A Brief Look at Harry Potter

Just a couple of words about the wizarding world of Harry Potter, Pottermore, Fantastic Beasts, Wizards Unite, Magic Awakened, Hogwarts Mystery and JK Rowling's blog. A nice short video.
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Timestamps:
Intrusion: 0:00
Harry Potter and Domestic Abuse: 3:28
Hogwarts and Child Endangerment: 13:02
Hogwarts and Being a Bad School: 32:10
Wizards and Getting a Job: 1:14:58
Dumbledore and Being Shit: 1:45:09
Wizards and Do They Have Primary School: 1:54:12
First Break: 2:01:11
The Ministry of Magic and Jesus That's 1.5 Hours Long: 2:06:30
Economagics and Magical Economy Stuff: 3:52:14
Second Break: 4:32:10
Wizard Prisons and Wizard Cops Committing Wizard Hate Crimes: 4:47:26
Wizards and Muggles and Segregation Oh My: 5:03:02
Racism, So Much Damn Racism: 6:09:14
Third Break: 7:07:11
Magical Eugenics: 7:17:20
Wizarding Isolationism: 7:40:42
The Global Wizarding Community: 8:20:19
All Those Schools That JK Rowling Wrote Badly: 8:45:51
Fourth Break: 9:05:18
The Cursed Play: 9:14:45
Conclusion: 9:43:31

[@CthulhusBFF2]

In the end, the real 10 hours of Harry Potter analysis were the friends we made along the way

[@AVspectre]

I didn’t notice the time stamp until seeing this comment lol

[@TheYoungkidcash]

@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

[@Jennaros1ty]

"Brief look"😅

[@apothe0ses]

I feel this in the 6k views this video has gained in the week it’s taken me to watch

[@Gloomdrake]

What do the additional 5 seconds amount to?

[@Sandwhaler]

"The Japanese students robes change colour as they progress." Oh, like in martial arts! ... Oh, like in martial arts...

[@_inkykitty_5054]

Wuh oh! J.K. Rowling did a stereotype again!

[@-satanicpanic-]

Im... not even surprised anymore.

[@reilynn7891]

God everything in this shitass franchise is like "hey, thats a neat idea! Oh, wait..."

[@ronanmates7812]

not gonna lie i initially thaught she pulled up a martial arts grading chart, till i looked more closely.

[@cheezbiscuit4140]

well at least it's not cringe references to anime....nah japanese magical girl wizards piloting wizard mechs would be sick.

[@bananas999]

Kinda fucked that McGonagall could spend an enormous amount on Harry's broom, but none of the teachers helped Ron get a new wand

[@lightdarksoul2097]

Well it would help her house besides, Ron has never earned a single house point for Gryffindor

[@DocAcher]

💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

[@smolelvenbby]

​@@lightdarksoul2097what about the points in the first movie/book for the chess game?

[@lightdarksoul2097]

@@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

[@nont18411]

@@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.

[@rodentjazz]

Rowling really called all the international schools “mojo dojo casa house” and thought no one would notice

[@paularoth4915]

😭😭😭

[@mariannaortiz2426]

What is “mojo dojo casa house”?

[@alicerivers185]

Reference to the barbie movie. It's what beach Ken calls the houses after he takes over barbieland.@@mariannaortiz2426

[@spammymgee2790]

​@@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)

[@paularoth4915]

@@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.

[@kewbism]

Lily saying “not to sound too much like a video essayist” 7 hours into a video essay will never not be funny to me

[@moxxiemaximus]

Right, that had me like "wait so what is it YOU think we're doing here then?"

[@Reydriel]

Essay? This vids freaking THESIS length lmao

[@ThunderWorkStudioAMGE]

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

[@bluequartzcomet]

Damn, Lily's really pushing for that 10-minute mark

[@RedSaint83]

I didn't notice the length of this video until this comment 😅

[@thicccboimichaeljohnson6497]

Really pushing for that 600 minute mark fr

[@lolaby2]

😅 “breif”

[@SaSPonchICo]

I feel the video is a bit short. I wish it was 100 hours long.

[@magicpigeon_]

@@lolaby2brief*

[@thesayes6231]

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.

[@FrogsForBreakfast]

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.

[@the_last_ballad]

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.

[@thesayes6231]

@@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.

[@tomatosoup1304]

Yeah, he and Narcissa are so protective of Draco and its annoying seeing how fans downplay the love they have for their son

[@cosmic_cookie5669]

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?

[@Snarkknight5]

"Well, we have to keep magic a secret, or else they'll want magic solutions for all their problems!" Go walk through a children's cancer ward, and say that again. The entire setting is just so deeply bitter and cruel.

[@Draeckon]

Now that you mention it, I feel like any wizard catching a lethal or conventionally incurable disease would probably lead to dramatic changes in the setting. It just goes to show how little thought Rowling put into her own world.

[@104daysofteru]

I haven't finished watching yet so I'm not sure if this is brought up, but it bothers me how despite claiming muggles and wizards are equal, the story still treats regular people as inferior. While wizards are allowed to be in the know, muggles are deliberately kept separated and obliviated. They're portrayed as stupid and incapable of defending themselves from any magical threat, so of course it's up to the good, righteous wizards to save them. Technology doesn't work in the presence of magic, wizards are immune to muggle diseases... The relationship is super unbalanced and every wizard-muggle interaction feels super patronizing, with the war for muggle rights being fought without them even knowing (whole thing reeks of something alike to the white saviour trope). There's so many ways this could be fixed - having technology interfere with magic instead of the other way around, muggles being able to harness external magic while wizards only using their own, etc. Even less 'complex' series (like Bardugo's Grisha books) deal with this problem by giving people without powers some sort of upper hand - but I guess that's too much to deal with for dear Joanne.

[@t-topia4047]

i feel like a much better explaination (one i’ve figured since i first read the books and that i’ve seen in fanfic) is that the wizarding world is scared that the witch hunts and trials will start again if muggles found out about them. like. i feel like i wouldn’t have really questioned that if that was the explanation given?

