Is there any canon indication (books, films or any additional materials) that Harry Potter is in any way related to Albus Dumbledore?  There seem to be some similarities between them like    Ancestors of both were always placed in Gryffindor.   Both have connections with Godrics Hollow.
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There were a lot of family connections between everyone and everyone in HP... Harry and Ignotus, Voldemort and Slytherin, the Blacks and everyone else (Tonks, Weasleys, etc...)  Was there any info (canon or JKR) that Dumbledore was related to anyone? He lived in Godric's Hollow, but that is not necessarily a basis for any leaps of logic.
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In Harry Potter book 4 (Goblet of Fire) Harry's wand 'links' with Voldemort's during their duel, and Voldemort's wand begins 'spitting out' each spell it had cast, in reverse order.  This produces false 'ghosts' of people he had killed with .  In the US printing, James Potter appears, followed by Lily.  If the spell order was supposed to be reversed, why did Harry's father's "ghost" emerge before his mother's, since it's repeatedly stated (before and after) that he died first?
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Is there any hint that the MoM or anywhere else got support in combating voldemort the first time around? Or is everything completely UK-centric?  I can't remember anyone in the second war being specifically sent from europe to help, even though we see international wizards in book 4. But I don't think all the events of the first war are covered in the books.  So are other bodies like the MoM involved in the first war, or was it isolated in the UK?
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We know that Voldemort knew that Grindelwald was not killed by Dumbledore, as he himself killed Grindelwald.   We also know that Voldemort knew that Dumbledore was the last person to wield the Elder Wand with its full allegiance because he killed Snape in an attempt to inherit that allegiance from him, who he assumed inherited it from Dumbledore.   Now Voldemort is no idiot.   Following this chain of logic, based off of what he knew, he must have realized that Dumbledore didn't gain the wand's allegiance through murder as he never killed Grindelwald, so why did he feel the need to kill Snape in order to win the wands allegiance for himself?   Surely he must have known that disarming him would have been enough. Was he so blinded by his desire for the wand that he was willing to try anything? Or was he so pressed for time that he didn't fully consider the matter?   I can't imagine the latter to be true as Voldemort himself said to Snape before killing him that he considered the matter for a long time, but that, of course, could be a lie.   Or perhaps he decided that what with Snape no longer being a competent spy after being outed that he had outlived his purpose and would be more valuable dead as a result of this last ditch effort to gain the wands true power.  I'm just answering my own question at this point, but I'd like to put it to you all. Is there something I am missing here? Is there any word from JKR that can clear up this seeming lapse in Voldemorts judgement?
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Below is a picture of the Black Family Tree, based on a .     Please note the unions of:   Dorea Black and Charlus Potter  Lucretia Black and Ignatius Prewett (Molly's maiden name) Cedrella Black and Septimus Weasley (#4 removed from the tree)    To add, here is a quote from Sirius Black:      The pure-blood families are all interrelated. If you're only going to let your sons and daughters marry pure-bloods your choice is very limited; there are hardly any of us left. Molly and I are cousins by marriage and Arthur's something like my second cousin once removed. But there's no point looking for them on here - if ever a family was a bunch of blood traitors it's the Weasleys.   Not only would this mean Molly and Arthur are distantly related by marriage, it would also mean Harry and Ginny are distantly related if Charlus Potter is indeed of the same Potter ancestry as Harry. And the  on the Potter family tree isn't helpful. Is there any proof that he is/ isn't?
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It's something that I'm not sure if it was put in the books or was left outside the book for people to guess but... In any moment of the books, during the travel from the train between King Cross and Hogwarts, did they ask or checked the ticket? I remember the scene on first year/book that Hagrid almost forgot to give Harry the ticket, even when he did not tell about the 9 3/4, but I'm not sure if it was mentioned if they really need the ticket.
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So has JKR ever mentioned, or is it indicated anywhere in canon why Fawkes did not come to save Dumbledore when he was confronted by Draco and the four other Death Eaters on the Astronomy Tower on that fateful night in Chapter 27 of the Half-Blood Prince?  There are several instances where Fawkes was timely in saving his master and Harry.  I know there's an out-of-universe answer to every question on books (Dumbledore had to die so that Harry can continue on this path alone, albeit aided by Ron and Hermione). I'm not looking for any of that please.  Was Dumbledore simply prepared to die that night?
