My favorite detail is that Mr.Weasley's car is still out there in the forbidden forest. It's become one of the forest's creatures. Absolutely no one acknowledges this in the books.
Imagine right at the moment when Harry and Voldemort were staring each other down in the forest, and Voldemort was about to kill him, that the car just flew in out of nowhere from the trees and ran Voldemort over
I know Potter puppet pals pointed this out years ago, but it still sticks with me to this day. Is there a spell that could feasibly stop a bullet? Because if not, what was stopping them from just shooting Voldemort?
@@mogfoil isn’t there an American school in the books or something couldn’t one of them just joined the fight like it wouldn’t be the first time an American goes to Britain with a gun to kill someone. Why did they not get involved in the fighting I never understood that.
Playing devil's advocate, it's kind of a nice name outside of the Harry Potter context so if the parents apply some sort of value to the name that isn't warped by children's book obsession then it could work. It is pretty on the nose but as long as the kid doesn't get a hard time for it, get ideas forced on them by the parents, and are able to develop a well humoured perspective on it then it may even turn out to be a positive thing. There's a lot of ifs there though lol.
I knew a Hermione, but they were born either before or just as the first book came out (can't remember when in the year her birthday was, if I ever knew), so I don't think she was named after the character.
@@AdmiralOctopus I mean Hermione is a Shakespeare character too so its totally reasonable to think they were just fans of the Bard. Kenneth Branagh is such a big fanboy of his he changed an Agatha Christie characters middle name in Murder on the Orient Express to Hermione.
@@panq8904 I just looked it up, and apparently the name Hermione dates back to ancient Greece, being derived from Hermes. I think people just assume anyone named Hermione was named after the Harry Potter character, despite the fact it's been an actual name for much longer.
Roofied him, raped him at least once, and the books just kinda gloss how immensely fucked up all that is. I think they mention using love potions to get into a relationship being s thing others did too, also without drawing much attention to how that is fucked up.
@@Alice-May Plus love potions are readily available for anyone to purchase and are often marketed towards girls to use on guys. So I guess there’s a reverse rape culture in the wizarding world? A really fucked up oversight on Rowling’s part but a compelling storyline for someone to pick up on.
Love Potions are even advertised towards children if I recall correctly. Not to mention Polyjuice Potion is a thing. Useful as both a rape and identity theft tool. Was making either of these potions ever made illegal? I can't think of a good way you could ethically justify using them and making them readily available
@@grunkleg.2934 Obviously the wizarding world is ran by people who think it's good you can force someone to love and then transform them into someone hot. Your personal identity, hopes and dreams are less valuable than my sexual satisfaction.
The bank the goblins are in is an actual bank that they shot in, so the pointy stars are just part of real world bank aesthetics. No intent, just presentation of a fun fact. The goblins running the banks, however, is entirely on JK Rowling.
@@NoConsequenc3 now we're getting into the logistics of hiring banks to film in that could look like conceivably magical banks and that's too much to deal with. They picked that bank 'cause it looked cool. The goblins are still antisemitic as hell and the books support actual chattel slavery.
they enslave sentient beings for housework and when hemione points out how weird that is, she's dismissed as a tree-hugger and it's never brought up again, even after dobby is freed and dies helping them
@@TheRealRusDaddy Dobby did it out of choice. All the other House Elves are doing it because of a genetic predisposition to being in servitude... Hmm, I think J.K. Rowling might be a bigot.
@@tikoblocks3224 No, but when looking at how her ignorant views on very real groups of people might have bled into her work, it's not a big stretch to call her as such.
I guess the best way to think of it is like if Hermione tried to start a robot uprising in the modern world But yeah given what Rowling’s views are, I have no issue with seeing the whole thing as pretty sus
Here’s a question. Were the Salem Witch Trials ever mentioned in the books or movies? Did they even occur, and if so, were they real witches or were they regular humans who took the fall for real magic users? If real magic users were actually killed than would that make the Salem witch trials the wizard world’s equivalent to the Holocaust? Do you think they have their own Holocaust museum? Do they teach about the trials at Hogwarts?
They were mentioned in the books. They used a flame cooling spell in order to avoid the flames and I believe some level of invisibility. I think it was in 2 or 3. It was when Harry did his homework at the Dursleys.
i'm pretty sure none of the wizards gave a shit about the holocaust? i think it's implied that grindelwald was helping hitler, since they were both defeated the same year and JK Rowling said "no, that's not a coincidence". that interview was in 2005 though, before fantastic beasts was released. other than that, i don't know if there's any real connection to the holocaust and the magical world - they're pretty insular for the most part.
I do believe they're mentioned at some point early in the books, or in one of the side text books that are actual books (never read them, just paraphrasing from TV Tropes). Essentially yes they were real, nobody died at them, Wizards were just fucking with Puritans. They put "Fireproofing Magic" on themselves when they were put to the stake and said the flames tickled so some of the screaming may've been real, just from laughter not death. However they don't mention if there were any real humans involved so it's possible that some regular folk got wrapped into the Witch Madness and actually got burned at the stake, or something. One hopes children who were accidentally magic but didn't know how to fireproof weren't burned alive...
I actually work at the Harry Potter Store in New York. I cant lie, the people who come into the store look like they have never really read another book other than Harry Potter. The store admittedly is cool. But people straight up orgasm at the decorations. Its a sight to behold.
I literally just wanna go to try Butterbeer. Like, I haven't even watched the MOVIES, let alone the books. My knowledge of the series is fully dependent on pop culture osmosis.
Reminder that Luna Lovegood can also see through the ultimate invisibility cloak that can fool death himself with free 3D glasses she got from a conspiracy magazine.
@@Cyshachiku Maybe, but that doesn't make much more sense tbh. After all the cloak doesn't just make you invisible, it *should* in theory make you undetectable so how tf do the bugs know where his head is.
About that one, I've been going through the books again, and in the book, it is Tonks that finds Harry, not Luna. So Rowling did not entirely screw this one up.
Only once have I met a kid with the name Severus. High School, in a "Future Teachers" program. Easy A, just teach elementary and middle school kids basic shit, just don't pull out your phone and bam, you pass. Called roll one day. "Jakob, Lilith, Severus-" and I did a double take. That conversation went: "Your name's really 'Severus'?" "Yep." "Parents are big Potter fans?" "Yep." "I'm so sorry." "Yep." Anytime someone started to mess with him I stepped in. I read all of those books and I'll be damned if I watch this kid accept his parents' personality and turn him into a chemistry teacher who resents his name and his job.
I’m almost as weirded out by there being someone named Lilith. Is that a common-ish name in some language? Because the only Lilith I know is the antagonistic one from certain religion/myth and I wouldn’t want to name my kid that!
I still think he would have been better in the position of defense against the dark arts he even showed that he has a bit of an aptitude for being a leader/teacher with dumbledore's army
I think it's tiring how British culture has turned JK Rowling into some weird saint figure to the point her characters get statues in cities. Where is the love for my man Douglas Adams?
Just gonna slide into these here comments to remind everyone that JK googled magic school in Japanese to name the Howarts analogue in Japan "Mahoutokoro", which actually means magic place in Japanese. Yeah it's as awkward as it sounds.
Also it's apparently the only magic school in ALL of Asia, so apparently Chinese, Indian & South-East Asian students have to attend the same school as Japanese students, considering any and all real world implications & international relations between all those regions, peoples and cultures I'm sure that goes just *splendidly*...
Big fan of Shaun pointing out on Twitter that Harry starts the series forced to cook for the durselys and the last paragraph if the series has him hoping that his slave elf made him a sandwich
@@archagenteverlasting1239 I’m confused. Why did you jump to a conclusion on the why Olematonnimi didn’t want this Shaun person to have an audience? I just don’t quite see how you gathered that information with such certainty. From what I see he didn’t mentioned politics just that Shaun apparently doesn’t deserve an audience.
That leaves the question though if inanimate matter shrinks with you what happens if you like swallowed a hot wheels and then went rat mode. Would the hot wheels shrink, or would you explode? Does the transformation process include violently expelling excess fluid and solids when you shrink from human to rat?
The locale they filmed the interior of that bank in had those stars as a part of the architecture and aren’t explicitly stated in TPS until they return to Gringotts in the later books for continuity sake. There was likely no real intent in that part of it. The idea of goblins running the banks may be a sore and touchy subject of course because of the underlying connotations of bigotry since Goblins are often used as an old English style way of portraying a generally unsavory individual(s), but considering the writing style of Rowling and what not; I doubt she was all that aware of what Goblins represented or were meant to be representative of in English myth. Considering all the history and recent knowledge regarding JK Rowling however it is easy to have such interesting things barrel roll down on everything and have some of the more shall we say “peculiar” aspects of the characterizations and worlds presented in the books and ergo the films.
What I want to know is if wizards have some actual genetic difference from non-wizard people or if insulting their blood is the only method of discrimination they could come up with despite literally having magic as the ultimate "fuck you"
4:50 The reason why the bank has many pointed stars on it is not because of any design decision it’s because they filmed it in an actual bank and it just had those everywhere
I think the time turners all got destroyed in book 5(?) bc that was the time JK noticed the plot conundrum she created. (Which makes it even worse that one shows up in The Cursed Child
Did the books ever explain why they weren't allowed any technology past stuff you'd see in the 1800s? Doctor Doom is proof alone that science + magic would literally make you the most powerful, advanced society on the planet. Is it just a matter of legality?
@@Alice-May You'd think they'd at least have pencils and notebooks in the wizarding world, even though they literally wear regular ass clothes in the movies
I thought it was just that Wizards are arrogant and think themselves superior to muggles. They don't bother with muggle toys because they believe magic is so much superior.
Here's a plot-hole that only exists thanks to JK Rowling's tweets: JK claims that wizards shat themselves and then used spells to remove the shit before plumming was added to the school. My question is, didn't the rennovators notice the chamber of secrets? Like, when they were adding the pipes under the school for the shit, did they purposefully include massive sewerpipes capable of holding a basilisk on purpose? I mean, they added the plumming right? Which means they added the sinks? Which means that the magic snake sink in the girls bathroom which acted as the entrance to the chamber of secrets was them too right? For real, it kinda seems like lore which was essential to the 2nd book in the goddamn series suggests that the school was designed with plumming from day one.
