History WMG / HarryPotterandTheDeathlyHallows

* ''Ahem.'' Don't you mean [[Main/JustForPun 'Siriusly!']]?

** [[UpToEleven...Wow. I didn't think there was any worse way to cheapen Lily's sacrifice than the Deathly Hallows theory that she was actually Hedwig, but clearly I was wrong]].

* No. At first glance both Franchise/HarryPotter and StarWars seem to be BlackAndWhiteMorality stories but the War is LightVersusDark applying BlueAndOrangeMorality. Snape is on the Light side = DD's side but LightIsNotGood.

* He stands up to Voldemort when he believes the Dark Lord has won and refuses to join him.
* He pulls the Sword of Gryffindor out of the Sorting Hat and kills Nagini, weakening him to the point where he can be killed.

1. Neville having a subplot about learning to stand up for himself.
2. Neville tagging along with Harry, Ron and Hermione to the Midnight Duel and running into Fluffy.
3. Neville being put on detention alongside Harry, Hermione and Malfoy.
4. Neville helping Gryffindor win the House Cup when Dumbledore awards him with house points.

1. Restarts Dumbledore's Army alongside Ginny and Luna.
2. Constantly rebels against the regime, even getting to the point where they considered killing him.
3. He stands up to Voldemort when he believes the Dark Lord has won and refuses to join him.
4. He pulls the Sword of Gryffindor out of the Sorting Hat and kills Nagini, weakening him to the point where he can be killed.

** Harmione sends her parents to Australia - which was a dominion of UK before WWII - to keep them safe. If she knew (and she ''would'' know) Voldemort can control the entire former British Empire by taking over UK, then she would have sent them somewhere safer, like the US.
** If the historical development of the Wizarding!British Empire and the Muggle!British Empire only diverged in WWII, then Australia was already an equal Commonwealth ''partner'' as per the Statute of Westminster and the Balfour Declaration. The Dominions were not subordinate, a huge part, in fact, of Chamberlain's pre-WWII diplomacy was done out of fear that the Dominions would remain neutral if they didn't feel enough had been done for peace. So it's possible an independent-but-affiliated Wizarding government in Canberra would refuse to back Voldemort, and could even do what Churchill planned for the Dominions to to in WWII if Britain was occupied; continue the battle for true government from overseas.

In HBP, Harry starts having dreams about Ginny because of his growing (though largely repressed) romantic feelings for her, and it has been mentioned on a couple of occasions that Harry talks in his sleep. He may have dreamed about her over the summer out of lonesomeness and longing and Dudley can apparently hear him loud and clear, since he's able to taunt Harry about Cedric's death a couple years before, which he couldn't have otherwise known about. It is reasonable to assume that Dudley knows that Ginny is a young witch in school with Harry, and is apparently the object of Harry's affection. It is not known if he knows what she looks like,[[FieryRedhead her personality]] or that she's the younger sister of Fred and Gorge Weasley.

Trelawney describes the eavesdropper's "rude interruption" as having happened ''after'' she felt a bit queasy -- an inconsequential queasiness that she still remembers some seventeen years later, mark you -- and, being totally oblivious to what had occurred, she has no reason to lie. Dumbledore, however, whose version is utterly incompatible with Trelawney's, has every reason to lie. This is also his Ironclad Reason, which explains why he won't discuss ''that'' with Harry, either. His understandable guilt regarding the incident inspires his mutterings in The Cave and his over-sheltering of Harry.

* [[spoiler: Pretty clearly not so. People remember Dumbledore as a young man, and it's established that Dumbledore went to Hogwarts like Harry or Ron.]]

* No. At first glance both Franchise/HarryPotter and StarWars seem to be GoodVersusEvil stories but the War is LightVersusDark applying BlueAndOrangeMorality. Snape is on the Light side = DD's side but LightIsNotGood.

Or rather, her married name is Umbridge, but her birth name is [[spoiler:Pettigrew]] and she is [[spoiler:Peter's sister before she got married]]. This is the real reason she hated Harry so much, as he had a hand in her brother's fate. This is also why she took the locket: she knew what it was, and wanted to use it as a tool to keep Voldemort from killing her brother outright.

