People Explain Which Things They'd Like To Add To The Harry Potter Lore
One of the best things about art — any art — is that it sparks our own imaginations and lets us take something that exists and change or add to it. Songs can be set to new music, paintings can have new backdrops, and sculptures can have new meanings.
One of the biggest forms of art that can be changed or added to is literature. Characters can be given new motivation, the conflicts can be rewritten, and the world can gain more backstory. This doesn't mean we don't love or appreciate the way a book was written; it just means we love it enough to explore a different path.
The Harry Potter series is a great example of this. Many fans of the series have created their own stories, theories, and art depicting their own versions of the characters, the plot, and the history.
These fans have also added some amazing and hilarious things to the Harry Potter world and lore that are just waiting to be discovered.
Ready to make the discovery, Redditor lordpond asked:
"You gain control of JK Rowling's twitter account for a day. What unnecessary piece of information do you add to Harry Potter lore?"
Now That's Dedication!
"Buckbeak is an animagus who is fully intelligent and capable of turning back into a human at any time, but doesnt because its his fetish."
– varkarrus
"I love this because he was so committed he let himself be executed in the original timeline."
– Pancakemuncher
Duplication
"‘The goblins at Gringotts don’t have children. They just randomly split one day during a mitosis-like process and then go about their days. Their suits are part of this process’ ~ my amazing SO"
– leafnood
"I mean goblins are really weird so I'm not surprised"
– pls_kangarooe
Delusional
"Hermione was actually a collective delusion shared by Harry and Ron"
– Deleted User
"And Krum went with it because he's hugely unstable."
– Deleted User
"Or, Hermione and Ron are Harry’s alters and Hogwarts is actually an asylum."
– fantasticmiss
Twin Theories
"Fred came back as a ghost"
– themilkiestofmen
"Fred and George Weasley switched places during the Battle of Hogwarts. When George died, Fred adopted George's life - complete with cutting off his ear - because he figured George wouldn't want him to spoil the joke."
– TheQueq
"Makes sense as to why George ended up marrying Angelina Johnson when it was Fred who dated her at Hogwarts."
– Wand_Cloak_Stone
Vampires And Werewolves And Hybrids, Oh My!
"“Twilight is absolutely in the same universe.”"
– z0mb0rg
"How does that explain Cedric Diggory?"
– KhunDavid
"Clearly after Cedric dies he becomes a vampire."
– jmja
No Materials Left
"The composition of the wand means nothing. A wizard could use a plastic drinking straw and it would work just fine, as long as they expect it to work."
– ConsciousScolopendra
"What happens when plastic straws are banned?"
– KhunDavid
Those Collections
"Snape was a stamp collector, this is the real reason James Potter bullied him."
– Quacks_dashing
"It was really him and not the Weasleys who wrote and mailed the letter inviting him to the Quiddich World Cup. All those stamps on the envelope were his way getting back at James."
– KhunDavid
"I dunno I pegged him more as a model train kind of guy."
–Deleted User
"Dumbledore Asked Calmly"
"Harry put his name in the Goblet of Fire"
– thechelle218
"And the portion of Voldemort's soul in him allowed him to do so because it was old enough."
– CzarEggbert
"How do you know? Did you ask him calmly?"
– directtodvd
Changed Identity
"Ron grew up to become Ed Sheeran"
– OobleCaboodle
"The Lego House music video is actually Harry Potter canon."
– HMCetc
When A World Comes Crashing Down
"The whole Harry Potter Universe is just a book"
– Y-E-S--P-A-P-A
Heartbreaking
"At he end of the last book, he wakes up under the stairs"
– Z3roskill
Wizards In The Attic
"The fidelius charm and the undetectable expansion charm can be used in conjunction to allow whole wizarding communities to be living in your home at this very moment."
– PerspicaciousMarple
Time To Move
"Harry potter's first word was expecto patronum"
"He destroyed the house"
– DoublePieGaming
Too Late For This One
"That Dumbledore is gay.... wait"
– LinkTheZombie
Everyone Wants Magic
"Muggles are pretending not to know about wizards the governments trying to spy on them to figure out how to replicate their powers:"
– Banthonyv
But Occulus Reparo!
"Harry didn’t have seeing problems"
– popityscoop
This Needs To Be True!
"Sirius Black came back to life a month later after he died by just walking back through the door, and has watched over Harry and his family ever since+after coming back he was immortal."
– Deleted User
Those Phones Are So Confusing
"Muggle orphanages know about magic and when an orphan shows magical prowess they phone the ministry of magic for pickup and leave the baby outside."
"The ministry hasn't figured out how voicemail works and never come to pick up the children."
– casualblair
I'd Believe It
"Rita Skeeter wrote the Cursed Child"
– issiautng
Not A Real Ginger
"Ron is adopted and dyes his hair."
"edit: Thanks for the gold, kind stranger."
– Deleted User
"Molly sneaks into his room at night to maintain the spell that keeps him ginger"
– niko4ever
Family Is Forever
"Dudley Dursley has a muggle born daughter, she gets her Hogwarts letter and Dudley reconnects with Harry so he can learn about magic and be the opposite of his parents."
