r/harrypottertheories

Maybe I'm stating the obvious here. I may also be wrong...

This is a response to the people saying "Why not use a random stone on the beach?" or words to that effect. I think this comes from an easy misunderstanding of what a horcrux does. If you have a horcrux, you are not invincible or even really immortal. Harry could have shot Voldemort and killed him and that would have practically killed him.

Horcruxes are backups. If Voldemort is killed, his followers could have made another one. This is what nearly happened with the diary and why multiple Voldemorts was a possibility.

So it follows that his most trusted followers need to know what the horcruxes are and how to find them. It makes sense that they have to be recognisable at a glance.

Granted, it is funny to think of a hoarde of Death Waters scouring a pebbly beach to determine which pebble has the most evil vibes...

I've never quite understood it. Anyone could destroy the other horcruxes, but Dumbledore says that it has to be Voldemort that destroys Harry.

I’ve read the books maybe a decade ago (so correct me whenever i can be wrong)but i rewatch the movies all the times and so I’ve been down a rabbit hole and I need your help in this. (not even sure if this has been discussed already, so sorry for repetition)

Sooo I think there’s a hidden missed (even not hiddedn already lol) parallel between Dumbledore and Antioch Peverell (the eldest of the Three Brothers) that goes way beyond “he owned the wand.”

The obvious part: In-universe, the Elder Wand’s very first owner was Antioch Peverell, the eldest brother, who is remembered as the Peverell brother tied to the Elder Wand. He got it because he was a belligerent man who demanded the most powerful wand in existence. Classic eldest-brother move: greed for power, not wisdom.

Here’s where it gets interesting: Dumbledore himself doesn’t buy the “Death literally made this wand” story. He speculated instead that wands absorb the character of the wizards who wield them, and more tellingly, he thought the Hallows were more likely invented by a gifted wizard with equally gifted siblings than gifts from Death. So the “creator” of the wand-myth theory basically comes from Dumbledore’s own mouth.

Antioch = eldest brother, power-hungry, dies violently after boasting about the wand (he drunkenly bragged about the wand’s power after killing a rival, and was murdered for it that same night).
Dumbledore = obsessed with power and “the greater good” in his youth alongside Grindelwald, chasing the \*same\* wand, and won it from Gellert Grindelwald as an adult, in the 1940s. it nearly destroyed everything he loved

Both men are defined by the same arc: **eldest-brother energy, wand-lust, a fall from grace, and only real wisdom arriving after tragedy.** Dumbledore spends the rest of his life essentially trying to become the *youngest* brother instead, the humble one who hides from Death rather than courts it. He even tells Harry the truly wise man doesn’t seek the wand at all.

So the theory isn’t that Dumbledore is literally Antioch reincarnated, obviously centuries separate them and canon never states this. It’s that Dumbledore’s entire character arc is a lived reenactment of “The Tale of the Three Brothers,” starting as the eldest and ending as the youngest. JKR basically wrote him as a one-man morality play using his own bedtime story.

Does that track for anyone else, or am I reading too much fairy-tale structure into a 600-page death-symbolism arc?

Did he know that if he created the horcruxes and experimented with the dark arts, he would become a weird snake mutant, or did it come as a surprise? He never seems to be bothered or even pay attention to his appearance, even though he's the only wizard that looks like a weirdo.

I see the Prime Minister gets updates from the Minister of Magic about the status of the wizarding world. After Voldemort returns the Minister tells the Prime Minister and advises the accidents occurring are not muggle made but magically involved. How does the muggle world defend itself from wizards?

The side effects of Felix Falicis are as follows: Giddiness, dangerous overconfidence, and recklessness. Voldemort shows all of these traits throughout his adult life but not in his youth. In fact, in his youth, there were many times he did things that he would need to be SO lucky to achieve. A few examples would be hiding the horcrux in hogwarts with Dumbledore as headmaster, sending others to Azkaban for his crimes, and getting the ghost of ravenclaw to tell him the story of her mother. All of these could be explained by his being a "great wizard." But what if he just got lucky?

Not to mention by the time he can no longer drink it regularly he gets extremely unlucky and let's Harry escape death numerous times. He boasts and monolauges instead of just killing him like he wants to. It's like his own arrogance and recklessness makes it impossible to get what he wants without the help of others.

It could be Lily's sacrifice that saves Harry sure... or... it could be that Voldemort is a magical alcoholic.

Can someone please tell me where Ron is during the great hall scene in deathly hallows 2 movie, when Voldemort asks for Harry to be turned into him in 1 hour? I cannot find him anywhere, specifically in the scene where the slitherin girl says to grab Harry and both Ginny and Hermione step in front of him, then the whole order + friends join behind him, yet Ron is no where to be found.
Please give me some insight, to me, Ron wouldn’t have missed that moment to stand up for Harry. Is he in this scene and I just can’t find him?

I think it’s Regulus Black, Andromeda Tonks ( absolutely love her ) and Oliver Wood, who do you think it is?

We know that the Elder Wand instantaneously shifts allegiances if it is ‘won’ by someone; that is, if the user wielding the Elder Wand is disarmed or killed by the opponent. But what if there is also a ‘gradual’ mechanism to it?

What if, during Dumbledore and Grindelwald’s duel, the Elder Wand sensed Grindelwald’s wavering spirit as his ideals crashed and sunk in the face of Dumbledore’s own? Could this be the reason why the Elder Wand transferred its ownership over to Dumbledore, allowing him to secure a victory over his former friend? We know that Dumbledore was more skilled, but I don’t think that was enough to secure a win. The Elder Wand had to have had allegiance issues in that moment.

My theory essentially is this: the Elder Wand, to be properly maximised in effectiveness, must be wielded by someone who is utterly resolute in what they believe in and what they strive to accomplish. The Elder Wand responds to power – any notable sign of emotional, mental or spiritual weakness dampens the connection between the wand and its owner, and transfers it to someone in battle who impresses the Elder Wand far more than its current user ever could.