I think its awesome how Lucius insulting the Grangers is what causes Mr. Weasley to snap and attack him immediately and then later in the book Malfoy insulting Hermione is what causes the Twins and Ron to all try to attack him causing Ron to end up burping slugs. It's like this beautiful glimpse into how much of an impact Mr. Weasley has had on his sons lives and how much they take after him in their belief system.
my point was that he tried to defend them despite the fact he barely knew them. Ron defending hermoine is courageous, but also they are best friends. Arthur was willing to start a fight with someone probably more powerful over people he just met. Because he stands up for what he believes in. The fact, that he barely knew them is relevant, because it speaks to his character.@user-os2gm6hv9l
One of the Weasley kids was the target for Lucius Malfoy! Dumbledore later in the book mentioned that if it can out that Arthur’s daughter was attacking people, his muggle protection bill would be out and Arthur would be out of a job. I think Lucius was intending to get Arthur out and his plan was to Frame the muggle loving Weasleys as muggle attackers
I don't think that Lucius thought of opening the chamber but who to get rid of the diary because he got it from Voldemort. He must have at least known that Voldemort did something to it but I doubt that Voldemort would've told him what. And since it was a muggle artifact as a diary from a muggle shop it would fall into the purview of Arthur. Later when the attacks started Lucius would know what the diary does.
For the "Lucius's timing" bit, what if Dobby was ordered to intercept letters by Lucius so that he could learn when the Weasleys would go to Diagon Alley, and then Dobby used that order as permission to just nab ALL the letters and keep them, so that Harry thinks his friends abandoned him and won't go to school and fall into the trap? It's more of that "Dobby is exploiting every loophole he can think of" concept, which I personally adore. Seems to make sense of everything, at first glance.
My particular head canon regarding Arthur asking Harry about "Muggle stuff" is that it is less about a lack of knowledge or library research, but more an opportunity for him to learn how a young person, who was raised as a muggle, thinks and understands these things and their first hand perspectives with them. There is a difference between book knowledge and wisdom of experiences.
Also, if he knows TOO much, that make look strange to a muggle. So asking Harry would put him on the same level as the average person. The average muggle kid only knows how to plug things in. Maybe an adult knows about alternating vs direct current. Maybe a pair of dentists would know about current, amps, volts, circuits, ect (considering they had to learn physics).
Ooh I like that. Less of a "what is the exact definition of this" and more "what is your understanding of this". Even if he researches power plugs in a book, he might not grasp the extent to which they're used or any nuance that Harry might just unthinkingly reveal, not even realising it was something Arthur hadn't already understood.
1:05:23 Re: Draco being called Master Malloy. In the UK, young boys are referred to as Master, while adult men are Mister. When I was little I’d receive letters saying Master Jack, it always felt rather Victorian but kinda cool 😁
I thought that was the case (American, but I've read/heard/watched a British thing or two). I wonder why "Master" came to mean a young boy and a very important person. Which came first? Why the shift from one to the other, or from some precursor to both of these?
@@laser8389 From what I can gleam from Wiktionary, Master came first, then over time changing pronunciation transformed at least the title variant into Mister, while Master was kept for boys. Apparently Shakespeare was referred to as "Master Shakespeare" on one of his folios, and around Shakespeare time there was a massive linguistic change called the "great vowel shift", where vowels used in English were basically swapped around, so if I had to guess I’d say that was perhaps how Mister was created.
@@toriandtilly Mistress is what "Mrs" is short for, that’s for sure. I believe "Miss" is simply a contraction of either one or both. It’s not really that weird as our current definition of mistress is the newer one, it originally simply meant a woman who was married/at the head of a household. The newer connotation probably came about as people forgot that Mrs was short for Mistress, or maybe as a bit of irony.
Okay but hear me out. Percy passed his Divination OWLs by _using his Time Turner._ He saw what would happen one or more hours into the future, and then went back and predicted that happening. Genius strategy :D If nothing else, I could see Barty Crouch Jr doing it this way. Genius manipulator that he is.
I was reading through to see if anyone else had posted. Good job. I was thinking: “Hmmm, what possible means can someone with a Time Machine use to imitate skilled divination?” As to hypothesis of knowing trelawney well enough to fool her, that wouldn’t work for the OWL, as they are administered by testing wizards, not the teachers.
As an electrician, this episode feels a little more magical to me for some reason. I can nerd out on you guys about all the wonders of electricity over a pint at the Three Broomsticks any day! :P
As someone who just makes basic electrical stuff work, it really is as easy as you think when you plug something in. Current conducts through tongs you inserted into electrical field in the wall (outlet) and if it has the bottom plug it’s just a ground and that does something to make stuff not burn down
@@MrEvanNoyesI just saw your comment lol. It’s a bit of a long-winded explanation, but here goes nothing (disclaimer, I finished my trade school 4-5 years ago so all of this might be slightly wrong, other Sparkies please correct any misinfo). The ground in an electrical circuit serves two purposes. The first is to provide a reference point for the electrical circuit. Meaning, without knowing what A (the ground) is, we cannot control B, C, D, E, etc. (these other variables being - voltage in different parts of a building, different voltage systems, etc. By identifying/establishing the ground in a circuit, we have a controlled means of distributing, using, and testing voltages. The second and more important purpose for the average Joe is to provide the quickest path of LEAST resistance to discharge an electrical circuit. When we install an electrical system, we design a system to “ground” the circuit. In a very literal sense, we drive 8-10’ copper coated rods into the earth that are tied into EVERY ground wire in the system. This system must be in place everywhere past the service entrance (where the main power comes in). In the event a circuit pulls more power (ampacity) than the breaker is rated for, when that breaker trips, that energy needs to be released somewhere. Instead of it returning to the circuit and potentially causing more damage, it uses the ground wire which has the quickest flow of current in the system to release that energy. The same principle applies to GFCIs (the plugs with the red reset buttons). These are designed specifically to monitor the current across the outlet. If it deviates from a “safe” value, the outlet trips and sends that energy to ground. Hope that was enough nerding for you. END DISCLAIMER: Don’t do your own electrical work. And no, that’s not me trying to work on your home. It’s just not worth it lmao. Electrical is the only “system” that doesn’t smell, make noise, or tell you before it will kill you and it can happen in a split second. If you must do electrical work in your home, TURN OFF THE MAIN BREAKER. Your fridge will be fine and you might even thank me for turning off your electronics for an hour.
I love that! In the catalan version they also change some names to give them more meaning. My favourite is Peter Pettigrew = Ben Babbaw (babau in catalan means coward/dumb)
I feel that the Durdsleys don't want Harry to leave, because they are bullies. A bully often obsesses over there target. They judge their own self worth by how they lord over the target, without the target they have nothing to feel superior too.
Definitely, they need someone to bully/control/abuse. Bullies and abusers don’t let go of their target easily… Otherwise getting out of an abusive environment wouldn’t be so hard. The Dursleys hate Harry but they love the feeling of power he gives them… As for choosing between making Harry’s happiness over his own, I believe Vernon gets a real kick out of Harry’s misery. It’s not so much about Harry’s happiness as it is about Vernon’s way of being happy: either by making Harry miserable or getting rid of him for awhile
I think it is a combination of bullying and fear. Yes, the Dursleys are mean, horrible people who abuse Harry, but they also don't want him to go to school where he can learn how to defend himself and curse them.
My theory about why the Dursleys don't want Harry to go to school is keeping him "under class ". Going away for school is a sign of prestige that they want only Dudley to advantage from.
About the wizard hat thing, at most formal occasions there’s reference to people wearing a wizards hat (McGonagall at the Yule ball, Mrs. Weasley at the wedding) so Lockhart always dressing to the nines, hat and all, ready for a photo shoot tracks perfectly.
Ollivander used Phoenix feathers more than twice as a core. Chapter 5 in philosophers stone, the first wand he gave harry was "maple and Phoenix feather. Seven inches". Maybe other wands have the core in his store but the wands have not chosen the wizards.
Phoenix feather is one of the three main wand cores. Along with unicorn hair and dragon heartstrings. So yes, Olivander probably used a lot of them. What makes Harry's and Voldemort's wands "brothers" is that both feathers came from the same phoenix. (Fawx)
Just here to confirm, that in British High Schools, it was definitely embarrassing when someone said you had a boyfriend/ girlfriend 😂 it was almost like "I'm letting everyone know that you have a crush on this person!" Or "this person clearly has a crush on you!". I don't even know why it was embarrassing, but it was 😳
I think the reason why Mr Weasley doesn’t go to a muggle library or attempt to ask other muggles about things like plugs or the function of a rubber duck, if because he (and very likely all magical folk) believe that it is knowledge that muffle either learn at a very young age, or else is intuitive knowledge that muggles just have. This would mean to go to a library and ask for a book on plugs or go up to a muggle in the street, would, to him, be the same as telling them that he is a wizard. This would explain why he asks Harry such questions as he believes that Harry should already know this, this would also be the case for Hermione’s parents. Whether this is a view held by the ministry as a whole (and therefore there is a policy against direct interaction with muggles to get such information) or this is just what Arthur thinks (and the ministry/previous people in Arthur’s job simply didn’t think it worth while knowing any of these things) doesn’t really matter, as Arthur is probably the only Wizard in the books with such an infatuation with muggles and muggle artefacts. That’s my head canon/explanation for it anyway, would be interested to hear others thoughts on the matter.
