Harry Potter Fan Theories

Ideas about events, people, and places in the Harry Potter Fandom that may hold more than what meets the eye. No theories are mine unless otherwise stated.

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Severus Snape was so perfect. Why, just why, did she have to kill him off? Authors....

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I love it how when Snape draws out his wand there are audible gasps but when Mcgonagall draws her wand there people are screaming out of the way.

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They just know better.

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damn snape is piss-OH MOTHERFUCKING SHIT, MOVE OUT, CLEAR THE WAY, MCGONAGALL IS PISSED.

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Draco Malfoy the Werewolf (Or: Why Draco is not a DeathEater and actually fears the moon more than Moody)

This beautiful bit of work is from the site (aptly named) dracomalfoyisawerewolf.com. Read on: There are a lot of Harry Potter theories that have existed in the series' fandom, such as Snape being a vampire or Sirius and Remus being secret lovers. Many of these theories have been contradicted by the books themselves, and others seem to have little evidence supporting them in canon. One such theory, however, bears notice. Draco Malfoy is an annoying antagonist throughout all seven Harry Potter books, but noticeably less so in the sixth and seventh. Presumably, he stops his sophomoric pranks as a consequence of his highly stressful year-long assignment to play a key role in the assassination of Albus Dumbledore. However, there may be an even more powerful reason for the trajectory of Draco's character development in these latter books. This is that between the fifth and sixth books, directly after Lucius Malfoy has failed to retrieve the prophecy, Voldemort allows Fenrir Greyback to bite his son, Draco. We've gone back through the 6th and 7th books, and compiled some of the most convincing evidence below: Draco is not a Death Eater At the beginning of the 6th book when Harry is hiding in Borgin and Burkes, Draco threatens Borgin, and shows him something on his arm. Harry thinks the thing on Draco's arm is a Dark Mark, but we never see this. Harry always immediately assumes things and they turn out to be false. If Harry wakes up in the middle of the night months later it is usually right, or if he talks about it with Hermione and Hermione gets it, then it's right. Hermione doesn't think Draco is a Death Eater, so he probably isn't. Another reason Draco probably doesn't have a Dark Mark is that at the end of the sixth book there is a barrier to the Astronomy Tower that you can only pass through if you have a Dark Mark. This barrier goes up immediately after Draco goes up to the tower, and comes down just before he goes down. Additionally, Draco is never treated as a Death Eater (and there is no reason for Voldemort to give Draco a Dark Mark). So what is he? One ongoing arc in the 6th book is that Draco is sickly and stressed out. This is supposedly because of his quest, but Rowling does this misdirection a lot. Fenrir Greyback is introduced as a character who specifically punishes people who've messed up by biting their children. Remus Lupin is explicitly mentioned as an example of this. Why set this up if not to use it later? Relatedly, Lucius's demonstrated punishments do not seem severe enough for his transgressions at the end of the 5th book, by the standards we are supposed to expect from Voldemort by this point in the series. It is also important to keep in mind that Lucius also mishandled Riddle's Diary, resulting in the destruction of one seventh of Voldemort's soul. It is likely that Lucius's additional punishment was unspeakably terrible. Voldemort says, "Maybe you can babysit the cubs," to Draco when the Death Eaters find out that Remus and Tonks are having a baby. This is a throwaway if he is not a werewolf. For us, the nail in the coffin is that, while showing Borgin the mark on his arm, Draco says that Fenrir Greyback is a close personal friend and he'd hate for him to have a to pay a visit. And if the thing on Draco's arm in Borgin & Burkes' was not a Dark Mark (which it's not), what else could he have possibly shown Borgin to make him so frightened? Finally, Rowling has said in an interview that one scene in the third movie, there was a moment that foreshadowed something she knew was coming that gave her chills. In that movie, Draco impersonates a werewolf and does a wolf howl. This also works for the arc for the flipping of the Malfoy family, who take care of themselves instead of following Voldemort. It makes more sense for them to throw away decades of servitude if one of them has been turned into a half-blood, making them idealogically incompatible with Voldemort's pure-blood regime. So why hide it? There is precedent for J.K. Rowling revealing only the tip of the iceberg in some of her characterizations. For example, Rowling was originally going to write a whole arc about Dean Thomas's family, but instead she focused on Neville. Additionally, Dumbledore's love of Grindelwald is never addressed during any of the books, and was only revealed by J.K. Rowling during a Q&A after all the books had been published. There are likely many other elements of the story that have been left behind the scenes for one reason or another. It may be entirely possible that Draco's reveal was planned for the seventh book, for example, but got cut for pages. Rowling has new content being released by book, and could be saving this to reveal on Pottermore for the seventh book. One reason this would be really cool: It makes Draco's relationship with Snape even more interesting if Draco is relying on him for Wolfsbane potion.

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Harry Potter Is King Arthur

He is Arthur King of the Britons! Well, I didn't vote for him! Ha, ha. Okay, enough Python for now. On to what this blog is all about, eh? Here: http://hplf.forumotion.com/t160-long-theory-about-harry-s-family is a forum discussion of the true origins of Harry's family and how it all ties in with Harry being King Arthur. I haven't read it all, but it's extraordinarily long, so you see why. My brain works off short easy paragraphs and pictures. Anyway, take a look, learn a bit or two and have fun.

