Umbridge is usually regarded as the worst villain because she’s the most realistic. Most of us don’t know a serial killer in real life. Almost all of us know an Umbridge.
Also, people are desensitized to murder in movies. Killing people doesn't move the needle in most people's minds anymore. But even then, Fenrir is worse. Kidnapping and brain washing children. Cannibalism. Rape. He was the type of villain people that still causes a visceral reaction.
I don't know if it is a hot take, but I'm pretty sure that Harry's behaviors during the Order of the Phoenix was not because his teenager hormone, but rather because he has a PTSD. Like, almost all of his extreme emotions showing in that book are clearly PTSD symptoms.
No joke I saw a comment (forgot where) saying Harry doesn’t have PTSD. And I’m here like “how tf was everything that happened to him in the graveyard _NOT_ traumatizing?!” Like he was having nightmares about it that very next summer too.
Both can be true. He had been through far more than any of his peers. Added to that, Voldemort using that connection and Harry not really understanding it, and worse leading his friends to potentially fatal endings due to it. Would traumatise anyone 😂
Relating to the Dursley trauma thing, I think that he was raised on the belief that his emotions were taboo and he couldn't express them because Vernon and Petunia were so afraid of his magic. That led to him never learning how to express his emotions, which is viewed as an "angry teenager."
Not only that but Snape was very different in the movies, prisoner of azkaban and order of the phoenix are good examples of that as in one he tries to protect the trio and in the other his fights with harry were most to guide him into learning occlumency.
Yup.. Rickman made people like Snape. Felton made people like Draco, and for us crazy people over here *raises hand* Isaacs made us love Lucius. Never discount a good British character actor to make someone fall head over heels for a villain.
Hot take: Sirius wasn’t made to be a father figure like many think of him as for Harry, he was made to be the fun guncle, especially since he never had time to properly mature as he went from a reckless 21 year old, to the same amount reckless 30 something year old, his trauma that also stopped him from growing up normally.
Same hot take can apply to Snape. Bully is abuse. And the Maurades bullied him to the extreme. Not to mention the one he hated the most took the one he loved the most and got their happily ever after. The trauma must have stopped him from growing up thats why he took it on the kids, especially Harry who is the spitting image and son of the man he hates the most.
It is, by all of the major characters AND the story itself. Not just the audience. And that's mind boggling because it fundamentally sits at the core of basically everything about her.
I know Sirius wasn't the best traditional parental figure, but he's the one that works best for Harry. Harry tended not to trust authority/adults due to his years of abuse. Like for example I'm sure he loved Molly (and she was very good for him and was a huge positive influence in his life), but she wasn't the one he was writing to about his scar hurting, and obviously had trouble talking about personal things with Dumbledore (eg. OoP). Since Sirius is kinda immature, but also an adult figure, he feels comfortable telling him things because he doesn't coddle and at the same time feels like an adult who will care for him. So Harry really needed someone like Sirius to be his go-to-person. If he didn't have Sirius, he'd have just never confided in anyone except his friends. In general, different kids need different types of parental figures. There is no one answer.
@@thessalonici587 Yes that's true. I'm sure trauma bonding played a big role in their relationship. After all, Harry had only known Sirius for a few months when he first started reaching out to him for advice. Also, he had a strong link to his parents, and for Sirius, Harry had a strong link to James, which they both craved more than anything else.
I think Molly was his Motherfigure.. but Sirius was the one who knew his plight and treated him as such. Thats at least how I feel. I can only see it from MY perspective - but I would tell my aunt much more than my Mother, because my Aunt takes me seriously. Might be somewhat the same with Harry and Sirius - especially since Molly can be a bit of a...broody Hen when it comes to her Kids.
I do agree Rupert Grint was the best actor in the trio. The others are great but Rupert has the most consistent acting quality through the whole series. I wish they hadn't given a lot of his moments to Hermione because some of them would have been really strong in the films. I'm imagine Rupert delivering the line in PoA where he gets up on his injured leg to sheild Harry and says "If you want to kill Harry you'll have to kill us too!" It would give chills and would be such an iconic moment.
@matthewrosenthal753 I think most book readers acknowledge that Hermione was favoured by the writers and that she had stolen other people's moments in the movies.
@@thecro2060 some do but if you look at the comments when this is brought up it’s always “They gave Ron’s moments to Hermione” others are hardly mentioned.
My hot take: Dudley is a very misunderstood character, is his bullying he just took after his parents. Like many have said children aren’t born evil it’s taught
24:19 to be fair for Sirius, he was basically a child fighting a war against Voldemort and one of his best friends betrayed the others getting them killed, which he was then framed for. He spent the next 10+ years in prison, fighting a battle of wits with dementors only to escape, thinking he’ll be able to clear his name, just to have to go back into hiding. Plus, he grew up in an awful family that showed him no love because he didn’t share their values and he was disowned. He had no time to grow up and learn how to be a good parental figure because he really didn’t get to experience adulthood or get a chance to even TRY with Harry. He had so much to battle through and had no time to do it because he was thrust right back into the thick of the war (even if he was cooped up). He wanted to be his best for everyone to prove himself I feel like he could have been a better parental figure if he would’ve been around or if he would’ve had time to work through his issues.
I agree, he was pulled into a war just after he graduated from Hogwarts. He didn't get as much time to grow up then. And when he was 21, his best friend and the closest thing he had to a family died and he was blamed for it. He was put in Azkaban, to relive his worst moments over and over for 12 years. He didn't really have time to mature. He was basically a traumatized 21 year old in the body of a 33 year old. And if he had more time with Harry, he would have learned and had the potential to be a great parental figure to Harry.
@@anyabajaj07 it really makes me so sad that Sirius got such a short ended stick. At least he was able to spend a bit more time with Harry in the books, whereas the movies cut so many of their scenes together. He really was robbed of so much, and he still managed to not turn bitter or vengeful (yes, he tried to kill Wormtail, but at the end of the day it was to protect Harry and avenge James / Lily more than to avenge himself). Ugh 😑
Harry’s childhood abuse not being noticed by the majority of the characters was consistent with the time period that the book and movie were set. Abuse is hard to spot when the abuser does not seem capable of abuse by the community or are rich/wealthy
I think after the 3rd or 4th book it kind of stopped (tell me if Im wrong i have very poor memory) because he spent barley any time with them and most of the time he was in the house he was just in his room. But it did really annoy me in the 5th book how Vernon and petunia just resorted to yelling at harry when they had no idea what had happened, Petunia was way better than Vernon too. If I remember correctly which this might have only been in the movies but Vernon was the one who did the yelling at the beginning in the 1st book"
Congratulations on your marriage Morgan!! I'd love it if you could do a "what if, Chris Columbus directed the rest of the films". The first two Potter films and books are my favorite, and I just watched the first two films this past weekend and was thinking if Chris could've done the films.
I feel like you’d almost need to reach out to Chris Columbus himself for this. I mean yeah you could research the tone and style of everything he’s directed, but I wonder if he had any ideas in his head about how he’d want the third movie to look and feel. Was it the same as the third film we got?
*Another hot take:* Mr and Mrs Evans loved and preferred James Potter (who they found amusing and charming) a lot more than they did Vernon Dursley, and this only exacerbated Petunia's resentment and jealousy of her sister Lily even more. What are your thoughts on that?
I mean, They could be just muggles who loved being at least in some way connected to sth special and amazing like the wizarding world(as Jacob was in the FB). But honestly, I always tried to find an answer to this question and this theory actually would explain it. If Lily's parents truly are secret wizards then they probably were just killed by Death Eaters. Which kind of explains why Harry had to go to his horrible uncle and aunt instead of his grandparents who loved magic and also would've given Harry blood protection which was the sole reason Dumbledore gave Harry to Petunia
My biggest problem with Hermione and SPEW was the stupid hat knitting thing she did in book 5. For someone who is suppose to be smart and logical as she stated in book 1 about most wizards not having much logic compared to muggles. She really thought making clothes for them and hiding them around would set them free. If thats how it worked every elf would be set free just by doing their masters laundry. Also, the fact that only the Head master can set any of them and they have to give them clothes with no intention of keeping it. Which is how Dobby utilized the loophole when Lucius threw the sock in Dobby's direction and he caught it. She also really thought she was successfully freeing elves every night despite something like that would be noticeable if the working elves numbers dropped so low but just assumed she was freeing them and kept making more.
Exactly! AND the elves noticing she was doing that on purpose they stopped cleaning the Gryffindor tower which lead to Dobby cleaning the ENTIRE TOWER BY HIMSELF! He was exhausted!! And Hermione kept asking him for help to convince the other elves to wanting to be free, ugh
The Umbridge one is interesting. People tend to forget what people like Bellatix did (the torture of the longbottoms) if they think what she did was bad
I definitely agree. People in general see stuff very black and white. I definitely think that "evil" is not the right word. She is definitely one of the most infuriating and perhaps even most twisted, simply because she is so FAKE. That said, I think half the students in hogwarts could have been continuously tourtured out in the great hall, and she would have been happy about it, so if it were not in her interest to stay law-abiding, she could have been as bad as voldemort. In many ways, she has some of the Hitler vibe with the whole "half breeds" thing. Her and the death eaters are very alike, it is just that their way of achieving things create very different limitations.
I think the reason people hate Umbridge almost more than Voldemort is because many people have personally experienced a teacher/person like her whereas Voldemort is more removed (like most people don’t know someone like Voldemort but it is most likely people know someone like Umbridge)
I agree, Umbridge wasn’t the most evil, I just think everyone hated her more than any other character. Don’t get me wrong she was awful! But the most evil, no, not quite!
My hot take - There was very little reason for Ron to stop working in the Auror's office. It's not all about field work and fighting, there's also the investigative side, where Ron could have excelled. Whilst it is understandable why he would want to work with George at WWW's after the loss of Fred, he could have had a hugely successful career as an Auror in a much different way to Harry.
Yeah in that same way I feel like Ron was severely underused in the series in general and I wonder in the movies changed anything tbh. I know it doesn’t work like that, but setting up the whole chess thing, I feel like he could’ve been given more stuff that he excelled in and be more of a strategists but they didn’t really do anything with him that could’ve added way more. I do like Ron working in WWW though; but not because that he quits because he’s tired of the fighting or it’s not for him or whatever, but I see it as his character to maybe see that George is struggling and decides to help him instead because that’s who he is.
Family is the most important thing to Ron. And showing the children, that their emotional stability is more important than the greater good and Ron's own job shows the importance of sacrifice and Ron as an overall character. I keep thinking back to the short story Rowling wrote about the world cup and how so many people still don't understand the importance of the scene where Ron saves Al and all Skeeter can do is look on in disgust because she can't comprehend that Harry trusts Ron with the life of his son, completely and totally. That he doesn't even bat an eye when he is in danger because he knows RON is watching over him. Love is the most undervalued and underestimated thing in our society today. And Ron embodies that.
@@clover2739I feel the same but about Ginny. She really should have been much closer to the trio than she was, having her around would have been so useful in a lot of situations. Also, I think her only having a 4 year quidditch career goes against her character somewhat. I’m more inclined to believe that she would have wanted to make sure she was one of the best players in the world, determined to win many trophies and break records. Rowling should have given her a long and successful career for both the Holyhead Harpies and England, with either her having kids a lot later than she actually did, or having her make a comeback following a period of maternity leave. Her post series actions were quite lazily created imo.
@@dannylagangonzalez6832 I agree with the second half of what you said because I can’t see Ginny having kids that young, I think she definitely would’ve focused a lot longer on her quidditch career like you said and did way more with that and it doesn’t do justice to her character otherwise. Although with the first part, I’m not as bothered because I don’t think should’ve necessarily been closer to the trio than she was. I think she was close enough and her involvement was what is should be, I like her being closer to her own friend group rather than hanging out with her brother and his friends more often. I think what she was a part of, like the battle at the ministry and stuff makes sense. Other than that, I don’t see where she would be more a part of it, I absolutely love Ginny and she was really badly done in the movies but I do prefer it being more of a main trio and it works better
It kinda fit Dumbledore’s character, particularly in the 5th and 6th books where he was plunged into the action more frequently. He became more rough around the edges when he needed to be, asserted his power. Like how he rushed into the Department of Mysteries battle with a furious expression and solo’d 9 Death Eaters before toying with Voldemort. Or how he was pretty stern with Harry for not getting the memory from Slughorn. Dumbledore knew what was important and would put his foot down when he needed to. And Gambon did great on that scene in OotP, but I wish they kept in one line: the one where Dumbledore said (I’m paraphrasing): I could go to Azkaban and break out, but quite frankly that would be needlessly tedious and a waste of my time, so no, I will not be coming with you.” It was such a crazy flex that Dumbledore knew how easily he could escape Azkaban even after telling the authorities he would.
Yeah, the book made it very clear that Ron and Hermione had a romantic attraction and that Harry and Hermione were brother/sister. I think the movies did Ron dirty so people just didn't think he was good enough for her which is crazy because many who read the books liked Ron more (myself included)
I think people overlook Regulus as well when counting good Slytherins. He joined up to the death eaters being blinded by his mother, hell his whole family, fanatical pure blood mania. His 180 to wanting to destroy a horcrux is slept on. 😊
It's another case of Voldemort being brought down by love. Regulus was an absolute teenage edgelord inspired by his parents, but as soon as he saw what Voldemort would do to people Regulus cared about he noped right out and gave his life to protect his family.
My take: What if Cedric survives (not the cursed child) He would help Harry throughout the series. Warned everyone that Voldemort had returned, Helping Dumbledore's army, and being with Cho Chang. Also, I'm a Hufflepuff.