Brilliant take. That makes so much sense. It's hard enough to ask a what might be a stupid question, but then it's also literally the law that you don't make too much of a fool of yourself. I also feel like you can't expect Arthur to know everything. muggles have made an awful lot of bits and bobs. Every week I'm sure he thinks or something small that would be fun to figure out but not worth the time of spending a day reading through a textbook, it is more of a hobby after all.
I mean, there have to be some wizards that make it their business to know about muggle things, there is after all a muggle studies class at Hogwarts. I wonder what kind of knowledge is locked behind achieving a NEWT in muggle studies?
Around the 36:19 minute mark is tangentially related to a cool history fact I happen to know, in Ancient Sparta (and I'm sure many other places throughout history this is just the one I happened to know) they used to intentionally train young warriors with spears and shields WAYY heavier than the ones they'd use in combat. That way they could build the strength to not just wield the weapon, but wield the real one with comparative ease. It being heavier meant they had to think so much more about the effectiveness of their technique and really perfect it. Then when they started training with the real thing or fighting with the real thing, it would be far more mobile and light, but they'd have the skill and technique and strength built up from training with heavier weapons and would be that much more deadly with them, it acted as strength building experience as well as a way to hone their fighting techniques under far more strenuous conditions than they would be in during the real thing. Much like Gokus weighted Garments.
@@LegioXXI like I said in the original comment, I was not under the impression this was unique to sparta, it's just the civilisation I knew about, I wasn't about to claim knowledge about cultures I didn't know for sure did or didn't do it. But it's not a massively uniquely ingenious tactic, tho it is very clever, but no surprise it was general practice. Do you know when the earliest recorded instance was?
1:28:03 This exchange between Luscious and Arthur always reminds me of the exchange between Draco and Harry a year earlier before the sorting ceremony. "I think I can sort out the 'wrong sort' for myself thanks."
Out of all the chapters in the first three books, this discussion is probably the one that I am most excited for. We get the introduction to Gilderoy Lockhart and all the good feels from years of SCB content for Lockhart.
Don't know if anyone else mentioned it, but Harry does try out another phoenix feather wand that isn't the one he finally gets. So there are definitely more than just the two.
Floo powder is also green, which is the same color as the killing curse, representing death. Which makes sense because using a phoenix’s ashes represents death as well
Great show. Have you heard the theory books 1/7, 2/6, and 3/5 mirror each other. Here are some examples: 1/7- Harry is hit by a killing curse, Voldemort defeated, Harry arrives/leaves Dursley’s on motorbike. 2/6 Tom Riddle flashbacks, Horcruxes, Ginny/Harrys crush on each other, The Diary/Potions book,Polyjuice and Crabbe & Goyle. 3/5 Meet Sirius/ He dies, Azkaban breakouts, Trelawney’s prophecies,Dementor attacks,Time turners introduced and destroyed, Harry meets Cho/ breaks up with her. I’m sure you guys could find way more, just wondering if you’ve noticed before.
I've often thought that Petunia and Vernon set out to do what they could to "un-magic" Harry. Like if they could squeeze him in a box of normalcy he wouldn't end up being magical at all. I think perhaps it started from a "good" place. I'm not sure Vernon understands much about magic at all, but Petunia has some understanding of it and I think it all always seemed very dangerous and evil and sketchy and terrifying to her (if you think about her experiences it's not that surprising, Snape used it to chase her away, what she overhears of dementors and Azkaban is terrifying, her sister getting farther and farther away from her, and it was a time when Voldemort was gaining power, until he finally killed Lilly...) I think she may have genuinely started out wanting to do right by her sister's son at first and keep him away from the stuff that killed his parents. But then weird things happened to Harry anyway and if anything the more they restricted him the more it exploded out of him (like his hair growing messily back in a night) and at some point she lost track of the goal and he became a scapegoat for all thing weird and going wrong. I'm not saying she was ever good or caring to him, but in her own messed up way I think she did start out wanting to do what she thought was best for him. Her attitude reminds me a bit of strongly religious Catholics who can't tolerate people with other beliefs because those people will go to hell for believing the wrong thing, and if they as Catholics don't try to convert the misguided people and stop them from going to hell, then they'll go to hell as well. For them the end justifies the means, it doesn't matter how much hurt they inflict because if they prevent someone from going to the greater hurt that is hell then everything they did no matter how awful was for the greater good.
I just wanted to tell you guys that I very much appreciate the content you both make. These chapter by chapter break downs have really helped me stay grounded during these unsure and difficult times. It also helps me get out of my own head and do something constructive like re reading the HP series and then getting to put my own comments and opinions on a video breaking down each chapter. I've really struggled with some serious health issues and it seems getting out of my own head has gotten harder and harder as the country I grew up loving and still do, becomes unrecognizable. Which is another reason this channel has really helped me, you guys keep politics out of the entertainment you provide. Which has really separated the wheat from the chaff as far as RUclips content goes. Plus, the genuine good nature of both brothers is a total breath of fresh air. Keep up the hard work gents
Hey Brothers! (And crew!) I’ve been a fan of you guys for a while now. My Dad and I found your channel during the pandemic and have been enjoying it ever since. We really like your Harry Potter, Disney, Pixar, Mavel and Star Wars content, and always try to watch the new videos together. I’ve really been enjoying Through the Griffin Door series since it has been so long since I’ve read the books. Like your dad did, my mom read most of them too me as they came out and Deathly Hallows was the longest book I had ever read on my own up to that point, so I’ve really loving getting to hear parts of the stories I haven’t for so long. Since I really love your guy’s idea of Hogwarts being a dragon that the founders transfigured into the castle, I wanted to add something to it. The dragon asked to be turned into the castle because it was old and lonely and this way it would never be lonely again and could live on in a different way. I also had an idea about the friendships between the founders based off of your idea of all of them knowing about and liking the Basilisk. What if Godric, Rowena and Helga were the ones who got the Basilisk for Salizar as a surprise gift, and it liked all of them for giving it a home and friends. One top of that, I had the idea that each founder had a gift that was a fantastic creature of some kind from the other three as a group gift. Godric would have gotten a lion of some kind, not a Griffin. Maybe a descendant of the Nemean Lion from Greek myth. You can’t tell me that Godric wouldn’t have a field day getting to spare with a lion that he would have a hard time hurting. Rowena would have gotten an eagle of some kind, or a raven. Maybe one that was similar to the Eagle of Zeus who was sent to torture Prometheus. Having the descendant of the eagle used to punish the bringer of knowledge to mankind as the familiar of the founder of the house associated with knowledge just seems to fit. And last, but not least, for Helga they would have gotten a badger of some kind. I don’t really have a suggestion for this one since there aren’t a lot of badgers in mythology. But I’m sure the other three would have worked very hard to find her a familiar that would fit her. Then again, maybe they just got the giant squid that still lives in the lake to this day. I just really like the idea of them all working really hard to find each other a familiar and having each of them care for them. Also, the idea of Godric having to distract Salizar while Rowena and Helga go and get the Basilisk is just hilarious to me for some reason. From Animanda Tsuki no Usagi, a fellow RUclipsr.
Honestly, I have read this book countless times, and not a single one of them it has ever crossed my mind that there would be any suspicion of Percy, in book 2 Percy still had spotless reputation
For Lockhart's books, I think they're more like novels, not a textbook. So like for one of my college lit classes, I had to get 7 books, all for around $5-10. Books like "The Scarlet Letter", "The Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglas", and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow & other stories". We just went through each, taking 1-2 weeks. I can see Lockhart assigning books that talk about his "adventures" and then they talk about what they read for homework.
1:14:00 i was pretty late in reading the books, not doing so till i was out of high school, but even when reading it i never found percy suspicious at all. i literally spent the book wondering who had tried to frame hagrid until the twist happened. edit: oh, they did the same thing.
I never saw Percy as the red herring, simply because I was 3 when the book was released, so I saw the film first, lol. However, I do like the idea of having him as the red herring, simply because of the shady stuff he does later on in the series (Imperiused or not!) Here's a possible "What If...?" for you guys. What if Lucius HAD given the diary to Harry and the Diary possessed him the same way it had Ginny? Love this channel, I've been watching the Super Carlin Brothers since the beginning and I love all of the Harry Potter content that you guys do! Keep up the good work!
A good way to remember the colour of Lockhart's robes in Flurish & Blotts could be FB. - For Forget-me-not Blue ???? Just thought of that while listening to you ! Love the podcast, I've listened to all kinds of theory videos and can't get enough 😊
Is it possible they just had better schedules that allowed them not to have any subjects at the same time? It’s been some time since I last read the third book so I don’t know wether this is a plausible explanation
I believe the first wand Harry holds at Ollivander's is like 7' inch Maple and Phoenix Feather, so it is definitely getting feathers from other sources.
Master is the title of a man under the age of 18. They become Mister at 18. Mister can obviously be superseded by other accolades, but boys are Master until they become Mister.
I learned this as a little girl when we still wrote snail mail. It wasn't until recently that I discovered that apparently most of the world didn't know how to address a young man before he reaches his majority.
14:00 The plastic cover allows you to slide the metal prongs into the outlet so that they touch the metal contacts and that is the only point where your power lines are actually exposed and the wire just runs to your breaker box where all of your wires connect to the power grid. There are a few bizarre devices that connect to other devices as if they were the outlet (the only thing I have like this is my car battery charger) which inspires some people to search out or create extension cords that have the metal prongs on both ends. Some hardware stores have pictures of these with a warning that says "We won't make this for you and it should not exist" because if you plug that in you've got a live power connection you can just touch
I saw a theory once that the reason Mr. Weasley was asking Harry all those muggle things questions was partially curiosity and partially to make him feel included and smart, and possibly as a distraction/cheering up - especially the rubber duck one
I’m in a hospital bed getting another blood transfusion, and your channels are getting me through. I watch your videos daily, perhaps a bit of a Harry Potter addiction. Thank you though for the work. And I’m glad to hear Ben is feeling better.
My interpretation of the Muggle Protection Act and the connection to the poisons Malfoy was selling was those poisons were specifically targeting muggles.
I just bought the exact same series print that yall have from Scholastic and I’m super excited to catch up and be reading with yall every week. It’s great to be able to read the books for the first time and be able to follow along with yall with the chapter arts and my own notes of the read throughs!
I think coming from the Muggle world and using Floo Powder for the first time must be kinda like my experience coming from Stockholm, Sweden, where our busses have screens showing the next stop and sometimes the several next stops in advance, to Sydney Australia, where busses looks and works much the same, but has no way of telling what the next stop is, no screams, no PA system (at least not on the busses I went on), no nothing. Like, I know where I'm going, that's not the problem, but I'm not a local, so I don't recognize anything, and there is an awful lot of stops to get mixed up and get uff early or miss the stop and have to get off late.
39:30 - The thing with divination in HP is like art classes. If the teacher is ok, you'll learn about perspective, color theory, using the right tools etc. And you'll get fine effects and good grades. You won't get an exhibition in MOMA, but you can draw or paint fine. That would be the Percy-level. You get the right tools and right instructions to use them in divination. And the predictions are fine - something more or less unimportant or vague. And then there's the Art level. Where you really get it, crack the art code, think about it in new ways. You're the van Gough of divination - seeing what others don't, using the same boring tools but in ways others don't quite understand but sooner or later admire. And you're making the prediction of a century about the Dark Lord and his downfall. Trelavney was like many art teachers - came there for the Art, stayed for the money and roof over their head. Had a glimpse of genius in her youth and than went back to the mundane tools and arts as described in books. Even worse - the inspired rhetoric stayed but sounds nowe fake when used on the boring old art-techniques from books.
I do think it’s funny that when Umbrige is the dada teacher, there’s this whole rebellious dueling club to actually learn spells, but when a more ineffectual teacher, lockheart, there’s no secret stuff whatsoever ever. I guess, they could just practice it from somewhere else, but I doubt anyone passed their dada owls that year.
Well, there’s also more urgency because they started the DA right after Voldemort came back. They cared more about learning practical stuff, preparing to literally fight for their lives. In Chamber Voldemort hasn’t come back, so there’s no urgency to learning how to fight
While Lucius know the diary will open the chamber of secrets, the reason he is giving it away is because the ministry is doing raids. He doesn’t know what it is but he does know it is dark powerful and connected to Voldemort. His motivations are completely selfish he is giving it to Ginny to discredit Author so his legislation that would hurt Lucius won’t go through
I’ve just realised a vanishing cabinet wasn’t even for sale in Borgan, they used the Room of requirements as a storage of rare foods !!! And it is always up to scale, you never run out of place !
I feel so seen - I managed an aquarium store and we were very much performing DIY maintenance. I made the mistake of mentioning that I was on light crew in college theatre, which meant I got to "fix" all the aquarium lights when issues arose. That’s how I learned that saltwater makes electricity extra spicy! We also had frogspawn corals, but I was head of the freshwater department so I didn’t interact with them as much as I’d have liked. That was hands-down the best job I ever had. I miss it so, so much.
The whole conversation about butterflies is hilarious to me because you've had it the exact same discussion before. I forget in which episode, i think it was a JvsB, but i remember it specifically because one of you asked what is Mach Butterfly and that made me giggle. 😂
The fastest butterflies in the world are the are the skippers which can fly at 37 miles per hour but on the average most butterflies fly about 5 to 12 miles per hour. Bonus fact european swallow is 20 miles and hour and african swallow is about 24 miles and hour, however it would take an eagle to carry the coconut, good thing for migration.
Master is the title for boys, like Mister is the title for Men. This is the case here in the USA too. My Yiayia (grandmother) would address letters to my son as Master Aaron ….(last name). I’m really enjoying your podcast! Thank you so much for doing this!! 🙏🤗
Finally!! I was WAITING anxiously for this all day yesterday, worried that something bad happened!! 😨🤩😃 One of my ABSOLUTELY favorite lines of the ENTIRE movie series is, "What's the function of a rubber duck?" 🤣 I think that summer homework is very common in Europe; kinda like Summer Reading for high school English in the U.S. I also think they don't ask Ginny b/c she's their SISTER, emphasis on "sister", a.k.a. a girl, b/c doesn't she admit to having to like sneak around with Fred & George's brooms because they wouldn't let her play with them in a later book?? I forget which one now . . . Book 5? Book 6? 🤷🏻🤔 Oh my gosh! I just realized that Percy is probably going to make out with, I'm sorry, "snog" his girlfriend when he goes off to "buy a quill'; that's probably like wizard teenage code or something!! 😆 And for 12-year-old, especially for a boy, I’d imagine having a girlfriend IS kinda embarrassing 🙈. Remember, they’re only 12 at this point & thinking back, me @ 12 couldn’t even imagine having a boyfriend @ age 12 … 🙃 Also, maybe the Dursleys just want to keep Harry miserable & they know he has FUN at Hogwarts. And they don’t like him to have ANY fun & therefore, they don’t want him to go to Hogwarts. Oh, you did mention that kinda at the end. Good job! 😉🥹 And, as far as I remember, there IS a "floor cauldron" when Voldemort is reborn in Book 4 (or is that just a movie 🎦 thing? 🤔) . . . Also, I like the movie version of this scene better, without the physical fight,; I agree with you: it always felt a little out of place for Arthur Weasley to get into a PHYSICAL contact "muggle fight" for me, too . . .
They put out a community post on SCB that the episode would be delayed by a day due to sickness in office, so it is Sundays, this is an exception 😊 hope this helps!
@@Musicteachersheff I thought the same thing, I think they largely assume a lot of the YT viewers come from SCB so it's the larger outreach, it performs better on the algorithm so it's more likely to pop up to people, although even I had to go looking for it 🤣. I think they also used it as a way to encourage people from SCB to check it out, whereas if they put it on the TtGD channel only people who already watch it would see! Idk tbh I'm spit-balling
My dad liked to borrow this book from the public library, _How to Fix Damn Near Everything._ I looked at it once and saw a diagram on how to fix a table lamp with a new plug and how it works with house electricity. I'm sure he borrowed it for the name, but he was genuinely interested in how to fix household items, much like I like to pick up survivalist information tho I live near the heart of the Midwest and away from Tornado Alley, thus away from most natural disasters in the country. (although I felt a mild rumble from Reelfoot Lake a few decades ago.) People do have learning hobbies!
People get hung up on Lockhart being totally useless, and yes, he's not at all effective at teaching his supposed deeds to the students. But if it is true that all of the stuff in the books did happen, just to different people (which we must assume it is, or surely someone would have disproven it's possibility by now) it would still be valuable from a DADA perspective to read his books, and assuming he's a decent author at least, it might not be the worst way of learning these things. More exciting than reading some pure fact text about it. That being said I don't see why the Weasleys need to get 5 copies of each. Surely there is some copyright spell on them so that you can't just make illegal copies, but even so, only one class at a time is having DADA, and at most 2 Weasley kids are attending that class, which means they should get by on just having 2 sets of each book. Sure it might mean you have to plan your homework more carefully so you do your DADA when it's your turn with the book, but if you are truly pressed for money, and the books are truly that expensive, you'd make it work.
