Gotta love how Harry is almost single-handedly responsible for keeping the defense against the dark arts department almost entirely unstaffed the entire series
@@Hyperbuzz10 or maybe it’s the literal wizard nazi trying to commit terrorist attacks constantly and not the orphan child just trying to live a happy life lmao
@@genericname2747 I don't remember the quote, but Dumbleodore knew that Tom Riddle (Voldemort) cursed the teacher post of Defense Against The Dark Arts. I think he tells Harry during his sixth year (Half-Blood Prince). This happened because he didn't accept Riddle's application for that job. It's why Hogwarts needed a new DADA teacher every year from Riddle's failed application until his death in the Battle of Hogwarts.
@@dansattah everyone knows tom cursed the position, but harrys the one who actively did the thing, Qurrel, killed by harry, lockhart, baited into the chamber and lockhart lost his memories, remus, well thats on remus, barty, harry pointed out barty, the toad? harry baited her into the woods...... like harry was the instrument the curse used to get rid of the prefessors lol
@@theshadowking3198that begs the question of why Harry could cast it then? I think it is canon that he isn't great at magic. Nepo babies really have it all.
@@theshadowking3198 if harry could successfully teach some kids, the teachers could have as well, hard to learn or not they should have atleast tried, some of the kids would have gotten it
@@scientificaly_restful_oneHe’s not bad, he’s specialized. Even Hermione said that he was better than her at defense against the dark arts. And in terms of everything else, he gets EE’s academically (exceeds expectations). So he definitely not failing anything. And considering he, Hermione, and Ron are capable of defeating squads of Death Eaters on their own, Harry should be above average.
In book two they left paying students petrified for months. They could have just bought mandrakes from elsewhere in the world. Poor Collin losing most of his first year.
My biggest gripe with the snitch rules is that even if the snitch was worth 0, the Seeker would be an insanely important role. You literally control when the score gets locked in. If your team is ahead, you try and catch the snitch. If your team is behind, you try and stop the other seeker from ending the game. That's a massively important role. Imagine if in basketball you had 2 people playing catch with a bouncy ball and can end the game after a single shot. That's insane.
Bro the snitch being worth 0, but ending the game on catch would still be such an insane upgrade anyways. It cannot hard carry the match so the quaffle points are actually important to win the game, but it still carries weight as it decides when the game should end, so the seeker is now more versatile and can either actively seek it if their team is winning or stop the other seeker from getting it if their team is losing, in hopes of them making a comeback during that time. PD: Hell, can even add a safenet to prevent those month-long games from happening by adding a rule where if the winning team is leading 200 points above the losing one, the game instanly ends and the leading team wins, without the need for the snitch, because by that point the chances of a comeback are basically zero so it just saves everyone's time. Or maybe the snitch gets slower as more time passes so it becomes easier and easier to end the match. Hell, both could work. There, in 10 minutes I already made the game much better, did rowling really think this through?
@@theshadowking3198There's a difference between a modern sport having the same yet still challenge rules for all players, and a sport where one dude decides the entire game 99.9% of the time. That's not a sport that's a one on duel. Take football for instance, every player is important one way or another in winning the game so you have to work as a TEAM to win. In quidditch, you can't even try to stop the seeker unless you're the other seeker.
@@MrJpc1234 Perhaps this could be accomplished by making it so that if the score is level at the time the snitch is caught, the team whose seeker caught it wins.
It’s also crazy that every point the house team scores in Quidditch counts as a point for the House Cup. Like, great you got 5 points for answering a question right, the quidditch teams are going to rack up like 700+ points each by the end of the year
@@lucas_sin_si think everyone plays everyone so everyone gets a chance to farm lol. But since game doesn’t end until you get the snitch, you should basically play the game for years to farm a fuck ton of points lol
They got points for winning Quidditch games, but I don’t think that equated to the actual number of points scored during the game. IIRC Harry won Gryffindor 50 points by winning a Quidditch game through catching the Snitch, which would have been 150 points.
How would he do that? The curse rebounded and destroyed his body. Can't throw a baby out the window if you don't have a body. And he didn't know the curse wouldn't work beforehand.
@shubamrachappanavar2708 Yeah, but Lilly Potter wasn't. And you know what Voldemort thinks of mixing both - just as bad as mudbloods In book six or seven, the first chapter, he feeds the "Muggle studies" professor to his snake for suggesting that "muggles and wizards should intermingle." The famous "Dinner Nagini" scene
How to fix quidditch 1. Get rid of the snitch 2. Add time limit 3. Lower posts to the ground and make it one goal for each team 4. Make the field smaller 5. Replace brooms with sticks 6. Ice everywhere 7. Just play hockey
what's the range of apportation? how much strain does it place on the wizard? is it a good idea to go teleporting around when you have classes to teach?
@@Monkey_D_Buhlahkay ppl keep forgetting it’s the early 90s in these movies. The only cell phones out there are the size of your head and like 4 ppl own them. Ppl using a bird that will fly directly to the person intended in this time is not some wildly inconvenient thing lol. And Jesus Christ why are u hung up on communication services in a fantasy wizard story? Ur literally like picking apart Star Wars for not having 5G cellular towers who the fuck cares
So fucking real and it's not even funny. As a 22 year old who never fucked with harry potter EVER and has never read the books this ROTTED my fucking mind. Jfc. Old man needs to stop ranting.
he was trying to stay awake that stream and i guess the only thing that was keeping the energy up is some long dormant unexpressed rage fueled harry potter grievances that he was too tired to put the brakes on.
Also every business is a monopoly. You already know Olivander, whose family has been selling wands to all of England for 2000+ years puts the Malfoys to shame.
They aren't monopolies, it is just a mix of only going to the same stores and never actually traveling anywhere at all to shop. Ollivander's is just supposed to be the "best" wandmaker in Britain, but not the only one. The fact that the only place they ever go shopping is Diagon Alley is the limiter.
@shubamrachappanavar2708 The thing about the HP universe that he is referencing is that the only businesses that are ever mentioned never have any competitors that are also mentioned. The closest thing to pointing out business competitors that the series ever did was mention all of the different broom making companies. Even the wandmaker Gregorovitch that is shown as a competitor to Ollivander was implied to be from a different nation in Europe. JK put little thought into most of her worldbuilding past handwaving the details.
Olivander isnt forcing other businesses out of thw market or anything like a monopoly. Its not like hes price gouging or living like elon musk or sum. He just loves slangin wands and ppl just trust him the most in that area
The only magic that nullifies every technological advantage we posses is mind magic. People don't realise how fucking overpowered and terrifying mind magic make wizard.
Even then tho, that would also render absolutely any other spell useless "You are now under my complete control, I task you to bring others who are not yet under my control, under my control" and boom, the whole wizarding world is a dictatorship ruled by a single wizard (I hate that we are literally never explained why something like this could never happen although we know there are mind-erasing spells and memory reading fountains)
@@piolewus You would be right, if not for the fact that there still a human in command at the highest level, and non magical have no way to protect against apparition combo with imperius.
May I present: Earmuffs? Like, don’t you need to actually have a verbal link with your prey in order to mind control them? And even then, I would imagine that the words of one would be VERY well known, and “stand your ground” cases would be flooding the courts.
@@KincaidCalder-vn6bo They would have no way of proving with 100% certainty that someone is under mind control since I find it hard to believe that magical would cooperate with non magical in court, and let's say they cooperate in the series it was explained that there exist many different way to influence someone with magic, some undetectable. What do you mean by earmuffs?
Can we talk about how there are only 3 unforgivable curses, one of which the main characters do all the time with zero reprocussions (the mind control spell), and one of which is just the gun spell which you could make a self defense case for. Meanwhile, Sectisempra, Obliviate and Feindfire are totally okay. You know the laceration charm, which causes you to bleed to death, the spell that permanently erases a person's memory with no way to get it back, and the conjured sentient fire that has a mind of its own and actively tries to hurt and destroy and cant be put out with water. Those are all good-guy approved!
To be fair, they only do the mind control spell when they’re already fugitives and the dark lord is in charge. Sectumsempra was invented by Snape so they wouldn’t even be able to make it an unforgivable curse (since it’s not like anyone else knew it existed). I guess they didn’t want to make obliviate unforgivable since they probably thought it’s a good precaution to be able to use it on muggles, although it doesn’t make any sense why they don’t have any laws at least restricting its use. And Fiendyre is advanced dark magic (although there’s nothing banning adults from using dark magic anyway). I guess they didn’t want to make it unforgivable as if you were good enough you’d be able to control the spell, and could use it to do some good things Overall, the spells you mentioned aren’t unforgivable since they have some cool use that doesn’t make them evil (except Sectumsempra, which is just a spell that nobody knows). It makes sense that they aren’t unforgivable, as the 3 unforgivable curses could only be used for evil (since even when the good guys use the mind control one, they use it to break into a bank which is still a crime. And I’m guessing that they don’t get punished for using the unforgivable curse because it’s a time of war , and wizards don’t have war crimes so everything is fair. The only thing that doesn’t make sense out of the things you pointed out, is why there are barely any restrictions on magic (especially on obliviate and dark magic)
I actually think the intentionality explanation is perfectly adequate; basically, they're "unforgivable" because there's no plausible deniability. sectumsempra can be used with little understanding of what it even does but avada requires that you seriously want them dead. Those other spells are suspicious as hell but not automatically jail-worthy.
I wish we ever got an explanation as to HOW you invent your own spells. Like, just learn latin? (Expecto patronum just means "i summon a protector", for example and Sectumsempra just means sth like "eternal cleave") So, why don't they constantly 'invent' new magic spells by being creative? Here i just came up with: "Cerebra Crepitum" Brain explosion
If my House was leading the House Cup and then the members of another House stopped a full-on genocide of my wizard race, I really don't think I would care if my House didn't get to have our banners hung up in the Great Hall. It's not like I'm going to put "Won the Ravenclaw House Cup" on my wizard resume when I have other classmates that defeated wizard Hitler
The ones who are middle school aged probably care. But even worse, for the first book and third book it's stuff that Dumbledore can't or won't disclose to the rest of the student body, so no one even knows they beat up wizard Hitler. Dumbledore just goes up and says fuckin "Ron Weasley was really brave. 600 points to Gryffindor!" and you're just sitting there like wtf is bro talking about
@@zillanimulol, yeah, wait, that makes sense. To the random student and teachers, he just arbitrarily gave massive points to his favorite students. Like you 100% know there were rumors at school that the trio slept with Dumbledore.
@@zillanimubook two “Yeah Ron and Harry killed a giant mythological and extremely dangerous snake that was hiding under the school for 50+ years. They also saved Ron’s sister and outed world-renowned wizard as a fraud. 200 points.” Either Dumbledore says that or “Harry and Ron did something brave yesterday: 200 points.” Like there has to be like half the upper years calling BS because they think Dumbledore’s gone senile and is making up shit just so the Slytherins can’t win.
Anthony Goldstein is technically a real character in the books cuz he's listed during the sorting hat ceremony in book 1 but he's like never brought up again lmfao
@@ukulelevillain4170 *a child literally defeats wizard hitler and prevents him from committing genecide on half the wizard population* ‘unfair!!!!!! They don’t deserve to win a school tournament!!!!!!!’
@demiposeidon I mean, at least they get to watch the sport being played in front of them. I can't imagine attending an event where you just stare at a lake or a hedge maze for hours and wait for someone to emerge.
Imagine writing out 7 books worth of a wizarding world but the only useful spells are teleporting and like automatically doing your chores and also the main character only ever uses like 3 spells
Isn't it just the meta though? What else is he supposed to use if he already has the disarm spell/stun spell/object manipulation spell? Would there be a point?
Teleport spell that you can also do with powder and a fireplace. Chores which actually is kinda goated and the die spell which is just worse then a gun and it’s illegal to use. Those are the only 3 uses of magic
@@FrankEShaw05 Actually, avada kedavra is technically still better than a gun, cause a gun can be stopped by various physical barriers and such. Almost nothing will stop an avada kedavra short of human sacrifice lmao
@@nicoataiza7850 actually no, the whole energy tug-rope thing is a separate thing that says “fuck whatever spell you were casting, we’re doing this now”. It’s a bit of a hand-wavey thing to explain how Harry could ever go against a guy that will use the nigh-unbeatable killing curse at the drop of a hat, but it is an explanation nonetheless
Reminder that the acrual uironic reason given for keeping magic a secret is "if we used magic to help people it would get annoying having thwm ask for help all the time"
Bruh if the entire world knew there were wizards they wud be abused to no end like be real. All humans arent good it would definitley cause their civilization to crumble
I read this rational Harry Potter fic where the whole premise was "Tom Riddle isn't an idiot." At one point he showed up to a wand fight with a handgun and shot somebody, and one of is horcruxes was in space. 10/10 would recommend.
Hell yes. HPMOR is nowhere near perfect but the author did an absolutely amazing job at poking holes in the original than swiss cheese. Bonus points for making competent, believable secondary antagonists like Lucius Malfoy and all the times when QQ not-so-subtlely lifts his mask. There are also a few continuation fics not by the author if you enjoyed the concept but not the execution, like Significant Digits or Following the Phoenix.
