I love how Arthur Weasley arrives home, sees a kid he doesn’t recognize, asks “who are you?” and when the response he gets is “Harry Potter” he simply moves past the fact that one of the most famous wizards in the world has suddenly appeared in his kitchen and goes on with life as if this is a perfectly normal occurrence.
@@baggedbread he also does go “Are you really?” And then follows that with “Ron’s told us all about you of course”. And then gets distracted when he finds out that the boys drove the Ford Anglia.
The weasleys might be poor within the scope of the books but they are one of the oldest pureblood families. they probably rubbed shoulders with many people and Id like to think it contributes to why he cares so much about mundane muggle things.
I think that most people are looking over the fact that Arthur's a father of seven kids (two of whom are out of the house by that point, but still) that also works a full time government desk job, so I think it makes sense that he has too much on his mind to fan boy over the semi-famous wizard that's his son's classmate and friend. (I say semi-famous because Harry's claim to fame is pretty much being the sole survivor of a terrorist attack. Yes, he is famous, but irl you wouldn't really get out of your seat when he walks into the hall unless you're a superfan.)
It always weirds me out how once harry messes up with the flu powder, no one says the same thing to go and help him out or anything, they're just like "meh, I'm sure he'll make his own way back to us at some point, let's go see the sexy wizard ☺️☺️"
My guess is that the mispronounciation caused him to be sent to a random location near the intended target, so anyone else who tried would likely end up somewhere else near Diagon Alley, but not at Borgan & Burkes like Harry did. But yeah, they forgot about him rather quick, didn't they?
Actually, they couldn't. If you mess this up, you get sent.. Somewhere. (within the connected spots, of course.) But, of course, harry being harry, he was so lucky that he was sent *just* a few meters to the wrong side.
It's a story about a mentally unstable orphan, that is (or feels) abused by its foster parents and "escapes" into fantasies of being a wizard. Of course there will be a lot of inconsistencies...
whats worse is that in the movie they just fly out of the chamber. So, somewhere in the forest there's just a gaping hole leading directly to this chamber in the school.
I just think its so hilarious that lucius was so angry someone tricked him into freeing his slave that he tried to murder a literal child. Harry's barely 13 and his first instinct is to release the killing curse onto him 😭😭
True but I think he would have claimed that dobby killed Harry and since he has a lot of influence and power in politics/court he probably would have been acquitted.
I never realized that as a kid but when I recently rewatched the movie I was like "Bro legit wanted to murder little Harry for playing him and risk a life sentence in Azkaban💀"
To be fair, the actor actually ad-libbed the spell, in the script it wasn't defined which spell he's use and the death curse was the only one he could think of, lol
Probably the funniest goof in the "book to movie" transition was that the piece of paper about the Basilisk says on it that the crow of a rooster can kill it, but they cut the part where Hagrid mentions all the rooster have been killed (by Ginny?), meaning that in the movie, they could have just brought a few roosters with them and the Basilisk would instantly die...
not quite. When Harry was sent to Dumbledore's Office after Justin Finch-Fletchley and Sir Nick were petrified, Hagrid comes barging in the office holding dead roosters. We can infer he was about to tell Dumbledore about all the dead roosters
@@scottswell yeah, but without outright saying it, it could just as easily be inferred that he was about to cook them for dinner when he heard the news and ran over...
@insertclevernamehere1186 right... UNTIL it's revealed not much later from Hermione's note that roosters' crows kill Basilisks as OP stated. The viewer starts to unravel Ginny's plot at that point. In your defense, it is a small detail, but nonetheless an intentional one
@Andrew Scott not much later? It's a lot later, isn't it? Plus, it's not really revealed, rather a "pause the movie to read the small detail" type thing, whereas they actually address it in the book.
Well it wouldn't have just instantly died. I'm not a bird expert but I thought roosters only crowed at dawn? I don't think you can just make a rooster crow on command
So the reason Dumbledore hired Lockhart was because for one, it was considered a cursed role and there were not many candidates in the first place. But mostly, he knew all along that Lockhart was a fraud, and made a successful living off of stealing credit from people Dumbledore actually knew. So he wanted to expose him publicly.
And he knew Harry would be the perfect way the bring in Lockheart cause he does have a tendency to do that to him throughout-using him as a bait to a degree….
This was my first HP movie ever and when I watched it as a little kid I was astounded by the world and creeped out by the "Murder mystery" aspect of the plot. To this day it still holds a special place in my heart regardless of its flaws, the Columbus Potter movies have always had their own timeless charm
I will always love and remember Chamber of Secrets. My cousin had won a radio contest and got 6 tickets as a result. All my immediate cousins and I went to go see it and having the theatre filled with Potter fans all equally excited felt magical at the time.
Lockhart releasing pixies onto his class really makes me question why he was so popular within the universe itself. Canonically, he’s an author and celebrity within the Wizarding World, so that’s probably why he became the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher.
When he made all those spell hiccups in front of various students and professors, I always wondered why it took them that long until they realized that he was a fraud. Maybe it was just the professors tolerating and humoring him even though they already knew that he wasn't for real all those times, like c'mon folks like Snape, Minerva, hell even Albus himself should've known better than to keep this guy around for long
Its purely because he is attractive. Seriously. And Dumbledore knows he steals peoples achievements by wiping their memories, which is kind of shitty when you think about it on Dumbledore's part.
Not Dumbledore, more the Ministry of Magic. Dumbledore had obviously argued on the matter but was left with no choice, or figured "well once again it's up to Harry, Hermione and the other one"
Weird to think about but when Lucius was about to kill harry with the killing curse he would’ve actually destroyed voldemorts horcrux without knowing it. And harry would’ve survived the killing curse again. So he’d probably become national phenomenon for being “immune to killing curses” only to have it tested out and then he’d die 😂.
