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Harry Potter Makes Zero Sense
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- Опубликовано: 14 июн 2021
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Ministry of Magic can't track death eaters, but they'll pounce on the kid doing underage magic.
Actually , 🤔 that checks out with reality.
Harry had a tracker until he turned 17.
except for when they don't (for fear of him being attacked by sirius in book 3) until they do again (when he's *actually* attacked by dementors in book 5). and they try to say the ministry has been compromised but Cornelius Fudge literally tries to get Harry imprisoned during his hearing
They turn off their bodycams so they cant get caught. Kids are too lame to be naughty like that.
@@ApexGale to be fair, the Ministry of Magic is a metaphor for a corrupted government
Nature's slowest bird that cannot fly in the rain, on an island noted for wet weather.
Didn't Hagrid go there in person to take Harry. They're magical owls nothing realistically will stop them from getting there. But they tried that and then they fucking moved there so Hagrid was just like yeah I'm taking him bye.
Britain in *General* has horrible weather @habijjj
The one time an owl flew in the rain in Harry Potter, it died
THEYRE NOT JUST REGULAR OWLS U MELT! THEYRE MAGICAL OWLS BRED SPECIFICALLY FOR THIS PURPOSE.
@@habijjjHagrid got Harry bc the Dursleys weren't letting him read the letters from Hogwarts/know about his magic side. But the letters were still getting there fine.
"OH great, it's that one guy that just teleports to talk in person instead of just writing a letter.
God I hate social interaction"
Just troll people with Howlers like Arthur in Fable 3.
@@killertrr1 What I would do as a Muggleborn in Ravenclaw. LMAO
Howler TF out of everyone! ahahaha!
Write a letter, teleport into their house, hand them the letter, and leave
@@genericusername3518 That does seem like the most logical approach.
Letters are useful because they give you the time to carefully figure out what exactly you want to say without having to choose the right words on the spot while somebody is actively listening.
Also, imagine to have to keep talking for every little message you wanna say. By this logic, why do we ever text each other? Why not call? Or walk to the person who is in the other room in our own house (admit it, you’ve done it.)
Geez, this Brennan guy really seems to know a lot about birds
I bet he could almost go toe to toe with Charlie about Bird Law
Tell that to the Roseate Spoonbill
@@jdjack519 Or the greater sage grouse
He must know the air speed velocity of an unladed swallow!
@@Skyfire-x What do you mean? An African, or a European Swallow??🤔
The Ministry of Magic: "We cannot be certain who is a Death Eater and who isn't."
The Death Eaters: *all get matching tattoos*
at what point do those guys actually eat the death? becasue i missed that bit
@@stocktonjoans they don't so much eat it as they nibble on it. A nice little snack between meals.
To be fair, only his Inner Circle got the mark but that should've been proof enough. Then again, his Inner Circle were basically all in serious positions of power as well and we all know how fucked the HP government is.
i think the idea was that you could be mind controlled into taking on the mark. the imperius curse could bend pretty much anyone to his will, so even actively working for him isn't proof that you're actually a Death Eater, willingly at least. and since under wizarding law you can't be held accountable for things you were magically manipulated into doing, and Voldemort was known for very frequently using all of the Unforgivables, it was astoundingly easy for even moderately subtle death eaters with decent lawyers to get acquitted.
VeryPeeved ....that has a very very large loophole unless there is just something else that I don't know about.
So lets say I get my friend to mind control me into murdering this one guy both of us hates or mug some random guy, does that mean I get a free by even though I technically profit from it so long as my friend isn't discovered as the culprit?
"But I dont WANT to cure cancer. I want to turn people into dinosaurs!"
Dumbledore probably
I’m pretty sure the book addressed curing diseases are outside of magical means.
@@Brim_the_Wizard which seems completely arbitrary, and is almost definitely possible with some medical knowledge and transfiguration, with maybe some added health-related charms. Or just potions.
I mean, he has the word dumb in his name.
@@ekkoree5464 yeah they straight up have that one potion that regrows bones in perfect anatomical accuracy and integration of musculature.
I don’t want to cure cancer I want to give 10 points to Gryffindor
With how absolutely stupid wizards are, you’d think the muggle borns would would be running the place because they’re actually taught real useful things
If there wasn't an oppressive caste system they would be.
Only until they're about 11 years old. At least in the US, we don't learn about chemistry or physics until our second or third year of high school and economics and government in our last year of high school. Not sure when they teach that in the UK but I wouldn't be surprised if they were similar.
scriptwriting is easy when you have a new spell that can make happen whatever you need to happen
Q: Why can't muggles ........
A: Obliviate.
@@threestrikesmarxman9095 that sounds more like you went toa Texas high school, but it could be the same in other parts of the US as well.
@@mcarrowtime7095 California
The wizards: the muggles are stupid, we need to keep them safe
Muggles: *initiates nuclear codes to show them they’re wrong*
Wouldn't work, most of their locations are unplottable meaning a targeting system wouldn't be able to find them. Tech also just malfunctions around magic and stops working. So most muggle shit would just not work.
@@TheLastSane1 from what I've seen these locations are impossible to find by a human and it,s some type of mind control, but a drone still could get there i think and so could a GPS signal. I might be wrong tho
bonus idea: find someone you know is a wizard and secretly get a signal onto them. when they arrive at what is most likely a wizard place it's JDAM time
@@piolewus Magic dirupts and disables anything with eletronics hell even Collins camera had to have special magic for it to work and that was an old 80s early 90s polaroid.
@@piolewus Tracker wouldn't work, magic fries or disables technology. A JDAM uses tech for guidance and honestly a vanishing spell would just remove it from being a problem after immobilizing it.
Remember that being good at chess was considered an outlier, because the magic users were not good at strategy.
Yup. Magic breaks so much of conventional logic that magical society is simply not built on logic the way Muggle society is.
@@MerkhVision it makes no sense though, our modern technology is essentially magic, but we aren't dumber than people of the past.
@@NihongoWakannai Hey, not a harry potter fan. But to be fair, there's a difference between the amazing things that we can do based on research and a lot of testing, and defying the laws of physics and the universe with just a flip and flop of your wand because they learnt that flipping and flopping it with a certain intention worked really well.
@@hikki3523 There isn't really a difference though. I bet you have almost no idea how the devices you are using to communicate with me work. Sure, there are people out there who have proper understanding about the different devices being used for this to happen, but there is no single person who fully understands the entire process required for this to exist and you are likely none of those people.
I didn't invent the washing machine, I just bought one, put my clothes into it and pressed some buttons. How is that different from me reading a book and making my clothes wash themselves with that spell that I learned.
This is magic to us, and it isn't making us dumb, it doesn't hinder our ability to learn things about the world, in fact it makes our lives easier so we have more time and more capability to learn more about the world.
@@NihongoWakannai you made a great point🤔
On the subject of owls delivering messages, keep in mind, in book 2 Hagrid was sent to Azkaban, a prison where the inmates are constantly being tortured by dementors literally sucking out their joy and will to live, amd when he is exonerated he says he would have gotten out sooner but the letter delivering his release papers was given to erol, the Weasley owl, the dumbest bird on earth, that kept getting lost.
So Hagrid was quite literally being tortured in prison after being proven innocent because they decided to mail that letter using an animal they already knew to be unreliable.
At that point it seems purposeful
Remember that this owl was send by a 12 year old. (Ron Weasley). Who would trust such an important letter to be send by a 12 year old. Dumbledore would. And Dumbledore is known for his sadistic accidents.
In Prisoner of Azkaban, Dumbledore conjured? Christmas crackers. He pulled one with Snape. And the hat of Neville’s grand mother appeared and offered it to Snape who declined. The same hat Neville put on the Bogert that turned into Snape.
Ummmm well the thing is you can’t apperate in and out of Azkaban and on top of that it’s in the middle of the ocean meaning if you teleported there you would be probably killed by the crashing waves because it’s always storming there
@@pricygalaxy185 have an elf do it, they can apparate to places wizards can't.
