Not sure if this has been asked before so I apologize for the redundant question but I'm genuinely curious as to why they just followed him.

Did they not know or were they just manipulated or cursed to believe he was? Was it because he was the heir of Slytherin and that was enough?

NOTE FROM ME: I have written this original work to try and bring the idea of Female Draco Malfoy within universe. Please let me know your thoughts. I am working on a narrated video version of this

The Wizarding World is a vast and mysterious place. In fact, mysteries are the very crux of what makes this hidden society stand apart from the realm you see around you. Where Muggles rely on science to discover and invent, wizards from all walks of life have spent history creating wonders of their own. What are these mysteries, you may ask? Surely, they cannot be that different from Muggle discoveries, can they?

There are creatures in every corner of the globe, kept hidden by the tireless efforts of wizarding authorities over countless centuries. There are also beasts in the deepest, darkest places that both Muggles and wizards have yet to uncover. A mysterious sound in the night might be dismissed by a Muggle as a simple woodland animal. A wizard, however, might picture a massive beast with the body of a horse, cloaked in feathers, with the head of a bird and magnificent wings protruding from its spine. The difference is that the wizard’s imagination is actually a memory—a reality learned from a school textbook. That textbook was written by a wizard who took his insatiable curiosity, sought out what others feared, and single-handedly uncovered the secrets of the most obscure creatures on earth.

There is powerful magic in this mysterious world. Some magic is created for evil, born with the sole purpose of taking a person’s malice and weaponizing it to inflict pain. Conversely, there is magic created for pure good, designed to take a person’s happiest memories and manifest them as an ethereal guardian that protects against the dark. Sometimes, magic is created for no other reason than to make you smile—sold as a simple joke in a vibrant shop by two wizards who spent years experimenting just to hear people laugh.

Magic takes many other forms. It can be a simple potion, brewed from common ingredients but amplified by magical intent. Or, it can be a highly advanced concoction, stewed over long months using fantastical elements from mythical beasts to heal maladies of all sorts. There are potions to cure the common cold, potions to tame unmanageable hair, and potions that perform absolute miracles, like regrowing shattered bones.

Out of all these mysteries, however, there is one subset of magical discovery deemed so volatile that, even if not inherently malicious, it can be catastrophic to the world around us. These are magics that hold a fundamental, detrimental power over reality itself—bending time, space, and existence. In these rare cases, the magical governments step in to confiscate and bury these findings, acting for the greater good of both the wizarding world and the Muggles they help protect.

Deep within the bowels of the Ministry of Magic, there is an entire department dedicated to these confiscations. It hides away the most bizarre, terrifying, and fascinating discoveries from thousands of years of history. This is the Department of Mysteries. Within its dark corridors are many doors, each opening into a room dedicated to a different facet of the unknown. There is a room with a crumbling stone archway on a dais, sitting ominously quiet except to those who have known death. There is a room filled with brains floating in a green tank, ready to lash out at the unwary. Perhaps most haunting of all is a cavernous hall filled with glass orbs covered in dust—whispering prophecies of times past and times yet to come.

Yet, out of all these chambers, there is one that sits deeper still. It stands out as the most secretive, most heavily guarded room in the entire department. Past the Room of Time, and past the Hall of Prophecy, lies a space dedicated solely to the works of one wizard from the fifteenth century. Inside, you will find towering shelves of journals chronicling his impossible adventures. More peculiarly, you will find a stone Pensieve, swirling with the silvery memories he gathered on his travels. At the center of it all, resting on a table beneath a protective glass case, is a broken device.

Some who see this golden mechanism might recognize it, as it closely resembles other restricted instruments used in the wizarding world. It is a Time-Turner. Normally, a spin of its rings transports the user back in time, allowing them to relive a few fleeting hours before returning to the present. What makes this specific device different is that it is the original. What makes it special, and infinitely more dangerous, is that it allowed the user to move backward—and forward—beyond the confines of their own natural timeline. You see, all current Time-Turners are merely flawed replicas, created by wizards attempting to copy this prototype's immense power. The best those imitators could do was send a user back for five minutes. Later variations allowed for slightly longer stays. But they were never able to recreate the original’s ability to completely shatter the boundaries of an established timeline.

