You still have a lot of unanswered questions about Harry Potter, like who took Voldemort's body after he killed James and Lily, where do Hogwarts teachers sleep and shower or why no staff member seems to be married, amirite?
Voldemort's body was destroyed after he killed James and Lily, so he was just this wandering spirit that then found Quirrel.
There's probably like a teachers lounge somewhere, like the common rooms the students have.
All the teachers are such hard workers, that they don't have time for relationships until they are out of school, like Lupin. Except for Snape, who is a heart broken man who will never find love again. Please note that they above is merely speculation
(Prof_E):You know, that first question has been bugging me for years, because if what you say is true (and I think it’s written in one of the books, but I’m not sure), that means that the Avada Kedavra curse that rebounded on Voldemort destroyed his body and spared his soul, but it’s supposed to do the exact opposite…
(Prof_E):But let’s say his body and soul were simply separated. That means that the body was left behind, and that someone had to dispose of it before it was found. Meanwhile, the piece of soul contained by the body was left to possess different animals in order to survive. But why didn’t it just disappear, like everyone else’s does when they die? Of course he had Horcruxes, but according to Dumbledore, if a Dark Wizard was killed, only the pieces of his soul concealed in objects would survive, not the actual piece left in his body.
Well, considering that the spell only rebounded because of Lily's love, it probably didn't have the same affect as a regular killing spell, or when someone with a wand rebounded it.
There is a staff lounge which appears multiple times throughout the series. ex: where filch cleans snape's wound from fluffy, where harry and pals fight the boggart in a wardrobe in his third year, and where harry and ron go late in the second book, also seeing the aforementioned wardrobe.
Thank you, I was going to answer the same thing. But the last thing isn't necessarily true; it's not because of that, maybe they just don't want to get married or didn't find the right person. It's not just the teachers who are unmarried, a lot of other wizards aren't either. And the only reason Lupin got married after he stopped being a teacher, isn't because he stopped being a teacher, but because he found the right woman in the 5th book.
Yeah, I wasn't being completely serious about the last one, but all the teachers are extremely dedicated to their students. Except the dark arts teachers...
Rowling said Harry didn't see his parents die, James was on the first floor and Harry's crib blocked him from seeing Lily's death. In PS/SS, Harry had passed out before Quirrell dies.
JKR has addressed that. It's not a mistake (because obviously, she planned out every little detail beforehand), but she just decided she didn't want to introduce a brand new mystery at the end of the fourth book, so she waited until the fifth book to have the thestrals be invisible. Her explanation was that you have to "come to terms with the death" in order to see the thestrals. Kind of lame, I know, but I guess there's no reason why it doesn't work.
I thought every year as a student in Hogwarts you get to see a new kind of transportation. Every year she only mentions one so I assumed when he saw them it was the first chance any of them had seen them either? I don't think he mentions seeing carriages pulled by nothing before hand...
No, Harry freaked Ron out in the fifth book because Ron had no idea what Harry meant by "mad horse things," Ron just knew he couldn't see them and Harry had never mentioned them before. So Harry was probably looking away when his parents were killed, or else he was too young to understand and so it didn't count.
He didn't see his parents die. He only saw the green light and he didn't see Quirrel die because he passed out. The first person he actually saw die, was Cedric
I was a fucking baby when my parents died! That doesn't count, I couldn't even remember it. I was laying down in my crib anyways.And yes, I was unconcious when Quirrel died.
Am I the only one who questions what happens when muggle students like Hermione just kind of "disappear" out of muggle school districts all together? Or how the wizarding world is concealed, not Hogwarts, but like the Weasley house and others. Is there like another realm that's invisible? Or does what that shrunken head in the third movie said apply to houses, about muggles not using their eyes and noticing things?
Yeah, I wondered that too. I guess their parents probably just say they're homeschooled or something.
What I always wondered was, didn't Hermione have any muggle-friends? Because there's never any mention of any but I find it hard to believe she didn't have a single friend growing up, or that she would totally drop them when she found out she was a witch.
Well she didn't have any friends at Hogwarts at first, right? Because she wasn't a very likeable person, really. My guess is that if she did have any Muggle friends before going to Hogwarts, they weren't exceedingly close.
Apparently in England its pretty common practice to send your kids to boarding school, so you could probably just rattle off the name of some obscure school, and on the off chance that someone you know also has a child who goes there you can just pass it off as them not having any classes together.
