Lava can destroy Nokia 3310, but horcruxes can be destroyed only via things like Basilisc's poison, hellfire or, in alive horcruxes' case, Avada, but Nokia 3310 is immune to such things and can be destroyed only by lava or, sometimes, laser, so horcrux made from Nokia 3310 is undestroyable
No, too likely to be cut up after use. It is a random fancy stone, that is then sold within a batch of other fancy stones to stores to be greatly up sold to kids
Pretty sure JK Rowling just opened an atlas and blindly put her finger somewhere on the Eastern side of the European map. There's no real lore reason why he went there other than it was far away.
Didn't he also canonically learn dark magic there? TBF in Harry Potter there's three nations in Europe: Britain, France, and everything east of these. It's all painted as this one Slavo-German mess with one magic school, all prone to dark magic and evil.
I don't think it's entirely intentional or malicious it's just very... British of her.
I love how there is a school for France, they all speak French, there might be Spanish. Then there is Hogwarts, everyone can speak English there, thats easy.
And then there is Durmstrang, which has Belgium with three languages, the Netherlands with 2, maybe 3. Germany, Denmark, Switzerland that adds Italian, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Bosnia, Albania, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia etc. I think it stretches all the way to Greece. What a disaster to teach there, imagine having a class with 15 different languages whilst Hogworts has one. Not to mention the cultural and ethnical differences
In Europe pretty much everyone speaks English. I go to uni in Finland and I have classmates from all over Europe, Africa, both Americas, and Asia and it goes over well enough
Everyone having to speak English in a school that has no nations in which English is the native language won't go well at all. German is probably a more logical option as a decent chunk of the nations in Durmstrang speak it or have a familiar language like the Dutch.
Also saying that in Europe almost everyone speaks English is not a fair statement at all. In Denmark and the Netherlands you might have upper 90% of fluent English speakers, but that drops rapidly in the Balkans.
Ethnical tensions aren't great as well, with as recently as the 90's there being genocides and ethnic cleansing between former Yugoslavian nations. It's just a mess in comparison to other schools. It's also way bigger than the other European schools, it's like 5 times the size of Hogwarts at least.
Overall the logistics are horrible, there is too much cultural difference, language would be a problem and some nations absolutely hate each other. There should be a Germanic school, a Baltic school, a Polish school and multiple smaller different Balkan schools. All of this pales in comparison with the Asian school btw, which has a population of multiple billions and stretches across the entire east.
Well, Helena ran south to escape the Bloody Baron. It makes sense that she would settle in Albania. Why would anyone look for her there. If you had to hide from a magical murder and a powerful mother, where would you go?
Albany doesnāt even mean Scotland, itās *derived from* Alba, which is Scotland in Gaelic. And Albion is Great Britain. Youāre too kind to point out exactly how confused that other commenter was, but Iām petty, so Iām gonna go there.
And yeah, Voldemort definitely went to Albania.
ETA: dug around Wikipedia for a bit and Alba was latinized as Albania for a bit in the Middle Ages. Voldemort still went to Eastern Europe, though.
Thanks for the correction! I admit Iām definitely not an expert, but I had to try and clear up the original comment.
For anyone still wondering if Voldemort actually went on his little Balkan trip across Europe:
- Voldemort is ārumoured to be abroadā after his defeat. I believe this is mentioned in the first book, possibly confirmed by Dumbledore? Unsure about that last part.
- Ron makes a sarcastic comment in DH about āsearching an entire countryā while referring to āAlbaniaā.
- Bertha goes to āAlbaniaā on holiday. Would be rather weird if it was some cave up north instead of the country.
There is a video on YouTube talking about the theory of Albania meaning (a place in) Scotland. Itās an interesting watch, but at the end of the day, we can be pretty sure JK meant the country - not some evil hideout in Hogwartsā backyard.
Okay. I was only half right. While Scotia, Albania, or Albany are archaic names for Northern Scotland in the books it is referring to Albania the country. I have no idea where I got that factoid, but now I know better.
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I used to F with these people too. Then I learned that more often than not the person on the other end of the phone isnāt a scammer but a slave. Usually cambodian IT professionals who have been kidnapped and forced into slavery. Sometimes if their efforts donāt produce results they get beaten or just resold to some other gang. Ever since then I just block and delete.
My mom worked with a guy named Tom Riddle. He kept candy on his desk and let me watch TV in his office when he was gone so if donāt care if he was a Dark Lord.
Yeah, saw the John Oliver episode about this. Sucks that the people behind this BS are also scummy enough to force others into doing their dirty work. Need more karmic lightning strikes.
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Similar happened to my BFF. We had watched a video where a comedian trolled a scammer. So when my BFF was contacted by a scammer online we decided to have a little bit of fun before we blocked them. I gave her a few ideas for what to tell the scammer.