The snitch mechanic would make more sense if the snitch would give no points. That way it is an undetermined timer for the game. Now the seekers jobs become to Attack/Defend against the enemy seeker depending on the score. That battle can still be interesting. Heck allow them to use spells as seeker (From a currated list) how sick would it be if someone goes: Lumos! As a defender to blind the attacking seeker to stall just enough for his team to score another point so he can attack now. Think about the Fan hype when a new spell gets added to the list of legal quidditch spells or removed because its so broken.
@@BananaWasTaken Well, yes? Main problem is that quidditch is a boring, broken game that would never have the audience the books describe. OP was changing it to give it more exciting rules and concepts.
Adding spells would be adding potential lethality to an already dangerous game. There are no safety nets and the only thing keeping them on their brooms is their bodies.
*At the battle of Hogwarts* "Hey, what's that?" "Oh, I told the muggles what's going on and they're sending help, they gave me this radio to contact them." "You told the muggles?! What are they going to do?!" "Just watch before you judge." "Fine, show us what your amazing muggle friends are capable of, this should be hilarious." *shrugs* "Reaper 3-2, you are cleared hot, all targets on the bridge are to he considered hostile. How copy?" Reaper 3-2: "Copy, targeting the bridge, mind the shrapnel." *A-10 goes BRRRRRRRRRR*
Honestly that would have been such a good point to explore. It's very clear in the worldbuilding that wizards are VERY slow to change and extremely traditionalist (to the point of racism sometimes), since magic carries their everyday life so hard. They think they are unbeatable and look down on muggles. Ironically their technological advancement is all from copying muggles (hell, the train was outright stolen) and yet they are still too proud to realize it. A story where the muggles are actually catching up with wizards in power because guns and bombs are super busted, so they actually have to get their stuff together and modernize their magic to not get obliverated, maybe even end it with an agreement to officially let muggles into a special sector of the minister of magic, dedicated to integrating muggle technology into the wizard world and viceversa, would be super amazing. This whole universe is filled with missed potential tbh
@lastyhopper2792 like I said, I haven't personally watched it, but yeah from what I've heard from other people there was a technological boom after naruto ended and in boruto they have all kinds of Ninja gadgets and stuff like that
In defense of Krum catching the snitch (and trust me, I hate defending canon) He knew there was no way Bulgaria would catch up. Bulgaria had one good player, Krum. Ireland had seven good players and while Aiden Lynch is outclassed by Krum, the rest of the Irish team outclasses the rest of the Bulgarian Team, and yeah. I believe the only reason Bulgaria made the final is Krum. Krum would have to catch the snitch simply so that the point differential isn't too embarrassing for Bulgaria. the only reason this actually makes sense is that Rowling couldn't design a good sport to save her life.
@@DominickRoselli Game doesn't end but Krum could just leave. Tell people he's following the snitch off the pitch and instead go to Hermione's bedroom or smth Imagine Krum getting scouted by Ireland mid-game LUL
The fact that Harry has mountains of gold by the time he turns 11. Like, wtf are the interest rates? And he chooses to scrounge off the Weasley's year after year who barely have 2 sickles to rub together without ever suggesting he could help them out financially. Not to mention he then inherits a whole ass mansion from a guy he's known for 2 years.
'Scrounge off the weasleys. Bruh they let a close friend of theirs to sleep in a bed sometimes and gave him some bacon and eggs. Ur acting like he was bleeding them dry lol. And he offered to help many times. What u want this 11 year old to gp around solving poverty for families? Lol give the child a break
@@davidalpeter9963That same 11 year old just got OUT of poverty and got a GIANT sum, you'd think he would understand the concept of having little money and use it to HELP others. Even if he was somehow really stupid and didn't think about just using some charity or whatever to help them anonymously, you think a kid who's shown to be super kind would just let money sit in a vault? Hell nah he'd use that whenever he saw someone on the street.
@@thunderspark1536That’s actually a plot point. Basically, the Weasleys don’t like hand outs, despite Harry’s multiple offer’s. Even Ron is a tad iffy about Harry buying him stuff with his money, which Harry doesn’t quite get. Even when giving the twin’s his tri-wizard winning, he at least had to be forceful in giving it to them.
@@666FallenShadow ... and Harry does give gifts in those days. Omnioculars (which was actually just supposed to be a gift for Quidditch World Cup, but Ron would only take it if Harry gave it as a early Christmas present), Chudley Cannons hat for Christmas. Also a Broom Compass on another Christmas. He also gave Ron a keeper glove on one of his birthday. And those are just the stuff that’s offhandedly mentioned by the plot + what I remember.
i literally stopped reading at 4. they described in HORRIBLE DETAIL exactly how Harry couldn't have put his name in the goblet of fire and then his name was in it and everybody got so angry at him even though it CLEARLY could not have been him and as a 12 year old i got so pissed off i stopped reading
Unironically too, if literally anybody had a timeturner it would devolve into a world war to monopolize it instantly. Of all the things that could happen as a result of the timeturner existing, a fucking twelve year old using it to go to more classes is not one of those possibilities. JK wrote that world, but even in her goddawful world this plot device literally makes no sense. Like, not even a little bit.
@@debesys6306 I feel like you're forgetting harry survived the HP equivalent of a 50. cal to the head, and then killed a fucking giant snake, and and then 100 dementors and all this other shit by this point. It's not THAT outlandish.
Timeturners operate on a fixed timeline system, they don't actually let you change the events of history (we will be ignoring the fanfic of Cursed Child)
4 is peak because you’re introduced to all the new cultures and schools of different wizarding countries and realize Rowling will give exactly 0 shits about anything not UK-centered. Really sets the tone for the entire series.
My favorite part about Harry Potter is how ridiculously low the stakes are. Oh no! Voldemort's taking over this *College Prepatory School* So much so that it seems like no one outside of England even cares about Voldemort. Even inside England, no one really cares. And why should they? Some dude tried to kill a baby (and lost), then came back 15 years later to enact revenge on that baby, and a highschool- only to lose to that same kid *again.*
@@Galvatronover Yeah, they don't even know they exist. What would Voldemort do if he won? We never saw any reason in the movies or books as to how he could be more dangerous than five thousand soldiers with guns and tanks
Wizards having very few jobs in the Wizarding world is more generous than what the muggle world has to offer with their skill sets. The people of the Wizarding world have little to no knowledge of the muggle world aside from plumming, trains, cars (at least flying ones), and how to hide from them. It would be hard to not draw suspicion to their existance if they tried to interact with a world that becomes more advanced and not use magic fearing being found out. This wouldn't be such an issue if the 2 worlds existed separately from one another, but no, the characters have to go through muggle areas like train stations and cities to reach the relevant plot point.
The wizarding world should have just existed in a parallel dimension like in Howl's moving castle , separate from the real-world .Which would make sense as the wizards would have lived in a completely different reality than the muggles .And make Voldemort's desires and ambitions more egregious and of a more expansionist nature ,a single world isn't enough for him to control ,he has to rule over all the worlds as some immortal god-king
All of this seems pretty relevant until you realize Voldemorts plan to kill all muggles could been a single sentence long. “Hey Dementors, go kill them.” Intangible, invisible, physics defying soul sucking abominations that you cannot kill and can’t even be repelled without magic. Muggles lose. No Diff.
And the aurors would have a super hard time dealing with this single command because not only is patronus very advanced magic, they also have to avoid outing themselves to the muggle world so they would constanly need to clean up afterwards. They literally have those things guarding the most dangerous wizards in the world in Azkaban for a reason.
They aren't wholly invisible, we have no evidence they're intangible, and we've never seen anyone actually try to kill them so who's to say a flamethrower, spray of lead, or a atomic bomb can't wipe them out. They look pretty flamable to me, and if they are made of stuff a nuke will solve them right quick.
Too many humans and too many dead wizards to reverse-tech and do experiments on to be a long term solution, but until muggles create arcane patronus guns this is legitimately the only and the best solution I have ever heard that can be a legitimate threat to humanity as a whole. Good idea with that one
Not really......there probably arent mass amounts of dementors and either your giving them instructions to indiscriminately kill in which case they probably couldnt even dent the birth/death rate or you are doing co-ordinated attacks in which case you are now revealing yourself (think Death Note when the auithorities quickly realise people were dropping dead from unnatural causes)
Thats why the Percy Jackson series is my GOAT for YA Fiction. Its very consistent and wraps up most plot holes. Why don’t people shoot the monsters? You need magic metal. Why don’t you use technology? Electronic devices will amplify your demigod aura to monsters. Also Percy Jackson was just him. Age 12: stopped a war between gods. Fought and beat Ares. Age 13: Traveled through the Sea of Monsters, killed Polyphemus and saved his friends. Age 14: Saves Artemis and holds the weight of the world so that she can fight Atlas Age 15: Saved camp Age 16: Becomes invulnerable, defeats multiple Titans, saves the gods, refuses Immortality and tells the gods “Stop being deadbeats”. Age 17: Gets rid of his invulnerability, saves the God of Death, travels with his girlfriend friend through their version of hell, saves the world from a primordial deity
@@anonomit8229also adding to this Rick Riordan is beyond based. Literally made demigods consistently have ADHD or Dyslexia because he wanted kids with them to have something they could relate to
I tried to read the Harry Potter books as a kid but gave up in Order of the Phoenix when they spend the first 150 pages dealing with a big trial, and the big trial ended like “well we don’t approve but you can go back to doing whatever and we won’t interrupt the status quo.” So the entire opening of the book was basically learning about an event that doesn’t do anything. Whyyyy
Because you get to see the inner workings of the ministry and how badly they function. You also get a lot more context for what happens after Harry gets back at Hogwarts and starts getting bullied by Umbridge. If there are parts of the book that should have been cut it's the Grawp parts, including Hagrid's tale
@@nemangame I mean… I guess it sets them up as incompetent, but when like 20% of the book’s length is dedicated to driving a single point that should be very simple, I’m not sure I’d call that good writing. Granted it has been years since I have touched that series, so maybe I am mistaken on the details.
Ok look, some of those you have a point but about Krum? His team had literally only scored one goal the entire match. If you think they had a chance of coming back even after most of their team was wounded (including Krum by the way so the chances he'd be able to find the Snitch again were very low) you are out of your mind. He saved them the humiliation from being beaten 390 to 10 which is what Ireland scored in the semi-finals! What you should be complaining about is how much the referee was clearly rigging that match. Pretty much the entire Bulgarian team got seriously wounded and no penalty was awarded but Krum lightly shoves the other seeker once and automatically gets a penalty.
My favorite is you can have an all out war on a spaceship and never worry the ships gonna take critical damage, but if it’s an outside attack it takes like 2 seconds
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is just the Harry Potter movie writers realizing that their universe has problems competing with modern technology, so they panic and try to compensate with DnD monsters.
@@deathswitch2404 Ah you're right, my bad! The 1920s-1940s, the time period known for fighting with swords and bows! I can't believe I got it confused with the 20s-40s where 2 world wars were fought with guns bombs tanks and planes!
@@AgentLandoWhich was the stupidest point ever since by then it had FAR eclipsed magical power. Even a musket from the 1700s would win against your average wizard.
@@AgentLando What’s even more fucked up: Geindewald is seen as the bad guy for wanting to stop Hitler while the “good guys” stance is to stay out of it…
I just really want a Harry Potter spinoff that basically just shows off that’s it’s just the eastern hemisphere that full of constant idiocracy. “I got a nasty burn on my hand and I think it’s infected, think I should see a healer or a muggle doctor?” “Muggle doctor. Healers are good when it’s not infected but infected becomes a whole saga with them. The muggles have treating infections down to a fine science,” “Mate why the hell did you send me an owl you could’ve just called me!” “The government is watching me! They know I’m a wizard and I have to ask you a wizard question!” “Of course they know you’re a wizard! They know I’m a wizard too! They don’t care,” “But it’s an embarrassing question and I don’t want some agent or company knowing what I’m asking…” “I’ve seen your search history before… if you’re comfortable searching that on a computer that can be monitored I think you’ll be just fine. By the way please use some kind of magical lock on your incognito tab, I never want to see it again,” “Damn, can’t use the flue powder to get to school today, flight ain’t an option, we’re not able to apparate between here and inside the school grounds, what are we going to do!?” “I got a drivers license, bags in the back of the car, now!” “So now that you’ve got your diploma what are you gonna do?” “Probably do magical engineering. You know, making magical machines and technologies, or infusing existing muggle stuff with magical utilities. Good excuse to screw with machines and computers and cast spells,” “Hey, I know a gun makes sense for dangerous muggle areas, but why wizard areas too?” “If someone jumps me they have to aim and say an entire spell, I just have to aim. Why do you think the Death Eaters never had any presence here in America? The second amendment is for wizards too,”
The generational aspect of Harry Potter is that we quite literally grew up with these books and movies. The first book came out when I was 5 and the last one came out when I was 15, so people around my age were kids when Harry was a kid and teens when he grew into a teen. But all the morality and world building never grew up with the rest of the series, with plots being as dumbed down as "good guy good because good, bad guy bad because bad" completely ignoring any misdeeds of "good' characters and glossing over empathy and redemption for "bad" characters. Human "muggles" remain completely ignorant and incompetent no matter how spectacular and obvious displays of wizardry occur in front of them. All bad guys are death eaters, all conflict comes from death eaters, everyone fighting death eaters is pure and perfect.