But she wasn't. Had she tried to free house elves from more families like the Malfoys, then yes, I'd agree. But these are the hogwarts elves, it is a massive oversight on her part to compare them to slaves and just ignore that meaning Albus, Minerva, Filius, Pomona and more professors, muggleborn professors in some cases are just perfectly fine with that.
@@StevenTLawsonyeah, she literally saw how well the House Elves at Hogwarts were treated, and still thought that she was definitely right that having House Elves is a terrible thing and all of them should be free
@@StevenTLawson Okay, but like they weren’t being paid, and they were still owned by the school. Slavery doesn’t just become okay if you’re not abusive.
@@helpimadog-playthroughs5956 They weren't being paid in money. There's no explanation as to what type of compensation they do receive because they have to be getting something or else you mean to tell me these magical creatures that can all naturally teleport without requiring a wand or something that can be taken from them can't just leave whenever they want. At least the fandom explanation that house elves are symbiotic and subsist off the magic of witches and wizards is a good enough reason why they stay. But with how they are likely based on the historic Alchemic Homunculi which is found in the writings of Paracelsus, which is what much of Rowling's work is based on. They aren't likely a natural creature at all and were created by wizards long ago
@@StevenTLawson Right but like, they were obviously conditioned to dislike the idea of working for pay (as was shown by their disgust and embarrassment when Dobby discussed his earnings). They stay because they enjoy it, regardless of whether or not they should.
She's barely flashed out in the story through and only appears in like one scene. What's lacking is a true good Slytherin actively impacting the story.
16:50 they are completely correct in the second part, actually. We have Fraternity in the Slytherin description, which basically means intense loyalty to the people close to you. Hufflepuff has blind loyalty, Slytherin is completely loyal to the ones they love. The Malfoys are a great example of all of this
Not sure how much of a hot take this is, but I feel like we should have seen more of Cedric Diggory. Cedric is a really important character for the series, as his death signifies a shift in the tone of the story, but we don't see much of him in the book or the movie. The movie I can understand, cause there was so much to adapt, but we barely get any mention of him in the book either. Even just a few more scenes with Cedric that deepened his connection to Harry, especially in a positive sense, would have made his tragic death even more impactful.
Just realising about Umbridge: she's so bad because she isn't supposed to be evil based on her position. You don't expect someone who isn't an "official" villain to literally torture students.
The worst thing she did was when she almost used the Cruciatus Curse on Harry. Pretty terrible thing for sure, but you have to put it in perspective. Greyback was biting children to ruin their lives/kill them, of which he did not care what happened. He said Hermione looked “delicious.” Even other Death Eaters were disgusted by him. And Voldemort killed/attempted to kill babies with no remorse, including Harry himself. He murdered countless people and tortured them too, including using the Cruciatus Curse probably 5-6 times on Harry. Bellatrix and Crouch Jr tortured parents of a newborn until they became human vegetables. Umbridge does not compare to that level of evil.
Harry should have been a professor. His time helping his fellow students at Dumbledore Army and the sense of accomplishment and how proud he was of the progress of his students, plus his love and connection to Hogwarts makes me believe he would be the happiest as a professor. Or maybe a quiddish player. That would be cool too.
He would have had to compete directly against Ginny if he became a Quidditch player though, unless he joined a foreign team, so I don’t know how he would have felt about that. I can see Harry becoming a teacher after retiring from magical law enforcement.
The Chamber of Secrets is SO GOOD. It introduces so many things that would later become so crucial to the series. Plus it has this weird, different almost scary/horror/mystery feel to it that none of the other ones do with trying to figure out who’s attacking people and what not
My hot take: Harry Potter has an Oedipus complex He fell in love with a red hair, green eyes beautiful assertive brilliant witch and he understood he loved hair after she was assertive also around him
Jeez that doesn’t mean he has an Oedipus complex. It just means he has similar taste in women as his dad. If anything Hermione is supposed to be more like Lily in personality rather than Ginny.
@@janhavi1977how is supposed to have a similaire taste as his dad when he never know him or even see him and talk to him?!! Don't tell me bcs of genetics that's absurde, harry loved ginny bcs she was just like his mom in her apparence & bcs everyone keep talking about his mom & how he had her eyes so in his mind as a kid who never know what his mom or dad are in reality he was obssesed about antg that is ressemble to them & ginny was a copy of his mom in her apparence
10:23 - he can definitely scream. We’ve seen that in the first film, when the students went crazy after hearing there’s a troll. “SILENCE!!!!! Everyone, PLEASE, do not panic!!”
in the first film but years later would he have been able to do the physically demanding fight with voldemort in the ministry in the 5th film or the cave scene in the 6th? he was an excellent dumbledore for when the movies were still kid films
The chamber of secrets was a really creepy movie, i remember enjoying how dark it was when i was a kid, so imo columbus would have been able to handle the rest of the movies
Columbus totally could. A big part of me wishes he'd returned for the fourth film. A lot of the awkward stuff you see in film 1 is not at all present in film 2. Beyond the child acting, the effects in 2001 were very limited and I would have loved to see what he could have done with more freedom to tell his story without the prehistoric CGI
I think the movies would have at least looked NORMAL (as in with a real magical feeling) with colours and not so dark in the end you could hardly see what was happening anymore! So yes, I agree.
omg that's what I've been saying for years!!! I really don't get the "the movies get darker after PoA and the first two movies are for kids🤪" that everyone says whereas CoS always sends chills down my spine with the suspenseful atmosphere and well done horror. I specifically remember as a child I would get creeped out by CoS and not even flinching while watching GoF💀
It fit the tones of the book whilst also making Hogwarts feel like home. There was a certain warmth to it that made it feel magical which quickly got replaced by the dim grey blues making everything feel less wondrous even when Harry is supposed to have a good time
Congrats on the major life updates! 🎉 Enjoy your honeymoon! My Hot take: Kreacher has THE best redemption arc. He actually has a reason to be awful but then truly changes his ways and leads a full on Elf rebellion against the dark Lord during the battle of Hogwarts. I'm proud of that house elf. I hope he gets his head chopped off and mounted wherever he wants.
Internal head canon here: when he's old enough Harry gives him the choice, a spot on Harry's own wall or mounted with his favorite Mistress behind the curtain, or possibly in Regulus' room... but yeah I loved this arc in particular myself!
one of my biggest fears in middle school was my history teacher. I'd be losing sleep, have nightmares, and shake when entering his classroom... he ended up being one of my favorites and highly respected teachers a couple years down. It was a mix of terrible social skills, lack of confidence, and shyness in me and a strict sometimes standoffish teacher... I think its why I love Snape so much, I see so much of that teacher in him
My only argument against the hermione not spending time with her parents hot take is that she's usually arriving at the Weasley's like a week or two before or after Harry and that he always arrives with only a couple weeks left of summer vacation. The winter holidays I can't argue against though
I think is understandable that Hermione felt more at ease surrounded by her peers and also all the magical elements in the wizarding world. Is like when people go to collage, they move out and never look back. Lol.
I made a longer comment on this as well. Books 1-3 she spent the summers with her parents and books 1 and 6 she spent winter break with them. Books 2-4 she spent winter break at Hogwarts. Book 4 she arrived at the Burrow mid August like Harry did. Book 5 she was probably at Grimmauld Place most if not all of the summer but for winter break she was with her parents for about a week before going to Grimmauld Place. Book 6 she spent the 1st couple of weeks with her parents then went to the Burrow. Book 7 we don't know how long she was at the Burrow. We just know it was before they got Harry late July, but we also know she went home to alter her parents minds. We just don't know if she spent time with them 1st. Then during winter break she was on the run. I don't believe she ever went home for the Easter break , but it is stated that most students don't.
30:24 The malfoys only turned against voldemort at the end because they lost all of their power and respect after the end of the 5th book. voldemort was punishing them by giving draco the task of killing dumbledore which would like get him killed, he took over their home, took lucius’ wand which humiliated him, and he forced them all to stay inside their house after letting harry escape. THAT IS THE ONLY REASON THAT THEY DIDNT CARE IF VOLDEMORT WON
To me, the Malfoys always seemed to be very very down-to-earth and rational family in comparison to let’s say Blacks. For them, it’s what song is popular today, they’ll sing along. Grindie last month, Voldie yesterday, Dumbie today, Harry tomorrow- whatever. The song will change, the Manor’s almost a thousand and still standing. And that’s important for the family. My own headcanon is that Voldie has always hated Lucius and the Malfoys in general because he needed them much more than they needed him. Cause let’s face it, he may be so talented and what not, but who’s paying for his champagne? He’s got nothing, literally. So yes, the Malfoys will be all talk about pure blood and blah blah blah but only because it favoured them. But who’s Lucius real friend? Snape, a half-blood (I’m pretty sure that was not a secret between the two)
Quite frankly the Malfoys were horrible people who only were held back by being complete and incompetent cowards. They never received redemption, and I don’t care what anyone says: Lucius deserved life in Azkaban; Narcissa likely did too. Draco I guess never did anything truly horrible, and was forced to try to kill Dumbledore, but he was a POS too.
The 4th book is my favourite because it's when everything changes. It's no longer a bunch of kids solving mysteries. Voldemort's back, Harry's now in even more danger, and gives us a glimpse in the Magical World
Looking back on Book Three, I think there was a minor missed opportunity. When Harry runs away from the Dursleys, fearing expulsion, I feel that he should've gone to Hermione's place via the Knight Bus instead of the Leaky Cauldron. There, he could've spent some time with the Grangers similar with the Weasleys in Book Two, and the Grangers would have had more time to be properly fleshed out. Furthermore, he could've had a back-and-forth with Hermione about what to do, etc, and this would have foreshadowed that he and Hermione would spend more time together as we see in the third act of both the book and the movie, similar to how Harry's time with Ron in the first act of book two foreshadowed how they would have more time together in the third act. A minor nitpick, but it could have more storytelling potential.
I just realised seeing as when the secret keeper dies everyone who knows the location becomes the secret keeper Sirius saying that he would die rather than betray his friends would have done no good because Pettigrew would just tell Voldemort anyway.
I'd argue that Sirius actually didn't know about their location, only Dumbledore and Pettigrew knew about it. It was only after Voldemort wrecked the place and killed James and Lilly that he came to know about it.
@@Keyboardje Well, there's a reason for that. She specifically constructed her world to reinforce her own beliefs about how our world should work, but her beliefs contain inherent contradictions of logic that make no sense. That's why her world has a lot of extremely weird holes in its logic.
Morgan, congratulations on getting married. An amazing Harry Potter expert like you deserves to have a happy life with the one you love. Thank you for the amazing Harry Potter videos.
Werewolves in Harry Potter are always feral when shifted, no exceptions. The Death Eaters would be reluctant to deploy Greyback lest they be turned into filthy mutts, and the Order would have insisted on Lupin being far away and restrained or drugged. A lot of modern werewolf media has it where they can go feral but can also learn to retain control either through experience or heroic willpower. If Harry Potter had that, a Lupin Greyback battle would have been cool. But it doesn't.
My hot take: Harry shouldn’t have been an auror, he should have become a DADA teacher, we see how good he is at teaching in ootp with dumbledores army, it’s also a big middle finger to voldy who cursed the position, and he was forced into fighting evil through the prophecy and I would rather see him doing what he likes instead of continuing to play the traumatizing role that was forced on him, continuously he was also very good at defense obviously and it would be nicer to see him training future wizards for the issues he had. He would also be a very nice teacher and since he has such inconsistent ones it’s him giving kids what he didn’t have, it would also allow him to keep working with Neville, imagine kids talking about them “omg they saved the WIZARDING world” then they are just so cute and nice and are big softies, and they compete to be the best teacher and they talk shit about snape together and how it’s not that hard not to emotionally and verbally abuse children! So yeah!
We see a lot of teachers take up the job later in life, so I always head canoned that Harry takes the DADA job after he's done as an auror and then later becomes headmaster. Cuz I agree that is a perfect fit for him!!
im always heartbroken that he doesnt become either a dada teacher or pro quidditch player in canon. hes a hogwarts teacher in my eyes, i feel like him being a teacher (or parent in general) could also be him trying to break the cycle of many adults in his early life failing him so terribly
Harry becoming an Auror is so absurd. The Ministry, through the Auror office, has been systematically shown to use force to subdue political adversaries with no good reason. Aurors just obey orders stupidly. Harry should not have wanted to enter the system, he should have wanted to change it all. Tear it down and build something different.
The one about Slytherins being loyal to their own is actually a Slytherin trait. Hufflepuffs are loyal to their friends. I am a Slytherin and looked into all the traits, not just cunning and ambition. A big Slytherin trait if fraternity. This basically means a strong brotherhood/sisterhood, loyalty to their own. So that take was correct.
I’d even go on to say it’s the triad of loyalty, community and respect for traditions. The questions are, of course, loyally to whom and what kind of community and traditions. It’s never written anywhere, but if you look at all the Slytherins, they all show these traits. The Blacks are a great example
@@heyheyokay592She probably did that on purpose. So she could hide behind the fact that the traits aren’t necessarily evil; it’s just the connotations of the words are negative. So she has a answer if anyone asked why the house still existed after everything that happened. Like if the wizarding world was sensible the house should have been destroyed after Slytherin left hogwarts.
I am going to be honest here but I think slytherin and Ravenclaw are the best houses I do think Gryffindor is overrated and tbh Hufflepuff is a bit boring. Since (at this point this have nothing to do with houses) we don’t know much about it and the 4th book/movie how they would of glory and blamed Harry for it. Because it wasn’t his fault, and Cedric dieing wasn’t that bad since we just met him.
