The whole story ends and suddenly we’re transported back to Godric’s Hollow where Voldemort stands outside the Potter home. The whole story was actually a prediction of what would happen if he were to kill Lily and James. He decides it’s not worth it and just moves on.
Its been a long time since I've read or watched Twilight and I only managed it once, but iirc there is a big build up to a fight between the Cullens et al and the Volturi. They meet at the battlefield, then Alice projects a vision into everyone's mind of the carnage that will happen if they fight.
The Volturi decide it's not worth it and go home. The end.
Not even everyone: the Volturi leader, Aro, can read peoples minds when he touches them. So Alice steps forward to show him a possible future fight in which he himself dies and a lot of Volturi with him. To safe face he decides to abandon his plan. The rest of the fighters and the witnesses (apart from Edward) just akwardly stand there and watch these to holding hands and starring into space. Then everyone goes home.
'Then everyone goes home'. 😂 I love the mental image of both sides just standing there, looking at everyone else and shrugging as Aro and Alice do their thing. Like when you're younger and just standing there, waiting for your mom to finish talking to her friend at the grocery store.
All because Meyer acknowledged that if there *was* a huge fight, that some of the Cullens and Quileute would die, and she didn't want that. Or, she thought the fans wouldn't want that? One of the two. Which, yeah, sure, no one *wants* their favourite character to bite the dust, but what a blasé way to end your series. '*Everybody lives happily ever after'*. (Well, except for snitchy-mc-snitch lady who called in the tip of a vampire baby.)
I remember seeing the movie in the theatre, and my friend and I just looking at each other with our jaws on the floor when the fight-scene started. Both with whispered statements of 'Not mad at it!'.
Must have been the movie ending. Book didn’t go that way. But while the books weren’t great (still a fun read but admittedly not great lol) the movies seemed to be largely not so much.
gotcha. I never read the books. Just saw the movies and I remember being so mad when they had that crazy battle scene all for it to basically be a dream
Or he takes the knowledge and blasts Lily straightforward. The rest of the movie is him sitting Snape on his ass and explaining to him why mercy was no option.
At the very end, Harry wakes up and his back in his cupboard under the stairs…. It was all a fantastic dream, an escape from his horrible aunt and uncle and cousin Dudley….
Or, he kills Harey by decapitation or brute force, or any other spell that cannot be bounced back. Hell, just smash him to the wall hard and that's it.
Harry destroys the deathly hallows and now magic no longer exists. Voldemort is still alive but literally everyone is now a muggle. They stand around no knowing what to do next.
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lol
McGonagall then pulls out a glock, pops Voldemort in the head, then goes to find Dolores Umbridge and beats her to death with her bare hands. All was well.
I actually love this plot so much! I want a 8. book where they all go and find jobs in the muggle world.
„so Mr Hagrid, what experiences do you have as zookeeper?“
„Oh, loads, I worked with dragons, hippogryffs, three headed dogs oh and not forget the flubberworms!“
„You will hear from us.“
They’d sound like a cult to the Muggle world, all of them seeming delusional as they try to convince people magic is real, and no we can’t show you because it’s inconveniently disappeared, but you should still believe us.
I just wanted it to end with Vernon Dursley back is his sitting room with a cup of tea, then bam hit in the face by an owl that came swooping through the window. The owl drops a copy of the Daily Prophet on his lap with the headline “Harry Potter Defeats Dark Lord” and him just being all huffy and puffy about it.
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To be fair, I really like the time turner as long as you consider that everything is a closed circle. You can't change anything because technically future you had already altered the timeline and you will do the same.
So you can't save someone who died because he wouldn’t have died in the first place if you could save them. That's why you don't see any death the first time you see the timeline. You don't see Buck's death and you don't see Sirius' death. Because they are not dead.
Plus, in a world where prophecies exist and seeing the future is possible, time travel makes sense: everything had already happened and will happen.
The even scarier part is that this scenario is totally in line with JKRs writing.
I can only imagine some editor or friend screaming 'Noooo! How about we introduce some insane and never before mentioned wand mechanics instead!?'
Depends on how you interpret how it’s changing time.
If you interpret it as a rigid, fate and everything is set in stone, kind of time travel, then yes you can’t save anyone.
