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We are creating a masterlist for every Harry Potter roleplayer.

The list is here. 

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War is not heroic. War is not exhilarating. War is full of despair. It’s dark. It’s dreadful. It’s a thing of sorrow and gloom.

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There are a lot of Harry Potter theories that have existed in the series’ fandom, such as Snape being a vampire or Sirius and Remus being secret lovers. Many of these theories have been contradicted by the books themselves, and others seem to have little evidence supporting them in canon.

One such theory, however, bears notice. Draco Malfoy is an annoying antagonist throughout all seven Harry Potter books, but noticeably less so in the sixth and seventh. Presumably, he stops his sophomoric pranks as a consequence of his highly stressful year-long assignment to play a key role in the assassination of Albus Dumbledore.

However, there may be an even more powerful reason for the trajectory of Draco’s character development in these latter books. This is that between the fifth and sixth books, directly after Lucius Malfoy has failed to retrieve the prophecy, Voldemort allows Fenrir Greyback to bite his son, Draco.

We’ve gone back through the 6th and 7th books, and compiled some of the most convincing evidence below:

Draco is not a Death Eater At the beginning of the 6th book when Harry is hiding in Borgin and Burkes, Draco threatens Borgin, and shows him something on his arm. Harry thinks the thing on Draco’s arm is a Dark Mark, but we never see this. Harry always immediately assumes things and they turn out to be false. If Harry wakes up in the middle of the night months later it is usually right, or if he talks about it with Hermione and Hermione gets it, then it’s right. Hermione doesn’t think Draco is a Death Eater, so he probably isn’t. Another reason Draco probably doesn’t have a Dark Mark is that at the end of the sixth book there is a barrier to the Astronomy Tower that you can only pass through if you have a Dark Mark. This barrier goes up immediately after Draco goes up to the tower, and comes down just before he goes down. Additionally, Draco is never treated as a Death Eater (and there is no reason for Voldemort to give Draco a Dark Mark). So what is he? One ongoing arc in the 6th book is that Draco is sickly and stressed out. This is supposedly because of his quest, but Rowling does this misdirection a lot. Fenrir Greyback is introduced as a character who specifically punishes people who’ve messed up by biting their children. Remus Lupin is explicitly mentioned as an example of this. Why set this up if not to use it later? Relatedly, Lucius’s demonstrated punishments do not seem severe enough for his transgressions at the end of the 5th book, by the standards we are supposed to expect from Voldemort by this point in the series. It is also important to keep in mind that Lucius also mishandled Riddle’s Diary, resulting in the destruction of one seventh of Voldemort’s soul. It is likely that Lucius’s additional punishment was unspeakably terrible. Voldemort says, “Maybe you can babysit the cubs,” to Draco when the Death Eaters find out that Remus and Tonks are having a baby. This is a throwaway if he is not a werewolf. For us, the nail in the coffin is that, while showing Borgin the mark on his arm, Draco says that Fenrir Greyback is a close personal friend and he’d hate for him to have a to pay a visit. And if the thing on Draco’s arm in Borgin & Burkes’ was not a Dark Mark (which it’s not), what else could he have possibly shown Borgin to make him so frightened? Finally, Rowling has said in an interview that one scene in the third movie, there was a moment that foreshadowed something she knew was coming that gave her chills. In that movie, Draco impersonates a werewolf and does a wolf howl. This also works for the arc for the flipping of the Malfoy family, who take care of themselves instead of following Voldemort. It makes more sense for them to throw away decades of servitude if one of them has been turned into a half-blood, making them idealogically incompatible with Voldemort’s pure-blood regime. So why hide it? There is precedent for J.K. Rowling revealing only the tip of the iceberg in some of her characterizations. For example, Rowling was originally going to write a whole arc about Dean Thomas’s family, but instead she focused on Neville. Additionally, Dumbledore’s love of Grindelwald is never addressed during any of the books, and was only revealed by J.K. Rowling during a Q&A after all the books had been published. There are likely many other elements of the story that have been left behind the scenes for one reason or another. It may be entirely possible that Draco’s reveal was planned for the seventh book, for example, but got cut for pages. Rowling has new content being released by book, and could be saving this to reveal on Pottermore for the seventh book. One reason this would be really cool:  It makes Draco’s relationship with Snape even more interesting if Draco is relying on him for Wolfsbane potion.

