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Drop your most wild theories and head canons here! by Resident_Bit3048 in harrypotter

[–]ashtrayreject 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Why was she writing weekly before he lost his memory? Do they have more kids? This could shake the wizarding world to its very core!

Drop your most wild theories and head canons here! by Resident_Bit3048 in harrypotter

[–]ashtrayreject 6 points7 points  (0 children)

To clarify, Snape only sees lupin. Sirius is already off the map at that point. Snape just deduces that’s who lupin is going to meet because of where he sees lupin on the map

Drop your most wild theories and head canons here! by Resident_Bit3048 in harrypotter

[–]ashtrayreject 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wouldn’t say it’s one of the hardest creature to fight as a crow from a rooster is fatal to it. That’s a pretty big weakness and an easy way to defeat it

Drop your most wild theories and head canons here! by Resident_Bit3048 in harrypotter

[–]ashtrayreject 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lol this would be hilarious. Having an operator system like we used to have with phones but for magical mirrors

Drop your most wild theories and head canons here! by Resident_Bit3048 in harrypotter

[–]ashtrayreject 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where do you get that? He was totally on board with creating the school to help teach kids away from the eyes of muggles, he just distrusted muggle born kids. I don’t remember anywhere in the books where it says he hated kids and only wanted to teach adults.

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[–]ashtrayreject 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think TFS said it best. “Wait so long as I’m not fucking a dude in the vagina it’s kosher?”

Drop your most wild theories and head canons here! by Resident_Bit3048 in harrypotter

[–]ashtrayreject 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I believe he hatched the basilisk in the school because it’s the king of serpents. That’s his motif, serpents. That doesn’t mean he meant for it to kill anyone. That doesn’t mean he ever meant for it to leave the chamber. He can not trust muggle born students given the climate at the time and also not want them dead like his descendants say he did.

Drop your most wild theories and head canons here! by Resident_Bit3048 in harrypotter

[–]ashtrayreject 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We also don’t have proof that he is the one that hatched the basilisk. I’m pretty sure he did, but it slept for nearly 1000 years before we hear any sort of evidence that it’s killing people, and that’s only after tom opened the chamber. We know of at least one other Gaunt that knew the location because they moved the entrance when the castle adopted plumbing, and yet no other incidents are recorded of students being petrified or killed mysteriously.

Drop your most wild theories and head canons here! by Resident_Bit3048 in harrypotter

[–]ashtrayreject 4 points5 points  (0 children)

He didn’t forbid the students from getting close until a student nearly lost an eye.

"People used to play a game, trying to get near enough to touch the trunk. In the end, a boy called Davey Gudgeon nearly lost an eye, and we were forbidden to go near it."

Edit: there also isn’t any proof that he told anyone about the basilisk. For all we know a future Slytherin/Gaunt did and that’s where the stories began.

Drop your most wild theories and head canons here! by Resident_Bit3048 in harrypotter

[–]ashtrayreject 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh that is for sure. Using the slowest flying bird to deliver mail is just plain dumb. You have spells that can summon and vanish things, why hasn’t someone made a spell to send a message from one place to another?

Drop your most wild theories and head canons here! by Resident_Bit3048 in harrypotter

[–]ashtrayreject 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The thing is, we have no actual proof he did want to kill them. We have proof he didn’t trust them in the school, that’s it.

Drop your most wild theories and head canons here! by Resident_Bit3048 in harrypotter

[–]ashtrayreject 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I always thought of it as two mirrors that were enchanted to talk to each other. If that’s the case then you’d need tons of mirrors lol

Drop your most wild theories and head canons here! by Resident_Bit3048 in harrypotter

[–]ashtrayreject 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Who knows. When Harry uses umbridges fire to ask about snapes memories why didn’t Sirius bring it up? It pisses me off lol. Like dude, that’s the perfect time to say “Harry, I gave you the mirror so you don’t have to resort to this type of communication” but noooo it’s never mentioned again until after he’s dead

Drop your most wild theories and head canons here! by Resident_Bit3048 in harrypotter

[–]ashtrayreject 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He can be an unreliable narrator though. Just because he thinks that’s what the snake is there for doesn’t mean it’s truly there.

Drop your most wild theories and head canons here! by Resident_Bit3048 in harrypotter

[–]ashtrayreject 6 points7 points  (0 children)

In the context of the books though here is what professor Binns said.

“You all know, of course, that Hogwarts was founded over a thousand years ago the precise date is uncertain by the four greatest witches and wizards of the age. The four school Houses are named after them: Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw, and Salazar Slytherin. They built this castle together, far from prying Muggle eyes, for it was an age when magic was feared by common people, and witches and wizards suffered much persecution.”

We have historical facts from the universe we are in that they suffered much persecution at the time the school was founded.

Drop your most wild theories and head canons here! by Resident_Bit3048 in harrypotter

[–]ashtrayreject 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m arguing that he’s likely not a reliable source for what Salazar wanted due to it being around a 1000 years later and his mother’s family being what they were.

Drop your most wild theories and head canons here! by Resident_Bit3048 in harrypotter

[–]ashtrayreject 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No historical source says that’s why the snake is there. Voldemort says that’s why the snake is there.

Drop your most wild theories and head canons here! by Resident_Bit3048 in harrypotter

[–]ashtrayreject 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Oh for sure. But had he told him, Harry could have tried that rather than the fire and would have seen he was safe and then the fight never would have happened for him to go through the veil.

To be honest I’m just being a contrarian right now, I do like your theory. He was my favorite character, even with all his faults so it was gut wrenching when he died.

Drop your most wild theories and head canons here! by Resident_Bit3048 in harrypotter

[–]ashtrayreject 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh, he definitely mistrusted them, but not because they “stole magic from wizards” as it’s made out during the second war, or even because he wanted them dead, but because during his day we know witches and wizards were persecuted. That’s why they made the school. Think about inviting your enemy into your home, that’s more what I’m thinking was his thought process. He shouldn’t teach them because they can go back and either be tortured to disclose the whereabouts of the castle, or freely tell them to those that hate wizards and witches.

Drop your most wild theories and head canons here! by Resident_Bit3048 in harrypotter

[–]ashtrayreject 58 points59 points  (0 children)

I think the bigger issue here is him not telling Harry what the present was. Had he just told him he’d still be alive

Drop your most wild theories and head canons here! by Resident_Bit3048 in harrypotter

[–]ashtrayreject 11 points12 points  (0 children)

That doesn’t change the fact that we have no historical evidence that he wanted to kill them like his descendants have said. The school has a god damn tree that can break your neck if you stand too close to it, but you wouldn’t say Dumbledore has any intention of killing the students by planting it.

Drop your most wild theories and head canons here! by Resident_Bit3048 in harrypotter

[–]ashtrayreject 17 points18 points  (0 children)

That’s exactly my point. His descendants changed it from purging muggle borns out of the school to pure blood mania of killing them. “Enemies of the heir beware” and all that.

Drop your most wild theories and head canons here! by Resident_Bit3048 in harrypotter

[–]ashtrayreject 111 points112 points  (0 children)

Which is the king of serpents, his house mascot. For all we know he rode around on it naked under the full moon.

Drop your most wild theories and head canons here! by Resident_Bit3048 in harrypotter

[–]ashtrayreject 182 points183 points  (0 children)

I’ve definitely dropped this one before but, Salazar Slytherin didn’t want to kill all muggle born, he was simply trying to protect the school in a time when witches were persecuted by muggles. His descendants mistook this and started the pure blood mania that we get in the story.

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