Dolores isn't the worst villain in the sense that she's the most evil; she's the worst in the sense that she's _real_ . Dolores Umbridge is the sadistic, cruel, incompetent teacher most of us have had. She's the authority figure who abuses authority. She's the imposter who puts on a polite façade in front of superiors and only shows her true colors to subordinates. She's a character grounded in reality. She's relatable. Evil in a sense that most of us have probably encountered in our lives. Unlike Voldemort, who's evil on a grander scale, Umbridge is more personal. _That's_ what her makes the worst villain on the franchise.
Exactly this. We’ve all known someone like Umbridge in our lives. My year 10 Geography teacher was my equivalent to her. She’s the most hated character because she’s unfortunately so relatable to what we’ve all experienced in reality.
But the interesting thing is we sort of have the same in Snape. He's competent in potions himself, but refuses to do proper teaching, abuses students verbally, harms them in detention... he's not better than Umbridge, if we just compare them as teachers.
so late on this, but CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR MARRIAGE! i grew up with your videos in middle school, and I'm now in university. it's great to see that you're still thriving
the one about ron being a seer, there is also the line line in gof where the trio learns about crouch sending his son to azkaban and ron was like “Percy would never throw any of his family to the dementors,” said Hermione severely. “I don’t know,” said Ron. “If he thought we were standing in the way of his career . . . Percy’s really ambitious, you know. . . .”
Well given how on the whole they treated and acted toward Percy for the first four books would it really be that shocking that Percy wouldn't think they are worth backing? If your siblings tried to trap you in a dark and claustrophobic place would you defend them when they are guilty of a crime?
I think Umbridge isn’t the most evil character but she is the most hated. Of all the “bad guys”, I believe Umbridge is the most relatable to the reader as many of us have had at least one similar teacher sometime in our school days.
I think the "Harry did you put you´re name in the goblet of fire" he said calmly scene may have had to due more with Mike Newell´s directing and Steve Kloves' writing
Regarding Ron and Hermione might needing marriage counseling... that isn't necessarily a bad thing. A lot of marriages would probably be better off when counseling is engaged early or used as a preventative measure to learn better relationship / healthy communication skills. Also let's not forget that they probably both need individual therapy for PTSD.
One of the more minor Slytherin traits is actually fraternity, which is what I think the "Gryffrindors are the most self-absorbed house" theory was referencing.
16:50 This is from the official site in the introduction to Slytherin house. “The corridors of Hogwarts can throw up surprises for the unwary, and you’ll be glad you’ve got the Serpents on your side as you move around the school. As far as we’re concerned, once you’ve become a snake, you’re one of ours - one of the elite.” Loyalty is more prominent in Hufflepuff because it is a house trait, but most Slytherins are loyal to their house and each other.
The way I look at the roles of books in the series are these: Philosopher's/Sorcerer's Stone: Introduces the series Chamber of Secrets: Sets up things that are important in the series later on (ex. Dobby, Polyjuice potion, the horcruxes, Ginny, the dark tone, etc.) Prisoner of Azkaban: Shifts the series into a darker tone plus expands upon things like more classes and the Quidditch Cup Goblet of Fire: Lots of worldbuilding (ex. house elves, other schools, three unforgiveable curses, etc.) and also sets up plots (ex. Fred and George's joke shop, Dobby being at Hogwarts, Fleur and Bill, Rita Skeeter, etc.) Order of the Phoenix: Character focused (ex. Harry's trauma, Harry teaching what he's learned to other students, Luna introduced, Neville's willingness to fight, Ginny's determination, McGonagall's dedication to Hogwarts and lack of fear of Umbridge, Sirius's past with his old home and his family and his treatment of Kreacher, etc.) Half Blood Prince: Establishes the dark times, sets up or further explores relationships, goes into the origin of Voldemort and how he rose to power and how to beat him, explores Snape and Draco Deathly Hallows: Tests the main trio, reveals Dumbledore's scarring past and him not always being depicted as good, explores Snape's past, ends the Wizarding War and the series with the final battle
My hot take: Molly Weasley is not a good mother. I’m not saying Molly was a terrible mother, and she really did love her children, and no parent is perfect and everyone does have faults, but Molly has too many to be considered a good mother. She was too bossy and controlling even towards her adult children and children that weren't even hers. Whenever her kids got in trouble all she did was yell and compare them to their siblings. She destroyed things that took Fred and George months to create and she was mad at them at the beginning of the GOF, just because she wanted them to work at the Ministry, which made no sense because at that point Percy was the only one of her kids who had gotten a job at the Ministry. I wonder if Bill and Charlie took jobs so far from home to escape her trying to run their lives.
Yes!! She looked down on fred and George because they weren't prefects and head boy like the older ones. Adored percy so much and dotted on Ginny as she was one girl. She looked down on Ron and compared him to Harry until Ron became a prefect, bullied and was very condenseding towards fred and George. She was so upset over percy leaving yet never mentioned Charlie who lived in Romania!!!! She was a bad mother I think, she was very loving but in an overbearing way giving her kids very little space
They were both loving, but not very good parents. Mr Weasely was very selfish. Because he loved muggles he found his low paying job much more important than providing for his large family, making his children ashamed about being poor. That's why the twins were so bent on earning money, Percy on having power, and Ron feeling so undeserving of Hermiony's love he got stupidly jealous thinking she would rather have (rich, important) Harry. And they kept on having more kids than they could provide for, just because having a daughter was more important to especially Molly. I guess they would have gone on to having ever more and more kids, being ever more and more poor, if they would had been getting only boys! Totally stupid with money when they won some too.
I feel the trip wasn't a waste of money because it was important for them to do something all together as a family and have those happy memories together before the war began and tore them apart forever. And they had to do it that way because Bill couldn't get off work also Charlie found a way to come too. At least Ron finally got a proper wand out of it. They aren't a bad family though. I love them because while they are flawed, they're still loving. They are just imperfect humans. It makes them extremely real and relatable. Molly is a good mom, just not a great or excellent mom.
100 percent agree, I hated Molly. The fact she killed Bellatrix despite having had very little, if any, combat experience in her life is also utterly ludicrous.
@@wiktoriawisniewska5142she didn’t treat Ginny any better, she treated her like a toddler more than any of them, and constantly forced or tried to force her not to participate in combat situations, despite how talented she was, and how she wasn’t allowed to play Quidditch as a kid, making Ginny resort to doing so secretly at night.
Chamber of secrets is my favourite film. I just like how everything connects with ginny owning the diary and the idea of the basilisk petrifying by mistake.
"It really wasn’t that stupid because she was freeing slaves" is a great quote 😂 But seriously it was probably more frustrating hermiones behavior (speaking for them and freeing them their will) than the whole concept in of itself.
Yeah, I have to agree with you. I have to say, my only problem with SPEW was she was ignoring what the house elves wanted. For what we are told (at least with the Hogwarts elves) they loved their jobs, and she tried to free them AGAINST THEIR WILL! That is my only issue with SPEW. (Also note, the only badly treated house elf we really see is Doby, (i am excusing Sirius' behavior toward Keator as him having to relive past trauma, and that from what we know he had good reasons to not like Keator e.g. Keator always telling on him and what not. and it's also not like Sirius made Keator do anything. All we see Sirius do is yell at him.)) Her wanting to free abused house elves if perfectly valid. But ignoring what they want for what she thinks that they deserve is wrong. As it is completely ignoring their wants and needs.
It's a perfect case of having the right motive but awful execution. Her heart was in the right place, but she wasn't willing to listen to anyone else about how she was handling it
My hot take: Movie Voldemort wasn't all that menacing after Goblet of Fire. Very few times did I feel like the performance wasn't just a LITTLE bit over-the-top. Also, Snape was a bully. Him bullying Harry I could see an argument that it was to conceal his true intentions from Voldemort and other Death Eaters, but he bullied Neville to the point where HE WAS NEVILLE'S WORST FEAR.
voldemort to me was never menacing after philosopher stone him being at the back of quirell's head and knowing the stone was in harry's pocket was quite scary but he never matched that in later books
And he harassed Ron , Hermione and Neville just because they were Harry's friends. Once Harry is out of the picture, he gives Neville a detention with Hagrid for stealing the sword 😂.... That was probably the lightest punishment Neville received, and everything else just because he breathed the same air as Harry . Also , there was this instance of shaming Hermione for her teeth , adding fuel to the slut shaming she was already facing . Snape was UNHINGED.
Him being Neville's worst fear actually adds a whole new layer to Neville's character. It means that Neville was facing his worst fear nearly every day. It shines a whole new light on Neville's bravery. Has this been me, I would've skipped Potions entirely; I would rather have failed the subject than deal with Snape so often. Not Neville, no. He gathered his courage and showed up to class regularly, even when his beloved pet's life was threatened. Neville Longbottom was a brave wizard all along.
Not to defend Snape, but with Neville in particular I wonder if he treated him so badly because if Voldemort had chosen to go after him, instead of Harry, Lily would still be alive.
They should have put more scenes where Dumbledore showed off his power. For example, when he takes on five aurors by himself or when he puts Fudge in his place just by looking at him after setting up a port key in the ministry.
27:01 Muggles don't necessarily hate magic. The Dursleys did, but that's not true for everyone. The Grangers seemed to be perfectly happy upon learning their daughter Hermione was a witch.
22:30 Sirius yelled indeed "I would have died rather than to betray my friends", and yes, he's the kind of guy who can make me believe he would. I think that made Sirius actually the worst choice to be the Secret Keeper. The Fidelius Charm has a weakness. When the Secret Keeper dies, everybody who knows the secret becomes the new Secret Keeper. It would have been all to easy for Voldemort to find somebody who could betray the secret after Sirius had been killed. This is also shown in The Deathly Hallows. Dumbledore was the Secret keeper of Sirius' house, but with him gone, and Snape knowing the secret too, and everybody believing him to be on Voldemort's side, it was no longer a safe place to HQ The Order Of The Phoenix. This was also the reason why Mad-Eye Moody took the trouble to set up a spell to repel Snape should he ever turn up there.
Congratulations on getting married! 🎉🎉 Also just got to the first take and i gotta say "FACT"! Also for my take, we already got enough about hogwarts (and as much as i adore hogwarts legacy) we should get more stuff about other schools and countries in the wizarding world,it exists outside of Harry's bubble and i actually do prefer the first FB movie to the Harry Potter movies (not the books of course)
The one about Lily's parents being secret wizards actually is a really interesting theory. We know from the books that squibs are treated much more worse than muggle borns ever are in the books. They are seen as embarrasments and disowned or isolated by most of the wizarding community. (filch, dumbledore's sister, umbridge's brother etc) Lily's parents might have moved to the muggle world to protect petunia from this treatment, so that she can lead a normal life as a muggle girl. The fact that she wrote Dumbledore a letter asking whether she can also attend hogwarts makes more sense with this theory. If this theory is canon, most likely only one parent of lily was a wizard/witch and the other a muggle.
16:55 ahhh idk. I remember in one book they said something about being loyal in slytherin or more like, your friends will have your back/ you will find true friends in Slytherin. Something like that
This was an amazing video, I loved listening to you talk freely about your thoughts and opinions on the franchise. This could be turned into a podcast and i would listen too it all day
I love this type of video! Thank you! This is a lot of fun :-) I like that you touched on how Ron's family treated a they were a good and loving family, for sure, but they did treat Ron kind of bad and second-hand so they were not perfect. And Molly shouted a lot which isn't great. The weasleys were dynamic rather than perfect. The elder one is definitely more relevant for a significance rather than how it was used. I love that the one actual major feet of magic we see it do is a super simple first-year spell where Harry repairs his wand.
I guess parents with so many children can't be perfect, because even parents with three or four children are sometimes over whelmed and make mistakes. And they have mostly boys and the age gabs between them are pretty small. Twins are always a challange too. So Molly had to take care of four toddlers all at once for most of the time when they were younger.
the draco redemption mentioned in one of the sections is helped by the cursed child i think and its one of the better aspects of the book, how draco and harry arent friendly but you tell they somewhat respect eachother enough to work together
28:09 Also, I love the way time travel was handled in the series, where if you go back in time, everything you're about to do has already happened. It's all one continuity, so there's no need to worry about branching timelines.
I'm a Hufflepuff and I wish that we could've got more Hufflepuffs like Newt Scamander, Susan Bones, Cedric Diggory, and Hannah Abbott. Also, they need to show their common room more often since Hogwarts Legacy, Hogwarts Mystery, and Magic Awakened.
Personally hagrids teaching wasn’t bad (except the blast ended skrewts) hippogriffs, unicorns, nifflers, thestrals and the other creatures that I can’t spell were all pretty standard as some of those animals were in the tests and not dangerous creatures according to fantastic beasts and where to find them. I feel his class is as dangerous as potions (goyle’s swelling solutions exploding, Neville’s cauldron melting and covering him in boils) it’s just he isn’t a qualified wizard like snape who has the antidotes with him.
He is not a bad person, and he definitely knows his way around beasts, but I still don't think of him as a great teacher. Just because my english teacher taught me the stuff I was supposed to know, doesn't mean she was a good teacher. Honestly, she was pretty bad, because she gave bad assignments, was bad at handling homework and tasks in the lessons. Just because someone knows their subject doesn't mean their good. And Hagrid was not suited to teach kids in a subject where his lack of judgement was honestly terribly dangerous.
@@filip_aleksander_moen that's true but apart from the skrewts, Hagrid's judgement on creatures was pretty good as they were all in the tests. I'm not saying he's the best teacher and 100% would rather have Grubbly Plank as a teacher, but was trying to point out that he was as bad as movieflame was implying, especially with the other dangerous subjects. It's mainly due to his lack of magic that's holding him back as the other teachers like snape have countermeasures for when injuries happen
Congrats on your marriage, Mozal Tuv. It's always treat watching your channel, it's actually what got me truly interested in the Harry Potter franchise; in fact, not sure I would've finished reading or watching it if I didn't see your videos on the books and movies.