Sorry if I'm spoiling anything, but as said in the 6 book, Voldemort had 6 horcruxes. Therefore, since Horcruxes require you to split your soul in a malicious act of evil, the power of love overcame the horcrux's protection of evil. Therefore splitting his soul out of his body, releasing his spirit to roam the Earth, alone. His body was still intact, however, reduced to a feeble state. His wandering soul met Quirrel and convinced him to join the death eaters, as we know in the first book. Then, since Quirrel got turned to dust, along with voldemort, Pettigrew went around, searching for Voldemort after he was freed in the 3rd book. After that, he made an elixir to bring Voldemort back to life. At least, that's what I assumed.
Also, I don't remember, I haven't picked up the book since I finished it way back when it cam out, but does Hermione ever get her parents' memories back after obliterating them?
~What was the relationship between Draco and Harry after the 7th book?
~Do wizards have "higher education" like college or do they just have vocational training?
~What has Aberforth been up to all this time (we don't even meet him until the end of book 7)
~What happens to the Dursleys?
~What caused Regulus to leave the Death Eaters and betray Voldemort?
~Kind of random but to portraits of peoples have personalities and IQ? do they retain the memories of their actual person? even if they're dead? for example the portrait of professor dumbledore in the headmaster's office?
~JKR has said that she never meant for them to become great friends or that Draco become a great guy after choosing not to side with the Death Eaters, so I don't think they hung out on weekends or anything. But they were no longer enemies.
~Not sure... the series seems to suggest that they just have vocational training at the Ministry and stuff.
~I'm pretty sure Aberforth was just chilling as the barman of the Hog's Head. Also, he was in the original Order of the Phoenix.
~Apparently, Dudley and Harry were never close, but they remained on "Christmas card terms". JKR actually considered that Dudley have a wizard child, but decided that no wizard blood could survive contact with Uncle Vernon's blood.
~Still a mystery! A lot of fanfiction speculation on the matter though... maybe we'll find out on Pottermore?
~That's really interesting... I'd like to find out more. http://www.accio-quote.org/arti...t-anelli-1.htm
The question about Regulus was answered. He freaked out when he found out how far it was going and tried to back out. As Sirius said, you don't just hand in your resignation to Voldemort.
Well, yeah, but "freaked out" isn't that specific. I'd be interested to hear the full story. And besides, that's just Sirius' interpretation. Sirius didn't know that Regulus took the locket. He thought Regulus just chickened out and was therefore killed.
yea i know that part..id like a more detailed version...i guess this will always be left to imagination though because at this point both Regulus and Voldemort are dead.
Regulus left the Death Eaters because Voldemort wanted to kill Kreacher by testing the security of the locket horcrux on him. It was when Regulus found out what Voldemort had done to Kreacher that he changed sides.
I'm just gonna guess and say quirrell took voldies body considering he fused to the back of his head, the teachers probably have some hidden door in their offices like the room of requirement, and who doesn't love the single life?
Ok I think nevil acctually marries luna, harry didn't actuall see his parents killed, his dad died downstares and harry was in a baby basket thing when his mom died so he didn't seed her, and harry saw quirl begin to die but passed out before he really died. And the real answer to the thestrals j.k. only thout them up in the fith book so stop over analyzing.
JKR said that she did consider putting Neville and Luna together, but she thought they'd be a little lost as a couple. Each of them needed a spouse that would help keep them grounded.
So, I didn't actually bother to read that...based on your poor spelling and down votes, I assumed that your comment was filled with poor logic and incorrect conjectures that have been proven by the Word of God herself, J.K. Rowling.
Yeah, but BEFORE she revealed him to be gay, I think a lot of readers expected them to get together someday. Especially when they were dancing at the Yule Ball together, you know?
Not me... I always saw him as sort of solitary and celibate, which is really what he was after the whole Grindelwald heartbreak. Coming to terms with the fact that the love of your life is evil as you're watching him torture your brother, possibly kill your sister, and attempt to start a genocide can really make a man give up on the whole idea of "romantics".
That is my favorite Harry Potter joke EVER. Thank you so much for posting it. This one is also pretty high in my book.
Knock Knock?
Who's there?
You know...
You know who?
Avada kedavra!
They're not married so that they can participate in massive Hogwarts Teacher orgies without guilt. Duh.
