I misread the vid lenght as 1hour and thought "yeah right 'brief' look." and was confused about your comment. I think I got and heart attack after realising my mistake
I do love the fact that the child endangerment argument always makes Lucius Malfoy looked like racist, classist, bigotted man...but also the only parent in this entire story who cares that his son is constantly in danger in this school. Like I don't know how often there's a little implication that Luicus MAlfoy sent another angry letter to Hogwarts, and at some point, the reasonable reaction to this is just "yes. Well done! Why isn't Molly sending more letters?" Like the Weasley's always just send poor Ron an howler, never the school that put their kids in danger.
Kids are gonna be kids. They're gonna have peer pressure and short attention spans and a different risk/reward ratio than adults and not quite know their limits yet. It's canon that most of them have never seen death. And we're supposed to blame them for venturing into the unfenced forest, or around the unfenced tree, or into the cool secret passage, without clearly explaining to them the actual dangers, with examples, and putting up barricades for the kids who aren't paying attention to where they walk.
To be fair, Molly sends Ron a Howler once, and it's for breaking the law, incurring a large fine, and forcing his father to face an inquiry at work. All because he didn't want to be late for school, when his parents could have gotten them there way faster. And while Fred and George were yelled at by Molly through letters... it was also for frequently breaking school rules, not them being put in danger. But yes, Molly should have been more concerned about the safety of the school after her child was accosted by a troll, or by pixies, a teacher, the memory of a former student, a tree(twice), or a mass murderer, and everything that happened from book 4 onwards.
@@the_last_ballad yeah. i don't really blame molly for the specific howlers she sent. only that with the danger in hogwarts, it at some point started to irritate me, that the weasleys were always just like "Hogwarts is safe" when the last years should've taught them better. Like in book three, Molly and Arthur were like "Hogwarts is safe" and last year their daughter almost died. there was this narrative about how hogwarts is the only place, Voldemort never conquered. Cool. But I think at some point, it was just unrealistic that they'd continue believing that.
Right?? It's so weird, the Malfoy parents are the ones portrayed as being evil and all because they...care for his son being safe?? Sure, they're followers of Voldemort and all you want, but didn't they do it because there was no safe way of dropping off of it without putting Draco (and themselves obvs) in danger? Yes, it's portrayed as bad that they often sent letters to Hogwarts, or Draco being meme'd over "my father will hear about this" but that just goes to show they care for Draco, doesn't it?
@CthulhusBFF2 Hahahahahahaha... *Breathes in* ... Hahahahahahaha. 😅😭😂🤣😁 Oh gosh, awesome comment. I had just finished an hour and a half analysis on the same topic called 'Harry Potter'. Saw this ten hour video, decided to take a chance. As soon as I saw your comment, I knew I made the right choice. Thank you
@@mariannaortiz2426it's from the new Barbie film! It's what ken calls Barbie's dream house but it just says house three times in different languages at the end (dojo casa house)
@@mariannaortiz2426 it's a joke from the Barbie movie, a non sensical name for a house/building as "casa" literally means "house" and "dojo" means something similar, too, in japanese (i think, don't sue me please if I'm wrong hahaha). The way Rowling named other wizarding schools like "castelobruxo" is just as stupid, since that literally just means something along the lines of "magic castle". She did that a lot with her international schools, which is lowkey problematic and just shows she doesn't give a single single shit about a lot of things like diversity and repecting cultures that are foreign to her.
I love those long videos. I watch them with something else on. I wish more creators felt comfortable doing them. Some certainly want too. But I know it's bad on the algorithm.
@@smolelvenbby ahh you right but that was kinda a special occasion no? Like I doubt that would happen again though Harry and the others deserved points for stopping Tom
@@lightdarksoul2097 So they play favorites with the students and abandon those who’s actually in need if that student isn’t profitable to their house. Makes them even more scummy.
I think they have the Japanese evil wizards wear white because in China and Korea, as well as for Buhddists, it is common to wear white to funerals. However, they wear white because it is a symbol of positivity and purity which helps the deceased pass to the afterlife peacefully, which makes me think JK heard that Asians wear white to funerals, and assumed white was a sad/evil color for Asians, which is totally on brand for her.
It's a strange conclusion considering western culture also uses white as a positive color to represent death. Spirits move onto the next world in a flash of blinding white light to live in a heavenly kingdom made of white clouds where they get white wings and white robes. JKR and going beyond surface-level thinking do not seem to go hand-in-hand.
I absolutely agree! It would also make sense, since in "our" western world, the bad wizards wear a lot of black, also associated with funerals and therefore death.
Ok but on Arthur Weasley, he and Molly basically adopted Harry and acted as parental figures to basically everyone else in the series, and Harry named his son after two child abusers instead of calling him Arthur?
I feel like a lot of Harry's actions can be explained by realizing that he was meant as Joey's self-insert, not as an audience surrogate meant to represent how a decent and functional human being would act and respond.
As an Irish person, it was nice to see you address the fact that Ireland and Britain are essentially treated as the same place in Harry Potter. It's something I don't see brought up a lot so it was good to see someone address it
@@crazycatlover1885 Well, it's not wrong. Ireland is its own island, which is right next to the other after it broke away a "few" years ago but that doesn't stop me from lumping it together and putting it in the same drawer
@@Terminator1732 You said "the Island", presumably meaning Great Britain, and implied that Ireland is, or has been, a part of it. That is wrong. Ireland has not at any point been a part of Great Britain. It therefore doesn't make any sense to lump Ireland in as part of Great Britain.
@@crazycatlover1885 the two islands were once a contiguous landmass so never say never Well for me its just the island over there as a bundle package And i realy dont care about political correktness I bundle it not under great brittain but more under united kingdomes
I'm also somewhat confused on the idea of "doing magic." We know muggles can't cast spells, but could they tame a magical beast or grow a magical plant? For that matter, what distinguishes magical beasts and plants from mundane ones. Could they divine things? Are muggles able to brew potions, or would the potions simply not work, even if they followed all of the instructions? If a muggle can do all these things why wouldnt they be allowed to attend magical school? I think the Owl House does a better job of handling these types of questions
It's my headcanon that the global wizarding community can't stand the British wizards, so when Voldemort takes over there, they shrug and go "oh well, they had it coming".
There’s a good book series called “The Scarlet Weapon”, by Renata Ventura that shows EXACTLY this haha. It takes place in an original wizarding school in Brazil, and the British wizards are pretty frequently mocked, specially in the beginning of the book. I highly recommend the read, it’s very creative and cathartic for frustrated Harry Potter fans!
Yeah to be honest I always kind of assumed Great Britain is kind of seen as strange and backwards in the magic world for things like not having any magical primary education or making muggle parents forget their magical child ever existed if it dies at Hogwarts. Can't imagine wizards from the rest of Europe getting away with not knowing anything about non-magical politics, technology and history either, at some point you're gonna have to pay attention to what those silly muggles are doing when the continent explodes into bloodshed again. Seeing just how insular the British magical community is, I doubt people are surprised when some evil wizard and his dickhead pureblood cronies try establishing a magical ethnostate and start attacking Muggles. Unless Voldemort is actively trying to take over the world, I doubt anyone cares enough to do anything besides occasionaly condemn what is going on in England.
Yeah to be honest I always kind of assumed Great Britain is kind of seen as strange and backwards in the magic world for things like not having any magical primary education or making muggle parents forget their magical child ever existed if it dies at Hogwarts. Can't imagine wizards from the rest of Europe getting away with not knowing anything about non-magical politics, technology and history either, at some point you're gonna have to pay attention to what those silly muggles are doing when the continent explodes into bloodshed again. Seeing just how insular the British magical community is, I doubt people are surprised when some evil wizard and his dickhead pureblood cronies try establishing a magical ethnostate and start attacking Muggles. Unless Voldemort is actively trying to take over the world, I doubt anyone cares enough to do anything besides occasionaly condemn what is going on in England.
Same!! People say that the age we live in with apps like tik tok, instagram shorts, youtube shorts, etc… our attention span has gotten shorter and shorter 😅😅 but even as an avid tik tok user I have noticed I’ve been enjoying 2 hour plus youtube videos😭😭 honestly idek why but I’m glad I’ve found my people 🤞
kinda hysterical that the ministry are basically like 'yeh we can't afford to give all children free wands and other magical equipment because we gotta fund our Death Room sorry ://'
i don’t know if you ever tried to hire cleaning staff for a death room but they’re not easy to come by and the usually don’t stay around for that long. not to mention the hush money for when they quit, or worse the hush money for their families if they die. free school supplies for needey 11 year olds is a budget cut we all just have to live with. we throw in complementary house scarves though because that castle can get really cold in the winter.
Can't they use spells to duplicate objects? They basically can create infinite resources but can't provide students with the basics. And they're supposed to be the good guys.
On "Hogwarts and Child Endangerment" - I can imagine a better version of the series where Hogwarts still has all of these security flaws and lackadaisical attitude towards child safety, but that the narrative frames it as wrong. Harry and Hermione can be shown expressing extreme discomfort with everything going on, while Ron and Draco Malfoy don't see anything wrong with it, haaving been socialised from birth to just accept that sometimes kids just don't come home from school.
yeah, this is kind of something i want people to take away from this which is that flaws are not the problem its how you approach those flaws with the characters that you have created which really define the substance of the world building
@@tjenadonn6158 I think he was meant to be an audience surrogate - problem is Joanne can't seem to imagine that the audience might react to her world with anything except wonder and reverence, so we get Harry, a boy who loves the world uncritically and wants to be a cop when he grows up
@@edithw-k7946 Perhaps the issue is she tried to write fantasy when she has an imagination too inflexible to even write a decent "Law and Order" script.
@@StriderCompanions Sales numbers aren't an indicator of quality by any stretch of the imagination. Just because the MCU has made more money than than the films of Andrei Tarkovsky or Ingmar Bergman that doesn't mean "Thor 4: Love and Thunder" is a better movie than "Solaris" or "Persona." Just because L. Ron Hubbard has outsold the likes of the Strugasky Brothers and Ursula K. Le Guin that doesn't mean that "Battlefield Earth" is better than "Hard To Be A God" or "The Left Hand of Darkness." Joey isn't good at writing. That's a well established fact. Shitty writers get successful all the time: Joey Rowling, Dan Brown, Stephanie Meyer, Bill O'Reilly, L. Ron Hubbard, E. L. James, the list is endless. If anything being a terrible writer is a far more lucrative career path than being even a decent writer, much less an excellent one. If financial success correlated directly to quality the Kardashians would be working at a gas station in Alabama and Family Guy would've been cancelled after half a season.
"everyone'd be wanting magical solutions to their problems" is just a simple way to say "we don't believe our great power comes with the great responsibility to make the world better."
In the TTRPG game Mage the Awakening, and the old world of darkness version of ascension, has characters who have the ability to make the world a better place or carve it to their liking. One problem, reality does not accept them. If they push too hard by, say, destroying cancer entirely, it will punch back and make a super cancer that's contagious and airborne and make the mage the first person to be infected. You could also make the excuse that magic doesn't work around muggles because of some 'weirdness censor' they have which would also be pretty interesting.
I love how Harry pulls the "what if there's another Grindelwald or Voldemort!?" As if Grindelwald and Voldemort weren't both brought up in the very system he's trying to protect.
Also, it kinda rings like "Yeah I hear you about [Insert issue here], but what if a new fascist rise to power?" even tho, fundamentally, it have nothing to directly do with the debate. This fallacious argument is in no case a rebuttal/"logical checkmate" like it is played here. All it does it pointing at the fact that the wizarding world had two turbo fascists with similar ideas rise to power in less than half a century and that nothing was really done to prevent a third one from manifesting in the future. It has nothing to do with the State of Secrecy. Especially because if a hypothetical new Dark Lord were to succeed where their predecessors failed, that would lead to the "enslavement" (?) of Muggles, SoS or not. So bringing this into the discussion is just bad rhetorically speaking. So in other words, TLDR : Harry's argument is not really relevant to the current discussion as it is presented. (Edit : Typos)
@@BlueAvocado3 5:43:09 (In all fairness, it is taken from spin off materials, but it's still representative of the more global problem with that piece of worldbuilding. And regardless, canon or not, it is still not a good argument to rhetorically defend the SoS.)
One thing i love about the Percy Jackson/Harry potter comparison is that PJ at the end of the first series of books fixes the issues that resulted in the books even happening, and HP becomes a wizard cop to enforce those same issues
My favorite thing to believe is that the HP series truly ended right before the epilogue or believe that Harry and Ron became Aurors because of their extensive experience with dark magic in order to clean up the remaining mess, then retired, and Harry becomes the DADA professor and Ron takes care of the twins' shop. Hermione is 100% the MoM and that's it. The series ended right there.
Only just realized how weird it is that both Fenrir Greyback and Remus Lupin were given very very wolf centric names before either of them became werewolves. What are the odds of two guys basically named “Wolfy Wolfboy” both becoming werewolves?
@@TransSappho Except she'd make it Luna Luna. I swear so much of why people think she's smart is just her having access to an English to Latin dictionary.
About the house elves... In finnish folklore we have something really similar. House elves are the protectors and caretakers of homes, but they are sneaky, don't like to be seen and they are loyal to the house/stable/storage building they reside in, not to the family that lives there/owns it. If you build a new house, you have to plant a tree on the property to invite a house elf to be its protector and then they will reside there as long as the house exists. Though I have also heard versions where there house elves move with their family, it might be a regional thing. Also, the most important part being that they will _f*ck your shit up_ if you disrespect them or the house that you live in. If you do your best to keep your home clean and pay respect to your house elf, they will help you and protect your home from bad things. But if you are a jerk that doesn't clean after themselves or you speak badly of your house elf, they might trash your house or burn down your sauna. So reading HP and how the british wizards treat their elves in it was always really sad to me and how it was not resolved at all was so dumb! JK could have easily kept the "house elves love serving wizards" part of the lore and still have the conflict with Dobby and Malfoys by making slavery just Malfoy household specific. Like maybe just Malfoys had cursed their house elves so they wouldn't leave or rebel no matter how bad they were treated and the rest of the house elves would work like in finnish folklore - you treat them right and they will do nice things for your household just because they want to. If you don't, they will smash your dishes or better yet, just leave. Yeah, you can lose your house elf in finnish folklore if you are too much of a bad homeowner. Your house will lose its protection and when the next storm hits, a tree might fall on your barn and your best cow dies. That's what you get for disrespecting a house elf. Better check yourself before you wreck yourself. That way there wouldn't be any issue with Hogwarts having house elf cleaners and cooks. You could just write in that they are free to go and do whatever, they just really like chilling at Hogwarts because they are treated with respect and kindness have like their own dwellings where they can have their own little societies and parties. I mean, I like to bake stuff for other people just for fun. It doesn't seem that far fetched to have a magical race that just likes to do little favors for wizards for the fun of it. But no, JK had to make it really weird and cruel for some reason. Like so many other things in these books...
She probably was like "who cares about slavery these days?" BTW, this dynamic of having a complex relationship between elves and humans would make for so much interesting side plots.
In Britain we have something similar called brownies, who'd do housework for you, but if you tried to pay them back with, for example, clothes, they'd happily leave. I think she started on "what if a brownie didn't want to do housework?" and the way she went about it wasn't thought through. it could've easily been a "my parents/culture expect me to to do this and I don't want to" plotline, and it would've been so much better for it
@@RobinAlucard123 What amazes me is that she managed to actually write this magic slavery plot and it wasn't changed by the editors. Or was it? What if it was even worse originally? We'll never know.
I don't know why, but your comment that a disrespected house elf "burn down your sauna." made me chuckle. I like the idea that it was just the Malfoys and other wizard like them that curse their house elves so they couldn't leave or rebel. Doby's character would make a lot more sense.
I remember reading about a similar concept in a book about Eastern European mythology (mostly about the Slavic Peoples). If I remember correctly, the spirits are called "domovoi", and they follow almost identical rules to what you mentioned. They were specifically linked to the hearth of a house. But yeah, the very concept of an entire race that exists purely to serve humans/wizards is disgustingly anthropocentric, unethical, backwards, and downright evil. Apparently it's not a universal stance that the concept of owning another living thing is barbaric and cruel.
As an Indian the British wizards misappropriating an item from someone else’s culture and refusing to return it is the most accurate portrayal of British wizards
No argument. They experimented with it first on the Irish, and the population STILL hasn't recovered from the Great Hunger (Brits exported Irish food to England during our "potato famine.") Did you know that the "Loyalists" in Northern Ireland STILL BUILD PALLET TOWERS 20 METERS OR HIGHER, FILLED WITH TIRES, AND SET ABLAZE NEAR "CATHOLIC" PUBLIC HOUSING? They repeat this all over the country every July. The fires are set to celebrate William of Orange's victory,3 centuries ago, but their real purpose is terror. I have seen people hosing down their homes because "Loyalist" bully boys out their towers anywhere they like. The pollution from burning tires outside your home is terrible.
The funniest part about "Castelobruxo" is that it doesn't even mean what JK probably wanted it to mean. The way it is written means "wizard castle", as in, "a castle that is a wizard", not "a castle of/for wizards".
She could pull it off lets say the castle itself is a sentient being, or literally it could be a powerful wizard that transfigured into a building, or a curse, or that the school is not a building in the first place, but I do think it was probably mismanaged translation 😂 which is fkd like jkr has many portuguese speaking fans that would help her with the name for free, even if not, it is not like it is hard to get hands on a portuguese translator or writer in the uk and it is not like she cannot afford to pay him/her
it really feels like she just looked up the portuguese words for wizard and castle and just mashed them together, because she didn't have any idea other languages had different sentence structures aside from "oh those darn spanish countries put the adjective after the noun" on that note, rowling feels like the kind of person that would pat themselves on the back for knowing brazil doesn't speak spanish, but still thinks spanish and portuguese are the same exact language
The treatment of Squibs is so fucked and ableist. Obviously in our world that wouldn’t be a disability, but when you’re born in the wizard isn’t world, that’s an impairment compared to your friends and family, and because they don’t invest in new technology or interact with muggle technology, they’re essentially left to leave the world they born into or live as a second-class citizen. Then, just like an ableist, JK says squibs are doomed to a sad half-life and we should feel sorry for them for being squibs, instead of acknowledging that their misery is a part of the wizard supreme it’s society they live in. She doesn’t sit back to consider how disability actually influences people in a society. She doesn’t show how squibs have compensated for their lack of magic with technology, how they end up dominating fields where magic is less necessary, or how they form insular communities of non-wizards who are privy to and engage in the wizard if world. Imagine small communities where only a few wizards are born each year and where most of the magic is combined with technology and comprised of long-lasting enchantments. Or, what about including them in Harry’s story to show even more challenge to the wizard supremacy of Voldemort. Imagine a version of Hogwarts where Harry fights for squibs too, where his herbology or magizoology teacher was a squib who was still a renowned member of their fields, and kids like Draco had their beliefs challenged more consistently. Imagine a version of Arthur Weasley who was born to a purebred family but was still a squib, and became fascinated with technology because of it. Or a member of the Order of the Phoenix who works to protect muggleborn students from Death Eaters when they’re back home. How much more impact would the story have if it treated wizard supremacy as evil, not just because Death Eaters are fascists, but because the diversity of experience and specialty that comes with disabled or racially diverse people is worth protecting in and of itself. Instead, it comes off as samey liberal bullshit about how fascists are bad because they’re extreme, and so are leftist radicals, because what matters isn’t people, it’s maintaining the status quo. Though that’s not too surprising, after reading the TERF wars essay and seeing more weird takes surrounding disabled people.
Considering how half-bloods and muggle-borns are treated, the ableism isn’t even surprising at all. Maybe if the wizards invested in tech or stopped believing they’re superior because they are magical humans…..
Oh damn, I wrote a paper in college on disability portrayals in Harry Potter and this example never even occurred to me! I don’t remember much about that paper, but I know I used Remus/werewolves as an example, as well as how physically inaccessible Hogwarts would be for someone born with a mobility-related disability. Sidenote: I always thought it would’ve been a cool world-building idea to have some sort of broom adaptations to use as the Wizarding World equivalent to a wheelchair.
About Mahoutokoro (even just saying that "word" makes me shudder). As a fluent Japanese speaker: The entire thing is beyond insulting. Terfling placed it on Minami-Iwojima, which is a small island with extremely harsh weather, but based the castle's appearance quite blatantly on Himeji-jou, one of the most beautiful castles in Japan, which is, in fact, NOT located on a tiny island, but in Kansai and has an extremely rich, fascinating history, none of which is reflected in her drivel. Also, unlike Himeji, "Mahoutokoro" is NOT a proper place name. It's a grammatical monstrosity that sounds like a 2 year old stringing together words without knowing how to use particles or sentence structure. For example, the kanji that is read as "tokoro" usually becomes "sho" when read in proper nouns, so if anything it should be "Mahousho"... Except, "Mahousho" sounds like a government office or bureau, not like a castle, let alone a school. Castles usually have the kanji for "castle" in there, which on its own is read "shiro", but in proper nouns (as in "Himeji-jou") becomes "jou". So that would give us "Mahou-jou". Except, that's such a generic term for a magic castle, you'd probably find it in a late 80s or early 90s JRPG as a name for a dungeon. If you want it to be a real, prestigious place you should name it something that reflects its beauty, like Shirazuru-jou, which would mean "White crane castle". ...But that would require Terfling to, y'know, consult someone who actually speaks Japanese, which she, with all her tons upon of tons of cash and widely known twitter presence, CLEARLY didn't have the means to do, so whatever...
It makes me embarrassed for her. Like COME ON just use your hoards of money to hire a native speaker who can help you come up with an appropriate name. Either she enjoys pissing people off with her ignorance or she genuinely thinks she's a multilingual genius without even trying.
Hey! Shoutout to you for making and interesting read for someone who knows nothing about Japanese but likes etymology and linguistics (me) I like language breakdowns like these :)
"Terfling" omg haha This was unbelievably interesting and educational, thank you so much for sharing this. It is invaluable information for a writer who may want to feature Japanese themes/places and so on with respect.
It definitely feels like she just jammed something into Google Translate and called it a day, which honestly... I don't even know what she input there. Maybe "magic place"? Why did she go with "tokoro" instead of "bashou"? It's so many questions brought up by a single person's racism
I love how even in the 7th book Rowling breaks her own world building multiple times. Like how there are apparently all wizard villages (Mould on the wood) and yet Purebloods and pro Wizard supremacist half bloods don't just live in those... Or how it's basically confirmed Harry isn't some hard luck student; hes a dumb jock who we've all seen sleeping class. When Hermione discussed Gamps law I was like "Wait....this has to be like second year info. How...HOW is Harry just learning this now?"
This reminds me of something that is really weird about Hogwarts, it seems like they don't actually learn any of the theory behind the magic itself, so they literally just learn the spells but not why or how they work which probably explains why only the autodidacts seem to understand the underlying logic of the magic enough to be creative with it. Like Voldemort from what we see doesn't actually use magic in a particularly special or intelligent way, he just knows more and has a higher level of natural talent compared to everyone else; he didn't invent the idea of Horcruxes, he just decided to make a half a dozen of them instead of just one which might just mean he is more reckless with his soul than other dark wizards. To our knowledge only Snape regularly invented his own spells or improved how things were being done generally, like seriously if Snape had a personality adjustment he would have been the best teacher in Hogwarts because he has a true passion for his craft and truly understands magic itself but he's a complete bully so no one respects him enough to pay much attention.
@@dracorim6370 Or another thought occured to me: how is a lack of housing even a thing considering you can apparently fit entire six bedrooms homes into tents and suitcases? Also while I disagree they should fully integrate with muggles if they don't want to, you would think in practice this would be 'choose your own way' type thing, with governments simply ignoring previous international precedent; like how in various countries theres a relaxation of drug laws even though the international treaty on narcotics is in force
Thank God people are finally realising this. I've seen too many people mistake Harry for a typical nerd stereotype. Why? Cause he wears glasses? Cause he gets bullied? Just because he's bullied by an even dumber jock (Dudley/Malfoy) does not make him a nerd. Not to mention, their bullying ends up being pretty inconsequential to Harry. Compare Harry to the typical "shy nerd" and "dumb jock" trope and anyone can see that he has far more in-common with the jock than the nerd. He gets to school and displays natural talent at the school's (and the world's) primary sport. His talent gets noticed by the teacher which immediately grants him a spot in the school team, playing the most important position. He doesn't put much stock in academics, getting only average marks in all the subjects. The only subject he's exceptional at ends up being the one which is directly related to combat. So, we have a guy who does not care much for studies, is popular, basically plays the most important position in his world's version of football, and is really really good at self-defence. How is that not a jock?
@@dracorim6370 not a single time is the emotional component of spells ever discussed in relation to wand casting Except by Bellatrix. The only person who directly addresses how magic even works is the insane Voldemort stan
About Hermione's parents, imagine if they were talking to someone and they asked about Hermione. And then they spoke to someone else who also asked them about Hermione. And then they spoke to another person, who also referenced Hermione in conversation. They'd go to work and multiple patients would ask them "How is your daughter?". That would be mad material for a horror story.
Also, imagine the impact magic could have on the movie industry. It would save so much time and money on special effects and maybe even filming and editing. WE WOULD HAVE SO MANY MORE MOVIES!
@@katc.3400 But at the same time it would sort of ruin the magic, no pun intended. Part of the fun of big spectacle scenes in movies is the "How the hell did they do that?" feeling: if the answer to that question is always just "Literal magic" that question and that feeling goes away for good.
@@tjenadonn6158 But how is, "It's just CGI" any better? I can see your point for practical effects, though honestly I'm usually more engaged in analyzing the story.
