Harry Potter: How [a TERF] Writes Mystery
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The Harry Potter novels are excellent mystery stories. In this episode, I take a look at a handful of the techniques J.K. Rowling uses to successfully hide clues throughout the novels so that the reader always has a chance of successfully solving the mystery themselves.
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Did you just edit the title of the video? Are you trying to attract likes by playing on current ideological controversies...?
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Oh you didn't mention one of my favorite examples of this. Rita Skeeter. The book tells you Krum pulls a beetle from Hermionie's hair, there is a beetle in the bush outside the Yule ball, Harry hears one at Divination class, the Slytherins are huddled talking to something in their hands. Each time it seems like an odd detail to include but each one is followed by an article by Rita. Hermione puts it all together in the end. :)
Isn't it mentioned that Harry couldn't see Rita on the Marauder's map? 'Cause if I remember it correctly, Rita Skeeter, as an animagus, should appear on the map, since Peter Pettigrew did (in the Prisoner of Azkaban, in the scene where Harry is walking in the hallways in the night and meets Snape and then Lupin who takes the map away from him) even though he was in rat form. It's weird that nobody points out this plothole.
@@_HappyRadio_ Yes, I'm pretty sure she did appear on the map.
@JD James maybe they did and figured ron wasnt ready to come out lol
HappyRadio but are we sure he used the map when she was beside as a beetle? Crouch jr. as Moody took it from him after he went searching for Crouch at night!!
JK was always ahead while writing these...
@JD James I explain it to myself as such: a marauder cannot be seen on a map by anyone other than marauders or their relatives, or alternatively, he cannot be seen when he doesn't want to be seen. They "programmed" this map after all)
To be fair, the film makers didn't have to make the moon look so bloody obvious.
Yeah, it could have just been a white orb as well, maybe make it really bright and maybe have it dim and before it focuses, Lupin changes it. Also, as far as Ginny, they could have done the same thing as in the book and have her try to talk to Harry and Co. and as soon as she starts talking, Percy shoos her away and says that it's nothing and that he knows what she's on about and it's got nothing to do with anything. Either way, you can still look guilty and not be involved with the main event too. She's also supposed to be really embarrassed of being around Harry at this point and that's also why Harry sees her looking so shifty.
They showed crystal ball reading in Divination class later in the film, so they could've tried to use that as a red herring, but they didn't.
I find it hard to believe they were doing that and still left out Peeves, but that's usually not why movies are made. People who read tend to like the books better anyways. I would more assume they didn't do too much because they didn't know how or they decided to make it more obvious for younger audiences who haven't read the books? No idea.
It might have to do with the swedish translation of the book, but for long I thought that he saw a silver orb of some sort. Being a werewolf, this also makes sense for him to be afraid of and I think I figured it out before his transformation.
well the guy that directed the 3rd movie originaly didn't even bother with reading the books, not even the one he is adapting and i think it shows, prisoner of askaban is one of the best harry potter movies as a movie alone, but one of the worst adaptations (not as bad as goblet of fire but still pretty bad)
Also, all SEVEN books together communicated a much larger mystery, with clues planted all along the way. Now THAT is an amazing accomplishment.
lilyme3
Rowling is a genius
What mystery?
What's the much larger mystery
Yurim02 Horcruxes
horcruxes indeed, and Harry being one of them is one of the main recurring motives throughout the series that are hinted but not explained until the very end of book 7. So when you read the books a second time after reading book 7, you can see so many clues that you missed the first time haha
It's also cool when JK Rowling subverts her own established styles to misdirect the reader. For instance, in the Goblet of Fire when Harry goes to the Yule Ball and sees Krum with "a pretty girl in blue Harry didn't know." He later discovers that Krum's date is actually Hermione with a makeover, but without her "bushy brown hair" both Harry and the reader just skim right over her.
Oh yeah!!!!!
Oh yes, that was a great one.
Yes, that was really clever.
Or how she introduced a new teacher in the 2nd book so readers of the 1st book might think this new teacher is the culprit
Of course, the costume designers couldn't be bothered to care that it was a BLUE dress. That was their only limitation, but they couldn't abide that. They had to put her in pink as though Emma Watson didn't look good in blue.
Ah, you forgot her favourite trick...I call it her Wronsky feint. Meaning telling the Reader something and then providing the wrong answer. Off the top in my head she does it twice in book 2 - once when Ginny reacts shocked to seeing Harry with the diary, but her reaction is immediately explained away with her being embarrassed about the Valentin card, and again when she tries to tell him the truth and gets interrupted by Percy who immediately assures Harry (and the reader) that whatever she wanted to tell them has something to do with him, wrongly assuming it was about his romance with Penelope. And in book four Snape accuses Harry of stealing from him, and Harry immediately jumps to the theft Hermione committed in book 2, not realizing that Snape is talking about a more recent theft, thus distracting the reader from an important clue that someone in the castle uses polyjuice potion.
She also likes to use some suspect as distraction. In book 1 it is Snape. In book 2 she rightly expects the reader to have caught on and throws in Hagrid as the obvious suspect (nobody will buy anyway) and Percy as the more suspicious suspect, while secretly burying arrows pointing at Ginny. In Book 3 to 4 she ups the ante by throwing in more and more suspects, while also giving them a clever way to hide (as rat and as someone else who seems completely trustworthy), until she goes in book 6 and practically throws the suspect right in the face of the reader who, after so many misdirections, is practically trained to look elsewhere.
Best observation so far!
FYI, this technique is called a "red herring" :)
Yes, but the Wronski feint is a red herring move and since it's from the Harry Potter books works perfectly here ;)
@@KyleHarmieson A red herring is where you're presented something that seems to be important, but actually isn't. What swanpride is talking about is where you're presented something important, but are fooled into thinking it isn't. You could make the argument that the latter involves a red herring as the distracting element, but I think the distinction is fair. After all the sorts of examples swan outlined are quite a different technique from the 'snape is the bad guy' type red herrings we get.
@@a1ethioS No, it's nothing that specific. It's just a misleading/distracting clue.