@@Jeezes718 people who had elves did do that quite commonly but people didn’t commonly have elves making owls more needed
It's basically the only school that exists until a competition needs to happen
Look up Chekhov's Gun.
They werent releveant to the plot, as the other schools were from other countries, had their own governments, etc. And the story itself is centered around just the UK.
Kinda obvious if you... ya know... think.
It's a story for children. This is how the average child's mind works. Their world is centered around them and they don't think about what doesn't affect them until it does.
There are plenty of wizarding schools. In the book it says that Lucius and Narcissa were planning on sending Draco to a different school but decided Hogwarts was best because its closer to home
MoM can’t track a damn death eater but will go feral over a underage child doing magic is crazy
Remember in the second book when the MoM couldn't detect the difference between Harry casting a levitation spell himself, and Dobby casting a levitation spell near him?
@@tevenpowell8023 I haven’t read the book in a hot minute but now that you mention it yea that did happen, you’d think being the literal GOVERNMENT for the Wizarding world they be able to tell the difference, sounds a lot like our own government
@@tevenpowell8023Sirius Black went to jail for this exact reason
theyre not tracking the kid- theyre tracking magic near the kid. So people in wizard families aren't gonna get caught, and dobby's magic got harry wrongfully in trouble.
Tbf politics in real life are just as fucked up 😂
Dumbledore- No one is allowed to go to Dark Forest.
Also Hogwarts's detention rule- sends kids inside the Dark Forest at night.
@@ayamegotayamed2641 Hagrid literally sent Harry and Ron into a nest of giant spiders. Hagrid might be a hero but that man does not have his shit together
@@ayamegotayamed2641 you said “Hagrid…wouldn’t endanger students as long as they follow his lead”. That’s what I was commenting on, because that man does not do proper health and safety reports
@@reganbrannigan3006 LOL
@@ayamegotayamed2641 you lost me at the BUT, literally saying "yeah they could die BUT"
Wait in the chamber of secrets they went in there with the weasleys car not by hagrid or are we talking about another time
Imagine having the power to teleport and your job is the fucking mailman.
Bro, easiest job in the world, you'd never have to even move
@@ImperialFister Well if its harry potter world you would constantly feel like vomiting so not sure if that's such and easy job. Imagine you have to deliver mail to like 1000 guys a day and its just you projectile vomiting thro london.
@@Jebu911 Well, that would suck (unless the guy with the vomit fetish gets the job)
That's what I called karma
@@darklordoftheuniverse7803 what did the mailman do to deserve this
Apparating next to someone is the ultimate in calling when you could text.
The magic of owls is that they can always find who they are delivering too.
So... give an owl a magical tracking device and send a letter to any wanted wizzard in the world to find them?
@@89taklung Its a joke dude. Owls say hoo
@@89taklung Here's a letter to Voldemort.... NOW FOLLOW THAT OWL!
Wait till he finds out about filch cleaning the castle by hand when even the students could do it with magic
Edit:thanks for all the likes. Also I know about the house elves and that they do a lot of the cleaning but fich does too. In chamber of secrets he is seen trying to get the message off the walls. I don't remember which book it is but he also gets mad at people for bringing mud into the castle because he will have to clean it up. These are just a few examples
Don't forget JK adding in the horrifying fact that before plumbing students would just go in the corridors and then magic it all away.
@@drfarrin she is nasty
@@drfarrin I mean, before plumbing that's what aristocrats mostly did too.
@@danielled8665 wait, aristocrats magic'd away their poo??
@@Andrew-it7fb yup, through the maaaaagic of servaaaaantssss
Has anyone considered that the killing curse, a painless method of killing that leaves no collateral damage, is "unforgivable," but spells like Bombarda which literally make giant explosions that kill dozens is somehow not?
Techinically this happened in the real world too. If you killed someone, you would get punished, but if you comitted genocide, there was no specific penalty/punishment. You could get lighter punishment for genocide than killing an individual.
Killing Curse is unblockable, while Bombarda, Confringo and Stupefy can be blocked with Shield Charm.
@@guythe4288"Unblockable" except for like the 10 times Harry counters it with Expelliarmus
@@guythe4288 That's like banning euthanasia but not shotguns because you can wear a bullet-proof vest but you can't resist an overdose of morphine.
Ok, kinda like real life.
@@Ssohpkcf exactly. It's unblockable through regular means, but using counter force at the right time (expelliarmus being effective measure) it's possible to make each spell cancel each other out
I'm sure many places would also have anti-apparation wards not just Hogwarts. Also, to apparate you need to be familiar with the location you're apparating to, have to visualize it if I remember correctly.
Owls in the Harry Potter universe have the ability to find any person or place. You can send a letter to an address, a certain location, or you can send it to a recipient; the owl will magically know where to go.
Maybe wizards could set up a mail system using apparation to deliver things but it would only be useful for fixed addresses registered with the post office and the carriers would have to visit every address on their route first or possibly look at pictures.
The floo network is another option for delivering mail, but again it's a restrictive option. It's only good for locations with fireplaces connected to the floo network.
Also owls in that universe are apparently magically fast as well. Like the times when the ministry of magic or Dumbledore were sending letters to Harry in response to things that happened only minutes prior.
You see, folks like BLM don't think this deep into it. They just rag on it because "they're more creative" (when he and Mercer really aren't. Like, seriously, Matt's DnD homebrew is just Elder Scrolls meets Diablo with very little added).
Also, for guys like this, ragging on Rowling is the "in" thing.
"Yeah we know part of our school is full of magic racists, that's on purpose one of the founders was a total jackass" EXCUSE ME WHAT???
They never outright say every Slytherin is an outright magical racist or evil.
Ambition and drive are the big things in that house. Those can be traits of incredibly good people. It's a study of nature vs nurture.
When pointed in the right direction, those students could be an incredible asset to the world.
@@Zac_Frost True but Slytherin left as a Founder when the Other Founders refused to accept only a "better selection" of magicians in the School. So, yes, that house is also known for magic powerplay even if it's not outright said.
@@Mary-Ann_B_Mabaet Explain Slytherins like Merlin and Slughorn, then, who recognized all talented witches and wizards regardless of blood status, sex, etc, and just wanted to see others excel and succeed.
Like that isn't one of the most realistic parts of the story. ^^
There are racist elements in every society that humanity has built so far. Many historical figures and their followers were racist, sexist etc.
Sallazar isn't the reason students are muggle-phobic. Muggle-phobka existed centuries before Salazar's grandparents were alive. It's just that Salazar was slytherin and as a result the muggle-phobic students were in slytherin. Its actually better that way. In the gryffindor common room I doubt Hermione got bullied for being a muggle born. And muggle born just should choose to be in a different house than slytherin. Would you rather have 20% of each house be muggle-phobic or 95% of one house be muggle phobic and 1% of the houses combined being muggle phobic.
Owls: have to deliver mail
House elves: literally slaves
to be fair house elves actually like serving people dobby was an exception mostly7 because of how shit a master the malforys were
@@aawallace98Just another in the list of a billion things R*wling fucked up about her world. "There are some people who like being owned" is such a twisted thing to put in a book for children.
I know it comes from brownies in English folklore and the shoemaker's elves and stuff, but I think in hindsight we can appreciate how formative literature can be to people, even subconsciously.
