These 7 Harry Potter Fan Theories Are The Absolute Best We've Ever Heard

According to this interesting theory, the size of the Gryffindor class for Harry, Ron, and Hermione's year, seems to only add up to around a dozen students--in a school with about 1,000 students. How is this possible?

According to Tumblr user marauders4evr, this is because of the Baby Drought Theory. Basically, the years when Harry's generation was conceived (1979 to 1981) were exactly when Lord Voldemort was at his most powerful.

With Death Eater raids happening nightly, people joining the Order of the Phoenix, and a whole other demographic who understandably might not want to have a child during such hard times; it thus seems more than reasonable to believe there would be a "baby drought" at the time, which a decade later, would translate to smaller class sizes at Hogwarts.

Remember how gross Harry and Ron acted when they put on the Horcrux locket? Dark magic has side effects.

After the revelation that Harry Potter was an unintended Horcrux in Deathly Hallows, all of a sudden the Dursley's behavior can be put into context. What would happen if you unknowingly lived with such dark magic for over a decade?

I assume it would make you constantly irritable. As well as instilling at the very least a subconscious resentment and/or hatred of the root cause of such awfulness: Harry. After awhile, you might even try and hide him away to get as far as possible from him, to the point where you can't even sleep on the same level as him so you put him under the stairs on the main floor. Even as Harry grows up and spends less time in Little Whinging the Dursleys get much nicer...and...

This is all making way too much sense...

According to this fan theory, being a Death Eater wasn't the only thing that Draco was hiding in The Half Blood Prince. As the theory goes, Lord Voldemort had Fenrir Greyback turn any Death Eater's child into a werewolf, if the Death Eater had failed the Dark Lord in some way.

Now then, which Death Eater do we know for sure had "failed" Voldemort in some way? Well, certainly Lucius Malfoy. Which means, that Greyback turned Draco, and BAM: Draco Malfoy is a werewolf.

Snape definitely would have been privy to this knowledge. Along with the unbreakable vow, it would make complete sense for the former Potions master to be supplying Wolfsbane potion on the side for Draco. This adds a great facet to Draco's character, as well as another insight into Snape's compassion, which is revealed to us in the Deathly Hallows. If true, amazing story-telling.

Up until Order of the Phoenix, we see Neville Longbottom as the goofy fourth wheel, who never seemed to fit in, and was always bungling up spells, calling himself "almost a squib."

Well, this theory gives a very good reason for that:

Remember how his want is broken after the battle at the Department of Mysteries? Well, that wand belonged to his father, the heroic Auror who along with his wife was cursed to insanity. As a child, Neville chose to use his father's wand; however, we all know that the wand chooses the wizard. We consistently see that when a witch or wizard uses a wand that doesn't truly belong to them, they cannot use it to its full potential. Imagine trying to learn magic with a handicap like that?

Both of Neville's parents were powerful wizards, and it is only until after Neville obtains his own wand does he begin to excel at magic. With a wand that chose him, Neville's magical prowess in the books in on par with Hermione, as he continues Dumbledore's Army in Harry's absence, faces powerful dark wizards, and decapitates Nagini, securing victory for Harry. Sure, it's also maturation and personal growth, but not having a magical handicap certainly helps too.

One of the more outlandish theories on this list. Also called the "Knight2King" theory. It was born out of the famous chess scene the Philosophers (Sorcerer's) Stone, where Ron plays as both the knight and the king; both the symbolic roles of Ron and Dumbledore in the franchise.

This claims that Albus Dumbledore is actually Ron Weasley, all grown up, who traveled back in time posing as Albus Dumbledore in order to help Harry in the war to come. The evidence comes in circumstantial similarities between Ron and Dumbledore. Superficially, they both have red hair and a long nose, and they both have an affinity for sweets.

Aside from that, it would certainly give us a good explanation of the sheer wisdom and prescience that Dumbledore clearly exudes. Sometimes, it just seems rather curious at just how much foresight Dumbledore actually had.

What do you think?

This one's a doozy.

As the theory claims, the prophecy set by Professor Trelawney is being interpreted all wrong. Here's the part of the prophecy we need to look at it again:

"...and either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives..."

So the traditional line of thinking goes something like: Only Harry can take out Voldemort and vice versa. But there's another way to look at it.

What if Harry and Voldemort both could ONLY be killed by one another. This means that the only way Harry could die is by Voldemort's hand, and vice versa; making Harry immune to death, now that the Dark Lord is gone. The brutal irony here is that if Harry is immune to death, there is no conceivable way he will ever be reunited with his family again.

What do you think?

You read that right. According to this theory's claims, Harry was never the chosen one at all. Let's look at the prophecy in full:

"The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches... born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies... and the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have power the Dark Lord knows not... and either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives... the one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as the seventh month dies...."

So if we look at all the characters, other than Harry, there is only one other person that the prophecy could be talking about. One that the books outrightly point out: Neville Longbottom.

Both Harry and Neville had parents who thrice defied the Dark Lord, both born as the seventh month dies, both marked as the Dark Lord's equal, and both have power the Dark Lord knows not: Love. Not only that, but in the story itself, it was Neville who took out Nagini with the Sword of Gryffindor, which is what allowed Harry to finish off Voldemort in the first place, maintained Dumbledore's Army when Harry was horcrux hunting, and was the first person to stand up for the cause when Harry was thought dead.

Starting to make sense, eh? What do you think?