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Masterlist of Potions in Harry Potter

Ageing Potion: A potion that, depending on the amount taken, ages the drinker to various ages.

Alihotsy Draught: A potion from the Alihotsy plant; causes hysteria.

Amortentia: The world's strongest Love Potion; does not create real love, just powerful obsession.

Angel's Trumpet Draught: Effects and usage of this potion are unknown.

Anti-Paralysis Potion: A potion that heals paralysis.

Antidote to Common Poisons: A potion that reverses the effects of common poisons.

Antidote to Uncommon Poisons: A potion that reverses the effects of uncommon poisons.

Antidote to Veritaserum: A potion that removes the effects of Veritaserum.

Babbling Beverage: A potion that causes uncontrollable speaking of nonsense.

Baneberry Potion: This potions effects are unknown; most likely a poison.

Baruffio's Brain Elixir: A potion that apparently increases the taker's brain power.

Beautification Potion: A potion that makes the taker very beautiful.

Befuddlement Draught: A potion that makes the taker confused and reckless.

Beguiling Bubbles: A Love Potion sold at Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes.

Black Fire Potion: A potion that makes the taker able to move through black fire uninjured.

Blemish BlitzerL: A potion that most likely gets rid of acne.

Blood-Replenishing Potion: A potion that replenishes the taker's blood if they have been injured and lost blood.

Bloodroot Potion: A poisonous potion.

Bruise removal paste: A paste invented by Fred and George Weasley to remove bruises.

Bulgeye Potion: Presumed to make the taker's eyes swell.

Bundimun Pomade: A potion that is presumably a hair pomade containing Bundimun secretion.

Bundimun Secretion: A magical substance that, when diluted, is known to be used in some magical cleaning products.

Burn-healing paste: A thick paste used to heal burns.

Burning Bitterroot Balm: Presumably a soothing balsam made from the Bitterroot plant.

Calming DraughtA potion that calms the user of shock, trauma, etc.

Caxambu Style Borborygmus Potion: Provokes stomach growling

Cheese-Based Potions: Potions whose main ingredients are cheese.

Chelidonium Miniscula: The effects of this potion are unknown.

Confusing Concoction: A potion that confuses the taker.

Cough Potion: A potion that soothes and reduces coughs.

Cupid Crystals: A Love Potion sold at Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes.

Cure for Boils: A potion that cures boils.

Death-Cap Draught: Effects of this potion are unknown, but it is possibly a poison.

Deflating Draught: A potion that deflates anything swollen by magical means.

Developing Solution: A potion used in the developing of magical photographs, making them move.

Dizziness Draught: A potion that makes the taker dizzy and lightheaded.

Dogbane Potion: The effects of this potion are unknown, but it is possibly poisonous to dogs.

Dogbreath Potion: Gives the drinker a fiery breath. Has a purple hue

Doxycide: A solution that kills Doxys

Dr. Ubbly's Oblivious Unction: Heals wounds given by thoughts.

Dragon Poison: A poisonous potion most likely taken from dragons.

Dragon Tonic: A tonic used to heal sickly dragons.

Dragon dung fertiliser: A solution that helps Venomous Tentacula grow.

Draught of Living Death: A potion that places the taker in a state of sleep that makes them seem like they are dead.

Draught of Peace: A potion that relieves anxiety.

Dreamless Sleep Potion: A potion that places the taker in a sleep that is dreamless.

Drink of Despair: A potion that puts the taker in extreme pain.

Drowsiness Draught: Makes drinker drowsy

Elixir of Life: A potion created from the Philosopher's Stone that extend the taker's life.

Elixir to Induce Euphoria: A potion that induces a sense of inexplicable, irrational happiness upon the drinker.

Erumpent Potion: A potion that is highly explosive when it touches or is touched by an outside source.

Everklena: A supposed cleaning product that produced more of what it was sprayed on.

Essence of Dittany: A potion that regrows skin over a wound.

Essence of Insanity (Possibly): A potion which presumably causes irrational behaviour, possibly inflicting the condition of insanity.

Everlasting Elixirs: A potion with the effect to either never run out of potion or to work forever.

Exploding Potion: A very volatile potion, and when completed, can be used to create explosions.

Fake Protective Potions: A potion that claimed to protect the taker from Dark magic, but did not.

Fatiguing Infusion: A potion that, when either drank or inhaled, caused fatigue.

Felix Felicis (Also known as Liquid Luck): A magical potion that makes the taker successful in all their endeavors.