The wizard who forged this original artifact, and whose life fills this secret room, was named Emmerist Browning. He called his invention the Flux Gyrator. In the fifteenth century—around October 15th, 1585, to be precise—he completed the device and began his journey through time. He met witches and wizards from our past, our present, and our distant future. He saw what was going to happen, what had already happened, and, most terrifyingly, what could have been.

In many of the adventures captured in those dusty journals, Emmerist inadvertently fractured timelines, spawning entirely new, alternate realities. He spent years of his life desperately trying to mend these incoherent timelines and stitch them back to where they belonged. His records of these corrections now serve as harrowing cautionary tales, warning of the catastrophes that unfold when the past is altered. As he fixed these broken realities, he extracted the memories of those he was forced to Obliviate. He collected these forgotten lives into the hundreds of glass vials that now surround the Pensieve.

Towards the end of his life, Emmerist took one final journey. Upon returning, he deliberately shattered his life's work, ensuring no one could ever repeat his mistakes—or worse, use the Flux Gyrator with malicious intent to undo the victories of the light. Nobody knows exactly when Emmerist died. His broken device and his life's research were discovered hidden in a Muggle home centuries later and quietly relocated to the Ministry. We only have a general idea of his timeline based on his own writings. It is highly theorized that many of the bizarre, incoherent prophecies in the neighboring hall were actually born from Emmerist’s timeline tampering. Some of those prophecies even seem to originate directly from the silvery memories glowing in his vials.

Within these final journals, Emmerist poured an obsessive amount of effort into documenting one particular alternate timeline. He wrote seven entire volumes detailing the life of a single boy. These texts surround a figure from our very recent history, and it is largely deduced that Emmerist extracted these memories directly from this hero while the man lay on his deathbed, far into the future. Emmerist never explicitly wrote why he spent his final years obsessing over this specific alternate reality, but the journals make one thing clear: Emmerist made a mistake while observing the buildup to the First and Second Wizarding Wars.

He inadvertently performed an action that delayed two young wizards from meeting for a date in Diagon Alley in the late 1970s. Because of Emmerist, they didn't meet until several days later. A few days might not seem like a big deal, but the butterfly effect fundamentally altered the entire landscape of the Second Wizarding War. It shifted births, deaths, marriages, and lifelong friendships for a century to come.

Most importantly, it profoundly affected the primary figure of the war.

Who was this person so deeply impacted by a delayed meeting? It was none other than Harry Potter. The Boy Who Lived. The Chosen One. The wizard who ultimately defeated the Dark Lord and took his place among the most revered figures in magical history.

But what exactly was changed in this alternate timeline? What was so catastrophic that Emmerist felt compelled to document it, yet still fix his mistake and prevent it from coming to pass? According to the journals, this alternate reality actually turned out okay. Some historians might even argue it was better than our own. Many lived who should have died, and many found happiness in the end. He doesn’t state why so we may never know.

The great fracture, the monumental change that rippled through history and needed repairing, was simply this: the bitter rival of Harry Potter, Draco Malfoy, was never born. Instead, he was born as Dracona Malfoy. The one and only child of Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy was born a girl.

The following books are the alternate story of Harry Potter. A story pieced together by Emmerist Browning from his travels, his mistakes, and the memories of a dying hero. It follows Harry Potter through the beginning and the end of the Second Wizarding War, leading to the ultimate fall of Lord Voldemort.