29:46 it was stupid, she was literally told so much times that these "slaves" are happy with their jobs and dont want freedom. Winky is what would happen when a normal house elf is freed
SPEW was poorly handled on Hermione’s part. She tried to force things to quickly. There’s not much effect to trying to convince wizards while the house elves are content, and just straight telling them they shouldn’t be content like she did is condescending and unlikely to change the elves’ minds. The best strategy would have been to visit the kitchens every day and talk with them, ask how their day has been, and if they did anything particularly unpleasant, express sympathy. Doing that would have likely done more in the first year than she accomplished by the time she graduated.
No idea if this is accurate but Sirius is more a old brother/cool uncle. He would give advice about girls and tell stories about his youth. But Sirius at that point was basically imprisoned in the house he hated and we’ve not seen any source of entertainment in the wizarding world that’s indoors apart from books and the radio so wanting to leave and being reckless was bound to happen to anyone.
@@thedragonwarrior5861 yh not denying that, he godson was in danger it would someone like voldemort to stop him just saying that i think it's more understandable why he was so desperate to leave and for an active man as dumbledore puts it, he only left grimmald place one time that i think would consider reckless that being going to 9 3/4.
The comment about Snape going after the Resurrection Stone is so galaxy brained because when we learn of the Deathly Hallows in the tale, we can see right out that each artifact had a person trying to get what happened in the past. Voldemort wanted the Wand and killed people to get it and thus was in turn killed by someone else. As was the fate of the original Peverel who had it. Harry had the cloak, which in time showed that he was willing to great Death without fear, just like the youngest. Snape would then fit the middle brother who wanted the love of his life back, so Snape going after the stone would have been quite poetic in terms of the parallel it would have
Snape, Harry and Voldemort's resemblance to the Peverell brothers and the Deathly Hallows is more of a metaphorical thing than literal, as the characters don't realise that themselves. It's just we are able to connect the dots as we know both stories.
I actually had an alternative version of the last book where Snape evades Voldemort's attempt to kill him, and Harry offers him the stone as he goes into the forest. Snape looks at it longingly before folding Harry's hand over it, Aragon giving the Ring back to Frodo style, and admitting that he doesn't deserve it.
I didn't hate the cursed child..because I don't hate anything about Harry Potter but it was definetly not the best "book" Why? Illogic. But I seem to be the only one who liked the main villain (Delphi) idk why shes just my type of villain But the "book" was kinda dissapointing as a cannon HP😭
@@LovegoodLunaEdits i enjoyed how Draco and Harry were able to move past their school rivalry just for sake of their boys, it's good development and pretty neat parenting
21:08 also Percy. Seriously if their family was so perfect, why did he turn on them like that? He was a bit of a prick, yes, but also think about it a bit. Percy has two older brothers who had already done everything there was to do at Hogwarts. He comes along and also wants to impress his family, but Bill had already been head boy and Charlie was the Gryffindor quidditch captain. He also has 4 younger siblings. He was only around 2 when the twins where born, and they needed more attention than if it had just been one baby. Then Ron and shortly after Ginny came along. We know how they treated Ron, and Ginny definitely also got special treatment in the family because she was the only girl. Percy has no way of shinning and when the ministry shows him a bit of attention and appreciation I think Percy wanted to side when them, since his family never really seemed to like him.
@@Ori_Kohav Dumbledore still could have easily sent Hagrid or Mad-Eye there to scare the shit out of the Dursleys so that they never bother Harry again. And imo there is no excuse for not doing it and letting Harry live in this abusive home for all those years.
@@sash9868 that wouldn’t work. Hagrid already scared them in the first book, and they still mistreated Harry afterwards. and again, it’s already clear to everyone why Harry was there in the first place.
@@Ori_Kohavwell, yes, he scared them. But we’re any any repercussions? No, and that’s the whole point. They are basically said ‘bad muggles, bad!’ and that’s it Leaving Harry with them was truly crime. And the whole blood protections is just BS. Protection from who? The Malfoys? Greyback? For real
I always thought re the fact noone knew Harry was being treated badly by the Dursleys was made worse because Mrs Figg must have known. She looked after Harry whenever the Dursleys were off having fun birthday treats for Dudley. And you can bet Dumbledore kept in fairly close contact with her re him, given that (in knowing the prophecy) Dumbledore knows how crucial Harry will be. So someone at Hogwarts 100% knew Harry was being abused but just let it continue. Bc he would be allegedly better staying in the muggle world away from the fame of the wizard world...
It wasn't because of the fame though, Dumbledore just said that as a cover. It was because of the blood protection magic given by Harry living with his mom's family. Voldemort couldn't attack him at home while he lived there. And Dumbledore did express his rage to the Dursleys of their treatment towards him
in a 7 book continuing series there is bound to be some dry required reading . Details and spells that were introduced 2 books before hand were used in the later action filled episodes. Just like the follow on webpages and books that explained back stories histories and details filled in what was missing from the original . The first book was a children's story. You wouldn't expect to find quantum physics level instruction inside it . Story telling after Deathly Hallows can focus on adult to near adult subject themes
My biggest hot take, In “The Sorcerer’s Stone”. There was absolutely no reason for Harmione to lie to Professor McGonnigal. Saying “I wasn’t at dinner, I was in the bathroom Harry and Ron were trying to come and get to tell me what was going on and get me back to the Gryffindor common room, but the Troll was already here when they arrived.” Would have been a perfectly acceptable answer that would have kept the trio out of trouble while still earning them points.
My hot take is that Hedwig's death doesn't make any sense in the movie. Harry was so irresponsable for letting her out in the first place when the Death Eaters perfectly know how Harry's owl look like. The real Harry would've never done that. And it doesn't make sense that she appears in the middle of the battle, how did she know there would be a fight? And how did Hedwig know who was the real Harry she had to protect? There were seven Harrys in the air, there's no way she knew who was the real one. The book version makes much more sense.
Indeed the scene from the movie is a powerful scene. But that's completely out of harry's character. Seems illogical too If we break down harry's character from the original books. There's no way harry would leave alone one of his most precious and loving thing he had at that time besides Ron and Hermione in the open like that. And that also during a war and when his enemies fully aware of Hedwig.
Also I just always thought it was weird that after Hedwig died, she was never really mentioned or talked about… Harry loved Hedwig, and to just never mention her again was really weird
Owls in Harry Potter have a magical ability to identify anybody anywhere no matter who they are or what protections they have on them. That's just a fundamental part of the system. It'd be weird if that only worked while delivering mail.
8:05 - I actually agree that Grindelwald is a better villain, because he seems wiser, calmer, and more manipulative. He’s also a more interesting character to give a backstory to, kinda like Hunger Games gave to Snow
I'm gonna quote Game Master and Bird Expert, Brennan Lee Mulligan here: "if you have a civilization, of wizards, who can teleport at will, and they have their mail delivered by nature's slowest bird, that's f***ing animal cruelty, that's not OK."
14:23 The reason why neville didn’t give harry the gillyweed was because j. k. didn’t think of it and it was a really big part in barty crouch jrs. plan, where dobby was really gullible not having a education and stuff neville would probably be too scared and the main reason is that Neville was his first plan, thats why he gave him the books so he could look at the bubble head charm and tell harry but that didnt work so he told dobby to just go give it to him.
Here's one that I came up with... Dumbledore had his own time turner. He used it to both to help Harry and to correct his own life mistakes. He got this years after the death of his sister to make sure he doesn't face death again.
My very late hot take is that dumbledore is not a good person. He manipulated everyone at every possible instance. He took advantage of Snape and especially Harry. He never cared about him, put him with the dursleys where he knew he wouldnt be treated right, he put the resurrection stone in the snitch to make sure Harry would sacrifice himself and so on. He was a manipulative character who didnt care about anyone but his own goals, he hasnt changed much from his youth
Yess omfg so true. Not only with Harry but like half of the order he’d just use them like you’d use chess figures. Like he didn’t care if someone died for him because it was for the greater good or whatever. Dumbledore and Grindelwald are basically the same the only difference being the sides they stood for.
I absolutely LOVE Snape. But as in how brilliantly that (very bad indeed) character was portrayed by Alan Rickman. Ron comes from a *fiery redhead!* family and is used to his still very much loving parents bickering all the time, so to him that must seem normal. That's what he has with Hermione too. For some people and couples that is just their way. Some even say that this kind of relationship is the most passionate one! So it doesn't mean they don't belong together. In fact I think it shows they are similar within relationships, so they DO fit together very well. I agree that *THE STORIES* got darker with each book as the characters and readers got older. But... My biggest pet peeve with the movies is that they made the movies *themselves* look darker and darker and with less and less colour. That took away the "magical" feeling the first two movies had. I mean, with all the bad and horrible things happening in the world today, we still see colours and light as normal, don't we? So why make the later films so dark you could hardly even see what was happening anymore, and big parts of the last one are just totally black & white! :(
Umbridge is usually regarded as the worst villain because she’s the most realistic. Most of us don’t know a serial killer in real life. Almost all of us know an Umbridge.
that has to be the most on point comment ive seen today
@@jigyasaagarwal9462yep
Yeah, she's the embodiment of everyday evil. That's what makes her so relatable and realistic, IT Always hits a spot.
True
Also, people are desensitized to murder in movies. Killing people doesn't move the needle in most people's minds anymore. But even then, Fenrir is worse. Kidnapping and brain washing children. Cannibalism. Rape. He was the type of villain people that still causes a visceral reaction.
I don't know if it is a hot take, but I'm pretty sure that Harry's behaviors during the Order of the Phoenix was not because his teenager hormone,
but rather because he has a PTSD. Like, almost all of his extreme emotions showing in that book are clearly PTSD symptoms.
No joke I saw a comment (forgot where) saying Harry doesn’t have PTSD. And I’m here like “how tf was everything that happened to him in the graveyard _NOT_ traumatizing?!”
Like he was having nightmares about it that very next summer too.
Yeah it's a cold take.
Its a lot. I do think hormones is a part but PTSD, and also partially him sometimes having access to Volde's emotions probs dont help
Both can be true. He had been through far more than any of his peers. Added to that, Voldemort using that connection and Harry not really understanding it, and worse leading his friends to potentially fatal endings due to it. Would traumatise anyone 😂
Relating to the Dursley trauma thing, I think that he was raised on the belief that his emotions were taboo and he couldn't express them because Vernon and Petunia were so afraid of his magic. That led to him never learning how to express his emotions, which is viewed as an "angry teenager."
Just like Felton made fans like Draco more and Emma made people like Hermione more, Rickman made people like Snape more
True, but I always liked snape. I think Alan helped me confirmed that I liked snape even more.
Not only that but Snape was very different in the movies, prisoner of azkaban and order of the phoenix are good examples of that as in one he tries to protect the trio and in the other his fights with harry were most to guide him into learning occlumency.
Yup.. Rickman made people like Snape. Felton made people like Draco, and for us crazy people over here *raises hand* Isaacs made us love Lucius. Never discount a good British character actor to make someone fall head over heels for a villain.
@@alicegutierrez364 I understand where you're coming from. Lack of depth that a book gives where a movie doesn't
Nah Emma made me HATE hermione.
Hot take: Sirius wasn’t made to be a father figure like many think of him as for Harry, he was made to be the fun guncle, especially since he never had time to properly mature as he went from a reckless 21 year old, to the same amount reckless 30 something year old, his trauma that also stopped him from growing up normally.
Sometimes he even seems like sort of an older brother to Harry.
Not really a hot take
Same hot take can apply to Snape. Bully is abuse. And the Maurades bullied him to the extreme. Not to mention the one he hated the most took the one he loved the most and got their happily ever after. The trauma must have stopped him from growing up thats why he took it on the kids, especially Harry who is the spitting image and son of the man he hates the most.
@@maikilreategui1271what are the evidences that the marauders bullied Snape to the extreme ?
@@ptitepeluche05 snapes's worst memory was the marauders bullying him. It was also implied that the bullying happened often
My hot take: Luna's trauma is very overlooked. Like she watched her mother die when she was like 8 like no one talks about it and i5s really sad
It is, by all of the major characters AND the story itself. Not just the audience. And that's mind boggling because it fundamentally sits at the core of basically everything about her.
@@dontmisunderstand6041 true I feel bad for her though
I 100% agree. I can't imagine how Luna was only *eight* years old when her mother died. Her life must have shattered
@hamnaenjoysbreakingtablets yeah exactly and she gets bullied on top of all of that like its really overlooked
It makes me one of destroy them For not caring about Luna past
I know Sirius wasn't the best traditional parental figure, but he's the one that works best for Harry. Harry tended not to trust authority/adults due to his years of abuse. Like for example I'm sure he loved Molly (and she was very good for him and was a huge positive influence in his life), but she wasn't the one he was writing to about his scar hurting, and obviously had trouble talking about personal things with Dumbledore (eg. OoP). Since Sirius is kinda immature, but also an adult figure, he feels comfortable telling him things because he doesn't coddle and at the same time feels like an adult who will care for him. So Harry really needed someone like Sirius to be his go-to-person. If he didn't have Sirius, he'd have just never confided in anyone except his friends. In general, different kids need different types of parental figures. There is no one answer.
Not really hot, but profound and so true.
@@charliecomer6001 Haha yeah. Mainly said hot take because there's one in the video which is a little related that I don't fully agree with
I totally agree! Maybe another reason is that both Sirius and Harry endured so much, which no normal person could easily understand
@@thessalonici587 Yes that's true. I'm sure trauma bonding played a big role in their relationship. After all, Harry had only known Sirius for a few months when he first started reaching out to him for advice. Also, he had a strong link to his parents, and for Sirius, Harry had a strong link to James, which they both craved more than anything else.
