Why Are There No Powerful Wizards Anymore?
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- Опубликовано: 25 сен 2022
- Today I wanna talk about why there’s no powerful wizards anymore. The Harry Potter story is full of lore, I mean I’ve made a living from it and lots of other channels too. It’s great that we can learn more about the characters and their backgrounds just by a quick search or through a RUclips channel. Anyway, what we do see throughout the Harry Potter books and movies is that it pays attention to the past, like events of the past and great wizards of the past. There’s nothing really exceptional today in relation to amazing wizards or even young prospects and i'll be examining why that is today.
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There may be a component of a lack of support for those who experiment with magic. You see all through the books how non-ministry approved spells and potions are banned and experimental results are either criminalized or silenced.
The ministry is trash
True.
The Elder Wand also removed a lot of powerful wizards from history. Many ancient lines were snuffed out in the search of The Wand of Destiny.
Snape was up there he created many spells. And his potion making was even better.
Let's also not forget some of the joke shop items the weasley twins made
I mean I always assumed it was partially due to the back to back massive wars that were fought (1st and 2nd Wizarding War) and so many of the current generation were killed, thus many of those with that level of potential (Snape, The Potters, Moody, etc) were killed off before they could reach their full potential
I believe it is due to a lot of studying restrictions,
the wars, and also the actually act of studying. If you look at Hermione she studies and breaks into the restricted section if needed to gain knowledge but that’s not most students. I believe a huge mindset went towards staying safe rather than fighting like Hermione Ron and Harry.
I've always suspected that Herpo the Foul was an ancestor of Salazar Slytherin.
Anyway as for the reason why there aren't any really powerful wizards/witches anymore is partly cause so many people died in the Wizarding Wars in less then a century and the fact during them Muggleborns were killed and fled that fewer people developed their magical abilities. But also partly because of repressed knowledge/forbidden knowledge and overregulation also reduced the potential of greatness.
Ofc Herpo the Foul is related so Salazar Slytherin, he literally created Basilisks..
@@ssniper-mb7js I agree; but unless I missed it, on Wizarding World/Pottermore I don't think it's officially listed.
Bear in mind that there were decades, and sometimes centuries between these great wizards. If Dumbledore and Voldemort are the last ones, in the recent history and lore, it could potentially be several decades, or maybe even centuries before the next one.
What few characters had in HP was creativity, Hermione was a great example, very talented but closed minded. There was never a need for most characters to experiment or be creative, I would have loved to see Harry or Hermione have to try to create new spells to help them when they were on the run in book 7. That would’ve shown incredible character development from when we met them in the first book.
We also have the Peverells and their unbeliavable crafting abilities. By I would very much like JK to give us a little more on all of these individuals.
My theory is that a LOT of potentially powerful wizards were killed in the last 2 wizarding wars from that last century.
An example is Snape. Who had enormous potential to nearly rival Dumbledore and Voldemort one day.
Also remember that the last 2 wars caused a lot of damage.
So a lot of knowledge was lost
He didn't have the potential to rival Dumbeldore nor Voldemort. Snape was getting bullied by James Potter lmao
@@KingRobbStark james was pretty powerful so i wouldnt hold that against him
@@hiplsnols4394 Everybody is powerful then. The power metric in the HP world seems kinda screwed up then.
You also need to think about technology. Why use spells when you have the internet.
@@zawwin1846 One thing that I never really understood, is even if it is England there are black markets and access to the rest of Europe so why did no mudbloods, squibs, or muggles aware of the wars not help with weapons like guns, explosives, or even have used it as a excuse to intervene and take over, Wizards and PureBloods are not the only people after power, hell the prequels even take place during a time in which atrocities were being committed by a muggle with ridiculous facial hair.
I’ve always wondered if the practice of reproducing only with other magically able people had an effect on the magically capable bloodlines as inbreeding had on normal bloodlines. Inbreeding causes numerous health and well-being problems. Maybe there is a correlation there.
