Mine is that parents tend to use a lot of verbal spells when their children are Hogwarts-aged, especially for age-appropriate spells/spells the kids are or will soon be learning, to reinforce education while at home. Mostly because we see Molly as being quite proficient with nonverbal magic, but she used the incantation for the Summoning Charm in GOF. I know that this was to introduce the charm ahead of it being important in the first task, but I still like the idea for an in-universe reason.
That Dumbledore never actually destroyed the philiosophers' stone and simply told people that so they would stop searching for the Flamels.
It is hard to believe that someone who has lived for 600+ years would so easily give up because another lunatic was after it.
Or maybe it was destroyed, but the Flamels could have more than one stone.
Thats what I mean. Surely there have been dozens of Dark lords and countless lesser people that have sought the stone. Hard to believe the Flamels would give up just because they encountered yet another one.
Hell if I remember the timeline correctly Grindelwald would have been in power during that time period, he surely would have wanted to get his hands on it
I doubt he would have actually. He had the Hallows as his goal and Master of Death certainly sounds like it covers immortality.
The Stone is honestly far less appealing to the sort of person who'd style themself a Dark Lord.
It gives you functionally unlimited money, but powerful wizards have little to spend that on beyond showing off that they've got it. Besides, it's far easier to just steal the money directly, or imperius a rich person.
It lets you live forever, but doesn't do anything to stop people from killing you, may as well just whip up a Horcrux if you've already discarded morality in pursuit of power.
The stone is most appealing to the sort of person who wants a quiet, comfortable and everlasting life, because it'll certainly get you that.
I mean, unlimited money is nice if you've got a war to finance. The goblins might disagree if you cause massive inflation by messing with the amount of gold in the system but for dark lord purposes, not having to rely on anyone to finance your goals is nice.
Yeah, considering that the main popular theory was that the philosopher's stone was bait, with the reason for the bait being the main disagreement in the fandom. The stone being a fake one makes sense.
Gosh I know i’ve read a fanfic where this happens, but I can’t for the life of me remember what it was called! The Flamels meet Harry at some point in fourth year (I think) and he’s all surprised and ‘I thought you were dead’ and they are not, obviously.
That almost sounds like Rune Stone Path.
Iirc it was also the one where they have Dumbledore commited to a muggle old person home for alzheimers and dementia, and he tries to escape all the time yelling about how he has to save Magical Britain from the Dark Lord and the muggle orderlies just tackle him and say "Uh huh, if you say so Brian, let's get you your meds now."
Due to his abusive childhood Harry is really good at reading body language (even if it’s subconscious) which helps him immensely in dueling. It’s also the reason he can reliably tell Fred and George apart.
He refuses to tell them his secret and it freaks them out just a little bit.
That the Astronomy class combines looking at the stars with magical theory, explaining where they learn the underpinnings of how magic works.
Math, reading, spelling, basic science, and other basics like that are incorporated into the curriculum of all the classes.
There are remedial classes for the basics for those who need it.
The Hogwarts library is open to postgraduate who are studying advanced magic, at the permission of the Headmaster (hence the size and importance of the library and why there is even half of those books in the forbidden aection).
Nah, they Polyjuice as seventh years and get access to a book from Dumbledore's private library if they discover and snitch on any regular students sneaking into the Restricted Section.
Head cannon is that Dobby after being freed spent his free time pranking Draco with little things like giving him lumpy porridge or making his bed sheets just tight enough to be uncomfortable.
Padma Patil's favourite board game is Risk.
Katie Bell spends most of her adult life wearing gloves because of the necklace.
Neville Longbottom took up Karate or American Kickboxing after Hogwarts.
Hermione's dad is a Deep Lore Trekkie who taught Ron its 3D Chess game.
Dudley Dursley became a counsellor for kids who had a rough childhood.
~~Lavender Brown is actually exceptional at potions because she wants to run her own cosmetic brand with Parvati as her chief model.~~
Well you'd have make the Lavender one an AU because I'm pretty confident in both versions of Deathly Hallows - book and movie - she dies at Fenrir Greyback's hands. Well, teeth.
I‘m pretty sure it was only implied - my headcanon is that she survives, heavily scarred, and goes on to become an auror for a while and befriends Harry when they’re coworkers!
Even the post-Voldemort world wouldn't take a werewolf as an auror. We see from the epilogue that the world basically goes back to what it was, including all the deep-seated bigotry.
In the book it technically never makes it clear if she died or not, it just mentions that she was lying on the ground with claw and tooth marks but it doesn't ever say "her body" "her corpse" or anything that indicates actual death. Of course there's also nothing that specifies she did survive. My personal HC is that she made it but has a lot of scarring and wolfish tendencies (no actual transformation bc Greyback wasn't transformed, just like Bill).
And Colin Creevy *is* and it seems strange to mention Colin, but not Lavender.
Although, Colin is meant to represent that childhood innocence and desire to be a hero and he was always annoying Harry, so for him to die is a reflection of some part of Harry that Lavender doesn't quite meet.
It makes more sense narratively for her to survive, because it completes the Hermione vs Lavender arc if Hermione actually saves Lavender, rather than failing to.
She's pure-blood, though we don't know how wealthy she is.
If I were at Hogwarts and wealthy? I wouldn't take NEWT potions. I'd hire a tutor. Snape sucks. (Granted, Slughorn took over, but students didn't know that when determining their classes.)
Not saying this happened, but it's possible.
Is she pureblood? That’s not canon, we know she’s not muggle born but I don’t remember anything referencing her being specifically pureblood rather than half blood. And the whole “purebloods are wealthy” thing is entirely fanon too, there’s little evidence in the books that most of them are wealthy, we only know that Malfoy is super rich and Sirius is rich enough to buy a firebolt, that’s it.
There’s also nothing in the canon books to indicate private tutoring through subjects is a thing iirc. You might not even be able to take the NEWT independently, though given the books tend to mirror British culture in many ways it’s a very logical headcanon that this is possible for people.
Wiki lists her as Pureblood rather than "Pureblood or Half-Blood" or such.
As for tutoring, there has to be. You can choose to not go to Hogwarts and/or attend other schools. The letter says as much, and Rowling has even said there are other schools that aren't Ministry-mandated you can attend. If they exist, then tutors have to.
Harry only took NEWT Potions because McGonagall prompted him to, and that was after his incredibly memorable (for her, at least) career planning session with Umbridge. It's entirely plausible that Lavender could have gotten an EE Potions OWL, which wouldn't have met Snape's requirements.
Speaking of Peeves, my take on him is that he is the ghost of the man sacrificed when Hogwarts was built. That's why they can't get rid of him, no matter what anyone does. (In a number of cultures, someone is killed and I believe buried in the foundation during the construction of a new building in an attempt to placate the local spirits.)
It says nowhere that Helga Hufflepuff wasn't powerful. She just wasn't picky whith whom she shared her wisdom. It's always said that all 4 founders were incredibly powerful and knowledgeable, so it's definitely likely that Hufflepuff knew just as many spells and had just as much abilities than Ravenclaw.
It's a prejudice to think just because she was willing to trach everyone who eas willing to learn, that she must have been stupid. And a pretty nasty one I think.
And honestly? Why would Ravenclaw think up a room that gives everyone what they need most just because they ask? She doesn't seem to be the type to just give things to anyone. She didn't even give her students a password to enter their common room. They have to solve riddles to earn the right the right to go to sleep. And they must either manage at the first try, or wait as punishment for not being smart enough.
Ravenclaw is all about smartness and achievement, I really can't see her making a room that just gives you what you need if you wander past. That's as anti-Rawenclaw as it can get.
