Who is the Shard’s Biggest Potterhead?

[Shard of Reading he/him]

On 1/11/2021 at 10:31 AM, Channelknight Fadran said:

I could start my "Magic System of Harry Potter" rant here... but I think I'll save it. For now.

I request your rant on harry potter magic. Because I actually want to get some idea of how it works. (More than just get wand, say word, boom)

[Enter a username]

Expecto patronum!

[Eluvianii he/him]

27 minutes ago, Enter a username said:

Expecto patronum!

Hmmmm nothing happened. Did you make sure to choose a good memory as you were typing that? 

[Enter a username]

57 minutes ago, Eluvianii said:

Hmmmm nothing happened. Did you make sure to choose a good memory as you were typing that? 

Let me try that again...

EXPECTO PATRONUM!!!

*silvery rattlesnake*

[The Windrunner Supreme he/him]

Did you guys know that there was something called Merlin's house? Merlin also attended hogwarts as a slytherin.

Also, professor McGonagall's first love was a muggle that was murdered by Voldemort, and her second one worked at hogwarts, and was also killed because of dark wizards.  

[Channelknight Fadran]

10 hours ago, The Windrunner Supreme said:

Did you guys know that there was something called Merlin's house? Merlin also attended hogwarts as a slytherin.

Also, professor McGonagall's first love was a muggle that was murdered by Voldemort, and her second one worked at hogwarts, and was also killed because of dark wizards.  

She had a third one, too, but it was a choice between him or her occupation. Her father had chosen love instead of success, so McGonagall made the difficult decision of staying at Hogwarts instead of settling down.

[Condensation she/her]

16 hours ago, Enter a username said:

Let me try that again...

EXPECTO PATRONUM!!!

*silvery rattlesnake*

You have a rattlesnake Patronus? Cool! Mine's a calico cat.

[The Windrunner Supreme he/him]

5 hours ago, Channelknight Fadran said:

She had a third one, too, but it was a choice between him or her occupation. Her father had chosen love instead of success, so McGonagall made the difficult decision of staying at Hogwarts instead of settling down.

Totally did not look that up

[Thaidakar the Ghostblood he/him]

On 1/11/2021 at 9:14 AM, Channelknight Fadran said:

Amazing. A true gentleman lady (gentlelady?). And they call her a Ravenclaw.

Name the most obscure bit of Wizarding World lore you can think of.

time to flex my knowledge, the rescue with the flying ford Angela was based on a real incident that happened with JK Rowling, she was in trouble with her parents when her friend showed up in a Ford Angela and saved her from trouble.

[Enter a username]

Wha- is that a Lethifold?! What's it doing here?!

[2EmLee2]

I dub myself as the Shard's Biggest Potterhead's Apprentice because I have read the series 4.5 times, I have around four homemade wands, I have Ravenclaw pajamas, Ravenclaw playing cards, a Hermione wand that you can actually cast spells, I have a lot of HP lego sets and am saving up for he $400 Hogwarts Castle Lego set, I painted a rock with the colors of the four Hogwarts houses, and the only reason I stopped re-re-re-re-reading the series is because I was introduced to Brandon Sanderson. I really want to learn all those weird tidbits of HP lore and become the Shard's Biggest Potterhead!

(Also, I am making a Harry Potter punch-needle pillow.)

[Enter a username]

Stupefy! Impedimentia! Finite incantatem! Reducto!

EXPECTO PATRONUM!!!

Bye, Living Shroud! I sure hope I never see you or your kind again!

[Channelknight Fadran]

1 hour ago, 2EmLee2 said:

I dub myself as the Shard's Biggest Potterhead's Apprentice because I have read the series 4.5 times, I have around four homemade wands, I have Ravenclaw pajamas, Ravenclaw playing cards, a Hermione wand that you can actually cast spells, I have a lot of HP lego sets and am saving up for he $400 Hogwarts Castle Lego set, I painted a rock with the colors of the four Hogwarts houses, and the only reason I stopped re-re-re-re-reading the series is because I was introduced to Brandon Sanderson. I really want to learn all those weird tidbits of HP lore and become the Shard's Biggest Potterhead!

(Also, I am making a Harry Potter punch-needle pillow.)

I've read it at least seven times, only have one homemade wand at my immediate disposal (my own: Cedar, 12 3/4ths inches, Unicorn Tail Hair, Slightly Springy Flexibility) plus about twenty others that I've made for other people (I made bank off of these things a couple summers ago). My bedroom is styled after Ravenclaw (best house eyyy) with a blue bed and bronze-ish painted walls (the color's actually "baguette" which just makes me happy). I was more of a Star Wars lego guy as a kid, so you beat me there, but I've also collected each of the four gemstones for each house (ruby, sapphire, emerald, and diamond), and the only reason I stopped re-re-re-re-re-re-re-reading the series is because rereading something that many times--no matter how good it is--can never be that great for your mental health.

