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    HP Questions that don't deserve their own thread V2

    I keep forgetting there are people who never read the canon. Hermione and the gang are rescued by Dobby in the canon.
    Post by: Silirt, Oct 19, 2023 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    From a lore perspective, people said that you became the Master of Death when you had all three hallows, and that's what the people who wrote the stories and believed in them took it to mean, but Harry and Dumbledore agree that it's really a matter of no longer being afraid of death.
    Post by: Silirt, Sep 10, 2023 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    It is only shown to have an effect on humans, but the werewolves only ever hunt humans, so we wouldn't really know. If there's a subject that's commonly taught in schools that can help you with gambling, then there are going to be built-in counters for that. Perhaps your character knows something that the casino doesn't, though. Characters predict the weather with divination; I don't know how arithmancy would help. The more backstory you want to include, the longer the total story has to...
    Post by: Silirt, May 16, 2022 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    I would not be remotely surprised if Harry was not as good at hiding as he thought when he was 11 and 12. A little flicker of movement, a footstep- Dumbledore probably picked up on something he thought would be easily missed, and perhaps for most other people it would be, but Dumbledore's aware that he has the cloak and aware of the kind of things he's going to do with it. If he ever directly said he could see through it that was just a trick to get Harry to behave for once.
    Post by: Silirt, May 15, 2022 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    Polyjuice is transfiguration? It seems like a decidedly inferior form, given that you have to brew a potion for a month, you have to have DNA, it's a temporary effect, and you can only turn into other humans. I'm not sure what the advantage of the potion is if you can just wave a wand, but since I don't think we ever see human-human transfiguration in the books, I can only think that the reason the potion was developed and remains in use is because human-human transfiguration is exceedingly...
    Post by: Silirt, Apr 1, 2022 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    The canonical description of the effects of Polyjuice seems to support the idea that after the transformation, every single cell of the subject's body is a perfect copy of the target's cells, which in this case actually gives Harry a substantial boost in the amount of cells he has. It's definitively not just a change in appearance. My question is whether Polyjuice could be used to heal oneself from a serious injury, and I would be inclined to think that it could, but when you turn back, do...
    Post by: Silirt, Apr 1, 2022 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    No, it works with any two wands. Sirius literally never had a trial. I don't think you can make someone do something they are completely unable to do normally. That sounds like it would make it even harder to indict Death Eaters; the whole thing about memory manipulation is why submitting pensieve memories is not acceptable evidence.
    Post by: Silirt, Oct 27, 2021 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    I mean, there's a law saying they have to register as Animagi, which kind of takes the fun out of it. It seems like you have to study pretty hard to become one, and if most adults can't cast a shield charm, I would imagine it's because magic has indirectly made their lives so easy that studying how to cast spells and brew potions on their own is pointless. It makes sense for each of the people we're shown; McGonagall is highly adept at Transfiguration so this sort of thing would be easy for...
    Post by: Silirt, Oct 27, 2021 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    I honestly think he doesn't really care what would happen to the world. Any world that he controls would be basically controlled by the Death Eaters with his permission in the form of a wave of the hand while he goes off to research magic. The Death Eaters would probably reduce the numbers of the muggles gradually so as not to raise an alarm by coming up with something they can blame on aliens or natural phenomena or muggles doing it to themselves. Eventually, there would be no muggles, and...
    Post by: Silirt, Sep 20, 2021 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    I am not claiming to know the exact rule or if there is an exact rule. I was just putting a question out as to what the maximum range is based on what we see in the books. As far as I know the greatest range would have been in the aerial battle of seven Potters, and the text states that they were missing constantly. The fact that you can miss means that the accuracy of the spell relies on the skill of the caster as well as visibility. If I had to extrapolate from this, I would say there is...
    Post by: Silirt, Sep 10, 2021 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    Do we ever see spells cast from any kind of distance like that? As far as I remember, you basically have to see your target.
    Post by: Silirt, Sep 10, 2021 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    Harry resists it quite admirably in book 4. The limitation is that the caster has to have a stronger will.