Title: Theory: Voldemort was actually Harry’s Horcrux, and the prophecy makes more sense because of it.
I’ve been thinking about Harry’s survival in Deathly Hallows, and I have a theory that I think makes the ending more compelling than the explanation we’re given.
Harry was Voldemort’s accidental Horcrux. But what if Voldemort was also Harry’s accidental Horcrux?
Hear me out.
We know that when Voldemort tried to kill Harry in 1981, a fragment of his damaged soul attached itself to Harry. Harry became an unintended Horcrux.
Then, in Goblet of Fire, Voldemort used Harry’s blood to resurrect himself.
Dumbledore’s reaction to learning this has always fascinated me. Harry notices a brief look of triumph in Dumbledore’s eyes. Why?
The canonical explanation is that Voldemort inadvertently preserved Lily’s sacrificial protection within himself, tethering Harry to life. That’s why Harry could return after Voldemort struck him with the Killing Curse in the Forbidden Forest.
But I’ve always found that explanation unsatisfying.
Lily’s protection originally prevented Voldemort from harming Harry. How does that become a mechanism for returning from death? Why does Voldemort incorporating Harry’s blood into his body suddenly give Harry the ability to survive a Killing Curse?
And why is the protection still operating through Voldemort after Harry turns 17, when the protective enchantment associated with Privet Drive has expired?
Yes, I understand those are technically separate enchantments. But I think there’s a much more interesting possibility.
What if the graveyard ritual created a reciprocal Horcrux-like bond?
In 1981, Voldemort unknowingly placed part of himself inside Harry.
In 1995, Voldemort unknowingly incorporated something of Harry’s life or soul into himself.
Voldemort thought he was overcoming the protection that had defeated him. Instead, he made himself the very thing he had spent his life creating: a vessel preserving someone else’s existence.
And Dumbledore realized it.
Suddenly, the prophecy takes on an extraordinary meaning:
“Either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives.”
What if that isn’t simply a prediction about their eventual confrontation?
What if it’s a literal description of their magical relationship?
Harry carries Voldemort’s soul. Voldemort carries Harry’s life.
Neither can truly be free of the other. Each has unknowingly become the other’s protection against permanent death.
That would explain Harry’s experience in the Forbidden Forest.
When Voldemort casts Avada Kedavra, he destroys the fragment of his own soul inside Harry. But Harry can return because Voldemort is still alive, preserving Harry’s existence through the connection created in the graveyard.
It also makes Harry’s willingness to die more meaningful. Voldemort has spent his life desperately trying to become immortal. Harry willingly walks toward death, prepared to surrender his own life to save everyone else.
The irony is that Voldemort’s own attempt at immortality has made him the instrument of Harry’s survival.
Now, I know the obvious objection: Horcruxes are created through murder and a specific dark magical process. Harry didn’t murder anyone, and there’s no explicit evidence that part of Harry’s soul entered Voldemort.
I’m not claiming this is confirmed canon. I’m suggesting that the graveyard ritual could have created something functionally equivalent to a Horcrux, through a different and unintended mechanism. After all, Harry himself wasn’t created as a Horcrux through the normal deliberate process.
And the books never fully disclose the actual ritual for making one.
I also recognize that Lily’s sacrificial protection and the Privet Drive enchantment aren’t identical. My objection isn’t that the canonical explanation is impossible. It’s that the reciprocal interpretation gives the graveyard ritual, Dumbledore’s reaction, the prophecy, and Harry’s survival a single beautifully symmetrical explanation.
Voldemort made Harry his Horcrux while trying to kill him. Then he made himself Harry’s Horcrux while trying to become immortal.
Two enemies, each unknowingly preserving the other’s existence.
And ultimately, the one who willingly accepts death is the one who survives.
I think that’s a more satisfying explanation than Lily’s blood protection somehow functioning as a resurrection tether.
Am I missing a fatal contradiction in the books, or does anyone else think this would have been a better explanation?

If you are into Lucid Dreaming, then you have probably heard of the term "Heaven's Flower," you probably also know that it is in reference to the desire to take something from the dream world and bring it here just to prove that it's all real.

You may also be aware that you are actually smarter while in this state.

So, with that in mind, do wizards ever conjure anything or cast little spells while in their dream world? Has a wife ever woken up from a dream where her husband conjured her a flower and discovered it upon her sheets? Has a little boy wished for a tart so badly he accidentally summoned it straight from the shop or made the exact one he was thinking of? Do lightshows ever happen in a charms major's room, waking them up?

Or a potion master that accidentally used magic and produced a whole new potion without leaving his bed?

One thing I’ve always found interesting about JKR is how deliberate she seems to be with character names. So many of them have meanings or associations that seem relevant to the character, and I’ve always assumed she puts a fair amount of thought into choosing them.
But there’s one name that’s bothered me since *Deathly Hallows* came out: Kendra Dumbledore.
I was born in the 90s and grew up in Southern California, and to me, Kendra is a very specific kind of name. I picture a blonde girl who plays beach volleyball or belongs to a sorority. Obviously, that’s a very American, generational association, but I can’t shake it.
It just seems like such an odd choice for Dumbledore’s mother, and I have a hard time believing it evokes the same image for JKR that it does for me.
So, does anyone have any theories about why she chose it? Is there some historical or etymological meaning I’m missing? Do British readers have a completely different association with the name? I’ve wondered about this for years, and I’m curious what other people think.

I tried to search this subreddit for a thread mentioning this, but I couldn't find anything.

