Ok i will explain here why i find Dumbledore annoying and not annoying (at the same time)

Why he is not annoying:

• Everybody can agree that Dumbledoe is a calm, helpfull , strong person, and when Harry was with Voldemort (NOT VIBING/CHILLING BUT FIGHTING) he came and fighted Voldemort and did not wanted that Harry would even be hurt. he gives helpfull tips and his magic skills are good!

Why he is bad/annoying (ok this ca be an whole essay so be prepared..) and yall can say if this is a evil act or not

When the Basilisk begins to terrorize Hogwarts and petrify students left and right, Dumbledore doesn't lift a finger. One might assume an empathetic headmaster would close the school until they settle the animal control problem - or better yet, destroy the snake, but instead, he lets a group of second-year students take care of things for him.

Once students start getting petrified, Lucius Malfoy calls for Dumbledore's suspension. It's the appropriate response when the headmaster of the school refuses to take action against something harming the students.

Is this an evil act? YES / NO

He Raises Harry Like A Pig To The Slaughter

Perhaps the most damning critique of Dumbledore comes from his longtime confidant Snape, who accuses the wizard of essentially grooming Harry to die. There's a subset of the Harry Potter fandom believing this.

If Dumbledore allowed Harry to die at a young age, he could have saved the lives of thousands, if not millions, in the Wizarding World. Instead, he allows Harry to mature and eventually sacrifice himself to kill Voldemort.

Dumbledore lets Harry grow up as a Horcrux because he needed the Boy Who Lived to willingly give up his life while facing Voldemort, thus creating a similar protective spell like the one surrounding the Dursleys' home.

When Voldemort kills Harry, he destroys a piece of his soul, allowing Harry to come back to life and destroy Voldemort once and for all. This plan seems to rely heavily on luck, as well as a particular set of circumstances needed to fall into place for a satisfying payoff.

is this an evil act? YES / NO

He Lets A Child Participate In The Triwizard Tournament

n Goblet of Fire, Harry is 14 years old, which is three years younger than the minimum age of admittance for the Triwizard Tournament. Regardless, he gets in as a fourth surprise entrant. After discarding Harry's name from the Goblet, Dumbledore questions Harry about whether or not he entered his name. Harry denies doing so, and the headmaster drops the questioning, allowing him to participate in a deadly series of challenges.

Putting aside the fact Dumbledore was in the middle of violent magical intrigue for much of his adult life, the previous three school years ended with various Voldemort accomplices attacking Harry. Does Dumbledore not think something's amiss? Instead of looking into who placed Harry's name in the Goblet, he does nothing, resulting in Cedric Diggory's death.

Is this an evil act? YES / NO

He Waits Far Too Long To Tell Harry He's A Horcrux

The concept of Horcruxes - objects Voldemort used to retain immortality and conceal parts of his soul - comes up late in the Harry Potter series. Obviously, the topic isn't something an adult wizard would want to spring on a child. However, after Harry faced death consistently for three or four years, he probably would've appreciated learning he's connected to Voldemort via a piece of the evil wizard's soul.

While Harry knows about his death from the end of Order of the Phoenix, he is unaware of his having to die until the end of Deathly Hallows. No matter how brave Harry is, he's likely not ready to die, contrary to Dumbledore's presumed goal. If Harry knows he's supposed to die in a battle, he may not sacrifice himself with such pure intentions, which is murky logic at best.

Is this an evil act? YES / NO

He's Partially Responsible For Tom Riddle Becoming Voldemort

Tom Riddle needed adult supervision. Before he met Dumbledore, Riddle was off to a bad start. He didn't have any friends or family for advice concerning his trauma, so instead, he used his raw magical talent to inflict pain on everyone he met. After Dumbledore brought Riddle to Hogwarts, the boy fell into his studies and life became more muddled.

Dumbledore could have nipped Riddle's descent into evil in the bud if he acted as a leader, offering the boy guidance, rather than letting Riddle continue his downward spiral.