Well all the pure bloods are inbred so wouldn't be surprised
DA managed to perfect spells in hour lessons once a month from another student they all managed to make a full Petronas within that time a feat that takes powerful wizards to accomplish at 16 years of age......no powerful wizards anymore I think not. One of who survived the killing Curse 3 times but still not classed as a powerful wizard? The most skilled in that year had two muggle parents.
Hermione is a good support for that theory. Being muggle born and excelling in magic
@@marc-antoinecusson3119 maybe but there are just some witches and wizards are just born Powerful and geniuses.
@@davidmonaghan26 yes but i believe that muggle born are the seeds for new médical family lines. Since wizards have To come from somewhere and might just have started as such.... muggle born
gellert's method/solution might have been wrong but your reminder on ww2 can't stop me from thinking he wanted to just avoid that war from happening which is understandable...
People like Dumbledore, Voldemort, the Four Founders, etc were all wizarding phenomenon, the kind of prodigy who only appears once or twice in each generation if at all. That is the reason why we haven't seen someone similar yett, but I am quite sure that eventualy the next great prodegy will appear.
No wizard’s power level has been over 9000 for a while. That’s why.
Powerlevel at 69,000 is very åowerful because it's a magical number.
Love this video! I would draw the distinction between powerful (skill at dueling and raw skill) versus notable (fame, achievements etc.) I would say there are still some powerful wizards outside of Dumbledore and Voldemort: McGonagall, Snape, Bellatrix and Sirius Black with Snape fitting more into what you’re describing.
At least in part the two wizarding wars largely lowered the magical population especially in Great Britain leading to a lower birth rate. The political corruption/conformity and making magical experiments hard to do. The trace also could stop young geniuses studying and experimenting outside school which would lower skill especially ones without magical parents, take fred and george being able to experiment but hermione would be expelled. It could also have a factor of weakened magical bloodlines or just a lower amount of magic compared to a thousand years ago. As well as a loss of knowledge through muggle persecution, wizarding wars or destruction of dangerous texts by wizards and Witches.
I think the two wizards’ wars may have been responsible for the deaths of the greats that may have come into the spotlight during Voldemort’s time. Any great and powerful witch or wizard from this time period would have been drawn into these conflicts to one side or the other, and many met their ends as a result of it.
Those such as Edgar and Amelia Bones, the Prewett brothers, Barty Crouch Jr., Severus Snape, and Bellatrix Lestrange just to name a few.
All these powerful wizards didn’t appear at the same time. Maybe one every 100 years. Who knows, Neville Longbottom may be this generation’s most powerful wizard. Do the math and just see how often a super power has appeared over the last 1000 years.
I think that innate magical potential can only be pushed so far and a wizard/witch amount of magical power cannot exceed the innate magical potential that they have.
I think is just like in our world. The more we push the limit on technology the easier life becomes. And as life gets easier, the things done to bring us to that point becomes unnecessary. It's the same with magic
I think you answered your question. All the great wizards/witches you mentioned in the video needed something. Some of them were after power. Some of them tried to enhance their abilities. They invented some of the spells due to their lackings. Plus they had the magical proficiency to do so. Contemporary wizards and witches probably don’t seek for something and so they don’t feel the need to invent a magic.
Plus last century was full of action, probably everyone wants peace of the ordinary life.
I think it's because the really great wizards are rare, and only happens once every maybe 100 years. Therefore there are not really any powerful wizards in harrys generation compared to dumbledor or voldemort.
i think there is plenty of powerful witches and wizards around the world today it’s just the harry potter series highlighted 2 of the absolute most powerful wizards of all time (voldemort/dumbeldore) and comparing other wizards to those type of wizards just isn’t fair, basically there’s a lot of really powerful wizards but not everyone is gonna be able to achieve what the two greatest wizards of all time.
Great video. I'm not sure I agree, but I certainly understand your point of view and appreciate the great work you do.