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Severus Snape: Vampire (extended thoughts and articles)

About three things I was absolutely positive: First, Snape was a vampire, Second, there was a part of him-and I didn't know how potent that part was- that thirsted for students' blood, and third, Lily would never be actually in love with him. Alright, enough of all this. I just couldn't resist. Anyway, there is a theory out there about Severus Snape being a vampire. Though J.K. Has sort of denied this fact, I still like the theory and decided to bring it up here. On the website mugglenet.com, user Maline wrote this lovely piece explaining why Severus is a vampire. Read on here: The rumour/theory that Snape should actually turn out to be a vampire is a very persistent one. The people promoting it are usually very dedicated to their cause and probably won’t care too much about what I have to say on the subject. This doesn’t bother me; the main reason why I want to address the issue is because of the ambiguity of the source material, not because I want to prove anybody wrong/right (though I have my own opinion, which I think will be quite clear.) From what I’ve understood when reading e-mails, posts in forums etc, the main arguments for why Snape should be a vampire are the following: He is referred to as a bat on several occasions (e.g. “bat of the dungeons”) and might have the ability to turn into one (Ron/Harry discussion in GoF). He has sallow skin. He usually stays in his dungeons. There’s a joke in PoA that maybe Hogwarts will get a vampire as their next DADA teacher. He walks around Hogwarts a lot during the night (or so it seems, always out of bed to catch Harry out of bed.) The fact that he shows himself outdoors on several occasions during daytime is explained by him being a Potion Master and thus possibly capable of creating some sort of potion or cream to protect himself against the sunlight. This is all circumstantial evidence in the best of cases, and it’s quite easy to make an equally circumstantial case against Snape being a vampire. Fact remains that unless JKR says so, there is no solid proof for either position and we can argue over the question endlessly or devote our time to other things. What I find interesting with the sort of argumentation carried on by both sides, however, is the underlying rules which everybody seem to agree on, yet which have never been outlined in the Rowling universe. As with many mythological creatures, there are different legends and theories surrounding them, giving different versions of how they are created, how they live, what can kill them, etc. The information surrounding vampires (in our world, that is) is a very good example. There are different theories and stories about them, simple as that. Let me give you some examples from different interpretations in modern day pop culture (since that is where most people get their conceptions of things, including me). When it comes to Dracula (one of the most famous vamps), the creatures of the night sleep in coffins and can turn into bats. You put a stake through the heart to make sure they won’t rise again from their graves. In Buffy, staking equals puff of dust, holy water and crosses burn, and decapitation, sunlight and fire are the other ways of killing the undead menace. Some vampires have mental powers (thrall – mind control), only Dracula (who makes a guest appearance in season five) can turn into a bat, and sleeping in coffins is “such a stereotype”. In Buffy (and the spin-off ‘Angel’), there’s a whole vampire culture, complete with customs such as staying in on Halloween, which is “dead for the undead”. Buffy vampires were first created when some of the pure demons of old mixed themselves with humans before getting kicked out of our dimension. In White Wolf’s roleplaying rules for ‘Vampire, the Dark Ages’, a vampire can’t eat or drink anything which hasn’t got blood in it. The first vampire was the biblical figure Cain (Adam and Eve’s son), and vampires adhere to different clans, determining their physical, mental and social attributes. If one vampire drinks another vampire’s blood three times, it becomes enslaved to the other. (And many other examples) My point is that everyone who writes about vampires tweaks the different legends to suit their purpose. One might like the coffins, another wants his vampires to be able to eat normal food (e.g. Spike in Buffy the Vampire Slayer or the vampires drinking wine in Interview with a Vampire). A third wants to be able to get around the sunlight issue and so on. What most people seem to agree upon is that a vampire a) drinks blood, b) doesn’t have a reflection, c) doesn’t like stakes, fire, sunlight, crosses or holy water, d) can sire a new vampire by drinking all their blood and then letting the victim drink some of theirs. JKR won’t necessarily make use of all this, should she choose to include vampires in her story. She has the same right to pick and choose from the pool of vampiric legend as any other author. So far, she has only told us very few of the ‘rules’ that exist for vampirism in the Potterverse. From Neville’s confusion with the vampire essay he needs to write (in PoA), we know that there is something about garlic, and we know from PS/SS that Quirrell bumped into some blood-suckers in the Black Forest. That’s pretty much it, and until JKR gives us more facts, most argumentation becomes pointless, since we simply don’t know whether this or that ‘rule’ applies in Harry Potter. Nevertheless, let’s look at the above arguments for why Snape should be a vampire (mainly because it’s fun to see the mix of influence, and to show how the no-side can be argued as well :-)). Number one is based on the Dracula legend of vampires as bats. We have no idea if this holds true in the Potterverse or if Snape is actually capable of this transformation (though he could technically be an unregistered animagus). The reference as ‘bat’ is usually made with reference to his black robes, billowing around him and might very well be a normal insult without deeper meaning. Number two refers to the idea that vampires should be pale. Snape’s skin is described as ‘sallow’, which is not quite the same thing. ‘Sallow’ indicates yellowish, sickly-looking skin, though it usually implies ‘pale’ as well. Number three is based on the vampires’ presumed need to stay out of sunlight and dwell in dark places. When it comes to Snape, the bloke both lives and works in the dungeons. That’s where he’s supposed to be. It would be a lot more noteworthy if we kept seeing him in the Astronomy Tower. Number four is an example of the fact that as soon as something is mentioned and/or joked about in the books, at least one person immediately draws the conclusion that this is going to happen later on. This isn’t necessarily true. Some things are elements of foreshadowing, I completely agree, and the examples are many. Still, there are a lot of jokes and mentions of things which will most likely never play out and which are just there for comic relief. Personally, I think that the ‘maybe we’ll get a vampire as DADA teacher’-joke has the feeling of a foreshadowing comment, and there might very well be a vampire in books 6 and/or 7. To make it Snape simply because he’s supposed to want the DADA job is a bit of a stretch in my opinion. Number five is a reference to the ‘creature of the night’ image. Snape does seem to patrol more than the other teachers (not as much as Filch though), but then we don’t know how patrol is organised. Quite possibly, Harry is just unlucky to run into him on the specific nights when he sneaks out under the invisibility cloak. The Potion/cream/sunlight protection idea exists both in BtVS and ‘Vampire’ (the roleplaying game), where you have the Gem of Amarra in one and some high level spells and nifty magical diamonds in the other. To the ‘but he is such a gifted Potions Master’-argument, I’d like to counter with the fact that Snape was outdoors during the day in the Pensieve memory – at the age of sixteen and most likely before his skills with potions reached the level he has in the actual series. Provided that he was already a vampire back then… hm, hm… I’d like to develop the age-issue a little further. When it comes to describing Snape, JKR is quite consistent: the sixteen-year-old memory has the same characteristics as the thirty-something teacher version (sallow skin, lank black hair, big nose…). One of the general vampire characteristics that pretty much everyone agrees on is that a vampire is dead. Since they are dead, they don’t age. So, in order for Snape to be a vampire (provided that JKR doesn’t invent her own mythology concerning them), he needs to a) have died/been sired and b) stay that age forever. Now, the appearance hasn’t changed that much since he was a teenager, but he has aged since then. He’s only in his early thirties when Harry comes to Hogwarts and only in his early twenties when he first starts to teach there. He’s never referred to as a young man (cf. Quirrell), and it seems rather unlikely to me that he would have been turned while working at Hogwarts, after Voldemort’s fall and under Dumbledore’s protection. And if he’d become a vampire while still an active Death Eater, he would look like an eternal twenty-year-old. (“Aha! Unless he uses an ageing potion to hide this fact!” I can hear you shout from across the digital abyss. “But would it work on somebody who’s not alive?” I would counter. And so on, which only serves to underline my previous argument that we don’t have enough facts to make a solid case here.) What I wonder about most when thinking about Rowling and vampires is where they would fit into the wizard society. Honeydukes carries blood-flavoured lollipops (presumably for vampire clients) in their selection, which should indicate that there are at least a few possible customers in the village (unless the sweets are just made as a joke, like some of the other flavours seem to be), but the only ones we’ve heard about live in the Black Forest (PS/SS). On another note, werewolves have their own entry in Magical Beasts and Where to Find Them, vampires don’t, which I find very odd. Vampires aren’t even mentioned in the introduction, where the definitions of a beast are described and discussed. If vampires in the Potterverse were to follow the demon-in-a-human-body model, the vampire would most likely be considered a beast, since it hunts, feeds on and kills a lot of people. Considering that there’s said to be quite a bit of legislation against friendly ‘half-breeds’ such as merpeople and werewolves, it would be quite remarkable for vampires to go free, even if a vampire in Rowling’s world would turn out to be something quite harmless and essentially human. And I severely doubt this, since the species was listed amongst the dark creatures studied in DADA in PoA. The bottom line when it comes to vampires, though, is that a) they drink blood and b) they are dead (or ‘undead’ as the term has it). If you remove one of those characteristics, it’s hard to see how the creature would still be a vampire. (Some people make it work though. If you want an original and very interesting take on the Snape-as-a-vampire theme, I recommend the story Forbidden Obsession by Corazon at Ashwinder.sycophanthex.com. Warning: This article is NC-17. It adds a whole new dimension to the vampire legends, dividing vampires into two kinds – alive and undead. Well worth a read.) If Snape were a vampire, he’d need to feed somehow, and I doubt that Dumbledore would allow him to snack on the students. And an ‘Angel solution’ (giving him a soul and making him good) would just feel so wrong somehow. :-) I would like to see JKR elaborate on the vampire theme and include a creature of the night as a character in future books, and there is nothing saying that she won’t do that. I don’t think she’ll ‘upgrade’ Snape into one though, for the main reason that I don’t see what his character has to gain by this transformation. There is so much she already has to work with when it comes to him, and I personally think that a human backstory would be far more interesting than the discovery that he’s really a controlled demon, drinking potions and avoiding mirrors so as not to get discovered. The case against him, as it stands, is highly circumstantial and we don’t even know if the rules that form the grounds for these arguments hold true in the Potterverse. So far, we’ve only seen one instance of vampirism in the series and it had nothing to do with Snape – it was Quirrellmort drinking the blood from the unicorn.