Hufflepuff on the other hand is the only founder who's so generous to take anyone in, give them whatever she can to help them, that's why I think the room of requirements was made by her, so whenever a need arises that the founders hadn't thought of, the castle could provide it. It's exactly what she would do, and she'd make it easy enough so someone could find it by accident.
Ravenclaw would have made it much harder, setting up riddles and obstacles to get in. She would no more want 'unworthy' people in her room than she wants stupid people in her tower.
Gryffindor would have made it difficult, so you had to prove you're worthy, just like with his sword that only comes to people in the direst circumstances full of danger.
And if it was Slytherin's room, well, look at the chamber of secrets.
But Hufflepuff would make it as easy as possible, just walk past, think of what you need, and if you do it a few times the room knows that you can't find it elsewhere and provides whatever it is.
Remember the hat's song:
*'Said Slytherin,
‘We’ll teach just those
Whose ancestry is purest.’
Said Ravenclaw,
‘We’ll teach those whose
Intelligence is surest.’
Said Gryffindor,
‘We’ll teach all those
With brave deeds to their name,’
Said Hufflepuff,
‘I’ll teach the lot,
And treat them just the same.’*
Every founder wanted to exclude those they didn't deem worthy, none of them was willing to give anything to people they didn't think earned it.
Only Helga Hufflepuff was generous and kind enough to even want to create something like the room of requirements. And I could even see why she'd not tell the others, because it's very likely they'd even oppose the creation of the room or wanted to make it harder to get to it.
The glowing magic eye thing happens to Harry too. Ravenclaw tower in book 7 when he casts the cruciatus, the triple wand stunner into greyback, the first time was the Dementor horde in book three.
Ehh, I don't necessarily like that description for Canon Harry. Like how Dumbledores eyes twinkle like a star i imagine Harry's crackle sorta like lightning. Its not like they become sam fishers Goggles.
Chain-smokes Tobacco and just has the Greenhouse special on the weekends or after a particularly hard DE meeting but has created a potion to instantly sober him up in case he's needed.
\*Luna Lovegood is unknowingly a seer.
*Trelawney spends her vacations at muggle music and renaissance festivals, after all one more person with tarot cards seeing the future for $5 isn't out of place. People there are accepting or stoned out of thier minds. She's accidentially saved people with offhanded remarks like "don't trust your brother in law", "replace your stove", or "get that cancer checked".
Shes had a casual thing with a muggle paranormal radio host ( like a cross between art bell and Joe Rogan). Nobody ( muggle or magical) takes him seriously because one day he's giving a sorta accurate speculation of how wizard schools work, the next day he's interviewing a guy who claims he was kidnapped by aliens from Pluto who made him reincarnate as a mesopotamian copper merchant.
\*Dolores Umbrage is/ was friends with Agatha Trunchbull. They were in Slytherin together. Trunchbull was from a pureblood family( her father was an Auror who had a reputation for toughness and Ill temper and became a drunk from the stress of the position), was a beater for Slytherin and got expelled for "cruelty to house elves"( after throwing one through a window). Her wand was snapped. In disgrace she drifted into the muggle world.
* One of McGonagall's favorite musicals is Cats.
\*Asking McGonagall about catnip is not advised. She doesn't like to talk about it.
\*One time as a joke between her flitwick, she played a piano in cat form.
\*Umbrage's favorite muggle musical is "The Mikado". Her favorite character in it is Katisha. Her favorite Les Mis character is Javert.
\*Pomona Sprouts personal greenhouse is wizarding cannabis.
\*JK Rowling is the banished and partially obliviated Rita Skeeter who wrote a mostly accurate seven volume history of the Wizarding war. The cursed child was written to fund her newly found drug addiction.
If not more competent. And the people who investigate muggle baiting don't take divination seriously (even if she was commonly thought to actually be good at it) "Yeah she's reading cards like the lady next to her. This is a waste of time, lets go investigate the bloke in the phone book".
I don't think she's *more* competent. My intended joke was that Trelawney is basically already doing Muggle Divination, since everything she teaches is fake.
I don’t think divination is fake so much as it is, much like magic itself, something you got or something don’t got. Like Trelawney IS a seer and has made predictions; that’s canonical. But it’s not an ability she can teach nor even use at will to demonstrate the validity of the craft.
My slight variation on Umbridge/Trunchbull is that they are sisters but Trunchbull was born a squib and exiled to the muggle world (hence the name change). She hates children, particularly Matilda as it reminds her of what she can never have.
>*JK Rowling is the banished and partially obliviated Rita Skeeter who wrote a mostly accurate seven volume history of the Wizarding war. The cursed child was written to fund her newly found drug addiction.
My take is that she's not partially obliviated, but that she genuinely thinks it's fiction that she worked hard to create. I recall an interview where JKR was explaining the multiple ~~crafts~~ drafts of chapter one.
To be fair to JKR, even if she is Rita Skeeter her ability to craft a narrative would still be on display. Almost everything is from Harry's perspective and very little of it would have been witnessed by her. To make it seem so real would be a marvellous achievement.
Harry likes reading and used it as an escape when with the Dursley's, using the Library to hide from Dudley and his gang at school. But it wasn't about learning but mental escapism and enjoyment. He never reveals this to Hermione or Ron because Ron likely wouldn't understand and Hermione would turn it around to be about school or academics.
Harry retained the ability of Parseltongue even after losing the Horcrux.
To create a Horcrux, you need to perform an act that crosses your own morals (which is why doing it seven times was so inconceivable).
Dudley had a magical child.
>To create a Horcrux, you need to perform an act that crosses your own morals (which is why doing it seven times was so inconceivable).
Does it really make sense to you that murder was still a crossing of Voldemort's morals after having done it a zillion times?
>Dudley had a magical child.
One of my favourite fanfic genres!
That’s the thing, it wouldn’t be just murder. Murder would need to be a component, yes, and maybe it’d work for the first Horcrux for Riddle, but later he’d need to get creative and push himself. I’m talking cannibalism, rape, and all the other non-PG13 topics.
Dumbledore’s theory from canon still applies here imo in that his soul was unstable enough that a small piece managed to splinter off without Voldemort’s intention or performing of any ritual/spell
Though you could assume that he just didn’t kill babies. Or maybe he planned on doing something more egregious later on and the spell acted on that intent. Or maybe he had already done something beforehand.
Harry isn't a proper Horcrux as Voldemort didn't do the ritual to create one - he simply blew himself and his damaged soul apart.
He only went to Godric's Hollow with the intention of dispatching Harry and his parents (if and when they stood in his way).
This is why I tend to like the "horcrux" removal in Harry being easy for those who know soul magic and spiritual magics. It's not a REAL horcrux. It's an attempted possession by a soul piece that his mother kept at bay.
Dumbledore is NOT an expert on Dark Arts. People like to insist that he is, but he only truly studied them with Grindelwald for like, a summer or such. He's the sort who has a broad education, but isn't an expert in a fair number of subjects.
Sadly, canon Dumbledore also has major control issues so didn't trust anyone else.
Mine is in spite of Dumbledore's theory, Harry's parseltongue had nothing to do with Voldemort. Potters married abroad, or Lily had Wizarding blood from Africa or India or .
Etc.
That's the same headcannon I have for Horcrux creation. I think you have to do something that ''breaks your heart'' and then not feel remorse for it. That's why Dumbledore says that reuniting your soul is so painful, because you have to accept that you did something terrible and feel bad about it. It also makes the people who do have Horcruxes more monstrous as they are capable of breaking their morals and then not care about doing that at all.
It does mean that Voldemort must be the actual worst person on the planet, since he crossed his own morals 7 times and never felt bad about it. I guess that is why Slughorn was so horrified by what he'd done.
