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is it more noble to be born good or to overcome your darker nature through great effort? psychopaths, sociopaths and similar individuals exist and will continue to exist, it's not their nature that truly defines them but how they choose to act on it. There are real life examples of individuals with these personality complexes who despite what their inner dialogue would recommend, act accordingly and respectfully, even when they struggle to understand "general" human behaviors.

Dropout/Brennan Lee Mulligan put it best during their Misfits & Magic season of Dimension 20 when highlighting one of the problems with Harry Potter, and Hogwarts specifically; the separate houses is basically tracking. Tracking, as a practice, is when students are separated into groups based on their perceived ability and achievement levels. Or in the case of HP, the superficial personality traits of children. It's been proven to be a detrimental practice to the education of children. Now, a smart writer would probably use that to show that Hogwarts is a flawed school system that is using outdated academic techniques. But besides the idea of "lumping all the prideful, ill-behaved kids together creates an echo chamber of wizard nazism", neither the story, JKR, or even the franchise at large treats the separate houses as a bad thing. They just treat it as Slytherin as being "the bad apples" that could be reformed. There's never any criticism of the system itself. Which unfortunately is a very repeated issue with Rowling, as she never once considers all the problems in the story can be traced back to a flawed institution that allowed the threat of Voldemort to grow in the background. If anything, she thinks the status quo is good, and even has Harry become a cop at the end to protect that system that failed when it mattered most.

Fellow slytherin here, I'm a terrible human so I think we might all just be trash bags.

I feel like this issue could also have been somewhat resolved by having it be revealed that Dumbledore was a Slytherin; it could have come up in Rita Skeeter’s biography and shaken Harry’s worldview (was he actually evil all along oh no) and then in the end it’s resolved with Harry’s realisation that though Dumbledore was misguided in his youth, he was a great wizard (also Dumbledore has so many Slytherin traits it’s insane).

Ive said it once, ill say it again. Hogwarts needs a damn counselor/therapist! Someone who would see dracos, and the slytherins behavior in general, and TRY to talk them out of it rather than let it fester.

Slytherin is basically a allegory for nazi. Let's just say that if it wasn't for the whole trans stuff jk Rowling would probably be a big fan of cancel culture.

Is this the same chick that did “girlfriend reviews”?

Thanks for this, babe. Hope you’re doing well these days!

I don't think it was about Hermione as much as it was about shoving Emma Watson in every scene he could.

"more of a mood board than a man" is a great line lmao

I hated they gave all good lines of from ron to Hermione Like in 2 book...ron explains why mudblood was such a rude term.. because he has the most experience of wizarding world amongst the trio... Hermione and Harry just guessed that it was something rude...but had no clue to its actual meaning In movie it was out of place for Hermione to explain what mudblood meant In book 3. Ron showed utmost loyalty to haary by stating ..if you need to kill Harry then you need to kill him first...again given to Hermione in movies When Snape calls Hermione a knowit all...Ron stands up to her against spane...saying why ask students of you didnot want answers...and got detention for that In movie e it was out of character for ron to agre with Snape against Hermione In 7 movie it was Harry's idea to use the dragon to get out of gringots...in movie they made it Hermiones idea These are just a few examples...but there are many more where movies made Hermione steal haary and rons brilliance

Are you still active? You re so talented

The only harry potter movie i watch when i was a kid was chamber of secrets. I never watched anymore because i thought it was stupid that harry managed to kill a giant snake creature. (I was obsessed with giant snake movies.) It wasnt till the pandemic that i sat down and listened to all the audiobooks and I i have listened to each more than 5 times. The later 4 up to ten times. I like all 3 and never felt the need to watch the movies and recently watch the first 3. They are OK and up until the goblet of fire was I entertained but I stopped here. What the hell was the movie thinking about with harry and rons fight. Down played it hard and i don't feel like watching anymore. So tragic. The part where harry is talking to Sirius and throws a pin at ron, pushes past him and being upset by rons silence was crucial. Harry would have liked Ron to take a swing at him if anything lol. He really was hurt and wanted a reason to fight with ron.

I think it says enough that my thought process isnt... "Merlin was in slytherin so they must have some good people". But instead is... "Merlin was in slytherin, what sort of evil things did he do behind the scenes"

6 years later this just reads as “A job application would have prevented this” I hope the people this video talks about are doing better things

Well, I just had whats happening with me grieving over my ex said back to me lol but in a good way I think

Can’t wait to watch the full review of the show when you get around to rewatching it, I love your humor

I always assumed slytherin was "evil" at that time because of the cultural issues. There was one generation that was taken in by a charismatic leader, and than the children of the ones smart enough to get out before accountability came were raised with the same mentality.

Snape was the most evil character in the series. Everything bad that happened to Harry, happened because of Snape telling Voldemort about the Prophecy. And he's a one trick pony: All he ever did, he did out of spite. Spite against his Muggle father made him a Death Eater. Spite against the Marauder's popularity made him try to destroy Remus' future by trying to expose him as a werewolf (for which James RIGHTFULLY kicked his ass. That wasn't bullying, that was retaliation.), spite against Voldemort killing the object of his obsession (because if he really loved Lily, he would never ever have joined the terrorist organisation that wanted her dead) made him a turncoat, spite against James made him bully Harry, spite against Neville for not being the Chosen One (because if he was, then Lily would not have been killed) made him bully so much that he became Nevillie's biggest fear. Snape did not deserve to live!

Slughorn may not be evil, but his cowardice (not telling Dumbledore about Voldemort making Horcruxes) caused the war to drag on longer than it should have

Merlin was never a Slytherin. He lived 300 years before Hogwarts was even founded. This was just a lie to whitewash Slytherin.

All Slytherins are evil, but some Slytherins are more evil than others.

Slytherin still existing is idiotic. It's like finding out Germany and/or Austria still have schools named after Hitler.

There are evil people who're destined to be evil in the present and/or in the future. They have their own "wolf eats wolf" corner so they won't bother the rest of the children. What the alternatives are? - Not letting them in? Forcing them to be good? Even the evil ppl could do good for society if thats in their personal interests.

I'm still mad about when they released Hogwarts house editions of the books and put Peter Pettigrew as a rat on the Slytherin cover. HE WAS A GRYFFINDOR!

As an ex English teacher you are enunciating many of my gripes with Hogwarts' org.

20:14 Libary. Lie-bary. I love this woman.

With my very superficial knowledge on HP I think getting sorted would be a way to tell you what you are good at and similar to the founders of the school and houses , what you lack or what you need to work on. Maybe you’d get sorted next year or 2. By the end of the school you are a well rounded wizard. But I wish each house got shown their strengths , their weaknesses and their overcoming of their houses.

This is a very good video even if I don't agree with all your points. Also, the music you choose is so good??? Got a link?

I want new versions of the movies!

Slytherin could have worked if they were the plotting and planning house instead of the ambitious house

He was so much better in the books. He was CLEVER and not just comic relief. I don't think he was an oaf or dumb... just less of a quality character.

20:43 I really love this line too. The vast majority of Harry Potter has remained unmemorable to me, but this always stuck with me how quickly it puts into words the impending dread of someone else not being in your life anymore.

I do think it's a little funny that our idea of Snape being unjustly rewarded is him being eaten by a snake and then is commemorated in the MIDDLE name of a child he never knows and would have hated anyway. Dude didn't even rate a first name. And it took Harry, what, three kids to get around to that?

There should be a slur for these “critics” I’ll call them a bunch of filthy Crits

Does JK love Ron? No she doesn’t. Total sell out

1:52 idk nth ab slyryhtjgn but i got slytherin as well 🤑

Quinn Curio probably got eaten by JK Rowling which is why she hasn’t posted anything in 3 years 🫣😰😧🙀😟😨 Oh She has done Livestreams oops 😬

My headcanon is that Hagrid was a Slytherin. Yes, even though JKR has stated that he's a Gryffindor; it wouldn't be the first bit of her writing that doesn't make any sense, and the cast is already bloated with Gryffindor protagonist characters. Recall in Chamber of Secrets when the diary showed Harry a vision of what happened the last time the CoS was opened... First off, there's no way in hell that Hagrid, a *half-giant* student, was sneaking out of Gryffindor Tower and getting all the way to the dungeon without getting caught on a regular basis (especially when security got ramped up after Myrtle's death). Second, why would an elitist prick like Tom Riddle have even the slightest idea of who Hagrid is, let alone be on a _first name basis with him,_ if they were from separate houses? Third, Hagrid was blamed for opening the CoS back when Myrtle died... and _nobody_ batted an eye at the thought that the "Heir of Slytherin" was a _Gryffindor_ student? Fourth, Dumbledore mentions at one point that "not many people know that Voldemort used to be Tom Riddle"... and yet Hagrid knows? When Tom said that he was already using "Voldemort" with his closest allies when he was in Hogwarts? Finally, when the Death Eaters attacked Hogwarts, they had absolutely no problem killing the Hogwarts defenders... but they took Hagrid alive. Why spare one of their foes, a foe of _mixed blood_ no less? Simple: they remember him as one of their old housemates, and want to give him a chance to rejoin them.

Draco Malfloy couldn't be redeemed in this series, because the last two books was the beginning of Draco deconstructing his beliefs. He has 17 years of indoctrination of blood purity to untangle. That is why he is living in duality at the end. Very similar to anyone trying to leave a high control religion.

barty crouch jr was a ravenclaw

“That’s a nice snake right there. Takes a pat like no problem. Not afraid at all.” I can picture it in the man’s voice and everything lmao subbed

You can write something as a bad system without believing in it, but it really seems like Rowling does. When you think about it, the idea that personality is immutable is pretty messed up. It’s a very regressive world view that people are what they will always be and improvement is not possible.

The real magic of Harry Potter was all the red flags we were blind to along the way 💚

the better question is why do so many fans want to be slytherin over the other three houses?

This is one avenue where I believe hogwarts legacy excels…there isn’t a good house or an evil house

I always assumed Snape was bullying Harry from a young age because he KNEW some of Harry’s classmates had death eater parents. And Dumbledore always said Voldemort would return. So this way, Snape would be accepted back into the death eaters and be able to spy for Dumbledore again.

Look how they massacred my boy