During the Child Endangerment section, I realized the only parent to react at their child's injury was Lucious Malfoy. Granted, he is evil, but the book presents his general evilness as the reason why he reacts, when his son was actually injured during a class in the presence of a teacher. Sure, he didn't need to go after Buckbeak's life etc, but he wasn't wrong to feel that Hagrid was not a competent teacher and that Dumbledore should prevent injuries in his school. Every time Hermione doubts even for a second Hagrid's competence as a teacher, Harry and Ron lash out and make her feel bad. And even Harry secretly doesn't like the classes, but apparently being friends with a good-hearted person is enough to justify incompetent teaching and endangering students. Amos Diggory actually lost his son, and he merely grieved. No effort into finding out how the organisers could have protected Cedric. I guess this is the triwizard tournament for you, you must accept death as an option. And talking about Child Abuse, it is sick how a teacher was allowed to turn Malfoy into a ferret and smash him up and down on the floor, and we are expected to laugh when Malfoy dares to mention he'd tell his father that he was treated that way.
To my understanding, Draco's inhumane treatment was part of fulfilling every bullied kid's overblown revenge fantasies, but having that be done by a teacher, someone with power over him, instead of his peers really doesn't reflect well on the world they live in.
the triwizard tournament is so hilarious to me because of how dangerous it is. like, they specify in the book that it was banned for centuries because so many children kept being slaughtered, and then one day they just decide "ah fuck it let's bring back the tournament". like, how does that even work? i could understand bringing it back if it was an anniversary type thing but with a whole bunch of safety regulations, which would actually make the finale and cedric's death hit harder since the new safety measures should have been able to prevent it. but there dont seem to be any kind of safety measures or regulations at all; i'm honestly amazed that everyone is shocked the cedric gets killed, it would have been more surprising if nobody had died. the first task is literally fighting a fucking dragon! did everybody else in that book just sleep through the part where multiple people nearly drowned in the lake?? or the giant murderous sphinx in the maze??? how the fuck is the triwizard tournament legal????????
it was made very clear that turning him into a ferret was against rules mcgonnagall stopped it, and malfoy knowingly provoked the hippogriff attack and wanted to get hagrid fired from the start. are these details not in the 10h video? guess I won't watch it
03:47:20 - Let's not forget that Hermione, and any girl, can enter the boys' dormitory at any time, but if the boys try and go up to the girls' dormitory, the stairs turn into a slide and kick them out, a feature apparently built into Hogwarts by the founders
@@nont18411 Ah, double standards, gotta love 'em. Like how we should have sympathy for Voldemort's mother Merope for drugging and raping Tom Riddle Sr for years because she was conventionally unattractive and grew up in an abusive household. Which makes it at least understandable, buuuuuuut... cool motivation, still rape.
Rowling is a gender essentialist and a terf..so this is in line with her worldview that men and boys are primarily predators and women and girls need protection from them..also why she doesn't address the use of love potions by women on men with the seriousness it merits
harry potter au where harry is disgusted with the wizarding world and refuses to continue being enrolled in hogwarts, then defeats voldemort on his own through dedication to studying magic, overthrows the ministry, and ushers in a new age for wizards and all magical creatures
But we can't have that in our J.K Rowling world, do we? Where Change is bad. But sure, it could work as an AU. Maybe it starts after the first movie/book
@@megalowatee570That’s the thing with the main conflict in Harry Potter, isn’t it? Everything was all hunky dory before Voldemort showed up. The solution to beating Voldemort isn’t to reevaluate how the Wizarding society nurtured a person like him to happen, it’s to get back to the status quo before Voldemort existed.
The Whomping Willow is actually way worse than that: it was intentionally planted, not by a student, but on the orders of Headmaster Dumbledore himself to guard the entrance of the passage to the Shrieking Shack. Both the Willow and the Shack were put in place the year Remus Lupin attended Hogwarts so he could have a place to transform where other students couldn't follow. The headmaster had a tree planted that was explicitly intended to endanger anyone who got close to it without permission--knowing most of these "anyones" would be his own students--and then didn't even bother to remove that tree after its initial purpose was completed.
Bloody hell I forgot all about that! Geez, add that to the list of "fucked up things Dumblodere did" like, why not just lock the door with a spell Remus or more likely someone like say Sirus and James would know, and leave it at that.
God what an idea - let’s have a giant tree that can horrifically bludgeon someone to keep them away from the monster who could horrifically maul them A+ 10/10 💯👌🏻
As an English teacher, I think it’s fascinating and depressing that they don’t get a comprehensive education in English. It makes sense in the context of the world. Why do these people fall for the propaganda of the Daily Prophet so easily? Because they’ve not learnt the intricacies of how people can carefully select language to influence their thoughts and feelings. Also, Rowling treats history as a subject like it’s just about learning facts. In the real world, it’s not. It’s about learning how and why things happen. It’s about learning cause and effect. It’s about understanding how different historians can have different interpretations of the cause, effect and significance of historical events. Of course they fall for propaganda! They never get taught how to analyse language and they never get exposed to the idea that there’s more than one perspective to a story.
Unfortunately, in a lot of places history IS treated like just the memorization of facts and dates. So most history students just don’t learn anything because they don’t think it’s important- and who can blame them if it was treated that way.
I agree with you but I'd like to point out that everyone has fallen for propaganda at one point and most US citizens continue to fall for propaganda in some way shape or form
@@coinjar4962 Yeah, but have you seen the way they engage with other people and type? Most of them are no better than the wizards in terms of reading comprehension, general literacy, or critical thinking. A sad state of affairs, lol.
Back when I first read the books, I naively thought Harry was going to return the sword of gryffindor to the goblins after they'd completed their mission. I thought he'd say something like, "The sword is yours, but please let us use it to stop the bad guys." But hey, I also thought the statue with all the magical species looking up adoringly at wizards was hinting that things needed to change and would change by the end as everyone got together to stop the baddies. Silly me!
Considered in that light Joey's politics, outdated as they are today, might've been considered outdated even back when the British Empire downgraded itself to the Commonwealth of Nations and stopped throwing a militaristic hissy fit every time one of its former colonies decided to declare independence from the crown.
@@StriderCompanions it's more accurate to say the maker lent it, but that cultural divide is the source of contention in the universe. The last book makes very clear that goblins consider ownership differently from us. Under their culture, If a goblin is commissioned to forge a magical sword for Godric Gryffindor, the sword belongs to Godric until the time of his death at which point ownership reverts to the one who made it or their family - not to Godric's family or named recipient in his will as is the custom for wizards.
Nah see the thing is that everyone gets to own it. The goblins believe the owner of an object is whoever creates it, and wizards believe possession determines ownership. So there's no need to return it.
I honestly think that the last few books were so overloaded with useless hyperbole that I genuinely forgot that that was a theme until I reread the books when I was older. I was 11 when I read the Deathly Hallows, so I wasn’t really old enough (or educated enough yet) to understand the themes she was alluding to so I think that’s why I didn’t really notice them and how there was no payoff until I reread the entire series after college and my nostalgia had started to wear off a bit.
On Harry Potters domestic abuse: My theory is that Dumbledore left Harry with the dursleys to groom him into someone who doesn’t value his own life. Same with the different “trials” he went through all his school years. All to groom him for that final sacrifice.
That’s kinda like the twist in Chainsaw Man but shit. Makima set Denji up with a good life so she could systematically break him in order to get what she wants. That’s kinda the same thing Dumbledore does, but we’re supposed to like Dumbledore.
I can't stop thinking about the wizard from the chocolate frog cards who was too scared to leave his house. Like... that's just a regular human mental illness and the wizards thought it was so cRaZy they made a whole trading card about it. I'm agoraphobic too so it's nice to know that if i was living in the Harry Potter World I'd be seen as a freak and have my mental illness immortalised in a trading card game for children. God this franchise is so hilariously bad it's beyond parody
@Halloween All Year Round I think that was the point... to show that wizards aren't perfect. There's literally a fountain portraying all other magical races looking up to wizards in admiration. The point is that wizards are incredibly racist, even in the series. The wizard in question that was afraid to leave his house was in the past, before people had any sort of sensitivity to those sort of things. He was likely the first recorded case of agoraphobia in the wizarding world. I imagine that modern wizards in universe would have ways of dealing with it without calling said agoraphobic person crazy. I loathe Joanne and her views, but you can't say the entire series is bad. Cursed child isn't canon and never will be in my mind, and neither are the stuff said on Pottermore. Those both are just her bigotry unrestrained, but the books have heart and don't delve into those topics.
@@DINO_X65 The problem with the Ministry of Magic being racist as fuck (and the story *explicitly saying* through Dumbledore that the fountain represented that racism) is that the story goes on to do literally nothing about it. Nothing gets any better for the other races, the Goblins and Centaurs are still oppressed and Wizards still keep *actual slaves,* and the last sentence of the story is still “All was well.”
@@BaphometGaming69 I never said the series was perfect, and I understand some of the complaints, but I think that this is an exaggeration. First of all, it's heavily implied that once the trio get jobs in the ministry, they actively progress creature rights and the wizarding world's attitude to non-human sapient creatures. To say that they didn't make any progress at all is disingenuous. Could the author have handled it a lot better? Definitely yes. But does it ever imply that the wizarding world didn't get over a lot of its prejudice? While it's unrealistic that wizards suddenly treat house elves, goblins, and centaurs equally, I presume the attitudes toward them are much, much better than before. Remember, Harry doesn't just become a beat cop, but he becomes he head of the cop department of law enforcement and reforms the entire department. Hermione becomes Harry's boss, so he won't be hindered in his fight for reform. I'm not defending the author at all, and I won't be buying HP merch or buying the video game that's coming out, but we have to stop exaggerating or making up points, otherwise, the transphobes and racists that do support he author and her series can just dismiss our points.
The funniest part of all your critiques of the magical world, like the chapter on wizarding careers for example, is that I kept thinking of things that would disprove what you were saying, only to realize that they all came from fanfiction. It's insane to me just how much of the worldbuilding that comes to my mind when I think of Harry Potter isn't actually tied to the original works at all, and instead comes from the fandom.
God I never thought about wands. "Each phoenix gives only a single tail feather" okay, this dude is selling minimum 40-50 wands a year -- let's assume Harry's Hogwarts class had about 40 students (5 boys sorted into Gryffindor so we're assuming roughly equal distribution to gender and houses). Harry's Hogwarts class is the equivalent of the school class that was born in 1942-3. A massive war was ongoing and ended a little more than a year after the birth of the youngest theoretical student in Harry's year. We can probably assume there was at least a bit of a baby boom after that like there was after WW2, so we should probably assume the incoming first year class when Harry was in fourth or fifth year, and the few after that, were much bigger. This doesn't account for how many adults need new wands (probably not that many, but a few). This man could pretty comfortably be selling up to 200 wands a year, and while we know there's a lot of things that can make up a wand core, official sources I'm aware of only ever list three materials that Ollivander uses. How many fucking phoenixes are there in England??? How many dragons are dying every year to have heart strings (which I assume is a fiber of heart muscle) harvested??? Unicorn hairs are presumably slightly easier to come by if someone has access to some and they can be acquired without harming the unicorn, they definitely seem intelligent enough to enjoy some tail and mane brushing from someone they trust, but unless the dude makes like one phoenix wand and one dragon wand a year this is kind of insane. The math ain't fucking mathing.
@@ultimatejigglypuff5675 only if we assume that rebirths count as new bird, which would be a dumb way to word it then. A better way to word it, if that's the case, would be "a Phoenix only gives out one tail feather per cycle/rebirth" Except Fawks gave out only two, and we know he's died at least twice during the series, both after the feathers.
I can see dragon heartstrings being dried or something, so they probably don’t need to have been collected recently, but yeah it does carry a lot of weird implications if you make the Magic Wand With A Rare Magical Item At Its Core into something that thousands of people need in order to participate in their community
What if it's a ball of something that dragons cough up like a hairball? Or a decretion from a gland on their chest, that turns stringy as it dries? I don't think it needs to be anatomically the same as the heartstring in mammals. After all, it feels odd that two are willingly given and the third one is obtained by mutilating a corpse.
I was thinking about what you said about Hermione removing her parents memory, and like, her moms body would still have signs of childbirth? If she went to a doctor they would see the pelvic scaring or C-section scar? What happens when that’s pointed out to them but they have no memory of ever having a child? How horrifying the idea is to be told your body signals that you carried and delivered a baby but having no memory of this.
And how Hermione herself, the “brightest witch of her age” and supposedly the emotional supporter of Harry and Ron, either doesn’t realise this, or glosses over it when telling her friends and somehow NOBODY realises how this is going to permanently traumatise Hermione and her parents. She was so casual about it in the books and only cried about it ONCE. According to Harry, she cried more about Ron leaving them, which is genuinely the stupidest thing I have ever heard. How did JKR make Hermione more cut up over Ron leaving than ERASING HER PARENTS MEMORIES AND SENDING THEM TO AUSTRALIA????
not to mention that this only works on those 2 people, they're are assumabley other family members, hospital records, and close friends and coworkers, hermiones parents don't strike me as never mentioning how proud they are of their child, so they are likely going to go to prison for the disapearance/De@#h of their child.
Calling an intelligent (sapient) race "territorial" is really fucked up. Imagine calling Native Americans "territorial" for wanting their ancestral lands.
I know your intentions are good here but there is no such thing as "intelligent" and "unintelligent". All lifeforms are intelligent because life IS intelligence, and each organism is adapted to their niche. Intelligence is a spectrum, not a scale, but I do understand you meant sapient/sophont. Anyways, Rowling's rhetoric and writing are a direct product of racism which is a direct product of anthropocentrism and neurocentrism. They're intricately linked, because if you have a misunderstanding of how non-human lifeforms function cognitively OR have a prejudice and hatred to anyone who is not human, you are going to devolve into human supremacy, ableism and racism. This is why comparing people of colour and other marginalised human groups to non-human organisms is unethical, as it's always done from a derogatory perspective and a place of supremacy and lack of understanding (e.g. calling African-Americans "animals" or disabled people "plants"; even though we all are animals, it is said with prejudice and hostility), while it's crucial to compare non-human organisms to marginalised groups because they too are marginalised and are seen as unintelligent and non-sentient when the reality of the situation is that all life is sentient and intelligent, but mankind wants to shove them into an "inferior" group just to be able to exploit them. No form of marginalisation exists in a vacuum which is why none of them can be allowed to exist. If you turn a blind eye to anthropocentrism and neurocentrism, you're turning a blind eye to the root of all bigotry. And Rowling, since she comes from a place of actively avoiding facts and learning about history and ethics, she is a prime example of how her conservative and narrow-minded views manage to hurt absolutely every individual in existence (yes, even the most privileged humans out there as ableism and fatphobia affect literally everyone). AND before anyone in here realises "oh shit wait, I'm kinda thinking like this" and really wants to go "BUT-", don't. This isn't directed at anyone apart from Rowling and conservatives, especially not anyone in here or the OP. This is directed at the flaws of the rhetoric and those who have been presented with information but refuse to change it (such as Rowling), and this is nothing more than objective information. It's meant to give an insight on the complexities of the unethical aspects of human culture that have been so normalised that very few give it a second thought. My task here is to make you think and have discussions, that's what ethics are all about
@@godslaughter I don't have time to read all that right now, but yeah I'm usually good about saying sapient rather than sentient or intelligent or whatever. Also I certainly agree the line between the two is blurry and perhaps less meaningful than we'd (collectively) like to think. We humans are just another animal after all.
I always thought that Nastily Exhausting Wizard Test was just funny slang that the characters came up with, like how in my school we renamed EQAO to Evil Questions Attacking Ontario. Learning that that's the official government-sanctioned name for the exams you take in 7th year is both baffling that she wouldn't come up with something that actually makes sense and yet not at the same time because I 100% believe Rowling came up with the acronym and thought it was funny and didn't bother to think of the in-universe lore implications of that stupid ass name.
I feel like a good alternative could be Northern European Wizarding Test or something like that, which would just be colloquially referred to by the canon name. But frankly, it’s not really whimsical enough.
Even having a grade being "Exceeds Expectations" is just cruel. Like damn you had so little hope for the kid you were surprised when they were above Acceptable
@@emhoj97 honestly, exceeds expectations, if anything, should be above "outstanding" because at least then it would kinda imply that the work done was so far above average its noteworthy, sorta like an A+ instead of just an A, or 100/100 or smthn.
As someone whose childhood was Harry Potter, I love this. Especially good for listening to while I'm working on homework. And YES, about the love potion section. I'm a girl, and I was disturbed by how lighthearted love potions were treated despite being basically a date rape drug. Like, just look at Voldemort's parents as the worst example of what someone could do with that. Imagine how terrifying it'd be if the last thing you remembered was being offered a drink and then waking up several months later in a place you have no idea how you got there, living with someone you don't even know claiming they're your partner who has a child with you.
I think people under love potions actually _do_ remember what happened, but since they were not in the right frame of mind they'd make choices they never would have otherwise and can't do anything about it. So imagine that moment of clarity when you're no longer drugged with the potion and you're suddenly yourself again, but you remember _everything_ and have to live with that for the rest of your life.
I think that they showed those effects of what happens after the love potion (or spell) wears off in one of the fantastic beasts movies. True they are no strangers, but abuse happens in the real world mostly by people you know not by strangers. And it truly wasn’t okay in that scene, that she did that.
@@drygonfyre I've read fiction where that scenario is literally part of a character's traumatic backstory and they were only saved by a rival and possible true love who went to find out what happened to them. And this story was aimed at ages 13 and up.
and it causes eomething that in the wizarding world is considered a birth defect, the inability to feel love, which we know love potions cause this because that was the explanation for voldemort's greatest weakness being love
1:49:24 I remember sitting in the cinema and being completely shocked as to why Dumbledore was supposed to be the most pure-hearted wizard there. Dumbledore. WHEN NEWT SCAMANDER WAS RIGHT THERE. Edit: Okay guys, I see your point. It should have been Jacob.
Devil's advocate: does hypocrisy count against ones heart purity? Hypocrisy is basically the notion that you practice the opposite of what you claim to believe. Say Dumbledore is transparent about his moral greyness in general; meanwhile Newt Scamander dedicates his life to the care of magical creatures, but he stepped on a bug once. I can imagine a J. K. Rowling creature being that pedantic
I liked the idea the pitch meeting video had where the deer should have kneeled in front of Jacob bc it would make sense with his character and also prove that grindelwald's prejudice is bullshit. But ig JK hates muggles and stans dumbledore way too much for that to happen
- Got his sister killed thanks to his lust in power - Let Harry got abused by the Dursley for years - Groomed Harry to make him a sacrificial lamb in his master plan to defeat Voldemort Truly a pure of heart person
@@athensmorningstar7809 To go a step deeper and maybe take this a bit too literally... yeah. Because while they're using another living being to do shit for them, they enslaved them with magic with they see as reinforcing their power and wizard supremacist agenda. While the washing machine needs exactly zero magic and was invented by a race (?) they have little respect for, so that it can do so much without magic is a threat to their power.
I think one of the few muggles who get the worst treatment for absolutely nothing is the Granger’s. Their daughter treats them abysmally and they progressively lose any authority or respect their daughter might have for them as the story progresses, culminating in her taking away not only their consent in moving forward but their entire identities as well. Like imagine how betrayed they must have felt coming out of it all, the ultimate gaslight that Hermione can just shove the “I did it for you” and “you don’t understand”. When during her entire Hogwarts schooling they’ve been nothing but supportive and understanding despite having many MANY reasons to pull her out and send her somewhere safe. They lose her for nearly the entire year to wizard shenanigans, with a mixture of school and letting her have holidays wherever or hanging out on the wizard world with her wizard friends. Then she joins a world where a telephone isn’t a thing, from her adulthood onwards they basically have no two way communication that doesn’t rely on Hermione. And all of this could have been easier to swallow with more appearances of them. Maybe have a comedic moment where the two drop Hermione off at the Burrow and are accosted by Mr. Weasley before enjoying and potentially bonding with Molly over recipes (sugar free of course with how pro tooth health they are). But all of that requires Joanne to admit Muggles could be interesting in any way at all beyond “victim” or Dursley-ied.
You know what has always bugged me. They could easily use owls to track people. Hedwig can always find Sirius, even when Harry doesn’t know where he is. Just write letter to tom riddle. Boom done.
That is a great point. The only issue I can see is that owls can be killed, so if Riddle keeps his eyes on the skies, the owl tracking just ends up sending him his roast owl dinner every night
As a Canadian woman, I was introduced to the idea of household fairies early - the mid-level Canadian girl scouts are the Brownies, and they lean hard into being fae folk who help with household chores. That may have helped me swallow the idea of House Elves as a child without any critical thought. Now, as an adult, I see it as a huge missed opportunity. There are literal creatures in Scottish folklore who do housework and only require small offerings of gratitude, occasionally play pranks and will ditch you if you offend them, how is that not way more compelling? Combine that with the proposed theory that they've been cursed because they're too powerful/useful.. ugh!! There's so many better things to do with magic and folklore than insist they want to be slaves.
Irish fae are so much more hardcore xD ask any irish person if they believe in them and they'll say no, ask them to hurt a hawthorne tree and they will not
One of my favourite takes on Brownies is in the webseries PALE. The universe leans very hard into its version of karma, including things like swearing oaths and sacred hospitality. Brownies exploit those laws by intentionally swearing to serve a person or people so long as their work is never appreciated (often without telling those people). This means their masters build up a karmic debt to the brownies, which they’re then free to exploit if and when someone slips up.
There are creatures like that in Norwegian folklore as well, they help on the farm, taking care of cattle and so on, but you have to be respectful (even if you can't see them! only a lucky few catch a glimpse), leave good food (rømmegrøt) out for them and so on, or they'll cause trouble and then leave
We have brownies in the uk and I had no idea they were based on fae folk! As the church is very connected to the uk scouts, I’m sure that they got rid of that side of it!
Regarding Durmstrang, can I just say that as an Eastern European, it's always delightful to be thought of and described by a British woman as backwards, evil and cartoonishly prejudiced. Good one, Joanne!
It would have been more historically accurate if the East European magicians did all the real fighting and dying against Voldemort & Death Eaters, but the American and English wizards swoop in to take all the credit.
@@christal2641 Who knows what canon JoKo wakes up with today about the exact placement of the school. The actual region that it supposedly covers is mostly Eastern-Central Europe though, and the named characters also reflect that.
DUDE I JUST REMEMBERED THAT IN THE LEGO HAREY POTTER GAMES I PLAYED AS A CHILD, YOU ARE REQUIRED AT POINTS TO TRANS YOUR GENDER AND IN HINDSIGHT THAT WAS AN AWAKENING FOR ME IRONICALLY
Dumbledore being the epitome of "goodness" when he was literally flirting with wizard fascism as a young man while teenage girls can't ever be forgiven for not conforming to JKR's "not like other girls" fauxminism tells you everything you need to know about that woman's moral compass.
I completely agree, Dumbledore is not that wise and good person they want us to believe, but is that really a bad thing? Isn't the point of a good character to have flaws. Dumbledore has a bad past, which he overcame, and he grew as a person.
With the Half-House-Elf women, my very first thought was: Some dude raped his House-Elf. The fact that this canonically happened ... it haunts me. It keeps me up at night.
Yeah, that shit is incredibly fucked up. And all JKR had to do to not have this "oh ew that'd be rape" thing people now think of was... just not have any half-elves. Without that woman, we wouldn't even really have to consider this option but now? I cannot not thing about that shit. Yikes
When are talking about a sociality where rape drugs are legal in sale for everyone including minors. and Merode gount (Voldemort's mother) raped a dud multiple times using this rape drug and after she got pregnant, she stopped with the potion thinking after all this time he falled for real in love with her. It didn't happen, he left (reasonable) and harry and Dumbledore are like "she left this poor pregnant woman and his child, what a monster" I don't know what to think about joan know.
@@nicolpineda8632 And then she did the whole “Voldemort is evil because he wasn’t born of love™️, not because of general bigotry or failings of society, etc etc. I wonder what she thinks about children born of bad situations like assault or incest :/
@@RenaissanceRockerBoy tom was born as a regular psychopath. No empathy for other. But still a human bean with emotions. He Just needed care and direction but such things doesn't exist in the magic world.
They also had Firenze for some time, his classes seemed to be actually trying to teach about anything other than the wizard perspective, something the magic world clearly needs.
this is hilarious bc like lmao this has no basis in canon. never was "is hogwarts prejudiced?" even implied in the books. how ppl come to these conclusions is insane and it kinda seems to me that a lot of ppl in this comment section havent read the books in way too long
@@parasitehouse4504 the title of "read too much into a comedic relief side character in a childrens book" goes to u bro, like tf do u actually think binns cares about money? hes dead man
And it could be a building block of handling squibs better too, like they're still able to be around magic without the inherent harm, so they're important as representatives and diplomats between the two worlds
The funniest rewrite of the series I've ever found, on the topic of Dumbledore's child endangerment problems and leaving Harry to the Dursley's, is one where the characters openly start to speculate that Dumbledore intentionally puts Harry in these traumatizing and dangerous situations because he wants Harry to feel desperately in need of a mentor/parent-figure, making him easier to manipulate. It was a hot take and made for a darker tone for the story, which I loved. Dumbledore Bashing for the win!
@@mackereltabbie there was this whole blood magic thing with how petunia was related to Lily so it worked only if Harry lived with her and it expired when he turned 17 :-)) that was probably one of the reasons Harry lived with them
@@billytrash3481 except it doesn't make sense. The protection is supposedly based on love (Lily was apparently the only magical parent ever to love their only child enough to die for them?) so how is it strengthened by living in a house where he gets no love whatsoever? That's just dumb. Plus he's even sent back there after 4th year, when Voldemort has broken the protection, so that clearly wasn't the reason then
Ok but what about the vanishing spell? The implications of that are terrifying. It works on living things. Could it work on a person? It worked on kittens. Also THEY USED KITTENS AS SUBJECTS FOR TRANSFIGURATION. I love McGonagall as a character, but holy shit the way she treats animals is just unnerving
I read a very hilarious use of that by a child in a trans character fanfic. The character, an 11 year old trans girl, goes to the Care of Magical Creatures teacher and tells him that her dad needs her to figure out a way to neuter a magical animal. He buys the lame explanation for the question, and tells the child to try simply vanishing the creature's bollocks. She promptly goes to her room and does just that. She later gets in a *lot* of trouble with the school healer for doing it.