As stated in the title, this is what I think the Chamber of Secrets was originally built for.

It is said multiple times in the books that Salazar Slytherin believed that the school should only teach children who came from pure blood families. I don't know if it's headcanon (can't be bothered to look it up atm), or if it is explicitly stated, but if I remember correctly at one point in ancient times, there was conflict between muggles and the Wizarding World that basically resulted in them going into hiding. I personally think that it was for this reason that Salazar Slytherin distrusted allowing Muggles into their world for fear of losing magical lives, and regarding Hogwarts, those of its students. I don't buy into it just being simple minded prejudice or a racist/genocidal maniac kind of thing that Voldemort eventually projected onto him.

It takes humanizing him to discover his plan.

When I was a kid, the one thing that struck me odd about the chamber was why on earth would there be a giant statue of Salazar Slytherin in the middle of it that no one would likely ever see?

I think the reason is tongue-in-cheek pettiness.

It is my theory that Salazar Slytherin created the Chamber of Secrets in case he was proven right! In the event that something horrific happened, and the castle was attacked by muggles, or any other group while he was alive, he would be ready to save the day. I bet he counted on the other founders sending a distress call asking for his and others' help. He would arrive at the castle, get everyone into the chamber while protecting them from the Basilisk, and then he and his slithery friend would go take care of business and kill everyone who was attacking the castle. All the while, all those who couldn't fight would be stuck inside the chamber with a giant statue of the vindicated man who was out there saving their skin.

Anyway, that's my take, let me know what you think!

Co sie dzieje z przedmiotami na ktorych zostalo uzyte evanesco (wiem ze znikaja, ale czy gdzies trafiaja czy po prostu sa usuniete ze swiata)?

Czy moge uzyc evanesco na istocie zywej, jak tak to czy na wszystkich, jak nie na wszystkich to na jakich?

Dlaczego evanesco jest takie mocne, chodzi o to, ze moglbym usunac polowe, lub wszystkie pieniadze na swiecie i tak moglbym zniszczyc gospodarke swiatowa?

Jak duzy zasieg ma evanesco, czyli jesli, np. uzylbym evanesco na dom, to usuwa sie dom z wszystkim w srodku czy tylko dom, fundamenty?

Rewatching Deathly Hallows Parts 1 & 2 brought back a whole barrage of questions that immediately popped into my mind:

1. How did Bellatrix hide a baby bump during the Second Wizarding War?
2. When on earth was she even pregnant while dueling and torturing people across Malfoy Manor?
3. Did Voldemort seriously stop plotting world domination to start a family?
4. How are we supposed to reconcile the Deathly Hallows calendar with Cursed Child physics?

Greetings, fellow witches, wizards, and sensible Squibs of [r/harrypotter](r/harrypotter)!

I come to you today with these exact questions keeping my inner Ravenclaw (although I’m a certified Slytherin — the potter more quiz told me so) up way past curfew.

We are told by the Gospel of the Eighth Story (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child) that Bellatrix Lestrange bore a child—Delphini—fathered by Voldemort.

Leaving aside the logistical nightmare of a man without a nose or a soul feeling romantic inclination, I am deeply, profoundly confused by the calendar.

According to the official timeline, Delphi was born at Malfoy Manor in late 1997 or early 1998.

That means while Harry, Ron, and Hermione were freezing in a tent eating stolen mushrooms, Bellatrix was allegedly navigating morning sickness, swollen ankles, and cravings for raw flobberworms.

Yet, when the Snatchers drag the trio into Malfoy Manor in March 1998, Bellatrix isn't taking maternity leave. She is aggressively carving words into Hermione’s arm, throwing silver knives across drawing rooms, and dueling people left and right.

So, to help me process this absolute marvel of dark magic and obstetric anomaly, which of the following theories best explains how this actually went down?

Comment with your number below so we can tally the consensus!

1.

1. The Extension Charm Theory

2. She placed an Undetectable Extension Charm on her own robes (or stomach) to hide a full nine-month bump from Lucius, Narcissa, and the Death Eater inner circle. (I can’t honestly fathom what sort of adverse effects this could have on an unborn foetus!)

2.

1. The Postpartum Dueling Method

2. She gave birth in the Malfoy Manor cellar approximately two hours before the Snatchers arrived, drank one Pepperup Potion, and went straight to torturing teenagers.

3.