The chamber was created by Salazar Slytherin before he peaced out because no one would agree with his elitism. So at least we know it wasn't the magic renovators, since allegedly no one was able to find it except for some choice characters. Still doesn't fill in the gaps though.
Speaking of slytherin. I can't remember a single "good person" ever in slytherin. They're just written to have no chill. Perfect for a childrens book I guess. Every kid who has bullies he dosent like can imagine them in Slytherin and they can imagine themselves in Griffondore and feel good for a bit. Or you can imagine yourself in slytherin doing evil shit to all the people you don't like, and then carry around a death-note for the rest of highschool.
The time turner thing is mildly explained. Basically the events of the time turner have already happened, so if you made the decision to use the time turner, you wouldn't change the past, you'd just be doing exactly what the timeline expects you to do, meaning that its only pratical use is in fact just being in 2 places at once, which is what it was used for in the prisoner of azkaban, they had to be in two places at once, not go back in time I'm probably giving J.K. Rowling way too much credit given how her books are written, but you can headcanon a logical explanation
Fair, but also for the latter half of the book Cursed Child doesn't follow these rules at all. They literally change the timeline, accidentally creating a universe where Voldemort wins. They fix it of course but it does happen.
@@zanemcewen1343 The cursed child is like if you made the Time Turner Concept into a baby, then swung that baby by the ankles into every available solid surface
And as for why they don't show up in the main books after Prisoner of Azkaban, I think it was said they all got destroyed by either the ministry or the Death Eaters? J.K. Rowling realised how much of a giant issue they where for the plots, so quietly got rid of them off screen,
The invisibility Cloak detection thing always bugged me when it was revealed that it served as one of the Deathly Hallows...a cloak coming from the robe of death itself, that death couldn't even detect, when they gave it to one of the three brothers! It made sense when it was just a typical magical item, that was effective, but not entirely full proof, since detection was possible, animals being an example.
It's even shown in at least the last book to be straight up immune to magic I am pretty sure. At one point while Harry is using it, a death eater hits it with a spell (I think accio? or however it's spelled?) and Harry hurrys to hold on to the cloak so it doesn't get whisked away and then suddenly realized that nothing happened.
hello Brendaniel i am here to tell you that in fact, dumbledore is NOT the person who gives out the time turners, that's the government. mcgonagall writes a letter to some rando and they go "well since the kid (hermione) has got such good grades, let's just give her one". the subsequent question of why voldemort, the guy who took over the government, does nothing with these is a very good question that will also never be answered. edit: it seems like time travel in harry potter works more based off a "it was always destined to happen" if you time travel. ron weasley disappears for a few pages, only to show up because they kidnapped him with their future selves. harry gives himself the ability to cast the patronus charm because he saved himself beforehand. this never becomes a problem ever. edit edit: while yes, the british government is NOT the world government (that's the international confederation of wizards, i guess???????), voldemort did just basically say "i have more people in my personal army than there are people who are willing and capable of fighting me". also only human wizards/witches get to use wands and things, goblins and the like are not allowed to wield them because humanity is racist.
If our government would mail out Javelin missiles to high school kids on account of good grades I probably would have been a better student too. God, being a muggle fucking sucks bro. 🙄
I’m fairly certian the British military wouldn’t die without a fight. Plus I’ve always felt that wizards overestimate themselves, especially with how advanced technology is getting. If this took place in America, Voldemort would’ve been on the top of the FBI’s most wanted and every state would be locked down like a fortress.
Fun fact: The pointed star on the floor was part of the actual bank they filmed the scene in. So they just didn't think about it. They went "oh this scene takes place in an opulent bank, let's film in a real life opulent bank" and didn't think about any implications because it was 2001
Writers, unless you have a *very* strong idea for specifically how time travel works in your setting, please for the love of god do not include it in your story if you intend to have any amount of seriousness. And sometimes don't involve it even if you do have a strong idea. Time travel tends to create way more problems than it solves, narratively.
I think Harry Potter is similar to Star Wars this way, the original narrative wasn't terrible or anything but it's modern popularity is vastly larger than it should be.
Ehh. Star Wars has been on ups and downs. Real down right now. Harry Potter has done nothing but slump since the movie series really ended and it’s been crapppy prequels and spin offs since.
How do the kids in Harry Potter, especially those born in magic society, learn about things that aren't just magic? I'm talking math, reading, and writing for elementary level, and things like health & sex ed for the older kids. From age 10 - 17, these kids literally learn nothing important about living life, instead they learn how to make potions and take self-defense classes basically. I guess that sorta works because the only career options in the Harry Potter world are like magic cop, magic teacher, and confectioner, but still. Are there wizarding elementary schools in the Harry Potter world that teach them these things? Is the curriculum at Hogwarts just really bad, and other schools out there do offer typical subjects? There's no way that the people who built Hogwarts just magic'd the whole thing into existance without any sort of architect or engineer. And we can clearly see that these kids very much go through puberty and have adult feelings and stuff, but nowhere do they learn about their developing bodies. I guess it's like a commentary on our own education system or whatever, that's what JK would say or whatever, but there's literally no point for it to be like that. The Harry Potter series works as a set of mystery novels for children, and that's it
Wizards just don't do math. Or use condoms. Or learn to be productive and well rounded humans at all because if your not Harry Potter, your shit. And if your in slytherin, your literally just evil.
About the time travel shenanigans, I appreciate that at least JK wrote it in a perfect loop, where they went back in time to save some people but those people were already saved by future them. For the adult's puzzles things, Brendan the literally invaded Gringotts the same day that Harry and Hagrid emptied the safe, so movint the Stone was at least a good move. The puzzles were a bit ass though, I feel like the most competent one was Snape's just because it avoids the usual magic stuff witches are used to
Dumbledore could have put the stone in his sock drawer and then cast the Fidelius on it. The reason he didn't was because JK hadn't had the idea for the Fidelius yet.
@@jamesgardner6434 I mean yes you could cut it in post, but it probably just completely flew over their heads how anti-semitic it was. I think that's the most likely explanation.
@@ahab_cheese Not a bank, it's Australia House in London. And I don't see how having a simple hexagram within a flooring pattern is antisemitic by default. Y'all just looking for reasons to be offended at this point.
Personally I think the Invisibility Cloak being a Deathly Hallow is a retcon. In the first book/movie Ron implies that there are more than one of them, saying that “they’re really rare.” …plus, he *immediately* knew what it was and what it was called, as if he had heard of them before. It would explain why Moody can see through it. …because Rowling didn’t plan that far ahead. So. Poor writing, yes
It does raise the question of why the school staff - who clearly knew Harry had the cloak - allowed him to have it, especially given Dumbledore is revealed to still be a tiiiiiny bit stupid when it comes to powerful artefacts like the Hallows.
@@MrStath1986 Again, poor writing. These are the same people who casually let a little girl have a time-traveling device. These are the same people who got butthurt about Hagrid owning a baby dragon, yet let him have a Hippogriff, keep a Cerberus in the 3rd floor and do f*ck all to stop an ADULT dragon when it gets loose on school grounds. …and the DEMENTORS! Absolute incompetence.
It's not unlikely that other invisibility cloaks exist, the deathly hallows cloak being a more powerful version, or the original others are based off of. Moody being able to see through it is pretty telling though, definitely not getting away fromt that one.
I read only half of the 6th book (and watched all the movies) but from what I heard, in the books it was explain that the Marauder's Map doesn't show the creators, the Marauders (iirc it was Lupin, Severus, Peter, and Harry's father) unless you were a Marauder, and Harry having blood from his father it showed Peter to him. I don't know if this is the cannon explanation but it really needed to be in the movies. Overall, I like Harry Potter, but it has many flaws, not to the point I would say that it's badly written (although in parts it is) still enjoyable young fiction if you pretend JK Rowling twitter doesn't exist. Or she doesn't exist.
Didn't JK Rowling actually say at one point that wizards just shit themselves and use magic to clean it up, or make it invisible? Like literally just shit wherever you stand and walk away from it.
From the Twitter of wizardingworld: "Hogwarts didn't always have bathrooms. Before adopting Muggle plumbing methods in the eighteenth century, witches and wizards simply relieved themselves wherever they stood, and vanished the evidence. "
She did, and it makes ZERO SENSE because the implication with Chamber of Secrets is that the Chamber has been there since the school was founded... and the chamber is opened using the *plumbing*... which she's now said wasn't there.
Fun Anecdote from my work: I deliver beverages by the crate right to people's front doors, so I see a shit-ton of doormats. While there is a lot of variety, there are certain ones that keep reappearing: A Deadpool one captioned "Who brought the Chimichangas", a Yoda one saying "Welcome You Are!" and a Harry Potter one with a winged key on it and the caption "Alohomora"
A few answers: 3:14 the Minstry of magic has jurisdiction of the UK 4:45 the six pointed stars on the floor were just a part of Australia House, where they filmed and weren't in the books. 6:22 Apparantly, animagi do not appear on the map in their animal form in the book (im not too sure about this though, I haven't read them ive only seen the wiki)
I’ve been following you since the dramatic fanfiction reading days. I can stil remember my first introduction to your content being the crackfic of Sasuke x Will Smith. With content like that it always feels like a coin flip on wether the person making the content falls into the alt-right pipeline or embraces and becomes the cringe king. I’m glad you’re the latter. Never stop being a king 👑
i think the fact that cedric turns evil because he was embarrassed that he was inflated aunt marge style at the second trial in a world where both mind control and spells that rewrite all of a person's memories exist is worse than the trolley lady like seriously, there's multiple ways they could've had harry end up dead because cedric survived, but instead they went for inflation
About the Marauder's Map: Pettigrew was one of the 4 people who created the map, to use said map to sneak around and cause mischief. So I can understand if the map is enchanted to not show these 4 persons' names. Just gotta check if it showed Lupin or Sirius at any given point in time.
I just figured that wizards are so well-versed in magic, that they let the kids get away with whatever so that life would be fun for them. No one is really under much danger because the most trouble the kids get into always has a counterspell, or ointment, or some sort of magical Band-Aid. The only dangerous part about it is death. Other than that, life is a playground.