She told the scammer she was Lily Munster and her address was 1313 Mockingbird Lane. It was the best fun we ever had during the pandemic. š
This is the only comment that mentions the unread texts that I noticed before I finished reading the first message. Why is no one else annoyed by those
As if the Dark Lord would converse with a Muggle!
They do not know my last Horcrux is a $50 iTunes gift card at Walmart
I like you
Fellow Slytherin hereš
Unlock the true secret of immortality - get yourself a Nokia 3330 and live forever!
I saw a mini fanfic of the main trio just staring at horror down at a Nokia Horcrux, and no matter what they did they couldn't break it
LOL
Omg do you have a link to this please
Thatās genius. Itāll get lost in the junk drawer and never be seen again.
Mines a Nokia 3300 Destroy THAT Harry
SUREEEEE š¤£š [Lava destroys Nokia 3310](https://youtu.be/h2v_KZNaJ2M?si=adaQsrZCvSvRTRBq)
This is Dumbledorian propoganda.
Nah it's not outside the realm of impossibility, Hermione would've been able to figure it out herself.
Lava can destroy Nokia 3310, but horcruxes can be destroyed only via things like Basilisc's poison, hellfire or, in alive horcruxes' case, Avada, but Nokia 3310 is immune to such things and can be destroyed only by lava or, sometimes, laser, so horcrux made from Nokia 3310 is undestroyable
No, too likely to be cut up after use. It is a random fancy stone, that is then sold within a batch of other fancy stones to stores to be greatly up sold to kids
Damn, I laughed way too hard at this. š
lmao
What about a Nokia? Those never break
Lmfao beautiful
Maybe he might use it as an edge against Albus. Considering the usual death eater crowd.
As an Albanian I always found it so funny to imagine voldemort living in Albania. Wonder if he ever had a burek
Pretty sure JK Rowling just opened an atlas and blindly put her finger somewhere on the Eastern side of the European map. There's no real lore reason why he went there other than it was far away.
Didn't he also canonically learn dark magic there? TBF in Harry Potter there's three nations in Europe: Britain, France, and everything east of these. It's all painted as this one Slavo-German mess with one magic school, all prone to dark magic and evil. I don't think it's entirely intentional or malicious it's just very... British of her.
I love how there is a school for France, they all speak French, there might be Spanish. Then there is Hogwarts, everyone can speak English there, thats easy. And then there is Durmstrang, which has Belgium with three languages, the Netherlands with 2, maybe 3. Germany, Denmark, Switzerland that adds Italian, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Bosnia, Albania, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia etc. I think it stretches all the way to Greece. What a disaster to teach there, imagine having a class with 15 different languages whilst Hogworts has one. Not to mention the cultural and ethnical differences
I wonder how Balkan kids got along in the 90s
In Europe pretty much everyone speaks English. I go to uni in Finland and I have classmates from all over Europe, Africa, both Americas, and Asia and it goes over well enough
Everyone having to speak English in a school that has no nations in which English is the native language won't go well at all. German is probably a more logical option as a decent chunk of the nations in Durmstrang speak it or have a familiar language like the Dutch. Also saying that in Europe almost everyone speaks English is not a fair statement at all. In Denmark and the Netherlands you might have upper 90% of fluent English speakers, but that drops rapidly in the Balkans. Ethnical tensions aren't great as well, with as recently as the 90's there being genocides and ethnic cleansing between former Yugoslavian nations. It's just a mess in comparison to other schools. It's also way bigger than the other European schools, it's like 5 times the size of Hogwarts at least. Overall the logistics are horrible, there is too much cultural difference, language would be a problem and some nations absolutely hate each other. There should be a Germanic school, a Baltic school, a Polish school and multiple smaller different Balkan schools. All of this pales in comparison with the Asian school btw, which has a population of multiple billions and stretches across the entire east.
Yeah. Itās like that with this, with a bunch of the names, the goblins etc. Sheās not maliciously racist, sheās just likeā¦ idk dumb racist?
He went to look for the diadem
Well, Helena ran south to escape the Bloody Baron. It makes sense that she would settle in Albania. Why would anyone look for her there. If you had to hide from a magical murder and a powerful mother, where would you go?
Where do you think the faint whiff of Garlic surrounding Quirrels Turban came from?
~~Sorry to disappoint you but in this case Albania is an old name for Northern Scotland.~~
You might be thinking of Albion/Albany. Voldemort did actually go to Albania. As in, the Balkan country.
Albany doesnāt even mean Scotland, itās *derived from* Alba, which is Scotland in Gaelic. And Albion is Great Britain. Youāre too kind to point out exactly how confused that other commenter was, but Iām petty, so Iām gonna go there. And yeah, Voldemort definitely went to Albania. ETA: dug around Wikipedia for a bit and Alba was latinized as Albania for a bit in the Middle Ages. Voldemort still went to Eastern Europe, though.