She also works with red herrings a lot. Think about it - in Philosophers Stone we think it was Snape while it was actually Quirrel, in Chamber of secrets were lead to think that it's draco - when it's actually Tom Riddle. Same with Prisoner of Azkaban (Sirius - Peter), Goblet of Fire (Karkaroff - Moody /Barty Jr) etc etc
My ten year-old brain could not handle all the plot twists 😂
Those are part of the mystery element. She does it in such clever ways!
yeah I loved those twists where you're like "oh snap, Harry's got bamboozled". And they are part of the "fair mystery" technique - most of the twists you COULD have seen coming but you didn't and you feel kinda guilty that you didnt haha
And then there's Half-Blood Prince, where Harry suspects Draco and Snape - people he already suspected in previous books, they already proved innocent in previous books, and they're quite clearly red herrings now, as other characters point out to him... and then at the end it turns out he was right, and the previous books actually manage to make that into a twist.
Joseph Davis I KNEW that Snape was good because the end of the sixth book was way too soon to reveal his loyalty.
5:45 You know what's even more amazing? I read the books in a different language and STILL could identify two of the three.
indeed! I read them all in Spanish and Snape and Trelawney were as clear as day! I recognized Draco more by his blonde platinum hair than by his skin color, so that might be why I didn't get him
Same
No kidding. I haven't read the books and got 2 of them right.
Well the greasy hear is mentioned fairly enough throughout the series, that was one of the reasons he was bullied as a student.
Trelawney’s glasses are depicted quite well in the movies so it was easy to remember her too.
I couldn’t get Malfoy right though.
Me too.
I remember discussing the R.A.B. signature in the horcruxe at the end of book 6 with my best friend, I was absolutely sure to know who it was. I waited and waited for the release of book 7, and when it confirmed that I was right, I felt like Sherlock Holmes, one of the most gratifying attentive reader's experience I ever had.
Pointillax
Fucking awesome
Same for me - I got RAB almost immediately.
I didn't get R.A.B.
I read it the books in Russian. And in Russian, "rab" is a word that means "slave", so that became a red hering.
I reread Harry Potter
Love how in book 5 it sets up what seems like just some other details but turn out to be absolutely key later on like:
Aberforth, reading that from his perspective gives a bit more depth and has you understanding his thoughts. Same with Lupin in poa
Regulus, mentioned in quick passing by family tree
Locket, mentioned when they’re cleaning out the house
I solved in during Christmas. It was weeks after finishing the sixth book and I suddenly realized, who RAB was. I was lying in bed and literally sat up, when solving it :)
"It takes more effort for the reader to figure out that Lupin is afraid of the moon in the books" you say that, but his name is basically Wolfy McRaisedbywolves, so for some of us that level of hinting was just as blatant
You are right, but the Harry Potter books are actually written for children and I don't think many children know what "Lupus" means or who Romolus and Remus were.
@@lenastorm6280 I do!! I know who Romulus an remus were!!
@@lenastorm6280 On top of that, even if you know who Romulus and Remus were, with all the strange names in Harry Potter series, you can still shrug it off as nothing important.
At least you're reading in another language. I didn't realize about the name Remulus till now because in my language the names are slightly different so it isn't as straightfoward as is in English. (But after reading it, it seems obvious XD).
@@cavc94 Totally! In spanish we called them Romulo and Remo so even thought I knew the legend I never imagined Remo was actually Remus in english.
I also find that sometimes time is on her side. Like when it is mentioned that Draco was looking at a cursed necklace at the beginning of book two, that then becomes important again in book six, when it is used in one of the attempts at Dumbledore's life. Because there are so far between the two times it's mentioned, only someone who has paid a lot of attention to detail will be able to figure it out. I myself did not. But when rereading the second book, suddenly it all made sense.
Wasn't it the hand? I clearly remember it. Maybe it's both.
Anyway, you're right, it's one of the awesome things about those books. When you reread them you can see all the tiny detail and how they pay of later.
I never noticed all of these details in the first reading and i certainly wouldnt have guessed the endings of each book (if i wasnt spoilered) but the special thing about harry potter is even if you already know how it ends its still interesting to read and reread it. And then when those clues come up its extremely satisfying
Honestly, after the success of the first book, I think she planned everything out. The second book is filled with clues to the 6th book, especially in the Borgin & Burkes. The cabinet, the hand, and the necklace were all mentioned. Harry hid in the vanishing cabinet!
I love how she the only unsolved the mystery of the first book (What did Dumbledore see in the mirror of Erised) in the last book, when we find out about Ariana
There's this one very subtle hint that Bruce Willis's character is dead in The Sixth Sense: HE GETS KILLED IN THE VERY FIRST SCENE.
Not to mention his wife LITERALLY ignores him throughout the rest of the film like he's not there at all. Now if that if that first scene had been taken out all together and we followed his journey and his confusion until he met Cole, the ONLY character in the film who CAN see and acknowledge him, that would have been great. Then mystery becomes, who is/was this guy and how did he die?
Pretty sure most people who watched Sixth Sense just assumed he survived the shooting like I did. It was a great twist for me at the end.
Oh, I did too but then, as I got older and watched it again, I started thinking, why isn't his wife talking to him? I get she is traumatized by the shooting, but MOST of the movie? And if he's helping Cole with his problems, then CAN the mom see him this whole time? Oh he's a ghost? But then the mom was dropping Cole off to see..a ghost? Oh my head LOL too much for 10 year old me to think about back then (:
Timberwolf410 I assumed they were simply having marital issues after the shooting and that Willis was spending too much time on his work, determined to not fail another of his patients.
I recall that when it came out, the Sixth Sense's plot twist was pretty novel. We kind of assumed that he survived the shooting, but some other familial issues emerge and he's separated from his wife, so they're not on good terms. The fact that no one acknowledges him seems to reflect his life falling apart and no one being there for him. At least that's how I saw it. Funny how knowing the twist makes everything seem so obvious.
One of my favorite things about reading Harry Potter while the books were still being written was all the wild theories about what could be important and how minor things might play into future books. When the last book was being written, i knew a few people who brought up the heavy locket from Order of the Phoenix as Slytherin's locket. I don't recall many people remembering the diadem, though.
Yeeesss! The endless discussions about what might happen in the next book during the 2 year waiting period. You could talk to almost anyone you ran into about it.