I used to be a harry potter loremaster, until i grew up a little. I should still have some info in the brain to answer some of these questions. 1. She just couldn't make classes, and was responsible, so the teachers thought she could handle time travel. This is of course a stupid decision, but I guess teaching prepubescent teens how to use magic that could very easily kill someone, levitation being an easy choice, is too, so I don't really know what to expect from these teachers. At the end of the book, she either handed the turner in because she couldn't handle the stress or she confessed that she used it for personal gain and had it revoked. The devices are very strictly regulated, and we do see a lot of them when the group storms the ministry in the later books. As to why they are never used again, I can come up with a couple potential reasons. Voldemort is too confident to use them, as he doesn't think he can make mistakes. He sure as shit wouldn't let some of his subordinates have one either, as they could easily grow stronger than him. In the case of harry's faction, I guess that they didn't use them because it would be illegal to, even though they don't really have the most respect for the law. They also are not exactly powerful at all, as part of the time travel rules that I will explain in a minute. Before that, I need to discuss the canon of cursed child. I do not consider the cursed child canon, not because of the edgy weird shit, but because they made ron blonde. That one inconsistency is enough to write off the whole thing as noncanon. To explain some of your concerns about the time travel, any time travel also already happens. In the wizard using the note to avoid shitting self scenario, he would only find the note after he shits himself, as he didn't see it the first time. Its a cheap, yet somewhat consistent way to write time travel. 2. Their are ministries for each country. During the voldemort takeover, other countries largely just gave 0 fucks. 3. Wizard cop because he hates bad guys and in harry potter wizard cops somehow actually work good with 0 bad shit, but we don't actually know if wizard cop is his job the originals left his job out, and cursed child's status as canon is debatable. 4.They like it, and if you could do magic you sure as shit wouldn't be doing math all day when you can just live as a hobo in an allyway and fuck with normal people. They don't teach it at wizard school, so the only folks to really know it would probably not be wizards. One of ron's brothers works for the bank, but in a different country so I guess math wizards do have a place to get off. Nothing about the stars though. Also the anti-semetic thing does check out. 5. Agreed. 6. Agreed. Except for the force ghost part. Not real people, just hallucinations turned some what real by magic. 7. They probably thought the thing was fucked up, thought ron was gay, or were too occupied pulling pranks like you said. None of those are exactly the best conversations to bring up with people so they probably just kept it quiet. 8. It is probably the same mentality as a dad getting his 4 year old a gun because he had one so its safe. 9. Definitely animal. Ron would have noticed a human sized shit in his rat cage. Also one person could turn into a beetle, and got trapped in a jar so they would have died other wise. No pushback. 10. Agreed. 11. Probably around a week to two weeks. Fictional slurs are hard man. 12. Other than money idk. 13. IDK. Moody probably could have met death and gotten a new better eye, but thats a shitty excuse. I agree on not thinking about from this point forward. I do want to meet someone named nevile longbottom because that would be funny. The writing sucks, but this is just a way to explain some of the shit in the books for fun's sake.
I used to like Harry Potter...when I was a small child. Then I don't know what happened, I turned 10 years old and just became really dumb to me. It's oddly the only franchise I used to like as a child, that I now don't as an adult. I tried rewatching them and giving them a chance, but by the time I got to the order of the Phoenix, I was like "I've stands all I can I can stands no more!"
It's basically just a fantasy setting but it lets real life do all the real legwork for the lore. "Hidden fantasy in real world" is some of the laziest world building.
I was similar, never read the books but watched the first 3 movies and then just lost interest. I am somewhat interested in the game coming out since it's unrelated to the books/movies and the thought of a game where you make a character and attend a magic school could be good, plus I miss Bully.
For me it was Goblet of Fire that was the point of no return in terms of quality. The HP universe originally set itself up as a psuedo-urban fantasy where Humans and Wizards co-existed with each other in secret and hiding with the majority of places in the world itself being small locales with smaller more town sized places where most Magic Folk were relegated to like Diagon Alley, otherwise they lived off away from others in civilization. But as time went on we saw that dwindle away. To me Prisoner of Azkaban was the last “great” Harry Potter story because it was the last time it’s world building made sense, because the Time Turner seemed somewhat limited to an extent, prisoners for Magic Folk for a variety of magic related crimes, ect. Then Goblet of Fire happened and The Tri-Wizard Tournament happened and it is established that in reality there are Wizards and Witches all around the world? That there are other Magic Schools that honestly took away the mystique and intrigue away from going to Hogwarts? On top of all that, it is also when the next book in Harry Potter should have realistically been the end. Voldemort is back and his army still exists in full force as they do smaller scale strikes and attacks like in the beginning of the story, why of all things does he delay for three fucking years? It still baffles me to this day that Voldemort didn’t simply take advantage of the full situation and try an invasion of both the human and Magic Folk world. He hated Muggleborns, had the advantage of FUCKING MAGIC, the likes of which we see as the series progresses; the ability to alter concepts of reality and memory alike, you mean to tell me that not once did this man immediately restart his dark crusade!? That is when the suspension of disbelief was broken for me, the leaps in logic were too much and the stories became broken beyond repair. Everything after that felt weird, with the books conforming to things that happened in the movies more often; changing the tone of future books thereafter, and by Goblet of Fire; I dropped the series I was so invested in as a child (ages 7-9 to be exact).
@@TheGlenn8 It can be done well if the limitations of such Hidden Fantasy is kept as such, hidden. Look at Vampire: The Masquerade for example. The world building in that series is epic and consistent and is nowhere near as broad in scale as Harry Potter eventually became. With Harry Potter, it just became too much. Money that can be valuable to only businesses in places like Diagon Alley with a bank like Gringotts? Okay I can get it, but an entire one world government comprised of Wizards and Witches in lofty government buildings as spacious and encompassing as the US Capital!? What!?
7:22 I’m now imagining a very constipated Sirius Black straining over the toilet. He’s tried multiple magic elixirs and muggle remedies yet nothing is working to help pass this dementor of a were-wolf shit. Thanks to you I will wonder this question with every shape-shifter character I ever see for the rest of my damn life…
snape is neither an incel nor a misunderstood sadboy he is a fictional character made to serve a specific role in the plot with a specific character arc. and he was a badly written character
The time turners are brought up again in one of the later books specifically there's a scene during the ministry of magic raid where they get destroyed Also it bugs me to no end that Harry didn't become the new defense against the dark arts teacher But rather went the route of wizard cop
so glad i get to be lured in by the promise of brendaniel making fun of the funny wizard books only to get flashbanged with the iimage of brendaniel mpreg one minute in never change
2:07 Also why in the movies are they constantly dirty and covered in small cuts and bruises? *Literally no effort low level spells have been mentioned that completely fix any of those issues!*
The wizard World is canonly divided but alongside somewhat different borders than ours. In the normal series the ministry we see is one with only the authority the UK and Ireland.
1. Pretty sure cause timeline in the universe (we do NOT talk about cursed child) is more of a ring, rather than straight line, so like, if you used time travel in future to get into past, things have already happened. So you can't really do more learning with that. Also they added a lot of rules of using time travel after realising how stupid this concept is, and as result destroying all time traveling things in book 5. 2. I'm pretty sure people joined Voldemort just because they either feared him, or had same thoughts, and when they realised things go downhill, it was too late to leave. Tbh didn't understand the question much. If it's about control of ministry, it's mostly just Britain, no other country. 3. idk, most likely there was explanation somewhere in book, i don't remember. 4. Goblins got a lot of skill with money and finances, they mint coins for currency too. With bank, pretty sure it was just design. 5. Good point, book Snape is just asshole, movie Snape a bit not. 6. Better question is what people were doing while champions were in lake. 7. Pretty sure they either did not pay any attention what was going on in their bedroom, or when Ron wasn't in school yet, they have already discovered most of secrets. 8. Uhhh, the big game of proffesor Dumbledore probably has answer to why the stone was so easy to reach. with rest stuff, it's mostly making fun of how private schools work. 9. ??? 10. Neither spells or potions can be done that easily by children tho, they have to get special skills for that. 11. probably i should stop writing about these personal questions. 12. money 13.
9:38 NO, Brendan. I'm going to write a comment about how HP is basically outlawed in many places here in the south because "magic and witchcraft is the devil's work" and Baptists are the hardest bible thumpers that have ever thumped a bible and honestly liking Harry Potter growing up was some of the most punk rock shit because of that fact, lmao
Despite how much there is missing and/or deliberately left open in this series, instead of writing fanfiction about the massive amount of potential stories left, it was decided the "What if Harry evil/What if Harry and Hermione dating" type of story had to dominate everything else. I know its because "Teenage girls", but still. 's a bummer.
Yes, and Peter Petigrew was _Ron's_ pet rat. Did they just accept that Ron was chilling with someone they'd never heard of this whole time? Probably sleeping near or with him?
Legitimate question: the unforgivable curses are seen by some to be "go to super mega grim dark jail", but how/why is the killing curse never used by people against rouge wizards whom are using the killing curse...like as a means of self defense or preventing terrible people from doing it in the near future? Like I know its seen as "the worst thing" for its lethality, but if someone is trying to kill you, everyone you love, and potentially commit a genocide of other wizards...you feel like more people would be willing to cross those lines if necessary... Like...if someone brings a gun to a fight intending to kill me, and is well known for killing people with said gun, and I also have said gun...why am I expected to use a tazzer or less lethal means? If I did so would I go to super grimdark jail, even if I had witnesses and magical evidence? Wizard self defense must be hell... Also I know wanerbrothers wants to milk the franchise, but why the hell do they need to try so hard to make "sagas" like they did with fantastic beasts? Like bruh you have a magical setting full of cool things... Why not make a film nior/detective film set in the setting? Or a crime movie? Or hell a friggin sports movie revolving around Quiditch? You don't need to connect every single film together into one nightmarish narrative or directly link it back to the original characters/stories...just explore the setting in a fun and interesting way.
