Harry Potter What-Harry Potter What-If’sIf’s

By KellyBy Kelly

The 20 Original QuestionsThe 20 Original Questions

What if…What if… 1. ...Harry Potter died in an accident a few years after Voldemort’s first

downfall but before he got to the Hogwarts Express for his first year?

2. ...Gildaroy Lockhart never had a book signing at Flourish and Blot’s?

3. ...Voldemort had tried to kill Neville Longbottom and his family instead of Harry Potter’s?

4. ...Instead of Harry killing Voldemort he just wiped Voldemort's memory and made him believe he was a muggle named Mike who was a mechanic with two kids and a wife?

5. ...Harry Potter was in Slytherin?

6. ...Harry didn’t have a "saving people thing"?

7. ...Sirius Black never convinced James and Lily Potter to make Peter Pettigrew the Secret-Keeper?

8. ...Gellert Grindlewald never visited his aunt (Bathilda Bagshot) during the summer break?

9. ...Fenrir Greyback never bit Remus Lupin?

10. ...Aunt Petunia was a witch?

What if…What if… 11 ...Rubeus Hagrid never got Aragog?

12 ...Hermione Granger never signed up for every class available in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban?

13 ...Harry Potter didn’t think that Sirius Black was in the Ministry of Magic after Harry Potter had the vision of him there in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix?

14 ...Remus Lupin took the Wolfsbane potion in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban?

15 ...Peter Pettigrew didn’t die at Malfoy Manor?

16 ...Severus Snape and Lily Evans didn’t grow up in the same town?

17 ...Severus Snape was in Gryffindor?

18 ...Sirius Black hadn’t tricked Severus Snape into going into the secret passage by the Whomping Willow, that lead to the Shrieking Shack, during the full moon, when they were teenagers?

• ...Albus Dumbledore, Cornelius Fudge, and Walden Macnair had followed Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, Sirius Black, and Peter Pettigrew into the secret passage by the Whomping Willow that led to the Shrieking Shack?

20 ...James and Lily Potter didn’t die; they just changed their last name to “Westergaard” and moved to Reinbeck, Iowa?

The Top 10 The Top 10 QuestionsQuestions

What if...What if...

1. ...Gildaroy Lockhart never had a book signing at Flourish and Blot’s?

2. ...Sirius Black never convinced James and Lily to make Peter Pettigrew the Secret-Keeper?

3. ...Fenrir Greyback never bit Remus Lupin?

4. ...Rubeus Hagrid never got Aragog?

5. ...Hermione Granger never signed up for every class available in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban?

6. ...Remus Lupin took the Wolfsbane potion in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban?

7. ...Severus Snape and Lily Evans didn’t grow up in the same town?

8. ...Sirius Black hadn’t tricked Severus Snape into going into the secret passage by the Whomping Willow, that lead to the Shrieking Shack, during the full moon, when they were teenagers?

9. ...Albus Dumbledore, Cornelius Fudge, and Walden Macnair had followed Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, Sirius Black, and Peter Pettigrew into the secret passage by the Whomping Willow that led to the Shrieking Shack?

10. ...Severus Snape was in Gryffindor?

The Top 5 The Top 5 QuestionsQuestions

What if...What if...

1. ...Severus Snape and Lily Evans didn’t grow up in the same town?

2. ...Sirius Black hadn’t tricked Severus Snape into going into the secret passage by the Whomping Willow, that lead to the Shrieking Shack, during the full moon, when they were teenagers?

3. ...Gildaroy Lockhart never had a book signing at Flourish and Blot’s?

4. ...Sirius Black never convinced James and Lily to make Peter Pettigrew the Secret-Keeper?

5. ...Rubeus Hagrid never got Aragog?

The #1 The #1 QuestionQuestion

...Severus Snape and Lily Evans didn’t grow up in the same town?

What What if...if...

Things That Would Things That Would ChangeChange1. Lily never would have become friends

with Snape, or tease Petunia with Snape.

2. Snape never would have loved Lily, since she was in Gryffindor and he was in Slytherin (usually Gryffindors and Slytherins hated each other). He also wouldn't have been jealous of James Potter.

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3. Snape never would have betrayed the potters to Voldemort, or asked Lord Voldemort to spare Lily.

4. After Voldemort decided to kill the Potters, Snape wouldn’thave gone to Dumbledore to ask for him to protect the Potters, especially Lily, safe and in return become a spy for the Order of the Phoenix.