@@clover2739 Harry could only survive a killing curse, if Voldemort was killing him using the elder wand. Harry was elder wand's master so it couldn't kill him and ended up killing Voldy's soul inside Harry. In case of someone else Harry might have straight up died. Harry was extremely lucky.
@@cactusmalone no matter how much of a master manipulator Dumbledore was, he couldn't have predicted Malfoy disarming him and then Harry disarming Malfoy and ending up with master wand's ownership. There are so many instances where Harry came out on top only due to his incredible luck.
Ron grew up in the Wizarding World, he should’ve known like a dozen different methods to get both him and Harry to Hogwarts. They could’ve sent an owl, or wait for his parents to come back to the car, or take the Knight Bus and have Harry pay the fare. Instead he decided to commit grand theft auto, so can you blame Molly for sending a howler?
@@MutedAndReported3032 First of all, Molly and Arthur couldn’t just go back, the entrance was sealed. Second, they couldn’t have Apparated back, either, the station was full of Muggles. Third, Ron’s immediate idea is to take the car, by the time Arthur and Molly would’ve figured out a way to go back for them they were long gone.
To be fair… being a 12 year old wizard taking a flying car to school sounds way more fun than the other options, plus they were just being stupid from panicking and then realised they could have owled afterwards
or maybe Ron is just a badass who wanted to drive a car u.u like "fuck the parents, we're independent, we're cool, we drive cars" u.u he wanted to flex XD
One thing I realized only recently is that Lucious Malfoy starts to say Avada Kedavra right after he realizes that Dobby had been freed. He was 100% about to kill a teenaged boy in broad daylight just because he lost his house elf lol
Chamber of Secrets has a special place in my heart - I have this distinct memory of being like 7-8 years old and it was on cable TV and I wanted to watch it so bad. My dad absolutely refused because it was my bedtime (I threw a fit about it lmao) but later on I snuck out to the living room and sneakily watched it from behind his recliner and thought I was so slick. I think that memory holds this movie in a higher regard for me, probably top 3 for me 👽 Edit: after further thought: Top 2 🙂
They're helmed by Chris Columbus and his specialty are classic holiday kids movies like Home Alone. Those first two were made with that in mind and I think that's why they got that timeless nostalgic feel to it, I love it too
Nerd fact about the snake language, in the book Harry didnt notice he was speaking another language all he heard was him asking the snake not to attack the other kid Even harry was confused that he could speak a language but not know he was actually speaking it at the time
What gets me in this movie is that i watched it half a dozen times and never understood they changed the Dumbldore actor till i saw it mentioned online many years after.
The most unrealistic thing about this movie is that the Weasleys somehow managed to park their car outside of King's Cross in central London. There's no way they found a parking space there.
I actually like the first two Harry Potter films the most out of the entire series. While Sorceror’s Stone feels Christmas-y, Chamber of Secrets and Prisoner of Azkaban have definite Halloween vibes. Chamber of Secrets is the final film to have a whimsical feel to it. While you could argue that JK Rowling started getting darker with the Chamber of Secrets installment, both the films and books kick it into high gear with Prisoner of Azkaban, which has its pros and cons. I wish the story had remained somewhat whimsical like the first two installments, because the price you pay in making things more serious and mature is that now every aspect of world-building and character facet and decision made is going to be looked at with far more scrutiny, thus unraveling the story bit by bit as you realize this world is all sorts of fucked up with no one advocating for any change or reform because of “tradition”.
@@randallflagg3700 Yes, I realized my mistake after the fact. I still really enjoyed the first three movies the best out of the series imo. Yates did a better job with the first fantastic beast movie imo, but he was horrible with the last 4 Harry Potter ones.
If I’m remembering correctly, Dumbledore hired Lockhart, because the defense against the dark arts position was cursed by Voldemort. Pretty sure he hired him just to troll him.
Personal fan theory: the reason Lockhart was DADA teacher was because 1. Dumbledore knew it was a cursed position and 2. He had dirt on Lockhart and saw him as an expendable asset. So he blackmailed Lockhart into being professor for a year. Totally in line with dumbledores psychology too
It doesn't mask sound, it never has, Snape heard Harry breathing under it in the first movie and Harry talks to the gang when he's under it quite frequently.
I thought the flu powder joke was that he went in the direction diagonally instead of diagon alley, and that nocturn alley was the nearest destination in that direction? That's how I took it. This was the first of the films I properly watched all the way through, and it's always been one of my faves. I didn't really think they'd be for me til I just caught this on TV.
Lockhart was hired as a teacher by Dumbledor on purpose. In the books it is revealed that one of his friends was a victim of Lockhart's oblivion charms and Lockhart sold a story by that friend as his own and Dumbledor also knew the story and knew that Lockhart did not experience the story himself but from his friend stole. He wanted to bring him to Hogwarts to find out his secret of how he did it and probably also to be able to convict him as a liar.