Main reason why the killing curse is unforgivable is because you have to hate your target so much that you truly and bitterly want them dead. Using it for simple self-defense won't work, Harry tried it on Bellatrix and it wouldn't work because his hatred wasn't strong enough. It's kind of stupid that there isn't another spell that could counter it or be like it except the disarming spell.
No! God forbid we're actually creative with our movie! Cinematic universe is a word the kids these days say! What if the movie becomes a success and we don't have 5 more planned as well as 3 spin-offs. You have any idea how much money we'd miss out on?
There is a literal explosion spell, The Killing Curse kills painlessly. TBH I'd rather be hit with a killing curse than be literally exploded. Why Harry is casting Expelliarmus at Voldemort and not effectively lobbing magic grenades is beyond me but JK Rowling is British, and therefore cannot concieve of lethal force in self-defence.
I guess the only reason that you can’t use the boom headshot spell in self defense is because there’s just a “disarm gun” spell instead, that’s just as fast as the gun spell. I guess.
A better question about the animagus would be why would a wizard want to be one ? Like okay turning into an animal at will can be cool and maybe useful ( specially if it’s a flying one ) but it’s just one animal and you can’t choose it, so it can be some lazy ass animal like Peter turning into a rat, but the problem is the ritual to become one is very complicated, long and risky, if you mess up you can turn permanently into a hybrid of animal and wizard, the risks are greater than the reward
I honestly find it very believable that Dumbledore was constantly using the Time Turner. He conveniently appears in way too many places to just know where to be ahead of time. Also Harry Potter’s timeline is pretty solidly fixed, so using a time turner shouldn’t actually change past events, and in the third book they had to live out those hours they wound back. That is until the abomination that is the cursed child happened.
I think the thing that irks me most about Harry Potter is how obviously flawed the wizarding world is, yet it doesn't matter for some reason? For whatever reason, they're stuck in the 1800s with their use of quills and ink, candles, etc., when the second book proves you can have things like magic flying cars, have literal enslavment of magic creatures that is so ingrained into society, it took until Hermione to do something about it (Harry had a slave elf of his own IIRC), are openly racist towards non-magic users, to where even after Voldemort comes to power based on this racism and gets defeated, there's still a big-ass divide between their two societies because MUGGLES LUL, have all sorts of potions and spells that could easily be used for all manner of crimes, yet there are only three specific spells are considered "unforgivable", are required by law or whatever to go away for an entire year during the most formative time of their life to spend it all in these dangerous castles that would easily fail any health & safety test, where they are divided into a bunch of echo chambers like "good guy", "bad guy", "smart", and "stupid", based on their personality at age 10, except not really, because you can literally choose which house you get put into, teach a bunch of useless school subjects, including stuff like making potions, growing your own weed, and D.U.S.T. training (the wizarding world is like living in Detroit) instead of mathematics or general science or writing or health/development or whatever, and all sorts of other dumb shit. You'd think that the books would focus on some of these obvious flaws, but the only ones that they ever really address are the human rights / racism stuff, but even then, there's hardly any effort to actually fix these problems
The funny thing is that I feel if Rowling had just made the one book and then decided to keep making original works instead of hashing out the same idea she would have become a better writer and a better person to boot.
4:40 'aight here's the thing, that's a real bank in real life that they borrowed for the sake of the scene. It has Jewish Stars because it's a Jewish-run Bank.
The german youtuber coldmirror made all my childhood memories with their "funny and special adaptations" of Harry Potter much much more burnt into my head. @Brandaniel, you could make a fandub of their synchros in english ;-)
I've never been a Potterhead, i liked the movies as a kid and even read the last one instead of waiting several years to know how the story ended, but that's kinda It. So here's my blazing hot take: I've been enjoying the Fabulous Beasts movies more than i ever enjoyed Harry Potter. I like how atypical of a protagonist Scamander Is, and every scene is filled to the brim with fantasy and magic to support it, whereas the "wow" moments in HP are few and far between. The story they tell is also less cheesy and predictable, and the villain has an easily understendable motivation. I hope my appreciation won't age badly once the third movie comes out.
i liked snape originally bc he was hot but honestly i just like that fact he HAS character. hes a horrible person, and got used as well. how fun for him :)
I just always thought all the magic stuff, especially the spells, were so, *so* LAME. Broomsticks? Flying cars? Wands? Fucking WANDS?! I wouldn’t be caught dead waving around a wand like a fairy. I’d just put my wand inside of a big staff and use that instead, or I dunno, tie it to my wrist and wear sleeves all the time. I don’t wanna hear all the replies that, “oooh you have to wave the wand a specific way or else-“ Yeah yeah yeah, fiiiine, but if i do the same motion, just with my wand in a staff or attached to my wrist, the spells should work the same. Otherwise, the series is dumb, which is how I originally feel.
Time turners are virtually useless, because they can't alter the course of history (until the Cursed Child). Everything Harry and Hermione do after going back in time is stuff that already happened in the original timeline, they just didn't know it was them that did it.
Do paraplegics go to Hogwarts, I can see if it was a purebred or a halfblood they can go to the healers right after the accident to get healed but if it's a muggle born do they heal them, or if the injury is healed/ if they were born like that before coming to the wizarding world can a healing spell even work on them. Also the fact that Hogwarts/wizarding world is not wheelchair friendly, like not at all.
there was a kid in a wheelchair in the mobile game and it was literally never explained how he got around, even though he was the quidditch commentator, which required him to somehow get to the top of the quidditch towers
I think the whole reason why Voldemort easily took over the ministry of magic is because every single wizard in the world is a racist and is okay with genocide as long it's not them. Only exception is Hermione because she was the only wizard who thought "Hey, isn't slavery kind bad?"
Which is kinda weird, really. Like…there are presumably a bunch of black witches and wizards from muggle families who go/have gone to Hogwarts, but the first person to have preconceptions about slavery being bad is some white girl named ‘Hermione’?
my big Harry Potter 🤔is why didn't Voldemort just blast Harry with the ol' killin' curse back when they faced off at the Mirror of Erised (which I just realized is desire spelled backwards fucking lord) like I know it didn't work once but like that doesn't mean the dudes fully immune plus Harry hadn't learned of the unforgivable curses yet so Voldequirrell could just spring it on him and bim bam bosh Harrys dead and they never find the body
I still think it's incredibly funny and ironic how "mudblood" is a slur for non-magic people when mud blood is a real slur used against minorities in real life
My favorite detail is that Mr.Weasley's car is still out there in the forbidden forest. It's become one of the forest's creatures. Absolutely no one acknowledges this in the books.
The cars are returning to the forest, nature is healing
that's a Spinoff just waiting to happen
Imagine right at the moment when Harry and Voldemort were staring each other down in the forest, and Voldemort was about to kill him, that the car just flew in out of nowhere from the trees and ran Voldemort over
I know Potter puppet pals pointed this out years ago, but it still sticks with me to this day. Is there a spell that could feasibly stop a bullet? Because if not, what was stopping them from just shooting Voldemort?
British law.
@@opheliaplaysgames5599 someone could just decide to take one for the team
@@mogfoil isn’t there an American school in the books or something couldn’t one of them just joined the fight like it wouldn’t be the first time an American goes to Britain with a gun to kill someone. Why did they not get involved in the fighting I never understood that.
I think the reason was the Horcruxes. And also magic stops bullets or some shit.
You think they wouldn't have spells that can stop bullets lmao
I know a person named Hermione and they are in elementary school and I instantly knew that they aren’t just European but a child of Harry Potter fans.
Sad
Playing devil's advocate, it's kind of a nice name outside of the Harry Potter context so if the parents apply some sort of value to the name that isn't warped by children's book obsession then it could work. It is pretty on the nose but as long as the kid doesn't get a hard time for it, get ideas forced on them by the parents, and are able to develop a well humoured perspective on it then it may even turn out to be a positive thing.
There's a lot of ifs there though lol.
I knew a Hermione, but they were born either before or just as the first book came out (can't remember when in the year her birthday was, if I ever knew), so I don't think she was named after the character.
@@AdmiralOctopus I mean Hermione is a Shakespeare character too so its totally reasonable to think they were just fans of the Bard.
Kenneth Branagh is such a big fanboy of his he changed an Agatha Christie characters middle name in Murder on the Orient Express to Hermione.
@@panq8904 I just looked it up, and apparently the name Hermione dates back to ancient Greece, being derived from Hermes.
I think people just assume anyone named Hermione was named after the Harry Potter character, despite the fact it's been an actual name for much longer.
Did anyone else find it disturbing that Voldemort’s mom roofied his dad and the books didn’t make her seem like the bad guy?
Roofied him, raped him at least once, and the books just kinda gloss how immensely fucked up all that is. I think they mention using love potions to get into a relationship being s thing others did too, also without drawing much attention to how that is fucked up.
@@Alice-May Plus love potions are readily available for anyone to purchase and are often marketed towards girls to use on guys. So I guess there’s a reverse rape culture in the wizarding world? A really fucked up oversight on Rowling’s part but a compelling storyline for someone to pick up on.
Love Potions are even advertised towards children if I recall correctly. Not to mention Polyjuice Potion is a thing. Useful as both a rape and identity theft tool. Was making either of these potions ever made illegal? I can't think of a good way you could ethically justify using them and making them readily available
@@grunkleg.2934 Espionage maybe? But wizards are too cowardly to get involved in muggle warfare so there really is no excuse.
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Obviously the wizarding world is ran by people who think it's good you can force someone to love and then transform them into someone hot. Your personal identity, hopes and dreams are less valuable than my sexual satisfaction.
The bank the goblins are in is an actual bank that they shot in, so the pointy stars are just part of real world bank aesthetics.
No intent, just presentation of a fun fact.
The goblins running the banks, however, is entirely on JK Rowling.
It's a real place, but why did they use that one and not literally any other one? Goblin bankers with 6 pointed star? Really?
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They probably used it for the architecture.
My question is why a bank has a bunch of six pointed stars in it.
@@NoConsequenc3 now we're getting into the logistics of hiring banks to film in that could look like conceivably magical banks and that's too much to deal with. They picked that bank 'cause it looked cool.
The goblins are still antisemitic as hell and the books support actual chattel slavery.
