10 Harry Potter Theories That Change Everything - Harry Potter Theory

[@HarryPotterTheory]

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[@kyletaylor4312]

Why are there no portraits of the founders? When were the living portraits invented? Maybe the founders put significant pieces of thenselves in the castle

[@Tummyknuckle]

Snape had his portrait done and enchanted so he could continue taking points away from students even in death.

[@zoa1-99.......]

Lucky Dumbledore's portrait will just keep giving them points out then.

[@marioluigi9599]

Since when did portraits have the right to take points? Only teachers can take points.

[@zoa1-99.......]

@@marioluigi9599 Snape IS a teacher.

[@marioluigi9599]

@@zoa1-99....... and he's dead

[@yt-sh]

are you incapable of restraining yourself or do you take pride in being an insufferable know-it-all 5 points from Gryffindor

[@BioLegacy141]

Why didn't you just connect the Deathly Hallows to Voldemort, Snape, and Harry? Harry considers them to be connected, and they fit the brothers perfectly. Voldemort, the eldest, most proud, and the only one to use the Elder wand, but is killed over it. Snape, second eldest, wants nothing more than to be with the woman he loved, and was quite petty in life. And Harry, who, like the youngest, just wants to live a long, happy, decent life, and met death as an equal and old friend. They fit far better than the protag trio.

[@richewilson6394]

The number three is considered the perfect number because it represents birth, life, & death. Body, mind, & soul. Etc.

[@JamesDavy2009]

Even the incantation for the Killing Curse was based on the most famous magical incantation, which had its original meaning based on the Holy Trinity.

[@GandaMelgao]

Indeed. In real life the number 3 is a magical number. It also represents the three elements (not 4, as many people seems to think), the three dimensions, the third plane of existence. We work in threes.

[@PRIYANSH_SUTHAR]

3 Unforgivable Curses

[@grec.]

I remember writing a comment at another channel, about how astrology plays a huge part in Harry Potter. One of the many things i wrote was that the 4 founders represent the 4 zodiac elemnts: Fire, Wind, Earth and Water; how Griffindor represented Fire, Reavenclaw represented Wind, Hufflepuff represented Earth and Slytherin represented Water. (When you think about it, each house, like described in this commentary, each house holds resemblance with signs and elements; colors, characteristics, elements representing each house...) Also the numerology (very similar to arithmancy), example: the number 31 marked the 3 events that drove the whole plot: Tom Riddle Jr's birth, Harry's birth and the death of Harry's parents. And so many more.

[@LudmilaT.]

Colorwise Hufflepuff should be air, Slytherin earth and Ravenclaw water.

[@JamesDavy2009]

@@LudmilaT. I can see some logical understanding-the soil of the Earth is various shades of brown and most desert sands are a pale brown/yellow; and the colour aqua has its basis on the colour of oceanic water and some bodies of water have a green tinge due to certain organisms. For air being blue, simply look up.

[@grec.]

@@JamesDavy2009 Exactly. I had a time in my life where I was obsessed with astrology (not for the horoscope, but the information related to each sign) And Blue is mostly for wind /air signs. Browns, some yellows and oranges for earth signs and whites and silvers or dark colors, for water; etc.

[@marting9112]

A question popped in my head with the Thestral theory. This question has probably been asked and answered many times, but still. Why was Harry only able to see Thestrals for the first time in his fifth year? Is it because he witnessed Cedric's death only months before? That wouldn't make sense, because of course, he has witnessed death when he was an infant, so he should have been able to see Thestrals his whole life.

[@samcotten2485]

A very valid question. J.K. Rowling provided an explanation that I find unsatisfying. She says that Harry was too young to comprehend the loss he had suffered when his parents died. She also says that at the end of the 4th year he did not see the thestrals on the way back because he had not processed Cedric’s death yet.

[@robertmartin4449]

A wizard can remove memory’s to use the pensive. I always thought the wizard removed their memories and placed them in the portraits. The more memories placed in the picture the more interactive it is.