@@Walkriot - Indeed, that was something that Rowling added on Pottermore. And there was no "friend of Dumbledore to avenge", she just says that Lockhart stole stories from dozens of wizards, and Albus had known 2 of them, so he was one of the only people to know he was a fraud. JK sometimes uses Pottermore to fix some of the plotholes in her story, like "why did Dumbledore hire this guy?" So JK adds stuff like: _"Professor McGonagall, who had never liked Lockhart, asked Dumbledore what he thought students would learn from such a vain, celebrity-hungry man. Dumbledore replied that ‘there is plenty to be learned even from a bad teacher: what not to do, how not to be’._ But hey, lots of fans don't consider "The Cursed Child" as canon, so they can do the same for Pottermore "extra infos"
Personal theory: In the book, Harry chokes on ash while trying to speak and mucks up the word. In the movie he's clearly nervous, and rushes out the words. The Floo powder is password activated. If the owner of the Curiosity Shop that Harry ends up in set his password to "diagonally", thinking it would be a hard word to guess by mistake, that would make almost perfect sense. The only contrived part is that he ended up in a location both easily accessible from Diagon Alley, and that Hagrid found him before he could get mugged. This is ignoring the fact that nobody tried to follow him, with the explanation of "we hoped you had only gone one grate too far!" which means that they took a chance on Harry being hopelessly lost or killed, on the possibility he was at the intended destination.
My guess is that the mispronounciation caused him to be sent to a random location near the intended target, so anyone else who tried would likely end up somewhere else near Diagon Alley, but not at Borgan & Burkes like Harry did. But yeah, they forgot about him rather quick, didn't they?
I’m so sorry with what happened to your long multi-film video! I watched all of it, but I’m still gonna go back and watch/comment on all of these to try and help you break even! ^^
I liked the first two HP movies because it’s like Columbus remembered that colour existed. I get that the bleak, saturated look by Cuaron was praised and it suited the effect that the dementors had on the characters… but man, after five more films bleached out by the same drab greys… it made half the series feel so homogenous.
The "lil baby man" edit for the mandrake scene absolutely killed me lol. Great video, I'm excited for your take on the next movie since it's my favorite movie. The fourth is my favorite book.
I'd say this is probably my favourite movie from when I was a kid. It's just so, idk, it has that perfect blend of childlike wonder and horror, they do go hand in hand. Subsequent movies were a bit too edgy for me, I still love em, but this is that transitional movie between those two tones that hits it just right for me.
This one will always hold a special place in my heart because it's the movie-era in which my broke ass family pity-subscribed to the Scholastic Book Club for HP for me. I got so many cool toys and memorabilia from this book/movie at the time.
it said in the books it is very hard to find someone to take the defense against the dark arts position if i remember correctly. Due to the position being cursed
This one is my favorite, I like that isn't super dark I also like that it has a golden hour effect rather than a dark gray color pallet like the sequels
There's a theory that Dumbledore hired Lockhart in order to let Harry see what would happen if fame is handled negatively since Harry's celebrity status just shot up even further after his first year.
Tbh. This is my favorite movie in the series, purely for nostalgic reasons. Loved it as a kid, my first Red Carpet premiere, and loved the PS2 game. It has a special place in my heart
My favorite 'oops' moment of that movie is how they changed it so that Lucius Malfoy is literally about to use an illegal spell to murder Harry right in front of everyone in that hallway, instead of just hit him with his cane or something like in the book. And nobody calls him on it or anything.
TheCarlinBrothers have a cool theory video on Dumby's plan for Harry spanning all the books (and movies), and yes, Gilderoy's employment is included. Definitely recommended. You could say that it's weird how Harry and Ron applaud Hagrid's return considering, but at least Hagrid didn't think Aragog was gonna kill 'em, contra Dobby, who didn't wanted Lucius to to harm Harry after Harry had set Dobby free...
I'm french, so my native tongue is french. I later learned English, at a point I just understand what I hear/read as if it was my native tongue. It regularly happens that I'm listening/reading things in English, then got an ad or something in french, but I don't immediately realize I'm reading/listening to something in a different language than the one I was hearing/reading previously. What that tells me is that Harry could've started to hear and reply to parseltongue without realizing it, and it's not that much of a reach to me. Of course parseltongue and English are not remotely similar in a lot of ways, at least when comparing it with English to French and vice versa, but still... I can understand why Harry wouldn't immediately notice the switch when considering my own experiences. Thanks for the uploads, after years ignoring this franchise I got back into it months ago and I'm happy getting "recently" made content about it. When I got back into it I hadn't watched the latest movies, but I had read all the books way before. I didn't like some of the movies, hence why I dropped the franchise altogether. But with a more mature eyes, and especially not getting hung up with the loss in adaptation, I really enjoyed the movies. Anyways, thank you again for keeping this franchise alive. Cheers from France! 🍻 *Edit* Yes, most of the students who were petrified were lucky. But Hermione walked around with a mirror because she suspected that the basilisk was the aggressor and then knew how to avoid being killed by it. Hence the note hidden in her hand, she was right.
This is my favourite movie of the entire series. I loved the emphasis on mystery and I felt that Harry was very independent in a good way in this movie. There was serious moments, but also straight up goofy stuff like Gilderoy Lockhart etc. All in all, really fun family movie and great continuation from 1st movie
18:19 I'm surprised you haven't mentioned the fact that Lucius Malfoy was literally half way through casting Avada Kedavra. He was literally gonna kill Harry outside of Dumbledore's office using THE WORST of unforgivable curses, just because he lost his house elf.
They couldn't find the Chamber because Salizar made it and enchanted it to protect it from being found. His spells to keep it hidden were better than theirs to find it.
2:31 he ends up in nocturne alley instead of diagon alley because he says "diagonally" and the flu powder makes him literally go in a diagonal direction from his starting location, nocturne alley must be at some diagonal angel from the house in which he uses the flu powder in
What i always have questioned is the obliate spell. Is that considered murder? because if you completely erase someones mind & identity, that person pretty much no longer exists
Since you asked, Dobby loves Harry because he hated the Voldemort years and is much happier since Voldy disappeared due to Harry aka "the boy who lived". It's explained in the books. Also, he knows what Lucius Malfoy has planned which is why he wants to stop Harry going to Hogwarts. He doesn't want him killed and the death eaters returning to power.
