For hermiones ethnicity, you missed a crucial book quote. “Hermiones white face was sticking out from behind a tree” in the third book. This confirms her ethnicity in the original book cannon so Rowling DID in fact say she was white.
@@darth_kal-elDepends on the edition you read. Not that I know this for a fact, but I do know they change things in every edition, or they wouldn't need new editions.
Hermione was decscribed as white in the books. How she goes pale or the blush across her cheeks, Rowling also said that aside from being too pretty hermione was how she pictured hermione. Im pretty sure theres a list online of all the times her skin was referenced as being pale or in a way that indicated she is white. The pretend retcon inclusion pissed off a lot of people.
I read all the Harry Potter books and I never even had a thought towards Hermione being black. In fact, it never had a question about the races about any of the individuals in the books. I thought they were fairly clearly defined
Joan is also weird enough that if a character is any race other than white, you’d know. I remember somewhere that Dean is constantly remarked as being Black, Cho as Asian, etc.
Nobody asked. Its forcefully crowbared into the Universe to adapt to current political Ideologies. Being a Barrier for financing your Products and Ideas. In 5-8 Years, Snape and Hermoine will be white again like nothing ever happened.
The Chamber Pot of Secrets also explains the otherwise extraordinary creation of a basilisk transportation network a thousand years before it was repurposed for wastewater management.
Both chamber pots and simply using drop channels that led to either cess pits or down outside a high place into a pit or waterway carrying the mess away.
One thing that bothers me is the bathroom and toilet issue. When Hogwarts was first built by the Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and Slytherin there were no bathrooms and no toilets. But Slytherin created the chamber of secrets and as we know from part two the basilisc which lives in there moves through the pipes. Why would there be pipes if the school didn’t have toilets in the first place? Ok you could say that there weren’t pipes originally and when they started to have toilets they built in pipes and the basilisc could theoretically start moving through them from then on. But why would the new built in pipes be connected to the chamber of secrets? And the most important thing: The original entrance to the chamber of secrets which was created by Salazar Slytherin which is marked with snakes on a faucet is in a bathroom. 🫠🙃
@@DrHutOfHandcraft The bathroom could have been a broom cupboard, or a random room, so the entrance was around, plus why would he put it in the girls bathroom, that restricts half his heirs.
Well If the writer decides that some things need to change to better push for the story they wish to have. Then so be it. Because nowadays people just want to play victim and be cry babies.
I wish that can be the same for Star Wars as well, once Kathleen Kennedy is gone, hopefully a new leader will take charge and maybe retcon the Sequel Trilogy.
Before the controversy about Rowling, I had already become less impressed with her because I noticed a pattern: the moment people were not talking about her, she would suddenly make a comment or revelation that would put her back into public view. One of the examples of that was the sudden, and at the time fairly pointless, revelation that Dumbledore was gay. Now I have no problem with the idea of it, but there was never even the smallest hint at it before she suddenly blurted it out, and at that point, there was no reason why it would matter at all - it added nothing and explained nothing and there was nothing to point back to that suggested it. As far as I could see, the only point was to get people to pay attention to her because she was no longer the focus of attention. That sort of thing does not impress me personally, but then, I suppose it doesn't matter if I am impressed or not. It does, however, support the idea that Rowling is somewhat prone to retconning things for the purpose of regaining the spotlight. But that's just my opinion.
1. The Cursed Child (aka, the Play That Shall Not Be Named) only has one good thing-Scorpius is adorable. Everything else is garbage. 2. I will never feel bad about Neville chopping Nagini's head off. Not the same as what they pushed on us in FB. 3. Have read HP loads of times. There's really no evidence that Dumbledore had any other feelings for Grindy except for a short 2-month hyper friendship at discovering someone he (at first) could consider his equal. But even he realized that his new friend was capable of becoming a horrible wizard when he warned him to avoid repeating his errors that got him kicked out of Durmstrang. Seemed to me he hoped to be able to reel him in if he let his temper fly off the rails. Interestingly enough, a content creator who used to be a major fan mentioned way back in 2017 that Rowling originally only claimed that Dumbledore was the only one of the two of them who would have pursued a relationship, but Grindy was so focused on his plans that he never even noticed. So she retconned her own retcon of his leanings. One thing more-no one ever says anything about how (in HBP), Dumbledore tells Harry that he often visits Rosmerta in the evenings (he's explaining why no one would think it weird that he goes into Hogsmeade alone so often). Re-read it. I re-read it like 5 times the first time I read it and it's really obvious that he sees her for more than just a drink and a conversation or two. How do I know? He named her specifically-not, "I like to visit the local pubs to see what's going on" or anything similar.
You’re definitely right about Dumbledore being more in love with Grindelwald as it was more clear in the Secrets of Dumbledore. I remember in the book that there was a line that inferred Grindelwald and Dumbledore had a relationship I don’t remember the quote but the channel MovieFlame has made a video on it so I recommend that
Also it appears that him and madam Pomfrey have something, since as you remember that Dumbledore in the very first chapter tells professor McGonagal "I haven't blushed so much since Madam Pomfrey told me she liked my earmuffs".
1. Albus & Scorpius are, but where are the other 2 Potter kids? 2. Black Hermione at Broadway was controversial but forgivable and possibly forgettable, unfortunately it's also the sign of the rise of wokism. Besides, Black Hermione confuses me for one of the Patil twins. 3. Time-Turner maybe some sort of time travel device, but it ain't a Tardis, Albus & Scorpius can't time travel WAY FAR BEHIND in attempting to course correct. Moreover, it's way even more in the HISHE animation which Severus Snape took the Time Turner, count like hell until he reaches the timeline when Tom Riddle was still young and at the orphanage, Snape killed him to save a lot of people in the future. 4. In my country, LGBT is unacceptable, I only see Dumbledore & Grindelwald as Best Friends Forever, nothing more... until it's broken. 5. Nagini with the blood curse ain't the only character suffers with this condition, in the HPMA game, there was another one from Mahoutokoro named Kenji Kobayashi with his partial transformation as a fox.
Honestly yall you can visit someone just because you’re friends, it doesn’t mean that Rowling is wrong about her own character (she’s wrong about other things don’t get me wrong) but I don’t think it’s against canon retcon, I think it’s adding additional things that don’t really change much after the story ends retcon
@@StackatackaStudios exactly that’s all as long as it doesn’t hurt the story like now we also know Aberforth had a son which was never mentioned before and that never altered anything
Snape invented sectum sempra, but I didn't necessarily think the healing spell was his invention. It may already have existed and he used it to counter the curse he invented, since it caused injuries. It seems like something healers would already know about, for instance.
in the book it's implied but not outright stated that draco was very lucky snape himself arrived, since very few other people would be able to immediately recognize and counter a curse that dangerous, if they had seen it before at all.
i just reread that part (half blood prince chapter 24) and it's even gorier than i remember, malfoy is described as soaked with blood half a dozen times, blood covers his face, and the bathroom floor is soaked with blood, and myrtle is screaming "MURDER!!", she may have saved his life by attracting the attention of snape
@@sparticuzj19 but yeah i agree fantastic beasts is not really faithful to the original canon in a lot of ways and i can only hope that the tv show in the future is at least as accurate to the books as the movies. it probably won't be, but for example imo black Hermione would be acceptable as long as they fix Ron and give him the lines from the books he actually said
@@tacokonekoI hate how everyone shits on harry for this moment. Even the movies refuse to acknowledge malfoy was trying to torture Harry. If Harry didn’t use sectumsempra malfoy would have been Azkaban bound for life
JK Rowling: "White skin was never specified." Meanwhile the books cover, illustrations, interviews, and most importantly, the contents of the text that reads: "Hermione's white face was sticking out from behind a tree." JK Rowling may have written the original canon, but she also writes a lot of bald-faced BS that's better off in the paper shredder, as the story is full of hypocrisies, inconsistencies, and contradictions.
4:17 Thank you for bringing this up! This is my biggest issue with Dephi’s existence. Somebody would have noticed Bellatrix was pregnant. She was living with her sister and her whole family after all, you can’t seriously tell me that none of them noticed her being pregnant and giving birth in their house.
JK is 100% cap when it comes to black Hermione. She describes her as blushing and even turning a deep shade of magenta at one point. I’m not saying that black people don’t blush, but I guarantee she wouldn’t use that descriptor for a black person. Total cap 🧢
Big recton that I noticed was Harry's cloak. It's supposed to be THE cloak, the GOAT of cloaks and is supposed to be able to conceal against magical means and doesn't weather, deteriorate or break down. Yet, we know Dumbledore can see Harry early on in the series under it and so can Mad Eye( Barty). Also, Fred and George performing magic at home outside of Hogwarts under aged. yet, nothing happens to them ever. Unless there's something I missed.
The 'trace' which detects underage magic is not able to tell who actually does the magic. Like in chamber of secrets when Harry gets in trouble for Dobby's hover charm. Fred and george can get away with magic at home because they live with arthur and molly and the ministry has no way of discerning between fred and georges magic and their parents. As far as the cloak, i'm not sure its ever directly implied that Dumbledore can see Harry under the cloak, just that he hung around in the mirror of erised room waiting for harry to use the cloak the first time. Mad eye/Barty being able to see Harry went completely unexplained but I guess there must be some very powerful magic in that eye. He can see out of the back of his head after all
@@Yltimate_ You mean Barty? I know he was hidden under a cloak during the cup. However, I feel like Rowling forgot about her widespread use of the cloak and just later on made Harry’s cloak special.
@Linkskyfyre see i think the opposite, that it's Harry's that's special and she made it not special. "They're really rare" No it was real Mad Eye, talking about him losing them when he was sneaking someone out. Forgive me i can't recall exactly when
I don't care that that she said Cursed Child is cannon. I don't like it and don't include it with the rest of the stories. People seem to forget that at the time, these 2 guys wrote a play that only had their names on it. It got a lot of traction because people wanted more HP content so she okayed it and added her name to it since they're her characters. That's it. To me, it's just another example of fanfic
@ricey23 If the original author and creator of the world says it is, then it doesnt matter if she collaborated with a hundred people. Her world, her word is law. It doesnt matter if you like it or not.
Yes retcon originally referred to something like Dumbledore being gay, it's just an extra detail added after the fact that doesn't conflict with any established lore, story bit, or character. Although I suspect that was only done to score virtue points with a certain segment of her fandom. Which is ironic considering that segment went from, "YASSSSS QUEEN," when she did it, to "BURN THE WITCH!!!" when she later spoke heresy lol. These days retcon is more often a change made by narcisstic writers thinking they can tell a better version of the story than the original author, or that their ideas are better, or as a means of inserting their own personal agenda into it. It's such weird behavior. And wasn't there a part of the book that directly refers to Hermione's face as white?
