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There’s a premise in the Harry Potter stories of ‘muggles’ (non-magical people) largely being unaware of the magical world. Typically magic happens right in front of them and they just either ignore it (assuming they’re going a bit crazy) or in some cases the wizards and witches have to alter their memories.
In Quidditch, the game plays until the Golden Snitch is caught. That marks the end of the game, and it adds 150 points to the team whose Seeker caught it. Yes, it would be a bad idea to catch The Seeker if your team was losing by more than 150 points, but on the other hand if you’re losing that badly it could be because your team has had players injured and it might be best to just get it over with.
Why was philosopher's Stone changed to Sorcerer's Stone? It was changed by the American publisher, Scholastic, because it thought American children wouldn't want to read a book with "philosopher" in the title.
Buckle up because this is gunna be an essay: Most of the questions you have are explained more in depth in the books, but were cut from the movies for time. Try not to over think it though because the short answer to most of your questions is "Magic". Muggles(non-magical people) don't know about wizards, with a few exceptions like someone who marries a witch or wizard or the parents of new witches and wizards(like Hermione's parents). The reason they never stumble onto the wizarding world is because of charms and spells meant to keep them away. So if a muggle wanders close to Hogwarts or some other magical area, they will suddenly remember an important appointment or something that makes them turn away. Same goes for platform 9 3/4, the muggles all magically look away whenever someone runs through the wall. There are other magic schools around the world, they touch on them in later movies so I wont go any more in depth here. Im not positive but I believe witches and wizards can come from anywhere in the world. George brought up a good point about accents while doing magic, but the books and movies never really explain it. I still wonder about whether a wizard in Brazil still literally says "Wingardium Leviosa" when casting the spell. Each house at Hogwarts has its own attributes that they represent: Gryffindor=Bravery Hufflepuff=Loyalty Ravenclaw=Intelligence Slytherin=Ambition/Cunning These attributes are not totally absolute though, Hermione is often said to be the most intelligent student in their grade, but she was placed in Gryffindor instead of Ravenclaw because she is also very brave. Slytherin is kinda oversimplified in the movies(and the books for that matter) to be the "evil" house, but the books do say multiple times that not everyone in Slytherin is evil and not every evil wizard is from Slytherin. In Quiddich, there is no time limit and the match does not end until the snitch is caught and whoever catches it scores 150 points. The books mention the longest match was like 60 days long or something because neither team could catch the snitch. Simone was right in saying that if one team has 200 pts. and the other team has 20 pts. if the losing team's seeker catches the snitch, they would still lose the match because the final score would be 200-170. Sorry for the long comment but I think that answers most of your questions. There is a lot of great worldbuilding in this series that gets glossed over in the movies so I hope this helps your understanding of it! P.S. Great reactions, can't wait for the rest of the series!
That's a very strange game in terms of its point system and time system. You can basically score infinitely with the regular ball as long as the snitch is lost or not in a team's possession. That sounds miserable. Who wants to play or watch a game that has NO LIMIT except it might end if a genius is able to catch a flying golf ball while flying atop a broom. I loved most of the movies as a kid, they still hold up in my opinion. But that is some janky writing on J. K. Rowling's part.
Do you know I was wondering, you know how HBO did those Game of Thrones history & lore videos? Has anyone done something similar with Harry Potter? I know I’ve been watching those “every difference between the book and movie” videos, but has anyone done one that draws from the whole Harry Potter universe and compiles non-spoiler lore and tidbits?
Noooo. He's a "Wyvern not dragon" guy. 😭😭😭 Dragons have historically been portrayed with both two legs and four legs. Also, if a world refers to a two-legged, fire breathing lizard as a dragon, it's a dragon.
Two of the best quotes from this movie: "She really needs to sort out her priorities!" and "Alas! Earwax." Honorable mention: literally anything uttered by Snape.
The actor who played Dudley Dursley grew up, lost a lot of weight, and ended up with a supporting role in The Queen's Gambit. His character in that miniseries is miles away from Dudley Dursley. The show is definitely worth checking out as well.
He’s also the grandson of Patrick Troughton, aka the second Doctor Who. (Fun fact: the actor who plays Dean Thomas is the late-in-life son to the actor of one of the Doctor’s original companions.)
All of the Dursley actors were noted for being some of the nicest people you could ever want to meet during filming. It is weird how acting works at times... people you would think are just fiends incarnate due to their characters on screen are wholesome and wonderful, people who play beloved angels are... perhaps not up to that standard.
The differentiation between Wyvern and Dragon only applies if the setting has that destinction, it is not one a fantasy author has to adhere to. IRL, that is to say, in mythology, creatures both with 4 legs and with two have been called dragon, even those who dont fly and have 0 legs have sometimes been.
@@NetAndyCz - "Wyrm" is Germanic, and historically referred to legless dragons, while "worm" refers to wingless dragons. These days, "wyrm" and "worm" seem to describe dragons with long, thin bodies. For example: Smaug from _The Hobbit_ (novel, not movie) is called a wyrm. Bonus fun fact: Asian countries that use the Chinese Zodiac sometimes replace certain animals with others. Instead of a dragon, Southeast Asian countries use a naga (a giant snake), which is sometimes depicted as wingless and legless dragon. In lore, nagas are able to shapeshift between snake and human, or assume a half-way form (snake-with-human-head and human-with-snake-tail-instead-of-legs are the two most common options). Rowling really _SHOULD_ have mentioned that Nagini was a naga _BEFORE_ the second _Fantastic Beasts_ movie. There would have been a lot less people complaining about that, then.
I see it more as dragon being the general term that is used. Then, like with dog breeds, you get specific about what breed of dragon it is, including wyrms and wyverns and the like. I had to learn to accept that when Game of Thrones talked about dragons all the time but then show wyverns. So I've just had to accept that dragon the generalization can be different from the breed Dragon.
I love these harry potter reactions! I’m 67 and watched the movies and then read the books in 2010. My friend read the books during the first flush of popularity to understand what her 3rd grade kids were so excited about. She was a schoolteacher until the school district fired her for having a disease called friedrichs ataxia. She was so traumatized with losing her job that she needed a wheelchair for the rest of her life. That was in 1980 before there were laws to protect against discrimination. She volunteered in her elementary school because she loved kids so much. The kids were mad about harry potter so Abbie read the books too. This was before the movies. She was such an inspiration! Rest In Peace my dear friend!
Me, after 20 years, having seen all the movies and read all the books: "Yeah Diagon Alley, what about it?" George, mere seconds after hearing it for the first time: "Diagonally!" Me: I DIDN'T KNOW THAT :O
Sadly both of those clever plays on words and I'm sure plenty more got lost in translation on version I've read as a kid in my own language. That's why I so much wanted to also read the original. Not exactly a different story, but adds more fun to the whole experience.
In the second book/film, when they travel by floo powder, Harry says "diagonally" instead of "Diagon Alley" and ends up a couple of stops off the intended direction. ;)
@@TheAlmaward He says "diagonally" in the movie, but not the book. In the book, he just coughs and stutters because of the ash in the air, failing to say it clearly enough to end up in the right place. I think the change worked better for the movie, and it's more memorable....but I always thought it was weird how blatantly he says "diagonally". Like, it doesn't seem like something you could just say by accident trying to say "Diagon Alley". But whatever, small gripe...I don't think anyone cares.
King's Cross railway station had to put up signs next to Platform 9 warning people to not run at the pillar, after too many kids injured themselves trying to get to Hogwart's. For tourism's sake, they did put up a sign for Platform 9 3/4 on a nearby wall.
The game ends when the Golden Snitch is caught, and whoever is ahead wins. But since catching the Snitch gets you 150 points, that team typically wins. But it is possible to lose if the other team is ahead on point, but that would rarely happen. A wyvern is a breed of dragon with the characteristics that you stated.
Just want to add that games can go on for days. Especially in bad weather the snitch can be very hard to find so scoring with the quaffle can mean a lot in longer games
@@kamronspencer4910 If your team has been outscored by more than 15 goals at that point, you'd probably want to catch the Snitch and end it before it got even more lopsided, I guess.
The game is just poorly designed by an author who never understood sports, Rowling has admitted as much-all the rest is rationalization. Just accept it as serving the role of magical soccer in-universe, and move on.
I just want to say different stories describe dragons differently. In some stories, wyverns are dragons who's wings are also their front legs, and dragons have four legs and wings. in others dragons are the ones with the front leg wings. There's no one definition. In some wyverns are just another breed of Dragon. In the end, dragons are what the writer of the story describes them as.
Yeah. The way I see it, when it comes down to it, neither dragons nor wyverns actually exist in real life, so if you're creating a fantasy world, you kind of have free rein over what you want it to be.
Indeed. Nordic myths have both wyrms and wyverns, but they all fall under the general term of dragon. Wyverns are more commonly found in Eastern European myths, where they are more often than not referred to as a specific type of dragon rather than a completely different type of creature. Meanwhile, Western European countries such as England, mostly have myths and stories featuring wyrms.