Gilderoy Lockhart was someone I always kind of wanted to see fail upwards. A bumbling egotist that would need to more and more cleverly justify his existence as a teacher at Hogwarts while also being karmically punished for lying. I thought he was great.
The "actual" mythological basilisk was supposed to be like 30 cm and his stare could kill as well as his vemon being so impossibly toxic that killing one with a lance on horse back would even kill the horse, not just you
The powder did what it did cause missaying your destion gets you close the book gives more of a why/ Mrs Weasly has a line about hoping he only went one fireplace offer. So that seems to say that if you missay where you want to go you maybe close
Idk if anybody answered already, but Dobby was sent there by Lucius to stop him from going to Hogwarts. Not to protect him, but to prevent him from stopping Voldemort. He was about to be resurrected using the notebook, it was all planned ahead. On the way Dobby started liking him and betrayed Lucius, that's why he was about to whip his arse.
This was the first film where I realised how much they didn’t care about Ron, between being 6 and watching the first film and watching CoS when I was 7 I read the books.
At least in the Dresden series by Tim Butcher (wizard private detective in modern day Chicago), he alludes to that the paranormal don't want public attention because it'll make their doings difficult (i.e a bunch of angry villagers carrying torches). While at the same time, those who do see the paranormal doing their thing are usually sent to mental asylums.
I absolutely love this movie up until the third act. The ending is quite dragged out and I’ve watched The Chamber of Secrets way too many times to sit through the mystery that I already know
6:40 when you haven't read the books and don't realize NO ONE WOULD take the defense against the dark arts position. That's why Dumbledore settled for the idiot.
I know this isn’t the best movie out of the Harry Potter trilogy but this holds a special place in my heart since I enjoyed this as a kid and with my family! But hands down Prisoner of Azkaban is the best one in my opinion!!
I love how Arthur Weasley arrives home, sees a kid he doesn’t recognize, asks “who are you?” and when the response he gets is “Harry Potter” he simply moves past the fact that one of the most famous wizards in the world has suddenly appeared in his kitchen and goes on with life as if this is a perfectly normal occurrence.
To be fair he does know that Ron is friends with Harry, so it’s not that crazy.
@@baggedbread he also does go “Are you really?” And then follows that with “Ron’s told us all about you of course”. And then gets distracted when he finds out that the boys drove the Ford Anglia.
The weasleys might be poor within the scope of the books but they are one of the oldest pureblood families. they probably rubbed shoulders with many people and Id like to think it contributes to why he cares so much about mundane muggle things.
If I was Arthur my reaction would have been: "Oh my God there's another one. We are going to have to live in the street at this point!"
I think that most people are looking over the fact that Arthur's a father of seven kids (two of whom are out of the house by that point, but still) that also works a full time government desk job, so I think it makes sense that he has too much on his mind to fan boy over the semi-famous wizard that's his son's classmate and friend.
(I say semi-famous because Harry's claim to fame is pretty much being the sole survivor of a terrorist attack. Yes, he is famous, but irl you wouldn't really get out of your seat when he walks into the hall unless you're a superfan.)
It always weirds me out how once harry messes up with the flu powder, no one says the same thing to go and help him out or anything, they're just like "meh, I'm sure he'll make his own way back to us at some point, let's go see the sexy wizard ☺️☺️"
My guess is that the mispronounciation caused him to be sent to a random location near the intended target, so anyone else who tried would likely end up somewhere else near Diagon Alley, but not at Borgan & Burkes like Harry did.
But yeah, they forgot about him rather quick, didn't they?
Actually, they couldn't. If you mess this up, you get sent.. Somewhere. (within the connected spots, of course.) But, of course, harry being harry, he was so lucky that he was sent *just* a few meters to the wrong side.
It's a story about a mentally unstable orphan, that is (or feels) abused by its foster parents and "escapes" into fantasies of being a wizard.
Of course there will be a lot of inconsistencies...
Flue*
whats worse is that in the movie they just fly out of the chamber. So, somewhere in the forest there's just a gaping hole leading directly to this chamber in the school.
I just think its so hilarious that lucius was so angry someone tricked him into freeing his slave that he tried to murder a literal child. Harry's barely 13 and his first instinct is to release the killing curse onto him 😭😭
True but I think he would have claimed that dobby killed Harry and since he has a lot of influence and power in politics/court he probably would have been acquitted.
@@Fuchsfeuer the fact he was willing to get sent to azkaban if they checked his wand spell history still makes me laugh
I never realized that as a kid but when I recently rewatched the movie I was like "Bro legit wanted to murder little Harry for playing him and risk a life sentence in Azkaban💀"
@@rhetiq9989 it'll make me cackle every time
To be fair, the actor actually ad-libbed the spell, in the script it wasn't defined which spell he's use and the death curse was the only one he could think of, lol
Probably the funniest goof in the "book to movie" transition was that the piece of paper about the Basilisk says on it that the crow of a rooster can kill it, but they cut the part where Hagrid mentions all the rooster have been killed (by Ginny?), meaning that in the movie, they could have just brought a few roosters with them and the Basilisk would instantly die...
not quite. When Harry was sent to Dumbledore's Office after Justin Finch-Fletchley and Sir Nick were petrified, Hagrid comes barging in the office holding dead roosters. We can infer he was about to tell Dumbledore about all the dead roosters
@@scottswell yeah, but without outright saying it, it could just as easily be inferred that he was about to cook them for dinner when he heard the news and ran over...