The only problem I had is that sometimes the theories ended up being better than what was actually written. A good friend had me absolutely CONVINCED that Snape had said Avada Kedavra out loud, but in his mind had actually said expelliarmus (that's the book where unspoken spells are introduced I think), and since Dumbledore wasn't holding a wand it couldn't fly away and there was just a green flash, which is what it describes expelliarmus as being like. It all fit together so well, and I thought for sure Dumbledore would show up alive at the end of book 7.
TheNumberScott The books describe Expelliarmus as a red flash, actually, and in the movies it is shown as red too. Cool idea though.
this is not better than what was written.
TheNumberScott Dumbledore was dying anyway, so his plan to be killed by Snape made perfect sense. That's much better than your friend's theory.
I was the opposite, I don't think I remembered the locket, but when Harry in HBP was fussing around with an old tarnished tiara I did the squinty suspect eyes and thought, "ok that has to be something...a horcrux..?"
I just felt there was too much attention being put on that vs the locket. I also got back into writing (because of the books) by that time so ..that might be why.
Excellent video! I think another great thing J.K. Rowling does is use red herring characters. Some good examples include: Snape in the first book (we're led to suspect he wants to steal the stone), and Hagrid in the second book (we're fooled into suspecting that he opened the Chamber of Secrets).
Ludo Bagman in Goblet of Fire as well, which IMO has the best mysteries, between the triwizard tournament, Barty Crouch, and Rita Skeeter
He already talked about that in his plot twist video.
Snape is a red herring even for himself. I add to your list: Sirus and Peter case in book 3
And in Half-Blood Prince, Harry suspects that Malfoy is an agent of Voldemort. By now, the reader is suspicious that this might be another red herring - but it turns out to be true. Sneaky.
Yes I was thinking that. She amazing at making you think its one person and then being like lol jk its this guy. And if you read the book again you can see that she doesn't mislead you the info was all there.
Dude, in the first few minutes of this video you made me realize one of the reasons I like Harry Potter so much and also, why I don't care much for Sherlock
Yeah that's a good point. I really loved BBC Sherlock but it was never much of a mystery series. I think that would have added to it, or at least if they made more effort to communicate it wasn't really in the mystery genre. With it being Sherlock Holmes everyone had that expectation; I guess I wasn't that disappointed by it not being one.
hated Sherlock for what it did! I had put so much expectations into that series just to realize it was simply stupid. I don't like to be told - hey look, this character is SMAART, trust us - when there are no actual proof to that in the series.
All that money for special effects, actors and stuff simply wasted coz there is no credibility to those mysteries. No credibility that main charactar can actually think logically. A shame.
It's not like the Sherlock stories are perfect either, of course; I've been re-reading them and the Case of the Red-Headed league was great in terms of being a mystery you could solve (but probably won't), but the Resident Patient had too many new bits of information for me to feel like I could have guessed it from the start.
I remember, as a kid, there was one episode of The Scooby Doo Show about disappearing airplanes, where the culprits turned out to be people we haven't met in that episode, and I waz dissapointed, because I always tried to solve SD mysteries myself, but I couldn't do it of a villain is revealed oit of nowhere.
My friends used to harp on about it when we were all in high schol, but I never lifted my head up from my Harry Potter to bother.
This is something I've been meaning to write an essay about as well; more broadly, the topic of "magical mysteries". The core problem of a magical mystery is that magic makes anything possible, which puts the reader at a disadvantage in trying to solve the mystery on their own: since anything is possible, the author can, theoretically, make up any explanation ("A wizard did it"). Strictly speaking, the explanation will be valid, but it will be hugely unfair to the reader. Thus, any writer crafting a fair magical mystery must find a way to level the playing field.
One way is the "Magic A is Magic A" approach, where the writer establishes a fixed set of rules that govern magic, and makes them clear in the text, thus providing the reader with all the necessary information. One trick they can use in this case is to explain the rule *after* we've seen it in action. Perhaps the greatest example of this from the HP series would be the rule of claiming wand ownership via dueling: we see it at the end of the Half-Blood Prince, we hear it explained midway through the Deathly Hallows, and then at the climax Harry explains what *really* happened at the top of the tower that night. All the information was there, it was just presented "out of order", thus it never occurred to us to put two and two together.
Another one is simply to shift the focus of the mystery from the "how" to the "who and why". Rowling also uses this at the very beginning of the series, in the Philosopher's Stone: the mystery there is not so much centered on the theory of magic, but rather the children misjudging the characters of Snape and Quirrel. Fitting enough, since we don't really know enough about magic to construct meaningful, solvable mysteries just yet.
Mate Safranka Just use Brandon Sanderson's laws of Magic. BOOM! All problems solved.
I personally think JJ Abrams is the worst mystery writer in the entire world. His entire idea of never lifting the mystery ruins every single of his stories. Hence why he always starts out strong and only disappoints. Lost, Fringe, Star Wars, the bad parts of Super 8. I dunno why people hold this guy in high regards.
Imagine if you read all the Harry Potter Books and no single mystery got ever resolved. It would just suck.
I'd say Fringe had just enough satisfying resolutions to its promised mysteries. Certainly leaps and bounds ahead of Lost.
Westworld appears to be following this formula too unfortunately.
Star Wars wasn't JJ's fault it was Disney's. Disney should have either kept JJ for the entire trilogy OR give Rian Johnson the predetermined answers and instructions for those mystery boxes.
I wouldn't say he's bad, he just sets up things with no plans. The people that have to resolve these mysteries tend to do an awful job. But maybe the mystery sucks if it doesn't pay off decently.
the problem is that he's wrong. You don't have a mystery unless you have an answer.
If you think the original Sherlock holmes book mysteries were solvable then you are mistaken, Sherlock (at least the first seasons) followed the original structure of the books really well. The author who really made solvable mysteries mainstream was Agatha Christie.
Indeed. People forget that Holmes was based on a medical doctor, and thus his tells are too specific to be told vaguely.
So I got into Sherlock right around when I reread the original Sherlock Holmes novel in a critical light for a college course. The first episode is basically copy pasting the bullet points from the novel and reworking the details. You really aren’t supposed to be able to put it together.