@@Charles.II_of_England It's called Malfoy's Daughter on AO3, it was actually Hagrid the kid went to, not a teacher, and warning for both transphobia and some very OOC adults - but it's decent, and very fluffy.
On the topic of schools, Uagadu is very clearly named after the capital of Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou. It’s like naming a school in Scandinavia Copenghag 🙃
honestly the non-hogwarts magic schools make so much sense considering how small the uk is and its kinda reasonable (ish) most people could go to one school but like... one school for all of africa???
I think it might actually be named after the Ghana Empire, which was also known as Wagadou? Still doesn’t make it any better, kind you, considering the school is apparently located in Uganda (notably not anywhere near where Wagadou used to be).
I've always been bugged by what Rowling wrote about the Russian wizarding school. First of all, there is noticeably less info about it than about the other schools (and that is saying a lot, because she hasn't written much about other wizarding schools either). We basically know only two things about it: 1) It's called Koldovstoretz (which does not really make sense as a name) and 2) Russian wizards play a game similar to Quidditch, but instead of using brooms, they fly on tree trunks that they've ripped out of the earth. Like, what the fuck??? Does she really think that Russians are so coarse and stupid, that they can't use brooms? What's the point of uprooting entire trees for a game of Quidditch? It is so pointless, considering that there is a magical flying object that is unique to Russian folklore - a mortar (famously used by Baba Yaga). She could have easily written that Russian wizards use mortars to fly, HAD SHE DONE AN OUNCE OF RESEARCH (it's not some deep, secret lore or anything, btw). But instead she pulls some bullshit like that. How typical.
@@lightdarksoul2097 At least gramatically, yes. Koldovstoretz 1) is misspelled (there's a v missing, it should be KoldovstVoretz), 2) just doesn't reflect how institutions are named in Russia. I can see the name "Hogwarts" functioning as a name for an English school (regardless of it's meaning), but not Koldovstoretz. That's just not how naming works in Russia. We rarely use single nouns as names for specific places (adjective-noun combinations are way more common here, for example, Smolny Institute) If were are to assume that this specific school was founded, let's say, pre-Ivan the Terrible, it would be logical to have a hyphenated name as it reflects certain folkloric naming conventions (меч-кладенец, чудо-юдо, гуси-лебеди). Those are my main gripes with the name "Koldovstoretz". It's kind of a cool combination of meanings (albeit a misspelled one) but it's a stylistic mess. "Hogwarts" as a name just seems more natural to me, I can see it existing, despite of what it means (idk why they decided to name it that, though)
There's also been a lot of Hufflepuff bashing in the books, like they're the pathetic ones. When they're the house with the most compassion and tolerance. Even the founder Helga Hufflepuff just wanted to teach students, of any kind, magic while the rest of the founders where hand picking personality traits they like. There would have been a lot more wizards on the isles unable to do magic if she hadn't take on 'the rest.'
And thinking about hufflepuffs are the ones being closest to the kitchens and supposedly loving food, so they seem to have the most "reason" to know the elves and talk with them and liking them... I don't know. The implications trouble me...
Getting older and realizing both all the problematic stuff with Harry Potter AND the fact that the author is an open bigot has made me sad and gives me the feeling that I lost something that meant something to me, like a lot of people my age. But as time has gone on, I realized the biggest thing that I ACTUALLY miss has nothing to do with the books, movies, or J.K. Rowling herself. It's the Hufflepuff communities I was in as a kid. You know, the people who sorted themselves into Hufflepuff in real life. They're legitimately the most unrelentingly kind group of people that I've ever met. They give me faith that people CAN be good. Sometimes I feel like everything is terrible and then I remember them, and the fact that they're all still out there somewhere. I've never met such an unapologetically accepting group of people. It makes me sad that J.K. Rowling wrote off that worldview as unimportant.
21:40 Regarding the Forbidden Forest, it would’ve made more sense if it was actually a wildlife sanctuary or something, where endangered magical creatures can live, and they have wizard conservationists or magizoologists or whatever working there. That also ends up making the detention make sense because the students would be sent to do some volunteer work in maintaining habitats and stuff, and during that detention the whole unicorn incident spooks everyone because they would wonder why this is happening in a wildlife sanctuary. All the canon narrative does with the forest is show that more students, realistically speaking, should have died at Hogwarts loooong before Voldy showed up
With every basically brilliant idea like this, HP just seems more and more stupid as a whole story. It would have been so easy to implement this, JK wouldn't have had to work on it any more than just mentioning it and it's done, but no, I'm starting to believe she just wrote everything in 5 minutes and didn't care to look back at her notes
The idea of a school surrounded by a magical nature-conservation zone is also super plausible, because the woods area at the back of my own school was also a habitat for endangered animals. (well, insects.) May I use this idea for a project of my own? It's great!
You could even have aragog and everything still. Just have a section with more dangerous creatures that only Hagrid is allowed to go inside. Maybe even have Hagrid be the actual *only* one allowed in there, not even other teachers, so he can hide grawp there. It just writes itself. And while I'm writing fanfic, I think it would have made sense for it to be harder to offend hippogriffs. Maybe you have to do the whole bowing thing to ride them but otherwise they just leave you alone unless you *actively* disrespect them. That way malfoy comes off more as a kid who was being stupid and suffered the consequences instead of a kid who messed up and nearly died
"What does that mean for the poor creature that just got uncreated or created?" You know, Lunacid has a spell called Lithomancy. "A forbidden blood magic that gives life to the inanimate. Unable to comprehend existence, the objects only scream." That's sorta what I imagine would happen. Which is pretty horrific!
That situation with Irma Dugard is… more evil than I thought JK could get in her writing, I’ll be honest. Her being the offspring of a (clearly non-consenting) female house elf and a male master - and still being forced into servitude herself despite her half human ancestry - is about as direct a metaphor for mixed-race descendants of American chattel slavery as one can get. And yet we’re somehow not supposed to see house elf slavery as a horrifying, broken system. I didn’t expect a lot from JK and I was still let down.
Where does Rowling say that the world she is describing is supposed to be a good one? I mean, we have fascist blackmages (but they exist irl too), war (same), kids being mistreated in school (been a few years but i haven't heard about any changes since), hidden elite power structures behind the parliament (that's how politics often work), a society that has more than they need but still doesn't subsidize students from weaker families. My point being: Harry Potter is not a utopia. Authors aren't meant to write only stories that make you feel good.
What. The. Hell. SHE WROTE THAT? AND STILL EXPECTED US TO BE LIKE “Oh yeah, the slave labor is totally normal and they want it actually!” IS THIS WOMAN STRAIGHT UP DUMB??? I HATE THIS FREAKING BOOK SERIES.
@@TheBonkleFox understandably so! Have you ever criticised the works of male authors like this? It's an artist's privilege not to have to explain or discuss their work. If you came up to me, telling me that I'm a bad person because in a song i around the same as she wrote Harry Potter, i sing about suicide, addiction and terrorism without explicitly mentioning that those are problematic - i would tell you to go away. I wouldn't even debate MY WORK with you. If you don't like it, make your own version that's better in the ways you believe mine sucks and then we'll see which one survives. And about interpreting my own works: If I explain something, then it is to explain something i wanted to be clearer than it eventually became. But if i wrote ambigously and you're coming to me with two interpretations, asking which is true, I'll tell you a third and end with "but yours are just as good". I also take greatest offense from the question alone. I write from my heart and soul and I'm being cryptic a lot because much just isn't meant to be widely understood. Putting pressure on me to reveal my secrets will only get me to make up a new story based on what you want to hear and that's only assuming you have the power to make me respond at all. Just imagine starting to spread hate towards Steven king because of all the nasty elements in his stories, saying that everything any of his characters do is an expressed opinion and pressure him to rewrite his books and remove all the toxic stuff. Like, imagine you would actually do that and you're on your way to visit him and tell him face to face that he needs to change the books. Now imagine you bring along so many people that he does and all novels by Stephen King are from then on free of monsters, violence, trauma, rudeness, racism, just free of all evil thoughts. Now imagine that it's 5 years after you achieved this and you're looking back on what you've achieved there and ask yourself: "Do i really feel good about this?" And I'm sure, you will have trouble to fully imagine that insane stream of logic i just presented you with because it's entirely unreasonable - yet when it comes to Joanne Rowling who plays in the same league as Steven King, y'all don't even think about whether to approach her this aggressively. And why would she listen? For every letter from a usually white madperson accusing her of discrimination group x, a member of group x writes her how they are thankful for her support Y'all believe that trans people see her as an enemy but actually, that's not exactly true. Those of us involved in the left wing don't dare to speak up because everyone who does speak up is instantly flagged as Nazi and terf. But just because we are silenced towards the public doesn't mean we don't support Rowling, not just as an author but also as an activist at least with fanmail that helps her stay strong for both women and transsexuals. Amongst the trans movement, transsexuald are actually shunned as "transmedical" or "truscum", so Rowling, Schwarzer and the respected Radfems are the only people we trust. They are understandably wary but we're getting better at communicating with each other.
@@476f7474 Yes. Yes I have Criticized male-identifying authors like this before. Ernest Cline, Norman Boutin, and John Boyne all come to mind. Don't try to play the sexism card one me when you're the one supporting someone who literally hangs out with people who want to suppress women's rights.
God I hate the whole "magic schools" thing so much. I already found it strange that students from the Netherlands (my country, so the one I know most about) would go to Beauxbatons, since kids in the Netherlands generally don't speak French, but for there to be one school for an entire continent??? That's just insane. Love how she made the effort to make up at least three European schools and then couldn't be arsed to make up more than one for every other continent. Just say "every country has its own school and I'm going to discuss some of the more well-known ones", and then ask actual people from that country to help you think of something appropriate.
I don't even know where my country (Slavic) would fall under. But the only other language beside English that I know has Mahou tokoro Which is just magical place said v e r y grammatically incorrect
Even in America, there definitely wouldn’t be only one school for the entirely of North America. Maybe one bilingual school for Canada, but US would have at least two, and one perhaps in Mexico or on the border one way or the other.
@@thelanktheist2626 but you know what is worst,.Korea, Japón and China in the same School, I mean that surely make some troubles. And talking about troubles, Ireland share school with England
Going into this I thought I wouldn't be surprised, then I was gobsmacked to hear that adult Hermione and Harry said, "we need segregation because something bad might happen", and then I was struck dumb by the revelation that wizards can use their house elves as sex slaves to the point where a child is conceived, and then was speechless when made aware that the cursed child is basically a D&D campaign with an overbearing DM and a boss fight on top of a train, and then finally I realized that yeah it makes no sense that wizards use capitalism at all. Also was surprised that the whole video feels very concise for ten hours, so overall a very surprising video in general. Looking forward to the giant pokemon retrospective.
The headcannon that house elves were blood cursed to WANT to be slaves makes the whole situation go from “this has some terrible implications and why on earth did the author write it this way” to an in-universe tragedy spanning generations and I will immediately be adopting it, thank you.
On the topic of myrtle: I can absolutely not get over the fact that when investigating her death, apparently NOBODY had the glorious idea to just effing ask her, like...? When Harry asked her how she died she was so enticed and told him that no one ever asked her that question... after a student was murdered, nobody thought "hey let's ask the only person we know was there when it happened about it"? The sheer dumbness of every person in a position of power is truly astonishing. Also regarding hogwarts safety... it's not only the school not doing enough to protect their students, they deliberately send 1st graders into the forbidden forest when knowing there's someone slaughtering unicorns?? And something like the triwizard tournament even existing with children competing is truly dystopian
@@sydssolanumsamsys And the 2 inches is for the Harry Potter fanchise's lack of interest in changing the broken system. I'd say The Hunger Games saying 'this is bad, really f-ed up, actually' is a bigger difference btwn the 2 than HP having magic.
I wonder if Mertyl being killed buy a snake in the girls bathroom then being written off as annoyance was foreshadowing to JK's fear of penises being in women's bathrooms and not caring about her rhetoric causing a spike in harassment to cis lesbians, bi women, butch women and short haired women.
Love how JK Rowling has written 3 Jewish wizards in her time and one them: 1) is told in the 1920s that the holocaust will happen 2) decides to join the guy who says he'll stop the muggles from doing the holocaust 3) is portrayed as a villain for this and they never acknowledge it
Oh, wow, I never considered that aspect of Queeny's choice. Then again until this video I didn't know she was Jewish, but that just adds to the WTF part. Oh, another reason she chose to join was because the real villain, the statue of secrecy, was making her love a death sentence. Also can we talk about how Grindelwald didn't really want to change muggle/wizard relations, but rather just stop pretending Wizards aren't on top?
Rowling feels like she started writing a children's series, where weird inconsistencies and random whimsy is easily overlooked, got massively popular, and realised that with a steadily-aging fanbase she kind of had to write more mature books... except all those inconsistencies and whimsy was still there, and she didn't know how to make them make sense, and also she's a frankly mid writer who's enamoured with the status quo, so we ended up with a bloated franchise held together with hope and sticky tape.
You're absolutely right, and I've had the same notion for a long time. When you read the first two, maaaaybe three books, it's just a whimsical fairy tale where things don't have to work realistically. Like Cinderella doesn't have psychological issues because of her abusive stepmother and sisters, so doesn't Harry, and it's kind of OK. But then you go into the more down-to-earth installments and those things become issues that never get or could get resolved without huge doses of retconning.
Definitly, and that was done badly, to be clear she could have adressed that problems and uist just keep it himsical in a way that is not jarring but makes people not think much about it too much?! Not just leave it, hell use that to show hogwarts became less irreponsile and actually responds some wways that gets even super fiial transitioned and adressed and maybe reform th school in the process?" And society.
People just don’t seem to understand that the problems with the Potter world is JK Rowling herself. All of the problems that are glaringly obvious. All stem from her, and how she doesn’t see it as a problem. She herself is rich, and doesn’t really care about the impoverished. She is white and has never faced racial oppression, and doesn’t really care about those who have/will. And we know this, because it is so evident in all of her books and not truly addressed when this is her world. If she really cared about any systematic issues in our world, or her world, she would change them. She would try to actually have lasting permanent change that would benefit those who are suffering in her world. But instead, she actually has several instances where Herminie tries to make change, and it shot down and told she is wrong for this. It’s literally Rowling herself saying these aren’t issues. And it’s because she doesn’t really care about these exact same issues in our world, she doesn’t see anything wrong with her world and doesn’t change anything. She doesn’t see anything wrong with our world because she is the one who benefits directly from our systematic issues. So she doesn’t see anything wrong with the systems in her world.
I think everybody understands that. Do you imply that there is no point to critique something horrible when it wasn't an honest mistake or one time misjudgement on author's part?
@@ommlo9967 I think WE understand these things because we are watching this video right? But the average fan (of many media) usually doesn’t want to think critically and “think about why the curtains are blue”. This is a bigger conversation on anti-intellectualism. I’ve known fans who gleefully collect Harry Potter merch (coworkers/acquaintances) but wouldn’t “understand my problem” with the stories lol it’s a book I’m just criticizing for horrible world building, not a janky printer.
i don't know about the impoverished part (jk rowling was pregnant and/or a single mother while writing harry potter and she literally came up with some ideas on the back of paper bags) but i do agree with you everywhere else
@@jubileetea Nah m8, those types of rich people are the worst. Ever heard James Khan or Ricky Gervais in interviews? They genuinely don't understand the role luck played in their success. They look at you or me and wonder why we don't start a successful business, become multinational comedians or, indeed, write the most successful childrens book ever. They don't understand that the system is broken because to them they're proof that it isn't. Sure JK understands living in poverty better then most rich people... but her life experiences also indicate that we live under poverty not because we need help, but because... we're not spending our spare time planning the next multimillion dollar franchise. She did it. Why can't we?
@@jubileetea Those in lower class structures can still have shitty concepts because they believe they will do better. Aka look at all the sheer amount of working class who support republicans/conservatives, and beleive in capitalism as a system because they're going to be rich 'eventually' they just have to work hard enough. I don't know JKR's financial and class status for sure before she became famous (it's often hard to tell how much whimsy and elaboration is put behind these starving artist stories, i wouldn't be surprised if she was perfectly middle class even before), but even if she was genuienly on the poverty line, she would have still been capable of not caring about the improverished.
There were Harry Potter nerds all over the world who would probably have been happy to give JKR detailed notes about how wizarding world could have included their local community. But instead JKR had to make it all up herself (after seemingly no research) and absolutely butcher basically everywhere outside of Great Britain.
The best thing abt Harry Potter, is how much better the fans are writing it. I’ve never rly been a ‘Potterhead,’ but I’d be so excited if something happened like Star Wars’ formerly canon ‘extended universe.’
I was thinking the same thing! Especially since I listen to a podcast (campaign Skyjacks) that did just that: hired writers of various cultures to flesh out their world. If an independant production company can do it, so can multi millionaire JKR
@@rotisseriepossum to be fair, it's because the best writers get the most attention whereas the mediocre ones are left in obscurity. And then there's My Immortal. Definitely not one of the best writers, but certainly very notorious.
Exactly. The implications for Central, Eastern and southern Europe are really worrying, considering how Durmstrang is portrayed. My partner said that Durmstrang is basically a Soviet school. I like dark stuff, but not when it villainases my people. Also, the existance of Hungarian Horntail is really weird - did she choose the first past of the name because it alphabetically matched this cool and dangerous design in her head? Hungary is mostly flat, with plains and long gone forests - why would the dragon need those dangerous spikes? I realise this is really nitpicking, but I had to express myself as a local V4 dweller
That thing about South Asia viewing Quidditch with suspicion sounds like it's MAJOR cope over the fact that all these countries beat Britain pretty badly at cricket (which has similar hype to the way Quidditch is in the books)
As an Indian who reread the books after primary school (yeah its been a minute), a lot of how the hype around quidditch was portrayed was fun to me as a child because it reminded me of cricket hype. When I got older, and learned about Colonialism and how its definitely bigger than 'haha british bad london thamukada' (and more like 'holy shit that's *disgusting* how was this just considered cartoon villainy to be brushed off to brits??') it seemed like major copium, yeah. like we get it you're [Britain] a sore loser. now win a match already.
Speaking of JKR's view of Dumbledore, it reminds me of a theory and JKR's reaction to it. The theory went "Fawkes was a Horcrux, created when Dumbledore (maybe) murdered his sister". I personally liked that theory because it ties in to Dumbledore being awful in his youth, but trying to be a better person later. It also brings up interesting implications of "if you make a Horcrux, does that mean you are evil? Can you never do good again? Can you never change your mind and ethics?" Anyway, JKR immediately shot that down and said that it personally hurt her to think people thought Dumbledore could do something like that.
It's an especially interesting level of crazy that she shot that idea down since... it could have been just another accident?!?? Like Harry was the 7th horcrux and not even Voldemort knew?? Why would she think we think Dumbledore is super evil because of this, she WROTE an accident like that as a very important plot element into the main storyline, wtf. It would have indeed been an amazing parallel. But I guess she has to shush every idea that is cleverer than her, since the books are ... not really that, lol
But wasn't a key part of the Secrets of Dumbledore confirming that Dumbledore totally did murder his sister. In addition to ruining his brother's life by shipping his lover off to her death and then killing said brother's now adult son when he was found to be miraculously alive? I didn't see the movie but this did seem to be the most coherent part of the plot.
"don't watch it in one sitting" is lovely advice but i have art to finish and this showed up in my recommended so i will be here for the next 5 hours thank you
I've been wondering something: if there's a hospital named after someone called "Saint Mungo", that means wizards have saints, which opens a whole other can of worms...
Would wizards worship Jesus, Or do they have a wizard Jesus? Are the saints of another religion than the classic Christianity? Is there holy magic? Paladins? Clerics? This is a huge can of worms.
jk's biggest worldbuilding problem in the wizarding world is also the thing that made it so enticing for many kids: it takes place in our real world. For a kids' book this is great cuz then every kid hopes someday they'll get their hogwarts letter. When she ages up the books with her audience and tries to actually worldbuild this becomes a fundamental problem because she has to interface with real world events happening in certain real world years and various real world cultures and she seems incapable of doing so and constantly trips over her own feet. The Owl House, which is very much the product of a former HP fan, easily circumvents this by putting its wizarding world in a separate dimension (and it also purposefully rejects chosen one narratives and shows the protagonists actively working to change the world's status quo)
she should just have stopped after the prisoner of azkaban, let harry move in with Sirius and call it a day. The series declined rapidly after that book.
A lot of the problems might also be rectified if Harry hadn’t been made “oblivious” - the fandom used to make a lot of jokes about it, but it just makes Harry look like he’s not interested in anything. And that isn’t a good look for someone who’s been exposed to a magical world, nor does it make Harry look like a very good friend.
I’m not sure if separating a setting from our world remedies the problematic elements the author builds into it. I’ve engaged in too much media that, though taking place “elsewhere,” have worldbuilding elements that jarringly parallel how things work in our world. It comes back to the creator.
@@BlackXSunlight i'm not talking about problems in a moral sense i'm talking about the literary knots she tied herself into by making a world that begs the question "why didn't the wizards stop hitler" and "why is the wizarding world so centered on britain"
I could so easily imagine how it could end at book 3. Peter gets caught, Voldemort remains powerless without a servant and Harry finally gets a non-abusive parental figure. Win win
I think if we learned more about Hermione’s parents, they would be the MVPs. Both of them are hard-working, dentists and clearly Hermione has had outside education in the Muggle world, and her parents made sure she was well prepared to go to Hogwarts before she started.
@@marink7332 LMAO okay, I wanted to like the original comment but somehow you're totally right But to be fair I guess the Grangers in this universe are _so_ normal compared to anyone else (as a parenting couple) that they really would stand out as heroes :'D (If anyone asks, yes, I do think even the Weasleys are not really good parents if you just reaaally think about all the things we know about them. And other than them, well, truly everyone else's family is fucked up in one way or another. JKR so successfully made every grown up character she had either abusive, negligent, aloof, or emotionally unavailable, or dead, that it's GOOD we don't know anything about the Grangers, it's a wonder that we even have them as a breath of fresh air lmao)
@@Nemamka personally i love the weasleys and think molly and arthur did the best with what they had. i know a lot of fanfic portrays molly as a total screaming harpy bitch and its just so sad to see :(. shes the kind of person who would give harry and extra hug before the train bc his family wasnt there to do it for him, i really cant see her as a bad parent or person
what i don't understand is how the muggleborn wizard kids are supposed to ever get to school, much less with equipment. like. how do they find the train thing? do they just have to hope to get lucky like harry did? ok. how do they find the . magic shopping alley? and how do they afford anything there with their muggle moneys? is there an exchange rate? do muggleborn first-years just universally not have wands or books? or does hagrid go shopping with every single one of them? does the school or ministry employ a bunch of people to do the hagrid job for first-years? or is hermione one of the lucky few that somehow figured it out?
@@marink7332 i mean, she couldn't tell Fred and George apart, when Harry could. She also always seemed to have time for Harry but not so much her own children.
considering that squibs can see dementors, I'd argue that they could almost definitely make potions, learn astrology, learn herbology, etc, since only charms and transfiguration (I think) need consistent spell casting, which just makes it weird that they can't go to hogwarts.
You won't believe this, but squibs cannot see dementors, and Mrs figg was lying on the stand. I thought that was crazy but it's true. Rowling decided to write that the witness for the defense of the protagonists was lying when she was describing what really happened.
@@andrewdunn8778 and undid the part where it underlines the racism of the ministry towards magical beings they see as lesser, as they didn't know about that fact of squibs. But shred that, we need to have the magically disabled character to committ a crime and validate the ministry's opinions on squibs
On the topic about child endangerment: the bit about the whomping willow is wrong I'm afraid, it wasn't planted by students it was planted by the herbology professor on Lupin's first year to protect the entrance to the tunnel that goes to the shrikieng shack. It was ordered by non other that Albus child-endangerment-extraordinaire Dumbledore to "protect" Lupin and the rest of the school during the full moons. And yes there is a part in book three where Lupin talks about a game that was popular when he was attending school where children would try to get close to the tree to touch the trunk and that had to be stopped when one of the students lost an eye. What I still don't understand about the whole of that is why a freaking punching tree? Why not just a rock? A big rock with some sort of spell that can only be opened by Lupin or Pomfrey to let him in? And on that note... why a freaking house overlooking what I think is the only other magical town in england to house your underage werewolf? why not a magical reinforced underground bunker? with a freaking password to avoid anything that is not the kid you want in there getting in? Even at 8 years old I tought this was stupidly reckless.
The worst part is the fact there was a game with the tree shows also that it is NOT effective as a detterent and make kids curious about the place. Like, even in universe it's a stupid and inneffective idea. But the actual reason is that it was probably written in book 2 without any plan just for that scene with the car and then was given a purpose after the fact without thinking of the implication. And aside from the direct bigotry that's really all harry potter boils down to, adding stuff without thinking of the implication. I think that's probably cause rowling is a conservative and incapable of even imagining a different society (hence why wizarding society is capitalist even in a world in which capitalism makes no sense and without any history that would even lead to capitalism in the first place). So she just doesn't consider how the stuff she adds might alter the world because she can't imagine the world being different. The lack of thought into "the implications" is... a bit sad frankly.
And since Lupin is an HIV patient allegory, what does it says about JK as a person for making “a morally pure child-sacrificing hero” Dumbledore separate an HIV patient Lupin out of the society?