[@jasonthomas6496]

Could you do a video about the history of the whopping willow Feel like it deserves more recognition

[@JamesDavy2009]

It was planted as a deterrent against those that want to take the secret passage to the Shrieking Shack.

[@LunaBari]

*whomping willow

[@tylovsims]

Love the video! The thestral theory is really interesting! Maybe this happened during the creation of the elder wand? Also, the Hogwarts theory of the sentient being paired with the hat has me wondering, maybe it isn’t sentient itself, but captured the believe systems of the founders like the hat? Less it’s own conscious more a vessel for the consciousness of the founders? Kind of a alternative to a portrait for the founders?

[@JamesDavy2009]

The way I see it, the Sorting Hat measures a student against the four qualities in which the founders believed: courage, intelligence and wisdom, loyalty, and determination to succeed. For some students, their family history is also considered such as Draco Malfoy being placed into Slytherin before the hat touched his head and the Weasleys being sorted into Gryffindor without fail. The reason why the Sorting Hat found Harry Potter difficult to sort was that Harry had a perfect balance of the four qualities-plenty of courage, not a bad mind, potential for talent, and a thirst to prove himself. Slytherin was the hat's initial choice because of Harry's connection to Voldemort, but decided on Gryffindor when Harry didn't want to be sorted into Slytherin.

[@slipstick985]

John DeChancie's Castle Perilous was the transmogrified body of the demon Ramthonadox.

[@conradfrancis3174]

May I please ask what music is used in the videos it's really great to listen too

[@HarryPotterTheory]

Hey Conrad, it's a bespoke piece of music made for the channel

[@IluvinortheIneffable]

Bill Shakespeare said "So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,/ So long lives this, and this gives life to thee." Magic portraits are an art, and so it takes a great artist to capture the spirit of the model. It is nothing more than another magical layer to the complexity of a mundane painting. Like any magic, one must prepare the materials properly and have the skill to shape them into the desired result. Take a photograph for example. It can capture an image and with magic it can even animate the image and freeze a few moments in time. They cannot interact much. It takes more care and talent to bring art to life.

[@kaig.-s.1040]

Phew I am late for the party. The idea for the magical portraits in the movie, we see Sirius Black on his mugshot moving. So maybe some other person can feed the portrait with information of the persons soul or character. I don't remember all depictions of the portraits and again movie vs. book, but my short idea of that. Hogwarts walls are sentient: yes,I would agree. Stairs that bring you in the right moment to a three headed dog who is part of the solution to the top question of what's happening in your school while also freeing the room situation produced by the staff when they were creating special rooms with difficulties for me and my castle-y guts. I am happy to bring the kids to my aid.

[@SpiritOfTheMist]

I am agree with the four element interpretation. But I could add another one related to real life mysticism. In tarot the sword (grifindor) symbolises air, the cup (Huffelpuf) water. Then is the matter of Slytherin and Ravenclaw. This are tricky. In tarot pentacles repent gold and earth. The Locket could be related to pentacles. This leaves staffs for Ravenclaw as fire. I always wandered if J.K. Rowling knew about this.

[@sitara2783]

I always thought the headmaster portraits were extra-lifelike because the headmaster periodically inserts some magic into them. No idea where that came from.

[@zoa1-99.......]

Considering the Dementors were created and Basiliks, it makes sense the Thestralsalso could be.

[@MdTriki]

Water can be condensed air, (knowledge and nurishment), slitherin woud rather have vegetative/snake (green instinct self) as a core representative element

[@MonkeiKing]

I always assumed the whole year was split into different class groups there was about 150-200 kids in my year but only 20 in my class

[@notmyrealnameify]

I think we could make a picture frame with a representation of a person and his memories.

