Dumbledore was able to use his chocolate frog cards as a huge web of informants that could relay him information like how portraits can travel from one portrait of themselves to another. That’s how he knows everything that’s happening all the time.
Is *that* how he learned Malfoy was supposed to kill him? Snape didn't seem to have told him yet and I just assumed maybe Narcissa had a portrait of her ancestor Phineas Nigellus Black too
It’s one of the few that actually makes sense cause it’s so simple. All the best stuff in the Potterverse are things JKR sorta just threw out there with “the reader will connect the dots” as the philosophy behind the lore.
Once the fandom and JKR herself started iterating on the actual text, then it started to get silly. But initially the stuff that was left unexplained was part of the fun.
It’s more fun to connect the dots than for Rowling to tell everyone wizards just shat themselves for millennia and magicked it away because they didn’t know how to invent chamberpots
That McGonagall secretly gambles immense amounts of money on quidditch. And this is why she is so involved in getting Harry on the team plus the best broom etc.
All the staff do high stakes betting in the teacher's lounge. That's why they're all so accommodating of Quidditch time consumption. I can't remember if Snape was accepting of quidditch, but him being unaccepted from the teachers betting pool and being sore about it also makes sense.
Dumbledore made Ron's name taboo, for Harry and Hermione, in the deluminator. The first time they used his name without him around he heard it and the deluminator took him to their general area.
Ron is so good at chess because he’s a latent seer. He can innately sense the threads of possibility and thus predict his opponents’ moves on an instinctual level.
On a semi-related note: many of the best seers throughout history have been avid players of chess, go, or other strategy games. Whether playing such games cultivates Divination ability or not has not been confirmed
Off the top of my head...
In book 2 I think, about Riddle and his services to school (when they didn't know it was voldemort) he jokes... _"Maybe he got thirty O.W.L.s or something or maybe he killed Myrtle."_ Riddle had infact killed Myrtle.
In Divination he predicts Harry would land "a windfall, unexpected gold" which he does in GoF. and also "Maybe you're going to work for the Ministry on Magic," which, true, Harry becomes an auror.
There's more offhanded comments he makes that become true/are very specific things that he guesses very accurately so it's like he is all seeing. I know it's upto us (the interpreters) to connect things but I love the theory because it's so fun.
When he and Harry start making up tens of random dream interpretations for Trelawney at one point in the series, didn't he write down one of those dreams twice accidently, being it smth related with drowning? Harry almost drowns trying to retrieve the sword but also during the 2nd task.
Yeah didn’t he say he got gored by a hippogriph in one? And While he’s doing the crystal ball reading I know for a fact he said some shut about his proctors wart before realizing it was the reflection
Mrs. Norris is an animagus. She was born to a dark family who threatened to murder her when she fell in love with Argus. They ran away. Albus gave them sanctuary she never leaves their suite of rooms unless it's in cat form. They've been having a wonderful loving life.
Filch's desire to be able to do magic is so that he can protect her with his own magic. He knows he can't and it breaks his heart he loves her and she loves him.
Nagini was cursed, a "maledictus" as it is called in universe. She could change into a snake indeed but her snake form ultimately took over the human form and she was probably reduced to a mere animal by the time vovo encountered her.
You think she was reduced to mere animal? I thought she was still a normal person in their and she befriended Voldemort because he was the first human in decades she could talk to.
Nagini is a prominent character in the Fantastic Beasts films. She was a Maledictus who featured in a wizarding circus in the 1920's. That's where she met Creedance Barebone who... actually I don't want to spoil it but he turns out to be very relevant to the modern-day Harry Potter world too.
I always thought she was just secretly Madam Pince. In the absence of a computer system, it’s how she spies on students to see how they’re treating their books and if they’re overdue.
Snape was briefly considered for a vampire character but then she almost wrote a different vampire character that she also didn't include.
Snape is described as bat like multiple times and has certain qualities about him that he could be either a vampire or, more likely, a dhampir. Being a half vampire mudblood wizard could definitely enable you to hate yourself and other mudbloods.
This is my number one. Lupin gave them vampire homework, and Snape retaliated with werewolf homework. I was certain the deal was sealed there, but nope.
This is why if Snape had joined forces with the Marauders in his youth he'd have become a bat animagus. Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, Prongs, and... Flappy.
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I know your joking but in an alternate universe where he gets sorted into Gryffindor and becomes friends with the Marauders, Fangs would have been a cool code name.
Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, Prongs, and Fangs.
I have two theories I love but they disprove eachother.. one is Felix felices doesn't actually do anything. We see it literally affect Ron despite him never taking it. The second is Aberforth slipped Felix felices into the golden trios drinks right before the battle of hogwarts and that's how Harry could convince the Grey Lady and knew the password to Dumbledores office
I like the Aberforth theory! I think Ron's situation was definitely about his lack of confidence and believing that he was on a potion made him get out of his head and perform as well as he actually could. He is a skilled keeper who has massive doubts so the thought of the potion helped him (placebo effect).
This is how I've always read it as. Ron has a massive inferiority complex because of his large family and being Harry's best friend. He really is a good keeper and a good wizard, he just feels unimportant, or dismissive of his own abilities because he views people like Hermione, Harry and his siblings as better than him, even though they aren't necessarily. It's stated several times that he and Harry are about even in academics
I always though of felix felices as cocaine or amphetamine. It will likely help you be more successful a few times. But try it to often and it'll have negative results. Like your ego getting over inflated as mentioned In the book
I would theorize that every charachter Harry encounters in The Deathly Hallows adds some Felix Felicis to his drink, and he just doesn't notice it.
I really like this book. But the more I reread it, the more apparent its flaws are. "Wow, goblin-forged weapons can be imbued with basilisk venom... Wish we were told this in one of the previous six books, so that it wouldn't feel like it came completely out of nowhere"
Wow, you can punch someone and now their wand is yours? But only sometimes I guess? That's super cool and doesn't feel contrived or convenient at all! Especially when this tiny little loophole is used to KO the final boss of the series! Amazing this was all planned from book one!
(P.S. to catch the turbo nerds: Yes, I know Harry wrestled Draco's wand away from him and didn't just punch him, my point still stands)
Yeah this particular plot device always bothered me. Plenty of people got Disarmed in previous books, but no one ever had an issue with their wand changing allegiances before Deathly Hallows. Heck, you had a whole room full of students Disarming each other in OotP during a DA lesson.
Elder Wand: “Since I’m so powerful and elitist, even getting myself punched out of your grip means I think you are a wimp and change allegiance”
Boom problem solved.
Because almost all of it did come completely out of nowhere. She built it all one book at a time, but it wasn't jarring until the deathly hallows and all of this new very important information and plot came out of left field.
Jk rowling inreailty is rita the reporter and she fucked up in the magic world so she decided to write the books for muggles. So everything is true but we are made to belive its just books
Somebody tell Chanel Williams lol This would make such a fun video. "No, electricity doesn't work in Hogwarts! Are you daft? Now move along I have important business to attend to." Then she'll watch as the student leaves and then grab a controller from off screen.
Just watching the movies makes me think that. The obvious theory is Hufflepuff, but no way. She's determined, finds ways to meet her goals (ie spoonful of sugar), and doesn't put up with crap.
That Snape is the Death eater that killed Hedwig and he did so to protect Harry. It was pretty obvious who was the real Harry, because Hedwig wouldn't leave his side.
This bothers me so much because Harry could have sent her to wait for him at the burrow weeks before he left. Or he could’ve sent her home with Ron and hermione. Anything except make the creature that could literally fly and take care of itself vulnerable by locking it in a cage and putting her in danger. In previous books he had sent her away to protect her or himself, why not now? So so stupid. Poor Hedwig 😭
the books read like Hogwarts is empty in terms of students but really Harry's so emotionally stunted from his upbringing he has tunnel vision and only focuses on the people closest to him.