@@willyeeton4390 I presume orcs are also black people to you?
@@willyeeton4390 nvm lol, reread your comment and saw that i misread it
they enslave sentient beings for housework and when hemione points out how weird that is, she's dismissed as a tree-hugger and it's never brought up again, even after dobby is freed and dies helping them
To be fair dobby willingly indebted himself to harry
@@TheRealRusDaddy Dobby did it out of choice. All the other House Elves are doing it because of a genetic predisposition to being in servitude...
Hmm, I think J.K. Rowling might be a bigot.
@@jor4114 house elves are a fantasy creature dude, they aren't real. Are you really calling someone a bigot against a fantasy creature?
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No, but when looking at how her ignorant views on very real groups of people might have bled into her work, it's not a big stretch to call her as such.
I guess the best way to think of it is like if Hermione tried to start a robot uprising in the modern world
But yeah given what Rowling’s views are, I have no issue with seeing the whole thing as pretty sus
Here’s a question. Were the Salem Witch Trials ever mentioned in the books or movies? Did they even occur, and if so, were they real witches or were they regular humans who took the fall for real magic users? If real magic users were actually killed than would that make the Salem witch trials the wizard world’s equivalent to the Holocaust? Do you think they have their own Holocaust museum? Do they teach about the trials at Hogwarts?
They were mentioned in the books. They used a flame cooling spell in order to avoid the flames and I believe some level of invisibility. I think it was in 2 or 3. It was when Harry did his homework at the Dursleys.
i'm pretty sure none of the wizards gave a shit about the holocaust? i think it's implied that grindelwald was helping hitler, since they were both defeated the same year and JK Rowling said "no, that's not a coincidence". that interview was in 2005 though, before fantastic beasts was released. other than that, i don't know if there's any real connection to the holocaust and the magical world - they're pretty insular for the most part.
I do believe they're mentioned at some point early in the books, or in one of the side text books that are actual books (never read them, just paraphrasing from TV Tropes).
Essentially yes they were real, nobody died at them, Wizards were just fucking with Puritans. They put "Fireproofing Magic" on themselves when they were put to the stake and said the flames tickled so some of the screaming may've been real, just from laughter not death.
However they don't mention if there were any real humans involved so it's possible that some regular folk got wrapped into the Witch Madness and actually got burned at the stake, or something. One hopes children who were accidentally magic but didn't know how to fireproof weren't burned alive...
salem DEF happened, considering in fantastic beasts (my pirated love) the big villain is a "second salemer"
If they did happen, I figure that both muggle and Wizard/Witches got muddled in the mix.
I actually work at the Harry Potter Store in New York. I cant lie, the people who come into the store look like they have never really read another book other than Harry Potter. The store admittedly is cool. But people straight up orgasm at the decorations. Its a sight to behold.
Is that you in your profile picture. Bro I don't think they are having orgasms just because the store 🤣
@@physetermacrocephalus2209 LMFAO
There's a harry potter store in New York? I mean, I haven't been to the City in a while, but that feels like something I'd remember
I literally just wanna go to try Butterbeer.
Like, I haven't even watched the MOVIES, let alone the books. My knowledge of the series is fully dependent on pop culture osmosis.
Guarantee they all look like they play a Ukulele too
Reminder that Luna Lovegood can also see through the ultimate invisibility cloak that can fool death himself with free 3D glasses she got from a conspiracy magazine.
She didn't see through the cloak, but rather all the bug-things that floated around Harry's head
@@Cyshachiku Maybe, but that doesn't make much more sense tbh. After all the cloak doesn't just make you invisible, it *should* in theory make you undetectable so how tf do the bugs know where his head is.
About that one, I've been going through the books again, and in the book, it is Tonks that finds Harry, not Luna. So Rowling did not entirely screw this one up.
@@samuraigoldi2308 Remind me how TONKS found him, then.
@@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick I don't entirely remember. Just read the chapter bro.
Only once have I met a kid with the name Severus. High School, in a "Future Teachers" program. Easy A, just teach elementary and middle school kids basic shit, just don't pull out your phone and bam, you pass. Called roll one day. "Jakob, Lilith, Severus-" and I did a double take. That conversation went:
"Your name's really 'Severus'?"
"Yep."
"Parents are big Potter fans?"
"Yep."
"I'm so sorry."
"Yep."
Anytime someone started to mess with him I stepped in. I read all of those books and I'll be damned if I watch this kid accept his parents' personality and turn him into a chemistry teacher who resents his name and his job.
Good on you for standing up to him, and I hope he changes his name when he's older.
I’m almost as weirded out by there being someone named Lilith. Is that a common-ish name in some language? Because the only Lilith I know is the antagonistic one from certain religion/myth and I wouldn’t want to name my kid that!
@@emblemblade9245 Parents were Eva fans perhaps? /s
@@panq8904 or Darkstalker fans, but in that case I would have thought Morrigan might have been more likely
@@rotciv557 Unless they already have a Morrigan
Harry being a wizard cop actually makes perfect sense. He was a high school jock with loads of potential who dropped out of highschool.
Oh yeah. Given the age students go to Hogwarts, what the frick do they even do for college?
@@emblemblade9245 It matches the age range of English high schools; you start at eleven and finish at sixteen.
I still think he would have been better in the position of defense against the dark arts he even showed that he has a bit of an aptitude for being a leader/teacher with dumbledore's army
I think it's tiring how British culture has turned JK Rowling into some weird saint figure to the point her characters get statues in cities. Where is the love for my man Douglas Adams?
Based
Give me a Zaphod bust or give me death!
If we don't get a statue of Marvin the Paranoid Android, I'm going to riot.
Or Terry Pratchett?
Just gonna slide into these here comments to remind everyone that JK googled magic school in Japanese to name the Howarts analogue in Japan "Mahoutokoro", which actually means magic place in Japanese.
Yeah it's as awkward as it sounds.
wow max minimum effort
The yanderedev technique of Japanese naming
Also it's apparently the only magic school in ALL of Asia, so apparently Chinese, Indian & South-East Asian students have to attend the same school as Japanese students, considering any and all real world implications & international relations between all those regions, peoples and cultures I'm sure that goes just *splendidly*...
@@panq8904 this basically the same implication in Bleach for the afterlife since what we see in the series is East Soul Society
Also the name Cho Chang doesn't make sense in Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, or Cantonese
Big fan of Shaun pointing out on Twitter that Harry starts the series forced to cook for the durselys and the last paragraph if the series has him hoping that his slave elf made him a sandwich
Funny, but Shaun shouldn't have any audience.
@@archagenteverlasting1239 eh... Brendaniel is a JoJo fan though :p
@@Olematonnimi cool, don't care.
@@archagenteverlasting1239 Shaun vids are great, Shaun tweets are…. Well Twitter is not know to bring out the best in people.
@@archagenteverlasting1239 I’m confused. Why did you jump to a conclusion on the why Olematonnimi didn’t want this Shaun person to have an audience? I just don’t quite see how you gathered that information with such certainty. From what I see he didn’t mentioned politics just that Shaun apparently doesn’t deserve an audience.
I think Ron would have noticed his pet rat leaving human sized dumps in his cage.
That leaves the question though if inanimate matter shrinks with you what happens if you like swallowed a hot wheels and then went rat mode. Would the hot wheels shrink, or would you explode? Does the transformation process include violently expelling excess fluid and solids when you shrink from human to rat?
Honestly, he'd probably assume it was one of the twins messing with him
...I'll be honest. I never noticed the stars on the floor of the goblin bank. That REALLY makes you go HMMMMM now, god damn.
The locale they filmed the interior of that bank in had those stars as a part of the architecture and aren’t explicitly stated in TPS until they return to Gringotts in the later books for continuity sake.
There was likely no real intent in that part of it. The idea of goblins running the banks may be a sore and touchy subject of course because of the underlying connotations of bigotry since Goblins are often used as an old English style way of portraying a generally unsavory individual(s), but considering the writing style of Rowling and what not; I doubt she was all that aware of what Goblins represented or were meant to be representative of in English myth.
Considering all the history and recent knowledge regarding JK Rowling however it is easy to have such interesting things barrel roll down on everything and have some of the more shall we say “peculiar” aspects of the characterizations and worlds presented in the books and ergo the films.
All that magic yet Harry still needed glasses
What I want to know is if wizards have some actual genetic difference from non-wizard people or if insulting their blood is the only method of discrimination they could come up with despite literally having magic as the ultimate "fuck you"
It's the midiclorians in their blood, duh
@@grunkleg.2934 basically the same shit
bro rowling loves the genetic difference even if they mean nothing so
4:50 The reason why the bank has many pointed stars on it is not because of any design decision it’s because they filmed it in an actual bank and it just had those everywhere
Hmm
Hmmmmmmmm
The building wasn’t a bank. It was the Australia House in London.
I think the time turners all got destroyed in book 5(?) bc that was the time JK noticed the plot conundrum she created. (Which makes it even worse that one shows up in The Cursed Child
Yes they were
Did the books ever explain why they weren't allowed any technology past stuff you'd see in the 1800s? Doctor Doom is proof alone that science + magic would literally make you the most powerful, advanced society on the planet. Is it just a matter of legality?
Nope! They just say it doesn't work. No explanation for why the ministry of magic doesn't fuck up the surrounding London area.
@@Alice-May You'd think they'd at least have pencils and notebooks in the wizarding world, even though they literally wear regular ass clothes in the movies
@@grunkleg.2934 seriously, they're depicted as ignorant and backwards as hell due to willful ignorance and opposition to the outside world.
I always assumed it was something like Arcanum were mixing the two is a really bad idea.
I thought it was just that Wizards are arrogant and think themselves superior to muggles. They don't bother with muggle toys because they believe magic is so much superior.
"... or does the Ministry control... without borders?"
Magiciens Sans Frontières
Punished "Venom" Voldemort
Here's a plot-hole that only exists thanks to JK Rowling's tweets:
JK claims that wizards shat themselves and then used spells to remove the shit before plumming was added to the school. My question is, didn't the rennovators notice the chamber of secrets? Like, when they were adding the pipes under the school for the shit, did they purposefully include massive sewerpipes capable of holding a basilisk on purpose? I mean, they added the plumming right? Which means they added the sinks? Which means that the magic snake sink in the girls bathroom which acted as the entrance to the chamber of secrets was them too right? For real, it kinda seems like lore which was essential to the 2nd book in the goddamn series suggests that the school was designed with plumming from day one.