[@mrinternet5877]

you say soul but id think its more memories, especially with that pensive on hand who to say reviewing memories is all you can do and not store memories into your portrait, its a Sodo replica of you

[@yvs6663]

the dude behind this channel: "portraits are basically horcruxes". what the hell? practically every magical person has a portrait made at some point therefore everyone would be immortal. also, the mirror shows some people things that are no longer possible(dead people being alive) as well as things that are still entirely possible in theory but unlikely in practice(Ron having every achievement his brothers before him had despite not being the most academic person alive). with the way time travel works in the books it suggests that paralel realities don't exist. "the stone is a Horcrux" than why would someone who already has Horcruxes seek it? also, in the books, there is a suggestion that Flamel has a wife so the elixir(unlike a horcrux) works for more than one person.

[@magicpyroninja]

I was going to ask a question but my phone can't f****** understand what I say and even after I type in words it changes them to things that i don't want to f****** say so. This is what you get instead

[@TheSonofruss]

As for the stone Nicolas’s wife also benefited from the elixir

[@sceema333]

I don't think that the casualties of the war themselves would make that extreme of a difference, but populations grow significantly less during times of crisis, as way less children are born, and i think that is the main cause for the loss of population

[@TheUncleRuckus]

I don't believe that it's their soul that's put into the paintings, it makes more sense for it to be a copy of an individuals consciousness that's been imparted into the paintings and that's why the paintings are sentient.

[@doyscherr]

Wizard portraits are Horcruxes?

[@JCinLapel]

I though that the portrait are more a window to the soul and the stronger the magic the stronger the soul. This is why dumbldore was so worried about being removed form the choclate frog cards for this what his window into the wizarding world. I hope to see if they do have an after harry potter story that one of the muggle born students who had magicial naghbors that were killed during second dark war. Keeps a card of dumbledore that was in the wizard naghbors home. This is how they learned of the wizarding world and how he protected his family during this.

[@creolegurl1316]

If the philosopher's stone was a horcrux why would it need to be destroyed and why would anyone seek it? It would be of no use to anyone other than the person's whose soul was in it (unless someone only wanted to make gold. LV knew how horocruxes workef, so why would he think the stone would benefit him?

[@DarkWaters2009]

it would benefit him as it could make an elixir of life for him

[@professorsassafras]

what if the resurrections stone is actually the philosophers stone

[@zogkuma]

Magic portraits are basically magically made AI copies

[@brianmagee1061]

Then wouldn’t the portrait be a horcrux?

[@AndrewMyYouTubeThingsAndStuff]

I still love the HP franchise. I don't want it to go through what Star Trek went through with the reboot and the wasted decade of struggling so much and only just now beginning to figure out how to make good content for the entire unified fanbase again. It's not that what Star Trek made was bad during that decade, it's that they didn't do enough, and I mean especially with the established franchise actors which hurt the fans so much. I wish WB would do the reboot as animation because Warner Brothers is so amazing at animation and animation as a field has such an amazing decade ahead with AI animation being so powerful. I know they feel that Fantastic Beasts failed already because they couldn't figure out how to write it well. I know they feel it's cheaper to do a reboot than pay Dan and Emma and Rupert for stories they don't even feel like they can write. But I'll always believe in this franchise and JK and everyone. It has the magic and nobody can take that from it. They're doing the reboot but I believe they will do a continuation story with original cast people as well, maybe even connecting them with magical time travel and such. Will Voldemort shift reality to try again? Dan as Harry as a grown up chief Auror and Emma as the grown up Hermione, the brightest witch of her age, the Witch James Bond for the Ministry and champion of Britain, and everything she learned in the original 7 novels making her into Britain's champion as an adult? And the key to understanding a grown up Ron Weasley is that he was never good with a wand, but his real grown up identity is that he is the kind of Wizard who works best with a magic sword, and all the Weasleys come into their own when they spend some time alone.

[@ladycplum]

I think a lot of wizards might have decided against having children when Voldemort was on his first rampage.

