Just a thought that crossed my mind. Bc we see that werewolfs are creatures but, like remus, they can be wizards. Is it the same for vampires? What it the process for someone to become a vampire in this universe??

It’s been YEARS since I’ve read Cursed Child (so forgive me if i get any parts of the story wrong) and i liked it at the time (I was also very young at the time) , however everyone on here seems to hate it and not consider it canon. Looking back at it now, i understand where everyone is coming from, however there is quite a bit i really like about The Cursed Child.

The main thing i enjoy is Albus’s characterisation and the way he shares many similarities to Harry, despite his Journey taking very different turns.

First off , i really like how Albus’s fears of being sorted into Slytherin, parallels his father’s fears, however Albus’s fears change after meeting Scorpius on the Hogwarts express and Harry develops his fear after meeting Ron on the Hogwarts express. I really like the idea of Albus being friends with Scorpius (in contrast to heir parents relationship), and him being sorted into Slytherin. Albus and Scorpius also seem to be quite unpopular compared to their parents.

I love how Albus instantly has high expectations placed upon him (Being the son of Harry Potter and being a Weasley descendant), and is already famous (again much like his father), however Albus’s story takes a quick turn from the beginning of school , and he is viewed as a disappointment and as the ‘Cursed Child’ ,by being sorted into slytherin and by being nothing like his Father or the rest of his family (eg hating quidditch). I like how Albus ,unlike everyone else, didn’t view his Father as a ‘perfect hero’, but looked at the ‘flaws’ of his father as well.Overall i enjoyed the portrayal of Albus and Harry’s difficult relationship in general, with Albus being the rebellious Son and Harry having struggles being a father.

I also really like the fact that Albus and Scorpius got up to adventures much like the Golden trio did, like when they tried to escape the Hogwarts express for what they believed was for the right cause.

Amos Diggory begging for Harry to find a way to bring back his dead son, was also something I really enjoyed. We already knew that Amos was very prideful towards his only Son, and how much he loved him, so for him to still feel grief towards his son’s death after so many years and blame Harry for it , was a very interesting part of the storyline, in my opinion. I also loved how Albus’s view on his father changes after hearing this conversation, and makes it HIS goal to correct one of the few ‘flaws’ of the ‘Great, Heroic Harry Potter’

Although a lot of the Time travelling parts of the story didn’t have much accuracy, i really enjoyed seeing the alternate timelines created after the Time travel, and how by attempting to save Cedric ,created a world where Voldemort ruled and Harry Potter was dead. This shows how, although Albus and Scorpius had a good heart and they only wanted to save Cedric’s life to help his grieving father, that some events in history/ time travel shouldn’t be messed with or their actions will lead to dark consequences. It was also interesting seeing Harry , Albus and the rest of the main characters use the time turner to save the timeline and relive the night Harry’s parents died.

I liked how Draco and Harry got on as parents, and how despite their differences and previous rivalry, they both only wanted the best from their sons and to be good father figures. It was interesting seeing Draco as a father , especially due to his past and seeing him deal with the death of his wife, whom he had married against his father’s will.

Overall although there are many flaws to The Cursed Child and many aspects i don’t consider canon, there are also many aspects of the story which I love and consider Canon.

Just a random, weird thought I had.

Has anyone ever purchased the KO version of the legos set on Aliexpress? It is significantly cheaper and I’m trying to look for reviews on Reddit and YouTube but I’m not finding any. I wanna know how similar they are in size, quality, and if it’s the same thing as the official set. It’s a little less than 100$ vs the 500$ official one which is a huge price difference. Wondering if anyone here has it!

The official reason for his recruiment is that Mundungus can work with the criminal world. However, it seems that Mundungus is always causing troubles. Did Dumbledore have some secret plan for Mundungus?

When Harry casts the Cruciatus Curse on Bellatrix, she tells him he has to mean it—that he must truly want to cause pain. But didn’t Harry want to hurt her? After all, she had just killed Sirius, and he was clearly furious with her.

The death of Snape has always seemed hugely brutal. But I don’t quite get why Voldemort used Nagini.

Voldemort kills Snape to make sure he has control of the wand (obviously he’s wrong, but that’s the purpose). Why would he risk using Nagini, potentially not personally defeating Snape, and not gaining the Elder Wand’s power?

I also feel like Voldemort values Snape enough to not give him a horrific death. But, that’s more a personal opinion than anything.

(I’m just rewatching DH2 now, currently only annual re-read but haven’t got to DH yet, so sorry if I’m misremembering the books.)

Do Canadians go to Ilvermorny? (The American wizarding school) or would Canadas crown affiliation mean they go to Hogwarts? Or is there a wizarding school in the TDSB? And did Doug Ford defund it?

Only asking cause I’m writing some ideas for a story about the American wizarding world.

