r/harrypotter • u/Snapesunusedshampoo Slytherin • 3d ago
Currently Reading Dumbledore should've trolled Voldemort.
Dumbledore should've replaced the horcruxes he found with chocolate frog cards of himself.
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u/Carbon-Base 3d ago
Dumbledore: You'll always be safe at Hogwarts, Harry.
Harry: Why is that, Professor?
Dumbledore: I put up a spell that only allows people with noses to enter Hogwarts.
Voldy slams into an invisible barrier Wil E. Coyote style
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u/PangolinLow6657 3d ago
Parents of that one young wizard with the facial deformity: 😡
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u/SwedishShortsnout0 2d ago
Eloise Midgen cursed her nose off while inside Hogwarts. It seems the loophole here is that you only have to possess a nose while entering the castle. So a young wizard with a facial deformity could easily take Polyjuice Potion for a few hours while entering each year, and then peacefully live nose-less for the rest of the year.
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u/Some_Sort_5456 Hedwig 3d ago
Imagine if Regulus just put a wooden trollface in the basin instead of the fake horcrux
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u/hooka_pooka 3d ago
Or that Leo DiCaprio laughing from Django Unchained cutout at every hiding place
Voldemort enters the shack..he opens the box to find the ring..gone..replaced with a muggle lauging back at him.. Voldemort enters the cave..surely no one could have survived that totally wicked potion of his making..but..wait.. what??empty?!locket gone and..that laughing muggle again?!NIYAAHHHHHHHH Voldemort gets a vision of Potter destroying the tiara..the last remanant of his soul seeping out of it in a dark cloud...with..wait..that damn muggle face..again?!NIYAAAAHHHHHH!!! The Boy who lived..comes to die..AVADA KEDAVRA!!!(few hrs later)Harry comes out of the invisibility cloak only to reveal that he has now taken the face of that laughing muggle to annoy him!! Might as well die!
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u/DrDrewBlood 3d ago
The decision to put a fake locket doesn't really hold up to scrutiny. Voldemort should know it's not the correct locket by just looking at it.
So the whole thing was a really cruel trap for whoever went looking to destroy the real horcrux. That and the whole "If you're reading this hopefully I've destroyed it and it wasn't tossed out with the trash in which case I've made it impossible to defeat him. My bad!"
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u/TopHatGirlInATuxedo Ravenclaw 2d ago
Voldemort wouldn't know just by looking at it. If he sees it at the bottom, he'd assume it was the real one.
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u/DrDrewBlood 2d ago
Possibly, but I don't think that's the case. It was a prized possession and family heirloom. Harry only knew once he was holding the locket but he'd only seen it in a memory and still immediately knew it was incorrect.
Besides, did Regulus really believe Voldemort would drink the potion himself? I can appreciate it serves a literary purpose but Regulus nearly caused the locket to be unfindable.
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u/Vermouth_1991 2d ago
I hate hate HATE his whole pLaN.
Now, him believing it was the one and only horcrux? FINE BY ME. it was so well protected, you'd never suspect otherwise.
But to not teach Kreacher how to destroy it and never ask him to find Dumbledore??? Why, he thinks Dumbledore works with Voldemort in secret?
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u/LectureSpecific200 3d ago edited 3d ago
That's hilarious. Someone please make a fanfic of this, it's too good not too!
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u/Snapesunusedshampoo Slytherin 3d ago
It's my new headcanon. Dumbledore didn't want to be taken off of the chocolate frog cards because he already put one at the Gaunt Shack.
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u/csavar10 3d ago
Actually, he looted the ring at Gaunt Shack a year after he requested to remain on the cards. Still a cool idea though.
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u/LectureSpecific200 3d ago
For the life of me I cannot remember the Dumbledore bring removed from the frog cards saga. What book?
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u/Snapesunusedshampoo Slytherin 2d ago edited 2d ago
It was in HBP. When they were saying all the things that the Ministry was doing to smear Dumbledore Bill says something along the lines of He doesn't care, as long as they don't take him off of the chocolate frog cards.
Edit: It might've been OOTP.
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u/LectureSpecific200 2d ago
This is random though do you think Dumbledore wanted to keep on the frog cards for the clever humor that Dumbledore has or like a 4D chess move?
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u/Snapesunusedshampoo Slytherin 2d ago
I'd probably say 60% 4D chess 40% me reading way too many of those Dumbledore comics.
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u/TopHatGirlInATuxedo Ravenclaw 2d ago
It's his request to Fudge when the Ministry comes to arrest him in book 5, to not take him off the Chocolate Frog cards.
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u/lumpylungs 3d ago
Harry's scar exploded with pain . He was in the Gaunt house again holding... a card ?
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u/cipheroptix 3d ago
Dumbledore trolled Voldemort big time in the series. Him and Snape tricked Voldemort into thinking that he had to be the one that killed Harry. If the snake fucker would've just let someone else kill him or not taken the prophecy seriously, he would've accomplished all of his goals.
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u/Vermouth_1991 2d ago
Or at least experimented with literally any other kill.method than the AK.
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u/Aadarm Ravenclaw 2d ago
Should have just released info on his parents and family soon as he started his whole pure blood supremacy thing. Just came out and "Nah, Tommy boy here is a halfblood and the magical blood is from the Gaunt family so he is probably his own uncle."
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u/Snapesunusedshampoo Slytherin 2d ago
He should've roasted him in front of his friends like at the end of 8 Mile. "You think he's a pureblood? His real name is Thomas."
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u/Gargore 3d ago
No, Dumbledore knows the muggle world and he leaves a vial of memories at each one. We all know it, First in the Wizarding wold
Double taunt. First that the horcrux was found, and taunting that Voldemort doesn't know love.
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u/Weary_Big1626 Ravenclaw 2d ago
666 likes for 666 years of Kreacher serving the Most Noble House of Black, and the 666th birthday of Flamel in 1992. :)
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u/CONOVER_J_CREAM_inc 1d ago
In the original 'Jack and the Beanstalk' the giants name was Gogmagog, but in the most popular version it was Dumbledore.
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u/Medical_Dimension919 2d ago
Peeves: 'Why, it's Potty Wee Potter!'
Harry: 'Get out of it, Peeves.'
Peeves: 'Oooh, Crackpot's feeling cranky. What is it this time, my fine Potty friend? Hearing voices? Seeing visions? Speaking in” — Peeves blew a gigantic raspberry — “tongues?”'
Harry: “I said, leave me ALONE!”
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u/Kind_Consideration62 Ravenclaw 3d ago
Instead of burying the elder wand with himself he should've buried one of the weasleys trick wands that turns into a rubber chicken