@@seangriffin5524 yes I've heard something similar, and she may have meant that to be the case all along, I've just never seen it. But either way, that situation is what we would originally think of as a retcon - as in it doesn't contradict anything, it's just an extra detail added after the fact.
The term "retroactive continuity" was from the first time it was picked up by pop culture, was also used to refer to making changes to previously established facts. The idea it was only used to refer to additions is itself a retcon of the term.
From the most recent films, we learn that Nagini was a lady who was cursed with dark magic, enslaved, and forced to perform for her master and crowds. So, she apparently escaped, became voluntarily enslaved again to Voldy, became cursed again by the horcrux spell, and forced to perform at his whim. Why would she repeat the situations she hated the first time around?
In the 800's they had a bathroom that had a toilet but not like we think of it. they had a seat with a tube going down to the outside of the caste. There someone would shovel out the waste. So while you were relieving yourself you would get a draft on your back side.
One castle had a tube that was big enough for a spy to crawl up. That was a castle on a rock so the tube was longer than the height of the castle. I got the impression that people didn't sit on the tube, but they could dump their chamber pots down the tube.
Key Key thing to point out about Hermione’s race: (I certainly hope) most people have no problem with changing Hermione to be Black if that’s what they want in terms of a stage performance. There’s no issue with more diversity. The problem comes with JKR pretending like she’d planned this all along when clearly she hadn’t. She never once wrote Hermione with Blackness in mind. Otherwise JKR would never have Hermione being scolded for showing concern for the slave race of characters (the SPEW storyline). Or she would have had some storyline about feeling different or nervous about fitting in or literally ANYTHING to show she was black besides “well I never said she WASN’T.” It’s just weird for JKR to claim that she wrote inclusive characters by retconning one to be black when she wasn’t.
Well concerning nervousness or being different, the book are written with a close third person that follow harry. That third person is able to get Harry's thought BUT not any other character, meaning that we have no idea of what Hermione feel and think.
I don’t mind her being black in the stage play because I think of “Cursed Child,” as being an AU therefore making her race irrelevant. The books however, paint her as the “white savior,” type.
All she said was she liked who they had cast as Hermione in the play. It doesn’t mean anything more than that. It doesn’t mean she planned for this casting decades ago. It doesn’t mean Hermione isn’t canonically white. She probably just didn’t want the actress they cast to feel bad as people were saying she shouldn’t have the role because of her race. She was just showing support for the actress not changing Hermiones race or history.
I don't care how the actors look if they are portrayed in character. Skin colour doesn't matter at all in fiction, if the characters are not made up of stereotypes and everything revolves around the stereotypes. Some Sci-Fi movies/series does it right. Or take Arielle what race plays Arielle is of no importance as long it is Arielle. The real life version of Arielle had no disney magic and couldn't decide beeing a horrormovie for families or not. Just don't do superrealistic animals, the animals have to animated to be cute not super real.
In my Headcanon, the only way the Bellatrix thing makes sense is if you take the standard method of child creation out of the equation... they have access to the darkest of dark magic, I can fully get behind Bellatrix using magical methods to procreate without the need to do the deed. Given how Bellatrix is devoted to Voldemort and he couldn't care less about her, it would be all Bellatrix's scheme in order to give Voldemort something that only she can, a child... not really caring if he actually wants one or not.
I can't believe Rowling would go along with the Delphine storyline. I get that two writers who clearly didn't understand the characters on a deep level might, but it makes zero sense. First, the idea that Vol and Bel would 'worry' about their child being discovered is ludicrous - they are both anti-social narcissists who only care about power and position. Voldemort is willing to literally split his own soul, and is arrogant enough to believe that this will ensure his 'bloodline.' And, can anyone imagine those two being romantic even for a second? Now, he could have somehow put his 'soul' into Bel, or some other magical spell to conceive, but he was a partial head and then a fetus for the first 4 books.
100% chance that Rowling in 1997 writing a CHILDREN'S BOOK didn't envision Dumbledor as gay. Sorry but that is as near to an impossibility as it can ever get. He was just an old wise wizard, because it was a kid's book that she likely didn't think would get much traction. And it most definitely would have failed if she actually did make him gay or claimed he was gay while elementary schools were debating putting it in their libraries.
People comment about her saying it “way back in 2007” like that’s proof she was thinking it a decade earlier when anyone who was around then knows you were paraded for being an ally of gays back then the same way you are for trans now. Anyone with an ounce of common sense knew it was just her capitalizing on the times.
This is why hate when movies screw up the lore. mcgonigal should have never been in the beast movies. FB movies are not done well and I don’t count them in the lore
So much she said in interviews. A few things are fine. It's to the point where I go with what George Lucas said. If it's not in the movies or books it's didn't happen. For him it was just movies obviously.
@@eugenebelford9087 George wasn't responsible for the sequels. I doubt they would have been good if he'd been in charge, but at least they wouldn't have been the same sort of hot garbage as Disney Wars.
Just said this on a different video, but it was an older one so I wanted to leave the comment here too so there’s more of a chance you’ll see it…: Brother. You are a great story teller. And I mean that in the deepest sense of the word “great”. Your work truly blesses my soul. Thank you.
@ what makes you great at storytelling is the level of inspiration you tell these stories with. It’s obvious that the content of these videos come from your soul. You should think about telling stories about other topics/mythologies.
Wait so if at first hogwarts didn't have bathrooms then how did Salazar Slytherin hid his Basilisk in one?. I wonder sometimes if JKR has ever read her own books
4:15 It's a popular trope in many different stories where the evil person has a child so that they can possess their own child's body to extend their own life immortality through their offspring. But those kids don't get to live their own lives. They're raised to be sacrificial pawns in the future
Plus, considering it's Voldemort, why wouldn't magic be involved in some way? Most likely some kind of dark magic ritual performed to create a child than an actual conception
I imagine Vanishing was taught first day to first-years in charms class before toilets, lol. But it is possible that adult wizards had to do the vanishing for their children until they were allowed to do it themselves (sort of lets in an exception to the no magic outside of school rule). Muggle borns would be chamber-pot trained until then and use chamber pots while not at school. Honestly the whole thing is poorly thought out the more you think about it.
Mcgonagal could have just been her mother in the beast movies. Voldemort could just magicked himself an heir in bellatrix’ womb. The nagini retcon is definitely garbage, Harry can talk to snakes there’s no reason to assume he wouldn’t have gotten some kind of weird feeling about her or had an unexplainable feeling that she wasn’t like other snakes. The time turner retcon is a legitimate slap to her very own face as well. She strictly wrote in all the rules in prisoner that she then broke in cursed child. The dumbledore one always bothered me as I never saw him that way, but there also the fact that there’s no evidence to support or combat that one. If anything I always kind of saw him as someone who had so much interest in such a diverse subject matter that he never had the time to develop an interest in any form of sexuality and just doesn’t feel that way about other people. Lastly hermione is literally written as white. I don’t know if she got lost in her own works or if she started developing some form of memory problems but Rowling can’t even recall details about the people she created and I find that sad.
IF time turners Can go back an infinite amount of time, it could be that Hermione was TOLD not to have it go back more than 4-5 hours... or that hers had some restrictions placed on it. This would answer the question as to why McGonical was young and back in time. She used a time-turner.
Honestly, Voldemort having a kid despite being devoid and unable to feel love is not that hard to explain. Bellatrix worshipped him and would do literally anything he commanded. After what happened to him when he tried to possess Harry at the Ministry, being expelled by Harrys love, Voldemort MUST have at least considered that maybe there really was something to love being a powerful source of ancient magic after all. I mean, how could he, the greatest wizard of all time, be defeated by love unless Dumbledore had a point? So, he experimented. But being unable to understand love, he mistook it for the most primal form of it: sex. And so he knocked Bellatrix up and was probably disgusted by it (he's obviously asexual, after all) and considered the failed venture as proof that Dumbledore was just a fool after all by putting stock into such a silly concept. Sounds about right, doesnt it? So why is it so hard to see how Delphine was concieved? Also, the time turner in the Cursed Child is specifically said to have been magically tampered with, which is why it can go back decades instead of hours. And nowhere in THBP does it state or even hint that the spell Snape uses to heal Malfoy was a countercurse. It was most likely a powerful healing spell, which there probably are a lot of since Magical Medicine is a career choice available after finishing Hogwarts and is its own rich branch of magic; certainly, the teachers of Hogwarts, where spells go wrong all the time, must be required to have some basic knowledge of magical first aid.
Eh, the Voldemort trying to understand love thing doesn't sound right. He's incredibly arrogant and selfish, so I don't see him experimenting with a kind of magic like that. If he did explore that option and wound up with a child, I also don't see him trying to hide it away for fear that someone might discover it. He'd see it as a threat and kill it. He has no reason to preserve his bloodline since he plans on living forever.
@brianpeaden5911 I dont think he would have cared about his bloodline at all and certainly not the child. He may have let her live as a reward for good service for Bellatrix, who probably would have seen the kid as an almost holy product of Voldemorts making, just like the zealot that she was. Voldemort didnt care what happened to the child and didnt try to hide her away, but Bellatrix would certainly do that. Delphine would be 'heir to the throne' and grant Bellatrix authority as her mother, should things go wrong and someone needed to step in to see Voldemorts plans for world dominion become reality. Voldemorts intent with the experiment would have been to see if it made him stronger, the way it made Harry and Dumbledore stronger. And when it didnt, he lost all interest in it and returned to his old convictions immediately, not giving his daughter a second thought. He wasnt trying to understand love; he was trying to conquer it and become its master, just as he had done with every other form of magic. And that is also why he failed at the experiment.
When you are writing fiction and you do not look back at your source material these problems continue. There's no confusion when it's real genuine and not fiction. That being said I absolutely love everything Harry Potter except for the cursed child book
Well, Voldemort was part of the back of someone's head in the first book, then a spirit again, then a fetus, then finally a human in the 4th book, so he must have immediately gotten busy between books 5 and 7. My issue with this is that he and Bell tried to 'protect' her - showing they cared more for her than themselves, which is not a trait of a sociopath - they generally only care about themselves and or their position with power.
She sort of denied it, she was more so emphasizing that Harry wasn’t a PROPER Horcrux. “For convenience, I had Dumbledore say to Harry, "You were the Horcrux he never meant to make," but I think, by definition, a Horcrux has to be made intentionally. So because Voldemort never went through the grotesque process that I imagine creates a Horcrux with Harry, it was just that he had destabilized his soul so much that it split when he was hit by the backfiring curse. And so this part of it flies off, and attaches to the only living thing in the room. A part of it flees in the very-close-to-death limbo state that Voldemort then goes on and exists in. I suppose it's very close to being a Horcrux, but Harry did not become an evil object. He didn't have curses upon him that the other Horcruxes had. He himself was not contaminated by carrying this bit of parasitic soul."
