Someone needs to write a short story where someone goes "Lord Malfoy", and with a look of distaste and a shudder the said member of the family asks to be called 'Mr. Malfoy' instead, as the the title, if true, is too muggle in nature.

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Now I imagine Harry and Ron constantly referring to Draco as 'Lord Malfoy' every time they meet in public post Hogwarts and he can't do anything about it. Especially when other wizards get curious.

 

Or the title could have passed down a squib line and separated from the wizarding Malfoys. Another important consideration is a female eldest child. The generally non-sexist wizards would see the Wizarding portions of the Malfoy estates go to the daughter but under the rules of muggle inheritance, the son would take the title. This became even more important if their is only a daughter, in which case the title could go extinct if it exists by letter patent.

We must also consider that the Malfoys need not have had an inheritable title. They could have been made knights and had access to the Queen court that way.

 

If it makes me look stupid to ask this then so be it, but can someone tell me why HPwiki is held in such low regard around DLP?

 

I'm pretty sure it's because it has information from every Harry Potter source. ie movies, books, games, and pottermore. Wiki information is harder to regulate. However I think it's pretty safe to assume that JK has given her approval for all of these franchises which means she agrees that the main facts are a part of her world. I think many people on DLP feel that the only HP canon to read is in the seven books. However I have heard complaints from people that those aren't canon either. How does that work out?

 

I don't know what the HP Wiki is like now because I haven't looked at it in years, but back when the DLP opinion on it was first established there was a lot of semi-canon/fanon stated as fact. The most obvious example I can recall was a page on the Salem Academy in America, which at that point hadn't even been mentioned by JKR and as such was drawn most entirely from fanfiction.

 

It treats video game material as canon. Like for example the Flipendo spell or Spongify.

Or even game-exclusive characters.

 

The problem of an all-inclusive approach to canon can be summed up in one sentence:

Did Harry receive his Firebolt before or after he met Sirius Black in the Shrieking Shack?

 

They've cleaned a lot of the fanon stuff up now and I still use the HPwiki when I need to find information fast (after checking the sources that is). The problem as other have said is it considers things said or seen in the media outside the books to be canon unless they directly contradict what is seen in the books.

 

Did the Books ever explain how Sirius knew Harry was with the Dursleys, and where the Dursleys even lived?

EDIT: As for HPwiki: they treat video games as Canon. Need I say more?

 

Hagrid told him that he was taking Harry to his relatives on the night Voldemort attacked. That was when Sirius gave him the flying motor bike.

 

HP Wiki says mah gurl Lavender "L-Money" Brown is dead 'cause of the movies 'n shit. So fuck that site. LAV LAV IS LEGION. LAV LAV IS FOREVER.

 

Nope, the books aren't living so they can't explain, tell, say, or do anything. The author, however, can explain something in a book.

Grammar-Nazi-Asshatness aside, I think it's one of those fridge-logic things, and also easily hand-waved with "It was Lily's sister, so James talked about it with everyone once or twice." So no, I don't think it was expressly said in canon.

Then again, the series opens with Dumbledore, Minerva, and Hagrid all knowing where the Dursleys lived, and from the sounds of it, they probably knew before the attack on the Potters. But that's canon+, rather than pure canon.

 

Quote from HP and the Prisoner of Azkaban Chapter 12:

"An' then he says, 'Give Harry ter me, Hagrid, I'm his godfather, I'll
look after him —' Ha! But I'd had me orders from Dumbledore, an' I
told Black no, Dumbledore said Harry was ter go ter his aunt an'
uncle's."
That should clear things up.

 

What did Voldemort's farts smell like and did they kill small animals?

 

I was just looking through the help and FAQ and can't find what I'm looking for. What do the "thumbs up" mean and where in the user control panel are the reputation points?

 

Voldemort, as we all know, perfected his ritual dark magic demon summoning spell so that his new body would not need to excrete waste at all, and was better at dark magic in general due to the chaos magic inherent in all demons.

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Thumbs up are an equivalent to the 'like' button on facebook. They're just a way of showing appreciation for a post without commenting.

Reputation is no longer with us, but it was a precursor to the thumbs up; each user had reputation points that would be shown as a green/red scale based on positive or negative reputation. Users could give good/bad reputation points to other users to show appreciation for/mock them.

It was pretty damn heavily abused, even after it was banned and brought back a second time, so it was gotten rid of permanently. The FAQ has presumably not been looked at by any of the mods/admin since the thumbs up button was introduced so it hasn't been updated.

 

Huh . . . I'm on another site that has that, but only has a positive rep button after a similar issue. That's worked out pretty well. Amazing how childish adults can be at times, isn't it?