The chamber was created by Salazar Slytherin before he peaced out because no one would agree with his elitism. So at least we know it wasn't the magic renovators, since allegedly no one was able to find it except for some choice characters. Still doesn't fill in the gaps though.
Speaking of slytherin. I can't remember a single "good person" ever in slytherin. They're just written to have no chill. Perfect for a childrens book I guess. Every kid who has bullies he dosent like can imagine them in Slytherin and they can imagine themselves in Griffondore and feel good for a bit. Or you can imagine yourself in slytherin doing evil shit to all the people you don't like, and then carry around a death-note for the rest of highschool.
to quote a video essay about the subject: all the little slytherin kids get sent to the dungeon to be indoctrinated into racists
The nicest one shown was Slughorn, and even HE was casually racist.
The time turner thing is mildly explained. Basically the events of the time turner have already happened, so if you made the decision to use the time turner, you wouldn't change the past, you'd just be doing exactly what the timeline expects you to do, meaning that its only pratical use is in fact just being in 2 places at once, which is what it was used for in the prisoner of azkaban, they had to be in two places at once, not go back in time
I'm probably giving J.K. Rowling way too much credit given how her books are written, but you can headcanon a logical explanation
Fair, but also for the latter half of the book Cursed Child doesn't follow these rules at all. They literally change the timeline, accidentally creating a universe where Voldemort wins. They fix it of course but it does happen.
@@zanemcewen1343 The cursed child is like if you made the Time Turner Concept into a baby, then swung that baby by the ankles into every available solid surface
@@zanemcewen1343 Then yeah, too much credit to JK.
And as for why they don't show up in the main books after Prisoner of Azkaban, I think it was said they all got destroyed by either the ministry or the Death Eaters? J.K. Rowling realised how much of a giant issue they where for the plots, so quietly got rid of them off screen,
Lucius Malfoy almost blickied a 10 year old for girlbossing his slave elf out of servitude
The invisibility Cloak detection thing always bugged me when it was revealed that it served as one of the Deathly Hallows...a cloak coming from the robe of death itself, that death couldn't even detect, when they gave it to one of the three brothers! It made sense when it was just a typical magical item, that was effective, but not entirely full proof, since detection was possible, animals being an example.
It's even shown in at least the last book to be straight up immune to magic I am pretty sure. At one point while Harry is using it, a death eater hits it with a spell (I think accio? or however it's spelled?) and Harry hurrys to hold on to the cloak so it doesn't get whisked away and then suddenly realized that nothing happened.
That was only one time from him being unconscious and while lovegood was seeing those bugs on him. So she saw him unconscious but not invisible.
hello Brendaniel i am here to tell you that in fact, dumbledore is NOT the person who gives out the time turners, that's the government. mcgonagall writes a letter to some rando and they go "well since the kid (hermione) has got such good grades, let's just give her one". the subsequent question of why voldemort, the guy who took over the government, does nothing with these is a very good question that will also never be answered.
edit: it seems like time travel in harry potter works more based off a "it was always destined to happen" if you time travel. ron weasley disappears for a few pages, only to show up because they kidnapped him with their future selves. harry gives himself the ability to cast the patronus charm because he saved himself beforehand. this never becomes a problem ever.
edit edit: while yes, the british government is NOT the world government (that's the international confederation of wizards, i guess???????), voldemort did just basically say "i have more people in my personal army than there are people who are willing and capable of fighting me". also only human wizards/witches get to use wands and things, goblins and the like are not allowed to wield them because humanity is racist.
If our government would mail out Javelin missiles to high school kids on account of good grades I probably would have been a better student too. God, being a muggle fucking sucks bro. 🙄
Goblins shouldnt have automatic wandarms there would be nothing good to come from
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I’m fairly certian the British military wouldn’t die without a fight. Plus I’ve always felt that wizards overestimate themselves, especially with how advanced technology is getting. If this took place in America, Voldemort would’ve been on the top of the FBI’s most wanted and every state would be locked down like a fortress.
Do American wizards use guns or do their wands just shoot bullets
Their guns is magical. The spells are Full Metal Jacket, Hollow Point, Armour Piercing, etc etc.
@@spamquisition4046 dragon's breath does sound like it could be a spell
Alaka-blam
Has there ever been a mass wanding at Hogwarts?
Fun fact: The pointed star on the floor was part of the actual bank they filmed the scene in.
So they just didn't think about it. They went "oh this scene takes place in an opulent bank, let's film in a real life opulent bank" and didn't think about any implications because it was 2001
"sorry doctor who fans, it is called the tardis"
absolutely gobsmacked em
Writers, unless you have a *very* strong idea for specifically how time travel works in your setting, please for the love of god do not include it in your story if you intend to have any amount of seriousness.
And sometimes don't involve it even if you do have a strong idea. Time travel tends to create way more problems than it solves, narratively.
I think Harry Potter is similar to Star Wars this way, the original narrative wasn't terrible or anything but it's modern popularity is vastly larger than it should be.
Star Wars actually is good tho and has a shit load of lore and good video games
@@Shrekfromthehitmovieshrek Star Wars shouldn’t be as popular as it is
Ehh. Star Wars has been on ups and downs. Real down right now. Harry Potter has done nothing but slump since the movie series really ended and it’s been crapppy prequels and spin offs since.
How do the kids in Harry Potter, especially those born in magic society, learn about things that aren't just magic? I'm talking math, reading, and writing for elementary level, and things like health & sex ed for the older kids. From age 10 - 17, these kids literally learn nothing important about living life, instead they learn how to make potions and take self-defense classes basically. I guess that sorta works because the only career options in the Harry Potter world are like magic cop, magic teacher, and confectioner, but still. Are there wizarding elementary schools in the Harry Potter world that teach them these things? Is the curriculum at Hogwarts just really bad, and other schools out there do offer typical subjects? There's no way that the people who built Hogwarts just magic'd the whole thing into existance without any sort of architect or engineer. And we can clearly see that these kids very much go through puberty and have adult feelings and stuff, but nowhere do they learn about their developing bodies. I guess it's like a commentary on our own education system or whatever, that's what JK would say or whatever, but there's literally no point for it to be like that. The Harry Potter series works as a set of mystery novels for children, and that's it
They learn that stuff off camera, or when back home.
@@JolanXBL or on the train ride over there
We were robbed of McGonagal teaching Sex Ed
Wizards just don't do math. Or use condoms. Or learn to be productive and well rounded humans at all because if your not Harry Potter, your shit. And if your in slytherin, your literally just evil.
I wanna know about Wizard trade school.
About the time travel shenanigans, I appreciate that at least JK wrote it in a perfect loop, where they went back in time to save some people but those people were already saved by future them.
For the adult's puzzles things, Brendan the literally invaded Gringotts the same day that Harry and Hagrid emptied the safe, so movint the Stone was at least a good move. The puzzles were a bit ass though, I feel like the most competent one was Snape's just because it avoids the usual magic stuff witches are used to
Dumbledore could have put the stone in his sock drawer and then cast the Fidelius on it. The reason he didn't was because JK hadn't had the idea for the Fidelius yet.
Brendan, never change. You are our bouncing baby boy.
The floor at Gringotts is literally just the actual floor of the place they shot the scene at, so no deeper meaning there, just saying.
Who wants to tell him about editing because I can't be arsed
@@jamesgardner6434 I mean yes you could cut it in post, but it probably just completely flew over their heads how anti-semitic it was. I think that's the most likely explanation.
@@McDumDum the editors were unprepared for the wokeness to come
then what does that say about the actual bank?
@@ahab_cheese Not a bank, it's Australia House in London. And I don't see how having a simple hexagram within a flooring pattern is antisemitic by default. Y'all just looking for reasons to be offended at this point.
Personally I think the Invisibility Cloak being a Deathly Hallow is a retcon.
In the first book/movie Ron implies that there are more than one of them, saying that “they’re really rare.”
…plus, he *immediately* knew what it was and what it was called, as if he had heard of them before.
It would explain why Moody can see through it.
…because Rowling didn’t plan that far ahead.
So.
Poor writing, yes
It does raise the question of why the school staff - who clearly knew Harry had the cloak - allowed him to have it, especially given Dumbledore is revealed to still be a tiiiiiny bit stupid when it comes to powerful artefacts like the Hallows.
@@MrStath1986
Again, poor writing.
These are the same people who casually let a little girl have a time-traveling device.
These are the same people who got butthurt about Hagrid owning a baby dragon, yet let him have a Hippogriff, keep a Cerberus in the 3rd floor and do f*ck all to stop an ADULT dragon when it gets loose on school grounds.
…and the DEMENTORS!
Absolute incompetence.
It's not unlikely that other invisibility cloaks exist, the deathly hallows cloak being a more powerful version, or the original others are based off of. Moody being able to see through it is pretty telling though, definitely not getting away fromt that one.
I read only half of the 6th book (and watched all the movies) but from what I heard, in the books it was explain that the Marauder's Map doesn't show the creators, the Marauders (iirc it was Lupin, Severus, Peter, and Harry's father) unless you were a Marauder, and Harry having blood from his father it showed Peter to him. I don't know if this is the cannon explanation but it really needed to be in the movies.
Overall, I like Harry Potter, but it has many flaws, not to the point I would say that it's badly written (although in parts it is) still enjoyable young fiction if you pretend JK Rowling twitter doesn't exist. Or she doesn't exist.
Didn't JK Rowling actually say at one point that wizards just shit themselves and use magic to clean it up, or make it invisible? Like literally just shit wherever you stand and walk away from it.
From the Twitter of wizardingworld:
"Hogwarts didn't always have bathrooms. Before adopting Muggle plumbing methods in the eighteenth century, witches and wizards simply relieved themselves wherever they stood, and vanished the evidence. "
@@theultimatefreak666 LOL.