As to Hermione being black or white, Rowling also said that all the kids looks exactly how she pictured them, and she approved all the illustrations on the books, in which Hermione is white. She said that stuff about Hermione being possibly being black after she was criticized for a lack of diversity in her main characters.
I think all of the writers of the Cursed Child greatly underestimated HP fans. I had no problem with the blood curse of Nagini. I thought it fascinating and really looked forward to that story arc in FB. I just figured at some point she lost her humanness and became the snake. And Voldemort could have wiped her memory. I was most interested in how her path led to him.
I don't see why adding new details to the world is a bad thing if they don't contradict anything.. Why is it a problem if Dumbledore is gay if she didn't have the thought when originally writing harry potter? Was she supposed to record all characters sexuality before writing them? Why is Nagini's revelation a problem, even if it wasn't handled the best and it was lackluster? That's how the universe expands.. Not like writers keep a bible of all characters information in their entirety. Things evolve and grow organically so, until they're written, what's the problem?
Lorrie Kim, author of a book on Snape, has a very Jungian take on Cursed Child. As far as I understand, Delphi doesn't actually exist outside the minds of the 14-year-old boy protagonists. The way Kim describes the concept of the shadow self, and how it applies in this case, makes sense to me. The words 'vulnera sanentur' appear in neither in the audiobook nor the text that I possess. Whilst it is possible to assume that this must be the spell he used, since the words themselves do not appear this can only bee an assumption. It could be, for instance, that he invented his own counter-curse, not being aware of Vulnera Sanentur at all. Again, Lorrie Kim doesn't seem to think VulneraSanentur was used, though her take on the Sectum Sempra incident and Snape's healing of Draco is rendered more romantic as a result. However, Rowling's world-building is attrocious so there are bound to be many things she just added, i.e. made up on the spot, in order to satisfy a Potter-hungry public.
Something else about the idea of Voldemort and Bellatrix having Delphini is, if it happened after the occurrences of The Goblet of Fire, then that means she's also partly Harry's blood relative, after Voldemort took Harry's blood, mistakenly expecting it to strengthen him. But what would that have done for a child born from the Frankenstein-like Voldy, and what would Harry's blood do to a child born from a loveless relationship? And would his blood make her stronger or weaker?
Abt voldy daughter, thank you for finally saying that! I hate cursed child for other reasons, but even before that release, I always thought it was weird that he didnt tried to have an heir since he was the last of his bloodline, Salazar bloodline. On the subject of doing stuff... I always was under the impression that young Tom Riddle, before the first time he vanished and came back as Voldemort, used his looks and charisma to get things he wanted. I think having sx as a form of manipulation or achieving power would be in character for him. And going further... (and by now I think I understood It wrong bc I never saw anyone talking about that) Reading as a teen, I understood that his relationship with that woman he got the cup and the locket, Hepzibah Smith, was a kind of a Sugar Mommy deal. Its clear that she was attracted to him and that he visited her home more than one time. I registered in my mind that as fact but It wasnt stated in the books, obviously. But if you compare how JK details "romantic" relationships in the books (very poorly and only alluding), the only non-love relationships that alludes to sexual tension are between Voldemort and that woman and Voldemort and Bellatrix. For me it makes perfect sense that he would do it with Bellatrix IF she had something he wanted. Masking an heir is a good reason. But I think it could only be canon and not a retcon (in the classic meaning) if Bellatrix disappeared for a time in a book and her absence was noticed in the books. It was an wasted opportunity because we have Bellatrix scenes in every book after she escaped Azkaban.
I also defend the decision to make Nagini initially a human who becomes a snake it adds far more depth to her. Even if she wasn't in Secrets of Dumbledore at all as her actress wasn't physically able to come to the UK to film any scenes at the time due to having her daughter. If Fantastic Beasts 4 and 5 ever go ahead she should at least be in them to show how she came to Tom Riddle and how she reacted to Credence's passing!
idgaf about whatever an author changes retroactively, especially when the work was written decades ago and the author will have changed as a person. book 1-7 are canon to me and everything else is fanfiction.
We should bear in mind that she JK Rowling absolutely had to say so in the beginning when the Harry Potter movie casting was in the process for the Harry Potter & the Philosopherous Stone also known as the Sorcerer's Stone. At no point did they look for a black child to play Hermione. They did choose black children for different characters but not for the main trio. If she wanted to say that Hermione was black then she could have specified that. I absolutely hate anything to do with The Cursed Child book & play. At some point in one of the books it talked about Hermione fair skin. The Carlin Brothers found it and I don't remember which book it was in
Hermione was White in the books. The same with Snape. Not everyone paid attention to all the little details and too many people want to virtue signal and twist everything for the socio-political world view. I think Dumbledore being gay was just to annoy people who were making a fuss about something. Her comment seemed to be rather off-the-cuff and emotionally charged. The poop-thing is a bit odd since the bathroom was there since Hogwarts was built as it was the way into the Chamber of Secrets. I think she didn't know when she wrote the book that toilets are fairly modern invention.
And, there are so many stories she could have proposed or explored that built on the established canon instead of deviating so dramatically from her original vision.
I reject the Cursed Child principally because in canon, going back in time using time turners - everything you do there in your trip back was already in the original past. It was one of JK Rowling's cleverest ideas and a huge breakthrough in this genre of literature. I couldn't believe what she did in Cursed Child and have always viewed it as written by the two other authors. She didn't even review it properly, is my opinion, because it is so utterly disrespectable of canon. The other one you pick up that is material to me is toilets. It is fundamental to the second book that toilets or at least plumbed water existed at the time of Salazar Slytherin. In my reading, wizards were ahead of humans in this regard. More to the point, in terms of literature and philosophy, there is a concept called THE DEATH OF THE AUTHOR. Once the author publishes their work, they forever lose control and the various audiences take up the mantel, which is an interpretative one. The author can say all they like, it's pretty much irrelevant. You can see this in the Disney movie Song of the South which was made with the very finest intentions but is now regarded as problematic. In my interpretation, Harry Potter is an analogy of Jesus Christ. This becomes super-obvious in the last book which literally is built around Jesus's most famous quote, "no greater love hath a man than this, that he lay down his life for his friends." Harry Potter does this and then is resurrected and conducts the battle of good and evil, defeating Satan once and for all. Once you see this, the mirror of Erised (desire) is Mosiah ch 5, the linking of the OT and NT, The time will come when the hearts of the children will be turned to their fathers. In this most important scene, JK establishes that HP's desire is perfectly unselfish and that, if he could, he would spend all his life looking at and loving his parents. But Dumbledor does not permit this... The bogart in the second book is the opposite of the mirror in the first. It is like the temptation of Christ. Like all people including Jesus, HP is flawed, particularly in the fifth book, which could be the analogy of young Jesus in the temple being so disregarding of his parents. Dumbledor represents the Holy Ghost. Other than giving advice and explaining things, he is always STRANGELY inactive in saving HP (something the end of the 5th movie does better than the book) and disappears completely in HP's final struggle (Oh my god why have you forsaken me?) Anyway, that's just my take. It does explain why Harry Potter is such a compelling moral story, and why JK struggled and failed to find a compelling underlying driver for the narrative of her Fantastic Beast movies. There's obviously more to this than I outlined, but you should not be surprised to know that I predicted all the main events in the last book after reading the first. PS while I obviously am deeply familiar with biblical stuff (as anyone must be if they want to understand European culture, law and history), I don't follow any religion.
One huge problem is that if there was no proper plumbing until the 18th century, who put the access to the Chamber of Secrets in what is clearly an early 20th Century lavatory?
Black Hermione at Broadway was forgivable but it's also the sign of the birth of the woke mind virus, then comes attempting to make Severus Snape black in the HBO series.
My mother once told me that a woman reserves the right to change her mind about anything at any time. And, well... you read a series by a female author, that's going to apply to retcons as well.
"but I doubt it". Ah yes, a strong rebuttal indeed! Btw. Sir John Harrington's descendant is the one and only Jon Snow from "Game of thrones". True story.
Bellatrix wasn't seen in the whole of Half Blood Prince after the Spinner's End chapter. She is added in a few more scenes in the movie (and the movies are not canon!), but she's not in the books. So theoretically, she could have born Delphi suring the events of HBP. Don't misunderstand me, I don't like Delphi being Voldemort's daughter and of course it wasn't planned from the beginning, but you can just squeeze it in the book canon.
One plot hole with the trace - when Voldemort kills his father with Morfin's wand, the trace should have activated. Morfin was not underaged and no other wizards lived in Little Hangleton. One could argue that it was just the ministry being lazy (got a confession, got the wand, job's a good'un), they should at the very least have known another witch or wizard was there that day.
I'm fine with the Ministry ignoring the Trace goin off all the time in wizard families. But why was there never a reaction to the whole Weasley visit in Goblet? Sure, the Twins used candy, not a spell. And when Arthus cured Dudley, Harry was already gone. But what about the spell to "open" the blocked chimney?
@@Lilli_Jay As a government employee, Arthur probably warned them ahead of time what he was going to do, so they assumed that Arthur was doing the magic
Indoor toilets were a thing in castles, they just weren't necessarily a flush type. Shadaversity just covered a Welsh castle with indoor toilets built in the 14th C. Regarding Dumbledore being gay, I would propose this retcon may have been one of the biggest dampers on the secrets movie franchise. Why do I say this? Because these are kid's stories, and parents don't want to have conversations with their youngsters about who is sleeping with who, and 95% of the population isn't gay, with many finding it repulsive.
given all the ilustrations showing hermione as caucasian and the fact that she can get a suntan, I would dare say that hermione was caucasian until Rowling decided she could be anything else if you want. I personally believe that Hermione could be asian because, why not? given that fantastic beast just 250% ignores any sort of canon in the original 7 books, unless mentioned, explicitly, on the original books, everything on those movies is a retcon. cursed child can only be canon on the mind of JK Rowling. it completely ignores everything we know and then more. the entire premise is centered on an improved time turner. so improved that it works nothing like the ones we knew. it's not the issue of how long you can go back in time. it's that time turners keep causality. what happened can't be changed. it was caused by your time travel to begin with. in cursed child, we can have multiple timelines that, as mentioned on the video, make no sense. one last thing on this post before I finish. does anybody remember where the entrance to the chamber of secrets was? are we expected to believe that the bathroom was "upgraded" with toilets but nobody noticed it was the entrance to the chamber? does the castle self-upgrades itself? I find it hard to believe, that wizards and witches just dump their sh*t where they were. it's hard to picture a 12 years old girl lifting her robes to sh*t in the middle of a corridor while a 17 years old boy is looking at her.
how about the inconsistency of the spell expelliarmus. one time it simply disarms you, another it knocks you across the room, and suddenly it makes the wand change owners in the 7th book, meaning that in the 3rd book harry should become the owner of snapes wand, and in the second snape should be the owner of lockharts wand, there are other examples.