[@Snarkknight5]

@@t-topia4047 Maybe, but then the entire rest of the series goes out of its way to emphasize just how utterly helpless a non-magical person is before even a half-trained wizard with a broken wand. Hagrid gives Dudley a pig's tail with a broken wand in an umbrella, and they can't do squat about it. Between potions, mind-control, charms that render mages literally invisible to non-magical people, spells that make it so that they can't even *remember* mages, paralyzing spells, spells that knock people out, spells that knock people down, threats that non-magical people can't even *see,* let alone defend against... The series treats non-mages as something akin to developmentally-disabled *children,* who it isn't right to abuse, but also can't be trusted to make their own decisions. They certainly don't pose any sort of threat to magical people. *Harry Potter* bleeds with contempt for the vast majority of the human species. If a character isn't a part of Rowling's Master Race, they aren't treated with anything like dignity or respect.

[@104daysofteru]

@t-topia4047 I mean yeah, but how exactly would Rowling's muggles be able to hurt wizards in the first place? Adults could just apparate away and even little kids would probably be able to charm their way to safety. For witch hunts to be a valid threat, muggles would need to have a way to be equal in power to wizards - which just isn't the case as they're shown to be completely inferior (and that's a big issue imo).

[@TheYasmineFlower]

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".

[@denny3460]

I love this take 😂

[@heavenlypillar]

Loving this head canon

[@sofiacunha6119]

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!

[@mynamejeff3545]

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.

[@mynamejeff3545]

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.

[@omegahaxors3306]

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?"

[@AnimusBehemoth]

@@omegahaxors3306 Thank you for sharing such fine work. Which I will definitely steal, after subbing to the channel to assuage my guilt

[@lemin0u]

LMFAO

[@loftus4453]

Made me chuckle

[@58christiansful]

What utter idiocy. Sadly fools outnumber the intelligent and the sophisticated.

[@58christiansful]

The incredible nerdish-ness of this discussion beggars belief.

[@miguelangeloeiramartins6241]

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".

[@nonmagicalwitch]

That's honestly a pretty cool concept tho

[@jeanv8249]

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

[@naos8116]

​@@jeanv8249 A sentient castle wizard sounds badass.

[@sagefurry]

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

[@medealkemy]

By the way... Didn't she used to... _live in Portugal_ ? Damn 😵

[@boowilcox9858]

"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

[@masterfoxd9770]

Same im crocheting à new top lol

[@nalinmalhotra3319]

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

[@christal2641]

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.

[@OurLadyOfPunkz]

I'm reminded of that line from the recent Across the Spiderverse that Pav says.

[@Mr.Monacle]

​@@OurLadyOfPunkz"and this is where the British stole all our stuff!"

[@shadenox8164]

Not so different to the non-magical British people after all.

[@zainmudassir2964]

As from Pakistan 🇵🇰 I agree too

[@skylarjohnson7779]

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?

[@tjenadonn6158]

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.

[@skylarjohnson7779]

@@tjenadonn6158 burn.

[@arahman56]

@@tjenadonn6158 No wonder she's so jilted by Radcliffe not blindly following in her footsteps.

[@tjenadonn6158]

@@arahman56 Or by Emma Watson becoming an actual feminist instead of a TERF.

[@stadbab]

ditto to hagrid tho

[@HaapainenRouske]

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...

[@wellingtonfeliciano6620]

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.

[@RobinAlucard123]

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

[@wellingtonfeliciano6620]

@@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.

[@teresaellis7062]

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.

[@mirrortarget5729]

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.

[@TessaLucy]

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

[@VincentEdelstein]

Helll yeaahhhhhh trans your gender in the Lego Harry Potter games to make JK Rowling wake up in a cold sweat at 3am

[@Gibbon420]

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*

[@nicewalrus997]

Same😭😭

[@ronjaj.addams-ramstedt1023]

Ditto

[@Silburific]

Implying I'm not interested in literally every second of this video

[@Bionickpunk]

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.

[@velaethia6]

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.

[@TransSappho]

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?

[@LilySimpson]

after looking at every other persons name, 100% in the Harry Potter world

[@TransSappho]

@@LilySimpson I feel like given too much longer Rowling would independently come up with Moon Moon

[@SpoopySquid]

Big "Major Major Major Major" vibes

[@tjenadonn6158]

@@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.

[@AdamGaffney96]

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.

[@user-yh5dq2pe9z]

Watching this post JK having her holocaust denial arch is wild

[@idlegameplayer3756]

the fucking WHAT

[@artikulv731]

Yeah, she has fallen so far down the transphobic rabbit hole

[@the_last_ballad]

​@idlegameplayer3756 she has moved on to just denying nazi warcrimes(also known as "soft" denial or revisionism, but the German courts count it as a subsection of denial as you are lessening the crimes committed. But if you are playing with semantics to dodge an accusation of Holocaust denial, you really need to take a second to reevaluate why that is your only recourse). Specifically the burning of the German institute of sexuality, sex, and gender. The exchange went like this: Random person: The Nazis burned books on trans Healthcare and research, why are you so desperate to uphold their ideology around gender? Jk: I just... how? How did you type this out and press send without thinking "I should probably check my source for this, because it might've been a fever dream"? After backlash, because that's just straight up denying a well documented Nazi war crime, she tried to pivot to saying "well what I was trying to say was that trans people weren't the only victims/the main victims" and went on a long diatribe trying to defend herself... except the original tweet that she was responding to made neither of those claims(and thanks to the internet we can see that for ourselves), and her response didn't reflect arguing against those claims either.

[@rjd-kh8et]

She claimed that Nazis burning books on trans healthcare and research is "a fever dream".

[@andrewdunn8778]

That hit me when Lily was talking about History of Magic class being portrayed as boring and no one paying attention, despite being incredibly important. Rowling also recently said she didn't realize there were any Nazi parallels to the death eaters until going to a holocaust museum recently

[@Seabreeze843]

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

[@doorbel9084]

The owl house really reminded me of how much I adore well written magic systems and how lacking Harry Potter is in that

[@LedyE]

Throughout this whole video I kept thinking: owl house did this better

[@adenbishop9683]

@@doorbel9084 I can also suggest Pact and Pale by Wildbow. It is absolutely free to read, no paywalls or piracy needed.

[@marigabyteyssier2279]

I know that muggles can't brew potions because every recipe requires the use of a wand at some point, idk about anything else

[@HelloHaveA_NiceDay]

I love owl house so much

[@andthatsshannii]

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.

[@asinglewritandgrit9252]

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.

[@papervulture]

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.

[@coinjar4962]

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

[@DeaDiabola]

@@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.

[@themisguidedpoet1570]

@@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!”

[@nerdybirdnerd916]

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.

[@gentlesandladymen]

THIS OH MY GOD that line made no sense

[@BlueAvocado3]

What, where

[@Slinaro]

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]

@@Slinaro where did this even happen?