(Harry Pervert): Because someone would have had sex with Snape. Right.
Snape has more fangirls than any of the other characters.
Voldemort's body was destroyed after he killed James and Lily, so he was just this wandering spirit that then found Quirrel.
There's probably like a teachers lounge somewhere, like the common rooms the students have.
All the teachers are such hard workers, that they don't have time for relationships until they are out of school, like Lupin. Except for Snape, who is a heart broken man who will never find love again.
Please note that they above is merely speculation
(Prof_E):You know, that first question has been bugging me for years, because if what you say is true (and I think it’s written in one of the books, but I’m not sure), that means that the Avada Kedavra curse that rebounded on Voldemort destroyed his body and spared his soul, but it’s supposed to do the exact opposite…
But his soul couldn't be completely destroyed because of his horcruxes, so I guess that's why his body was destroyed instead...
I don't know, it's all really confusing, I hope she explains it on Pottermore.
The part of his soul that was in his body was destroyed, and his body was destroyed in the resulting explosion.
(Prof_E):But let’s say his body and soul were simply separated. That means that the body was left behind, and that someone had to dispose of it before it was found. Meanwhile, the piece of soul contained by the body was left to possess different animals in order to survive. But why didn’t it just disappear, like everyone else’s does when they die? Of course he had Horcruxes, but according to Dumbledore, if a Dark Wizard was killed, only the pieces of his soul concealed in objects would survive, not the actual piece left in his body.
Well, considering that the spell only rebounded because of Lily's love, it probably didn't have the same affect as a regular killing spell, or when someone with a wand rebounded it.
There is a staff lounge which appears multiple times throughout the series. ex: where filch cleans snape's wound from fluffy, where harry and pals fight the boggart in a wardrobe in his third year, and where harry and ron go late in the second book, also seeing the aforementioned wardrobe.
Thank you, I was going to answer the same thing. But the last thing isn't necessarily true; it's not because of that, maybe they just don't want to get married or didn't find the right person. It's not just the teachers who are unmarried, a lot of other wizards aren't either. And the only reason Lupin got married after he stopped being a teacher, isn't because he stopped being a teacher, but because he found the right woman in the 5th book.
Yeah, I wasn't being completely serious about the last one, but all the teachers are extremely dedicated to their students. Except the dark arts teachers...
I've always wondered what happened to the Weasley's after the Battle of Hogwarts...
Only in the movie. In the book, Harry passes out before Quirrell dies.
Rowling said Harry didn't see his parents die, James was on the first floor and Harry's crib blocked him from seeing Lily's death. In PS/SS, Harry had passed out before Quirrell dies.
JKR has addressed that. It's not a mistake (because obviously, she planned out every little detail beforehand), but she just decided she didn't want to introduce a brand new mystery at the end of the fourth book, so she waited until the fifth book to have the thestrals be invisible. Her explanation was that you have to "come to terms with the death" in order to see the thestrals. Kind of lame, I know, but I guess there's no reason why it doesn't work.
I thought every year as a student in Hogwarts you get to see a new kind of transportation. Every year she only mentions one so I assumed when he saw them it was the first chance any of them had seen them either? I don't think he mentions seeing carriages pulled by nothing before hand...
He saw them before, because he saw his parents die.
No, Harry freaked Ron out in the fifth book because Ron had no idea what Harry meant by "mad horse things," Ron just knew he couldn't see them and Harry had never mentioned them before. So Harry was probably looking away when his parents were killed, or else he was too young to understand and so it didn't count.
He didn't see his parents die. He only saw the green light and he didn't see Quirrel die because he passed out. The first person he actually saw die, was Cedric
whoops! I apologize.
I was a fucking baby when my parents died! That doesn't count, I couldn't even remember it. I was laying down in my crib anyways.And yes, I was unconcious when Quirrel died.
yeah he got married to Hannah Abbott and became the Herbology teacher
Hannah Abbot?! I figured he'd marry Luna. Hannah's barely mentioned in the books.
And Hannah Abbot became the land lady of the Leaky Cauldron
You beat me to it!
He did... It was written in the very last chapter of the seventh book
Huh? My book only mentions he teaches Herbology...