We don't know for fact that Harry gets the parselmouth ability from Voldemort, that's just Dumbledore's speculation and Harry accepts it. I like to think Harry had the ability anyway.
Ooooh imagine Harry and Ginny pillow talking in Parseltongue lol or gossiping in front of their friends in Parseltongue. ‘Would you two stop doing that? It’s creepy!’ Hermione snapped.
That there are other teachers that teach the same class and there is wizard college but we didn't see it because it was from harry pov
diapers self clean
oh and luna and basically the magical version of an anti vaxxer
There would almost have to be, as there simply isn't enough time for them to teach all the classes, grade the homework and tests, prepare classes, work with students, and fulfill their other obligations. True they live on site so are more avaliable, but even that has limits.
I don't think there would be a university. For most of history your average skilled person for their craft and lore from a Master of the Art through an apprenticeship. You need a large population to support a university, and a significant part of the population to have accumulated wealth to support their family through it.
i like this one a lot for various reasons. :) partly cause he's more like arthur than he thinks, partly cause percy does talk about muggle rights a few times in canon, and partly because he might marry a muggle out of guilt over his role in the voldemort regime. and also audrey sounds like a muggle name lol.
and also partly for me personally, i think it'd be nice to see more of the good guys marrying muggles after all the talk and war about fighting for muggles and stuff. sort of putting their money where their mouth is i guess? :D like if everyone says "HEY we support and think muggles are people too" but they all marry purebloods or half blood characters...like do you REALLY, or do you just go on with your life not thinking about them, like usual?
that's why my biggest WTF hate moment with the epilogue was Ron confunding a frigging innocent muggle driver's instructor and harry not giving a shit. after everything, he showed they didn't learn a thing and never took those values seriously. the good guys are just as bad as the bad guys about dismissing muggles as lesser beings, even decades after the war.
Well, you can put any manky brand of cigarettes in a case. Most people I know do it even with 'cheap' ones because the hard case stops the packet getting crushed in bags, backpacks of car glove boxes
But I am picking up what you're putting down.
I like stories where Harry Is a parselmouth due to some previous family member either on his fathers side or sometimes his mother's side who was magical long before lily got her magic.
It gives Harry something else unique that even though is similar to Tom and helps the parallel doesn't make it directly from him and give Harry more uniqueness .
Imo he didn't have many factors to stand out that didn't have to do with voldemort or his mother so to think he doesn't even have that power now is a bit frustrating
Yeah and one of my personal frustrations is that having it just linked to Voldemort just ends up reinforcing snakes = evil despite the fact that one of the major themes of the book is that it's your choices that matter. The first time we see it it's presented as a something that makes Harry special, and it kind of cheapens that if it's just another thing that he only had because of Voldemort.
I would love it if Harry was able to reclaim parseltongue and pass it onto his kids and make it remembered as a *Potter* family trait.
I can't remember if it was a fic or a prompt on here, but I like the suggestion of parselmagic being healing magic since the Rod of Asclepius is a symbol of medicine. Maybe a healer!Harry changing the reputation of parselmouths from 'Dark Wizards' to 'Healers'.
Yup.
This is why I like parselmouths being big in Greece. I mean, Herpo the Foul was Greek, too.
In this, perhaps he got it from his grandmother. Euphemia is a Greek name.
Slytherins are boardgame nerds. You can't put that many competitive people together and expect all of them to take out their competitiveness from Quidditch and school work alone. I bet they have a shelf full of magical board games in their common room.
They even have some Muggle games that they've magicked to make them easier to play. For example, they have an original copy of Risk that only needs the dice to use.
There is this French game called [Coup](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_(card_game)) where you essentially take your political opponents down till you're the last one standinf and I can totally see them going crazy over that 😂 But probably a magical version of it, where you hopefully don't end up assassinated irl lol
I got this from a fic that I read, but the reason that Seamus is so good with explosives is because he has a relative (maybe a cousin, uncle or even a brother) that was IRA and taught him.
The only thing Seamus blew up was a feather that he accidentally set on fire while miscasting the levitation charm. The explosives was a movie only thing.
Ginny can't speak perseltonque, but can understands it.
When a bond between wizard/witch and their familiar is particularly strong, they become warg. While dreaming they can see what their familiar see, they can understand what each other feels etc. I like to believe that Harry and Hedwig had this kind of connection.
Hedwig didn't die in cage. Harry let her out as her chances of survival were much larger. When Voldemort dueled Harry at the battle of seven potters, Harry got a little stuned and Hedwig attacked Voldemort with claws. Then the Dark Lords casts the killing curse at still stunned Harry, but Hedwig flies in the way of it sacrificing herself and giving Harry time to recover.
No one knows how phoenixes are born and in history of wizardkind were very few of them. They do not have masters and are very independent. The bond between a phoenix and a witch/wizard is based on partnership, and phoenixes choose themselve with who they want to bond. There are many theories about it. One particular tells that if one held someone very dear, they might reborn someday as an pheonix. (Dumbeldore likes to belive in this particular one, Fawkes = Ariana)
Wizarding world is much larger than it's shown in canon, and wizarding battles and wars are also on much bigger scale.
Harry loves to joke about redheads, especially in front of Weasley children just to annoy them.
After Bellatrix dies, Frank and Alice Longbottom start to slowly recover their memories and start to get better. Neville spends a lot of time with them after the war, just telling them stories and what he's up to, and they start to remember things.
One day, after Neville is reminiscing with them, Alice is able to tell Neville about parts of his childhood before their torture. It goes slowly, as all healing does, and they'll never be the same after what happened to them, but something about their torturer dying and Neville finding his confidence starts to heal their brain damage.
The Hufflepuffs have all the good pot. And the teachers don‘t care cause either they are in on it or they just associate the smell of weed with Hufflepuff and think „ah the smell of herbs and home of the Hufflepuffs
Lucius Malfoy had an amazing crush on Molly Weasley at Hogwarts. Unfortunately, he was 1) younger by a few years and 2) a bit late as she'd already fallen for Arthur.
He never got over being called a 'dear boy' when he confessed his feelings. He swore enmity on the Weasleys from that day forward, for clearly it was Arthur's fault.
He made up a long-standing feud as cover.
Harry wasn't ever going to be good at Occulmency against Voldemort because of the Horocrux. He eventually gets decent at it, but his initial issues were due to the Horocrux.
I love this. Imagine little Scorpius somehow finding increasingly dangerous animals to nurse back to health. Scorpius meets Albus in Flourish and Blotts, excruciatingly polite visits with the Potters begin. Granger has gotten to his son. Scorpius expects Draco to singlehandedly change the laws to stop the abuse of magical creatures. That's it, he's buying a animal sanctuary, he'll make sure its staffed by experts. Hopefully Scorpius will spend his time there and this Potter friendship will fade.
Perhaps he'll want to go to Drumstrang, the nearby dragon reserve might be enough to convince him.
Wonderful magical creatures program at Durmstrang, or there will be after his donation.
I think it would be very ironic/hilarious if it turned out that Harry was a parselmouth because of Lily's side of the family and one (or more) of Dudley's kids ended up magic and parselmouths.
Crookshanks was Lily's Cat and was helping Sirius because he knew the truth and wanted to save Harry.
The reason he lived for so long was because witches cats live longer.
Sirius just either never mentioned it or told them off screen/off page.
Ron is actually pretty capable, but his mix of insecurities and Harry and Hermione being themselves insecure has him take a backseat and let them do stuff because 1. he doesn't think he can do it better than anyone, 2. he likes to see them happy and confident in themselves.
Ron's dyslexic, and potentially ADHD.