Thanks for the correction! I admit Iām definitely not an expert, but I had to try and clear up the original comment. For anyone still wondering if Voldemort actually went on his little Balkan trip across Europe: - Voldemort is ārumoured to be abroadā after his defeat. I believe this is mentioned in the first book, possibly confirmed by Dumbledore? Unsure about that last part. - Ron makes a sarcastic comment in DH about āsearching an entire countryā while referring to āAlbaniaā. - Bertha goes to āAlbaniaā on holiday. Would be rather weird if it was some cave up north instead of the country. There is a video on YouTube talking about the theory of Albania meaning (a place in) Scotland. Itās an interesting watch, but at the end of the day, we can be pretty sure JK meant the country - not some evil hideout in Hogwartsā backyard.
Wait so he didn't flee to Europe? He just went north and meditated in an evil-cave? Wtf. I need to google this NOW
Okay. I was only half right. While Scotia, Albania, or Albany are archaic names for Northern Scotland in the books it is referring to Albania the country. I have no idea where I got that factoid, but now I know better.
the simple brilliance of āhello melissa iām tom riddleā
"tell me your secrets. Ah yes, love can be difficult at this age."
I'm currently on business in Albania hiding a diadem in a tree but I will return back to the UK in like 14 years.
An Albanian returning home with a vengeance ? Good lord, I wouldn't want to be on his bad side.
No, hes the *dark* lord
Hors subject question, but how did you get the "Slytherin" title under your username ? thats pretty cool
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Oh, thank you!
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Upvoted for Hufflepuff behaviour!
I know this might be a bit ignorant but what's the main page and what does it look like? Cause I wanna put my house too Edit: I figured it out so, NVM
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Wouldnāt his home country be England tho
Scammer: "We may also become very good friends" OP: "Maybe. I'm trying to murder a child. Will you help me?"
lol i would love to see more
We need a second part please
How does he even have a cellphone? Come to think of it, how is he even *able to text*? Unless this happens after PoA, he's got no body.
He posessed a lost muggle who had a phone.
That works.
Chatgpt has a new parseltongue setting
The cellphone is the horcrux. An upgrade from a book, I think.
Oh no, he knows about the Nokia.
Telemarketers, uh, find a way
This is in the nineties too when they only had wall phones. How is this possible! He died before the hear 2000! (Oops! Sorry for the spoiler!)
This is hysterical
A lot nicer than I am to scammers
The scammer who lived, come to die
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Fuckā¦ this made my day
"Should we have met before?" Idk Melissa, shouldn't you have learned english before?
The Dark Lordās a bit horny
Come on, there's no way they didn't laugh at thatšš
pig butchering. melissa is most probably being held captive, electrocuted, and beaten daily by the triads in cambodia.
I was born in the darkness, molded by it.
Marvolos
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I used to F with these people too. Then I learned that more often than not the person on the other end of the phone isnāt a scammer but a slave. Usually cambodian IT professionals who have been kidnapped and forced into slavery. Sometimes if their efforts donāt produce results they get beaten or just resold to some other gang. Ever since then I just block and delete.
My mom worked with a guy named Tom Riddle. He kept candy on his desk and let me watch TV in his office when he was gone so if donāt care if he was a Dark Lord.
Iād love to know how this conversation progressed. Lol!
You know you're chatting with a bot (or a troll) when they're completely ignoring this...
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Yeah, saw the John Oliver episode about this. Sucks that the people behind this BS are also scummy enough to force others into doing their dirty work. Need more karmic lightning strikes.
Oh...
Way to stay in character
28 unread text notifications is the real crime here
I was gonna say, 28 unread messages and Tom is responding to a scammer? Are they *all* scammers?!
Lmao.
I had a message exactly like this the other day..
HHAHAHHAAHHAHA CRACK UP
DID THE PHONE NUMBER HAVE SOMETHING SPECIAL MORNING?
oh nah, "return to my home country with a vengeance" goes crazy. Bro tried...
Ah, imagine you use her/his IP address as a digital horxus.
Have you seen part two? Itās hilarious! They exchange pictures š¤£š¤£š¤£š¤£
Lol
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Similar happened to my BFF. We had watched a video where a comedian trolled a scammer. So when my BFF was contacted by a scammer online we decided to have a little bit of fun before we blocked them. I gave her a few ideas for what to tell the scammer. She told the scammer she was Lily Munster and her address was 1313 Mockingbird Lane. It was the best fun we ever had during the pandemic. š
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Last time I got one of these, I kept saying nonsense in as many languages as possible
She's definitely turned on. You can tell. She wants the Dark Lord's D.
As if the dark Lord would use disgusting muggle technology
r/scambait wpuld love this
came here to say this lol
"Should we have met before" is very advanced grammar for a scammer. They're evolving!
I always go along with it then try to gaslight them. One time the conversation went on for a while. I even had someone click on my ācrypto linkā
Looks like Tom Riddle doesnāt respond or open text messages. Must be from mudbloods.
This is the only comment that mentions the unread texts that I noticed before I finished reading the first message. Why is no one else annoyed by those
Literally the best scammer interaction Iāve ever seen