I've just started playing AD&D again recently, like 2 weeks ago, and b4 that it was 20 years ago since I played, but it sounds like George's knowledge comes from the AD&D monsters manual. Therefore, i agree with George. That is a wyvern... lol
Concerning points: they do often seem somewhat arbitrary, but I always viewed the 5 for taking out the troll as the net result of loss plus gain. They should lose points for doing something they were not supposed to do, but they acted heroically so they also gained points.
It still is very much arbitrary overall. A teacher can practically hand out or take away points at their own discretion, they can more or less make up justifications, they can give out 20 points for something minor, or just 2 points - they don't need to justify the amount to anyone, so they can play favourites (which Snape does almost all the time for Slytherin, Dumbledore does sometimes for Harry, McGonagall doesn't for anyone... I don't remember the rest well enough). The only way to "counter" unfair points is to hand out or take away other points for some other reason.
I kinda think that Dumbledor was trying to bring a level of fairness to the points. It seemed unfair for the 3 (plus Draco) to get -50 each for visiting Hagrid and balancing that with the end points makes a +10 for stopping Voldemort from getting the stone.
Just to clarify, the word "dragon" doesn't refer to any specific creature but is used as a colloquial umbrella term for various different creatures similar to reptiles, typically viewed as winged and fire-breathing. The term "wyvern" is more commonly used for a German type of dragon commonly depicted as more pterosaur-esque (and may even be based on encounters with previously extant pterosaurs, now extinct).
@@Tar-Numendil That's just an old evolutionist mantra with no evidence to back it up, whereas we have countless ancient and modern accounts of pterosaurian creatures (or "dragons", or "demons", or "wyverns", or "windfloga", or "scaly vultures", or "flying serpents", or "flying dinosaurs" or whatever people want to call them and has called them over the many years of alleged encounters).
@@Tar-Numendil Eyewitness accounts are actual proof, just a different category of evidence from what you might be referring to, namely physical evidence. The accounts we have are more than sufficient to take them seriously, but noting that this is not the same as affirming we are actually dealing with extant pterosaurs. I call the accounts "alleged" encounters namely because I don't know the actual truth of the matter, but I'm responsible enough to give it the benefit of the doubt, especially given the weight of this surprising multitude of arguably reliable accounts.
@@Xenosaurian There are "eye witness accounts" of just about any mythological creature you can think of, do you imagine those still exist? The only HARD evidence we have suggests that Pterosaurs have been extinct for 10s of millions of years. #The only alternative would be that they were abundant 10s of millions of years ago, disappeared for a good 50 millions years, reappeared briefly to say hello to ancient humans for a few thousand years, and THEN went extinct? Pretty massive leaps you have to make to support your theory. I can't say it's impossible obviously, but it's highly unlikely enough for us to essentially rule it out.
Just for an overview of the houses, here: Gryffindor is the house for people with courage. They're the bravest ones, but they also tend to be hot-headed and rush into situations without thinking. But they stand up for themselves and don't let fear get in their way. Hufflepuffs are more about loyalty, hard work and kindness. They're the quietest house and don't get much glory and sometimes people call them stupid, but they have a reputation for being the most relaxed and accepting house, although a lot of the Hufflepuffs in the books are a bit...short-sighted or hysterical. There's a few really good ones, though. Ravenclaws are all about learning and intelligence. They have a reputation for being super-nerds and proud of it, but it's also the house for smart eccentrics. They're a bit snobby about their own intelligence, but they have the advantage that they analyse a situation before they act and they're quite a good counterpart to Gryffindor because of that. Slytherins are known for being cunning and ambitious. They don't let things stand in their way of getting where they want to be - and usually that's in a position of glory. They also don't mind using sneaky tactics and playing mind games. This makes them more likely to turn out cruel or ruthless, but not all of them are. There's also been some awful Gryffindors and Ravenclaws turned out. One of Voldemort's most loyal followers was a Gryffindor (Voldemort himself was a Slytherin). Not all Slytherins are evil, just their traits have a tendency to lead them towards it more than other houses.
@@GiantProcrastiNation Yes! They're the kinder house, so they don't really have the stomach or lack of moral compass to sacrifice or screw over others. Often. Houses are summed up by what they do, and Hufflepuffs are known to do the kind thing. Gryffindors do the brave thing, Ravenclaws do the smart thing and Slytherins do the necessary thing.
@@strawberrysoulforever8336 But sadly Hufflepuff isn't immune to having some bad eggs. My brother is supposedly a Hufflepuff and there is a good reason I don't talk to him
Fun fact: you've seen Alien, and John Hurts famous scene, right? The wand seller in Diagon Alley was played by John Hurt (in case you didn't recognize him!)
Okay. Not all birds are owls, but all owls are birds. Not all panthers are jaguars, but all jaguars are panthers. Not all dragons are wyverns, but all wyverns are dragons.
This film has a large gallery of great actors that has since passed away. We have Richard Harris as Dumbledore, Alan Rickman as Snape, Verne Troyer as Griphook the Goblin and John Hurt as Mr Ollivander.
37:36 Actually, there's an OFFICIAL QUIZ you can take in the official website and it's weirdly very accurate (I took it 4 times in the time span of years and I got Ravenclaw every time!)
The 'wizened old man' is Richard Harris, famous Irish actor, father of Jared Harris (of Chernobyl, The Expanse etc) and legendary drunk. Marcus Aurelius was one of his roles in later life but he was great in a number of films in the 60s and 70s. Personally I love his role in Wild Geese.
He was by far a better Dumbledore too. No disrespect to Sir Gambon, but Richard Harris portrayed Dumbledore as mildly spoken and very calm which I think was exactly how he should be.
You're asking all the right questions! Slytherin is not a "bad guy house", they are people of a specific skill set and character profile who are following a corrupted philosophy that has nothing to do with why the house was established. Please keep watching, most of your questions might get answered.
It was probably a house like any other before Voldy besmirched our rep. 🤨 We’re not that bad really! Though I was probably more resourceful as a kid, than “ambitious”. But definitely not evil though! 🙂
Slytherin is a house for the ambitious and cunning. Traits that sometimes lead people down a dark path or a heroic one. Merlin after all was a Slytherin
“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to your enemies, but a great deal more to stand up to your friends” when I first read the book and watched the movie, I just thought Dumbledore wanted Gryffindor to win really badly (which he probably did lol), but after fantastic beasts, that line really hits different 🥲
my favorite line in the entire series is the same as Emma Watson's when she was asked in an interview after the series rapped up. "I am going to bed before Ether of you come up with another clever idea to get us kill or worse... expelled."
''It's another little shit'' hahaha, you two are absolutely adorable. All your questions and remarks just show how much of a smart reactors you both are. I'm really gonna enjoy this journey.
The bar that Hagrid and Harry enter (The Leaky Cauldron) is on the corner of 2 streets in London. One goes East-West, the other goes North-South. then there's Diagon Alley (which goes diagonally)...
Love the idea of them dressing up as regular people for Halloween. 🎃 Hard to believe this was 20 years ago. I saw the first two movies in theaters when I was a kid and kept up with the series till the end. Hope you continue to react to the rest. 💕
@@jkhoover The British audiobooks are done by Stephen Fry. Fun anecdote: on a chat show he told how he struggled with a particular phrase when recording one of the early ones and asked if he could adjust it slightly. JKR apparently said 'no' and proceeded to put the same phrase at least once in each of the later books. EDIT: for a comparison of the two readers ruclips.net/video/13nkuEPEP2c/видео.html
actually no, in the new fantastic beasts movie we see wyverns as envisioned by JK rowling, but the movie didn't come out when you first commented so I guess you couldn't have known
I always thought that dragons were categorized more like this: Dragons - four legs and wings Wyverns - two legs with wings Drake - four legs, no wings Serpent - no legs, no wings
In modern fantasy, the term 'dragon' has become a more broad spectrum, under which creatures like the wyvern, wyrm, drake and the classic quadruped dragon fall. Hence the modern interpretations such as Skyrim, The Hobbit and Game Of Thrones' dragons being depicted as the wyvern variant.
@@Nemophilist850 Tell that to the hundreds of passionate and sometimes aggressive debates from either side I've been running into. This video alone is a starting example. And the term has been a thing since the 1600's, so it definitely does exist.
@@MrWhatdafuBOOM DRAGONS dont exist tho so there aint no point in trying to bitch (dont mean you with this but the people you refere to) about what magical creature one series might wanna call. It literally doesnt matter. I mean think of the dragons of the east. They look more like serpents and where also based on them, yet they still get considered as dragons by foreigners and natives alike.
I think it's a bit pedantic to argue the sub-classification of a species of mythical creatures. The "rules" that distinguish wyverns from dragons are based entirely on what work of fiction you're drawing from. This work of fiction doesn't make any distinction between them.
