wizard
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I’m a sucker for a good prophecy. The trope of the Chosen One may be clichéd; but I’ll never get tired of a melodramatic tale of a fated hero versus an insurmountable evil. But that doesn’t mean all prophecies are created equal. Take the one from Harry Potter, for example. “The one with the power
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I’d pay money to see a skit between these two. An esteemed, powerful, and yet still humanly humble wizard—versus a guy whose solution to everything was “make the orphan do it.” This is just a little idea I had a bit ago on the subject. * * * G: So y’all got an evil wizard?
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I’ve long toyed with the idea of an audacious Harry Potter fic, where I attempt to fix all the plot holes and whip the characters into something resembling a consistent shape. Or, at the least, just re-plot all seven books so they make more sense. I haven’t quite gotten around to that yet; but amid
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Harry Potter features the outright or implied redemptions of several characters—most notably Draco Malfoy, Severus Snape, and Regulus Black. But, even in the cases where the character is supposed to have made a complete switch, their motivations and behaviors still don’t make complete sense with someone who’s begun to understood the evil they’ve committed, and
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I once found myself on the Wizarding World website, scrolling through articles on everything from obscure bits of lore to writers engaging in debates about various “what ifs.” Then I stumbled upon one with an intriguing argument—what would change if Dumbledore had told Harry about the prophecy earlier? Many of us would guess Harry would’ve