Fergus Fungal Budge: A fungicidal product that treated ringworm infections on the feet.

Fire Protection Potion: A potion that protects the taker from being burnt.

Flesh-Eating Slug Repellent: A pesticide that repels flesh-eating slugs.

Forgetfulness Potion: A potion that makes the taker forgetful.

Frog Parts Mixture: A packet of potion ingredients that most likely contained frog parts.

Fungiface Potion: A potion that makes the taker's face break out in fungi.

Girding Potion: A potion that gives the taker extra endurance.

Gregory's Unctuous Unction: A potion that causes the drinker to believe that whomever gave the potion to them is their best friend.

Hair-Raising Potion: A potion that causes the taker's hair to stand on end.

Hate Potion: A potion that shows the taker's worst traits and habits.

Heartbreak Teardrops: A potion sold by Fred and George Weasley at Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes.

Herbicide Potion: A potion that either kills or damages plants. Contains Flobberworm mucus, Horclump juice, and Spines of lionfish.

Hiccoughing Solution: A potion that most likely cures hiccups.

Invigoration Draught: A potion that is presumed to give the taker an energy boost.

Invisibility Potion: A potion that makes the taker invisible.

Jawbind Potion: A potion that induces lockjaw

Kissing Concoction: A potion created by Fred and George Weasley sold at Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes.

Laugh-inducing Potion: A potion that makes the taker laugh uncontrollably.

Laxative Potion: A potion that is most likely a laxative.

Love Potion: Any of a large number of potions that make the taker fall in love with the person that has given it to them.

Love Potion Antidote: Antidote to love potions.

Lung Clearing Potion: A potion whose effects are unknown; most likely cures the taker of lung infections.

Magi-Me-More: Magical pills that allegedly allow the regaining power and concentration that some elderly wizards lose over the years.

Madame Glossy's Silver Polish: A magical cleaning solution.

Malevolent Mixture: A potion that is most likely a poison or produces other bad effects.

Mandrake Restorative Draught: A potion made from Mandrakes that restores a person that has been petrified to their original state.

Manegro Potion: Causes hair on drinker's head to grow out rapidly

Maximum Turbo Farts Potion: presumably causes the drinker to rapidly develop flatulence

Memory Potion: Enhances the drinker's memory

Moonseed Poison: A poison made with moonseed

Mopsus Potion: presumably gives one Seer-like power

possibly the ability to manipulate objects telekinetically.

Mouth Itching Antidote: Cures Mouth Itching (possibly)

Muffling Draught: A potion most likely used to silence people and/or various objects

Mrs. Scower's All-Purpose Magical Mess Remover: Removes stains

Murtlap Essence: Soothes and heals painful cuts and abrasions

Noxious Potion: Releases green clouds of smoke when completed. Exact effects are unknown, but it is possibly used as a poison.

Oculus Potion: Restores the drinker's sight; Counteracts the Conjunctivitis Curse

Pepperup Potion: Relieves and/or cures cold symptoms.

Poison Antidote

Polyjuice Potion: Temporarily transforms the drinker into another person. The drinker will take on the appearance of the person whose hair, fingernails, etc., are added to the potion. Not to be used for transforming into an animal.

Pompion Potion: Temporarily turns the drinker's head into a pumpkin

Quodpot solution: Prevents the Quod from exploding.

Rano Potion

Rat Spleen Mixture

Rat tonic: Healing potion for rats.

Regeneration Potion: Helps restore non-corporeal wizards to their bodies.

Regerminating Potion: Forces the germination of a plant

Replenishing Potion: A potion used to replenish

Restoration Potion: Reverts spell effects.

Revive Potion: Awakens an unconscious person

Rudimentary Body Potion: Helps restore non-corporeal wizards to a rudimentary bodies/sustains rudimentary bodies

Scintillation Solution: Unknown effect

Screaming Snakes Hair Potion: A kind of hair potion, the exact effects of which are unknown

Shrinking Solution: Causes the drinker to shrink

Skele-Gro: Regrows missing bones

Sleekeazy's Hair Potion: Makes hair more manageable

Sleeping Draught: Made the drinker quickly fall into a deep but temporary sleep

Snuffling Potion: Causes the drinker to sniff (possibly)

Star Grass Salve: Healing potion for soothing injuries

Strength Potion: Gives drinker increased strength; It may be related to the Strengthening Solution.