[@Playboicaspi]

The Original AI 😂

[@_hadoken]

AI paintings

[@jeremyhardin6176]

I always thought Dumbledore wanted to keep his chocolate frog cards so he could use them to spy on people

[@spencercorpuz]

So much of this is super reaching 😂 alot of these don't even have nearly enough evidence to make a solid case

[@themysteryofbluebirdboulevard]

Wow. Disagree with all the analyses!

[@mo-dev]

In the books there are around a thousand students at hogwarts while in the films there amount is reduced significantly beacause of budget, etc. Imagine building the great hall set for a thousand student and not 400 or whatever it is in the films

[@ilyasabadashev958]

Well, especially Great Hall was not a set. It was a room in Oxford enlarged digitally

[@srayj]

But in the books don’t they only mention Dean, Seamus, Neville and Ron being the boys in Harry’s year for Gryffindor? Unless the other houses or years were significantly more stacked, it would still mean a relatively small student body.

[@JoshuaB1194]

@@srayj it is small . If we assume 5 students for the year/house/gender, then each house would only have 70 students, this match up considering that the common room isn't stated to be large. even if we estimate it with 4-6 instead that still only 224-336.

[@LudmilaT.]

@@srayj there are 40 students in Harry's year (distributed to all houses). Obviously it would be lot harder to write if there were more students than that. But the way it's written implies lot more students so it's just assumed Harry's year is unusually tiny.

[@Njuregen]

Rowling admitted she is not good at mathematics.

[@dawnkindnesscountsmost5991]

Another reason for Neville's lessening clumsiness in the later books is that he had acquired his own wand just before starting 6th year, from Ollivander's, so the wand chose Neville. Neville's own wand works more effectively for him than his dad's ever did or would.

[@DustyBunzz]

I think the rule of three can also be suggested for the trio of Luna, Ginny and Neville. Neville is the overshadowed. Luna is the brain and Ginny being the lead

[@thomasmoeller3446]

Fire rises and Gryffindor is in a tower. Slytherin, Gryffindor's opposite is deep within the dungeons. With a shimmering light from the Great Lake--water. Ravenclaw soars above in another tower--like air. Hufflepuff is grounded--where food comes from--entrance in the corridor to the right of the kitchens.

[@DannyMorrs]

So you copied what he said, but didn't put it as well

[@thomasmoeller3446]

@@DannyMorrs Extended what he said to include house location and not just elemental relationship. Watch again and learn.

[@Auron1Roxas2]

Besides having a handed down wand, Neville also had to deal with his grandmother constantly comparing him to his famous father who he can't even talk to. This had to be a massive blow to his self esteem which is why he struggled. However we know that Neville has potential, as in the 5th book once he learns that bellatrix has escaped he actually applies himself more and is motivated to learn and he makes such good improvements that it was said only hermione advanced faster than him. We know that wizards are a minority and that hogwarts is not the only school kids go to so it's not weird that Harry's class size is so small.

[@stevegallo8483]

The fifth book is also the one where Harry starts teaching defense against the dark arts to students who want to learn, because Umbridge is deliberately not teaching them anything. Those lessons also helped Neville gain confidence.

[@CidVeldoril]

You know who also had a handed down wand? Lucius Malfoy. That wand was a thousand year old heirloom given to the current Malfoy family head. And Voldy broke it.

[@Auron1Roxas2]

@@CidVeldoril Ok.

[@Felground]

My thought is the portraits are painted with the blood of the individual in the paint.

[@akpofficial2335]

This is way darker

[@kacperdadela8538]

If I remember correctly, Flamel's wife also had a long life thanks to the philosopher's stone. So it would mean that either it was a horcrux for both of them (is it possible?) or that horcrux theory is wrong and it was actually some kind of elixir. Now I think that it's an interesting question if it is possible for an object to be a horcrux for 2 (or even more) people at the same time?