In the third book the reason Snape was knocked across the room when expelliarmus was used was because He was hit by 3 spells at once, as Harry, Ron, and Hermione all hit him with the spell at the same time. Also , even if the effect of the wands changing allegiance after disarming has always been there, that doesn't mean it automatically stops working for others all the time as Voldemort was still able to use the Elder wand, though only as well as his original wand but better then Mr. Malfoys. I believe the power of the wielder does matter as to whether a borrowed wand will still work as well as their original.
The Hermione one annoys me SO MUCH 😂 she literally describes people AS BLACK when they’re black. She’s backtracking trying to look like it was all more diverse than it ever was.
Versailles was one of the most disgusting places to be in France. People would relieve themselves where ever they were. servants had to find the mess and remove it to cess pit or wash off area with scrub brushes.
Unpopular opinion, but JKR isn’t that good of a writer. HP world is actually badly written, done too fast. Just look at Middle Earth (LOTR/Hobbit) and Narnia. Much better written; first the whole world “created” and then books written.
1:09 Yeah I subscribe to the latter as being a retcon, the former is an expansion of the lore, a retcon changes what we know, either directly or contextually.
This is exactly why I don’t think Dumbledore being gay is retcon. We’re never told he’s straight either. This is the most believable “after thought” of Rowlings. She said it 2007 right after the last book was published where were given our first real info on a personal relationship of Dumbledore’s past. It makes sense to me.
Actually, it makes sense to protect his daughter if his only goal was his legacy, but then again why would he be concerned about legacy when he believes to be invincible? To this I say that he has always feared death, and doesn't truly believe that he's 100% safe.
For Voldemort and Bellatrix to have a child is the most sensible of all these Retcons Rowling created. You don't need to have romantic feelings for a person to conceive a child. Only intentions. Because Voldemort would have wanted to ensure the Riddle bloodline and, more importantly, he survived through his legacy or the continuation of his dynasty. Should the worst come to the worst at the Battle of Hogwarts (which it did). Bellatrix just so happens to be the perfect candidate. A strong female witch, from a pure and ancient bloodline, who would be more than willing, in fact she was absolutely 'Thursty' for him. Bellatrix would see it as both an honour and her right as his most loyal and faithful servant, to continue the Dark Lord's family legacy. That also explains why Voldemort had such a violent reaction when Molly Weasley 'somehow' took her down. Who was going to raise his child now?
I wonder if Rowling gets convinced by others? She had strong convictions when when the original films were made, and then again when Universal created the Wizarding World, but she seems to disconnect if she has a part in deviating from her own established canon. Ego is a powerful drug when one becomes that successful.
well sectupsempra was in in the textbook and is his but there never was a referrence to a mending one and i doubt Snape would use anything he did not know how to reverse since there was a countercurse to levicorpus in the textbook or he would at least take a note not to use it all 😊 and to Dumbledoor romance when i read the book for the first time i conculded he was in love with Grindy just by how it was written amd later he stayed alone because he did not get over it and also if wizards were like muggles of the time he would hardly broadcast it 😁
Honestly, I’d make the most sense for Voldemort to want to foster a kid as he was all about pure blood eugenics. And even then, he’d probably feel that his blood was the most superior of them all. So to feed into his ego more he’d want to create some offsprings to make the world more of himself. What I am questioning is why he didn’t create more kids? Probably was too picky on who to procreate with. And seeing as how belatrix was both loyal and pretty powerful, that first choice was a given.
Hermione's skin colour has only becomes an issue in recent years because today's content creators HAVE to be inclusive in their works. You have to be politically correct and therefore add ethnic minorities, non straight characters, disabled ones and so on and so on. I believe JKR insisted on her skin colour (and Dumbledore being gay) to show her work, that was started in 1990, still was up to date instead of owning the fact that her books are the products of the time during which they were written, when it was not as important as it is today to include every specificity in order for the fans to feel represented. A more honest reaction would have been to accept that she had not thought of Hermione as black BUT to support the casting of the black actress. You are not (necessarily) racist if you only write white characters, you might just be influence by what you see / read / experience in your world. I'm white myself, I write more white characters because I'm influenced by what I see. I'm also sighting impaired and don't feel personally hurt if my favourite authors do not write disabled people. Most of the time I am not represented in the fictions I read or watch and that's OK, that's being part of a minority is. I don't need the characters to be exactly like me to identify with them and like the story. Maybe she should have considered that HP fans did not need a black, a Jew, a disabled and a gay to like her characters and stories.
I had no idea about this Voldermorts daughter thing! It's pretty cool idea imo. Also it's extremely stupid when fans tell the author, no that's not canon lol
I just thought, if plumbing was introduced in the 18th century, how was the chamber of secrets entrance a pipe? That was supposedly construdcted 1000 years ago, did the entrance change? Was there a descendant who made the decision to do that?
Unfortunately, I have a feeling a lot of the things Rowling has said about the books after their publication are not things she actually ever had in mind as she was writing them. Rather, they're meant to make the books conform to the current ideals of popular opinion and political correctness.
Why would Voldemort need to be able to feel emotions in order to procreate? Sociopaths/psychopaths have children just as easily as emotionally invested people. He might not have given a crap about said child, but he could easily have had the intent and will to produce an heir.
2:51 You don't need to have emotions to have children. In fact him having a kid could have been another experiment he was doing Plus emotions don't really have anything to do with your physical gratification from the acts
Anyone who says Voldermort can’t have a child because he can’t love. My brothers in Christ you don’t need to love to have sex. People have sex everyday without being in love or feeling love. People get pregnant everyday from loveless sex. Just because you don’t doesn’t mean that the population at large doesn’t. It does. Having said that. The idea of a Voldermort/Bellatarix child is still rather stupid given everything else about Voldermort. Not the fact he couldn’t love.
I went and saw The Cursed Child. It was okay... As far as Ole Voldy having a kid. I'd say it was him trying to preserve his bloodline. I'd say at that point, he realized a few of his horcruxes had been destroyed. So he figured just to be safe. He'd pass on his seed. Perhaps in hopes he could use them as he did Ginny in the future. As far as Lil Miss Bellatrix's belly. It could have just been an enchantment of some sort so she would appear as not pregnant to everyone else. Obviously Ole Voldy wouldn't want anyone to know. Just in case he did still succeed.
I agree with you on how it could have been possible for Bellatrix to hide Voldemorts' child and why he would have one. Somehow, I have a hard time believing Voldemorts Homunculus( an artificially created body. In this case, made up of his father's bones, Harry's blood and wormtail's flesh) body would even be capable of fathering a child. Would an artificially created body even produce seed? Too many questions nobody wants to answer.
9:43 and with a pushback from fans saying the original time travel rules didn’t make sense 10:45 “oh by the way Harry, I’m very gay!” Dumbledore said calmly 13:25 Besides the name Nagini that is
I don’t see how dumbledore being gay is retcon. It’s never mentioned that he’s straight either so wouldn’t it also be retcon if you claimed he wasn’t gay? Haha. Idk why people think that she was lying way back in 2007 when she said she always thought he was gay while writing it. it’s totally believable to me.
For hermiones ethnicity, you missed a crucial book quote. “Hermiones white face was sticking out from behind a tree” in the third book. This confirms her ethnicity in the original book cannon so Rowling DID in fact say she was white.
She's albino
I just re read the third book and that line is not in the book.
She also came back from the summer with a tan and looked like a panda when she got a black eye from the twins prank.
@@darth_kal-elDepends on the edition you read. Not that I know this for a fact, but I do know they change things in every edition, or they wouldn't need new editions.
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Hermione was decscribed as white in the books. How she goes pale or the blush across her cheeks, Rowling also said that aside from being too pretty hermione was how she pictured hermione. Im pretty sure theres a list online of all the times her skin was referenced as being pale or in a way that indicated she is white. The pretend retcon inclusion pissed off a lot of people.
Also reference to her being tanned after the summer too
Rowling: "Well, yes. By 'too pretty,' I meant 'white.' Isn't that obvious?"
I read all the Harry Potter books and I never even had a thought towards Hermione being black.
In fact, it never had a question about the races about any of the individuals in the books. I thought they were fairly clearly defined
Joan is also weird enough that if a character is any race other than white, you’d know. I remember somewhere that Dean is constantly remarked as being Black, Cho as Asian, etc.
Nobody asked. Its forcefully crowbared into the Universe to adapt to current political Ideologies. Being a Barrier for financing your Products and Ideas.
In 5-8 Years, Snape and Hermoine will be white again like nothing ever happened.
People are acting like chamber pots weren't in use for hundreds of years prior to toilets being introduced. Or even outhouses existed.
The Chamber Pot of Secrets also explains the otherwise extraordinary creation of a basilisk transportation network a thousand years before it was repurposed for wastewater management.
Both chamber pots and simply using drop channels that led to either cess pits or down outside a high place into a pit or waterway carrying the mess away.
One thing that bothers me is the bathroom and toilet issue. When Hogwarts was first built by the Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and Slytherin there were no bathrooms and no toilets. But Slytherin created the chamber of secrets and as we know from part two the basilisc which lives in there moves through the pipes. Why would there be pipes if the school didn’t have toilets in the first place? Ok you could say that there weren’t pipes originally and when they started to have toilets they built in pipes and the basilisc could theoretically start moving through them from then on. But why would the new built in pipes be connected to the chamber of secrets?
And the most important thing: The original entrance to the chamber of secrets which was created by Salazar Slytherin which is marked with snakes on a faucet is in a bathroom. 🫠🙃
People claim that some Gaunts when there and built the pipes.
This is the most anti-non-canon justification. And I like it! 5*
@@MordechaiHershoffyoutube Yeah but what about the entrance to the chamber? As far as I understood the entrance was always in the bathroom
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@@DrHutOfHandcraft The bathroom could have been a broom cupboard, or a random room, so the entrance was around, plus why would he put it in the girls bathroom, that restricts half his heirs.
Now a days retcon means ignoring all established lore and rewriting it to fit a narrative they wish to push.