Strengthening Solution: Presumably increases the strength of the one who drinks it; It may be related to the Strength Potion.

Swelling Solution: Causes enlargement on contact

Ten-Second Pimple Vanisher: Treats acne

Thick golden potion: Healing, curse quarantining.

Truth Serum: Makes the drinker tell the truth

Twilight Moonbeams: Causes the drinker to become infatuated with the giver of the potion

Venomous Tentacula Juice: Acts like a (non-fatal) poison

Veritaserum: Forces the taker to tell the truth.

Vitamix Potion: Gives energy to the drinker

Volubilis Potion: Alters the drinker's voice

Weakness Potion: Weakens the drinker

Weedosoros: Poison

Wideye Potion: Prevents the drinker from falling asleep. Also awakens from drugging or concussion.

Wiggenweld Potion: Cures minor damage; Awakens a person from magically-induced sleep (and hence can cure Draught of Living Death).

Wit-Sharpening Potion: Presumably enhances the clarity of thought of the drinker

Wolfsbane Potion: Eases the symptoms of lycanthropy; prevents werewolves from losing their minds post-transformation.

Wound-Cleaning Potion: Antiseptic

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“Technically not wandwork–”

He decides not to go on, that devious, boyish smirk seemingly plastered on his features. As much as Tom seems to love amusing himself with riling Harry up, he knows his limits of when to stop being a coy bastard. Harry has a fiery temper, one that can get the two of them in trouble if he isn’t careful. He’s appropriately fiery now–there’s no need to get him in rage territory. 

Standing at his full height, Tom looks down at the other boy, speaking in a quiet whisper that is none-too gentle–mindful of making a scene, as much as he marvels in attention. He’d rather his inner circle not hear about this. 

“Don’t flatter yourself so much, Black. I was dragged there, by friends. I simply wanted to ensure our house’s victory in the few seconds I spared my attention to the game. As for shadowing you around, I’m simply trying to fulfill my duties as your Prefect and help you become accustomed to Hogwarts. You’re simply paranoid.”

It’s all hogwash and he knows it, but it sounds very convincing–like everything else he says does. He marvels in that for a moment, how well he can play people. It’s a natural talent he’s worked on and honed.

When he hears the distinct hissing–a tone he only hears from his own lips–a sharp-toothed grin replaces the haughty smirk. He’s excited, now, and he responds in kind–making a scene be damned–hissing low and even. 

“Well, now you’re interesting, Black.” 

Parseltongue. Who would’ve known. 

(He’s heard of soulmates and he wants to laugh at the idea, now.)

He doesn’t shrink away from Tom despite the other boy quite obviously towering over him, instead merely straightening his posture further, holding himself as if they were looking at one another eye to eye. Tom’s future crimes be damned; he hasn’t even opened the Chamber of Secrets yet and at sixteen he’s little more than any other bully. Harry refuses to give him any more satisfaction than he had ever given Draco Malfoy (whose spitting image exists in his grandfather Abraxas, now—perhaps the only person Harry’s been more determined to avoid.)

He’s about to retort, snap about how some of Tom’s friends are on the team and wouldn’t shut up about how he’d never come to a game in his life—but then he hears it. The difference in tone he hadn’t recognized in his own speech, the change between actually hearing words and simply understanding by some intuition... He recognizes the low, smooth hiss of Tom’s voice from memory in an instant, recalls the version of him that had stepped out of a diary in the Chamber summoning the basilisk, and Harry pales instantly.

He can imagine Hermione now, smacking the back of his head and saying the same thing as always—��Harry, you’re doing it again.” And Ron—“We don’t speak snake, mate.” It wasn’t like he slipped often, but when he wasn’t thinking—

I just spoke Parseltongue to Voldemort.

Brilliant.

He’d like nothing more than to make some sharp remark about it, but he realizes right before he’s about to open his mouth that he shouldn’t know Tom can speak it too. He should be surprised. Very surprised. If he wants to keep his cover, he has to act accordingly. Damn.

“You can understand me?” he asks, still in Parseltongue, with his best impression of shock, forcing back his anger as best he could. “—I’ve never heard anyone else speak it before.”

I wish.

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straight ppl @ gay pairings: well i mean it’s not explicitly stated that they’re in a relationship and i don’t see why it HAS to be romantic why can’t people just be friends sometimes why is everyone so obsessed with romance :-\

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