[@DarkWaters2009]

unless they each killed someone it would not be a horcrux

[@Egoista7821]

Honestly i would argue that yes in a way? If we choose to look at Harry as a horcrux the reason he didnt die with the killing curse. He was both a horcurux for Voldy but also a Horcrux flr himself in a way... minus the fractured soul stuff. It would definitely be reaching since technically it was power of Lilly 's love keeping him alive the entire time... but you know, technicalities and what not.

[@kacperdadela8538]

Also, wouldn't Voldy feel that it's a horcrux (and therefore useless for him)?

[@patrickbooth5091]

Didn’t the book say the stone was used to produce the elixir of life?

[@NoneofyourBusiness-iv6pi]

The stone produces the elixir and they both drink the elixir.

[@eranshachar9954]

As for the portraits, I feel like every wizard who has one is enchanting his own to answer and react the way that the real one would have done it had he was alive. As for Thestrals that make sense if they are an experiment. The thing about them is that they are fascinating and mysterious so we may never know. As for Neville I think it was duo to mental abuse from Augusta not that she did something magically for it. As for Flamel I don't think the stone was a Horcrux, rather it was a magical creation master piece that either was created by Flamel or improved by him. And as for the founders connected to nature elements that make a lot of sense.

[@JamesDavy2009]

Similar to a certain druid from a French comic book series, only Flamel knew the correct methods for the four processes to create the Philosopher's Stone: nigredo, albedo, citrinitas, and rubedo.

[@eranshachar9954]

@@JamesDavy2009 Indeed he knew how if he created the stone. There is always a chance that some other powerful wizard created it. Like a Peverell brother to be more specific Cadmus. This is a theory I have heard.

[@matthewmonsees8288]

I think that the location of hogwarts was chosen specifically because it had a good conduit for magic, but like how the books discussed thing that had been "touched" by magic, that all the time of having magic performed in the school, has added to the magical abilities of the school

[@ElysiaWhitemoonOmega]

those carlinbrothers had the idea that it was a transformed dragon

[@robertgronewold3326]

I think it's pretty safe to assume that any magical creature in the Wizarding World that has a body plan that doesn't follow the strict rules of evolution was likely a creation of magic over the centuries. Animals like pegasi and centaurs just don't have a body plan that would happen on its own, some magic had to have been involved over time.

[@TV-ge3uj]

There were two Flamels, and they both survived (in Harry Potter) to the late 20th century.

[@edwarddore7617]

So hogwarts is sentient like the house in Encanto..... "we don't talk about Voldy, oh no!"

[@JamesDavy2009]

In this context, literally.

[@hannahlarocco4699]

You mean we don’t talk about Bruno

[@WatchThatFirstStep]

The thestral theory is a poor one. They are associated with death, which doesn't make them evil, only a representation of a natural cycle. In the books thestrals lived in the forest and didn't negatively affect the environment or people around them. Thestrals are scavengers - eating trash from dumpsters in an alley by the Ministry of Magic entrance - yet prefer meat. Freshly slaughtered, also meaning in the very early stages of decay. This is fitting because the magical animals don't eat or attack the living. Thestrals are calm and notably gentle creatures. Saying they are a product of dark magic makes no sense. Portaits. They are magically preserved imprints of a witch, lesser versions of how ghosts are imprints of departed souls. The Goblet of Fire does posses a degree of sentience. We know this because Barty Crouch, Jr was able to confound it. As Moody, he stated it was a very powerful confundus charm cast to fool the Goblet. My theory is the Goblet of Fire uses psychometry to evaluate tournament candidates. Its why students needed to write their names on a piece of paper; Moody-Crouch had immediate access to Harry's writing and signature to submit him. The Mirror of Erised does what is stated in the books. It shows the viewer's greatest desire. Parallel universes? That's like saying boggarts aren't non-beings that change into a person's fears but instead are portals that pull in what a person fears from alternate realities.

[@Raymail-tj4cf]

A misunderstanding it wasn’t a trio but a quartet. Dumbldor showed that in the first book when Neville won the house cup.

