5 Unsolved Harry Potter Mysteries HBO Reboot Should Address
The showrunners have a chance to answer questions that have been on the minds of fans for years.
Recently it became known that HBO began to develop a series based on the Harry Potter universe.
There are no plot details yet, but attentive readers and viewers have noticed that JK Rowling left a lot of questions, each of which can be answered in the reboot.
What do wizards do before the age of 11?
Young wizards receive letters from Hogwarts before their 11th birthday. From that moment on, their magical journey begins. But what do children do before that time?
Most Muggle-born children probably get a normal education as well. But what about pureblood families? Did the Weasley children go to Muggle school? Or did their parents teach them?
How are Horcruxes made?
In fact, this mystery has an answer. But we are not allowed to know it. According to an interview with PotterCast, JK Rowling admitted to knowing how Horcruxes are made and even hinted that she wanted to include an explanation in the books.
However, her editors said that including this explanation in the books would create too dark a tone.
How did Dumbledore know (almost) everything?
Another question fans would like to know the answer to is how Dumbledore could so accurately learn the secrets of others and predict events.
For example, he knew that Harry should go to the dungeon where the Philosopher's Stone is hidden. He knew that Draco Malfoy was going to kill him, even though Snape tried to keep it in secret. But how did he manage to know all this?
How do Muggle-borns get their magic?
JK Rowling never answered the question of how Muggles or half-bloods get the gift of magic. Fans have tried to answer for themselves: most likely they come from squibs – people born into a family of wizards, but without magical abilities.
They are sent to the Muggle world and then form a family with ordinary Muggles and genetically pass on their parents' magic to their children. But that's only a theory.
While Britain was fighting Voldemort, what were the wizards of other countries doing?
Many fans also wondered why none of the other ten existing schools of witchcraft and wizardry around the world came to the aid of magical Britain.
Voldemort was a threat to the entire wizarding world – but why were British wizards forced to fight the Death Eaters alone?