– veloca_rapper
Aww, that last one is so heartwarming. I hope that can come to fruition one day!
What would you add to this list? Let us know in the comments.
People Break Down The Biggest Changes You'd See In 'Harry Potter' If It Were Set In The U.S.
Can you see Harry Potter at a football game in the Midwest? Chowing on a corn dog, throwing back some good ole Pepsi-Cola? Or can you picture the Harry universe living and loving in the great U. S of A? What would casting look like against the backdrop of the great harvest plains? I have so many thoughts and ideas. The first thought, the change would never work. Keep the story alive on British soil.
But, for fun, let's chat about the idea.
Redditoru/Cuishwanted all the Potter heads out there to share what American tweeks would occur in the Potterverse within America, by asking:
If Harry Potter was set in the United States, how would the story change?
I just can't see anyone else saying those words other than the people who did. And it's not that America can't do great fantasy, look at Buffy. Which also benefitted from the Brits. Coincidence?
In NJ
"Harry would probably live in New Jersey. Ron would probably live in Kentucky or Tennessee, and Hermione would probably be from California. They would go to ileverany (I spelled it wrong it's the North American wizard in school), which is in Massachusetts. There would be a train but only for people in Boston-New York-Philly-DC corridor. Everyone else would use flying cars. Outside of that it is a typical American boarding school."
- Yevin523
Travel
"Airport terminal 9 and 3 quarters."
"The kids run through a magic wall and still have to go through wizard TSA."
"Ron Weasley has to use the greyhound because he's poor but everyone else just flies."
Instead of...
"Eagles instead of Owls. Sasquatch instead of Centaurs."
"We have owls though? Eagles would be more of a flex but like, owls would still work better as they fly night and day. OK. Eagles would be an option. The useless 1 miles per gallon of gas muscle car of the owl world. Americans are super obnoxious. We suck. I get it. Sorry. Lmao."
"Too conventional. Leave it to the Wizarding World to adopt the mythical Ben Franklin's turkey idea instead. Idk how the heck that'd work as a delivery service, mind you, but still."
Relics
Happy Harry Potter GIFGiphy"The school would be a defunct military base because we don't have any incredibly old buildings, and the uniforms would be military style instead of robes. 'Murica."
Well those sound like some solid choices. Who doesn't love taco Tuesday? And why are sports always the first go to change?
Happy 5th!
Happy Birthday Dancing GIFGiphy"Taco Tuesdays at the Great Hall."
"And a freaking epic (but pointless) Cinco De Mayo party. For non Americans, it's mostly an excuse for Americans to drink on a Mexican holiday. It gets cringey. But hey, on other hand, tacos and margaritas."
Casting
"Nathan Fillion would've been cast as Guilderoy Lockhart."
"Samuel L Jackson as Mad Eye Mooney... "CONSTANT VIGILANCE, MOTHERF***ER! DO YOU KNOW IT?"
Title Cards
"They would change 'philosopher's stone' to 'sorcerer's stone'."
"The editors wanted Rowling to change the name to "Sorcerers Stone" so that the readers would know the book is about magic, and not some philosopher with a theory about a stone and sends a random guy on a mission to find it. Most people that are not American underestimates an American's brain capacity. I'm American. We are not as stupid as you think."
- Snakem69
The Drop Off
"No train ride to Hogwarts. Instead, parents will be dropping them off by car. A huge parking lot just outside Hogwarts, and instead of Diagon Alley, a large Wal-Mart exists surrounded by nothing more than another parking lot."
- cgyguy81
"It's hidden by being inside a Walmart parking lot. But when you reach the edge, almost to the building, muggles get all turned around and suddenly notice the Walmart was at the other side of the parking lot. This can repeat until the muggles either get inside a real Walmart, or go away."
- jak3rich
Commercial Gain
Flying Harry Potter GIFGiphy"This quidditch match is brought to you today on ESPN by Swiffer, the official broom of the Quidditch Cup."
"Quidditch in the old South West Conference was crazy… I remember when Texas A&M offered Eric Dickerson that gold Swiffer and he took it and rode it up to Dallas to sign his letter of intent with SMU."
- BigDrisk
Nothing here really seems necessary. It was fun to dabble in the thoughts though. Keep perfect as is.
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Even when J.K. Rowling isn't making random additions to the canon of the wizarding world––and the moments when she isn't, at least these days, seem few and far between––there are a slew of problematic things about Hogwarts, and today's burning question from Redditor MagicNoodle ("What's the sh*ttiest part about attending Hogwarts?") is an indication that attending the place would probably not all it's cracked up to be.
It's always a fun idea when we look at our favorite worlds of entertainment fantasy and wonder.... what if all of our favorite characters could somehow interact. How cool would that be? Or maybe at the very least the beloved scribes fashioning the stories could take a strike in a different make believe world. One writer I believe anyone would let run amok in any world, reality or fantasy would be literary Queen, Ms. J.K. Rowling. Can you imagine?
Redditor u/bogblocker wanted to discuss a possibility that many Potterheads would need Xanax to discuss by asking.... If Marvel's superheroes were made by J.K. Rowling, what unnecessary characteristic would she had given them?