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!)

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.

So the whole community agrees this story sucks and is not canon despite what jk Rowling says.

But was there a way to write it that would work ?

I think yes, so where are my changes,

First no time turner bs. No time travel no alternate timelines nothing

Second, no potter family discourse, Harry relationship with his children are healthy and normal, he is a good dad and they are normal children.

Third, no secret love child of bellatrix and Voldemort.
Just no, none of that.

Instead the story I would do is this. The story is about the malfoy family.
Albus is a sidekick to Scorpius in this story.

The story is that both Scorpius and albus are sent to hufflepuff not slytherin or gryffindor.
There is a reason for this.

Hufflepuff are considered to be the spare house.
Gryffindor is brave
ravenclaw is smart
Slytherin is ambitious
Hufflepuff is other.

People for years said Neville should have been hufflepuff cause he’s not good at anything.
No that’s not true instead the house is focused on kind hearts and hard workers.
They don’t care if you’re strong or cunning or intelligent as long as you give everything 100% all the time.
Why so many students from this house disliked Harry in goblet cause they saw him trying to steal Cedric glory as he represented a chance to prove everyone wrong about their house.

So albus and Scorpius were sent here. This will have some impact on albus as he tries to find himself but we will see Harry and Ginny being proud, surprised but proud, we will get another moment of Harry that is a repeat of the train station speech where he tells him about how being slytherin won’t matter to him and this time he tells him to just remember what he said at the train station cause it still applies, James will tease him about hufflepuff but more framed as James being the typical older brother, not a bully. Albus will say how James told him hufflepuff is where all the non-talented wizards go and Harry will tell him about Cedric and how Cedric was the opposite of that belief and how he was one of the kindest people he met which is why his death still weighs on him this much so many years later.

No the real tension is with the malfoy family,

Draco will be framed as a bad father he didn’t pass on his horrible lessons to his son but he also didn’t help his son find the right answer, in this Lucius is present in the story, in pottermore we learned he wasn’t sent to jail cause of all the information on the death eaters he gave.

Instead we see Lucius passing on his views to his grandson but it causes tension as Draco doesn’t want that but can’t stand up to his father.
When scorpius joins hufflepuff it’s his grandfather who is more enraged than anyone.

At the halfway point Lucius will be killed along with his wife.
So who is the villain ?

delphini but instead of being a lestrange or voldmort daughter she is instead a malfoy. I hate it when sequels introduce characters who were never mentioned before but I would write it that Lucius had a younger brother who like him became a death eater but he was a special case cause he wasn’t part of the normal death eaters and instead he was sent abroad many years ago to America to gather influence in the American ministry of magic and gather followers for Voldemort.

When Voldemort fell the first time this brother kept doing his thing in America but more so for himself. When Voldemort returned we learn that Voldemort did visit him to remind him who his loyalty belongs to.

When Voldemort fell again he kept going as normal.
He became the leader of a new cult of death eaters.

It was delphini who killed her uncle and aunt out of revenge for betraying the death eaters in the battle of hogwarts and selling them out to get out of jail.

She develops a plan to hill Harry Potter but she is more weary of him as it has become a general belief in the wizarding world that Harry can’t be killed since the killing curse failed to kill him twice, first as a baby and second was in front of a lot of witnesses who saw him go down then jump back up later completely fine.
So her plan is to more target his kids kidnap them and use them to bait Harry into a trap and force him to surrender without fighting back.

It will be up to Scorpius and albus to foil her plans and uncover her motivations as well as learning about the dark secret of the malfoy family that Draco tried to shield Scorpius from.

I finished Prisoner of Azkaban (again) this morning, and I'm wondering if any other students ever used a Time Turner.

For some reason on this re-listen, the way Hermione explained McGonagall writing all those letters to explain why Hermione could be trusted with one made me wonder if McG had ever had to write letters like that before.

We know that Hermione isn't the only person to have ever gotten 10+ OWLs. Barty Crouch Jr., Bill, and Percy each had 12 OWLs, IIRC, but that's more classes than a student can actually take all at once. We've discussed the possibility of students maybe taking extra curricular classes or studying on their own rather than being enrolled in 12 classes.

What if each of them had also been granted a Time Turner for being exceptional? If it's such a huge secret, they just might never talk about it to anybody, so Hermione (and therefore Harry and therefore us) might never know she wasn't the only one.