I think Molly was his Motherfigure.. but Sirius was the one who knew his plight and treated him as such. Thats at least how I feel.
I can only see it from MY perspective - but I would tell my aunt much more than my Mother, because my Aunt takes me seriously. Might be somewhat the same with Harry and Sirius - especially since Molly can be a bit of a...broody Hen when it comes to her Kids.
I do agree Rupert Grint was the best actor in the trio. The others are great but Rupert has the most consistent acting quality through the whole series. I wish they hadn't given a lot of his moments to Hermione because some of them would have been really strong in the films. I'm imagine Rupert delivering the line in PoA where he gets up on his injured leg to sheild Harry and says "If you want to kill Harry you'll have to kill us too!" It would give chills and would be such an iconic moment.
I agree but I think it’s funny that no one realizes that they gave other peoples moments to Hermione. Mostly Ron and Harry.
I know! I'm still angry they didn't give Rupert that line!
@matthewrosenthal753 I think most book readers acknowledge that Hermione was favoured by the writers and that she had stolen other people's moments in the movies.
@@thecro2060 some do but if you look at the comments when this is brought up it’s always “They gave Ron’s moments to Hermione” others are hardly mentioned.
@matthewrosenthal753 Oh I see. Do you have any moments in particular that you remember? I'm curious
My hot take: Dudley is a very misunderstood character, is his bullying he just took after his parents. Like many have said children aren’t born evil it’s taught
Yh dumbledore literally says this in book 6 that no matter the abuse they did to Harry it’s nothing to how much they did to Dudley
Not a hot take
Very true
That’s not a hot take
Sure but it's not a hot take
24:19 to be fair for Sirius, he was basically a child fighting a war against Voldemort and one of his best friends betrayed the others getting them killed, which he was then framed for. He spent the next 10+ years in prison, fighting a battle of wits with dementors only to escape, thinking he’ll be able to clear his name, just to have to go back into hiding. Plus, he grew up in an awful family that showed him no love because he didn’t share their values and he was disowned. He had no time to grow up and learn how to be a good parental figure because he really didn’t get to experience adulthood or get a chance to even TRY with Harry. He had so much to battle through and had no time to do it because he was thrust right back into the thick of the war (even if he was cooped up). He wanted to be his best for everyone to prove himself I feel like he could have been a better parental figure if he would’ve been around or if he would’ve had time to work through his issues.
I agree, he was pulled into a war just after he graduated from Hogwarts. He didn't get as much time to grow up then. And when he was 21, his best friend and the closest thing he had to a family died and he was blamed for it. He was put in Azkaban, to relive his worst moments over and over for 12 years. He didn't really have time to mature. He was basically a traumatized 21 year old in the body of a 33 year old. And if he had more time with Harry, he would have learned and had the potential to be a great parental figure to Harry.
@@anyabajaj07 it really makes me so sad that Sirius got such a short ended stick. At least he was able to spend a bit more time with Harry in the books, whereas the movies cut so many of their scenes together. He really was robbed of so much, and he still managed to not turn bitter or vengeful (yes, he tried to kill Wormtail, but at the end of the day it was to protect Harry and avenge James / Lily more than to avenge himself). Ugh 😑
Harry’s childhood abuse not being noticed by the majority of the characters was consistent with the time period that the book and movie were set. Abuse is hard to spot when the abuser does not seem capable of abuse by the community or are rich/wealthy
I think after the 3rd or 4th book it kind of stopped (tell me if Im wrong i have very poor memory) because he spent barley any time with them and most of the time he was in the house he was just in his room. But it did really annoy me in the 5th book how Vernon and petunia just resorted to yelling at harry when they had no idea what had happened, Petunia was way better than Vernon too. If I remember correctly which this might have only been in the movies but Vernon was the one who did the yelling at the beginning in the 1st book"
Congratulations on your marriage Morgan!!
I'd love it if you could do a "what if, Chris Columbus directed the rest of the films". The first two Potter films and books are my favorite, and I just watched the first two films this past weekend and was thinking if Chris could've done the films.
I feel like you’d almost need to reach out to Chris Columbus himself for this. I mean yeah you could research the tone and style of everything he’s directed, but I wonder if he had any ideas in his head about how he’d want the third movie to look and feel. Was it the same as the third film we got?
*Another hot take:* Mr and Mrs Evans loved and preferred James Potter (who they found amusing and charming) a lot more than they did Vernon Dursley, and this only exacerbated Petunia's resentment and jealousy of her sister Lily even more. What are your thoughts on that?
That actually is a good theory
I mean, They could be just muggles who loved being at least in some way connected to sth special and amazing like the wizarding world(as Jacob was in the FB). But honestly, I always tried to find an answer to this question and this theory actually would explain it. If Lily's parents truly are secret wizards then they probably were just killed by Death Eaters. Which kind of explains why Harry had to go to his horrible uncle and aunt instead of his grandparents who loved magic and also would've given Harry blood protection which was the sole reason Dumbledore gave Harry to Petunia
I'm on board with this one, I can definitely see this playing out exactly like that...
That's legit
Nice theory, but canonically not true. After Petunia moved out of her parents home, she did an office job and just there she met Vernon.
Honestly with how many people seem to dislike Snape, i would argue that actually CALLING Snape a tragic character nowadays is actually a hot take lol.
True
I think most people consider him a bad person with a sad story, which means most people still classify him as a tragic character.
Yeah
That’s so true
Yeah I forgive Snape
People don’t appreciate Voldemort enough, he always waits until the end of the year to attack so Harry can still have a good education
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Harry : It’s June 3rd! Where is this guy??
My biggest problem with Hermione and SPEW was the stupid hat knitting thing she did in book 5. For someone who is suppose to be smart and logical as she stated in book 1 about most wizards not having much logic compared to muggles. She really thought making clothes for them and hiding them around would set them free. If thats how it worked every elf would be set free just by doing their masters laundry. Also, the fact that only the Head master can set any of them and they have to give them clothes with no intention of keeping it. Which is how Dobby utilized the loophole when Lucius threw the sock in Dobby's direction and he caught it. She also really thought she was successfully freeing elves every night despite something like that would be noticeable if the working elves numbers dropped so low but just assumed she was freeing them and kept making more.
Exactly! AND the elves noticing she was doing that on purpose they stopped cleaning the Gryffindor tower which lead to Dobby cleaning the ENTIRE TOWER BY HIMSELF! He was exhausted!! And Hermione kept asking him for help to convince the other elves to wanting to be free, ugh
Yeah Hermoine was so annoying in the books at times lol
The Umbridge one is interesting. People tend to forget what people like Bellatix did (the torture of the longbottoms) if they think what she did was bad
I definitely agree.
People in general see stuff very black and white. I definitely think that "evil" is not the right word. She is definitely one of the most infuriating and perhaps even most twisted, simply because she is so FAKE.
That said, I think half the students in hogwarts could have been continuously tourtured out in the great hall, and she would have been happy about it, so if it were not in her interest to stay law-abiding, she could have been as bad as voldemort. In many ways, she has some of the Hitler vibe with the whole "half breeds" thing. Her and the death eaters are very alike, it is just that their way of achieving things create very different limitations.
The only unforgivable curse I could imagine Umbridge using is the Cruciartius Curse (hope I spelled that correctly).
I think the reason people hate Umbridge almost more than Voldemort is because many people have personally experienced a teacher/person like her whereas Voldemort is more removed (like most people don’t know someone like Voldemort but it is most likely people know someone like Umbridge)
@@grahamdamberger7130yeah I think she was about to
I agree, Umbridge wasn’t the most evil, I just think everyone hated her more than any other character. Don’t get me wrong she was awful! But the most evil, no, not quite!
My hot take - There was very little reason for Ron to stop working in the Auror's office. It's not all about field work and fighting, there's also the investigative side, where Ron could have excelled. Whilst it is understandable why he would want to work with George at WWW's after the loss of Fred, he could have had a hugely successful career as an Auror in a much different way to Harry.
Yeah in that same way I feel like Ron was severely underused in the series in general and I wonder in the movies changed anything tbh. I know it doesn’t work like that, but setting up the whole chess thing, I feel like he could’ve been given more stuff that he excelled in and be more of a strategists but they didn’t really do anything with him that could’ve added way more.
I do like Ron working in WWW though; but not because that he quits because he’s tired of the fighting or it’s not for him or whatever, but I see it as his character to maybe see that George is struggling and decides to help him instead because that’s who he is.
Family is the most important thing to Ron. And showing the children, that their emotional stability is more important than the greater good and Ron's own job shows the importance of sacrifice and Ron as an overall character. I keep thinking back to the short story Rowling wrote about the world cup and how so many people still don't understand the importance of the scene where Ron saves Al and all Skeeter can do is look on in disgust because she can't comprehend that Harry trusts Ron with the life of his son, completely and totally. That he doesn't even bat an eye when he is in danger because he knows RON is watching over him. Love is the most undervalued and underestimated thing in our society today. And Ron embodies that.
@@clover2739I feel the same but about Ginny. She really should have been much closer to the trio than she was, having her around would have been so useful in a lot of situations.
Also, I think her only having a 4 year quidditch career goes against her character somewhat. I’m more inclined to believe that she would have wanted to make sure she was one of the best players in the world, determined to win many trophies and break records. Rowling should have given her a long and successful career for both the Holyhead Harpies and England, with either her having kids a lot later than she actually did, or having her make a comeback following a period of maternity leave. Her post series actions were quite lazily created imo.
@@dannylagangonzalez6832 I agree with the second half of what you said because I can’t see Ginny having kids that young, I think she definitely would’ve focused a lot longer on her quidditch career like you said and did way more with that and it doesn’t do justice to her character otherwise.
Although with the first part, I’m not as bothered because I don’t think should’ve necessarily been closer to the trio than she was. I think she was close enough and her involvement was what is should be, I like her being closer to her own friend group rather than hanging out with her brother and his friends more often. I think what she was a part of, like the battle at the ministry and stuff makes sense. Other than that, I don’t see where she would be more a part of it, I absolutely love Ginny and she was really badly done in the movies but I do prefer it being more of a main trio and it works better
I don’t see Ron having a passion for being an auror at all. He’s never been an overachiever and he cares more about his family than anything.
I liked the sass that Gambon brought to Dumbledore. Like the whole not coming quietly bit in OotP.
This comment hits differently now that Michael Gambon has passed 😭
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It kinda fit Dumbledore’s character, particularly in the 5th and 6th books where he was plunged into the action more frequently. He became more rough around the edges when he needed to be, asserted his power. Like how he rushed into the Department of Mysteries battle with a furious expression and solo’d 9 Death Eaters before toying with Voldemort. Or how he was pretty stern with Harry for not getting the memory from Slughorn. Dumbledore knew what was important and would put his foot down when he needed to.
And Gambon did great on that scene in OotP, but I wish they kept in one line: the one where Dumbledore said (I’m paraphrasing): I could go to Azkaban and break out, but quite frankly that would be needlessly tedious and a waste of my time, so no, I will not be coming with you.” It was such a crazy flex that Dumbledore knew how easily he could escape Azkaban even after telling the authorities he would.
Yeah, the book made it very clear that Ron and Hermione had a romantic attraction and that Harry and Hermione were brother/sister. I think the movies did Ron dirty so people just didn't think he was good enough for her which is crazy because many who read the books liked Ron more (myself included)
yes Ron is my favourite even over Hermione
Bruh ron is nowhere near hermionie's level even in the books..but yeah he didnt get much credit in the movies
I'm the opposite, I ended up disliking Ron way more in the books, the guy just keeps making needlessly rude remarks against anyone and everyone
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It's ok bro. We all know you didn't read the books at all.
Either that or you read a crack fanfic or smth.
Reading the book now and major upgrade for Ron much better person in the books.
I think people overlook Regulus as well when counting good Slytherins. He joined up to the death eaters being blinded by his mother, hell his whole family, fanatical pure blood mania. His 180 to wanting to destroy a horcrux is slept on. 😊
It's another case of Voldemort being brought down by love. Regulus was an absolute teenage edgelord inspired by his parents, but as soon as he saw what Voldemort would do to people Regulus cared about he noped right out and gave his life to protect his family.
My take: What if Cedric survives (not the cursed child) He would help Harry throughout the series. Warned everyone that Voldemort had returned, Helping Dumbledore's army, and being with Cho Chang. Also, I'm a Hufflepuff.
Yeah, I definitely see him doing all he can to help, including joining the Order
Theres a good representation of this in a supercalinbrothers series (i'm pretty sure its the 'what if harry were in Slytherin series').
Super Carlin Brothers did a what if video about this.
Yeah definitely
Yas.
“SPEW was not stupid because she was…freeing slaves.” Your delivery of that made me laugh out loud 😂
But she wasn't. Had she tried to free house elves from more families like the Malfoys, then yes, I'd agree. But these are the hogwarts elves, it is a massive oversight on her part to compare them to slaves and just ignore that meaning Albus, Minerva, Filius, Pomona and more professors, muggleborn professors in some cases are just perfectly fine with that.
@@StevenTLawsonyeah, she literally saw how well the House Elves at Hogwarts were treated, and still thought that she was definitely right that having House Elves is a terrible thing and all of them should be free
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Okay, but like they weren’t being paid, and they were still owned by the school.
Slavery doesn’t just become okay if you’re not abusive.
@@helpimadog-playthroughs5956 They weren't being paid in money. There's no explanation as to what type of compensation they do receive because they have to be getting something or else you mean to tell me these magical creatures that can all naturally teleport without requiring a wand or something that can be taken from them can't just leave whenever they want.
