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* I love this theory so much I'm adopting it as my personal interpretation of canon. Thanks!
 
== Voldemort is [[Dungeons and& Dragons|a lich.]] ==
Voldemort has a powerful mastery of magic (opposed by only Dumbledore by the fifth book and only by Harry in the seventh). He has semi-skeletal features (although liches might work differently in this game.) He even has a version of a phylactery: The Horcrux. Given that liches usually only have one phylactery, the fact that Voldy has ''seven of them'' makes him even more imposing.
* Yeah, I noticed a lot of stuff in Harry Potter seems to be renamed stuff from DnD. Inferi? Zombies. God knows what else. Seriously, why didn't Rowling just call them zombies?
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== Harry Potter is an AU [[Naruto]] ==
It might be possible. They live in a world where, apparently, their powers help in their very own technology. Harry is the chosen one and has a special mark that helps him out of troubles. Hermione is the curious girl that always is there to correct Nar-- errNar—err, Harry. She never felt in love for Sasuke, i.e. Draco. Rony might be Neji or Sai, and Ginny is Hinata. Neville is either Chouji or Rock Lee, and Luna might be Ino, or Tenten. Snape is a traumatized Kakashi, and what would confirm the theory that the bigger villain is Orochimaru... Voldemort. Just look at him! Temporarily unable to fight until his loyal assistant/traitor recovers him. It makes one wonder if Minerva is Tsunade... Eww.
* If Minerva is Tsunade, that would mean Dumbledore and Grindelwald were Jiraiya and Orochimaru, which raises some [[Dirty Old Man|interesting]] [[Ho Yay|questions]]. Like what the wizarding version of Icha Icha Paradise was. Karkaroff could easily be the Kazekage, but slightly more of a coward in that {{spoiler|he didn't have to be made into a skinsuit to completely betray the main character's village/school}}.
 
== Grindelwald is [[Hellboy (comics)|Kroenen]] ==
From the art book of [[The Movie]]: Karl Kroenen was blond, intelligent and curious, good at dueling (fencing), a skilled occultist, one of the [[Man Behind the Man|men behind the man]] in the Nazi party, striving to enhance the human race (in a very gruesome way), most active during [[WW 2]], able to grow ridiculously old, and nigh-impossible to kill. From Book 7: Gellert Grindelwald was blond, intelligent and curious, good at dueling, a skilled wizard, perhaps was THE man behind the man (see above), striving to protect the human (muggle) race (in a very totalitarian way), most active around [[WW 2]], able to grow ridiculously old (in prison, granted, but still - he outlived Dumbledore by almost a year!), and very hard to kill (in his prime). That guy you saw in the [[UberwaldÜberwald]] prison tower? Just one of Karl Grindelwald's flesh puppets! He didn't die until a giant cog was dropped on him years later, and even then...!
 
== [[G.I. Joe|Cobra Commander]] is totally Voldemort's alternate dimension counterpart. ==
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== The House Elves are descended from a relic population of [[Overlord|Minions]] ==
Apart from the [https://web.archive.org/web/20131227214307/http://www.pibbit.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/all.jpg physical] [http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/File:Dobby_the_house_elf.jpg similarities] (mostly with regards to the Brown Minions), both species are described as slavish in their devotion to their masters, and with few exceptions, happy to carry out whatever tasks are assigned to them without any regard to their own station. Most of the psychotic energy of the original Minion bloodlines was translated into an even stronger work ethic (with regards to menial labor) and a slight increase in IQ in the various groups of House Elf, at the loss of the Minion's tolerance for abuse. House Elf magic is an offshoot of the Blue Minion's powers.
* At some point in the distant past, the last Overlord fell to a group of wizards. One of the spoils was the Brown Minion hive, as well as a few surviving Blues (the other hives were either destroyed or otherwise lost). The wizards and their descendants, through breeding and magical experimentation, developed the first house elves from this stock. The only major snag in this theory is the Blue's ability to ressurect the dead, something the HP canon states is impossible.
 