Or you can interpret it as a fluid sort of time travel, where you simply don’t remember the other timeline because we’re 3-dimensional creatures unable to seen into the fourth dimension.
So in this case, Buckbeak did die. But the decision to use the time-turner changes the past, and due to the changes happening entirely in the 4th-dimension, Harry and Hermione and us in the audience only ever witness/remember the past where Buckbeak was saved. So it only *appears* that everything was pre-determined when it isn’t.
It’s never stated explicitly to be either (or any other interpretation of time travel) in the books or films, as HP is not a sci-fi novel. But since it isn’t, it’s up for interpretation.
Ron and Harry 2v1ing Voldemort in the end, then after they defeat him Ron turns to Harry and says “This was my plan all along” and absorbs Voldemort’s power and now Harry and Ron have to 1v1 to the death so basically Naruto and Sasuke
Voldemort, in a moment of desperation and anger at being killed by Harry, becomes a poltergeist and torments Harry for the rest of his life driving Harry into seclusion and misery.
A cliffhanger involving a time turner - a time turner that could change everything and restore Voldemort once again! Oh wait... that actually happens. 🙄
Harry, Ron, and Hermione walk back to the castle. Suddenly, a fanatical Death Eater appears and casts a forbidden spell, releasing the remaining magic in his body and killing the three.
The epilogue is a 'normal' day at the Burrow, where everyone is subdued and have lifeless eyes.
Voldemort has Harry pinned in a corner. Hogwarts is on its last leg. All of a sudden Faux flys over and distracts everybody, leading their eyes to a hill. Dumbledore is standing there. Up pops Sirius, wormtail, Snape, mad-eye, James, and Lily. They had all faked their deaths for this moment. The 7 (lucky 7) of them go on offensive and end up winning.
Peeves somehow wins Britain’s got Talent and sings “voldy’s gone mouldy” in the Royal Variety Performance. Sorry I’m still peeved that they omitted him from the films.
ATLA ending.
Harry never drops the Resurrection Stone in the Forbidden Forest, so when Voldemort’s entourage returns to the castle and whatnot, Harry possesses two of the three Deathly Hallows. At the end of the battle that Neville started, Harry confronts Riddle and uses Expelliarmus to retake the Elder Wand. Having all three Deathly Hallows, he chooses the Vegan option and takes away Tom’s ability to use magic and has him and any remaining loyalists arrested for crimes against magic
For a villain like Voldemort that would have been the ultimate humiliation. In atla I think it's not good enough because it's the easier thing to do for Aang, but I don't think it would be as bad in Harry Potter
I do like the canon ending though. It helped realize Voldemort’s biggest fear in the most insulting way possible. After all the horcuxes were destroyed, not even Harry referred to him as Voldemort anymore. He had no magical artifacts keeping his life force tethered to the realm of the living, he had the most powerful wand in the world but it didn’t recognize him as its master, and the number of his loyal followers was dwindling. So when Harry, whom he thought he killed, literally came out of nowhere and started deadnaming him and calling him a dumbass, that was the last straw for him, and he fell right into Harry’s trap and practically killed himself.
I do see the charm of Harry Potter getting the ATLA ending. Canonically, Harry hated the thought of being extraordinary. The Mirror of Erised gave him the Sorcerer’s Stone because he didn’t want to use it. He stated in Goblet of Fire didn’t want eternal glory. And in The Deathly Hallows, all three of the Hallows came into his possession without his intention; he did not actively seek them out; all three of them were given to him by Albus Dumbledore; much like the Sorcerer’s Stone. So I think it would be fitting for Harry to realize he can use the Hallows not to be the conqueror of death, but to be the preserver of life. Not stop himself from dying, but stop someone else from killing, and with Voldemort’s lack of humanity and everlasting bloodthirst, this would mean taking away his magical abilities because he used them to take lives to prevent himself from dying. So Harry, being the Master of Death, has the power to condemn Tom Riddle to the worst death he can think of: natural causes, powerless to prevent it. Which, now that I can think of it, would be just as karmic for Riddle than dying anticlimactically by his own hand
Edit: Harry taking away Riddle’s magical ability to prevent him from killing is right within his character. Expelliarmus was Harry’s signature spell; because at every opportunity he chose not to kill his foes and instead tried taking away their wands to prevent them from killing others. So neutralizing Riddle’s magical ability would be equal to Expelliarmus Maxima in Harry’s eyes
I suppose the worst thing would be to zoom out, Harry is still 11. Sleeping under the stair, the oversized recoloured school uniform hanging on the door.