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Severus Snape is a Vampire

On the website beyondhogwarts.com David Haber created this intriguing theory. Take a look: The Harry Potter books are finished. The story no longer belongs to J.K. Rowling, it belongs to us now. And while the final book nicely wrapped up the major questions in the Harry Potter septology mystery, there are still facets of the story that have not been explained, and never will be. J.K. Rowling can comment now, after the fact, on these questions, but the books stand as they are, and it is up to us, the fans, to discuss and debate these eternal Harry Potter mysteries and theories. One of these theories that I've personally strongly believed for a long time, and still do, is that Severus Snape is a vampire, or at least, is part vampire. There are clues in all the books that point to this conclusion, over the years, J.K. has (sort of) denied that he is, and yet she continued dropping these hints even throughout book 7. In all theories, there is one major clue that is uncovered first which gives rise to the idea that the theory could be possible, this is the "cornerstone clue", and then we start looking for other clues that could support or disprove the theory. In the theory that Snape is a vampire, the cornerstone clue occurs in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Prisoner of Azkaban is an important book, because in it we meet all the surviving Marauders, and learn a lot about Harry's dad and his dad's friends. In Prisoner of Azkaban, when Lupin has to miss teaching class because of "his furry little problem" and Snape takes over the class, he skips over all the normal upcoming lessons and teaches them how to recognize a werewolf, even assigning them a homework essay on the subject: When the bell rang at last, Snape held them back. "You will each write an essay, to be handed in to me, on the ways you recognize and kill werewolves. I want two rolls of parchment on the subject, and I want them by Monday morning." (PoA pg 172/129) Snape knew Lupin was a werewolf, we know there was animosity between him and Lupin because of Lupin's days as part of James Potter's gang, an animosity no doubt increased by the humiliation of the boggart of Snape becoming dressed in Neville's grandmother's clothes in Lupin's class earlier. When Snape assigned this essay to Lupin's class, it was obviously in an effort to help students realize that Lupin was a werewolf, thereby revealing Lupin's secret, which would no doubt result in Lupin being sacked as a teacher. Lupin later comes right out and says so: "He assigned that essay hoping someone would realize what my symptoms meant..." (PoA pg 346/253) Snape's werewolf essay in Lupin's class is a major plot point to the story, it illustrates the animosity towards Snape and Lupin and helps us understand the dynamics of Snape and the Marauders. It's very interesting then, isn't it, that J.K. uses this very important plot point to plant a clue about Snape? Later in the book, in the chapter coincidentally named "Snape's Grudge", Harry is about to make his way to Hogsmeade for the first time using the Marauders' Map, and runs into Neville: "What are you up to?" "Nothing," shrugged Neville. "Want a game of Exploding Snap?" "Er -- not now -- I was going to the library and do that vampire essay for Lupin --" (PoA pg 276/204) Clever, isn't she? J.K. has just, in passing, established that Lupin assigned his students an essay on vampires, without her showing him actually do it. And why did Lupin assign the vampire essay? Can there be any doubt that he did it to get back at Snape for assigning the werewolf essay? Another big clue comes in the same book as the cornerstone clue, at the very end of Prisoner of Azkaban, after Harry has just learned that Snape's wish had come true, and that Lupin was resigning from Hogwarts because it had gotten out that he was a werewolf: He certainly wasn't the only one who was sorry to see Professor Lupin go. The whole of Harry's Defense Against the Dark Arts class was miserable at his resignation. "Wonder what they'll give us next year?" said Seamus Finnigan gloomily. "Maybe a vampire," suggested Dean Thomas hopefully. (PoA pg 429/312) Snape was, of course, eventually named DADA teacher, although it took a few more years to do it. Is it just a coincidence that it is the DADA teacher position that a vampire is mentioned in connection with? The very first time vampires are mentioned, in the very first book, it's mentioned not in regards to Snape, but to Quirrell, when Harry first meets him on our very first visit to the Leaky Cauldron: "You'll be g-getting all your equipment, I suppose? I've g-got to p-pick up a new b-book on vampires, m-myself." He looked terrified at the very thought. (SS/PS pg 70/55) Hmm... Almost the very first thing we learn about Professor Quirrell is that he's afraid of vampires. And who does he go on to be afraid of during the whole book? Snape. And why does Quirrell's turban smell like garlic? Quirrell's lessons turned out to be a bit of a joke. His classroom smelled strongly of garlic, which everyone said was to ward off a vampire he'd met in Romania and was afraid would be coming back to get him one of these days ... they had noticed that a funny smell hung around the turban, and the Weasley twins insisted that it was stuffed full of garlic, as well, so that Quirrell was protected wherever he went. (SS/PS pg 134/100) I think we are meant to believe that the garlicky smell is coming from Voldemort who is in Quirrell's head, but J.K. herself is again here bringing up how garlic wards off vampires, and it was somehow protecting Quirrell. But Voldy was already in his head, he didn't need protecting from him. The person he needed protecting from was Snape, who he knew was after whatever secret he was hiding. And, by the way, these clues again come during a chapter named after Snape, this time, "The Potions Master". By the way, garlic is only mentioned three times in the Harry Potter books, once in SS/PS as described above, once in Prisoner of Azkaban, with the cornerstone clue, and only one other time, in Chamber of Secrets. Interestingly, this time it is not in reference to warding off a vampire: Ginny didn't find it amusing either. "Oh, don't," she wailed every time Fred asked Harry loudly who he was planning to attack next, or when George pretended to ward Harry off with a large clove of garlic when they met. (CoS pg 210/157) So, it would seem that garlic not only wards off vampires, it also wards off dark wizards (at least in the humorous world of Fred and George). Whether or not Snape fits the first description, he definitely fits the second. And while we're on the subject of Chamber of Secrets, the only mention of vampires in this book is in relation to Gilderoy Lockhart's book, "Voyages with Vampires". Seven of Lockhart's books are on their Hogwarts book list for the year, "Break with a Banshee", "Gadding with Ghouls", "Holidays with Hags", "Travels with Trolls", "Voyages with Vampires", "Wanderings with Werewolves" and "Year with the Yeti" (Cos pg 43/38). So why is it that, throughout the rest of the book, Hermione seems to be only interested in "Voyages with Vampires"? She has a copy propped up against a milk jug and is reading it on pg 86/68, it's mentioned again by name in the same scene a few pages later, she has her nose buried in it again on pg 96/75, and it is mentioned by name again as she closes it with a snap a page later. Is J.K. playing a game with us now, waving the vampire book in our face? This may or may not be Snape related, but Percy says something disturbing about vampires in Goblet of Fire. In an