It's a crime that Hedwig isn't even mentioned in the poll
1 month ago | 443
I'm defining "best" as "most useful/powerful". But the cake is the real answer cuz it was the first kindness we see him receive.
1 month ago | 239
The cake was the first gift he ever got (aside from the ones from his parents when he was 1 year old), the first time he ever felt appreciated. It's definitely the most important one
1 month ago | 227
The cake. He had suffered so much before this moment. Then Hagrid shows up and shows his the first real kindness he's known since his parent's died. The other gifts may be cooler and more useful, but the cake is special.
1 month ago | 39
The Cake is underestimated because it wasn't obviously magical. But it was still special in that immaterial way that music and children's stories are. It also sent a message that Harry never got before. That you're special because of you rather than because of what you can do. Which is a subtle shift that has cascading consequences.
1 month ago | 21
Hear me out on the Firebolt: Losing his Nimbus was a way of stripping away the one part of wizarding life Harry felt like he fit in. The Firebolt was the gift that gave him back a sense of himself when he was already struggling with feeling like an outlier. The cake was the first time he got to really feel loved. The Firebolt ensured the one thing he was accepted and loved for by his peers wouldn’t be stripped from him.
1 month ago | 3
Sirius risking total soul destruction to give Harry a new broom is a insane display of love.
1 month ago | 1
Mollys brothers watch on his 17th. Has so much meaning to it
1 month ago | 10
The cloak wasn't a gift, he was just returning a belonging. Hagrid's cake was made with love.
1 month ago | 21
They were all great gifts, but you could argue that the invisibility cloak,and maybe the marauders map, would have been and should have been Harry's to begin with as an inheritance from his father. The map was also given to Harry because the twins thought he needed it (and to keep him and Ron from possibly getting caught trying to sneek harry out), Dumbledore also expexted Harry to need and or use the cloak, either in general or to follow the grand plan. The Nimbus 2000 while very nice, very expensive and given by (in my opinion) one of the normally underated and selfless characters, was a means to an end. For good, bad, or somewhere in between... he only got his first broom so he could play quidditch and her team needed him ro win the cup, or even just in general. The cake from Hagrid was only a nice gesture, Hagrid wanted to celebrate Harry, both is birthday and seeing him again. Also Hagrid put his own time into it and just thought harry would like it. Granted hagrid is not the best cook, and sat on it, but there were no strings attached. Therefore I think it was the best gift.
1 month ago | 11
Definitely the cake - it was the first feeling of friendship he'd ever had, as well as his introduction to the magical world and a sense of belonging.
1 month ago | 5
The cake because it represents so much more than just a cake, it represents Harry finding an identity that he can be proud of it's finding family that loves him implicitly for who he is and it represents a new beginning. Sure, for useful purposes as the invincibility cloak, but I am not too big on material possessions, so it's the cake absolutely because that memory is more valuable than the cloak
1 month ago | 3
The birthday cake was the very first thing someone from the wizarding world actually gave directly to him, as a very sweet and kind gesture
1 month ago | 4
Hagrid's cake, because it was the first time in his memory that anyone actually thought about him and cared that it was his birthday.
1 month ago | 4
I say it's a tie between the cake and the cloak. The cake because it was the first time Harry experienced someone celebrating his birthday, as he had no recollection of his first birthday with his parents. Not to mention Hagrid's childish scrawl and misspelling is absolutely charming. ❤ The cloak, not because it's a powerful and useful object, but it was his father's. Can't be overstated how much sentimental value that would hold.
1 month ago (edited) | 2
The map it came from Gred and Forge. Compared to the other gifts it cost them more and was a thoughtful gift. The cloak was just something returned. The firebolt was to makeup for no gifts and making Harry wait 13years for Sirius to be his godfather. And Hagrids cake Harry didn't even get to enjoy properly because Duddiekins was hungry and pigged out on it.
1 month ago | 13
The cake was the most meaningful but I’d say the invisibility cloak was the best one he got because of how much it was able to help him.
1 month ago | 13
I’d probably pick the fire bolt because of the cool foot rests
1 month ago | 21
It's my birthday today too 😍, also, the cloak. I Would love to have one since I was a child
1 month ago | 4
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🎂✨ Happee Birthdae, Harry Potter!
To celebrate, we’re asking the real question:
Which of Harry's many different gifts was the BEST?
(yes we know they aren't all birthday gifts 😋)
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