At least the fandom explanation that house elves are symbiotic and subsist off the magic of witches and wizards is a good enough reason why they stay.
But with how they are likely based on the historic Alchemic Homunculi which is found in the writings of Paracelsus, which is what much of Rowling's work is based on. They aren't likely a natural creature at all and were created by wizards long ago
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Right but like, they were obviously conditioned to dislike the idea of working for pay (as was shown by their disgust and embarrassment when Dobby discussed his earnings). They stay because they enjoy it, regardless of whether or not they should.
For good Slytherins there was also Andromeda Tonks.
She's barely flashed out in the story through and only appears in like one scene. What's lacking is a true good Slytherin actively impacting the story.
@@nick3805 If only JK wasn't so one-dimensional when writing Slytherin
Slughorn though
@@nick3805 The fact that she married a muggleborn, produced Tonks and raised Teddy with love and kindness is enough.
She was Hufflepuff
16:50 they are completely correct in the second part, actually. We have Fraternity in the Slytherin description, which basically means intense loyalty to the people close to you. Hufflepuff has blind loyalty, Slytherin is completely loyal to the ones they love. The Malfoys are a great example of all of this
Not sure how much of a hot take this is, but I feel like we should have seen more of Cedric Diggory. Cedric is a really important character for the series, as his death signifies a shift in the tone of the story, but we don't see much of him in the book or the movie. The movie I can understand, cause there was so much to adapt, but we barely get any mention of him in the book either. Even just a few more scenes with Cedric that deepened his connection to Harry, especially in a positive sense, would have made his tragic death even more impactful.
Yeah... especially since he's my favorite character 😅
Just realising about Umbridge: she's so bad because she isn't supposed to be evil based on her position. You don't expect someone who isn't an "official" villain to literally torture students.
She’s a classic narcissist, and reminds me of my Monster in law, she even looks like her a bit!
Umbridge wasn't the most evil. Her particular evil was just the most relatable because we've all had that teacher, minus the death quill.
Ig your right but she is terrible
The worst thing she did was when she almost used the Cruciatus Curse on Harry. Pretty terrible thing for sure, but you have to put it in perspective. Greyback was biting children to ruin their lives/kill them, of which he did not care what happened. He said Hermione looked “delicious.” Even other Death Eaters were disgusted by him. And Voldemort killed/attempted to kill babies with no remorse, including Harry himself. He murdered countless people and tortured them too, including using the Cruciatus Curse probably 5-6 times on Harry. Bellatrix and Crouch Jr tortured parents of a newborn until they became human vegetables.
Umbridge does not compare to that level of evil.
@@SJ-di5zufair point but still f*ck Umbridge
And then, you still defend this kind of behaviour. Only because some people are worse then her xd
Harry should have been a professor. His time helping his fellow students at Dumbledore Army and the sense of accomplishment and how proud he was of the progress of his students, plus his love and connection to Hogwarts makes me believe he would be the happiest as a professor.
Or maybe a quiddish player. That would be cool too.
He would have had to compete directly against Ginny if he became a Quidditch player though, unless he joined a foreign team, so I don’t know how he would have felt about that.
I can see Harry becoming a teacher after retiring from magical law enforcement.
The Chamber of Secrets is SO GOOD. It introduces so many things that would later become so crucial to the series. Plus it has this weird, different almost scary/horror/mystery feel to it that none of the other ones do with trying to figure out who’s attacking people and what not
My hot take:
Harry Potter has an Oedipus complex
He fell in love with a red hair, green eyes beautiful assertive brilliant witch and he understood he loved hair after she was assertive also around him
I hope MovieFlame will disagree on this one.
Jeez that doesn’t mean he has an Oedipus complex. It just means he has similar taste in women as his dad. If anything Hermione is supposed to be more like Lily in personality rather than Ginny.
@@janhavi1977how is supposed to have a similaire taste as his dad when he never know him or even see him and talk to him?!! Don't tell me bcs of genetics that's absurde, harry loved ginny bcs she was just like his mom in her apparence & bcs everyone keep talking about his mom & how he had her eyes so in his mind as a kid who never know what his mom or dad are in reality he was obssesed about antg that is ressemble to them & ginny was a copy of his mom in her apparence
10:23 - he can definitely scream. We’ve seen that in the first film, when the students went crazy after hearing there’s a troll.
“SILENCE!!!!! Everyone, PLEASE, do not panic!!”
That SILENCE made me jump I remember. He could've been a great Dumbledore if he remained in the world .
in the first film but years later would he have been able to do the physically demanding fight with voldemort in the ministry in the 5th film or the cave scene in the 6th? he was an excellent dumbledore for when the movies were still kid films
@@ughdtowniki8061I mean Gambon wasn't significantly older than Harris was when he died, he was definitely in better health though
The chamber of secrets was a really creepy movie, i remember enjoying how dark it was when i was a kid, so imo columbus would have been able to handle the rest of the movies
Columbus totally could. A big part of me wishes he'd returned for the fourth film. A lot of the awkward stuff you see in film 1 is not at all present in film 2. Beyond the child acting, the effects in 2001 were very limited and I would have loved to see what he could have done with more freedom to tell his story without the prehistoric CGI
@@officialmonarchmusic same
I think the movies would have at least looked NORMAL (as in with a real magical feeling) with colours and not so dark in the end you could hardly see what was happening anymore!
So yes, I agree.
omg that's what I've been saying for years!!! I really don't get the "the movies get darker after PoA and the first two movies are for kids🤪" that everyone says whereas CoS always sends chills down my spine with the suspenseful atmosphere and well done horror. I specifically remember as a child I would get creeped out by CoS and not even flinching while watching GoF💀
It fit the tones of the book whilst also making Hogwarts feel like home. There was a certain warmth to it that made it feel magical which quickly got replaced by the dim grey blues making everything feel less wondrous even when Harry is supposed to have a good time
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My Hot take: Kreacher has THE best redemption arc.
He actually has a reason to be awful but then truly changes his ways and leads a full on Elf rebellion against the dark Lord during the battle of Hogwarts. I'm proud of that house elf. I hope he gets his head chopped off and mounted wherever he wants.
Internal head canon here: when he's old enough Harry gives him the choice, a spot on Harry's own wall or mounted with his favorite Mistress behind the curtain, or possibly in Regulus' room... but yeah I loved this arc in particular myself!
One of my favourites too. That poor elf had been through more than any of them could imagine. His love for equally heroic Regulus was wonderful too
one of my biggest fears in middle school was my history teacher. I'd be losing sleep, have nightmares, and shake when entering his classroom... he ended up being one of my favorites and highly respected teachers a couple years down. It was a mix of terrible social skills, lack of confidence, and shyness in me and a strict sometimes standoffish teacher... I think its why I love Snape so much, I see so much of that teacher in him
"DID YOU PUT YOUR NAME IN THE GOBLET OF FIRE HARRY!?!" Dumbledore yelled calmly strangling harry.
Honestly loved this video. I feel like MovieFlame doesn't get the attention he deserves anymore, all his videos are genuinely great
Yes I agree with you! He’s such a charming soul and his videos are so well made
Whut??
My only argument against the hermione not spending time with her parents hot take is that she's usually arriving at the Weasley's like a week or two before or after Harry and that he always arrives with only a couple weeks left of summer vacation. The winter holidays I can't argue against though
Although, even during the summer holidays she would fill up her time with homework/ reading books.
I think is understandable that Hermione felt more at ease surrounded by her peers and also all the magical elements in the wizarding world. Is like when people go to collage, they move out and never look back. Lol.
I made a longer comment on this as well. Books 1-3 she spent the summers with her parents and books 1 and 6 she spent winter break with them. Books 2-4 she spent winter break at Hogwarts. Book 4 she arrived at the Burrow mid August like Harry did. Book 5 she was probably at Grimmauld Place most if not all of the summer but for winter break she was with her parents for about a week before going to Grimmauld Place. Book 6 she spent the 1st couple of weeks with her parents then went to the Burrow. Book 7 we don't know how long she was at the Burrow. We just know it was before they got Harry late July, but we also know she went home to alter her parents minds. We just don't know if she spent time with them 1st. Then during winter break she was on the run. I don't believe she ever went home for the Easter break , but it is stated that most students don't.
This is probably why Disney kills the parents
30:24 The malfoys only turned against voldemort at the end because they lost all of their power and respect after the end of the 5th book. voldemort was punishing them by giving draco the task of killing dumbledore which would like get him killed, he took over their home, took lucius’ wand which humiliated him, and he forced them all to stay inside their house after letting harry escape. THAT IS THE ONLY REASON THAT THEY DIDNT CARE IF VOLDEMORT WON
To me, the Malfoys always seemed to be very very down-to-earth and rational family in comparison to let’s say Blacks. For them, it’s what song is popular today, they’ll sing along. Grindie last month, Voldie yesterday, Dumbie today, Harry tomorrow- whatever. The song will change, the Manor’s almost a thousand and still standing. And that’s important for the family.
My own headcanon is that Voldie has always hated Lucius and the Malfoys in general because he needed them much more than they needed him. Cause let’s face it, he may be so talented and what not, but who’s paying for his champagne? He’s got nothing, literally.
So yes, the Malfoys will be all talk about pure blood and blah blah blah but only because it favoured them. But who’s Lucius real friend? Snape, a half-blood (I’m pretty sure that was not a secret between the two)
Quite frankly the Malfoys were horrible people who only were held back by being complete and incompetent cowards. They never received redemption, and I don’t care what anyone says: Lucius deserved life in Azkaban; Narcissa likely did too. Draco I guess never did anything truly horrible, and was forced to try to kill Dumbledore, but he was a POS too.
@@SJ-di5zu Narcissa doesn’t deserve life in Azkaban
Malfoys are just conformists.
@@PoptanicNarcissa was just as bad as Lucius. both supported Voldemort, both had the same beliefs of muggleborns being scum
Hagrid being an horribel teacher is so true, I almost ragequit at harry constantly defending him😂😂
Rita threw a smear campaign against Hagrid, so Harry has every right to defend him
The 4th book is my favourite because it's when everything changes. It's no longer a bunch of kids solving mysteries. Voldemort's back, Harry's now in even more danger, and gives us a glimpse in the Magical World
Looking back on Book Three, I think there was a minor missed opportunity. When Harry runs away from the Dursleys, fearing expulsion, I feel that he should've gone to Hermione's place via the Knight Bus instead of the Leaky Cauldron. There, he could've spent some time with the Grangers similar with the Weasleys in Book Two, and the Grangers would have had more time to be properly fleshed out. Furthermore, he could've had a back-and-forth with Hermione about what to do, etc, and this would have foreshadowed that he and Hermione would spend more time together as we see in the third act of both the book and the movie, similar to how Harry's time with Ron in the first act of book two foreshadowed how they would have more time together in the third act. A minor nitpick, but it could have more storytelling potential.
Great idea and completely agree 👏
Yes.
The only problem is the Grangers were out on vacation in Paris at the time, and Harry knew about that.
@@DBoy38 True, I'm just saying that it would have made for a great rewrite if the idea came to Rowling to change that little detail.
This is a great idea 👏
I just realised seeing as when the secret keeper dies everyone who knows the location becomes the secret keeper Sirius saying that he would die rather than betray his friends would have done no good because Pettigrew would just tell Voldemort anyway.
That's why I think some of these spells and how Rowling made them work is pure stupid.
But wasn't it like after the spell who were told the lockation by one of the secret keepers
I'd argue that Sirius actually didn't know about their location, only Dumbledore and Pettigrew knew about it. It was only after Voldemort wrecked the place and killed James and Lilly that he came to know about it.
@@sreenivaskamath4243 okay that's true
@@Keyboardje Well, there's a reason for that. She specifically constructed her world to reinforce her own beliefs about how our world should work, but her beliefs contain inherent contradictions of logic that make no sense. That's why her world has a lot of extremely weird holes in its logic.
Morgan, congratulations on getting married. An amazing Harry Potter expert like you deserves to have a happy life with the one you love. Thank you for the amazing Harry Potter videos.
I think Lupin should have fought Greyback as wearwolfs in the battle of Hogwarts.
Werewolves in Harry Potter are always feral when shifted, no exceptions. The Death Eaters would be reluctant to deploy Greyback lest they be turned into filthy mutts, and the Order would have insisted on Lupin being far away and restrained or drugged.
A lot of modern werewolf media has it where they can go feral but can also learn to retain control either through experience or heroic willpower. If Harry Potter had that, a Lupin Greyback battle would have been cool. But it doesn't.
My hot take: Harry shouldn’t have been an auror, he should have become a DADA teacher,
we see how good he is at teaching in ootp with dumbledores army, it’s also a big middle finger to voldy who cursed the position, and he was forced into fighting evil through the prophecy and I would rather see him doing what he likes instead of continuing to play the traumatizing role that was forced on him, continuously he was also very good at defense obviously and it would be nicer to see him training future wizards for the issues he had. He would also be a very nice teacher and since he has such inconsistent ones it’s him giving kids what he didn’t have, it would also allow him to keep working with Neville, imagine kids talking about them “omg they saved the WIZARDING world” then they are just so cute and nice and are big softies, and they compete to be the best teacher and they talk shit about snape together and how it’s not that hard not to emotionally and verbally abuse children! So yeah!
We see a lot of teachers take up the job later in life, so I always head canoned that Harry takes the DADA job after he's done as an auror and then later becomes headmaster. Cuz I agree that is a perfect fit for him!!