angry moment triggered by something in the Daily Prophet written by Rita Skeeter, Percy says: "That woman's got it in for the Ministry of Magic!" said Percy furiously. "Last week she was saying we're wasting our time quibbling about cauldron thickness, when we should be stampimg out vampires! As if it wasn't specifically stated in paragraph twelve of the Guidelines for the Treatment of Non-Wizard Part-Humans --" "Do us a favor Perce," said Bill yawning, "and shut up." (GoF pg 147/131) This passage is interesting, because from it we learn that even though vampires are protected by Wizard law, some wizards, like the crowd Rita Skeeter panders to, would rather be killing them. So, if Snape is a vampire, no wonder he's hiding it. Of course, as everyone knows, vampires can turn themselves into bats. The first direct reference to Snape being a bat or like a bat comes towards the end of the first book. Harry discovers Quirrel in the room where the stone was hidden, and expresses his surprise that he'd expected Snape instead: "Severus?" Quirrell laughed, and it wasn't his usual quivering treble, either, but cold and sharp. "Yes, Severus does seem the type, doesn't he? So useful to have him swooping around like an over-grown bat." (SS/PS pg 288/209) In the next book, Chamber of Secrets, J.K. does it again: "A bad idea, Professor Lockhart," said Snape, gliding over like a large and malevolent bat. (Cos pg 193/144) The next book which directly mentions Snape and bats is in Half-Blood Prince, the book that is, after all, all about Snape. He is DADA teacher now, and while his class is practicing nonverbal spells, J.K. tells us: He swept between them as they practiced, looking just as much like an overgrown bat as ever... (HBP pg 179/170) And again, this clue about Snape appears in a chapter named for Snape, the chapter is titled "The Half-Blood Prince". Of course, the ultimate Snape bat clue comes in the final book, Deathly Hallows. Just prior to the battle of Hogwarts, Snape resigns his headmastership by fleeing, jumping through a classroom window. "You mean he's dead?" Harry sprinted to the window, ignoring Flitwick's and Sprout's yells of shock at his sudden appearance. "No, he's not dead," said McGonagall bitterly. "Unlike Dumbledore, he was still carrying a wand...and he seems to have learned a few tricks from his master." With a tinge of horror, Harry saw in the distance a huge, batlike shape flying through the darkness toward the perimeter wall. (DH pg 599/482) So, not only does he look like a bat, now Snape can fly like one too. Earlier in the book, we learned Voldemort had learned to fly. But only this time is the ability described as "batlike". And how do we know Snape learned it from Voldemort, as McGonagall assumed? Perhaps it was Snape who taught his master how to do it... And once again, this clue comes in a chapter named for him, "The Sacking of Severus Snape". Finally, there is one more bat clue, also in Deathly Hallows, but it takes place in "The Prince's Tale" (again a chapter named for Snape), many years before the Harry Potter books, when Snape is "no more than nine or ten years old": Harry wondered why he did not take off the ridiculously large coat, unless it was because he did not want to reveal the smock beneath it. He flapped after the girls, looking ludicrously bat-like, like his older self. (DH pg 664/533) There are many other smaller clues in the books which also support the theory. The first time we meet him in Sorcerer's Stone, Snape is described as having "sallow skin" (SS/PS pg 126/94). In Chamber of Secrets, Snape is described as "a thin man with sallow skin" (CoS pg 78/62). He's also described as sallow in Prisoner of Azkaban (pg 93/72), Goblet of Fire, (pg 175/155)... well, you get the idea. Sallow means "a sickly, yellowish color", and is usually used to describe a person's complexion. In folklore, vampires are frequently described as being sallow. This is repeated again later in Deathly Hallows, the nine or ten-year-old Severus is also described as "sallow, small, stringy" (DH pg 663/532), and later in the chapter, Snape's mother, Eileen Prince, is described as "a thin, sallow-faced, sour-looking woman who greatly resembled him [Snape]" (DH pg 668/536). Does Snape take after his mother? Is he part vampire because of her? There are other qualities of vampires that Snape also seems to fulfill. He works and lives in the dungeon, and is seen prowling the castle at night. Vampires don't eat normal food, they only drink blood, Snape is seen sitting at the table at Hogwarts feasts, but is he ever described as eating something there? Snape is present at the Christmas dinner in Prisoner of Azkaban (pg 227/169) but there is no mention of him actually eating. And in Order of the Phoenix, after Harry discovers Snape is in the Order and was attending the meeting, J.K. goes out of her way to have Ron tell us, "Snape never eats here, thank God." (OotP pg 77/73) Non-believers in this theory say that Snape is seen out during the daytime, and while it never says Snape is seen eating, someone would obviously notice it if he wasn't. But I believe it is possible that Snape could only partially have the symptoms of a vampire. It could be because, if he inherited it from his mother, he is only half-vampire. We have many other examples of characters in Harry Potter books who are half human and half something else, Hagrid, for example, who is half human and half giant, and Flitwick, who is obviously half human, the other half possibly being elf or goblin. It is also possible that Snape is taking a potion which lessens his vampire symptoms, a potion like the one he makes and gives to Lupin to help him get through his werewolf periods. Did you ever wonder, why did Snape become so good at potions? Was it so that he could learn to make the potion he needed to surive as a part-vampire? And for those who would say that you can't inherit being a vampire, you have to be bitten, I would remind you that a bite is required to become a werewolf as well, and yet, in Deathly Hallows, Lupin is worried his son might inherit the condition. As to this subject as to whether Snape is a vampire or not, J.K. has spoken twice. At the World Book Day Chat on March 4, 2004, someone asked, "Is there a link between Snape and vampires?" J.K. replied, "Erm... I don't think so." Not quite the resounding denial, is it? But, wait. In a chat with Harry Potter fan web sites in July 2005, J.K. is talking about the weird theories fans come up with, and says: "Generally speaking, I shut down those lines of speculation that are plain unprofitable. Even with the shippers. God bless them, but they had a lot of fun with it. It's when people get really off the wall -- it's when people devote hours of their time to proving that Snape is a vampire that I feel it's time to step in, because there's really nothing in the canon that supports that. It's after the 15th rereading when you have spots in front of your eyes that you start seeing clues about Snape being the Lord of Darkness. So, there are things I shut down just because I think, well, don't waste your time, there's better stuff to be debating, and even if it's wrong, it will probably lead you somewhere interesting. That's my rough theory anyway." Don't forget, she said this in July 2005, after the release of Book 6, and there's still lots of stuff she couldn't "come clean" on until after the release of the final book. Is J.K. deliberately trying to throw us off the track? The fact that Snape was a vampire did not figure prominently in the ending of the story, but what if she wanted us to think it did, to get us off the track, making the ending an even bigger surprise?

