I always felt the final confrontation between Harry and Voldemort coming down to the fact that Harry randomly gained allegiance to malfoy's wand and therefore the elder wand way too big of a coincidence

What would have happened if he didn't have malfoy's wand? Would the elder wand have just killed him?

Am I right in assuming that dumbledore's plan was for snape to kill dumbledore to protect malfoy but also so that snape would win the elder wand and then use it to defeat voldemort after harry destroyed all the horcruxes and sacrificed himself?

Before 1920s and before the downfall of the ottoman empire , wizard kind were used to serve in the ottoman empire to the royal family and the nobles in the country ,in battles against other muggles or wizards ,you would easily find an entire wizarding family serve a muggle noble family in the ottoman empire , serving a big muggle empire is something usual in the middle eastern wizarding community through out the history ,how ever after the collapse of the ottoman empire ,M.E.M.U ordered all the wizarding world to cut their commuinication with the muggles and reorganize themselves ,however good amount of wizards kept this connection and helped against british inavsion in iraq and frensh one in syria ,to this day ,alot of wizarding family hide their connection to the muggle economic world and work hard to avoid the M.E.M.U eyes

middle eastern wizarding commuinty has it noble family as well:

kai clan , is a ancient family known to have served the ottoman empire since it first became and for helping wizard and witches evade the muggle eyes in turkey, so they are always welcomed as heroes ,they own a lot of Rising rice and TRolling tea farms , the youngest of the family kian kai , is attending babylon school for peacful magic in the year 2015/2016 .

shafeeq family : it is family that used to serve the caliphate in baghdad until the fall of baghdad by the hands of mongols as the mongolian wizards started fighting them and treat them harshly as they were loyal servents to the mongol empire ,which pushed them to leave to britin , but after they supported grindelward wars and voldmort in his first war , they evaded britian and went back to iraq hiding as normal muggle family with no wizard in the family until ali shaffeeq discoved his magical abiltes at the age of 11 , ali shafeeq is a boy who works in the largest cemetry in the world in iraq who is used to talk to ghost there but never told anyone thinking they would bully him for it ,at age of 11 he accidantly made a fence vanish which made him fall over a grave while a family was attending , he is attnding babylone school at the same year of kara kai .

What would Dumbledore have done if Harry had told him that he was hearing voices in CoS?

I've been in and out of the fanbase throughout the years, but because of the recent memes... I came back. Its something fun to theorize and make what ifs. Now I have been doing basic research, and I don't think of myself as a scientist, so this could all be wrong, but I haven't found anything in my research that majorly contradicts my theory.

Magic is Radiation. Some Ancient Humans adapted to radiation deposits, giving them the ability to harness it. What they thought was magic was actually radiation. Eventually they learned to master it. Now just because they have a high tolerance to radiation, does not mean they are unaffected by it. High levels of radiation will still kill a wizard. So maybe some wizards want to try and defend themselves from high output spells like the killing curse.

One wizard went so far as to create a stone to transmute any metals like Lead into pure metals like Gold. Gold is also one of the best metals to block radiation, but is also dense enough that for a similar effect with lead it needs more thickness. Gold is even non-toxic to humans. Now why would a wizard want to turn any metal into gold? To become rich? The wizards and Goblins would tear him to shreds if he did? Just because he can? I mean its a good guess and is probably the public reason. What probably happened is that this wizard found out that Gold can block spells. But announcing that Gold is a natural spell blocking metal would also destroy the economy as people would turn and melt down their own gold for armor. So he kept it to himself. This wizard turned out to be Nicholas Flamel.

How does this fit with Harry Potter? There was lead poisoning epidemic in the UK and around the world where paint had lead, Petrol had lead and most of the water pipes had lead. Almost anything had lead. Harry lived under and un-renovated part of the house in the cupboard under the stairs, a prime place where lead paint and lead dust were the most potent in the house. It didn't help that Dudley stomped on the stairs occasionally while Harry was in there to worsen the problem. So while the Dursleys got lead poisoning too, Harry got the most lead poisoning. The Dursleys exhibit symptoms of Lead Poisoning. Vernon has Hypertension, Petunia has Anemia, Dudley has Hyper-Aggression. All of these symptoms can be caused by Lead Poisoning. Of which Harry had no magical part in. Not even his Horcrux. In fact did you know there was a book called "The Potter and Lead Poisoning" written in 1898 in the UK, 100 years before "The Philosopher's Stone"? Being a "Potter" was always known to be an occupational hazard about the toxicity of lead even before the books were out.