This is something I’ve noticed about the Potter franchise as I got older. I think JK Rowling, for all her flaws, is a pretty good children’s book writer. I don’t mean that as an insult, it’s hard to write something that can keep an 8 year old engaged and entertained. But whenever she tries to write to an older audience, even a YA audience, she falls flat. The morality is super basic, the world building doesn’t stand up to scrutiny, and Harry as a protagonist is very passive. All those things are okay in a book aimed at kids but looking back on the books as an adult without nostalgia goggles those are pretty big structural issues
The American wizards, especially by Potter book one, would absolutely have enchanted g-ns! No way there wouldn't be a market/licenses for wizard g-ns and r-fles, marksmanship classes, etc.
The fact that there's easily accessible truth serum, yet people people simply don't use it when it's not convenient. JK writes herself into so many corners it's insane
Yeah! Not only is there a truth serum, there's also a way to literally view people's memories. How in the flaming hell did they manage to wrongfully imprison Sirius Black? Did nobody question him under the truth serum? Did nobody watch his memories? Did nobody do any kind of investigation to make sure he is actually a murderer?
At least with the luck serum she tried to come up with some sort of explanation. I think it was along the lines of “it’s like drugs, it’ll cause brain damage if you overdose” or something along those lines.
This has been driving me crazy for seven movies now, hear me out: Harry Potter should have carried a 1911. Here's why: Think about how quickly the entire WWWIII (Wizarding-World War III) would have ended if all of the good guys had simply armed up with good ol' American hot lead. Basilisk? Let's see how tough it is when you shoot it with a .470 Nitro Express. Worried about its Medusa-gaze? Wear night vision goggles. The image is light-amplified and re-transmitted to your eyes. You aren't looking at it--you're looking at a picture of it. Imagine how epic the first movie would be if Harry had put a breeching charge on the bathroom wall, flash-banged the hole, and then went in wearing NVGs and a Kevlar-weave stab-vest, carrying a SPAS-12. And have you noticed that only Europe seems to a problem with Deatheaters? Maybe it's because Americans have spent the last 200 years shooting deer, playing GTA: Vice City, and keeping an eye out for black helicopters over their compounds. Meanwhile, Brits have been cutting their steaks with spoons. Remember: gun-control means that Voldemort wins. God made wizards and God made muggles, but Samuel Colt made them equal. Now I know what you're going to say: "But a wizard could just disarm someone with a gun!" Yeah, well they can also disarm someone with a wand (as they do many times throughout the books/movies). But which is faster: saying a spell or pulling a trigger? Avada Kedavra, meet Avtomat Kalashnikova. Imagine Harry out in the woods, wearing his invisibility cloak, carrying a .50bmg Barrett, turning Deatheaters into pink mist, scratching a lightning bolt into his rifle stock for each kill. I don't think Madam Pomfrey has any spells that can scrape your brains off of the trees and put you back together after something like that. Voldemort's wand may be 13.5 inches with a Phoenix-feather core, but Harry's would be 0.50 inches with a tungsten core. Let's see Voldy wave his wand at 3,000 feet per second. Better hope you have some Essence of Dittany for that sucking chest wound. I can see it now...Voldemort roaring with evil laughter and boasting to Harry that he can't be killed, since he is protected by seven Horcruxes, only to have Harry give a crooked grin, flick his cigarette butt away, and deliver what would easily be the best one-liner in the entire series: "Well then I guess it's a good thing my 1911 holds 7+1." And that is why Harry Potter should have carried a 1911.
It ties into one of my pet peeves with the world building too. In a world that has both guns, and magic, there is a natural conclusion to what you do: you combine them. You either make projectile weapons powered by magic, or you make normal firearms with magic bullets. Who the hell needs Gryffindors enchanted lame ass sword when you can have Slytherin's Enchanted Submachine Gun.
Google "Harry Potter with Guns." One Dude spent years editing it together from the original first movie. You are indeed welcome for the high art I have just whisked into your life...
@@jeffersonhassan4558 Slytherin team has a skill issue. No amount of p2w can save them. He is fundamentally correct and school matches should be done with the same brooms; acquired or provided.
I’d argue that just because one guy hears a vague story and assumes it’s about you, and then continuously tries to ruin you because of it, that is not a problem you caused. He only really fixes a problem he causes in the first one when he takes the stone out of the mirror, then turns quirell to dust (because Voldemort wouldn’t be able to get the stone out of the mirror because he wanted to use it)
@@BananaWasTaken Voldemort woudn't be able to get it. True. But if Quirell wanted to give it to Voldemort, then he would not be wanting to use it. Or Voldy could bring Draco there and tell him to retrieve the stone and give it to him. He might not even tell Draco what the stone is, just that it is important and that he will be rewarded for getting it.
My favorite thing about Hogwartz is that it is definitely the most safe place ever and definitely not a death trap that trains children to use magic that can be dangerous and deadly if someone decides they want to steal shit or beat up someone for fun.
Fun fact about guns and weapons is one of the main reasons why wizards dont deal with muggles Especially because they fear them for the technology and such because they mention many times a human on wizard war would be deteimental for both sides in a huge manner
No where in lore is this stated. Your averge wizard don't know or even fear muggle technology to the point where they mistaken a undetectable space expending charm as a muggle technology and praise them for it. And whatever technology the muggles have, wizards can take it and make it superior and op.
Oh Gringots? Absolutely, but I don't think that necessarily serves as a flaw to the story. I think J.K. Rowling makes it very clear that the Gringots and the goblins who run it cannot be trusted at all
This is why I recommend fan written stuff. The Rigel Black series by murkybluematter(a webtoon writer) is my absolute favorite. It fixes a lot of the plot holes
I feel like Atrioc wasn't fully able to grasp how terrifying a war against the Wizards from the Happy Potter world would actually be. While he's correct that on a direct skirmish, they would likely not be able to beat us, with our drones, guns and nukes, but they also have no reason to take us out using that route, they have better options, such as: - Disguising themselves as one of our leaders, gather us on a specific place and cast an AoE spell that either turns us all into animals, or cast a spell that makes us forget about the war; - Using potions such as liquid luck to turn the tides of a fight, or make some of us drink a love potion so that we fight amongst ourselves; - Their vast amount of magical beings at their command and disposal, not limited to Dragons and Dementors, of which specifically are immortal, guns and nukes won't affect them, and they suck the soul out of us; - They can separate their souls, put them in artefacts, hide them on a place we will never find out, and they basically become an immortal zombie hoard, that can cast spells, teleport and ALL OF THE ABOVE; Need I go on?
@@twelvevoltage Nuking them would only work if: They were all in the same place; they lived far away from other humans; we knew where those places were. Wizards live alongside common folk, they have cities hidden from us through magic, and they can disguise themselves as anyone they want. Meaning, if we nuke one of their cities, all they have to do is to disguise themselves as the one ordering the nuke, and then they could nuke our cities under the pretence that it is filled with Wizards.
1. the moment we learn they can disguise as our leaders we’d have far too many precautions for it to be more than slightly useful 2. bombs handle all of that 3. aren't dragons wild animals? and dementors is a terrible idea considering the patronus is supposedly an extremely advanced spell so you're killing your own troops 4. most don’t apparate considering how easy it is to kill yourself and aren't horcruxes forbidden? literally, just nuke them
The thing about Krum catching it for a loss made sense because the irish seeker had already spotted the snitch and was going after it. He was guaranteed going to catch it unless Krum beat him to it and caught it first. There was no time to wait for his team to catch up. It was either catch the snitch right then and lose by 10 or let the irish seeker catch the snitch right then and lose by like 300. Either way the snitch was getting caught right at that moment by one of the seekers.
Nah, you're telling me professional seekers don't know how to prevent an opposing seeker from catching the snitch? Cedric diggory even did that to harry in one of the books, and krum is supposed to be one of the best. It's not like he's a little seeker either, dude is supposed to be a unit, so he could have easily knocked Lynch of course
George RR Martin said his big question about Lord of the Rings is “What is Aragorn’s tax policy?” And proceeded to write the politicking of a Song of Ice and Fire so I think I know what atrioc is spending half his life doing
I haven’t seen it either but I disagree with both of you. Harry Potter would piss on the works of Shakespeare and is one of the worst stories ever penned to paper
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I remember in Book 3, in order for the Wizard government to warn Muggles about Sirius Black, they say that he had a gun, but when this info is revealed in the books, one of the wizard characters (I forgot who, maybe one of the Wesleys) had to describe it something like "a metal wand that kills people." My point being that it was written in such a way that implies Guns aren't common knowledge in the Wizarding World. Magic or not, How does anyone not know what a gun is????
I think Atrioc failed to account for the fact that seekers might want to grab the snitch even if they are down because they dont wanna play a 3-month-long quidditch match
Playing Hogwarts legacy really made me realize how dangerous Hogwarts is. Between all the horrifying, life-threatening things the kids have to go through on a REGULAR uneventful semester, you know there's at least like 5 kids a year who go to Hogwarts by their parents that just don't come back.
I mean if there was someone at my school that prevented a mass shooting by tackling the guy and taking their gun away, then I'd kind of understand their class winning whatever competition there is
@@Ktmfan450 True, by that point you are probably doubting why are you even at Hogwarts at this point if every year a major disaster happens. Like why the hell wasn't the parents just bashing dumbledore with angry owl mails about the dangers their kids are going trough*. Why isn't the school getting reinforced with more Aurors after the first/second disaster?
I agree with you about the guns and one reason comes from a series I have been listening to recently. The premise has an American get isekaid to a magical fantasy world with warlocks and knights. He is made a summoner who are considered by everyone to be weak. Though he is able to summon guns from earth that he can strengthen with magic and he literally kills thousands of people and beings that are considered to be more powerful than him with relative ease.
Unrelated follow up about Bluey, according to an employee on the Bluey Reddit, the last episodes of Bluey were completed in 2021, and nothing new has been made or is planned so far.
to be fair, the books have a lot of side stories on how the muggles can't really do anything to wizards, with some historical wizards going as far as pretending to be in pain while muggles try to burn them at stakes but not really able to do anything. it was pretty much implied or outright stated that many wizarding laws related to muggles were for protecting muggles from being harmed by elements from the magical world.
@@DefyReality-ll2cg indeed. but it is confirmed the wizards still believe they have some sort of inherent advantage over muggles and most of the wizarding laws are more focused on policing each other and keeping the entire magical world hidden just out of sight of muggles. there's no confirmation over whether or not the magical world is still dangerous to muggles and it's generally implied that the wizards still have the advantage. but overall the muggles are mostly made irrelevant outside the evil wizards talking about wanting the magic society to rule over the muggles. and also to be fair, if the books were written with more overlap between the magic world and muggle world where muggles were allowed to be more aware of the magic instead of all the stuff the wizards do to hide everything, i would assume the stories would have been written either similar to the lore to the scp foundation and other analog horrors or be something similar to my hero academia. or whatever would make the wizarding world special inspite being part of the mundane.
It is a shitty spectators sport. There is a reason it doesn’t get views on TV However even then, it is easy to follow the group in the lead, so I at least know who is winning at all times
there’s a set path though. this comparison only works if in long distance running they could just go wherever as long as they covered the right distance.
I've never been to a long-distance run so I don't know for sure, but isn't it for free? For spectators I mean. If you're running a marathon in Boston, surely they don't require every single person standing on the street to pay them right? You can just go stand at a spot and watch the runners go by, then go home. If it's for free, then the argument doesn't work, becausr Atrioc argue the spectators PAY to watch a sport they can't see.
Imagine how much better a world HP would be if we followed an American transfer student that decided to be an artificer? Things like inscribing runes on sweatbands so you don't need to verbally say the spell, or enchanting bullets with a mixture of a healing spell (so they're non-lethal) and teleport to just send the foe somewhere else. How about a gauntlet that uses enchanted crystals to channel a spell into a held item? How about a staff? Like, just a normal staff, for casting more powerful spells. Just, there's so much to explore with the idea of learning magic, but it just doesn't happen in a satiafying way.
You missed something very important in the first 2 minutes. Any wizard over the age of 18, by themselves, can wreck the human world. Brainwash an entire security council, presidents, start a fallout series in real life, whereas, humans can't even enter the wizarding world. You're pretty much on point with everything else.