5. Snape would have ended up in Azkaban (the wizard prison) instead of being the Potions Master at Hogwarts.

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6. Snape wouldn’t have been able to use a counter-jinx against the jinx that Quirrel used on Harry’s broomstick in his first year at Hogwarts.

7. He wouldn’t have tried to protect Harry from Sirius Black, since he believed the rumor that Sirius wanted to kill Harry. (Snape was also eager to get revenge on his old enemy, though his grudge was not to the point that he would knowingly send an innocent man off to Azkaban. Snape later joined Sirius's side upon discovering his innocence, despite their old rivalry.)

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8. Snape never would have been able to teach Harry Occlumency.

9. Harry wouldn’t have discovered the source behind Snape's hatred for his father, when he went into Snape's Pensieve and saw into Snape's memories of being bullied by James.

10. Snape wouldn’t have been appointed to his desired post of Defense Against the Dark Arts professor.

11. Horace Slughorn wouldn’t have returned as Potions Master, unless the replacement for Snape agreed to become the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. (Someone else would have to have been the Potions Master since Snape would be in Azkaban).

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12. Harry wouldn’t have learned any of the spells in the Half-Blood Prince (Snape)’s Advanced Potion Making textbook, since the textbook wouldn’t be at Hogwarts in the first place.

13. Snape wouldn’t have done the Unbreakable Vow (about keeping Draco safe and helping him with his “mission”) with Narcissa Malfoy. (The Unbreakable Vow is a voluntary agreement made between two witches or wizards. It must be performed with a witness (("Bonder“)) on hand, holding their wand on the agreeing persons' linked hands to bind them with magic as a tongue of flame. The Vow is not literally "unbreakable" as the person taking it is still able to go back on his or her word, but doing so will cause instant death.)

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14. Snape wouldn’t have been able to help Dumbledore after he put on Marvolo Gaunt’s old ring that Voldemort later turned into a Horcrux. (A Horcrux is a dark magical object used to attain immortality. The person who creates one cannot die until the Horcrux (es) are destroyed. It is never mentioned in the Harry Potter books exactly how to do it, but there it involves a spell and killing someone.)

15. Snape couldn’t have killed Dumbledore, so it would have been Draco Malfoy or one of the other Death Eaters in the Astronomy Tower during the battle at Hogwarts in Harry’s 6th Year.

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16. Snape wouldn’t have been able to use the Confundus charm on Mundungus Fletcher to make him tell the Order of the Phoenix that they should use Polyjuice Potion to make it looks like there are seven Harry's all going in different directions, instead of just one of him. Snape also made him present the idea like it was his own and had nothing to do with Snape.

17. Snape couldn’t have Confunded Darius (an Auror) and made him start a rumor that Harry wouldn’t be leaving for the Burrow (Ron’s house) until his birthday.

18. Snape couldn’t have told Voldemort when Harry was actually leaving.

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19. Snape wouldn’t have been able to accidentally curse George Weasley’s ear off when Voldemort and most (if not all) of his Death Eaters attempted to ambush Harry and some members of the Order of the Phoenix trying to get Harry and his friends to Ron’s house for Bill and Fluer’s wedding.

20. Snape wouldn’t have been the Hogwarts Headmaster in Harry Potter in the Deathly Hallows.

21. Snape wouldn’t have been able to cast a Patronus to replace the true Gryffindor Sword with a fake one so it wouldn’t end up in Belatrix Lestrange’s Gringotts vault.

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22. Snape couldn’t have attempted to convince Voldemort to fetch Harry for him.

23. Snape couldn’t have died at the hands of Voldemort in the Shrieking Shack during the Battle at Hogwarts.

24. Harry, Ron and Hermione couldn’t have watched Voldemort kill Snape.

One Last Thing That Would One Last Thing That Would ChangeChange26. Snape couldn’t have given Harry his memories of himself

telling Lily that she was a witch and of James Potter making his life miserable. Or the one of himself “accidentally” calling Lily a mudblood and Lily telling him that she knew that he planned to be a Death Eater so she was no longer his friend. A few of the other memories are of himself telling Dumbledore that he was coming back to the good side, of himself trying to heal

Dumbledore’s hand after Dumbledore put on the Marvolo’s old ring that Voldemort turned into a Horcrux, and of himself agreeing to kill Dumbledore, since he would die anyway.

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