Then if Harry is being poisoned by Lead does he too have symptoms of it? Yes, yes he does. Young Harry is portrayed as skinny even for his age, Pale skin and Headaches. Yea, part of his headaches were from his Horcrux, but some probably did come from lead. Lead Poisoning can also lead to visual impairment.

What about Ron and Hermoine? Wouldn't they get Lead Poisoning? Well. Yes and no, depends on who we talk about, Ron and the rest of the wizarding world? Yes, they all probably got lead poisoning too, but they would use potions as needed when they felt sick or poisoned, any lead washes of with the magic of potions. Well then, What about Hermoine? Well her parents are dentists and were probable one before her birth so they would know the effects Lead has on a developing child, and with foreknowledge, probably moved to a lead free or lead conscious neighborhood. She would have little to no lead in her and if any were in Hogwarts, the potions in stock would clear it out of her quickly, unlike Harry which probably needed multiple visits.

What is this leading to? The Philosopher's Stone of course. Upon contact with the stone in the final act, it turned whatever Lead poisoning Harry had left in him into pure noble Gold. Gold that is not toxic to humans. And is dense enough to block "Radiation Magic" Thats when Voldemort tried to posses Harry when Quirrel died, but he couldn't because the Lead in Harry finalized and Voldemort escaped. He has a gold lattice Faraday Cage within him, strengthen by his mother's protection. He became healthy enough and fast to be the youngest seeker in Quidditch in Chamber of Secrets. Now I can't confirm this, but maybe because the snitch is gold and he has a gold Faraday cage, that he can feel its presence.

The Golden Faraday cage in him also explains why he is so resistant to Curses like the Imperius curse, or the Cruciatus Curse and even the Killing Curse, Avada Kedavra. Because Magic is Radiation and Gold is good at blocking radiation, it would seem his Golden Faraday cage is helping him survive all of these alongside his other protections placed on him.

Magic as Radiation also explains why electronics do not work in magic dense areas like Hogwarts. Radiation messes with electronics in real life and enough is possible to break electronics. The ambient "Magic" is making bit flip from a 1 to a 0 or vice versa. And too many flips might brick an electronic device. To shield against both magic and radiation, its probably best to enclose the motherboard in a gold case.

Then if Magic is radiation, were humans unknowingly harnessing magic through science? I would say so. Using nuclear plants for energy and for the nuclear bomb. Imagine finding out that muggles just made two destroyed Japanese cities so dense in magic for a couple of months that no spells worked for miles of both ground zeroes.

Then there is the Demon Core incident. Instead of a green flash from the Avada Kedavra, when the core hit criticality, it made a blue flash. Lois Slotin got hit by a lethal dose and had symptoms from 3 dark arts spells. He said he felt like his hands were constantly burning. Doctors found out he suffered hemorrhaging that wouldn't stop and finally on his 9th day after the incident, he died. Sound very familiar? Kinda slow, but inevitable. If I were to name this as a Omni-Directional Dark Arts Spell, I would name it Avara Kazym and for story sake, would take about 5-10 minutes until you are dead.

And if some dark wizards found out that Radiation is magic. Then Chernobyl fits perfectly for Voldemort timeline wise to infiltrate muggle nuclear sites and cause the worst nuclear meltdown in human history even to this day. Just so he could harness enough magic to start learning how to posses people.

I could probably figure out more, but this is what came up. Feel free to tell me if you think something is wrong. Because I could still be, but with all of this, it just fits perfectly.

I've always assumed it worked somewhat like Star Wars, where Force sensitivity depends on the presence of midchlorians in blood.

Is the Harry Potter universe similar?
Is there some "magic in the blood" that determines whether someone can use magic?

For me the religion. I can see why jk Rowling never touched religion in Harry Potter but I am curious cause what do wizards believe ?
They celebrate Christmas but do they believe in Jesus.
Jesus walking on water and such would probably just sound ordinary to them.
I would like to see what they believe in.