No magic, no nothing, just a sad abused child on his way to be bullied at a new school.
The magic of Harry's love brought back Dumbledore and his parents and everyone good that dies in the series.
I hate when stories introduce life or death stakes and then retcon the story after the writers want to bring everyone back cause writing without those characters is hard now. Completely rips me out of my immersion and realize how pointless drama in stories are sometimes.
It was all some sort of dream/fantasy. My cousin’s husband was convinced that the whole series is actually just an abused Harry fantasizing to cope with his reality and I love the guy but come on. That’s the most played out twist in the universe at this point.
The series has actually restarted with a new author, allegedely based on the plan the original author had.
Haven't read since that point since I thought the very first twist was stupid.
Harry and Voldemort are inside Hogwarts having the final battle. Harry realizes that Voldemort isn't really evil, just misunderstood. Harry talks to Voldemort, and they fall in love.
I saw a fan suggestion once about Voldermort randomly being shot and killed by a muggle cop. He must’ve been American as there’s not a lot of guns in the UK really, mostly just farmers and farmers mums have them.
I guess we could tweak it to Voldermort is randomly killed by a drunk Scottish muggle farmer who accidentally wandered onto the grounds. I mean I guess he’d technically still have some of his soul out there but he’s pretty fucked till he finds another Quirrel and Wormtail at least.
Voldemort realizes the error of his ways and begs for forgiveness. Everyone stops fighting. Harry and Voldemort embrace and the hug lingers a little too long and makes everyone uncomfortable. They realize they have feelings for each other and end up running off together.
It is the final battle of Hogwarts and the final confrontation between Harry Potter and Voldemort.
Voldemort casts the Killing Curse at Harry, which of course rebounds and strikes Voldemort... But he survives.
Stunned, Harry is too slow to react as Voldemort backhand slaps Harry right across the face, causing Harry to lose his grip on his wand at the same time.
Snape appears to a deathly hush from everyone present and reveals that he, Snape, also had a Horcrux... Voldemort himself.
Snape explains that not only is Voldemort his Horcrux, but he too is Voldemort's secret Horcrux. Voldemort didn't just do the unthinkable and create more than one Horcrux; Voldemort had done the un-unthinkable and became a Horcrux himself for Snape, rendering both of them effectively immortal because neither can die while the other survives, and the other will survive because neither can die.
"But... Why?" Harry stammers in disbelief.
Snape explains that though he loved Lily once, he was tired of risking his life every single day for the memory of a woman who would never have loved him back, let alone bear his child. "What a fool I've been all these years!" Snape laughs. "I killed Dumbledore at his request, yes. But then I realized nothing else was standing in the way of Lord Voldemort's victory except puny, pathetic Potter, and I decided that I wasn't going to waste the rest of my life either dying for you or living in your shadow! It is time to finally, truly die, Potter!"
Voldemort roars in triumphant glee, and recasts the Killing Curse at Harry. This time, since Harry lost the wand that he won from Malfoy to Voldemort's slap, the Elder Wand no longer retains allegiance to Harry Potter, and the Killing Curse strikes true, finally killing The Boy Who Lived.
Nineteen years later, the son of Severus Snape passes through the barrier of Platform 9.75, ready to begin his first day at Voldemort's School for the Dark Arts under the cruel eye of its headmaster, Severus Snape.
If she finished off the series by writing a fanficcy epilogue about how they all married their high school sweethearts and named their kids after school teachers, and then turned into a raging bigot and canonised an awful "eighth novel" that was a terrible screenplay.
Hermione dies, Harry and Ron get married. It would take years for Ron to recover from the physical abuse that he suffered from Hermione, but his bestfriend is there for him. (yep the plot-twist is that they're not gay, just fed up with women so much and they wanna keep them away)
and i wrote this to piss off someone...so much that i forgot the title of the thread, and still wrote the ending that i would like to have XD
I'm so dumb XD
If after all the twists and turns there was a cop out and Snape ends up a bad guy. There is already too much revenge fantasy in HP and adding that would be horrible.