She did, and it makes ZERO SENSE because the implication with Chamber of Secrets is that the Chamber has been there since the school was founded... and the chamber is opened using the *plumbing*... which she's now said wasn't there.
Fun Anecdote from my work: I deliver beverages by the crate right to people's front doors, so I see a shit-ton of doormats. While there is a lot of variety, there are certain ones that keep reappearing: A Deadpool one captioned "Who brought the Chimichangas", a Yoda one saying "Welcome You Are!" and a Harry Potter one with a winged key on it and the caption "Alohomora"
i was confused when i went to universal in Orlando. kept seeing people in wizard robes then i remembered the ride
I'd like to point out that Diana Wynne Jones also wrote Fantasy books, and never got into a scandal.
A few answers:
3:14 the Minstry of magic has jurisdiction of the UK
4:45 the six pointed stars on the floor were just a part of Australia House, where they filmed and weren't in the books.
6:22 Apparantly, animagi do not appear on the map in their animal form in the book (im not too sure about this though, I haven't read them ive only seen the wiki)
I’ve been following you since the dramatic fanfiction reading days. I can stil remember my first introduction to your content being the crackfic of Sasuke x Will Smith. With content like that it always feels like a coin flip on wether the person making the content falls into the alt-right pipeline or embraces and becomes the cringe king. I’m glad you’re the latter. Never stop being a king 👑
Will Smith and Sasuke, not what I was expecting to see today. I bet that was hilarious as hell.
When is Harry and who is he Potter?
i think the fact that cedric turns evil because he was embarrassed that he was inflated aunt marge style at the second trial in a world where both mind control and spells that rewrite all of a person's memories exist is worse than the trolley lady
like seriously, there's multiple ways they could've had harry end up dead because cedric survived, but instead they went for inflation
About the Marauder's Map: Pettigrew was one of the 4 people who created the map, to use said map to sneak around and cause mischief. So I can understand if the map is enchanted to not show these 4 persons' names. Just gotta check if it showed Lupin or Sirius at any given point in time.
I just figured that wizards are so well-versed in magic, that they let the kids get away with whatever so that life would be fun for them.
No one is really under much danger because the most trouble the kids get into always has a counterspell, or ointment, or some sort of magical Band-Aid.
The only dangerous part about it is death. Other than that, life is a playground.
The fucking hamster smashing killed me, I listened to that episode again last night
I used to be a harry potter loremaster, until i grew up a little. I should still have some info in the brain to answer some of these questions.
1. She just couldn't make classes, and was responsible, so the teachers thought she could handle time travel. This is of course a stupid decision, but I guess teaching prepubescent teens how to use magic that could very easily kill someone, levitation being an easy choice, is too, so I don't really know what to expect from these teachers. At the end of the book, she either handed the turner in because she couldn't handle the stress or she confessed that she used it for personal gain and had it revoked. The devices are very strictly regulated, and we do see a lot of them when the group storms the ministry in the later books. As to why they are never used again, I can come up with a couple potential reasons. Voldemort is too confident to use them, as he doesn't think he can make mistakes. He sure as shit wouldn't let some of his subordinates have one either, as they could easily grow stronger than him. In the case of harry's faction, I guess that they didn't use them because it would be illegal to, even though they don't really have the most respect for the law. They also are not exactly powerful at all, as part of the time travel rules that I will explain in a minute. Before that, I need to discuss the canon of cursed child. I do not consider the cursed child canon, not because of the edgy weird shit, but because they made ron blonde. That one inconsistency is enough to write off the whole thing as noncanon. To explain some of your concerns about the time travel, any time travel also already happens. In the wizard using the note to avoid shitting self scenario, he would only find the note after he shits himself, as he didn't see it the first time. Its a cheap, yet somewhat consistent way to write time travel.
2. Their are ministries for each country. During the voldemort takeover, other countries largely just gave 0 fucks.
3. Wizard cop because he hates bad guys and in harry potter wizard cops somehow actually work good with 0 bad shit, but we don't actually know if wizard cop is his job the originals left his job out, and cursed child's status as canon is debatable.
4.They like it, and if you could do magic you sure as shit wouldn't be doing math all day when you can just live as a hobo in an allyway and fuck with normal people. They don't teach it at wizard school, so the only folks to really know it would probably not be wizards. One of ron's brothers works for the bank, but in a different country so I guess math wizards do have a place to get off. Nothing about the stars though. Also the anti-semetic thing does check out.
5. Agreed.
6. Agreed. Except for the force ghost part. Not real people, just hallucinations turned some what real by magic.
7. They probably thought the thing was fucked up, thought ron was gay, or were too occupied pulling pranks like you said. None of those are exactly the best conversations to bring up with people so they probably just kept it quiet.
8. It is probably the same mentality as a dad getting his 4 year old a gun because he had one so its safe.
9. Definitely animal. Ron would have noticed a human sized shit in his rat cage. Also one person could turn into a beetle, and got trapped in a jar so they would have died other wise. No pushback.
10. Agreed.
11. Probably around a week to two weeks. Fictional slurs are hard man.
12. Other than money idk.
13. IDK. Moody probably could have met death and gotten a new better eye, but thats a shitty excuse.
I agree on not thinking about from this point forward. I do want to meet someone named nevile longbottom because that would be funny. The writing sucks, but this is just a way to explain some of the shit in the books for fun's sake.
Ohhhh yeah. The beetle was that reporter lady. Rita something.
I used to like Harry Potter...when I was a small child. Then I don't know what happened, I turned 10 years old and just became really dumb to me. It's oddly the only franchise I used to like as a child, that I now don't as an adult. I tried rewatching them and giving them a chance, but by the time I got to the order of the Phoenix, I was like "I've stands all I can I can stands no more!"
It's basically just a fantasy setting but it lets real life do all the real legwork for the lore.
"Hidden fantasy in real world" is some of the laziest world building.
I was similar, never read the books but watched the first 3 movies and then just lost interest. I am somewhat interested in the game coming out since it's unrelated to the books/movies and the thought of a game where you make a character and attend a magic school could be good, plus I miss Bully.
For me it was Goblet of Fire that was the point of no return in terms of quality.
The HP universe originally set itself up as a psuedo-urban fantasy where Humans and Wizards co-existed with each other in secret and hiding with the majority of places in the world itself being small locales with smaller more town sized places where most Magic Folk were relegated to like Diagon Alley, otherwise they lived off away from others in civilization.
But as time went on we saw that dwindle away. To me Prisoner of Azkaban was the last “great” Harry Potter story because it was the last time it’s world building made sense, because the Time Turner seemed somewhat limited to an extent, prisoners for Magic Folk for a variety of magic related crimes, ect. Then Goblet of Fire happened and The Tri-Wizard Tournament happened and it is established that in reality there are Wizards and Witches all around the world? That there are other Magic Schools that honestly took away the mystique and intrigue away from going to Hogwarts? On top of all that, it is also when the next book in Harry Potter should have realistically been the end. Voldemort is back and his army still exists in full force as they do smaller scale strikes and attacks like in the beginning of the story, why of all things does he delay for three fucking years?
It still baffles me to this day that Voldemort didn’t simply take advantage of the full situation and try an invasion of both the human and Magic Folk world. He hated Muggleborns, had the advantage of FUCKING MAGIC, the likes of which we see as the series progresses; the ability to alter concepts of reality and memory alike, you mean to tell me that not once did this man immediately restart his dark crusade!? That is when the suspension of disbelief was broken for me, the leaps in logic were too much and the stories became broken beyond repair. Everything after that felt weird, with the books conforming to things that happened in the movies more often; changing the tone of future books thereafter, and by Goblet of Fire; I dropped the series I was so invested in as a child (ages 7-9 to be exact).
@@TheGlenn8
It can be done well if the limitations of such Hidden Fantasy is kept as such, hidden. Look at Vampire: The Masquerade for example. The world building in that series is epic and consistent and is nowhere near as broad in scale as Harry Potter eventually became.
With Harry Potter, it just became too much. Money that can be valuable to only businesses in places like Diagon Alley with a bank like Gringotts? Okay I can get it, but an entire one world government comprised of Wizards and Witches in lofty government buildings as spacious and encompassing as the US Capital!? What!?
7:22 I’m now imagining a very constipated Sirius Black straining over the toilet. He’s tried multiple magic elixirs and muggle remedies yet nothing is working to help pass this dementor of a were-wolf shit.
Thanks to you I will wonder this question with every shape-shifter character I ever see for the rest of my damn life…
I remember really loving Snape when I was little and now that I'm an adult I realize I just really liked Alan Rickman and Snape was a garbage person
snape is neither an incel nor a misunderstood sadboy
he is a fictional character made to serve a specific role in the plot with a specific character arc.
and he was a badly written character
Never seen or read but I still watched this and was entertained. Thank you for posting
The time turners are brought up again in one of the later books specifically there's a scene during the ministry of magic raid where they get destroyed
Also it bugs me to no end that Harry didn't become the new defense against the dark arts teacher
But rather went the route of wizard cop
so glad i get to be lured in by the promise of brendaniel making fun of the funny wizard books only to get flashbanged with the iimage of brendaniel mpreg one minute in
never change
2:07 Also why in the movies are they constantly dirty and covered in small cuts and bruises? *Literally no effort low level spells have been mentioned that completely fix any of those issues!*
.i wish writers would just leave time travel alone
I took a harry potter themed class in middle school.
It only grew my hatred for the series.
What does one even do in a Harry Potter themed class?
The wizard World is canonly divided but alongside somewhat different borders than ours. In the normal series the ministry we see is one with only the authority the UK and Ireland.
1. Pretty sure cause timeline in the universe (we do NOT talk about cursed child) is more of a ring, rather than straight line, so like, if you used time travel in future to get into past, things have already happened. So you can't really do more learning with that. Also they added a lot of rules of using time travel after realising how stupid this concept is, and as result destroying all time traveling things in book 5.
2. I'm pretty sure people joined Voldemort just because they either feared him, or had same thoughts, and when they realised things go downhill, it was too late to leave. Tbh didn't understand the question much. If it's about control of ministry, it's mostly just Britain, no other country.
3. idk, most likely there was explanation somewhere in book, i don't remember.