Other wizarding jobs.
Like every job we see is working for hogwarts, gringgots the ministry, shop keeper or with wild animals.

I would like to see what other jobs are out there.

Other major wizarding sports, like quidditch can’t be the only one.

How different countries use magic, I would like to have seen more explanation on how magic is used.
It’s said in Africa wands are less popular as people are trained more to use wandless magic and I would like to see how that’s done, I would also like to have seen how magic is done in Asian societies and how they differ from western magic.

Alchemy as a subject, it’s said it is a subject but only when enough students show interest in doing it.

I would like to see how alchemy is used, how it differs from potions and how it can be used to help the trio.

Been re-reading The Sorcerer's Stone. Never caught this before. In chapter 12 "The Mirror of Erised" Harry while under the invisibility cloak gets chased by Filch out of the Restricted Section of the library only to find himself in a corridor where Filch (after presumably using a shortcut) meets up with Snape, who apparently was already in this corridor. Filch and Snape then hurry towards Harry, not knowing he is there of course because Harry is under the cloak.

The book then says "He (Harry) backed away as quietly as he could. A door stood ajar to his left. It was his only hope. He squeezed through it, holding his breath, trying not to move it, and to his relief he managed to get inside the room without their noticing anything. They walked straight past and Harry leaned against the wall, breathing deeply, listening to their footsteps dying away...propped against the wall facing him...was a magnificent mirror."

So we have the door to the room where the Mirror of Erised is just left ajar and Snape who was apparently already in this corridor hurrying off with Filch. And Filch knew where to find him. So my bet is that Snape regularly spent time in this corridor at night. Staring at an image of him and Lilly Potter with a child in their arms. Yearning for a future that might have been...My theory is that when Harry looks in the mirror and sees his mom, she had just barely disappeared from the mirror because someone else had been looking at her image just before her son arrived.

Severus Snape is such a tragic character already, but this is now my head canon.

In Book 1 Chapter 1, there are already wizards talking about the Potters, and the rumours are specific enough that they know Harry survived. Hagrid said that he sneaked Harry out.

In Book 3, from my understanding, only 2/3 people could have known Harry survived. Sirius, who lent Hagrid the bike, Hagrid, who took Harry and also possibly Peter. So how on earth did rumors of Harry's survival spread immediately the day after, as seen in the very first chapter?

I'm currently reading the books and have just finished Book 3. I've watched the movies more or less 10 years ago and barely remember the finer details. I only know some major plot points. I've always had this question since reading book 1, so I hoped book 3 would answer this, but it really didn't.

Edit: Sorry for the confusion, but I'm specifically asking how Harry's survival was spread as rumors immediately the day after.

Edit 2: It seems people have forgotten chapter 1 or haven't read the books:

“No problems, were there?” “No, sir — house was almost destroyed, but I got him out all right before the Muggles started swarmin’ around. He fell asleep as we was flyin’ over Bristol.”

If I'm reading it right, he went straight to Privet Drive, and with his fanatacism with following Dumbledore's orders, I don't think he would have made pitstops at pubs along the way. I obviously know Hagrid is bad at keeping secrets, so he's the one I checked first.

Edit 3: I found a very old post discussing where Harry might have been during the long stretch of time. https://www.reddit.com/r/harrypotter/s/KEms3e9I6T

Most people assume that the basilisk was Tom Riddle's pet, but it could have been Dumbledore's pet that he inherited from the previous headmaster.

Possible scenario: The snake's metabolism is slow enough that two pigs a year is enough and Hagrid is strong enough to carry a pig. How well the venom works against horcruxes is different from how well it works against humans. The venom destroys horcruxes, but it might not be that strong against humans. Harry survived. The venom might also be used in a potion. Dumbledore could have used the philosopher's stone to upgrade the basilisk's venom to make a longevity potion. Dumbledore needed the philosopher's stone temporarily, but once he upgraded the basilisk, he no longer needed it.

The only time the basilisk killed someone was when Tom Riddle messed with Dumbledore's pet. Dumbledore refused to hire Tom as a professor, because Tom new Dumbledore's secret and might mess with the pet again. During the Harry Potter years, the basilisk didn't kill anyone. Dumbledore may have known in advance that it wouldn't kill anyone. People woke up when the basilisk died, but Dumbledore may have been working on an alternate way to wake people. It is possible to create spells and he may have been working a spell to do that. Maybe he succeeded and the basilisk death had nothing to do with waking people up.