Yeah cuz Harry gives the set that Lockhart gifts him to Ginny and buys his own which he could share with Ron, cutting it down to three. But then the twins could also share a set cutting it down to two. One for them and one for Percy
24:15 I think it was also commonly implied that aside like books for ingredients - Snape never used any textbooks. All recipes has always been shown on the board and only when Slughorn takes over - they are back to using books. 39:50 So we also know that there are different electives every few years, if there is a professor who can teach it. And you also can take OWLs without taking the subject. In extended universe that's what is implied - Bill and Percy doing extra subjects that they learned in their own time, without necessarily doing the Time-Turner shenanigans. Specifically for the NEWTs there definitely was Alchemy class offered, if there was enough kids wanting to take it. Ghoul Studies, Magical Theory or even Music, were apparently electives that students could take. 40:20 To be fair, I think pretty much all divinated stuff in the books has happened in some way or another. Including Ron's read of Harry's cup - so Weasley's definitely had some capabilities. Or it was within the reach of every students, it was just Hermione with her Muggle prejudices couldn't just believe it. Especially as mythological Sybil, also had perfect predictions that no one believed - and you know, she actively always predicted truth. 1:13:25 It's still very much gross to think of. The textures there are just wrong. Especially with like a proper jam, that is just pure fruits and sugar. Mixing that with any smooth item like butter or peanut butter is just wrong.
I also pictured big cauldrons when reading the book, but the thing is that Ginny's cauldron could absolutely be large because they specify that they're pewter. I dont know if you've ever encountered pewter as a metal in the wild but it is SUPER light. It's like plasic but it sounds like metal when it clanks against other objects.
I love that you guys are doing a chapter-by-chapter “book club” style of the series! After you finished book 1, I started listening to the series all over again so I could catch all the tidbits and Easter eggs you guys pointed out! I’m already mid-way through book 3 now and can’t wait to see if you guys comment on some of the same things I caught this go-around. Question: what do you think would have happened if Ginny never got the diary back from Harry (I.e. he had it in his robes instead of leaving it in his dorm when he went to quidditch that day)? What if Harry had just written a letter to Dumbledore and asked about what Riddle showed him? Although Dumbledore left by request of the school governors when they went down to ask Hagrid about it, we already know that owls can always find the addressee of the letter.
As a person who grew up in a Dursley-rivaling clean household, i can vouch for Harry's appreciation for the chaos at the Burrow. It's insane how much a little mess helps with making a place feels like a home and lived in. I like my place clean, but i don't make a fuss if my jacket hangs over a chair😅
In regard to Sirius and Harry sending him owls, couldn't the Ministry have sent out an owl and followed it on broom to wherever Sirius was? Or were they doing that and I'm just remembering incorrectly?
1:30:00 with reference to Lucius planting the diary is it possible he was writing in it and was instructed by it to plant it on someone to take to hogwarts to purge the non pure-bloods. Also the provocation of Arthur and luring him into an attack might serve as a way to keep him away from investigating his home as he had already assaulted him and was harassing him ??
I love this. Been following ur guys for years now but I didn't find this podcast until the end of sorcerers. I proceeded to binge it and caught up within a week. Keep up the great work. I have a question. If they have the enchantments to keep the boys out of the girls dorms. Why wouldn't they have the same or similar enchantments on the bathrooms?
TBH Harry's time in regular school is taking place in late 80s England. So there was still strong class system in place (and somewhat still is) back then. So I think those clothing things might not reflect that badly. Sometimes you reflect things too much for your own perspective and to American way of thinking. Loving these deepdives so much!
1:05:20 the word mister (Mr.) actually comes from the word Master. Borgin Also seems to be quite old, as he was well known by the time Voldemort got out of Hogwarts, so it's not unthinkable that he's using the words interchangeably.
No they are calling Draco Malfoy which is a little used term nowadays for a young preteen male. Usually once they are a teenager they are also mister. Watch any show with a butler and young male children and you will hear it. Especially older settings like Downton Abbey.
Yep, in British culture. Mister is reserved for the male head of the household, Master is for the young male who will inherit the property and become head of the household
The way I see it, They DO want Harry to leave. Which is why they were still planning to send him away to Stonewall high. They’d love to chuck him out and be done with him. (But, Vernon and Petunia are both too proud to just outwardly shun Harry, the neighbors could talk, duh.) But, they REALLY dont want Harry to be happy, nor do they want him to be special or interesting in anyway (especially not more than Dudley) They want him to live a simply normal and extremely unfulfilling life. All for the crime of being born a wizard.
Since the Quill of Acceptance and the Book of Admittance record names of magical children in order to send the letters from Hogwarts to new students, I wonder if the book will also automatically "update" the addresses when a current or future student moves? Because if someone's name gets recorded when they are a baby, a lot of addresses could wind up being very out of date by the time they turn 11
That would be cool but is 100% out of voldemorts character. He wants to become immoral, harry is an obstacle to that so there's no way he doesn't kill him. He's not Maleficent.
@@alexk1018 Maybe it could work with Voldemort's arragance being so high that insted off viewing Harry and Neville as obstacles that could kill him he would view them more as powerfull pawns that he can use in the future to help him achive his goals
Hermione never thought to use the timeturner to get extra hours to study and sleep which means all 3 of the boys we know that had timeturners used it for extra hours to sleep, study and do Prefect/Head Boy duties
Theory: Food is "a plenty" in The Burrow because while you cannot conjure food, you can replicate it. (Also explains how they can "over feed" Harry so much and still not have anyone overweight [other than Molly, I suppose] in the household.)
But replicated food loses nutriton valiue. So they would all be hungry quickly again after meal. If Harry gets over feed that's clearly not the case. Most of them are teenage boys and most of them like beeing out door which burns of a lot of callory. They could use magic to make fruites and vegetables grow more quickly or bigger like Hagrid dose but they have other food as well.
So fun fact i just noticed. The first wand harry tries in olivanders in philosophers stone is ALSO a phoenix feather wand. for something that so rarely shows up again it just gets casually thrown out there like that.
That's really funny for me that Lockhart has Forget-me-not blue eyes and will be obliviated at the end of this book
Nice catch! I never noticed that before!
Wow! I literally just wrote this comment, then glanced down and saw that you wrote it too!
How ironic
Help why did I read that as obliterated 😭
@@MolluskBrooks-ln6fi I mean...his memory was literally obliterated, so I can't blame you, there
I think its awesome how Lucius insulting the Grangers is what causes Mr. Weasley to snap and attack him immediately and then later in the book Malfoy insulting Hermione is what causes the Twins and Ron to all try to attack him causing Ron to end up burping slugs. It's like this beautiful glimpse into how much of an impact Mr. Weasley has had on his sons lives and how much they take after him in their belief system.
also Mr. Weasley met the grangers that day (!), he knew them for what (?) 3 hours
my point was that he tried to defend them despite the fact he barely knew them. Ron defending hermoine is courageous, but also they are best friends. Arthur was willing to start a fight with someone probably more powerful over people he just met. Because he stands up for what he believes in. The fact, that he barely knew them is relevant, because it speaks to his character.@user-os2gm6hv9l
One of the Weasley kids was the target for Lucius Malfoy! Dumbledore later in the book mentioned that if it can out that Arthur’s daughter was attacking people, his muggle protection bill would be out and Arthur would be out of a job. I think Lucius was intending to get Arthur out and his plan was to Frame the muggle loving Weasleys as muggle attackers
He may have also been annoyed that he had to ”cook the books” so as not to be found in possession of his own stuff
Good point, was trying to make it out like the self proclaimed muggle loving family are using that as a cover to kill muggles
This would make more sense because otherwise if he just wanted the book to get to Hogwarts couldn't he have just given it to Draco?
I don't think that Lucius thought of opening the chamber but who to get rid of the diary because he got it from Voldemort. He must have at least known that Voldemort did something to it but I doubt that Voldemort would've told him what. And since it was a muggle artifact as a diary from a muggle shop it would fall into the purview of Arthur. Later when the attacks started Lucius would know what the diary does.
For the "Lucius's timing" bit, what if Dobby was ordered to intercept letters by Lucius so that he could learn when the Weasleys would go to Diagon Alley, and then Dobby used that order as permission to just nab ALL the letters and keep them, so that Harry thinks his friends abandoned him and won't go to school and fall into the trap? It's more of that "Dobby is exploiting every loophole he can think of" concept, which I personally adore. Seems to make sense of everything, at first glance.
The talking mirror at The Leaky Cauldron says to Harry "You're fighting a losing battle there dear' when he tries to flatten his hair down.
My particular head canon regarding Arthur asking Harry about "Muggle stuff" is that it is less about a lack of knowledge or library research, but more an opportunity for him to learn how a young person, who was raised as a muggle, thinks and understands these things and their first hand perspectives with them. There is a difference between book knowledge and wisdom of experiences.
Canon*
Also, if he knows TOO much, that make look strange to a muggle. So asking Harry would put him on the same level as the average person.
The average muggle kid only knows how to plug things in. Maybe an adult knows about alternating vs direct current. Maybe a pair of dentists would know about current, amps, volts, circuits, ect (considering they had to learn physics).
Ooh I like that. Less of a "what is the exact definition of this" and more "what is your understanding of this". Even if he researches power plugs in a book, he might not grasp the extent to which they're used or any nuance that Harry might just unthinkingly reveal, not even realising it was something Arthur hadn't already understood.