Something also bothered me a lot about the Weasleys: if they're so poor, why can't Molly work? It seems as if Arthur is the sole provider for 7 people when there isn't such a thing as a Uni Wizard Diploma so we know it's not about being underqualified, and all their kids, by the second book, essentially live at Hogwarts for 10 out of 12 months of the year or have already moved out. Wouldn't Molly be able to pick up a job by the 2nd book so as to relieve Arthur from this financial burden? It's like JKR needed them to be poor to give Harry his even more "humble" beginnings, because he wasn't taken in by a rich family, and to give him the opportunity to try to spoil the family with his money.
And Harry didn’t even do that - the story keeps claiming that Harry would spend his money on essentials for Ron/Ginny but the Weasleys are too proud to take it (despite Harry being involved in at least one incident where they need the essentials I.e. Ron’s wand)
its because then molly would be more than just The Mom and she'd be a character with desires and interests outside of being a mother and jk rowling just can't have that
@@echowoods7977exactly. I don’t know how many people realise this, but despite her claims of feminism, JoJo Rabbit really does not view woman as much other than mothers and pretty things to look at. She has a lot of internalised misogyny, and you can see it throughout the books when you start analysing them. For example, Tonks ends up marrying Lupin and having a kid, Ginny ends up abandoning her successful career in Quidditch to be a mum, Molly is literally just a Mum, and even though Hermione does retain a career, her major negative character traits in the books are legit just a list of sexist tropes. Every good female character is defined in large part by being a mother or having stereotypically motherly traits. Another example is how when a female character is evil, they’re portrayed as ugly, take Umbridge, Petunia, and Skeeter. Hell, you can even see JoJo’s hatred of trans women bleeding through here as Skeeter is described with “mannish” hands and masculine features are ascribed to antagonistic female characters who are regarded as ugly such as Millicent Bullstrode.
@@Queen_of_Coffeejk's belief in two strict genders is so obvious when it comes to tonks, because at the beginning she's shown as a probably non-binary character, you know, the way she dresses, the fact she wants to be known as her last name only, but by the end she's perfectly "normal", married to remus, with a child. it feels like she put tonks in just so that she could show that being non-binary, gender dysphoria and whatnot is just a phase and also that the final stage in life for all women is motherhood. interesting views for a self-proclaimed "feminist"
@@Queen_of_Coffee Im glad someone brought up Tonks because I actually remember as a kid thinking it was really weird for her to get with Lupin, it felt completely shoehorned in for literally no reason like it contributed actually nothing to both the story and their characters and oh god when that got translated to movie form it was infinitely worse they had 0 fckn chemistry
I think my favorite part about defense against the dark arts is that maybe if you didn't teach everyone how to magically ruin other people's lives at the age of 11 you wouldn't need the "not having your life magically ruined by an 11 year old" class
It's the equivalent of schools issuing every kid a gun and then having both Marksmanship classes and Defense Against Getting Shot classes. Maybe we just shouldn't be giving the power of life and death to people who just stopped believing in cooties.
It’s like how people in the US have wide access to guns, and the “solution” always given to us is to just learn how to use a gun ourselves to “fight back”
@@luxill0s I think it's even dumber than guns since you have to actually go out and buy a gun to become a threat but in HP it's basically a government mandate that children be given the base level skills to terrorize the people around them
what I love about astronomy lessons in hogwarts is that anyone with high school physics (Keplers Laws and Newtons Gravity) could predict the entirety of the future because the stars can just be predicted. Why didn't they do that? Because they have no education apart from their own world
The house elf thing has always been especially weird to me because I can see the threads of the folklore Rowling is using and don't know what kind of mind it takes to take them where she did. House elves are a thing in British mythology. The Shoemaker and the Elves is the stereotypical well known example, and likely the origin of the idea that giving house elves clothes "frees" them. The thing is though, that house elves in British mythology 100% have agency and their capriciousness and how easy it is to offend them is one of their main salient characteristics. The elves ditch the shoemaker because he thought making them little clothes would be a good way to thank them and didn't know that violated one of their strange fairy taboos, not because they were bound to him in service until he gave them clothes. The way house elf folklore works in general is that someone who is overworked and barely making it suddenly wakes up one morning to find all their work done for them. They manage to use their additional free time and the improved quality of their work to make it into a higher social station, and then do something that, to them, is completely innocuous or even an attempt to be nice and the house elves get offended and bounce. It's about how good things come and go for no apparent reason, not a narrative about fairy slaves bound into service by overworked maids and shoemakers. I can see the threads of the way the elves are bound in folklore as well, as there are commonly ways to bind fairies and force them to do what you want by turning their own weird fairy logic against them, and they usually very much don't like it and will do whatever they can to twist your commands and get out of their servitude: stealing a selkies seal skin and forcing them to marry you, catching an elf or leprechaun and forcing it to grant you wishes, etc. What I don't understand is how the whole "slavery is cool because they like it" narrative arises from any of this. If I were writing house elves, I might include a Dobby narrative, where a house elf was bound by magic and trickery to serve a wizard long after he would have abandoned him, and Harry had to free the enslaved house elf. I might even have house elves be a major part of the wizarding economy, doing all that tedious work that they love and everyone else hates. What I wouldn't do is extend Dobby's slavery to the whole species. Sure, have Hogwarts' dishes and cleaning and mending be done by house elves, and maybe they don't want payment, but you can't wear blue socks in the library or you have to put your shoes on the wrong feet before entering potions class or once a week you get served soup but have to drink it because they won't let you use spoons. How normal, unbound house elves extract "payment" for their services would be a perfect opportunity for the kind of wacky worldbuilding Rowling is good at...but nope...slavery is good if it's part of their culture is where she goes with that one. How? Just how was that your take away hearing Brownie stories growing up? Edit: Just adding this on because it occurred to me and I think it's relevant. You could even do a SPEW-like narrative about western activists inserting themselves into cultures they don't take the time to understand. Hermoine could think the house elves are slaves, and insist they should get regular compensation for their services, while flouting the weird fairy logic forms of payment they actually care about. They keep telling her they aren't slaves. She won't listen to them. Then a house elf blows up at her one day while she's giving a speech in the library about how the library elf shouldn't be stocking books for no pay...in blue socks. "I love nothing more than sorting and stocking books sweetie. What I don't love is *people wearing BLUE SOCKS in MY LIBRARY* !" Again, I can see what she wanted to do and how she wanted to do it, but can't begin to fathom how she thought justifying slavery was the way to go with that, much less how a whole editing team and publishing team let it happen.
Oh my god, elves acting on their own logic/accord and demanding wacky retributions for their help is such a good idea! And it plays very well with the folklore depiction of elves, gremlins, etc...they're little tricksters! ^^
@@randombear8750 haha thanks. I mean that's how i imagine that an economy based on fairy labor would work. I feel like rowling wanted to play with the idea of cultural misunderstandings and impasses but is just such an out of touch person that this was a really bad idea for her, so she really should have stuck with the fantasy creatures themselves rather than make them clumsy allegories. Same kind of goes for the goblins. They don't have to be greedy to manage the banks. Maybe they are in charge of the banks because they don't care about gold but, like fairies in celtic and germanic folklore, have an OCD like need to count things. If a malevolant fairy like a pooka or something is after you, throw a bunch of coins or salt on the ground and they will have to stop and count them. That is a much more interesting reason to use fairy bankers than "um...they like gold". It's weird to me how often people build fantasy races and then base them more on real world racial stereotypes than the legends they derive from. Rowling is one of the worst offenders but a lot of writers do this and I don't understand why. Fantasy elves are more interesting than human slaves. Fantasy goblins are more interesting than stereotyped Jewish bankers. Why ignore the cool fantasy stuff to double down on real world racism? I dunno. Its just a weird trope to me.
@@achristiananarchist2509 Oh my god! The more I read, the more I'm frustrated because your ideas are so GOOD! Why aren't they in the book? It'd be much better. Goblins liking to count things work just so well. And I agree, I do notice that reflex that authors have of putting metaphors for human societal problems into fantasy. When the folkloric source material in itself is already super interesting and suffice itself! The metaphors can work, but you need to have the shoulders to incorporate them well into your story, and with intelligent writing. Sticking to the classic representation of these creatures would have suited JKR, especially with the whimsical nature of the story. It would have worked well in book 1, where all the installments would have taken place!
you have a genuine passion for the fae in folklore that shines through in this comment, which makes you one of my favorite kind of people. I hope you're having a good day.
I also love that this concept puts power back into the other races. I love the concept of wizards sweating because they know one wrong move means all the menial labour and tasks in Hogwarts could suddenly stop one day and they can do nothing about it. Them like "fuck we can't try too hard or the elves are gonna get offended and bounce, lets just... keep playing along, but oh god if they leave how the hell are we gonna get a last minute team of cooks and cleaners oh god oh fuck". Wizards know all these house elves have the agency to just fuck off and do their own thing and they can't do anything about it.
You know, I never realized that SPEW was supposed to be about vomit, because in portuguese (brazilian), it was translated to FALE, which just means "speak". So I always thought that SPEW referred to, I dunno, agressively speaking the truth or something. I guess I gave it way too much credit.
You probably did but thankyouuuu for this information and insight! Might have to start believing/telling people this! Ps. Spew is mostly vomit but I've heard people over here in the UK use it as more of they "spew" as in talk a lot of sh*t! Might just be where I'm from though
So interesting, in German it is translated "BELFER" which is just like a merge of the words helper and elf with an b at the beginning. So nothing very harmful there
A lot, the entirely history how colonisation still happened, what södid they do to wizards not ok with that and ready to help their people. Were the ones left alive the traitors?! Were wizards always a cult taught to not care?!
The wizarding economy seems to be stratified for no good reason at all. With all the magic available, the Harry Potter world should be nothing less than a post scarcity utopia. But a wizard can't so much as magic a sandwich into existence for a starving muggle without breaking the wizard laws and being cast out
Hp in general is filled to the brim with fascinating concepts that could make a phenomenal book if they were used correctly *If they were used correctly.*
@hankboog462 it's kinda why I've been fascinated in watching HO analysis videos. Makes me inspired in hoping to write a story about a child growing up in a dystopia magic world and tries to change it for the better in some way.
As a biologist, I have to say one thing about the Eugenics part of the video: If the picture with the inheritance of the genes is to be viewed as the explanation for squibs, it still doesn't make sense that squibs pass down the magic allel of this gene and thus cause muggle-born wizards a few generations later. If it is a dominant allel, as the picture suggests, the person who gets it is going to be magical no matter if they also have the non-magic allel of this gene. That means, that the squib only has the non-magic allel (twice) and would then be incapable of passing down the magic allel, because it just is impossible to pass something down that you don't have. That explanation would make much more sense if it was a recessive allel, that only leads to magic people if they possess that one twice. Still, that would mean that a lot more squibs would be born to magical families that are not totally pure wizard blood or whatever xD But then - maybe they just sweep them under the rug. That seems to be a common practice in this community, just look at the Dumbledore-family. Anyways, I really enjoyed your video - and am still enjoying it, just 2,5 hours to go. It is the first time you were suggested to me by youtube and I am so happy that I decided to give it a go, I like it a lot! :D
Or may be it's controlled by multiple genes and other factors. As someone in the field of biology myself, we know that genes have more ways of behaving beyond the Mendelian Laws Of Inheritance. Co-Dominance is also a thing.
It must have other means of control aside of pure mendelian dominance or else we wouldn't have muggle born wizards since both their parents would have both recessive alleles
wizards iirc don't seem to have access to any sort of astral plane type shit either, closest thing seems to be memory viewing or the weird time clock thing, so yeah it seems like they really don't have much "offworld" type stuff, which is kind of interesting.
i really wanna see an interaction of this being brought up to a wizard, them going “OH YEAH? WELL WATCH THIS” and apparating to space and subsequently dying from not being taught about atmospheres or basic science at school
Actually, the best wizarding school in the galaxy is on Mars. It's called Pigfarts and the headmaster, Rumbleroar, is a lion, who can talk* (*This is only canon in A Very Potter Musical by Starkid)
You know how the house elves could have worked? Make them something like the doozers from Fraggle Rock. Doozers live to build and the material they build with is fraggle food, so fraggles are constantly eating their buildings but the doozers love it because they see it as their work being appreciated, plus it gives them more room to build. Have the house elves have some kind of symbiotic relationship like that with wizards. Maybe have them feed on feelings of gratitude so they devotedly serve wizards, but will peace out if their efforts aren't being appreciated.
There were just so many possibilities other than "Slaves like being slaves actually." Of all the infinite possibilities she had to choose the single worst one, the one that would've been seen as problematic back in the 1840s. Christ on a bike Joey.
It's even weirder because they seem to be pretty inspired by brownies but you don't want to offend or take advantage of your brownie who just cleans your house for the sake of being generous. Like there was no real reason to turn it into a slave thing, but she did for ~plot reasons~.
@@XxMusicxKelseyxX or just keep the House elves culture identical(choosing a family, or institution, and serving them with zeal, heavy emphasis on following directions to perfection and keeping their chosen family's secrets), but have actual slavery be rare. You know, make them an Alfred archetype rather than slaves. This change would make Hermione's campaign and the textual treatment of it converge, as she is right, slavery is bad, but she doesn't understand the culture she's trying to help enough to realize she's insulting them. The response from people immersed in the Wizarding World wouldn't change, because they understand that it's their chosen vocation(paid in lodging and food for many) and not something that is forced on most of them, with Dobby being an outlier for being enslaved, rather than a "weirdo" for wanting freedom. As for the house elves in the Hogwarts kitchen, I kinda feel like it should be a sort of shelter for House elves. A community of their own where house elves who had been mistreated or suffered a loss could live their life doing what they love separate from any master, or recover before moving on to another family. After all, we get to know 3 house elves, and all 3 end up there after a change in enslaver. Dobby was enslaved and hated it, Kreature was enslaved and loved it(but not his last master, and he did not take the transfer well), and Winky (in this proposed redo) was not enslaved but was effectively dumped by the family she loved and cared for, leaving her an emotional wreck. And, with the change of them tucking Winky into bed instead of just covering her with a sheet(seriously, WTF), not much would have to change as many people would be rightly insulted if some 14 year old came in insisting that they're slaves that are being forced to do what they're doing, and they need to be freed, while upsetting a coworker who just got her life ripped away from her. I'm sure this interpretation still has issues, but removing the common slavery is a change that wouldn't actually alter the tone of the books.
The Ministry counts werewolves as Beings in human form and Beasts in their wolf form because wizards believe you should hate lycanthropy, not the lycanthrope 😉
The goblin ownership is so dumb because it is not like humans cannot craft their own contracts or keep their promises. There is no human law preventing lifetime leases. Like ok, maybe Godric and the Goblin had a "miscommunication" on the terms of the contract. fine. But Harry *just made a new contract* with Griphook. There was no miscommunication there. He just lied to him. Harry asked for help in exchange for a sword. That has nothing to do with lifetime leases at all. its a straight exchange.
I remember reading Deathly Hallows and being really interested in Goblin culture, and was *so disappointed* when Griphook was basically treated like a greedy obstacle to be overcome by deceit instead of being reasoned with like the sentient person he is. Like dude just dropped all this knowledge about how possession works and how wizards have basically been stealing Goblin made items for centuries like they're the fucking British Museum and Harry's just like "Wow, that's a dumb policy" instead of trying to reach a compromise with collateral or offering a payment of some sort so that he could essentially rent the sword to complete his mission. There's this whole theme about how wizards have been screwing over other magical beings and here's Harry just perpetuating all of the worst things about wizard hierarchy like it's nothing.
@@luthientinuviel3883 In retrospect, this feeling describes my whole memory of every HP book after Azkaban. JKR opened so many big and heavy themes and wasn't able to conclude a single one of them in a satisfying manner. At least for me.
WhenI first read the book I thought renting/ borrowing the sword was where this conflict was going. Harry's rich, after all. I felt Griphook was right to be upset and demand the sword be returned. Also, the notion that an item returns to its maker after the death of its owner was interesting to me, and I'd like to know more. Can an item be rented out again after being returned, for example? What if it was made so long ago nobody knows who exactly made it, so it can't be returned to a family line? Is there a Goblin museum of "orphaned" artefacts? That kind of stuff.
@@abdirahmanidris290 But (as far as I remember) this very debate was rejected by the heroes doing what they thought was right and never addressing the matter again.
i always thought that astronomy would have made much more sense as a core class if there had been like use of old ideas of the stars and planets effecting how potent certain ingredients are, and when you should harvest them for particular effects, bringing astronomy in as a key part of both herbology and potions, and probably other things besides...but instead it just doesn't get incorporated into the larger magic system, it's just thrown in as wizardish enough and that's it
Depending on which magical systems you're using the planetary hours can determine anything from which sorts of spells are most effective to which supernatural entities you'll be able to call upon. Renaissance magicians like Dr. John Dee and Cornelius Agrippa go on at length about the importance of the planetary hours and how to properly calculate them. You'd think such things would be mentioned, or tie into the lore somehow. Apparently the only thing Joey hates more than trans people is doing the slightest bit of research.
It's occasionally mentioned, one of the ingredients for the polyjuice potion requires a plant picked at the full moon, and Slughorn needs some other plant that also needs a lunar time for the best usage in book 6, but it's never elaborated on or given importance.
If I recall correctly, a couple of things do require particular astronomical conditions (I thiiiink the animagus process is one of them?) but none are really more complicated than phases of the moon. Seems weird to require a whole astronomy class just for... the lunar cycle? Which is weird, right? Magic in connection to the stars/planets/moon has been a concept for like... forever. There's so much to pull from there. Then again, it might require a few Google searches of research, so.
Damn, Lily's really pushing for that 10-minute mark
I didn't notice the length of this video until this comment 😅
Really pushing for that 600 minute mark fr
😅 “breif”
I feel the video is a bit short. I wish it was 100 hours long.
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Lily saying “not to sound too much like a video essayist” 7 hours into a video essay will never not be funny to me
Right, that had me like "wait so what is it YOU think we're doing here then?"
Essay? This vids freaking THESIS length lmao
I misread the vid lenght as 1hour and thought "yeah right 'brief' look." and was confused about your comment. I think I got and heart attack after realising my mistake
I read this early in the video and giggled,
Completely forgot about this comment,
Heard her say that,
Died 🤣
"The Japanese students robes change colour as they progress."
Oh, like in martial arts! ... Oh, like in martial arts...
Wuh oh! J.K. Rowling did a stereotype again!
Im... not even surprised anymore.
God everything in this shitass franchise is like "hey, thats a neat idea! Oh, wait..."
not gonna lie i initially thaught she pulled up a martial arts grading chart, till i looked more closely.
well at least it's not cringe references to anime....nah japanese magical girl wizards piloting wizard mechs would be sick.
I do love the fact that the child endangerment argument always makes Lucius Malfoy looked like racist, classist, bigotted man...but also the only parent in this entire story who cares that his son is constantly in danger in this school. Like I don't know how often there's a little implication that Luicus MAlfoy sent another angry letter to Hogwarts, and at some point, the reasonable reaction to this is just "yes. Well done! Why isn't Molly sending more letters?" Like the Weasley's always just send poor Ron an howler, never the school that put their kids in danger.
Kids are gonna be kids. They're gonna have peer pressure and short attention spans and a different risk/reward ratio than adults and not quite know their limits yet. It's canon that most of them have never seen death. And we're supposed to blame them for venturing into the unfenced forest, or around the unfenced tree, or into the cool secret passage, without clearly explaining to them the actual dangers, with examples, and putting up barricades for the kids who aren't paying attention to where they walk.
To be fair, Molly sends Ron a Howler once, and it's for breaking the law, incurring a large fine, and forcing his father to face an inquiry at work.
All because he didn't want to be late for school, when his parents could have gotten them there way faster.
And while Fred and George were yelled at by Molly through letters... it was also for frequently breaking school rules, not them being put in danger.
But yes, Molly should have been more concerned about the safety of the school after her child was accosted by a troll, or by pixies, a teacher, the memory of a former student, a tree(twice), or a mass murderer, and everything that happened from book 4 onwards.
@@the_last_ballad yeah. i don't really blame molly for the specific howlers she sent. only that with the danger in hogwarts, it at some point started to irritate me, that the weasleys were always just like "Hogwarts is safe" when the last years should've taught them better. Like in book three, Molly and Arthur were like "Hogwarts is safe" and last year their daughter almost died. there was this narrative about how hogwarts is the only place, Voldemort never conquered. Cool. But I think at some point, it was just unrealistic that they'd continue believing that.
Yeah, he and Narcissa are so protective of Draco and its annoying seeing how fans downplay the love they have for their son
Right?? It's so weird, the Malfoy parents are the ones portrayed as being evil and all because they...care for his son being safe?? Sure, they're followers of Voldemort and all you want, but didn't they do it because there was no safe way of dropping off of it without putting Draco (and themselves obvs) in danger? Yes, it's portrayed as bad that they often sent letters to Hogwarts, or Draco being meme'd over "my father will hear about this" but that just goes to show they care for Draco, doesn't it?
In the end, the real 10 hours of Harry Potter analysis were the friends we made along the way
I didn’t notice the time stamp until seeing this comment lol
@CthulhusBFF2
Hahahahahahaha...
*Breathes in*
... Hahahahahahaha. 😅😭😂🤣😁
Oh gosh, awesome comment. I had just finished an hour and a half analysis on the same topic called 'Harry Potter'. Saw this ten hour video, decided to take a chance.
As soon as I saw your comment, I knew I made the right choice. Thank you
"Brief look"😅
I feel this in the 6k views this video has gained in the week it’s taken me to watch
What do the additional 5 seconds amount to?
Rowling really called all the international schools “mojo dojo casa house” and thought no one would notice
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What is “mojo dojo casa house”?
Reference to the barbie movie. It's what beach Ken calls the houses after he takes over barbieland.@@mariannaortiz2426
@@mariannaortiz2426it's from the new Barbie film! It's what ken calls Barbie's dream house but it just says house three times in different languages at the end (dojo casa house)
@@mariannaortiz2426 it's a joke from the Barbie movie, a non sensical name for a house/building as "casa" literally means "house" and "dojo" means something similar, too, in japanese (i think, don't sue me please if I'm wrong hahaha).
The way Rowling named other wizarding schools like "castelobruxo" is just as stupid, since that literally just means something along the lines of "magic castle". She did that a lot with her international schools, which is lowkey problematic and just shows she doesn't give a single single shit about a lot of things like diversity and repecting cultures that are foreign to her.
Lily: please I am begging you just click the table of contents please only listen to what you're interested in
Me: no *sits down for 10 hours*
Same😭😭
Ditto
Implying I'm not interested in literally every second of this video
I gone to sleep at some parts so I had to rewind, technically running the video for more than 10 hours until I watch all of it awake.
I love those long videos. I watch them with something else on. I wish more creators felt comfortable doing them. Some certainly want too. But I know it's bad on the algorithm.
Kinda fucked that McGonagall could spend an enormous amount on Harry's broom, but none of the teachers helped Ron get a new wand
Well it would help her house besides, Ron has never earned a single house point for Gryffindor
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@@lightdarksoul2097what about the points in the first movie/book for the chess game?
@@smolelvenbby ahh you right but that was kinda a special occasion no? Like I doubt that would happen again though Harry and the others deserved points for stopping Tom
@@lightdarksoul2097 So they play favorites with the students and abandon those who’s actually in need if that student isn’t profitable to their house. Makes them even more scummy.
I think they have the Japanese evil wizards wear white because in China and Korea, as well as for Buhddists, it is common to wear white to funerals. However, they wear white because it is a symbol of positivity and purity which helps the deceased pass to the afterlife peacefully, which makes me think JK heard that Asians wear white to funerals, and assumed white was a sad/evil color for Asians, which is totally on brand for her.
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It's a strange conclusion considering western culture also uses white as a positive color to represent death. Spirits move onto the next world in a flash of blinding white light to live in a heavenly kingdom made of white clouds where they get white wings and white robes. JKR and going beyond surface-level thinking do not seem to go hand-in-hand.
I absolutely agree! It would also make sense, since in "our" western world, the bad wizards wear a lot of black, also associated with funerals and therefore death.
Lol 😆
Which is ironic because in Japan people usually wear BLACK to funerals.
Ok but on Arthur Weasley, he and Molly basically adopted Harry and acted as parental figures to basically everyone else in the series, and Harry named his son after two child abusers instead of calling him Arthur?
I feel like a lot of Harry's actions can be explained by realizing that he was meant as Joey's self-insert, not as an audience surrogate meant to represent how a decent and functional human being would act and respond.
@@tjenadonn6158 burn.
@@tjenadonn6158 No wonder she's so jilted by Radcliffe not blindly following in her footsteps.
@@arahman56 Or by Emma Watson becoming an actual feminist instead of a TERF.
ditto to hagrid tho
As an Irish person, it was nice to see you address the fact that Ireland and Britain are essentially treated as the same place in Harry Potter. It's something I don't see brought up a lot so it was good to see someone address it
The island have just one ministry of magic as a bundle but ireland has its own quidditch team
@@Terminator1732Ireland is not on the island of Great Britain
@@crazycatlover1885 Well, it's not wrong. Ireland is its own island, which is right next to the other after it broke away a "few" years ago
but that doesn't stop me from lumping it together and putting it in the same drawer
@@Terminator1732 You said "the Island", presumably meaning Great Britain, and implied that Ireland is, or has been, a part of it. That is wrong. Ireland has not at any point been a part of Great Britain. It therefore doesn't make any sense to lump Ireland in as part of Great Britain.
