The Wizarding World of Harry Potter (a thread for Potterheads)

Thanks. I guess the ones in which he doesn't must've been written before the series ended; I don't usually pay attention to the date of publication.

 

Between fics that started before X books and the fics that say "you know what, fuck that canon point, I'm doing something else" there's a whole variety of things
see: werewolf draco and the delights of it

 

Did he? Wiki says he did in the films but that it was never confirmed in the books.

 

I guess I could be wrong- I never reread HBP or DH and DH came out- holy crap 4 days less than 10 years ago.

 

that.....no. how does time keep moving so fast?

 

I´m pretty sure it was confirmed in the books.

 

I can't really think why he wouldn't, especially after HBP.

 

Well it's what the wiki says and I am nowhere near my hard copies so I can't check myself

 

He definitely did! There was a Whole Big Thing about it, and Harry kept obsessing over it!

 

Ok but I think that we never actually got confirmation that that was the dark mark. He shows something to the shopkeeper while his back is turned to Harry, and Harry believes it to be the dark mark, but we never actually see that it is. Harry being Harry, he obsesses over it. Just because he thinks that, doesn't necessarily make it so.

 

That was what I was going to say, we never actually see the mark on Draco, do we?

 

Do we see it on anyone else his age, or close? I don't think Voldemort would have an age requirement for his followers, maybe more of a competence one... I feel like, if he didn't have it during the 6th year, he would only get it had he actually managed to kill Dumbledore. Sure, Voldy never thought he would, according to Snape, and he was only going to punish Lucius through Draco, but wouldn't that imply Voldy didn't consider Draco capable enough for a Death Eater?

 

Okay, but now I'm imagining Draco with one of those little retail pin badges saying "My name is DRACO and I'm a trainee DEATH EATER, please be patient while I learn :)"

 

Should I be finding this cute? Because I found it so cute I made a loud mouth sound. I probably shouldn't be.

 

sNRK
Hrmmm I could've sworn it was Actually Revealed at some point? HECK I don't know that's a tricky one
Does the wikia have a source?

 

as far as i can remember it was never confirmed, that's the whole source of the "draco is a werewolf "theory - he was showing his wrist to intimidate the shopkeeper at borgin and burkes in book 6, and sure it may have been a dark mark (harry thought so, and remember, we get the series through his eyes and opinions) but there's speculation that it might have been his werewolf bite. i dont think we're ever given an explicit shot of draco having a dark mark, at least in the books

 

Happy Epilogue day!

#nineteenyearslater

 

I can't believe I forgot!

 

Today I went to King’s Cross and spent some time there, mostly thinking and smiling to myself. I took a picture of the platforms, though not of the photo-op prop; I did go into the shop, however. It was much nicer than I was expecting - last time I was there it was just expensive movie prop replicas and a few pieces of overpriced merchandise, none of it tacky but non of it affordable, either. Now it’s expanded, and while there are a few tacky things (and, annoyingly, they sell Ravenclaw materials in movie colours, not book colours; there’s no bronze anywhere), it was all mostly beautiful. I had so many moments of just saying ‘wow…’ softly to myself, and I wandered around so slowly and for so long that my dog got bored. (She did get a lot of attention from the staff, though! They loved her to bits.)

I bought two things: a miniature Platform 9 3/4 mug, about the right size for espresso (or a shot of extra thick hot chocolate, as I had just now), and a lovely enamel pin badge of the front of the Hogwarts Express. I decided not to go for any House stuff, because I can get that anytime; today is different. Normally I wouldn’t have gotten any Platform art, because I have no particular attachment to it as a setting, but today it represents something special: a gentle bookend to my childhood. Nothing sad or melodramatic; in fact, it’s much more natural than anything else in my life that could be seen as marking “the end of childhood”, and I’m very glad to have had this as part of my life.

Pictures to follow.

 

I ended up rewatching A Very Potter Sequel, and watching for the first time A Very Potter Senior Year.