For some reason my brain blocked out the fact he wrote that Neville got married. I meant that he teaches Herbology not gets married
Am I the only one who questions what happens when muggle students like Hermione just kind of "disappear" out of muggle school districts all together? Or how the wizarding world is concealed, not Hogwarts, but like the Weasley house and others. Is there like another realm that's invisible? Or does what that shrunken head in the third movie said apply to houses, about muggles not using their eyes and noticing things?
Yeah, I wondered that too. I guess their parents probably just say they're homeschooled or something.
What I always wondered was, didn't Hermione have any muggle-friends? Because there's never any mention of any but I find it hard to believe she didn't have a single friend growing up, or that she would totally drop them when she found out she was a witch.
Well she didn't have any friends at Hogwarts at first, right? Because she wasn't a very likeable person, really. My guess is that if she did have any Muggle friends before going to Hogwarts, they weren't exceedingly close.
Boarding school? Technically they aren't lying.
Apparently in England its pretty common practice to send your kids to boarding school, so you could probably just rattle off the name of some obscure school, and on the off chance that someone you know also has a child who goes there you can just pass it off as them not having any classes together.
I just wonder why Salazar Slytherin put the entrance to the chamber of secrets in the girls' bathroom.
I quite enjoyed reading all of that. ^^
Sorry if I'm spoiling anything, but as said in the 6 book, Voldemort had 6 horcruxes. Therefore, since Horcruxes require you to split your soul in a malicious act of evil, the power of love overcame the horcrux's protection of evil. Therefore splitting his soul out of his body, releasing his spirit to roam the Earth, alone. His body was still intact, however, reduced to a feeble state. His wandering soul met Quirrel and convinced him to join the death eaters, as we know in the first book. Then, since Quirrel got turned to dust, along with voldemort, Pettigrew went around, searching for Voldemort after he was freed in the 3rd book. After that, he made an elixir to bring Voldemort back to life. At least, that's what I assumed.
COUGH COUGH seven Horcruxes, the last Horcrux is Harry himself COUGH COUGH
Yeah, but harry didn't become a horcrux until after Voldy tried to kill him
No. 6 Horcruxes. The books say his soul was split in 7 parts, one of which was himself.
harry was an accidental extra horcrux
1. Harry
2. Nagini
3. Diary
4. Cup
5. Locket
6. Diadem
7. Ring
Also, I don't remember, I haven't picked up the book since I finished it way back when it cam out, but does Hermione ever get her parents' memories back after obliterating them?
JKR mentioned that after finishering her seventh year and taking her N.E.W.T.s and stuff she found her parents and and gave them their memories
Cool fact: J.K. Rowling wrote the last chapter of the seventh book before even finishing the first book.
my only question is, was james downstairs and killed before lily? or with lily?
Lily ran upstairs. James was killed first.
Neville became a teacher and he had a wife.
I LOVE the mods for putting up those spoiler-protectors!! shows they care about harry potter!! yeaaa!
Dumbledore's gay so...
I want to know what Horcrux did Voldemort go into when his spell backfired on him while trying to kill infant Harry Potter.
His soul actually just kind of floated around and he possesed snakes and other animals.
My questions are:
~What was the relationship between Draco and Harry after the 7th book?
~Do wizards have "higher education" like college or do they just have vocational training?
~What has Aberforth been up to all this time (we don't even meet him until the end of book 7)
~What happens to the Dursleys?
~What caused Regulus to leave the Death Eaters and betray Voldemort?
~Kind of random but to portraits of peoples have personalities and IQ? do they retain the memories of their actual person? even if they're dead? for example the portrait of professor dumbledore in the headmaster's office?
~JKR has said that she never meant for them to become great friends or that Draco become a great guy after choosing not to side with the Death Eaters, so I don't think they hung out on weekends or anything. But they were no longer enemies.
~Not sure... the series seems to suggest that they just have vocational training at the Ministry and stuff.
~I'm pretty sure Aberforth was just chilling as the barman of the Hog's Head. Also, he was in the original Order of the Phoenix.
~Apparently, Dudley and Harry were never close, but they remained on "Christmas card terms". JKR actually considered that Dudley have a wizard child, but decided that no wizard blood could survive contact with Uncle Vernon's blood.
~Still a mystery! A lot of fanfiction speculation on the matter though... maybe we'll find out on Pottermore?
~That's really interesting... I'd like to find out more.
http://www.accio-quote.org/arti...t-anelli-1.htm
The question about Regulus was answered. He freaked out when he found out how far it was going and tried to back out. As Sirius said, you don't just hand in your resignation to Voldemort.
