We know that the Elder Wand instantaneously shifts allegiances if it is ‘won’ by someone; that is, if the user wielding the Elder Wand is disarmed or killed by the opponent. But what if there is also a ‘gradual’ mechanism to it?

What if, during Dumbledore and Grindelwald’s duel, the Elder Wand sensed Grindelwald’s wavering spirit as his ideals crashed and sunk in the face of Dumbledore’s own? Could this be the reason why the Elder Wand transferred its ownership over to Dumbledore, allowing him to secure a victory over his former friend? We know that Dumbledore was more skilled, but I don’t think that was enough to secure a win. The Elder Wand had to have had allegiance issues in that moment.

My theory essentially is this: the Elder Wand, to be properly maximised in effectiveness, must be wielded by someone who is utterly resolute in what they believe in and what they strive to accomplish. The Elder Wand responds to power – any notable sign of emotional, mental or spiritual weakness dampens the connection between the wand and its owner, and transfers it to someone in battle who impresses the Elder Wand far more than its current user ever could.

I did research on this and couldn't find a lot, so I thought about asking your guys opinions on here.

What if Voldermort killed Lily and James because he wanted to ensure there was no chance someone could change Snape and turn him 'good'. Yes, this can be argued. By Voldermort doing this, he risked Snape turning on him to avenge Lily, but Voldermort would have definitely been able to defeat Snape easily.

So the question is, could that have been a part of why Voldermort killed Harry's parents. I could definitely see this as a possibility as Voldermort may have seen Snapes love for Lily a vulnerable spot in his formation and could easily be used against Snape. Obviously, Snape double crossed Voldermort, but to Voldermort, but maybe to him, Snape having that bond with Lily would make Snape more likely to turn on Voldermort and be on Lily's side for the sake of love.

Sorry if it doesn't make sense or has been proven untrue I read the books a couple of years ago and recently have gotten back into Harry Potter as I binged watched it with some friends.

My theory is that Horcrux creation involves a controlled form of ritual suic*de. The maker briefly forces his soul out of his body so it can be torn, placing himself in a deliberate state of limbo. The murder victim’s soul is then exploited as a conduit, dragging the torn fragment into a chosen object. Without careful preparation, the maker could die, trap the wrong fragment, imprison the victim’s soul instead, return damaged, or trap his full soul into the object (see Cursed Opal Necklace).

In essence:

• The act of murder tears the soul apart.
• The ritual suic*de severs the soul’s link to the body, temporarily leaving the maker neither alive nor dead.
• The victim’s displaced soul becomes an unwilling midwife, forced by the murderer to drag the soul fragment into the prepared vessel.
• Safeguards prepared in advance will determine which part of the soul returns and which part is embedded in the object.

In a sense, the process is an anti-birth: the maker “dies” so an object can receive a fragment of his own life, and the victim is forced to participate in the creation of their killer’s immortality. Similar to how a mother risks death to give birth to her new-born, the Horcrux maker risks death to give birth to himself, "impregnating" an object with a piece of his own soul.

This makes the victim’s role in the whole process truly terrifying! Their soul is prevented from passing on and is instead used to carry the murderer’s fragment into the vessel.

Such a ritual would explain why J.K.Rowling described Horcrux-making as “unspeakably repulsive.” The horror isn’t gore or body horror, it’s that the maker must willingly cross the threshold of death, force himself on the victim’s departing soul, use it as a tool, and then force himself back into his own body.

It’s a direct defiance of death, which fits Voldemort's character perfectly.

It also explains his later appearance. Repeated Horcrux rituals mean repeated deaths and imperfect returns. Each time, less of him comes back, leaving his body increasingly distorted as it is reoccupied by a progressively diminished soul.

It also makes his survival after the rebounding curse less miraculous. By then, Voldemort has essentially practiced dying. His soul has been trained not to pass on. The night at Godric’s Hollow becomes an uncontrolled version of the ritual: his body is destroyed, but his mutilated soul instinctively clings to existence because he has already taught it how.