@insertclevernamehere1186 right... UNTIL it's revealed not much later from Hermione's note that roosters' crows kill Basilisks as OP stated. The viewer starts to unravel Ginny's plot at that point. In your defense, it is a small detail, but nonetheless an intentional one
@Andrew Scott not much later? It's a lot later, isn't it? Plus, it's not really revealed, rather a "pause the movie to read the small detail" type thing, whereas they actually address it in the book.
Well it wouldn't have just instantly died. I'm not a bird expert but I thought roosters only crowed at dawn? I don't think you can just make a rooster crow on command
So the reason Dumbledore hired Lockhart was because for one, it was considered a cursed role and there were not many candidates in the first place. But mostly, he knew all along that Lockhart was a fraud, and made a successful living off of stealing credit from people Dumbledore actually knew. So he wanted to expose him publicly.
He was the only applicant
And Lockhart only applied cause he wanted the street cred for teaching Harry Potter.
And to show Harry not to let fame get to him
And he knew Harry would be the perfect way the bring in Lockheart cause he does have a tendency to do that to him throughout-using him as a bait to a degree….
Couldn’t Dumbledore have found a way to expose Lockhart that didn’t involve letting the students not learn a single thing about DADA for a whole year?
Elvis looks so proud of himself when he explains the function of a rubber duck.
This was my first HP movie ever and when I watched it as a little kid I was astounded by the world and creeped out by the "Murder mystery" aspect of the plot. To this day it still holds a special place in my heart regardless of its flaws, the Columbus Potter movies have always had their own timeless charm
I think the 5th one was the worse movie this one is not the worst.
Despite its flaws it's probably my favourite. I definitely like 6 the least
Sorcerer's Stone was my very first one, but Chamber of Secrets holds a special place in my heart amongst them all.
@@ramencakes5196 I can’t say one is truly worse for me but more of a “least favorite” which is the 5th and 6th.
My least favorite is the fourth, because they took everything out of it except the main plot line, and they even took out some of that
I will always love and remember Chamber of Secrets. My cousin had won a radio contest and got 6 tickets as a result. All my immediate cousins and I went to go see it and having the theatre filled with Potter fans all equally excited felt magical at the time.
I love how only like 3 kids get petrified from seeing the 100 foot long demon snake cruising through school halls
@@cactusmalone fuckin nerds no one decides to sneak out anymore smh
Lockhart releasing pixies onto his class really makes me question why he was so popular within the universe itself. Canonically, he’s an author and celebrity within the Wizarding World, so that’s probably why he became the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher.
At least he’s better than Umbridge despite him being a con man.
If you were to actually watch the movie then you’d know…
In the book it’s stated that the position was jinxed so no one lasted for more than a year, and he was the only one that applied for the job
When he made all those spell hiccups in front of various students and professors, I always wondered why it took them that long until they realized that he was a fraud. Maybe it was just the professors tolerating and humoring him even though they already knew that he wasn't for real all those times, like c'mon folks like Snape, Minerva, hell even Albus himself should've known better than to keep this guy around for long
Its purely because he is attractive. Seriously.
And Dumbledore knows he steals peoples achievements by wiping their memories, which is kind of shitty when you think about it on Dumbledore's part.
Dude, you better believe that if there were cupcakes floating in front of me, I'd totally eat them.
I love how Dumbledore's basically like 'You had a pet spider once. So, I'm sending you to magical Guantanamo Bay. Get fucked, Hagrid!'
Not Dumbledore, more the Ministry of Magic. Dumbledore had obviously argued on the matter but was left with no choice, or figured "well once again it's up to Harry, Hermione and the other one"
That was Cornelius Fudge, not Dumbledore! It was the first hint at what a scumbag Fudge is.
Weird to think about but when Lucius was about to kill harry with the killing curse he would’ve actually destroyed voldemorts horcrux without knowing it. And harry would’ve survived the killing curse again. So he’d probably become national phenomenon for being “immune to killing curses” only to have it tested out and then he’d die 😂.
But I thought dumbledore said that Voldemort had to kill Harry himself?
@@clover2739 Harry could only survive a killing curse, if Voldemort was killing him using the elder wand. Harry was elder wand's master so it couldn't kill him and ended up killing Voldy's soul inside Harry. In case of someone else Harry might have straight up died. Harry was extremely lucky.
@@cactusmalone no matter how much of a master manipulator Dumbledore was, he couldn't have predicted Malfoy disarming him and then Harry disarming Malfoy and ending up with master wand's ownership. There are so many instances where Harry came out on top only due to his incredible luck.
Ron grew up in the Wizarding World, he should’ve known like a dozen different methods to get both him and Harry to Hogwarts. They could’ve sent an owl, or wait for his parents to come back to the car, or take the Knight Bus and have Harry pay the fare. Instead he decided to commit grand theft auto, so can you blame Molly for sending a howler?
I don’t know, maybe for the fact THAT SHE DIDN’T EVEN COME BACK FOR THEM AND LEFT THEM ALONE AT THE MUGGLE STATION
@@MutedAndReported3032 First of all, Molly and Arthur couldn’t just go back, the entrance was sealed. Second, they couldn’t have Apparated back, either, the station was full of Muggles. Third, Ron’s immediate idea is to take the car, by the time Arthur and Molly would’ve figured out a way to go back for them they were long gone.