[@danielhawkins96]

There are eleven long-established and prestigious wizarding schools worldwide, all of which are registered with the International Confederation of Wizards. This is also a theory as to why classes were so small I mean we know there slot of adult witches and wizards left just from when they visit the Ministry Of Magic.

[@RichD1011]

All a bit far fetched tbh

[@matthewmonsees8288]

I think that Neville was tortured as well, and left for dead, and the memory charm that was done to cover it up, was either botched, or it didn't work as well on a younger kid, and as he got older it affected him less and less. But also, yeah, the end not being his was the major hindrance as far as his magic capability.

[@IIIC3YLOCO]

I think Neville was hidden away by grandma because she didn’t want anything to happen to him which caused “bubble boy syndrome” but once he was around peers he started growing into an independent young man. Even In his younger years He challenged harry and Ron to a fight if they wouldn’t listen to him. So he was courageous and brave all the way through. 😊❤

[@chuckdavis3793]

Maybe with the paintings they do split there's so little bit but not like a horcrux where it brings the dead Tom Riddle did but maybe the portion that the soul that split is willing that you got to be willing and it's more maybe you got to put a little blood into it or and your memories basically long line to there where it's just for the knowledge the portrait is are alive but not where they can bring back dark event the wizard of the picture dying so maybe a little bit like a horcrux but not that much and it's not an evil process like horcrux where to make completely different

[@drteef8922]

I was thinking the same thing. The intent behind it, and means to achieve it are different. It's sorta like collecting the memories for the pensive, just in painting form😅

[@Sir_Cactus]

I once did some calculations based on Harry's class size to determine that there are around 6000 witches and wizzards in the UK. This would mean during the Quidditch world cup in book 4, nearly 20% of the worlds magical population were in that stadium. Of course I forgot that the magical population in Briitain were a smaller part of Brittains entire population compared to other countries due to the war.

[@robthomas3968]

Half of these are just crap to make a video

[@HarryPotterTheory]

Sorry you feel that way Rob!

[@hollyhartwick3832]

I don't think the class size requires that much explanation. If you take Harry's dorm room population (5) as an average, that would be 5 boys and 5 girls per house per year. That would make the total student population of Hogwarts approximately 280 at any given time. Given that the magickal gene is so rare, and the overall population of wizardkind would be expected to be rather small, 280 seems a fairly reasonable amount of students aged 11-17 from among the families of the UK, especially if we consider that some magickal youth may have been homeschooled for various reasons. The maths bear out when you really dig into it.

[@DangerousBobTM]

More likely the pensive is linked to the headmaster portraits, i doubt soul magic is used.

[@Kittens-twins]

Oo

[@georgesmith8558]

Harrys class size is small bc all the other hundreds of students have different schedules for different classes at different times

[@danielarthur2950]

So would the portraits be horcruxes?

[@zimonzieclown1633]

If the Philosopher's Stone was Flamel's horcrux, how do you explain his wife's long life?

[@ginnyjollykidd]

I am a little dubious about these, especially that everything is a horcrux. A horcrux requires taking a life, and I'm not convinced taking a life is the only way to imbue something with personality. Does a wand have a horcrux of the maker? I'd say not, since making them didn't seem to do Garrick Olivander any harm. He was just old and quite an experienced wandmaker. And every wand in his shop would have reduced him to a crenelated blob of goo. Also, equating Slytherin with water might be pushing it a little. I do know the water moccasin spends a lot of time in water. Yes, the water moccasin, AKA cottonmouth, is one of only 4 American venomous snakes (diamond back rattlesnake, coral snake, and copperhead), and that might be the reason. But I'd like to hear JKR's take on it, since many more snakes live in arid places.

[@baraka490]

why does Rolling say "i think" why she answers some of the questions she receives as if she is trying to remember stories she was told as a kid? it makes it seem that we may be more wrong about what is goin on in the world and there is more out there than we realize.