[@Slinaro]

@@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.)

[@JustSomeDude42]

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.

[@FirstnameLastname-sb3hj]

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

[@megalowatee570]

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

[@OswaldStretchdisaz]

holy shit, I found it. Harry Potter if it wasn't mid!!

[@fionn_mac_ribs]

@@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.

[@j_fenrir]

this is literally the plot of percy jackson

[@FirstnameLastname-sb3hj]

@@j_fenrir oh shit fr? maybe i should read percy jackson

[@dangerliesbeforeyou]

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 ://'

[@greanbeen2816]

This is actually brilliantly analogous to neoliberal governments ngl

[@wa11ie]

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.

[@fancyorangemittens]

...this is America. Guns in my area.

[@xRaiofSunshine]

Literally just the american government 😭 others too I’m sure

[@bajorekjon]

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.

[@Lexi_Zone]

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!

[@tjenadonn6158]

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.

[@QueenofBrambles]

@@MattSpoon07 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.

[@lrose5522]

I thought the same way about the sword tbqh, that he would return it to them

[@BiggestCorvid]

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.

[@wildwesley9328]

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.

[@trail_mix24]

"just one more video and I'll go to bed" The video:

[@thecratfywonderworld6910]

Help, no, same, i gotta sleep

[@MintyKuro]

I'm 2:49:04 in and have work in 6 hours. Please send help.

[@boneappletee6416]

​@@MintyKuro How's work going?

[@MintyKuro]

@@boneappletee6416 I need so much caffeine...

[@jadewedge6082]

"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!

[@ZijnShayatanica]

OH, THAT'S SO CREEPY. I LOVE IT.

[@MDaggatt]

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.

[@ladymunsonthemagnificent6929]

👍

[@fatcat1414]

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.

[@littlebat66666]

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.

[@cayleece7890]

Lol 😆

[@saberthecoolest]

Which is ironic because in Japan people usually wear BLACK to funerals.

[@Alice_kachow]

You can see how lily's hair slowly fades from blue to greenish blonde based on the chapters lmao

[@Ava-qb1wp]

I thought you were talking about Lily POTTER for a second and was very very confused

[@ashikjaman1940]

It's a reflection of the light being drained from her soul

[@henrywilkerson5681]

nice björk pfp

[@A-Venti-Sized-Problem]

@@ashikjaman1940 Each chapter is another horcrux being added to the pile

[@sabrinastark4886]

wow now i can

[@paulinekliarkina1615]

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.

[@deanmokrozhaev9367]

I've just read Tanya grotter again and it's so much better haha))

[@lightdarksoul2097]

Does Hogwarts make sense for a name

[@paulinekliarkina1615]

@@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)

[@logicmagic6965]

​@@paulinekliarkina1615 I agree

[@felipedasilveira5808]

Doubly funny considering that the ones that actually have a sport about tossing tree trunks are the Scottish.

[@RammerHammer]

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.

[@lightdarksoul2097]

I mean it's a dumb name but look at most of the items in that world they all have dumb names

[@meciocio]

or maybe the government has a sense of humor

[@DudeDude319]

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.

[@emhoj97]

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

[@crematedfelony]

@@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.

[@Melodic_Minor143]

I’m a simple woman. I see a timestamp over 2 hours and I click.

[@AoiHeartStranger]

Im a simple wo-ACK

[@unclegumbald989]

I’m SO HAPPY that content creators are doing *beefy* content these days. I love long-form content. 🥳

[@adi_Iastname]

my people

[@wisteria5012]

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 🤞

[@jenniferm7695]

It's a challenge and I will take it on.

[@RocknRoll301199]

"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?

[@athensmorningstar7809]

Ah but see its **magic** slave labour

[@dustrose8101]

@@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.

[@darkshadowrule2952]

​@@athensmorningstar7809so we need magic tumble dryers and telephones, genius 🫡

[@lightdarksoul2097]

Nope The elves are using magic

[@ida8355]

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.

[@MorganChaos]

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.

[@cw602]

Maybe each rebirth of a phoenix is considered a different phoenix for wand-making purposes?

[@ultimatejigglypuff5675]

Well, one Phoenix is basically an infinite source of tailfeathers.

[@the_last_ballad]

​​@@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.

[@TobiasFangorIsntCis]

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

[@KiwiLombax15]

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.

[@naomisdiary9835]

exactly

[@naomisdiary9835]

@@GEMikeero SHE* is a woman

[@JRexRegis]

@@GEMikeero damn mikey, you're real smooth and not at all being deliberately obtuse

[@Angeltones]

@@GEMikeero Me when I’m transphobic and stupid

[@weirdreapr]

@@GEMikeero Yes! She’s a woman!

[@edithw-k7946]

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.

[@LilySimpson]

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]

So many of the problems could've been solved if Harry was an audience analogue rather than Joey's self-insert.

[@edithw-k7946]

@@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

[@tjenadonn6158]

@@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.

[@tjenadonn6158]

@@MattSpoon07 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.

[@liberal4136]

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?"

[@dracorim6370]

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.

[@liberal4136]

​@@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

[@WebbedManiac]

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?

[@the_last_ballad]

​@@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

[@ndawn90]

Another interesting point about the lack of math (maths for you UK folks) education is how it pertains to both Potions and Healing. I'm currently in Nursing School, and a huge part of any Nursing School program is medication dose calculation math. There's no way that Madame Pomfrey doesn't need to calculate dosages of the Potions she uses to treat her students, especially since her entire student base is Pediatric. Adult dosing is generally standardized, but you can't give the same amount of potion - uh - medication to a tiny 11 year old girl as you would to a 17 year old boy who plays Quidditch. In real world medicine, we calculate pediatric dosages based on weight. I shudder to think how sick the patients of St Mungo's are considering how all of their medical providers can only do math at like a 4th grade level...

[@alinachrist8416]

Exactly lol. Like I understand you might not need a whole lot of muggle science for living in a magical society. But maths? They use it everywhere. I think arithmancy too is supposed to be similar to higher level maths. They just assume that everyone's either been taught basic muggle maths or educated by their parents on it. There are no bridge courses for any poor/orphan kid who might need them. What can I even ask from a society that values magical blood but still asks kids to pay for school related stuff. I can only assume that they hopefully teach this stuff to professionals lol.