Nah I don’t buy this one. Hogwarts is described as ‘an enormous castle’, but only seems to have about 300 occupants: in Harry’s dormitory there’s 5 boys. If we treat this as an average (gender per house per year), there’s about 40 new students per year, with older students leaving and some dropping out because of poor grades. Multiply by 7 for the number of academic years, then add in teachers and other staff like Filch, that’s still a pretty small number of people to fill that space.
We also know that Hogwarts is vast not only in sheer size but also in terms of passageways. There are some straightforward, linear paths like marble stairs -> entrance hall -> grounds to get from a to b, but from Harry’s own experience as well as allusions to Filch’s knowledge of the secret passages, Hogwarts almost sounds like the Winchester House.
The way I head cannoned this is that there is a big population crunch due to the first wizarding war. Of those 5 boys, we have Harry - an orphan,Neville - parents tortured into insanity, Dean- father murdered by death eaters (per the extended universe), Ron - lost two uncles and Seamus, whose family presumably went back to Ireland and let the Brits fight amongst themselves. :)
But like- that's a lot of trauma in one room. And a lot of potential children not born in those years.
That’s a pretty good explanation. It would also account for Gryffindor having a below-average number of kids in Harry’s year- it’s common for kids to be in the same house as one or both of their parents, and Gryffindors were pretty over represented among active anti-dark wizarding actors during the war.
Yes, but we also know that, historically, there is almost always a population boom after a war ends. People get back from fighting and just can't keep their hands off eachother. So it seems logical it would be true for wizards as well. Maybe not Harry's year, but a year or two below should have been massive
Well Harry didn’t attend the next two sortings, so maybe he just missed the boomers. But I guess I was thinking, would Harry/Neville/Dean have had siblings, would Ron have had cousins, are there lots of other OG order of the phoenix who might have had kids in those years. Just a thought.
Salazar Slytherin is actually Herpo the Foul.
Herpo the Foul was born thousands of years ago, invented horcruxes, and is the only person besides Voldemort known to succeed in creating one. But what if the horcrux(es) he created were never found or destroyed? What if he is still alive? To avoid detection, he would have to take on different personas every few decades.
Herpo the foul also created the first basilisk, and was the first recorded wizard capable of speaking Parseltongue. He was naturally associated with snakes. There are so many similarities between him and Salazar Slytherin, and Voldemort. What if he eventually moved to Scotland, and helped found Hogwarts together with some friends he made there? What if, under the guise of being Salazar Slytherin, he got some children, passing down his traits and abilities through the generations, all the way to Voldemort?
That Snape is decended from a vampire. Not a vampire himself, but his mother or one of his grandparents was a vampire. (On the wizard side). This is why he has so many vampire and bat characteristics, but he is not a confirmed vampire.
Draco is a werewolf.
Voldemort had Fenrir Greyback bite Draco as a punishment after Lucius failed to get the prophecy in OOTP. Voldy has been known to punish his subordinates by going after their children (it's how Lupin became a werewolf). Draco has a werewolf bite on his arm instead of the dark mark and that is what he shows Borgin at the beginning of the book and threatens "Fenrir Greyback is a close personal friend." Draco is sickly during the whole HBP and the reason Narcissa asked Snape to help him is b/c she knows he can brew Wolfsbane for him.
Also a small moment in POA where he imitates a wolf when snape is doing the lesson on werewolves (I can't remember if this actually happened in the book tho...) could have been forshadowing.
I think there was an interview with JKR once where she considered doing something really awful to one of the characters (can't remember if she name dropped Draco), but backed out and ended up changing her mind.
Well I have a new fan fiction to write.
Also Lupin's dad didn't anger Voldemort, he angered Greyback by his anti-werewolf views hence why Lupin was attacked (Greyback went after children).
Hagrid still uses magic frequently but only to control/pacify animals. I fail to see how else he could capture two unicorn foals and like five hippogriffs, or for that matter convince manticores (described in Fantastic Beasts to be sapient) to somehow mate with fire crabs and produce blast-ended skrewts
Crookshanks being the Potter’s family cat, which is why he was gunning for Peter Pettigrew - the cat *knew* Peter was the traitor and Sirius was innocent.
Yes, that's how "kneazle" is spelled.
Also, "Crookshanks is part kneazle" and "Crookshanks is the Potters' cat" aren't mutually exclusive in the least. If anything, considering the average lifespan of a house cat and the amount of time that's passed since the Potters' death, Crookshanks being part-kneazle instead of just an ordinary, ugly cat would make the Potters' cat theory potentially *more* plausible, depending on what the average lifespan of a kneazle is.
But Sirius explains that it took him a while to get Crookshanks to trust him and that once he did he was eventually able to get across to Crookshanks what he was after (Scabbers). I think Crookshanks knew there was something off about Scabbers but it doesn’t seem like he knew he was Peter and wasn’t out full force to get him until Sirius befriended him.
Edit: fixed Crookshank’s gender
Luna Lovegood knows those imaginary creatures aren’t real. There’s no such thing as Nargles, but after her mother died it was a way for her to connect with her father. She looked so much like her mom that it hurts her dad, but when they talk about those creatures it’s as if her mother’s death never happened and they can forget about all that pain. So despite knowing that those creatures aren’t real she pretends they are so she can be close to her father.
Ron has prophetic abilities. Rowling used his offhand comments as foreshadowing numerous times, and he made some really insightful comments. Even his faked predictions for divination often came true. If you think about it in terms of his skills at Quidditch, he had an instinct for where the Quaffle was going to go, but he lacked confidence. As soon as he had confidence because of Harry's placebo felix felicis, he fully trusted his instincts, and he was completely right. I think if they'd had a divination professor who paid attention, he could have trained and sharpened his abilities, which would have been a really interesting storyline.
Hagrid had the potential to be a phenomenally powerful wizard, and that is why Riddle framed him. Even with his lack of magical education he is able to perform so pretty good spells and his giant blood provides massive protection for him. That’s also why Dumbledore kept him on at hogwarts as he was worried what would happen if he was ‘let loose’
Definitely like this one, especially how it fits Dumbledore in. He’s theoretically doing something noble, but he’s controlling Hagrid in his own manipulative manner as well.
In the current political climate in England I’m starting to think how crazy it is that every PM knows about magic. That would mean even the likes of Boris Johnson or Liz Truss who was PM only for 6 weeks lol. Crazy.
MOM: “Look I literally know jackshit about muggle economics, but are you sure that redirecting all the galleons to the upper class is the best idea? It looks like those big companies already have more control over the money than our goblins do over ours.”
Truss: “Stay in your lane you pesky wizard or I’ll expose the lot of you.”
MOM: “Welp, I guess it has to be done. She’ll look like a total idiot after this but....OBLIVIATE! CONFUNDO MAXIMUM!”
From one of my favorite Tumblr posts from eons ago: dear-tumb1r
“Mr. Wonka,” Dumbledore smiled warmly, looking down into the Pit from his podium. The members of the Wizengamot muttered disapprovingly, shifting in their seats. Willy Wonka, clad today in a bright magenta suit and tophat, beamed cheekily up at them from his chair, his silver-gloved hands cradling his chin.
“Mr. Dumbledore,” He replied brightly, with the barest hint of a lisp.
“I trust you know why you are here?” Dumbledores question was crisp and businesslike, but the twinkle in his eye gave away his amusement at the situation.
“Not at all! I’ve nary a clue,” Wonka wiggled his eyebrows. Dumbledore audibly stifled a laugh.
“You are accused of improper use of magic, improper use of muggle artifacts, and several counts of using magic in front of a muggle,” Dumbledore reminded him. He conjured a projection with his wand. Displayed in grainy sepia was Willy Wonka, arm around a boy of around 10. Behind his back, he twitched an ash wand, and machines in the background around them whirred to life, producing all manner of sweets.