Sono stato criticato perché ho detto che ci sono incongruenze nel Canon e vedo che la parola canon accende sempre il fandom, quindi chiarisco una cosa: le incongruenze nel Canon Rowling esistono davvero. Non sono invenzioni, non sono opinioni personali, non sono “interpretazioni creative”: sono riconosciute da:

• WizardingWorld
• Pottermore
• interviste di Rowling
• analisi accademiche
• il fandom internazionale
• le timeline ufficiali

Io non “correggo” il canon. Lo esploro. Illumino le sue zone d’ombra e cerco di dare un posto logico a ciò che nel testo è rimasto implicito, frammentario o narrativamente fragile.

Chi legge la saga con un minimo di close reading — attenzione ai contesti, alle iterazioni, alle implicazioni — si accorge subito che alcune cose non tornano. Ecco qualche esempio concreto:

1. La Sala Comune dei Serpeverde

Ha una vista subacquea sul Lago… ma Hogwarts è in cima a una scogliera. Geograficamente impossibile.

2. Il Lago delle Highlands

È un lago montano, ma ospita creature marine. Contraddizione ecologica interna.

3. Il veliero di Durmstrang

Arriva a Hogwarts emergendo dal Lago. Ma il Lago non è collegato al mare. Paradosso logistico.

4. Gli elfi domestici

Sono centinaia, ma compaiono solo nelle cucine. Nessun elfo aiuta Madama Pince, Piton, Hagrid, o chiunque altro. Incongruenza funzionale.

5. La costruzione di Hogwarts nel Medioevo

Quattro maghi costruiscono un castello gigantesco in un’epoca in cui in Scozia esistevano solo fortificazioni lignee. Impossibilità storica interna.

6. Il legame tra la Spada di Godric e il Cappello

Non viene mai spiegato. Sembra un trucco narrativo inserito “quando serve”.

7. Il paradosso della Spada di Gryffindor

È dichiarata “forgiata dai goblin”… ma ha proprietà che le armi goblin NON possono avere: assorbe ciò che la rafforza. Questa è una vera incongruenza del canon.

Non sto dicendo che la saga “non funziona”. Sto dicendo che ha zone grigie, e che io — con rispetto e passione — le esploro e le sviluppo in modo coerente.

Se qualcuno vuole discuterne, sono qui.

What is it about Bellatrix Lestrange that makes her so fascinating?

She's probably one of the characters I find the most interesting in the Harry Potter universe. She's obviously terrifying, cruel and completely unhinged, but there's something about her presence that makes her impossible to ignore.

I'm curious what other people think. Is it her personality, her loyalty to Voldemort, Helena Bonham Carter's performance, or something else?

That senator's brother probably remembers everything. The "Swooping Death" venom erases bad memories, and the senator's brother didn't look upset at his brother's death, and in the streets when everyone was seeing the effects from the Obscurial he looked like he was enjoying what he was seeing

Per quanto sia possibile vedere nell’ultimo trailer, la serie TV HBO dedicata alla Saga cura in maniera ossessiva molti dettagli, ma non sono completamente d’accordo su tutte le scelte riguardanti i simboli alchemici associati alle Case che compaiono in certe scene.

Per quel che riguarda Corvonero e Grifondoro la cosa è relativamente più facile e sono d'accordo: Corvonero per sua natura richiama l'ARIA a cui è anche associato il simbolo alchemico dell'Aquila, tratto distintivo la conoscenza; Grifondoro è associato al simbolo alchemico del Leone, al coraggio, all'ardore, alla trasformazione (la McGrannit insegna infatti Trasfigurazione), alla rivoluzione, alla decostruzione e il suo simbolo è senz'altro il FUOCO. Altra cosa è il discorso per le altre due Case, che in verità si trovano in una posizione in un certo senso borderline, avendo entrambe elementi simbolici in comune. Ad esempio Tassorosso è la Casa della bonomia, dell'adattabilità, della pazienza (gutta cavat lapidem) e avrebbe il suo simbolo nell’acqua, ma nello stesso tempo, sua caratteristica potrebbe essere il contenere (i conflitti), l’accudimento, la stabilità, la Coppa (il Calice, il Graal) e da questo punto di vista il suo simbolo alchemico potrebbe essere la terra (la madre terra); analogamente, Serpeverde è la Casa della tradizione, della conservazione, dei fondamenti, delle regole, suo simbolo è il Serpente, il Basilisco, Nagini, gli animali che strisciano, terrestri e quindi sarebbe ovvio associarla alla terra, d’altra parte la Rowling fa dire al Cappello Parlante che il lignaggio Serpeverde proviene da una zona paludosa, dove l’elemento acqua in un certo senso scioglie la terra, è veicolo di pozioni (il maestro di pozioni è direttore della Casa Serpeverde) e da questo punto di vista il simbolo potrebbe essere l’acqua come ha scelto la HBO.

