Can Squibs Perform ANY Magic? | Q&A with Ben and J!

[@MikaelaDelainey]

I always assumed that the quick spell course was a scam. Like it was marketed towards squibs, but it couldn't actually teach them magic. So it's interesting that your take is that it's legitimate remedial training for wizards.

[@pyjamacritic1171]

I thought that too. Plus Filch's reaction to Harry seeing the letter suggests the wizarding world associates this course with Squibs. Filch realises Harry knows about the course and immediately thinks, "He knows I'm a squib."

[@c4ctusc4ctusc4ctus]

The way it’s marketed, with so many exclamation points and false promises, in my mind it’s always been 100% a scam!

[@Chuckless86]

Something I’ve always thought about when it comes to Squibs is the fact that the two squibs that we are introduced to both have some kind of peculiar interconnection with cats. Filch and Mrs. Fig, both seem to be able to communicate with their cats. I’m wondering if it is not the fact that, they don’t have magic. It is just a different type of magic than the rest of the wizard world.

[@EllaMarie1220]

Omg love this!

[@rhyllwalker8052]

That's smart

[@aud2d2]

I love this! I wonder if there’s any other things like this we could find in the series

[@johnanderson6124]

Interesting rabbit whole. Squibs dont necessarily have no magic either not enough magic to registet both the wand and quill or like house elves their magic is frowned upon, therefore no one has studied them because of classist tendencies.

[@PositiveOnly-dm3rx]

They are familiars maybe. Not actual cats. