All posts by Wd1hTs
@FatalNexus Grindlewald is the more powerful because ruling through fear and only fear means that your followers’ loyalty to you will always been in question and thus Voldemort never trusted anyone with anything the diary, the ring, and the cup are all prime examples of this. he also gained his followers by feeding into their most basic desires and wants.
Grindlewald on the other hand believed that wizard kind was in need of change and he wanted to be the one to do it. he appealed to others who also wanted things to change and found the Statue of Secrecy to be not only outdated but draconic such as Queenie who wanted to marry Jacob because she loved him but couldn’t because Ramport’s law made it illegal (and there would be no garintee that MACUSA would reckonize a witch-muggle union from overseas as legit) and naturally a young Albus Dumbledore who’s family had effectively been destroyed to keep wizard kind safe. Many wanted reforms to be made to reflect both the changing times and muggles’ view towards magic but those in power wanted to stay in power and thus ignored them.
Potions master. I could make magic potions and sell them to muggles as folk medicine. As potions is probably the sole part of the magical world that muggles readily accept as existing without fear or hostility I could make a lot of money and not violate the statue of secrecy in the process.
I think it has to do with various things over the years starting with the differences in ideology among the founders. One of the Sorting Hat’s speeches speaks of how while the others wanted students who were like them in courage (Godric), intelligence (Rowena), or talent (Helga), and while Salazar had no gripe with those requirements as long as they were cunning or ambitious, he did believe that Hogwarts should teach only students of pure-blood, presumably out of a mistaken belief that they’d be less likely to reveal Hogwarts’s existence to the muggles, which cruelly or ignorantly left young and untrained half-blood and muggle-born wizards & witches and their families completely at the mercy of hostile muggles something which the other founders clearly refused to stand for. Which led to the falling out between Salazar and Godric and they most likely never reconciled before their deaths.
A thousand years pass but this tale remained, constantly bloated with the embellishments added onto it by each generation and the school house becomes notorious for being seen exactly like the Nutzes in the aftermath of the muggles’ 2nd WW (the Wizards and Witches who’d fought on the front lines in said war or were prisoners alongside muggles no doubt made sure to take plenty of pictures and speak of the horrors they’d witnessed or gone through and had them published in every wizard newspaper they could find) which began to change the minds of many in the wizarding world that pro-pure blood beliefs were BS and no witch or wizard with strong morals wanted to condone genocide.
Granted there were/are bad wizards and witches which hail from the other 3 houses and other wizarding schools but these seem to be more of an exception while the majority of Slytherin house willingly embraced Salazar’s increasingly anarchic ideals as if they were a badge of honor and did nothing to deny their belief in them.
Then Tom Riddle’s generation comes along and among that number of first years is a young yet powerful wizard, orphaned since birth unaware of his heritage yet already very skilled at charming others. He desires a place within the wizarding world yet is already a psychopath: the end result of both generations of inbreeding on his maternal side and being conceived via a love potion. He’s angry at both worlds for how his lot in life began but instead of doing what another young yet powerful wizard in a similar situation later on did (let it go and make a new life for himself) wraps himself in grudges his own, his maternal family’s, and those of his ancestor Salazar. He ultimately wins followers among his peers and juniors and earns the praise and respect of his teachers with Dumbledore being the sole exception. As Dumbledore’s the one who personally gave him his acceptance letter to Hogwarts and is very well aware of what Tom’s capable of, more so than anyone else in the school, never fully trusts him and keeps a close eye on his actions. At 16 he finds out, on his own accord, the full truth of his parentage and proceeds to wipe out both sides of his family so that none would know the truth about his origins.
He then eventually reveals to the wizarding world his grand scheme to rid the wizarding community of all muggle-born witches and wizards as well as those who consort with them and initiate a rampage of murder and oppression among innocent muggles to where any Slytherin with a sense of morals are repulsed or join at first but then become disillusioned and try to get out while the House itself quickly became a hot bed for people similar to himself in thought and psychology, gaining such a reputation to where young though more wholesome wizards and witches with cunning or ambition all but practically beg the hat not to sort them into it.
The battle of Hogwarts was for House Slytherin essentially a purge with all the rot that had been allowed to fester within it for so long to finally be removed allowing for the cunning and ambitious (yet not morally corrupt) students Salazar had originally wanted to flourish without the old guard’s corruptive influence.
In the end House Slytherin’s downfall was due to them ultimately becoming their own anti-thesis: being cunning and ambitious means continually observing the world around you and adapting as it changes instead of demanding the opposite. As the world around them (both worlds) changed they became as unyielding as the very stones of Hogwarts even as Hogwarts itself also changed both inside and out (such as the installation of indoor plumbing which was no doubt met with great relief by the entire student body) to where sooner or later something somewhere would have to yield.
What rose from the ashes was a new House Slytherin which is more open minded and welcoming of muggle-borns and half-bloods alike than the old.
@Cabbage Man Fan cause some of us do have lives outside the fandoms, last year was rather busy, a troll caused the admins to lock some posts, plus even JK Rowling didn’t get her first book to flow perfectly on the first draft and had to go back and make additions, adjustments, and alterations later on.
@Cabbage Man Fan it’s actually in no post it’s just merely putting the clues together with remembering what was going on in world history at the time. This is an Alternate earth so their history is our own history with magic added in.