This is a CRACKING video man! I've always felt like the series had mystery elements to it, but you put the finger on it so excellently in this video. 10/10
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Harry's Moving Castle Shame your Harry Potter "Did it suck?" series is over, mate. It's been fun watching it.
I give the video 9 + 3/4 just because he pronounced Rowling wrong
This is an incredible video essay. Makes me want to read the books all over again! (and watch the movies too)
What do you mean?#in what way?
Same, I'm staring my shelf right now wondering if I pick them or not. lol
Props to you for using images of the original UK editions of the books.
Great analysis! I'd like to add something to the Lupin - silvery white orb part. After class Lavender Brown (if I remember correctly who it was) asks why Lupin is afraid of crystal balls, which leads the reader a bit astray the first time(s?) you read it. This is not meant in a negative way, I just remembered it, and thought it might interest people. If someone already pointed it out, cudos to them!
The fourth movie extremely dumbed down the mysteries from the book!
If by dumbed down you mean completely eviscerated then yes, it certainly did. I could spend an hour listing all the ways that movie in particular betrays its core mystery from the weird tongue thing that _immediately_ gives the game away the _second_ you see "Moody" do it, all the way to the wholesale omission of Winky and how she plays into and is crucial to both Crouch's backstory and the events of the Quidditch Championship, but I'm too tired for that.
I think that's the main reason why I always liked all of the movies much less than the books, because they all to some degree lose that core mystery which was a vital part of the books' lifeblood. It's also the reason why I liked the movies less and less the further into the series they got. As the books got longer, but the movies didn't have the runtime to compensate, more and more had to be left out and since they couldn't very well take out the big action moments for money reasons that means every time there was a little less mystery and a little more generic fantasy coming-of-age monomyth...
Also Harry Potter was so monumentally successful that the people making the movies probably assumed that just about everyone watching already knew the answers so that's likely another reason why it feels like they just didn't even bother with the mysteries. Oh well, we'll always have the books and the movies are for the most part enjoyable enough in other ways so it's all good. Still, imagine how the movies could have been if they'd had the space to do the source material justice. That's why a part of me holds out hope that maybe one day we'll get a good tv adaptation with a season per book (potentially with varying episode counts if necessary) that will take its time to establish all the necessary elements, build its characters properly and is faithful to the mysteries at the heart of each book. Hey, I can dream, right?
ThegreatMizuti777 it wouldn't be the same without the original cast, in my heart at least 😂 I'm a sentimental mooshball lol
The fourth movie is also the worst in the series. Chamber of Secrets is just slightly not as bad. Third movie will always be king.
breakfastroute the fourth was unavoidable unless they would have split it I think
*Grace Haven* They could at least be more subtle with the clues. the way it was done in the movie was so blunt that it felt like an insult to viewer's intelligent!
NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT THIS NAME CHANGE
Just keep scrolling plenty of people are
I was confused about how recently this happened.
Sort by new and taste the terf salt
I had this video saved in the watch later folder, just recently noticed the name change. I was like 'C'moon! Can't we just have nice things? No? Okay...'
I'm sure JKR is devastated.
This is a great video but I'd just like to correct one thing. You're pronouncing J.K. Rowling's name wrongly. Her last name rhymes with bowling. She said so herself.
I was going to comment this myself if no one else did. It makes it hard to watch the whole video when I keep hearing her name mispronounced!
@@ThulcandrianPilgrim The same. Read the comments only to see if someone had already said it.
Now it rhymes with NERF
To paraphrase from Stephen Fry, “I asked her if her surname was pronounced Ro*w*ling or R*o*wling, to which she replied, “Rolling.” I then asked her, “So if I hear anyone else pronounce it otherwise, do you give me permission to hit them with The Order of the Phoenix, or perhaps something smaller, like a fridge?””
6:12
Book: "Bushy brown hair"
Movie: Curly blonde. Got it.
Rowling meant her to have African ancestry apparently. That's what she gets for dancing around the ethnicity.
Mikeztarp Really? Do you have a source for that?
she literally didn't thats another "dumbledore is gay" retcon thats completely ungrounded in her actual writing, and was only brought up so she could win more liberal points without needing to actually risk having a black main character.
Caius Cosades What? Do _you_ have any sources for this?
Mikeztarp She's still a brunette in the movies.
"It's probably been years since you've read the books"
_laughs in Parseltongue_
Honestly, the mystery element makes the series so much more re-readable.
On the first read, you probably wouldn’t notice many if not all the small clues, but when you reread, they jump out at you and it’s great fun watching it all fall into place.
I'm re-listening to all the books and this time I kept in mind that someone said "It's easy to get lost in the magic." In the second book when Harry is in Knockturn alley. Malfoy is looking at all the items along with mentioning the hand of glory she also mentions that there was a perl necklace in the shop. A perl necklace that doesn't come back until the sixth book when Katy Bell is cursed by them. This was the first time I had heard this. I've listened to the books at least 50 times each. The person who said "its easy to get lost in all the magic." Also mentioned that these details are good for world building as it stops things like the pearl necklace from being convenient plot devices as we've heard about them before.
Omg I have JUST been obsessing over Harry Potter again recently! It's like it was meant to be.
Editing the title to accurately represent the author is *chef's kiss*
Holy shit that title change.
the name change is really *chefs kiss* exquisite
Yes, how dare a woman say that men aren't women. Unsubbed.
@@Yaarrr trans women ARE women but i'm not going to fight with some uneducated person on the internet, have a nice day :)
@@Yaarrr just in case this is just out of not knowing much about menstruation instead of outright bigotry against trans people, I'll just say this: the term "people who menstruate" was specifically used because it's not just cisgender women who menstruate - older women stop menstruating after menopause, are they not still women? girls start menstruating with puberty, usually between the ages of 12-14, but they're not old enough to be considered women, the adult version of a female descriptor - are they not still 'people who menstruate' just because they are underage? And then, getting into trans issues, trans men and trans boys can still go through menstruation despite transitioning - do they not count as needing assistance when it comes to reproductive healthcare and do not benefit from menstruation being de-stigmatized as a whole?