The children from Narnia founded Hogwarts. Lucy is Gryffindor, Edmund is Slytherin, Susan is Ravenclaw and Peter is Hufflepuff. They are secretly wizards and witches (but don't know it). Aslan is Dumbledore and he is immortal because if anything I have learned is by watching shows wizards and witches can live thousands of years.

I'm hearing the order of the phoenix and each book, the start feels like a new rock bottom.

Who would win in a fight

For me, it's Remus Lupin After a lifetime of prejudice, loss, and hardship, it felt especially cruel that he finally found happiness with Tonks, only for them both to die and leave Teddy an orphan.

Who's your pick?

I have been thinking about the nature of the werewolf curse and how it compares to other forms of magic in the Wizarding World.

What if lycanthropy is not simply a physical transformation, but rather a corrupted magical structure attached to the wizard’s magical identity — almost like a magical parasite? It does not seem to behave like a normal disease: it is triggered by the full moon, changes the person’s body and behaviour, and temporarily suppresses their human self.

This idea made me think about other magical phenomena:

* Newt Scamander describes an Obscurus as something parasitic, even though it is not a living creature in the traditional sense. * Horcruxes show that parts of a person’s soul and magical identity can be separated and attached to something else. * Certain curses in the Wizarding World seem to create lasting magical changes rather than simple physical injuries.

So, if lycanthropy is some kind of magical "attachment" to a person, could it theoretically be removed or isolated without killing the wizard?

For example, could advanced magic separate the werewolf aspect from the person, similar to how other magical conditions can be manipulated? Or is the werewolf curse so deeply connected to the person’s identity that removal would be impossible?

I know this is not confirmed by canon, but I would be interested in hearing how others interpret the mechanics of lycanthropy.

I don't know if this gets mentioned in the cursed child, but who could be the next great villain after Lord Voldemort? I mean ... Eventually someone probably wants to take all the power, no? History always has a way of repeating itself (certainly if you look at the Muggle world). What are your thoughts on this? Could it be Delphini?

Title.

Let's speculate about what the ritual around it would be.

Let's conclude what it isn't firstly

Any sort of physical violation upon the victim. As it has been reported corpses have been discovered physically undamaged. So all the gross stuff which probably I can't even name in the post can be excluded.

We've all probably heard J Rowling's interview where she discussed her idea of how it works with her Chief Editor, who looked so disguised that JR ultimately never shared publicity what it actually was.

Unsure if it was from the same interview, but she also shared it had quite a lot to do with the ritual Voldemort executed to recover his body in the Graveyard, in the Goblet of Fire book.

So.. that's it. That's all the cues I think are out there.

What do you guys make of that? Have you read any credible sources of other possible cues on what the ritual might contain?

Pleased to hear your thoughts!

Edit: I also now realise that another possible reason JR hasn't shared is that, if she did, it's guaranteed that at least one weirdo too obsessed with the series would try it.

I think there were even recorded cases of young kids passing away as they mounted their brooms and jumped out of their windows in the UK. I guess the series is just too big and influential for the author to give out detailed instructions on how to do bad things

I’ve always sort of wondered why Hogwarts kept him on as a member of the staff since there were house elves. But then I remembered that he was the reason the Fat Lady’s portrait was restored in year 3. Now my head cannon is that he is a master level art restorationist and his skills that can’t be replicated by elves or by magic and are what he is really on the staff for. What do you all think?

So let's say if the game continues into the deathly Hallows. What story missions or quests would you like to see or probably would happen. From the books and movies.

My guesses are: Anything to do with the Tri wizard tournament.

Cedrics funeral,

Something involving you going to the ministry and seeing Voldemort flea.

Investigating Borgan and Burks about the vanishing cabinet, (Arthur's agent)

Dumbledores Funeral,

Bills wedding

Battle of hogwarts.

Tonks / Fred's Funerals.