@@TOBAPNW_ so much clearer that rowling has always been an asshole
It's more like their tribal society had certain morals and customs, and when the first mutant humans dubbed 'wizards' made contact... things got weird
I imagine after some wars and assimilation, their traditions made it so they, under a honor plead must chose a master
Then, their kids follow, and then their kids
And that is when slavery may have started
They just may need their own state so that their customs don't chain them as they do now
Dobby is a weirdo
A person that drinks pops and soda on a bowl or plate
He is not the ideal, but an outlier(luvudobbs)
The elves shouldn't be forced to forfeit their culture, but maybe between humans it can be unpleasant as a person from a farm being thrown on the big city, they will use you against you
It's been badly explained, not a 'some like to be owned'(though true, some do, it gives big creepy), but more like, 'some feel like they have to'
The problem are rich people that can't respect the elves' culture
The Malfoys are an example of using one's cultural differences as a weapon
They don't need a little white savior knight to be insensitive and force them out of what they chose to adhere to, they need better laws to protect them as an important magical minority of the wizarding world
And, imagine living in a nanite sci fi world, and not protecting your home
Most goverment establishments must be 'apparating proof' in most opportunities
And a clearance pass for certain cases
But enchanted or specially bred owls are a option
@@ELbabotas1A culture that promotes slavery is a culture that should be changed. There's a mighty fine difference between preserving unique cultural identity and preserving a form of fascism.
Dumbledore: I want everyone to understand that I treat every class equally...
Also Dumbledore: Ah Harry Potter. Nice glasses. 50 points for Gryffindor!
Its a joke lol inaccurate but tis a joke😂
@@AlfieTank hate to say this but, it actually is kinda accurate
@@benzehunteer7411 not really, if you have literally he who shall NOT BE NAMED......after your ass😶
And live for sequels.....50pts is bare minimum 🤷🏿♂️😂
As the headmaster he knows: GriffNdor has style.
"For embodiment of the style of his house...and selflessly keeping those raggedy glasses that is a brand trademark... in America."
I mean this Bill Gates looking kid blasting Voldemort. He should be sitting at a desk. And he kept them Rafferty aes glasses even though he mad dough, bro.
"
Well he did put a three headed dog to sleep, ride a broom while chased by angry keys, and killed quirell/banish voldy. That is worth a trophy for me and that is just in year 1.
JK has always been more for whimsy (“oh they have owls deliver their mail, how quaint”) than actual sense, which honestly only became a problem after she pivoted from occasionally dark fairy tale to gritty urban fantasy.
Anyone who tells you she “had it all figured out from the beginning” is try to sell you a crock of shit (i.e. her books).
I generally don't believe authors who say they had everything planned out from the beginning
She did plan quite a bit though
Maybe not all of it .
Jk certainly didn't say she planned everything to the T because she did change aspects of her plan to accommodate the story and fans.
@@hiimcrazyfordrwho Speaking as someone who writes as a hobby, I definitely make long reaching plans. But I keep them vague enough so that when new ideas/realizations come to me, I can pivot easily.
@@hiimcrazyfordrwho I rec checking out One Piece if you want a story where the author legitimately had a huge amount planned out from the beginning
@@sppotterstark8057By "quite a bit" do you mean "major worldbuilding getting scrapped on the sidelines, because the author couldn't be bothered to acknowledge and write around the world she has built"?
She just gets all time travel knocked off a shelf in book 5. If she did any overarching planning at all, it was piss poor.
This is why I'm so impressed with HP. It's crazy full of plot holes and inconsistencies, but the story is so good that it's still a joy to read. You don't even noticed all that stuff until later because it's so engaging
I cackled when Harry said "It's hogwarts, what could be safer?
Boy, year 1 you got drafted into the sport where flying metals balls are aimed at the players' heads using bats, got sent to a monster infested forest for detention, a giant three-headed dog was just standing behind a door and year two a giant snake was roaming around attacking people... The fuck, standing on the Gaza strip holding Israel and Palestine flags simultaneously is probably safer.
add a rainbow flag to that... still safer.
Your gonna give a tik toker a great idea there 😅🇮🇱🇵🇸
The very first day of school the head master tells everyone, hey don't go to this room unless you wanna die a very painful death.
Why the fuck is something that needs that level of protection stored at a school WHERE CHILDREN LEARN MAGIC FOR THE FIRST TIME.
The same reason maximum security inmates are held at prisons that have guards who are learning to run a prison for the first time.
If you dont open the cage you dont die, simple.
@@AlanGresov Little reminder that the forest within walking distance of the school is called The Forest of Death. Giant sentient spiders who were starving lived in that forest and so did Centaurs who weren't all that chill with humans. Giant Squid in their lake, and the merpeople were semi friendly. All around bad place, including the Giant _kill you with a stare_ Death Snake under the school.
This reminds me of the bit in Invincible where Atom Eve is just like "Why tf would I go to school when I can solve world hunger?"
I loved that. I've never understood why there weren't more canonical teen runaways with powers. Doin the peace corps thing or just helping build houses and wells for people in need. Like sustainable drinking water is important.
Oh now I need a story of some wizard kid ditching school to show it off to the royal family and/or government, and then immediately is drafted into MI6 or some secret higher branch.
Or check out 'So You've Learned To Teleport'
by Tom Scott. He explains that a superhero with the ability to teleport could create infinite energy, solve world hunger, conquer space travel, but no, they stick to saving one city, in one country.
@@burntrosechick peace corps?
@@dianalon12 really depends on the kind of teleporting. If its portals, that is unquestionably the best, if you can teleport and bring somebody, that is amazingly useful, if you can just teleport with stuff, thats quite helpful, if you can just teleport and arrive naked, thats pretty neat.
I wish I had the energy and excitement that these guys have
You can teleport, video chat, but you still write a letter, text message.
" we can't show muggles magic they'd use it to solve all their problems "
>proceeds to use magic to solve all their problems
My head cannon is that it's because they realized magics main value comes from it's scarcity. They don't want anyone else to have wands because then wizards would have to, ya know, work and stuff. As long as they restrict who is allowed to have a wand, they retain their monopoly on the central source of global power.
They didn't go underground out of sympathy or annoyance for witch burnings. Muggles were becoming literate at much higher rates, they were abandoning the Catholic church and embracing science. The wizards were scared muggles would be able to start figuring out what they had (remember: the source of a wands magic isn't the wizard, it's the magical core. So it's possible muggles could function at the same proficiency as untalented wizards, which would be very scary if you're an untalented wizards from a family that hasn't had to hold real employment for generations)
It's actually secretly a way to prevent wizards from sharing the secrets of magic even if they wanted to. You can tell muggles whatever you want, the ministry now has permission to come in and zap their memories before they can do anything with that knowledge.
@@ruminationstation4200 Rich people keeping caviar a secret so that it's still cool.
@@ruminationstation4200 just because a muggle can have a wand does not mean they will be able to use magic. Otherwise squibs who are born from magical families would be able to use magic through a wand.
The core of the wand isn't the source of magic, though it is a magical core. It just helps to amplify (if the user is compatible with the core) and control the user's magic.
@@edocsil1635 to play devils advocate here. Lets assume that you are correct. Currently, wizards know people who can and cannot use magic via like tracking magical bloodlines and the like. But thats ALL they do because they have no reason to do further research.
If the WORLD knew about magic. It would be... Idk 10-20 years tops of extensive scientific research until they figure out the connection between a persons genealogy and their ability to use magic.
Or Shit. Maybe we'd figure out wtf magic IS after exstensive studies. It would either A. Rewrite the way we ubderstand physics at a fundemental level opening the opportunity for incredible advancement. Or B. We'd figure out where the energy is coming from and start manipulating it.
@@edocsil1635 according to J. K. Rowling's own canon, Olivander's started selling wands before the wizards existed, although it can be that writers don't know how to maths, considering that both of these things were happened before Christ, so she might just not know that the year system works reverse in "B.C.", but I prefer that Olivander's started selling wands and due to using magical cores, wizards came into existence.
Dumbledore literally was an incredible political force. When the students formed Dumbledore's Army the ministry damn near took that as a declaration of war.
In all fairness that was mainly due to Fudge suffering from “chronic moron syndrome” and doing everything possible to discredit and undermine Dumbledore
😂😂😂
@@DMDarren true but irrelevant, he represents the british ministry of magic, one of, if not THE most powerful wizard governments in the world, and Dumbledore's Army was an unsactioned after-school club where kids in a closet sharpened their knives. Its fuckin wild
@@casadastraphobia sure but by that logic they already went to a swordplay school so learning more in their free time shouldn't be looked down upon
@@VitaeLibra thats true man. Weird stuff
Umbridge was a self insert.