@@crazycatlover1885 the two islands were once a contiguous landmass so never say never
Well for me its just the island over there as a bundle package
And i realy dont care about political correktness
I bundle it not under great brittain but more under united kingdomes
I'm also somewhat confused on the idea of "doing magic." We know muggles can't cast spells, but could they tame a magical beast or grow a magical plant? For that matter, what distinguishes magical beasts and plants from mundane ones. Could they divine things? Are muggles able to brew potions, or would the potions simply not work, even if they followed all of the instructions? If a muggle can do all these things why wouldnt they be allowed to attend magical school? I think the Owl House does a better job of handling these types of questions
The owl house really reminded me of how much I adore well written magic systems and how lacking Harry Potter is in that
Throughout this whole video I kept thinking: owl house did this better
@@doorbel9084 I can also suggest Pact and Pale by Wildbow. It is absolutely free to read, no paywalls or piracy needed.
I know that muggles can't brew potions because every recipe requires the use of a wand at some point, idk about anything else
I love owl house so much
It's my headcanon that the global wizarding community can't stand the British wizards, so when Voldemort takes over there, they shrug and go "oh well, they had it coming".
I love this take 😂
Loving this head canon
There’s a good book series called “The Scarlet Weapon”, by Renata Ventura that shows EXACTLY this haha. It takes place in an original wizarding school in Brazil, and the British wizards are pretty frequently mocked, specially in the beginning of the book. I highly recommend the read, it’s very creative and cathartic for frustrated Harry Potter fans!
Yeah to be honest I always kind of assumed Great Britain is kind of seen as strange and backwards in the magic world for things like not having any magical primary education or making muggle parents forget their magical child ever existed if it dies at Hogwarts. Can't imagine wizards from the rest of Europe getting away with not knowing anything about non-magical politics, technology and history either, at some point you're gonna have to pay attention to what those silly muggles are doing when the continent explodes into bloodshed again.
Seeing just how insular the British magical community is, I doubt people are surprised when some evil wizard and his dickhead pureblood cronies try establishing a magical ethnostate and start attacking Muggles. Unless Voldemort is actively trying to take over the world, I doubt anyone cares enough to do anything besides occasionaly condemn what is going on in England.
Yeah to be honest I always kind of assumed Great Britain is kind of seen as strange and backwards in the magic world for things like not having any magical primary education or making muggle parents forget their magical child ever existed if it dies at Hogwarts. Can't imagine wizards from the rest of Europe getting away with not knowing anything about non-magical politics, technology and history either, at some point you're gonna have to pay attention to what those silly muggles are doing when the continent explodes into bloodshed again.
Seeing just how insular the British magical community is, I doubt people are surprised when some evil wizard and his dickhead pureblood cronies try establishing a magical ethnostate and start attacking Muggles. Unless Voldemort is actively trying to take over the world, I doubt anyone cares enough to do anything besides occasionaly condemn what is going on in England.
I’m a simple woman. I see a timestamp over 2 hours and I click.
Im a simple wo-ACK
I’m SO HAPPY that content creators are doing *beefy* content these days. I love long-form content. 🥳
my people
Same!! People say that the age we live in with apps like tik tok, instagram shorts, youtube shorts, etc… our attention span has gotten shorter and shorter 😅😅 but even as an avid tik tok user I have noticed I’ve been enjoying 2 hour plus youtube videos😭😭 honestly idek why but I’m glad I’ve found my people 🤞
It's a challenge and I will take it on.
kinda hysterical that the ministry are basically like 'yeh we can't afford to give all children free wands and other magical equipment because we gotta fund our Death Room sorry ://'
This is actually brilliantly analogous to neoliberal governments ngl
i don’t know if you ever tried to hire cleaning staff for a death room but they’re not easy to come by and the usually don’t stay around for that long. not to mention the hush money for when they quit, or worse the hush money for their families if they die. free school supplies for needey 11 year olds is a budget cut we all just have to live with. we throw in complementary house scarves though because that castle can get really cold in the winter.
...this is America. Guns in my area.
Literally just the american government 😭 others too I’m sure
Can't they use spells to duplicate objects? They basically can create infinite resources but can't provide students with the basics. And they're supposed to be the good guys.
"please don't watch this all in one sitting" ma'am I just met you and I've got things to crochet I am watching this whole thing
Same im crocheting à new top lol
I've been playing minecraft mindlessly for so many hours purely bc i'm listening to this lol
I'm working 8 hours in a movie theater, I'm listening to this while I serve concessions
Great, I have to sew an entire costume for November, so that should make it entertaining 😅
On "Hogwarts and Child Endangerment" - I can imagine a better version of the series where Hogwarts still has all of these security flaws and lackadaisical attitude towards child safety, but that the narrative frames it as wrong. Harry and Hermione can be shown expressing extreme discomfort with everything going on, while Ron and Draco Malfoy don't see anything wrong with it, haaving been socialised from birth to just accept that sometimes kids just don't come home from school.
yeah, this is kind of something i want people to take away from this which is that flaws are not the problem its how you approach those flaws with the characters that you have created which really define the substance of the world building
So many of the problems could've been solved if Harry was an audience analogue rather than Joey's self-insert.
@@tjenadonn6158 I think he was meant to be an audience surrogate - problem is Joanne can't seem to imagine that the audience might react to her world with anything except wonder and reverence, so we get Harry, a boy who loves the world uncritically and wants to be a cop when he grows up
@@edithw-k7946 Perhaps the issue is she tried to write fantasy when she has an imagination too inflexible to even write a decent "Law and Order" script.
@@StriderCompanions Sales numbers aren't an indicator of quality by any stretch of the imagination. Just because the MCU has made more money than than the films of Andrei Tarkovsky or Ingmar Bergman that doesn't mean "Thor 4: Love and Thunder" is a better movie than "Solaris" or "Persona." Just because L. Ron Hubbard has outsold the likes of the Strugasky Brothers and Ursula K. Le Guin that doesn't mean that "Battlefield Earth" is better than "Hard To Be A God" or "The Left Hand of Darkness." Joey isn't good at writing. That's a well established fact. Shitty writers get successful all the time: Joey Rowling, Dan Brown, Stephanie Meyer, Bill O'Reilly, L. Ron Hubbard, E. L. James, the list is endless. If anything being a terrible writer is a far more lucrative career path than being even a decent writer, much less an excellent one. If financial success correlated directly to quality the Kardashians would be working at a gas station in Alabama and Family Guy would've been cancelled after half a season.
"everyone'd be wanting magical solutions to their problems" is just a simple way to say "we don't believe our great power comes with the great responsibility to make the world better."
Well put 👌
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The anti Spider-Man sentiment
it’s also so bold of them to say that like they don’t use magic in that exact way (ex: Molly doing chores with magic)
In the TTRPG game Mage the Awakening, and the old world of darkness version of ascension, has characters who have the ability to make the world a better place or carve it to their liking.
One problem, reality does not accept them. If they push too hard by, say, destroying cancer entirely, it will punch back and make a super cancer that's contagious and airborne and make the mage the first person to be infected.
You could also make the excuse that magic doesn't work around muggles because of some 'weirdness censor' they have which would also be pretty interesting.
I love how Harry pulls the "what if there's another Grindelwald or Voldemort!?" As if Grindelwald and Voldemort weren't both brought up in the very system he's trying to protect.
THIS OH MY GOD that line made no sense
What, where
Also, it kinda rings like "Yeah I hear you about [Insert issue here], but what if a new fascist rise to power?" even tho, fundamentally, it have nothing to directly do with the debate.
This fallacious argument is in no case a rebuttal/"logical checkmate" like it is played here.
All it does it pointing at the fact that the wizarding world had two turbo fascists with similar ideas rise to power in less than half a century and that nothing was really done to prevent a third one from manifesting in the future. It has nothing to do with the State of Secrecy. Especially because if a hypothetical new Dark Lord were to succeed where their predecessors failed, that would lead to the "enslavement" (?) of Muggles, SoS or not. So bringing this into the discussion is just bad rhetorically speaking.
So in other words, TLDR : Harry's argument is not really relevant to the current discussion as it is presented.
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@@Slinaro where did this even happen?
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(In all fairness, it is taken from spin off materials, but it's still representative of the more global problem with that piece of worldbuilding. And regardless, canon or not, it is still not a good argument to rhetorically defend the SoS.)
One thing i love about the Percy Jackson/Harry potter comparison is that PJ at the end of the first series of books fixes the issues that resulted in the books even happening, and HP becomes a wizard cop to enforce those same issues
My favorite thing to believe is that the HP series truly ended right before the epilogue or believe that Harry and Ron became Aurors because of their extensive experience with dark magic in order to clean up the remaining mess, then retired, and Harry becomes the DADA professor and Ron takes care of the twins' shop. Hermione is 100% the MoM and that's it. The series ended right there.
Only just realized how weird it is that both Fenrir Greyback and Remus Lupin were given very very wolf centric names before either of them became werewolves. What are the odds of two guys basically named “Wolfy Wolfboy” both becoming werewolves?
after looking at every other persons name, 100% in the Harry Potter world
@@LilySimpson I feel like given too much longer Rowling would independently come up with Moon Moon
Big "Major Major Major Major" vibes
@@TransSappho Except she'd make it Luna Luna. I swear so much of why people think she's smart is just her having access to an English to Latin dictionary.
Imagine you're just like 8 years old in the HP universe, and realise you're named "Killian Murderlad", just accepting what you must do.
About the house elves... In finnish folklore we have something really similar. House elves are the protectors and caretakers of homes, but they are sneaky, don't like to be seen and they are loyal to the house/stable/storage building they reside in, not to the family that lives there/owns it. If you build a new house, you have to plant a tree on the property to invite a house elf to be its protector and then they will reside there as long as the house exists. Though I have also heard versions where there house elves move with their family, it might be a regional thing.
Also, the most important part being that they will _f*ck your shit up_ if you disrespect them or the house that you live in. If you do your best to keep your home clean and pay respect to your house elf, they will help you and protect your home from bad things. But if you are a jerk that doesn't clean after themselves or you speak badly of your house elf, they might trash your house or burn down your sauna.
So reading HP and how the british wizards treat their elves in it was always really sad to me and how it was not resolved at all was so dumb! JK could have easily kept the "house elves love serving wizards" part of the lore and still have the conflict with Dobby and Malfoys by making slavery just Malfoy household specific. Like maybe just Malfoys had cursed their house elves so they wouldn't leave or rebel no matter how bad they were treated and the rest of the house elves would work like in finnish folklore - you treat them right and they will do nice things for your household just because they want to. If you don't, they will smash your dishes or better yet, just leave. Yeah, you can lose your house elf in finnish folklore if you are too much of a bad homeowner. Your house will lose its protection and when the next storm hits, a tree might fall on your barn and your best cow dies. That's what you get for disrespecting a house elf. Better check yourself before you wreck yourself.
That way there wouldn't be any issue with Hogwarts having house elf cleaners and cooks. You could just write in that they are free to go and do whatever, they just really like chilling at Hogwarts because they are treated with respect and kindness have like their own dwellings where they can have their own little societies and parties. I mean, I like to bake stuff for other people just for fun. It doesn't seem that far fetched to have a magical race that just likes to do little favors for wizards for the fun of it.
But no, JK had to make it really weird and cruel for some reason. Like so many other things in these books...
She probably was like "who cares about slavery these days?"
BTW, this dynamic of having a complex relationship between elves and humans would make for so much interesting side plots.
In Britain we have something similar called brownies, who'd do housework for you, but if you tried to pay them back with, for example, clothes, they'd happily leave. I think she started on "what if a brownie didn't want to do housework?" and the way she went about it wasn't thought through. it could've easily been a "my parents/culture expect me to to do this and I don't want to" plotline, and it would've been so much better for it
@@RobinAlucard123 What amazes me is that she managed to actually write this magic slavery plot and it wasn't changed by the editors. Or was it? What if it was even worse originally? We'll never know.
I don't know why, but your comment that a disrespected house elf "burn down your sauna." made me chuckle.
I like the idea that it was just the Malfoys and other wizard like them that curse their house elves so they couldn't leave or rebel. Doby's character would make a lot more sense.
I remember reading about a similar concept in a book about Eastern European mythology (mostly about the Slavic Peoples). If I remember correctly, the spirits are called "domovoi", and they follow almost identical rules to what you mentioned. They were specifically linked to the hearth of a house. But yeah, the very concept of an entire race that exists purely to serve humans/wizards is disgustingly anthropocentric, unethical, backwards, and downright evil. Apparently it's not a universal stance that the concept of owning another living thing is barbaric and cruel.
As an Indian the British wizards misappropriating an item from someone else’s culture and refusing to return it is the most accurate portrayal of British wizards
No argument. They experimented with it first on the Irish, and the population STILL hasn't recovered from the Great Hunger (Brits exported Irish food to England during our "potato famine.") Did you know that the "Loyalists" in Northern Ireland STILL BUILD PALLET TOWERS 20 METERS OR HIGHER, FILLED WITH TIRES, AND SET ABLAZE NEAR "CATHOLIC" PUBLIC HOUSING?
They repeat this all over the country every July. The fires are set to celebrate William of Orange's victory,3 centuries ago, but their real purpose is terror.
I have seen people hosing down their homes because "Loyalist" bully boys out their towers anywhere they like. The pollution from burning tires outside your home is terrible.
I'm reminded of that line from the recent Across the Spiderverse that Pav says.
@@OurLadyOfPunkz"and this is where the British stole all our stuff!"
Not so different to the non-magical British people after all.
As from Pakistan 🇵🇰 I agree too
The funniest part about "Castelobruxo" is that it doesn't even mean what JK probably wanted it to mean. The way it is written means "wizard castle", as in, "a castle that is a wizard", not "a castle of/for wizards".
That's honestly a pretty cool concept tho
She could pull it off lets say the castle itself is a sentient being, or literally it could be a powerful wizard that transfigured into a building, or a curse, or that the school is not a building in the first place, but I do think it was probably mismanaged translation 😂 which is fkd like jkr has many portuguese speaking fans that would help her with the name for free, even if not, it is not like it is hard to get hands on a portuguese translator or writer in the uk and it is not like she cannot afford to pay him/her
@@jeanv8249 A sentient castle wizard sounds badass.
it really feels like she just looked up the portuguese words for wizard and castle and just mashed them together, because she didn't have any idea other languages had different sentence structures aside from "oh those darn spanish countries put the adjective after the noun"
on that note, rowling feels like the kind of person that would pat themselves on the back for knowing brazil doesn't speak spanish, but still thinks spanish and portuguese are the same exact language
By the way... Didn't she used to... _live in Portugal_ ? Damn 😵
The treatment of Squibs is so fucked and ableist. Obviously in our world that wouldn’t be a disability, but when you’re born in the wizard isn’t world, that’s an impairment compared to your friends and family, and because they don’t invest in new technology or interact with muggle technology, they’re essentially left to leave the world they born into or live as a second-class citizen. Then, just like an ableist, JK says squibs are doomed to a sad half-life and we should feel sorry for them for being squibs, instead of acknowledging that their misery is a part of the wizard supreme it’s society they live in. She doesn’t sit back to consider how disability actually influences people in a society. She doesn’t show how squibs have compensated for their lack of magic with technology, how they end up dominating fields where magic is less necessary, or how they form insular communities of non-wizards who are privy to and engage in the wizard if world. Imagine small communities where only a few wizards are born each year and where most of the magic is combined with technology and comprised of long-lasting enchantments. Or, what about including them in Harry’s story to show even more challenge to the wizard supremacy of Voldemort. Imagine a version of Hogwarts where Harry fights for squibs too, where his herbology or magizoology teacher was a squib who was still a renowned member of their fields, and kids like Draco had their beliefs challenged more consistently. Imagine a version of Arthur Weasley who was born to a purebred family but was still a squib, and became fascinated with technology because of it. Or a member of the Order of the Phoenix who works to protect muggleborn students from Death Eaters when they’re back home. How much more impact would the story have if it treated wizard supremacy as evil, not just because Death Eaters are fascists, but because the diversity of experience and specialty that comes with disabled or racially diverse people is worth protecting in and of itself. Instead, it comes off as samey liberal bullshit about how fascists are bad because they’re extreme, and so are leftist radicals, because what matters isn’t people, it’s maintaining the status quo.
Though that’s not too surprising, after reading the TERF wars essay and seeing more weird takes surrounding disabled people.
Beautifully said!
Considering how half-bloods and muggle-borns are treated, the ableism isn’t even surprising at all.
Maybe if the wizards invested in tech or stopped believing they’re superior because they are magical humans…..
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glad to see more people having thoughts on magical ableism. it's so fucked.
Oh damn, I wrote a paper in college on disability portrayals in Harry Potter and this example never even occurred to me!
I don’t remember much about that paper, but I know I used Remus/werewolves as an example, as well as how physically inaccessible Hogwarts would be for someone born with a mobility-related disability.
Sidenote: I always thought it would’ve been a cool world-building idea to have some sort of broom adaptations to use as the Wizarding World equivalent to a wheelchair.
About Mahoutokoro (even just saying that "word" makes me shudder). As a fluent Japanese speaker: The entire thing is beyond insulting. Terfling placed it on Minami-Iwojima, which is a small island with extremely harsh weather, but based the castle's appearance quite blatantly on Himeji-jou, one of the most beautiful castles in Japan, which is, in fact, NOT located on a tiny island, but in Kansai and has an extremely rich, fascinating history, none of which is reflected in her drivel. Also, unlike Himeji, "Mahoutokoro" is NOT a proper place name. It's a grammatical monstrosity that sounds like a 2 year old stringing together words without knowing how to use particles or sentence structure. For example, the kanji that is read as "tokoro" usually becomes "sho" when read in proper nouns, so if anything it should be "Mahousho"... Except, "Mahousho" sounds like a government office or bureau, not like a castle, let alone a school. Castles usually have the kanji for "castle" in there, which on its own is read "shiro", but in proper nouns (as in "Himeji-jou") becomes "jou". So that would give us "Mahou-jou". Except, that's such a generic term for a magic castle, you'd probably find it in a late 80s or early 90s JRPG as a name for a dungeon. If you want it to be a real, prestigious place you should name it something that reflects its beauty, like Shirazuru-jou, which would mean "White crane castle".
...But that would require Terfling to, y'know, consult someone who actually speaks Japanese, which she, with all her tons upon of tons of cash and widely known twitter presence, CLEARLY didn't have the means to do, so whatever...
It makes me embarrassed for her. Like COME ON just use your hoards of money to hire a native speaker who can help you come up with an appropriate name. Either she enjoys pissing people off with her ignorance or she genuinely thinks she's a multilingual genius without even trying.
Yup, there's absolutely no excuse for this bullshit. It's so obvious she just doesn't care at all
Hey! Shoutout to you for making and interesting read for someone who knows nothing about Japanese but likes etymology and linguistics (me)
I like language breakdowns like these :)
"Terfling" omg haha
This was unbelievably interesting and educational, thank you so much for sharing this. It is invaluable information for a writer who may want to feature Japanese themes/places and so on with respect.
It definitely feels like she just jammed something into Google Translate and called it a day, which honestly... I don't even know what she input there. Maybe "magic place"? Why did she go with "tokoro" instead of "bashou"? It's so many questions brought up by a single person's racism
Watching your hair colour fade slowly as the video goes on like this whole thing is just sucking the life out of you. You're a braver woman than I.
exactly
@@GEMikeero SHE* is a woman
@@GEMikeero damn mikey, you're real smooth and not at all being deliberately obtuse
@@GEMikeero Me when I’m transphobic and stupid
@@GEMikeero Yes! She’s a woman!
I love how even in the 7th book Rowling breaks her own world building multiple times. Like how there are apparently all wizard villages (Mould on the wood) and yet Purebloods and pro Wizard supremacist half bloods don't just live in those...
Or how it's basically confirmed Harry isn't some hard luck student; hes a dumb jock who we've all seen sleeping class. When Hermione discussed Gamps law I was like "Wait....this has to be like second year info. How...HOW is Harry just learning this now?"
This reminds me of something that is really weird about Hogwarts, it seems like they don't actually learn any of the theory behind the magic itself, so they literally just learn the spells but not why or how they work which probably explains why only the autodidacts seem to understand the underlying logic of the magic enough to be creative with it.
Like Voldemort from what we see doesn't actually use magic in a particularly special or intelligent way, he just knows more and has a higher level of natural talent compared to everyone else; he didn't invent the idea of Horcruxes, he just decided to make a half a dozen of them instead of just one which might just mean he is more reckless with his soul than other dark wizards.
To our knowledge only Snape regularly invented his own spells or improved how things were being done generally, like seriously if Snape had a personality adjustment he would have been the best teacher in Hogwarts because he has a true passion for his craft and truly understands magic itself but he's a complete bully so no one respects him enough to pay much attention.
@@dracorim6370 Or another thought occured to me: how is a lack of housing even a thing considering you can apparently fit entire six bedrooms homes into tents and suitcases?
Also while I disagree they should fully integrate with muggles if they don't want to, you would think in practice this would be 'choose your own way' type thing, with governments simply ignoring previous international precedent; like how in various countries theres a relaxation of drug laws even though the international treaty on narcotics is in force
Thank God people are finally realising this. I've seen too many people mistake Harry for a typical nerd stereotype. Why? Cause he wears glasses? Cause he gets bullied? Just because he's bullied by an even dumber jock (Dudley/Malfoy) does not make him a nerd. Not to mention, their bullying ends up being pretty inconsequential to Harry.
Compare Harry to the typical "shy nerd" and "dumb jock" trope and anyone can see that he has far more in-common with the jock than the nerd.
He gets to school and displays natural talent at the school's (and the world's) primary sport. His talent gets noticed by the teacher which immediately grants him a spot in the school team, playing the most important position.
He doesn't put much stock in academics, getting only average marks in all the subjects. The only subject he's exceptional at ends up being the one which is directly related to combat.
So, we have a guy who does not care much for studies, is popular, basically plays the most important position in his world's version of football, and is really really good at self-defence. How is that not a jock?
@@dracorim6370 not a single time is the emotional component of spells ever discussed in relation to wand casting
Except by Bellatrix.
The only person who directly addresses how magic even works is the insane Voldemort stan
About Hermione's parents, imagine if they were talking to someone and they asked about Hermione. And then they spoke to someone else who also asked them about Hermione. And then they spoke to another person, who also referenced Hermione in conversation. They'd go to work and multiple patients would ask them "How is your daughter?". That would be mad material for a horror story.
Also, imagine the impact magic could have on the movie industry. It would save so much time and money on special effects and maybe even filming and editing. WE WOULD HAVE SO MANY MORE MOVIES!
@@katc.3400 But at the same time it would sort of ruin the magic, no pun intended. Part of the fun of big spectacle scenes in movies is the "How the hell did they do that?" feeling: if the answer to that question is always just "Literal magic" that question and that feeling goes away for good.
Sounds like a ripping episode of The Twilight Zone.
Isn't that part of the reason she gave them new identities and a compulsion to move to Australia? To avoid exactly that?
@@tjenadonn6158 But how is, "It's just CGI" any better? I can see your point for practical effects, though honestly I'm usually more engaged in analyzing the story.
During the Child Endangerment section, I realized the only parent to react at their child's injury was Lucious Malfoy. Granted, he is evil, but the book presents his general evilness as the reason why he reacts, when his son was actually injured during a class in the presence of a teacher. Sure, he didn't need to go after Buckbeak's life etc, but he wasn't wrong to feel that Hagrid was not a competent teacher and that Dumbledore should prevent injuries in his school. Every time Hermione doubts even for a second Hagrid's competence as a teacher, Harry and Ron lash out and make her feel bad. And even Harry secretly doesn't like the classes, but apparently being friends with a good-hearted person is enough to justify incompetent teaching and endangering students. Amos Diggory actually lost his son, and he merely grieved. No effort into finding out how the organisers could have protected Cedric. I guess this is the triwizard tournament for you, you must accept death as an option. And talking about Child Abuse, it is sick how a teacher was allowed to turn Malfoy into a ferret and smash him up and down on the floor, and we are expected to laugh when Malfoy dares to mention he'd tell his father that he was treated that way.
this makes me wonder if there were any kids that didn't communicate their bullying at home in the real world because of the events in this book.
To my understanding, Draco's inhumane treatment was part of fulfilling every bullied kid's overblown revenge fantasies, but having that be done by a teacher, someone with power over him, instead of his peers really doesn't reflect well on the world they live in.
the triwizard tournament is so hilarious to me because of how dangerous it is. like, they specify in the book that it was banned for centuries because so many children kept being slaughtered, and then one day they just decide "ah fuck it let's bring back the tournament". like, how does that even work? i could understand bringing it back if it was an anniversary type thing but with a whole bunch of safety regulations, which would actually make the finale and cedric's death hit harder since the new safety measures should have been able to prevent it. but there dont seem to be any kind of safety measures or regulations at all; i'm honestly amazed that everyone is shocked the cedric gets killed, it would have been more surprising if nobody had died. the first task is literally fighting a fucking dragon! did everybody else in that book just sleep through the part where multiple people nearly drowned in the lake?? or the giant murderous sphinx in the maze??? how the fuck is the triwizard tournament legal????????
No, Cedric’s dad reacted when his son’s dead corpse was placed in his arms! So. There’s that I guess.
it was made very clear that turning him into a ferret was against rules mcgonnagall stopped it, and malfoy knowingly provoked the hippogriff attack and wanted to get hagrid fired from the start. are these details not in the 10h video? guess I won't watch it
03:47:20 - Let's not forget that Hermione, and any girl, can enter the boys' dormitory at any time, but if the boys try and go up to the girls' dormitory, the stairs turn into a slide and kick them out, a feature apparently built into Hogwarts by the founders
Oh, never mind, that got brought up almost an hour later, haha
@@nont18411 Ah, double standards, gotta love 'em. Like how we should have sympathy for Voldemort's mother Merope for drugging and raping Tom Riddle Sr for years because she was conventionally unattractive and grew up in an abusive household. Which makes it at least understandable, buuuuuuut... cool motivation, still rape.