@Helga1234 the problem is that muggles discovered said material and there was nothing Riddle hated more than something to connect him to the muggle world.
@Cabbage Man Fan It’s called common sense and since young muggle-born witches and wizards were more vulnerable to being hunted (as are the ones to lack an adult wizard or witch to protect them) all it would take to destroy Hogwarts is one resentful or jaded Muggleborn to not only rat out the castle’s location to witch hunters but also it’s magical defenses (illusion magic only works if one doesn’t know it’s an illusion same with compulsion magic). And at the time of its founding the church had entire countries under its control so how long before the Pope or a cardinal called for a Holy war?
I think it had to do with the fact that the movements of the stairways is unpredictable (as the stairway hadn’t shown signs of being about to move until they had already begun to ascend it) and if you read the first book sometimes the stairways terminate at dead ends and as a result makes reaching one’s destination more difficult. So by the time they realized their error it was too late for them to turn back without getting caught and even if they hadn’t been caught they might’ve gotten stuck on the 3rd floor cause the stairway might’ve shifted once more.
Potions cause it’d be the one type of magic that the muggle world would accept (since muggles and magic potions have existed together long before other types of magic appeared).
How do you know it’s Anne it might be Mary instead.
Grindelwald was the better wizard cause he actually had good intentions and was doing what he thought was best for the entire magical community by rebelling against the statue of secrecy. He no doubt knew about what happened to the Dumbledore family: the youngest attacked by two muggle boys in her own backyard and left permanently traumatized to where she was unable to function properly in society, the senior Dumbledore imprisoned for inflicting retribution upon those who’d attacked his daughter, and naturally the Wizarding Community’s own indifference to their ordeals and willingness to sweep it all under the rug. I have cery little reason to doubt that there were most likely muggles who also believed that what the International wizarding community was enforcing their own brand of rule while flouting those of Muggles on top of the fact that their loyalty is in doubt. After all they have their own society what’s to stop the wizarding community from turning their wands against the muggle governments and taking total control?
@DarkSnake555 I’m talking about people like Tom Riddle, the Death Eaters, and when I meant by caring about your own survival when the dragon dung hits the fan (especially when you’re still able to actually fight). And I did say pre-Wazarding War 2.
While Salzar had some good points I’m sure the man would be horribly dismayed to see his pro-pureblood stance being taken too literally world and twisted into being used as justification to commit the terrible acts that caused Hogwarts to be founded in the first place. And I have no doubt that he’d be absolutely LIVID to learn that one of HIS descendants (perhaps his only remaining descendant) attempted to violate the very fabric of magic itself. Slytherens may be cunning and put their own well-being before others but that shouldn’t mean throwing away everything that makes them witches and wizards. I know for a fact that he’d be powerfullg disappointed of his pre-WW2 house’s behavior for their total lack of courage by abandoning Hogwarts completely as well as their willingness to sell out their fellow wizards while under-fire. He’d most likely think that his house has completely devolved into a House of Sadistic Psychopaths (with a few notable exceptions).
Besides how would you add anything without making it Peeves proof.
In Harry’s defense Voldermort had just come back from the dead and was gathering allies, Cornelius Fudge had started a brutal smear campaign against him and Dumbledore and searching for anyway to get rid of them both, Fudge had Dolorus Umbridge try and fail to usurp total control over Hogwarts (apparently all 4 Founders had nothing but contempt for people like her as the gargoyle at the entrance to the Headmaster’s office quite literally ignored her when she usurped Dumbledore), and haven’t we all been like that at fifteen years old?
False. the Weasley twins never succeeded in burning the Barrow down while creating their jokes and fireworks in their room with Ron even mentioning that the entire family had heard explosions going off in their room for years before they let their firework stash loose in OotP. Then again the knowledge that they’d be facing the wrath of both their parents if they did probably restrained their enthusiasm.
Neither not without a limitless supply of silver bullets and garlic.
@LunaLovegoodlover8 the thing is though it wizards have been part of the muggle community for so long no doubt they would’ve had some form of magical sewage system since muggles used to have it (Minoan and Roman civilizations both had some form of indoor plumbing) plus with the medical wing allowing an injured, jinxed/cursed, or otherwise incapable of movement student to “let it rip” within their own garments is very unhygienic or during potions class. I can only imagine how many potion masters had to brew antidotes to administer to students cause they slipped on either their own or someone’s waste water and got drenched in a half finished potion or curing mass amounts of food poisoning from consumption of contaminated food. Remember Goyle’s exploding inflation potion from the second book!! I doubt even the founders would’ve wanted that to become a frequent occurrence. Plus while a wizard might just get away with taking a dump anywhere a witch has to be more discreet (kind of hard to do in a place that has a lot of people and not a lot of out of the way places to acquire such discreetness).
The problem is most likely that the material in question hadn’t either been officially discovered or had but its unique properties were still largely unknown at the time.
It’s a strong possibility that it was done before the statue of secrecy as many legendary swords and other such weapons mentioned throughout Muggle mythology such as Excalibur, Durandal/Durendal, and Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi were supposedly blessed with unique yet powerful magical abilities. Most likely any weapon can be magically enchanted so long as the composition or function of the weapon isn’t too complex as to prevent foreseen issues (ex: easier and quicker to enchant a longbow to never miss a target than a handgun) plus Godric Griffindor was apparently well renown in both worlds for his skill with a blade.