You two are going to have a lot of fun with this series I think. Perfect season for them too, I think, this always felt like an autumn movie series to me.
There's a meme where all the books are retitled with Hermione - this one was "Hermione Granger and that time I used the power of research and deductive reasoning to make sure Harry didn't die." The true heroine of the group!
@Loki Odinson Yeah; Hermione in the book while book smart had legitimate flaws. She didn't always think well when she panicked. Case in point, the Devil's Snare scene. Hermione put together that light was the solution and said "Oh but we don't have any firewood." Ron's response was roughly "ARE YOU MAD! ARE YOU A WITCH OR NOT!" He's the one who said it was lucky that Harry could keep his head in a situation like that
@@brianalambert1192 Still, Ron was the chess master in this movie. Hermione's main accomplishment (finding both the potions to move on and go back among seven) was cut. It's really sloppy when you have Hagrid tell the kids that Snape is one of the teachers protecting the Stone and then cut his trial entirely.
"Harry Potter and the Hall of Secrets" sounds right :D In Germany the 2nd part is called "Die Kammer des Schreckens" wich translates to something like "the Chamber of Horror". I don't get why almost all german movie titles are translated to mean something else.
It's a thing. In the attempts to translate titles many countries end up with completely different titles. Sometimes its the film release company's choice. Sometimes its just a bad choice. Sometimes there just aren't the right words in that language.
Well... If you think german movie title translation sucks, wait I told you about France.... We had movies we changed the english title, to gave them another english title (i.e. : "The Hangover" became "Very Bad Trip") We have also a flagrant case of titles translated so 1) they don't have anything in common with the original title and 2) even if they are from the same franchise, it's impossible to tell by their french title : "Die Hard", "Die Harder" and "Die Hard With a Vengeance" were translated respectively by "Piège de Cristal" (Cristal Trap), "58 Minutes pour Vivre" (58 minutes to live) and "Une journée en Enfer" (A Day in Hell)
Lots of schools in the UK still have houses (named after scientists or artists). It’s a quick way to split a class up into groups for sports teams or activities. I went to a Catholic school and we had four houses named after English saints (Alban, Becket, Fisher, and More)
If you didn't catch it, Nearly Headless Nick is actually played by John Cleese from Monty Python (French guard, Lancelot, Tim the Enchanter, Black Knight)
Another character from the books -Peeves the poltergeist was going to played by comic Rik Mayall but he set people off giggling and his scenes were cut (😔😭😥)
Awesome reactions! Looking forward to your reaction to HP Chamber of Secrets. Will say that after the second movie, the series gets a lot darker and more mature as the characters grow up. I'd also definitely recommend reading the books because they provide so much context that a lot of the movies cut out.
They changed the name 'cause the marketing team for the books thought that "The Philospher's Stone" (which is the name of the actual real life legend) sounds too boring to american kids and would NEVER sell in the US and changed it to "Sorcerer's Stone" 'cause you know Sorcerer's are cool and all that. It's actually really ridiculous, I mean you don't change Merlin's name to Kaboom Kapow Wizard, 'cause you think Merlin sounds too boring for kids.😹
Regarding the different titles: The “Scholastic Corporation” who bought the rights to publish the book in the USA thought that the title was too archaic and too ancient sounding for the american market. They also thought that some of the younger readers might not know what a philosopher is and wanted to publish the book under the title "Harry Potter and the School of Magic". J.K.Rowling fought against that title and they finally agreed to call the US-Version “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone”. All the scenes where the children mention the stone where filmed as a british version with the kids saying Philosopher's Stone and as an american version with them saying Sorcerer's Stone. Quirrel and Dumbledore only refer to it as “The Stone” to avoid the need to film every scene where the stone is mentioned twice.
Regarding wyverns vs dragons, there is only a difference in British heraldry. In cryptozoology wyverns are just a subspecies of dragon so a baby wyvern is still a baby dragon. Ergo, Norbert is a baby dragon.
OK, so from memory, I believe the difference in names goes back to the books. This book was published initially in the UK, using the Philosopher's Stone title, but then the U.S. publisher essentially said, "Why the heck would a philosopher have a stone, and what could be more boring than that?" So, they changed the title to juice it up a bit. Basically, it was a marketing decision. And, as odd as it may seem, there was a time when J.K. Rowling did not call all the shots.
Now that you watched the final one I can tell you that when Severus Snape was questioning Harry,each ingredient he told has actually a different meanings when you put them together it's give this statement :" condolences for Lilly's death". 🥺
Hogwarts is the only school for Witchcraft and Wizardry in the British Isles. There are several other schools mentioned throughout the books including one in Western Europe, Scandinavia, Russia, East Asia, Africa, North America and South America.
J.K. Rowling wrote these books to her audiences age groups. The first book/movie was for 8-10 year olds. Then a new book came out every 2 years or so. She kept increasing the reading level/language as her primary audience grew up with the books. Think of the first/second movies as a pre-teen audience, 3-4 is more for teenagers, and 5-7 are for young adults. This was genius in my opinion, because as we grew up reading, so did the characters in the story. The books were amazing, but I find as an adult revisting them, I don't enjoy the first few nearly as much as the last 4.
While this is definitely true, the effect has to be combined with the simple fact that she was becomming better and better author with each book. IMO, first 3 books are comparatively weaker even if we adjust for different target audience. In particular, introduction of special plot device (I'm avoiding spoilers) in book 3 should be done with extreme care, which she definitely didn't employ there. I mean, it is good enough within the context of that book alone, but not the whole series.
"The points seem really arbitrary" Oooh, you have no idea!! Dumbledore be like: "Look, they got my favorite dessert for tonight. 20 points for Gryffindor"
I'm sure if someone's already commented this but out of all the quizzes you have to take the Pottermore one because that's the most accurate one and developed by JK Rowling herself.
I saw a joke video once that the explanation the guy came up with for the name change un the USA was: "Apparently they think us americans would be too dumb to know what a philosopher is"
Sometimes the screenwriter did a crappy job explaining stuff in this world even with the book author helping. It always leaves the majority of reactors with questions or just totally confused. Harry did NOT kill Quirrell. In the book Harry's touch blistered his skin. Voldemort killed him by leaving his body.
Technically, most languages and cultures - even historically - don't differentiate between wyvern and dragon since the only real difference is the number of "legs" - and even that is a bit subjective since you could logically consider the wings the wyvern's front "legs" considering - especially in these movies - you literally see it walking around and using the wings in much the same way a dragon would walk.
Philosophers' Stone was not an actual piece of rock (hence the apostrophe in that position), but an element in alchemy. It was said to be able to transmute base metals, such as mercury, into noble metals, such as gold or silver. It was also said to be able to prolong life, possibly indefinitely. Nobody ever found the correct compound for this (possibly because it never existed) but many alchemists spent their lives trying. This effort was known as the Great Work, or Magnum Opus.
There's a meme that I found that explains what Snape meant during his first verbal exchange with Harry. When Snape asks Harry what he would get if he added powered root of asphodel to an infusion of wormwood, the meme explains that Asphodel is from the same family of flowers as lilies and convey the message of 'my regrets follow you to the grave' and wormwood means 'absense', Snape was really telling Harry "I bitterly regret Lily's death".
0:54 It’s because they didn't believe American children would buy a book with the word Philosopher in the title and thought emphasizing it was about magic would help
I found your channel yesterday because of your Band of Brothers reaction. Finished that today and now im upset cause I found you too soon and have to wait for the next HP reaction... worth the wait though you guys are awesome and have plenty more for me to watch while I wait.
The reason why it's called the Sorcerer's Stone in the US: It was changed because the American publisher thought American children wouldn't want to read a book with "philosopher" in the title. Tells you a lot about the US education system.
Fun Fact: This series of books has been translated into dozens of languages, issued to many more different nations. In the Czech Republic, linguistically, female surnames are always modified by the suffix '-ova.' So if you bought a copy of the books there, the author is J.K. Rowlingova!
Same in Slovak language, it's J. K. Rowlingová. And same with the names of the girls and women in the books: Hermiona Grangerová, Ginny Weasleyová, profesorka McGonagallová etc. Without the -ová, you can't decline their names and use them in a Slovak phrase properly. In Russian, you get Джоан Кэтлин Роулинг, transliterated as Džoan Ketlin Rouling - they write the names as they are pronounced, either way they couldn't pronounce them properly. It works the other way too: the English speaking countries adapt foreign names to their language: the Russian name Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский (transliterated as Fiodor Michailovič Dostojevskij) is changed to Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, which is different from the original name, but only written like that the English speakers can pronounce it properly.