To be fair… being a 12 year old wizard taking a flying car to school sounds way more fun than the other options, plus they were just being stupid from panicking and then realised they could have owled afterwards
or maybe Ron is just a badass who wanted to drive a car u.u like "fuck the parents, we're independent, we're cool, we drive cars" u.u he wanted to flex XD
One thing I realized only recently is that Lucious Malfoy starts to say Avada Kedavra right after he realizes that Dobby had been freed. He was 100% about to kill a teenaged boy in broad daylight just because he lost his house elf lol
Chamber of Secrets has a special place in my heart - I have this distinct memory of being like 7-8 years old and it was on cable TV and I wanted to watch it so bad. My dad absolutely refused because it was my bedtime (I threw a fit about it lmao) but later on I snuck out to the living room and sneakily watched it from behind his recliner and thought I was so slick. I think that memory holds this movie in a higher regard for me, probably top 3 for me 👽
Edit: after further thought: Top 2 🙂
That’s how I watched the X-Files when I was 3-5 years old. Hid behind the couch.
first 2 harry potter movies are the best in my opinion. may be nostalgia talking but i love the way everyone was played.
The first three I would say. The third one is just more “grown up”.
They're helmed by Chris Columbus and his specialty are classic holiday kids movies like Home Alone. Those first two were made with that in mind and I think that's why they got that timeless nostalgic feel to it, I love it too
Nerd fact about the snake language, in the book Harry didnt notice he was speaking another language all he heard was him asking the snake not to attack the other kid
Even harry was confused that he could speak a language but not know he was actually speaking it at the time
For me personally, this is my favourite Harry Potter movie
What gets me in this movie is that i watched it half a dozen times and never understood they changed the Dumbldore actor till i saw it mentioned online many years after.
They changed Dumbledor’s actor in the 4th movie
The most unrealistic thing about this movie is that the Weasleys somehow managed to park their car outside of King's Cross in central London. There's no way they found a parking space there.
Didn't even mention how hard that owl must of smashed against its cage..
I love Alan Rickman, he really gave it his all in this role. He was a prolific actor. It saddened me when he died.
I actually like the first two Harry Potter films the most out of the entire series. While Sorceror’s Stone feels Christmas-y, Chamber of Secrets and Prisoner of Azkaban have definite Halloween vibes.
Chamber of Secrets is the final film to have a whimsical feel to it. While you could argue that JK Rowling started getting darker with the Chamber of Secrets installment, both the films and books kick it into high gear with Prisoner of Azkaban, which has its pros and cons. I wish the story had remained somewhat whimsical like the first two installments, because the price you pay in making things more serious and mature is that now every aspect of world-building and character facet and decision made is going to be looked at with far more scrutiny, thus unraveling the story bit by bit as you realize this world is all sorts of fucked up with no one advocating for any change or reform because of “tradition”.
I think Chris columbus did a really good job with the first three movies.
@@mikaross4671 - Alfonso Curaon directed the 3rd movie.
Mike Newell directed the 4th, and then David Yates the last 4 + the Fantastic Beast movies.
@@randallflagg3700 Yes, I realized my mistake after the fact. I still really enjoyed the first three movies the best out of the series imo. Yates did a better job with the first fantastic beast movie imo, but he was horrible with the last 4 Harry Potter ones.
If I’m remembering correctly, Dumbledore hired Lockhart, because the defense against the dark arts position was cursed by Voldemort. Pretty sure he hired him just to troll him.
Personal fan theory: the reason Lockhart was DADA teacher was because 1. Dumbledore knew it was a cursed position and 2. He had dirt on Lockhart and saw him as an expendable asset. So he blackmailed Lockhart into being professor for a year. Totally in line with dumbledores psychology too
Also to show Harry the importance of humility.
It’s crazy how Lucious was about to use THE DEATH CURSE on Harry right outside dumboldore’s office
Chamber of secrets is my favorite. I think it has to do with the fact that it’s a mystery and it involves a monster killing people
The fact that Dumbledore knew they were there implies that he's more perceptive than Death.
Or he could see their shoes. Either or.
It doesn't mask sound, it never has, Snape heard Harry breathing under it in the first movie and Harry talks to the gang when he's under it quite frequently.
I thought the flu powder joke was that he went in the direction diagonally instead of diagon alley, and that nocturn alley was the nearest destination in that direction? That's how I took it.
This was the first of the films I properly watched all the way through, and it's always been one of my faves. I didn't really think they'd be for me til I just caught this on TV.
Nah man this is my favorite movie, the whole mistery and the secrets, the girl that died its so good
i already watched the original video but i'm rewatching these out of spite towards youtube and goodwill towards you elvis the alien
2:30
He says Diagon Alley in a way that sounds like diagonally, so he goes the direction diagonal
Lockhart was hired as a teacher by Dumbledor on purpose.
In the books it is revealed that one of his friends was a victim of Lockhart's oblivion charms and Lockhart sold a story by that friend as his own and Dumbledor also knew the story and knew that Lockhart did not experience the story himself but from his friend stole.
He wanted to bring him to Hogwarts to find out his secret of how he did it and probably also to be able to convict him as a liar.
Plus, Dumbledore knows the DADA teacher only lasts one year. He constantly needs to find new ones and knows bad ones will be temporary.
Why not come out and expose him point blank? He’s Dumbledore, surely people will believe him over Lockhart.
That's not in the book lol
@@Walkriot - Indeed, that was something that Rowling added on Pottermore. And there was no "friend of Dumbledore to avenge", she just says that Lockhart stole stories from dozens of wizards, and Albus had known 2 of them, so he was one of the only people to know he was a fraud.
JK sometimes uses Pottermore to fix some of the plotholes in her story, like "why did Dumbledore hire this guy?"
So JK adds stuff like:
_"Professor McGonagall, who had never liked Lockhart, asked Dumbledore what he thought students would learn from such a vain, celebrity-hungry man. Dumbledore replied that ‘there is plenty to be learned even from a bad teacher: what not to do, how not to be’._
But hey, lots of fans don't consider "The Cursed Child" as canon, so they can do the same for Pottermore "extra infos"
That definetly wasn't in the books
What I always thought was weird is that the chamber was built like a thousand years ago, but the entrance is in a sink with modern plumbing?