    Post by: Silirt, Sep 10, 2021 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    By the standards of the wizarding world, the fact that Riddle didn't go to prison shows him as extremely high-minded to believe Riddle should receive a warning after stealing, muggle-baiting, and what amounts to mind-controlling innocent children. Ignorance of the law is not normally a defense, nor is being a minor, depending on the crime that's been committed. What no one else in this thread seems to have considered is that there are other children at Hogwarts, and to admit Riddle into the...
    Post by: Silirt, Apr 8, 2021 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    Dumbledore would have hardly needed to use Legilimency. He's an educator who deals with all kinds of children all the time. Dumbledore explained he was aware that Riddle was using magic to hurt people, so yes, he knows that Riddle was a little monster who needed to be shown that there were consequences for his actions. Setting the wardrobe on fire was a harmless show of force to accompany the stern warning. The point was to demonstrate that the authorities he mentioned, Hogwarts and the...
    Post by: Silirt, Apr 7, 2021 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    He has very little, yes, like the other orphans from whom he stole things. In the actual passage, you'll note that Riddle is more concerned with getting a wand of his own than what evidently did not actually happen to his ill-gotten possessions. It should not surprise us too greatly that he desires the ability to set things on fire. If you take a moment to read the rest of the chapter, it is perfectly clear that this kid is a little monster who hurts people and then either mind-controls...
    Post by: Silirt, Apr 7, 2021 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    Merope was not technically a squib; she was just bad at magic. Dumbledore does not know this for a fact; he admits to guessing about most of what happened without his having a memory for it. He knows the witch showed up at Wool's at the end of her rope, having sold her possessions. There is no instance where Dumbledore bullies young Riddle; he's actually a bit extra forgiving by hearing what Riddle did with magic (hurting people, controlling animals, stealing things) and then simply telling...
    Post by: Silirt, Apr 7, 2021 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    I wouldn't be surprised if he takes turns looking old; that would just mean he hasn't been drinking much of the elixir lately. I haven't watched the movies, so if he drinks it on screen and doesn't get younger then fuck the movies, I guess.
    Post by: Silirt, Mar 7, 2021 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    There is no such thing as death by old age. The reason they use the term 'natural causes' now is because it's always one thing or another. I would guess that the elixir makes the user younger and less susceptible to those causes. I would not think that Flamel could not be killed, or he would have offered some elixir to Dumbledore and the Order to go after Voldemort.
    Post by: Silirt, Mar 7, 2021 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    In HBP, when Harry and Dumbledore go to the cave looking for the horcrux, Dumbledore says that he was not worried, because he had Harry with him. Was this an empty confidence boost, or did he mean something by it? I can't see him lying to a sixteen year old just to be nice, especially when he almost certainly knew it would not actually boost Harry's confidence. One explanation I can guess is that Harry is a horcrux, and has some kind of resistance to horcruces, and the other is that as the...
    Post by: Silirt, Dec 12, 2020 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    How were they struggling to find food in the seventh book? Did the refilling charm not work on whatever it was they were eating?
    Post by: Silirt, Dec 2, 2020 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    The idea that they have Lordship rings and designated seats on the Wizengamot is fanon, but it always seemed like a decent extrapolation. The society depicted just seemed aristocratic. Lucius flexing by raising peacocks on his estate is really the only insight we have into what he does with the land around the manor, but generally when you're as obsessed with genealogy and purity as the Malfoys and the Blacks, you'd think there would be some property to inherit. That was the motivation...
    Post by: Silirt, Oct 3, 2020 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    They have landed lords and ladies, so I always assumed there were rustic wizards growing and harvesting food with magic.
    Post by: Silirt, Oct 2, 2020 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    I mean, assuming that wizards are as powerful as we think, it's kind of like saying 'couldn't humans defeat rats if we wanted to?'. There is nothing a rat does that we do not allow. If we really, really wanted to, we could exterminate them off the face of the earth, but that would mess up the ecosystem and no strategic advantage could be gained over it. When no further strategic advantage can be gained, you've won, and going any further is pointless. Re: Hagrid's explanation to a child:...
