Admit it- while reading and re-reading and re-re-re reading Harry Potter books and watching the movies, we all must have made up our some theory on some of the incidents- some of them weird, some hilarious and some did hit bulls-eye. Here are some of the fan theories that will make you see the incidents in a new light and perhaps will make you watch and re-re-re-re-read the series all over again.
1.Dementorsaffecting Harry:
A Reddit user points out that since Harry himself is one of eight horcruxes, he has, in fact 1.125 souls, and since Dementors are drawn to a person’s soul, they are particularly keen on Harry’s surplus.
2.Harry’s Sacrifice:
This Imgur user theorized that Professor Trelawney’s prophecy stating “either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives” actually meant the only way either could die was at the hand of the other. So when Harry kills Voldemort, he sacrifices his own death, is destined to a life of immortality and will never be able to see his parents, Sirius, Hedwig or Dumbledore again.
3.St. Mungos’s Warning:
When Harry visits Mr. Weasley at St. Mungo’s, the name of the hospital’s wards are surprisingly telling. If you take the first word from each: Creature-Induced Injuries, Dangerous, Dai Llewellyn Ward, and Serious Bites, you get “Creature Dangerous, Dai Serious” aka “Kreacher Dangerous, Die Sirius.”
4.Dursleys:
A Harry Potter fan blew all our minds when he put all these pieces together: “Horcruxes are horrible, torn-up pieces of evil soul that steadily degrade willpower and basically ruin lives as you’re exposed to them over time.” So after living with Harry (a horcrux, remember) for 10 years, no wonder the Dursleys were such assholes!
5.Trelawney’s Inner Eye:
When Trelawney theorizes during Divination class that Harry was born in “Midwinter,” we all know it was a bogus claim as we know Harry was born on July 31- But later we find out that Voldemort was born on Dec. 31, which means she was sensing the Voldemort’s soul inside Harry using her inner eye- as this Quora user suggests.
6.Neville’s 10 points:
At the end of “Harry Potter and The Sorcerer’s Stone”, Harry, Ron and Hermione are all awarded points for defeating Voldemort, but Neville is awarded the game-changing 10 points by Dumbledore because “It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to your enemies, but just as much to stand up to your friends.” This statement is especially notable because Dumbledore truly understands how difficult it was to confront his own friend, Grindelwald, as explained by a Quora member.
7.Harry’s & Ron’s Predictions:
When Harry and Ron take to their Divination homework with their usual “enthusiasm, (read as bogus predictions)” they are surprisingly accurate in predicting the events of the “Goblet of Fire,” as explained by a Tumblr fan: “First that Harry predicted he will be “in danger of burns”; next that he will “lose a treasured possession,” and Ron says that he’ll drown; then get “stabbed in the back by someone you thought was a friend,” and finally “come off worse in a fight.””
8.Voldemort enabled his own death:
A Quora user discusses how Voldemort himself enabled the destruction of all his horcruxes. Harry and Hermione destroyed Riddle’s diary and the cup with the basilisk fang (Voldemort’sown “pet”), Dumbledore, Ron, and Neville destroyed the ring, locket, and Nagini with the sword of Gryffindor, Crabbe destroys the diadem with fiendfyre (which he learned from the Death Eaters) and Voldemort himself killed Harry.
9.Avada Kedavra:
AReddit user discussed the connection between Muggle/Harry Potter spells, namely Avada Kedavra and Abracadabra. Since a relationship between wizards and Muggles existed before the Statute of Secrecy, the violent killing curse was passed down through folklore and morphed into today’s classic “magic spell” of Abracadabra. This is further bolstered, since “Abracadabra” was once believed to be a healing phrase that could kill bacteria and viruses.
10.The Three Brother’s: JK Rowling approves of this fan theory
11.Crookshanks – Potter Family Cat? :
This Quora user discusses evidence that Crookshanks was actually Lily Potter’s cat. First, Harry reads a letter hand-written by Lily describing the family cat that Harry nearly ran over with his broomstick. We also know that when Hermione went to buy Crookshanks, the owner told her he had been there for “quite some time” and that no one wanted him. The cat also immediately recognizes Wormtail and Sirius in their animagusform, which he would have seen often at the Potter house.
By:Archa Dave