I love all the witches and wizards listed... BUT I think I'd like to see an Asian or South American witch as the next big bad... just what I'd like to see. Shine the light on the ladies for a while.
There’s always one pushing woke political correctness, why does it have to be a woman or someone from a different ethnic group? The magical story is what it is, live with it.
Fantastic video Dean. 😊
Pretty Slytherin view of what a great wizard is
I think it depends on what person understand as ‘being great.’ Snape, apart from all the hate some people feel, was able to fool Voldemort; it requires a great deal of strength and intelligence. Harry killed Voldemort (yes, he had help, but imagine being a 17 year-old who has to leave everything just to hunt Horcruxes). Newt Scamander wrote a book that educates wizards and witches not only in the UK, but also in the US (and perhaps in other countries); that’s a big deal. I see greatness in many different characters that were introduced to us in the books and movies.
Being great is such a vague term that I think he is trying to encompass multiple synonyms like innovative, advanced, powerful (the most powerful amongst the powerful), intuitive, things like that. With dumbledore we get a description at age 15 of, "he did things with a wand that I've never seen." Yeah harry is powerful amongst his peers, and Hermione is very intuitive with magic, but they aren't at the level of being more capable than adult wizards, just on the same level. Newt had a passion for magical creatures, but we never get the impression that he is able to do magic on a grand scale. He just takes the time to understand magical creatures
@@H0uxdubxston Sometimes Harry does do truly exceptional things, like a corporeal patronus at 13 (as even most adult wizards can't do a fully corporeal patronus).
@@H0uxdubxston He also does a lot of other exceptional things, such as teaching several other underage wizards to produce their own corporeal patronus. In fact, as far as we know in canon, Harry is better at producing and teaching a patronus to others than anyone else we've seen, and the patronus is one of the most difficult charms we know of.
@@thareelhelloagain you are so right, and I actually thought about that when coming to my conclusion. A patronus is very difficult, and yet we still see almost every member of the new order of the Phoenix casting one. Fully trained adult wizards. I never denied harry being powerful. I never denied students at hogwarts being powerful. As I said though, the most powerful amongst the powerful. The kids from hogwarts in the main series are not that. Harry is a great teacher for being able to teach his peers that skill, but this isn't some unnatural occurrence. The right teacher can teach any person any subject. It's how you relay the information that will resonate the most with the person being taught. Realistically, harry being able to learn a substantial piece of magic at a young age is due to necessity and upbringing. Harry disliked the dursleys, but he didn't hate them. He understood in the end that there was a bitterness from petunia that may have plagued Vernon and, by extension, dudley. Hell, the dursleys attitude couldve been amplified the whole time since harry was a horcrux. Seeing what love and companionship can be like helped harry find his own in his friends. The dark lord had only questions for the first 10 years of his life. Outside of that, he seemed as average as can be in name, appearance, and living in an orphanage. It only makes sense he try to become something nobody has ever seen. Necessity, because harry fainted everytime a dementor was close. Harry is definitely powerful and intelligent, but he is not on the tier of snape, dumbledore, the dark lord, grindelwald, etc
You cannot say Harry killed Voldemort because the only reason why Voldemort was killed was because the elder wand refused to kill it's true master and then made the killing curse backfire on Voldemort.
I think that there are just as many powerful wizards as there was, it is just that because history will only focus on the most impactful and powerful the much more average witch or wizard is forgotten and the number of powerful wizards seems to be inflated
Counter arguments:
Luna Lovegood's mother. She experimented with magic and died when one "went wrong" she possibly created many new and wonderful magics and spells that were lost when she died.
Severus Snape. He fixed the old potions book, was a master of potion making, and created spells like "septum sempra" (sorry if that is grossly misspelled)
Peter Petigrew. He had the ability to do difficult magic and eventually brew the resurrection potion for Voldemort.
The Mauraders. They created the map and were able to perform the Patronus spell at young ages, especially for their time.