1:05:23 Re: Draco being called Master Malloy. In the UK, young boys are referred to as Master, while adult men are Mister. When I was little I’d receive letters saying Master Jack, it always felt rather Victorian but kinda cool 😁
I thought that was the case (American, but I've read/heard/watched a British thing or two). I wonder why "Master" came to mean a young boy and a very important person. Which came first? Why the shift from one to the other, or from some precursor to both of these?
@@laser8389 From what I can gleam from Wiktionary, Master came first, then over time changing pronunciation transformed at least the title variant into Mister, while Master was kept for boys. Apparently Shakespeare was referred to as "Master Shakespeare" on one of his folios, and around Shakespeare time there was a massive linguistic change called the "great vowel shift", where vowels used in English were basically swapped around, so if I had to guess I’d say that was perhaps how Mister was created.
@@jackpownall2 Intriguing, thanks!
Are young girls called "mistress" then? B/c thats kind of weird
@@toriandtilly Mistress is what "Mrs" is short for, that’s for sure. I believe "Miss" is simply a contraction of either one or both. It’s not really that weird as our current definition of mistress is the newer one, it originally simply meant a woman who was married/at the head of a household. The newer connotation probably came about as people forgot that Mrs was short for Mistress, or maybe as a bit of irony.
Okay but hear me out. Percy passed his Divination OWLs by _using his Time Turner._ He saw what would happen one or more hours into the future, and then went back and predicted that happening. Genius strategy :D
If nothing else, I could see Barty Crouch Jr doing it this way. Genius manipulator that he is.
I was reading through to see if anyone else had posted. Good job. I was thinking:
“Hmmm, what possible means can someone with a Time Machine use to imitate skilled divination?”
As to hypothesis of knowing trelawney well enough to fool her, that wouldn’t work for the OWL, as they are administered by testing wizards, not the teachers.
As an electrician, this episode feels a little more magical to me for some reason. I can nerd out on you guys about all the wonders of electricity over a pint at the Three Broomsticks any day! :P
I'm a sparky too and i was itching to go full nerd mode during it lol
I am not a sparky, but I do work in HVAC and I understand Ohm's law so I could nerd out without issue.
As someone who just makes basic electrical stuff work, it really is as easy as you think when you plug something in. Current conducts through tongs you inserted into electrical field in the wall (outlet) and if it has the bottom plug it’s just a ground and that does something to make stuff not burn down
I replied this to two electricians hoping maybe you can help me understand the ground tong lol
@@MrEvanNoyesI just saw your comment lol. It’s a bit of a long-winded explanation, but here goes nothing (disclaimer, I finished my trade school 4-5 years ago so all of this might be slightly wrong, other Sparkies please correct any misinfo).
The ground in an electrical circuit serves two purposes.
The first is to provide a reference point for the electrical circuit. Meaning, without knowing what A (the ground) is, we cannot control B, C, D, E, etc. (these other variables being - voltage in different parts of a building, different voltage systems, etc. By identifying/establishing the ground in a circuit, we have a controlled means of distributing, using, and testing voltages.
The second and more important purpose for the average Joe is to provide the quickest path of LEAST resistance to discharge an electrical circuit. When we install an electrical system, we design a system to “ground” the circuit. In a very literal sense, we drive 8-10’ copper coated rods into the earth that are tied into EVERY ground wire in the system. This system must be in place everywhere past the service entrance (where the main power comes in). In the event a circuit pulls more power (ampacity) than the breaker is rated for, when that breaker trips, that energy needs to be released somewhere. Instead of it returning to the circuit and potentially causing more damage, it uses the ground wire which has the quickest flow of current in the system to release that energy. The same principle applies to GFCIs (the plugs with the red reset buttons). These are designed specifically to monitor the current across the outlet. If it deviates from a “safe” value, the outlet trips and sends that energy to ground.
Hope that was enough nerding for you.
END DISCLAIMER: Don’t do your own electrical work. And no, that’s not me trying to work on your home. It’s just not worth it lmao. Electrical is the only “system” that doesn’t smell, make noise, or tell you before it will kill you and it can happen in a split second. If you must do electrical work in your home, TURN OFF THE MAIN BREAKER. Your fridge will be fine and you might even thank me for turning off your electronics for an hour.
I really need to tell everyone that the Danish name for Gilderoy Lockhart is Glitterik Smørhår (literally “butter hair” or “greasy hair”) 😂😂😂
That is hilarious!!!!
I love that! In the catalan version they also change some names to give them more meaning. My favourite is Peter Pettigrew = Ben Babbaw (babau in catalan means coward/dumb)
😂and the danish lastname looks a lot like a weird form of german "Schmierhaar", which is "smear hair", so this adds another dimension to it
I feel that the Durdsleys don't want Harry to leave, because they are bullies. A bully often obsesses over there target. They judge their own self worth by how they lord over the target, without the target they have nothing to feel superior too.
Definitely, they need someone to bully/control/abuse. Bullies and abusers don’t let go of their target easily… Otherwise getting out of an abusive environment wouldn’t be so hard. The Dursleys hate Harry but they love the feeling of power he gives them…
As for choosing between making Harry’s happiness over his own, I believe Vernon gets a real kick out of Harry’s misery. It’s not so much about Harry’s happiness as it is about Vernon’s way of being happy: either by making Harry miserable or getting rid of him for awhile
I think it is a combination of bullying and fear. Yes, the Dursleys are mean, horrible people who abuse Harry, but they also don't want him to go to school where he can learn how to defend himself and curse them.
The "Turdsleys"😉🤣
My theory about why the Dursleys don't want Harry to go to school is keeping him "under class ". Going away for school is a sign of prestige that they want only Dudley to advantage from.
About the wizard hat thing, at most formal occasions there’s reference to people wearing a wizards hat (McGonagall at the Yule ball, Mrs. Weasley at the wedding) so Lockhart always dressing to the nines, hat and all, ready for a photo shoot tracks perfectly.
Ollivander used Phoenix feathers more than twice as a core. Chapter 5 in philosophers stone, the first wand he gave harry was "maple and Phoenix feather. Seven inches". Maybe other wands have the core in his store but the wands have not chosen the wizards.
Phoenix feather is one of the three main wand cores. Along with unicorn hair and dragon heartstrings. So yes, Olivander probably used a lot of them. What makes Harry's and Voldemort's wands "brothers" is that both feathers came from the same phoenix. (Fawx)
Also, I believe Dumbledore, at this point realign the DADA position was cursed, tried to use that curse to expose Lockhart being a fraud.
Indeed. That does make sense. Great thinking!
Just here to confirm, that in British High Schools, it was definitely embarrassing when someone said you had a boyfriend/ girlfriend 😂 it was almost like "I'm letting everyone know that you have a crush on this person!" Or "this person clearly has a crush on you!". I don't even know why it was embarrassing, but it was 😳
yes I can agree with you through personal experience. The joys of going to a British high school
39:13 they even got david tennnet to play him. Wanted more of him in harry potter
I think the reason why Mr Weasley doesn’t go to a muggle library or attempt to ask other muggles about things like plugs or the function of a rubber duck, if because he (and very likely all magical folk) believe that it is knowledge that muffle either learn at a very young age, or else is intuitive knowledge that muggles just have. This would mean to go to a library and ask for a book on plugs or go up to a muggle in the street, would, to him, be the same as telling them that he is a wizard. This would explain why he asks Harry such questions as he believes that Harry should already know this, this would also be the case for Hermione’s parents. Whether this is a view held by the ministry as a whole (and therefore there is a policy against direct interaction with muggles to get such information) or this is just what Arthur thinks (and the ministry/previous people in Arthur’s job simply didn’t think it worth while knowing any of these things) doesn’t really matter, as Arthur is probably the only Wizard in the books with such an infatuation with muggles and muggle artefacts. That’s my head canon/explanation for it anyway, would be interested to hear others thoughts on the matter.
Brilliant take. That makes so much sense. It's hard enough to ask a what might be a stupid question, but then it's also literally the law that you don't make too much of a fool of yourself.
I also feel like you can't expect Arthur to know everything. muggles have made an awful lot of bits and bobs. Every week I'm sure he thinks or something small that would be fun to figure out but not worth the time of spending a day reading through a textbook, it is more of a hobby after all.
I mean, there have to be some wizards that make it their business to know about muggle things, there is after all a muggle studies class at Hogwarts. I wonder what kind of knowledge is locked behind achieving a NEWT in muggle studies?
Around the 36:19 minute mark is tangentially related to a cool history fact I happen to know, in Ancient Sparta (and I'm sure many other places throughout history this is just the one I happened to know) they used to intentionally train young warriors with spears and shields WAYY heavier than the ones they'd use in combat. That way they could build the strength to not just wield the weapon, but wield the real one with comparative ease. It being heavier meant they had to think so much more about the effectiveness of their technique and really perfect it.
