Today's weird Harry Potter thought...

[ffutures]

 Are there Chocolate Frog cards for Voldemort, Grindelwald and other dark wizards? If not, who decides on who is and isn't a dark wizard, and how badly have they got it wrong?

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[watervole]

The chocolate manufacturers, of course. But they are always right, because kids grow up believing what is on the cards, and therefore their perception of who is a dark wizard is warped...

[ffutures]

Yes, that's something I was thinking - if Voldemort had won a complete victory he would have eventually had his own card as the hero, and the frog cards of his enemies deleted or changed to make them the villains, with any remaining resistance distributing crude copies of the old versions in an attempt to discredit him. The Babylon 5 episode Deconstruction of Falling Stars comes to mind.

[willibald]

Dark wizard cards come with the plain chocolate frogs.

[ffutures]

Someone reminded me that Herpo the Foul is one of the cards for the regular chocolate frogs, so I've decided that they do have cards for dark wizards in the regular series, but not normally until well after they are safely dead and less controversial (and unable to complain). Of course Voldemort could possibly decide otherwise and demand a card as soon as he gains power. We know that there are cards for living wizards, e.g. Dumbledore, but Dumbledore is a little less likely to blow up the factory if he doesn't like what the card says.