Fred and George Weasley. They created many gag and joke magics.
The Potter Family. Their hair potion.
I don't remember who it was, but didn't someone come up with a cure or treatment for dragon pox? 🤔
I think that history books and lore also paint these masters and geniuses of the past with such careful and perfected strokes, that we don't see the whole picture. Maybe some witch or wizard did something new or cool. Then it stuck. Then it has been passed down and praised for so long that no one sees that there are things being done in the present time too. The history books just haven't caught up yet. Maybe. 🤔
There was a recent powerful witch. Is just that we fans won't aknowledge her: Delphini known as the Augurey. Voldemort's supposedly daughter... yeah... I mean she clearly had the potential and if allowed would've followed her father's ways...
Lord Voldemort was very powerful he had yet to gain his full strength back thou before the end.
Dumbledore is very powerful its the ring that made him weak.
And there are really powerful Wizards and Witches still they are just more tempered and controlled then before given the Battles and Wars.
@Harry Potter Folklore
1) All the deaths in the prior 2 wizarding wars mean there are far fewer young wizards being born. The lesser number lowers the odds of that 1 exceptional wizard per generation.
2) The horror of the 2 wizarding wars made many promising wizards focus on love & family & keeping them safe rather than lusting for power. Example Molly Weasley was clearly very powerful (beating Belatrix) but she dedicated her life to keeping her family safe after her 2 brothers and later her son was killed.
3) The two wizarding wars totally disrupted the education of up & coming wizards.
One of many possibilities is that the increasing restrictions on when and where young witches and wizards could practice what they learned at Hogwarts.
Between the restrictions on under aged magic outside of school, to the limited places within the Hogwarts were use of magic is aloud within the grounds, most students usually end up effectively wasting six out of seven years of education.
This also makes me wonder about the other Wizarding communities around the world, and the fact that Teana Goldstein was able to hold off Grindelwald rather effectively till he chucked a car at her.
I kind of think it's that there are other such wizards in other parts the world, and that the claims of the likes of Dumbledore truly being the most powerful of age might be more acin to the sort of patriotic bluster made by anyone from any nation.
Especially if another country were to give more allowances for younger students to practice what they learn.
As for Harry and Hermione's generation - they grew up hearing about and dealing with the aftermath of two Wizarding wars, and fighting for their lives in a third. Apologies to Ollivander, but the appetite for boundary pushing will tend to vanish when the three top-regarded heroes of that last war must feel like people twice to three times their age - and they can't be alone in that. I'm also going to offer up my standard SW/Sith explanation: The old ancient powers and practitioners were awesome, but their methods often led to ruins, and even dark wizards like having a world to rule over rather than just an ash-pile.
Good question. Magic in Harry Potter isn't like the dark side in Star Wars where too many people using it dilutes it and weakens those who wield it as a whole. Maybe it's just that when everyone's magic, no one is.
The Ministry subdues Magical greatness so they can control it through bureaucratic red tape. That's why they ban any spells and potions they don't like, and don't allow young wizards to practice magic outside of school. And of course, also claim the authority to prevent Witches/Wizards from practicing magic, like Hagrid. The government in Harry potter stifles magical prowess by preferring academic achievement and obedience. This is how someone like Percy Weasley can achieve great success without being a great wizard.
I think that in the days before the svhools were built and a standard book of spells was created, witches and wizards more or less had to either learn directly from a master in an apprentice situation or had to develop the magic themselves.
Its likely that there were fewer trained witches and wizards, but because of the individualistic approach to their magical learning they were more specialized and advanced.
Once the schools were founded the students all had one safe place to go all learn en masse. you see a sudden and dramatic drop in overall quality but a massive increase in witch and wizard population.