    Post by: Silirt, Sep 24, 2020 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    It seems incredibly unlikely. If everyone were aware, the Prophet articles would have taken a completely different tone, because there would be nothing lost by admitting that Voldemort controlled the whole operation. I would think most people dismissed the idea of Death Eaters being in the Ministry as a conspiracy theory.
    Post by: Silirt, Jul 21, 2020 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    I mean assuming both groups are at 17, what magical feats have the older group accomplished except being Animagi? I don't think they even seriously started fighting until they were out of Hogwarts.
    Post by: Silirt, Jul 19, 2020 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    I have. There are only a handful of people in the series who are that old, and they 'show age' by varying degrees. Elphias Doge seems to be on his last legs by DH, despite being roughly the same age as Dumbledore. I guess it pays to be research buddies with the guy who developed the Philosopher's Stone and have it in your possession for several years. Aunt Muriel seems 'sharp', I suppose, but most abrasive people do. Bagshot, with whom she went to school, was killed, so we wouldn't know how...
    Post by: Silirt, Jul 8, 2020 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    I don't know about that. It's just pushing a button, going inside, pushing another button and going out again. If Voldemort were controlling the snake, he could have figured that out. I don't think she could use magic, though, so a locked door would be impassible. I don't think there's any way Voldemort would expect the door not to be locked, and possessing the Order member doesn't seem like that good of an idea, since Bagshot doesn't use any magic in DH; really she was just a corpse puppet....
    Post by: Silirt, Jul 2, 2020 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    That's really interesting; I had forgotten that conversation. Somehow I think I ruled it out that Harry would grab the idiot ball and run with it that far. With Snape dismissing Harry's question, I would guess that he heard it from Voldemort himself, perhaps something he told all the Death Eaters, but it's weird to think of him saying that if he had any suspicion at all that there was a mole. The reason I say that Nagini wouldn't have gained that much intel is because the door was locked and...
    Post by: Silirt, Jul 2, 2020 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    I would think before. He wouldn't have gained much intel from Nagini's scouting the Department of Mysteries, so I would think the idea was to attack Arthur, giving Harry the opportunity to save an old friend and convince him to use the mental connection rather than block it out.
    Post by: Silirt, Jul 2, 2020 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    Don't trust them either. With the portraits in Hogwarts, you're trusting the staff of the school to keep the place free of portraits painted by dark wizards with hypnotic eyes that convince students to murder each other. If a portrait is making some inane conversation, you can ignore it. If it does anything suspicious, try a fire charm.
    Post by: Silirt, Jul 2, 2020 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    You might be thinking of the time she uses it to disguise their appearances when the Snatchers catch them. I think it's implied that they use transfiguration to give themselves new outfits to masquerade as Bellatrix and Dragomir Despard.
    Post by: Silirt, Jun 30, 2020 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    It's the second one. The text specifically mentions that Cedric and Harry are allowed to enter the maze at the same time, with Krum entering after them, and then Fleur.
    Post by: Silirt, May 30, 2020 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    He has a complete soul, it's just in pieces. He only wanted the Stone as a mechanism of restoring his body.
    Post by: Silirt, May 19, 2020 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    It's supposed to be pretty vague so tourists don't beat a path through people's quiet neighborhoods like they do with Platform nine and three quarters. I know they shot it in Lavenham, but that's on the east coast, so they were going for a certain feel rather than a hint from Rowling. This stack exchange question speculates a possible location. https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/117110/where-is-godrics-hollow
    Post by: Silirt, Mar 24, 2020 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    I thought it was kind of like a path was cut through space-time and they went through that. It can't be that they're literally traveling through actual space because they've used portkeys inside before.
    Post by: Silirt, Jan 31, 2020 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    I mean he'd been dead. You're probably right, though. I usually just have characters cover it up with a handful of innocuous spells.
    Post by: Silirt, Sep 20, 2019 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    Perhaps the challenge with using it on delirious people would be that their thoughts are all jumbled.