@@jean-paulaudette9246 Yeah. And I bet that the Tom Marvolo Riddle - Lord Voldemort anagram was a pain in the neck (considering that it became clear only in the second book) for the translators, so the versions of it in different languages are INSANE! Romeo G. Detlev Jr., Tom Elvis Jedusor, Mark Neelstin, Tom Yarvolod Riddle... and that's just the warm-up
Quidditch is not a timed game. Catching the golden snitch ENDS the game, but does NOT WIN the game. There are no timeouts, no breaks, no suspensions (not even from weather), no periods of play, and no player substitutions; it's continuous play until the game ends with a Seeker catching the golden snitch. The longest Quidditch match on record was 3 days. The game is won by points; each time the quaffle gets past the Keeper and through one of the hoops, the team opposing that Keeper gets 10 points, which can rack up during a game. It's up to the Seeker to only catch the golden snitch when the opposing team is no more than 140 points ahead; if the opposing team is 150 points or more ahead, then the Seeker (with help from the Beaters aiming the bludgers at the opposing team members) has to guard the golden snitch from being caught by the opposing Seeker until the score is more favorable. ______________________________________________________________________________________ Wyverns balance on their rear legs and DON'T have hands/paws/claws on their wings; they look more like chickens (see Welsh wyvern, symbol of Wales). 'Dragon' is a subspecies of reptile and wyverns are a subspecies of dragon. Morphologically, dragons have 2 front legs and 2 rear legs; the front legs may have bony growths that descend from the ulnar and/or humerus that provide 'stretchers' for wing skin, but the front legs still function as legs, bearing weight and allowing for walking and climbing. Dragons' front legs terminate with handlike paws, for grasping and flaring to create a base for bearing weight. Morphologically, wyverns have webbed wings, for flapping and flying. The wings lift but are not used to lean upon. ______________________________________________________________________________________ "5 [points] to take out a troll, but 50 EACH for being out of bed?" I don't think they want to incentivize troll-hunting. Also, docking them 50 points for being out of bed makes sense in an area with so many dangerous enchantments and creatures; again, to discourage risk-taking. ______________________________________________________________________________________ The Sorting Hat sorts you to your House by reading what your values are; the different Houses are identifiable by their core values. There are no 'good' or 'bad' Houses, but some values will lead to questionable ethics and can cause people to make bad choices. Slytherin House is most prone to that problem; their values make them very successful, but also leads them to bad (selfish) choices more often than other House members. The official (JK Rowling-approved) House Quiz is the Pottermore House Quiz. Google it.
Since goblet of fire is posted, it's explained in the 4th book that catching the snitch doesn't auto win you the game it just ends the game; the snitch is only worth 150 points so if you team only has 30 and the other team had 200 youd still lose by 20 points; in the first book when Harry caught the snitch the team I believe were either tied or only had a 10 point difference between them
Great video! Hope you'll like the rest. The movies follow Harry's age contentwise. Don't feel too sorry for Slytherin house, they had won the house cup for several years in a row. (6? 7?) And it gotta be worth something to thwart Voldemort!
But you gotta admit that it was a bit shitty to award the points after telling a bunch of kids they won. Dumbledore coulda done that privately beforehand.
The lady is correct. You do t want to catch the snitch if your 150+ pts behind. Cause catching the snitch doesn't mean you win, it means you get 150 and the game ends. Whoever has most points wins. So like she said if you're 180pts behind 130 - 310 and you catch the snitch your team is now 280 - 310 game ends and your team still looses cause other team has 30pts more.
From what I do know, All wyverns are dragons, but not all dragons are wyverns. True dragons have four legs and a set of wings, and while wyverns are not true dragons, they are still a type of dragon
Both of the actors that played Professor Dumbledore are Irish: Richard Harris here and later Michael Gambon (after Richard Harris died in 2002). You might have also seen Richard Harris in 'Gladiator' where he played Emperor Marcus Aurelius, father to Commodus/Joaquin Phoenix. Richard Harris was well-known for a lot of older films in the 60s and 70s.
Try not to question things too much. Things in the early movies are very simplified. Keep in mind, these are kids stories haha! Also the Wyvern vs Dragon thing depends on the mythology.
For the record there are many types of dragons from the English Wyverns to the Chinese Lung’s and the Russian Frosts a Wyvern is only a type of dragon species within the various Draconian Genus’s. The Chinese lung is akin to a scaled Eel with Legs and the head of a Lion, while there are others that burrow underground like Wyrms (pronounced Worms) but are of multiple different branching Genus’s. A Dragon is the type of species, the breed or different races within are what determines the difference in characteristics, like comparing Humans to Cavemen or Neanderthals were all the same but different as well.
If you catch the snitch the game is immediately over. It is worth 150 pts. So If you are losing you don't necessarily wan't to catch the snitch. Your team is trying to score more points then your opponent and catch the snitch. P.S. George is definitely a Ravenclaw & Simone is Hufflepuff (my opinion).
I started following you two about halfway through your HP adventures and wanted to wait until you were done so I can start and binge session. And here we are, good times are coming!
As far as the issue with the comments this series may require you to change the way you put the movie footage in the video. I think the reason the AI keeps messing with you is because you have the movie footage taking up most of the screen so the AI thinks its actual kids in the video. If you shrank the movie footage down so its smaller than both of your faces that just might work. The kids all age through the series so by movie 3 you shouldnt have an issue
RUclips does not like to allow comments in videos containing children, so we are going to have a hell of a time keeping the comments of this video up and running~
thats a good rule for private videos... but its weird if it applies to proffesional movies
Did you notice that Ollivander has recovered nicely since his last time with Ripley?
There’s a premise in the Harry Potter stories of ‘muggles’ (non-magical people) largely being unaware of the magical world. Typically magic happens right in front of them and they just either ignore it (assuming they’re going a bit crazy) or in some cases the wizards and witches have to alter their memories.
There’s an agreement between the governments of magical and non-magical people about this.
In Quidditch, the game plays until the Golden Snitch is caught. That marks the end of the game, and it adds 150 points to the team whose Seeker caught it.
Yes, it would be a bad idea to catch The Seeker if your team was losing by more than 150 points, but on the other hand if you’re losing that badly it could be because your team has had players injured and it might be best to just get it over with.
Why was philosopher's Stone changed to Sorcerer's Stone?
It was changed by the American publisher, Scholastic, because it thought American children wouldn't want to read a book with "philosopher" in the title.
MURICA
Yeah apparently Hollywood thinks we’re all idiots.
@@McDTank75 that was decided by a book publisher IIRC
@@McDTank75 for the most part....THEY ARE RIGHT...
Mainly it was because the philosophers stone was a well know story in england but not the us
Buckle up because this is gunna be an essay:
Most of the questions you have are explained more in depth in the books, but were cut from the movies for time. Try not to over think it though because the short answer to most of your questions is "Magic".
Muggles(non-magical people) don't know about wizards, with a few exceptions like someone who marries a witch or wizard or the parents of new witches and wizards(like Hermione's parents).
The reason they never stumble onto the wizarding world is because of charms and spells meant to keep them away. So if a muggle wanders close to Hogwarts or some other magical area, they will suddenly remember an important appointment or something that makes them turn away. Same goes for platform 9 3/4, the muggles all magically look away whenever someone runs through the wall.
There are other magic schools around the world, they touch on them in later movies so I wont go any more in depth here. Im not positive but I believe witches and wizards can come from anywhere in the world. George brought up a good point about accents while doing magic, but the books and movies never really explain it. I still wonder about whether a wizard in Brazil still literally says "Wingardium Leviosa" when casting the spell.
Each house at Hogwarts has its own attributes that they represent:
Gryffindor=Bravery
Hufflepuff=Loyalty
Ravenclaw=Intelligence
Slytherin=Ambition/Cunning
These attributes are not totally absolute though, Hermione is often said to be the most intelligent student in their grade, but she was placed in Gryffindor instead of Ravenclaw because she is also very brave.
Slytherin is kinda oversimplified in the movies(and the books for that matter) to be the "evil" house, but the books do say multiple times that not everyone in Slytherin is evil and not every evil wizard is from Slytherin.
In Quiddich, there is no time limit and the match does not end until the snitch is caught and whoever catches it scores 150 points. The books mention the longest match was like 60 days long or something because neither team could catch the snitch. Simone was right in saying that if one team has 200 pts. and the other team has 20 pts. if the losing team's seeker catches the snitch, they would still lose the match because the final score would be 200-170.
Sorry for the long comment but I think that answers most of your questions. There is a lot of great worldbuilding in this series that gets glossed over in the movies so I hope this helps your understanding of it!
P.S. Great reactions, can't wait for the rest of the series!
Nice essay. 10/10 recommend reading the books for everyone
Well summarized!
That's a very strange game in terms of its point system and time system. You can basically score infinitely with the regular ball as long as the snitch is lost or not in a team's possession. That sounds miserable. Who wants to play or watch a game that has NO LIMIT except it might end if a genius is able to catch a flying golf ball while flying atop a broom. I loved most of the movies as a kid, they still hold up in my opinion. But that is some janky writing on J. K. Rowling's part.