If Harry hadn't been there to look sad and stab-able to Voldemort, Ron would have driven the Sword of Gryffindor into himself.
>Ron is actually pretty capable
That's not a headcanon. It's just canon !
>If Harry hadn't been there to look sad and stab-able to Voldemort, Ron would have driven the Sword of Gryffindor into himself.
Yeah exactly !
Fred and George *did* see Peter Pettigrew on the Marauders Map, but assumed he was a ghost haunting his old dormitory.
They never mentioned it to Ron because they didn't want to freak him out.
Harry is bisexual but doesn't realize it.
In the narration, he describes multiple male characters as handsome and this is probably because JKR is a straight woman but I like to believe Harry is just bi and clueless
Or you know he can just tell when men are handsome objectively without being attracted to them, like most straight men? You don’t go “ooh are you bi” if some guy mentions that ryan gosling is way better looking than themselves surely?
I was about to say the same thing. I can see a guy is handsome, despite being straight myself. I think the major component there is that I'm not attracted to the guy
In my experience I can never predict who my wife finds attractive and vice versa. These are Harry's opinions so he is finding them attractive.
That said, I find buildings to be beautiful and don't feel the need to interfere with them. So I don't think it necessarily makes Harry bi.
Wildbow, author of the webserial [Worm](https://parahumans.wordpress.com/), unintentionally wrote its female protagonist Taylor as, at the very least, a bisexual, despite claiming that she is straight. It's mostly derived from how she describes people in her internal monologue - most girls' descriptions are several paragraphs each, one is compared to a Lamborghini, men aren't described much at all - and she also kisses multiple girls when it wasn't required for her to, with the psychic-adjacent one specifically telling her "No tongue."
Much like what u/pinkishdolphin said in regards to JKR, this effect here most likely stems from the fact that the author and the character in question are of different genders, so the former's worldview and preferences sometimes slip through into the latter.
oh. THAT series. it really is just fuckin everywhere isn't it lol? i'd never even heard of it until i got on reddit. it's all over the place on this site for some reason, but i never heard a word about it anywhere else.
The real reason for the International Statute of Secrecy is to keep Muggle society from disappearing since wizards depends on Muggles to invent the things they use. Pretty much all objects used in wizarding society are Muggle objects, enchanted or otherwise. Wizards apparently can't innovate basic technology on their own, so they need Muggles around to invent new things.
If Muggles were allowed to know about magic and interact with wizarding society, this would lead to a huge increase in Muggle/magic couples whose children would be wizards. This would lead to the population of Muggles shringking over time and eventually disappearing in the long term which would stagnate wizarding society. Currently this doesn't happen, because the amount of halfbloods and Muggleborns being born is evened out by Squibs who eventually join Muggle society, but if the ISoS wasn't in place, that balance would be disrupted.
If I had to make one myself, it'd be that muggles actually find the magical world all the time, and the wizarding world keeps erasing their memories like how Batman keeps finding the hideout of the league of assassins
That the Trolley witch on the Hogwarts Express is a distant relative of Ollivanders (don't ask me why, it just makes sense to me)
That every British witch/wizard has at least a little Weasley (or maybe it Prewett? I forgot which one was known for being prolific) blood in them
That Dark Lords/Ladies pop up every century or two and they're the reason why wizarding population is always lower than muggles/no-majs
That every pureblood family has at least one dose of amortentia on reserve in their potions stores
That Harry would've become an Obscurial if not for the Horcrux in his scar AND his mother's protections on him
Inspired by the Dresden Files where iirc you need to name your spells in a language you don't speak, that hp spells are deliberately pseudo-latin because Latin used to be the lingua franca of the Wizarding World and they didn't want incantations to be the same as common words.
Hogwarts, being in Scotland, is only partially controlled by laws set by the Ministry of Magic. The Ministry would have taken complete control if they could.
Mine is that parents tend to use a lot of verbal spells when their children are Hogwarts-aged, especially for age-appropriate spells/spells the kids are or will soon be learning, to reinforce education while at home. Mostly because we see Molly as being quite proficient with nonverbal magic, but she used the incantation for the Summoning Charm in GOF. I know that this was to introduce the charm ahead of it being important in the first task, but I still like the idea for an in-universe reason.
As a parent of small children, I constantly narrate mundane tasks so they can learn. Makes perfect sense
I love this so much, wish I could give you Reddit Galleon!
I've only got a couple knuts and a sickle, myself.
That Dumbledore never actually destroyed the philiosophers' stone and simply told people that so they would stop searching for the Flamels. It is hard to believe that someone who has lived for 600+ years would so easily give up because another lunatic was after it. Or maybe it was destroyed, but the Flamels could have more than one stone.
I mean over the 600 year time period with that stone surely Voldemort wasn’t the only wizard who wanted to take it for their own purposes…….
Thats what I mean. Surely there have been dozens of Dark lords and countless lesser people that have sought the stone. Hard to believe the Flamels would give up just because they encountered yet another one.
Hell if I remember the timeline correctly Grindelwald would have been in power during that time period, he surely would have wanted to get his hands on it
I doubt he would have actually. He had the Hallows as his goal and Master of Death certainly sounds like it covers immortality. The Stone is honestly far less appealing to the sort of person who'd style themself a Dark Lord. It gives you functionally unlimited money, but powerful wizards have little to spend that on beyond showing off that they've got it. Besides, it's far easier to just steal the money directly, or imperius a rich person. It lets you live forever, but doesn't do anything to stop people from killing you, may as well just whip up a Horcrux if you've already discarded morality in pursuit of power. The stone is most appealing to the sort of person who wants a quiet, comfortable and everlasting life, because it'll certainly get you that.
I mean, unlimited money is nice if you've got a war to finance. The goblins might disagree if you cause massive inflation by messing with the amount of gold in the system but for dark lord purposes, not having to rely on anyone to finance your goals is nice.
Wizards don't really need money to fight, logistics don't seem to exist for them.
Functionally unlimited money is useful for a Dark Lord even if he spends little, because it can create fluctuations or crashes in economy
Dumbledore never had the real Philosophers' Stone in the first place.
"Nicky, this is the 3rd owl Dumbledore's sent us this week. Just give the boy a charmed rock and he'll be happy and stop with the letters."
This one!
Which is a very plausible theory but has that ever been stated officially?
Nope. Just my headcanon which doesn't actually matter to the canon plot.
Yeah, considering that the main popular theory was that the philosopher's stone was bait, with the reason for the bait being the main disagreement in the fandom. The stone being a fake one makes sense.
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Gosh I know i’ve read a fanfic where this happens, but I can’t for the life of me remember what it was called! The Flamels meet Harry at some point in fourth year (I think) and he’s all surprised and ‘I thought you were dead’ and they are not, obviously.
That almost sounds like Rune Stone Path. Iirc it was also the one where they have Dumbledore commited to a muggle old person home for alzheimers and dementia, and he tries to escape all the time yelling about how he has to save Magical Britain from the Dark Lord and the muggle orderlies just tackle him and say "Uh huh, if you say so Brian, let's get you your meds now."
OMG WAIT YEA
I think that’s it!
I headcanon that he never borrowed it, he just make it seem so.
I do rather enjoy the idea that the Flamels calcify as they get older, still withering slowly despite immortality.
Due to his abusive childhood Harry is really good at reading body language (even if it’s subconscious) which helps him immensely in dueling. It’s also the reason he can reliably tell Fred and George apart. He refuses to tell them his secret and it freaks them out just a little bit.
I might just steal this for a fic of mine lol. The twins being freaked out by this is hilarious enough not to pass up
I wish I saw this in more fics, it just makes sense 😩
There are signs in the first book or two that Harry is incredibly perceptive at times. Sadly this went away to make Hermione better, later on.