[@paulsilagi4783]

Or can possibly only do math at an unregulated homeschooling level, which, depending on the household may as well be nonexistent if they mostly focus on magical education (like Hogwarts), and not even at a proper 4th grade level.

[@MrThomazSatiro]

To be fair those calculations uses mainly basic rule of three, right? That I think is covered up in basic education. (And they can refresh the algorithm in potion class)

[@riona42]

To add to this... try calculating planetary orbits and the movements of stars without even a basic understanding of mathematics 😂

[@MrThomazSatiro]

@@riona42 THIS I can give a first person account, I did an elective in observational astronomy in university thinking it would be only telescopes and pretty starts, reality: Spherical geometry hahaha

[@jacks.6243]

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.

[@Avi2Nyan]

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

[@nicolpineda8632]

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.

[@Avi2Nyan]

@@nicolpineda8632 trueee. So gross

[@KazKindred613]

@@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 :/

[@nicolpineda8632]

@@KazKindred613 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.

[@tednomouth]

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

[@PrixtoTNT]

Lol whut

[@DINO_X65]

@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.

[@ethanmiller3200]

@@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.”

[@hufflepuffkiwi804]

I mean, the series was set back in the 90s... given that wizards are even more conservative than muggles, it actually makes sense.

[@DINO_X65]

@@ethanmiller3200 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.

[@scathach8023]

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

[@vanilla4983]

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.

[@EspeonMistress00]

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.

[@EspeonMistress00]

Or yk, it's just magic and automatically turns on and off when it feels like it

[@MrThomazSatiro]

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

[@the_last_ballad]

​@@EspeonMistress00 except that's not how the series protrays magic or the inheritance of magic. It is very explicit that it's genetic.

[@EmperorAmbrose]

“Please don’t feel the need to watch this all in one sitting” Buddy, you underestimate my ‘tism.

[@chickenelafsworld7105]

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.

[@neothepenguin1257]

Beautifully said!

[@Jack-px8lf]

honestly love a lot of what u say cos i was fond of writing harry potter fan fic that idk reflected harrys truama that was never addressed in books. after what JK rowling has done, since wizards are public domain, i really think its time for someone like you who's so creative to write a series like this inspired by hp but like way better.

[@Dave102693]

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…..

[@ladymunsonthemagnificent6929]

👍

[@meddlesome-]

glad to see more people having thoughts on magical ableism. it's so fucked.

[@wareforcoin5780]

I'll do you one better on the time turner: Hermione is a 13 year old girl living days longer than 24 hours. She's a literal child, and they're just ok with her aging faster than her peers. I highly doubt they asked her parents if they were ok with her speedrunning puberty, for one thing. For another, what are the physical effects of someone living a day longer than 24 hours? And finally, like I said, she's a *child.* She can't make decisions like that for herself, she's not even done cooking. It's extremely unethical to let a child endanger her health like that.

[@victory8928]

yeah and all they had to do was go "No Hermione, if you can't do all this. It is not feasible and unhealthy. Pls choose the subjects you want the most for the allocated time slots"

[@joeharris2659]

The Ministry of Magic does allow ‘Pubertas blockerium’ spells, at least for cis witches and wizards.

[@TobiasFangorIsntCis]

At least one adverse effect we’re shown is that she becomes scatterbrained from exhaustion. She missed a class because she slept through it, having already lived more than a day by that afternoon, and didn’t go back before Ron and Harry asked her where she was, solidifying that she missed it. You *could* feasibly figure out a schedule where you allocate enough rest time to make up for all the extra time you’re awake, but again, she is a *child* and should not be put in charge of something that’s so complicated and directly tied to her health.

[@paularoth4915]

I would so abuse that time turner to get 10 hours of sleep, i swear to god

[@my_girl_seraphine5294]

@@paularoth4915 I’d abuse it to do that and have shell of a lot of breaks from classes

[@stevielambert2552]

Two things I'm not sure if they were brought up in this video (if they were please remind me!) 1. The time a kid asked JK what misuse of magic Dumbledores brother committed, and she said that he had used magic on a goat. Making innuendos in front of this kid, so everyone else could understand, that Dumbledores brother used magic so he could have relations with a goat. 2. The fact that Hogwarts is in Scotland. And the Hogwarts Express, the train that takes all students to Hogwarts, boards in London and makes No stops. So any wizards living in Scotland, or the North of England Have to go to SOUTH ENGLAND to get a train to get to SCOTLAND. And there's no explanation for like, alternative methods of getting there. I know they can just use Floo powder but it seems silly AND wtf about muggle born wizards? having to travel to London for the train and like, school supplies? All kinds of nonsense. This has bothered me since I was a child. Thank you for your time.

[@lnt305]

Disgruntled kid arriving at Hogwarts being like "I can literally see my house from here"

[@drake_diangelo]

Cho Chang is the perfect example of your second point. She lives in Scotland and yet we always see her on the train lmao my dad loves to bring this one up. It's so weird that families can't apperate or floo powder to hogsmeade and give their kids a send off, *especially* those already in Scotland and that everyone arrives the same night instead of having them show up over a couple days according to their schedules. I can honestly keep going but I'll cut myself off here lmao

[@saberthecoolest]

And given that Hogsmeade is supposed to be the only all-wizarding world in Britain, wouldn’t there be students who live there too? How would that work, especially after the visits are added in 3rd year?

[@hazelsingh3887]

Honestly not surprising because Rowling doesn’t seem to respect the Scottish or want Scotland to have autonomy.

[@trinidadguichard7188]

I genuinely never thought about the goddamn train and its implications. This makes me question why Hogwarts makes the students live there when literally anyone can teleport there.

[@QuarterMoonRachel]

Two thoughts I had watching this video: 1 - It always struck me as odd (and honestly unrealistic) that there was no wizarding university/wizarding presence at muggle universities. Like it would make total sense that the old medieval unis like Oxford/Cambridge/St Andrews would have either magic equivalents or underground/parallel magic departments. Like there's really no wizards/witches who want to study magic things more in depth? And how does research into magic get funded? Is it all just independently wealthy wizards working in silos or the state funded secretive department of mysteries? 2 - It always struck me as sad that Harry made himself a career auror. It's not necessarily out of character but it just feels like a sad conclusion to his arc. Like it seemed to me that, with everything Harry went through for years, he would maybe get involved immediately after the war to help with the mess, but that he would then realise his passion was in teaching, something we see him actively enjoying and being good at with Dumbledore's Army. I know he (in theory) wants to help affect change (something he evidently fails at) but it just feels like he'd be better doing that by overhauling the education system at Hogwarts for the next generation.