1. The Concealment Curse

2. Voldemort put a Disillusionment Charm on her pregnancy, which is why she didn't look remotely pregnant in Deathly Hallow

4.

1. The Time-Turner Loophole:



1. Time-Turners were involved, because when in doubt about *Cursed Child* plot logic, the answer is always an illegal Time-Turner.

5.

1. The Retcon Reality

2. J.K. Rowling simply forgot the timeline of her own seventh book when co-writing the stage play, and we are all overthinking a massive plot stretch.

(Bonus house points to whoever can give the most lore-accurate physiological defense for Options 1 & 2!)

Snape isn't stupid, let's just take that into consideration for a moment. He's been the Potions Master for longer than Harry's been there and every year he applies for the Defense Against The Dark Arts position and gets rejected by Dumbledore.

I know most people say that applying was just to fool Voldemort if he ever came back into thinking Snape was always loyal, but idk how that would fool Voldemort much lol.

So I circle back to my question: Why did Snape want the DADA position if he knew it was cursed?

I paraphrase this from I think the sixth movie (i may be wrong please don't come after me) "Has it ever crossed your brilliant mind that I don't want to do this anymore?" - Snape says this to Dumbledore.

Maybe he WANTED OUT of his deal with Dumbledore....
He wanted to d!e. He wasn't having this shit.

So if this theory has already been mentioned in the discussions, pls don’t kill mе(

TW: sexual violence, psychological abuse.

We all know what terrible, utterly repulsive people the Death Eaters are. And we also know that during the Battle of Hogwarts, it wasn’t just them — there were giants, spiders, and werewolves as well. Okay, but what if, during that battle, let’s say some of the Dark Lord’s minions decided to “kill” some time? (To be clear, I'm not glorifying this — I'm analyzing it.) From there, the conversation might take a turn for the possibly unpleasant to read. Let’s imagine: the battle is in full swing, there are victims and wounded people, and one of the Death Eaters (or, for example, a werewolf — Fenrir Greyback) sees a weak victim who is trying to take cover and at least treat their wound. There’s a temptation to finish her off, but an even greater temptation is to humiliate her, to prove his superiority, to break her. And in the next second, he attacks, and in addition to physical violence, there is also sexual + psychological abuse.

In my opinion, such a cruel theory could well exist, given that it’s the late 90s, and in addition, there were those in magical society who considered themselves pure‑blood and despised any non‑magical people (the Blacks, the Lestranges, the Malfoys, etc.). As an example, let’s take Bellatrix Lestrange. She is a psychopath who tortured her victims to the point of madness. If you think about it, for people like her, sexual violence isn’t about satisfying some physical needs; it's an act of humiliation, a way to demonstrate her superiority, control, and power.

There’s also the werewolf Fenrir Greyback, whom I mentioned earlier. In the canon, he is described as a person whose behavior has been severely distorted by bestial tendencies. Due to years of cannibalism and the habit of attacking people in his human form, rather than during the full moon, his nails and teeth are distorted — they are designed to tear flesh. He is not human. Not outwardly, not inwardly. So, a person like Fenrir is quite capable of committing sexual violence. I would even say, in a certain sense, necrophilia.

Though I'm not sure about the necrophilia part — that's just my guess.

( P. S. English is not my native language. I used a

translator, so if you didn't understand something, I'm sorry. Besides, this is the first time I’ve downloaded Reddit, and I have no idea how everything works here.)

just had a funny thought while reading a fan-fic with Quirrel. While I don't believe it was ever told exactly when Voldy possesses Quirrel, we can guess it was roughly around the Vault attempt, or not long after. There is little chance of him sneaking in through the wards without having already hitched a ride. So, based on this, he was in the position for the same length of time as Quirrel was. So, I wonder if the jinx could have affected him as he was technically in the DADA professor postion.

One might assume he would be immune to his own curse, but the amount of times he has his own plans and magic backfire on him due to his ego makes me think he wouldn't have entertained the notion of being in the position of Professor when not in his own body, and would therefore any protection from it was lost when his OG body was atomized. There is the popular fan theory that it is tied to the Diadem Horcrux in the Room of Requirements, and while that is possible, would that recognize him by his magic? or just say nope, you are in range, prepare to be cursed.

My point of that is, many of his future unlucky actions could be in a roundabout way tied to the curse trying to kill him, since he never technically resigned. Just a shower thought I had.