Then when they started training with the real thing or fighting with the real thing, it would be far more mobile and light, but they'd have the skill and technique and strength built up from training with heavier weapons and would be that much more deadly with them, it acted as strength building experience as well as a way to hone their fighting techniques under far more strenuous conditions than they would be in during the real thing. Much like Gokus weighted Garments.
Not just Sparta, almost all professional armed forces of antiquity did that.
@@LegioXXI like I said in the original comment, I was not under the impression this was unique to sparta, it's just the civilisation I knew about, I wasn't about to claim knowledge about cultures I didn't know for sure did or didn't do it. But it's not a massively uniquely ingenious tactic, tho it is very clever, but no surprise it was general practice. Do you know when the earliest recorded instance was?
As a Brit I can confirm I only just tried PB&J this year and was blown away by how much I loved it
If you ever get the chance to try it again, I actually really prefer cherry or blackberry jam rather than the traditional grape!
@@TenThousandDoors wait its tradition to have grape jam?? not strawberry?
I love the Order of the Phoenix when Mr. Weasley calls plumbers "pumbles" 😂
Fred and George absolutely saw through Lockhart as what they did was study so they could ask super nitty gritty questions to put him on the spot
The forget me not blue, and eyes part is ironic because he does, in fact, forget his magical self later
I like the idea of electronics and magic not mixing, I mean let's face it, Mr. Weasley created life when the Ford Anglia became self aware.
1:28:03 This exchange between Luscious and Arthur always reminds me of the exchange between Draco and Harry a year earlier before the sorting ceremony. "I think I can sort out the 'wrong sort' for myself thanks."
I love the misspelling of Lucius' name 😁it fits his hair pretty well
Don’t correct it!!
These chapter deep dives always make my day a little better!!
Out of all the chapters in the first three books, this discussion is probably the one that I am most excited for. We get the introduction to Gilderoy Lockhart and all the good feels from years of SCB content for Lockhart.
I love how the christmas decoration looks like sparks are coming out of Ben's head, kind of like a large top hat made of light 😄
Don't know if anyone else mentioned it, but Harry does try out another phoenix feather wand that isn't the one he finally gets. So there are definitely more than just the two.
I honestly welcome this dropping on a monday. Its a great start to my week!
Floo powder is also green, which is the same color as the killing curse, representing death. Which makes sense because using a phoenix’s ashes represents death as well
Great show. Have you heard the theory books 1/7, 2/6, and 3/5 mirror each other. Here are some examples: 1/7- Harry is hit by a killing curse, Voldemort defeated, Harry arrives/leaves Dursley’s on motorbike. 2/6 Tom Riddle flashbacks, Horcruxes, Ginny/Harrys crush on each other, The Diary/Potions book,Polyjuice and Crabbe & Goyle. 3/5 Meet Sirius/ He dies, Azkaban breakouts, Trelawney’s prophecies,Dementor attacks,Time turners introduced and destroyed, Harry meets Cho/ breaks up with her.
I’m sure you guys could find way more, just wondering if you’ve noticed before.
I've often thought that Petunia and Vernon set out to do what they could to "un-magic" Harry. Like if they could squeeze him in a box of normalcy he wouldn't end up being magical at all. I think perhaps it started from a "good" place. I'm not sure Vernon understands much about magic at all, but Petunia has some understanding of it and I think it all always seemed very dangerous and evil and sketchy and terrifying to her (if you think about her experiences it's not that surprising, Snape used it to chase her away, what she overhears of dementors and Azkaban is terrifying, her sister getting farther and farther away from her, and it was a time when Voldemort was gaining power, until he finally killed Lilly...) I think she may have genuinely started out wanting to do right by her sister's son at first and keep him away from the stuff that killed his parents. But then weird things happened to Harry anyway and if anything the more they restricted him the more it exploded out of him (like his hair growing messily back in a night) and at some point she lost track of the goal and he became a scapegoat for all thing weird and going wrong. I'm not saying she was ever good or caring to him, but in her own messed up way I think she did start out wanting to do what she thought was best for him. Her attitude reminds me a bit of strongly religious Catholics who can't tolerate people with other beliefs because those people will go to hell for believing the wrong thing, and if they as Catholics don't try to convert the misguided people and stop them from going to hell, then they'll go to hell as well. For them the end justifies the means, it doesn't matter how much hurt they inflict because if they prevent someone from going to the greater hurt that is hell then everything they did no matter how awful was for the greater good.
I just wanted to tell you guys that I very much appreciate the content you both make. These chapter by chapter break downs have really helped me stay grounded during these unsure and difficult times. It also helps me get out of my own head and do something constructive like re reading the HP series and then getting to put my own comments and opinions on a video breaking down each chapter. I've really struggled with some serious health issues and it seems getting out of my own head has gotten harder and harder as the country I grew up loving and still do, becomes unrecognizable. Which is another reason this channel has really helped me, you guys keep politics out of the entertainment you provide. Which has really separated the wheat from the chaff as far as RUclips content goes. Plus, the genuine good nature of both brothers is a total breath of fresh air. Keep up the hard work gents
Hey Brothers! (And crew!)
I’ve been a fan of you guys for a while now. My Dad and I found your channel during the pandemic and have been enjoying it ever since. We really like your Harry Potter, Disney, Pixar, Mavel and Star Wars content, and always try to watch the new videos together. I’ve really been enjoying Through the Griffin Door series since it has been so long since I’ve read the books. Like your dad did, my mom read most of them too me as they came out and Deathly Hallows was the longest book I had ever read on my own up to that point, so I’ve really loving getting to hear parts of the stories I haven’t for so long.
Since I really love your guy’s idea of Hogwarts being a dragon that the founders transfigured into the castle, I wanted to add something to it. The dragon asked to be turned into the castle because it was old and lonely and this way it would never be lonely again and could live on in a different way.
I also had an idea about the friendships between the founders based off of your idea of all of them knowing about and liking the Basilisk. What if Godric, Rowena and Helga were the ones who got the Basilisk for Salizar as a surprise gift, and it liked all of them for giving it a home and friends. One top of that, I had the idea that each founder had a gift that was a fantastic creature of some kind from the other three as a group gift.
Godric would have gotten a lion of some kind, not a Griffin. Maybe a descendant of the Nemean Lion from Greek myth. You can’t tell me that Godric wouldn’t have a field day getting to spare with a lion that he would have a hard time hurting.
Rowena would have gotten an eagle of some kind, or a raven. Maybe one that was similar to the Eagle of Zeus who was sent to torture Prometheus. Having the descendant of the eagle used to punish the bringer of knowledge to mankind as the familiar of the founder of the house associated with knowledge just seems to fit.
And last, but not least, for Helga they would have gotten a badger of some kind. I don’t really have a suggestion for this one since there aren’t a lot of badgers in mythology. But I’m sure the other three would have worked very hard to find her a familiar that would fit her. Then again, maybe they just got the giant squid that still lives in the lake to this day.
I just really like the idea of them all working really hard to find each other a familiar and having each of them care for them. Also, the idea of Godric having to distract Salizar while Rowena and Helga go and get the Basilisk is just hilarious to me for some reason.
From Animanda Tsuki no Usagi, a fellow RUclipsr.
Honestly, I have read this book countless times, and not a single one of them it has ever crossed my mind that there would be any suspicion of Percy, in book 2 Percy still had spotless reputation
that's sweet! Percy is definitely meant as a red herring in this book
For Lockhart's books, I think they're more like novels, not a textbook.
So like for one of my college lit classes, I had to get 7 books, all for around $5-10. Books like "The Scarlet Letter", "The Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglas", and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow & other stories". We just went through each, taking 1-2 weeks.
I can see Lockhart assigning books that talk about his "adventures" and then they talk about what they read for homework.
1:14:00 i was pretty late in reading the books, not doing so till i was out of high school, but even when reading it i never found percy suspicious at all. i literally spent the book wondering who had tried to frame hagrid until the twist happened. edit: oh, they did the same thing.
Every time you release an episode it’s like getting to see an old friend again
Makes me smile😊
I never saw Percy as the red herring, simply because I was 3 when the book was released, so I saw the film first, lol. However, I do like the idea of having him as the red herring, simply because of the shady stuff he does later on in the series (Imperiused or not!) Here's a possible "What If...?" for you guys. What if Lucius HAD given the diary to Harry and the Diary possessed him the same way it had Ginny? Love this channel, I've been watching the Super Carlin Brothers since the beginning and I love all of the Harry Potter content that you guys do! Keep up the good work!
A good way to remember the colour of Lockhart's robes in Flurish & Blotts could be FB. - For Forget-me-not Blue ???? Just thought of that while listening to you !
Love the podcast, I've listened to all kinds of theory videos and can't get enough 😊
Okay, we NEED a theory on Percy, Bill, and Barty Crouch Jr. having time turners during their years at Hogwarts!
So they already have a video or two about this, I think. You'd have to check
Is it possible they just had better schedules that allowed them not to have any subjects at the same time? It’s been some time since I last read the third book so I don’t know wether this is a plausible explanation
I believe the first wand Harry holds at Ollivander's is like 7' inch Maple and Phoenix Feather, so it is definitely getting feathers from other sources.