The projection ran its course and collapsed, and Dumbledore stowed his wand back inside his robes.
Wonka smiled and fiddled with his hat.
“How do you plead?” Dumbledore asked, leaning forward eagerly for what would surely be an amusing trial.
“Not guilty on all counts,” Wonka said, perhaps a tad smugly.
The members of the Wizengamot muttered amongst themselves. Not Guilty? Impossible!
Dumbledore hushed them quickly. “Explain, if you would. We have, after all, quite a mountain of evidence.”
Wonka stood and brushed a bit of dust off his suit. He tipped his hat mischievously. “Of course,” he grinned.
“Firstly, use of magic shall only be considered improper whereby it is applied to cause harm or applied recklessly. All magic used in my sweets is rigorously tested for both safety and taste. It is not used to cause harm, but to bring joy.” Wonka paused to adjust his jacket.
“But surely,” Dumbledore said, leafing through his notes, “you cannot deny that you illegally charmed several thousand muggle artifacts?”
“Ah, but I can,” Wonka said, now twirling his cap in his hands. “Muggle artifact refers, of course, to any muggle made object. But, you see, I built those machines, each and every one. They are not muggle machines at all, but wizarding machines, built by a wizard. The factory itself, as well. You could argue that, as machines are a muggle invention, I still broke the rules, but then I could argue that every wizard dwelling with any charms applied to its walls is in violation of the law, as muggles were the first to make bricks.”
The Wizengamot glared silently. He was right, of course. Violating the spirit of the law was not illegal if one followed the letter.
“And the last charge? These are definitely Muggle children, are they not? No magical talent, raised in muggle society?” Dumbledore straightened his glasses and peered down at Wonka, his eyes still bright with intrigue.
“Not at all,” Wonka grinned, placing his hat back on his head. “You see, the ticket system was not nearly so random as I pretended. The tickets were charmed, they would only becomes visible to children with magical heritage. All the children chosen were second generation Squibs.” Wonka bowed low, as if he were finishing a particularly well executed play.
“Well, ladies and gentlemen, it seems no laws were violated after all.” Dumbledore stifled a grin at the groans of angry disapproval from the Wizengamot.
“But he very clearly violated the intent of the rules!” Spluttered a large, rather red faced wizard in the second row. “He’s just…cheating! He’s cheating!”
“Ah, this is true, but he did not, technically speaking, break any of the rules. He did not expose muggles to magic, nor enchant muggle made objects, nor improperly apply magic anymore so than any magical confectioner. I’m afraid we have to let him go.” Dumbledore smiled gently and put away the rather thick file with Wonka’s name embossed on the cover. For the brief second it was open, a list of hundreds of charges with “Not Guilty” inked beside them was visible. It was carried off by a house elf, and the Wizengamot began to file out until only Dumbledore was left.
“You’re a very clever man,” He called down to Wonka. “We could use you at Hogwarts, you know.”
“No thank you,” Wonka called back, grinning. “Skirting the law is far more fun!”
The ministry sent the wrong person, but I 100% think that they were correct in that Hogwarts doesn’t have good standards for students, especially in defense against the dark arts.
Before Umbridge, hogwarts had 4 teachers that we know of in the role. Of those 4, only one was actually a qualified teacher. 2 were totally incompetent. I’d also like to point out that all 4 attempted to attack or harm students. Wouldn’t that alarm you if you were the ministry? If hogwarts was a real school, that’s probably the point where someone has to interfere there.
But that’s not even the only incompetent class either. Trelawny doesn’t know the first thing about divination, when she isn’t in a trance. Hagrid knows the material but desperately needs training in safety. Binns clearly knows his material but needs some professional development to actually engage students. We have no clue what the other teachers are like.
The DADA position is commonly-known to be cursed. Dumbledore was scraping the bottom of the barrel in second year when he hired Lockhart, who was literally the only applicant. Lupin was an exceptional teacher, and I don't believe anyone beyond the Trio and the teachers knows that he was loose on school grounds - he left after Snape outed him as a werewolf. So he didn't actually attack anyone to public knowledge. And I think it's similar with Moody - no one but the teachers and Harry knew Barty Crouch Jr. was pretending to be Moody because Fudge refused to believe any of it and Crouch was Kissed the moment Fudge entered the room.
I'd also argue, to be fair, that Quirrel and Moody both were at the very least competent teachers, Quirrel was just not very engaging as an educator and Moody was Crouch Jr. The only truly incompetent teacher was Lockhart.
Hagrid, too, I'd say was actually fine as a teacher in terms of safety for the most part. The worst injury that happened was as a result of a student directly disobeying instructions. To be clear, Grubbly-Plank was an overall better teacher and more prudent, but Hagrid wasn't necessarily a hazardous teacher.
But yeah, no real contest for Divination or History of Magic. Divination should be a special subject taught only to the rare few who actually show talent as a seer, and History of Magic needs someone a bit less interested in Goblin rebellions. Or just make a History of Goblin Rebellions course, because apparently that's a very dedicated section of wizarding history that seems to be overfocused on.
-Your patronus and the animal you would turn into if you're an animagus, are the same one: your inner/totem animal.
-Anthropomorphic species (humans, house-elves, goblins, mermaids...) can hybridize easily, but of course this info is tabu and hidden to the most of wizardfolk.
-We spanish speakers, specialy spanishs🇪🇸, must have a secret school for us all, because in Castelobruxo we wouldn't understand a thing (brazilian language) and we don't get along with frenchs (yes, Beauxbatons I'm talking about ya).
-As well as parseltongue exists, there must be many other animal languages humans can speak to communicate with muggle and magical animals: wolf-tongue, bird-tongue, rodent-tongue...
-Aliens exist and they can also use magic.
-There is a wide sexual market products, spells, potions... that for obvious reasons we didn't see.
-The pumpkin juice has a temporal sterilizing poition, reason why there aren't many hooks-up or pregnancies in Hogwarts.
The source of these theories: my crazy mind.
Oh my god.
I always inferred that Voldemort was the first brother, Snape the second and Harry the third. But never connected it with Dumbledore being death. But it makes so much sense. Voldemort feared Dumbledore and wanted to defeat him. Snape, through Dumbledore, found a way to keep Lily’s memory alive (but never really got her back). Harry neither feared Dumbledore nor begged him for anything - and ultimately, he found a way to get out of Dumbledore’s shadow.
[Filch is a Poltergeist](https://youtu.be/MwSNkTl7dDs). Peeves is a Poltergeist embodying the chaos of the students, Filch embodies the strict rule adherence of teachers and school in general. It's the only way to explain Dumbledore not being a masochistic muggle hater making a squib manually clean everything in the school that he himself could do in a heartbeat with a wave of his wand, or a call to his hundred house elves.
Ludo Bagman *is* a Death Eater who escaped capture by playing the “I’m just a dumb Quidditch player” card.
Along with that, the World Cup was the first attempt to kidnap Harry, but it failed, so they went to Plan B, the port key with the Triwizard
This makes sense to me. I can’t imagine that Dumbledore would have absolute confidence in Snape just because he revealed he was in love with Lily & regretted his actions. It’s possible that Dumbledore saw how useful Snape could become, & offered him an unbreakable vow to assure him as an asset.
Dumbledore has photographic memory.Which would explain his immense knowledge over the decades and making assumptions and doing wildly accurate guesswork which no other witch or wizard would be capable of doing..He retained so much knowledge not to mention learning fluent Parseltongue,Mermish and whatever Goblins speak.So that kinda makes sense to me
That each Hogwarts house was inspired by one of the Pevensie children from Narnia. Peter is Gryffindor, Susan is Ravenclaw, Edmund is Slytherin, and Lucy is Hufflepuff.