Is this an evil act? YES / NO

He Allows Dolores Umbridge To Become The Defense Against The Dark Arts Teacher

In Order of the Phoenix, Dolores Umbridge lands the role of Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, thanks to the Ministry of Magic after they pass Educational Decree Twenty-Two. It allows Cornelius Fudge to gain control over Hogwarts and infest the Wizarding World with paranoia.

None of this had to happen, though. Dumbledore could have discharged Umbridge from his school by choosing a suitable replacement for Alastor Moody. Up to this point, Dumbledore didn't have a problem finding someone to take the role, which means he's either lazy or wants the Wizarding World to devolve into chaos.

Is this an evil act? YES / NO

He Oversees A School Full Of Death Traps

Hogwarts, a school for children, is full of death traps. Dumbledore never gives a straight answer for why his school includes a killer chess set, a three-headed dog, or unpredictable, roaming staircases. No matter the reason, these don't seem to have anything to do with protection.

Aside from the parts of the school meant to act as deterrents to practitioners of the Dark Arts, there's the Quidditch pitch, where students race through the sky on brooms, often almost killing each other. And if students don't die during Quidditch, there's a chance the Whomping Willow might bludgeon them to death.

Is this an evil act? YES / NO

He Gives A Child A Time Machine That Feeds Into Her OCD

Hermione Granger is one of the most intelligent and accomplished students at Hogwarts. Consequently, when she wants to take more classes in her third year at school, Dumbledore gives her a Time-Turner so she can knock out an extra year's worth of courses.

It seems like a poor decision right out of the gate. As with most of Dumbledore's plans, his reasoning for giving Hermione the gift is opaque, and it ties in with a later scheme. However, in the meantime, Hermione exhausts herself, barely able to keep up with her coursework.

If this weren't bad enough, someone on the internet pointed out each time Hermione used the Time-Turner, she probably continued to age, which means she ended the school year almost half a year older than the rest of her class.

Is this an evil act? YES / NO

What do yall think? :P

Okayyyy... so I want to see if this works. Anyone who is American has likely watched or at least heard of the Bachelorette, a popular show usually filmed in LA where there is one woman and ten guys, and the ten guys are competing for a chance to marry the girl.

So I wanted to do a Bachelorette X Wizarding World crossover.

It takes place in this current year.

Storyline:

Ellie Oakland, current Chaser for the United States National Quidditch Team, former Chaser for the Sweetwater All Stars, born and raised in Waco, Texas is appearing on the most popular wizarding world show, "all the single witches." Five people will compete to be her husband or wife. Will she find someone she likes? Will the marriage last? Find out on season 13 of ATSW.

Rules:

Keep it PG13

No Swearing.

No Powerplaying.

as the Bachelorette has real rules, here are the rules for the show.

If your character is eliminated from the show, you are subsequently eliminated from the roleplay, unless you have another character.

Sign Up Form:

Name:

Nicknames:

Status: (example rich, wealthy, poor, middle class)

Blood Type: (pureblood, muggleborn, halfblood)

Gender:

Sexuality:

Reference:

Backstory:

Other:

Role:

Roles:

Ellie Oakland: @SevenTwentie

Bachelor/Bachelorette 1:

Bachelor/Bachelorette 2:

Bachelor/Bachelorette 3:

Bachelor/Bachelorette 4:

Bachelor/Bachelorette 5:

Game Show Host:

Viewer of the show: (infinite amount of these)

Password is any city in Texas

Pings: @Httyd1,2,3,Seenall @*yellowflowers92

@DragonspireStudios @Little Purr-incess @Uniatheintrovert

Spoilers Ahead: In the Department of Mysteries in Order of The Phoenix, Harry puts Sirius' knife in a door, and it melts. Since this is Sirius' Knife, That was most likely foreshadowing his death.

Hi guys I’m new here but not to the series! Huge hp fan I’ve been reading it since 4th grade! I just discovered this cool place so I’m here now! Can’t wait to meet you all!

1. J.K. Rowling and Harry Potter share a birthday.

They both blow out candles on July 31. And that’s not the only influence Rowling had on her characters: She’s said that Hermione is a bit like her when she was younger, and her favorite animal is an otter—which is, of course, Hermione’s patronus. Plus, both Dumbledore and Rowling like sherbet lemons (Rowling has said that the wizard’s “got good taste”).