Anyone who has ideas for an American wizarding world feel free to pitch.

Don't you guys think its weird that everyone marries who they met in high school in the wizarding world? Hermione marries Ron, and Harry marries Ginny. Do their lives just end after Hogwarts? We haven't seen anyone who has met anyone else at their jobs or just out on the street? They all fall in love in high school and stay "betrothed." Isn't it weird?

"Amortentia is the most powerful love potion in the world. It is distinctive for its mother-of-pearl sheen, and steam rises from the potion in spirals. Amortentia smells different to each person, according to what attracts them."

for me, it could smell like:

• freshly-mowed grass (football/soccer)
• wood polish (piano)
• new parchment (books)
• art supplies: paint, marker, etc. (art)
• strawberries

what would Amortentia smell like to you? :)

What Harry Potter ship do you think is best, Dramione or Drarry? I have a lot of conflicting thoughts about them but I’m not going to lie, there’s something especially addictive with the idea of Draco and Harry getting into a relationship together and it really makes sense to me in a way

I’m listening to the audio books and am in book 7 and the cloak is described as making the wearer truly invisible, giving constant and impenetrable concealment, no matter what spells are casted at it. But Mad Eye or rather Barty as Mad Eye could see it when Snape was looking for Harry. How? I mean the cloak should be “invisible” even to death

"It is Uranus, my dear,” said Professor Trelawney, peering down at the chart.

“Can I have a look at Uranus too, Lavender?” said Ron.

I know it is often assumed to be, but I think the 1935 birth date might actually be inaccurate. I knew that it was commonly thought to be that year, but I was surprised to see that Pottermore didn't actually state her birth year at all. I actually think, with her shown to be a professor in the 1910s in 'Fantastic Beasts: Crimes of Grindelwald', that she was likely born closer to 1900, or maybe even closer to 1890.

This post on the Fantastic Beasts thread and this article from MuggleNet are what I used to come to my conclusion. The reddit post, I think, gives a slightly questionable description of her employment history at Hogwarts, but the majority of it seems sound to me and it is mostly supported by the MuggleNet article.

The article also supports my late 1800s to early 1900s birth date conclusion and both the article and the post lead me to believe that when McGonagall answered "Thirty-nine years this December" to Umbridge's question of how long she had been working at Hogwarts, she didn't mean 39 years consecutively and actually meant 39 years total.

It could also be that McGonagall meant that she had been in her then-current position for 39 years and/or that she worked at Hogwarts in another position prior to being a Transfiguration teacher, possibly working elsewhere in-between separate Hogwarts employment periods (in these scenarios, she would've likely meant '39 years consecutively' in her answer to Umbridge).

I'm not completely knowledgeable of the entire history of each character or the canons throughout the book series so if anybody has any corrections or things to add, please let me know!

And it's funny, I'm not as into Harry Potter as I used to be, but I saw that my younger brother was watching 'Fantastic Beasts' and randomly started to do some very, very, very extensive research on the lore within the series which led me to center on McGonagall's backstory. It makes sense, though; she's always been one of my favorite characters of the series. ☺️

I am currently rereading Harry Potter for the third time and I noticed something in ch.5 order of the phoenix.

So the meeting is just over and Mrs Weasley is talking about cleaning the house and brings up the desk in the drawing room and how she will ask mad eye to take a look at the desk to see if there's a bogart in there.

Does this mean that mad eye has seen what a bogart looks like when no-one is near because doesn't a bogart need to see someone to become what they fear most.

Any wizard economics geniuses out there's? I'm curious if anyone ever did the math to see how far that 1000 stretched?

I'm re-listening to Order of the Phoenix and just heard the part where Harry confesses to Ron and Hermione that Harry gave his Triwizard winnings to the twins to start a joke shop. At this point, the twins have spent money on: -supplies to create their products -supplies to perfect their products -paying other students to test their products -a space in Diagon Alley -new dress robes for Ron

The year is also 1995, so starting a business then is obviously different from now.

Not meant for a very serious discussion, just curious about how the Fandom thinks Wizarding economics work. I look forward to your comments!

When hagrid found Harry, he was saying how Voldemort killed a bunch of powerful wizarding families but Harry survived even though he was a baby, but the bones were killed too? I thought Susan bones was in the sorting and got put in huffflepuff? Please help me

At the beginning of CoS, Dobby says:

Dobby has heard of your greatness, sir, but never has he been asked to sit down by a wizard!

Do you think Dumbledore ever asked him to sit down, either before or after this encounter?

I've been wondering, what were the students supposed to be taught? Only spells or something else? Considering we never got a normal teacher except Remus Lupin, but that was only the third year, I'm curious about every year.

Need it for my fic/story, whatever it would be called, unpublished role-playing with my mind? Probably that.