Rowling is a gender essentialist and a terf..so this is in line with her worldview that men and boys are primarily predators and women and girls need protection from them..also why she doesn't address the use of love potions by women on men with the seriousness it merits
@@nont18411 That was never implied like where was it?
Perhaps because so many teenage boys DO sexually molest girls, whereas very few teenage girls have molested boys.
harry potter au where harry is disgusted with the wizarding world and refuses to continue being enrolled in hogwarts, then defeats voldemort on his own through dedication to studying magic, overthrows the ministry, and ushers in a new age for wizards and all magical creatures
But we can't have that in our J.K Rowling world, do we? Where Change is bad. But sure, it could work as an AU. Maybe it starts after the first movie/book
holy shit, I found it. Harry Potter if it wasn't mid!!
@@megalowatee570That’s the thing with the main conflict in Harry Potter, isn’t it? Everything was all hunky dory before Voldemort showed up. The solution to beating Voldemort isn’t to reevaluate how the Wizarding society nurtured a person like him to happen, it’s to get back to the status quo before Voldemort existed.
this is literally the plot of percy jackson
@@j_fenrir oh shit fr? maybe i should read percy jackson
The Whomping Willow is actually way worse than that: it was intentionally planted, not by a student, but on the orders of Headmaster Dumbledore himself to guard the entrance of the passage to the Shrieking Shack. Both the Willow and the Shack were put in place the year Remus Lupin attended Hogwarts so he could have a place to transform where other students couldn't follow.
The headmaster had a tree planted that was explicitly intended to endanger anyone who got close to it without permission--knowing most of these "anyones" would be his own students--and then didn't even bother to remove that tree after its initial purpose was completed.
He put in a tree that bludgeons people to death instead of a password system. Why would you do that
Bloody hell I forgot all about that! Geez, add that to the list of "fucked up things Dumblodere did" like, why not just lock the door with a spell Remus or more likely someone like say Sirus and James would know, and leave it at that.
legit why didnt they just apparate to a field or abandoned city or something
God what an idea - let’s have a giant tree that can horrifically bludgeon someone to keep them away from the monster who could horrifically maul them
A+ 10/10 💯👌🏻
Wild case of swallow the cat to catch the rat I guess
As an English teacher, I think it’s fascinating and depressing that they don’t get a comprehensive education in English. It makes sense in the context of the world. Why do these people fall for the propaganda of the Daily Prophet so easily? Because they’ve not learnt the intricacies of how people can carefully select language to influence their thoughts and feelings. Also, Rowling treats history as a subject like it’s just about learning facts. In the real world, it’s not. It’s about learning how and why things happen. It’s about learning cause and effect. It’s about understanding how different historians can have different interpretations of the cause, effect and significance of historical events. Of course they fall for propaganda! They never get taught how to analyse language and they never get exposed to the idea that there’s more than one perspective to a story.
Unfortunately, in a lot of places history IS treated like just the memorization of facts and dates. So most history students just don’t learn anything because they don’t think it’s important- and who can blame them if it was treated that way.
Not too shocking for Rowling to think of history in that way, given that she seems to have entirely missed/ignored all of its messages.
I agree with you but I'd like to point out that everyone has fallen for propaganda at one point and most US citizens continue to fall for propaganda in some way shape or form
@@coinjar4962 Yeah, but have you seen the way they engage with other people and type? Most of them are no better than the wizards in terms of reading comprehension, general literacy, or critical thinking. A sad state of affairs, lol.
@@DeaDiabola came here to say this too. All while reading the original comment, I was thinking “that’s what we’re living through right now!”
Back when I first read the books, I naively thought Harry was going to return the sword of gryffindor to the goblins after they'd completed their mission. I thought he'd say something like, "The sword is yours, but please let us use it to stop the bad guys." But hey, I also thought the statue with all the magical species looking up adoringly at wizards was hinting that things needed to change and would change by the end as everyone got together to stop the baddies. Silly me!
Considered in that light Joey's politics, outdated as they are today, might've been considered outdated even back when the British Empire downgraded itself to the Commonwealth of Nations and stopped throwing a militaristic hissy fit every time one of its former colonies decided to declare independence from the crown.
@@StriderCompanions it's more accurate to say the maker lent it, but that cultural divide is the source of contention in the universe. The last book makes very clear that goblins consider ownership differently from us. Under their culture, If a goblin is commissioned to forge a magical sword for Godric Gryffindor, the sword belongs to Godric until the time of his death at which point ownership reverts to the one who made it or their family - not to Godric's family or named recipient in his will as is the custom for wizards.
I thought the same way about the sword tbqh, that he would return it to them
Nah see the thing is that everyone gets to own it. The goblins believe the owner of an object is whoever creates it, and wizards believe possession determines ownership. So there's no need to return it.
I honestly think that the last few books were so overloaded with useless hyperbole that I genuinely forgot that that was a theme until I reread the books when I was older. I was 11 when I read the Deathly Hallows, so I wasn’t really old enough (or educated enough yet) to understand the themes she was alluding to so I think that’s why I didn’t really notice them and how there was no payoff until I reread the entire series after college and my nostalgia had started to wear off a bit.
On Harry Potters domestic abuse: My theory is that Dumbledore left Harry with the dursleys to groom him into someone who doesn’t value his own life. Same with the different “trials” he went through all his school years. All to groom him for that final sacrifice.
That’s so sad 😢
Dang that’s fucked
Yeah id believe that
That’s kinda like the twist in Chainsaw Man but shit.
Makima set Denji up with a good life so she could systematically break him in order to get what she wants. That’s kinda the same thing Dumbledore does, but we’re supposed to like Dumbledore.
Yeah I think dumbledore only really makes sense when viewed as a villain
You can see how lily's hair slowly fades from blue to greenish blonde based on the chapters lmao
I thought you were talking about Lily POTTER for a second and was very very confused
It's a reflection of the light being drained from her soul
nice björk pfp
@@ashikjaman1940 Each chapter is another horcrux being added to the pile
wow now i can
I can't stop thinking about the wizard from the chocolate frog cards who was too scared to leave his house. Like... that's just a regular human mental illness and the wizards thought it was so cRaZy they made a whole trading card about it. I'm agoraphobic too so it's nice to know that if i was living in the Harry Potter World I'd be seen as a freak and have my mental illness immortalised in a trading card game for children. God this franchise is so hilariously bad it's beyond parody
Lol whut
@Halloween All Year Round I think that was the point... to show that wizards aren't perfect. There's literally a fountain portraying all other magical races looking up to wizards in admiration. The point is that wizards are incredibly racist, even in the series. The wizard in question that was afraid to leave his house was in the past, before people had any sort of sensitivity to those sort of things. He was likely the first recorded case of agoraphobia in the wizarding world. I imagine that modern wizards in universe would have ways of dealing with it without calling said agoraphobic person crazy. I loathe Joanne and her views, but you can't say the entire series is bad. Cursed child isn't canon and never will be in my mind, and neither are the stuff said on Pottermore. Those both are just her bigotry unrestrained, but the books have heart and don't delve into those topics.
@@DINO_X65 The problem with the Ministry of Magic being racist as fuck (and the story *explicitly saying* through Dumbledore that the fountain represented that racism) is that the story goes on to do literally nothing about it. Nothing gets any better for the other races, the Goblins and Centaurs are still oppressed and Wizards still keep *actual slaves,* and the last sentence of the story is still “All was well.”
I mean, the series was set back in the 90s... given that wizards are even more conservative than muggles, it actually makes sense.
@@BaphometGaming69 I never said the series was perfect, and I understand some of the complaints, but I think that this is an exaggeration. First of all, it's heavily implied that once the trio get jobs in the ministry, they actively progress creature rights and the wizarding world's attitude to non-human sapient creatures. To say that they didn't make any progress at all is disingenuous. Could the author have handled it a lot better? Definitely yes. But does it ever imply that the wizarding world didn't get over a lot of its prejudice? While it's unrealistic that wizards suddenly treat house elves, goblins, and centaurs equally, I presume the attitudes toward them are much, much better than before. Remember, Harry doesn't just become a beat cop, but he becomes he head of the cop department of law enforcement and reforms the entire department. Hermione becomes Harry's boss, so he won't be hindered in his fight for reform. I'm not defending the author at all, and I won't be buying HP merch or buying the video game that's coming out, but we have to stop exaggerating or making up points, otherwise, the transphobes and racists that do support he author and her series can just dismiss our points.
The funniest part of all your critiques of the magical world, like the chapter on wizarding careers for example, is that I kept thinking of things that would disprove what you were saying, only to realize that they all came from fanfiction.
It's insane to me just how much of the worldbuilding that comes to my mind when I think of Harry Potter isn't actually tied to the original works at all, and instead comes from the fandom.
I had the exact same feeling!
God I never thought about wands. "Each phoenix gives only a single tail feather" okay, this dude is selling minimum 40-50 wands a year -- let's assume Harry's Hogwarts class had about 40 students (5 boys sorted into Gryffindor so we're assuming roughly equal distribution to gender and houses). Harry's Hogwarts class is the equivalent of the school class that was born in 1942-3. A massive war was ongoing and ended a little more than a year after the birth of the youngest theoretical student in Harry's year. We can probably assume there was at least a bit of a baby boom after that like there was after WW2, so we should probably assume the incoming first year class when Harry was in fourth or fifth year, and the few after that, were much bigger. This doesn't account for how many adults need new wands (probably not that many, but a few). This man could pretty comfortably be selling up to 200 wands a year, and while we know there's a lot of things that can make up a wand core, official sources I'm aware of only ever list three materials that Ollivander uses.
How many fucking phoenixes are there in England??? How many dragons are dying every year to have heart strings (which I assume is a fiber of heart muscle) harvested??? Unicorn hairs are presumably slightly easier to come by if someone has access to some and they can be acquired without harming the unicorn, they definitely seem intelligent enough to enjoy some tail and mane brushing from someone they trust, but unless the dude makes like one phoenix wand and one dragon wand a year this is kind of insane. The math ain't fucking mathing.
Maybe each rebirth of a phoenix is considered a different phoenix for wand-making purposes?
Well, one Phoenix is basically an infinite source of tailfeathers.
@@ultimatejigglypuff5675 only if we assume that rebirths count as new bird, which would be a dumb way to word it then.
A better way to word it, if that's the case, would be "a Phoenix only gives out one tail feather per cycle/rebirth"
Except Fawks gave out only two, and we know he's died at least twice during the series, both after the feathers.
I can see dragon heartstrings being dried or something, so they probably don’t need to have been collected recently, but yeah it does carry a lot of weird implications if you make the Magic Wand With A Rare Magical Item At Its Core into something that thousands of people need in order to participate in their community
What if it's a ball of something that dragons cough up like a hairball? Or a decretion from a gland on their chest, that turns stringy as it dries? I don't think it needs to be anatomically the same as the heartstring in mammals. After all, it feels odd that two are willingly given and the third one is obtained by mutilating a corpse.
I was thinking about what you said about Hermione removing her parents memory, and like, her moms body would still have signs of childbirth? If she went to a doctor they would see the pelvic scaring or C-section scar? What happens when that’s pointed out to them but they have no memory of ever having a child? How horrifying the idea is to be told your body signals that you carried and delivered a baby but having no memory of this.
New fear unlocked, jesus fuck...
oh my god thats fucking terrifying
And how Hermione herself, the “brightest witch of her age” and supposedly the emotional supporter of Harry and Ron, either doesn’t realise this, or glosses over it when telling her friends and somehow NOBODY realises how this is going to permanently traumatise Hermione and her parents. She was so casual about it in the books and only cried about it ONCE. According to Harry, she cried more about Ron leaving them, which is genuinely the stupidest thing I have ever heard. How did JKR make Hermione more cut up over Ron leaving than ERASING HER PARENTS MEMORIES AND SENDING THEM TO AUSTRALIA????
not to mention that this only works on those 2 people, they're are assumabley other family members, hospital records, and close friends and coworkers, hermiones parents don't strike me as never mentioning how proud they are of their child, so they are likely going to go to prison for the disapearance/De@#h of their child.
@@ronanmates7812there wouldn’t be friends of family because they moved to Australia and believe they are different people.
A racist, a transphobe, an antisemite and a eugenicist walk into a bar.
The bartender looks up and says "aren't you that girl who wrote harry potter?"
@@omegahaxors9-11 Thank you for sharing such fine work. Which I will definitely steal, after subbing to the channel to assuage my guilt
LMFAO
Made me chuckle
What utter idiocy. Sadly fools outnumber the intelligent and the sophisticated.
The incredible nerdish-ness of this discussion beggars belief.
Calling an intelligent (sapient) race "territorial" is really fucked up. Imagine calling Native Americans "territorial" for wanting their ancestral lands.
Pretty sure they actually DID do that if they even acknowledged they had any "claim" to the land
Yep!
"They want the territory we stole from them BACK?! The audacity!"
I know your intentions are good here but there is no such thing as "intelligent" and "unintelligent". All lifeforms are intelligent because life IS intelligence, and each organism is adapted to their niche. Intelligence is a spectrum, not a scale, but I do understand you meant sapient/sophont.
Anyways, Rowling's rhetoric and writing are a direct product of racism which is a direct product of anthropocentrism and neurocentrism. They're intricately linked, because if you have a misunderstanding of how non-human lifeforms function cognitively OR have a prejudice and hatred to anyone who is not human, you are going to devolve into human supremacy, ableism and racism. This is why comparing people of colour and other marginalised human groups to non-human organisms is unethical, as it's always done from a derogatory perspective and a place of supremacy and lack of understanding (e.g. calling African-Americans "animals" or disabled people "plants"; even though we all are animals, it is said with prejudice and hostility), while it's crucial to compare non-human organisms to marginalised groups because they too are marginalised and are seen as unintelligent and non-sentient when the reality of the situation is that all life is sentient and intelligent, but mankind wants to shove them into an "inferior" group just to be able to exploit them.
No form of marginalisation exists in a vacuum which is why none of them can be allowed to exist. If you turn a blind eye to anthropocentrism and neurocentrism, you're turning a blind eye to the root of all bigotry. And Rowling, since she comes from a place of actively avoiding facts and learning about history and ethics, she is a prime example of how her conservative and narrow-minded views manage to hurt absolutely every individual in existence (yes, even the most privileged humans out there as ableism and fatphobia affect literally everyone).
AND before anyone in here realises "oh shit wait, I'm kinda thinking like this" and really wants to go "BUT-", don't. This isn't directed at anyone apart from Rowling and conservatives, especially not anyone in here or the OP. This is directed at the flaws of the rhetoric and those who have been presented with information but refuse to change it (such as Rowling), and this is nothing more than objective information. It's meant to give an insight on the complexities of the unethical aspects of human culture that have been so normalised that very few give it a second thought. My task here is to make you think and have discussions, that's what ethics are all about
@@godslaughter I don't have time to read all that right now, but yeah I'm usually good about saying sapient rather than sentient or intelligent or whatever. Also I certainly agree the line between the two is blurry and perhaps less meaningful than we'd (collectively) like to think. We humans are just another animal after all.
I always thought that Nastily Exhausting Wizard Test was just funny slang that the characters came up with, like how in my school we renamed EQAO to Evil Questions Attacking Ontario. Learning that that's the official government-sanctioned name for the exams you take in 7th year is both baffling that she wouldn't come up with something that actually makes sense and yet not at the same time because I 100% believe Rowling came up with the acronym and thought it was funny and didn't bother to think of the in-universe lore implications of that stupid ass name.
I mean it's a dumb name but look at most of the items in that world they all have dumb names
or maybe the government has a sense of humor
I feel like a good alternative could be Northern European Wizarding Test or something like that, which would just be colloquially referred to by the canon name. But frankly, it’s not really whimsical enough.
Even having a grade being "Exceeds Expectations" is just cruel. Like damn you had so little hope for the kid you were surprised when they were above Acceptable
@@emhoj97 honestly, exceeds expectations, if anything, should be above "outstanding" because at least then it would kinda imply that the work done was so far above average its noteworthy, sorta like an A+ instead of just an A, or 100/100 or smthn.
As someone whose childhood was Harry Potter, I love this. Especially good for listening to while I'm working on homework. And YES, about the love potion section. I'm a girl, and I was disturbed by how lighthearted love potions were treated despite being basically a date rape drug.
Like, just look at Voldemort's parents as the worst example of what someone could do with that. Imagine how terrifying it'd be if the last thing you remembered was being offered a drink and then waking up several months later in a place you have no idea how you got there, living with someone you don't even know claiming they're your partner who has a child with you.
I think people under love potions actually _do_ remember what happened, but since they were not in the right frame of mind they'd make choices they never would have otherwise and can't do anything about it. So imagine that moment of clarity when you're no longer drugged with the potion and you're suddenly yourself again, but you remember _everything_ and have to live with that for the rest of your life.
I think that they showed those effects of what happens after the love potion (or spell) wears off in one of the fantastic beasts movies. True they are no strangers, but abuse happens in the real world mostly by people you know not by strangers. And it truly wasn’t okay in that scene, that she did that.
@@drygonfyreikr
@@drygonfyre I've read fiction where that scenario is literally part of a character's traumatic backstory and they were only saved by a rival and possible true love who went to find out what happened to them. And this story was aimed at ages 13 and up.
and it causes eomething that in the wizarding world is considered a birth defect, the inability to feel love, which we know love potions cause this because that was the explanation for voldemort's greatest weakness being love
1:49:24 I remember sitting in the cinema and being completely shocked as to why Dumbledore was supposed to be the most pure-hearted wizard there.
Dumbledore.
WHEN NEWT SCAMANDER WAS RIGHT THERE.
Edit: Okay guys, I see your point. It should have been Jacob.
Devil's advocate: does hypocrisy count against ones heart purity? Hypocrisy is basically the notion that you practice the opposite of what you claim to believe. Say Dumbledore is transparent about his moral greyness in general; meanwhile Newt Scamander dedicates his life to the care of magical creatures, but he stepped on a bug once.
I can imagine a J. K. Rowling creature being that pedantic
I liked the idea the pitch meeting video had where the deer should have kneeled in front of Jacob bc it would make sense with his character and also prove that grindelwald's prejudice is bullshit. But ig JK hates muggles and stans dumbledore way too much for that to happen
- Got his sister killed thanks to his lust in power
- Let Harry got abused by the Dursley for years
- Groomed Harry to make him a sacrificial lamb in his master plan to defeat Voldemort
Truly a pure of heart person
I agree, or Jacob actually since there felt like there was build up for the chilin liking him
You see, everyone hear pure of heart and think pure good. But maybe Dumbledore is pure child neglect advocator of heart (This is a joke)
"To fill one's house with tumble driyers and telephones would be seen as an admission of magical inadequacy"
BUT USING SLAVE LABOUR ISN'T?
Ah but see its **magic** slave labour
@@athensmorningstar7809 To go a step deeper and maybe take this a bit too literally... yeah. Because while they're using another living being to do shit for them, they enslaved them with magic with they see as reinforcing their power and wizard supremacist agenda. While the washing machine needs exactly zero magic and was invented by a race (?) they have little respect for, so that it can do so much without magic is a threat to their power.
@@athensmorningstar7809so we need magic tumble dryers and telephones, genius 🫡
Nope The elves are using magic
I think one of the few muggles who get the worst treatment for absolutely nothing is the Granger’s. Their daughter treats them abysmally and they progressively lose any authority or respect their daughter might have for them as the story progresses, culminating in her taking away not only their consent in moving forward but their entire identities as well. Like imagine how betrayed they must have felt coming out of it all, the ultimate gaslight that Hermione can just shove the “I did it for you” and “you don’t understand”. When during her entire Hogwarts schooling they’ve been nothing but supportive and understanding despite having many MANY reasons to pull her out and send her somewhere safe. They lose her for nearly the entire year to wizard shenanigans, with a mixture of school and letting her have holidays wherever or hanging out on the wizard world with her wizard friends. Then she joins a world where a telephone isn’t a thing, from her adulthood onwards they basically have no two way communication that doesn’t rely on Hermione.
And all of this could have been easier to swallow with more appearances of them. Maybe have a comedic moment where the two drop Hermione off at the Burrow and are accosted by Mr. Weasley before enjoying and potentially bonding with Molly over recipes (sugar free of course with how pro tooth health they are).
But all of that requires Joanne to admit Muggles could be interesting in any way at all beyond “victim” or Dursley-ied.
You know what has always bugged me. They could easily use owls to track people. Hedwig can always find Sirius, even when Harry doesn’t know where he is. Just write letter to tom riddle. Boom done.
That is a great point. The only issue I can see is that owls can be killed, so if Riddle keeps his eyes on the skies, the owl tracking just ends up sending him his roast owl dinner every night
The "reverse homing pigeons" trope is absolutely one of the most unrecognizedly overpowered things in fiction ever.
I see this exact thing be done in arguably better fanfics of HP. They recognize that owls and letters can be charmed with tracking spells
Another fantasy saga that a magic bird of prey could have easily solved a few books before the end.
I think that there is a fanfiction that starts with Harry writing a letter to Voldy. It’s deffo on ao3 but I can’t remember the name
As a Canadian woman, I was introduced to the idea of household fairies early - the mid-level Canadian girl scouts are the Brownies, and they lean hard into being fae folk who help with household chores. That may have helped me swallow the idea of House Elves as a child without any critical thought. Now, as an adult, I see it as a huge missed opportunity. There are literal creatures in Scottish folklore who do housework and only require small offerings of gratitude, occasionally play pranks and will ditch you if you offend them, how is that not way more compelling? Combine that with the proposed theory that they've been cursed because they're too powerful/useful.. ugh!! There's so many better things to do with magic and folklore than insist they want to be slaves.
Irish fae are so much more hardcore xD
ask any irish person if they believe in them and they'll say no, ask them to hurt a hawthorne tree and they will not
One of my favourite takes on Brownies is in the webseries PALE. The universe leans very hard into its version of karma, including things like swearing oaths and sacred hospitality. Brownies exploit those laws by intentionally swearing to serve a person or people so long as their work is never appreciated (often without telling those people). This means their masters build up a karmic debt to the brownies, which they’re then free to exploit if and when someone slips up.
There are creatures like that in Norwegian folklore as well, they help on the farm, taking care of cattle and so on, but you have to be respectful (even if you can't see them! only a lucky few catch a glimpse), leave good food (rømmegrøt) out for them and so on, or they'll cause trouble and then leave
We have brownies in the uk and I had no idea they were based on fae folk! As the church is very connected to the uk scouts, I’m sure that they got rid of that side of it!
THATS the origin of brownies?? my group met in a church! ive been duped
Regarding Durmstrang, can I just say that as an Eastern European, it's always delightful to be thought of and described by a British woman as backwards, evil and cartoonishly prejudiced. Good one, Joanne!
Right??? 😂
It would have been more historically accurate if the East European magicians did all the real fighting and dying against Voldemort & Death Eaters, but the American and English wizards swoop in to take all the credit.
I thought Durmstrang was in Norway. What country was it in?
@@christal2641 Who knows what canon JoKo wakes up with today about the exact placement of the school. The actual region that it supposedly covers is mostly Eastern-Central Europe though, and the named characters also reflect that.
@@christal2641 it's in bulgaria if i remember correctly
DUDE I JUST REMEMBERED THAT IN THE LEGO HAREY POTTER GAMES I PLAYED AS A CHILD, YOU ARE REQUIRED AT POINTS TO TRANS YOUR GENDER AND IN HINDSIGHT THAT WAS AN AWAKENING FOR ME IRONICALLY
Helll yeaahhhhhh trans your gender in the Lego Harry Potter games to make JK Rowling wake up in a cold sweat at 3am
Dumbledore being the epitome of "goodness" when he was literally flirting with wizard fascism as a young man while teenage girls can't ever be forgiven for not conforming to JKR's "not like other girls" fauxminism tells you everything you need to know about that woman's moral compass.
Dumbledore: “made a youthful mistake”
Lavender/Parvati/Fleur: “shallow and irredeemable unless she dies/dedicated herself to a man”
Dumbledore is JK’s self-insert, not Hermione.
"fauxminism" - I *LOVE* that, I'm stealing it!
@Joseph Wong lol, no wonder I thought he was cool as a kid, now I see him as a big "Oh no" 😅
I completely agree, Dumbledore is not that wise and good person they want us to believe, but is that really a bad thing? Isn't the point of a good character to have flaws. Dumbledore has a bad past, which he overcame, and he grew as a person.
With the Half-House-Elf women, my very first thought was: Some dude raped his House-Elf. The fact that this canonically happened ... it haunts me. It keeps me up at night.
Yeah, that shit is incredibly fucked up. And all JKR had to do to not have this "oh ew that'd be rape" thing people now think of was... just not have any half-elves. Without that woman, we wouldn't even really have to consider this option but now? I cannot not thing about that shit. Yikes
When are talking about a sociality where rape drugs are legal in sale for everyone including minors. and Merode gount (Voldemort's mother) raped a dud multiple times using this rape drug and after she got pregnant, she stopped with the potion thinking after all this time he falled for real in love with her. It didn't happen, he left (reasonable) and harry and Dumbledore are like "she left this poor pregnant woman and his child, what a monster"
I don't know what to think about joan know.
@@nicolpineda8632 trueee. So gross
@@nicolpineda8632 And then she did the whole “Voldemort is evil because he wasn’t born of love™️, not because of general bigotry or failings of society, etc etc. I wonder what she thinks about children born of bad situations like assault or incest :/
@@RenaissanceRockerBoy tom was born as a regular psychopath. No empathy for other. But still a human bean with emotions. He Just needed care and direction but such things doesn't exist in the magic world.
1:19:06 "Hogwarts is not prejudice because we hired Bins and Hagrid" is the exact same energy as "I'm not racist I have one black friend"
They also had Firenze for some time, his classes seemed to be actually trying to teach about anything other than the wizard perspective, something the magic world clearly needs.