They can only do so if they remain undetected and unknown and since wizards are really only good at magic they lack any level of tactical sense or even resiliance
14:40 the JK Rowling naming schemes are so, extremely funny for how weirdly targetted they seem to be. 2 black wizards in the entire books. Dean Thomas, the most boring nothing name, and Kingsley SHACKLEBOLT. Like that’s a bit on the nose. Personal favorite is her weird grudge against French people. 4 French names/families. Voldemort as a French pun, Malfoys being the most bigoted pureblood family we see, Lestranges being a family of psychotic terrors, and Delacour as Fleur basically is portrayed as a husband stealer after book 4.
I think he’s moreso just pointing out out how strangely on the nose a lot of the names are like Lupin being the name of a werewolf or Professor Sprout teaching about plants. Also u gotta admit it is kinda weird how all the major villains have French names (not gonna go as far as to claim its some kind of grudge tho)
The japanese school was literally Rowling putting "magic place" in google translate and shipping it, it makes no sense to anyone actually speaking Japanese iirc. And of course, since there is a cliche of Japanese school children having long commutes, the Japanese wizard school is the only one that is not a boarding school. And African wizards don't use wands 💀
@@thicc_duccyeah I’m exaggerating a bit over “grudge” with the French, but Rowling does show a lot of favoritism with her characters. Like I get Gryffindor having a lot of the main good guys, but it’s weird that there’s a near complete absence of nearly all of Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw who are basically neutral in the middle of what’s basically a wizard civil war. I just think it’s funny that her favoritism also seems to extend to naming the characters. Like when she needs an Irish name she just goes down the most common or stereotypical names in the country. (Seamus Finnigan).
I actually really liked the harry potter quiddich game on the gamecube, and the way they made it a fun game was you literally ignore the seeker and the snitch for most of the game and just play essentially flying basketball and its unironically a way more fun game for it
you’d have to score essentially 15 scores to win if the other team catches the snitch so the only incentive would be if seekers have individual wins and there’s a dual scoring system for teams. so theoretically your team would get 1-1 if you lost while still catching the snitch; the benefit being “this team is demolishing us so hard our only chance to make it to playoffs is thru a tied score”
Yea this is it. It’s similar in a sense to how a tie in hockey gets the losing team a point and the winning team one less point. You could do a similar thing with if you score more points but don’t catch the snitch. Either way, in a World Cup final, it still makes no sense to grab the snitch if you’re down by more than 150
@@elephantwaffle5612 unless individual wins are still rewarded to seekers as well. the concept of 2 competitions happening at the same time is kinda interesting, so one team would win world finals but seekers would win individuals. kinda like matt ryan getting mvp after the falcons lost the super bowl.
Also, usually the snitch isnt found and caught for like at least 30 mins right? Why doesnt the seeker just get the ball and give the extra player on offense. You score 15 times and the other team literally cant stop the game if they dont want to lose. Also, iirc theres no rule that only the seeker can get the snitch. So why not just get 3-5 fast guys with good eyesight and hand eye coordination to hunt the snitch before the other guys score 150
I think it makes more sense to just lower the amount of points (maybe to around the value of 5 normal scores) and make it so that it only ends the game after a certain amount of time has passed, with an upper bound on how long the game can go. Like maybe the first 20 minutes catching it doesn't end the game, then after 60 minutes if the game hasn't ended then it ends. The numbers could do with some tweaking, but overall that feels like it'd make the game more fair and fun.
Wizards be like: no, muggle stuff is bad. We refuse to use it. We'd rather send owls than instant messages. Taking a train to school is fine though despite being a muggle thing
Fun thing is, canonically that train was stolen from the muggles in a super big operation to later repurpose it for the hogwarts train. Yet they still look down on muggles. Like ?????
I still think that the funniest thing about the Snitch in quidditch is that it's so close to an interesting idea if they simply address a few issues. For one, it obviously shouldn't be worth 150 points, but more importantly, it also shouldn't be worth an even number of goals at all. Like why make it worth X number of goals when that just means you can result in a tie? If the Snitch was worth 15 points for example, not only would that be a lot more reasonable, but it also makes ties impossible because if you're down by 1 goal it'll put you just over the edge to win. Then there just needs to be some reasonable time limits put in place. Lets add halves to the game that are say 1 hour long or something like that. Then only release the snitch in the latter half of the game. This now solves a few problems. For one you cannot just get lucky and catch the snitch minute 1 before anyone has scored and win. I mean the Quidditch Organizers would hate that because imagine people pay for tickets and the game is over in 2 minutes lol. Everyone would demand a refund! And of course there's now a time limit that means that if the seeker doesn't catch the snitch in the next hour, the game just ends at whatever point totals people have. But they can catch it at any point within that hour to end the game early, presumably when their team is in the lead. And when not in the lead it's now their job to run interference with the other seeker. The only adjustment left is to add an overtime contingency where if neither seeker has caught the snitch and the teams are tied, you go into overtime and the game just ends either on next goal or if the seeker is caught. But I imagine world cup level seekers probably never get to this point.
To what you said regarding nuclear weapons. Yes, it is scarier than anything voldemort did, but imagine using the imperious curse to force a world leader to use nukes... scary huh. Also, the number of muggles and their technology is precisely why they instituted the statute of secrecy. At least in the quidditch champions game the snitch is 30 points and doesnt end the game. And texting is superior to owls I agree.
Gotta love how Harry is almost single-handedly responsible for keeping the defense against the dark arts department almost entirely unstaffed the entire series
Harry was the curse all along
@@Hyperbuzz10 or maybe it’s the literal wizard nazi trying to commit terrorist attacks constantly and not the orphan child just trying to live a happy life lmao
@@genericname2747 I don't remember the quote, but Dumbleodore knew that Tom Riddle (Voldemort) cursed the teacher post of Defense Against The Dark Arts. I think he tells Harry during his sixth year (Half-Blood Prince).
This happened because he didn't accept Riddle's application for that job. It's why Hogwarts needed a new DADA teacher every year from Riddle's failed application until his death in the Battle of Hogwarts.
Technically it was Tom
He was salty that he didn’t get the job so he cursed it
@@dansattah everyone knows tom cursed the position, but harrys the one who actively did the thing, Qurrel, killed by harry, lockhart, baited into the chamber and lockhart lost his memories, remus, well thats on remus, barty, harry pointed out barty, the toad? harry baited her into the woods...... like harry was the instrument the curse used to get rid of the prefessors lol
"Oh damn, theres soul eating nightmares floating around, lets only teach dumbledores special boy the only spell that can stop them."
I mean the spell is hard to learn and the upperclassman knew it and harry later taught it to the others
@@theshadowking3198that begs the question of why Harry could cast it then? I think it is canon that he isn't great at magic.
Nepo babies really have it all.
@@theshadowking3198 if harry could successfully teach some kids, the teachers could have as well, hard to learn or not they should have atleast tried, some of the kids would have gotten it
I think it's cause he's the only vulnerable one who's on screen at the same time as these DEMONS
In the book, other people get soul sucked
@@scientificaly_restful_oneHe’s not bad, he’s specialized. Even Hermione said that he was better than her at defense against the dark arts. And in terms of everything else, he gets EE’s academically (exceeds expectations). So he definitely not failing anything. And considering he, Hermione, and Ron are capable of defeating squads of Death Eaters on their own, Harry should be above average.
In book two they left paying students petrified for months. They could have just bought mandrakes from elsewhere in the world. Poor Collin losing most of his first year.
Sorry, your injuries are not school-related
His insurance didn't cover petrification from ancient snakes :(
He loses his life in his 6th year.
I never actually thought about it, but yeah. They act like the school losing its own supply meant they just had no way of de-petrifying them lmao
Reminds me of Key and Peele’s inner city wizard school skit “they got one kid that got changed into a cat, they can’t even afford to change him back!”
My biggest gripe with the snitch rules is that even if the snitch was worth 0, the Seeker would be an insanely important role. You literally control when the score gets locked in. If your team is ahead, you try and catch the snitch. If your team is behind, you try and stop the other seeker from ending the game. That's a massively important role. Imagine if in basketball you had 2 people playing catch with a bouncy ball and can end the game after a single shot. That's insane.
Bro the snitch being worth 0, but ending the game on catch would still be such an insane upgrade anyways. It cannot hard carry the match so the quaffle points are actually important to win the game, but it still carries weight as it decides when the game should end, so the seeker is now more versatile and can either actively seek it if their team is winning or stop the other seeker from getting it if their team is losing, in hopes of them making a comeback during that time.
PD: Hell, can even add a safenet to prevent those month-long games from happening by adding a rule where if the winning team is leading 200 points above the losing one, the game instanly ends and the leading team wins, without the need for the snitch, because by that point the chances of a comeback are basically zero so it just saves everyone's time. Or maybe the snitch gets slower as more time passes so it becomes easier and easier to end the match. Hell, both could work. There, in 10 minutes I already made the game much better, did rowling really think this through?
@@daridon2483 i mean we give advice to other sports to make them more interesting and they dont listen
@@theshadowking3198There's a difference between a modern sport having the same yet still challenge rules for all players, and a sport where one dude decides the entire game 99.9% of the time. That's not a sport that's a one on duel.
Take football for instance, every player is important one way or another in winning the game so you have to work as a TEAM to win. In quidditch, you can't even try to stop the seeker unless you're the other seeker.
Agreed but i would still make it work a small amount of points solely to allow for a Seeker vs Seeker desperation chase for when the score is level
@@MrJpc1234 Perhaps this could be accomplished by making it so that if the score is level at the time the snitch is caught, the team whose seeker caught it wins.
It’s also crazy that every point the house team scores in Quidditch counts as a point for the House Cup. Like, great you got 5 points for answering a question right, the quidditch teams are going to rack up like 700+ points each by the end of the year
thats honestly accurate to how some schools only care abt their athletes
So if you play against a trash team you get to farm house cup points before grabbing the snitch? Lmao
@@lucas_sin_si think everyone plays everyone so everyone gets a chance to farm lol. But since game doesn’t end until you get the snitch, you should basically play the game for years to farm a fuck ton of points lol
i mean, in british schools, you dont tend to get points for your houses in anything but school sports, so its accurate to british schools
They got points for winning Quidditch games, but I don’t think that equated to the actual number of points scored during the game. IIRC Harry won Gryffindor 50 points by winning a Quidditch game through catching the Snitch, which would have been 150 points.
Voldamort couldn't kill baby Harry with magic, but didn't even bother trying to throw him out the window just in case.
How would he do that? The curse rebounded and destroyed his body. Can't throw a baby out the window if you don't have a body. And he didn't know the curse wouldn't work beforehand.
@@captaincairoPT The point is, using the killing curse is extreme overkill. Just kick the baby, done, everyone gets home for dinner.
@@ich3730 bro, are you suggesting Voldemort should touch a dirty mudblood?
@shubamrachappanavar2708 Yeah, but Lilly Potter wasn't. And you know what Voldemort thinks of mixing both - just as bad as mudbloods
In book six or seven, the first chapter, he feeds the "Muggle studies" professor to his snake for suggesting that "muggles and wizards should intermingle." The famous "Dinner Nagini" scene
@@captaincairoPT You see it all wraps back into voldemort needing a gun.
Voldemort shoots harry, easy.
How to fix quidditch
1. Get rid of the snitch
2. Add time limit
3. Lower posts to the ground and make it one goal for each team
4. Make the field smaller
5. Replace brooms with sticks
6. Ice everywhere
7. Just play hockey
The good ending.
Keep the funny angry balls though those would go crazy in hockey
@@megasparklegoomba6807 what do you think the players are?
@@Watburnt fair point
LOL
Harry’s parents definitely got rich from betting on dogwifsortinghat
That’s why they were actually killed.
@@RubberBandyAndy They made too much money out of it, they had to be stopped. Just like with the GameStop stocks.
@@RubberBandyAndythey were whistleblowers against the big apparating companies
Wrong, the Potters are old money. One of their ancestors invented some amazing hair products
@@cassieanderson3936🤓☝️
Remember in a world where you can teleport, they chose nature’s slowest bird to deliver mail.
-Brennan Lee Mulligan
Dont forget the D20 season that was just them making fun of hogwarts
what's the range of apportation? how much strain does it place on the wizard? is it a good idea to go teleporting around when you have classes to teach?
@@mrosskne from what weve seen magic in general places almost no strain on the caster and there is no max range for teleporting
@@mrosskne teleporting would make it so much easier to get between classes
@@Monkey_D_Buhlahkay ppl keep forgetting it’s the early 90s in these movies. The only cell phones out there are the size of your head and like 4 ppl own them. Ppl using a bird that will fly directly to the person intended in this time is not some wildly inconvenient thing lol. And Jesus Christ why are u hung up on communication services in a fantasy wizard story? Ur literally like picking apart Star Wars for not having 5G cellular towers who the fuck cares
Sometimes you forget Big A is a Millennial and then he does shit like this
So fucking real and it's not even funny. As a 22 year old who never fucked with harry potter EVER and has never read the books this ROTTED my fucking mind. Jfc. Old man needs to stop ranting.
There are two types of millennial:
“Random Harry Potter quote.”