Well If the writer decides that some things need to change to better push for the story they wish to have. Then so be it. Because nowadays people just want to play victim and be cry babies.
@FrostDJakki3529 Whatever you say bruh 😂🤡😂
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I wish that can be the same for Star Wars as well, once Kathleen Kennedy is gone, hopefully a new leader will take charge and maybe retcon the Sequel Trilogy.
Not gonna happen, the sequels are the future @@arrowghost
Before the controversy about Rowling, I had already become less impressed with her because I noticed a pattern: the moment people were not talking about her, she would suddenly make a comment or revelation that would put her back into public view. One of the examples of that was the sudden, and at the time fairly pointless, revelation that Dumbledore was gay. Now I have no problem with the idea of it, but there was never even the smallest hint at it before she suddenly blurted it out, and at that point, there was no reason why it would matter at all - it added nothing and explained nothing and there was nothing to point back to that suggested it. As far as I could see, the only point was to get people to pay attention to her because she was no longer the focus of attention. That sort of thing does not impress me personally, but then, I suppose it doesn't matter if I am impressed or not. It does, however, support the idea that Rowling is somewhat prone to retconning things for the purpose of regaining the spotlight. But that's just my opinion.
“Hermione’s white face was sticking out from behind a tree.”
Prisoner of Azkaban.
Maybe that was a different Hermione LOL
"pale face" to be more specific.
@@sirboredom1012It doesn’t say “pale.” It specifically says “white”.
@@jackjmaheriii I mean, having read it, it specifically says "pale", I know because I pointed it out to my sister.
@@sirboredom1012 I can’t speak for the whole world, but in the American novels, text version 1999 chapter 21 it most certainly says “white”.
Not to mention that all the time turners were destroyed during the battle of the Dep't of Mysteries.
Thank you!
Not destroyed, stuck in a time loop, unable to be used. big difference as someone may come along with a way to end the loop one day.
1. The Cursed Child (aka, the Play That Shall Not Be Named) only has one good thing-Scorpius is adorable. Everything else is garbage.
2. I will never feel bad about Neville chopping Nagini's head off. Not the same as what they pushed on us in FB.
3. Have read HP loads of times. There's really no evidence that Dumbledore had any other feelings for Grindy except for a short 2-month hyper friendship at discovering someone he (at first) could consider his equal. But even he realized that his new friend was capable of becoming a horrible wizard when he warned him to avoid repeating his errors that got him kicked out of Durmstrang. Seemed to me he hoped to be able to reel him in if he let his temper fly off the rails. Interestingly enough, a content creator who used to be a major fan mentioned way back in 2017 that Rowling originally only claimed that Dumbledore was the only one of the two of them who would have pursued a relationship, but Grindy was so focused on his plans that he never even noticed. So she retconned her own retcon of his leanings.
One thing more-no one ever says anything about how (in HBP), Dumbledore tells Harry that he often visits Rosmerta in the evenings (he's explaining why no one would think it weird that he goes into Hogsmeade alone so often). Re-read it. I re-read it like 5 times the first time I read it and it's really obvious that he sees her for more than just a drink and a conversation or two. How do I know? He named her specifically-not, "I like to visit the local pubs to see what's going on" or anything similar.
You’re definitely right about Dumbledore being more in love with Grindelwald as it was more clear in the Secrets of Dumbledore. I remember in the book that there was a line that inferred Grindelwald and Dumbledore had a relationship I don’t remember the quote but the channel MovieFlame has made a video on it so I recommend that
Also it appears that him and madam Pomfrey have something, since as you remember that Dumbledore in the very first chapter tells professor McGonagal "I haven't blushed so much since Madam Pomfrey told me she liked my earmuffs".
1. Albus & Scorpius are, but where are the other 2 Potter kids?
2. Black Hermione at Broadway was controversial but forgivable and possibly forgettable, unfortunately it's also the sign of the rise of wokism. Besides, Black Hermione confuses me for one of the Patil twins.
3. Time-Turner maybe some sort of time travel device, but it ain't a Tardis, Albus & Scorpius can't time travel WAY FAR BEHIND in attempting to course correct. Moreover, it's way even more in the HISHE animation which Severus Snape took the Time Turner, count like hell until he reaches the timeline when Tom Riddle was still young and at the orphanage, Snape killed him to save a lot of people in the future.
4. In my country, LGBT is unacceptable, I only see Dumbledore & Grindelwald as Best Friends Forever, nothing more... until it's broken.
5. Nagini with the blood curse ain't the only character suffers with this condition, in the HPMA game, there was another one from Mahoutokoro named Kenji Kobayashi with his partial transformation as a fox.
Honestly yall you can visit someone just because you’re friends, it doesn’t mean that Rowling is wrong about her own character (she’s wrong about other things don’t get me wrong) but I don’t think it’s against canon retcon, I think it’s adding additional things that don’t really change much after the story ends retcon
@@StackatackaStudios exactly that’s all as long as it doesn’t hurt the story like now we also know Aberforth had a son which was never mentioned before and that never altered anything
Snape invented sectum sempra, but I didn't necessarily think the healing spell was his invention. It may already have existed and he used it to counter the curse he invented, since it caused injuries. It seems like something healers would already know about, for instance.
It’s a blunder and what happens when writers and directors aren’t fans or even read the books.
in the book it's implied but not outright stated that draco was very lucky snape himself arrived, since very few other people would be able to immediately recognize and counter a curse that dangerous, if they had seen it before at all.
i just reread that part (half blood prince chapter 24) and it's even gorier than i remember, malfoy is described as soaked with blood half a dozen times, blood covers his face, and the bathroom floor is soaked with blood, and myrtle is screaming "MURDER!!", she may have saved his life by attracting the attention of snape
@@sparticuzj19 but yeah i agree fantastic beasts is not really faithful to the original canon in a lot of ways and i can only hope that the tv show in the future is at least as accurate to the books as the movies. it probably won't be, but for example imo black Hermione would be acceptable as long as they fix Ron and give him the lines from the books he actually said
@@tacokonekoI hate how everyone shits on harry for this moment. Even the movies refuse to acknowledge malfoy was trying to torture Harry. If Harry didn’t use sectumsempra malfoy would have been Azkaban bound for life
JK Rowling: "White skin was never specified."
Meanwhile the books cover, illustrations, interviews, and most importantly, the contents of the text that reads: "Hermione's white face was sticking out from behind a tree."
JK Rowling may have written the original canon, but she also writes a lot of bald-faced BS that's better off in the paper shredder, as the story is full of hypocrisies, inconsistencies, and contradictions.
4:17 Thank you for bringing this up! This is my biggest issue with Dephi’s existence. Somebody would have noticed Bellatrix was pregnant. She was living with her sister and her whole family after all, you can’t seriously tell me that none of them noticed her being pregnant and giving birth in their house.
JK is 100% cap when it comes to black Hermione. She describes her as blushing and even turning a deep shade of magenta at one point. I’m not saying that black people don’t blush, but I guarantee she wouldn’t use that descriptor for a black person. Total cap 🧢
Big recton that I noticed was Harry's cloak. It's supposed to be THE cloak, the GOAT of cloaks and is supposed to be able to conceal against magical means and doesn't weather, deteriorate or break down. Yet, we know Dumbledore can see Harry early on in the series under it and so can Mad Eye( Barty). Also, Fred and George performing magic at home outside of Hogwarts under aged. yet, nothing happens to them ever. Unless there's something I missed.
The 'trace' which detects underage magic is not able to tell who actually does the magic. Like in chamber of secrets when Harry gets in trouble for Dobby's hover charm. Fred and george can get away with magic at home because they live with arthur and molly and the ministry has no way of discerning between fred and georges magic and their parents. As far as the cloak, i'm not sure its ever directly implied that Dumbledore can see Harry under the cloak, just that he hung around in the mirror of erised room waiting for harry to use the cloak the first time. Mad eye/Barty being able to see Harry went completely unexplained but I guess there must be some very powerful magic in that eye. He can see out of the back of his head after all
He can’t see them he can sense the magic. He is that powerful
And in HBP Mad eye mentions he lost a few invisibility cloaks aswell
@@Yltimate_ You mean Barty? I know he was hidden under a cloak during the cup. However, I feel like Rowling forgot about her widespread use of the cloak and just later on made Harry’s cloak special.
@Linkskyfyre see i think the opposite, that it's Harry's that's special and she made it not special.
"They're really rare"
No it was real Mad Eye, talking about him losing them when he was sneaking someone out. Forgive me i can't recall exactly when
I don't care that that she said Cursed Child is cannon. I don't like it and don't include it with the rest of the stories. People seem to forget that at the time, these 2 guys wrote a play that only had their names on it. It got a lot of traction because people wanted more HP content so she okayed it and added her name to it since they're her characters. That's it. To me, it's just another example of fanfic
everything after 7 books and word from JK herself on her websites, or interviews is fanfic collabs - including the FB films, and CC
Jk said CC and FB is cannon a handful of years ago, has that changed?
But she wrote TCC and the FB scripts...
collaborating with others. not canon
@ricey23 If the original author and creator of the world says it is, then it doesnt matter if she collaborated with a hundred people. Her world, her word is law. It doesnt matter if you like it or not.
@@FuzzyFoot58Wrong. Think for yourself.
I always assumed that the McGonnagall in Fantastic Beasts is an ancestor of Professor McGonnagall.
Minerva's father was a muggle, and her mother married into the McGonnagall family so that seems unlikely
@Johnjohnson2695 unless her father was a muggle but his siblings(s) weren't. 😂
So the term retcon has been retconned.
No
Yes retcon originally referred to something like Dumbledore being gay, it's just an extra detail added after the fact that doesn't conflict with any established lore, story bit, or character. Although I suspect that was only done to score virtue points with a certain segment of her fandom. Which is ironic considering that segment went from, "YASSSSS QUEEN," when she did it, to "BURN THE WITCH!!!" when she later spoke heresy lol. These days retcon is more often a change made by narcisstic writers thinking they can tell a better version of the story than the original author, or that their ideas are better, or as a means of inserting their own personal agenda into it. It's such weird behavior.
And wasn't there a part of the book that directly refers to Hermione's face as white?
I’m pretty sure there is a video interview of Rowling way back in 2007 where she said she always thought Dumbledore was gay as she wrote it.
To be fair to that same community, when you deny the rights and existence of one of their member groups they have a right to get angry.
@@seangriffin5524 yes I've heard something similar, and she may have meant that to be the case all along, I've just never seen it. But either way, that situation is what we would originally think of as a retcon - as in it doesn't contradict anything, it's just an extra detail added after the fact.