[@oneangryboi408]

I think being a teacher would be way better for his story arc end, because imagine the hero realizing why someone like Voldemort was able to nearly take control of the world was because of ignorance and basically accepting that bliss. History is doomed to be repeated unless taught and learned about often. I mean, we had two Hitler wizards. Where's the education about the first one?

[@beanbean8375]

Agreed with the other commentor that teaching is probably a better option for him. The auror route seems to imply a basketload of unprocessed trauma via repeating the danger-exposed cycle he was groomed into during his teenage years, and. Yeahhhh.

[@Dreagon-yc3zq]

The ninth house and Hellbent by Leigh Bardugo are great examples of your first point! They are very much dark books, as their use of magic is very connected to death, and their is lots of other ffed up shit in the books, but they are amazingly written, and definitely execute it better than jkr, but that is easy when she's your comparison, and Bardugo the writer you're comparing, her Grishaverse also has a very cool and interesting magic system

[@QuarterMoonRachel]

​@@Dreagon-yc3zq Oo interesting. I'll check those out!

[@katc.3400]

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.

[@katc.3400]

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!

[@tjenadonn6158]

@@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]

Sounds like a ripping episode of The Twilight Zone.

[@the_last_ballad]

Isn't that part of the reason she gave them new identities and a compulsion to move to Australia? To avoid exactly that?

[@astrinymris9953]

@@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.

[@Art3mis1990]

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.

[@bentn13]

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.

[@fatcat1414]

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.

[@beedubree2550]

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????????

[@peppymations5379]

No, Cedric’s dad reacted when his son’s dead corpse was placed in his arms! So. There’s that I guess.

[@shway1]

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

[@alicerivers185]

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.

[@adenbishop9683]

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.

[@andrewdunn8778]

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.

[@adenbishop9683]

@@andrewdunn8778 Oops thats actually funny

[@the_last_ballad]

​@@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

[@breznknedl]

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

[@Mitcheck315]

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

[@the_last_ballad]

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?

[@lady8jane]

@@the_last_ballad Their last name is Goldstein ... so ... yeah ... I mean ... it's not exactly hidden.

[@francis7336]

@@lady8jane I mean, surnames don't determine one's religion, it's just a convenient stereotype

[@Mitcheck315]

@Francis when you're talking about Rowling convenient stereotypes in names are literally the same as explicit confirmation

[@francis7336]

@@Mitcheck315 Fair enough, I just find it sad that you never see a Jewish character with a surname like, idk, Johnson

[@Necrapocalypse]

Calling an intelligent (sapient) race "territorial" is really fucked up. Imagine calling Native Americans "territorial" for wanting their ancestral lands.

[@StonedHunter]

Pretty sure they actually DID do that if they even acknowledged they had any "claim" to the land

[@christal2641]

Yep!

[@dpaulsen2]

"They want the territory we stole from them BACK?! The audacity!"

[@godslaughter]

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

[@Necrapocalypse]

@@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.

[@CobaltLn]

Even as a kid, I remember hearing the name "Cho Chang" and being like, "really? THAT'S what she named the one Asian character?"

[@TemariNaraannaschatz]

I guess kid you forgot the two other asian characters called Padma and Parvati Patil. Which are at least better named than Cho Chang.

[@CobaltLn]

@TemariNaraannaschatz I mean, I was like 10 so yeah...

[@thanetothefalseking332]

In response to the “the Wizarding World represents everything weird & against-the-grain that Muggles hate deep down” thing, I have a script-doctoring thought: What if JKR had done in the macro what she did in the micro when she wrote Chamber? You see, when Harry visits the Burrow, Ron is apologetic for how ramshackle the place is, but all Harry can see is how wonderful it is. If JKR wanted the Wizarding World to be a realm of outcasts who need to remain hidden for their own safety, she could’ve had it be that Hagrid/Dumbledore/etc try to prepare Harry emotionally for entering a life full of persecution and strife, but Harry (and ONLY Harry, as someone who’s seeing this world with fresh eyes) sees nothing but whimsy and wonder. That way, you still keep the whimsical tone, but you automatically fix, like, a dozen worldbuilding issues

[@LostAndFound7991]

I love this idea! but (and ik this is not the point of your comment) i feel like JKR def would’ve still found a way to make the persecution angle offensive af 😭 you should write it instead lol

[@thanetothefalseking332]

@@LostAndFound7991 Ya damn skippy she would. At this point, the only fix for JKR’s . . . everything (that ain’t a pipe-dream) is to tell her she’s won a free Polynesian island and then, after she’s packed, switch out her actual ticket for a one-way ticket to Antarctica.

[@Bjack570]

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

[@Terminator1732]

The island have just one ministry of magic as a bundle but ireland has its own quidditch team

[@crazycatlover1885]

​@@Terminator1732Ireland is not on the island of Great Britain

[@Terminator1732]

@@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

[@crazycatlover1885]

@@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.

[@Terminator1732]

@@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

[@cymraegandconfused9721]

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.

[@smarttravel3144]

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.

[@marocat4749]

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.

[@Dave102693]

More like cope and Elmer’s Glue

[@Dave102693]

@@marocat4749 you mean like DB in its DBZ of the story?

[@Dave102693]

Basically Naruto

[@septimustache6359]

"Exposure to magic is harmful to Muggles and could kill them." there, I just wrote HP better than Rowling.

[@user-mp4ff6gs2k]

I as a native russian always thought that Koldovstvorets is a quite clever name! And definitely was created with some help of a russian-speaking person. Koldovstvo is wizardry, and tvorets is a creator or a demiurge. Koldovstvorets is Creator of Magic, two words combined to form a pun, basically. And it doesn’t sound like a real word or like a Magic Place. But It's definitely not the case with other schools :(

[@olisa_hehe]

Hi fellow russian person! Have a nice day ❤

[@koscheib5199]

See... when I first heard it I did think it was named koldovsdvorets... as in a magic castle XD But yeah, the one name that's not totally terrible!

[@itsruthieee]

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"

[@Light-ro5bp]

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.

[@theflyingspaget]

​@@Light-ro5bpnot only that, but his divination actually worked, unlike Trelawny. If only it lasted.

[@marink7332]

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

[@marink7332]

@@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

[@marink7332]

@@parasitehouse4504 i am in awe of this comment lmao bro what are u smoking

[@Ferretic]

"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."