Do you know I was wondering, you know how HBO did those Game of Thrones history & lore videos? Has anyone done something similar with Harry Potter? I know I’ve been watching those “every difference between the book and movie” videos, but has anyone done one that draws from the whole Harry Potter universe and compiles non-spoiler lore and tidbits?
@@ellaphx its not an official channel or anything but Harry Potter Theory has some good videos on the world and lore
Noooo. He's a "Wyvern not dragon" guy. 😭😭😭 Dragons have historically been portrayed with both two legs and four legs. Also, if a world refers to a two-legged, fire breathing lizard as a dragon, it's a dragon.
Oh, oh my god, you haven't seen this series yet? Awesome! Yes, totally continue this series on the channel
She is not ready for Halfblood Prince and Deadly Hallows 2 lol
@@Mike_v_E easy now. no spoilers lol
Two of the best quotes from this movie: "She really needs to sort out her priorities!" and "Alas! Earwax."
Honorable mention: literally anything uttered by Snape.
"Yer a wizard, Harry."
"Mmoooorning"
Honorable mention: Almost every Ron quote.
Professor Hans Severus Gruber Snape
Snape was a G
The actor who played Dudley Dursley grew up, lost a lot of weight, and ended up with a supporting role in The Queen's Gambit. His character in that miniseries is miles away from Dudley Dursley. The show is definitely worth checking out as well.
He’s also the grandson of Patrick Troughton, aka the second Doctor Who. (Fun fact: the actor who plays Dean Thomas is the late-in-life son to the actor of one of the Doctor’s original companions.)
@@kathyastrom1315 that's really cool! Thanks!
Even better, he played a character in the BBC series ‘Merlin,’ who has magic and has to hide it because sorcery is illegal.
All of the Dursley actors were noted for being some of the nicest people you could ever want to meet during filming. It is weird how acting works at times... people you would think are just fiends incarnate due to their characters on screen are wholesome and wonderful, people who play beloved angels are... perhaps not up to that standard.
Actually he wore a fat suit for part. So Dudley was actually normal sized. He told it in an interview.
The differentiation between Wyvern and Dragon only applies if the setting has that destinction, it is not one a fantasy author has to adhere to. IRL, that is to say, in mythology, creatures both with 4 legs and with two have been called dragon, even those who dont fly and have 0 legs have sometimes been.
Nah, 0 legged dragons are wyrms or worms;)
@@NetAndyCz - "Wyrm" is Germanic, and historically referred to legless dragons, while "worm" refers to wingless dragons. These days, "wyrm" and "worm" seem to describe dragons with long, thin bodies. For example: Smaug from _The Hobbit_ (novel, not movie) is called a wyrm.
Bonus fun fact: Asian countries that use the Chinese Zodiac sometimes replace certain animals with others. Instead of a dragon, Southeast Asian countries use a naga (a giant snake), which is sometimes depicted as wingless and legless dragon.
In lore, nagas are able to shapeshift between snake and human, or assume a half-way form (snake-with-human-head and human-with-snake-tail-instead-of-legs are the two most common options). Rowling really _SHOULD_ have mentioned that Nagini was a naga _BEFORE_ the second _Fantastic Beasts_ movie. There would have been a lot less people complaining about that, then.
And a four legged dragon with no wings is a drake
I see it more as dragon being the general term that is used. Then, like with dog breeds, you get specific about what breed of dragon it is, including wyrms and wyverns and the like. I had to learn to accept that when Game of Thrones talked about dragons all the time but then show wyverns. So I've just had to accept that dragon the generalization can be different from the breed Dragon.
@@xXTrueSeekerXx dragon is a category exactly. All kinds of dragons are dragons.
I love these harry potter reactions! I’m 67 and watched the movies and then read the books in 2010.
My friend read the books during the first flush of popularity to understand what her 3rd grade kids were so excited about.
She was a schoolteacher until the school district fired her for having a disease called friedrichs ataxia. She was so traumatized with losing her job that she needed a wheelchair for the rest of her life. That was in 1980 before there were laws to protect against discrimination.
She volunteered in her elementary school because she loved kids so much. The kids were mad about harry potter so Abbie read the books too. This was before the movies.
She was such an inspiration! Rest In Peace my dear friend!
The "why don't they have a testing room" line about Ollivanders made me laugh so hard! :)
Pretty easy to clean stuff up with magic, though.
reparo
Reparo spell : I'm comiiiing
Snape is a legend, as was the man playing him. His cadence and speech patterns are iconic!
Me, after 20 years, having seen all the movies and read all the books: "Yeah Diagon Alley, what about it?"
George, mere seconds after hearing it for the first time: "Diagonally!"
Me: I DIDN'T KNOW THAT :O
And the one with all the dark arts shops is Knockturn Alley, i.e. nocturnally. Clever.
Sadly both of those clever plays on words and I'm sure plenty more got lost in translation on version I've read as a kid in my own language. That's why I so much wanted to also read the original. Not exactly a different story, but adds more fun to the whole experience.
In the second book/film, when they travel by floo powder, Harry says "diagonally" instead of "Diagon Alley" and ends up a couple of stops off the intended direction. ;)
@@TheAlmaward He says "diagonally" in the movie, but not the book. In the book, he just coughs and stutters because of the ash in the air, failing to say it clearly enough to end up in the right place. I think the change worked better for the movie, and it's more memorable....but I always thought it was weird how blatantly he says "diagonally". Like, it doesn't seem like something you could just say by accident trying to say "Diagon Alley". But whatever, small gripe...I don't think anyone cares.
Same 😆 lol
King's Cross railway station had to put up signs next to Platform 9 warning people to not run at the pillar, after too many kids injured themselves trying to get to Hogwart's. For tourism's sake, they did put up a sign for Platform 9 3/4 on a nearby wall.
The game ends when the Golden Snitch is caught, and whoever is ahead wins. But since catching the Snitch gets you 150 points, that team typically wins. But it is possible to lose if the other team is ahead on point, but that would rarely happen. A wyvern is a breed of dragon with the characteristics that you stated.
Just want to add that games can go on for days. Especially in bad weather the snitch can be very hard to find so scoring with the quaffle can mean a lot in longer games
@@promontorium no it really doesn’t. Teams that catch the snitch still losing has happened fairly often in quidditch.
@@kamronspencer4910 If your team has been outscored by more than 15 goals at that point, you'd probably want to catch the Snitch and end it before it got even more lopsided, I guess.
The game is just poorly designed by an author who never understood sports, Rowling has admitted as much-all the rest is rationalization. Just accept it as serving the role of magical soccer in-universe, and move on.
@@lowtechredneck6704 I always thought that it was designed poorly on purpose, in order to give Harry the ability to instat-win Quidditch matches.
I just want to say different stories describe dragons differently. In some stories, wyverns are dragons who's wings are also their front legs, and dragons have four legs and wings. in others dragons are the ones with the front leg wings. There's no one definition. In some wyverns are just another breed of Dragon. In the end, dragons are what the writer of the story describes them as.
exactly like you wouldnt compare harry potter wizards to Lord of the rings wizards so why would you compare dragons
also in some stories Dragon breath elements like fire or ice, while wyverns spray poison/have venom
Yeah. The way I see it, when it comes down to it, neither dragons nor wyverns actually exist in real life, so if you're creating a fantasy world, you kind of have free rein over what you want it to be.
Indeed. Nordic myths have both wyrms and wyverns, but they all fall under the general term of dragon. Wyverns are more commonly found in Eastern European myths, where they are more often than not referred to as a specific type of dragon rather than a completely different type of creature. Meanwhile, Western European countries such as England, mostly have myths and stories featuring wyrms.
I've just started playing AD&D again recently, like 2 weeks ago, and b4 that it was 20 years ago since I played, but it sounds like George's knowledge comes from the AD&D monsters manual. Therefore, i agree with George. That is a wyvern... lol
Concerning points: they do often seem somewhat arbitrary, but I always viewed the 5 for taking out the troll as the net result of loss plus gain. They should lose points for doing something they were not supposed to do, but they acted heroically so they also gained points.
It still is very much arbitrary overall. A teacher can practically hand out or take away points at their own discretion, they can more or less make up justifications, they can give out 20 points for something minor, or just 2 points - they don't need to justify the amount to anyone, so they can play favourites (which Snape does almost all the time for Slytherin, Dumbledore does sometimes for Harry, McGonagall doesn't for anyone... I don't remember the rest well enough). The only way to "counter" unfair points is to hand out or take away other points for some other reason.
I kinda think that Dumbledor was trying to bring a level of fairness to the points. It seemed unfair for the 3 (plus Draco) to get -50 each for visiting Hagrid and balancing that with the end points makes a +10 for stopping Voldemort from getting the stone.
50 points for chess is clearly biased
Hogwarts: The game where everything is made up and the points don't matter.
Just to clarify, the word "dragon" doesn't refer to any specific creature but is used as a colloquial umbrella term for various different creatures similar to reptiles, typically viewed as winged and fire-breathing. The term "wyvern" is more commonly used for a German type of dragon commonly depicted as more pterosaur-esque (and may even be based on encounters with previously extant pterosaurs, now extinct).