Or
“Random Lord of the rings quote.”
Anyway… LOOK’S LIKE MEAT IS BACK ON THE MENU BOYS
@@Angels510 stop trying to make Harry Potter happen
Lmao 25 and grew u0 reading the books @@pittaaaabread
he was trying to stay awake that stream and i guess the only thing that was keeping the energy up is some long dormant unexpressed rage fueled harry potter grievances that he was too tired to put the brakes on.
Also every business is a monopoly. You already know Olivander, whose family has been selling wands to all of England for 2000+ years puts the Malfoys to shame.
They aren't monopolies, it is just a mix of only going to the same stores and never actually traveling anywhere at all to shop. Ollivander's is just supposed to be the "best" wandmaker in Britain, but not the only one. The fact that the only place they ever go shopping is Diagon Alley is the limiter.
@@ShaggyRogers1 Valid, didn't know I got so many likes on that post lol
@shubamrachappanavar2708 The thing about the HP universe that he is referencing is that the only businesses that are ever mentioned never have any competitors that are also mentioned. The closest thing to pointing out business competitors that the series ever did was mention all of the different broom making companies. Even the wandmaker Gregorovitch that is shown as a competitor to Ollivander was implied to be from a different nation in Europe.
JK put little thought into most of her worldbuilding past handwaving the details.
@shubamrachappanavar2708 Tbf they never mention other domestic competitors, only foreign ones and those are almost unknown to the english wizards.
Olivander isnt forcing other businesses out of thw market or anything like a monopoly. Its not like hes price gouging or living like elon musk or sum. He just loves slangin wands and ppl just trust him the most in that area
The only magic that nullifies every technological advantage we posses is mind magic. People don't realise how fucking overpowered and terrifying mind magic make wizard.
Even then tho, that would also render absolutely any other spell useless "You are now under my complete control, I task you to bring others who are not yet under my control, under my control" and boom, the whole wizarding world is a dictatorship ruled by a single wizard (I hate that we are literally never explained why something like this could never happen although we know there are mind-erasing spells and memory reading fountains)
On wizards you can get a chain reaction of mass mind control. The muggles unfortunately developed the tank and drones
@@piolewus You would be right, if not for the fact that there still a human in command at the highest level, and non magical have no way to protect against apparition combo with imperius.
May I present: Earmuffs? Like, don’t you need to actually have a verbal link with your prey in order to mind control them? And even then, I would imagine that the words of one would be VERY well known, and “stand your ground” cases would be flooding the courts.
@@KincaidCalder-vn6bo They would have no way of proving with 100% certainty that someone is under mind control since I find it hard to believe that magical would cooperate with non magical in court, and let's say they cooperate in the series it was explained that there exist many different way to influence someone with magic, some undetectable. What do you mean by earmuffs?
Can we talk about how there are only 3 unforgivable curses, one of which the main characters do all the time with zero reprocussions (the mind control spell), and one of which is just the gun spell which you could make a self defense case for. Meanwhile, Sectisempra, Obliviate and Feindfire are totally okay. You know the laceration charm, which causes you to bleed to death, the spell that permanently erases a person's memory with no way to get it back, and the conjured sentient fire that has a mind of its own and actively tries to hurt and destroy and cant be put out with water. Those are all good-guy approved!
To be fair, they only do the mind control spell when they’re already fugitives and the dark lord is in charge.
Sectumsempra was invented by Snape so they wouldn’t even be able to make it an unforgivable curse (since it’s not like anyone else knew it existed).
I guess they didn’t want to make obliviate unforgivable since they probably thought it’s a good precaution to be able to use it on muggles, although it doesn’t make any sense why they don’t have any laws at least restricting its use.
And Fiendyre is advanced dark magic (although there’s nothing banning adults from using dark magic anyway). I guess they didn’t want to make it unforgivable as if you were good enough you’d be able to control the spell, and could use it to do some good things
Overall, the spells you mentioned aren’t unforgivable since they have some cool use that doesn’t make them evil (except Sectumsempra, which is just a spell that nobody knows). It makes sense that they aren’t unforgivable, as the 3 unforgivable curses could only be used for evil (since even when the good guys use the mind control one, they use it to break into a bank which is still a crime.
And I’m guessing that they don’t get punished for using the unforgivable curse because it’s a time of war , and wizards don’t have war crimes so everything is fair.
The only thing that doesn’t make sense out of the things you pointed out, is why there are barely any restrictions on magic (especially on obliviate and dark magic)
Wizarding World Geneva conventions caught lacking😭😭
I actually think the intentionality explanation is perfectly adequate; basically, they're "unforgivable" because there's no plausible deniability. sectumsempra can be used with little understanding of what it even does but avada requires that you seriously want them dead. Those other spells are suspicious as hell but not automatically jail-worthy.
Virgin Harry Potter: Too much of a pussy to use the killing spell on fantasy Hitler
Chad Percy Jackson: I am going to MURDER my abusive father
I wish we ever got an explanation as to HOW you invent your own spells.
Like, just learn latin?
(Expecto patronum just means "i summon a protector", for example and Sectumsempra just means sth like "eternal cleave")
So, why don't they constantly 'invent' new magic spells by being creative?
Here i just came up with: "Cerebra Crepitum" Brain explosion
If my House was leading the House Cup and then the members of another House stopped a full-on genocide of my wizard race, I really don't think I would care if my House didn't get to have our banners hung up in the Great Hall. It's not like I'm going to put "Won the Ravenclaw House Cup" on my wizard resume when I have other classmates that defeated wizard Hitler
The ones who are middle school aged probably care.
But even worse, for the first book and third book it's stuff that Dumbledore can't or won't disclose to the rest of the student body, so no one even knows they beat up wizard Hitler. Dumbledore just goes up and says fuckin "Ron Weasley was really brave. 600 points to Gryffindor!" and you're just sitting there like wtf is bro talking about
@@zillanimulol, yeah, wait, that makes sense. To the random student and teachers, he just arbitrarily gave massive points to his favorite students. Like you 100% know there were rumors at school that the trio slept with Dumbledore.
@@zillanimubook two “Yeah Ron and Harry killed a giant mythological and extremely dangerous snake that was hiding under the school for 50+ years. They also saved Ron’s sister and outed world-renowned wizard as a fraud. 200 points.” Either Dumbledore says that or “Harry and Ron did something brave yesterday: 200 points.”
Like there has to be like half the upper years calling BS because they think Dumbledore’s gone senile and is making up shit just so the Slytherins can’t win.
Anthony Goldstein is technically a real character in the books cuz he's listed during the sorting hat ceremony in book 1 but he's like never brought up again lmfao
is that a subtle technoblade reference I see?
Dumbledore really said "i need you to find me 200 points"
Good one LUL
Mario Party-ass competition
@@ukulelevillain4170 *a child literally defeats wizard hitler and prevents him from committing genecide on half the wizard population* ‘unfair!!!!!! They don’t deserve to win a school tournament!!!!!!!’
@@davidalpeter9963 holy shit bro its a joke
"can you imagine being a spectator and watching days of a sport?" Cricket fans sweating profusely and shrinking into the bushes
I was looking for this comment, thank you!
@demiposeidon I mean, at least they get to watch the sport being played in front of them. I can't imagine attending an event where you just stare at a lake or a hedge maze for hours and wait for someone to emerge.
"If my kid was a God-fearing Hufflepuff, I would be fucking furious." is a line I didn't know I needed to hear, that was incredible lmaoooooo
Big A: Harry potter 4 is the peak
Also Big A: Spends 10 minutes talking about how shit Harry Potter 4 is
so true
As good as it gets
goblet of fire is an unintentional camp masterpiece
god i missed these old school rambling videos on the main channel, editor did an amazing job!
Shoutout to the librarian just making a normal ass comment.
Editor had A LOT of content to work with on this one. For anyone who wasn't there, this rant went on for like 2 straight hours. It was insane.
Hell yeah librarian you would be used to ramblings wouldnt you (of the egg variety)
@@AdmiralSarcasm do you know which vod? For science of course
@@duncanhobbs2213it’s linked in description
Imagine writing out 7 books worth of a wizarding world but the only useful spells are teleporting and like automatically doing your chores and also the main character only ever uses like 3 spells
Isn't it just the meta though? What else is he supposed to use if he already has the disarm spell/stun spell/object manipulation spell? Would there be a point?
Teleport spell that you can also do with powder and a fireplace. Chores which actually is kinda goated and the die spell which is just worse then a gun and it’s illegal to use. Those are the only 3 uses of magic
@@FrankEShaw05 Actually, avada kedavra is technically still better than a gun, cause a gun can be stopped by various physical barriers and such. Almost nothing will stop an avada kedavra short of human sacrifice lmao
@@T0NI_ literally lost to a disarming spell
@@nicoataiza7850 actually no, the whole energy tug-rope thing is a separate thing that says “fuck whatever spell you were casting, we’re doing this now”. It’s a bit of a hand-wavey thing to explain how Harry could ever go against a guy that will use the nigh-unbeatable killing curse at the drop of a hat, but it is an explanation nonetheless
Glizzy hands gives off big ummm actually ravenclaw energy
TRUE!!!
He would get ostracized for trying to explain the muggle economy to his fellow wizards and witches
@@SentryWillhe'd get along super well with Ron's dad lol, 2 wizards obsessed with the Muggle world
@@crimsoneclipse0618 and both balding
@@313Leøn only issue is that big a is so much older than him, might get a lil awkward trying to explain why he's still at hogwarts
Reminder that the acrual uironic reason given for keeping magic a secret is "if we used magic to help people it would get annoying having thwm ask for help all the time"
Bruh if the entire world knew there were wizards they wud be abused to no end like be real. All humans arent good it would definitley cause their civilization to crumble
@@davidalpeter9963 How would you abuse people who can set you on fire with a thought?
Howy yal cnt spel
@@theshadowking3198 phone :(
@@ethanstyant9704 sadly true...
I'm surprised this video is only 21 minutes long
i dont care one way or the other about it but i find it funny that atrioc is the pipeline that had me click on a furry youtuber lmao
The vod was 2+ hours of eepy rambling so its genuinely impressive they edited it down to 21
Love your music ivy
Woah i guess i have to watch the VOD because this random ranting was hila ahaha. @demiposeidon
Oh, hi Ivy!
I read this rational Harry Potter fic where the whole premise was "Tom Riddle isn't an idiot." At one point he showed up to a wand fight with a handgun and shot somebody, and one of is horcruxes was in space. 10/10 would recommend.
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality?
Hell yes. HPMOR is nowhere near perfect but the author did an absolutely amazing job at poking holes in the original than swiss cheese. Bonus points for making competent, believable secondary antagonists like Lucius Malfoy and all the times when QQ not-so-subtlely lifts his mask. There are also a few continuation fics not by the author if you enjoyed the concept but not the execution, like Significant Digits or Following the Phoenix.
@@ezdyuhpmor was written by a weirdo fucking creep who managed to poison a lot of rich sv ppl with his bullshit lmao
The horcrux in space would lose to the summoning charm. If you knew it existed at least.
@@Максим-п1л4ж that's the one!
The snitch mechanic would make more sense if the snitch would give no points. That way it is an undetermined timer for the game. Now the seekers jobs become to Attack/Defend against the enemy seeker depending on the score. That battle can still be interesting. Heck allow them to use spells as seeker (From a currated list) how sick would it be if someone goes: Lumos! As a defender to blind the attacking seeker to stall just enough for his team to score another point so he can attack now. Think about the Fan hype when a new spell gets added to the list of legal quidditch spells or removed because its so broken.
Adding spells just turns it into a whole ‘nother game. Quidditch is about showcasing your broom skills, not your spellcasting ability.
@@BananaWasTaken what could show your broomskill more than know how to fly it even when under the influence of hindering spells?
@@BananaWasTaken Well, yes? Main problem is that quidditch is a boring, broken game that would never have the audience the books describe. OP was changing it to give it more exciting rules and concepts.
Spells would be kinda fire tho
Adding spells would be adding potential lethality to an already dangerous game. There are no safety nets and the only thing keeping them on their brooms is their bodies.
*At the battle of Hogwarts*
"Hey, what's that?"
"Oh, I told the muggles what's going on and they're sending help, they gave me this radio to contact them."
"You told the muggles?! What are they going to do?!"
"Just watch before you judge."
"Fine, show us what your amazing muggle friends are capable of, this should be hilarious."
*shrugs* "Reaper 3-2, you are cleared hot, all targets on the bridge are to he considered hostile. How copy?"
Reaper 3-2: "Copy, targeting the bridge, mind the shrapnel."
*A-10 goes BRRRRRRRRRR*
Honestly that would have been such a good point to explore. It's very clear in the worldbuilding that wizards are VERY slow to change and extremely traditionalist (to the point of racism sometimes), since magic carries their everyday life so hard. They think they are unbeatable and look down on muggles. Ironically their technological advancement is all from copying muggles (hell, the train was outright stolen) and yet they are still too proud to realize it. A story where the muggles are actually catching up with wizards in power because guns and bombs are super busted, so they actually have to get their stuff together and modernize their magic to not get obliverated, maybe even end it with an agreement to officially let muggles into a special sector of the minister of magic, dedicated to integrating muggle technology into the wizard world and viceversa, would be super amazing.