But of course, you're obviously referring to trans-women in this statement as if they're "men" - which they're not since they live their lives as women, reintegrated themselves into society as women at great personal risk, and often get bottom gender confirmation surgery because people won't view them as women until they have the anatomy associated with females - even though they very plainly are not men, no matter what you may say about how they "still look/act like men" even when that's clearly not the case. On the grounds of talking about the health issue of menstruation - though let's be frank, it's pretty dehumanizing and disgusting to solely conflate womanhood with the ability to menstruate or carry a pregnancy, as if women are just incubators and there's no legitimate place or identity for women to occupy outside of menstruating and carrying a pregnancy - I'll say you're right, trans women do not menstruate.
*BUT,* don't you see that's the *whole point* in using the term "people who menstruate" *instead* of just saying women? The term "women" includes trans women + older cisgender women - who do not menstruate - while the term "people who menstruate" includes teenage cisgender girls + trans men/boys - people who *do* have the capability of menstruating ALONG WITH cisgender women between the ages of 18 to ~50 years old. [The TERF] we're talking about here, who insists on implying that only cisgender women menstruate can count in this discussion, is ignoring a significant population of people who menstruate while also delegitimizing an already marginalized and vulnerable community. There's a reason why people are rightfully mad that [the TERF] has once again shown how she doesn't perceive trans people as being important or relevant to discussions about reproductive healthcare and issues stereotypically categorized as "women's issues" when these issues are *bigger* than just those who identify *as* women.
I'd like to think that your comment was just born out of not knowing all of these things but, based on my past experiences on the internet, I'm more inclined to believe this is a result of transphobia. However, I don't personally know you or your story. Now that I've laid out the context, I would hope you'd read it and conduct your own research so that you can get a better understanding of *why* there's a push towards finally using inclusive language when talking about menstruation, abortion, and biologically female reproductive healthcare. Gender identity =/= biological sex and neither are binary - if you'd like to argue, I would *very* highly suggest you consider the existence of intersex individuals, "two-spirit" identities in indigenous cultures, and the many myths and stories of LGBT people from ancient civilizations as evidence that there *never* has been a binary when it comes to human sexuality, biology, and identity.
*TLDR* if you're going to post something like this, I would hope that you're willing to put your money where your mouth is and consider *why* people are mad and would react this way to [the TERF]'s recent behavior. If not, I'd ask you to stay in your lane and consider that not everything that other people do is a personal attack against you - something that's not the case for trans people when others that make the kinds of statements that [the TERF] made, of which is very much a personal attack against trans people since it tells trans people they either do not count as women or count as people who menstruate; both of these statements specifically hurt trans people and it's irresponsible for someone as well known, powerful, and influential as [the TERF] to perpetuate these ideas to as large of an audience as she has.
@@madcat9024 Lol @ thinking I consider it a personal attack. I'm not even a woman, why would it be a personal attack on me? My opinion is not borne out of ignorance, it's borne out of truth. The simple truth is that to be a woman you have to be female, and to be a man you have to be male. It's literally in the definitions of the words. Trans ideology is not based on truth. You can disagree with me but I'm neither a bigot nor a transphobe.
@Fuckth eChineseGovt Please understand that I'm a cis-gendered heterosexual woman and I'm a survivor of childhood sexual abuse. What happened to JK Rowling is a painful story to read, because I know how deeply that hurt lasts. I am also easily startled. I hate loud noises. PTSD is real. Survivors have a hard life. Feminism is indeed important. I loved the Harry Potter books growing up and I admire the worldbuildling skill in JK Rowling's writing.
But please also understand that the hate in your comments makes me very frustrated. The hate in the comments from people like you, people like JK Rowling, is extraordinarily frustrating. I support trans issues and the trans community. And someone assigned male at birth identifying as a woman, IS A WOMAN. And her being a woman doesn't take away rights from me. You're probably done reading now and don't care about anything I have to say, and I'm wasting my time, but I'll explain why.
The word TERF does not erase anything. Trans-Excluding-Radical-Feminist is just the truth. She is a feminist and she is excluding trans people from what she supports. Trans women in her eyes, aren't women who deserve women's rights. This makes me angry.
And we can't have dialogue with people like you because you clearly don't want to listen to us defending trans rights. You don't want to understand because you believe there's nothing left to understand. A trans woman is just a man to you. That's as far as your mental capacity stretches. You talk about wanting nuance and accuse trans activists of villainizing people, but for God's sake, you all make the same exact stupid arguments: "biological sex is real, stop bitching." NOBODY IS SAYING BIOLOGICAL SEX ISN'T REAL. Why is there no curiosity to learn more? Why is there no nuance on your side?
It boggles my mind that people are so inflexible and stubborn in their beliefs that they will deny normal people basic human rights and ignore the other side of the debate. Why do you expect allies of trans people like me, and trans people themselves, to listen to you and take your arguments seriously when you don't even do the same?
22 to 44 % of trans people have attempted suicide in their life time: ( www.suicideinfo.ca/resource/transgender-people-suicide/ )
One in two transgender people suffer sexual assault at some point in their lives: (ovc.ojp.gov/sites/g/files/xyckuh226/files/pubs/forge/sexual_numbers.html)
Police reports say that nondiscrimination laws do not increase sexual assault cases in regards to bathrooms
(transequality.org/what-experts-say)
We're saying that IN ADDITION to biological sex, there is also your Gender Identity. I don't understand how someone being born different from you takes away your rights as a cis gendered person. Nobody is forcing you to question your gender identity. Someone just wants to live the life that they want and they don't want to be discriminated for it. There's no secret motive. They're not trying to take away women's rights or corrupt people or get access to vulnerable people. That's what people like you WANT to believe, but what the fuck ever.
I don't understand how someone assigned male at birth discovers that they strongly identify with being female (because that's what their gender identity is, fucking female,) and them expressing their femaleness... HOW DOES THIS TAKE AWAY YOUR RIGHTS? How does this negatively impact you? I genuinely don't get it.
Anyways. God bless your heart and have a nice day.
It's crazy to see the praise for JK's writing and world building in this video and these five year old comments, complete 180 from the last few years
I loved how you simply came back just to edit it.
“It’s probably been years since you’ve read the books”
Me who listens to the audiobooks on a constant loop: 👁👄👁
This just popped up in my recommended vids again, and yessssss the title change.