Or rather, her married name is Umbridge, but her birth name is [[spoiler:Pettigrew]] and she is [[spoiler:Peter's sister before she got married]]. This is the real reason she hated Harry so much, as he had a hand in her brother's fate. This is also why she took the locket: she wanted to use it as a tool to keep Voldemort from killing her brother outright.

[[WMG:Horcruxes work like (and were inspired from) the [[LordOfTheRings Ring of Power]]]]

Rowling stated in an interview that Dudley was to have shown up with a magical child of his own. Presumably Vernon would have been present too with the sequence shown through his eyes as a CallBack to the opening of Philosopher's Stone.

Rowling stated in an interview that Dudley was to have shown up with a magical child of his own. Presumably Vernon would have been present too with the sequence shown through his eyes as a CallBack to the very first chapter of Philosopher's Stone.

After all, Death was already holding the main portion of what was left of Tom. It was lying there under a bench screaming its head off. There’s no way that Tom was going to be getting up and walking away under his own power. But evidently, even though the Harrycrux was now gone, the connection between the two was somehow still active enough (probably something to do with the blood connection that Tom set up in GoF) that when Harry returned, he somehow dragged Tom along after him. Temporarily, at least.

Apparently wand mastery actually is an issue, even though it reads like a pasted-on afterthought. But we did get at least two possibly deliberate hints all the way back in CoS One when Lockhart’s wand seems to have been actively trying to abandon him after his duel with Snape. A second in the events of Lockhear’s mindwipe. Lockheart picked up Ron’s backfiring wand and cast a memory charm, getting himself, we think. But is that really what happened? Or did that wand when used against it’s master, retaliate by exploding and sending the entire force of the obliviate back at Lockheart wiping all of Lockheart’s memories, in a way that’s beyond what we’ve witnessed from ‘’every single backfire’’ that wand has ever had. Also, how interesting that the explosion that caved in the tunnel only erased the mind of the spellcaster. Not the wand’s owner, not his friend.

Indeed I think a part of the wandmaker’s craft must be designed to prevent anything of that sort taking place under anything but extraordinary circumstances. Magic is supposed to travel through a wand only in the one intended direction. The wand may not precisely be “aware” (not having a brain, after all) but it registers that *it* affects the target. The target does not affect it. Ron’s broken wand in CoS was defective in exactly that manner. The operator’s magic could not be depended upon to flow in the correct direction. And Ron was still registered as the owner. (more on registration in a minute.)

But the fact is that Harry Potter demonstrably came back from the celestial Kings Cross Station the Master of the Elder wand. No curse that Tom sent at him from that point touched him. Or, apparently anyone else, more than momentarily — although it was at least able to do something. Tom aquitted himself very well dueling with Slughorn, McGonagall and Shacklebolt. If all he was working with was his own magic, using a hostile wand, then he must once have been every bit as formidable as everyone keeps trying to claim.

[[WMG" The Power He “Knows Not”]]

[[WMG: Crabbe met a horrible fate at the hands of You-Know-Who.]]
That's why he wasn't seen in the film of ''Deathly Hallows''. (Real reason was the actor's trouble with the law.)

The curse of Antioch, and all who held and used the Wand, was that they would die by violence.

The purpose of the Stone was not to summon the dead, but to summon Death – not to restore life, but to end it.

Put it this way. Voldemort takes over the U.K, which is treated as taking over the entire world, which implies that Britain's international standing in the Wizarding World is much greater than its standing in the Muggle one. Secondly, Grindelwald was "never powerful here", so presumably his reign of terror did not affect the UK too badly. Also, the Muggle British Empire fell due to two main reasons: Political awakening (both in terms of nationalism amongst the colonies and liberalism amongst the British) and WorldWarTwo causing economic harship. World War Two was not fought in the wizarding world, and political ideologies (especially with regard to human rights etc) as we understand them seem to be very different for wizards. So, as British muggles expanded across the globe, carving out their vast empire, wizards went with them, and, given the ascendancy of British muggles in the colonies, it was natural British wizards should rise to prominence. Ultimately, while the Muggles of India etc are no longer citizens of the Empire, the Wizards of these nations still are. Thus, Britain is the Wizarding World's superpower, and that is why Voldemort's takeover is treated as an act of world-conquering importance, rather than the oppression of a rainy island off Europe's coast.