4. Goblins got a lot of skill with money and finances, they mint coins for currency too. With bank, pretty sure it was just design.
5. Good point, book Snape is just asshole, movie Snape a bit not.
6. Better question is what people were doing while champions were in lake.
7. Pretty sure they either did not pay any attention what was going on in their bedroom, or when Ron wasn't in school yet, they have already discovered most of secrets.
8. Uhhh, the big game of proffesor Dumbledore probably has answer to why the stone was so easy to reach. with rest stuff, it's mostly making fun of how private schools work.
9. ???
10. Neither spells or potions can be done that easily by children tho, they have to get special skills for that.
11. probably i should stop writing about these personal questions.
12. money
13.
9:38 NO, Brendan. I'm going to write a comment about how HP is basically outlawed in many places here in the south because "magic and witchcraft is the devil's work" and Baptists are the hardest bible thumpers that have ever thumped a bible and honestly liking Harry Potter growing up was some of the most punk rock shit because of that fact, lmao
Despite how much there is missing and/or deliberately left open in this series, instead of writing fanfiction about the massive amount of potential stories left, it was decided the "What if Harry evil/What if Harry and Hermione dating" type of story had to dominate everything else.
I know its because "Teenage girls", but still. 's a bummer.
Acio is the most broken spell in all the series and you can't convince me otherwise
6:18 I think this can be answered with a simple “they don’t know or aren’t familiar with Peter Petagrew.”
Yes, and Peter Petigrew was _Ron's_ pet rat. Did they just accept that Ron was chilling with someone they'd never heard of this whole time? Probably sleeping near or with him?
the Trolley Witch being a Demon isn't even the worst part of Cursed Child
Legitimate question: the unforgivable curses are seen by some to be "go to super mega grim dark jail", but how/why is the killing curse never used by people against rouge wizards whom are using the killing curse...like as a means of self defense or preventing terrible people from doing it in the near future?
Like I know its seen as "the worst thing" for its lethality, but if someone is trying to kill you, everyone you love, and potentially commit a genocide of other wizards...you feel like more people would be willing to cross those lines if necessary...
Like...if someone brings a gun to a fight intending to kill me, and is well known for killing people with said gun, and I also have said gun...why am I expected to use a tazzer or less lethal means? If I did so would I go to super grimdark jail, even if I had witnesses and magical evidence?
Wizard self defense must be hell...
Also I know wanerbrothers wants to milk the franchise, but why the hell do they need to try so hard to make "sagas" like they did with fantastic beasts? Like bruh you have a magical setting full of cool things...
Why not make a film nior/detective film set in the setting? Or a crime movie? Or hell a friggin sports movie revolving around Quiditch? You don't need to connect every single film together into one nightmarish narrative or directly link it back to the original characters/stories...just explore the setting in a fun and interesting way.
Main reason why the killing curse is unforgivable is because you have to hate your target so much that you truly and bitterly want them dead. Using it for simple self-defense won't work, Harry tried it on Bellatrix and it wouldn't work because his hatred wasn't strong enough.
It's kind of stupid that there isn't another spell that could counter it or be like it except the disarming spell.
Self defense is an alien concept to the british
No! God forbid we're actually creative with our movie! Cinematic universe is a word the kids these days say!
What if the movie becomes a success and we don't have 5 more planned as well as 3 spin-offs. You have any idea how much money we'd miss out on?
There is a literal explosion spell, The Killing Curse kills painlessly. TBH I'd rather be hit with a killing curse than be literally exploded. Why Harry is casting Expelliarmus at Voldemort and not effectively lobbing magic grenades is beyond me but JK Rowling is British, and therefore cannot concieve of lethal force in self-defence.
I guess the only reason that you can’t use the boom headshot spell in self defense is because there’s just a “disarm gun” spell instead, that’s just as fast as the gun spell.
I guess.
6:40 I'd just like to point out that the same children also broke into Gringotts. Nothing is safe from the Plot Armour Trio.
A better question about the animagus would be why would a wizard want to be one ? Like okay turning into an animal at will can be cool and maybe useful ( specially if it’s a flying one ) but it’s just one animal and you can’t choose it, so it can be some lazy ass animal like Peter turning into a rat, but the problem is the ritual to become one is very complicated, long and risky, if you mess up you can turn permanently into a hybrid of animal and wizard, the risks are greater than the reward
I honestly find it very believable that Dumbledore was constantly using the Time Turner. He conveniently appears in way too many places to just know where to be ahead of time. Also Harry Potter’s timeline is pretty solidly fixed, so using a time turner shouldn’t actually change past events, and in the third book they had to live out those hours they wound back. That is until the abomination that is the cursed child happened.
I think the thing that irks me most about Harry Potter is how obviously flawed the wizarding world is, yet it doesn't matter for some reason? For whatever reason, they're stuck in the 1800s with their use of quills and ink, candles, etc., when the second book proves you can have things like magic flying cars, have literal enslavment of magic creatures that is so ingrained into society, it took until Hermione to do something about it (Harry had a slave elf of his own IIRC), are openly racist towards non-magic users, to where even after Voldemort comes to power based on this racism and gets defeated, there's still a big-ass divide between their two societies because MUGGLES LUL, have all sorts of potions and spells that could easily be used for all manner of crimes, yet there are only three specific spells are considered "unforgivable", are required by law or whatever to go away for an entire year during the most formative time of their life to spend it all in these dangerous castles that would easily fail any health & safety test, where they are divided into a bunch of echo chambers like "good guy", "bad guy", "smart", and "stupid", based on their personality at age 10, except not really, because you can literally choose which house you get put into, teach a bunch of useless school subjects, including stuff like making potions, growing your own weed, and D.U.S.T. training (the wizarding world is like living in Detroit) instead of mathematics or general science or writing or health/development or whatever, and all sorts of other dumb shit. You'd think that the books would focus on some of these obvious flaws, but the only ones that they ever really address are the human rights / racism stuff, but even then, there's hardly any effort to actually fix these problems
The funny thing is that I feel if Rowling had just made the one book and then decided to keep making original works instead of hashing out the same idea she would have become a better writer and a better person to boot.
4:40 'aight here's the thing, that's a real bank in real life that they borrowed for the sake of the scene. It has Jewish Stars because it's a Jewish-run Bank.
-Be British (derogatory)
imagine being american and still living with your slaves lol
nostalgia is one heck of a drug.
Hairy Plopper
Why don’t wizards use regular weapons?
Cause they're british
Thanks for the good content, Father
I have no idea what this channel is or how and when I subscribed to it what
Edit: This is a good video
The german youtuber coldmirror made all my childhood memories with their "funny and special adaptations" of Harry Potter much much more burnt into my head.
@Brandaniel, you could make a fandub of their synchros in english ;-)
"The ghost of final fantasy x-2" was a deep cut, man lmfao
About the Star of David that scene was filmed in a real bank lol
Shh you will break them out og their thoughtless dogpile.
She is just the next to go front and center in the western struggle session
the goblins always made me a bit suspicious even as a kid but I never noticed the literal star of david on the banks floor
I've never been a Potterhead, i liked the movies as a kid and even read the last one instead of waiting several years to know how the story ended, but that's kinda It. So here's my blazing hot take: I've been enjoying the Fabulous Beasts movies more than i ever enjoyed Harry Potter. I like how atypical of a protagonist Scamander Is, and every scene is filled to the brim with fantasy and magic to support it, whereas the "wow" moments in HP are few and far between. The story they tell is also less cheesy and predictable, and the villain has an easily understendable motivation. I hope my appreciation won't age badly once the third movie comes out.
harry potter is immune to criticism and that is because reasons
i liked snape originally bc he was hot but honestly i just like that fact he HAS character. hes a horrible person, and got used as well. how fun for him :)
God the hamster smashing callback
The sorting hat makes no scene for it to be alive like is his entire purpose is to store kids into groups
I just always thought all the magic stuff, especially the spells, were so, *so* LAME.
Broomsticks? Flying cars? Wands? Fucking WANDS?!
I wouldn’t be caught dead waving around a wand like a fairy. I’d just put my wand inside of a big staff and use that instead, or I dunno, tie it to my wrist and wear sleeves all the time.
I don’t wanna hear all the replies that, “oooh you have to wave the wand a specific way or else-“
Yeah yeah yeah, fiiiine, but if i do the same motion, just with my wand in a staff or attached to my wrist, the spells should work the same. Otherwise, the series is dumb, which is how I originally feel.
Time turners are virtually useless, because they can't alter the course of history (until the Cursed Child). Everything Harry and Hermione do after going back in time is stuff that already happened in the original timeline, they just didn't know it was them that did it.
Do paraplegics go to Hogwarts, I can see if it was a purebred or a halfblood they can go to the healers right after the accident to get healed but if it's a muggle born do they heal them, or if the injury is healed/ if they were born like that before coming to the wizarding world can a healing spell even work on them. Also the fact that Hogwarts/wizarding world is not wheelchair friendly, like not at all.
there was a kid in a wheelchair in the mobile game and it was literally never explained how he got around, even though he was the quidditch commentator, which required him to somehow get to the top of the quidditch towers
Indeed.
Good video would watch again.
this mans asking the real questions
i made my own wizard school book to help fix problems
I think the whole reason why Voldemort easily took over the ministry of magic is because every single wizard in the world is a racist and is okay with genocide as long it's not them. Only exception is Hermione because she was the only wizard who thought "Hey, isn't slavery kind bad?"
Which is kinda weird, really.
Like…there are presumably a bunch of black witches and wizards from muggle families who go/have gone to Hogwarts, but the first person to have preconceptions about slavery being bad is some white girl named ‘Hermione’?
my big Harry Potter 🤔is why didn't Voldemort just blast Harry with the ol' killin' curse back when they faced off at the Mirror of Erised (which I just realized is desire spelled backwards fucking lord) like I know it didn't work once but like that doesn't mean the dudes fully immune plus Harry hadn't learned of the unforgivable curses yet so Voldequirrell could just spring it on him and bim bam bosh Harrys dead and they never find the body
I still think it's incredibly funny and ironic how "mudblood" is a slur for non-magic people when mud blood is a real slur used against minorities in real life