😭🤣
Oh. You wrote the books?
Don't forget that this wizard civilization still lives in a world where cell phones exist, and they have literally no reason to not use them.
IDK, given the fact that the government can track phones, it was probably sensible to not have them in hogwarts when you are trying to keep the wizard world a secret.
The Cerberus Assembly makes a lot more sense now
I mean, Hogwarts and the Cerberus Assembly really only have wizards in common. But yes.
I was wondering for a moment why you would bring Critical role into this because I was so entranced at these funny ideas that I forgit Matthew Mercer was in this short😂🤣😂
@@RasmusVJS well not really. what Matt describes is what the Cerberus Assembly does.
@@RasmusVJS calebs entire backstory is that he went to Cerberus funded hogwarts what are you talking about, Trent is literally evil dumbledoor and the volstrucker are the evil DA. There entire conversation that a real hogwarts would just be the Illuminati directly shows itself in the Cerberus assembly, the people who train mages, being the Illuminati, like did the entire point, of everything you witnessed in the 1 minute clip you just watched, elude you?
@@bigbundle3223 Kinda. The fact that there is still a monarchy and other nations means they're not quite there, since wizards in D&D aren't the most powerful beings in they're world, unlike in Harry Potter. Or, at the very least they are more powerful than anything in the world of the muggles.
"You can't apparate on school grounds!" Okay, cool... can I apparate just outside of school grounds and walk a few yards?
You can also Floo, Portkey, and Vanishing Cabinet on the grounds of Hogwarts. And house elves (y'know, the enslaved people who do all their other menial tasks) can Apparate on the grounds.
Once, I was smoking a cigarette on the edge of my college campus. A guy went out of his way to come up to me to tell me that smoking was banned on campus. So I walked ten yards off campus to finish smoking.
Same thing?
@@mutestingray Same thing outside my job, was stood on the side of the road, and was told to cross the street to finish.
I think it takes like, over an hour to walk from hogwarts to the edge of the grounds. The entire forbidden forest is inside the grounds, and so is the lake.
Similar to the story of that guy that wanted to cancel some appointment and the secretary told him he would have had to announce it 3 weeks in advance and the guy asks if he can move it back 3 weeks. The secretary says that's possible and then the guy asks if he can cancel. And the secretary goes yeah sure
The idea that teleportation would make people more inclined to see face to face is what's crazy
Paraphrasing a Mage: The Podcast line, "Using magic to change the world is hubris; not using magic to change the world is complicity."
“Birds delivering mail is animal abuse”
The rats and frogs being turned into goblets: am I joke to you?
They have less value to people. Like stepping into a rat would get you less hate than stepping into a dog.
@@Potato-km4zg so??????
@@Subscribe_to_me_now You can't understand basic words?
@@Potato-km4zg Well that's just sad
They don't mind animal cruelty. They don't mind human cruelty for the most part either. That a major theme of the series
You can do this with Harry Potter all day. It’s like it was the greatest feat of suspension of disbelief of all time. There is a magic spell, that they teach to 11 year old first year students, that can unlock any lock. And yet they just keep putting locks on doors and telling those same 11 year olds “don’t go in there”
um actually, I do think Hermione learns that spell on her own outside the actual curriculum. It's still a relatively easy spell though, one would imagine, but I guess that's why it doesn't really come up again after the first book.
It’s a plot point in the third. Hermione uses it to break a criminal out of jail.( I know in the movie she blows up the door)
@@DiddntFindANameLol It's in the Standard Book of Spells that ll eleven year olds use at Hogwarts
@@tigamaki1345 true true. Not really jail but certainly a stupid thing to not lock properly with magic. Unless you WANT the convicted murderer to run away.
It just unlocks mechanical locks. The real question is why Dumbledore didn't lock the door to the dangerous Cerberus magically.
I could watch Brennan and Matt discuss fantasy for hours.
I'd be bored out of my mind after 10 minutes.
Cinema Sins made a really funny point. They can put mini iceskaters that dance on your birthday cake, but not a spell to stop your house from burning done.
Imagine how quickly the series would have been over if Harry pulled out the glock
I say this all the time! Lol
Magical school shooter
I actually like the headcanon where at first Hogwarts was Secret for the safety of the muggles, and for the safety of them. However, the modern-day secrecy of wizards in today's day and age is not for the safety of but Monday, but to protect the Wizards from the mundane. Essentially mankind has become too dangerous and they have to stay secret otherwise risk death
Well... Harry Potter is set in the UK, not US
@@lumi_project the dude was from the UK and traveled to the us. That was a very apparent reoccurring theme during the whole film dude.
The movie literally had to go through and explain the differences in the magical society in America at the time and UK.
Mfs literally could probably solve world hunger but instead they watch teenagers flying on broom
Not to Forget an Invisibility Cloak that could be used for all the wrong reasons like Stealing and Perverted peeking if it wasn't in Harry Possession...
Or even Forget that Criminals can hide as Pets and go unnoticed for Decades.
And can have Dragons by Whatever Wizard legal means but Magical Shenanigans are a No-No in the real world.
You saying "probably" is making me think you didn't actually read the books
NoOOoooOo, but, but, you can’t make food though, that’s what they said in the book though, so you can’t do that actually.
But you can, however turn an animal into an inanimate object, for example a golden cup. Seeing as gold is an element, it is possible, through the use of magic, to alter atoms, meaning that you not only should be able to make food, but that configuration is totally impossible. Not to mention a scene where Molly Weasley made cream come out of her wand, and when Hermione says that you can increase the quantity of food. In both of those scenarios, J.K. Rowling breaks her own magic rules.
@@gorg6151 exactly. There are literally zero excuses
@Passive Aggressive it's more of the fact that the cup will turn back eventually, and you can't create food, but you can summon it. Also you shouldn't transfigure objects into food or water or air, since they'll turn back, think about it, you turn a piece of wood into food, it turns to wood in your stomach. Into air? Well you have a right pleasant time of choking on blood after the wood punctures your lungs
Brennan should know that owls are also the quietest of all birds.
I feel like this mail system is the wizarding worlds’s version of screening calls or ignoring texts. It has nothing to do with efficiency and everything to do with avoiding people.
"You're just allowing the horrors of the world to happen." Causing them, even.
I'd listen to utilitarian maximalists, but the fact they're soapboxing on the internet instead of doing good for the world proves they're hypocrites anyway.
I mean wasn't the villain of the other thing trying to kill Hitler?
Yea i mean he was the most powerful wizard of his time and spend his mid thirties through mid sixtys watching both world wars happen when at least the second one could have been drastically shortened with a quick pop in pop out and giving hitler a quick swish and flick
@@callybarbs How very imperialist of you.
@@callybarbs This isn't even the right way to go about it tho, basically every human conflict has been caused by one person or group trying to control others for personal benefit, even a shitload of revolutionary writers were just grifters taking advantage of a new cause. Forget individual wars and dictators, Hitler wasn't the sole or even main catalyst for the nazi ideology, he was mostly just the voice and the charisma.
If we're talking about magic users with the powers the HP universe clearly has, world hunger, political strife, classism, other prejudices and bigotries, poor education, miscommunication- all of it could be solved with a little bit of forsight and magical plan hatching, which is made even more glaring since Dumbledore is supposed to be extremely thoughtful and clever. The only real concern is that narcissistic magic users might destroy the world for their own ends before people like Dumbledore had the chance to save it, but that clearly didn't happen in the HP world so what the actual fuck? We have magic THIS powerful and a gifted kid purity-culture school at the center of the world is the best we could do?!
"Why are we running our civilization on the bylaws of one school!"
_Etonian Members of Parliament shifts nervously_
To be fair, those boys go to Camebridge or Oxford later.... so they run the civilization on the by laws of three schools. Well one school and two universities technically, but not that much of a difference.^^
They also have transfiguration class, yet never use transfiguration magic. About 100 instances where it would have immediately solved a problem.