(Also that sounds amazing I wanna see)

[Bejarden he/him]

Ok Potterheads

Ive got a question for y’all since you seemed to know about these things

 

Spoiler

Did Voldemort really regret killing Snape

If you can add Reasons it would be appreciated 

(I’ve read the series 6 times since people seem to be comparing these)

[Channelknight Fadran]

He regretted it for roughly seven seconds then moved on. Voldemort's like that.

[Bejarden he/him]

Another question (I may be asking all the questions I’ve ever had on HP)

Spoiler

How on Roshar could Voldemort think the Elder Wand passes through death?

Grindewald and Gregorvitch were still alive and he killed them (I think, I may be conflating book and movies)

 

[Channelknight Fadran]

Well Voldemort probably didn't know much about how Grindewald got the wand, but probably assumed based on his lengendary duel with Dumbledore that... y'know... a quick expelliarmus wouldn't cut it? Plus killing is something that Voldy's quite good at, so it was the natural solution to his problem.

[2EmLee2]

2 hours ago, Channelknight Fadran said:

(Also that sounds amazing I wanna see)

(I'm at one of the very first stages of making it so the only thing Harry-Pottery is the penciled-on design... I'll post a picture when I actually get around to finishing it.)

Also I forgot to mention I go around in Roblox dressed as Harry Potter characters screaming random spells. I mostly do this in a game called Adopt Me where I can have a flaming marshmallow on a stick and say, "INCENDIO!"

Also-also, what do you all think would happen if a witch/wizard put a marshmallow on their wand and cast the Incendio spell?

[Experience he/him]

I believe my 12 year old self was for sure the biggest potterhead.

[Eluvianii he/him]

To be honest killing the previous owner does sound more logical. Expelliarmus is a basic spell. How do teachers don't teach that students are basically exchanging wands every time they practice? Actually, does willingly giving the wand back restore its status? As in, I took your wand, picked it up, and handed it back to you because we're only practicing. Is that how it works? 

Edited June 4, 2021 by Eluvianii

[Bejarden he/him]

7 hours ago, Channelknight Fadran said:

Well Voldemort probably didn't know much about how Grindewald got the wand, but probably assumed based on his lengendary duel with Dumbledore that... y'know... a quick expelliarmus wouldn't cut it? Plus killing is something that Voldy's quite good at, so it was the natural solution to his problem.

But... 

it seemed common Knowledge that Dubledore didn’t kill Grindiwald, someone wrote a book on it and Harry knew where he was locked up (I think)

And Grindiwald didn’t even disarm Gregorvitch, he stole the wand in the night

Vildemort not an idiot 

[Channelknight Fadran]

13 hours ago, Eluvianii said:

To be honest killing the previous owner does sound more logical. Expelliarmus is a basic spell. How do teachers don't teach that students are basically exchanging wands every time they practice? Actually, does willingly giving the wand back restore its status? As in, I took your wand, picked it up, and handed it back to you because we're only practicing. Is that how it works? 

5 hours ago, Bejardin1250 said:

But... 

it seemed common Knowledge that Dubledore didn’t kill Grindiwald, someone wrote a book on it and Harry knew where he was locked up (I think)

And Grindiwald didn’t even disarm Gregorvitch, he stole the wand in the night

Vildemort not an idiot 

First of all, Grindelwad cast a stunning spell on Gregorvitch. Just so you know.

Second of all, the defeat/owner rule doesn't apply to all wands the same way. Have you ever wanted to know what "slightly springy flexibility" meant? It doesn't mean you can use your wand as a slinky. What a wand's flexibility means is how temperamental it is in terms of changing ownership. Everyone knows that 'the wand chooses the wizard' (it actually really bothers me when people quote this because they always do it in a 'dId YoU KNoW' kind of voice, as if I hadn't spent hours studying wandlore and literally nothing else HP related), which applies past the basic wand-giving 'ceremony' at Ollivanders. Once a wand is in a wizard's ownership, it belongs to that wizard. Depending on its flexibility, its tendency to switch with someone else changes. For example, the 'stiff' flexibility means that a wand will basically never change ownership, while the 'very springy' flexibility means that it's got the temperament of the Elder Wand.

Also, it isn't necessarily canon that the only way for a wand to change ownership is through combat. I find it likely that combat ownership changes are just the only things we see in Harry Potter because those books have an awful lot of magical combat. I mean, we see people use other people's wands to an extent if the original wizard gives it to them (Neville uses his father's wand, Draco uses his mother's), though that's canonically not a foolproof system. And to answer your question further, Elu, I doubt most of the teachers even knew enough about wandlore to know that winning in combat could potentially end a wizard's ownership of their wand.

TL;DR, wandlore is complicated. In my own opinion I imagine returning someone's wand willingly would certainly do the trick... but then again, wands are finicky. So who really knows for sure?

[Thaidakar the Ghostblood he/him]

dumbldore aint dead, he is a cognitive shadow. and Snape has a horcrux. also, Fenrir Greyback is really a ghostblood.

Edited June 7, 2021 by Thaidakar the Ghostblood