[@tomtom0157]

Well put 👌

[@varshini6904]

👏👏

[@amalkaraly]

The anti Spider-Man sentiment

[@mayrarara]

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)

[@hooting-ton5215]

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.

[@adenbishop9683]

6:00:20 so, heres the funny thing: someone somewhere told me that its not unusual for birth-givers body to retain permanent traces of it happening. If nothing else, there may be scars from cesarean. So imagine her poor mother having all these UNDENIABLE marks of having a child - and absolute zero memory of it. It is stuff of absolute nightmare.

[@silasreed1]

It’s tragic and would be so terrifying-almost body horror

[@mai_komagata]

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.

[@justme0910]

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.

[@saberthecoolest]

Dumbledore: “made a youthful mistake” Lavender/Parvati/Fleur: “shallow and irredeemable unless she dies/dedicated herself to a man”

[@nont18411]

Dumbledore is JK’s self-insert, not Hermione.

[@LadyGameProfessor]

"fauxminism" - I *LOVE* that, I'm stealing it!

[@RachelAnnPotter]

​@Joseph Wong lol, no wonder I thought he was cool as a kid, now I see him as a big "Oh no" 😅

[@alicec8450]

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.

[@AlashiaTuol]

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.

[@BookWyrmOnAString]

He put in a tree that bludgeons people to death instead of a password system. Why would you do that

[@carolinemcgovern4488]

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.

[@thefutureisnow6882]

legit why didnt they just apparate to a field or abandoned city or something

[@YikYakTikTak]

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 💯👌🏻

[@Quaila]

Wild case of swallow the cat to catch the rat I guess

[@kataevellei415]

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...

[@PhantomGato-v-]

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.

[@streetsofwisdom]

You forgot the carrier path of being a “magical” musician! In the forth book we see the band the Weird Sisters mentioned at the Christmas Ball! I really hope for the magical world that they got payed for that gig - and that would mean we have one more job to be aware of! Maybe it’s me being a musician myself but I always thought it was a missed opportunity. It would be so fun to hear about magical ways of music making or art production. (Maybe it reflects how a lot of people in our muggle world also not think of the Arts as a legitimate carrier.)

[@Ancusohm]

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.

[@stevendorries]

Don’t denigrate Jo, she butchered the folklore of the British isles too

[@rotisseriepossum]

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.’

[@noodlepoodle3582]

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

[@the_last_ballad]

@@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.

[@luciasoosova2182]

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

[@scarletsabre8383]

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

[@scarletsabre8383]

Oh, never mind, that got brought up almost an hour later, haha

[@scarletsabre8383]

@@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.

[@Kitty_mcPurr]

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

[@jaydenc367]

@@nont18411 That was never implied like where was it?

[@christal2641]

Perhaps because so many teenage boys DO sexually molest girls, whereas very few teenage girls have molested boys.

[@brunobucciaratiswife]

I swear every time there was a black character referenced she couldn’t only describe them as “ebony”. As if they all had the same skin tone and all their personality depended on said skin tone

[@disposableRamen]

I remember reading cursed child when i was younger, and i still totally think that albus and scorpius are totally gay for each other nothing can tell me otherwise

[@Nenilein]

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...

[@tteokbokkibxtch]

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.

[@Avi2Nyan]

Yup, there's absolutely no excuse for this bullshit. It's so obvious she just doesn't care at all

[@gataslice7663]

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 :)

[@DeaDiabola]

"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.

[@followthelucario4388]

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

[@wikileigha7077]

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.

[@Bepetoni]

New fear unlocked, jesus fuck...

[@iwakeupandboomimarat]

oh my god thats fucking terrifying

[@saberthecoolest]

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????

[@ronanmates7812]

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.

[@alicesophie123]

@@ronanmates7812there wouldn’t be friends of family because they moved to Australia and believe they are different people.

[@TJF588]

Appreciation for all the permutations of the phrase "a wizard did it," and letting them stand without any winks or nudges.

[@shiryshinx]

The trolley witch scene is insane. Should've just made her the main character tbh.

[@christiemaxwell2742]

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.

[@pringlebatch]

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

[@monsterfurby]

The "reverse homing pigeons" trope is absolutely one of the most unrecognizedly overpowered things in fiction ever.

[@sofiamirandadd]

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

[@cicalinarrot]

Another fantasy saga that a magic bird of prey could have easily solved a few books before the end.

[@agnieszkapyz692]

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

[@MrDrJonas]

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 🙃

[@iwakeupandboomimarat]

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???

[@artaihnandez4980]

​@@iwakeupandboomimaratI mean there's a decent contingent of people that think Africa is a country

[@nopecopter9353]

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).

[@guggelguggel7491]

Wait its called Uagadu and its in Uganda? I think it sounds more like she just remixed Ugandas name into something slightly different.

[@averagejoey2000]

copenhag as a wizard school is at least kinda cool because a hag is a magical something or other

[@THATGuy5654]

I tried looking around to see if this was already a thing, and I'm kind of surprised to have found next to nothing: My ultimate fanfic concept would be a growing awareness that there are muggles who are not only incapable of magic, but immune to it, and some of them are becoming aware of the Wizarding World. I feel like that could be the kick in the pants the culture needs. Anyone who actually wants to write Harry Potter fanfiction can feel free to steal my idea.

[@gypsydanger1013]

On your note about transfiguration and live animals, consider that the torture curse isnt even necessary in this universe. Imagine transfiguring someones eye into a fire ant hill. Or their fingers into lit fireworks, or their joints into rice paper so their bones just dislocated within their skin. That would be both physically excruciating and mentally destroying. I would immediately confess everything if someone threatened me with that.

[@Mitcheck315]

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

[@tjenadonn6158]

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.

[@rayafoxr3]

Pretty good allegory for violence cycles in society

[@AmyAberrant]

Yeah, it’s like the analogy of selling someone the poison so you can sell them the antidote. That’s the entire school.

[@luxill0s]

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”

[@Mitcheck315]

@@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

[@ravenwolfkittyface1802]

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.

[@476f7474]

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.

[@_inkykitty_5054]

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]

@@476f7474 because if you try to bring any of it up she just plugs her ears and shouts loudly until you go away.

[@476f7474]

@@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.

[@TheBonkleFox]

@@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.