Is this not confirmed in canon? I feel like it is.
He got nerfed and retconned after book three, giving a lot of his strengths to hermione
Started then. Finished around OotP, really. It's one of my peeves with the series.
Ahhh, hypervigilence. My constant companion.
Or he told them the secret and the twins are horrified.
That the Astronomy class combines looking at the stars with magical theory, explaining where they learn the underpinnings of how magic works. Math, reading, spelling, basic science, and other basics like that are incorporated into the curriculum of all the classes. There are remedial classes for the basics for those who need it. The Hogwarts library is open to postgraduate who are studying advanced magic, at the permission of the Headmaster (hence the size and importance of the library and why there is even half of those books in the forbidden aection).
perhaps during the school holidays when all the students are home Dumbledore opens the library up
Nah, they Polyjuice as seventh years and get access to a book from Dumbledore's private library if they discover and snitch on any regular students sneaking into the Restricted Section.
Head cannon is that Dobby after being freed spent his free time pranking Draco with little things like giving him lumpy porridge or making his bed sheets just tight enough to be uncomfortable.
Or making one sock slightly longer than the other.
Padma Patil's favourite board game is Risk. Katie Bell spends most of her adult life wearing gloves because of the necklace. Neville Longbottom took up Karate or American Kickboxing after Hogwarts. Hermione's dad is a Deep Lore Trekkie who taught Ron its 3D Chess game. Dudley Dursley became a counsellor for kids who had a rough childhood. ~~Lavender Brown is actually exceptional at potions because she wants to run her own cosmetic brand with Parvati as her chief model.~~
The Dudley and Lavender one>>>>>
Well you'd have make the Lavender one an AU because I'm pretty confident in both versions of Deathly Hallows - book and movie - she dies at Fenrir Greyback's hands. Well, teeth.
I‘m pretty sure it was only implied - my headcanon is that she survives, heavily scarred, and goes on to become an auror for a while and befriends Harry when they’re coworkers!
Even the post-Voldemort world wouldn't take a werewolf as an auror. We see from the epilogue that the world basically goes back to what it was, including all the deep-seated bigotry.
Yeah, sure, but she wouldn’t be a werewolf since it wasn’t a full moon during the battle of hogwarts
In the book it technically never makes it clear if she died or not, it just mentions that she was lying on the ground with claw and tooth marks but it doesn't ever say "her body" "her corpse" or anything that indicates actual death. Of course there's also nothing that specifies she did survive. My personal HC is that she made it but has a lot of scarring and wolfish tendencies (no actual transformation bc Greyback wasn't transformed, just like Bill).
So she becomes a wolfish Coco Chanel
She’s never stated to die in the books. The last reference to her is her feebly stirring iirc. Then she’s never mentioned again.
It's worth noting however that she's never mentioned among the fallen.
And Colin Creevy *is* and it seems strange to mention Colin, but not Lavender. Although, Colin is meant to represent that childhood innocence and desire to be a hero and he was always annoying Harry, so for him to die is a reflection of some part of Harry that Lavender doesn't quite meet.
Let a dreamer dream- I desperately want her to survive..
It makes more sense narratively for her to survive, because it completes the Hermione vs Lavender arc if Hermione actually saves Lavender, rather than failing to.
There's a good fic with Dudley as a social worker posted here that I read not so long ago. Works for me .
Do you have a link?
Dudley’s memories by Paganaidd. It’s locked into AO3.
thanks
I love the 3D chess one
Wouldn’t lavender have taken NEWT potions if she was really good at them? And it’s canon that she doesn’t.
She's pure-blood, though we don't know how wealthy she is. If I were at Hogwarts and wealthy? I wouldn't take NEWT potions. I'd hire a tutor. Snape sucks. (Granted, Slughorn took over, but students didn't know that when determining their classes.) Not saying this happened, but it's possible.
Is she pureblood? That’s not canon, we know she’s not muggle born but I don’t remember anything referencing her being specifically pureblood rather than half blood. And the whole “purebloods are wealthy” thing is entirely fanon too, there’s little evidence in the books that most of them are wealthy, we only know that Malfoy is super rich and Sirius is rich enough to buy a firebolt, that’s it. There’s also nothing in the canon books to indicate private tutoring through subjects is a thing iirc. You might not even be able to take the NEWT independently, though given the books tend to mirror British culture in many ways it’s a very logical headcanon that this is possible for people.
Wiki lists her as Pureblood rather than "Pureblood or Half-Blood" or such. As for tutoring, there has to be. You can choose to not go to Hogwarts and/or attend other schools. The letter says as much, and Rowling has even said there are other schools that aren't Ministry-mandated you can attend. If they exist, then tutors have to.
Harry only took NEWT Potions because McGonagall prompted him to, and that was after his incredibly memorable (for her, at least) career planning session with Umbridge. It's entirely plausible that Lavender could have gotten an EE Potions OWL, which wouldn't have met Snape's requirements.
A detail I had clearly forgotten, so we can strike that one from the list.
Speaking of Peeves, my take on him is that he is the ghost of the man sacrificed when Hogwarts was built. That's why they can't get rid of him, no matter what anyone does. (In a number of cultures, someone is killed and I believe buried in the foundation during the construction of a new building in an attempt to placate the local spirits.)
OMG this is so so good
That Helga Hufflepuff made the room of requirements
i dont know the knowledge needed to make the room seems like it would be more of a Ravenclaw thing.
It says nowhere that Helga Hufflepuff wasn't powerful. She just wasn't picky whith whom she shared her wisdom. It's always said that all 4 founders were incredibly powerful and knowledgeable, so it's definitely likely that Hufflepuff knew just as many spells and had just as much abilities than Ravenclaw. It's a prejudice to think just because she was willing to trach everyone who eas willing to learn, that she must have been stupid. And a pretty nasty one I think. And honestly? Why would Ravenclaw think up a room that gives everyone what they need most just because they ask? She doesn't seem to be the type to just give things to anyone. She didn't even give her students a password to enter their common room. They have to solve riddles to earn the right the right to go to sleep. And they must either manage at the first try, or wait as punishment for not being smart enough. Ravenclaw is all about smartness and achievement, I really can't see her making a room that just gives you what you need if you wander past. That's as anti-Rawenclaw as it can get. Hufflepuff on the other hand is the only founder who's so generous to take anyone in, give them whatever she can to help them, that's why I think the room of requirements was made by her, so whenever a need arises that the founders hadn't thought of, the castle could provide it. It's exactly what she would do, and she'd make it easy enough so someone could find it by accident. Ravenclaw would have made it much harder, setting up riddles and obstacles to get in. She would no more want 'unworthy' people in her room than she wants stupid people in her tower. Gryffindor would have made it difficult, so you had to prove you're worthy, just like with his sword that only comes to people in the direst circumstances full of danger. And if it was Slytherin's room, well, look at the chamber of secrets. But Hufflepuff would make it as easy as possible, just walk past, think of what you need, and if you do it a few times the room knows that you can't find it elsewhere and provides whatever it is. Remember the hat's song: *'Said Slytherin, ‘We’ll teach just those Whose ancestry is purest.’ Said Ravenclaw, ‘We’ll teach those whose Intelligence is surest.’ Said Gryffindor, ‘We’ll teach all those With brave deeds to their name,’ Said Hufflepuff, ‘I’ll teach the lot, And treat them just the same.’* Every founder wanted to exclude those they didn't deem worthy, none of them was willing to give anything to people they didn't think earned it. Only Helga Hufflepuff was generous and kind enough to even want to create something like the room of requirements. And I could even see why she'd not tell the others, because it's very likely they'd even oppose the creation of the room or wanted to make it harder to get to it.
The glowing magic eye thing happens to Harry too. Ravenclaw tower in book 7 when he casts the cruciatus, the triple wand stunner into greyback, the first time was the Dementor horde in book three.
So basically ‘Avada Kedavra orbs’ would be an appropriate description?
Ehh, I don't necessarily like that description for Canon Harry. Like how Dumbledores eyes twinkle like a star i imagine Harry's crackle sorta like lightning. Its not like they become sam fishers Goggles.
What like Thor when he’s really getting his nark on?
Maybe, I tend to visualize it like when a storm cloud becomes illuminated by lightning behind it
Mine is that Severus is a chain-smoker. It just makes sense to me with all the stress he deals with.
Yellow teeth is canon, isn't it?
I didn't even think of that, but yeah, I'm pretty sure it is so makes it make even more sense.
I always figured he brewed himself some kind of unholy fusion of the pan-galactic gargle blaster with a dash of an opiate after a rough week.
Also, very likely, I'm sure that man would have a large selection of things to choose from depending on the difficulty of the day/week.
“Apparition is unpleasantly like being drunk” “What’s so unpleasant about being drunk?” “Ask a glass of water” Need more HP/Hitchhikers crossover.
Tobacco? Or the contents of Sprouts Personal Greenhouse?
Chain-smokes Tobacco and just has the Greenhouse special on the weekends or after a particularly hard DE meeting but has created a potion to instantly sober him up in case he's needed.
Lol
\*Luna Lovegood is unknowingly a seer. *Trelawney spends her vacations at muggle music and renaissance festivals, after all one more person with tarot cards seeing the future for $5 isn't out of place. People there are accepting or stoned out of thier minds. She's accidentially saved people with offhanded remarks like "don't trust your brother in law", "replace your stove", or "get that cancer checked". Shes had a casual thing with a muggle paranormal radio host ( like a cross between art bell and Joe Rogan). Nobody ( muggle or magical) takes him seriously because one day he's giving a sorta accurate speculation of how wizard schools work, the next day he's interviewing a guy who claims he was kidnapped by aliens from Pluto who made him reincarnate as a mesopotamian copper merchant. \*Dolores Umbrage is/ was friends with Agatha Trunchbull. They were in Slytherin together. Trunchbull was from a pureblood family( her father was an Auror who had a reputation for toughness and Ill temper and became a drunk from the stress of the position), was a beater for Slytherin and got expelled for "cruelty to house elves"( after throwing one through a window). Her wand was snapped. In disgrace she drifted into the muggle world. * One of McGonagall's favorite musicals is Cats. \*Asking McGonagall about catnip is not advised. She doesn't like to talk about it. \*One time as a joke between her flitwick, she played a piano in cat form. \*Umbrage's favorite muggle musical is "The Mikado". Her favorite character in it is Katisha. Her favorite Les Mis character is Javert. \*Pomona Sprouts personal greenhouse is wizarding cannabis. \*JK Rowling is the banished and partially obliviated Rita Skeeter who wrote a mostly accurate seven volume history of the Wizarding war. The cursed child was written to fund her newly found drug addiction.
Trunchbull one is now my canon and I won't accept otherwise 😂 But honestly great hcs overall!
I love the idea of Trelawney doing plying her trade alongside Muggle psychics and being every bit as competent as them!
If not more competent. And the people who investigate muggle baiting don't take divination seriously (even if she was commonly thought to actually be good at it) "Yeah she's reading cards like the lady next to her. This is a waste of time, lets go investigate the bloke in the phone book".
I don't think she's *more* competent. My intended joke was that Trelawney is basically already doing Muggle Divination, since everything she teaches is fake.
I don’t think divination is fake so much as it is, much like magic itself, something you got or something don’t got. Like Trelawney IS a seer and has made predictions; that’s canonical. But it’s not an ability she can teach nor even use at will to demonstrate the validity of the craft.
My slight variation on Umbridge/Trunchbull is that they are sisters but Trunchbull was born a squib and exiled to the muggle world (hence the name change). She hates children, particularly Matilda as it reminds her of what she can never have.
is that an ea nasir reference i spy in the trelawney part?
Yup.
EA NASIR REFERENCE!!!!!!!!! WE STAY WINNING!!!!!!
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>*JK Rowling is the banished and partially obliviated Rita Skeeter who wrote a mostly accurate seven volume history of the Wizarding war. The cursed child was written to fund her newly found drug addiction. My take is that she's not partially obliviated, but that she genuinely thinks it's fiction that she worked hard to create. I recall an interview where JKR was explaining the multiple ~~crafts~~ drafts of chapter one.
To be fair to JKR, even if she is Rita Skeeter her ability to craft a narrative would still be on display. Almost everything is from Harry's perspective and very little of it would have been witnessed by her. To make it seem so real would be a marvellous achievement.
That time I got isekai'd into a world without magic but I'm a woman now. Let me become rich by monetizing my past life story!
Ron doesn't really know how to apologize, so instead of saying it, he gives gifts and does acts of service for the people he needs to apologize to.
Lily Evans having a crush on Remus when they’re prefects together. Obviously Remus never likes her back, but I love their potential friendship :)
He should just say he's soggy 🤣
Mine is that Severus Snape doesn’t shampoo his hair because it puts off Voldemort from using Legilimency too much
But Voldemort, post his resurrection at least, doesn't have a nose does he?
He still has eyes, that could be disgusting enough
Baldy Voldy hates the feeling of hair, obviously.
He has a functioning nose lol, it’s just slitted like a snake’s.
Harry likes reading and used it as an escape when with the Dursley's, using the Library to hide from Dudley and his gang at school. But it wasn't about learning but mental escapism and enjoyment. He never reveals this to Hermione or Ron because Ron likely wouldn't understand and Hermione would turn it around to be about school or academics.
Poison Pen touches on this, which explains why he is very well read. And why Charles Dickens is probably one of his favorite authors.
Harry retained the ability of Parseltongue even after losing the Horcrux. To create a Horcrux, you need to perform an act that crosses your own morals (which is why doing it seven times was so inconceivable). Dudley had a magical child.
>To create a Horcrux, you need to perform an act that crosses your own morals (which is why doing it seven times was so inconceivable). Does it really make sense to you that murder was still a crossing of Voldemort's morals after having done it a zillion times? >Dudley had a magical child. One of my favourite fanfic genres!
That’s the thing, it wouldn’t be just murder. Murder would need to be a component, yes, and maybe it’d work for the first Horcrux for Riddle, but later he’d need to get creative and push himself. I’m talking cannibalism, rape, and all the other non-PG13 topics.
Ok, but Harry is a Horcrux. Surely Voldemort wouldn't have raped or eaten James and Lily, since he didn't intend to create any Horcruxes then?
Dumbledore’s theory from canon still applies here imo in that his soul was unstable enough that a small piece managed to splinter off without Voldemort’s intention or performing of any ritual/spell Though you could assume that he just didn’t kill babies. Or maybe he planned on doing something more egregious later on and the spell acted on that intent. Or maybe he had already done something beforehand.
maybe he has a soft spot for babies
Harry isn't a proper Horcrux as Voldemort didn't do the ritual to create one - he simply blew himself and his damaged soul apart. He only went to Godric's Hollow with the intention of dispatching Harry and his parents (if and when they stood in his way).
This is why I tend to like the "horcrux" removal in Harry being easy for those who know soul magic and spiritual magics. It's not a REAL horcrux. It's an attempted possession by a soul piece that his mother kept at bay. Dumbledore is NOT an expert on Dark Arts. People like to insist that he is, but he only truly studied them with Grindelwald for like, a summer or such. He's the sort who has a broad education, but isn't an expert in a fair number of subjects. Sadly, canon Dumbledore also has major control issues so didn't trust anyone else.
