A compilation of questions for our Queen

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Sometimes when I'm re-reading or watching the Harry Potter films, I'll wonder something.

Or sometimes, when I'm discussing or debating or reading someone elses ideas, I'll get stuck on particular things and go to look up explanations only to find there isn't any.

yet.

And usually these things will stick with me and I had the idea that I can't possibly be the only one this happens to.

So this blog was born, for me and everyone else who has questions, things that only Jo Rowling could answer about her world and characters. Things we would ask if we could ever meet her face to face and sit down for a discussion.

I figure once we get going I'll look into ways to send some of these to her if possible, I'm sure it is, and meanwhile we can all submit our questions, discuss and theorize and if someone knows the answer from a long lost interview, we can help each other out.

if you're ever going through all the questions, like or reblog the ones you'd want answered as well so if I ever actually do get to send some in somewhere I'll know the most popular ones.

10 months ago on July 15, 2012

How can Hagrid still use his broken wand (the one inside the umbrella) but both Harry and Ron can’t when theirs are almost or actually snapped in two? 

askjorowling:

via prizbokc 

I thought, after i read DH, that Dumbledore had actually used the Elder Wand to repair Hagrids wand like Harry repaired his own.

Until I saw that happen I was just as confused about it but dumbledore would’ve felt okay with it since he knew Hagrid was wrongly expelled.

10 months ago on July 15, 2012

Are there any geographical limitations to apparating? 

via Anon

11 months ago on June 26, 2012

How can Hagrid still use his broken wand (the one inside the umbrella) but both Harry and Ron can’t when theirs are almost or actually snapped in two? 

via prizbokc 

11 months ago on June 25, 2012

What was Tonks’ patronus before it changed into a wolf? 

via scarsmockingjaysandtimelords 

11 months ago on June 25, 2012

Is there a Wizarding America? Did you ever think about it? If so, what is the community like? 

via ohmydramione 

11 months ago on June 25, 2012

HOW WAS HAGRID CONCEIVED???? 

via Anonymous 

11 months ago on June 25, 2012

Religion in the wizarding world? 

I’ve always wondered about religions in the Wizarding world, especially when churches were mentioned in the series. Do wizards go to church? Do they believe in God? Being a Christian myself, I’d like to think that at least a few families were Christians, but I’d like to have an official answer (obviously, or I wouldn’t have come here).

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11 months ago on June 24, 2012

does the wand change its look as the wizard grows in talent? 

askjorowling:

wand lore. does the wand change its look as the wizard grows in talent? because i don’t know what Ollivander was thinking if he gave an 11y.o. Tom a wand that looked like a bone (which was Voldemort’s wand). so does it change design to reflect the wizard’s skill and personality?

via audra-accalia 

actually I think this is just a movie thing. They made the wands stylized and fitting to the characters to make them look cool. Cause the films are all about the visuals. Jo had nothing to do with that. In the book, theyre all just … wands. Sticks. made from different types of woods and with different lengths. In all of her doodles and the artwork she used to put on her website, on pottermore too, the wands aren’t that specific. 

11 months ago on June 24, 2012

How did Fred and George know how to work the Marauder’s Map? 

askjorowling:

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actually this has been answered in an interview before:

MA: How did they figure out how to work the map?

JKR: Don’t you — well. This is how I explained it to myself at the time, and this does sound glib. Don’t you think it would be quite a Fred and Georgeish thing to say in jest, and then see this thing transform?

MA: Yeah.

JKR: Can’t you just see them?

ES: But the exact word combination? Is that just a lot of luck, or Felix Felicis —

JKR: Or, the map helped.

MA: Yep, yeah. You can see them sort of answering and joking with each other —

JKR: And the map flickering into life here and there when they got closer and closer, and finally they hit upon the exact right word combination and it just erupts.

11 months ago on June 24, 2012

does the wand change its look as the wizard grows in talent? 

wand lore. does the wand change its look as the wizard grows in talent? because i don’t know what Ollivander was thinking if he gave an 11y.o. Tom a wand that looked like a bone (which was Voldemort’s wand). so does it change design to reflect the wizard’s skill and personality?

via audra-accalia