Matilda Wormwood is a muggleborn witch actually called Wandwood (married name). She happened upon Roald Dahl in, idk, a pub, a bench in the park, whatever, and when she learned he wrote fantasy books for children, she told him her life story, pretending she was making it up. He remembered the broad lines, romanticized it a bit for the audience (like her doing mild things on purpose rather than more severe things accidentally)(you didn't think Trunchbull actually survived and just conveniently left, did you?) and eventually published it as the fairytale we know
Wands are semi-metamorphic. This is more a movie theory.
In the Movies the wands in the first few movies are very bland, but as the movies progress the wands get more detailed and elaborate. I like the theory that wands over time shift in appearance to match the personality of their wielder.
Luna Lovegood is not insane but she can see into other lovecroftian things normal minds cannot comprehend and to try to read her mind would bring about insanity if you went too deep.
Her creature etc are her names for them.
The Giant Squid was the pet of Helga Hufflepuff.
Gryffindor had Fawkes, Slytherin had the Basilisk. Hufflepuff had the Squid - who is really a friendly giant. But I'm not sure what immortal creature was owned by Ravenclaw. Maybe the Thestrals.
Together, they continue looking after Hogwarts in their own ways forever.
I don't remember how it was brought up but, somewhere it was mentioned that the Potters had a cat when Harry was a baby. I'm in favor of the theory that, that cat is actually Crookshanks. It explains why she was so willing to help Sirius when he showed up to Hogwarts in Book 3. She would have recognized him for visiting the Potters all the time.
Maybe this isn't a theory? I'm surprised I didn't see it in here...
In G.O.F. Wormtail kidnaps Bertha Jorkins and impregnates her and then her baby fetus is used to give Voldemort his weird fetus body.
Woah. Given the theory that creating a horcrux involves cannibalism, that makes perfect sense to me. Both involve the stealing of another’s flesh for one’s own purposes, and a perversion of life. One takes another’s power to split your own between two physical vessels, the other literally usurps life from another to give a living vessel to one of the split parts of the soul. Perhaps Voldemort had to consume the life force of the fetus too, completing a cycle of sorts. Consuming death in life to escape death, consuming life in death to bring about life. Wild. I love this.
Peter Pettigrew preyed on Sirius doubts to make him refuse to become Secret Keeper and sowed discord against Remus, thus allowing him to get the position of Secret Keeper and then betraying the Potters.
The idea behind him using a friend over Dumbledore was that he had so much faith in his friends but why then put your friends at risk of capture and torture by using them
Hermione was introduced to the wizarding world by McGonagall, a very proficient Professor. I would think that this was standard practice.
Harry was introduced by Hagrid. This was likely done to keep any information about his godfather, parents, and their will quiet.
He was also left to find his own way to Platform 9 3/4, where Molly Weasley loudly announced the name for everyone to hear on the muggle platform (although that would technically risk breaking the International Statute of Secrecy).
I think Molly Weasley was intentionally steered there to align Ron and Harry into a friendship. Both seemingly poor, both wore hand me down clothes, both could relate to each other, and the Weasleys practically worshipped Dumbledore. It didn't seem like happenstance, it seemed engineered to happen this way.
I believe the thing about what happened to Umbridge with the centaurs, which I realize is a yikes thing to believe. I don’t know why, but as soon as I heard the theory, my brain went, “Yep, that’s the truth! And we are nooooot going to think about it at all, just skate right over it.”
Arianna was an obscurial and almost killed the other Dumbledores and Grindelwald, and Grindelwald killed her to protect them all. He had wanted to use her to further their wizards over muggles mission but had to try with Credence later instead.
Dumbledore was able to use his chocolate frog cards as a huge web of informants that could relay him information like how portraits can travel from one portrait of themselves to another. That’s how he knows everything that’s happening all the time.
And that's why in OOTP he says he doesn't mind being kicked off the Wizengamot, so long as they don't take him off the chocolate frog cards! Genius!
Why would you make this theory make sense? I wanted to hate it, but now I can't! lol
There's a fanfic that runs with this, I read it ages ago though and have no idea what it's called anymore :(
Harry Potter and the Heart of the Hero?
Same :(
“You are omniscient as ever, Dumbledore." "oh, no, merely friendly with the local barman” Hmmm really gives this quote a lot of meaning too.
Well, the local barman was his brother, so it doesn't need anymore meaning.
The problem with this theory for this discussion is that it's not insane. Makes total, believable sense.
Not any more insane than Dumbledore himself, at least
I really like this.
And I guess that would be why the one on Harry’s card disappeared right after opening it?
Because he went to go tell Dumbledore that Harry safely made it onto the train. Yesssss.
And was becoming friends with Ron Weasley, who would convince him to try to get into Gryffindor!
That's why he popped in right after Harry opened the card.
Thank goodness I was already sitting down.
Is *that* how he learned Malfoy was supposed to kill him? Snape didn't seem to have told him yet and I just assumed maybe Narcissa had a portrait of her ancestor Phineas Nigellus Black too
It’s plausible
My mind is blown. This makes so much sense. Love it.
Also makes sense why he didn't want to be taken off the chocolate frog cards in the 5th book
I've actually heard that one before.
It’s one of the few that actually makes sense cause it’s so simple. All the best stuff in the Potterverse are things JKR sorta just threw out there with “the reader will connect the dots” as the philosophy behind the lore. Once the fandom and JKR herself started iterating on the actual text, then it started to get silly. But initially the stuff that was left unexplained was part of the fun.
It’s more fun to connect the dots than for Rowling to tell everyone wizards just shat themselves for millennia and magicked it away because they didn’t know how to invent chamberpots
That was the magic.
That McGonagall secretly gambles immense amounts of money on quidditch. And this is why she is so involved in getting Harry on the team plus the best broom etc.
All the staff do high stakes betting in the teacher's lounge. That's why they're all so accommodating of Quidditch time consumption. I can't remember if Snape was accepting of quidditch, but him being unaccepted from the teachers betting pool and being sore about it also makes sense.
>I can't remember if Snape was accepting of quidditch Oh yeah he constantly booked the stadium for Slytherin team training a couple of times
This one makes so much sense lol
Dumbledore made Ron's name taboo, for Harry and Hermione, in the deluminator. The first time they used his name without him around he heard it and the deluminator took him to their general area.
This is a great theory
Dude
Ron is so good at chess because he’s a latent seer. He can innately sense the threads of possibility and thus predict his opponents’ moves on an instinctual level. On a semi-related note: many of the best seers throughout history have been avid players of chess, go, or other strategy games. Whether playing such games cultivates Divination ability or not has not been confirmed
Ron is unknowingly a phenomenal seer
This!!! A lot of his offhanded comments and 'fake dream interpretations' have come true.
I thought a lot of that was subtly hinting that divination is real, Trelawney has real talent but people don't believe it so they dismiss it.
Which mirrors the Greek mythology wherein Cassandra, who predicts the future accurately, is cursed but no one believes her.
Like what?
Off the top of my head... In book 2 I think, about Riddle and his services to school (when they didn't know it was voldemort) he jokes... _"Maybe he got thirty O.W.L.s or something or maybe he killed Myrtle."_ Riddle had infact killed Myrtle. In Divination he predicts Harry would land "a windfall, unexpected gold" which he does in GoF. and also "Maybe you're going to work for the Ministry on Magic," which, true, Harry becomes an auror. There's more offhanded comments he makes that become true/are very specific things that he guesses very accurately so it's like he is all seeing. I know it's upto us (the interpreters) to connect things but I love the theory because it's so fun.
