The "fight" between Snape and McGonagall was cleverly done in the movie. The fight is so fast you don't actually realize that it was Snape, not McGonagall who was in complete control. The fight comprises McGonagall shooting off rapid fire curses, all of which Snape not only deflects, he deflects them with ease and perdition, such that curses hit the Carrows knocking them both out. Snap doesn't cast a single spell of any kind. I looks like it is Snape who is outclassed, but in reality Snape was in control the entire time. The fight went the exact ways Snape wished it to go.
One weakness I can see with the Malfoy Aids Harry Defeat the Basilisk is that Malfoy has no motivating reason to help the Golden Trio. "You'll be next, mudbloods!" he says when Harry, Ron, & Hermione are caught in the crowd as everyone reads "Enemies of the heir, beware." written in blood on the wall. I don't think Draco Malfoy was clever, or shrewd enough to play the secret agent.
Regulus didn't fail his mission, his house elf creature was able to escape with it. Regulus did not survive the infiri but he did Not fail his mission.
In reality, Voldemort being evil only due to being born from a love potion seems silly too cuz I’m sure that happened more than with his parents. Maybe his circumstances made him go worse than all the other ‘evil’ wizards born from the potion. ik we don’t like to count the cursed child, but in it, Harry’s son is lowkey sort of evil.
@@nae5866 It's not silly at all. Both Rowling and Dumbledore explained that Voldemort is evil because there is no love in him. And that's why there isn't an iota of love in him, because there wasn't any love that he could have inherited when he was conceived. And it wasn't precisely because those weren't real feelings that his father produced for his mother, but from a potion. It was a perfectly crafted argument that Rowling made.
Ginny Weasley & Amortentia: I doubt it. I don't think Ginny was that underhanded. It just doesn't feel right. Barty Crouch Jr & Felix Felicis: quite possible and pretty believable
Neville didn't get his own wand until after the Battle at the Ministry. Therefore, it was using his dad's wand that he qualifies for NEWT level Charms (a wand heavy subject) and NEWT level defense (another wand heavy subject). OTOH, while he does well in Herbology (wand not required), he does not seem to do particularly well in Care of Magical Creatures (can't involve wands, since Hagrid teaches it, and he can't use one due to his expulsion) or History of Magic -- where no one uses the wands. IMO, using his dad's wand was never the problem ... Neville lacked confidence (everyone thinking he was a squib even before Hogwarts) that was boosted significantly after the battle
In the movie version of The Chamber of Secrets, Draco Malfoy, in addition to wanton and motiveless vandalism (destroying a book), is also shown using a Racist slur against Hermione, using Racist slurs against all Muggle Borns, and petty theft (casually stealing a fellow Slytherin's Christmas present). NONE of these are redeeming actions - neither was the Act of Vandalism...
24:40 I've always thought of Obscurials as being a person's negative "Poltergeist" energy and the Patronus is the positive version, so it makes even MORE SENSE for the Dementors to be mature Obscurials and the Patronus counters them!
After Snape caught them trying to steal the sword of Gryffindor to get it to Harry, Snape himself got the real sword to Harry. Which was impressive itself because he had a fake sword on display in his office because the ministry of Magic tried to confiscate the sword after Dumbledore willed it to Harry. The sword only appears and stays for a true Gryffindor and Snape was from Slytherin. So for the sword to allow Snape to hide it and to hold onto it was impressive. And Dumbledore even told Snape "maybe we sort too soon" before he died. And Snape was smart enough to find Harry when they were hiding out. Snape put the sword in the frozen lake for Harry to find. This is another reason why I think Snape grieving Lily saved him from becoming a worse evil genius that Voldemort. He was able to accomplish what Voldemort couldn't, finding Harry.
Ive always considered Gunny/Harry. To be extremely suspect, as it always felt like it came out of nowhere. Love potions are a likely answer for many who feel the same.
The alternative ending Harry wakes up at the end of the last movie to realizing he is in a a straight jacket in an insane asylum so all the movies where just his imagination
Re the "Love Potion Theory". As I recall the novel, Harry is in Detention for his Sectum Sempra against Malfoy's Avra Kedavra. The quidditch final is on and he doesn't know the result. He enters the Common Room to a huge noise - Gryffindor celebrating victory. He looks to Ginny and then, immediately, Ginny runs and kisses him - Is that how Love Potions are supposed to work? Because we don't see Romilda Vane trying to kiss Harry. Rather, we witness Ron (who inadvertently ate Harry's Love Potion) pursuing Romilda (or at least trying to...)...
No; I don't believe so; a souless husk of a former self is nothing more than what remains of who was what a Dementor used to be, fear and inner sorrow is forever, power is not; it is true that Dementors and Obscurus are both dark and dangerous creatures; however we do not really know if the obscurus actually dies after it has destroyed its host at the end of the 10 year limit; Newt after all has a habit in leaving out the finer details about some of his magical creatures and not express the full percentage of the truth. We should all know by now that Dementors have lived on for many centuries since the first night they were created, you can repel them away but, you can't get rid of them permanently, that is the limit of the Patronus charm, even in its corporeal animal form; I know as well as you that it can push more dementors back at a wide radius and is more powerful than the jinx-like mist form of the spell which is weaker, but even though the corporeal version of the charm is the improved spell it is still not quite strong enough to obliterate the creatures completely.