[@arky1790]

Imagine voldemort had just smothered harry with a pillow or something whole series wouldve been over pretty quick

[@vanilla4983]

Or just send in a hole squad of death eaters, can’t be marked as his equal if he’s not there to mark him. Even if Voldy didn’t know that part of the prophecy I still wouldn’t have risked it if I was in his shoes, that seems like it would cause a self fulfilling prophecy.

[@willamcars1]

my biggest little worldbuilding issue is the reason electricity doesn't work at hogwarts. if all the magic in the air was causing electricity to not flow correctly, then at minimum everyone would die.

[@sacripan4425]

Personally in my own wizardry world I'm creating in my head, you can produce electricity via magic and there is even electric magic

[@fusel5883]

Ive understood it more like an emp which is harmless to humans

[@phineas81707]

There's a fanfic I like (that also handles a bunch of other issues well, it's called "Harry is a Dragon and that's OK") that has Harry accidentally discover that *some* electronics work at Hogwarts, and Hermione puts in a lot of work researching the topic until they discover the actual problem. Hogwarts, the tallest point for miles, which keeps students sleeping in two of the tallest towers and studying in the third, has, in the enchantments protecting it, a lightning-redirection rune. This lightning-redirection rune interferes with valves, an electronic component that existed in the olden days of electricity and in cathode-ray television. Things made with transistors work fine, but Hogwarts's first experience with electricity was with a WWII one-man plane that crash-landed when it got too close to Hogwarts, and most wizards walked away from the experience thinking it was the electricity (they did do enough tests on the thing with the pilot's help that they were sure it was just the electrical components.)

[@FuckTheYoutubeUsernameChange]

It says something that even as a child who knew nothing about slavery or racism, I saw something incredibly wrong with the house elves being "happier in servitude", that they simply "wouldn't know what to do with their freedom" and that Dobby was an exception.

[@RammerHammer]

Right like I couldn't have been older than like 12 when I read Goblet and I remember thinking "why is everyone shitting on Hermione and SPEW when she's actually 100% in the right?"

[@jadewelling3459]

I really thought that she was making some kind of commentary on revolution and that there would be a resolution of the characters mindsets changing and the elves being free at the end…the confusion I had when reading the last book and the solution is…be nicer to your slaves? Like what

[@brookejon3695]

As someone who grew up in America learning about how the founding fathers were so nice and good to their slaves, it didn't stand out at all. I hate how this place is.

[@isiajahhhahahababblvjylvjy1034]

I was kinda thick in the head as a kid and I didn't understand the implications of it, but I still found it weird in a way, cause they were so human-like yet they were forced to like live like that? Idk I just found that plot unpleasant and strange to read

[@preposteroussongs5572]

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

[@lindenshepherd6085]

Oh god…I’d forgotten about the kittens…🥺

[@happytofu5]

don't forget that professor sprout cut up obviously sentient plant people who just settled down to have families

[@katanah3195]

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.

[@charlesiiofengland3608]

@@katanah3195 do you remember the title of the fic? i'd love to read this haha

[@katanah3195]

@@charlesiiofengland3608 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.

[@morgana6435]

Flashback to high schooler me telling a former friend who was a "potterhead": "I would never want to live in Hogwarts, it's so unsafe!" 😂

[@tannerwallace7231]

I think it's a testament to jk Rowling's writing. That she's managed to so comprehensively write about everything wrong with today's society, by separating it from the real world as much as possible.

[@pageclayton6850]

Seriously. Heck, autoquills are basically chatgpt

[@Minihood31770]

The other thing about Griphook and the Sword of Gryffindor, is that he asks for the sword IN PAYMENT. He not only asserts that it is his by right because it was sold under the expectation it would be returned upon death, but is then even willing to acquiesce somewhat to the human idea of ownership, by asking for it in return for services rendered. He has twofold claim to the blade! And then Harry plans to double cross him to keep the blade, like a bastard. Unsurprisingly Griphook beats him to it and is killed for his trouble. Imagine instead, Harry returns the sword because it is the right thing to do, even though it is the only weapon they know of that can destroy Horcruxes. Griphook finds one human he can trust and perhaps tells a little more about the design of the blade. Not much, just a sentence or two, specifically how it was polished with basilisk venom. Later upon returning to Hogwarts this sparks the realisation that they can arm themselves from the basilisk's fangs. Almost like a theme where helping people because it's the right thing to do makes you stronger collectively than selfishly striving for power. Fuck it's so tempting to try to fix it isn't it.

[@ColossalRay]

Only problem with this is the sword wasn't polished with basilisk venom at the time it was created, but was "impregnated" by it when Harry used it to kill the basilisk in Chamber of Secrets.

[@3crowsinatrenchcoat]

@@ColossalRay I think they were suggesting having the sword being polished from the beginning instead of absorbing it later as a way to get around harry not having the sword if he actually kept his word

[@chudleycannonfodder]

Could even be a silly moment like Griphook grumbling about it being stained with basilisk venom and him having to spend a week trying to buff it out, like a dad annoyed about a scratch on the car he lent the kids.

[@SpatulaQuerquedula]

I gotta admit, I never understood why they couldn't just... ask if they could return it later? Explain, even superficially, what they need it for? If Griphook trusted them enough to help them break into Gringotts (or just wanted revenge on Voldemort, works either way really) surely it wouldn't be that much of a stretch to just... ask. And even if he refused they could still plan to double-cross him, except at least an attempt would be made to resolve the issue without fucking Griphook over. Also, fiendyfire was always an option, and if Vincent "I ate a suspicious floating cake at 12 years old" Crabbe managed to cast it (if not supress it afterwards), the whole "oh, I couldn't possibly, it would be too dangerous!" excuse that Hermione uses is, imho, bullshit. She could learn that shit, including how to put it down. And if not her, then I'm pretty sure *someone* who was in the order could? Like there's aurors involved? Shouldn't they be trained? Or Bill fucking Weasley? It's a cursed fire, and he's such an amazing curse breaker that he's working for the goblins. They wouldn't even have to tell anyone why, since everyone just uncritically accepts "cause Dumbledore said so" as an explanation for anything. Go, ask someone to preform the spell, done. Oh god, this is so frustrating.

[@Elenuay]

It is insanely tempting! The whole video I was thinking about all the great opportunities that were missed in the writing of this story. It could have been so good...

[@luckycalypso5749]

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.

[@anfearaerach]

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

[@a.pseudonymous2384]

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.

[@mackereltabbie]

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

[@AmyAberrant]

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!