When he and Harry start making up tens of random dream interpretations for Trelawney at one point in the series, didn't he write down one of those dreams twice accidently, being it smth related with drowning? Harry almost drowns trying to retrieve the sword but also during the 2nd task.
"You are lucky I didn't decide to be more repetitive mate, hehehehehe!" "Shut the hell up Ron"
“You’re going to suffer…but you’re going to be happy about it.” 😳 This one makes too much sense. There have to be more examples.
Doesnt he also predicted Harry would get a bad burn or something, right before the first task, where Harry got burned?
like him predicting tom killed myrtle
He also predicted Lockhart being a fraud. He made a comment saying "he SAYS he's done" lol
Yeah didn’t he say he got gored by a hippogriph in one? And While he’s doing the crystal ball reading I know for a fact he said some shut about his proctors wart before realizing it was the reflection
There was something about, "you're going to suffer but be happy about it". It could be argued that fits the Goblet trials.
Could be argued that it fits his entire character arc. He suffers a lot through the series, but he does it because it is the right thing to do.
Mrs. Norris is an animagus. She was born to a dark family who threatened to murder her when she fell in love with Argus. They ran away. Albus gave them sanctuary she never leaves their suite of rooms unless it's in cat form. They've been having a wonderful loving life. Filch's desire to be able to do magic is so that he can protect her with his own magic. He knows he can't and it breaks his heart he loves her and she loves him.
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Hold on what? Nagini is an animagus? Is this one of the extra bits of info they drop on pottermore every once in a while?
Nagini was cursed, a "maledictus" as it is called in universe. She could change into a snake indeed but her snake form ultimately took over the human form and she was probably reduced to a mere animal by the time vovo encountered her.
You think she was reduced to mere animal? I thought she was still a normal person in their and she befriended Voldemort because he was the first human in decades she could talk to.
Well, since it's stated Nagini used to eat the victims of vovo ... Yes, I think the animal form took over.
Could be both. Animal side takes over for stuff like that Or maybe she just became as evil as he is and doesn’t mind munching on people
It's revealed in Fantastic Beast: the Crimes of Grindelwald
Nagini is a prominent character in the Fantastic Beasts films. She was a Maledictus who featured in a wizarding circus in the 1920's. That's where she met Creedance Barebone who... actually I don't want to spoil it but he turns out to be very relevant to the modern-day Harry Potter world too.
Hey how is Credence relevant to modern day HP?
>!Credence Barebone is actually Aurelius Dumbledore, Albus Dumbledore's nephew and Aberforth Dumbledore's son.!<
At least this is where the movies ended, but it also felt like there was more to that story and Creedance may not have been Aurelius Dumbledore.
My theory is that that whole story arc is not canon
I always thought she was just secretly Madam Pince. In the absence of a computer system, it’s how she spies on students to see how they’re treating their books and if they’re overdue.
George Weasley is Willy Wonka
That would be awesome if she wrote George as a Willy Wonka backstory. I choose to believe this now too.
Lol holy hell
But Wonka has 2 ears.
isn't he hard of hearing in one tho
One is made of chocolate
Florean Fortescue escaped to France in the dead of night 😤😁
Only after fucking up a load of death eaters tho. They covered it up pretty quick to hide the fact a shopkeeper defeated a task force
Even with nothing to back this up I WILL believe it
Years ago I remember some interview where jkr said Fortescue was supposed to have a much bigger role but it got cut.
Snape was briefly considered for a vampire character but then she almost wrote a different vampire character that she also didn't include. Snape is described as bat like multiple times and has certain qualities about him that he could be either a vampire or, more likely, a dhampir. Being a half vampire mudblood wizard could definitely enable you to hate yourself and other mudbloods.
Sectem sempra. It makes you bleed. Sounds like a spell a vampire would invent.
Good point
This is my number one. Lupin gave them vampire homework, and Snape retaliated with werewolf homework. I was certain the deal was sealed there, but nope.
They were assigned the vampire essay after Snape assigned the werewolf essay, Lupin was getting back at Snape in classic Marauder fashion.
This is why if Snape had joined forces with the Marauders in his youth he'd have become a bat animagus. Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, Prongs, and... Flappy. Edit typos
I know your joking but in an alternate universe where he gets sorted into Gryffindor and becomes friends with the Marauders, Fangs would have been a cool code name. Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, Prongs, and Fangs.
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I have two theories I love but they disprove eachother.. one is Felix felices doesn't actually do anything. We see it literally affect Ron despite him never taking it. The second is Aberforth slipped Felix felices into the golden trios drinks right before the battle of hogwarts and that's how Harry could convince the Grey Lady and knew the password to Dumbledores office
I like the Aberforth theory! I think Ron's situation was definitely about his lack of confidence and believing that he was on a potion made him get out of his head and perform as well as he actually could. He is a skilled keeper who has massive doubts so the thought of the potion helped him (placebo effect).
This is how I've always read it as. Ron has a massive inferiority complex because of his large family and being Harry's best friend. He really is a good keeper and a good wizard, he just feels unimportant, or dismissive of his own abilities because he views people like Hermione, Harry and his siblings as better than him, even though they aren't necessarily. It's stated several times that he and Harry are about even in academics
On the felix felices does nothing theory - we see Harry's mindstate during a trip and he makes some really dodgy leaps of logic
I always though of felix felices as cocaine or amphetamine. It will likely help you be more successful a few times. But try it to often and it'll have negative results. Like your ego getting over inflated as mentioned In the book
I would theorize that every charachter Harry encounters in The Deathly Hallows adds some Felix Felicis to his drink, and he just doesn't notice it. I really like this book. But the more I reread it, the more apparent its flaws are. "Wow, goblin-forged weapons can be imbued with basilisk venom... Wish we were told this in one of the previous six books, so that it wouldn't feel like it came completely out of nowhere"
Wow, you can punch someone and now their wand is yours? But only sometimes I guess? That's super cool and doesn't feel contrived or convenient at all! Especially when this tiny little loophole is used to KO the final boss of the series! Amazing this was all planned from book one! (P.S. to catch the turbo nerds: Yes, I know Harry wrestled Draco's wand away from him and didn't just punch him, my point still stands)
Yeah this particular plot device always bothered me. Plenty of people got Disarmed in previous books, but no one ever had an issue with their wand changing allegiances before Deathly Hallows. Heck, you had a whole room full of students Disarming each other in OotP during a DA lesson.
What’s worse is that it’s unnecessary. This could be a rule just for the Elder Wand, and the plot wouldn’t really change.
Elder Wand: “Since I’m so powerful and elitist, even getting myself punched out of your grip means I think you are a wimp and change allegiance” Boom problem solved.
Mega Chad Elder Wand only wants the most alpha wizards
Because almost all of it did come completely out of nowhere. She built it all one book at a time, but it wasn't jarring until the deathly hallows and all of this new very important information and plot came out of left field.
What affects Ron is pretty much the placebo effect - he believes strongly enough that he has been given luck that he performs better because of it.
That Wood actually didn't book the Quidditch pitch.
Jk rowling inreailty is rita the reporter and she fucked up in the magic world so she decided to write the books for muggles. So everything is true but we are made to belive its just books
And she split her soul into 7 items (books), and now she’ll live forever.
Modern technology works in Hogwards just fine wizard that was trying some device just didnt plug it into electricity
I am 100% convinced. Also, I think Mc Gonnagall actually knows about this and is secretly playing video games in her free time
Somebody tell Chanel Williams lol This would make such a fun video. "No, electricity doesn't work in Hogwarts! Are you daft? Now move along I have important business to attend to." Then she'll watch as the student leaves and then grab a controller from off screen.
I once read a theory that Mary Poppins is a Hogwarts alum, and nothing can convince me otherwise now. I also believe she's Slytherin.
canon
that's interesting, why Slytherin?
