to be talented witches. By the way: in the real world, they are witches - male witches or female witches. Wizards are something totally different, with different abilities and spiritual avenues.

Seriously, how did he even know how to smile?

Many fictional child characters are like this. Its only if they are sidekicks that kids shows let traumatized kids be actually traumatized. Shawn from Boy Meets World had major issues after parental abandonment, Sam from iCarly had an emotionally and physically abusive mom and was obviously traumatized, has social and behavioral issues, and wound up in jail (as told in Sam and Cat). Cat from Victorious has a strongly implied problematic home life, and she goes from being slightly ditzy teen to completely regressing into a child like state that persists into young adulthood. Angelica from Rugrats has some pretty big red flags even as a small child ( all those kids are neglected but Angelica is the only one with behavioral issues). But they were all side kicks or side characters. Main characters are pretty much always emotionally stable no matter what their hardships are. Harry Potter was an excellent example of that. Image how that story would read if he had to process his trauma.

They hated him, yes, but they mostly left him alone. Besides, he is a wizard and his parents filled him with so much love, that in the end, it was that love that defeated Voldemort

Of course. He's the chosen one.

Or for someone with almost unlimited supernatural power

Jane Eyre as well...

He rarely initiated or did much of the work himself, though.

They can also invest in low interest long term deposits

They are both true, we just have many different freedoms.

Thousand* Years.

Omg yess!

"Man I got to follow that dude around for when I need my next hit"

When i was first reading it, i thought it said "when you ar wearing noise" and I was so confused

Yes!!! I explain this to people but they don't always believe me. Certain things I can google quite proficiently and other things I prefer my husband to search or a friend.

Very true. And caffeine is like the only drug that they encourage you to use at work.

it's because people tend to unite easier against something, than to unite for something

Like the monk that transcribed celebrate to celibate and now all priests are forever punished by essentially a typo... :-)

I would be a writer who writes (if my plans for the future work out)

Cough cough Christianity cough.

There are several animals I‘d prefer to be alive over some people.

He was probably an aimbotting script kiddie :-P

There's probably enough in one country. Each 'load' has hundreds of millions..

My EMT instructor told us that, but cautioned us on not singing Another One Bites The Dust if there are onlookers there!

People used to spend $50 on screensavers.

Some people just get too shy to bring their items up to a person.

And in Fast & Furious 1, they were stealing VCRs 🤣

So true, I went to the wolf park and they where much more "leggier" tall and thinner then I expected. Still beautiful animals..

The Amish would like to challenge that assumption.

You want more?

If we were made to unsolve this mysteries, we would have the senses to.

Factory farming will be remembered for what it is

Well yeah, there's a webcomic called "The Little Trashmaid" which works off this exact premise: https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/the-little-trashmaid/list?title_no=300138&page=1

Multi-generational homes were pretty much the norm prior to 1950s.

And now "manufactured" stone/granite causes silicosis that's killing installers...

Your 9am may well be my 9pm - Time is relative to the person experiencing it.