Retrofitted maybe? We've had plumbing for over a thousand years, so maybe they just magicked it to fit the times. Idk. Lol
Dumbledore: "Harry, I hear you got in a fight. I'll have to take 53 points away from Griffindor...but since you won, I award 89 points to Griffindor!"
Personal theory:
In the book, Harry chokes on ash while trying to speak and mucks up the word. In the movie he's clearly nervous, and rushes out the words. The Floo powder is password activated. If the owner of the Curiosity Shop that Harry ends up in set his password to "diagonally", thinking it would be a hard word to guess by mistake, that would make almost perfect sense. The only contrived part is that he ended up in a location both easily accessible from Diagon Alley, and that Hagrid found him before he could get mugged.
This is ignoring the fact that nobody tried to follow him, with the explanation of "we hoped you had only gone one grate too far!" which means that they took a chance on Harry being hopelessly lost or killed, on the possibility he was at the intended destination.
My guess is that the mispronounciation caused him to be sent to a random location near the intended target, so anyone else who tried would likely end up somewhere else near Diagon Alley, but not at Borgan & Burkes like Harry did.
But yeah, they forgot about him rather quick, didn't they?
I’m so sorry with what happened to your long multi-film video! I watched all of it, but I’m still gonna go back and watch/comment on all of these to try and help you break even! ^^
I liked the first two HP movies because it’s like Columbus remembered that colour existed.
I get that the bleak, saturated look by Cuaron was praised and it suited the effect that the dementors had on the characters… but man, after five more films bleached out by the same drab greys… it made half the series feel so homogenous.
The "lil baby man" edit for the mandrake scene absolutely killed me lol. Great video, I'm excited for your take on the next movie since it's my favorite movie. The fourth is my favorite book.
Elvis: “this movie sucks, I love it”
That’s basically how I feel about this movie too
Tells the kid to speak clearly, he says "diagonally", he's lucky he didn't end up halfway through a wall
I'd say this is probably my favourite movie from when I was a kid.
It's just so, idk, it has that perfect blend of childlike wonder and horror, they do go hand in hand.
Subsequent movies were a bit too edgy for me, I still love em, but this is that transitional movie between those two tones that hits it just right for me.
I just love how comedically Madamme Pomfrey's medicine for Harry was called skele-grow... with bone-fide results lmaoo
It’s the small details that make these movies
So many people hate this film!
But it was MY FAVORITE ONE! XD
Harry fought the Basilisk in this one and that was awesome!
Harry was a little badass in that scene!
This one will always hold a special place in my heart because it's the movie-era in which my broke ass family pity-subscribed to the Scholastic Book Club for HP for me. I got so many cool toys and memorabilia from this book/movie at the time.
it said in the books it is very hard to find someone to take the defense against the dark arts position if i remember correctly. Due to the position being cursed
This one is my favorite, I like that isn't super dark
I also like that it has a golden hour effect rather than a dark gray color pallet like the sequels
There's a theory that Dumbledore hired Lockhart in order to let Harry see what would happen if fame is handled negatively since Harry's celebrity status just shot up even further after his first year.
i loved all of dumbledore’s passwords for his office. i’m pretty sure they were all candy themed if i remember correctly.
It's my favorite. The one I hate the most was Goblet of Fire.
Tbh. This is my favorite movie in the series, purely for nostalgic reasons.
Loved it as a kid, my first Red Carpet premiere, and loved the PS2 game. It has a special place in my heart
My favorite 'oops' moment of that movie is how they changed it so that Lucius Malfoy is literally about to use an illegal spell to murder Harry right in front of everyone in that hallway, instead of just hit him with his cane or something like in the book. And nobody calls him on it or anything.
I watched the first video while eating dinner yesterday.. watching the second while on lunch. Thanks Alien
TheCarlinBrothers have a cool theory video on Dumby's plan for Harry spanning all the books (and movies), and yes, Gilderoy's employment is included. Definitely recommended.
You could say that it's weird how Harry and Ron applaud Hagrid's return considering, but at least Hagrid didn't think Aragog was gonna kill 'em, contra Dobby, who didn't wanted Lucius to to harm Harry after Harry had set Dobby free...
I'm french, so my native tongue is french. I later learned English, at a point I just understand what I hear/read as if it was my native tongue.
It regularly happens that I'm listening/reading things in English, then got an ad or something in french, but I don't immediately realize I'm reading/listening to something in a different language than the one I was hearing/reading previously.
What that tells me is that Harry could've started to hear and reply to parseltongue without realizing it, and it's not that much of a reach to me.
Of course parseltongue and English are not remotely similar in a lot of ways, at least when comparing it with English to French and vice versa, but still... I can understand why Harry wouldn't immediately notice the switch when considering my own experiences.
Thanks for the uploads, after years ignoring this franchise I got back into it months ago and I'm happy getting "recently" made content about it.
When I got back into it I hadn't watched the latest movies, but I had read all the books way before.
I didn't like some of the movies, hence why I dropped the franchise altogether.
But with a more mature eyes, and especially not getting hung up with the loss in adaptation, I really enjoyed the movies.
Anyways, thank you again for keeping this franchise alive.
Cheers from France! 🍻
*Edit*
Yes, most of the students who were petrified were lucky.
But Hermione walked around with a mirror because she suspected that the basilisk was the aggressor and then knew how to avoid being killed by it.
Hence the note hidden in her hand, she was right.