The "fight" between Snape and McGonagall was cleverly done in the movie. The fight is so fast you don't actually realize that it was Snape, not McGonagall who was in complete control. The fight comprises McGonagall shooting off rapid fire curses, all of which Snape not only deflects, he deflects them with ease and perdition, such that curses hit the Carrows knocking them both out.
Snap doesn't cast a single spell of any kind. I looks like it is Snape who is outclassed, but in reality Snape was in control the entire time. The fight went the exact ways Snape wished it to go.
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One weakness I can see with the Malfoy Aids Harry Defeat the Basilisk is that Malfoy has no motivating reason to help the Golden Trio. "You'll be next, mudbloods!" he says when Harry, Ron, & Hermione are caught in the crowd as everyone reads "Enemies of the heir, beware." written in blood on the wall. I don't think Draco Malfoy was clever, or shrewd enough to play the secret agent.
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Regulus didn't fail his mission, his house elf creature was able to escape with it. Regulus did not survive the infiri but he did Not fail his mission.
6:53 And if Ginny gave Harry the love potion than Harry all child will be like Voldemort. Evil without any loves.
So so bad theory.
In reality, Voldemort being evil only due to being born from a love potion seems silly too cuz I’m sure that happened more than with his parents. Maybe his circumstances made him go worse than all the other ‘evil’ wizards born from the potion. ik we don’t like to count the cursed child, but in it, Harry’s son is lowkey sort of evil.
@@nae5866 It's not silly at all. Both Rowling and Dumbledore explained that Voldemort is evil because there is no love in him. And that's why there isn't an iota of love in him, because there wasn't any love that he could have inherited when he was conceived. And it wasn't precisely because those weren't real feelings that his father produced for his mother, but from a potion.
It was a perfectly crafted argument that Rowling made.
Ginny Weasley & Amortentia: I doubt it. I don't think Ginny was that underhanded. It just doesn't feel right. Barty Crouch Jr & Felix Felicis: quite possible and pretty believable
Neville didn't get his own wand until after the Battle at the Ministry. Therefore, it was using his dad's wand that he qualifies for NEWT level Charms (a wand heavy subject) and NEWT level defense (another wand heavy subject). OTOH, while he does well in Herbology (wand not required), he does not seem to do particularly well in Care of Magical Creatures (can't involve wands, since Hagrid teaches it, and he can't use one due to his expulsion) or History of Magic -- where no one uses the wands. IMO, using his dad's wand was never the problem ... Neville lacked confidence (everyone thinking he was a squib even before Hogwarts) that was boosted significantly after the battle
Regulus Black found out about what's going on with Kreature the house elf. No way was it from Slughorn
In the movie version of The Chamber of Secrets, Draco Malfoy, in addition to wanton and motiveless vandalism (destroying a book), is also shown using a Racist slur against Hermione, using Racist slurs against all Muggle Borns, and petty theft (casually stealing a fellow Slytherin's Christmas present). NONE of these are redeeming actions - neither was the Act of Vandalism...
24:40 I've always thought of Obscurials as being a person's negative "Poltergeist" energy and the Patronus is the positive version, so it makes even MORE SENSE for the Dementors to be mature Obscurials and the Patronus counters them!
After Snape caught them trying to steal the sword of Gryffindor to get it to Harry, Snape himself got the real sword to Harry. Which was impressive itself because he had a fake sword on display in his office because the ministry of Magic tried to confiscate the sword after Dumbledore willed it to Harry. The sword only appears and stays for a true Gryffindor and Snape was from Slytherin. So for the sword to allow Snape to hide it and to hold onto it was impressive. And Dumbledore even told Snape "maybe we sort too soon" before he died. And Snape was smart enough to find Harry when they were hiding out. Snape put the sword in the frozen lake for Harry to find. This is another reason why I think Snape grieving Lily saved him from becoming a worse evil genius that Voldemort. He was able to accomplish what Voldemort couldn't, finding Harry.
Ive always considered Gunny/Harry. To be extremely suspect, as it always felt like it came out of nowhere. Love potions are a likely answer for many who feel the same.
The alternative ending Harry wakes up at the end of the last movie to realizing he is in a a straight jacket in an insane asylum so all the movies where just his imagination
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Make sense
Re the "Love Potion Theory". As I recall the novel, Harry is in Detention for his Sectum Sempra against Malfoy's Avra Kedavra. The quidditch final is on and he doesn't know the result. He enters the Common Room to a huge noise - Gryffindor celebrating victory. He looks to Ginny and then, immediately, Ginny runs and kisses him - Is that how Love Potions are supposed to work? Because we don't see Romilda Vane trying to kiss Harry. Rather, we witness Ron (who inadvertently ate Harry's Love Potion) pursuing Romilda (or at least trying to...)...
Ginny was a gold digger
No; I don't believe so; a souless husk of a former self is nothing more than what remains of who was what a Dementor used to be, fear and inner sorrow is forever, power is not; it is true that Dementors and Obscurus are both dark and dangerous creatures; however we do not really know if the obscurus actually dies after it has destroyed its host at the end of the 10 year limit; Newt after all has a habit in leaving out the finer details about some of his magical creatures and not express the full percentage of the truth. We should all know by now that Dementors have lived on for many centuries since the first night they were created, you can repel them away but, you can't get rid of them permanently, that is the limit of the Patronus charm, even in its corporeal animal form; I know as well as you that it can push more dementors back at a wide radius and is more powerful than the jinx-like mist form of the spell which is weaker, but even though the corporeal version of the charm is the improved spell it is still not quite strong enough to obliterate the creatures completely.