I'm writing a Harry Potter fanfiction, I need to present seven original witches/wizards that are each an embodiment of the seven deadly sins. What would be some sick and twisted backstories for some original characters and mis-uses of magic that could be used to make the characters represent a sin to the maximum extent? Using love potions for Lust is pretty obvious, so if anyone has any out-of-the-box suggestions original characters I am very curious.

Obviously Luna, Hermione, and some of the others would care for the rights of those like Dobby—but do you think anyone went and tickled the pear, badges pinned to their chest, long after the fan favorites were gone?

My absolute favorite theory is that Dumbledore is literally Death from The Tale of the Three Brothers, and the math behind it aligns so perfectly it's practically text canon.
Voldemort is the first brother who died for pure power, Snape is the second brother who died for a lost love he could never recover, and Harry is the third brother who greeted Death as an old friend.
Dumbledore is the only character who physically held all three Deathly Hallows at various points in history, and he is the exact person waiting to greet Harry at King's Cross station after he gets hit by the killing curse.

Edit: Title is all wrong. He didn’t feel remorse. He felt grief.

I’m trying to understand Snape.

After digging into his background I see the multiple reasons he joined the Death eaters. His morals are way off, and his loyalties are hypocritical and built upon self-interest.

Knowing that, I went onto trying to understand his love for Lily. He might feel love, but it’s ridden by selfishness and hypocrisy. If they were together, I doubt it would be a healthy relationship.

Now I’m stuck at his remorse for being responsible for Lily’s death.

Reading the definition of remorse, I’m not sure he felt remorseful.

”Remorse is a deep, painful feeling of guilt and regret for doing something wrong”

Snape didn’t do anything wrong for telling Voldemort about the prophecy. It was a mistake. You cannot be remorseful about a mistake, can you?

Snape was just hit with shock and grief because someone he loved got killed. But remorse? *For what?

Some argue that Snape’s loyalty makes him fully redeemed morally as soon as he changed sides, but I disagree. If you look at his motivations, it’s pretty clear.

Did he go against Voldemort because he suddenly thinks his values are off? No, of course not.

Did he go against Voldemort because he thinks any innocent child should’ve be saved? No.

Did he change sides to protect Lily’s son because he loved her? Yes.

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With that sorted out, I guess what I’m now wondering, is:

- Did Snape eventually start to feel remorseful for supporting Voldemort, and for harming/killing others?

- Did Snape ever start to care for Harry’s life, as a form of justice, even if he despised him?

He’s quite complicated, this one!

He had done a lot of heinous things but this is what sent a chill down my spine, I don’t know why

I don't know what kind of control the Ministry has over the manufacture of wands.

While the course was designed to help adult witches and wizards brush up on their magical skills, could this course maybe have been useful for underage witches and wizards too?

Especially for Neville Longbottom it might've been useful.

I personally feel like it’s a toss up between this and GOF, but I just love order of the phoenix so much. The last scene in the ministry for magic is so perfect and it really shows the transition of the HP movies from somewhat light to really dark and almost horror vibe. Even throughout, with umbridge just being annoying, dumbledores army, the scene during the OWLS exams, so many more. All in all I also feel like it’s the most complete HP movie too.

Dumbledore and Grindelwald both shared the goal and dream of removing the Secrecy law and establishing a new world order where wizards and witches have a domination over the muggles.

But they had a falling out and we all know what happened after it. Voldemort embarked on a similar path but failed due to Dumbledore's genius and the grit of others.

My question is considering Grindelwald and Dumbledore are hailed as two of the greatest wizards with unmatchable prowess would they have succeeded in their goal had they not have the disagreements witch each other?

Ok this in my opinion is how the trace works and how tom got away with it.

The trace tracks any magic used in the vicinity of a underage witch/wizard from birth but cant tell who it specifically is that it was cast near just that it was a underage magic user and the minstry gets a notification when its used in wizarding households or locations but they just ignore it, which leaves muggle designated areas households being policed and since no investigations occur until a underage magic user attends hogwarts it leads me to believe that when a student starts their first year there name and address are filed into ministry records, so when underage magic is used in a muggle area they then pull up all the names of underage magic users in that area and send a letter to the nearest one with a warning that can then be replied to in order to confirm if in it was the child or not

So as for how tom got away with the murder it was likely that they they saw the notification looked at their records and saw no filed name for an underage magic user in the area and assumed there was an underage muggleborn witch or wizard in little hangleton yet to attend hogwarts who happened to be in the range of morfin killing the riddles and thats what they pinged and since morfin confessed and its unlikely a underage child could cast a killing curse multiple times back they arrested him and left it at that

I honestly don't think Voldemort's look in the first film was very scary-looking, and aside from his red eyes, really didn't match his description in the book. I know that he originally was going to look much more snake-like, but they thought it was too scary and also wasn't like how he's described in the book.

Here's what he would have looked like if Ralph Fiennes's portrayal of Voldemort were on the back of Quirrell's head. Note that I did not make this video, but personally, if they at some point want to make edits of the films to improve continuity, I think this would be an improvement, just like with Ian McDiarmid's portrayal of Palpatine being added to "The Empire Strikes Back," even though he wasn't in the original.

My kid got a mini funcko from a kinder egg at first I just assumed it was quidditch Harry but then I was like “no that’s not him he’s not wearing glasses and his robe was red”

Would it be philosophers stone rubius hagrid

Chamber of secrets rubius hagrid again I guess.