@@Light-ro5bpnot only that, but his divination actually worked, unlike Trelawny. If only it lasted.
this is hilarious bc like lmao this has no basis in canon. never was "is hogwarts prejudiced?" even implied in the books. how ppl come to these conclusions is insane and it kinda seems to me that a lot of ppl in this comment section havent read the books in way too long
@@parasitehouse4504 the title of "read too much into a comedic relief side character in a childrens book" goes to u bro, like tf do u actually think binns cares about money? hes dead man
@@parasitehouse4504 i am in awe of this comment lmao bro what are u smoking
"Exposure to magic is harmful to Muggles and could kill them." there, I just wrote HP better than Rowling.
So, radiation?
And it could be a building block of handling squibs better too, like they're still able to be around magic without the inherent harm, so they're important as representatives and diplomats between the two worlds
The funniest rewrite of the series I've ever found, on the topic of Dumbledore's child endangerment problems and leaving Harry to the Dursley's, is one where the characters openly start to speculate that Dumbledore intentionally puts Harry in these traumatizing and dangerous situations because he wants Harry to feel desperately in need of a mentor/parent-figure, making him easier to manipulate.
It was a hot take and made for a darker tone for the story, which I loved.
Dumbledore Bashing for the win!
uhh... I have a very hard time finding any other possible explanation? And Snape agrees.
@@mackereltabbie there was this whole blood magic thing with how petunia was related to Lily so it worked only if Harry lived with her and it expired when he turned 17 :-)) that was probably one of the reasons Harry lived with them
My favourite fanfic was with the same premise and it was so good. It hasn't been updated in 9 years tho :( koiranruusu pls i'm starving
@@anski97 I've been reading Lily's boy on ao3, it has a similar premise and it's completed! VERY long too lol
@@billytrash3481 except it doesn't make sense. The protection is supposedly based on love (Lily was apparently the only magical parent ever to love their only child enough to die for them?) so how is it strengthened by living in a house where he gets no love whatsoever? That's just dumb. Plus he's even sent back there after 4th year, when Voldemort has broken the protection, so that clearly wasn't the reason then
Ok but what about the vanishing spell? The implications of that are terrifying. It works on living things. Could it work on a person? It worked on kittens. Also THEY USED KITTENS AS SUBJECTS FOR TRANSFIGURATION. I love McGonagall as a character, but holy shit the way she treats animals is just unnerving
Oh god…I’d forgotten about the kittens…🥺
don't forget that professor sprout cut up obviously sentient plant people who just settled down to have families
I read a very hilarious use of that by a child in a trans character fanfic. The character, an 11 year old trans girl, goes to the Care of Magical Creatures teacher and tells him that her dad needs her to figure out a way to neuter a magical animal. He buys the lame explanation for the question, and tells the child to try simply vanishing the creature's bollocks. She promptly goes to her room and does just that. She later gets in a *lot* of trouble with the school healer for doing it.
@@katanah3195 do you remember the title of the fic? i'd love to read this haha
@@Charles.II_of_England It's called Malfoy's Daughter on AO3, it was actually Hagrid the kid went to, not a teacher, and warning for both transphobia and some very OOC adults - but it's decent, and very fluffy.
On the topic of schools, Uagadu is very clearly named after the capital of Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou. It’s like naming a school in Scandinavia Copenghag 🙃
honestly the non-hogwarts magic schools make so much sense considering how small the uk is and its kinda reasonable (ish) most people could go to one school but like... one school for all of africa???
@@iwakeupandboomimaratI mean there's a decent contingent of people that think Africa is a country
I think it might actually be named after the Ghana Empire, which was also known as Wagadou? Still doesn’t make it any better, kind you, considering the school is apparently located in Uganda (notably not anywhere near where Wagadou used to be).
Wait its called Uagadu and its in Uganda? I think it sounds more like she just remixed Ugandas name into something slightly different.
copenhag as a wizard school is at least kinda cool because a hag is a magical something or other
I've always been bugged by what Rowling wrote about the Russian wizarding school. First of all, there is noticeably less info about it than about the other schools (and that is saying a lot, because she hasn't written much about other wizarding schools either). We basically know only two things about it: 1) It's called Koldovstoretz (which does not really make sense as a name) and 2) Russian wizards play a game similar to Quidditch, but instead of using brooms, they fly on tree trunks that they've ripped out of the earth. Like, what the fuck??? Does she really think that Russians are so coarse and stupid, that they can't use brooms? What's the point of uprooting entire trees for a game of Quidditch? It is so pointless, considering that there is a magical flying object that is unique to Russian folklore - a mortar (famously used by Baba Yaga). She could have easily written that Russian wizards use mortars to fly, HAD SHE DONE AN OUNCE OF RESEARCH (it's not some deep, secret lore or anything, btw). But instead she pulls some bullshit like that. How typical.
I've just read Tanya grotter again and it's so much better haha))
Does Hogwarts make sense for a name
@@lightdarksoul2097 At least gramatically, yes. Koldovstoretz 1) is misspelled (there's a v missing, it should be KoldovstVoretz), 2) just doesn't reflect how institutions are named in Russia. I can see the name "Hogwarts" functioning as a name for an English school (regardless of it's meaning), but not Koldovstoretz. That's just not how naming works in Russia. We rarely use single nouns as names for specific places (adjective-noun combinations are way more common here, for example, Smolny Institute) If were are to assume that this specific school was founded, let's say, pre-Ivan the Terrible, it would be logical to have a hyphenated name as it reflects certain folkloric naming conventions (меч-кладенец, чудо-юдо, гуси-лебеди).
Those are my main gripes with the name "Koldovstoretz". It's kind of a cool combination of meanings (albeit a misspelled one) but it's a stylistic mess.
"Hogwarts" as a name just seems more natural to me, I can see it existing, despite of what it means (idk why they decided to name it that, though)
@@paulinekliarkina1615 I agree
Doubly funny considering that the ones that actually have a sport about tossing tree trunks are the Scottish.
There's also been a lot of Hufflepuff bashing in the books, like they're the pathetic ones. When they're the house with the most compassion and tolerance. Even the founder Helga Hufflepuff just wanted to teach students, of any kind, magic while the rest of the founders where hand picking personality traits they like. There would have been a lot more wizards on the isles unable to do magic if she hadn't take on 'the rest.'
And thinking about hufflepuffs are the ones being closest to the kitchens and supposedly loving food, so they seem to have the most "reason" to know the elves and talk with them and liking them... I don't know. The implications trouble me...
In the end it doesn’t matter, because ironically huffelpuff seems to be the house most potter heads seem to identify with. I find that kinda sweet 🥰
I said this before Ill say it again. Hufflepuffs are absolute Chad's.
Getting older and realizing both all the problematic stuff with Harry Potter AND the fact that the author is an open bigot has made me sad and gives me the feeling that I lost something that meant something to me, like a lot of people my age.
But as time has gone on, I realized the biggest thing that I ACTUALLY miss has nothing to do with the books, movies, or J.K. Rowling herself. It's the Hufflepuff communities I was in as a kid. You know, the people who sorted themselves into Hufflepuff in real life.
They're legitimately the most unrelentingly kind group of people that I've ever met. They give me faith that people CAN be good. Sometimes I feel like everything is terrible and then I remember them, and the fact that they're all still out there somewhere. I've never met such an unapologetically accepting group of people.
It makes me sad that J.K. Rowling wrote off that worldview as unimportant.
Helga was the one who got al the houseelfs to the kitchen.
21:40 Regarding the Forbidden Forest, it would’ve made more sense if it was actually a wildlife sanctuary or something, where endangered magical creatures can live, and they have wizard conservationists or magizoologists or whatever working there. That also ends up making the detention make sense because the students would be sent to do some volunteer work in maintaining habitats and stuff, and during that detention the whole unicorn incident spooks everyone because they would wonder why this is happening in a wildlife sanctuary. All the canon narrative does with the forest is show that more students, realistically speaking, should have died at Hogwarts loooong before Voldy showed up
With every basically brilliant idea like this, HP just seems more and more stupid as a whole story. It would have been so easy to implement this, JK wouldn't have had to work on it any more than just mentioning it and it's done, but no, I'm starting to believe she just wrote everything in 5 minutes and didn't care to look back at her notes
@@Nemamka or wanted people to make fanfic so that her stuff will have more staying power or sometime but she is very petty so probably not
The idea of a school surrounded by a magical nature-conservation zone is also super plausible, because the woods area at the back of my own school was also a habitat for endangered animals. (well, insects.) May I use this idea for a project of my own? It's great!
You could even have aragog and everything still. Just have a section with more dangerous creatures that only Hagrid is allowed to go inside. Maybe even have Hagrid be the actual *only* one allowed in there, not even other teachers, so he can hide grawp there. It just writes itself. And while I'm writing fanfic, I think it would have made sense for it to be harder to offend hippogriffs. Maybe you have to do the whole bowing thing to ride them but otherwise they just leave you alone unless you *actively* disrespect them. That way malfoy comes off more as a kid who was being stupid and suffered the consequences instead of a kid who messed up and nearly died
The problem, is that idea would show some kind of support for environmentalism. And Rowling’s neoliberal values can’t have that no no no.
"What does that mean for the poor creature that just got uncreated or created?"
You know, Lunacid has a spell called Lithomancy. "A forbidden blood magic that gives life to the inanimate. Unable to comprehend existence, the objects only scream."
That's sorta what I imagine would happen. Which is pretty horrific!
OH, THAT'S SO CREEPY. I LOVE IT.
WOOOO LUNACID MENTION
Even as a kid, I remember hearing the name "Cho Chang" and being like, "really? THAT'S what she named the one Asian character?"
I guess kid you forgot the two other asian characters called Padma and Parvati Patil. Which are at least better named than Cho Chang.
@TemariNaraannaschatz I mean, I was like 10 so yeah...
Love the "'Cho Chang' sounds racist to me therefore it is racist" argument.
@@kielsonelnikos8589 let's say it's not racist. how does that explain her other micro (and macro) aggressions towards other cultures in the series?
@@CobaltLn can you try to be more specific next time? Thanks.
That situation with Irma Dugard is… more evil than I thought JK could get in her writing, I’ll be honest. Her being the offspring of a (clearly non-consenting) female house elf and a male master - and still being forced into servitude herself despite her half human ancestry - is about as direct a metaphor for mixed-race descendants of American chattel slavery as one can get. And yet we’re somehow not supposed to see house elf slavery as a horrifying, broken system. I didn’t expect a lot from JK and I was still let down.
Where does Rowling say that the world she is describing is supposed to be a good one? I mean, we have fascist blackmages (but they exist irl too), war (same), kids being mistreated in school (been a few years but i haven't heard about any changes since), hidden elite power structures behind the parliament (that's how politics often work), a society that has more than they need but still doesn't subsidize students from weaker families. My point being: Harry Potter is not a utopia. Authors aren't meant to write only stories that make you feel good.
What. The. Hell. SHE WROTE THAT? AND STILL EXPECTED US TO BE LIKE “Oh yeah, the slave labor is totally normal and they want it actually!” IS THIS WOMAN STRAIGHT UP DUMB??? I HATE THIS FREAKING BOOK SERIES.
@@476f7474 because if you try to bring any of it up she just plugs her ears and shouts loudly until you go away.
@@TheBonkleFox understandably so! Have you ever criticised the works of male authors like this? It's an artist's privilege not to have to explain or discuss their work. If you came up to me, telling me that I'm a bad person because in a song i around the same as she wrote Harry Potter, i sing about suicide, addiction and terrorism without explicitly mentioning that those are problematic - i would tell you to go away. I wouldn't even debate MY WORK with you. If you don't like it, make your own version that's better in the ways you believe mine sucks and then we'll see which one survives. And about interpreting my own works: If I explain something, then it is to explain something i wanted to be clearer than it eventually became. But if i wrote ambigously and you're coming to me with two interpretations, asking which is true, I'll tell you a third and end with "but yours are just as good". I also take greatest offense from the question alone. I write from my heart and soul and I'm being cryptic a lot because much just isn't meant to be widely understood. Putting pressure on me to reveal my secrets will only get me to make up a new story based on what you want to hear and that's only assuming you have the power to make me respond at all.
Just imagine starting to spread hate towards Steven king because of all the nasty elements in his stories, saying that everything any of his characters do is an expressed opinion and pressure him to rewrite his books and remove all the toxic stuff. Like, imagine you would actually do that and you're on your way to visit him and tell him face to face that he needs to change the books. Now imagine you bring along so many people that he does and all novels by Stephen King are from then on free of monsters, violence, trauma, rudeness, racism, just free of all evil thoughts. Now imagine that it's 5 years after you achieved this and you're looking back on what you've achieved there and ask yourself: "Do i really feel good about this?"
And I'm sure, you will have trouble to fully imagine that insane stream of logic i just presented you with because it's entirely unreasonable - yet when it comes to Joanne Rowling who plays in the same league as Steven King, y'all don't even think about whether to approach her this aggressively.
And why would she listen? For every letter from a usually white madperson accusing her of discrimination group x, a member of group x writes her how they are thankful for her support
Y'all believe that trans people see her as an enemy but actually, that's not exactly true. Those of us involved in the left wing don't dare to speak up because everyone who does speak up is instantly flagged as Nazi and terf. But just because we are silenced towards the public doesn't mean we don't support Rowling, not just as an author but also as an activist at least with fanmail that helps her stay strong for both women and transsexuals. Amongst the trans movement, transsexuald are actually shunned as "transmedical" or "truscum", so Rowling, Schwarzer and the respected Radfems are the only people we trust. They are understandably wary but we're getting better at communicating with each other.
@@476f7474 Yes. Yes I have Criticized male-identifying authors like this before. Ernest Cline, Norman Boutin, and John Boyne all come to mind. Don't try to play the sexism card one me when you're the one supporting someone who literally hangs out with people who want to suppress women's rights.
God I hate the whole "magic schools" thing so much. I already found it strange that students from the Netherlands (my country, so the one I know most about) would go to Beauxbatons, since kids in the Netherlands generally don't speak French, but for there to be one school for an entire continent??? That's just insane. Love how she made the effort to make up at least three European schools and then couldn't be arsed to make up more than one for every other continent. Just say "every country has its own school and I'm going to discuss some of the more well-known ones", and then ask actual people from that country to help you think of something appropriate.
I don't even know where my country (Slavic) would fall under. But the only other language beside English that I know has Mahou tokoro
Which is just magical place said v e r y grammatically incorrect
Even in America, there definitely wouldn’t be only one school for the entirely of North America. Maybe one bilingual school for Canada, but US would have at least two, and one perhaps in Mexico or on the border one way or the other.
@@thelanktheist2626 or Suramérica, I mean one school for the entire continent and is in the only country where they don't speak Spanish (Brazil)
@@whitecat3928 Right. You’d think the place where they predominantly speak Spanish would be in a Spanish speaking country at the least.
@@thelanktheist2626 but you know what is worst,.Korea, Japón and China in the same School, I mean that surely make some troubles. And talking about troubles, Ireland share school with England
Going into this I thought I wouldn't be surprised, then I was gobsmacked to hear that adult Hermione and Harry said, "we need segregation because something bad might happen", and then I was struck dumb by the revelation that wizards can use their house elves as sex slaves to the point where a child is conceived, and then was speechless when made aware that the cursed child is basically a D&D campaign with an overbearing DM and a boss fight on top of a train, and then finally I realized that yeah it makes no sense that wizards use capitalism at all. Also was surprised that the whole video feels very concise for ten hours, so overall a very surprising video in general.
Looking forward to the giant pokemon retrospective.
Seeing this comment when I'm only an hour into the video is wild.
@@leiakasta7602 only an hour into the video is wild
The headcannon that house elves were blood cursed to WANT to be slaves makes the whole situation go from “this has some terrible implications and why on earth did the author write it this way” to an in-universe tragedy spanning generations and I will immediately be adopting it, thank you.
I'm thinking about the Oods and how they were suppressed to serve humans!
On the topic of myrtle: I can absolutely not get over the fact that when investigating her death, apparently NOBODY had the glorious idea to just effing ask her, like...? When Harry asked her how she died she was so enticed and told him that no one ever asked her that question... after a student was murdered, nobody thought "hey let's ask the only person we know was there when it happened about it"? The sheer dumbness of every person in a position of power is truly astonishing.
Also regarding hogwarts safety... it's not only the school not doing enough to protect their students, they deliberately send 1st graders into the forbidden forest when knowing there's someone slaughtering unicorns??
And something like the triwizard tournament even existing with children competing is truly dystopian
2 inches away from the hunger games not even gonna lie
@@sydssolanumsamsys And the 2 inches is for the Harry Potter fanchise's lack of interest in changing the broken system. I'd say The Hunger Games saying 'this is bad, really f-ed up, actually' is a bigger difference btwn the 2 than HP having magic.
I wonder if Mertyl being killed buy a snake in the girls bathroom then being written off as annoyance was foreshadowing to JK's fear of penises being in women's bathrooms and not caring about her rhetoric causing a spike in harassment to cis lesbians, bi women, butch women and short haired women.
@@Zephyr_Zeitgeist But, remember, "Dumbledore is pure of heart".
"Late to class? It's into the murder forest with a guy that never graduated with you."
Love how JK Rowling has written 3 Jewish wizards in her time and one them:
1) is told in the 1920s that the holocaust will happen
2) decides to join the guy who says he'll stop the muggles from doing the holocaust
3) is portrayed as a villain for this
and they never acknowledge it
Oh, wow, I never considered that aspect of Queeny's choice.
Then again until this video I didn't know she was Jewish, but that just adds to the WTF part.
Oh, another reason she chose to join was because the real villain, the statue of secrecy, was making her love a death sentence.
Also can we talk about how Grindelwald didn't really want to change muggle/wizard relations, but rather just stop pretending Wizards aren't on top?
@@the_last_ballad Their last name is Goldstein ... so ... yeah ... I mean ... it's not exactly hidden.
@@lady8jane I mean, surnames don't determine one's religion, it's just a convenient stereotype
@Francis when you're talking about Rowling convenient stereotypes in names are literally the same as explicit confirmation
@@Marb315 Fair enough, I just find it sad that you never see a Jewish character with a surname like, idk, Johnson
Rowling feels like she started writing a children's series, where weird inconsistencies and random whimsy is easily overlooked, got massively popular, and realised that with a steadily-aging fanbase she kind of had to write more mature books... except all those inconsistencies and whimsy was still there, and she didn't know how to make them make sense, and also she's a frankly mid writer who's enamoured with the status quo, so we ended up with a bloated franchise held together with hope and sticky tape.
You're absolutely right, and I've had the same notion for a long time. When you read the first two, maaaaybe three books, it's just a whimsical fairy tale where things don't have to work realistically. Like Cinderella doesn't have psychological issues because of her abusive stepmother and sisters, so doesn't Harry, and it's kind of OK. But then you go into the more down-to-earth installments and those things become issues that never get or could get resolved without huge doses of retconning.
Definitly, and that was done badly, to be clear she could have adressed that problems and uist just keep it himsical in a way that is not jarring but makes people not think much about it too much?! Not just leave it, hell use that to show hogwarts became less irreponsile and actually responds
some wways that gets even super fiial transitioned and adressed and maybe reform th school in the process?" And society.
More like cope and Elmer’s Glue
@@marocat4749 you mean like DB in its DBZ of the story?
Basically Naruto
"Don't watch all in one sitting." Girl, you're the only thing making my door-dash delivering bearable
People just don’t seem to understand that the problems with the Potter world is JK Rowling herself. All of the problems that are glaringly obvious. All stem from her, and how she doesn’t see it as a problem. She herself is rich, and doesn’t really care about the impoverished. She is white and has never faced racial oppression, and doesn’t really care about those who have/will. And we know this, because it is so evident in all of her books and not truly addressed when this is her world. If she really cared about any systematic issues in our world, or her world, she would change them. She would try to actually have lasting permanent change that would benefit those who are suffering in her world. But instead, she actually has several instances where Herminie tries to make change, and it shot down and told she is wrong for this. It’s literally Rowling herself saying these aren’t issues. And it’s because she doesn’t really care about these exact same issues in our world, she doesn’t see anything wrong with her world and doesn’t change anything. She doesn’t see anything wrong with our world because she is the one who benefits directly from our systematic issues. So she doesn’t see anything wrong with the systems in her world.
I think everybody understands that. Do you imply that there is no point to critique something horrible when it wasn't an honest mistake or one time misjudgement on author's part?
@@ommlo9967 I think WE understand these things because we are watching this video right? But the average fan (of many media) usually doesn’t want to think critically and “think about why the curtains are blue”. This is a bigger conversation on anti-intellectualism. I’ve known fans who gleefully collect Harry Potter merch (coworkers/acquaintances) but wouldn’t “understand my problem” with the stories lol it’s a book I’m just criticizing for horrible world building, not a janky printer.
i don't know about the impoverished part (jk rowling was pregnant and/or a single mother while writing harry potter and she literally came up with some ideas on the back of paper bags) but i do agree with you everywhere else
@@jubileetea Nah m8, those types of rich people are the worst. Ever heard James Khan or Ricky Gervais in interviews? They genuinely don't understand the role luck played in their success. They look at you or me and wonder why we don't start a successful business, become multinational comedians or, indeed, write the most successful childrens book ever.
They don't understand that the system is broken because to them they're proof that it isn't. Sure JK understands living in poverty better then most rich people... but her life experiences also indicate that we live under poverty not because we need help, but because... we're not spending our spare time planning the next multimillion dollar franchise. She did it. Why can't we?
@@jubileetea Those in lower class structures can still have shitty concepts because they believe they will do better. Aka look at all the sheer amount of working class who support republicans/conservatives, and beleive in capitalism as a system because they're going to be rich 'eventually' they just have to work hard enough. I don't know JKR's financial and class status for sure before she became famous (it's often hard to tell how much whimsy and elaboration is put behind these starving artist stories, i wouldn't be surprised if she was perfectly middle class even before), but even if she was genuienly on the poverty line, she would have still been capable of not caring about the improverished.
"just one more video and I'll go to bed"
The video:
Help, no, same, i gotta sleep
I'm 2:49:04 in and have work in 6 hours. Please send help.
@@MintyKuro How's work going?
@@boneappletee6416 I need so much caffeine...
There were Harry Potter nerds all over the world who would probably have been happy to give JKR detailed notes about how wizarding world could have included their local community. But instead JKR had to make it all up herself (after seemingly no research) and absolutely butcher basically everywhere outside of Great Britain.
Don’t denigrate Jo, she butchered the folklore of the British isles too
The best thing abt Harry Potter, is how much better the fans are writing it. I’ve never rly been a ‘Potterhead,’ but I’d be so excited if something happened like Star Wars’ formerly canon ‘extended universe.’
I was thinking the same thing! Especially since I listen to a podcast (campaign Skyjacks) that did just that: hired writers of various cultures to flesh out their world. If an independant production company can do it, so can multi millionaire JKR
@@rotisseriepossum to be fair, it's because the best writers get the most attention whereas the mediocre ones are left in obscurity.
And then there's My Immortal. Definitely not one of the best writers, but certainly very notorious.
Exactly. The implications for Central, Eastern and southern Europe are really worrying, considering how Durmstrang is portrayed. My partner said that Durmstrang is basically a Soviet school. I like dark stuff, but not when it villainases my people.
Also, the existance of Hungarian Horntail is really weird - did she choose the first past of the name because it alphabetically matched this cool and dangerous design in her head? Hungary is mostly flat, with plains and long gone forests - why would the dragon need those dangerous spikes?
I realise this is really nitpicking, but I had to express myself as a local V4 dweller
"We can't get rid of the Satute of Secrecy, what if there's another Grindlewald or Voldemort?"
My brother in Merlin, the SoS didn't stop them either.
That thing about South Asia viewing Quidditch with suspicion sounds like it's MAJOR cope over the fact that all these countries beat Britain pretty badly at cricket (which has similar hype to the way Quidditch is in the books)
As an Indian who reread the books after primary school (yeah its been a minute), a lot of how the hype around quidditch was portrayed was fun to me as a child because it reminded me of cricket hype. When I got older, and learned about Colonialism and how its definitely bigger than 'haha british bad london thamukada' (and more like 'holy shit that's *disgusting* how was this just considered cartoon villainy to be brushed off to brits??') it seemed like major copium, yeah. like we get it you're [Britain] a sore loser. now win a match already.
How middle-class of her. So much for rags to riches 😆😆
Speaking of JKR's view of Dumbledore, it reminds me of a theory and JKR's reaction to it. The theory went "Fawkes was a Horcrux, created when Dumbledore (maybe) murdered his sister". I personally liked that theory because it ties in to Dumbledore being awful in his youth, but trying to be a better person later. It also brings up interesting implications of "if you make a Horcrux, does that mean you are evil? Can you never do good again? Can you never change your mind and ethics?"
Anyway, JKR immediately shot that down and said that it personally hurt her to think people thought Dumbledore could do something like that.
That would actually have given the universe a lot more depth. Shame that.
Morally grey/formerly evil but trying Dumbledore is so much more interesting than what we got.
Finding out Dumbledore is JKR's favourite character explains so much.
It's an especially interesting level of crazy that she shot that idea down since... it could have been just another accident?!?? Like Harry was the 7th horcrux and not even Voldemort knew?? Why would she think we think Dumbledore is super evil because of this, she WROTE an accident like that as a very important plot element into the main storyline, wtf. It would have indeed been an amazing parallel.
But I guess she has to shush every idea that is cleverer than her, since the books are ... not really that, lol
But wasn't a key part of the Secrets of Dumbledore confirming that Dumbledore totally did murder his sister. In addition to ruining his brother's life by shipping his lover off to her death and then killing said brother's now adult son when he was found to be miraculously alive? I didn't see the movie but this did seem to be the most coherent part of the plot.