So at this weekend is the media preview for Epic Universe, the newest theme park at Universal Orlando Resort. For those of you that may or may not know one of the areas is a new Wizarding World that takes place in Place Cachée form Crimes of Grindelwald. The main attraction taking place at the British Ministry of Magic who story happens after the events of Deathy Hallows with the trial of Umbridge. Anyway footage it out there and they have students/actors interacting with guests. There a Beauxbatons girl, a Hufflepuff male, and surprisingly an Illvermorny student. I could be wrong but I think this might be our first official look at an Illvermorny student/robes. I’d post the photo but it won’t allow me

It is absolutely disgusting in my eyes at least.

If the magical solution they cooked up to Be Friends With The Werewolf is something that is still risky and needs great caution -- kind of in the spirit of "Chris Pratt trains veloceraptors to Bond With him and Follow Orders" perhaps -- then it would be slightly more understandable that they would feel more Invincible and then experiment with letting the werewolf out of the safe house, because the werewolf COULD still bite them but they are executing means to prevent that.

However with their Animagus Form plan, they instead have TOTAL immunity against a werewolf's bloodlust. A Harry Potter werewolf would sooner knaw and claw THEMSELVES before ever going after living breathing animals or fake-animals as it turns out. They ONLY go after people. Padfoot got hurt by Werewolf Moony at last... because he tried to stop Moony from going after Ron Hermione and Harry, the people. If he didn't literally get in the way, Moony would just run by him.

Which sheds a whole new level of cringy light at the threat they posed to Hogwarts and Hogsmede. Those three are the ONLY people who both know of the student werewolf and is fully protected. (McGonagall has her Animagus form, true, but she wouldn't be knowing to Transform Into Cat before even seeing the werewolf, because she wouldn't expect the werewolf to be OUTSIDE.) HOW is this more ok than if Tom Riddle decided to ride the Basilisk around even an empty Hogwarts Castle? He is the Heir of Slytherin and a Parseltongue and he can put a blindfold over his eyes. Yet I'll bet if the authorities knew he was riding around on a Basilisk in, again I stress, even an empty castle, they would probably do the equivalent of "Nuke it from orbit, it is the only way to be sure" and be totally justified in killing Prefect and model student Tom Marvolo Riddle along with the beast, wouldn't they?

So why are so many of us allowed to stretch the FRIENDSHIP thing for so far in excusing Sirius and James? They could have just STAYED in the goddamn Shack and accompanied Remus, and then it would only be the three Best Friends who may be in danger of the werewolf's bites. Even tho again as Animagi the chances are basically 0.

It becomes less FRIENDSHIP than it becomes a source of fetishized danger fun. I'm not surprised thst later Kames and Sirius trusted Peter more than Remus.

And that is why even if Snape was already a card-carrying Death Eater in fifth year, him exposing Lupin (and the shoddy excuse of a SECURITY System) would have been "Right thing for the wrong reasons", at worse. The whole thing was a joke. Either Dumbledore or McGonagall ought to have invisibly set up camp near the Whomping Willow to make sure no one gets in or out.

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Thoughts on this?

And what are some of your Die Mad moments? :)

1. In chapter 9, Hermione says «nor have I», when Ron and Harry say they have never done a memory charm before. But, earlier in the book, Hermione says she has modified her parentes memories? Make it make sense. Also, didn’t Ron and Harry wipe Lockharts memory in book 2 (CoS)? So basically, all of them have performed memory charms before, but suddenly they say they have never done it?

2. In chapter 29, when Harry is caught by Alecto Carrow in the griffindor room, why is he not wearing the invisibility cloak? He and Luna came there under the cloak, why the f*** did he take it off??

3. What did the muggle boys do to Ariana? It’s never explained, just said they did something «awfull» that made her unstable or something. But what could that be? And why isn’t it explained?

4. The King’s Cross chapter, where and what was that really?

5. In the last chapter, why did harry call Snape «the bravest man I ever knew»? How was he brave? Feel like I missed something. Like yes, he was on Dumbledore’s side, but I didn’t notice him doing something particularly brave.

6. What was the point of Dean hiding in the woods, being caught, brought to the Malfoy Manor etc? He didn’t contribute to the plot at all, he didn’t do anything and he literally had ONE line when they got caught in the woods, after that he didn’t say a thing for the rest of the time at the Malfoy Manor, or at Bill and Fleur’s. Seems like a completele waste of time to even mention him beeing there in those situations?

7. How did Dumbledore win the duel with Grinderwold, if G had the invincible elderwand?

8. In chapter 32. If Dumbledore meant for V to kill Harry from the start, why didn’t he let Harry be killed earlier? Why wait and protect him? If the answer is «the Horcruxes had to be destroyed first», why didn’t D get to it before? Why did he wait so long to start finding them and destroying them?