Master is the title of a man under the age of 18. They become Mister at 18. Mister can obviously be superseded by other accolades, but boys are Master until they become Mister.
that’s fun!
I learned this as a little girl when we still wrote snail mail. It wasn't until recently that I discovered that apparently most of the world didn't know how to address a young man before he reaches his majority.
Or just unmarried or the son. The man of the house would be Mister Smith, and his Son Master, in the same way you would say George and George junior.
I always find it so satisfying how those briefcases perfectly line up with the wall that juts out behind them 🤭
14:00 The plastic cover allows you to slide the metal prongs into the outlet so that they touch the metal contacts and that is the only point where your power lines are actually exposed and the wire just runs to your breaker box where all of your wires connect to the power grid. There are a few bizarre devices that connect to other devices as if they were the outlet (the only thing I have like this is my car battery charger) which inspires some people to search out or create extension cords that have the metal prongs on both ends. Some hardware stores have pictures of these with a warning that says "We won't make this for you and it should not exist" because if you plug that in you've got a live power connection you can just touch
I saw a theory once that the reason Mr. Weasley was asking Harry all those muggle things questions was partially curiosity and partially to make him feel included and smart, and possibly as a distraction/cheering up - especially the rubber duck one
You can absolutely play all of the old Command and Conquer games, one of my favorites! They have a combo pack with all of the games in one
I’m in a hospital bed getting another blood transfusion, and your channels are getting me through. I watch your videos daily, perhaps a bit of a Harry Potter addiction. Thank you though for the work. And I’m glad to hear Ben is feeling better.
"All owls are magical."
Imagine a crossover with the Guardians of Gahool series.
About the timeturner. A topic you could make a video of: A calculation of how much Hermione ages in year 3 using the time turner.
I just kind of assume the aging is counteracted by the time she spends petrified.
They did that!
My interpretation of the Muggle Protection Act and the connection to the poisons Malfoy was selling was those poisons were specifically targeting muggles.
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I just bought the exact same series print that yall have from Scholastic and I’m super excited to catch up and be reading with yall every week. It’s great to be able to read the books for the first time and be able to follow along with yall with the chapter arts and my own notes of the read throughs!
I think coming from the Muggle world and using Floo Powder for the first time must be kinda like my experience coming from Stockholm, Sweden, where our busses have screens showing the next stop and sometimes the several next stops in advance, to Sydney Australia, where busses looks and works much the same, but has no way of telling what the next stop is, no screams, no PA system (at least not on the busses I went on), no nothing. Like, I know where I'm going, that's not the problem, but I'm not a local, so I don't recognize anything, and there is an awful lot of stops to get mixed up and get uff early or miss the stop and have to get off late.
39:30 - The thing with divination in HP is like art classes. If the teacher is ok, you'll learn about perspective, color theory, using the right tools etc. And you'll get fine effects and good grades. You won't get an exhibition in MOMA, but you can draw or paint fine. That would be the Percy-level. You get the right tools and right instructions to use them in divination. And the predictions are fine - something more or less unimportant or vague. And then there's the Art level. Where you really get it, crack the art code, think about it in new ways. You're the van Gough of divination - seeing what others don't, using the same boring tools but in ways others don't quite understand but sooner or later admire. And you're making the prediction of a century about the Dark Lord and his downfall.
Trelavney was like many art teachers - came there for the Art, stayed for the money and roof over their head. Had a glimpse of genius in her youth and than went back to the mundane tools and arts as described in books. Even worse - the inspired rhetoric stayed but sounds nowe fake when used on the boring old art-techniques from books.
That ghoul in the attic should stay . You NEVER know when a situation will occur when you need one .
It sure came in handy😂
I do think it’s funny that when Umbrige is the dada teacher, there’s this whole rebellious dueling club to actually learn spells, but when a more ineffectual teacher, lockheart, there’s no secret stuff whatsoever ever. I guess, they could just practice it from somewhere else, but I doubt anyone passed their dada owls that year.
Probably learnt it from other or older students and from each other. And at least practising was always allowed too
Different circumstances. Also the golden trio are just built different
Well, there’s also more urgency because they started the DA right after Voldemort came back. They cared more about learning practical stuff, preparing to literally fight for their lives. In Chamber Voldemort hasn’t come back, so there’s no urgency to learning how to fight
To be fair, Harry’s only a second year. The OWL and NEWT students might have had something additional to help them prepare
Maybe there were plenty of non-secret clubs that taught them what they needed.
This chapter is another point for that great writing of hers ❤ so amazing everytime I recognize it
Regarding Percy’s owl in divination, I feel like you’ve answered your own question there, it’s easy to tell the future when you can turn back time
While Lucius know the diary will open the chamber of secrets, the reason he is giving it away is because the ministry is doing raids. He doesn’t know what it is but he does know it is dark powerful and connected to Voldemort. His motivations are completely selfish he is giving it to Ginny to discredit Author so his legislation that would hurt Lucius won’t go through
You guys do or say something every week that make me love your content even more either here or the main channel
I’ve just realised a vanishing cabinet wasn’t even for sale in Borgan, they used the Room of requirements as a storage of rare foods !!! And it is always up to scale, you never run out of place !
I feel so seen - I managed an aquarium store and we were very much performing DIY maintenance. I made the mistake of mentioning that I was on light crew in college theatre, which meant I got to "fix" all the aquarium lights when issues arose. That’s how I learned that saltwater makes electricity extra spicy! We also had frogspawn corals, but I was head of the freshwater department so I didn’t interact with them as much as I’d have liked. That was hands-down the best job I ever had. I miss it so, so much.
32:01 “What would have been even funnier, looking at the butterfly, following the beaugghht”
I can’t stop replaying this. Infinite laughs Ben is the greatest
The whole conversation about butterflies is hilarious to me because you've had it the exact same discussion before. I forget in which episode, i think it was a JvsB, but i remember it specifically because one of you asked what is Mach Butterfly and that made me giggle. 😂
OMG COMAND AND CONQUER TIBERIAN SUN. What a throw back. I loved that game! Our family computer was so slow lol 😂
The fastest butterflies in the world are the are the skippers which can fly at 37 miles per hour but on the average most butterflies fly about 5 to 12 miles per hour.
Bonus fact european swallow is 20 miles and hour and african swallow is about 24 miles and hour, however it would take an eagle to carry the coconut, good thing for migration.
So basically, Ron's Shooting Star is slower than human running speed. Oof...
@@cubedmelons876 correct
I can smell elderberries from your fact:D
Master is the title for boys, like Mister is the title for Men. This is the case here in the USA too. My Yiayia (grandmother) would address letters to my son as Master Aaron ….(last name).
I’m really enjoying your podcast! Thank you so much for doing this!! 🙏🤗
Finally!! I was WAITING anxiously for this all day yesterday, worried that something bad happened!! 😨🤩😃 One of my ABSOLUTELY favorite lines of the ENTIRE movie series is, "What's the function of a rubber duck?" 🤣 I think that summer homework is very common in Europe; kinda like Summer Reading for high school English in the U.S. I also think they don't ask Ginny b/c she's their SISTER, emphasis on "sister", a.k.a. a girl, b/c doesn't she admit to having to like sneak around with Fred & George's brooms because they wouldn't let her play with them in a later book?? I forget which one now . . . Book 5? Book 6? 🤷🏻🤔 Oh my gosh! I just realized that Percy is probably going to make out with, I'm sorry, "snog" his girlfriend when he goes off to "buy a quill'; that's probably like wizard teenage code or something!! 😆 And for 12-year-old, especially for a boy, I’d imagine having a girlfriend IS kinda embarrassing 🙈. Remember, they’re only 12 at this point & thinking back, me @ 12 couldn’t even imagine having a boyfriend @ age 12 … 🙃 Also, maybe the Dursleys just want to keep Harry miserable & they know he has FUN at Hogwarts. And they don’t like him to have ANY fun & therefore, they don’t want him to go to Hogwarts. Oh, you did mention that kinda at the end. Good job! 😉🥹 And, as far as I remember, there IS a "floor cauldron" when Voldemort is reborn in Book 4 (or is that just a movie 🎦 thing? 🤔) . . . Also, I like the movie version of this scene better, without the physical fight,; I agree with you: it always felt a little out of place for Arthur Weasley to get into a PHYSICAL contact "muggle fight" for me, too . . .
Ducks go in cups.
@@hufflepom That’s right! Haha 😂
It’s book 5 because Ginny replaces Harry as seeker when he gets banned. And it’s Hermionie that mentions it.
@@Boundwithflame23 Oh, yeah, thanks 😊
@@AHufflepuffAndASwiftie no problem. 😌
I thought these were posted on Sunday…I still love them!
They put out a community post on SCB that the episode would be delayed by a day due to sickness in office, so it is Sundays, this is an exception 😊 hope this helps!
Ben was sick
Never occurred to me to check the SCB community page…I kept checking this community page.
I was waiting all Sunday!