@@JustSomeDude42 yawn
The term "retroactive continuity" was from the first time it was picked up by pop culture, was also used to refer to making changes to previously established facts. The idea it was only used to refer to additions is itself a retcon of the term.
From the most recent films, we learn that Nagini was a lady who was cursed with dark magic, enslaved, and forced to perform for her master and crowds. So, she apparently escaped, became voluntarily enslaved again to Voldy, became cursed again by the horcrux spell, and forced to perform at his whim. Why would she repeat the situations she hated the first time around?
Apparently she had a special bond with Voldemort since he was the only one who could talk to her
In the 800's they had a bathroom that had a toilet but not like we think of it. they had a seat with a tube going down to the outside of the caste. There someone would shovel out the waste. So while you were relieving yourself you would get a draft on your back side.
Just like on an old boat, without the free bidet.
One castle had a tube that was big enough for a spy to crawl up. That was a castle on a rock so the tube was longer than the height of the castle. I got the impression that people didn't sit on the tube, but they could dump their chamber pots down the tube.
Key Key thing to point out about Hermione’s race: (I certainly hope) most people have no problem with changing Hermione to be Black if that’s what they want in terms of a stage performance. There’s no issue with more diversity. The problem comes with JKR pretending like she’d planned this all along when clearly she hadn’t. She never once wrote Hermione with Blackness in mind. Otherwise JKR would never have Hermione being scolded for showing concern for the slave race of characters (the SPEW storyline). Or she would have had some storyline about feeling different or nervous about fitting in or literally ANYTHING to show she was black besides “well I never said she WASN’T.” It’s just weird for JKR to claim that she wrote inclusive characters by retconning one to be black when she wasn’t.
Well concerning nervousness or being different, the book are written with a close third person that follow harry. That third person is able to get Harry's thought BUT not any other character, meaning that we have no idea of what Hermione feel and think.
I don’t mind her being black in the stage play because I think of “Cursed Child,” as being an AU therefore making her race irrelevant. The books however, paint her as the “white savior,” type.
All she said was she liked who they had cast as Hermione in the play. It doesn’t mean anything more than that. It doesn’t mean she planned for this casting decades ago. It doesn’t mean Hermione isn’t canonically white. She probably just didn’t want the actress they cast to feel bad as people were saying she shouldn’t have the role because of her race. She was just showing support for the actress not changing Hermiones race or history.
I don't care how the actors look if they are portrayed in character. Skin colour doesn't matter at all in fiction, if the characters are not made up of stereotypes and everything revolves around the stereotypes. Some Sci-Fi movies/series does it right. Or take Arielle what race plays Arielle is of no importance as long it is Arielle. The real life version of Arielle had no disney magic and couldn't decide beeing a horrormovie for families or not. Just don't do superrealistic animals, the animals have to animated to be cute not super real.
In my Headcanon, the only way the Bellatrix thing makes sense is if you take the standard method of child creation out of the equation... they have access to the darkest of dark magic, I can fully get behind Bellatrix using magical methods to procreate without the need to do the deed.
Given how Bellatrix is devoted to Voldemort and he couldn't care less about her, it would be all Bellatrix's scheme in order to give Voldemort something that only she can, a child... not really caring if he actually wants one or not.
I can't believe Rowling would go along with the Delphine storyline. I get that two writers who clearly didn't understand the characters on a deep level might, but it makes zero sense. First, the idea that Vol and Bel would 'worry' about their child being discovered is ludicrous - they are both anti-social narcissists who only care about power and position. Voldemort is willing to literally split his own soul, and is arrogant enough to believe that this will ensure his 'bloodline.' And, can anyone imagine those two being romantic even for a second? Now, he could have somehow put his 'soul' into Bel, or some other magical spell to conceive, but he was a partial head and then a fetus for the first 4 books.
100% chance that Rowling in 1997 writing a CHILDREN'S BOOK didn't envision Dumbledor as gay.
Sorry but that is as near to an impossibility as it can ever get.
He was just an old wise wizard, because it was a kid's book that she likely didn't think would get much traction.
And it most definitely would have failed if she actually did make him gay or claimed he was gay while elementary schools were debating putting it in their libraries.
People comment about her saying it “way back in 2007” like that’s proof she was thinking it a decade earlier when anyone who was around then knows you were paraded for being an ally of gays back then the same way you are for trans now.
Anyone with an ounce of common sense knew it was just her capitalizing on the times.
This is why hate when movies screw up the lore. mcgonigal should have never been in the beast movies. FB movies are not done well and I don’t count them in the lore
So much she said in interviews. A few things are fine. It's to the point where I go with what George Lucas said. If it's not in the movies or books it's didn't happen. For him it was just movies obviously.
Well, for me, doesn't matter what George says. My Luke dates prom queen Mara Jade and doesn't end up a hermit doing the alien milk thing.
@@eugenebelford9087 George wasn't responsible for the sequels. I doubt they would have been good if he'd been in charge, but at least they wouldn't have been the same sort of hot garbage as Disney Wars.
@@eugenebelford9087canon is the og six movies. The other two sets of “canon” are varying levels of fan fiction
Just said this on a different video, but it was an older one so I wanted to leave the comment here too so there’s more of a chance you’ll see it…:
Brother. You are a great story teller. And I mean that in the deepest sense of the word “great”. Your work truly blesses my soul. Thank you.
Woah, thanks so much! That's quite the compliment
@ what makes you great at storytelling is the level of inspiration you tell these stories with. It’s obvious that the content of these videos come from your soul. You should think about telling stories about other topics/mythologies.
Wait so if at first hogwarts didn't have bathrooms then how did Salazar Slytherin hid his Basilisk in one?. I wonder sometimes if JKR has ever read her own books
It was obviously built over the chamber, maybe magically rejiggered it.
4:15 It's a popular trope in many different stories where the evil person has a child so that they can possess their own child's body to extend their own life immortality through their offspring. But those kids don't get to live their own lives. They're raised to be sacrificial pawns in the future
Plus, considering it's Voldemort, why wouldn't magic be involved in some way? Most likely some kind of dark magic ritual performed to create a child than an actual conception
….. soooo what happens if you didn’t know how to vanish your poop? Like a Muggle born 11-year-old? Didn’t know nothing til last minute. 🤔
That's the house elves' problem
I imagine Vanishing was taught first day to first-years in charms class before toilets, lol. But it is possible that adult wizards had to do the vanishing for their children until they were allowed to do it themselves (sort of lets in an exception to the no magic outside of school rule). Muggle borns would be chamber-pot trained until then and use chamber pots while not at school. Honestly the whole thing is poorly thought out the more you think about it.
Mcgonagal could have just been her mother in the beast movies. Voldemort could just magicked himself an heir in bellatrix’ womb. The nagini retcon is definitely garbage, Harry can talk to snakes there’s no reason to assume he wouldn’t have gotten some kind of weird feeling about her or had an unexplainable feeling that she wasn’t like other snakes. The time turner retcon is a legitimate slap to her very own face as well. She strictly wrote in all the rules in prisoner that she then broke in cursed child. The dumbledore one always bothered me as I never saw him that way, but there also the fact that there’s no evidence to support or combat that one. If anything I always kind of saw him as someone who had so much interest in such a diverse subject matter that he never had the time to develop an interest in any form of sexuality and just doesn’t feel that way about other people. Lastly hermione is literally written as white. I don’t know if she got lost in her own works or if she started developing some form of memory problems but Rowling can’t even recall details about the people she created and I find that sad.
IF time turners Can go back an infinite amount of time, it could be that Hermione was TOLD not to have it go back more than 4-5 hours... or that hers had some restrictions placed on it. This would answer the question as to why McGonical was young and back in time. She used a time-turner.
The Time Turner is nothing but a Deus ex machina, a device from Greek theatre, to solve any problem.
Vulnera could be a niche healing spell that grindelwald and snape discovered individually because they both needed to find a solution to healing cuts
Honestly, Voldemort having a kid despite being devoid and unable to feel love is not that hard to explain.
Bellatrix worshipped him and would do literally anything he commanded. After what happened to him when he tried to possess Harry at the Ministry, being expelled by Harrys love, Voldemort MUST have at least considered that maybe there really was something to love being a powerful source of ancient magic after all. I mean, how could he, the greatest wizard of all time, be defeated by love unless Dumbledore had a point?
So, he experimented. But being unable to understand love, he mistook it for the most primal form of it: sex. And so he knocked Bellatrix up and was probably disgusted by it (he's obviously asexual, after all) and considered the failed venture as proof that Dumbledore was just a fool after all by putting stock into such a silly concept.
Sounds about right, doesnt it? So why is it so hard to see how Delphine was concieved?
Also, the time turner in the Cursed Child is specifically said to have been magically tampered with, which is why it can go back decades instead of hours.
And nowhere in THBP does it state or even hint that the spell Snape uses to heal Malfoy was a countercurse. It was most likely a powerful healing spell, which there probably are a lot of since Magical Medicine is a career choice available after finishing Hogwarts and is its own rich branch of magic; certainly, the teachers of Hogwarts, where spells go wrong all the time, must be required to have some basic knowledge of magical first aid.
Fair enough
Eh, the Voldemort trying to understand love thing doesn't sound right. He's incredibly arrogant and selfish, so I don't see him experimenting with a kind of magic like that. If he did explore that option and wound up with a child, I also don't see him trying to hide it away for fear that someone might discover it. He'd see it as a threat and kill it. He has no reason to preserve his bloodline since he plans on living forever.
@brianpeaden5911 I dont think he would have cared about his bloodline at all and certainly not the child. He may have let her live as a reward for good service for Bellatrix, who probably would have seen the kid as an almost holy product of Voldemorts making, just like the zealot that she was.
Voldemort didnt care what happened to the child and didnt try to hide her away, but Bellatrix would certainly do that. Delphine would be 'heir to the throne' and grant Bellatrix authority as her mother, should things go wrong and someone needed to step in to see Voldemorts plans for world dominion become reality.
Voldemorts intent with the experiment would have been to see if it made him stronger, the way it made Harry and Dumbledore stronger. And when it didnt, he lost all interest in it and returned to his old convictions immediately, not giving his daughter a second thought. He wasnt trying to understand love; he was trying to conquer it and become its master, just as he had done with every other form of magic. And that is also why he failed at the experiment.
When you are writing fiction and you do not look back at your source material these problems continue. There's no confusion when it's real genuine and not fiction. That being said I absolutely love everything Harry Potter except for the cursed child book
Since when cant sociopaths have children? are they born sterile or something? people are aware you dont need to have feelings to have children?