This whole universe is filled with missed potential tbh
@@daridon2483I’m still thinking how insane the illegal gun market in America would be. The enchantments would effectively render gun control obsolete.
@@daridon2483 i haven't watched it, but apparently boruto, the sequel series to naruto kind of does something like this
@@666FallenShadowwait, boruto did explore this traditional vs modern concept? That sounds interesting to watch
@lastyhopper2792 like I said, I haven't personally watched it, but yeah from what I've heard from other people there was a technological boom after naruto ended and in boruto they have all kinds of Ninja gadgets and stuff like that
In defense of Krum catching the snitch (and trust me, I hate defending canon) He knew there was no way Bulgaria would catch up. Bulgaria had one good player, Krum. Ireland had seven good players and while Aiden Lynch is outclassed by Krum, the rest of the Irish team outclasses the rest of the Bulgarian Team, and yeah. I believe the only reason Bulgaria made the final is Krum.
Krum would have to catch the snitch simply so that the point differential isn't too embarrassing for Bulgaria.
the only reason this actually makes sense is that Rowling couldn't design a good sport to save her life.
Except all they had to do was get 1 goal to tie. 2 to win.
You're saying he didn't buy his team could even score ONE goal. At that point just forfeit
@@1slayer959 If they're down like 16-0? Yeah, I wouldn't expect them to get a goal before it goes to 20-0 either.
@@hi123452008 then just walk at that point. At that point catching it is just assuming the position
@1slayer959 The game doesn't end unless they catch the snitch.
@@DominickRoselli Game doesn't end but Krum could just leave. Tell people he's following the snitch off the pitch and instead go to Hermione's bedroom or smth
Imagine Krum getting scouted by Ireland mid-game LUL
The fact that Harry has mountains of gold by the time he turns 11. Like, wtf are the interest rates? And he chooses to scrounge off the Weasley's year after year who barely have 2 sickles to rub together without ever suggesting he could help them out financially. Not to mention he then inherits a whole ass mansion from a guy he's known for 2 years.
'Scrounge off the weasleys. Bruh they let a close friend of theirs to sleep in a bed sometimes and gave him some bacon and eggs. Ur acting like he was bleeding them dry lol. And he offered to help many times. What u want this 11 year old to gp around solving poverty for families? Lol give the child a break
@@davidalpeter9963That same 11 year old just got OUT of poverty and got a GIANT sum, you'd think he would understand the concept of having little money and use it to HELP others.
Even if he was somehow really stupid and didn't think about just using some charity or whatever to help them anonymously, you think a kid who's shown to be super kind would just let money sit in a vault? Hell nah he'd use that whenever he saw someone on the street.
@@thunderspark1536That’s actually a plot point. Basically, the Weasleys don’t like hand outs, despite Harry’s multiple offer’s. Even Ron is a tad iffy about Harry buying him stuff with his money, which Harry doesn’t quite get. Even when giving the twin’s his tri-wizard winning, he at least had to be forceful in giving it to them.
@@xxvoid_cowboyxx2586 birthdays and Christmas exist
@@666FallenShadow ... and Harry does give gifts in those days. Omnioculars (which was actually just supposed to be a gift for Quidditch World Cup, but Ron would only take it if Harry gave it as a early Christmas present), Chudley Cannons hat for Christmas. Also a Broom Compass on another Christmas. He also gave Ron a keeper glove on one of his birthday. And those are just the stuff that’s offhandedly mentioned by the plot + what I remember.
we're not gonna talk about when hermoine just started time traveling one movie and then it never came up again
She time travelled just to do more schoolwork
It stressed her tf out tho and it never changed the timeline
It technically DID come up in book five - when (almost) every time turner was destroyed.
4 is not the peak, because it's the book where any child can realize "but why don't they use the timeturners?"
i literally stopped reading at 4. they described in HORRIBLE DETAIL exactly how Harry couldn't have put his name in the goblet of fire and then his name was in it and everybody got so angry at him even though it CLEARLY could not have been him and as a 12 year old i got so pissed off i stopped reading
Unironically too, if literally anybody had a timeturner it would devolve into a world war to monopolize it instantly. Of all the things that could happen as a result of the timeturner existing, a fucking twelve year old using it to go to more classes is not one of those possibilities. JK wrote that world, but even in her goddawful world this plot device literally makes no sense. Like, not even a little bit.
@@debesys6306 I feel like you're forgetting harry survived the HP equivalent of a 50. cal to the head, and then killed a fucking giant snake, and and then 100 dementors and all this other shit by this point. It's not THAT outlandish.
Timeturners operate on a fixed timeline system, they don't actually let you change the events of history (we will be ignoring the fanfic of Cursed Child)
4 is peak because you’re introduced to all the new cultures and schools of different wizarding countries and realize Rowling will give exactly 0 shits about anything not UK-centered. Really sets the tone for the entire series.
My favorite part about Harry Potter is how ridiculously low the stakes are.
Oh no! Voldemort's taking over this *College Prepatory School*
So much so that it seems like no one outside of England even cares about Voldemort. Even inside England, no one really cares.
And why should they? Some dude tried to kill a baby (and lost), then came back 15 years later to enact revenge on that baby, and a highschool- only to lose to that same kid *again.*
Why would the rest of England care they don’t even know that wizards exist ?
@@Galvatronover Yeah, they don't even know they exist. What would Voldemort do if he won? We never saw any reason in the movies or books as to how he could be more dangerous than five thousand soldiers with guns and tanks
Wizards having very few jobs in the Wizarding world is more generous than what the muggle world has to offer with their skill sets. The people of the Wizarding world have little to no knowledge of the muggle world aside from plumming, trains, cars (at least flying ones), and how to hide from them. It would be hard to not draw suspicion to their existance if they tried to interact with a world that becomes more advanced and not use magic fearing being found out. This wouldn't be such an issue if the 2 worlds existed separately from one another, but no, the characters have to go through muggle areas like train stations and cities to reach the relevant plot point.
The wizarding world should have just existed in a parallel dimension like in Howl's moving castle , separate from the real-world .Which would make sense as the wizards would have lived in a completely different reality than the muggles .And make Voldemort's desires and ambitions more egregious and of a more expansionist nature ,a single world isn't enough for him to control ,he has to rule over all the worlds as some immortal god-king
All of this seems pretty relevant until you realize Voldemorts plan to kill all muggles could been a single sentence long.
“Hey Dementors, go kill them.”
Intangible, invisible, physics defying soul sucking abominations that you cannot kill and can’t even be repelled without magic.
Muggles lose. No Diff.
And the aurors would have a super hard time dealing with this single command because not only is patronus very advanced magic, they also have to avoid outing themselves to the muggle world so they would constanly need to clean up afterwards. They literally have those things guarding the most dangerous wizards in the world in Azkaban for a reason.
They aren't wholly invisible, we have no evidence they're intangible, and we've never seen anyone actually try to kill them so who's to say a flamethrower, spray of lead, or a atomic bomb can't wipe them out. They look pretty flamable to me, and if they are made of stuff a nuke will solve them right quick.
Too many humans and too many dead wizards to reverse-tech and do experiments on to be a long term solution, but until muggles create arcane patronus guns this is legitimately the only and the best solution I have ever heard that can be a legitimate threat to humanity as a whole. Good idea with that one
and in an act of panic the muggles launch their nukes and everyone loses, either way there is no scenario in which the wizards win a world war
Not really......there probably arent mass amounts of dementors and either your giving them instructions to indiscriminately kill in which case they probably couldnt even dent the birth/death rate or you are doing co-ordinated attacks in which case you are now revealing yourself (think Death Note when the auithorities quickly realise people were dropping dead from unnatural causes)
It has no internal consistency. Just like throwing people with Jedi powers behind bars.
Thats why the Percy Jackson series is my GOAT for YA Fiction. Its very consistent and wraps up most plot holes.
Why don’t people shoot the monsters? You need magic metal.
Why don’t you use technology? Electronic devices will amplify your demigod aura to monsters.
Also Percy Jackson was just him.
Age 12: stopped a war between gods. Fought and beat Ares.
Age 13: Traveled through the Sea of Monsters, killed Polyphemus and saved his friends.
Age 14: Saves Artemis and holds the weight of the world so that she can fight Atlas
Age 15: Saved camp
Age 16: Becomes invulnerable, defeats multiple Titans, saves the gods, refuses Immortality and tells the gods “Stop being deadbeats”.
Age 17: Gets rid of his invulnerability, saves the God of Death, travels with his girlfriend friend through their version of hell, saves the world from a primordial deity
I think the electronics also malfunction @@anonomit8229
@@anonomit8229also adding to this Rick Riordan is beyond based. Literally made demigods consistently have ADHD or Dyslexia because he wanted kids with them to have something they could relate to
I read that as throwing jedi behind power bars and now I want a clif bar.
@@berrymax7907 I mean if you were a child with godlike powers I'd be hyper too
I tried to read the Harry Potter books as a kid but gave up in Order of the Phoenix when they spend the first 150 pages dealing with a big trial, and the big trial ended like “well we don’t approve but you can go back to doing whatever and we won’t interrupt the status quo.”
So the entire opening of the book was basically learning about an event that doesn’t do anything. Whyyyy
Yuuup. The rest of the book is actually pretty decent, but that beginning was a *pain* .
IMO the beginning of Order is great because it sets up the unjust bureaucracy that Harry and the gang are up against for the rest of 5 and most of 7.
Because you get to see the inner workings of the ministry and how badly they function. You also get a lot more context for what happens after Harry gets back at Hogwarts and starts getting bullied by Umbridge.
If there are parts of the book that should have been cut it's the Grawp parts, including Hagrid's tale
@@nemangame I mean… I guess it sets them up as incompetent, but when like 20% of the book’s length is dedicated to driving a single point that should be very simple, I’m not sure I’d call that good writing. Granted it has been years since I have touched that series, so maybe I am mistaken on the details.
Ok look, some of those you have a point but about Krum? His team had literally only scored one goal the entire match. If you think they had a chance of coming back even after most of their team was wounded (including Krum by the way so the chances he'd be able to find the Snitch again were very low) you are out of your mind. He saved them the humiliation from being beaten 390 to 10 which is what Ireland scored in the semi-finals!
What you should be complaining about is how much the referee was clearly rigging that match. Pretty much the entire Bulgarian team got seriously wounded and no penalty was awarded but Krum lightly shoves the other seeker once and automatically gets a penalty.
At that point they should've just walked. Rather than throw the match entirely
My favorite part of Star Wars lore is the Republic literally banned regular guns because their lightsabers can’t deflect them XD
Meanwhile GGO
But the normal guns, called slugthrowers in star wars, dont penetrate almost any armor, for example it wouldnt kill a clone trooper.
My favorite is you can have an all out war on a spaceship and never worry the ships gonna take critical damage, but if it’s an outside attack it takes like 2 seconds
@@bentoomet8805Yep, exactly, which is why the Republic banned them. Bounty hunters were getting too good at bagging Jedi
In the words of The Russian Badger, “oh, they can deflect lasers? Well, have fun with this buckshot.”
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is just the Harry Potter movie writers realizing that their universe has problems competing with modern technology, so they panic and try to compensate with DnD monsters.
Ah yes the movies set in the 1920-1940s has problems competing with modern technology
@@deathswitch2404 Ah you're right, my bad! The 1920s-1940s, the time period known for fighting with swords and bows! I can't believe I got it confused with the 20s-40s where 2 world wars were fought with guns bombs tanks and planes!
Wasn't the whole point Grindelwald was making is that muggle technology was catching up to wizards?
@@AgentLandoWhich was the stupidest point ever since by then it had FAR eclipsed magical power. Even a musket from the 1700s would win against your average wizard.
@@AgentLando
What’s even more fucked up: Geindewald is seen as the bad guy for wanting to stop Hitler while the “good guys” stance is to stay out of it…
The key & peele skit about urban Wizarding School did more good to Harry Potter worldbuilding than J.K. Rowling's ramblings ever did and will ever do
I just really want a Harry Potter spinoff that basically just shows off that’s it’s just the eastern hemisphere that full of constant idiocracy.
“I got a nasty burn on my hand and I think it’s infected, think I should see a healer or a muggle doctor?”
“Muggle doctor. Healers are good when it’s not infected but infected becomes a whole saga with them. The muggles have treating infections down to a fine science,”
“Mate why the hell did you send me an owl you could’ve just called me!”
“The government is watching me! They know I’m a wizard and I have to ask you a wizard question!”