2. J.K. Rowling invented the names of the Hogwarts houses on the back of a barf bag.

In 2000, Scholastic gave schoolchildren across the U.S. the opportunity to ask Rowling questions about Harry Potter. When one student asked her, “What made you think of the people’s names and dormitories at Hogwarts?” Rowling responded, “I invented the names of the Houses on the back of an airplane sick bag! This is true. I love inventing names, but I also collect unusual names, so that I can look through my notebook and choose one that suits a new character.”

3. J.K. Rowling’s education came in handy for writing the Harry Potter books.

At university, she minored in classics, and she put that education to good use, peppering the books with Latin. “It just amused me, the idea that wizards would still be using Latin as a living language, although it is, as scholars of Latin will know,” she said in 2000. “I take great liberties with the language for spells. I see it as a kind of mutation that the wizards are using.” Expelliarmus, for example, combines expellere, meaning “drive out” or “expel,” with arma, meaning “weapon,” and knocks weapons from an enemy’s hands. Incendio, which lights a fire, comes from incendiarius, or “fire-raising.” And Hogwarts’s motto is Draco Dormiens Numquam Titillandus—“Never Tickle a Sleeping Dragon.”

4. Early on, J.K. Rowling wrote a sketch of the final chapter of the final book.

Rowling calls the idea that she had the first chapter of Deathly Hallows written and locked away in the safe “rubbish.” But there was a small element of truth to it: “I had, very early on—but not the first day or anything, probably within the first year of writing—I wrote a sketch for what I thought the final chapter would be,” she told Daniel Radcliffe, who played Potter on the big screen, in an interview for the Deathly Hallows Part 2 DVD extra features. “I always knew—and this was from really early on—that I was working toward the point where Hagrid carried Harry, alive but supposedly dead, out of the forest, always. I knew we were always working towards a final battle at Hogwarts, I knew that Harry would walk to his death, I planned the ghosts—for want of a better word—coming back, that they would walk with him into the forest, we would all believe he was walking to his death, and he would emerge in Hagrid’s arms.”

And that mental image is what kept Hagrid alive, despite the fact that he “would have been a natural to kill in some ways,” Rowling said. “But because I always cleaved to this mental image of Hagrid being the one carrying Harry out … That was so perfect for me, because it was Hagrid who took him into the world, and Hagrid who would bring him back … That’s where we were always going. Hagrid was never in danger.”

5. The Dementors in Harry Potter are based on J.K. Rowling’s struggle with depression after her mother’s death.

Rowling’s mother, who had multiple sclerosis, died in 1990, after which Rowling suffered a period of depression. She would use the experience to characterize Harry Potter’s dementors, creepy creatures that feed on human emotion. “It’s so difficult to describe [depression] to someone who’s never been there, because it's not sadness," Rowling told Oprah Winfrey. “I know sadness. Sadness is to cry and to feel. But it’s that cold absence of feeling—that really hollowed-out feeling. That’s what Dementors are.”

6. J.K. Rowling created Quidditch after a fight with her boyfriend.

“If you want to create a game like Quidditch, what you have to do is have an enormous argument with your then-boyfriend,” Rowling said in 2003. “You walk out of the house, you sit down in a pub, and you invent Quidditch. And I don’t really know what the connection is between the row and Quidditch except that Quidditch is quite a violent game and maybe in my deepest, darkest soul I would quite like to see him hit by a bludger.”

7. The plants in Harry Potter come from a real book.

“I used to collect names of plants that sounded witchy,” Rowling told 60 Minutes, “and then I found this, Culpeper's Complete Herbal, and it was the answer to my every prayer: flax weed, toadflax, fleawort, Gout-wort, grommel, knotgrass, Mugwort." The book was penned in the 17th century by English botanist and herbalist Nicholas Culpeper; you can read it here.