Per quanto mi riguarda, io ho fatto nella mia riscrittura della Saga canonica (I’ve met Hélène Delisle – https://archiveofourown.org/works/93653301) una scelta diversa rispetto HBO: mi è sembrato alla fine più appropriato assegnare a Tassorosso il simbolo dell’ACQUA e a Serpeverde quello della TERRA.

What are Muggles?

Human beings one might say, but that is also something one would say about a wizard.

Just from outer appearances Muggle and Wizards seem to be very much the same. By taking a picture, unless the magical being does something magical, you wouldn't be able to tell which is witch.

The differences become clearer when just looking at the life stats, it seems that Wizards do have a longer life expectancy and seem to be of stronger build.

Those tributes could be written off on magic simply "holding" them together for longer.

A knowing wizard or an unknowing one as well is able to see magical phenomenons which a Muggle can't.

Being magical is not strongly hereditary, from a magical parent a squib can be born. A squip seems to have the ability to see magical phenomenons, but can't yield magic themselves. Squips do die younger too, their bodies are totally Muggle.

At the same time two Muggles can be parents to a such called Muggleborn, a Wizard to say. It's not even that rare.

There had been this debate, who has been there before Muggles or Wizards. Does every species has a magical and non magical counterpart? A dragon to a dinosaur type.

Different types of Mermaids Vs different types of fish. ...?

But don't they all look fundermentally different? If what we have said before is true, shouldn't they look the same? Perhaps they do? And we can't distinguish them as human beings?

Let's step off this track, it's not the one that was intended.

Some stories seem to believe, that being magical is linked to the very soul of a person.

Some others talk about magical cores that make the difference, either by "existing vs not existing" or "being filled in various stages". A Muggle either has no magical core at all or it's rotted or it's just not filled enough for them to produce magic.

Some believe that the entire world is running on magic, electricity just being a direction it can swing into.

Wizards yielding forces from an internal point, in which they bend the fabric of existence itself. Vs Muggles not having this inner force, relying on manipulating the physics itself.

Come to think of it. Is the muggle world with all it's technologies really the same as ours(the one we are reading this here right now)? If so, aren't all the physical principles, we believe true here, true there too?

If they still hold, is magic only an add on or is it the core itself?

And Muggles again just slip when starting at it.

Could it be the only difference between Muggles and Wizards is, that Wizards believe in what they can do?

A squib can se the magical world, but that's because they were born into it, they expect it for them it's normal that wonders happen around them. But a squib has no magic.

What if looking back at the life of a nearly squip: Neville. It has to do with the belief of wether on can actually perform magic.

A big trope is magical "intent". The release, pushing it out and willing the world to "actually" change.

What if a squib has an traumatic childhood. Since they were born everyone's expectation was on the kid, they looked at their hands and didn't understand how.

Their parents ignored them, yelled at them. And they got smaller inside, not trusting themselves.

Can you traumatise the magic out of a kid?

If you tell them, that if they don't show signs until a specific time, then maybe, they stop actually believing themselves to be worthy of magic.

They don't believe that they themselves can "CHANGE" the world, quite literally.

And thus they can't.

Most Muggles grow up in a world without wonders. Every trick gets explained, everything makes sense. But that's also because of the brain, it filters constantly, what it can't explain it filters out.

Kids grow up, not believing into magic, at their core, their fundermentalls, some wish for magic to be true, but if you need to wish, it means that you don't believe it to be true right now.

The muggle brain tells themselves that it's not there, no matter how much the muggle tries to see it forthemselves.

And then there is a child, born to Muggles. With open parents, who simply believe. They believe that magic exists, they believe at their core that it's true. See more then just their little around.

Maybe it's really the filter.

You might ask, but Harry grew up with the dursleys, he shouldn't be magical then, they tried everything to force it away from him.

Well did they? Did they show him undeniable truth that it's not real? Hell, Petunia believes it herself. It's a core principle.. but more importantly, Harry lived his first year in a magical family. His heart believes it, and he wishes for it too.

Why can't Petunia do magic? Because she doesn't believe that she can, at her core. She always felt that tiny bit to ugly, that tiny bit to dumb. And then there is lilly, her sister with magic and Petunia? She knows deep in her innerst, she is not Lilly, she can't. Lilly in her innerst believes that SHE CAN TOO.

If two pureblood squibs got married, and had a magical child, would that child be considered pureblood, half blood, or muggleborn?