“Of course they know you’re a wizard! They know I’m a wizard too! They don’t care,”
“But it’s an embarrassing question and I don’t want some agent or company knowing what I’m asking…”
“I’ve seen your search history before… if you’re comfortable searching that on a computer that can be monitored I think you’ll be just fine. By the way please use some kind of magical lock on your incognito tab, I never want to see it again,”
“Damn, can’t use the flue powder to get to school today, flight ain’t an option, we’re not able to apparate between here and inside the school grounds, what are we going to do!?”
“I got a drivers license, bags in the back of the car, now!”
“So now that you’ve got your diploma what are you gonna do?”
“Probably do magical engineering. You know, making magical machines and technologies, or infusing existing muggle stuff with magical utilities. Good excuse to screw with machines and computers and cast spells,”
“Hey, I know a gun makes sense for dangerous muggle areas, but why wizard areas too?”
“If someone jumps me they have to aim and say an entire spell, I just have to aim. Why do you think the Death Eaters never had any presence here in America? The second amendment is for wizards too,”
Canonically, the USA is similar, so you could have it be European countries and those that were colonized by them be like that.
I love this. In my brain this is canon
The generational aspect of Harry Potter is that we quite literally grew up with these books and movies. The first book came out when I was 5 and the last one came out when I was 15, so people around my age were kids when Harry was a kid and teens when he grew into a teen. But all the morality and world building never grew up with the rest of the series, with plots being as dumbed down as "good guy good because good, bad guy bad because bad" completely ignoring any misdeeds of "good' characters and glossing over empathy and redemption for "bad" characters. Human "muggles" remain completely ignorant and incompetent no matter how spectacular and obvious displays of wizardry occur in front of them. All bad guys are death eaters, all conflict comes from death eaters, everyone fighting death eaters is pure and perfect.
What about Snape ?
@@Galvatronover He was clearly shown to be a good guy in the first book after it's revealed the funny turban guy was Voldemort.
This is something I’ve noticed about the Potter franchise as I got older. I think JK Rowling, for all her flaws, is a pretty good children’s book writer. I don’t mean that as an insult, it’s hard to write something that can keep an 8 year old engaged and entertained.
But whenever she tries to write to an older audience, even a YA audience, she falls flat. The morality is super basic, the world building doesn’t stand up to scrutiny, and Harry as a protagonist is very passive. All those things are okay in a book aimed at kids but looking back on the books as an adult without nostalgia goggles those are pretty big structural issues
The American wizards, especially by Potter book one, would absolutely have enchanted g-ns! No way there wouldn't be a market/licenses for wizard g-ns and r-fles, marksmanship classes, etc.
That intro feels like a bad acid trip (I love it)
Editor popped off. Bet they had fun.
Goes wayy to hard😂
hahaha yup
The fact that there's easily accessible truth serum, yet people people simply don't use it when it's not convenient.
JK writes herself into so many corners it's insane
You can also apparently invade memories, check for tampering and stuff, and also control them outright and force them to talk with the imperius curse
Yeah! Not only is there a truth serum, there's also a way to literally view people's memories. How in the flaming hell did they manage to wrongfully imprison Sirius Black? Did nobody question him under the truth serum? Did nobody watch his memories? Did nobody do any kind of investigation to make sure he is actually a murderer?
At least with the luck serum she tried to come up with some sort of explanation. I think it was along the lines of “it’s like drugs, it’ll cause brain damage if you overdose” or something along those lines.
Truth serum was definitely an awful writing decision. Almost as bad as the dehydration gun in megamind 2.
@@tommy_svk He was sentenced without a trial
This has been driving me crazy for seven movies now, hear me out: Harry Potter should have carried a 1911.
Here's why:
Think about how quickly the entire WWWIII (Wizarding-World War III) would have ended if all of the good guys had simply armed up with good ol' American hot lead.
Basilisk? Let's see how tough it is when you shoot it with a .470 Nitro Express. Worried about its Medusa-gaze? Wear night vision goggles. The image is light-amplified and re-transmitted to your eyes. You aren't looking at it--you're looking at a picture of it.
Imagine how epic the first movie would be if Harry had put a breeching charge on the bathroom wall, flash-banged the hole, and then went in wearing NVGs and a Kevlar-weave stab-vest, carrying a SPAS-12.
And have you noticed that only Europe seems to a problem with Deatheaters? Maybe it's because Americans have spent the last 200 years shooting deer, playing GTA: Vice City, and keeping an eye out for black helicopters over their compounds. Meanwhile, Brits have been cutting their steaks with spoons. Remember: gun-control means that Voldemort wins. God made wizards and God made muggles, but Samuel Colt made them equal.
Now I know what you're going to say: "But a wizard could just disarm someone with a gun!" Yeah, well they can also disarm someone with a wand (as they do many times throughout the books/movies). But which is faster: saying a spell or pulling a trigger?
Avada Kedavra, meet Avtomat Kalashnikova.
Imagine Harry out in the woods, wearing his invisibility cloak, carrying a .50bmg Barrett, turning Deatheaters into pink mist, scratching a lightning bolt into his rifle stock for each kill. I don't think Madam Pomfrey has any spells that can scrape your brains off of the trees and put you back together after something like that. Voldemort's wand may be 13.5 inches with a Phoenix-feather core, but Harry's would be 0.50 inches with a tungsten core. Let's see Voldy wave his wand at 3,000 feet per second. Better hope you have some Essence of Dittany for that sucking chest wound.
I can see it now...Voldemort roaring with evil laughter and boasting to Harry that he can't be killed, since he is protected by seven Horcruxes, only to have Harry give a crooked grin, flick his cigarette butt away, and deliver what would easily be the best one-liner in the entire series:
"Well then I guess it's a good thing my 1911 holds 7+1."
And that is why Harry Potter should have carried a 1911.
Holy Shit this is the best thing I’ve read in a VERY long time 😭
love this copypasta
It ties into one of my pet peeves with the world building too. In a world that has both guns, and magic, there is a natural conclusion to what you do: you combine them. You either make projectile weapons powered by magic, or you make normal firearms with magic bullets. Who the hell needs Gryffindors enchanted lame ass sword when you can have Slytherin's Enchanted Submachine Gun.
Google "Harry Potter with Guns." One Dude spent years editing it together from the original first movie. You are indeed welcome for the high art I have just whisked into your life...
@@neruneri COOK
Him not mentioning that quidditch is straight up pay-to-win is insane to me. Harry is just bought a better broom than everyone else.
Meh to a point. In hp2 literally the entire slytherin team has better brooms than anyone else.... harry still wins
In that logic, Slytherin would have won all games
@@jeffersonhassan4558 Slytherin team has a skill issue. No amount of p2w can save them. He is fundamentally correct and school matches should be done with the same brooms; acquired or provided.
Tbf the real world has sports like NASCAR racing where the same principle applies.
This was the most insane waffling i've ever seen him do on stream. Well deserved video
Shit was like 2 hrs no? I remember skimming thru the VOD and bro was still going on about it. Generational waffler.
Let's be real - this was his entire stream that day....and it was pure fire 🔥
This might be, no joke, his worst ever controversy
I gotta go watch the vod now
13:24 harry getting points for fixing the problems he caused in the first place
I’d argue that just because one guy hears a vague story and assumes it’s about you, and then continuously tries to ruin you because of it, that is not a problem you caused. He only really fixes a problem he causes in the first one when he takes the stone out of the mirror, then turns quirell to dust (because Voldemort wouldn’t be able to get the stone out of the mirror because he wanted to use it)
@@BananaWasTaken Voldemort woudn't be able to get it. True.
But if Quirell wanted to give it to Voldemort, then he would not be wanting to use it.
Or Voldy could bring Draco there and tell him to retrieve the stone and give it to him. He might not even tell Draco what the stone is, just that it is important and that he will be rewarded for getting it.
My favorite thing about Hogwartz is that it is definitely the most safe place ever and definitely not a death trap that trains children to use magic that can be dangerous and deadly if someone decides they want to steal shit or beat up someone for fun.
Fun fact about guns and weapons is one of the main reasons why wizards dont deal with muggles
Especially because they fear them for the technology and such because they mention many times a human on wizard war would be deteimental for both sides in a huge manner
I always love when people say the wizards could win but completely forget that a bunch of peasants in the 1400s could force them into hiding
No where in lore is this stated. Your averge wizard don't know or even fear muggle technology to the point where they mistaken a undetectable space expending charm as a muggle technology and praise them for it.
And whatever technology the muggles have, wizards can take it and make it superior and op.
3:21 Nah but that one goofy bank operated by goblins is defo a pyramid scheme tho
And they said there were no Jews in the movie...
Oh Gringots? Absolutely, but I don't think that necessarily serves as a flaw to the story. I think J.K. Rowling makes it very clear that the Gringots and the goblins who run it cannot be trusted at all
@@NeonPlanes outta pocket
@@tiagobelo4965 You can't tell me that isn't what the bankers are meant to be. I ain't outta pocket, JK is. It is funny though
@@tiagobelo4965You know JK Rowling and think she wouldn’t make that comparison. It’s the normal comparison considering the writer.
This is why I recommend fan written stuff. The Rigel Black series by murkybluematter(a webtoon writer) is my absolute favorite. It fixes a lot of the plot holes
Mad respect for the editor to cut something that long down into something so concise. Genuine hard work
"You know what's scary? What Truman did." is a hilarious line
I like how half of this is “HP world building sucks” and the other half is in-universe quidditch ranting
I feel like Atrioc wasn't fully able to grasp how terrifying a war against the Wizards from the Happy Potter world would actually be. While he's correct that on a direct skirmish, they would likely not be able to beat us, with our drones, guns and nukes, but they also have no reason to take us out using that route, they have better options, such as:
- Disguising themselves as one of our leaders, gather us on a specific place and cast an AoE spell that either turns us all into animals, or cast a spell that makes us forget about the war;
- Using potions such as liquid luck to turn the tides of a fight, or make some of us drink a love potion so that we fight amongst ourselves;
- Their vast amount of magical beings at their command and disposal, not limited to Dragons and Dementors, of which specifically are immortal, guns and nukes won't affect them, and they suck the soul out of us;
- They can separate their souls, put them in artefacts, hide them on a place we will never find out, and they basically become an immortal zombie hoard, that can cast spells, teleport and ALL OF THE ABOVE;
Need I go on?
Nagasaki
@@twelvevoltage Nuking them would only work if: They were all in the same place; they lived far away from other humans; we knew where those places were.
Wizards live alongside common folk, they have cities hidden from us through magic, and they can disguise themselves as anyone they want. Meaning, if we nuke one of their cities, all they have to do is to disguise themselves as the one ordering the nuke, and then they could nuke our cities under the pretence that it is filled with Wizards.
Bomb diagon valley, boom their entire supply of magic artifacts/knowledge is cut short and destroyed forever.
The problem is, most of those spells require verbal sounds, which a) renders stealth very hard to do and b) is pretty easily stopped via gunshots.
1. the moment we learn they can disguise as our leaders we’d have far too many precautions for it to be more than slightly useful
2. bombs handle all of that
3. aren't dragons wild animals? and dementors is a terrible idea considering the patronus is supposedly an extremely advanced spell so you're killing your own troops
4. most don’t apparate considering how easy it is to kill yourself and aren't horcruxes forbidden?
literally, just nuke them
The thing about Krum catching it for a loss made sense because the irish seeker had already spotted the snitch and was going after it. He was guaranteed going to catch it unless Krum beat him to it and caught it first. There was no time to wait for his team to catch up. It was either catch the snitch right then and lose by 10 or let the irish seeker catch the snitch right then and lose by like 300. Either way the snitch was getting caught right at that moment by one of the seekers.
But it does not matter how much you lose by? Loss = Loss. Best strat would have been to gamble on the irish seeker to make a mistake.
@ich3730 in street quiddich we'd just throw a curse or two at the irish seeker but that stuff doesn't fly in the league, too many refs.
Nhl style scoring wud solve everything. Winning team gets 2 points always, but if u lose and catch the snitch u get 1 point
Road hogging. Just road hog.
Isn't he supposed to be a pro
Nah, you're telling me professional seekers don't know how to prevent an opposing seeker from catching the snitch? Cedric diggory even did that to harry in one of the books, and krum is supposed to be one of the best. It's not like he's a little seeker either, dude is supposed to be a unit, so he could have easily knocked Lynch of course
0:36 Using the nicknames as the sample book test is a nice touch
The stupid magical hat does literal phrenology to assign which house the students will serve.
somehow phrenology is right every time
LMAO phrenology!
"Oh, a Weasley! I can tell by the concave indentation in your sunken troglodyte skull! I know just where to put you!"
LMAO phrenology!
"Oh, a Weasley! I can tell by the concave indentation in your sunken troglodyte skull! I know just where to put you!"
LMAO phrenology!
"Oh, a Weasley! I can tell by the concave indentation in your sunken troglodyte skull! I know just where to put you!"
LMAO phrenology!
"Oh, a Weasley! I can tell by the concave indentation in your sunken troglodyte skull! I know just where to put you!"