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Nagini is Voldemort's Wife

Yes, odd I know, but isn't everything on this blog. This theory has hardly any basis in fact, as it is kinda a half formed little thought I just had to jot down, so bear with me. My idea, though, is that Nagini is more than Voldemort's pet snake. She's his wife. How? Simple. Option one: she's an animagus. My thoughts here are either: A. She is stuck in her animagus form or B. She just prefers being a snake and takes advantage of it's opertunites (think Fenrir Greyback here). Option two: she was human, but was transformed or cursed into being a snake. The thing I like about this theory is that it means despite her snake appearence, Voldemort still loves her and keeps her with him even in this form. Adorable. And, finally, the last option: Nagini's just a snake Voldemort fell in love with while his spirit was possessing a snake. The two hit it off, and even after he became human, he kept her around. Creepy, but oddly touching. Everybody needs some love after all, right? Anyway, personal preference here is option one B. Think of it, they're the perfect couple. Bellatrix is probably so jealous.

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Warning: Not A Harry Potter Fan Theory, But A Fan Theory Nonetheless

You all remember Rebecca Black's Friday, correct? Well good, because get ready for a shocker. mmo-champion.com user Markluzz posted this interesting theory about the song, and I must say, I have never felt so deep about a Rebecca Black song before. Ever. Read on: Did you think the song friday was just a normal horrible ear-bleeding pop song that was released a year ago? No it is really about the JFK assassination. Proof? Let's look at the lyrics 7 a.m., waking up in the morning JFK woke up at 7 am the day he died Got to be fresh, got to go downstairs He has to be 'fresh' to go 'downstairs' which could easily represent he has to get ready to die, downstairs representing death. Got to have my bowl, got to have cereal When JFK died he declined to have sausage, eggs, and toast and instead ate Bran Flakes. Seeing everything, the time is going Everything throughout his day goes by quickly, his time to live is going by. Ticking on and on, everybody’s rushing A reference to the cold war by the sound to make it sound as if it says 'Everybody is Russian' Got to get down to the bus stop The following Monday (after JFK died) JFK was supposed to sign a bill that required public bus transportation for schools. Got to catch my bus, I see my friends (my friends) This also has to do with the verse right before it, same meaning here. However this can also imply JFK getting into the car he was assassinated in. Kicking in the front seat The driver of the car that JFK was in was named Samuel Kickin, see the correlation here? Sitting in the back seat JFK was assassinated when he sat in the back seat of the car instead of kicking in the front seat. Got to make my mind up Which seat can I take? Shows his inner quarrels that say he should take the back seat yet he has a strange feeling something bad may happen, he is in deep inner thought conflict. It’s Friday, Friday JFK was assassinated on a Friday Got to get down on Friday When JFK was assassinated secret service yelled at Jackie Kennedy to 'get down' Everybody’s looking forward to the weekend, weekend Friday, Friday Getting down on Friday Everybody’s looking forward to the weekend Everybody is looking forward for the weekend to find out if their questions on the assassination can be answered. Partying, partying (yeah) Partying, partying (yeah) Fun, fun, fun, fun Looking forward to the weekend This shows the irony and chaos of the assassination with things generally correlated as good yet also tend to be chaotic. 7:45, we’re driving on the highway JFK is heading to the airport in this scene, because he did fly the day of his assassination Cruising so fast, I want time to fly Represents the plane he flew on to reach Dallas Texas with the word fly. Fun, fun, think about fun More irony of the whole assassination You know what it is I got this, you got this My friend is by my right I got this, you got this Now you know it 'I got this' represents Kennedy taking the bullet while 'you got this' represents Jackie Kennedy getting JFK's dead corpse, and now everybody knows John F. Kennedy is dead. Kicking in the front seat Sitting in the back seat Got to make my mind up Which seat can I take? Same meaning as last time It’s Friday, Friday Got to get down on Friday Everybody’s looking forward to the weekend, weekend Friday, Friday Getting down on Friday Everybody’s looking forward to the weekend Same meaning