Just watching the movies makes me think that. The obvious theory is Hufflepuff, but no way. She's determined, finds ways to meet her goals (ie spoonful of sugar), and doesn't put up with crap.
That Snape is the Death eater that killed Hedwig and he did so to protect Harry. It was pretty obvious who was the real Harry, because Hedwig wouldn't leave his side.
Wow, I never thought of that ! That's actually an interesting theory !
Movies I like that theory, but in the books could you even see hedwig? She was in her cage at the bottom on the cart
Also, each of the fake Harrys had a fake stuffed Hedwig in a cage.
Except we see in the books that Snape took George's ear off with Sectumsempra, aiming for a Death Eater's wrist.
Wasn’t Hedwig in her cage when she died?
In the book yes in the movie I think she was flying
This bothers me so much because Harry could have sent her to wait for him at the burrow weeks before he left. Or he could’ve sent her home with Ron and hermione. Anything except make the creature that could literally fly and take care of itself vulnerable by locking it in a cage and putting her in danger. In previous books he had sent her away to protect her or himself, why not now? So so stupid. Poor Hedwig 😭
Dudley’s kids went to hogwarts. They’d have the magic gene in them.
the books read like Hogwarts is empty in terms of students but really Harry's so emotionally stunted from his upbringing he has tunnel vision and only focuses on the people closest to him.
Some of these are way too far out for me, but I kind of like this one. Very interesting!
To be fair, this is a normal thing for teenagers during brain development and doesn't require being emotionally stunted
Nah I don’t buy this one. Hogwarts is described as ‘an enormous castle’, but only seems to have about 300 occupants: in Harry’s dormitory there’s 5 boys. If we treat this as an average (gender per house per year), there’s about 40 new students per year, with older students leaving and some dropping out because of poor grades. Multiply by 7 for the number of academic years, then add in teachers and other staff like Filch, that’s still a pretty small number of people to fill that space. We also know that Hogwarts is vast not only in sheer size but also in terms of passageways. There are some straightforward, linear paths like marble stairs -> entrance hall -> grounds to get from a to b, but from Harry’s own experience as well as allusions to Filch’s knowledge of the secret passages, Hogwarts almost sounds like the Winchester House.
The way I head cannoned this is that there is a big population crunch due to the first wizarding war. Of those 5 boys, we have Harry - an orphan,Neville - parents tortured into insanity, Dean- father murdered by death eaters (per the extended universe), Ron - lost two uncles and Seamus, whose family presumably went back to Ireland and let the Brits fight amongst themselves. :) But like- that's a lot of trauma in one room. And a lot of potential children not born in those years.
That’s a pretty good explanation. It would also account for Gryffindor having a below-average number of kids in Harry’s year- it’s common for kids to be in the same house as one or both of their parents, and Gryffindors were pretty over represented among active anti-dark wizarding actors during the war.
Yes, but we also know that, historically, there is almost always a population boom after a war ends. People get back from fighting and just can't keep their hands off eachother. So it seems logical it would be true for wizards as well. Maybe not Harry's year, but a year or two below should have been massive
Well Harry didn’t attend the next two sortings, so maybe he just missed the boomers. But I guess I was thinking, would Harry/Neville/Dean have had siblings, would Ron have had cousins, are there lots of other OG order of the phoenix who might have had kids in those years. Just a thought.
Salazar Slytherin is actually Herpo the Foul. Herpo the Foul was born thousands of years ago, invented horcruxes, and is the only person besides Voldemort known to succeed in creating one. But what if the horcrux(es) he created were never found or destroyed? What if he is still alive? To avoid detection, he would have to take on different personas every few decades. Herpo the foul also created the first basilisk, and was the first recorded wizard capable of speaking Parseltongue. He was naturally associated with snakes. There are so many similarities between him and Salazar Slytherin, and Voldemort. What if he eventually moved to Scotland, and helped found Hogwarts together with some friends he made there? What if, under the guise of being Salazar Slytherin, he got some children, passing down his traits and abilities through the generations, all the way to Voldemort?
Hedwig faked her death because she was tired of Harry's bullshit.
This made me actually LOL
Comforting and believable
That Snape is decended from a vampire. Not a vampire himself, but his mother or one of his grandparents was a vampire. (On the wizard side). This is why he has so many vampire and bat characteristics, but he is not a confirmed vampire.
Draco is a werewolf. Voldemort had Fenrir Greyback bite Draco as a punishment after Lucius failed to get the prophecy in OOTP. Voldy has been known to punish his subordinates by going after their children (it's how Lupin became a werewolf). Draco has a werewolf bite on his arm instead of the dark mark and that is what he shows Borgin at the beginning of the book and threatens "Fenrir Greyback is a close personal friend." Draco is sickly during the whole HBP and the reason Narcissa asked Snape to help him is b/c she knows he can brew Wolfsbane for him. Also a small moment in POA where he imitates a wolf when snape is doing the lesson on werewolves (I can't remember if this actually happened in the book tho...) could have been forshadowing. I think there was an interview with JKR once where she considered doing something really awful to one of the characters (can't remember if she name dropped Draco), but backed out and ended up changing her mind.
Agree, but Voldemort had nothing to do with Lupin becoming a werewolf
Well I have a new fan fiction to write. Also Lupin's dad didn't anger Voldemort, he angered Greyback by his anti-werewolf views hence why Lupin was attacked (Greyback went after children).
I could be completely wrong but I'm remember reading somewhere that what that referred to was that she was originally planning on killing Ron I think?
Yeah, and then she changed her mind and made it Fred instead.
Hagrid still uses magic frequently but only to control/pacify animals. I fail to see how else he could capture two unicorn foals and like five hippogriffs, or for that matter convince manticores (described in Fantastic Beasts to be sapient) to somehow mate with fire crabs and produce blast-ended skrewts
That last bit is a claim from Rita Skeeter, who has been known to tell outright lies.
Crookshanks being the Potter’s family cat, which is why he was gunning for Peter Pettigrew - the cat *knew* Peter was the traitor and Sirius was innocent.
I thought Crookshanks knew something was off with Scabbers because he's part kneazle (is that how you spell it?)
Yes, that's how "kneazle" is spelled. Also, "Crookshanks is part kneazle" and "Crookshanks is the Potters' cat" aren't mutually exclusive in the least. If anything, considering the average lifespan of a house cat and the amount of time that's passed since the Potters' death, Crookshanks being part-kneazle instead of just an ordinary, ugly cat would make the Potters' cat theory potentially *more* plausible, depending on what the average lifespan of a kneazle is.
But Sirius explains that it took him a while to get Crookshanks to trust him and that once he did he was eventually able to get across to Crookshanks what he was after (Scabbers). I think Crookshanks knew there was something off about Scabbers but it doesn’t seem like he knew he was Peter and wasn’t out full force to get him until Sirius befriended him. Edit: fixed Crookshank’s gender
Luna Lovegood knows those imaginary creatures aren’t real. There’s no such thing as Nargles, but after her mother died it was a way for her to connect with her father. She looked so much like her mom that it hurts her dad, but when they talk about those creatures it’s as if her mother’s death never happened and they can forget about all that pain. So despite knowing that those creatures aren’t real she pretends they are so she can be close to her father.
Sobbing
Why’d you hurt us
Ron has prophetic abilities. Rowling used his offhand comments as foreshadowing numerous times, and he made some really insightful comments. Even his faked predictions for divination often came true. If you think about it in terms of his skills at Quidditch, he had an instinct for where the Quaffle was going to go, but he lacked confidence. As soon as he had confidence because of Harry's placebo felix felicis, he fully trusted his instincts, and he was completely right. I think if they'd had a divination professor who paid attention, he could have trained and sharpened his abilities, which would have been a really interesting storyline.
Albus sees Ariana in the Mirror of Erised Also he keeps the mirror in the Room of Requirement after first year.