George RR Martin said his big question about Lord of the Rings is “What is Aragorn’s tax policy?” And proceeded to write the politicking of a Song of Ice and Fire so I think I know what atrioc is spending half his life doing
Don't think medieval kings even had tax policy the way we think of it.
You’re wrong, I haven’t even seen the video yet.
I haven't seen the video yet, he's right, the Harry Potter universe sucks and has no artistic value
I haven’t seen it either but I disagree with both of you. Harry Potter would piss on the works of Shakespeare and is one of the worst stories ever penned to paper
I haven’t seen the video or bothered to even read your comments but you’re all wrong.
I haven't even opened TH-cam and I know all of you are wrong
Was just about to type it 😂
Imagine the game goes on for days!!!! Every cricket fan ever: "yeah sounds good".
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I remember in Book 3, in order for the Wizard government to warn Muggles about Sirius Black, they say that he had a gun, but when this info is revealed in the books, one of the wizard characters (I forgot who, maybe one of the Wesleys) had to describe it something like "a metal wand that kills people." My point being that it was written in such a way that implies Guns aren't common knowledge in the Wizarding World. Magic or not, How does anyone not know what a gun is????
mudblood is bad, but muggle is okay supposedly, yet they don't say it to a muggle's face
Casually gives student a time machine
I think Atrioc failed to account for the fact that seekers might want to grab the snitch even if they are down because they dont wanna play a 3-month-long quidditch match
Playing Hogwarts legacy really made me realize how dangerous Hogwarts is. Between all the horrifying, life-threatening things the kids have to go through on a REGULAR uneventful semester, you know there's at least like 5 kids a year who go to Hogwarts by their parents that just don't come back.
5? Please let’s be real here
At least 10
@@hellboundchaoscommand756710? What is this? Baby safety rails mode? Like 50 kids at minimum die a Day. lol
@@1slayer959 true if we’re being realistic it’s 100 die every hour
@@hellboundchaoscommand7567 some kids don't even make it IN to the school
@@1slayer959 exactly your telling me the giant squid doesn’t take at least one first year as tribute every year
I mean if there was someone at my school that prevented a mass shooting by tackling the guy and taking their gun away, then I'd kind of understand their class winning whatever competition there is
If the same thing happened every year for six years I'd be asking questions
@@Ktmfan450 True, by that point you are probably doubting why are you even at Hogwarts at this point if every year a major disaster happens. Like why the hell wasn't the parents just bashing dumbledore with angry owl mails about the dangers their kids are going trough*. Why isn't the school getting reinforced with more Aurors after the first/second disaster?
@@daridon2483 Hogwarts is a monopoly
And what is it with the only educational college being a boarding school
I agree with you about the guns and one reason comes from a series I have been listening to recently. The premise has an American get isekaid to a magical fantasy world with warlocks and knights. He is made a summoner who are considered by everyone to be weak. Though he is able to summon guns from earth that he can strengthen with magic and he literally kills thousands of people and beings that are considered to be more powerful than him with relative ease.
Is that a podcast or somethin? Would've preferred books, but tbis seems interesting
@@TheDisquietingNight it is an online book that is still being written but a TH-camr posts it to help it gain more attention
Give a name blud.
@@testacals “That Time an American was Reincarnated into Another World” the TH-cam videos are made by Hogfell I believe
Unrelated follow up about Bluey, according to an employee on the Bluey Reddit, the last episodes of Bluey were completed in 2021, and nothing new has been made or is planned so far.
it might be joever
to be fair, the books have a lot of side stories on how the muggles can't really do anything to wizards, with some historical wizards going as far as pretending to be in pain while muggles try to burn them at stakes but not really able to do anything. it was pretty much implied or outright stated that many wizarding laws related to muggles were for protecting muggles from being harmed by elements from the magical world.
That's in the olden times. Modern muggles would annihilate the wizards .
@@DefyReality-ll2cg indeed. but it is confirmed the wizards still believe they have some sort of inherent advantage over muggles and most of the wizarding laws are more focused on policing each other and keeping the entire magical world hidden just out of sight of muggles. there's no confirmation over whether or not the magical world is still dangerous to muggles and it's generally implied that the wizards still have the advantage. but overall the muggles are mostly made irrelevant outside the evil wizards talking about wanting the magic society to rule over the muggles.
and also to be fair, if the books were written with more overlap between the magic world and muggle world where muggles were allowed to be more aware of the magic instead of all the stuff the wizards do to hide everything, i would assume the stories would have been written either similar to the lore to the scp foundation and other analog horrors or be something similar to my hero academia. or whatever would make the wizarding world special inspite being part of the mundane.
0:40 God bless editor Jellie_23 for the text detail on the page turn. Want you to know, we noticed Jellie.
im so glad someone did LOL
21:38 I need the "Everything Wrong with the Star Wars Universe" video now
8:09 Wait till this guy figures out about long-distance running
Wait good point LMAO
It is a shitty spectators sport.
There is a reason it doesn’t get views on TV
However even then, it is easy to follow the group in the lead, so I at least know who is winning at all times
there’s a set path though. this comparison only works if in long distance running they could just go wherever as long as they covered the right distance.
I've never been to a long-distance run so I don't know for sure, but isn't it for free? For spectators I mean. If you're running a marathon in Boston, surely they don't require every single person standing on the street to pay them right? You can just go stand at a spot and watch the runners go by, then go home. If it's for free, then the argument doesn't work, becausr Atrioc argue the spectators PAY to watch a sport they can't see.
long-distance running is not the most popular sport in the whole universe of a fantasy novel tho
With the age of wizard Jesus when he beat Voldemort, Wizards vs. Muggles is literally Coughing Baby vs. Hydrogen Bomb
Imagine how much better a world HP would be if we followed an American transfer student that decided to be an artificer?
Things like inscribing runes on sweatbands so you don't need to verbally say the spell, or enchanting bullets with a mixture of a healing spell (so they're non-lethal) and teleport to just send the foe somewhere else.
How about a gauntlet that uses enchanted crystals to channel a spell into a held item?
How about a staff? Like, just a normal staff, for casting more powerful spells.
Just, there's so much to explore with the idea of learning magic, but it just doesn't happen in a satiafying way.
You missed something very important in the first 2 minutes. Any wizard over the age of 18, by themselves, can wreck the human world. Brainwash an entire security council, presidents, start a fallout series in real life, whereas, humans can't even enter the wizarding world. You're pretty much on point with everything else.
Didn’t the uk prime minister get pressured by the wizard council or whatever
They can only do so if they remain undetected and unknown and since wizards are really only good at magic they lack any level of tactical sense or even resiliance
14:40 the JK Rowling naming schemes are so, extremely funny for how weirdly targetted they seem to be.
2 black wizards in the entire books. Dean Thomas, the most boring nothing name, and Kingsley SHACKLEBOLT. Like that’s a bit on the nose.
Personal favorite is her weird grudge against French people. 4 French names/families. Voldemort as a French pun, Malfoys being the most bigoted pureblood family we see, Lestranges being a family of psychotic terrors, and Delacour as Fleur basically is portrayed as a husband stealer after book 4.
She is British. ofc she hates the French.
or how she names the english charactersr things like neville longbottom, or harry potter!! im extremely offended!!!
I think he’s moreso just pointing out out how strangely on the nose a lot of the names are like Lupin being the name of a werewolf or Professor Sprout teaching about plants. Also u gotta admit it is kinda weird how all the major villains have French names (not gonna go as far as to claim its some kind of grudge tho)
The japanese school was literally Rowling putting "magic place" in google translate and shipping it, it makes no sense to anyone actually speaking Japanese iirc. And of course, since there is a cliche of Japanese school children having long commutes, the Japanese wizard school is the only one that is not a boarding school.
And African wizards don't use wands 💀
@@thicc_duccyeah I’m exaggerating a bit over “grudge” with the French, but Rowling does show a lot of favoritism with her characters. Like I get Gryffindor having a lot of the main good guys, but it’s weird that there’s a near complete absence of nearly all of Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw who are basically neutral in the middle of what’s basically a wizard civil war.
I just think it’s funny that her favoritism also seems to extend to naming the characters. Like when she needs an Irish name she just goes down the most common or stereotypical names in the country. (Seamus Finnigan).
Your wrong.....
There is no way you managed to fit ALL issues with HP universe in less than a 22 minute long video
Godlike editing on the intro, we need way more of this high quality content! Made me laugh out loud 😂
I actually really liked the harry potter quiddich game on the gamecube, and the way they made it a fun game was you literally ignore the seeker and the snitch for most of the game and just play essentially flying basketball and its unironically a way more fun game for it
I just want to bring up the fact that like 90% of the problems in the book could have been avoided with a handful of CCTV cameras
Long story short, it runs on Rule of Cool and she never even considering if the world makes sense.
you’d have to score essentially 15 scores to win if the other team catches the snitch so the only incentive would be if seekers have individual wins and there’s a dual scoring system for teams. so theoretically your team would get 1-1 if you lost while still catching the snitch; the benefit being “this team is demolishing us so hard our only chance to make it to playoffs is thru a tied score”
Headcanon about Harry Potter that makes more sense than the actual books #72542
Yea this is it. It’s similar in a sense to how a tie in hockey gets the losing team a point and the winning team one less point. You could do a similar thing with if you score more points but don’t catch the snitch. Either way, in a World Cup final, it still makes no sense to grab the snitch if you’re down by more than 150
@@elephantwaffle5612 unless individual wins are still rewarded to seekers as well. the concept of 2 competitions happening at the same time is kinda interesting, so one team would win world finals but seekers would win individuals. kinda like matt ryan getting mvp after the falcons lost the super bowl.
Also, usually the snitch isnt found and caught for like at least 30 mins right? Why doesnt the seeker just get the ball and give the extra player on offense. You score 15 times and the other team literally cant stop the game if they dont want to lose. Also, iirc theres no rule that only the seeker can get the snitch. So why not just get 3-5 fast guys with good eyesight and hand eye coordination to hunt the snitch before the other guys score 150
I think it makes more sense to just lower the amount of points (maybe to around the value of 5 normal scores) and make it so that it only ends the game after a certain amount of time has passed, with an upper bound on how long the game can go. Like maybe the first 20 minutes catching it doesn't end the game, then after 60 minutes if the game hasn't ended then it ends. The numbers could do with some tweaking, but overall that feels like it'd make the game more fair and fun.
3:02 You made me open Discord...
Everyone knows Viktor Krum was point shaving in the Quidditch World Cup for the Wizard Mafia
Big A would be sorted into Glizzard House. It makes sense when you don't think about it.
Wizards be like: no, muggle stuff is bad. We refuse to use it. We'd rather send owls than instant messages.
Taking a train to school is fine though despite being a muggle thing
Fun thing is, canonically that train was stolen from the muggles in a super big operation to later repurpose it for the hogwarts train. Yet they still look down on muggles. Like ?????
The opening is fire. Prop to the editor!
Problem with house points is that other people didnt knew about secret objectives.
The curriculum at Hogwarts is so limited, I’d love to see any wizard tell me any kind of math formula
One of the best videos ever. Need more big A rants
The amount of times I have rewatched this make me realize how much I love HP slander
I still think that the funniest thing about the Snitch in quidditch is that it's so close to an interesting idea if they simply address a few issues. For one, it obviously shouldn't be worth 150 points, but more importantly, it also shouldn't be worth an even number of goals at all. Like why make it worth X number of goals when that just means you can result in a tie? If the Snitch was worth 15 points for example, not only would that be a lot more reasonable, but it also makes ties impossible because if you're down by 1 goal it'll put you just over the edge to win.
Then there just needs to be some reasonable time limits put in place. Lets add halves to the game that are say 1 hour long or something like that. Then only release the snitch in the latter half of the game. This now solves a few problems. For one you cannot just get lucky and catch the snitch minute 1 before anyone has scored and win. I mean the Quidditch Organizers would hate that because imagine people pay for tickets and the game is over in 2 minutes lol. Everyone would demand a refund! And of course there's now a time limit that means that if the seeker doesn't catch the snitch in the next hour, the game just ends at whatever point totals people have. But they can catch it at any point within that hour to end the game early, presumably when their team is in the lead. And when not in the lead it's now their job to run interference with the other seeker.
The only adjustment left is to add an overtime contingency where if neither seeker has caught the snitch and the teams are tied, you go into overtime and the game just ends either on next goal or if the seeker is caught. But I imagine world cup level seekers probably never get to this point.
The most devastating unrealistic detail of Harry Potter is that no one was making succing jokes about the dementors in 3
To what you said regarding nuclear weapons. Yes, it is scarier than anything voldemort did, but imagine using the imperious curse to force a world leader to use nukes... scary huh. Also, the number of muggles and their technology is precisely why they instituted the statute of secrecy. At least in the quidditch champions game the snitch is 30 points and doesnt end the game. And texting is superior to owls I agree.
Absolutely adore the editing on this one, was hooked fuckin immediately
I loved when dumbledore told harry potter to throw the one ring into the volcano
Editor is goated! Those motion graphics are clean!
“An apache helicopter vs a field of wizards “ lmaooooo