Sherlock isn't a mystery show. In the words of the creators it's a "show about a detective" e.g., a drama with mystery elements.
I actually originally got into Harry Potter because of the mystery element - I was obsessed with Scooby Doo and Sherlock Holmes when Harry Potter was getting huge, and once the mystery element became clear, I was so into it! But this video really gets into *why* they're such great mysteries, so many thanks!
The graphics on this video are so good! Not only did they have helpful highlighted text, the colors chosen for the backgrounds were as rich and bright as Rowling’s worlds. They helped to create a very solid mental space to hold all of your essay’s points.
Well done! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
I was recently rereading Harry Potter and I was freaking out because I realized just how brilliantly JK Rowling wrote. When I was younger I didn't really notice, because it was all subconscious but she is just a genius!
yes she is. It is mind-blowing when you re-read them as a young adult.
The shade from the title change tho
Who’s here after the title changed?
I was wondering about that. I had a feeling it had changed. Seems some other man wanted to express how they don't respect the unique struggle of women born in a women's body.
I did a double take when I read it.
Its pretty dumb.
Cody Baker terf begone
@@codybaker1150Bigot.
Very well said! Makes me want to reread/rewatch HP, my favorite books and some of my favorite movies. :)
(Going to Platform 9 3/4 in London was one of the highlights of my UK trip this year! Bought a truly unnecessary amount of overpriced Hufflepuff merch. Totally worth it.)
You could work on the title. The video was great but nothing to do with her being a TERF or not.
I don't know about you, but that dog looks shifty to me...
Great analysis of my favorite series of all time! Great job on clearing up the biggest misconception of the HP series - THEY ARE MYSTERY BOOKS!!! btw i also make HP videos :)
exactly
the cursed child is a time travel book (well, just a stage play actually) disguised as a harry potter book, thats why it sucked
And that's the very reason I don't like the last three books. They don't feel to me in tone with the first four mysteries. Sometimes it feels like she abandoned the mystery structure entirely, and others like she didn't really plan it ahead, sometimes it still works, but they're lost sparks. They're... strange books to me.
Captain Sveid when is everything wrong with everything wrong with the goblet of fire coming out?!
This week.
THE CHANGED TITLE
I love Terfs, I wanna marry one.
The name change is just
*Chef's kiss*
Well said. I've been saying it for years. The Harry Potter books above all else are phenomenal mysteries.
That name change revived me
Loved the video few years ago, love the title update!
That new title is on point
Appropriate updated title
*applauds*
"It's probably been years since you read the books..." Um..... I kinda read them every year, usually starting around July 31 or September 1. :[]
lilyme3 I've been through the whole series at least 10 times. But I love rereading books.
great video, man! I'm always shocked by the intricate and creative planning that must have went into each of her books, not to mention the series as an entire mystery!
I've been thinking about reading his work, only ever watched it. Definitely worth it?
Gerstenmann Butterblume Awesome! Thanks for the recommendation! Now I'll finallllly read him lol
I don’t think it’s possible to really uncover the whole mystery with most Harry Potter books but you can find many clues and you ultimately feel you could have figured it out and see the clues in rereads so it works as mystery should in any case.
OMG YOU CHANGED THE VIDEO TITLE I'M 💀💀
The edited title is much appreciated!
The part explaining what hidden genre harry potter books are ,was my favorite part.it made so much sense and my favorite part was always going back through the many pages and books and recognizing the clues so perfectly hidden
Another thing about the "Silvery white orb" scene in book three, just a few paragraphs after that Rowling has Lavender Brown say "I wonder why Professor Lupin is afraid of crystal balls?" making us less likely to connect the phrase to a full moon. That and the third book was also the first time we'd ever heard of Divination and crystal balls in the Wizarding World, making the reader more likely to connect the new teacher to the new subject than to lycanthrope (which, by the time we are introduced to it, this scene as already passed and left an impression). It's pretty brilliant really.
Mystery stories are all well and good, but you can't always trust the clues that fall into place in front of the protagonist. Real life doesn't work like that. I undrstand that it's a story, but HP is written for kids and the plot mostly relies on luck & chance. Here's a quote the suns it up:
'he distrusted the kind of person who’d take one look at another man and say in a lordly voice to his companion, “Ah, my dear sir, I can tell you nothing except that he is a left-handed stonemason who has spent some years in the merchant navy and has recently fallen on hard times,” and then unroll a lot of supercilious commentary about calluses and stance and the state of a man’s boots, when exactly the same comments could apply to a man who was wearing his old clothes because he’d been doing a spot of home bricklaying for a new barbecue pit, and had been tattooed once when he was drunk and seventeen and in fact got seasick on a wet pavement. What arrogance! What an insult to the rich and chaotic variety of the human experience!'.
--Terry Pratchett, Jingo
Thank you for the updated title. Now that it is far more accurate, it will be easier to find the next time I feel like rewatching the video.
Been waiting for this one! :D
A Song of Ice and Fire isn't a mystery, per se, but it is so well structured that the fandom has been scaffolding future books and unveiling characters backstories fairly accurately for decades. You could probably find a lot of similar characteristics done in totally different ways there.
nice title change
Yet this channel never did so during the months and months of complaints made against Rowling earlier, and nobody complained either. This is childish hypocrisy. Check the other authors they have mentioned and let me know whether they will take the same high-handed false morality to their names, too.
@@Musicienne-DAB1995 how is it "so obviously" hipocrisy? How can you prove it's hipocrisy, other than wishing it were? There are a myriad reasons why a youtuber may ot decide to go back on a video and change the friggin' title to support a cause. Maybe they didn't think it was worthwhile or fair until someone encouraged them to. Maybe they were waiting for the author to come and explain herself, and when she didn't (or sank even deper) they decided it was time to take a stance. Maybe they didn't even fucking know, or didn't really know well enough to pronounce themselves, because not everyone is on this weird twitter bubble where everyone's only talking about how much each other progressive or self-proclaimed progressive ranks on the progressometer; I should know, I follow plenty of progressive youtubers and have plenty of progressive friends on social networks, and if it wasn't for the algorithm casually suggesting a video fron Sarah Z about a week ago, I would not know nor care about Rowling's quite disturbing take on transexuality and transgenderism.