“And now that you know how it’s done, don’t do it.”
-Troy McClure on underage magic
The wizard school curriculum is incredibly narrowly structured around nothing but magic related topics. The smartest wizards are all severely uneducated about even the simplest of mundane topics. If one of them was put into a leadership role in the real world, society would fall apart beneath them.
You say that but in reality it wouldn't really matter since what needs to be learnt is based on perspective. You could say that knowing mathematics and science etc. Is being educated but ultimately that's a definition based off the society we live in. However if a society doesn't rely on these things but does heavily rely on magic and the study of its history etc. Then that is their definition of educated.
@Nobody comments are not funny you troglodyte A wizard politician could probably do without knowing the sum of angles in a triangle but yeah things like language, history etc. are needed for sure
counterpoint: boris johnson.
Ho-ho-ho. Rulers of the world up until nowadays used to learn mainly Greek and Latin
Im pretty sure they are taught regular shit like math and social studies. But that would be boring in a book about magic for Hermione to say "ayo i gotta get to math class real quick" over "i gotta get to fucking magical creatures class"
Can we add the fact that hormonal teenagers are left almost unsupervised in an immensely large castle with a shit load of very questionable spells?
Ron straight up gets given a date-rape potion.
Fetus Deletus!
They have access to a potion that shapeshifts them into other people and animal amalgamations. Creepy Carl down the hall has your hair and he's about to see what you look like naked and Furry Frank is about to have a hell of a time at the next furcon
@@RealMiniLink they don't realy "have access". Book with receipt was in the forbidden section of library, which is a can of worms by itself, but still
@@Grygory-fd3kp A forbidden section guarded by a single old man and his cat, hogwarts has the worst security for being a highly prestigious school
Issue with this is the teleportation spell he is talking about (apparation) is very difficult to learn, not many bother as you have to concentrate to teleport ur entire body away and not just a leg/hand. In addition you have to know the place very well, like have to have been there before well. Chances are whenever u need to deliver a letter ur not going to know the place u want to deliver to. This is something not addressed in the movies unfortunately as it seems like everyone can teleport for some reason, (reported instances in the books, where one guy teleported and only his upper body (I think) made it to the destination, hence why not many attempt it)
If your referring to the floo network however, not every house is connected as some won’t have a fire place and even if they are, who’s the say in darker times the network wasn’t compromised. This is a poor argument mind you but it’s all I can speculate. Port keys also tie in as we have shown they could be tampered with as well and might be tedious to create and then set one up to get back (maybe again not sure, I’m going off my knowledge of books here)
I will say it’s dumb to use owls however as opposed to something faster, or create magical lines of instant communication (wizard version of phones since normal phones don’t work around them. We’ve seen proof this could work with hermionie using coins to send messages).
Sry rambled on here a bit but final thing I promise, I have a theory that owls might be intelligent without the ability to speak (I hope not as then that’s just slavery) or their magically attuned to wizards and naturally bond with them, hence their use since they can find their way past magical defences to deliver info (which leads me to think why Voldemort couldn’t owl Harry and everyone else a bomb constantly, would’ve simplified things a lot)
can't forget that the ability to apparate cannot be done unless the students are 17 years old. it is literally illegal for anyone under the age of 17 to apparate.
@@elarianasky Yeah. It's too difficult for even grown adults to do. Even the most talented people have incredible trouble with it.
1) there are many places you can't apporate like the ministry & every magic school.
2) HP owls can teleport & have an internal sense of direction to find anyone without ever even meeting them. Basically they're a magic creature.
Wizards be like “humans have their own problems” excuse me you live on this planet, I’m sure it’ll be your problem when the nuke drops.
A war against wizards would end badly for us because sure anyone dies to a gun or a bomb but they can deflect it and appear behind people using apparate
So imagine one wizard teleporting to a nuke shelter and set an explosive on the nuke to detonate the nuke and teleport away
Given their bafflingly ignorance of most muggle things I'm not sure many of them even know what a nuke is, much less where nuke silos are. And in the series one of the reasons the wizards give to keep secret is just how hopelessly out numbered they are by muggles and how dangerous witch hunts were in the past. And that was before we had airstrikes and machine guns.
Also setting off an explosive next to a nuke would just break the nuke, not set it off. Nukes require incredibly careful and uniform compression of the fissile material to activate.
@@pencil6711 good sir, it’s infinitely faster to squeeze a trigger than it is to speak an incantation. Daniel Greene made a point of this.
"Nukus Protectus uwu"
@@TECH097 pretty sure there’s only a handful of wizards in existence who can stop a blast like that.
When he said animal cruelty I remembered the scene when the owl hit the window of Ron's house
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Yeah, but that's not the owner's fault. The bird was just built incorrectly.
Yeah, if a kid runs full pelt into a wall, that's on the kid. Not the parent for magically teleporting a cushion in the way.
A dumbass bird being a dumbass bird is just a dumbass bird.
@@lyntonfleming
Birds can't see glass
Same
The fact that any wizard would write a physical letter in a world where Sirius Black can talk to Harry through the medium of COALS IN A FIREPLACE is beyond me
Sometimes you wanna write a letter instead of telling someone face to face...
Lets also not go into the fact that not only are Love Potions completely legal, but are sold in a joke/novelty shop for children.
I mean it was the 90s, stuff like rape by deception or girls raping men, was still treated as a joke then in general.
@@abboud6393 no, it never was.
@@etocadet have you like ever seen any comedy movie like at all? Or judt looked up how people reporting such crimes were responded to?
@@abboud6393 what you typed did not come across as funny or a joke.
@@etocadet My comment isn't intended to be funny and wasn't meant as a joke. Public attitude towards rape that isn't by violence was honestly quite horrible in the past.
A man who complained about a woman raping them would have been humiliated and even today is barely taken serious. Likewise the idea of getting woman drunk and lying to them to sleep of them was a frequently used comedy device.
Counterpoint: If you want to apparate somewhere, you have to wear pants. To send a letter by owl, you do not have to wear pants.
Counterpoint to that counterpoint, if im a wizard cant i just swish my wand and suddenly im clothed? Or make an illusion of wearing clothes? Or just stick my head in the fireplace and my head alone will appear in the home of who i want to talk to?
@@loveunityandpeace Triple counterpoint, it's not just the effort of putting pants on, it's also having to wear them at all. Secondly, what if they don't want to or aren't wearing pants either?
Counterpoint to all counterpoints... who SAID we had to wear pants while appariting. SHOW ME THE LAW!! OR LET ME BE FREE AND APPARATE EVERYWHERE PANTSLESS!
Counterpoint you could just send a pigeon. Pigeons are good messager birds
Counterpoint to all counterpoints except the counterpoint to all counterpoints: as written in the Goblet of Fire book, most wizards do not wear pants unless muggles are involved
I hope that everyone agrees that muggles would destroy wizards when in comes to *weapons.*
And? Motherfuckers can just brainwash anyone they want. It's not about firepower at all.
Magitech, here we go.
Otherwise, magic can easily disrupt anything of muggle technologies as seen in the first seen of the Movie.
Clearly the reason wizards fear muggles is muggles must be far smarter than wizards. Muggles =invent cars, bombs, airplanes, GPS
Wizards=invent nothing useful despite using magic with zero rules
Wizards: "We can teleport across long distances in seconds."
Muggles: "Well we can send messages to anywhere in the WORLD in seconds."
Muggle #1 : hey waht is going on?
Muggle #2 : what did you say?
Muggle #1 : oh sorry I meant WHAT
Muggle #2 : oh I feel you
@@seigemusic423 huh???
i imagine the same way muggles had telephones in their kitchen to phone people, wizards had chimneys to flu them, so technically wizards already had Skype by comparison. Not to mention patronuses (which are still slow but at least less expensive than buying flu powder). But yeah, the mail system waa pretty insane lol
@@ceebbees12345 Communicating via Patronus was a recent invention by Dumbledore and we've only seen it used by the Order. Not to mention the normal spell is difficult on its own. Definitely not a common or easy means of communication.