8. A proposed title for the American version of Philosopher’s Stone was Harry Potter and the School of Magic.

Rowling turned that down, saying, according to American publisher Arthur Levine, “No—that doesn’t feel right to me … What if we called it the Sorcerer’s Stone?” (The French edition, Levine points out in J.K. Rowling: A Bibliography, is called Harry Potter a l'Ecole Des Sorciers.)

9. J.K. Rowling made complicated outlines for the books.

The author’s outline for Order of the Phoenix has chapter titles, a general outline of the plot, and then more specific plot points for certain characters. (Based on this outline, it looks like Rowling thought about calling Dolores Umbridge “Elvira Umbridge” instead!)

10. Arthur Weasley was supposed to die.

In a battle between good and evil this epic, not everyone would make it through alive—that would have led to “very fluffy, cozy books,” Rowling told Meredith Vieira. “You know, suddenly I [would be] halfway through Goblet of Fire and suddenly everyone would just have a really great life and … the plot would go AWOL.”

Which is not to say that Rowling knew exactly who was on the chopping block. She thought about killing Arthur Weasley after he was attacked by Nagini in Order of the Phoenix, but instead opted to save him, partly because “there were very few good fathers in the book. In fact, you could make a very good case for Arthur Weasley being the only good father in the whole series.” (She also “seriously considered” killing Ron, then thought better of it.)

Instead, Lupin—a character she had no intention of killing when she began the books—and Tonks died during the final Battle of Hogwarts. “I wanted there to be an echo of what happened to Harry just to show the absolute evil of what Voldemort’s doing,” she said. “I think one of the most devastating things about war is the children left behind. As happened in the first war when Harry’s left behind, I wanted us to see another child left behind. And it made it very poignant that it was [Lupin and Tonks's] newborn son.”

11. Stephen King thought Dolores Umbridge was a great villain.

In his review of Order of the Phoenix for Entertainment Weekly, King said, “The gently smiling Dolores Umbridge, with her girlish voice, toadlike face, and clutching, stubby fingers, is the greatest make-believe villain to come along since Hannibal Lecter” [PDF].

12. To keep Deathly Hallows from leaking early, Bloomsbury gave it code names.

You probably wouldn’t have been so interested in reading Edinburgh Potmakers or The Life and Times of Clara Rose Lovett: An Epic Novel Covering Many Generations.

13. Haley Joel Osment could have played Harry in the Harry Potter films.

When Steven Spielberg was attached to direct the film adaptation, he wanted Sixth Sense star Haley Joel Osment to play Harry. But the director eventually left over a creative clash with Rowling, and new director Chris Columbus had to find his star. Some 300 kids tested for Harry Potter over a period of seven months; Jonathan Lipnicki (Jerry McGuire) even expressed interest. “There were times when we felt we would never find an individual who embodied the complex spirit and depth of Harry,” Columbus said.

Then, one night, producer David Heyman went to the theater with screenwriter Steve Kloves (who ended up penning all but one of the Potter scripts). “There sitting behind me was this boy with these big blue eyes. It was Dan Radcliffe,” Heyman told HeroComplex in 2009. “I remember my first impressions: He was curious and funny and so energetic. There was real generosity too, and sweetness. But at the same time he was really voracious and with hunger for knowledge of whatever kind.” He persuaded Radcliffe’s parents to let their son audition, and the rest is history.

14. Rupert Grint’s audition was unusual.

Nine-year-old Emma Watson’s first audition for the role of Hermione took place in her school gym; she auditioned a total of eight times. Grint, then 10, sent in a video audition, and went in a rather unusual direction: “I found out that you could audition by sending a picture of yourself and some information to Newsround,” he said in 2002. “I did my own video with me, first of all, pretending to be my drama teacher who unfortunately was a girl and then I did a rap of how I wanted to be Ron and then I made my own script thing up and sent it off.”

He had some competition, though: Tom Felton auditioned for both Ron and Harry before ultimately being cast as Draco Malfoy.

15. There’s a good reason Harry’s eyes aren’t green in the movies.

In the books, Harry’s eyes are described as “bright green”—but Radcliffe’s are blue. When Sorcerer’s Stone was in pre-production, Heyman called Rowling and told her their options: They’d tried green contacts; they could also trying making Radcliffe’s eyes green in post-production. How important was it, he wondered, for Harry’s eyes to be green?