Think of it like how there are so few master artisans today or how the standardized education system equalized the overall quality of education but doesn't really produce exceptional talent like a dedicated master apprentice relationship would give
"With great power comes great responsibility." Maybe the modern witches and wizards don't want that responsibility. Not everyone who is magically powerful must be a tyrant, but be sure that even the good guys who are that powerful are drawing fire to themselves by someone greater than them. There will always be someone to match your power or to surpass you. Very few are up for the task. I know that if I was able to be a wizard, I would want to be the most powerful Muggle Born wizard in existence. To be special.
The weirdest thing is that in the books, merlon is used as a wizard swear instead of a motivation for people to be better and become more evolving with their magic.
that's what I thought! how is Merlin not mentioned here lol
It's the eternal paradox. Hard times make strong men, strong men make good times, good times make weak men , weak men make hard times. In this case just replace the word men with wizard.
Hey Harry Potter Folklore Please Do What If Grindelwald Won? And please make the Video Long.
Ohhhhh, this is great! UP.
It could b there's no more powerful ones cause they're comfortable with what they've got. Like Hermione, look inside the box and are not creative to invent their own. Or don't have a drive for it. If I was a wizard, I would explore both light and dark magic on an even lvl for balance, and c if spells on tv really do work for hypotheticalness when cast by a REAL magical one..
Surely the dilution of the bloodlines........meaning only anomalies of genetics really stand out these days. The pure bloods had a point I suppose.....
The difference is alot of the context for how the past powerful wizards and witches completed their achievements is missing we hear about the feats they did but don't know anything past that all we know about them is what is written down in history books not the people themselves imagine if there was a ancient wizard and the only things we knew about him was
that he somehow survived the killing curse, Defeated the most powerful Dark wizard of all time 5 times and eventually killing the Dark Wizard, saved the Philosopher's Stone, Killed a 1000 year old basilisk, repelled over 100 dementors, Won the Tri Wizard tournament, came back from the dead, collected the deathly Hallows no context on how he did those things just that he did I bet people would just assume he was the most powerful wizard of all time.
As the reader we know all the content for those things but the majority of the wizarding world does not and the people writing it into the history books probably wouldn't either.
The modern wizards have dedicated themselves to controlling the muggle world, instead of the magical realms. They have succeeded in turning the muggle world against itself, as per the world wars, and cold wars. Once the muggles destroy themselves, it will be so much easier for them to continue their war against each other.
I'd like to point out what a few others have as well: While all the wizards and witches you mentioned fit the idea of notable greatness, there were also others who were great. James and Lily Potter, Sirius Black, Severus Snape, Fred and George Weasley - these were all people who had either achieved great things, were known to be very skilled, and/or invented new magical spells and products themselves. Unfortunately, all of these people were hindered by death in one way or another. The wars (first with Grindelwald and then the two with Voldemort that all spanned over three to four generations) had a great effect by not only killing people who could have achieved greatness but also pushing back those who survived by decades due to the trauma they suffered.
Great topic, by the way. This is quite the unseen side of the wizarding wars. Good on you for shedding light on this interesting topic ⚡✨
I wonder how wizards would fare in the "modern" world. Surely muggleborns would know about cell phones and the internet. A great wizard could arise to create wizardly versions of them. Bet there would even be one that would try to become a technomage.
Well Snape and James and Sirius were all killed before they could achieve the age or experience necessary to achieve that potential because it was stated many times James and Sirius were so smart they put Hermione to shame in terms of knowledge and together their collective intellect made up for the fact they were pranksters and bullies.
Snape was their intellectual equal but he took it down the dark path until he changed. And Snape also learned how to fly without a broom. So really the problem is that innovators keep getting killed before their time
concerning your question at the end: I think maybe the people who endured the battle of hogwarts andor Grindelwald were just so traumatised by the events that just like Harry, they seeked a quiet life with no more drama and death so they learnt that power is dangerous and just didn't pursue it (just my opinion)
I am subbed and liked the video but I still want to be a nargle :p
Maybe after the two wizarding wars major itself is weakened, all the death all the dark manic may have poisoned magic itself, something close to what it seen in Star Wars.