Partying, partying (yeah) Partying, partying (yeah) Fun, fun, fun, fun Looking forward to the weekend Same meaning Yesterday was Thursday, Thursday Today is Friday, Friday (partying) We-we-we so excited We so excited We going to have a ball today Shows more irony of the situation, and the 'excitement' that his death caused, although not the good kind. The ball represents the bullet that shot Kennedy. Tomorrow is Saturday And Sunday comes afterwards I don’t want this weekend to end Nobody wants the weekend after the Friday to end because there are to many questions, to much grief over the loss of John F. Kennedy. So chilling in the front seat (in the front seat) In the back seat (in the back seat) Shows a repetition of the seats and their significance in his death. I’m driving, cruising (yeah, yeah) Fast lanes, switching lanes The fast build up in the car to John F. Kennedy's death With a car up on my side (woo, come on!) Passing by is a school bus in front of me Repetition of the idea that John F. Kennedy was starting the public bus system for schools, and a car up on my side represents the assassin preparing to shoot. Makes tick-tock, tick-tock, want to scream Check my time, it's Friday, it's a weekend We going to have fun, come on, come on, y'all Everybody wants to scream, on the Friday, because JFK has just been shot, and the assassin has an inner taunt at the chaos about to unfold from his death. It’s Friday, Friday Got to get down on Friday Everybody’s looking forward to the weekend, weekend (we gonna get down) Friday, Friday Getting down on Friday Everybody’s looking forward to the weekend Same meaning, yet more chaotic because now Kennedy has been shot. Partying, partying (yeah) Partying, partying (yeah) Fun, fun, fun, fun Looking forward to the weekend Same meaning, more chaotic. It’s Friday, Friday Got to get down on Friday Everybody’s looking forward to the weekend, weekend Friday, Friday Getting down on Friday Everybody’s looking forward to the weekend Same meaning Partying, partying (yeah) Partying, partying (yeah) Fun, fun, fun, fun Looking forward to the weekend Same meaning Mind blown.

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Rita Skeeter is J.K. Rowling

In this theory, people have come up with the idea that Rita Skeeter, unregistered animagus journalist, is fired from her job. Angry at the wizarding world and without work, Rita chronicles the entire Harry Potter series, hoping to expose magic to Muggles and thus make the wizards sorry they ever messed with her. Unfortunately, all Muggles reading her books believe them to be a work of fiction. Nonetheless, Rita becomes rich and famous as J.K. Rowling, and her idea for revenge melts away, as she comes to enjoy her life in the Muggle world far more than she ever did in the wizarding one. I don't know the source for this particular theory, but it's absolutely brilliant.

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Warning: Not At All Related To This Blog, Just A Spot Of Fun

After reading the fantastically hilarious story The Puzzling Prattlings of a Pulchritudinous Potions Professor by JuicyJuice and laughing my arse off, I realized that as perfect as a story as it undoubtably is, it is missing only two things: 1. It's own line of T-shirts with quotes for the book bedazzled on them in pink, and 2. A drinking game. Unfortunately, my experience with making clothing goes only as far as glueing sequins on a bracelet in fourth grade, so I turned instead to the second option. Here, in full glory, is the much needed drinking game. Grab your glass of....whatever really. I highly recommend Pomegranate Juice. Don't knock it til you try it, it's good. Anyway, enough chattering, here it is, the Game: 1. Take a shot whenever Severus' "sexy feet" are mentioned. 2. Take a shot whenever Dumbledore says Alas 3. Take a shot whenever the Mirror of Erised is mentioned (only when it is written as the Mirror of Erised. Only the daring should drink when it is simply referred to as the Mirror) 4. Take a shot whenever McGonagall laughs. Bonus: take a shot whenever anyone laughs/attempts to laugh 5. Take a shot anytime somebody is put in a full body bind 6. Take a shot anytime Potter is mentioned 7. Take a shot every time Quirrel's turban is mentioned 8. Take a shot every time Snape takes points from anyone 9. Take a shot every time Snape gets hugged (don't worry, this won't be often) 10. Bonus: take a shot whenever Snape verbally insults anyone And, that's all folks. Check out the story, it's brilliant. And will no doubt have you rolling on the floor laughing. ;)

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Is Crookshanks Really Just A Cat?