[@dawnkindnesscountsmost5991]

I read a theory that JK Rowling is not someone who created a fictional world, but is really Rita Skeeter, and she wrote the books from real-life events hidden from the Muggle world. Rowling/Skeeter saying "I think..." is from Rowling/Skeeter not being sure of the answer to the question, because she hasn't witnessed or been told the information regarding some questions. Hermione still has sway over Rowling/Skeeter, maybe took away, or forbid that Rowling/Skeeter use, the Quick Quotes Quill, and must write and speak the truth, or at least write and speak with kindness without scandal. Rowling/Skeeter saying "I think..." is the result of that mandate from Hermione.

[@jugosever]

I've been wondering, if Hogwarts is sentient why didn't it tell Dumbledore where the Chamber of Secrets and Basilisk were hidden.

[@JamesDavy2009]

Salazar Slytherin may have made the Chamber of Secrets Unplottable. Also, sentience does not equate to intelligence-it is the ability to perceive feelings and emotions.

[@Aupsic-hh5sy]

- Portraits: Personally, I think the portraits are enchanted with memories, like the Pensieve. It doesn't necessarily require the living person the portrait resembles, only the memories from someone that knew the person, and it can even be enchanted so the portrait can share limited information for future generations. This can be proven with the portrait of Dumbledore's sister, which i doubt they had the resources at the moment of her death to afford a portrait like that, so it was most likely made years later by Aberforth. - Hogwarts: The school is definitely enchanted, but I don't think it is fully conscious, it is just raw magic that performs the things it was programmed to do by its masters (the founders), and it is completely neutral. This same reasoning can be applied to the Goblet of Fire. - Who created the Goblet?: Well, since the founders of Hogwarts could cast an everlasting enchantment on the school, it can be hypothesize that the headmasters of the different school around the world may have created the Goblet for such an important event, including Dumbledore.

[@pandamx8959]

Imagine if to make the portraits more life like instead of a small piece of the soul it’s more like the pensive, were like for example dumbledore just every day or every week would go to where ever the portrait of himself was and would just extract that days or weeks memories and the portrait of himself would just store them and by the time he dies the portrait “activates” with all the memories of dumbledore in tact effectively making him a copy of dumbledore (except for the day dumbledore died of course).

[@muslim9615]

Bro your voice is so much like harry potter 2:05

[@CARLHPMA]

the painting is like a good horcrux and snape takes dumbledores memories from the pensieve and puts them into the painting haha kinda like uploading your mind into a computer before you die but this is just copies of memories. snape kept his memories secret so harry could be the only person who can complete snapes painting but snape has also given harry the ability to make more paintings of his parents in return. i imagine snape did the same for charity burbage the muggle studies teacher and i imagine most wizards do this so the true memory can be remembered but the soul can go on. This would also make the killing curse unforgiveable for a darker reason cos you dont even get a chance to cry. Maybe the torture curse physically removes memoies unless you can resist crying. the impirius curse can literally force you to give up memories if you didnt want to.

[@kurtadamlar]

Portraits: Machine learning + singularity

[@Yaddyyadda]

I just.. we could do this yanno? Nothing is stopping us. Give me a flatscreen tv, and then program an AI character into it, take a picture of someone let AI animate it. Put it in a picture frame, and put the animations in loop, you could even have one for sleep set a certain number of hours, and random times where the person in the portrait is just gone, ya just need a series of gifs or videos to splice and bada boom bada bing. And it wouldn't take much to hook up it up to something like Alexa where you can speak to it and it speaks back. Seriously what's stopping us guys? The day we make a breakthrough in nano tech is the day we all get wands. We already got 3D pens, we're gettin close boys

[@MonkeiKing]

The last one makes sense as well when you take into the common rooms Gryffindor has a huge fireplace as its focal point ravenclaw is up in the highest tower hufflepuffs peaks out from the ground and slytherin looks out into the lake

[@bogdanbarbu363]

It seems to me like the subjects willingly imparting part of their souls into the paintings is inconsistent with what we know about splitting souls as well as Horcruxes. First, had it been possible to split souls like this, murder would not have been necessary for making a Horcrux. Secondly, the paintings do not protect the subjects from death. Also, the stuff about the mirror made no sense. I feel like theories can be fun but when you said the thing about the alternate dimension explaining a bunch of entirely unrelated things, it wasn't even a leap but a complete a non sequitor. Why would an alternate dimension be an explanation for those things? It's like me saying brooms maybe get smeared with magic cat poop when they are made and that explains how they channel the witch/wizard's ability to fly. Shouldn't I explain some plausible connection there?