No human being has ever encountered a living pterosaur. They've been extinct for 65 million years.
@@Tar-Numendil That's just an old evolutionist mantra with no evidence to back it up, whereas we have countless ancient and modern accounts of pterosaurian creatures (or "dragons", or "demons", or "wyverns", or "windfloga", or "scaly vultures", or "flying serpents", or "flying dinosaurs" or whatever people want to call them and has called them over the many years of alleged encounters).
@@Xenosaurian "Alleged" Key word there. There's no actual proof.
@@Tar-Numendil Eyewitness accounts are actual proof, just a different category of evidence from what you might be referring to, namely physical evidence. The accounts we have are more than sufficient to take them seriously, but noting that this is not the same as affirming we are actually dealing with extant pterosaurs. I call the accounts "alleged" encounters namely because I don't know the actual truth of the matter, but I'm responsible enough to give it the benefit of the doubt, especially given the weight of this surprising multitude of arguably reliable accounts.
@@Xenosaurian There are "eye witness accounts" of just about any mythological creature you can think of, do you imagine those still exist?
The only HARD evidence we have suggests that Pterosaurs have been extinct for 10s of millions of years. #The only alternative would be that they were abundant 10s of millions of years ago, disappeared for a good 50 millions years, reappeared briefly to say hello to ancient humans for a few thousand years, and THEN went extinct?
Pretty massive leaps you have to make to support your theory. I can't say it's impossible obviously, but it's highly unlikely enough for us to essentially rule it out.
Just for an overview of the houses, here: Gryffindor is the house for people with courage. They're the bravest ones, but they also tend to be hot-headed and rush into situations without thinking. But they stand up for themselves and don't let fear get in their way. Hufflepuffs are more about loyalty, hard work and kindness. They're the quietest house and don't get much glory and sometimes people call them stupid, but they have a reputation for being the most relaxed and accepting house, although a lot of the Hufflepuffs in the books are a bit...short-sighted or hysterical. There's a few really good ones, though. Ravenclaws are all about learning and intelligence. They have a reputation for being super-nerds and proud of it, but it's also the house for smart eccentrics. They're a bit snobby about their own intelligence, but they have the advantage that they analyse a situation before they act and they're quite a good counterpart to Gryffindor because of that. Slytherins are known for being cunning and ambitious. They don't let things stand in their way of getting where they want to be - and usually that's in a position of glory. They also don't mind using sneaky tactics and playing mind games. This makes them more likely to turn out cruel or ruthless, but not all of them are. There's also been some awful Gryffindors and Ravenclaws turned out. One of Voldemort's most loyal followers was a Gryffindor (Voldemort himself was a Slytherin). Not all Slytherins are evil, just their traits have a tendency to lead them towards it more than other houses.
If I am not mistaken hufflepuff is the least likely house to turn out bad witches/wizards
@@GiantProcrastiNation Yes! They're the kinder house, so they don't really have the stomach or lack of moral compass to sacrifice or screw over others. Often. Houses are summed up by what they do, and Hufflepuffs are known to do the kind thing. Gryffindors do the brave thing, Ravenclaws do the smart thing and Slytherins do the necessary thing.
@@strawberrysoulforever8336 But sadly Hufflepuff isn't immune to having some bad eggs. My brother is supposedly a Hufflepuff and there is a good reason I don't talk to him
@@GiantProcrastiNation Not immune, just unlikely. As Dumbledore says, it is our choices rather than our abilities who show us who we truly are.
Fun fact: you've seen Alien, and John Hurts famous scene, right? The wand seller in Diagon Alley was played by John Hurt (in case you didn't recognize him!)
I say 'No, no definitely not' few times a day in John's voice lol
Certain phrases from the films have to be said exactly.
i recognized him from doctor who
Okay. Not all birds are owls, but all owls are birds. Not all panthers are jaguars, but all jaguars are panthers. Not all dragons are wyverns, but all wyverns are dragons.
This film has a large gallery of great actors that has since passed away.
We have Richard Harris as Dumbledore, Alan Rickman as Snape, Verne Troyer as Griphook the Goblin and John Hurt as Mr Ollivander.
and now Robbie Coltrane as Hagrid😢
hagrid now too
@@maryjohnson153 My friend asked us to watch all the movies again when she heard. It was kinda sad and fun
@@DLites151 Davies was the voice, Troyer wore the mask
I think the actor of Vernon Dursley also died in the meanwhile
37:36 Actually, there's an OFFICIAL QUIZ you can take in the official website and it's weirdly very accurate (I took it 4 times in the time span of years and I got Ravenclaw every time!)
I took it 3 times and I was ravenclaw, then huffulpuff and now gryffindor haha
@@antoniocordova5846 I've taken it twice. Got Slytherin the first time, and Ravenclaw the second time.
I really hope they realized or know who Alan Rickman is as Snape...what a legend!!!
They should watch Die Hard.
The 'wizened old man' is Richard Harris, famous Irish actor, father of Jared Harris (of Chernobyl, The Expanse etc) and legendary drunk. Marcus Aurelius was one of his roles in later life but he was great in a number of films in the 60s and 70s. Personally I love his role in Wild Geese.
He was by far a better Dumbledore too. No disrespect to Sir Gambon, but Richard Harris portrayed Dumbledore as mildly spoken and very calm which I think was exactly how he should be.
He's great in The Count of Monte Cristo.
You're asking all the right questions! Slytherin is not a "bad guy house", they are people of a specific skill set and character profile who are following a corrupted philosophy that has nothing to do with why the house was established. Please keep watching, most of your questions might get answered.
It was probably a house like any other before Voldy besmirched our rep. 🤨
We’re not that bad really! Though I was probably more resourceful as a kid, than “ambitious”. But definitely not evil though! 🙂
Slytherin =/= Death Eater !
Slytherin is a house for the ambitious and cunning. Traits that sometimes lead people down a dark path or a heroic one. Merlin after all was a Slytherin
the founder was obsessed with pure blood status. its why most members are as well.
@@phoenixrose1192Stop pretending.
36:15 in the books, Snape is constantly taking points away from Gryffindor for no reason, so it's only fair hehe
Hagrid: Says something
Also Hagrid: "I shouldn'ta told you that...."
“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to your enemies, but a great deal more to stand up to your friends” when I first read the book and watched the movie, I just thought Dumbledore wanted Gryffindor to win really badly (which he probably did lol), but after fantastic beasts, that line really hits different 🥲
my favorite line in the entire series is the same as Emma Watson's when she was asked in an interview after the series rapped up. "I am going to bed before Ether of you come up with another clever idea to get us kill or worse... expelled."
''It's another little shit''
hahaha, you two are absolutely adorable. All your questions and remarks just show how much of a smart reactors you both are. I'm really gonna enjoy this journey.
5 million letters arrive… “It’s probably Andy Dufresne!”
Omg that made me laugh so hard :D
The bar that Hagrid and Harry enter (The Leaky Cauldron) is on the corner of 2 streets in London. One goes East-West, the other goes North-South. then there's Diagon Alley (which goes diagonally)...
I sure hope y'all continue this series! I'm sad that I'll have to wait (any amount of time) for the future installments!
I love how you’re showing the deleted scenes in the video, makes the movie more enjoyable and complete
Love the idea of them dressing up as regular people for Halloween. 🎃 Hard to believe this was 20 years ago. I saw the first two movies in theaters when I was a kid and kept up with the series till the end. Hope you continue to react to the rest. 💕
You definitely need to read the books after the series. They have so much more depth, story and character wise, and answer most questions
@@jkhoover The British audiobooks are done by Stephen Fry. Fun anecdote: on a chat show he told how he struggled with a particular phrase when recording one of the early ones and asked if he could adjust it slightly. JKR apparently said 'no' and proceeded to put the same phrase at least once in each of the later books.
EDIT: for a comparison of the two readers ruclips.net/video/13nkuEPEP2c/видео.html
Yes the dragons in Harry Potter are wyverns, but wyverns are still part of the dragon category
actually no, in the new fantastic beasts movie we see wyverns as envisioned by JK rowling, but the movie didn't come out when you first commented so I guess you couldn't have known
I always thought that dragons were categorized more like this:
Dragons - four legs and wings
Wyverns - two legs with wings
Drake - four legs, no wings
Serpent - no legs, no wings
"...before either of you come up with another clever idea to get us killed -- or, worse, expelled." 😝
I love the actor who played Dumbledore he was also in the count of Monty Cristo and did an amazing job mentoring Edmond
Thank you so much for your “Support Your Local Coven” tee shirt for this reaction. Perfect for October & this movie series.
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In modern fantasy, the term 'dragon' has become a more broad spectrum, under which creatures like the wyvern, wyrm, drake and the classic quadruped dragon fall. Hence the modern interpretations such as Skyrim, The Hobbit and Game Of Thrones' dragons being depicted as the wyvern variant.
