5 Harry Potter fan theories that may be true

[DarthTom]

Huffington is running 5 Harry Potter fan theories that may be true. I have been rewatching all the movies this holiday season with more free time and these are fun to think about.

Huffington

Dumbledore is a time traveling Ron Weasley

This theory is based on physical similarities between the the two characters and small plot points in the books. Presumably the theory implies that an alternate reality exists where Voldemort is not defeated and an old Ron Weasley is forced to travel back in time to assume the character of Albus Dumbledore to guide himself and other students into victory over the dark arts.
Both Dumbledore and Weasley have long fingers, share a left-leg injury, like chocolate frog cards and have naturally red hair. Dumbledore seeing himself holding socks in the Mirror of Erised (which shows people's deepest desires) is tied to Weasley not appreciating his mom's Christmas socks in the books. It's also argued that Dumbledore had to have grown up in the same generation as Weasley due to a comment about eating Bertie Bott Every Flavor Beans in his youth and Bertie Bott not being born in time to even make his product yet.
Mallory Ortberg at The Toast covered this Ronbledore theory extensively throughout 2014. One article listed deniers of the theory with arguments that Dumbledore had siblings, Weasley married Hermione Granger in the books and a younger photo of Dumbledore is seen by Harry Potter and it doesn't look like Weasley. To the deniers Ortberg wrote "You are all wrong" and to the believers, "Keep the faith, keep the watch, and keep a light burning in the night for Ronbledore."

Longbottom should have been the chosen one

As What Culture points out, the central prophecy states that "The Chosen One" will be "born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies" and he will "have power the Dark Lord knows not." Neville Longbottom's parents were tortured for standing up to Voldemort, and Longbottom was born on July 30. The power he has that the Dark Lord doesn't? That could be herbology. How herbology would help Longbottom defeat Voldemort is unclear, but maybe Longbottom just never got a chance with all the Harry Potter hype.

Granger and Potter were actually siblings

Hermione Granger may be the twin (or older) sister of Harry Potter, something she knows throughout the books. She is part of the protection plan of Harry Potter, the supposed "Chosen One," and therefore those Muggle parents of hers are either adoptive or didn't exist in the manner Granger described them. This might explain why she was able to wipe their memories of her whole existence in Deathly Hollows. Right from the start, Granger acts as a caring figure to Potter, while also being a know-it-all, which may play into a sibling rivalry. If they were siblings, it would also help to explain why they didn't end up together.
Much was made of the kiss Weasley imagined between Granger and Potter in the "Deathly Hollows" movie, with fans calling it "awkward," "creepy" and "disturbing," according to MTV. Something simply seems off about the chemistry between those two characters and maybe it's because they both call James and Lily Potter their parents. If true, and the Ronbledore theory is true, that would mean Dumbledore and Potter were brothers-in-law the whole time.

Sirius Black and Remus Lupin were in love

While at Hogwarts, Remus Lupin and Sirius Black were best friends, along with James Potter and Peter Pettigrew. Together they all made the Marauder's Map. Lupin does eventually marry Nymphadora Tonks, but this isn't until after Black died in the Second Wizarding War. In 2010, a fan with the username "amuly" created a super in-depth breakdown of instances in the books (at least the American versions) where it seems as if Lupin and Black love each other.
The evidence ranges from quotes, such as when Sirius Black says, "It used to be us ... me and Remus ... and James." Black couples the two together, pointing out that Black lives with Lupin between the fourth and fifth books and then Lupin lives with him. (Also, their joint gift-giving and other scandalous quotes.) From the Order of the Phoenix: "Ron, Hermione, Fred, and George’s heads turned from Sirius to Mrs. Weasley as though following a tennis rally … Lupin’s eyes were fixed on Sirius ... 'Personally,' said Lupin quietly, looking away from Sirius at last..." And this longer quotation, also from Order of the Phoenix:

Harry Potter is now immortal

According to the prophecy about The Chosen One and the Dark Lord's fates in the book, "either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives." This line is presented as if Harry Potter is the only one who can defeat the Dark Lord and vice versa, but a fan with the username HPWombat speculated that this might also mean that Potter must live forever since Voldemort is dead and therefore couldn't kill him. As HPWombat explains:

 

[Takeru]

Those 5 theories are all stupid and wrong.

 

[DarthTom]

Those 5 theories are all stupid and wrong.