Well, yeah, but "freaked out" isn't that specific. I'd be interested to hear the full story. And besides, that's just Sirius' interpretation. Sirius didn't know that Regulus took the locket. He thought Regulus just chickened out and was therefore killed.
yea i know that part..id like a more detailed version...i guess this will always be left to imagination though because at this point both Regulus and Voldemort are dead.
True.
Regulus left the Death Eaters because Voldemort wanted to kill Kreacher by testing the security of the locket horcrux on him. It was when Regulus found out what Voldemort had done to Kreacher that he changed sides.
thanks :]
I'm just gonna guess and say quirrell took voldies body considering he fused to the back of his head, the teachers probably have some hidden door in their offices like the room of requirement, and who doesn't love the single life?
i dont have any of those questions.
You also don't have an identity.
Ok I think nevil acctually marries luna, harry didn't actuall see his parents killed, his dad died downstares and harry was in a baby basket thing when his mom died so he didn't seed her, and harry saw quirl begin to die but passed out before he really died. And the real answer to the thestrals j.k. only thout them up in the fith book so stop over analyzing.
"harry was in a baby basket thing when his mom died so he didn't seed her" Resist jokes, Mary, you can do it, you're strong!
... Neville marries Hannah Abbot actually.
Though, I would not mind AT ALL if he got with Luna xP
-xoxo
JKR said that she did consider putting Neville and Luna together, but she thought they'd be a little lost as a couple. Each of them needed a spouse that would help keep them grounded.
So, I didn't actually bother to read that...based on your poor spelling and down votes, I assumed that your comment was filled with poor logic and incorrect conjectures that have been proven by the Word of God herself, J.K. Rowling.
Luna married Rolf Scamander
Who the hell is...?
I have no clue. He is the guy Luna married though
Rolf Scamander is the grandson of Newt Scamander. He wrote one of the textbooks, Magical Beasts and Where to Find Them.
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them*
OH. That makes sense now. Thanks. :P
He's a naturalist or something I guess... and they had twin boys Lorcan and Lysander...
Lorcan... and... Lysander... Ohh, I bet they get made fun of a lot.
Haha right?! But only Luna would name her children that
And Rolf Scamander, apparently.
Well... it proves they're... great(?) for eachother. But I honestly like her with Neville better not gonna lie
Ah well. I guess Neville didn't have a queer enough name.
NEVILLE LONGBOTTOM. enough said.
Lysander Scamander. Haha, that rhymes:)
Waitwaitwait! So her sons name is actually Lysander Scamander? Gotta love Luna. xD
In the first movie, it seemed like Prof. McGonagal (or however you say it) and Dumbledore were in a relationship... just sayin'.
But J. K. Rowling has revealed that Dumbledore's gay, I think he even had a relationship with Grindelwald.
Minerva needed a gay best friend. Who else would tell her if her hat went will with her robes?
Yeah, but BEFORE she revealed him to be gay, I think a lot of readers expected them to get together someday. Especially when they were dancing at the Yule Ball together, you know?
Not me... I always saw him as sort of solitary and celibate, which is really what he was after the whole Grindelwald heartbreak. Coming to terms with the fact that the love of your life is evil as you're watching him torture your brother, possibly kill your sister, and attempt to start a genocide can really make a man give up on the whole idea of "romantics".
Wait, he's gay? Since when?
I always liked their relationship, and I used to think that McGonagall had a bit of a crush on Dumbledore. Who wouldn't, with that long, sexy beard?
Yeah, I do agree that it's not unlikely that McGonagall had a bit of a crush on Dumbledore, just because she clearly admired him enough.
who cares. harry potter sucks.
get out.
Not for free. No, but Siriusly GET THE FUCK OUT.
"Siriusly." Oh, I HAVE to tell you a joke now.
Lupin: Really, Harry, I think you might have a chance with Ron's sister.
Harry: Are you fucking serious?
Lupin: I wish.
That is my favorite Harry Potter joke EVER. Thank you so much for posting it. This one is also pretty high in my book.
Knock Knock?
Who's there?
You know...
You know who?
Avada kedavra!
I have a good one.
Harry: You're white.
Sirius: No, I'm Black.
Harry: Stop joking.
Sirius: No, I'm Sirius.
Ok, who let the twilight fan on the internet?!