@@Musicienne-DAB1995 not to mention thee are also plenty of reasons to take one cause and not another. Why? Do you expect everyone to take up every cause or else they're hypocrites? Would it be better if nobody took any cause at all so that there are no contradictions?
@@Elvalley I am not remotely interested in which "cause" they have taken up, nor am I interested in complaints about Rowling's personal views. It's the principle behind it which concerns me. This channel could very well go through other authors, including those living in earlier times, and make the same value judgment. They have chosen not to do so, which undermines the reasoning behind this cheap attempt to please the crowd, despite the video content having nothing to do with the complaints. If they are happy not to erase the names of other authors, including those living in times that precede our own, then the same should apply to Rowling.
@@Musicienne-DAB1995 how so? The very fact that you think complaining about dead people is the same as making a political statement about *living poitical actors* (remember the issue is with the author in this case, not her works) shows you live and die on the aesthetic of consistency, and use that surface-level judgement to decide what qualifies as hipocrisy. It's fine, to each their own, I just won't bother explaining myself thrice.
lol great title change
The title!!! Chef kiss. Glad to know where our favourite youtubers stan.
Haha, I appreciate the change in title while keeping the video up. It's honestly a great resource.
Yet other authors on their channel have not faced the same judgement or erasure. This is cheap crowd-pleasing hypocrisy, nothing more.
Love this video! As a screen writer I’d love to see a similar video focusing on what film can do to increase the effectiveness of a mystery that the written word can’t. Keep up the great work!
I originally started watching your videos because Ive been having the hardest time writing 2 books that Im working on 1 is a humurous crime drama. The other is a Biography about my grandfather who served in the Navy in WW2. Your videos have been giving me a lot of insight and have helped me with writing my books.
It's crazy to me how people still manage to mispronounce this woman's name despite her success. It's Rowling like "ROLL-ing". (P.S. - great video essay!)
thE NEW TITLE HAHAHAHAHAHA legend absolute legend
Your content is so amazing!!! I'm always looking forward to your videos!!
I feel like your comments about how movies struggle to hide what books hide but can hide other things well gives some insight into why so many adaptations fall flat. Many things that work well in one medium *have* to be transformed to work well in another which means that, to some extent, the adapter is in a double bind. Either keep things the same, and have them not work as well in the new medium, or change them, and disappoint fans. Of course, it does not help that the changes made often just seem bad in their own right.
I remember before the last book came out I was going through the fifth one again and when they mentioned "a locket none of them could open" I was convinced it was the real Horcrux. My brother also figured out RAB before I did.
The Rey reveal WAS fair. Rian Johnson came up with the answer based on his own analysis of TFA and wrote it into TLJ while TFA was still in production. JJ agreed with the answer he came up with and could've veto'd it any time he wanted because he was the executive producer of TLJ. Many fans, myself included, figured out, just as Johson did, that Rey Nobody was the only thing that made sense, over a year before TLJ came out. We looked at the supposed hints that Rey was a Solo, a Skywalker, or something else and realized that they weren't actually there. Lines like "Whomever you're waiting for on Jakku, they're never coming back. But there's someone who still could" explicitly point AWAY from Rey Skywalker since they make Rey's parents-- the "whomever" she's waiting for and "Luke" to be different subjects, something that was confirmed by a member of the Lucasfilm story group on twitter. Rey's entire arc was about accepting that her parents were gone, and moving on with her life-- not continuing to waste away on Jakku, even when people like Finn and Han were offering to be the family she never had. If Han or Luke had turned out to be her actual blood relatives, it would've completely negated her character development. It would also mean that Han/Luke were complete assholes who abandoned their child and then pretended not to recognize her, even though she'd had the same hairstyle for 15 years. Rey Nobody was the only thing that didn't ruin Rey's character arc, didn't bastardize pre-existing characters, or require a big infodump to explain how Obi Wan or Palpatine or somebody was her grandfather, who got together with some chick who only exists in supplemental material the general audience hasn't seen, who then had a child, who then became one half of her parents or some other convoluted bullshit that would mean way more to the fans than to the actual character.
I strongly agree :)
Yes, this.
And then The Rise Of Skywalker happened.
Although I no longer admire Rowling as a person, I still do admire her writing, especially her usage of the Chekhov's Gun trope. I really struggle to write mystery because of my lack of foresight, so this was helpful. (I also still think that Harry Potter is one of the best works of literature of the twentieth century, and a gift from God to mankind that used Rowling as a vehicle.)
Technically it's more of a 21st century work.
Ok, as someone who also liked the Harry Potter Books as a kid I can say the deifications gotta stop. These books were fun and very engaging but nothing revolutionary happened here. She's been off of her rocker for a minute. wont ruin these whimsical kids books for me. But its important to point it out because people have inflated this womans head to biblical proportions. She doesn't deserve shielded from criticism, just because she wrote a good book series.
@@ExtraOni I don't think you can reduce the effect the Potter books had on Western culture down to "a good book series." That's the problem. There are tons of good book series. Few in history were as significant as this one-and you're right, it went to her head, but it would have gone to anyone's.
She gave us the greatest stories we could enjoy as kids. But she is a controversial douchebag
I'd like to know more about your writing, Nyx. Is there any blog or site where i could read some of your work?
Lmaoo did you change the title recently? Just got recommended this 👌👌👌👌
Yep, title change is recently. And it's well done. XD
Top quality crowd-pleasing hypocrisy from JustWrite, who never changed her name during the myriad of other complaints against Rowling, and have never erased the name of any other author.
@@Musicienne-DAB1995 lmao aight
Excellent video!! I love being able to spot these clues when i re-read the books (which is all the time..so it hasn't been years since i read them 😅). Also love how some seemingly insignificant detail in a book becomes relevant in a later book (which, again, you can spot when you re-read). Sometimes it feels like she just knew her readers will read the books again 😅
Ah man, this reminded me why I love this books so much
I think the HP books have the same quality about them as the first Star War movies - made for children, but with good enough twists so that adults can enjoy them, "I am your father" made me feel the same way as "It was Quirrel" I still remember when I was 11 and reading the first book. The new SW movies are a 6 hour cringefest simple as that.