Uh . . . Newt? Yes, he may not be as powerful as Dumbledore or Voldemort, but he DID create a change in the magical community with his idea that magical beasts should be protected, and didn't Dumbledore say that Love is the greatest power of all. Newt LOVED all creatures & therefore helped change the minds of witches/wizards by writing a book scything that they should be understood & protected (in my opinion). 😉
Can you add the sources of your video clips in the descriptions please.
I think its simply because it became rarer. Even today, lets take the world of cuisines for example, most combinations have already been set and the new ones popping out are mostly modernizations or simply popularizations of pre-existing recipes. The world of magic works like that, what else os left to discover? They can already give life to armies of stone warriors, can learn how to fly with or without brooms, can put a destroyed room or even house back togheter with just a flick ot the wand, hell, what else is left to do? Its simple stagnation, slowly but surely, a few new grwat wizards will pop out
There are many historical gaps in the Wizarding World as long or longer than the one after Voldemort. No reason to think that the wizards are just in a typical gap between the rise of great wizards.
i have a feeling that magic in the modern times was built on the backs of what made wizards in the past great, so this makes it harder for wizards in modern times stand out since what can be discovered is discovered. so, to stand out as a great wizard you would need to put a lot more effort into standing out. Voldemort brought the UK and Irland's wizarding community to its knees to become great and Grindelwald literally waged war against all of Europe's wizarding communities and Dumbledor's greatness came from the fact he stopped Grindelwald, defied Voldemort, discovery of the 12 uses of dragon's blood and most importantly being THE smartest wizard in any room he walked into. this makes Dumbledor, Grindelwald and Voldemort exceptions to why there isnt any great wizards. even Nicolas Flamel was an exceptionally powerful wizard however you did get something wrong
the elixir of life the philosopher's stone creates is flawed as it doesn't prevent aging or slow it down, you still age normally, it only prevents death as seen by how fragile he was in fantastic beasts where a handshake alone broke bones in his hand
i think that the best wizards of harrys era, like harry himself, had enough action with the wizarding war, and the ones in between voldemort and harry (snape, james, lilly, etc) died during the war so didnt get to their full potentials
I think the wizarding world hit advancement wall. How is the magic they are making our improving, improving the daily lives of everyone else? Some power just for the sake of power with no purpose is not useful and ultimately to lead to evil acts if too powerful. So the desire to be this all powerful wizard really isn’t inciting to most. I think once wizards bond together with humanity post Voldemort and mix technology with magic. I think then and only then will technology finally push the envelope and power might mean something again
U for got about lilly and the mauraders
I suspect the main reason that there are no powerful wizards anymore is thanks to a lack of ambition.
Sure, the ministry of magic most likely also plays a part in it as in all movies and books they rarely liked it when something or someone became stronger compared to them. Voldemort and dumbledore are both strong enouh that the ministry didn't want to engage them in a fight if they could help it at all.
However, the thing that all powerful wizards had is ambition. Voldemort wanted to be strong so that he could overcome death and become a legend like his ancestor salazar slytherin. Don't remember dumbledore his reason but i suspect it was something like to get strong enough to ensure nobody would have to suffer if he could help it.
The 4 founders came from a darker time, so they either had to excel or suffer. This quote comes to mind for that specific reason: "Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men."
The other great/powerful wizards you mentioned all became that famous thanks to their ambition of achieving their goals. The creator of the horcruxes wanted to cheat death and he succeeded.
Nicolas flamel his ambition eventually got him the philosopher stone, grindelwald his ambition made him powerful enough to wage war in an effort to try and change the wizarding world. Without someone like dumbledore, i suspect grindelwald would have succeeded as well if someone like dumbledore didn't oppose him.
Actually I like your answer way more I thought about that too it's the lack of ambition people kind of become complacent in The wizarding world so that's probably why they don't inspire to do anything great
Where are these video clips coming from?
i think powerful as lots of diffident ways like seeking power to lord over peoples/groups (bad kind unless reasonable) and then you got Fred and george (Ron probly does help George but not how the curse child put it like) who open there own shop and hermione became minster of magic and harry is probly a powerful Aurror.
what about gred & forge weasley ?