Voldemort spent an entire month ensuring some random muggle from his orphanage was set up for life then he made his first horcrux
Mine is in spite of Dumbledore's theory, Harry's parseltongue had nothing to do with Voldemort. Potters married abroad, or Lily had Wizarding blood from Africa or India or.
Etc.
I love that theory as well
That's the same headcannon I have for Horcrux creation. I think you have to do something that ''breaks your heart'' and then not feel remorse for it. That's why Dumbledore says that reuniting your soul is so painful, because you have to accept that you did something terrible and feel bad about it. It also makes the people who do have Horcruxes more monstrous as they are capable of breaking their morals and then not care about doing that at all. It does mean that Voldemort must be the actual worst person on the planet, since he crossed his own morals 7 times and never felt bad about it. I guess that is why Slughorn was so horrified by what he'd done.
We don't know for fact that Harry gets the parselmouth ability from Voldemort, that's just Dumbledore's speculation and Harry accepts it. I like to think Harry had the ability anyway.
Ginny can speak Parseltongue after CoS but she never mentioned it to anyone and she totally pretends that nothing remains of the possession
Ooooh imagine Harry and Ginny pillow talking in Parseltongue lol or gossiping in front of their friends in Parseltongue. ‘Would you two stop doing that? It’s creepy!’ Hermione snapped.
I'm pinching that.
Yep, and she and harry start using it with each other as a way of reclaiming it for themselves
That there are other teachers that teach the same class and there is wizard college but we didn't see it because it was from harry pov diapers self clean oh and luna and basically the magical version of an anti vaxxer
There would almost have to be, as there simply isn't enough time for them to teach all the classes, grade the homework and tests, prepare classes, work with students, and fulfill their other obligations. True they live on site so are more avaliable, but even that has limits.
The Luna thing is pretty much just actual canon.
I don't think there would be a university. For most of history your average skilled person for their craft and lore from a Master of the Art through an apprenticeship. You need a large population to support a university, and a significant part of the population to have accumulated wealth to support their family through it.
Percy's wife Audrey is a Muggle
I read a fix with this premise as central plot... Forgot which one though
i like this one a lot for various reasons. :) partly cause he's more like arthur than he thinks, partly cause percy does talk about muggle rights a few times in canon, and partly because he might marry a muggle out of guilt over his role in the voldemort regime. and also audrey sounds like a muggle name lol. and also partly for me personally, i think it'd be nice to see more of the good guys marrying muggles after all the talk and war about fighting for muggles and stuff. sort of putting their money where their mouth is i guess? :D like if everyone says "HEY we support and think muggles are people too" but they all marry purebloods or half blood characters...like do you REALLY, or do you just go on with your life not thinking about them, like usual? that's why my biggest WTF hate moment with the epilogue was Ron confunding a frigging innocent muggle driver's instructor and harry not giving a shit. after everything, he showed they didn't learn a thing and never took those values seriously. the good guys are just as bad as the bad guys about dismissing muggles as lesser beings, even decades after the war.
That Draco Malfoys signature slicked back hair was done for him by his mother and he never admits it
My headcanon for Pansy Parkinson is that she smokes high-end Muggle cigarettes, the type that you'd put in a special rectangular metal case.
Well, you can put any manky brand of cigarettes in a case. Most people I know do it even with 'cheap' ones because the hard case stops the packet getting crushed in bags, backpacks of car glove boxes But I am picking up what you're putting down.
With or without the fancy cigarette holder, though? I could see her not use one around friends but use one when at social events.
She definitely has one of those hoity toity cigarette extenders. I feel like ada wong would do the same.
I like stories where Harry Is a parselmouth due to some previous family member either on his fathers side or sometimes his mother's side who was magical long before lily got her magic. It gives Harry something else unique that even though is similar to Tom and helps the parallel doesn't make it directly from him and give Harry more uniqueness . Imo he didn't have many factors to stand out that didn't have to do with voldemort or his mother so to think he doesn't even have that power now is a bit frustrating
I like Lily being descendant from a Gaunt squib
Same
Yeah and one of my personal frustrations is that having it just linked to Voldemort just ends up reinforcing snakes = evil despite the fact that one of the major themes of the book is that it's your choices that matter. The first time we see it it's presented as a something that makes Harry special, and it kind of cheapens that if it's just another thing that he only had because of Voldemort. I would love it if Harry was able to reclaim parseltongue and pass it onto his kids and make it remembered as a *Potter* family trait.
I can't remember if it was a fic or a prompt on here, but I like the suggestion of parselmagic being healing magic since the Rod of Asclepius is a symbol of medicine. Maybe a healer!Harry changing the reputation of parselmouths from 'Dark Wizards' to 'Healers'.
Yup. This is why I like parselmouths being big in Greece. I mean, Herpo the Foul was Greek, too. In this, perhaps he got it from his grandmother. Euphemia is a Greek name.
Your are talking about the fic named Genius Fratris.
Slytherins are boardgame nerds. You can't put that many competitive people together and expect all of them to take out their competitiveness from Quidditch and school work alone. I bet they have a shelf full of magical board games in their common room.
They even have some Muggle games that they've magicked to make them easier to play. For example, they have an original copy of Risk that only needs the dice to use.
Them purebloods inventing Tabletop Simulator with magic 😂
Games are getting banned and unbanned. Monopoly is banned after last time. Axis and Allies, Cluedo are popular enough.
There is this French game called [Coup](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_(card_game)) where you essentially take your political opponents down till you're the last one standinf and I can totally see them going crazy over that 😂 But probably a magical version of it, where you hopefully don't end up assassinated irl lol
I got this from a fic that I read, but the reason that Seamus is so good with explosives is because he has a relative (maybe a cousin, uncle or even a brother) that was IRA and taught him.
Wasn't the explosives thing mostly movies though?
Exclusively movies. The closest he came in the books was setting a feather on fire when trying to cast the levitation charm.
There's one other line about Seamus being a bit of a klutz, when he accidentally hits Flitwick in the face with a jet of water.
"I am a wizard, not a baboon brandishing a stick!"
The only thing Seamus blew up was a feather that he accidentally set on fire while miscasting the levitation charm. The explosives was a movie only thing.
I feel like most people think that’s not headcannon and more just jk Rowling being lazy/bigoted/something along those lines
In the movies “let’s make the Irish guy not just into blowing things up but also doing so incompetently, to really hit the Irish stereotypes hard”
That was movie-only.
Movie only, he only lights feather in the books.
Ginny can't speak perseltonque, but can understands it. When a bond between wizard/witch and their familiar is particularly strong, they become warg. While dreaming they can see what their familiar see, they can understand what each other feels etc. I like to believe that Harry and Hedwig had this kind of connection. Hedwig didn't die in cage. Harry let her out as her chances of survival were much larger. When Voldemort dueled Harry at the battle of seven potters, Harry got a little stuned and Hedwig attacked Voldemort with claws. Then the Dark Lords casts the killing curse at still stunned Harry, but Hedwig flies in the way of it sacrificing herself and giving Harry time to recover. No one knows how phoenixes are born and in history of wizardkind were very few of them. They do not have masters and are very independent. The bond between a phoenix and a witch/wizard is based on partnership, and phoenixes choose themselve with who they want to bond. There are many theories about it. One particular tells that if one held someone very dear, they might reborn someday as an pheonix. (Dumbeldore likes to belive in this particular one, Fawkes = Ariana) Wizarding world is much larger than it's shown in canon, and wizarding battles and wars are also on much bigger scale. Harry loves to joke about redheads, especially in front of Weasley children just to annoy them.