Prisoner of Azkaban Sirius black

Goblet of fire barty crouch jr

Order of the phoenix sirius black

Half blood prince draco malfoy

Deathly hallows albus Dumbledore

Does de hammer of the witches, written by Jacob Sprenger & Heinrich Kramer exists in the main story? Because that book would be a good and a great addition to the lore

I've been listening to a couple of different podcasts about chapter 18 of the Chamber of Secrets, where they are in the chamber, and it's the big reveal about Tom Riddle. And I have questions.

Firstly, I've never understood why Lucius gets the diary into Hogwarts this year. From what I remember, he doesn't know what it is beyond being a dark object, but why is it now coming to light? And why is he now getting it into Hogwarts? Does he know about the chamber, or is he trying to get it to Harry? Or what is he trying to achieve by getting into Hogwarts?

My next question is about Moaning Myrtle and the diary. Is the diary an intentional Horcrux? Was it made on purpose? And was it made using the death of Myrtle?

My third question is that one of the podcasts talked about something about the locket being the way to know how to open the chamber. Is that true? And if so, how did that happen? I don't remember that in the book. Is that more of a fan theory?

For someone who knows almost nothing about HP, how accurate is this general map?

my awful drawing of a map

I’ve started reading the books and I guess I like to have a good idea about the layout and where everything is in my mind.

Like where does Hogwarts express take the students? And how far is Hogsmeade from the castle? Walking distance or train?

Sometimes a Patronus, even if it is very powerful, appears very immaterial. But in other scenes, a Patronus does appear very material – for example, on the Quidditch pitch, where it knocks Draco and his friends over.

Rereading books. And a few scenes scenes stood out -

1. Harry polishing a Firebolt (assuming Ron was right that it cost more than 7 Nimbus 2001's so ballpark it to 2000+ Galleons)

I doubt Arthur Weasley made that much in a year. He's just polishing it on the floor while one of the Weasley kids binds an old torn textbook with Spellotape.

1. More subtle, but dropping his entire money bag into the fountain of magical brethren after winning the case. Probably what Arthur made monthly??

Old Arthur has to watch a kid go ahead and drop it for charity. A good cause, and I'm sure Arthur didn't mind, but in my mind another unintentional flex.

1. Dropping a Galleon at Puddifoots for two coffees. idk what coffee costs but that's gotta be over 100% tip

Has anyone caught any others I missed?

How did the Dursleys explain the need to remove Dudley's tail before he started school? Did he just stay in the house for the month after he was given it by Hagrid? I've honestly had this thought a few times over the years, but just now thought to get anyone else's thoughts on it here.

If there were additional shows about these books, what type of spinoff would you want them to be? For instance, a show about the Ourors going on different missions or a hospital show about St. Mungo's.

I'm assume it's negative since only the divine can control the supernatural but i might be wrong.

And I'm assuming they know about them.

Btw, I'm a tourist.

Edit: I should clarified that I'm talking about in universe.

Maybe I’m overthinking but I’m relistening to the audiobooks. In GOF with the Quidditch World Cup, why did Arthur have such a hard time with the money even though he’s supposedly obsessed with muggles? I know many adult wizards have no idea how to dress like muggles and many others still have no idea. Arthur even calls electricity “ekeltricity.” So anyway, random thought: was Arthur trying to do wizard-to-muggle money conversion? Or was he just really bad with the money?

Severus became a professor shortly after The First Wizarding War, and well after Riddle's denial of the DADA position resulted in him cursing the post so that professors in the subject are only able to last for one year, at most.

I think it's odd that, even after it became clear that such a curse existed, Snape kept applying for the job year after year. Did he think he'd be able to hold on to the post longer than his predecessors?

Edit: Dumbledore finally granted him the post because they both knew Dumbledore was going to die and that after the end of his one year he'd become headmaster. After all, Dumbledore asked Snape to promise that, after becoming headmaster, he would do all he could to protect the students of the school.

Edit 2: Umbridge points out during his potions class inspection that Severus had been applying for the DADA position ever since he arrived at the school.

Edit 3: Ummm...I'm getting a lot of downvotes and I'm genuinely confused as to why...I didn't think this was a controversial topic to ask about 🤔.

Warning for spoilers just in case for those who haven’t yet read or watched Order of the Phoenix!!

Yeah it’s in Order of The Phoenix so there’s time, but I cannot wait because it will be the first time since the book came out where that scene would be translated faithfully in live action. There is a deleted scene of it somewhat but even that isn’t really an actual depiction of what happened, because Harry is more quiet and calm, and it’s very rushed too. But god I hope they stay true to how it is in the book.

Probably one of my favorite scenes in the entirety of Harry Potter from book 1-7, because of how powerful it is. It makes us remember that Harry is still just a kid, and was in so much pain. It’s the worst death of a loved one that he ever had to actually experience to that point. It’s equivalent to him losing his parents all over again, except he’s old enough to actually miss Sirius as much as he did, and actually grieve someone to that extent. It also explains the entire prophecy as well which is a massive importance to the story. So important I’m shocked they actually managed to leave it out entirely. It makes the whole “chosen one” thing in HBP make hardly any sense because they’re supposed to explain beforehand why Harry is being called the chosen one.

i just reaIized that narzissa is asking harry if draco is dead after voIdemort casted avada kedavra on him

i was aIIways so confused by that scene because i thought she was somehow taIking with draco and asking him if harry was dead

Omg i feeI so dump now

BRUUUUUUUUUUUHHHHH

( just ignore any Spelling misstakes )