[@shimmerence]

THATS the origin of brownies?? my group met in a church! ive been duped

[@jordanwhite352]

Sorry that I keep commenting but here's also how very British centric the Harry Potter series is. It drives me absolutely crazy that there's a lot of shared universal names around the world in the wizarding universe for things, but it seems that only the UK has actual unique slang for these words. For example, the non-magical people in various areas have been shown to just be called non-magical people and whatever language they're in, but the UK only has the unique word for muggle. In the same thing, which is even more confusing is that all the other magical schools seem to be just a poorly conceived phrasing of the term, magical school or magical place while the UK has a very unique name called Hogwarts in which nothing in the naming of hogwarts suggest any sort of british or Celtic pronunciation for magical school. Therefore, none of them naming conventions makes any sense. What did it make more sense that all the other ethnic regions would have their own names for non-magical people or wizards or the schools or any of the other stuff based on their language cultures in history just like the UK does? Need your shows how JK Rowling only cares about white British people as identified by the current UK government and does not give a shit about anything or anywhere else.

[@o.s8573]

Something that really rubbed me the wrong way is how much Rowling takes the piss out of astrology. In a magical school where students are taught literal spells and potions Rowling still presents astrology as stupid and makes fun of the professor through Hermione. I don't even like astrology but it just feels like a shitty thing to do for no real reason

[@lucyla9947]

Assuming the stars actually impact magic, Astrology would be extremely useful, as definitely for certain acts of magic you'd want to cast them at the optimal time. Sure everyday spells might not be seriously impacted, but when you are trying to make extremely powerful spells and enchantments a little extra boost from the stars would be immensely helpful. Especially if retrograde periods have a impact, in traditional real-world astrology a planet in retrograde no longer has the same impact it's supposed to (a book I read described it as essentially imagine each planet is a god overseeing the various domains impacted by that planet, retrograde is when the god goes on a coffee break and everything goes to shit in their absence). That's absolutely going to cause problems, so wizards staying away from impacted forms of magic during Retrograde periods would generally just be a smart idea.

[@terpsidance.]

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.

[@leiakasta7602]

Seeing this comment when I'm only an hour into the video is wild.

[@mocotojam6767]

@@leiakasta7602 only an hour into the video is wild

[@fionaoncedargrove6121]

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]

2 inches away from the hunger games not even gonna lie

[@Zephyr_Zeitgeist]

@@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.

[@hatientacetlen4246]

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.

[@nont18411]

@@Zephyr_Zeitgeist But, remember, "Dumbledore is pure of heart".

[@wareforcoin5780]

"Late to class? It's into the murder forest with a guy that never graduated with you."

[@S4LT34]

Instructions unclear, I watched through this in a singular night

[@lingeringthoughts03]

HOW? I am on day three and just got to 2:46:24 😂

[@KBH1128]

Fun fact: this video is almost the length of the first 4 Harry Potter films!

[@rosettastarlight6239]

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.

[@drygonfyre]

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.

[@annarosa865]

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.

[@cookiecat7759]

@@drygonfyreikr

[@changingname_goaway]

@@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.

[@Peyton-plays-videogames]

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

[@MrBobthened]

The whole idea of keeping magic away from muggles “because it’s too dangerous for them” instantly falls apart when you remember that things like nuclear weapons exist. In terms of destructive power there is literally nothing that magic can do that technology can’t do more effectively.

[@anna-flora999]

It's imo much more likely that the reason we heard about first is the true one: wizards couldn't be asked to actually use their magic for the greater good

[@liberal4136]

I feel a better reason could just be "Look, they're societies created nuclear weapons; we don't trust them"

[@WebbedManiac]

Counterpoint: Most muggles on Earth do not have access to nuclear weapons, or any military-grade weapon in general. Literally every wizard carries a wand.

[@FrancisR420]

​@@WebbedManiacand the only thing that stops a bad guy with a wand is a good guy with a wand. We don't decide who gets nuclear weapons based on nepotism, well sometimes.

[@valikoest7981]

What makes this even funnier is the fact that: magic can't protect against non magical attacks. So a muggle with a pistol could have just no-diffed voldemort on the fly

[@jessjohnson998]

As I finish this- everything in the video is well thought out and amazing. The only gripe I have to add onto the pile is that I hate every single relationship in this franchise. All of them. Friendships. Romances. Mentors. Nobody in it treats people close to them well and Ron is the worst non-evil offender besides Dumbledore. He spends 90% of his time being jealous of Harry and his older sibs, or rude to Hermione, and I'm supposed to like him why? Hermione is supposed to like him why? It incredibly unclear why either his closest friend or the woman he ends up marrying tolerate him at all. He gets rewarded over and over again for nothing and Hermione gets punished over and over for trying to do the right thing. Ron abandons his friends during the last book and Harry still acts like he's a better friend than Hermione for... reasons. It's really weird how JKR can both hate men and also put useless ones like Ron and Dumbledore on a pedestal in her narratives.

[@LoganBluth]

One question I always had about the goblins' belief of "whoever made the item owns it": Does that apply to *_all_* items? Because that would lead me to believe that Goblins never buy *_anything_* from non-goblins. Like, did goblins build the Gringott's Bank building? Do goblins mint the coins that all wizard society uses, or do wizards? Do goblins make all their own clothes, belongings, etc...? It just seems like a logistical nightmare.

[@adenbishop9683]

Mmm, not really like that. They do give stuff made by them to others, on condition of it being returned back after death. So you "own" it but not your children/friends. However it still makes a hilarious(?) picture where any money someone has goes back to being bank-owned after their death. Kinda contradicts canon with Harry having inheritance from parents, but lets just say goblins just were unwilling to interfere with a nation-known person of importance, especially a child.

[@LoganBluth]

@@adenbishop9683 Right, that's what I mean: If a goblin buys clothes, do the clothes have to be returned to the original tailor when that particular goblin dies? If it was wizards who create and mint the money used in the wizarding world (and this would seem likely since a main feature of any ruling class is that they control the creation and dispersal of currency), do the goblins at Gringott's have to give all the money in a wizard's vault back to the original branch of wizard government that minted that money upon that wizard's death? If it was wizards who built the Gringott's bank building (and this seems likely since wizards would be the ones who control what is built in Diagon Alley), do the goblins have to turn over ownership of the bank building when the original goblin who commissioned the bank dies? Which I assume has already happened since it is implied that Gringott's has been around a *_LOOONG_* time and goblins aren't immortal.