    Post by: Silirt, May 20, 2019 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    Wasn't Voldemort intentionally communicating with Harry while he was asleep? I mean there was a mental link between them, but it seems possible. Are we talking about the Longbottoms?
    Post by: Silirt, May 20, 2019 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    For the record, the other guy with the snake picture said they were eliminated for plot reasons, though there's little doubt of this. I was merely theorizing what most likely happened to the broomstick after it was destroyed.
    Post by: Silirt, May 12, 2019 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    A destroyed broomstick, a dead owl in a cage, and a ton of spellbooks in a trunk fallen from the sky in a sidecar still raise a lot of questions. The Ministry was also looking for Harry during DH, and going through his possessions might yield clues to his whereabouts.
    Post by: Silirt, May 11, 2019 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    I mean it landed in a muggle neighborhood, so I imagine some Ministry employee went there and picked it up, obliviating everyone who saw it.
    Post by: Silirt, May 11, 2019 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    Harry was born on July 31, so the fact that he got a birthday present from Ron with the newspaper included means the picture was taken before July 31. Ron tried to call Harry on the first week of summer, which for them was the last week of June, and the paper said that the Weasley family planned a month long trip in Egypt. Consider the calendar 1% put together.
    Post by: Silirt, Feb 8, 2019 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    See the thing is we keep talking about the diary like it was literally Voldemort, the same as the one who appeared in PS, but I don't think it was. I think this was just Tom Riddle, a past version of Voldemort, left to his own devices. It's why he refers to himself as Riddle and his appearance is that of Riddle; he's stuck at the age when he made the diary. In this way the diary ties him to life, but as pieces of his soul go, it's a subpar one, it's not the big piece that floats around and...
    Post by: Silirt, Feb 5, 2019 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    Did Voldemort really turn it into a weapon or was Ginny being possessed just the logical conclusion to carrying a horcrux around for months and writing in it, allowing it to convince her it was a friend? However Malfoy senior got a hold of it, I doubted it was Voldemort's intention to be dropped into Ginny's cauldron; I honestly still have no idea why he did that other than out of meanness and an opportunity to be rid of a cursed book.
    Post by: Silirt, Feb 4, 2019 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    He found the ring sometime in the summer of 1996, so I would think that means he had done some heavy research into it before then. This most likely entailed going around and collecting all of those memories, doing research to know which memories to collect, you get the idea. Voldemort's resurrection would have clued him into the horcrux idea if nothing else did, and since the diary was destroyed he would have had to have more than one, and he had a sufficient grasp of his personality to...
    Post by: Silirt, Feb 4, 2019 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    I would be inclined to think it was the first time he remembered them. When he looked into the Mirror of Erised, he had to figure out that they were his parents; he had no image in his mind of his parents except for everyone saying he looked just like his father. In PS he legitimately believed they died in a car crash, so between then and when the soul suckers showed up, I don't think he had any flashbacks.
    Post by: Silirt, Jan 16, 2019 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    "Castles in Galloway range from iron grey to the fairly definite pink of Caerlaverock, but seem for the most part to be quite brown. Castles are more thinly scattered in the West Highlands and some survive only as a few tumbled ruins, but the two major still-standing castles in the Lochalsh area, the reconstructed-Mediaeval Eilean Donan and the Victorian Duncraig, are both a warm brownish-grey: although Eilean Donan can look almost as red as Caerlaverock in some lights. So we can guess that...
    Post by: Silirt, Jan 11, 2019 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    Jesus, vlad she doesn't even have a danger rating in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
    Post by: Silirt, Jan 1, 2019 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    Severus Snape confronted with shampoo, why do you ask?
    Post by: Silirt, Dec 31, 2018 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    Depends on what kind of protections we mean here. Horcruxes can't be completely destroyed except by the ways listed in Hermione's books. Harry can still die, but the closest he ever came to being completely destroyed was being bitten by a basilisk.
    Post by: Silirt, Dec 27, 2018 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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