YMMV / Potter Puppet Pals

• Crosses the Line Twice:
  • Snape using Avada Kedavra on Harry and Ron to get them to stop bothering him.
  • Neville's death. Harry, Ron, and Hermione bully Neville to the point where Neville self-destructs. Not funny. But then they begin eating his remains, and it's hilarious.
  • Puppet Draco's death too. Draco getting decapitated and set on fire by Harry is a little too mean-spirited, but Draco getting decapitated and set on fire by Harry while Harry sings a happy song about what Draco likes? Hilarious.
  • Some of the entries in "Snape's Diary" are really quite sad. But the dry, deadly serious delivery of lines like this make it impossible to watch with a straight face. (The organ playing in the background and the fact that Snape is lit by a single candle doesn't help.)
    Today, I ate some oatmeal for my breakfast. It was flavorless and watery. I thought of my mother. I cried.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: "I am Snape, the potions master."
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • In "Trouble At Hogwarts", Voldemort hits Snape with Avada Kedavra during his attack on Hogwarts. In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Voldemort actually does kill Snape during his attack on Hogwarts, albeit not in the same manner.
  • "Stopper On My Pain", a song about Snape's "lost love". The song, written long before Deathly Hallows, was actually supposed to be a melodramatic ballad about Gilderoy Lockhart. Through pure coincidence, it almost perfectly describes Snape's feelings for his real lost love, Lily.
• Heartwarming Moments:
  • The ending of "Trouble at Hogwarts".
    Harry: (genuinely relieved) Snape! You're alive!
    Snape: Well, so it might seem.
    Ron: We love you Snape!
    (Group hug ensues, despite Snape's protests, only for Snape to give in)
    Snape: What the—hey, quit that! Oh, you kids. I love you, too. Now please get off of me.
    Ron: No!
    (Snape sighs dejectedly. Dumbledore comes along)
    Dumbledore: Alas! A cornucopia of love! (he hugs them, too) Awwww.
  • Ron offering to have Harry come over for Christmas in "Ron's Parents," recognizing that Harry's unusually assholeish behavior in that episode is due to not having a family.
    Ron: Do you want to spend Christmas at my house, Harry?
    Harry: (immediately) Yes.
  • The ending of the "Yule Ball" live special, when Harry talks Voldemort into being nice.
    Harry: If it weren't for my friends, I think I would have burned down the school too.
• Jerkass Woobie: Harry, to an extent. While he is a selfish jerk, his insistence about not having any tears over his deceased parents in "Ron's Parents" is a bit pathetically sad.
  • Even though he grew up to be quite the Spoiled Brat, Harry still had a genuinely awful early childhood with the Dursleys.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • "Snape, Snape, Severus Snape..." "DUMBLEDORE!"
  • As mentioned in the Funny section, Ron's "... Why must you hurt me in this way, Harry?" has became a popular reaction image.
• Moe: Ron gets this reaction from a large chunk of the fanbase.
• Nightmare Retardant: Deliberately so when regarding some of the darker aspects of the Wizarding World. How do you make one of the most horrible curses in existence, which has killed many, many people throughout the course of the series, funny? Make it the subject of a jaunty toe-tapping musical number sung by Voldemort himself.
• Tear Jerker:
  • Albus Dumbledore Lists Your Good Qualities. Also counts as a Take That, Audience!.
  • Some of the entries in "Snape's Diary" are actually rather heartwrenching.
  • Neville guilt-tripping Harry, Ron and Hermione into playing "walk in circles" by bringing up the subject of what happened to his parents.
    • At the end of the episode, Neville self-destructs and Harry along with Ron and Hermione are all struck with guilt over what they said to him, at least until they taste his remains and start eating them.
  • The song "Stopper on my Pain" from the scrapped "Potter Puppet Pals Adventure" movie is a Harsher in Hindsight example, seeing as it fits nearly word for word with Snape's feelings towards Lily, without even having intended to.
• Values Dissonance: "Get the Snitch" from Potter Puppet Pals Adventure contains a non-sequitur in which Ron exclaims, "Sometimes I wish I were a witch!" Modern-day viewers might feel uncomfortable with the song framing this as a laughably embarrassing moment for Ron, especially after his original creator became known as one of the biggest transphobes ever to write children's literature.
• Wangst: Wizard Angst!
  • So is Snape, Orange One. So is Snape.
• The Woobie: Snape. Especially in "Snape's Diary".
  • Harry gets a moment in "Ron's Parents."

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