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**** The HP wiki says that a shapeshifted boggart is as powerful as the form they take, so a Crystal-thingy boggart would be as powerful as a real crystal thingy.
**** Your forgeting that boggarts can only do things that are magically possible in the Harry Potter universe, which doesn't inculde destroying a planet, or whatever the Crystalline Entity does.
* Now imagine a boggart in a ''[[Doctor Who]]'' fan's house (Weeping Angels, Cybermen, Daleks, that thing from [[Doctor Who/NS/Recap/S4 S30/E10 Midnight|Midnight]] and various other things on the [[Nightmare Fuel]] page)
** Everything that catches the form of an Angel becomes an Angel itself...
** There's [[It Got Worse|worse]]. You know how [[Warhammer 4000040,000|Games]] [[Warhammer Fantasy|Workshop]] is a British company....
== If Tom Riddle had been sorted into Ravenclaw instead of Slytherin, he still would have been evil. Just a different sort ==
Imagine it. He wasn't, likely, as smart as the other Ravenclaws so he'd be looked down on by his peers just as much. He'd still turn to evil, but rather than having a burning need for power, it would be to show off his mind. Rather than taking a name that made himself sound like a pureblood, he'd have gone with something that was about his intelligence. Given his last name, perhaps something like 'The Riddler'. Now, without the Dark Lord acting as a terrorist force, there would've been no war, just more of the same corruption we see in the first few books.
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**** They were best friends at one point. You're supposed to love your best friends, even if not romantically.
***** Yes, but the poster above is implying ''romantic'' love. Lily did care about Snape at one point, she probably even did care a bit after he ruined their friendship, but that doesn't mean that if James was removed from the equation Harry would have greasy hair and a hook-like nose.
* Interesting theory, except there's one problem -- Theproblem—The Riddler isn't a cold-blooded killer. It would've been someone like Greyback or one of the Lestranges who were killing people during attempted muggings, since they had no-one to lead them. Riddle would've eventually been deformed, not by dividing his soul, but by [[The Joker|falling into a giant potions cauldron]].
** Not at all. Riddle would have found A Lazarus Pit in his quest for immortality...
* I love this. Harry sees his parents' murder and is raised by Sirius. After finishing at Hogwarts he spends ten years travelling around the world, learning everything he can about the criminal mind, and honing the skills he'll need when he returns. When he comes back Sirius has moved on, and Lupin acts as the wise mentor, making sure no one suspects Harry Potter is more than just a [[Rich Idiot With No Day Job]]. His old muggle-born friend Hermione Granger acts as [[Mission Control]] (thanks to a number of inventions combining magic and technology together). And, of course, Neville Longbottom serves as Harry's contact at the Ministry of Magic, calling him when he needs with the aid of a mysterious signal. But he needs a disguise. Something... elemental. Something... terrifying...
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According to a cut chapter, Wonka makes a certain line of sweets designed to help children fake being sick to get off school. He favours a fantastical more explodey type of invention over efficiency. He is slightly sadistic to those who really deserve it and will go out of his way to tempt people into their own punishment.
* Brilliant!!!!
* [[Go Mad Fromfrom the Revelation|Oh my god.]]
* He's a tad deaf in one ear.
 
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== [[Doctor Who|The Doctor is a Wizard]]. ==
The sonic screwdriver is his wand, the TARDIS is his broom, the fob watch is a horcruhorcru—OW, OW, quit throwing rocks at me! Okay, I'll lea--*CRACK*
 
OW, OW, quit throwing rocks at me! Okay, I'll lea--*CRACK*
 
== Dumbledore is [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Gendo Ikari]], or an expy thereof. ==
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...And Harry is Alice. {{spoiler|In Through the Looking-Glass, the Red King dreams reality. Now, remember that King’s Cross scene in Deathly Hallows? Well, what if the reason that Dumbledore was there was because it was all part of his dream…except Harry was dreaming him dreaming Harry’s dream. Dumbledore’s death symbolised his waking up, so that means Harry is the one who’s dream it is. Or is it? Anyway, that means that NOTHING that happened in all the books leading up to the Kings Cross scene actually happened. The only real bits are after Harry wakes up. Perhaps Dumbledore is God, testing Harry so he can proceed on to reality.}} This would work, since Lewis Carroll was a very religious person. And I’m religious too, so I just like to work God into things. See? It makes perfect sense!
 