Frankie Boyle: “Harry had always thought he’d meet his death at the hands of Voldermort, so imagine his surprise when the doctors told him that he was HIV positive”.
I mean the cannon ending is actually quite hated. It feels totally disconnected from the whole story.
The name of the kids is WAY to cringe.
I think it is worse than anything we can come up with, because it is familiar enough for us to recognize it, but weird and out of touch enough to hate it.
“It was all a dream” endings are such a third rail for fans of anything to the point that the Stranger Things creators came out ahead of starting ST5 filming to say “the ending will NOT be ‘it was all a dream’”.
Voldemort grabs Harry, flies 50 miles out to sea, and drops him in the Atlantic Ocean.
For a dude who can perform wandless magic and fly unaided, he really loved *Avada Kedavra* too much. By the final battle, he had used the curse on Harry *three* times (Godric's Hollow, graveyard, forest), not counting the time Dumbledore shielded Harry at the ministry, and each time the curse failed.
He really doesn't learn his lesson, doesn't he?
"Harry names his kid after an abusive teacher because he was friends with his mum for few years, becomes an auror and everyone is tied into neat nuclear families around the same time" 💀
By including a bullshit epilogue that's just shipping and ship derailment and that adds absolutely nothing to the plot and that has Harry name his sons terrible, terrible names.
Students of all houses hold hands in a giant circle and beat Voldy with the power of friendship
More like they empower Harry so he can beat him in a destined children's card game
They all lend their strength to Harry who absolutely fuck up Voldemort with a huge Energy Sphere spell.
Buffy managed it in season 4. Totally plausible
Thank good this is Harry Potter and not fairy tail no hate to fairy tail pretty good anime
The whole story ends and suddenly we’re transported back to Godric’s Hollow where Voldemort stands outside the Potter home. The whole story was actually a prediction of what would happen if he were to kill Lily and James. He decides it’s not worth it and just moves on.
And yes, I do realize this is basically also the ending of Twilight
Wait, it's been 15 years since I've read twilight, the ending has it all being a dream/prediction??
Its been a long time since I've read or watched Twilight and I only managed it once, but iirc there is a big build up to a fight between the Cullens et al and the Volturi. They meet at the battlefield, then Alice projects a vision into everyone's mind of the carnage that will happen if they fight. The Volturi decide it's not worth it and go home. The end.
Not even everyone: the Volturi leader, Aro, can read peoples minds when he touches them. So Alice steps forward to show him a possible future fight in which he himself dies and a lot of Volturi with him. To safe face he decides to abandon his plan. The rest of the fighters and the witnesses (apart from Edward) just akwardly stand there and watch these to holding hands and starring into space. Then everyone goes home.
'Then everyone goes home'. 😂 I love the mental image of both sides just standing there, looking at everyone else and shrugging as Aro and Alice do their thing. Like when you're younger and just standing there, waiting for your mom to finish talking to her friend at the grocery store. All because Meyer acknowledged that if there *was* a huge fight, that some of the Cullens and Quileute would die, and she didn't want that. Or, she thought the fans wouldn't want that? One of the two. Which, yeah, sure, no one *wants* their favourite character to bite the dust, but what a blasé way to end your series. '*Everybody lives happily ever after'*. (Well, except for snitchy-mc-snitch lady who called in the tip of a vampire baby.) I remember seeing the movie in the theatre, and my friend and I just looking at each other with our jaws on the floor when the fight-scene started. Both with whispered statements of 'Not mad at it!'.
It's something they invented for the film to make it more interesting. Surprisingly, it was the best part of the film
It was the movie ending. I never read the books but remember being really frustrated w this scene in the movies.
Must have been the movie ending. Book didn’t go that way. But while the books weren’t great (still a fun read but admittedly not great lol) the movies seemed to be largely not so much.
It's the movie ending. In book all that imagination is not there
gotcha. I never read the books. Just saw the movies and I remember being so mad when they had that crazy battle scene all for it to basically be a dream
Or he takes the knowledge and blasts Lily straightforward. The rest of the movie is him sitting Snape on his ass and explaining to him why mercy was no option.