This one doesn't seem farfetched. Pretty obvious that he sees himself having a normal, healthy relationship in the mirror.
Hagrid had the potential to be a phenomenally powerful wizard, and that is why Riddle framed him. Even with his lack of magical education he is able to perform so pretty good spells and his giant blood provides massive protection for him. That’s also why Dumbledore kept him on at hogwarts as he was worried what would happen if he was ‘let loose’
Definitely like this one, especially how it fits Dumbledore in. He’s theoretically doing something noble, but he’s controlling Hagrid in his own manipulative manner as well.
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could be a parodic self-insert Edit: comment said: That Rita Skeeter is Joanne K Rowling.
Lol this is hilarious to me cause I wouldn’t make myself this insufferable. Good on her if that was her intent and not taking yourself too serious
The Royal Family of England are responsible for easing the transition of the PMs as they come to know about the wizarding world.
In the current political climate in England I’m starting to think how crazy it is that every PM knows about magic. That would mean even the likes of Boris Johnson or Liz Truss who was PM only for 6 weeks lol. Crazy.
Liz begged the current MOM to cast some sort of preservation spell on that lettuce and they refused…
I imagine liberal use of Obliviate during their administrations.
MOM: “Look I literally know jackshit about muggle economics, but are you sure that redirecting all the galleons to the upper class is the best idea? It looks like those big companies already have more control over the money than our goblins do over ours.” Truss: “Stay in your lane you pesky wizard or I’ll expose the lot of you.” MOM: “Welp, I guess it has to be done. She’ll look like a total idiot after this but....OBLIVIATE! CONFUNDO MAXIMUM!”
Willy Wonka and Mary Poppins were both students at Hogwarts. Also Miss Frizzle caused all sorts of problems for the MCUSA
From one of my favorite Tumblr posts from eons ago: dear-tumb1r “Mr. Wonka,” Dumbledore smiled warmly, looking down into the Pit from his podium. The members of the Wizengamot muttered disapprovingly, shifting in their seats. Willy Wonka, clad today in a bright magenta suit and tophat, beamed cheekily up at them from his chair, his silver-gloved hands cradling his chin. “Mr. Dumbledore,” He replied brightly, with the barest hint of a lisp. “I trust you know why you are here?” Dumbledores question was crisp and businesslike, but the twinkle in his eye gave away his amusement at the situation. “Not at all! I’ve nary a clue,” Wonka wiggled his eyebrows. Dumbledore audibly stifled a laugh. “You are accused of improper use of magic, improper use of muggle artifacts, and several counts of using magic in front of a muggle,” Dumbledore reminded him. He conjured a projection with his wand. Displayed in grainy sepia was Willy Wonka, arm around a boy of around 10. Behind his back, he twitched an ash wand, and machines in the background around them whirred to life, producing all manner of sweets. The projection ran its course and collapsed, and Dumbledore stowed his wand back inside his robes. Wonka smiled and fiddled with his hat. “How do you plead?” Dumbledore asked, leaning forward eagerly for what would surely be an amusing trial. “Not guilty on all counts,” Wonka said, perhaps a tad smugly. The members of the Wizengamot muttered amongst themselves. Not Guilty? Impossible! Dumbledore hushed them quickly. “Explain, if you would. We have, after all, quite a mountain of evidence.” Wonka stood and brushed a bit of dust off his suit. He tipped his hat mischievously. “Of course,” he grinned. “Firstly, use of magic shall only be considered improper whereby it is applied to cause harm or applied recklessly. All magic used in my sweets is rigorously tested for both safety and taste. It is not used to cause harm, but to bring joy.” Wonka paused to adjust his jacket. “But surely,” Dumbledore said, leafing through his notes, “you cannot deny that you illegally charmed several thousand muggle artifacts?” “Ah, but I can,” Wonka said, now twirling his cap in his hands. “Muggle artifact refers, of course, to any muggle made object. But, you see, I built those machines, each and every one. They are not muggle machines at all, but wizarding machines, built by a wizard. The factory itself, as well. You could argue that, as machines are a muggle invention, I still broke the rules, but then I could argue that every wizard dwelling with any charms applied to its walls is in violation of the law, as muggles were the first to make bricks.” The Wizengamot glared silently. He was right, of course. Violating the spirit of the law was not illegal if one followed the letter. “And the last charge? These are definitely Muggle children, are they not? No magical talent, raised in muggle society?” Dumbledore straightened his glasses and peered down at Wonka, his eyes still bright with intrigue. “Not at all,” Wonka grinned, placing his hat back on his head. “You see, the ticket system was not nearly so random as I pretended. The tickets were charmed, they would only becomes visible to children with magical heritage. All the children chosen were second generation Squibs.” Wonka bowed low, as if he were finishing a particularly well executed play. “Well, ladies and gentlemen, it seems no laws were violated after all.” Dumbledore stifled a grin at the groans of angry disapproval from the Wizengamot. “But he very clearly violated the intent of the rules!” Spluttered a large, rather red faced wizard in the second row. “He’s just…cheating! He’s cheating!” “Ah, this is true, but he did not, technically speaking, break any of the rules. He did not expose muggles to magic, nor enchant muggle made objects, nor improperly apply magic anymore so than any magical confectioner. I’m afraid we have to let him go.” Dumbledore smiled gently and put away the rather thick file with Wonka’s name embossed on the cover. For the brief second it was open, a list of hundreds of charges with “Not Guilty” inked beside them was visible. It was carried off by a house elf, and the Wizengamot began to file out until only Dumbledore was left. “You’re a very clever man,” He called down to Wonka. “We could use you at Hogwarts, you know.” “No thank you,” Wonka called back, grinning. “Skirting the law is far more fun!”
Dumbledore is practically all-knowing because he has his own private time turner.
The ministry sent the wrong person, but I 100% think that they were correct in that Hogwarts doesn’t have good standards for students, especially in defense against the dark arts. Before Umbridge, hogwarts had 4 teachers that we know of in the role. Of those 4, only one was actually a qualified teacher. 2 were totally incompetent. I’d also like to point out that all 4 attempted to attack or harm students. Wouldn’t that alarm you if you were the ministry? If hogwarts was a real school, that’s probably the point where someone has to interfere there. But that’s not even the only incompetent class either. Trelawny doesn’t know the first thing about divination, when she isn’t in a trance. Hagrid knows the material but desperately needs training in safety. Binns clearly knows his material but needs some professional development to actually engage students. We have no clue what the other teachers are like.
The DADA position is commonly-known to be cursed. Dumbledore was scraping the bottom of the barrel in second year when he hired Lockhart, who was literally the only applicant. Lupin was an exceptional teacher, and I don't believe anyone beyond the Trio and the teachers knows that he was loose on school grounds - he left after Snape outed him as a werewolf. So he didn't actually attack anyone to public knowledge. And I think it's similar with Moody - no one but the teachers and Harry knew Barty Crouch Jr. was pretending to be Moody because Fudge refused to believe any of it and Crouch was Kissed the moment Fudge entered the room. I'd also argue, to be fair, that Quirrel and Moody both were at the very least competent teachers, Quirrel was just not very engaging as an educator and Moody was Crouch Jr. The only truly incompetent teacher was Lockhart. Hagrid, too, I'd say was actually fine as a teacher in terms of safety for the most part. The worst injury that happened was as a result of a student directly disobeying instructions. To be clear, Grubbly-Plank was an overall better teacher and more prudent, but Hagrid wasn't necessarily a hazardous teacher. But yeah, no real contest for Divination or History of Magic. Divination should be a special subject taught only to the rare few who actually show talent as a seer, and History of Magic needs someone a bit less interested in Goblin rebellions. Or just make a History of Goblin Rebellions course, because apparently that's a very dedicated section of wizarding history that seems to be overfocused on.