Sherlock is ok, but the best modern Holmes is dr House I dont think this character can be beaten
I somehow did not get the 'Luke I am your father' spoiled for me when I was a kid...(I knew it was a running joke the 'I am your father' thing but I did not know what it was from). Imagine shocked little me. It blew my little mind, hahaha. I was like 'OH WHAT HWAT WAHT '
love the title change.
Rowling like bowling. Rowling like bowling. Rowling like bowling. Rowling like bowling. Rowling like bowling. But I still enjoyed the video!
"Rowling like disembowling" sounds so much better
Read the new title and try to find new rhymes.
One of the plot twist that threw me off completely was in the 4th book towards the end when mad eye isn’t the real one and attempts to kill Harry at the end
A bit off topic but recently I was rewatching the movie series, and during that epic fight at the end of Order of the Phoenix, I was thinking about how Rowling's grasp of good versus evil in the ways evil can insinuate itself into your mind, and how she would have made an excellent choice for writing the new Star Wars trilogy. Her writing technique applied to the concept of the Force etc would be so awesome.
There's another kind of misdirection: playing with the reader's knowledge of the series patterns. She does it in Half-Blood Prince. Up to this point in the story, the reader is used to some things. The reader knows that a character who looks very suspicios at the begining is usually not the culprit. Therefore even if Snape does the unbreakable vow, you keep expecting it to be a red herring. You know Harry has suspected of Snape's allegiances a few times and has always been probed wrong. Then you expect it to be the case again. Then the end of the novel comes and... the twist never happens! That like meta-misdirection.
This is an excellent point! I remember reading "The Half-Blood Prince" at first and thinking that there had to be some trick in the way that Snape made that Unbreakable Vow.
@@Musicienne-DAB1995 exactly. I think Rowling played with previous knowledge about the mechanichs of the plot. Ande since Harry's possible paranoia is also a theme in the novel, such treatment really fits.
I love the title change!
Crowd-pleasing works, then. Meanwhile, no other author has faced the same judgment on this channel. JustWrite did not change her name during the many months previous to this, either. Nobody complained.
You must hate reality then.
I'm a trans person with high respect for Rowling's writing style, but having lost respect for her as a person, this video and its new title encompass my feelings precisely. Thank you.
why because she told the truth lol jesus you people are pathetic
I’m not even certain how what she said could be considered offensive or controversial. And I support trans’ rights.
@@thomasjeppesen3055 if anything they should be praising her shes been advocating for trans rights for ages now
but if anything this just proves this people eat each other
@@thomasjeppesen3055 - Her originl tweet showed a complete lack of compassion and understanding of the phrase "people who menstruate". Her follow up tweets and showed a complete lack of understanding of the entire topic, throwing doubt on her claims that she cared and researched the topic properly. Her follow up blog post then confirmed that by explaining the pipeline she went down that led her to her current views.
Maya wasn't fired for her views (her contract wasn't renewed because of her toxic posts), Magdalen WAS a problematic person who DID have unapologetic transphobic views (as well as anti-semitic, having made a tweet throwing the Jewish question out to suggest trans people were some Jewish plot), the idea that "trans people erase gy people/womanhood" and "trans women in female spaces puts cis women in danger" are both unfounded (citations needed), and her whole "sex is real" point is akin to the white supremacy argument that "race is real" (yes, biological sex is real, but sex isn't what determines pronouns, safe space inclusion, or anything she pointed out).
There is nuance to her stance, but that doesn't make it a reliable stance. It doesn't stand up to scrutiny and the societal attitude she's presenting is still harmful to us.
@@ruifigueiredo5486 - Until her response, nothing she's ever said even hinted pro-trans-rights. Aside from showing a sliver of solidarity with some of the things trans people face, she was pretty overtly dismissive of everything else that validates us and our struggle.
I swear, watching just a few of your videos has improved my storytelling capabilities beyond belief. Thank you so much!
I just love how the story is always compelling, there's always something that drives you to turn another page and continue reading.
Like, I was kinda confused about the whole profecy thing the first time I read Order of the Phoenix, but then I realized it was Trelawney in the smoke and that she was, in fact, psychic.
If you haven't read the books, there's a subplot that arcs over Goblet of Fire from year 3 that Harry, Ron and Hermione dislike prof Trelawney because they think she's a fraud. Hermione takes Arithmancy, but the boys think it's too hard and just pretend their way through Divination, because the story is told from their perspective (we never get an arithmancy class) I just assumed she was indeed a comic relief.
I love the name change of the video mr just write, stanning the channel even more
Ohhhh, that title game on point 🔥
LMAOOOO THE TITLE CHANGE
I remember the first four books all had a surprise twist villain at the end. And no matter how much I was anticipating it, no matter how I read into the story to try and suss out the twist, the reveal always came as a surprise to me.
I have always been amazed by the world that Rowling created and this essay really shines a light on things that never really clicked in my head, which only adds to my amazement. Some of my fondest memories as a kid was buying the new Harry Potter book and not being able to put the book down until it was done. No video games or other books (besides Raymond E. Feist's masterpieces) are able to immerse me like Harry Potter did... Does.
Gives a spoiler warning for the sixth sense but not the last jedi XD
Coz one is not worth watching XD
I guessed snape and trelawny, but would never have made the Draco connection solely with a pale, sharp face
It's mentioned in the books several times.
Bluelaser I’m sure it was. Doesn’t mean it’s as distinctive a description as Snape’s or Trelawny’s. My first thought when I saw pale and sharp was actually of Voldemort.
Pale is right. I don't think anything about Voldemort's description was sharp though.
Hey, same here! I guessed Snape and Trelawney but for the second one, only a tentative: "Snape...? No, wait. Voldemort? No, that's not sharp. Uh. ... Snape?"
Astral Vagabond Right? Snape’s nose was my second thought, but I knew bone deep that that greasy black hair was going to be his, so I tried to think of others. Draco never occurred to me.
Why did you change de name of the video?
Cause jk rowling bad lgbtqa good gender political bait go brrrrrr
All these years thinking Harry Potter was just a good fantasy that gateway'd me into "the really great stuff" and now I'm reexamining my thoughts. Great video :D