It all comes down to your aspirations and ambitions, Dumbledore wanted knowledge,status , Glory and power from a young age, and stayed the course with a tunnel vision mentality, until his sister died, and thus became a widely known, high regarded, and very powerful wizard.
Some wizards and witches desire greatly to become aurors, and despite having the potential to become far more than that, end up just becoming aurors.
Another factor is how open your mind is when it comes to the ways in which you can attain that certain power or skill , we know Dumbledore and grinderwald had no limitations in their thinking when it came to how they were going to attain power, and dumbledore experimenting at a young age in his own time to be able to do things with a wand that his teachers had never seen, shows he was willing to work in his own company to discover new ways wielding magic, something that not many other students even bother themselves with, we know Voldemort also had no limits when it came to how he would attain power, as he did through any means necessary.
I do think natural talent plays a part, but not as big of a part as people make it out to, a keen mind and an eagerness for power and learning, that’s fierce and relentless will lead a wizard or witch to great power
I do believe the main problem is lack of creativity and government restrictions. There are several wizards who were exceptionally talented at commonly known magic. But wizards like Dumbledore, Voldemort and Snape could do more than that, creating their own spells and learning of spells that noone else knows.
I do believe that Hermione could’ve been up there, but she’s not creative and she conforms too much. Give Harry her knowledge, and he might create spells of his own (if he knew that that was possible)
Maybe a but crazy but perhaps for a wizard to be greatly powerful, at one point they have to deal with some sort of dark magic.
How do you advance non-dark magic without pushing the limits of what's right and kind and fair? That's a question to ask when thinking about the huge achievements of magic, that a great deal of them (or most) were dark wizards.
Edit: my point is, maybe it's why the lack of powerful wizards after Voldemort. Because nobody want to inflict dark magic to achieve greatness.
I'd guess it that after seeing what "power" did to so many, many didn't want power.
What about Kingsley Shacklebolt? They talk him up from what I remember
There is a lot of intervening centuries that has no mention of powerful or notable wizards.
Herpo the Foul 500BCE
(1400 year time skip)
Merlin ~900 CE + The four founders ~1000 CE
(400 year time skip)
Nicholas Flammel ~1400 CE
(500 year time skip)
Grindelwald, Dumbledore, Voldemort all around in the 1900s.
Powerful wizards or people who have a significant contribution to magic are few and far in between.
The nineteenth century is unusual as it has more than it's fair share of notable wizards.
It may take several centuries later before you get another wizard or witch that makes a significant contribution to the world of magic.
I do like the great war between wizard kind and muggles theory
Great things.Terrible! Yes, but great.
I just realized that Harry himself may not be in the top 20 most powerful in series.
I think and believe Aberforth is a powerful wizard
The marauders were powerful👏🙌👌
Bro whats his name Shamus.. the guy who makes everything explode... he has explosive potential
And both the wars
They are their just laying low
Of course there are. They're just not dead so we don't see them as icons. We're kinda used to know them as persons rather than by their magical abilities so we don't look at them by these glasses. But guys like Snape, Dumbledore, Kingsley, future Hermione, Moody, are real greats. And there are even a lot more great wizards abroad for sure.
When everyone is powerful, no one is.
I feel like half bloods are the most powerful. It’s like with the Saiyan race (dragon ball z) goku and vegetas half breed kids became super Saiyans by the time they were like 10 lol something that took the saiyans 1000’s of years to produce
The most powerful wizards of all time started out with a tunnel vision for power and knowledge, and greatness, and neglected everything else outside of it .