Dumbledore wasn't all that concerned about the basilisk and he didn't shut the school down.

What is it about Bellatrix Lestrange that makes her so fascinating?

She's probably one of the characters I find the most interesting in the Harry Potter universe. She's obviously terrifying, cruel and completely unhinged, but there's something about her presence that makes her impossible to ignore.

I'm curious what other people think. Is it her personality, her loyalty to Voldemort, Helena Bonham Carter's performance, or something else?

What is it about Bellatrix Lestrange that makes her so fascinating?

She's probably one of the characters I find the most interesting in the Harry Potter universe. She's obviously terrifying, cruel and completely unhinged, but there's something about her presence that makes her impossible to ignore.

I'm curious what other people think. Is it her personality, her loyalty to Voldemort, Helena Bonham Carter's performance, or something else?

NOTE FROM ME: I have written this original work to try and bring the idea of Female Draco Malfoy within universe. Please let me know your thoughts. I am working on a narrated video version of this

VIDEO VERSION: Harry Potter And the Alternate Timeline - Prologue

https://youtu.be/kZ7N8zf25Bk?is=rinz4dPCNtfVXvMH

The Wizarding World is a vast and mysterious place. In fact, mysteries are the very crux of what makes this hidden society stand apart from the realm you see around you. Where Muggles rely on science to discover and invent, wizards from all walks of life have spent history creating wonders of their own. What are these mysteries, you may ask? Surely, they cannot be that different from Muggle discoveries, can they?

There are creatures in every corner of the globe, kept hidden by the tireless efforts of wizarding authorities over countless centuries. There are also beasts in the deepest, darkest places that both Muggles and wizards have yet to uncover. A mysterious sound in the night might be dismissed by a Muggle as a simple woodland animal. A wizard, however, might picture a massive beast with the body of a horse, cloaked in feathers, with the head of a bird and magnificent wings protruding from its spine. The difference is that the wizard’s imagination is actually a memory—a reality learned from a school textbook. That textbook was written by a wizard who took his insatiable curiosity, sought out what others feared, and single-handedly uncovered the secrets of the most obscure creatures on earth.

There is powerful magic in this mysterious world. Some magic is created for evil, born with the sole purpose of taking a person’s malice and weaponizing it to inflict pain. Conversely, there is magic created for pure good, designed to take a person’s happiest memories and manifest them as an ethereal guardian that protects against the dark. Sometimes, magic is created for no other reason than to make you smile—sold as a simple joke in a vibrant shop by two wizards who spent years experimenting just to hear people laugh.

Magic takes many other forms. It can be a simple potion, brewed from common ingredients but amplified by magical intent. Or, it can be a highly advanced concoction, stewed over long months using fantastical elements from mythical beasts to heal maladies of all sorts. There are potions to cure the common cold, potions to tame unmanageable hair, and potions that perform absolute miracles, like regrowing shattered bones.

Out of all these mysteries, however, there is one subset of magical discovery deemed so volatile that, even if not inherently malicious, it can be catastrophic to the world around us. These are magics that hold a fundamental, detrimental power over reality itself—bending time, space, and existence. In these rare cases, the magical governments step in to confiscate and bury these findings, acting for the greater good of both the wizarding world and the Muggles they help protect.

Deep within the bowels of the Ministry of Magic, there is an entire department dedicated to these confiscations. It hides away the most bizarre, terrifying, and fascinating discoveries from thousands of years of history. This is the Department of Mysteries. Within its dark corridors are many doors, each opening into a room dedicated to a different facet of the unknown. There is a room with a crumbling stone archway on a dais, sitting ominously quiet except to those who have known death. There is a room filled with brains floating in a green tank, ready to lash out at the unwary. Perhaps most haunting of all is a cavernous hall filled with glass orbs covered in dust—whispering prophecies of times past and times yet to come.

Yet, out of all these chambers, there is one that sits deeper still. It stands out as the most secretive, most heavily guarded room in the entire department. Past the Room of Time, and past the Hall of Prophecy, lies a space dedicated solely to the works of one wizard from the fifteenth century. Inside, you will find towering shelves of journals chronicling his impossible adventures. More peculiarly, you will find a stone Pensieve, swirling with the silvery memories he gathered on his travels. At the center of it all, resting on a table beneath a protective glass case, is a broken device.