This is my favourite movie of the entire series. I loved the emphasis on mystery and I felt that Harry was very independent in a good way in this movie. There was serious moments, but also straight up goofy stuff like Gilderoy Lockhart etc. All in all, really fun family movie and great continuation from 1st movie
You beauty! Keep getting these out everyday.
18:19 I'm surprised you haven't mentioned the fact that Lucius Malfoy was literally half way through casting Avada Kedavra. He was literally gonna kill Harry outside of Dumbledore's office using THE WORST of unforgivable curses, just because he lost his house elf.
They couldn't find the Chamber because Salizar made it and enchanted it to protect it from being found. His spells to keep it hidden were better than theirs to find it.
And only someone naturally capable of Parseltongue or who learned it can open the chamber, Ginny is the exception but she was possessed by Voldermort
I love your takes on the many plot holes in this charming series. A thoroughly entertaining, but very flawed series.
2:31 he ends up in nocturne alley instead of diagon alley because he says "diagonally" and the flu powder makes him literally go in a diagonal direction from his starting location, nocturne alley must be at some diagonal angel from the house in which he uses the flu powder in
It’s my personal headcanon that Dumbledore hired Lockheart to teach the students a lesson about ego
What i always have questioned is the obliate spell. Is that considered murder? because if you completely erase someones mind & identity, that person pretty much no longer exists
Since you asked, Dobby loves Harry because he hated the Voldemort years and is much happier since Voldy disappeared due to Harry aka "the boy who lived".
It's explained in the books. Also, he knows what Lucius Malfoy has planned which is why he wants to stop Harry going to Hogwarts. He doesn't want him killed and the death eaters returning to power.
It really sucks that Elvis has to do all of these films separately now. But I have respect for because if anything he loves his fans.
read the booooooooooks man. I was so pumped when you did separate videos for these! Classics. I rewatch them all the time.
This was my hands down favourite
There is 1 muggle item Arthur NEEDS to know about.
A Condom. (Tell him to not re-use it and tell molly to not "just wash it out")
Apparently Dumbledor hired Lockhart to teach at the school so that he would expose himself as a charlatan
This movie scared tf outa me when I was a kid. Idk why but I remember being afraid of the scenes where Harry spoke in the snake language.
Timing the release of Legacy with this vid is a 5head move and I APPRECIATE IT
TWO harry potter elvis videos in under 24 hours? i’m gonna shit myself
WOAH WHAT, THIS IS THE ONLY MOVIE I WATCHED!
I think this is my favorite Harry Potter movie. I've only seen a few pieces of the other ones.
Gilderoy Lockhart was someone I always kind of wanted to see fail upwards. A bumbling egotist that would need to more and more cleverly justify his existence as a teacher at Hogwarts while also being karmically punished for lying. I thought he was great.
The "actual" mythological basilisk was supposed to be like 30 cm and his stare could kill as well as his vemon being so impossibly toxic that killing one with a lance on horse back would even kill the horse, not just you
It's my favourite one apart from the fifth movie, I just love how goofy it is and the amazing set design.
It's a fun movie. I love it. Alfonso coming on for the 3rd film was great though. He definitely gave the series a darker more adult feel and look.
I'mma leave my Oldboy request right here and continue watching, thanks for the upload Elvis
The powder did what it did cause missaying your destion gets you close the book gives more of a why/ Mrs Weasly has a line about hoping he only went one fireplace offer. So that seems to say that if you missay where you want to go you maybe close
Idk if anybody answered already, but Dobby was sent there by Lucius to stop him from going to Hogwarts. Not to protect him, but to prevent him from stopping Voldemort. He was about to be resurrected using the notebook, it was all planned ahead. On the way Dobby started liking him and betrayed Lucius, that's why he was about to whip his arse.
Never underestimate how thick in the hesd crabbe and goyle are lol. Plus they're probably so used to floating stuff by now
bless you for all your hardwork elvis!
You missed Lucious straight up saying "Avada" to Harry. He was about to kill the series right outside Dumbledore's office
The use of the Harry Potter game music in the background is top tier.
This was the first film where I realised how much they didn’t care about Ron, between being 6 and watching the first film and watching CoS when I was 7 I read the books.
At least in the Dresden series by Tim Butcher (wizard private detective in modern day Chicago), he alludes to that the paranormal don't want public attention because it'll make their doings difficult (i.e a bunch of angry villagers carrying torches). While at the same time, those who do see the paranormal doing their thing are usually sent to mental asylums.
2:18 personally I think it's because Knockturn Alley is DIAGONALLY located to Diagon Alley.
Thank you for that Pixies edit Mr. Alien that was funny
I absolutely love this movie up until the third act. The ending is quite dragged out and I’ve watched The Chamber of Secrets way too many times to sit through the mystery that I already know
Heck ya, part 2 let's goooooo
I feel personally attacked this was and still is my favorite Harry Potter movie
Hey Elvis, did you ever notice that Diagon Alley= Diagonally and Knockturn Alley= Nocturnally?
4:40 that's why he's the *boy who lived*
6:40 when you haven't read the books and don't realize NO ONE WOULD take the defense against the dark arts position. That's why Dumbledore settled for the idiot.
Dobby is a force to be trifled with. He is the strongest boss in all years of Lego Harry Potter. Don't mess with him.
It was worth reading that long joke
despite my arachnophobia this one is my favorite just because of that scene, for the simple reason of ron being hilariously terrified
I know this isn’t the best movie out of the Harry Potter trilogy but this holds a special place in my heart since I enjoyed this as a kid and with my family! But hands down Prisoner of Azkaban is the best one in my opinion!!