We all look at a wizard like Dumbledore and admire how powerful he is, and everyone asides from him thought the same way, and for good reason, dumbledore knows what he lost to get that power, a relationship with and the respect of his only brother , the life of his sister who he neglected despite her needing him , and later neglects power and tries to keep himself away from chasing after it, and prefers to teach at hogwarts, and aid the wizarding world against threats like his former self and the dark lords of the wizarding world
Possibly trauma and generational trauma. Grindelwald then 2 wizarding wars with Voldemort.
I liked it even when I was at school. P.s. I got in trouble.🤣
Do not forget about Merlin ! !
In the history of Truly Powerful Wizards !
I think it's because as the wizarding world becomes more modern, there's just no need for people to become this powerful. Hermione could certainly become that witch. Heck, anyone could if they dedicated their life to it. Talent helps, but anyone could learn the spells and magic. But what else would they do with it except dominate the world? Why would they want such power if they weren't going to use it? If you made a new society of wizards, similar to Sparta, I'm sure you would have tons of powerful witches and wizards.
Maybe they come once in a blue moon. Maybe they wouldn't exactly be great if there were many like them every few decades or som
Kingsley shackle bolt he was powerful ✨
What about the cursed child?
From what i can tell and correct me if im wrong about this but, from what i can tell their is really no gon't support for inventing thing in the magical society. And if one does invest in inventing magic that have to do so from pretty much from home on your own. If that is true then progress would be pretty slow to almost not all all really.
There are powerful wizards. It's just that the evil ones get most of the attention. A wizard/person can be very powerful, but choose to use their abilities for good, which in most civilizations gets ignored.
Perhaps Voldemort had such an influence of the what and how huge corruption can do nobody dare cross the lines he crossed. Sure it would be great to see powerful wizards but really I doubt anyone out of fear would do it
Snape was powerful👏🙌👌🤧😳😭
interesting
what happened to the statute of secrecy, maybe there are powerful witches and wizards who choose not to make themselves known to the muggle world
Grindelwald tried to warn everyone what would happen if they kept rolling around with those dirty little mud bloods. ;)
There are no more powerful wizards because, instead of concentrating on studies, the wizarding world finally discovered smartphones and Pokemon Go 😀
My guess is that every generation that followed World War II was kinda raised to seek the "simple life", a life that was perfectly normal, thank you very much, to coin the phrase. Even the famous people that emerged from 1945 until today generally like(d) to show just how "regular" thay are/were. Like, many people want to stand out in the crowd, but it's considered taboo to want to stand above the crowd. This doesn't just apply to celebrities or political or military leaders, it applies to business moguls as well. In modern times, we are more familiar with the inventions rather than the inventors. Each generation became less and less eager for power and prestige.
Well we never really see what the future looks like, sure you have that fan fiction that JK said she liked but that's not the future of the series lol even if they did do a sequel series I think it would get a lot of bashing since that's kinda the thing to do nowadays. Hell people are tearing up the original works with how they think they're poorly written, idk. I'd like something set in the future so we can see how the world has evolved after that last war, maybe wandless magic is more commonplace 🤷 maybe actual magical artifacts are seen as real power over skill with a wand and what spells you know.
I’d say it’s how technology improves we get dumber. They maybe be getting complacent. Especially after all powerful wizards being part of tragic events.
I want see merlin and Morgan la fey on their prime
I just think there isn't any content on their powers because J.K. wanted to wrap up the story but arguably I think that the harry and hermoine were both prodigies (harry producing a corporeal patronus as a third year and being the most proficient at DADA even teaching fellow students, dueling powerful death eaters before graduating, and becoming a head auror at 26 and hermoine similarly being talented in most aspects of magic getting an outstanding in everything but DADA, using her extensive knowledge of potions charms and transfiguration to help her friends against voldemort, and becoming the minister of magic. I don't think they will be on the level of voldemort or dumbledore because dumbledore was regarded as the most powerful wizard of all time even above merlin who has a whole nobel prize named after him but I think they might become as proficient as someone like Snape who started out as kind of an dud in school but became one of the most powerful wizards in the universe.