[@xy-ow7hw]

Nicholas Flamel was over 600 years old. If you consider how the society changed in just around 20 year gaps (every generation), you could imagine, that he has some "cruel" world views on todays standards. I could Imagine that the Stone itself needed to be filled with the Life Essence of Young magicial Childen. Only the purest can create pure out of nothing.

[@EvilSinx]

I kinda dislike theories according to which taking pieces of your soul is somehow "common". Using soul fragments for portraits for example. Wasn't splitting your soul supposed to be hard/horrible? Not like everyday stuff.

[@dorkavenger42]

Portrait Paint: What if the paint is mixed with Pensieve. Not placing a soul but if enough different memories give the ability of artificial intelligence (artful intelligence?). Come to think of it, many artists paint on top of other paintings. What if the trick of headmaster paintings is that a portrait of student with Pensieve pigment, is painted over by a portrait from their 20’s and so on. Age layered on youth. To be clear, the memory has to be from that time not a memory from a middle aged person of their teenage life.

[@HeraldOfChaos76]

Either way the portrait thing just kind of reminds me of an avatar reincarnation cycle in the way that the person who needs wisdom can actually go to past people and actually asked them about it and they can explain it in their view but they don't know everything and I kind of like it lol😂

[@darkage5]

Thestrals would be a dark magic experiment. Not a science experiment.

[@azrieljale]

0:40 they LEGIT makin AI copies here😂😂😂😂😂

[@LordZiTan]

so, the portraits are made with wizards blood. that would explain why some of them seem so "alive" theyre essentially the beginning stage of a horcrux, no death required.

[@JARedwolf100]

Personally I think the portraits are imbued with the mental essence of the person. Rather then the soul it’s copies of memories transfer and/or imbued with the paint.

[@Jaszi007]

10:39 ah yes the subtle nature of God in numbers showing through in Harry Potter with the significance of 3 & 7. NICE👌

[@camerondepotato1005]

Flamel and his wife were alive because of the stone, and I don’t think two people can share one horcrux

[@MiTxGam3r]

Often wonder why Harry broke the elder wand in the movie seeing as he repaired his original wand in the book.

[@americansmark]

Up until the other day, I i had no idea Flamel was based on the real person. I knew the name from history, but didn't put two and two together.

[@user-pm7pw1tl3t]

After death just pull put their memories and knowledge and throw it in the painting

[@stevegallo8483]

Snape had a headmaster portrait done? He wasn't headmaster very long, less than a year and then Voldemort killed him, so when and how did he have time to have one painted.

[@CidVeldoril]

If Flamel's stone was just a horcrux, then he would've needed two because his wife was still alive as well.

[@rosebud7233]

I like the mirror of Erised one.

[@akumad.kenpachi6026]

so ur saying they turn the paintings into horcruxes?

[@stephenmartinez1]

These “theories” are all terrible. Pretty much every one of them I raise serious objection to.

[@danielBrown-fs7xq]

The room of requirement is my evidence for the centient castle

[@jeffpayne9655]

Flamels wife was also alive the whole time. Your theory is garbage!

[@Yoddeley]

I think the portait hold memories like a pensive

[@hypwrverse]

idk man if u gonna give theories and such go more in depth with em cant u

[@mikebrown1881]

You can't go to the afterlife if you split your soul, even a tiny little bit.

[@visitor55555]

The four elements one was utter word salad.