@@Musicteachersheff I thought the same thing, I think they largely assume a lot of the YT viewers come from SCB so it's the larger outreach, it performs better on the algorithm so it's more likely to pop up to people, although even I had to go looking for it 🤣. I think they also used it as a way to encourage people from SCB to check it out, whereas if they put it on the TtGD channel only people who already watch it would see! Idk tbh I'm spit-balling
My dad liked to borrow this book from the public library, _How to Fix Damn Near Everything._ I looked at it once and saw a diagram on how to fix a table lamp with a new plug and how it works with house electricity.
I'm sure he borrowed it for the name, but he was genuinely interested in how to fix household items, much like I like to pick up survivalist information tho I live near the heart of the Midwest and away from Tornado Alley, thus away from most natural disasters in the country. (although I felt a mild rumble from Reelfoot Lake a few decades ago.)
People do have learning hobbies!
In the next Super Carlin Brothers video, Ben explains how a calcium reactor works and explains why it wouldn't work in the magical world. 😂
People get hung up on Lockhart being totally useless, and yes, he's not at all effective at teaching his supposed deeds to the students. But if it is true that all of the stuff in the books did happen, just to different people (which we must assume it is, or surely someone would have disproven it's possibility by now) it would still be valuable from a DADA perspective to read his books, and assuming he's a decent author at least, it might not be the worst way of learning these things. More exciting than reading some pure fact text about it.
That being said I don't see why the Weasleys need to get 5 copies of each. Surely there is some copyright spell on them so that you can't just make illegal copies, but even so, only one class at a time is having DADA, and at most 2 Weasley kids are attending that class, which means they should get by on just having 2 sets of each book. Sure it might mean you have to plan your homework more carefully so you do your DADA when it's your turn with the book, but if you are truly pressed for money, and the books are truly that expensive, you'd make it work.
Yeah cuz Harry gives the set that Lockhart gifts him to Ginny and buys his own which he could share with Ron, cutting it down to three. But then the twins could also share a set cutting it down to two. One for them and one for Percy
Yay it’s here. Right after school watching this is the best.
24:15 I think it was also commonly implied that aside like books for ingredients - Snape never used any textbooks. All recipes has always been shown on the board and only when Slughorn takes over - they are back to using books.
39:50 So we also know that there are different electives every few years, if there is a professor who can teach it. And you also can take OWLs without taking the subject. In extended universe that's what is implied - Bill and Percy doing extra subjects that they learned in their own time, without necessarily doing the Time-Turner shenanigans. Specifically for the NEWTs there definitely was Alchemy class offered, if there was enough kids wanting to take it.
Ghoul Studies, Magical Theory or even Music, were apparently electives that students could take.
40:20 To be fair, I think pretty much all divinated stuff in the books has happened in some way or another. Including Ron's read of Harry's cup - so Weasley's definitely had some capabilities. Or it was within the reach of every students, it was just Hermione with her Muggle prejudices couldn't just believe it. Especially as mythological Sybil, also had perfect predictions that no one believed - and you know, she actively always predicted truth.
1:13:25 It's still very much gross to think of. The textures there are just wrong. Especially with like a proper jam, that is just pure fruits and sugar. Mixing that with any smooth item like butter or peanut butter is just wrong.
1:15:08 that’s how I was too. It wasn’t until I reread the books as an adult that I saw it
1:08:26 My new head canon is that Hagrid was in knockturn alley selling the acromantulas.
I also pictured big cauldrons when reading the book, but the thing is that Ginny's cauldron could absolutely be large because they specify that they're pewter. I dont know if you've ever encountered pewter as a metal in the wild but it is SUPER light. It's like plasic but it sounds like metal when it clanks against other objects.
I love that you guys are doing a chapter-by-chapter “book club” style of the series! After you finished book 1, I started listening to the series all over again so I could catch all the tidbits and Easter eggs you guys pointed out! I’m already mid-way through book 3 now and can’t wait to see if you guys comment on some of the same things I caught this go-around.
Question: what do you think would have happened if Ginny never got the diary back from Harry (I.e. he had it in his robes instead of leaving it in his dorm when he went to quidditch that day)? What if Harry had just written a letter to Dumbledore and asked about what Riddle showed him? Although Dumbledore left by request of the school governors when they went down to ask Hagrid about it, we already know that owls can always find the addressee of the letter.
It's always felt like the fact that they could do magic has sort of stunted their creativity for certain things
As a person who grew up in a Dursley-rivaling clean household, i can vouch for Harry's appreciation for the chaos at the Burrow. It's insane how much a little mess helps with making a place feels like a home and lived in.
I like my place clean, but i don't make a fuss if my jacket hangs over a chair😅
In regard to Sirius and Harry sending him owls, couldn't the Ministry have sent out an owl and followed it on broom to wherever Sirius was? Or were they doing that and I'm just remembering incorrectly?
1:30:00 with reference to Lucius planting the diary is it possible he was writing in it and was instructed by it to plant it on someone to take to hogwarts to purge the non pure-bloods. Also the provocation of Arthur and luring him into an attack might serve as a way to keep him away from investigating his home as he had already assaulted him and was harassing him ??
Im really hoping you guys dont stop like halfway through book 4. This could be am awesome series for a couple years
I love this. Been following ur guys for years now but I didn't find this podcast until the end of sorcerers. I proceeded to binge it and caught up within a week. Keep up the great work.
I have a question. If they have the enchantments to keep the boys out of the girls dorms. Why wouldn't they have the same or similar enchantments on the bathrooms?
53:48 😮so what if harry did shut it and discover that how would that have changed things. Would Draco still use it in 6 would harry use it again?
Thank yall for posting this, I was butt hurt on Sunday 😂😂😂
TBH Harry's time in regular school is taking place in late 80s England. So there was still strong class system in place (and somewhat still is) back then. So I think those clothing things might not reflect that badly. Sometimes you reflect things too much for your own perspective and to American way of thinking.
Loving these deepdives so much!
Also hand me downs are not necessarily a sign of neglect.
1:05:20 the word mister (Mr.) actually comes from the word Master. Borgin Also seems to be quite old, as he was well known by the time Voldemort got out of Hogwarts, so it's not unthinkable that he's using the words interchangeably.
No they are calling Draco Malfoy which is a little used term nowadays for a young preteen male. Usually once they are a teenager they are also mister. Watch any show with a butler and young male children and you will hear it. Especially older settings like Downton Abbey.
Yep, in British culture. Mister is reserved for the male head of the household, Master is for the young male who will inherit the property and become head of the household
1:04:27 Borgin is emphasizing _Mister_ Malfoy with as much contempt as he can muster. Jim Dale did a wonderful job with this.
Rereading the deathly hallows and was wondering if there could be multiple rooms of requirements at the same time?
At the end of all breakdowns you should do ranking of best or all chapter arts.
The way I see it,
They DO want Harry to leave. Which is why they were still planning to send him away to Stonewall high.
They’d love to chuck him out and be done with him. (But, Vernon and Petunia are both too proud to just outwardly shun Harry, the neighbors could talk, duh.)
But, they REALLY dont want Harry to be happy, nor do they want him to be special or interesting in anyway (especially not more than Dudley)
They want him to live a simply normal and extremely unfulfilling life. All for the crime of being born a wizard.
Since the Quill of Acceptance and the Book of Admittance record names of magical children in order to send the letters from Hogwarts to new students, I wonder if the book will also automatically "update" the addresses when a current or future student moves? Because if someone's name gets recorded when they are a baby, a lot of addresses could wind up being very out of date by the time they turn 11
I hope you all are feeling better! I enjoyed chapter 4 discussion.
you should do a what if vodlamort killed harrys parents and raised him to try and change the profacey
Oh that would be a good one
That would be cool but is 100% out of voldemorts character. He wants to become immoral, harry is an obstacle to that so there's no way he doesn't kill him. He's not Maleficent.
@@alexk1018 Maybe it could work with Voldemort's arragance being so high that insted off viewing Harry and Neville as obstacles that could kill him he would view them more as powerfull pawns that he can use in the future to help him achive his goals
You should do some spelling practice.
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Hermione never thought to use the timeturner to get extra hours to study and sleep which means all 3 of the boys we know that had timeturners used it for extra hours to sleep, study and do Prefect/Head Boy duties
Theory: Food is "a plenty" in The Burrow because while you cannot conjure food, you can replicate it. (Also explains how they can "over feed" Harry so much and still not have anyone overweight [other than Molly, I suppose] in the household.)
But replicated food loses nutriton valiue. So they would all be hungry quickly again after meal. If Harry gets over feed that's clearly not the case. Most of them are teenage boys and most of them like beeing out door which burns of a lot of callory. They could use magic to make fruites and vegetables grow more quickly or bigger like Hagrid dose but they have other food as well.
So happy to start my week with Through the Gryphin Door!
So fun fact i just noticed. The first wand harry tries in olivanders in philosophers stone is ALSO a phoenix feather wand. for something that so rarely shows up again it just gets casually thrown out there like that.