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In the Harry Potter universe, is there any mention of an exchange student at Hogwarts or one of the Hogwarts students going on exchange at another school?  This happens all the time in the "muggle" school systems I'm sure it would happen in the wizarding schools as well.
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All I can find about Lucius or Narcissa Malfoy, or their life after the Second Wizarding War, is that they were not sent to Azkaban and that they had a grandchild.  Is there any information about what happened to them and what they did after the Second Wizarding War?  Were they ostracized by friends because they left the Death Eaters publicly?  Were people scared to trust them?  Has J. K. Rowling given any information about what their life was like after the war?
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J.K Rowling has said on Twitter that Porpetina and Queenie Goldstein are ,  J.K. Rowling ‏@jk_rowling Well, I think it's widely known that that characters of (Porpen)tina and Queenie are sisters, but not that their surname is Goldstein. Mark ‏@marklynch2012 any rlation to Anthony Goldstein J.K. Rowling ‏@jk_rowling Yes (but distant).  whom she has previously .  ben ‏@benjaminroffman @jk_rowling my wife said there are no Jews at Hogwarts. I’m a Jew so I assume she said it to be the only magical 1 in the family. Thoughts? J.K. Rowling ‏@jk_rowling Anthony Goldstein, Ravenclaw, Jewish wizard.  Was she trying to say that they are Jewish as well?
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From HP :     J. K. Rowling revealed in Pottermore that Prof. Quirinus Quirrell served as a temporary Horcrux when Voldemort's soul possessed his body during Harry Potter's first year at Hogwarts. (source: )   QUESTION:  Seeing how at that point Quirrell was inhabited by the "main" fragment of Voldemort's soul (and that fact was something 100% clear and obvious from "HP&amp;SS" book), does the statement above mean that somehow there actually were *two fragments of it in Quirrell, one "main" and one "Horcrux"?* If not, then what's the "reveal" part?
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Were the Peverell brothers and Slytherin related or not?  In the books it is mentioned that both were ancestors of Voldemort, but I couldn't find their mutual relation.
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Regulus Arcturus Black was a genius who figured out the existence of Voldemort's Horcruxes before anybody else. The question is how? Also which era did he live in? Maybe it happened that he was one of the boys at Slughorn's party when Tom Riddle was told about the Horcruxes? Then he might have overheard...?
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In Harry Potter each Hogwarts house has its own animal that represents it; is it ever explained how these animals came to represent a specific house? I never read a canon explanation to who chose the animals, is that known?
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How do muggles with children at Hogwarts (for example, Hermione's parents) communicate with their children while they're at school? The students are able to send owls but does that mean the parents can only send letters when their students send an owl? What if it's an emergency? What if their children never send an owl?
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During the First Wizarding War, why didn't Dumbledore just hunt Voldemort down, as he had done with Grindelwald?  By 'hunting down', I mean finding, defeating and imprisoning him, exactly as in Gridelwald's case, and not, say killing him, something which Dumbledore would not do, as the answers to a previous question (as to him not hunting down Death Eaters) show.  Dumbledore knew that Voldemort had delved into the Dark Arts deeper than anyone else in history and hence "had powers he will never have". But he must have also known well that he could have defeated Voldemort at a direct confrontation, given that he had defeated Grindelwald earlier even against the Elder Wand, and now had that same wand at his disposal. He is seen confident about this throughout the series.  At the Battle of the Department of Mysteries, he did not go beyond outweighing Voldemort and forcing him to flee, probably because, by then, he had reasons to suspect that there was more to Voldemort's survival than his physical body, and thus, destroying that body which had Harry's blood without permanently disposing him off would not have been wise.  But why did he not do that at the First Wizarding War? Is it just that they could not track him down, or did he suspect even then that Voldemort had more sinister things about his soul? is there any canon confirmation of the latter suspicion?
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I have heard rumors that there is Adult versions of the Harry Potter book series that were only released in Europe. Not porn type adult but more graphic in nature. In this series supposedly Dumbledore is gay. Is there any truth to this?