On the website harrypotterfacts.com they have created this marvelous little collection of Crookshanks speculations. Take a look: Here's some general Speculations about Hermione's cat Crookshanks • My theory on Crookshank is that the cat is really Harry's mother reincarnated. The red hair, the green eye's i mean coincidence?? the cat new that "Scabbers" really was not a rat and was infact Peter, and was also scoalizing with Sirius ,who harry thought was the death oman. Either that or Arabella is an Animagus (i'm not saying that she is or that she isn't its just a theory)and she can turn herself into a cat. No one knows what she looks like there for we cannot say that she has red hair and green eyes, but the only doubts that i have about this (Crookshank being Harry's mom or being Arabella) is that Crookshank is a boy cat and Harry's mom and Arabella are girls so??? (Shannon Cooper) • I don't know if it will come up in future books or not, but I think Crookshanks is more than just a cat. In the Comic Relief book called "Fantastic Beasts and where to find them" I found a creature called a Kneazle. Here is what is said about it: Kneazle: The kneazle was original bred in Britain, though it is now exported worldwide. A small cat-like creature with flecked, speckled, or spotted fur, outsize ears and a tail like a lion's, the Kneazle is intelligent, independent, and occasionally aggressive, though if it takes a liking to a witch or wizard, it makes an excellent pet. The Kneazle has an uncanny ability to detect unsavory or suspicious characters and can be relied upon to guide its owner safely home if they are lost. Kneazles have up to eight kittens in a litter and can interbreed with cats. Licences are required for ownership as Kneazles are sufficiently unusual in appearance to attract Muggle interest. The physical description of Crookshanks seems that he looks like a regular cat so I suspect it is a cat-kneazle mix. The mental attributes is what attracted my attention. Crookshanks was always trying to get Scabbers, who we know is unsavory and crookshanks was pretty aggressive in the shrieking shack when it was trying to protect Sirius Black (whom Crookshanks took a liking to). The thing that could come up in later books is the ability to lead its owner home and maybe the unsavory character thing again. I am surprised that Hermione has not realized this part of her cat since the Kneazle is supposed to be described in one of her textbooks which she supposedly memorized. (Elangomatt) • "...the kneazle is intelligent, independent, and occasionally aggressive, though if it takes to liking a witch or wizard it can make an excellent pet. The kneazle has an uncanny ability to detect unsavoury or suspicious characters and can be relied upon to guide its owner safely home if they are lost." Well, now we know what Crookshanks is. Perhaps one of the three main characters will get lost in the future and will need Crookshanks to help?! (Diana) • I suppose, Crookshanks was at Arabella Figgs in the first book, but given away by her. It´s said, that she had her foot broken because of an accident with one of her cats. Crookshanks has a smashed face and was at the pet-shop for a very long time. Maybe Harry can´t remember him or he was on a stroll while he was babysitted by Mrs. Figgs.. (Timo) • I dont believe that abrella figg is actually crookshanks, mainly because he is a boy. I think that crookshanks is an animagi though, because it seemed to want to protect harry at all costs, when it saw harry in the pet shop in diagon ally, it launched itself at scabbers, because the wizard/witch knew that it was peter ( maybe someone did know peter was animagi, and alerted someone ) and throughout the book, it tries to get peter, even before it met up with sirius, and referring to someone's previous post, this would link in to it being a trapped wizard/witch, maybe one of james/sirius/lupin's friends who we havent heard of yet, that also tried to transform and got stuck, then the person would know of peter (nick) • Regarding Mrs. Figg being Crookshanks, I don't think that's possible. Not that she couldn't be an Animagus, but because Crookshanks is male. There is no indication of gender-switching in the spells we've seen so far. Even when brewing the Polyjuice potion, Hermione took (what she thought was) the hair of a female. (Lisa Hilton) •I have an argument to the Crookshanks/Mundungus Fletcher/Mrs. Figg theories. It is actually quite simple. Crookshanks is Hermionie's cat. What about all of the times when Mundungus was doing his duties? Wouldn't Hermionie notice that Crookshanks was missing all the time? What about when Mrs. Figg was supposed to be with Harry. THe same situation would occur. It is impossble for Crookshanks to be an animagus. (Karuna) •JKR has already said (well nearly anyway) that Crookshanks is part kneazle. She said to have a look in Fantastic beasts & were to find them. I was convinced after reading PoA a second time that this was the case, & recently JKR confirmed this on an online chat, with the above statement, what else could she have ment?. (Mac+Dale) •In OOTP on page 22, Mundungus Fletcher is described as being "squat" "bandy legged" as well as having "ginger hair". These same words are often used to describe Crookshanks. We also know that Sirius and Crookshanks seem to have a special relationship, perhaps it is because they are both animagi. Perhaps Mundungus was biding his time in that pet shop as Crookshanks keeping an eye on things until the day that Ron brought Scabbers (Pettigrew) in. (Erin Frye)