Rowling said that the only thing that was really important was that Harry’s eyes looked like his mother’s eyes, so whoever played Lily Potter would need to have some resemblance to Radcliffe. This was a relief for Radcliffe, who had an extremely adverse reaction to the contacts. (He was also allergic to the glasses, which made him break out in acne.)

16. The brooms used in the Harry Potter movies aren’t regular brooms.

They were made by modeler Pierre Bohanna using aircraft-grade titanium. “People think of them as a prop the kids are carrying around, but in reality, they have to sit on them,” Eddie Newquist, chief creative officer of the firm Global Entertainment Services, which put on “Harry Potter: The Exhibition,” told Popular Mechanics. “They have to be mounted onto motion-control bases for green-screen shots and special-effects shots, so they have to be very thin and incredibly durable. Most of these kids weighed 80 pounds, 90 pounds [at the beginning]. Now they’re all adults, so they’re up over 120, 130 pounds, and you have to really make sure your brooms can withstand that.”

17. The role of Peeves was cast and filmed—then cut from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.

British comedian Rik Mayall was cast as Hogwarts’s prank-happy poltergeist in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. He showed up and shot the scenes, which were later cut when director Chris Columbus decided he didn’t like the look of the ghost. Mayall described the experience in a 2011 interview:

“I got sent off the set because every time I tried to do a bit of acting, all the lads who were playing the school kids kept getting the giggles, they kept corpsing, so they threw me off.

“Well, they asked me to do it with my back to them and they still laughed. So they asked me to do it around the other side of the cathedral and shout my lines, but they still laughed so they said they’d do my lines with someone else. So then I did a little bit of filming, then I went home and I got the money. That’s significant. Then a month later, they said: ‘Er, Rik, we’re sorry about this, but you’re not in the film. We’ve cut you out of the film.’ … But I still got the money. So that is the most exciting film I’ve ever been in, because I got the oodle and I wasn’t in it. Fantastic.”

He didn’t tell his kids his part had been cut, though, and when they went to see it, “they came back and they said: ‘Bloody good make up. You didn’t look like yourself at all dad,’” Mayall said. “They thought I was playing Hagrid, Robbie Coltrane’s part.”

18. Moaning Myrtle has an interesting inspiration.

Rowling wrote on Pottermore that the whiny, bathroom-dwelling ghost was inspired by “the frequent presence of a crying girl in communal bathrooms, especially at the parties and discos of my youth. This does not seem to happen in male bathrooms, so I enjoyed placing Harry and Ron in such uncomfortable and unfamiliar territory in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.”

19. The actress who played Moaning Myrtle in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets was older than a student.

Shirley Henderson was 36 when she played the bathroom-haunting ghost of a 14-year-old student who was killed by a basilisk’s stare in Chamber of Secrets. Playing a ghost was tougher than playing a real person, she told the BBC, “because of all the technical stuff it involved. I had to be strapped up to this harness so it looked as if I was flying and so I could be pushed through the air and twisted and turned over and over again. It’s physically very tiring on your body. It also requires a lot of concentration, because there’s all kinds of people shouting stuff like 'Turn, do this, look at this’ so they can do all their stuff with the computer effects while I’m trying to act it out. But once you block all that out, it’s great fun. Really good fun.”

20. Prisoner of Azkaban director Alfonso Cuarón asked Watson, Grint, and Radcliffe to write essays about their characters.

Alfonso Cuarón wanted Watson, Radcliffe, and Grint to write essays about their characters from a first person point of view. According to Heyman, “they all responded very much in character … Dan wrote a page, Emma wrote 10 and Rupert didn’t deliver anything.”

Grint told Entertainment Weekly, “I didn’t do mine, because I didn’t think Ron would. Or that was my excuse. At the time, I was actually quite busy with the real schoolwork involved with my exams, and I just didn’t do it. But in the end, it felt right because that’s what Ron would have done.”