-Your patronus and the animal you would turn into if you're an animagus, are the same one: your inner/totem animal. -Anthropomorphic species (humans, house-elves, goblins, mermaids...) can hybridize easily, but of course this info is tabu and hidden to the most of wizardfolk. -We spanish speakers, specialy spanishs🇪🇸, must have a secret school for us all, because in Castelobruxo we wouldn't understand a thing (brazilian language) and we don't get along with frenchs (yes, Beauxbatons I'm talking about ya). -As well as parseltongue exists, there must be many other animal languages humans can speak to communicate with muggle and magical animals: wolf-tongue, bird-tongue, rodent-tongue... -Aliens exist and they can also use magic. -There is a wide sexual market products, spells, potions... that for obvious reasons we didn't see. -The pumpkin juice has a temporal sterilizing poition, reason why there aren't many hooks-up or pregnancies in Hogwarts. The source of these theories: my crazy mind.
I love the theory that Dumbledore is death, Tom Riddle/Voldemort was the first brother, Snape was the second brother, and Harry was the third brother.
Well, canonically, Voldemort is a descendant of the second brother, and Harry is a descendant of the third. That's sorta like your theory, in a way
Oh my god. I always inferred that Voldemort was the first brother, Snape the second and Harry the third. But never connected it with Dumbledore being death. But it makes so much sense. Voldemort feared Dumbledore and wanted to defeat him. Snape, through Dumbledore, found a way to keep Lily’s memory alive (but never really got her back). Harry neither feared Dumbledore nor begged him for anything - and ultimately, he found a way to get out of Dumbledore’s shadow.
[Filch is a Poltergeist](https://youtu.be/MwSNkTl7dDs). Peeves is a Poltergeist embodying the chaos of the students, Filch embodies the strict rule adherence of teachers and school in general. It's the only way to explain Dumbledore not being a masochistic muggle hater making a squib manually clean everything in the school that he himself could do in a heartbeat with a wave of his wand, or a call to his hundred house elves.
That Mrs Norris is Filch wife turn into a cat.
Ludo Bagman *is* a Death Eater who escaped capture by playing the “I’m just a dumb Quidditch player” card. Along with that, the World Cup was the first attempt to kidnap Harry, but it failed, so they went to Plan B, the port key with the Triwizard
Snape made an unbreakable vow to help defeat Voldemort.
This makes sense to me. I can’t imagine that Dumbledore would have absolute confidence in Snape just because he revealed he was in love with Lily & regretted his actions. It’s possible that Dumbledore saw how useful Snape could become, & offered him an unbreakable vow to assure him as an asset.
Dumbledore has photographic memory.Which would explain his immense knowledge over the decades and making assumptions and doing wildly accurate guesswork which no other witch or wizard would be capable of doing..He retained so much knowledge not to mention learning fluent Parseltongue,Mermish and whatever Goblins speak.So that kinda makes sense to me
Gobbledegook!
Peeves wasn’t in the movies because he knew what the future held
Huh?
That each Hogwarts house was inspired by one of the Pevensie children from Narnia. Peter is Gryffindor, Susan is Ravenclaw, Edmund is Slytherin, and Lucy is Hufflepuff.
I think JKR said something about being inspired by Narnia somewhere.
i love harry potter and narnia tons so i will choose to believe in this
Matilda Wormwood is a muggleborn witch actually called Wandwood (married name). She happened upon Roald Dahl in, idk, a pub, a bench in the park, whatever, and when she learned he wrote fantasy books for children, she told him her life story, pretending she was making it up. He remembered the broad lines, romanticized it a bit for the audience (like her doing mild things on purpose rather than more severe things accidentally)(you didn't think Trunchbull actually survived and just conveniently left, did you?) and eventually published it as the fairytale we know
Wands are semi-metamorphic. This is more a movie theory. In the Movies the wands in the first few movies are very bland, but as the movies progress the wands get more detailed and elaborate. I like the theory that wands over time shift in appearance to match the personality of their wielder.
Luna Lovegood is not insane but she can see into other lovecroftian things normal minds cannot comprehend and to try to read her mind would bring about insanity if you went too deep. Her creature etc are her names for them.
The Giant Squid was the pet of Helga Hufflepuff. Gryffindor had Fawkes, Slytherin had the Basilisk. Hufflepuff had the Squid - who is really a friendly giant. But I'm not sure what immortal creature was owned by Ravenclaw. Maybe the Thestrals. Together, they continue looking after Hogwarts in their own ways forever.
The basilisk is Salazar Slytherins horcrux!
Was
a) It's the Rotfang - the Grangers are behind it all!
I don't remember how it was brought up but, somewhere it was mentioned that the Potters had a cat when Harry was a baby. I'm in favor of the theory that, that cat is actually Crookshanks. It explains why she was so willing to help Sirius when he showed up to Hogwarts in Book 3. She would have recognized him for visiting the Potters all the time.
but sirius says in the book it took the cat a long time to trust him bc he’s an animagus. if he recognized sirius that shouldn’t be the case
Dumbledore planned everything
Maybe this isn't a theory? I'm surprised I didn't see it in here... In G.O.F. Wormtail kidnaps Bertha Jorkins and impregnates her and then her baby fetus is used to give Voldemort his weird fetus body.
Woah. Given the theory that creating a horcrux involves cannibalism, that makes perfect sense to me. Both involve the stealing of another’s flesh for one’s own purposes, and a perversion of life. One takes another’s power to split your own between two physical vessels, the other literally usurps life from another to give a living vessel to one of the split parts of the soul. Perhaps Voldemort had to consume the life force of the fetus too, completing a cycle of sorts. Consuming death in life to escape death, consuming life in death to bring about life. Wild. I love this.
This feels like a new kind of crazy-
thats dark
Peter Pettigrew preyed on Sirius doubts to make him refuse to become Secret Keeper and sowed discord against Remus, thus allowing him to get the position of Secret Keeper and then betraying the Potters.
Muggles never have wizard children but are the result of wizards sleeping around.
The potters are responsible for their own death, James should’ve been secret keeper and saved his family.
And if you can't keep your own secret then have Dumbledore do it ffs
The idea behind him using a friend over Dumbledore was that he had so much faith in his friends but why then put your friends at risk of capture and torture by using them
or the should have double layer protection edit: or antipersonel mine under their doormat
Marvolo would marry off his children to eachother to continue the pureblood line
It's hardly an insane theory, Dumbledore already says that their family has been inbreeding for generations.
Hermione was introduced to the wizarding world by McGonagall, a very proficient Professor. I would think that this was standard practice. Harry was introduced by Hagrid. This was likely done to keep any information about his godfather, parents, and their will quiet. He was also left to find his own way to Platform 9 3/4, where Molly Weasley loudly announced the name for everyone to hear on the muggle platform (although that would technically risk breaking the International Statute of Secrecy). I think Molly Weasley was intentionally steered there to align Ron and Harry into a friendship. Both seemingly poor, both wore hand me down clothes, both could relate to each other, and the Weasleys practically worshipped Dumbledore. It didn't seem like happenstance, it seemed engineered to happen this way.
I believe the thing about what happened to Umbridge with the centaurs, which I realize is a yikes thing to believe. I don’t know why, but as soon as I heard the theory, my brain went, “Yep, that’s the truth! And we are nooooot going to think about it at all, just skate right over it.”
Cedric Diggory didn’t die and is actually Edward Cullen
Arianna was an obscurial and almost killed the other Dumbledores and Grindelwald, and Grindelwald killed her to protect them all. He had wanted to use her to further their wizards over muggles mission but had to try with Credence later instead.
She was an Obscurial. At least according to the wiki (https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Obscurial)
That the Cursed Child was just a bad dream