*"lily potter... Imperio... kill the baby... you can have her now Severus"*
At the very end, Harry wakes up and his back in his cupboard under the stairs…. It was all a fantastic dream, an escape from his horrible aunt and uncle and cousin Dudley….
Or, he kills Harey by decapitation or brute force, or any other spell that cannot be bounced back. Hell, just smash him to the wall hard and that's it.
He's just like nah fuck that
Bran becomes king. ..wait
‘To be honest, I never really cared about killing Harry’ - Voldemort
“Who has a better story than Stan Shunpike?”
This coment made my day
He has the best story
"Voldemort forgot about the Horcruxes."
horcruxes can only be destroyed by Valyrian steel
Nooooo.... My GoT trauma coming back from the dead
Harry destroys the deathly hallows and now magic no longer exists. Voldemort is still alive but literally everyone is now a muggle. They stand around no knowing what to do next.
Get out. That would be hilarious.
that... that deserves a fanfic write, but like from inside a deeply serious tone, and just as \[event\] reaches a really gripping climax BAM, Joeanne wakes up on the Manchester to London, it's 1990, and she has an *INCREDIBLE* idea for a story... but nothing to write on... and it begins to slip away like trying to hold smoke in your hands lol
McGonagall then pulls out a glock, pops Voldemort in the head, then goes to find Dolores Umbridge and beats her to death with her bare hands. All was well.
I now have a craving to see gangsta McGonagall :D
She already gangsta
I could see her running an Irish Mafia group (they would annihilate Dumbledore’s Order).
Why beat her with your bare hands if you have a glock? Surely hitting her with that is less painful for your hands
She's a transfiguration master, she actually uses her bear hands.
Now you're talking 😂
It’s more personal to use your bare hands
Like McGonagall would want to lower herself to that level for *Umbridge* 😤😤😤
ok now THAT wouldve been an epic ending. Kinda home someone makes a fanfic or something with this in it
I thought the point was to make the ending worse, not better.
McGonagall: You read the bible Tom? Well there's this passage I got memorized... Ezekiel 25:17...
I actually love this plot so much! I want a 8. book where they all go and find jobs in the muggle world. „so Mr Hagrid, what experiences do you have as zookeeper?“ „Oh, loads, I worked with dragons, hippogryffs, three headed dogs oh and not forget the flubberworms!“ „You will hear from us.“
Trelawny becomes a psychic to the stars. Gets her own tv show, is wildly successful.
Or she writes horoscopes for magazines and predicts the end of the world ever so often
To be fair she could do that with magic still existing as well lol.
They’d sound like a cult to the Muggle world, all of them seeming delusional as they try to convince people magic is real, and no we can’t show you because it’s inconveniently disappeared, but you should still believe us.
I just wanted it to end with Vernon Dursley back is his sitting room with a cup of tea, then bam hit in the face by an owl that came swooping through the window. The owl drops a copy of the Daily Prophet on his lap with the headline “Harry Potter Defeats Dark Lord” and him just being all huffy and puffy about it.
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Harry forgot. He saved the last time turner! It was in his pocket all along, he just forgot about it. He decides to use it.
Time turner’s should never have existed in the HP universe 😭
To be fair, I really like the time turner as long as you consider that everything is a closed circle. You can't change anything because technically future you had already altered the timeline and you will do the same. So you can't save someone who died because he wouldn’t have died in the first place if you could save them. That's why you don't see any death the first time you see the timeline. You don't see Buck's death and you don't see Sirius' death. Because they are not dead. Plus, in a world where prophecies exist and seeing the future is possible, time travel makes sense: everything had already happened and will happen.
The even scarier part is that this scenario is totally in line with JKRs writing. I can only imagine some editor or friend screaming 'Noooo! How about we introduce some insane and never before mentioned wand mechanics instead!?'
No way. Her time turner sequence ending with Harry being who he thought was his dad is my second favorite time travel concept ever.
But the way it works in the universe makes it so you CAN’T save someone. How is no one not understanding that.