I think there was also an article (could be wrong here) where it said Harry would sometimes come in and give lectures in DADA classes
I like to think that he's an auror for a decade or so before retiring from it and becoming a teacher
im always heartbroken that he doesnt become either a dada teacher or pro quidditch player in canon. hes a hogwarts teacher in my eyes, i feel like him being a teacher (or parent in general) could also be him trying to break the cycle of many adults in his early life failing him so terribly
Harry becoming an Auror is so absurd. The Ministry, through the Auror office, has been systematically shown to use force to subdue political adversaries with no good reason. Aurors just obey orders stupidly. Harry should not have wanted to enter the system, he should have wanted to change it all. Tear it down and build something different.
My hot take is that the chamber of secrets was the best HP book it had so much of the history of the wizarding world, and the mystery aspect too
The one about Slytherins being loyal to their own is actually a Slytherin trait. Hufflepuffs are loyal to their friends. I am a Slytherin and looked into all the traits, not just cunning and ambition. A big Slytherin trait if fraternity. This basically means a strong brotherhood/sisterhood, loyalty to their own. So that take was correct.
I’d even go on to say it’s the triad of loyalty, community and respect for traditions. The questions are, of course, loyally to whom and what kind of community and traditions.
It’s never written anywhere, but if you look at all the Slytherins, they all show these traits. The Blacks are a great example
100% yes. All of the Slytherin traits are other house traits, but with a “worse” sounding synonym.
@@heyheyokay592She probably did that on purpose. So she could hide behind the fact that the traits aren’t necessarily evil; it’s just the connotations of the words are negative. So she has a answer if anyone asked why the house still existed after everything that happened. Like if the wizarding world was sensible the house should have been destroyed after Slytherin left hogwarts.
I am going to be honest here but I think slytherin and Ravenclaw are the best houses I do think Gryffindor is overrated and tbh Hufflepuff is a bit boring. Since (at this point this have nothing to do with houses) we don’t know much about it and the 4th book/movie how they would of glory and blamed Harry for it. Because it wasn’t his fault, and Cedric dieing wasn’t that bad since we just met him.
@mystic_scythe Did you read what I wrote?
Dolores isn't the worst villain in the sense that she's the most evil; she's the worst in the sense that she's _real_ . Dolores Umbridge is the sadistic, cruel, incompetent teacher most of us have had. She's the authority figure who abuses authority. She's the imposter who puts on a polite façade in front of superiors and only shows her true colors to subordinates. She's a character grounded in reality. She's relatable. Evil in a sense that most of us have probably encountered in our lives. Unlike Voldemort, who's evil on a grander scale, Umbridge is more personal. _That's_ what her makes the worst villain on the franchise.
Exactly this. We’ve all known someone like Umbridge in our lives. My year 10 Geography teacher was my equivalent to her. She’s the most hated character because she’s unfortunately so relatable to what we’ve all experienced in reality.
Voldemort could be compared to real life dictator
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I agree. But how many people can say they have had up close and personal encounters with dictators?
But the interesting thing is we sort of have the same in Snape. He's competent in potions himself, but refuses to do proper teaching, abuses students verbally, harms them in detention... he's not better than Umbridge, if we just compare them as teachers.
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Huh. Never thought of Snape in that angle before. I still hate Umbridge more, though, simply because she's so annoyingly _fake_ .
so late on this, but CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR MARRIAGE! i grew up with your videos in middle school, and I'm now in university. it's great to see that you're still thriving
the one about ron being a seer, there is also the line line in gof where the trio learns about crouch sending his son to azkaban and ron was like “Percy would never throw any of his family to the dementors,” said
Hermione severely.
“I don’t know,” said Ron. “If he thought we were standing in the way of his
career . . . Percy’s really ambitious, you know. . . .”
Well given how on the whole they treated and acted toward Percy for the first four books would it really be that shocking that Percy wouldn't think they are worth backing? If your siblings tried to trap you in a dark and claustrophobic place would you defend them when they are guilty of a crime?
I think Umbridge isn’t the most evil character but she is the most hated. Of all the “bad guys”, I believe Umbridge is the most relatable to the reader as many of us have had at least one similar teacher sometime in our school days.
I think the "Harry did you put you´re name in the goblet of fire" he said calmly scene may have had to due more with Mike Newell´s directing and Steve Kloves' writing
Regarding Ron and Hermione might needing marriage counseling... that isn't necessarily a bad thing. A lot of marriages would probably be better off when counseling is engaged early or used as a preventative measure to learn better relationship / healthy communication skills.
Also let's not forget that they probably both need individual therapy for PTSD.
100% agree with this
Agree, Marriage counseling should be necessary in a healthy marriage.
100% agree marriage counsiling is not a bad thing
One of the more minor Slytherin traits is actually fraternity, which is what I think the "Gryffrindors are the most self-absorbed house" theory was referencing.
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This is from the official site in the introduction to Slytherin house.
“The corridors of Hogwarts can throw up surprises for the unwary, and you’ll be glad you’ve got the Serpents on your side as you move around the school. As far as we’re concerned, once you’ve become a snake, you’re one of ours - one of the elite.”
Loyalty is more prominent in Hufflepuff because it is a house trait, but most Slytherins are loyal to their house and each other.
The way I look at the roles of books in the series are these:
Philosopher's/Sorcerer's Stone: Introduces the series
Chamber of Secrets: Sets up things that are important in the series later on (ex. Dobby, Polyjuice potion, the horcruxes, Ginny, the dark tone, etc.)
Prisoner of Azkaban: Shifts the series into a darker tone plus expands upon things like more classes and the Quidditch Cup
Goblet of Fire: Lots of worldbuilding (ex. house elves, other schools, three unforgiveable curses, etc.) and also sets up plots (ex. Fred and George's joke shop, Dobby being at Hogwarts, Fleur and Bill, Rita Skeeter, etc.)
Order of the Phoenix: Character focused (ex. Harry's trauma, Harry teaching what he's learned to other students, Luna introduced, Neville's willingness to fight, Ginny's determination, McGonagall's dedication to Hogwarts and lack of fear of Umbridge, Sirius's past with his old home and his family and his treatment of Kreacher, etc.)
Half Blood Prince: Establishes the dark times, sets up or further explores relationships, goes into the origin of Voldemort and how he rose to power and how to beat him, explores Snape and Draco
Deathly Hallows: Tests the main trio, reveals Dumbledore's scarring past and him not always being depicted as good, explores Snape's past, ends the Wizarding War and the series with the final battle
My hot take: Molly Weasley is not a good mother. I’m not saying Molly was a terrible mother, and she really did love her children, and no parent is perfect and everyone does have faults, but Molly has too many to be considered a good mother. She was too bossy and controlling even towards her adult children and children that weren't even hers. Whenever her kids got in trouble all she did was yell and compare them to their siblings. She destroyed things that took Fred and George months to create and she was mad at them at the beginning of the GOF, just because she wanted them to work at the Ministry, which made no sense because at that point Percy was the only one of her kids who had gotten a job at the Ministry. I wonder if Bill and Charlie took jobs so far from home to escape her trying to run their lives.
Yes!! She looked down on fred and George because they weren't prefects and head boy like the older ones. Adored percy so much and dotted on Ginny as she was one girl. She looked down on Ron and compared him to Harry until Ron became a prefect, bullied and was very condenseding towards fred and George. She was so upset over percy leaving yet never mentioned Charlie who lived in Romania!!!! She was a bad mother I think, she was very loving but in an overbearing way giving her kids very little space
They were both loving, but not very good parents. Mr Weasely was very selfish. Because he loved muggles he found his low paying job much more important than providing for his large family, making his children ashamed about being poor. That's why the twins were so bent on earning money, Percy on having power, and Ron feeling so undeserving of Hermiony's love he got stupidly jealous thinking she would rather have (rich, important) Harry.
And they kept on having more kids than they could provide for, just because having a daughter was more important to especially Molly. I guess they would have gone on to having ever more and more kids, being ever more and more poor, if they would had been getting only boys!
Totally stupid with money when they won some too.
I feel the trip wasn't a waste of money because it was important for them to do something all together as a family and have those happy memories together before the war began and tore them apart forever. And they had to do it that way because Bill couldn't get off work also Charlie found a way to come too. At least Ron finally got a proper wand out of it. They aren't a bad family though. I love them because while they are flawed, they're still loving. They are just imperfect humans. It makes them extremely real and relatable. Molly is a good mom, just not a great or excellent mom.
100 percent agree, I hated Molly. The fact she killed Bellatrix despite having had very little, if any, combat experience in her life is also utterly ludicrous.
@@wiktoriawisniewska5142she didn’t treat Ginny any better, she treated her like a toddler more than any of them, and constantly forced or tried to force her not to participate in combat situations, despite how talented she was, and how she wasn’t allowed to play Quidditch as a kid, making Ginny resort to doing so secretly at night.
Honestly, Voldemort is that "Cool-Movie evil" but Dolores just wanted to punish, like a worse version of Snape
"Could Wizards stop a Nuclear Bomb?"
Me: "Arresto Momentum. Evanesco."
Chamber of secrets is my favourite film. I just like how everything connects with ginny owning the diary and the idea of the basilisk petrifying by mistake.
"It really wasn’t that stupid because she was freeing slaves" is a great quote 😂
But seriously it was probably more frustrating hermiones behavior (speaking for them and freeing them their will) than the whole concept in of itself.
Yeah, I have to agree with you. I have to say, my only problem with SPEW was she was ignoring what the house elves wanted. For what we are told (at least with the Hogwarts elves) they loved their jobs, and she tried to free them AGAINST THEIR WILL! That is my only issue with SPEW.
(Also note, the only badly treated house elf we really see is Doby, (i am excusing Sirius' behavior toward Keator as him having to relive past trauma, and that from what we know he had good reasons to not like Keator e.g. Keator always telling on him and what not. and it's also not like Sirius made Keator do anything. All we see Sirius do is yell at him.)) Her wanting to free abused house elves if perfectly valid. But ignoring what they want for what she thinks that they deserve is wrong. As it is completely ignoring their wants and needs.
It's a perfect case of having the right motive but awful execution. Her heart was in the right place, but she wasn't willing to listen to anyone else about how she was handling it
My hot take: Movie Voldemort wasn't all that menacing after Goblet of Fire. Very few times did I feel like the performance wasn't just a LITTLE bit over-the-top. Also, Snape was a bully. Him bullying Harry I could see an argument that it was to conceal his true intentions from Voldemort and other Death Eaters, but he bullied Neville to the point where HE WAS NEVILLE'S WORST FEAR.
voldemort to me was never menacing after philosopher stone him being at the back of quirell's head and knowing the stone was in harry's pocket was quite scary but he never matched that in later books
Snape is one of the worst characters, he knows what bullying feels like but he did it anyway
And he harassed Ron , Hermione and Neville just because they were Harry's friends. Once Harry is out of the picture, he gives Neville a detention with Hagrid for stealing the sword 😂.... That was probably the lightest punishment Neville received, and everything else just because he breathed the same air as Harry .
Also , there was this instance of shaming Hermione for her teeth , adding fuel to the slut shaming she was already facing . Snape was UNHINGED.
Him being Neville's worst fear actually adds a whole new layer to Neville's character. It means that Neville was facing his worst fear nearly every day. It shines a whole new light on Neville's bravery. Has this been me, I would've skipped Potions entirely; I would rather have failed the subject than deal with Snape so often. Not Neville, no. He gathered his courage and showed up to class regularly, even when his beloved pet's life was threatened. Neville Longbottom was a brave wizard all along.
Not to defend Snape, but with Neville in particular I wonder if he treated him so badly because if Voldemort had chosen to go after him, instead of Harry, Lily would still be alive.
They should have put more scenes where Dumbledore showed off his power. For example, when he takes on five aurors by himself or when he puts Fudge in his place just by looking at him after setting up a port key in the ministry.
27:01 Muggles don't necessarily hate magic. The Dursleys did, but that's not true for everyone. The Grangers seemed to be perfectly happy upon learning their daughter Hermione was a witch.
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Sirius yelled indeed "I would have died rather than to betray my friends", and yes, he's the kind of guy who can make me believe he would.
I think that made Sirius actually the worst choice to be the Secret Keeper. The Fidelius Charm has a weakness. When the Secret Keeper dies, everybody who knows the secret becomes the new Secret Keeper. It would have been all to easy for Voldemort to find somebody who could betray the secret after Sirius had been killed.
This is also shown in The Deathly Hallows. Dumbledore was the Secret keeper of Sirius' house, but with him gone, and Snape knowing the secret too, and everybody believing him to be on Voldemort's side, it was no longer a safe place to HQ The Order Of The Phoenix. This was also the reason why Mad-Eye Moody took the trouble to set up a spell to repel Snape should he ever turn up there.
This video was a genius idea! Please do this for Star Wars and Avatar/Korra.
Definitely would be cool to see you do a video on how Chris Columbus would have made the tone/artistic direction differently for later films
Congratulations on getting married! 🎉🎉 Also just got to the first take and i gotta say "FACT"! Also for my take, we already got enough about hogwarts (and as much as i adore hogwarts legacy) we should get more stuff about other schools and countries in the wizarding world,it exists outside of Harry's bubble and i actually do prefer the first FB movie to the Harry Potter movies (not the books of course)
The one about Lily's parents being secret wizards actually is a really interesting theory. We know from the books that squibs are treated much more worse than muggle borns ever are in the books. They are seen as embarrasments and disowned or isolated by most of the wizarding community. (filch, dumbledore's sister, umbridge's brother etc) Lily's parents might have moved to the muggle world to protect petunia from this treatment, so that she can lead a normal life as a muggle girl. The fact that she wrote Dumbledore a letter asking whether she can also attend hogwarts makes more sense with this theory. If this theory is canon, most likely only one parent of lily was a wizard/witch and the other a muggle.