Well, Voldemort was part of the back of someone's head in the first book, then a spirit again, then a fetus, then finally a human in the 4th book, so he must have immediately gotten busy between books 5 and 7. My issue with this is that he and Bell tried to 'protect' her - showing they cared more for her than themselves, which is not a trait of a sociopath - they generally only care about themselves and or their position with power.
I swear at some point I read an interview with JKR where she specifically denied that Harry was a Horcrux.
She sort of denied it, she was more so emphasizing that Harry wasn’t a PROPER Horcrux.
“For convenience, I had Dumbledore say to Harry, "You were the Horcrux he never meant to make," but I think, by definition, a Horcrux has to be made intentionally. So because Voldemort never went through the grotesque process that I imagine creates a Horcrux with Harry, it was just that he had destabilized his soul so much that it split when he was hit by the backfiring curse. And so this part of it flies off, and attaches to the only living thing in the room. A part of it flees in the very-close-to-death limbo state that Voldemort then goes on and exists in. I suppose it's very close to being a Horcrux, but Harry did not become an evil object. He didn't have curses upon him that the other Horcruxes had. He himself was not contaminated by carrying this bit of parasitic soul."
@@HarryPotterTheory That's probably what I'm thinking of. Thanks.
As to Hermione being black or white, Rowling also said that all the kids looks exactly how she pictured them, and she approved all the illustrations on the books, in which Hermione is white. She said that stuff about Hermione being possibly being black after she was criticized for a lack of diversity in her main characters.
I think all of the writers of the Cursed Child greatly underestimated HP fans.
I had no problem with the blood curse of Nagini. I thought it fascinating and really looked forward to that story arc in FB. I just figured at some point she lost her humanness and became the snake. And Voldemort could have wiped her memory. I was most interested in how her path led to him.
I don't see why adding new details to the world is a bad thing if they don't contradict anything.. Why is it a problem if Dumbledore is gay if she didn't have the thought when originally writing harry potter? Was she supposed to record all characters sexuality before writing them? Why is Nagini's revelation a problem, even if it wasn't handled the best and it was lackluster? That's how the universe expands.. Not like writers keep a bible of all characters information in their entirety. Things evolve and grow organically so, until they're written, what's the problem?
Lorrie Kim, author of a book on Snape, has a very Jungian take on Cursed Child. As far as I understand, Delphi doesn't actually exist outside the minds of the 14-year-old boy protagonists. The way Kim describes the concept of the shadow self, and how it applies in this case, makes sense to me.
The words 'vulnera sanentur' appear in neither in the audiobook nor the text that I possess. Whilst it is possible to assume that this must be the spell he used, since the words themselves do not appear this can only bee an assumption. It could be, for instance, that he invented his own counter-curse, not being aware of Vulnera Sanentur at all. Again, Lorrie Kim doesn't seem to think VulneraSanentur was used, though her take on the Sectum Sempra incident and Snape's healing of Draco is rendered more romantic as a result.
However, Rowling's world-building is attrocious so there are bound to be many things she just added, i.e. made up on the spot, in order to satisfy a Potter-hungry public.
Something else about the idea of Voldemort and Bellatrix having Delphini is, if it happened after the occurrences of The Goblet of Fire, then that means she's also partly Harry's blood relative, after Voldemort took Harry's blood, mistakenly expecting it to strengthen him. But what would that have done for a child born from the Frankenstein-like Voldy, and what would Harry's blood do to a child born from a loveless relationship? And would his blood make her stronger or weaker?
Abt voldy daughter, thank you for finally saying that! I hate cursed child for other reasons, but even before that release, I always thought it was weird that he didnt tried to have an heir since he was the last of his bloodline, Salazar bloodline.
On the subject of doing stuff... I always was under the impression that young Tom Riddle, before the first time he vanished and came back as Voldemort, used his looks and charisma to get things he wanted. I think having sx as a form of manipulation or achieving power would be in character for him.
And going further... (and by now I think I understood It wrong bc I never saw anyone talking about that)
Reading as a teen, I understood that his relationship with that woman he got the cup and the locket, Hepzibah Smith, was a kind of a Sugar Mommy deal. Its clear that she was attracted to him and that he visited her home more than one time.
I registered in my mind that as fact but It wasnt stated in the books, obviously.
But if you compare how JK details "romantic" relationships in the books (very poorly and only alluding), the only non-love relationships that alludes to sexual tension are between Voldemort and that woman and Voldemort and Bellatrix. For me it makes perfect sense that he would do it with Bellatrix IF she had something he wanted. Masking an heir is a good reason.
But I think it could only be canon and not a retcon (in the classic meaning) if Bellatrix disappeared for a time in a book and her absence was noticed in the books. It was an wasted opportunity because we have Bellatrix scenes in every book after she escaped Azkaban.
I also defend the decision to make Nagini initially a human who becomes a snake it adds far more depth to her. Even if she wasn't in Secrets of Dumbledore at all as her actress wasn't physically able to come to the UK to film any scenes at the time due to having her daughter. If Fantastic Beasts 4 and 5 ever go ahead she should at least be in them to show how she came to Tom Riddle and how she reacted to Credence's passing!
Also I don't think Voldemort would even think of having a child in the traditional way since he is half blood himself
idgaf about whatever an author changes retroactively, especially when the work was written decades ago and the author will have changed as a person.
book 1-7 are canon to me and everything else is fanfiction.
This guy just gives into everything and doesn’t question it
That’s why everything to me after the main books/movies isn’t canon. Fantastic Beasts and Cursed child are not canon
We should bear in mind that she JK Rowling absolutely had to say so in the beginning when the Harry Potter movie casting was in the process for the Harry Potter & the Philosopherous Stone also known as the Sorcerer's Stone. At no point did they look for a black child to play Hermione. They did choose black children for different characters but not for the main trio. If she wanted to say that Hermione was black then she could have specified that. I absolutely hate anything to do with The Cursed Child book & play. At some point in one of the books it talked about Hermione fair skin. The Carlin Brothers found it and I don't remember which book it was in
Hermione was White in the books. The same with Snape. Not everyone paid attention to all the little details and too many people want to virtue signal and twist everything for the socio-political world view.
I think Dumbledore being gay was just to annoy people who were making a fuss about something. Her comment seemed to be rather off-the-cuff and emotionally charged.
The poop-thing is a bit odd since the bathroom was there since Hogwarts was built as it was the way into the Chamber of Secrets. I think she didn't know when she wrote the book that toilets are fairly modern invention.
Awesome as always thanks ❤
And, there are so many stories she could have proposed or explored that built on the established canon instead of deviating so dramatically from her original vision.
I reject the Cursed Child principally because in canon, going back in time using time turners - everything you do there in your trip back was already in the original past. It was one of JK Rowling's cleverest ideas and a huge breakthrough in this genre of literature. I couldn't believe what she did in Cursed Child and have always viewed it as written by the two other authors. She didn't even review it properly, is my opinion, because it is so utterly disrespectable of canon.
The other one you pick up that is material to me is toilets. It is fundamental to the second book that toilets or at least plumbed water existed at the time of Salazar Slytherin. In my reading, wizards were ahead of humans in this regard.
More to the point, in terms of literature and philosophy, there is a concept called THE DEATH OF THE AUTHOR. Once the author publishes their work, they forever lose control and the various audiences take up the mantel, which is an interpretative one. The author can say all they like, it's pretty much irrelevant. You can see this in the Disney movie Song of the South which was made with the very finest intentions but is now regarded as problematic.
In my interpretation, Harry Potter is an analogy of Jesus Christ. This becomes super-obvious in the last book which literally is built around Jesus's most famous quote, "no greater love hath a man than this, that he lay down his life for his friends." Harry Potter does this and then is resurrected and conducts the battle of good and evil, defeating Satan once and for all. Once you see this, the mirror of Erised (desire) is Mosiah ch 5, the linking of the OT and NT, The time will come when the hearts of the children will be turned to their fathers. In this most important scene, JK establishes that HP's desire is perfectly unselfish and that, if he could, he would spend all his life looking at and loving his parents. But Dumbledor does not permit this... The bogart in the second book is the opposite of the mirror in the first. It is like the temptation of Christ. Like all people including Jesus, HP is flawed, particularly in the fifth book, which could be the analogy of young Jesus in the temple being so disregarding of his parents. Dumbledor represents the Holy Ghost. Other than giving advice and explaining things, he is always STRANGELY inactive in saving HP (something the end of the 5th movie does better than the book) and disappears completely in HP's final struggle (Oh my god why have you forsaken me?) Anyway, that's just my take. It does explain why Harry Potter is such a compelling moral story, and why JK struggled and failed to find a compelling underlying driver for the narrative of her Fantastic Beast movies.
There's obviously more to this than I outlined, but you should not be surprised to know that I predicted all the main events in the last book after reading the first.
PS while I obviously am deeply familiar with biblical stuff (as anyone must be if they want to understand European culture, law and history), I don't follow any religion.
One huge problem is that if there was no proper plumbing until the 18th century, who put the access to the Chamber of Secrets in what is clearly an early 20th Century lavatory?
Black Hermione at Broadway was forgivable but it's also the sign of the birth of the woke mind virus, then comes attempting to make Severus Snape black in the HBO series.
My mother once told me that a woman reserves the right to change her mind about anything at any time. And, well... you read a series by a female author, that's going to apply to retcons as well.
"but I doubt it". Ah yes, a strong rebuttal indeed!
Btw. Sir John Harrington's descendant is the one and only Jon Snow from "Game of thrones". True story.
Bellatrix wasn't seen in the whole of Half Blood Prince after the Spinner's End chapter. She is added in a few more scenes in the movie (and the movies are not canon!), but she's not in the books. So theoretically, she could have born Delphi suring the events of HBP. Don't misunderstand me, I don't like Delphi being Voldemort's daughter and of course it wasn't planned from the beginning, but you can just squeeze it in the book canon.
One plot hole with the trace - when Voldemort kills his father with Morfin's wand, the trace should have activated. Morfin was not underaged and no other wizards lived in Little Hangleton. One could argue that it was just the ministry being lazy (got a confession, got the wand, job's a good'un), they should at the very least have known another witch or wizard was there that day.
I'm fine with the Ministry ignoring the Trace goin off all the time in wizard families. But why was there never a reaction to the whole Weasley visit in Goblet? Sure, the Twins used candy, not a spell. And when Arthus cured Dudley, Harry was already gone. But what about the spell to "open" the blocked chimney?
@@Lilli_Jay Easy the Trace works when it's needed to work. Lazy writing on JK's part.