I wouldn't characterize them as, "stupid," but they could be wrong. Since, JK Rowling herself said the Dumbledore is gay - that in itself makes Ron Weasley's time travel hypothesis unlikely.

BBC

She made her revelation to a packed house in New York's Carnegie Hall on Friday, as part of her US book tour.
She took audience questions and was asked if Dumbledore found "true love".
"Dumbledore is gay," she said, adding he was smitten with rival Gellert Grindelwald, who he beat in a battle between good and bad wizards long ago.
The audience gasped, then applauded. "I would have told you earlier if I knew it would make you so happy," she said.
"Falling in love can blind us to an extent," she added, saying Dumbledore was "horribly, terribly let down" and his love for Grindelwald was his "great tragedy".
"Oh, my god," Rowling, 42, concluded with a laugh, "the fan fiction".

 

[Hound of UIster]

Terrible clickbait shit should be consigned back to the chain emails where they came from.

 

[DarthTom]

Terrible clickbait shit should be consigned back to the chain emails where they came from.

OMG, I'm really not getting how hypothesizing about the fictional world of wizards illicits so much angst?

This is fiction. People get that - correct? Having some fun with theorizing about a fictional world should be fun.

 

[Masiral]

Terrible clickbait shit should be consigned back to the chain emails where they came from.

OMG, I'm really not getting how hypothesizing about the fictional world of wizards illicits so much angst?

This is fiction. People get that - correct? Having some fun with theorizing about a fictional world should be fun.

There's theorizing, and then there's saying theories that have been completely disproven by canon "may be true". Dumbledore is Ron - disproven by Dumbledore's backstory in Deathly Hallows. Neville as the Chosen One - explicitly disproven in Half-Blood Prince (the power is love, not Herbology). Hermione as Harry's sister - disproven by Deathly Hallows (not that there was any evidence to support it to begin with). This article is absolute clickbait.

 

[Gaith]

"Dumbledore is Ron from the future" always makes me smile in its singularly bonkers way, but even given the parameters of the world, it's completely ludicrous.

My own HP fan theory is that books/films 3/4 are the high point, and that the storytelling took a crippling and sustained nosedive after that, with the Horcrux Scavenger Hunt, the Camping of Epic Boredom Saga and the Headdesk-inducing Epilogue amounting to a three-Year Age of Fail.

Oh, wait, you meant in-universe fan theori -

 

[Kemaiku]

Those 5 theories are all stupid and wrong.

Agreed.

 

[DigificWriter]

I like the Huffington Post, but those 'theories' are horse-crap and, as has already been noted, have already been completely debunked.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

The Dumbledore being Ron one at least has some evidence backing it up (enough to make it interesting, but still probably wrong). The Longbottom one has been debunked so many times that it's not worth going over again. The others have very little evidence supporting them.

And the Harry and Hermoine were siblings one is completely out of left field. There's no evidence there. If one of the pieces of evidence is "the movie audience felt awkward by a movie scene," you know the theory has problems.

 

[DigificWriter]

The Dumbledore being Ron one at least has some evidence backing it up

No, it doesn't.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

Well, I'm assuming the leg injury thing is something. Both sharing the same taste in chocolate is another (I'm not buying that the cards were necessarily invented recently, but the other two parts are things).

I agree it's still obviously bullshit, but there are at least things to back it up.

 

[Kemaiku]

Well, I'm assuming the leg injury thing is something. Both sharing the same taste in chocolate is another (I'm not buying that the cards were necessarily invented recently, but the other two parts are things).

I agree it's still obviously bullshit, but there are at least things to back it up.

Deathly Hallows put it to rest, hard. Ron is just the annoying ginger git he always was and will be.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

Can you be specific how it put it to rest?

 

[Masiral]

Can you be specific how it put it to rest?

Dumbledore's backstory is revealed - though we actually learned about his brother in Goblet of Fire, so that already debunked the theory. Add in the fact that Ron is nowhere near powerful enough to be Dumbledore, and the theory is just ridiculous.

 

[Kemaiku]

Can you be specific how it put it to rest?

Dumbledore's backstory is revealed - though we actually learned about his brother in Goblet of Fire, so that already debunked the theory. Add in the fact that Ron is nowhere near powerful enough to be Dumbledore, and the theory is just ridiculous.

Yup, Dumbledore's life being talked about when he was Ron's age or slightly older, his brothers total lack of recognition or reaction to Ron, their totally different lives being shown throughout the 7th book, Ron not being gay etc