== He that should not be named [[Freakazoid!|needs more rope]]. ==
* Well you can't say either one of ames. They both have magic powers. And if I looked like that, I would wear a sack over my head.
 
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== The hate for Parselmouths stems due the Corinthians' propaganda against [[Greek Mythology|Medea]]/Medea's [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] going out of hands ==
In the ancient versions, Medea didn't kill her children, but devastated Corinth in revenge and ran away in a chariot pulled by giant snakes (how could she command the snakes if she wasn't a Parselmouth?). Also, she was a borderline positive figure, extremely dangerous when sufficiently provoked (and she was willing to let the Thebans chase her out of the town to spare neighbourhood problems to Herakles (to whom she had been a guest after leaving Corinth), so as long as you didn't threathen somebody she loved you were safe) but otherwise friendly and a powerful ally (an healer good enough to raise the deads and a combatant capable to either kill or [[Driven to Suicide|drive to suicide]] an unkillable bronze giant by simply looking it in the eyes). But as the Roman Empire fell and her story was mostly forgotten, only Euripides' Corinthian-paid version remained well known, and that, coupled with the fact that [[All In There Inin Thethe Manual|the Greek Parselmouth Herpo the Foul created the first Horcrux and Basilisk]], ruined the reputation of a power mostly suited for potioneers and healers.
Alternatively, Medea's revenge went out of hands: in myth she caused an earthquake that destroyed Corinth, set the ruins on fire and [[Up to Eleven|struck the survivors with a plague]]. But what if the plague went out of control? After all, werewolves started as a Greek legend, and in the Potterverse they ARE a plague. Between her and Herpo the Foul, Parselmouths got a bad reputation in Greece, a reputation that in time was spread.
In both cases, Parselmouths got an horrible reputation in Western Europe but not in some other parts of the world, particularly Georgia (Medea's homeland) and the rest of the former Russian Empire, where more positive Parselmouths are known and Medea is held in high regards for her works as an healer.
Also, there's the strong possibility there're are many Parselmouths around, but they hide it for fear of persecution.
 
== [[Harry Potter]] is fictional and has nothing to do with other fictional works ==
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== The HP-verse's [[Masquerade]] is the parent-Masquerade to all other Masquerades. ==
Or at least the stupid ones. Ever wonder why [[Blood Plus+|Red Shield]] doesn't just send a sample of Chiropteran DNA to independent scientists, or [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Buffy]] doesn't stake a vampire on live TV? Certainly it would make [[Hellsing]]'s job easier if people knew who they should call in the case of a vampire or werewolf attack, so why do organizations and individuals like these constantly go against their own best interests to uphold the Masquerade? Because they know that if they tried to tell people that magic and monsters are real, they'd get a pack of aurors on their ass erasing their evidence. And whenever you come across a Masquerade where the [[Extra-Strength Masquerade|how]] strains/breaks [[Willing Suspension of Disbelief]], [[A Wizard Did It]]. Literally.
 
== [[The Dark Knight Saga|Jim Gordon]] is Sirius Black with [[Easy Amnesia|Amnesia]]. ==
[[The Actor Rule]]. (Idea shamelessly stolen from [[Ace of Spades (fanfic)|here]]). This is what really happened after Sirius {{spoiler|[[He's Just Hiding|fell through the veil]]}}. He ended up lost and confused in a muggle city with fractured memories of his own life. He remembers the name "James" is important so he becomes "James" or rather Jim Gordon.
 
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