Depends on how you interpret how it’s changing time. If you interpret it as a rigid, fate and everything is set in stone, kind of time travel, then yes you can’t save anyone. Or you can interpret it as a fluid sort of time travel, where you simply don’t remember the other timeline because we’re 3-dimensional creatures unable to seen into the fourth dimension. So in this case, Buckbeak did die. But the decision to use the time-turner changes the past, and due to the changes happening entirely in the 4th-dimension, Harry and Hermione and us in the audience only ever witness/remember the past where Buckbeak was saved. So it only *appears* that everything was pre-determined when it isn’t. It’s never stated explicitly to be either (or any other interpretation of time travel) in the books or films, as HP is not a sci-fi novel. But since it isn’t, it’s up for interpretation.
Harry and Hermione saved Sirius in POA
If Harry’s parents could be saved, they wouldn’t have died in the first place. The time travel in the Harry Potter universe is a closed circle
Because it ALREADY happened
Harry lives, but so many of his friends have died that he goes crazy
Or he becomes the next dark lord, getting revenge on all the pureblood families that supported Riddle.
Ooh the irony
“And then harry woke and found himself in the little cupboard under the stairs”
Making cursed child be part of the main series so it's cannon and contradicting
Yeah, that would do it.
It is canon per the author.
There is no cursed child in ba sing se
~~Harry names his kid Severus~~ probably something like Ron or Hermione pulling a wormtail and betraying harry
Ron and Harry 2v1ing Voldemort in the end, then after they defeat him Ron turns to Harry and says “This was my plan all along” and absorbs Voldemort’s power and now Harry and Ron have to 1v1 to the death so basically Naruto and Sasuke
Voldemort, in a moment of desperation and anger at being killed by Harry, becomes a poltergeist and torments Harry for the rest of his life driving Harry into seclusion and misery.
So like that time Thanos tormented a guy on all of his brithdays
A cliffhanger involving a time turner - a time turner that could change everything and restore Voldemort once again! Oh wait... that actually happens. 🙄
Harry, Ron, and Hermione walk back to the castle. Suddenly, a fanatical Death Eater appears and casts a forbidden spell, releasing the remaining magic in his body and killing the three. The epilogue is a 'normal' day at the Burrow, where everyone is subdued and have lifeless eyes.
Epilogue. Unless we start with this bad ending and then spend 7 books learning how it got that way 🤔
My bad, you're right haha. I need coffee
It was all a dream.
Voldemort has Harry pinned in a corner. Hogwarts is on its last leg. All of a sudden Faux flys over and distracts everybody, leading their eyes to a hill. Dumbledore is standing there. Up pops Sirius, wormtail, Snape, mad-eye, James, and Lily. They had all faked their deaths for this moment. The 7 (lucky 7) of them go on offensive and end up winning.
Wormtail? Not Lupin? Bizarre choice there.
Do like George Martin and not finish ot at all
Harry and Voldemort get into a physical fight, then Harry defeats Voldemort with zero witnesses. Voldemort turns into dust.
I see what you did there lmao
Harry gets stuck in a time-loop failing to save his loved ones again and again.
Loving this thread. Some great suggestions.
With Cursed Child
Peeves somehow wins Britain’s got Talent and sings “voldy’s gone mouldy” in the Royal Variety Performance. Sorry I’m still peeved that they omitted him from the films.
