What was up with Seamus’s mom?

Okay, hear me out.
In Order of the Phoenix, Seamus’s mom straight-up refuses to let him go back to Hogwarts because:

“Harry’s lying! Dumbledore’s lost it! The school isn’t safe!”

Alright, fine — Daily Prophet propaganda, fear, denial… I get it.
But THEN — the very next year — it turns out Voldemort actually came back.
And suddenly she’s like:

“Oh sweetie, you can go now! Sure, Voldemort’s back and actively trying to kill Harry Potter, but you’ll be totally safe sitting right next to him in class!”

Like— WHAT?!

So Dumbledore = too dangerous.
But Voldemort’s literal return = “all good honey, have fun!”

Did she just think,

“Well, if Harry’s the target, at least my son’s got plot armor”?

This woman went from “Don’t go to school, it’s dangerous” to “Go ahead, the Dark Lord’s back but education’s important” in less than a year

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Weird things you think Tom Riddle used to do before he became voldemort?

Any headcanons on weird habits you think he used to have, secretly before becoming the Dark Lord?


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Which character do you think should've died (good or evil), and didn't?



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If you were slytherin, what would your reaction be?

Imagine you are Slytherin and Dumbledore just drops all those points on three little kids after announcing you are in the lead. What would your response be?

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What side story would you most want to see?

Founders?


Merlin?


Peverells?


Marauders?


Adult auror Harry?


Voldemorts story from his perspective?


Conclusion to grindlewald?


Other wizarding schools?


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Hi I have a question: can Voldemort get a cold? And if so, how does he blow his nose?



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This video defending Voldemort is pretty interesting

There is an actual serious video defending Voldemort and I thought it raised a lot of interesting points

It's not the classic edgy take of "oh poor Tom Ryddle he was just misunderstood"

It's more like building a case for why Voldemort might have had a reasonable (if still horrific) reason behind what he did that explains why so many wizards followed him in the first place. There's tons of details from the books to support the case.

LINK: https://youtu.be/sRqJarpk87w

Anyway I figured I would share it here in case anyone else enjoys wild fan theories like I do



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Did you know that Galleons are triangle shaped?

Well, not really. But I thought y'all might enjoy my head canon formed some 20 years ago when I read the books for the first time (or rather had my mother read them to me)
In the first book Harry receives a 50 pence piece as a christmas present by the Dursleys. I'm german and had never seen british coinage, so to me it was just like any other old coin I'd have in my pocket - round. Ron however was fascinated by it's shape so it follows that wizard money can't be round. So I decided it had to be triangular (because square would be boring and those are pretty much all shapes that exist)
I never thought much of it, just another of these weird wizard quirks and how they think normal muggle things are weird. It took me years to realize that in this case neither me nor the wizards are strange - it's the British with their 7-sided coins ;)
Anyway, as far as I'm aware the books never explicitly state what shape Galleons, Sickles or Knuts have, so I hang on to my childish imagination as a harmless and magical memory of the wizarding world.

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Wizarding Propsing a muggle

Although it seems pretty common for Wizards to marry muggles, there are many half bloods around. But how does a wizard tell the muggle about himself without breaking the law of secrecy. And if he/ she doesn't do that, isn't it almost like cheating. Hiding something from your future spouse so important that can literally affect the decision to marry or not. Not sure how exactly this works.

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Scratchy and itchy mrs Weasley knitted sweater!!
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This broke me
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Drew this for inktober. Hope you guys like it

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I randomly stumbled upon this in Paris

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Character/promo portraits from the first movie 🪄

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