@@Lilli_Jay As a government employee, Arthur probably warned them ahead of time what he was going to do, so they assumed that Arthur was doing the magic
5:32 the movies were already out. Just like how Will Smith got put on the cover of I Am Legend
Why do we need to mention the poop thing EVERY TIME? 😂
Because we must
We really must
Because at the most primitive level of humankind, we all wish we could make our poo disappear
@@HarryPotterTheoryit is known
Indoor toilets were a thing in castles, they just weren't necessarily a flush type.
Shadaversity just covered a Welsh castle with indoor toilets built in the 14th C.
Regarding Dumbledore being gay, I would propose this retcon may have been one of the biggest dampers on the secrets movie franchise.
Why do I say this? Because these are kid's stories, and parents don't want to have conversations with their youngsters about who is sleeping with who, and 95% of the population isn't gay, with many finding it repulsive.
given all the ilustrations showing hermione as caucasian and the fact that she can get a suntan, I would dare say that hermione was caucasian until Rowling decided she could be anything else if you want. I personally believe that Hermione could be asian because, why not?
given that fantastic beast just 250% ignores any sort of canon in the original 7 books, unless mentioned, explicitly, on the original books, everything on those movies is a retcon.
cursed child can only be canon on the mind of JK Rowling. it completely ignores everything we know and then more. the entire premise is centered on an improved time turner. so improved that it works nothing like the ones we knew. it's not the issue of how long you can go back in time. it's that time turners keep causality. what happened can't be changed. it was caused by your time travel to begin with. in cursed child, we can have multiple timelines that, as mentioned on the video, make no sense.
one last thing on this post before I finish. does anybody remember where the entrance to the chamber of secrets was? are we expected to believe that the bathroom was "upgraded" with toilets but nobody noticed it was the entrance to the chamber? does the castle self-upgrades itself? I find it hard to believe, that wizards and witches just dump their sh*t where they were. it's hard to picture a 12 years old girl lifting her robes to sh*t in the middle of a corridor while a 17 years old boy is looking at her.
As a youngster I had so much respect for Rowling. It's a shame how things turned out.
1:00 are you saying retcon was retconned 😱
how about the inconsistency of the spell expelliarmus. one time it simply disarms you, another it knocks you across the room, and suddenly it makes the wand change owners in the 7th book, meaning that in the 3rd book harry should become the owner of snapes wand, and in the second snape should be the owner of lockharts wand, there are other examples.
In the third book the reason Snape was knocked across the room when expelliarmus was used was because He was hit by 3 spells at once, as Harry, Ron, and Hermione all hit him with the spell at the same time.
Also , even if the effect of the wands changing allegiance after disarming has always been there, that doesn't mean it automatically stops working for others all the time as Voldemort was still able to use the Elder wand, though only as well as his original wand but better then Mr. Malfoys. I believe the power of the wielder does matter as to whether a borrowed wand will still work as well as their original.
The Hermione one annoys me SO MUCH 😂 she literally describes people AS BLACK when they’re black. She’s backtracking trying to look like it was all more diverse than it ever was.
4:30 Fans do not decide what is canon. But I do appreciate you actually debunking the whole “Voldy needs love to procreate” thing
Versailles was one of the most disgusting places to be in France. People would relieve themselves where ever they were. servants had to find the mess and remove it to cess pit or wash off area with scrub brushes.
12:06 Devin castle in Slovakia
Unpopular opinion, but JKR isn’t that good of a writer. HP world is actually badly written, done too fast. Just look at Middle Earth (LOTR/Hobbit) and Narnia. Much better written; first the whole world “created” and then books written.
I'd like to add to this list of much better written stories, Tales from Earthsea, especially if you liked the magic school idea
1:09 Yeah I subscribe to the latter as being a retcon, the former is an expansion of the lore, a retcon changes what we know, either directly or contextually.
This is exactly why I don’t think Dumbledore being gay is retcon. We’re never told he’s straight either. This is the most believable “after thought” of Rowlings. She said it 2007 right after the last book was published where were given our first real info on a personal relationship of Dumbledore’s past. It makes sense to me.
Actually, it makes sense to protect his daughter if his only goal was his legacy, but then again why would he be concerned about legacy when he believes to be invincible? To this I say that he has always feared death, and doesn't truly believe that he's 100% safe.
For Voldemort and Bellatrix to have a child is the most sensible of all these Retcons Rowling created.
You don't need to have romantic feelings for a person to conceive a child. Only intentions. Because Voldemort would have wanted to ensure the Riddle bloodline and, more importantly, he survived through his legacy or the continuation of his dynasty. Should the worst come to the worst at the Battle of Hogwarts (which it did).
Bellatrix just so happens to be the perfect candidate. A strong female witch, from a pure and ancient bloodline, who would be more than willing, in fact she was absolutely 'Thursty' for him.
Bellatrix would see it as both an honour and her right as his most loyal and faithful servant, to continue the Dark Lord's family legacy.
That also explains why Voldemort had such a violent reaction when Molly Weasley 'somehow' took her down.
Who was going to raise his child now?
mate a 40 year old man tried out for Harmonie Granger for the new show casting 😂
Hermione was NOT black.
Simple as.
I wonder if Rowling gets convinced by others? She had strong convictions when when the original films were made, and then again when Universal created the Wizarding World, but she seems to disconnect if she has a part in deviating from her own established canon. Ego is a powerful drug when one becomes that successful.
Its not just that hermione is white in the movie, she’s white in all the art in all the editions of the book.
well sectupsempra was in in the textbook and is his but there never was a referrence to a mending one and i doubt Snape would use anything he did not know how to reverse since there was a countercurse to levicorpus in the textbook or he would at least take a note not to use it all 😊 and to Dumbledoor romance when i read the book for the first time i conculded he was in love with Grindy just by how it was written amd later he stayed alone because he did not get over it and also if wizards were like muggles of the time he would hardly broadcast it 😁
I think in Nagini's case is understandable becase the character wasn't expanded enough in the books.
2:00 Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is in fanfic level to me. I pretend it doesn't exist.
My theory of Fantastic Beasts McGonagall is a relative to the original one, maybe her mom or grandma
Honestly, I’d make the most sense for Voldemort to want to foster a kid as he was all about pure blood eugenics. And even then, he’d probably feel that his blood was the most superior of them all. So to feed into his ego more he’d want to create some offsprings to make the world more of himself. What I am questioning is why he didn’t create more kids? Probably was too picky on who to procreate with. And seeing as how belatrix was both loyal and pretty powerful, that first choice was a given.
Hermione's skin colour has only becomes an issue in recent years because today's content creators HAVE to be inclusive in their works. You have to be politically correct and therefore add ethnic minorities, non straight characters, disabled ones and so on and so on. I believe JKR insisted on her skin colour (and Dumbledore being gay) to show her work, that was started in 1990, still was up to date instead of owning the fact that her books are the products of the time during which they were written, when it was not as important as it is today to include every specificity in order for the fans to feel represented. A more honest reaction would have been to accept that she had not thought of Hermione as black BUT to support the casting of the black actress. You are not (necessarily) racist if you only write white characters, you might just be influence by what you see / read / experience in your world. I'm white myself, I write more white characters because I'm influenced by what I see. I'm also sighting impaired and don't feel personally hurt if my favourite authors do not write disabled people. Most of the time I am not represented in the fictions I read or watch and that's OK, that's being part of a minority is. I don't need the characters to be exactly like me to identify with them and like the story. Maybe she should have considered that HP fans did not need a black, a Jew, a disabled and a gay to like her characters and stories.
I had no idea about this Voldermorts daughter thing! It's pretty cool idea imo. Also it's extremely stupid when fans tell the author, no that's not canon lol
I just thought, if plumbing was introduced in the 18th century, how was the chamber of secrets entrance a pipe? That was supposedly construdcted 1000 years ago, did the entrance change? Was there a descendant who made the decision to do that?
Unfortunately, I have a feeling a lot of the things Rowling has said about the books after their publication are not things she actually ever had in mind as she was writing them. Rather, they're meant to make the books conform to the current ideals of popular opinion and political correctness.
so, you start out by retconning retconning?! this will not end well.
Why would Voldemort need to be able to feel emotions in order to procreate? Sociopaths/psychopaths have children just as easily as emotionally invested people. He might not have given a crap about said child, but he could easily have had the intent and will to produce an heir.
2:51 You don't need to have emotions to have children. In fact him having a kid could have been another experiment he was doing
Plus emotions don't really have anything to do with your physical gratification from the acts
That newt somehow helped Dumbledore defeat Grindelwald must be the stupidest retcon ever
Anyone who says Voldermort can’t have a child because he can’t love. My brothers in Christ you don’t need to love to have sex. People have sex everyday without being in love or feeling love. People get pregnant everyday from loveless sex. Just because you don’t doesn’t mean that the population at large doesn’t. It does.
Having said that. The idea of a Voldermort/Bellatarix child is still rather stupid given everything else about Voldermort. Not the fact he couldn’t love.
Yeah no, cursed child is not cannon 💀
I went and saw The Cursed Child. It was okay... As far as Ole Voldy having a kid. I'd say it was him trying to preserve his bloodline. I'd say at that point, he realized a few of his horcruxes had been destroyed. So he figured just to be safe. He'd pass on his seed. Perhaps in hopes he could use them as he did Ginny in the future. As far as Lil Miss Bellatrix's belly. It could have just been an enchantment of some sort so she would appear as not pregnant to everyone else. Obviously Ole Voldy wouldn't want anyone to know. Just in case he did still succeed.
I agree with you on how it could have been possible for Bellatrix to hide Voldemorts' child and why he would have one.
Somehow, I have a hard time believing Voldemorts Homunculus( an artificially created body. In this case, made up of his father's bones, Harry's blood and wormtail's flesh) body would even be capable of fathering a child. Would an artificially created body even produce seed? Too many questions nobody wants to answer.
9:43 and with a pushback from fans saying the original time travel rules didn’t make sense
10:45 “oh by the way Harry, I’m very gay!” Dumbledore said calmly
13:25 Besides the name Nagini that is
The main two retcons are hermione being black and dumbledore being gay. Both of those were established after the series ended
I don’t see how dumbledore being gay is retcon. It’s never mentioned that he’s straight either so wouldn’t it also be retcon if you claimed he wasn’t gay? Haha. Idk why people think that she was lying way back in 2007 when she said she always thought he was gay while writing it. it’s totally believable to me.
@ not the right word youre right. Just something that was not part of the story until after the books ended
We need more poop lore. We need Harry Potter and the Chamber of Toilets.
Harry Potter and the Chamber Pots. 😂
No plumbing at Salazar Slytherins time, right... who then concealed the entrance of the chamber of secrets in the girls bathroom?