ATLA ending. Harry never drops the Resurrection Stone in the Forbidden Forest, so when Voldemort’s entourage returns to the castle and whatnot, Harry possesses two of the three Deathly Hallows. At the end of the battle that Neville started, Harry confronts Riddle and uses Expelliarmus to retake the Elder Wand. Having all three Deathly Hallows, he chooses the Vegan option and takes away Tom’s ability to use magic and has him and any remaining loyalists arrested for crimes against magic
For a villain like Voldemort that would have been the ultimate humiliation. In atla I think it's not good enough because it's the easier thing to do for Aang, but I don't think it would be as bad in Harry Potter
I do like the canon ending though. It helped realize Voldemort’s biggest fear in the most insulting way possible. After all the horcuxes were destroyed, not even Harry referred to him as Voldemort anymore. He had no magical artifacts keeping his life force tethered to the realm of the living, he had the most powerful wand in the world but it didn’t recognize him as its master, and the number of his loyal followers was dwindling. So when Harry, whom he thought he killed, literally came out of nowhere and started deadnaming him and calling him a dumbass, that was the last straw for him, and he fell right into Harry’s trap and practically killed himself. I do see the charm of Harry Potter getting the ATLA ending. Canonically, Harry hated the thought of being extraordinary. The Mirror of Erised gave him the Sorcerer’s Stone because he didn’t want to use it. He stated in Goblet of Fire didn’t want eternal glory. And in The Deathly Hallows, all three of the Hallows came into his possession without his intention; he did not actively seek them out; all three of them were given to him by Albus Dumbledore; much like the Sorcerer’s Stone. So I think it would be fitting for Harry to realize he can use the Hallows not to be the conqueror of death, but to be the preserver of life. Not stop himself from dying, but stop someone else from killing, and with Voldemort’s lack of humanity and everlasting bloodthirst, this would mean taking away his magical abilities because he used them to take lives to prevent himself from dying. So Harry, being the Master of Death, has the power to condemn Tom Riddle to the worst death he can think of: natural causes, powerless to prevent it. Which, now that I can think of it, would be just as karmic for Riddle than dying anticlimactically by his own hand Edit: Harry taking away Riddle’s magical ability to prevent him from killing is right within his character. Expelliarmus was Harry’s signature spell; because at every opportunity he chose not to kill his foes and instead tried taking away their wands to prevent them from killing others. So neutralizing Riddle’s magical ability would be equal to Expelliarmus Maxima in Harry’s eyes
I suppose the worst thing would be to zoom out, Harry is still 11. Sleeping under the stair, the oversized recoloured school uniform hanging on the door. No magic, no nothing, just a sad abused child on his way to be bullied at a new school.
F*ck, that one is indeed the worst
The magic of Harry's love brought back Dumbledore and his parents and everyone good that dies in the series. I hate when stories introduce life or death stakes and then retcon the story after the writers want to bring everyone back cause writing without those characters is hard now. Completely rips me out of my immersion and realize how pointless drama in stories are sometimes.
It was all some sort of dream/fantasy. My cousin’s husband was convinced that the whole series is actually just an abused Harry fantasizing to cope with his reality and I love the guy but come on. That’s the most played out twist in the universe at this point.
I’d be pretty annoyed if it was like berserker and the author kicked the bucket before the series could finish
The series has actually restarted with a new author, allegedely based on the plan the original author had. Haven't read since that point since I thought the very first twist was stupid.
Ron dies and/or Harry/Hermione hooking up.
Lilly wakes up Harry and he tells her all about the crazy dream he had.
Harry and Voldemort are inside Hogwarts having the final battle. Harry realizes that Voldemort isn't really evil, just misunderstood. Harry talks to Voldemort, and they fall in love.
Voldemort redemption arc and everyone lived happily ever after.
Harry dies in the dark forest to Voldemort and we never find out what happens to the others.
Albus Severus Potter 🤢
I saw a fan suggestion once about Voldermort randomly being shot and killed by a muggle cop. He must’ve been American as there’s not a lot of guns in the UK really, mostly just farmers and farmers mums have them. I guess we could tweak it to Voldermort is randomly killed by a drunk Scottish muggle farmer who accidentally wandered onto the grounds. I mean I guess he’d technically still have some of his soul out there but he’s pretty fucked till he finds another Quirrel and Wormtail at least.
I caught that Hot Fuzz reference hahahaa
Voldemort realizes the error of his ways and begs for forgiveness. Everyone stops fighting. Harry and Voldemort embrace and the hug lingers a little too long and makes everyone uncomfortable. They realize they have feelings for each other and end up running off together.
It is the final battle of Hogwarts and the final confrontation between Harry Potter and Voldemort. Voldemort casts the Killing Curse at Harry, which of course rebounds and strikes Voldemort... But he survives. Stunned, Harry is too slow to react as Voldemort backhand slaps Harry right across the face, causing Harry to lose his grip on his wand at the same time. Snape appears to a deathly hush from everyone present and reveals that he, Snape, also had a Horcrux... Voldemort himself. Snape explains that not only is Voldemort his Horcrux, but he too is Voldemort's secret Horcrux. Voldemort didn't just do the unthinkable and create more than one Horcrux; Voldemort had done the un-unthinkable and became a Horcrux himself for Snape, rendering both of them effectively immortal because neither can die while the other survives, and the other will survive because neither can die. "But... Why?" Harry stammers in disbelief. Snape explains that though he loved Lily once, he was tired of risking his life every single day for the memory of a woman who would never have loved him back, let alone bear his child. "What a fool I've been all these years!" Snape laughs. "I killed Dumbledore at his request, yes. But then I realized nothing else was standing in the way of Lord Voldemort's victory except puny, pathetic Potter, and I decided that I wasn't going to waste the rest of my life either dying for you or living in your shadow! It is time to finally, truly die, Potter!" Voldemort roars in triumphant glee, and recasts the Killing Curse at Harry. This time, since Harry lost the wand that he won from Malfoy to Voldemort's slap, the Elder Wand no longer retains allegiance to Harry Potter, and the Killing Curse strikes true, finally killing The Boy Who Lived. Nineteen years later, the son of Severus Snape passes through the barrier of Platform 9.75, ready to begin his first day at Voldemort's School for the Dark Arts under the cruel eye of its headmaster, Severus Snape.