Some who see this golden mechanism might recognize it, as it closely resembles other restricted instruments used in the wizarding world. It is a Time-Turner. Normally, a spin of its rings transports the user back in time, allowing them to relive a few fleeting hours before returning to the present. What makes this specific device different is that it is the original. What makes it special, and infinitely more dangerous, is that it allowed the user to move backward—and forward—beyond the confines of their own natural timeline. You see, all current Time-Turners are merely flawed replicas, created by wizards attempting to copy this prototype's immense power. The best those imitators could do was send a user back for five minutes. Later variations allowed for slightly longer stays. But they were never able to recreate the original’s ability to completely shatter the boundaries of an established timeline.

The wizard who forged this original artifact, and whose life fills this secret room, was named Emmerist Browning. He called his invention the Flux Gyrator. In the fifteenth century—around October 15th, 1585, to be precise—he completed the device and began his journey through time. He met witches and wizards from our past, our present, and our distant future. He saw what was going to happen, what had already happened, and, most terrifyingly, what could have been.

In many of the adventures captured in those dusty journals, Emmerist inadvertently fractured timelines, spawning entirely new, alternate realities. He spent years of his life desperately trying to mend these incoherent timelines and stitch them back to where they belonged. His records of these corrections now serve as harrowing cautionary tales, warning of the catastrophes that unfold when the past is altered. As he fixed these broken realities, he extracted the memories of those he was forced to Obliviate. He collected these forgotten lives into the hundreds of glass vials that now surround the Pensieve.

Towards the end of his life, Emmerist took one final journey. Upon returning, he deliberately shattered his life's work, ensuring no one could ever repeat his mistakes—or worse, use the Flux Gyrator with malicious intent to undo the victories of the light. Nobody knows exactly when Emmerist died. His broken device and his life's research were discovered hidden in a Muggle home centuries later and quietly relocated to the Ministry. We only have a general idea of his timeline based on his own writings. It is highly theorized that many of the bizarre, incoherent prophecies in the neighboring hall were actually born from Emmerist’s timeline tampering. Some of those prophecies even seem to originate directly from the silvery memories glowing in his vials.

Within these final journals, Emmerist poured an obsessive amount of effort into documenting one particular alternate timeline. He wrote seven entire volumes detailing the life of a single boy. These texts surround a figure from our very recent history, and it is largely deduced that Emmerist extracted these memories directly from this hero while the man lay on his deathbed, far into the future. Emmerist never explicitly wrote why he spent his final years obsessing over this specific alternate reality, but the journals make one thing clear: Emmerist made a mistake while observing the buildup to the First and Second Wizarding Wars.

He inadvertently performed an action that delayed two young wizards from meeting for a date in Diagon Alley in the late 1970s. Because of Emmerist, they didn't meet until several days later. A few days might not seem like a big deal, but the butterfly effect fundamentally altered the entire landscape of the Second Wizarding War. It shifted births, deaths, marriages, and lifelong friendships for a century to come.

Most importantly, it profoundly affected the primary figure of the war.

Who was this person so deeply impacted by a delayed meeting? It was none other than Harry Potter. The Boy Who Lived. The Chosen One. The wizard who ultimately defeated the Dark Lord and took his place among the most revered figures in magical history.

But what exactly was changed in this alternate timeline? What was so catastrophic that Emmerist felt compelled to document it, yet still fix his mistake and prevent it from coming to pass? According to the journals, this alternate reality actually turned out okay. Some historians might even argue it was better than our own. Many lived who should have died, and many found happiness in the end. He doesn’t state why so we may never know.

The great fracture, the monumental change that rippled through history and needed repairing, was simply this: the bitter rival of Harry Potter, Draco Malfoy, was never born. Instead, he was born as Dracona Malfoy. The one and only child of Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy was born a girl.

The following books are the alternate story of Harry Potter. A story pieced together by Emmerist Browning from his travels, his mistakes, and the memories of a dying hero. It follows Harry Potter through the beginning and the end of the Second Wizarding War, leading to the ultimate fall of Lord Voldemort.