Random Craziest Harry Potter Fan Theories That Could Be True (29 items)

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  (#11) Was Hagrid Incapable Of Fathering Children?

  Hagrid is a hybrid, thanks to his half-giant/half-human blood. Most hybrids are sterile. Could this be why he is so attached to the animals, magical beasts, and the children of Hogwarts?

  Is it because Hagrid longs to be a parent?
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  (#17) Muggles Fought The Wizards And The Muggles Won

  Why all the fear and racism from the Muggles? Why do magical beings feel superior and hide from Muggles? Because there was a war in the past and the wizards were defeated. The Ministry of Magic, part of a larger government body, was created perhaps as a compromise, a way for the Muggle world to keep an eye on the magical one, or maybe just to appease the Muggle world. And maybe the “Avada Kedavra” curse is something Muggles remember from the great conflict and they adopted it into their lexicon.

  Reddit user celeritas365 expounds upon this theory here.
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  (#7) Hermione, Harry, And Ron Chose To Be In Gryffindor

  Redditors theorize that Hermione represents Ravenclaw because she is intelligent and can solve problems, Harry best reflects Slytherin because he’s ready to do what it takes to defeat Voldemort, and Ron is probably Hufflepuff because of his loyalty (and, come on, he's a Hufflepuff), but they all chose Gryffindor because they are brave and stronger together.
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  (#18) The American Wizarding School Stole Its House Names From Native Americans

  The movies for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, J.K. Rowling's continuation of the Harry Potter universe, feature an American wizarding school called Ilvermorny. And like Hogwarts before it, the school will supposedly have four houses within it. But unlike Hogwarts, the names of the houses may have been taken from Native American folklore in a kind of half-hearted cultural appropriation.

  According to Hypable, a computer programmer was looking around in the code of the official Harry Potter website when they came across an unpublished quiz. Within it, the names of the four houses were (allegedly) revealed. They were: Horned Serpent, Wampus, Thunderbird, and Pukwudgie.

  Many speculate that they are rooted in Native American tradition. According to io9, "Thunderbird, Horned Serpent, and Pukwudgie are all from various Native American myth, culture, and folklore." Plus, the "Wampus" is often compared to the "Ewah" from Cherokee mythology. Many fans were not happy with the blatant cultural appropriation, especially since the Harry Potter series has been called out for being insensitive to Native American culture in the past. 
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  (#4) Crookshanks Used To Belong To Lily Potter

  This one comes from Yedu Krishnan who says that when Hermione buys the cat at Magical Menagerie, the owner says they’ve had the cat for “quite some time.” Harry often wondered if their cat survived the attack by Voldemort when he was a baby.

  So when Crookshanks recognizes Scabbers/Wormtail and Sirius in their animagus forms, it’s a strong clue that Crookshanks was Harry’s family cat.
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  (#8) The Dursleys Treated Harry Like Garbage Because He’s A Horcrux

  Why were the Dursleys so evil and malicious to Harry? It could be that they were under the influence of the piece of Voldemort’s soul embedded in Harry as a Horcrux. If Ron could only take five minutes of a Horcrux, and Ginny was nearly done in by Tom Riddle’s diary, imagine how that would affect the Dursleys for an entire decade.

  Maybe they sucked as people from the start, but Harry as the Horcrux made them so much worse. The leaving scene in Deathly Hallows: Part 1 does show that at least there’s hope for Dudley.

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