21. J.K. Rowling shot down one of Alfonso Cuarón’s ideas.

Rowling wasn’t precious about all of the details of her books (see: Harry’s eye color). “Inevitably, you have to depart from the strict storyline of the books,” she told Radcliffe. “The books are simply too long to make into very faithful films.” But that didn’t mean she’d let everything slide: “Sometimes I would dig my heels in on the funniest things,” she said. “I’d say yeah, change the costume, that’s not a problem … And then all of a sudden I’d say, ‘Why would they do that spell? They wouldn’t do that there.’”

Take, for example, one shot that Cuarón wrote into Prisoner of Azkaban, which Rowling called “rather bizarre.” “I think Flitwick was conducting, and there were miniature people in an orchestra inside something,” she told Radcliffe. “I said to him, but why? I know it’s visually exciting, but part of what I think fans really enjoyed about the literary world is that there was a logic that underpinned it. There was always a logic to the magic, however strange it became. And I know it’s intriguing to go through the mouth of whatever it was and see these little people, but why have they done it? For you to film it, that’s just what it feels like. Normally, with the magic, there’s a point. So we had a bit of discussion.”

22. J.K. Rowling tipped Alan Rickman off to Snape’s motivations.

“I told him really early on that Snape had been in love with Lily, that’s why he hated James, that’s why he projected this amount of dislike onto Harry,” Rowling told Radcliffe. “So he knew that. Then you told me that he’d been saying … ‘I just don’t think Snape would do that, given what I know.’” She laughed, continuing, “And I thought, ‘Alan, are you really milking this now?’”

She also told Radcliffe about Harry’s (partial) fate after seeing him in Equus. Radcliffe asked her, point-blank: “Do I die?”

“You get a death scene,” Rowling told him.

“I saw you double-take,” Rowling said. “Neal, my husband, afterward, said, ‘What did Dan ask you?’ And I said ‘He wanted to know if he’s going to die.’” When he asked what she’d said, Rowling told him, “I’m not telling you!” Though her husband knew Dumbledore's fate ahead of time, Rowling kept Harry’s ultimate fate a secret till the end.

23. The Harry Potter actors couldn’t play contact sports.

Instead, they played golf. ''[At Leavesden Studios], Rupert Grint and my brother [James] and I would hang out at the driving range downstairs quite a bit,” Oliver Phelps, who played George Weasley, told EW. “I mean, I say driving range, but it was a mat and a 150-yard cone at the other end. Golf was one of the only sports we were allowed to do in our contract because it was relatively quite safe. We couldn’t do any contact sports.”

24. The Harry Potter movies featured some high-tech visual effects …

Visual effects artists were tasked with bringing many of the fantastic magical elements of Harry Potter to life, including everything from fire-breathing dragons and club-swinging giants to zombie-like Inferi and Voldemort’s snake-like face (which was created by using practical makeup and digitally removing Ralph Fiennes’s nose). One of their most challenging sequences came early in Deathly Hallows, when members of the Order of the Phoenix arrive at Privet Drive to whisk Harry away to a safe spot. Multiple Harrys, Mad-Eye Moody says, will confuse the Death Eaters on their trail—so some of the wizards chug Polyjuice Potion and transform into Harry.

The transformation was tough for visual effects artists to pull off. "We needed to have a little bit of the attributes of Harry, and a little bit of the attributes of whoever we started with—George, Fred, Ron, Hermione," Nicolas Aithadi, VFX supervisor at Moving Picture Company, told Popular Mechanics. "The tricky part is you have to be able to read the Harry part and the George part. What we keep from each of these characters has to be perfect." They accomplished it by coating the actors’ faces in UV paint, then having them make faces in the Mova Contour Reality Capture system, which had 29 cameras and can capture 50,000 points of information, creating a 3D mesh cloud they could use as a basis for the transforming faces.

According to Phelps, it was completely different than anything they’d ever done before. “There are probably 30 different facial expressions they tried to get you to do,” he told Popular Mechanics. “I never realized how wide I could open my mouth until we did that scene, so that was quite cool.” Because of the UV paint, the VFX artists had one piece of advice, Phelps said: “They were quite keen to say, ‘Just don’t go to any nightclubs tonight, because you’ll look like a floating head.’”