@@Nemophilist850 Depends on how you look at it. To this day people are very split on wether or not wyverns are part of the dragon species.
@@Nemophilist850 Tell that to the hundreds of passionate and sometimes aggressive debates from either side I've been running into. This video alone is a starting example. And the term has been a thing since the 1600's, so it definitely does exist.
@@MrWhatdafuBOOM DRAGONS dont exist tho so there aint no point in trying to bitch (dont mean you with this but the people you refere to) about what magical creature one series might wanna call. It literally doesnt matter. I mean think of the dragons of the east. They look more like serpents and where also based on them, yet they still get considered as dragons by foreigners and natives alike.
@@notexactly9145 I was talking about the term.
I think it's a bit pedantic to argue the sub-classification of a species of mythical creatures. The "rules" that distinguish wyverns from dragons are based entirely on what work of fiction you're drawing from. This work of fiction doesn't make any distinction between them.
You two are going to have a lot of fun with this series I think. Perfect season for them too, I think, this always felt like an autumn movie series to me.
"It's probably Andy Dufresne" is to date still one of the funniest joke I have ever heard.
The nearly-headless ghost was played by John Cleese, one of the members of Monty Python.
There's a meme where all the books are retitled with Hermione - this one was "Hermione Granger and that time I used the power of research and deductive reasoning to make sure Harry didn't die." The true heroine of the group!
@Loki Odinson Yeah; Hermione in the book while book smart had legitimate flaws. She didn't always think well when she panicked. Case in point, the Devil's Snare scene. Hermione put together that light was the solution and said "Oh but we don't have any firewood."
Ron's response was roughly "ARE YOU MAD! ARE YOU A WITCH OR NOT!"
He's the one who said it was lucky that Harry could keep his head in a situation like that
@@brianalambert1192 Still, Ron was the chess master in this movie. Hermione's main accomplishment (finding both the potions to move on and go back among seven) was cut. It's really sloppy when you have Hagrid tell the kids that Snape is one of the teachers protecting the Stone and then cut his trial entirely.
"Harry Potter and the Hall of Secrets" sounds right :D
In Germany the 2nd part is called "Die Kammer des Schreckens" wich translates to something like "the Chamber of Horror".
I don't get why almost all german movie titles are translated to mean something else.
To be fair, there's only one secret but quite the amount of horrible things that happen.
It's a thing. In the attempts to translate titles many countries end up with completely different titles. Sometimes its the film release company's choice. Sometimes its just a bad choice. Sometimes there just aren't the right words in that language.
In Brazilian Portuguese, it's "The Secret Chamber", which makes A LOT more sense since the Chamber is more secret than it is full of secrets haha
It kind of fits, at least.
Well... If you think german movie title translation sucks, wait I told you about France....
We had movies we changed the english title, to gave them another english title (i.e. : "The Hangover" became "Very Bad Trip")
We have also a flagrant case of titles translated so 1) they don't have anything in common with the original title and 2) even if they are from the same franchise, it's impossible to tell by their french title : "Die Hard", "Die Harder" and "Die Hard With a Vengeance" were translated respectively by "Piège de Cristal" (Cristal Trap), "58 Minutes pour Vivre" (58 minutes to live) and "Une journée en Enfer" (A Day in Hell)
You might recognize Nearly-Headless Nick. That's John Cleese from Monty Python.
And yes, the rules at Hogwarts are mind-bogglingly arbitrary.
Rowling did things like that on purpose, to make clear how different the magic world is. And she likes word-plays :)
Lots of schools in the UK still have houses (named after scientists or artists). It’s a quick way to split a class up into groups for sports teams or activities.
I went to a Catholic school and we had four houses named after English saints (Alban, Becket, Fisher, and More)
We do that in Australia as well.
If you didn't catch it, Nearly Headless Nick is actually played by John Cleese from Monty Python (French guard, Lancelot, Tim the Enchanter, Black Knight)
Another character from the books -Peeves the poltergeist was going to played by comic Rik Mayall but he set people off giggling and his scenes were cut (😔😭😥)
Awesome reactions! Looking forward to your reaction to HP Chamber of Secrets. Will say that after the second movie, the series gets a lot darker and more mature as the characters grow up. I'd also definitely recommend reading the books because they provide so much context that a lot of the movies cut out.
They changed the name 'cause the marketing team for the books thought that "The Philospher's Stone" (which is the name of the actual real life legend) sounds too boring to american kids and would NEVER sell in the US and changed it to "Sorcerer's Stone" 'cause you know Sorcerer's are cool and all that.
It's actually really ridiculous, I mean you don't change Merlin's name to Kaboom Kapow Wizard, 'cause you think Merlin sounds too boring for kids.😹
Regarding the different titles: The “Scholastic Corporation” who bought the rights to publish the book in the USA thought that the title was too archaic and too ancient sounding for the american market. They also thought that some of the younger readers might not know what a philosopher is and wanted to publish the book under the title "Harry Potter and the School of Magic". J.K.Rowling fought against that title and they finally agreed to call the US-Version “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone”. All the scenes where the children mention the stone where filmed as a british version with the kids saying Philosopher's Stone and as an american version with them saying Sorcerer's Stone. Quirrel and Dumbledore only refer to it as “The Stone” to avoid the need to film every scene where the stone is mentioned twice.
Regarding wyverns vs dragons, there is only a difference in British heraldry. In cryptozoology wyverns are just a subspecies of dragon so a baby wyvern is still a baby dragon. Ergo, Norbert is a baby dragon.
Just to be clear: Wyverns are a subspecies of dragons. It's like thumbs and fingers - All thumbs are fingers, but not all fingers are thumbs
OK, so from memory, I believe the difference in names goes back to the books. This book was published initially in the UK, using the Philosopher's Stone title, but then the U.S. publisher essentially said, "Why the heck would a philosopher have a stone, and what could be more boring than that?" So, they changed the title to juice it up a bit. Basically, it was a marketing decision. And, as odd as it may seem, there was a time when J.K. Rowling did not call all the shots.
Now that you watched the final one I can tell you that when Severus Snape was questioning Harry,each ingredient he told has actually a different meanings when you put them together it's give this statement :" condolences for Lilly's death". 🥺
Hogwarts is the only school for Witchcraft and Wizardry in the British Isles. There are several other schools mentioned throughout the books including one in Western Europe, Scandinavia, Russia, East Asia, Africa, North America and South America.
J.K. Rowling wrote these books to her audiences age groups. The first book/movie was for 8-10 year olds. Then a new book came out every 2 years or so. She kept increasing the reading level/language as her primary audience grew up with the books. Think of the first/second movies as a pre-teen audience, 3-4 is more for teenagers, and 5-7 are for young adults. This was genius in my opinion, because as we grew up reading, so did the characters in the story. The books were amazing, but I find as an adult revisting them, I don't enjoy the first few nearly as much as the last 4.
While this is definitely true, the effect has to be combined with the simple fact that she was becomming better and better author with each book. IMO, first 3 books are comparatively weaker even if we adjust for different target audience. In particular, introduction of special plot device (I'm avoiding spoilers) in book 3 should be done with extreme care, which she definitely didn't employ there. I mean, it is good enough within the context of that book alone, but not the whole series.
"The points seem really arbitrary"
Oooh, you have no idea!!
Dumbledore be like: "Look, they got my favorite dessert for tonight. 20 points for Gryffindor"
Every time you said "20 years ago", my soul withered away a little bit more
@15:25 Exactly! He’s taking notes, which is a clear sign of someone who’s paying attention.
I'm sure if someone's already commented this but out of all the quizzes you have to take the Pottermore one because that's the most accurate one and developed by JK Rowling herself.
I saw a joke video once that the explanation the guy came up with for the name change un the USA was:
"Apparently they think us americans would be too dumb to know what a philosopher is"
It's interesting watching George be so critical yet get so much of the lore/rules wrong.
Sometimes the screenwriter did a crappy job explaining stuff in this world even with the book author helping. It always leaves the majority of reactors with questions or just totally confused.
Harry did NOT kill Quirrell. In the book Harry's touch blistered his skin. Voldemort killed him by leaving his body.
Technically, most languages and cultures - even historically - don't differentiate between wyvern and dragon since the only real difference is the number of "legs" - and even that is a bit subjective since you could logically consider the wings the wyvern's front "legs" considering - especially in these movies - you literally see it walking around and using the wings in much the same way a dragon would walk.
This was great to watch! The books will answer some questions you have. Can’t wait for chamber of secrets
Philosophers' Stone was not an actual piece of rock (hence the apostrophe in that position), but an element in alchemy.
It was said to be able to transmute base metals, such as mercury, into noble metals, such as gold or silver. It was also said to be able to prolong life, possibly indefinitely.
Nobody ever found the correct compound for this (possibly because it never existed) but many alchemists spent their lives trying. This effort was known as the Great Work, or Magnum Opus.