This is why I feel we need a Harry Potter movies sequel set in the muggles world. It would literally be a clash of magic bs technology. Never like how condescending the wizards were to the muggle world. Bruh Harry and Hermione literally have technology that would trump some of the spells you cast
"Oh yeah I have this truth serum that would even make Voldemort spill his innermost secrets"
"There was NO way to tell if Sirius was speaking the truth so we locked him up for life lol sorry Harry you don't get any loving family."
He didn't even try to defend himself he just continued laughing when he was caught. why would you use something so extremely difficult to create on this trial?!
@@DopamineMax Because the Potter family were some of the richest people on earth.
@@emilio9790 why were the potters where so wealthy I feel like I missed it in the books if it was in there
@@TheBigJord the mentions of mounds of gold and silver in Harry’s vault and then he inherits all the black wealth on top of that. It’s easy to see when compared to the weasley’s small pile that Harry is extremely well off
I mean whole Wizarding ministry was corrupt and full of death eater and his crimes were plumb
Because apparating is a dangerous thing and requires a lot of focus to do so. You can injure yourself or die pretty easily. It also takes a lot out of you for doing it back to back. Also, you don’t always know where they are. Owls were smart enough and able to find the recipient of the letter or package wherever they were. Sirius was in a cave and somehow the owls always knew how to find him. Even when he moved from place to place and used tropical birds himself..the owls are just the smartest option.
One of my favorite pieces of world building advice when it comes to magic systems, especially if there are people who can't use that magic, "what's kept magic users from taking over the world? How would they have affected real world history?" Really helps keep ability power in check
other things that make no sense in HP:
1. you're telling me there are no other mothers with love for their children if Voldemort is so easily defeated by that
2. since the prevalence of muggle-born wizards are so high, it makes no sense that the wizarding community is fascinated and unfamiliar by any muggle technology.
@@ajax_watches Pretty sure it's explicitly stated to be Love that protects Harry. There's an entire room in the Department of Mysteries dedicated to the study of Love as a magical force.
@@SonofSethoitae Yes but Love fueled by sacrifice. Think Love was the barrier, but the sacrifice was the force that composed said barrier
@@alexzander7629 That's a fine theory, but there's nothing in the text that suggests that that's how it works
@@SonofSethoitae Love is a magical force but its not "love" specifically that protects Harry any more than the hate and sadism needed to cast a good crucio is what causes the pain. Its a force and its a fuel, but Dumbledore is being mostly metaphorical when he tells the 11 year old that his mother's love protects him. Because Harry's still a child (and she didn't have all the details worked out). The love Lilly had for Harry protects him from Voldemort only because she sacrificed her life for him. Because Snape loved her, and asked Voldemort to spare her, giving her sacrifice meaning. The last two books are all about how Harry doesn't have any unique magical super powers that'll let him kill Voldemort, that the Hallows are a distraction and their power pointless. Harry's ability to love and be loved also gives him a support network of people more capable than him that allows him to beat Voldemort. That's the magical "love" Dumbledore refers that allows Harry to win. That's it. Personal power over life and death is in the end has less worth than the ability to love and be loved.
1: yeah that does seem bullshit, but who knows what Lily Potter could’ve done with everything the Potters had.
2: I would say bullshit except A, these are British People with mindsets as modern as 1500s, and B; I could only maybe see Fashion and history influencing wizards, but not tech. Since it’s implied magic shits on electricity and they don’t work together.
They make it pretty clear that many animals in the wizarding world have a physiology more akin to magical beasts than normal muggle animals, like Crookshanks, the highly intelligent cat who could communicate with a wizard in his animagus form. And hedwig who was highly intelligent, understood Harry repeatedly, knew how to reach him no matter where he was like when she flew to the leaky cauldron before Harry arrives there on the night bus. She even intentionally sacrificed herself for him. Just sayin lol
Was gonna make joke about how Owls aren't the slowest bird, but now I'm just consumed by the wholesome image of getting my letters delivered by a far superior nocturnal avian beast...
Just imagine the tap, tap at your door... As your acceptance letter is brought by a little kiwi.
I think they meant “slow” as in “stupid”. Owls, despite being symbolic of wisdom, are actually really stupid and run almost entirely on instinct.
that sounds fucking adorable
@Devil Jay no, no
It's slow in the flight speed sense
Brennan mentioned them being the slowest bird elsewhere, and said it's due to them being built to be extremely stealthy in air
@@Konpekikaminari Damn, really? Huh. More you know I guess.
@@RailfoxStudios Yeah they may be slow relative to flight speed but their feathers are different so you can’t hear them flipping their wings through the air. They will feet other birds out of the nest in the middle of the night with out hearing a thing!
"Oh you can't apparate im Hogswarts, so we need owls to bring our mail... everywhere "
There is a BUS, which can squeeze between cars, and drive as fast a rocket. Just make a (magical) post office in Hogsmeade and let them drive a car like that.
It isn't this hard guys
If you're saying that it's actually that easy to get into Hogwarts, then you've got it wrong. There are already spells that guard the school in a sort of dome like shape that even affects muggles from far away
There is only one vehicle like that, and maybe only one person knows how to create it, or more likely it was a fluke of magic and they don't know how to recreate it
But why would you do that when you can just send a magic owl?
@@seigeengine you’re assuming that regular witches and wizards are skilled enough to create magical owls that can travel very far distances.
@@conormurphy4328 That doesn't actually seem absurd, but you're missing the point. In the HP world, it's clear all birds used for delivery are magical. How else would they be able to deliver mail to the recipient?
In the real world birds were used at times to send messages, but they could only travel to locations they were highly familiar with. Traditionally, this was only one location, and they had to be manually carried elsewhere, though methods were developed, though not really used, to have them travel to two or three set locations.
You can only apparate to places you've been or can adequately visualize, though, and there are issues when it comes to apparating long distances. Owls can go anywhere, and seem to have a magical homing ability. So they're like a slow mail truck that can find you anywhere
so, let's remember the fact that the wizards are very few compared to muggles, and the witches and wizards had to go into hiding because they were persecuted by muggles for a long time. and you forget the existence of ministries of magic all around the world who all ruled by one major rule, the statue of secrecy. and magical animals are not the same ws normal animals.
in book 1, when harry meets Hagrid and asks why the wizards are hidden, he says: "then everyone'd be wanting magic solutions to all their problems" i remember asking myself "why aren't we hearing that story?"
Because sometimes magic isn't the best solution to your problems. But not everyone is that smart
Magic isn't ALWAYS the best solution but Harry Potter magic is definitely a solution to so many problems
@@jackcook9005 can you think of an example Harry Potter magic can’t fix? I can’t lol
@@conundrum60690 AV sharing. Sure the wizards have moving pictures, but they have yet to configure audio pairing. Also a much more basic example is simply cutting an apple. Now i could use diffendo to try and cut it, but if im an inexperienced wizard it may take me several tries, or i could just pick up an ordinary kitchen knife and cut it manually
@@jackcook9005 nono I’m not saying do everything with ONLY magic. I’m saying any problem that technology hasn’t solved.
Besides one could argue if “muggles” hadn’t already made movies, a magic would have been made that does it.
PS: Someone hasn’t seen the fantastic beast movies where cutlery is floating around cooking for her lol….
I mean, the majority of Potterverse wizards are canonically so scatterbrained that basic logic puzzles are considered top tier anti-wizard security measures by the smartest wizard in the world.
Fun fact: wizards in Harry potter will willingly give up the part of there brain that learns from trial and error to learn more spells.
I mean, it does make sense, though. Think about it: If you are used to be able to magically alter your world with minimal effort, and that reality get's warped all the time (e.g. the size of things, where stairs lead, what materials can be walked through, etc.) the concept and the rigid rules of logic puzzles might be so far off from your day to day reality that you might have major troubles understanding the reasoning behind it.