25. … But not all the effects in the Harry Potter movies were computer generated.

Animatronics were made for the actors to interact with on set, including baby mandrakes, Hedwig, the Monster Book of Monsters, and Buckbeak, which was used on-set for close ups. “He could stare at you, his eyes could follow you, he could bow, and every one of his feathers was dyed and put in by hand,” Newquist told Popular Mechanics. “There are tens of thousands of them, and they look absolutely gorgeous. ”Other creatures were built to give the animators reference for lighting, like the giant Jack-in-the-Box from Prisoner of Azkaban and house elf Kreacher.

26. The Harry Potter makeup artists applied Harry’s lightning bolt scar thousands of times over the course of eight films.

Five thousand eight hundred times, to be exact. In our 2014 interview with Radcliffe, he told us, “The lightning scar, on the first two films, we essentially painted it on, and after that we used Pros-Aide, which was like a glue [to put it on]. It was very simple.” The scar was applied to his face thousands of times; the rest went on film and stunt doubles. Radcliffe also went through 160 pairs of Harry’s round-frame glasses.

27. Helena Bonham Carter kept her Bellatrix teeth.

“I loved my [fake] teeth!” the actress told EW. “I kept them because they’re not going to fit anybody else. I keep them in a blue plastic thing in the bathroom and bring them out when I miss [Bellatrix].’”

28. There could have been an official Harry Potter musical.

Rowling has turned down a lot of proposed Harry Potter ideas—including, she told Winfrey, a musical that Michael Jackson wanted to do. Harry did get his Broadway moment, though, via Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which debuted on the West End in 2016 before making its way to Broadway two years later.

29. Dumbledore was gay.

Rowling has shared a number of revelations since the Harry Potter books and films wrapped up—including the fact that Dumbledore was gay.

In 2007, when asked by a fan whether or not Hogwarts’s favorite headmaster had ever been in love, Rowling responded, “I always thought of Dumbledore as gay.” She revealed that he had fallen in love with Grindelwald, “and that added to his horror when Grindelwald showed himself to be what he was.”

Rowling said she found the reaction to the news very interesting. “To me it was not a big deal,” she told Radcliffe. “This is a very old man who has a very terrible job to do. And his gayness is not really relevant. Very relevant to him as a character, because I always saw him as a very lonely character. And I think that there is in fact a hint of it in [Deathly Hallows] because of the relationship he has with Grindelwald. He fell very hard for this boy ... And don’t you think it was perfect that Dumbledore, who is always the great champion of love … his one great experience of love was utterly tragic.”

This led to one very necessary tweak to the Half-Blood Prince script. “In an early draft of that script, Dumbledore said to Harry … ‘I remember a young woman with eyes of flashing whatever, raven-haired…’ and I read this and I scribbled on my copy of the script, ‘Steve, Dumbledore is gay,’ shoved it up the table,” she said. “And Steve [said,] ‘Oh.’ So that’s why that line didn’t make the film.”

30. J.K. Rowling acknowledged that a Harry/Hermione pairing might have worked.

In an interview with Emma Watson for Wonderland magazine in 2014, Rowling said that “I wrote the Hermione/Ron relationship as a form of wish fulfillment,” saying that they ended up together “for reasons that have very little to do with literature and far more to do with me clinging to the plot as I first imagined it … The attraction itself is plausible but the combative side of it … I’m not sure you could have got over that in an adult relationship, there was too much fundamental incompatibility.”

She noted that “in some ways Hermione and Harry are a better fit,” and that she felt that “quite strongly” when she wrote a particular scene in Deathly Hallows, where Harry and Hermione are in the tent. “I hadn’t told [Steve] Kloves that and when he wrote the script he felt exactly the same thing at exactly the same point,” she said.