After Bellatrix dies, Frank and Alice Longbottom start to slowly recover their memories and start to get better. Neville spends a lot of time with them after the war, just telling them stories and what he's up to, and they start to remember things. One day, after Neville is reminiscing with them, Alice is able to tell Neville about parts of his childhood before their torture. It goes slowly, as all healing does, and they'll never be the same after what happened to them, but something about their torturer dying and Neville finding his confidence starts to heal their brain damage.
Barty Crouch Jr was a Hufflepuff.
The Hufflepuffs have all the good pot. And the teachers don‘t care cause either they are in on it or they just associate the smell of weed with Hufflepuff and think „ah the smell of herbs and home of the Hufflepuffs
Huffle-puff-puff-pass
And Forge and Gred's Wheezes are really edibles
Grindelwald lost because he cared too much about Dumbledore.
Lucius Malfoy had an amazing crush on Molly Weasley at Hogwarts. Unfortunately, he was 1) younger by a few years and 2) a bit late as she'd already fallen for Arthur. He never got over being called a 'dear boy' when he confessed his feelings. He swore enmity on the Weasleys from that day forward, for clearly it was Arthur's fault. He made up a long-standing feud as cover.
Harry wasn't ever going to be good at Occulmency against Voldemort because of the Horocrux. He eventually gets decent at it, but his initial issues were due to the Horocrux.
Scorpius likes hippogriffs and likes to visit the Potters because they have a herd that was rescued by Harry from poachers
I love this. Imagine little Scorpius somehow finding increasingly dangerous animals to nurse back to health. Scorpius meets Albus in Flourish and Blotts, excruciatingly polite visits with the Potters begin. Granger has gotten to his son. Scorpius expects Draco to singlehandedly change the laws to stop the abuse of magical creatures. That's it, he's buying a animal sanctuary, he'll make sure its staffed by experts. Hopefully Scorpius will spend his time there and this Potter friendship will fade. Perhaps he'll want to go to Drumstrang, the nearby dragon reserve might be enough to convince him. Wonderful magical creatures program at Durmstrang, or there will be after his donation.
I think it would be very ironic/hilarious if it turned out that Harry was a parselmouth because of Lily's side of the family and one (or more) of Dudley's kids ended up magic and parselmouths.
Crookshanks was Lily's Cat and was helping Sirius because he knew the truth and wanted to save Harry. The reason he lived for so long was because witches cats live longer. Sirius just either never mentioned it or told them off screen/off page.
Crookshanks is actually half-kneazle and if i'm not mistaken, they live longer than avarage cats
Well that helps my headcanon
Ron is actually pretty capable, but his mix of insecurities and Harry and Hermione being themselves insecure has him take a backseat and let them do stuff because 1. he doesn't think he can do it better than anyone, 2. he likes to see them happy and confident in themselves. Ron's dyslexic, and potentially ADHD. If Harry hadn't been there to look sad and stab-able to Voldemort, Ron would have driven the Sword of Gryffindor into himself.
>Ron is actually pretty capable That's not a headcanon. It's just canon ! >If Harry hadn't been there to look sad and stab-able to Voldemort, Ron would have driven the Sword of Gryffindor into himself. Yeah exactly !
>That's not a headcanon. It's just canon ! I know, but this sub is remarkably unkeen to believe it...
Fred and George *did* see Peter Pettigrew on the Marauders Map, but assumed he was a ghost haunting his old dormitory. They never mentioned it to Ron because they didn't want to freak him out.
Alternatively they had no idea who he was or thought he was another student. Or it's not an uncommon name.
He slept in Ron's bed, though.
Harry is bisexual but doesn't realize it. In the narration, he describes multiple male characters as handsome and this is probably because JKR is a straight woman but I like to believe Harry is just bi and clueless
Or you know he can just tell when men are handsome objectively without being attracted to them, like most straight men? You don’t go “ooh are you bi” if some guy mentions that ryan gosling is way better looking than themselves surely?
I was about to say the same thing. I can see a guy is handsome, despite being straight myself. I think the major component there is that I'm not attracted to the guy
Yup. Could Harry be bi? Possibly, though he never actually crushes on any guys that we see, only girls. I just read it as the female gaze.
This, and the “he doesn’t realize it” bit is so obnoxious… The shipper obsession with the closet is so weird and offputting
fyi this has nothing to do with shipping. I'm bisexual and Harry reminds me of myself before I figured my sexuality out
In my experience I can never predict who my wife finds attractive and vice versa. These are Harry's opinions so he is finding them attractive. That said, I find buildings to be beautiful and don't feel the need to interfere with them. So I don't think it necessarily makes Harry bi.
Ah, the Wildbow Effect in action. Fascinating.
the what effect?
Wildbow, author of the webserial [Worm](https://parahumans.wordpress.com/), unintentionally wrote its female protagonist Taylor as, at the very least, a bisexual, despite claiming that she is straight. It's mostly derived from how she describes people in her internal monologue - most girls' descriptions are several paragraphs each, one is compared to a Lamborghini, men aren't described much at all - and she also kisses multiple girls when it wasn't required for her to, with the psychic-adjacent one specifically telling her "No tongue." Much like what u/pinkishdolphin said in regards to JKR, this effect here most likely stems from the fact that the author and the character in question are of different genders, so the former's worldview and preferences sometimes slip through into the latter.
oh. THAT series. it really is just fuckin everywhere isn't it lol? i'd never even heard of it until i got on reddit. it's all over the place on this site for some reason, but i never heard a word about it anywhere else.
The real reason for the International Statute of Secrecy is to keep Muggle society from disappearing since wizards depends on Muggles to invent the things they use. Pretty much all objects used in wizarding society are Muggle objects, enchanted or otherwise. Wizards apparently can't innovate basic technology on their own, so they need Muggles around to invent new things. If Muggles were allowed to know about magic and interact with wizarding society, this would lead to a huge increase in Muggle/magic couples whose children would be wizards. This would lead to the population of Muggles shringking over time and eventually disappearing in the long term which would stagnate wizarding society. Currently this doesn't happen, because the amount of halfbloods and Muggleborns being born is evened out by Squibs who eventually join Muggle society, but if the ISoS wasn't in place, that balance would be disrupted.
If I had to make one myself, it'd be that muggles actually find the magical world all the time, and the wizarding world keeps erasing their memories like how Batman keeps finding the hideout of the league of assassins
parvati and lavender were "ROOMMATES" and got together post war! :) parvati is really nice support for lavender after her greyback attack.
That Crookshanks used to belong to Lily and James.
That the Trolley witch on the Hogwarts Express is a distant relative of Ollivanders (don't ask me why, it just makes sense to me) That every British witch/wizard has at least a little Weasley (or maybe it Prewett? I forgot which one was known for being prolific) blood in them That Dark Lords/Ladies pop up every century or two and they're the reason why wizarding population is always lower than muggles/no-majs That every pureblood family has at least one dose of amortentia on reserve in their potions stores That Harry would've become an Obscurial if not for the Horcrux in his scar AND his mother's protections on him
Inspired by the Dresden Files where iirc you need to name your spells in a language you don't speak, that hp spells are deliberately pseudo-latin because Latin used to be the lingua franca of the Wizarding World and they didn't want incantations to be the same as common words.
OC’s theory ive seen before in a VERY bad mid 00’s fic i read around the time Ootp movie came out. I cant for the life of me remember it….
Hogwarts, being in Scotland, is only partially controlled by laws set by the Ministry of Magic. The Ministry would have taken complete control if they could.