Like Darth Vader being Luke Skywalker's father, much of the originality in the Harry Potter series now seems mundane, commonplace, or ordinary. But when the books were originally being released there were quite a few twists that kept fans, and the media alike, glued to the pages of J.K. Rowling's epic from its midnight release and onward.
Here we will look back at the ten largest twists that ever confounded the Harry Potter fandom throughout the years. Many shocked fans at the moment and a select few continue to haunt and divide the fandom today.
10 Professor Moody is Barty Crouch Jr.
In a post-Remus Lupin world, the Harry Potter fandom learned that there could, in fact, be competent instructors in Defense Against the Dark Arts. While Professor Moody was certainly gruffer and courser around the edges than the chocolate-loving Lupin, he did seem to know his stuff.
In a world where Dumbledore seemed to be the only headmaster to play fair in the Triwizard Tournament fans also appreciated that assistance Moody offered our hero during the different tasks. It's horrifying to find out that Harry's protector in book and movie four was really the villain all along.
9 Tom Riddle is Lord Voldemort
When Harry acquires Tom Riddle's diary from the girl's bathroom and then realizes it is enchanted to reply to the writer he meets a smart, though slightly pompous boy, who was once as Hogwarts student like himself. While Tom Riddle is pompous, a bit like Percy Weasley, Harry thinks, he doesn't seem evil, and in fact offers Harry information and details about the school's current mystery, surrounding the Chamber of Secrets.
Even when Riddle appears to be the real villain of the story no one could guess that the Prefect of Slytherin house was also the young version of the slit nosed supervillain, Lord Voldemort himself.
8 Sirius Black is the Good Guy
Perhaps, after Tom Riddle and The Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter fans should have learned not to trust exactly what they are told about new characters, but still, they all fell into the same trap in Prisoner of Azkaban. Sirius Black was not only not the murderer of Harry's parents, but he was also not a Death Eater and not the killer of Peter Pettigrew.
Just to make the matter more confusing (and heartbreaking) what he was was Harry's godfather, his father's best friend, and the long lost mate of Harry's new favorite teacher, Professor Lupin.
7 Harry Controls The Elder Wand
When Harry faces Lord Voldemort for the very last time fans held their breath knowing that, despite the destruction of all of his Horcruxes, the Dark Lord still possessed the most powerful wand ever created, The Elder Wand. The twist that baffled readers, and saved The Boy Who Lived, came down to a simple fistfight between two boys at Malfoy Manor. The Elder Wand could not kill Harry because Harry himself was its master.
Dumbledore, disarmed by Malfoy, transferred the wand's allegiance to Malfoy, not Snape. By disarming Malfoy (even by brute force) Harry then becomes the wand's master. Voldemort's murder of Snape was for nothing.
6 Dumbledore Knew Grindelwald
We learn very little about Gellert Grindelwald early on in the Harry Potter novels. We hear that Dumbledore helped defeat him, that he was a precursor to Voldemort, and that the symbol of the Deathly Hallows was also Grindelwald's symbol.
While attempting to take down Voldemort, almost Grindelwald's second coming, Harry learns (from a Rita Skeeter book) that his mentor, Dumbledore, was actually once friends, with the evilest wizard of a generation.
5 Trelawney Was A True Seer
In the movie version of Prisoner of Azkaban fans get to watch Professor Trelawney cough up a prophecy about a servant returning to the Dark Lord (obviously a description of Pettigrew's later escape) what isn't made so clear in the films is that Trelawny also was the seer who gave the prophecy Harry and company search for in the Department of Mysteries, linking Harry and Voldemort for all time.
There was a reason Dumbledore kept her close as the divination teacher at Hogwarts.
4 Ginny Found The Chamber Of Secrets
As Harry and the Hogwarts staff search for the heir of Slytherin, supposedly the only person who could open the Chamber of Secrets (again) no one takes a second look at a shy first-year Gryffindor who is a part of a pure-blooded family, who track their relatives for generations, and know that Voldemort exists nowhere in their bloodline.
So it is shocking, not only to big brother Ron but to fans everywhere, the first time it is revealed that Ginny has been taken into the chamber and that she, in fact, has been working with a magical diary to open it all along.
3 Malfoy's Mother Saves Harry
Harry and Malfoy hated one another since their first meeting at fresh Hogwarts students. The animosity only increases when Harry gets Malfoy's father thrown into Azkaban and Malfoy himself joins the Death Eaters in his father's place. It certainly doesn't help that Malfoy allowed Death Eaters into Hogwarts largely leading to the death of Harry's mentor, Professor Dumbledore.
When Harry meets Voldemort in the Forbidden Forest it is Malfoy's mother Narcissa who is sent to check his body, to be sure he is dead. She can feel his pulse but announces he is dead after Harry confirms her son is alive.
2 Sirius and Pettigrew Are Animagi
The third Harry Potter movie reveals Sirius and Pettigrew are animagi, wizards who can change into animals at will, but the shock is much deeper in the books. The reason these two wizards are animagi is that they wanted to keep their friend, Lupin, company when he transformed into a werewolf on the full moon.
Harry's dad, as a member of the Marauders, did so as well. With McGonagall, the only animagi fans were aware of until then it was quite the shock.
1 Professor Snape Was In Love With Lily Potter
In the books, and even more so in the films, James and his friends receive far more attention than Harry's mother Lily does. We know she died for Harry, her love protecting him, but her background, besides being Petunia's sister, is largely skipped over, even as the Marauders are revealed in book three.
This is because her story is being saved up for the Deathly Hallows where it is confirmed not only that Severus Snape is a good guy, but that he's been working to take down Voldemort for a single reason, he was friends and in love with Lily herself.
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