Table of contents:
- 1. What is "Access Book"
- 2. Muggle-born half-breeds
- 3. Dumbledore's Wish
- 4. Harry's wealth
- 5. Elementary school for wizards
- 6. Children of the werewolves
- 7. Minerva's past
- 8. Predicting the death of Sibyl Trelawney
- 9. Fictional plants with real names
- 10. Albus Severus Potter
Video: 10 secrets of "Harry Potter" that have not been solved even by true connoisseurs of Potter
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The entire series of books and films about Harry Potter is full of secrets. How can you find half-blood muggleborns? How are they born to parents without a drop of magical abilities? Who is accepted into Hogwarts and why? What did Dumbledore see as he stood with Harry in front of the Mirror of Eternity? Where did Harry's huge fortune come from? And these are not all questions, the answers to which do not lie on the surface. In this review, we will reveal some of the secrets.
1. What is "Access Book"
Hogwarts Castle has a myriad of closely guarded secrets and gimmicks, from moving stairs to fake doors to hundreds (possibly thousands) of enchanted portraits. However, the most guarded secret (and the secret that answers many questions about the world of Harry Potter) is the "Book of Access". The book knows when a witch or wizard is born, even among Muggles. When these children show sufficient magical talent (sometimes at birth, sometimes not before the age of seven, and sometimes even later), the Feather of the Admission can write their names into the book, allowing them to enter Hogwarts if they so desire.
2. Muggle-born half-breeds
Anyone who read or watched Harry Potter sooner or later had a question: how do Muggleborns get their magic. Apparently, the answer was hidden right under the nose all the time: in all cases, they come from squibs. When Squibs are born (people born into a family of wizards, but completely devoid of magical abilities), they are sent to live among Muggles if it is found that they have no magic. They marry Muggles and pass on their genes. After a few generations, the magic gene “floats to the surface” and the Muggle parents have a wizard child. Many in the wizarding community speculate that Muggleborns appear by chance. However, a magical gene can simply hide for generations before unexpectedly revealing itself. Some of the most famous Muggleborns are Crybaby Myrtle, Lily Evans (Harry's mother) and Hermione Granger.
3. Dumbledore's Wish
Harry was not the only one who was often drawn to The Mirror of Easel (which, by the way, means “desire” written backwards). Albus Dumbledore spent many nights looking in the mirror and not always dealing with the Philosopher's Stone. However, when Harry asked Dumbledore what he saw in the mirror, Dumbledore lied, claiming that he saw himself in a pair of thick woolen socks. So what he actually saw. According to J. K. Rowling, he just saw his family alive and well. A sad but understandable desire, given the untimely passing of his parents and sister.
4. Harry's wealth
Harry is incredibly rich. His vault at Gringotts is littered with mountains of gold and silver as high as an 11-year-old boy. But where did all this come from. It turns out that Harry is so rich because his family has created several well-known healing and cosmetic potions, namely Peppermint Potion, Bonfire and the Potion Glitter, which have brought unheard of profits. In fact, Flimont Potter, the inventor and first distributor of Prostblaze, quadrupled the family fortune. According to the books, Bonfire regenerates bones, Peppercorn Potion heals colds or flu, and Glitter turns even Hermione's fluffy, rebellious hair soft and silky.
5. Elementary school for wizards
So, what do wizard children do before Hogwarts. Maybe they just sit and wait to go there to study magic. Or maybe they are allowed to do whatever they want. No! In fact, they spend most of their childhood receiving basic education from their parents and siblings. J. Rowling says that the children of wizards are quite well versed in three main subjects (reading, writing and arithmetic) even before entering Hogwarts.
6. Children of the werewolves
The werewolf, loved by many, Remus Lupine was completely unprepared to be a father and had good reasons for that. Werewolves like him almost never gave birth to children, and there was no information on how this would affect the child. In the end, Bill Weasley was only scratched and bitten by a werewolf, and this caused a radical change in him. So what happened to Teddy Lupine, the son of Remus. Fortunately, J. K. Rowling says that he did not suffer from the same disease that plagued his father. In fact, Teddy is a metamorphic magician, like his mother Nymphadora.
7. Minerva's past
How many have heard of the secret late husband of Professor Minerva McGonagall, Elfinstone Urhart, as well as her Muggle father. Most people are unaware of these secrets, well hidden in the pages of Rowling's books, and that Minerva has two brothers and that her father was a Reverend. In fact, Minerva fell in love twice, once with a Muggle named Dhugal, and once with a wizard named Elphinstone. Both of her husbands died prematurely.
8. Predicting the death of Sibyl Trelawney
It is already known that Sibyl Trelawney is a real psychic (although she herself does not realize this). She made a prophecy about the "chosen one" that led to the death of Harry's parents and the eventual fall of Voldemort. It is known that Sibyl is a descendant of the legendary seer Cassandra. However, most of the Sibyl's predictions are nothing more than frivolous sayings with a completely unclear prognosis. Because of her deception and machinations, everyone tends to lose sight of the fact that Sibyl made a number of other correct predictions throughout the book series, in particular, The Prophecy of 13. When asked to join the students and faculty at the Christmas table, she refused, stating that "When thirteen people have dinner together, the first person to leave the table will be the first to die." This was confirmed later when Dumbledore, unaware that Peter Pettigrew was sitting at the table, gathered a total of 13 guests, got up first from the table and became the first person to die.
9. Fictional plants with real names
The plant names in the Harry Potter series are funny and magical. Names such as Venomous Tentacula and Gillyweed add to the charm of the Potter universe. At the same time, such plants as wormwood, knotweed and aconite appear, which are quite real. This also applies to other plants with "magic sounds" such as liverwort, gills and snakes.
10. Albus Severus Potter
The most important question that torments everyone after reading the last book is why Harry named his child that name. Why name him after the person who deceived him and the person who mocked him. Why not name him after Hagrid, who took care of Harry, or Remus, or Sirius, etc. Those who left fond memories. J. K. Rowling gave a completely unequivocal answer to this: guilt. Death at the Battle of Hogwarts burdened Harry, and he never got rid of his guilt, which is why he named his son after Snape.
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