31. According to J.K. Rowling, the Malfoy family once hung out with rich Muggles.

“Until the imposition of the Statute of Secrecy in 1692, the Malfoy family was active within high-born Muggle circles, and it is said that their fervent opposition to the imposition of the Statute was due, in part, to the fact that they would have to withdraw from this enjoyable sphere of social life,” Rowling wrote on Pottermore. In fact, one Malfoy might have had designs on the British Throne: “There is ample evidence to suggest that the first Lucius Malfoy was an unsuccessful aspirant to the hand of Elizabeth I, and some wizarding historians allege that the Queen's subsequent opposition to marriage was due to a jinx placed upon her by the thwarted Malfoy,” Rowling writes. The Malfoys gave up their Muggle fraternizing when the Ministry of Magic, “the new heart of power,” was founded.

32. Muggles can’t make potions.

And that’s because you can’t make potions without wands. “Merely adding dead flies and asphodel to a pot hanging over a fire will give you nothing but nasty-tasting, not to mention poisonous, soup,” Rowling wrote on Pottermore. Though her least favorite subject in school was chemistry, she admitted that “I always enjoyed creating potions in the books, and researching ingredients for them. Many of the components of the various draughts and libations that Harry creates for Snape exist (or were once believed to exist) and have (or were believed to have) the properties I gave them.”

33. There was one Harry Potter question J.K. Rowling feared the most.

It was “What was Dumbledore’s wand made of?”

“That would have been quite a telling question,” Rowling told Time. “Because I had this elder thing in my mind, cause elder has this association in folklore, it’s the death tree. I thought, ‘What am I going to say?’” Thankfully, no one ever asked.

34. You can spot a crumple-horned snorkack in the Wizarding World of Harry Potter.

It’s on the second story of the Magical Menagerie. Luna’s father, Xenophilius Lovegood, claimed it was a real creature, but it was never found. Rowling said that Luna, who became a naturalist, had to eventually “accept that her father might have made that one up.”

35. … as well as Arthur Weasley’s flying car.

The flying Ford Anglia—which Harry and Ron flew into the Whomping Willow and later saved them from Acromantulas in the books—was found in line for the now-closed Dragon Challenge roller coaster, just over the bridge and before entering the castle.

A version of this story ran in 2015; it has been updated for 2023.

Quick facts

Hi, I'm Jayden and I joined on 12 April 2024.

My favorite HP character: is Harry Potter

My least favorite HP character: is Severus Snape

Why I came: I read books and movies and want to do more.

My house: Slytherin/Hufflepuff.

Let's all be friends.

So this roleplay is basically, a group of wizards is aiding the rebel group in taking down the Reestablishment. You can make a claim on a character from the shatter me franchise. First come first serve.

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I will make mine tomorrow.

FUN FACT: Do you believe that there would be almost 4800 characters altogether in the wizarding franchise if you also count the ones mentioned in newspapers from the films, minor conversations, video games, etc.?!!

By this, I don't mean like what happened with Harry, Ron and Hermione where they decided to stay away due to Voldemort and the Death Eaters.

What I mean is an instance taking place during the school term where a student decides to flee Hogwarts (possibly due to fear of been punished after an accident/incident or from having enough of been bullied); stealing a broomstick and jetting away as fast as possible.

(The Muggle equivalent would be "playing truant/skipping school").

Do you think this kind of thing has happened before, and do you think there are measures to deal with it if it does happen - especially since if said student is acting on emotion and impulse, the statute of secrecy isn't going to be their first concern?

(After all, when we're panicked/upset, we don't often act logically and think things through).

Curious to see what you guys think.

Let's find the connections & similarities between these two iconic villain characters: LORD VOLDEMORT & THANOS. Have fun!!

Pg 13!

I found a lot of hazbin fans here lately so I thought I would do this!

Backstory: your a witch/wizard who did no sins in their life- yet somehow you just died and ended up in hell! what will you do in this risky place where anything can happen?

Rules:

If you wish to be a cannon charecter, than plz tell me why you wish to be

No shipping your self with charecters who are already in a relationship!

Censor- I only say this bc its the fandom rules

Have fun!

I have already claimed Lucifer, so he's not up for grabs lol but you can ship yourself with him, unless someone already does!

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