I imagine a wizard would probably be standing in front of a basic sliding pieces puzzle and go "What do you mean, I'm not allowed to magically put all pieces in the right spot? And the picture is not even moving or talking to me. This is just nuts. Nobody can solve this."
Here's a wild idea; Harry Potter is a decent series of books for children, that doesn't hold up if you wanna examine it under a critical lense.
Not saying the books are bad, they can be great fun, but the fact they turned into such a pop culture sensation means lots of people hold them up as some pinnacle of writing, which they're not
@@koryfredrick1164 It being for children (which it isn't, btw, it YA, especially the later ones) isn't a reason to have illogical storytelling or incompetent villains.
Especially if it's so easy to solve it.
As you said, it's not that the books are bad, or not enjoyable. But it would've been possible to make them better by tweaking very minor points along the way. Nothing more, nothing less.
@@Grimbur I'm not using that as an excuse, I absolutely believe media for children/teenagers can still be smart and consistent, I was just saying "let's not hold HP up as something it's not"
Now imagine how wizards can make food just appear out of nowhere, and yet still have goblin slaves
Owls are used because they're magical in a way other birds aren't.
Have been since ancient Greece, when they were the symbol of many oracles.
(and used as messenger birds then, a technique that helped them seem all-knowing)
People arguing about Rowling retconning everything postscript, yet not realizing the deluge of plot holes already in the scriptscript.
"if you don't seek oppressive control, you're just allowing the horrors of the world to happen" - Grindelwald I'm pretty sure.
lmao underrated quote probably
The idiot in the clip thinks fiction is factual
As a guy who likes, but is not a super-fan of the wizarding world... That was my favoret part of the mess that was the magical beasts movies! The guy takes one look at the rise of the third riche, and goes: "Noooope! Nope, not having that! Screw you Adolf, you can't become a genocidal dictator if *I'M* already wizard king!"
Trying to explain this paradox is how Rowling came to write the Grindelwald lore in the first place. Apparently she felt like we really deserved an answer to "if wizards, why nazis?"
@@matthewyeldig4608funny thing, its stated in the harry Potter books (specifically deathly hallows) that Grindelwald actually worked WITH the Nazis. So the fantastic beasts movies are a retcon
We have the Internet, yet still send mail.
If you think about it, Text Messages are another form of mail lol.
The easiest answer to everything in Harry Potter is that while their society can perform magic, they're not always that good or that powerful. The protagonists in HP are special. Regular wizards can only do the most basic shit, basically.
You can't apparate within Hogwarts because they're a school. You don't want random wizards coming in and out of the school. Only the headmaster is allowed to. This also applies to certain magical buildings like the Ministry of Magic or other hospitals. In the same manner us muggles can't just enter any building we like, they have protections in place so not just anyone can enter or go out.
The owls you get from magic pet shops are not the same owls we have in nature so they'll always know where to go.
Also not everyone just apparates because, while it's fast, it's not exactly a pleasant experience. And going back to the first point, not everyone can pull off apparating through long distances or even to the exact places they want to go to because again, there's limitations to their power.
Reminder that Hermione was actively laughed at for WANTING TO END LITERAL SLAVERY
The thing is that house elves are visibly repulsed by the idea of freedom and (as shown by the treatment of Dobby by the elves in Hogwarts' kitchen) will actively shun any elf that want's to be free because they see it as the hight of dishonour
I don't remember who it was but someone pretty much told her that elves actually WANT to be slaves because they legitimately like it. If I remember correctly Dobby at some point got a job working for Dumbledore with decent pay and work hours, but Dobby ended up renegotiating for more hours and less pay because it just didn't feel right to him. The idea of idleness in their culture was pretty much worthy of scorn to the elves.
I recall someone on youtube making a really good analysis about Hermione's attitude towards elven slavery and how it was supposed to make her look virtuous, except the elves' acceptance and desire for slavery clashes so heavily with that idea that rather than making her look like someone who values justice and equal rights it just made her look like someone incapable of understanding cultural differences.
While it's never explained in canon, the common explanation for that in fandom is that house elves are mutualistic symbiotes who feed off of their master's magic, providing service in return for the nourishment.
@@vakama9053 makes sense which is why they have unlimited power and can live so damn long
@@dreadburnz3522 like these are all good points and all
the wizards are 100% known for brainwashing, mindcontrol, and using any means necessary to preserve the status quo of them on top. there is no way i'm going to accept "oh this species likes being slaves" at face value. it's FAR more likely the Wizards at somepoint fucked up an entire species so bad "you like cleaning my floor" is now part of their DNA
meanwhile real life people in the same room texting each other
But what if you don't want people to listen what you're talking about.
whens the last time u saw people actually texting each other in the same room lol
@@guoj1711 my mom won’t stop doing it
I remember doing that a lot 10 yrs ago especially on the city bus. didn't want people to hear our convo lol
Nah that's shits a myth or you do it to low key talk shit next to the third guy in the room.
Brennan's first sentence (right up to the question mark) is THE BEST.
Forget the teleportation (canonically difficult and if you do it wrong you can lose fingers and limbs), they have magic mirrors that basically function as cell phones
I've actually been rereading Harry Potter as a literature college student to review every detail I've missed from the books. One of the things that irks me the most is how magic is simultaneously under and overused: there's specific spells dedicated to summon flowers or birds, create water, and protect against *very specific* types of creatures (Riddikulus and Expecto Patronum), but the way society and education carry on are extremely mundane, like instead of giving unique assignments for their magical subjects, every single Hogwarts teacher makes the students write fucking essays. Professor Trelawney's class was one of the only ones that were somewhat unique; the classroom felt genuinely magical, because it was "a cross between an attic and a tea shop" with multiple elements related to divination, and because Trelawney's assignments were all completely insane, like charting your future based off your own dream journal, and could never be done in a regular classroom... And guess what? Her class is hated by the main characters and a complete joke in-universe. In synthesis, the Harry Potter universe is not magical enough to justify its own existence, and that makes me mad, because there is some flashes of unique worldbuilding, that get left behind before they can grow and prosper...
In synthesis? We’re not writing a paper bro. 🤒
Something tells me it's done like that as it's based on England's school system. Most of thier exams will have an essay, which will be counted as a large part of thier final score. Though take what I say with a pinch of salt, I'm not entirely sure. I might live next to England, but our curriculum and school systems are very different
@@Wolfie2467890 Is that so? That is actually very enlightening, it explains a lot. Still, it feels kinda weird, doesn't it? "Look kids, the cool magic school has *exactly the same methods of teaching* as your regular, boring school! Ain't that wacky?", like at the very least Rowling should've tried to make things *seem* different...
@@silversonome5360 I agree with you there, I don't want to read about a magical school to only hear that they write only essays, like no thanks
JK Rowling is a terrible worldbuilder tbh. The school curriculum is outdated and by allowing Slytherin house to continue existing when it's clearly used to foster racism among kids and one of the founder literally founded the house based on racism should have raised a gigantic red flag for hundreds of years but was ignored again and again
You know what always bugged me about the Potterverse? When they're talking about someone who used a gun to kill people in the newspaper they then go on to explain what a gun is. And that has always bugged me. You're telling me that these people live in 90's Britain and have never heard of a gun, but they know all about trains? Do they not know about British history? Like... the British were the gun lovers before America started doing it. Like damn man look how much they conquered back in the day.
Not to mention it really isn't that hard to explain. "Guns make tiny pieces of lead fly so fast through the air that if it hits a person, it punches a hole in them." That bit bothered me even as a kid.
Seriously, guns are a 300+ year old concept. They probably outdate most wizarding traditions.
@@hithere5553 Hell I guarantee that there was at least one fight between muggles and wizards/witches. Probably a collaborative mission in one of Britains many, many conquests. They've definitely seen, used or at least experienced muggle tech. Probably have a few pieces sitting around in a wizard museum somewhere.