16:55 ahhh idk. I remember in one book they said something about being loyal in slytherin or more like, your friends will have your back/ you will find true friends in Slytherin. Something like that
This was an amazing video, I loved listening to you talk freely about your thoughts and opinions on the franchise. This could be turned into a podcast and i would listen too it all day
I love this type of video! Thank you! This is a lot of fun :-)
I like that you touched on how Ron's family treated a they were a good and loving family, for sure, but they did treat Ron kind of bad and second-hand so they were not perfect. And Molly shouted a lot which isn't great. The weasleys were dynamic rather than perfect.
The elder one is definitely more relevant for a significance rather than how it was used. I love that the one actual major feet of magic we see it do is a super simple first-year spell where Harry repairs his wand.
I guess parents with so many children can't be perfect, because even parents with three or four children are sometimes over whelmed and make mistakes. And they have mostly boys and the age gabs between them are pretty small. Twins are always a challange too. So Molly had to take care of four toddlers all at once for most of the time when they were younger.
the draco redemption mentioned in one of the sections is helped by the cursed child i think and its one of the better aspects of the book, how draco and harry arent friendly but you tell they somewhat respect eachother enough to work together
28:09 Also, I love the way time travel was handled in the series, where if you go back in time, everything you're about to do has already happened. It's all one continuity, so there's no need to worry about branching timelines.
I'm a Hufflepuff and I wish that we could've got more Hufflepuffs like Newt Scamander, Susan Bones, Cedric Diggory, and Hannah Abbott. Also, they need to show their common room more often since Hogwarts Legacy, Hogwarts Mystery, and Magic Awakened.
Tonks is a Hufflepuff too! 💛🖤
Personally hagrids teaching wasn’t bad (except the blast ended skrewts) hippogriffs, unicorns, nifflers, thestrals and the other creatures that I can’t spell were all pretty standard as some of those animals were in the tests and not dangerous creatures according to fantastic beasts and where to find them. I feel his class is as dangerous as potions (goyle’s swelling solutions exploding, Neville’s cauldron melting and covering him in boils) it’s just he isn’t a qualified wizard like snape who has the antidotes with him.
He is not a bad person, and he definitely knows his way around beasts, but I still don't think of him as a great teacher. Just because my english teacher taught me the stuff I was supposed to know, doesn't mean she was a good teacher. Honestly, she was pretty bad, because she gave bad assignments, was bad at handling homework and tasks in the lessons. Just because someone knows their subject doesn't mean their good. And Hagrid was not suited to teach kids in a subject where his lack of judgement was honestly terribly dangerous.
@@filip_aleksander_moen that's true but apart from the skrewts, Hagrid's judgement on creatures was pretty good as they were all in the tests. I'm not saying he's the best teacher and 100% would rather have Grubbly Plank as a teacher, but was trying to point out that he was as bad as movieflame was implying, especially with the other dangerous subjects. It's mainly due to his lack of magic that's holding him back as the other teachers like snape have countermeasures for when injuries happen
oh god this is a going to be a wild ride please do more vidoes like this for diffrent fandoms
Congrats on your marriage, Mozal Tuv. It's always treat watching your channel, it's actually what got me truly interested in the Harry Potter franchise; in fact, not sure I would've finished reading or watching it if I didn't see your videos on the books and movies.
29:46 it was stupid, she was literally told so much times that these "slaves" are happy with their jobs and dont want freedom. Winky is what would happen when a normal house elf is freed
SPEW was poorly handled on Hermione’s part. She tried to force things to quickly. There’s not much effect to trying to convince wizards while the house elves are content, and just straight telling them they shouldn’t be content like she did is condescending and unlikely to change the elves’ minds.
The best strategy would have been to visit the kitchens every day and talk with them, ask how their day has been, and if they did anything particularly unpleasant, express sympathy. Doing that would have likely done more in the first year than she accomplished by the time she graduated.
No idea if this is accurate but Sirius is more a old brother/cool uncle. He would give advice about girls and tell stories about his youth. But Sirius at that point was basically imprisoned in the house he hated and we’ve not seen any source of entertainment in the wizarding world that’s indoors apart from books and the radio so wanting to leave and being reckless was bound to happen to anyone.
Yeah, no matter how long he lasted, he would have left for even a bit to be able to do literally anything
@@thedragonwarrior5861 yh not denying that, he godson was in danger it would someone like voldemort to stop him just saying that i think it's more understandable why he was so desperate to leave and for an active man as dumbledore puts it, he only left grimmald place one time that i think would consider reckless that being going to 9 3/4.
Just think about how most of us felt turing the Lockdowns.
The comment about Snape going after the Resurrection Stone is so galaxy brained because when we learn of the Deathly Hallows in the tale, we can see right out that each artifact had a person trying to get what happened in the past.
Voldemort wanted the Wand and killed people to get it and thus was in turn killed by someone else. As was the fate of the original Peverel who had it.
Harry had the cloak, which in time showed that he was willing to great Death without fear, just like the youngest.
Snape would then fit the middle brother who wanted the love of his life back, so Snape going after the stone would have been quite poetic in terms of the parallel it would have
Snape, Harry and Voldemort's resemblance to the Peverell brothers and the Deathly Hallows is more of a metaphorical thing than literal, as the characters don't realise that themselves. It's just we are able to connect the dots as we know both stories.
I always thought that it was more Dumbledore than Snape personally. What with Dumbledore picking up the ring.
I actually had an alternative version of the last book where Snape evades Voldemort's attempt to kill him, and Harry offers him the stone as he goes into the forest. Snape looks at it longingly before folding Harry's hand over it, Aragon giving the Ring back to Frodo style, and admitting that he doesn't deserve it.
I can tell that the best parts in cursed child were Scorpius and Albus being friends and McGonnagal headmistress lol
And Scorpius existing, he was legit the best part of the "book"
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I didn't hate the cursed child..because I don't hate anything about Harry Potter but it was definetly not the best "book"
Why? Illogic.
But I seem to be the only one who liked the main villain (Delphi) idk why shes just my type of villain
But the "book" was kinda dissapointing as a cannon HP😭
@@LovegoodLunaEdits i enjoyed how Draco and Harry were able to move past their school rivalry just for sake of their boys, it's good development and pretty neat parenting
@@Vida7354 that was a good part..
i'm scared that I'm gonna get hate👁👄👁
21:08 also Percy. Seriously if their family was so perfect, why did he turn on them like that? He was a bit of a prick, yes, but also think about it a bit. Percy has two older brothers who had already done everything there was to do at Hogwarts. He comes along and also wants to impress his family, but Bill had already been head boy and Charlie was the Gryffindor quidditch captain. He also has 4 younger siblings. He was only around 2 when the twins where born, and they needed more attention than if it had just been one baby. Then Ron and shortly after Ginny came along. We know how they treated Ron, and Ginny definitely also got special treatment in the family because she was the only girl. Percy has no way of shinning and when the ministry shows him a bit of attention and appreciation I think Percy wanted to side when them, since his family never really seemed to like him.
10:46 RIP Michael Gambon ❤🕊️
1:35 - let’s also not forget that several order members at the end of the OOTP book warned the Dursleys about the way they treat Harry
But they still left him in this abusive family for 11 years and sent him back there every summer before. So imo what they did wasn't enough by far.
@@sash9868 it’s already clear as day why he was there in the first place. To keep his mom’s protection alive. Harry already knew it by that point.
@@Ori_Kohav Dumbledore still could have easily sent Hagrid or Mad-Eye there to scare the shit out of the Dursleys so that they never bother Harry again. And imo there is no excuse for not doing it and letting Harry live in this abusive home for all those years.
@@sash9868 that wouldn’t work. Hagrid already scared them in the first book, and they still mistreated Harry afterwards.
and again, it’s already clear to everyone why Harry was there in the first place.
@@Ori_Kohavwell, yes, he scared them. But we’re any any repercussions? No, and that’s the whole point. They are basically said ‘bad muggles, bad!’ and that’s it
Leaving Harry with them was truly crime. And the whole blood protections is just BS. Protection from who? The Malfoys? Greyback? For real
I always thought re the fact noone knew Harry was being treated badly by the Dursleys was made worse because Mrs Figg must have known. She looked after Harry whenever the Dursleys were off having fun birthday treats for Dudley. And you can bet Dumbledore kept in fairly close contact with her re him, given that (in knowing the prophecy) Dumbledore knows how crucial Harry will be.
So someone at Hogwarts 100% knew Harry was being abused but just let it continue. Bc he would be allegedly better staying in the muggle world away from the fame of the wizard world...
It wasn't because of the fame though, Dumbledore just said that as a cover. It was because of the blood protection magic given by Harry living with his mom's family. Voldemort couldn't attack him at home while he lived there. And Dumbledore did express his rage to the Dursleys of their treatment towards him
Somebody didnt read the books..
@@saylremi Which is the largest plot hole in the entire series.
@@DogmaticNonsense what do you mean? (asking genuinely)
@@saylremi They could've just given Harry to like his grandparents or something
in a 7 book continuing series there is bound to be some dry required reading . Details and spells that were introduced 2 books before hand were used in the later action filled episodes. Just like the follow on webpages and books that explained back stories histories and details filled in what was missing from the original . The first book was a children's story. You wouldn't expect to find quantum physics level instruction inside it . Story telling after Deathly Hallows can focus on adult to near adult subject themes
Hot take (not really, kinda, idk): After characters defeated Death Eaters, they should have snapped the Death Eaters' wands.
My biggest hot take, In “The Sorcerer’s Stone”. There was absolutely no reason for Harmione to lie to Professor McGonnigal. Saying “I wasn’t at dinner, I was in the bathroom Harry and Ron were trying to come and get to tell me what was going on and get me back to the Gryffindor common room, but the Troll was already here when they arrived.” Would have been a perfectly acceptable answer that would have kept the trio out of trouble while still earning them points.
My hot take is that Hedwig's death doesn't make any sense in the movie. Harry was so irresponsable for letting her out in the first place when the Death Eaters perfectly know how Harry's owl look like. The real Harry would've never done that. And it doesn't make sense that she appears in the middle of the battle, how did she know there would be a fight? And how did Hedwig know who was the real Harry she had to protect? There were seven Harrys in the air, there's no way she knew who was the real one. The book version makes much more sense.
As much as I love the sacrifice more in the movie.
You actually got a very excellent point there.
Surprised I never once thought of that.😂😅
Indeed the scene from the movie is a powerful scene.
But that's completely out of harry's character. Seems illogical too If we break down harry's character from the original books.
There's no way harry would leave alone one of his most precious and loving thing he had at that time besides Ron and Hermione in the open like that. And that also during a war and when his enemies fully aware of Hedwig.
Also, every fake Harry had a stuffed owl in a cage so him releasing her would have been a big giveaway.
Also I just always thought it was weird that after Hedwig died, she was never really mentioned or talked about… Harry loved Hedwig, and to just never mention her again was really weird
Owls in Harry Potter have a magical ability to identify anybody anywhere no matter who they are or what protections they have on them. That's just a fundamental part of the system. It'd be weird if that only worked while delivering mail.
Congrats about your marriage, Morgan
Keep up the good work! 👍👍
8:05 - I actually agree that Grindelwald is a better villain, because he seems wiser, calmer, and more manipulative. He’s also a more interesting character to give a backstory to, kinda like Hunger Games gave to Snow
I'm gonna quote Game Master and Bird Expert, Brennan Lee Mulligan here: "if you have a civilization, of wizards, who can teleport at will, and they have their mail delivered by nature's slowest bird, that's f***ing animal cruelty, that's not OK."
14:23 The reason why neville didn’t give harry the gillyweed was because j. k. didn’t think of it and it was a really big part in barty crouch jrs. plan, where dobby was really gullible not having a education and stuff neville would probably be too scared and the main reason is that Neville was his first plan, thats why he gave him the books so he could look at the bubble head charm and tell harry but that didnt work so he told dobby to just go give it to him.
Here's one that I came up with... Dumbledore had his own time turner. He used it to both to help Harry and to correct his own life mistakes.
He got this years after the death of his sister to make sure he doesn't face death again.
My very late hot take is that dumbledore is not a good person. He manipulated everyone at every possible instance. He took advantage of Snape and especially Harry. He never cared about him, put him with the dursleys where he knew he wouldnt be treated right, he put the resurrection stone in the snitch to make sure Harry would sacrifice himself and so on. He was a manipulative character who didnt care about anyone but his own goals, he hasnt changed much from his youth
Yess omfg so true. Not only with Harry but like half of the order he’d just use them like you’d use chess figures. Like he didn’t care if someone died for him because it was for the greater good or whatever. Dumbledore and Grindelwald are basically the same the only difference being the sides they stood for.
@@noragranger5708 exactly how I feel about him. He may have been on the good side but he didnt care who he had to sacrifice for the end goal
I absolutely LOVE Snape. But as in how brilliantly that (very bad indeed) character was portrayed by Alan Rickman.
Ron comes from a *fiery redhead!* family and is used to his still very much loving parents bickering all the time, so to him that must seem normal. That's what he has with Hermione too. For some people and couples that is just their way. Some even say that this kind of relationship is the most passionate one! So it doesn't mean they don't belong together. In fact I think it shows they are similar within relationships, so they DO fit together very well.
I agree that *THE STORIES* got darker with each book as the characters and readers got older. But... My biggest pet peeve with the movies is that they made the movies *themselves* look darker and darker and with less and less colour. That took away the "magical" feeling the first two movies had.
I mean, with all the bad and horrible things happening in the world today, we still see colours and light as normal, don't we? So why make the later films so dark you could hardly even see what was happening anymore, and big parts of the last one are just totally black & white! :(
26:59 We can't forget Fred and George. They were so good as beaters that they were called human bludgers.
10:39 when i first watched the hp movies i didnt know that harris was replaced 😭 i thought it was the same actor until i looked it up and learnt that