"don't watch it in one sitting" is lovely advice but i have art to finish and this showed up in my recommended so i will be here for the next 5 hours thank you
I've been wondering something: if there's a hospital named after someone called "Saint Mungo", that means wizards have saints, which opens a whole other can of worms...
Would wizards worship Jesus, Or do they have a wizard Jesus? Are the saints of another religion than the classic Christianity? Is there holy magic? Paladins? Clerics? This is a huge can of worms.
Considering the implications of wizard souls being damaged using curse spells or broken up for horcruxes wizard Catholicism has to be wild.
jk's biggest worldbuilding problem in the wizarding world is also the thing that made it so enticing for many kids: it takes place in our real world. For a kids' book this is great cuz then every kid hopes someday they'll get their hogwarts letter. When she ages up the books with her audience and tries to actually worldbuild this becomes a fundamental problem because she has to interface with real world events happening in certain real world years and various real world cultures and she seems incapable of doing so and constantly trips over her own feet. The Owl House, which is very much the product of a former HP fan, easily circumvents this by putting its wizarding world in a separate dimension (and it also purposefully rejects chosen one narratives and shows the protagonists actively working to change the world's status quo)
she should just have stopped after the prisoner of azkaban, let harry move in with Sirius and call it a day. The series declined rapidly after that book.
A lot of the problems might also be rectified if Harry hadn’t been made “oblivious” - the fandom used to make a lot of jokes about it, but it just makes Harry look like he’s not interested in anything. And that isn’t a good look for someone who’s been exposed to a magical world, nor does it make Harry look like a very good friend.
I’m not sure if separating a setting from our world remedies the problematic elements the author builds into it. I’ve engaged in too much media that, though taking place “elsewhere,” have worldbuilding elements that jarringly parallel how things work in our world. It comes back to the creator.
@@BlackXSunlight i'm not talking about problems in a moral sense i'm talking about the literary knots she tied herself into by making a world that begs the question "why didn't the wizards stop hitler" and "why is the wizarding world so centered on britain"
I could so easily imagine how it could end at book 3. Peter gets caught, Voldemort remains powerless without a servant and Harry finally gets a non-abusive parental figure. Win win
I can’t sit down for a single tv show episode but for some reason this is it. This is what I need.
I think if we learned more about Hermione’s parents, they would be the MVPs. Both of them are hard-working, dentists and clearly Hermione has had outside education in the Muggle world, and her parents made sure she was well prepared to go to Hogwarts before she started.
ah yes, its famously difficult to raise your child in an average way lmao
@@marink7332 LMAO okay, I wanted to like the original comment but somehow you're totally right
But to be fair I guess the Grangers in this universe are _so_ normal compared to anyone else (as a parenting couple) that they really would stand out as heroes :'D
(If anyone asks, yes, I do think even the Weasleys are not really good parents if you just reaaally think about all the things we know about them. And other than them, well, truly everyone else's family is fucked up in one way or another. JKR so successfully made every grown up character she had either abusive, negligent, aloof, or emotionally unavailable, or dead, that it's GOOD we don't know anything about the Grangers, it's a wonder that we even have them as a breath of fresh air lmao)
@@Nemamka personally i love the weasleys and think molly and arthur did the best with what they had. i know a lot of fanfic portrays molly as a total screaming harpy bitch and its just so sad to see :(. shes the kind of person who would give harry and extra hug before the train bc his family wasnt there to do it for him, i really cant see her as a bad parent or person
what i don't understand is how the muggleborn wizard kids are supposed to ever get to school, much less with equipment. like. how do they find the train thing? do they just have to hope to get lucky like harry did? ok. how do they find the . magic shopping alley? and how do they afford anything there with their muggle moneys? is there an exchange rate? do muggleborn first-years just universally not have wands or books? or does hagrid go shopping with every single one of them? does the school or ministry employ a bunch of people to do the hagrid job for first-years?
or is hermione one of the lucky few that somehow figured it out?
@@marink7332 i mean, she couldn't tell Fred and George apart, when Harry could. She also always seemed to have time for Harry but not so much her own children.
considering that squibs can see dementors, I'd argue that they could almost definitely make potions, learn astrology, learn herbology, etc, since only charms and transfiguration (I think) need consistent spell casting, which just makes it weird that they can't go to hogwarts.
APPARENTLY, there is a weird apocryphal bit of lore, that to make the potion you need to cast Potion-Making Spell. I am not making it up.
You won't believe this, but squibs cannot see dementors, and Mrs figg was lying on the stand. I thought that was crazy but it's true. Rowling decided to write that the witness for the defense of the protagonists was lying when she was describing what really happened.
@@andrewdunn8778 Oops thats actually funny
@@andrewdunn8778 and undid the part where it underlines the racism of the ministry towards magical beings they see as lesser, as they didn't know about that fact of squibs.
But shred that, we need to have the magically disabled character to committ a crime and validate the ministry's opinions on squibs
On the topic about child endangerment: the bit about the whomping willow is wrong I'm afraid, it wasn't planted by students it was planted by the herbology professor on Lupin's first year to protect the entrance to the tunnel that goes to the shrikieng shack. It was ordered by non other that Albus child-endangerment-extraordinaire Dumbledore to "protect" Lupin and the rest of the school during the full moons. And yes there is a part in book three where Lupin talks about a game that was popular when he was attending school where children would try to get close to the tree to touch the trunk and that had to be stopped when one of the students lost an eye.
What I still don't understand about the whole of that is why a freaking punching tree? Why not just a rock? A big rock with some sort of spell that can only be opened by Lupin or Pomfrey to let him in? And on that note... why a freaking house overlooking what I think is the only other magical town in england to house your underage werewolf? why not a magical reinforced underground bunker? with a freaking password to avoid anything that is not the kid you want in there getting in?
Even at 8 years old I tought this was stupidly reckless.
The worst part is the fact there was a game with the tree shows also that it is NOT effective as a detterent and make kids curious about the place. Like, even in universe it's a stupid and inneffective idea.
But the actual reason is that it was probably written in book 2 without any plan just for that scene with the car and then was given a purpose after the fact without thinking of the implication. And aside from the direct bigotry that's really all harry potter boils down to, adding stuff without thinking of the implication. I think that's probably cause rowling is a conservative and incapable of even imagining a different society (hence why wizarding society is capitalist even in a world in which capitalism makes no sense and without any history that would even lead to capitalism in the first place). So she just doesn't consider how the stuff she adds might alter the world because she can't imagine the world being different. The lack of thought into "the implications" is... a bit sad frankly.
And since Lupin is an HIV patient allegory, what does it says about JK as a person for making “a morally pure child-sacrificing hero” Dumbledore separate an HIV patient Lupin out of the society?
@@nont18411 Dumbeldore is the guy that brought Lupin in. He made sure Lupin could attend and then later employed him as a teacher.
Something also bothered me a lot about the Weasleys: if they're so poor, why can't Molly work? It seems as if Arthur is the sole provider for 7 people when there isn't such a thing as a Uni Wizard Diploma so we know it's not about being underqualified, and all their kids, by the second book, essentially live at Hogwarts for 10 out of 12 months of the year or have already moved out. Wouldn't Molly be able to pick up a job by the 2nd book so as to relieve Arthur from this financial burden?
It's like JKR needed them to be poor to give Harry his even more "humble" beginnings, because he wasn't taken in by a rich family, and to give him the opportunity to try to spoil the family with his money.
And Harry didn’t even do that - the story keeps claiming that Harry would spend his money on essentials for Ron/Ginny but the Weasleys are too proud to take it (despite Harry being involved in at least one incident where they need the essentials I.e. Ron’s wand)
its because then molly would be more than just The Mom and she'd be a character with desires and interests outside of being a mother and jk rowling just can't have that
@@echowoods7977exactly. I don’t know how many people realise this, but despite her claims of feminism, JoJo Rabbit really does not view woman as much other than mothers and pretty things to look at. She has a lot of internalised misogyny, and you can see it throughout the books when you start analysing them. For example, Tonks ends up marrying Lupin and having a kid, Ginny ends up abandoning her successful career in Quidditch to be a mum, Molly is literally just a Mum, and even though Hermione does retain a career, her major negative character traits in the books are legit just a list of sexist tropes. Every good female character is defined in large part by being a mother or having stereotypically motherly traits.
Another example is how when a female character is evil, they’re portrayed as ugly, take Umbridge, Petunia, and Skeeter. Hell, you can even see JoJo’s hatred of trans women bleeding through here as Skeeter is described with “mannish” hands and masculine features are ascribed to antagonistic female characters who are regarded as ugly such as Millicent Bullstrode.
@@Queen_of_Coffeejk's belief in two strict genders is so obvious when it comes to tonks, because at the beginning she's shown as a probably non-binary character, you know, the way she dresses, the fact she wants to be known as her last name only, but by the end she's perfectly "normal", married to remus, with a child.
it feels like she put tonks in just so that she could show that being non-binary, gender dysphoria and whatnot is just a phase and also that the final stage in life for all women is motherhood. interesting views for a self-proclaimed "feminist"
@@Queen_of_Coffee Im glad someone brought up Tonks because I actually remember as a kid thinking it was really weird for her to get with Lupin, it felt completely shoehorned in for literally no reason like it contributed actually nothing to both the story and their characters
and oh god when that got translated to movie form it was infinitely worse they had 0 fckn chemistry
I think my favorite part about defense against the dark arts is that maybe if you didn't teach everyone how to magically ruin other people's lives at the age of 11 you wouldn't need the "not having your life magically ruined by an 11 year old" class
It's the equivalent of schools issuing every kid a gun and then having both Marksmanship classes and Defense Against Getting Shot classes. Maybe we just shouldn't be giving the power of life and death to people who just stopped believing in cooties.
Pretty good allegory for violence cycles in society
Yeah, it’s like the analogy of selling someone the poison so you can sell them the antidote. That’s the entire school.
It’s like how people in the US have wide access to guns, and the “solution” always given to us is to just learn how to use a gun ourselves to “fight back”
@@luxill0s I think it's even dumber than guns since you have to actually go out and buy a gun to become a threat but in HP it's basically a government mandate that children be given the base level skills to terrorize the people around them
what I love about astronomy lessons in hogwarts is that anyone with high school physics (Keplers Laws and Newtons Gravity) could predict the entirety of the future because the stars can just be predicted. Why didn't they do that? Because they have no education apart from their own world
The house elf thing has always been especially weird to me because I can see the threads of the folklore Rowling is using and don't know what kind of mind it takes to take them where she did. House elves are a thing in British mythology. The Shoemaker and the Elves is the stereotypical well known example, and likely the origin of the idea that giving house elves clothes "frees" them.
The thing is though, that house elves in British mythology 100% have agency and their capriciousness and how easy it is to offend them is one of their main salient characteristics. The elves ditch the shoemaker because he thought making them little clothes would be a good way to thank them and didn't know that violated one of their strange fairy taboos, not because they were bound to him in service until he gave them clothes. The way house elf folklore works in general is that someone who is overworked and barely making it suddenly wakes up one morning to find all their work done for them. They manage to use their additional free time and the improved quality of their work to make it into a higher social station, and then do something that, to them, is completely innocuous or even an attempt to be nice and the house elves get offended and bounce. It's about how good things come and go for no apparent reason, not a narrative about fairy slaves bound into service by overworked maids and shoemakers.
I can see the threads of the way the elves are bound in folklore as well, as there are commonly ways to bind fairies and force them to do what you want by turning their own weird fairy logic against them, and they usually very much don't like it and will do whatever they can to twist your commands and get out of their servitude: stealing a selkies seal skin and forcing them to marry you, catching an elf or leprechaun and forcing it to grant you wishes, etc. What I don't understand is how the whole "slavery is cool because they like it" narrative arises from any of this.
If I were writing house elves, I might include a Dobby narrative, where a house elf was bound by magic and trickery to serve a wizard long after he would have abandoned him, and Harry had to free the enslaved house elf. I might even have house elves be a major part of the wizarding economy, doing all that tedious work that they love and everyone else hates. What I wouldn't do is extend Dobby's slavery to the whole species. Sure, have Hogwarts' dishes and cleaning and mending be done by house elves, and maybe they don't want payment, but you can't wear blue socks in the library or you have to put your shoes on the wrong feet before entering potions class or once a week you get served soup but have to drink it because they won't let you use spoons.
How normal, unbound house elves extract "payment" for their services would be a perfect opportunity for the kind of wacky worldbuilding Rowling is good at...but nope...slavery is good if it's part of their culture is where she goes with that one. How? Just how was that your take away hearing Brownie stories growing up?
Edit: Just adding this on because it occurred to me and I think it's relevant. You could even do a SPEW-like narrative about western activists inserting themselves into cultures they don't take the time to understand. Hermoine could think the house elves are slaves, and insist they should get regular compensation for their services, while flouting the weird fairy logic forms of payment they actually care about. They keep telling her they aren't slaves. She won't listen to them. Then a house elf blows up at her one day while she's giving a speech in the library about how the library elf shouldn't be stocking books for no pay...in blue socks. "I love nothing more than sorting and stocking books sweetie. What I don't love is *people wearing BLUE SOCKS in MY LIBRARY* !" Again, I can see what she wanted to do and how she wanted to do it, but can't begin to fathom how she thought justifying slavery was the way to go with that, much less how a whole editing team and publishing team let it happen.
Oh my god, elves acting on their own logic/accord and demanding wacky retributions for their help is such a good idea! And it plays very well with the folklore depiction of elves, gremlins, etc...they're little tricksters! ^^
@@randombear8750 haha thanks. I mean that's how i imagine that an economy based on fairy labor would work. I feel like rowling wanted to play with the idea of cultural misunderstandings and impasses but is just such an out of touch person that this was a really bad idea for her, so she really should have stuck with the fantasy creatures themselves rather than make them clumsy allegories.
Same kind of goes for the goblins. They don't have to be greedy to manage the banks. Maybe they are in charge of the banks because they don't care about gold but, like fairies in celtic and germanic folklore, have an OCD like need to count things. If a malevolant fairy like a pooka or something is after you, throw a bunch of coins or salt on the ground and they will have to stop and count them. That is a much more interesting reason to use fairy bankers than "um...they like gold".
It's weird to me how often people build fantasy races and then base them more on real world racial stereotypes than the legends they derive from. Rowling is one of the worst offenders but a lot of writers do this and I don't understand why. Fantasy elves are more interesting than human slaves. Fantasy goblins are more interesting than stereotyped Jewish bankers. Why ignore the cool fantasy stuff to double down on real world racism? I dunno. Its just a weird trope to me.
@@achristiananarchist2509 Oh my god! The more I read, the more I'm frustrated because your ideas are so GOOD! Why aren't they in the book? It'd be much better.
Goblins liking to count things work just so well. And I agree, I do notice that reflex that authors have of putting metaphors for human societal problems into fantasy. When the folkloric source material in itself is already super interesting and suffice itself! The metaphors can work, but you need to have the shoulders to incorporate them well into your story, and with intelligent writing. Sticking to the classic representation of these creatures would have suited JKR, especially with the whimsical nature of the story. It would have worked well in book 1, where all the installments would have taken place!
you have a genuine passion for the fae in folklore that shines through in this comment, which makes you one of my favorite kind of people. I hope you're having a good day.
I also love that this concept puts power back into the other races. I love the concept of wizards sweating because they know one wrong move means all the menial labour and tasks in Hogwarts could suddenly stop one day and they can do nothing about it. Them like "fuck we can't try too hard or the elves are gonna get offended and bounce, lets just... keep playing along, but oh god if they leave how the hell are we gonna get a last minute team of cooks and cleaners oh god oh fuck". Wizards know all these house elves have the agency to just fuck off and do their own thing and they can't do anything about it.
You know, I never realized that SPEW was supposed to be about vomit, because in portuguese (brazilian), it was translated to FALE, which just means "speak". So I always thought that SPEW referred to, I dunno, agressively speaking the truth or something. I guess I gave it way too much credit.
You probably did but thankyouuuu for this information and insight! Might have to start believing/telling people this!
Ps. Spew is mostly vomit but I've heard people over here in the UK use it as more of they "spew" as in talk a lot of sh*t! Might just be where I'm from though
So interesting, in German it is translated "BELFER" which is just like a merge of the words helper and elf with an b at the beginning. So nothing very harmful there
In Polish it was translated to WESZ which means lice.
In Spanish was translated to "PEDDO" which basically is FART (pedo) disgusting
In Greek it's translated as "ΜΥΞΑ" which means "SNOT"
I feel that there's a really good dystopian story buried in the Harry Potter universe.
A lot, the entirely history how colonisation still happened, what södid they do to wizards not ok with that and ready to help their people.
Were the ones left alive the traitors?! Were wizards always a cult taught to not care?!
The wizarding economy seems to be stratified for no good reason at all. With all the magic available, the Harry Potter world should be nothing less than a post scarcity utopia. But a wizard can't so much as magic a sandwich into existence for a starving muggle without breaking the wizard laws and being cast out
Hp in general is filled to the brim with fascinating concepts that could make a phenomenal book if they were used correctly
*If they were used correctly.*
@hankboog462 it's kinda why I've been fascinated in watching HO analysis videos. Makes me inspired in hoping to write a story about a child growing up in a dystopia magic world and tries to change it for the better in some way.
all you gotta do is present it how it is and say "and that's bad, so Constance Pickering decided to" and then make a book
As a biologist, I have to say one thing about the Eugenics part of the video:
If the picture with the inheritance of the genes is to be viewed as the explanation for squibs, it still doesn't make sense that squibs pass down the magic allel of this gene and thus cause muggle-born wizards a few generations later. If it is a dominant allel, as the picture suggests, the person who gets it is going to be magical no matter if they also have the non-magic allel of this gene. That means, that the squib only has the non-magic allel (twice) and would then be incapable of passing down the magic allel, because it just is impossible to pass something down that you don't have.
That explanation would make much more sense if it was a recessive allel, that only leads to magic people if they possess that one twice. Still, that would mean that a lot more squibs would be born to magical families that are not totally pure wizard blood or whatever xD But then - maybe they just sweep them under the rug. That seems to be a common practice in this community, just look at the Dumbledore-family.
Anyways, I really enjoyed your video - and am still enjoying it, just 2,5 hours to go. It is the first time you were suggested to me by youtube and I am so happy that I decided to give it a go, I like it a lot! :D
I think that magic being recessive makes more sense, because if it was dominant, then there would probably be a lot more wizards by now.
Or may be it's controlled by multiple genes and other factors.
As someone in the field of biology myself, we know that genes have more ways of behaving beyond the Mendelian Laws Of Inheritance.
Co-Dominance is also a thing.
Or yk, it's just magic and automatically turns on and off when it feels like it
It must have other means of control aside of pure mendelian dominance or else we wouldn't have muggle born wizards since both their parents would have both recessive alleles
@@EspeonMistress00 except that's not how the series protrays magic or the inheritance of magic.
It is very explicit that it's genetic.
I’ve always found it interesting how wizards think themselves so far above Muggles, but wizards have never (as far as I know) gone to space.
wizards iirc don't seem to have access to any sort of astral plane type shit either, closest thing seems to be memory viewing or the weird time clock thing, so yeah it seems like they really don't have much "offworld" type stuff, which is kind of interesting.
Fuck yeah! Thought the same exact thing the first time I read and watched Harry Potter.
i really wanna see an interaction of this being brought up to a wizard, them going “OH YEAH? WELL WATCH THIS” and apparating to space and subsequently dying from not being taught about atmospheres or basic science at school
I'd read the fuck out of a book about space wizards
Actually, the best wizarding school in the galaxy is on Mars. It's called Pigfarts and the headmaster, Rumbleroar, is a lion, who can talk*
(*This is only canon in A Very Potter Musical by Starkid)
You know how the house elves could have worked? Make them something like the doozers from Fraggle Rock. Doozers live to build and the material they build with is fraggle food, so fraggles are constantly eating their buildings but the doozers love it because they see it as their work being appreciated, plus it gives them more room to build. Have the house elves have some kind of symbiotic relationship like that with wizards. Maybe have them feed on feelings of gratitude so they devotedly serve wizards, but will peace out if their efforts aren't being appreciated.
There were just so many possibilities other than "Slaves like being slaves actually." Of all the infinite possibilities she had to choose the single worst one, the one that would've been seen as problematic back in the 1840s. Christ on a bike Joey.
yes!!!! just like the gnomes in keeper of the lost cities
And it would probably be more accurate to how house elves worked in folklore too!
It's even weirder because they seem to be pretty inspired by brownies but you don't want to offend or take advantage of your brownie who just cleans your house for the sake of being generous. Like there was no real reason to turn it into a slave thing, but she did for ~plot reasons~.
@@XxMusicxKelseyxX or just keep the House elves culture identical(choosing a family, or institution, and serving them with zeal, heavy emphasis on following directions to perfection and keeping their chosen family's secrets), but have actual slavery be rare. You know, make them an Alfred archetype rather than slaves.
This change would make Hermione's campaign and the textual treatment of it converge, as she is right, slavery is bad, but she doesn't understand the culture she's trying to help enough to realize she's insulting them. The response from people immersed in the Wizarding World wouldn't change, because they understand that it's their chosen vocation(paid in lodging and food for many) and not something that is forced on most of them, with Dobby being an outlier for being enslaved, rather than a "weirdo" for wanting freedom.
As for the house elves in the Hogwarts kitchen, I kinda feel like it should be a sort of shelter for House elves. A community of their own where house elves who had been mistreated or suffered a loss could live their life doing what they love separate from any master, or recover before moving on to another family. After all, we get to know 3 house elves, and all 3 end up there after a change in enslaver. Dobby was enslaved and hated it, Kreature was enslaved and loved it(but not his last master, and he did not take the transfer well), and Winky (in this proposed redo) was not enslaved but was effectively dumped by the family she loved and cared for, leaving her an emotional wreck. And, with the change of them tucking Winky into bed instead of just covering her with a sheet(seriously, WTF), not much would have to change as many people would be rightly insulted if some 14 year old came in insisting that they're slaves that are being forced to do what they're doing, and they need to be freed, while upsetting a coworker who just got her life ripped away from her.
I'm sure this interpretation still has issues, but removing the common slavery is a change that wouldn't actually alter the tone of the books.
The Ministry counts werewolves as Beings in human form and Beasts in their wolf form because wizards believe you should hate lycanthropy, not the lycanthrope 😉
I don’t struggle with lycanthropy, I’m actually very good at it
so delightfully christian of them
The goblin ownership is so dumb because it is not like humans cannot craft their own contracts or keep their promises. There is no human law preventing lifetime leases. Like ok, maybe Godric and the Goblin had a "miscommunication" on the terms of the contract. fine. But Harry *just made a new contract* with Griphook. There was no miscommunication there. He just lied to him. Harry asked for help in exchange for a sword. That has nothing to do with lifetime leases at all. its a straight exchange.
Also very bold for the wizards to assume they're better than muggles because they can do magic, when I can literally do long division.
I remember reading Deathly Hallows and being really interested in Goblin culture, and was *so disappointed* when Griphook was basically treated like a greedy obstacle to be overcome by deceit instead of being reasoned with like the sentient person he is. Like dude just dropped all this knowledge about how possession works and how wizards have basically been stealing Goblin made items for centuries like they're the fucking British Museum and Harry's just like "Wow, that's a dumb policy" instead of trying to reach a compromise with collateral or offering a payment of some sort so that he could essentially rent the sword to complete his mission. There's this whole theme about how wizards have been screwing over other magical beings and here's Harry just perpetuating all of the worst things about wizard hierarchy like it's nothing.
I know i was so confused, i wasnt sure what emotion i was supposed to be feeling
@@luthientinuviel3883 In retrospect, this feeling describes my whole memory of every HP book after Azkaban. JKR opened so many big and heavy themes and wasn't able to conclude a single one of them in a satisfying manner. At least for me.
WhenI first read the book I thought renting/ borrowing the sword was where this conflict was going. Harry's rich, after all. I felt Griphook was right to be upset and demand the sword be returned. Also, the notion that an item returns to its maker after the death of its owner was interesting to me, and I'd like to know more. Can an item be rented out again after being returned, for example? What if it was made so long ago nobody knows who exactly made it, so it can't be returned to a family line? Is there a Goblin museum of "orphaned" artefacts? That kind of stuff.
I actually think that wasn't too bad. Humans think purchase means ownership. Goblins don't. Its a debate to be had.
@@abdirahmanidris290 But (as far as I remember) this very debate was rejected by the heroes doing what they thought was right and never addressing the matter again.
i always thought that astronomy would have made much more sense as a core class if there had been like use of old ideas of the stars and planets effecting how potent certain ingredients are, and when you should harvest them for particular effects, bringing astronomy in as a key part of both herbology and potions, and probably other things besides...but instead it just doesn't get incorporated into the larger magic system, it's just thrown in as wizardish enough and that's it
Depending on which magical systems you're using the planetary hours can determine anything from which sorts of spells are most effective to which supernatural entities you'll be able to call upon. Renaissance magicians like Dr. John Dee and Cornelius Agrippa go on at length about the importance of the planetary hours and how to properly calculate them. You'd think such things would be mentioned, or tie into the lore somehow. Apparently the only thing Joey hates more than trans people is doing the slightest bit of research.
It's occasionally mentioned, one of the ingredients for the polyjuice potion requires a plant picked at the full moon, and Slughorn needs some other plant that also needs a lunar time for the best usage in book 6, but it's never elaborated on or given importance.
If I recall correctly, a couple of things do require particular astronomical conditions (I thiiiink the animagus process is one of them?) but none are really more complicated than phases of the moon. Seems weird to require a whole astronomy class just for... the lunar cycle?
Which is weird, right? Magic in connection to the stars/planets/moon has been a concept for like... forever. There's so much to pull from there. Then again, it might require a few Google searches of research, so.
The trolley witch scene is insane. Should've just made her the main character tbh.