And there's funny part - some wizards were fighting in both World Wars
they, ya know, they gotta explain it to the wizard zoomers who only live in wizard communities and never leave- they never leave their homes- never interacting with normal people
The Ministry doesn't even use owls for their in-house mail (like work memos or wizard faxes) because owls made a mess, so they use enchanted paper airplanes. Why can't the whole of the wizarding world do that?
Or, even better, use the floo network to send letters instantly! Write your letter, cover it in powder, send it off. The only reason not to would be a lack of fireplaces, but most, if not all, wizarding homes have a fireplace. And before anyone mentions muggleborns, teachers personally deliver those letters to help explain things to the parents
I love how this is the guy who voices Vincent Valentine, who's in a game from a franchise that uses ostriches like horses. And I do say that while fully being of the opinion that chocobos are my favorite fictional birds of all time.
Hagrid says in the first book that “allowing the horrors of the world to happen” is EXACTLY what they’re doing.
@crimsoncraftycat4044Like get pet dementors
I think hagrid was just censoring facts for Harry.
It's not like "last time we went public they burned half our population on a stake" is a good conversational topic when chatting up an eleven year old.
At least that's my headcanon...
@@sudanemamimikiki1527they literally mention how wizards and witches back in the day would just straight ignore the fire if they tried to burn them lmao, they were fine
@@Rose-ew7bvSo then why do they even have to hide from muggles? It’s clear muggles are outmatched by these magical beings.
@@BetelgeuseBetelgeuseBetelgeuse because they want to be alone in wizard society. It’s fuckin stupid but that is why
How about when Harry was made out to be a liar about Voldemort's return and all that jazz? All the while I was thinking with every re-read, just give the lad some Veritaserum or poke around in his memories.
Those two are literally introduced in the previous book
They thought Dumbledore was puppetering Harry. Neither of those two things could be trusted if they suspected that the most powerful wizard in the world could just alter Harry's memory.
@@abboud6393 That's right. And also the Minister for Magic was blatantly in denial about the whole thing. He was a flustered, bumbling fuckwit, a charicature of the modern politician. He denied problems in plain sight and the people believed him. That seems pretty fucking realistic to me.
Veritaserum is a massive plot hole. Like all those death eaters who got away with their crimes by saying they were being mind controlled, why didn't they just use veritaserum
@@jaimelannister1797 that goes with the ministry being corrupt part. A lot of the Eaters where from influential families and powerful wizards both, so giving them a good spot on government or a out of jail free pass would be more interesting for a government than let resources slip away, unless they could not get away with it in the public eye (which bites them in the ass on the fifth book)
@@jaimelannister1797 although I do agree that veritaserum is kinda underused as a potential plot point due to convenience
It’s drippy though. Owls are pretty and look magical. We still have old things cause they’re “vintage”.
Apparating can mutilate your body. Owls magically know where a person is. All the time. ( For example : Hedwig found Sirius in the tropics ) So its a safer way. Its more comfortable too. How do you know the person you want to communicate with has time for you right now. They can read a letter any time they want, or write a letter to you. If we're going there the most owls we see by far is at Hogwarts and children can't apparate.
In today's episode Brennan and Matt use harry potter to talk about fun things while they accidentally discover the philosophical concept known as the problem of evil
I think Brennan was aware of that, being a philosophy major and all.
No difference. Bad worldbuilding
@@pzalterias5154 Agreed
"If he is neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?"
@@JainaSoloB312 I'll be real, God is a poorly written character.
Also nice Epicurus quote, big dawg.
"Can't apperate on school grounds" Okay then, but here's a counterpoint: JUST SHOW UP OUTSIDE THE MAIN GATE! If you can't just poof into place on private property, then the nearest public space will do!
Floo!!!
That is literally how Snape and the death eaters left Hogwarts at the end of book 6. Just walk past the completely arbitrary boundary line and then they are gone.
Lmao, cos of splinching. Ron mentions it in the goblet of fire.
"Splinching" is when apperation goes wrong and you lose a limb, or maybe die.
Kinda like meth, some wizards won't do it once.
hmmm, not only was there a wall, but I think the spells placed to protect and create a dome around the school to prevent intruders from coming in might work. idk, could just be me, but oh wait, what's that? There was even proof that it pretty much existed because it was seen in the Deathly Hallows. Again, I could be wrong
In case you did not catch on, the parts where I doubted myself was sarcasm
@@unbanned6175 On the other hand they let teenagers do it with the same amount of worry than letting them drive a car, and splinching is easily treatable unless you’re in the middle of nowhere with barely any ressources (one of them splinch during the training in the sixth book).
Plus practice makes perfect, so you could perfectly reasonably have trained wizards dedicated to transport mails between hubs with apparating.
That's the difference between HP and LoTR. The restraint, the usage of will power, facing failure yet fighting for honour and peace, and uniting different races for a cause makes LoTR legendary.
Apparation isn’t actually something most wizards can perform. Meaning, all wizards while in theory are capable of doing it most can’t because of the difficulty.
The best one was after 3 years of harry having attempted assassination attempts against him magically "fools" the "unfoolable" goblet of fire... He says he didn't do it and doesn't want to participate in death Mario party but they all just go "nope, the magic cup said you have to"
Presumably the Goblet has some old magic that prevents people from backing out. Unbreakable Vow type thing maybe. Of course if Harry were less proud he could just enter each task, sit down and say "I'm a 4th year, I am not prepared for this" or something to that extent. I think its a reasonable bet that it would register as him doing the tournament ( admitedly poorly).
That's literally the point at which I stopped reading. I never read past that point. They were using an obviously pwned artifact to give them instructions, this made no sense and I was 12
@@personzorz Bet your parents were kinda irked they spent 25 bucks on a book that you read the first third of.
@@swampert564 They'd have a lot more to be pissed about, I read at least a book a week
@@personzorz Thats good, I've never been able to understand people that choose not to take advantage of the untold number of books out there.
If I recall correctly, it does say that they use magical paper planes within the Ministry of Magic because the owls literally shat everywhere.
But it's not like they can travel long distances without attracting attention, and it's paper, so something bad can happen
@@IdioticSandwich somehow i think magic could make paper invincible
@@hskatkat But can they fly through rain like owls?
@@IdioticSandwich does it rain indoors?
@@AT-il2ej There was once a spell in someone's room that made it rain, but weren't we talking about trying to communicate with other wizards far away and trying not to attract attention by using owls?
This is entirely missing the part where apparition is very difficult and very dangerous. It’s kinda like saying why use a bike when you can parkour. Well because not everyone can parkour, and fewer people can parkour well enough.
If only there was some kind of job where someone who knows how to apparate could travel to various locations with said mail.
One of the head professors at Hogwarts gave a 14 year old the power to bend time itself. And she mainly just used it to save an angry hippogriff and to attend more classes than the laws of physics would normally permit.
Also why have a court system with a judge and jury and stuff when you having fucking TRUTH POTION?!
Lower class/working class British wizard: "A person can muck about with a truth potion and make it more of ah lying potion isntead, what like. Used tah happen lots ah times before Interpool's wizard division put ah stop to it."
Isn't it the same logic as in court why we don't just hook up everyone to those lie director machines though?
Lie detector machines are really just stress detector machines, they measure indicators of stress like heart rate and sweating. But working out if a person is stressed because they are lying vs stressed due to some other aspect of the interrogation makes them pretty unreliable at detecting lies.
@@fredfre8397 because lie detectors have about 10-20% inaccurate rate (and you can actually train to cheat on during this test), but potion of truth don't have such vulnerabilities
@@etb6250 they actually have. You can technically make an antidote for the potion.
Can we talk about how their love potions are basically a date rape drug being taught in class. Like dafuq?
Love potions aren't taught at schools.
@@rambhaskar6728 Slughorn teaches his class about love potion I believe
Yeah and totally legal for anyone to buy... in a joke shop... cause it's a prank...yeah
@@rambhaskar6728 Uhm do you not read the books? Yes, they are.
Not any potions, the strongest known!
So many OP things in half blood prince