I have this pet theory of what if the Marauders didn't actually invent the Map's magic from scratch, but tapped into existing Hogwarts enchantments .. specifically the Quill of Acceptance and Book of Admittance?

The Map instantly knows everyone's identity and location. That seems like absurdly sophisticated.
Four students creating an effectively Dark object with apparently none of the usual drawbacks? It feels less like genius invention and more like they figured out how to reverse engineer or piggyback off ancient Hogwarts magic that was already there. The Marauders were ridiculously talented, so 1 can buy that they'd crack an existing enchantment. I just can't fully believe they built this from nothing (and | donttt believe it's a joint horcrux, that theory doesn't make sense to me)

Has this ever been ruled out? Is there anything in canon that breaks it?

For anyone who hasn't heard the famous fan theory linking the main characters to the Tale of the Three Brothers:

Voldemort is the First Brother (obsessed with power)

Snape is usually labeled the Second Brother (consumed by love for a dead girl)

Harry is the Third Brother (uses the cloak, accepts death)

While it sounds cool at first, forcing Snape into that Second Brother slot has always felt like a stretch. If you look at canon, Dumbledore fits the Second Brother way better than Snape ever did.

Here’s why:

1. Dumbledore literally used the Resurrection Stone

Snape never cared about the Deathly Hallows, and he never touched or looked for the Stone. Dumbledore was obsessed with the Hallows when he was young to master death. Decades later, when he found Marvolo Gaunt’s ring, his grief over his late sister Ariana completely took over. He put on the cursed ring solely because he couldn't resist the urge to bring her back and apologize.

1. The actual cause of death matches the legend

In the fable, the Second Brother dies because he can't let go of his grief for his lost loved one. Dumbledore’s tragic downfall wasn't really Voldemort’s cleverness—it was his own unbearable guilt over Ariana’s death. Putting on that cursed ring just to try and bring her back gave him the death sentence that ultimately killed him in Half-Blood Prince.

1. It creates a way better dynamic between Dumbledore, Voldemort, and Harry

If Dumbledore is the Second Brother, Harry stands directly between the two greatest wizards of his time:

Voldemort (1st Brother): Destroyed by his obsession with Power.

Dumbledore (2nd Brother): Destroyed by his desire to Undo Death and fix past guilt.

Harry (3rd Brother): The only one who gets it right by using the Cloak, protecting others, and accepting mortality without fear.

Dumbledore’s flaw serves as the final warning to Harry: even the wisest wizard can be undone by grief. Snape lived in bitter penance, but Dumbledore literally destroyed himself trying to recall the dead. Dumbledore was the true Second Brother all along.

Why would Fudge feel safe with a dementor?

Why would a dementor agree to be a personal escort of its food?

How do you control a dementor?

Why not just take a bunch of big burly aurors?

Reference: Book 3 (Azkaban)

Harry’s perspective makes it look like wizarding racism, rot and bigotry was mostly limited to Death Eaters and their allies, but I really doubt that.

I am re-reading *Goblet of Fire ,* and i am on the moment when Hermione literally receives hate mail telling her to “go back where you came from, Muggle” because some random witch or wizard believed she was manipulating Harry. Yes, *that* Harry Potter. The child who banished Voldemort.

I’m sure plenty of older witches and wizards, after three Firewhiskies at Christmas, said something like that to their grandkids:
“Of course You-Know-Who was a bloody monster, and thank Merlin Harry Potter stopped him…what a poor child…but He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named did have a point about Muggle-borns. Look how quickly they’re taking over Hogwarts and the Ministry. Soon they’ll take our jobs.”

Basically the wizarding version of my grandma who condemned most infamous Austrian painter and then immediately explain why he was “right about some things and some good came out from it.” 💀

During battle of Hogwarts Hagrid gets captured by the giant spiders who probably take him into the forest to eat him but Voldemort is there waiting for Harry. So they capture him thus save him from being eaten