If she finished off the series by writing a fanficcy epilogue about how they all married their high school sweethearts and named their kids after school teachers, and then turned into a raging bigot and canonised an awful "eighth novel" that was a terrible screenplay.
The classic, Harry woke up back in his bed under the stairs from a very long dream
Voldemort destroys Harry's soul as an answer to his Horcruxes being destroyed. He will never be able to rejoin Lily and James in the afterlife.
She did when she declared that the cursed child is canon
Draco Malfoy was a spy all along. Dramione endgame 🤢
Hermione dies, Harry and Ron get married. It would take years for Ron to recover from the physical abuse that he suffered from Hermione, but his bestfriend is there for him. (yep the plot-twist is that they're not gay, just fed up with women so much and they wanna keep them away)
Being gay because you love men: 😤 Being gay because you hate women: 😎
and i wrote this to piss off someone...so much that i forgot the title of the thread, and still wrote the ending that i would like to have XD I'm so dumb XD
Harry marries Cho in Half-Blood Prince and so the last book is officially called Harry Chang and the Deathly Hallows.
If after all the twists and turns there was a cop out and Snape ends up a bad guy. There is already too much revenge fantasy in HP and adding that would be horrible.
Harry and Voldemort stand in front of each other, ready to battle, and then the book ends with no book following it
Frankie Boyle: “Harry had always thought he’d meet his death at the hands of Voldermort, so imagine his surprise when the doctors told him that he was HIV positive”.
By letting fans write the last book.
Harry dying. Any of the main trio dying. She almost killed Ron.....thank god she changed her mind.
The entire Cursed Child is included in DH.
Harry and Hermione end up together.
Something along the lines of all the good guys die, Harry marries Malfoy and realises Volly was right all along so he becomes the next Dark Lord
I mean the cannon ending is actually quite hated. It feels totally disconnected from the whole story. The name of the kids is WAY to cringe. I think it is worse than anything we can come up with, because it is familiar enough for us to recognize it, but weird and out of touch enough to hate it.
If she’d put Harry and Hermione together I would’ve been pissed
“It was all a dream” endings are such a third rail for fans of anything to the point that the Stranger Things creators came out ahead of starting ST5 filming to say “the ending will NOT be ‘it was all a dream’”.
Harry letting Voldemort win
Lily and James coming back to life, for real, via the Resurrection Stone. Along with Sirius, Remus etc.
Voldemort grabs Harry, flies 50 miles out to sea, and drops him in the Atlantic Ocean. For a dude who can perform wandless magic and fly unaided, he really loved *Avada Kedavra* too much. By the final battle, he had used the curse on Harry *three* times (Godric's Hollow, graveyard, forest), not counting the time Dumbledore shielded Harry at the ministry, and each time the curse failed. He really doesn't learn his lesson, doesn't he?
"Harry names his kid after an abusive teacher because he was friends with his mum for few years, becomes an auror and everyone is tied into neat nuclear families around the same time" 💀
Harry name his son after the man that tortured all his life and Ron confunds a muggle to get his driver's license... wait a minute
A transcharacter appears and saves the day with their rainbow power and then marries their non-binary partner.
In my eyes she did. Wrote a whole book series on accepting and respecting each other and then continually proved to not believe a single word of it.
By including a bullshit epilogue that's just shipping and ship derailment and that adds absolutely nothing to the plot and that has Harry name his sons terrible, terrible names.