There's a meme that I found that explains what Snape meant during his first verbal exchange with Harry. When Snape asks Harry what he would get if he added powered root of asphodel to an infusion of wormwood, the meme explains that Asphodel is from the same family of flowers as lilies and convey the message of 'my regrets follow you to the grave' and wormwood means 'absense', Snape was really telling Harry "I bitterly regret Lily's death".
0:54 It’s because they didn't believe American children would buy a book with the word Philosopher in the title and thought emphasizing it was about magic would help
So glad they watched the extended version :)
I like your reactions very much. So steady and observant and not “showy” or silly…thank you, looking forward to the next 👍🤗
I found your channel yesterday because of your Band of Brothers reaction. Finished that today and now im upset cause I found you too soon and have to wait for the next HP reaction... worth the wait though you guys are awesome and have plenty more for me to watch while I wait.
The reason why it's called the Sorcerer's Stone in the US:
It was changed because the American publisher thought American children wouldn't want to read a book with "philosopher" in the title. Tells you a lot about the US education system.
Fun Fact: This series of books has been translated into dozens of languages, issued to many more different nations. In the Czech Republic, linguistically, female surnames are always modified by the suffix '-ova.' So if you bought a copy of the books there, the author is J.K. Rowlingova!
Same in Slovak language, it's J. K. Rowlingová. And same with the names of the girls and women in the books: Hermiona Grangerová, Ginny Weasleyová, profesorka McGonagallová etc. Without the -ová, you can't decline their names and use them in a Slovak phrase properly.
In Russian, you get Джоан Кэтлин Роулинг, transliterated as Džoan Ketlin Rouling - they write the names as they are pronounced, either way they couldn't pronounce them properly.
It works the other way too: the English speaking countries adapt foreign names to their language: the Russian name Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский (transliterated as Fiodor Michailovič Dostojevskij) is changed to Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, which is different from the original name, but only written like that the English speakers can pronounce it properly.
@@ESCLuciaSlovakia Cool! I did not know all that, despite having enjoyed The Brothers Karamozov.
@@jean-paulaudette9246 Yeah. And I bet that the Tom Marvolo Riddle - Lord Voldemort anagram was a pain in the neck (considering that it became clear only in the second book) for the translators, so the versions of it in different languages are INSANE! Romeo G. Detlev Jr., Tom Elvis Jedusor, Mark Neelstin, Tom Yarvolod Riddle... and that's just the warm-up
@@CarolinePhoenixMe Oh, that's just lovely! I think Tom Elvis Jedusor may be my favorite of those!
@@jean-paulaudette9246 This is the French version ("je du sor" also means "the riddle of the fate", if I remember correctly, so it is twice as cool)
Quidditch is not a timed game.
Catching the golden snitch ENDS the game, but does NOT WIN the game. There are no timeouts, no breaks, no suspensions (not even from weather), no periods of play, and no player substitutions; it's continuous play until the game ends with a Seeker catching the golden snitch. The longest Quidditch match on record was 3 days.
The game is won by points; each time the quaffle gets past the Keeper and through one of the hoops, the team opposing that Keeper gets 10 points, which can rack up during a game.
It's up to the Seeker to only catch the golden snitch when the opposing team is no more than 140 points ahead; if the opposing team is 150 points or more ahead, then the Seeker (with help from the Beaters aiming the bludgers at the opposing team members) has to guard the golden snitch from being caught by the opposing Seeker until the score is more favorable.
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Wyverns balance on their rear legs and DON'T have hands/paws/claws on their wings; they look more like chickens (see Welsh wyvern, symbol of Wales).
'Dragon' is a subspecies of reptile and wyverns are a subspecies of dragon. Morphologically, dragons have 2 front legs and 2 rear legs; the front legs may have bony growths that descend from the ulnar and/or humerus that provide 'stretchers' for wing skin, but the front legs still function as legs, bearing weight and allowing for walking and climbing. Dragons' front legs terminate with handlike paws, for grasping and flaring to create a base for bearing weight.
Morphologically, wyverns have webbed wings, for flapping and flying. The wings lift but are not used to lean upon.
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"5 [points] to take out a troll, but 50 EACH for being out of bed?"
I don't think they want to incentivize troll-hunting. Also, docking them 50 points for being out of bed makes sense in an area with so many dangerous enchantments and creatures; again, to discourage risk-taking.
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The Sorting Hat sorts you to your House by reading what your values are; the different Houses are identifiable by their core values. There are no 'good' or 'bad' Houses, but some values will lead to questionable ethics and can cause people to make bad choices. Slytherin House is most prone to that problem; their values make them very successful, but also leads them to bad (selfish) choices more often than other House members.
The official (JK Rowling-approved) House Quiz is the Pottermore House Quiz. Google it.
"I'm an accountant!" "I'm a librarian!" 🎃🤣🎃
saying his name lets Voldemort know what you are saying and doing and where you are that is why people don't say his name they are afraid to
It was fun to watch you react! I hope we won't wait long weeks before another one!
Welcome to this wonderful journey 💗
Since goblet of fire is posted, it's explained in the 4th book that catching the snitch doesn't auto win you the game it just ends the game; the snitch is only worth 150 points so if you team only has 30 and the other team had 200 youd still lose by 20 points; in the first book when Harry caught the snitch the team I believe were either tied or only had a 10 point difference between them
"No, that's a wyvern"
Wyverns are dragons, George. A wyvern is a 2 legged dragon.
After being 'recruited' by a certain Professor, many don't notice the name next to Harry's dad . . . . @17:43
Has it ever been explained which of McGonagall’s relatives that was?
Great video! Hope you'll like the rest. The movies follow Harry's age contentwise.
Don't feel too sorry for Slytherin house, they had won the house cup for several years in a row. (6? 7?) And it gotta be worth something to thwart Voldemort!
But you gotta admit that it was a bit shitty to award the points after telling a bunch of kids they won. Dumbledore coulda done that privately beforehand.
@@Qwertky He sure could have 😃
The lady is correct. You do t want to catch the snitch if your 150+ pts behind. Cause catching the snitch doesn't mean you win, it means you get 150 and the game ends. Whoever has most points wins. So like she said if you're 180pts behind 130 - 310 and you catch the snitch your team is now 280 - 310 game ends and your team still looses cause other team has 30pts more.
From what I do know, All wyverns are dragons, but not all dragons are wyverns. True dragons have four legs and a set of wings, and while wyverns are not true dragons, they are still a type of dragon
The Harry Potter books went through a lot of localization in America like them changing british word for parking lots and elevators into american ones
Plssss continue the series!! Love ur reactions💗
Both of the actors that played Professor Dumbledore are Irish: Richard Harris here and later Michael Gambon (after Richard Harris died in 2002). You might have also seen Richard Harris in 'Gladiator' where he played Emperor Marcus Aurelius, father to Commodus/Joaquin Phoenix. Richard Harris was well-known for a lot of older films in the 60s and 70s.
Try not to question things too much. Things in the early movies are very simplified. Keep in mind, these are kids stories haha!
Also the Wyvern vs Dragon thing depends on the mythology.
Wyverns and Dragons are the same damn thing. I'm sick of people being over technical about a mythical creature.
For the record there are many types of dragons from the English Wyverns to the Chinese Lung’s and the Russian Frosts a Wyvern is only a type of dragon species within the various Draconian Genus’s. The Chinese lung is akin to a scaled Eel with Legs and the head of a Lion, while there are others that burrow underground like Wyrms (pronounced Worms) but are of multiple different branching Genus’s. A Dragon is the type of species, the breed or different races within are what determines the difference in characteristics, like comparing Humans to Cavemen or Neanderthals were all the same but different as well.
If you catch the snitch the game is immediately over. It is worth 150 pts. So If you are losing you don't necessarily wan't to catch the snitch. Your team is trying to score more points then your opponent and catch the snitch.
P.S. George is definitely a Ravenclaw & Simone is Hufflepuff (my opinion).
"So, that's a cat, it's got pointy ears..."
nope, also a wizard :D
"This seems so unsafe..." um, yeah... welcome to Hogwarts. LOLOLOL
I started following you two about halfway through your HP adventures and wanted to wait until you were done so I can start and binge session. And here we are, good times are coming!
As far as the issue with the comments this series may require you to change the way you put the movie footage in the video. I think the reason the AI keeps messing with you is because you have the movie footage taking up most of the screen so the AI thinks its actual kids in the video. If you shrank the movie footage down so its smaller than both of your faces that just might work. The kids all age through the series so by movie 3 you shouldnt have an issue
Listening to the two of you try to work out the rules of Quiddich is hilarious.
My favorite movie is the 3th one
Agreed.
There's a great YT video from Nerdwriter about why it's the best.
In Germany we have so many wrong translations by publishers too. Ford example "Avatar - the last airbender" to "Avatar - lord of elements".
Continue with this series.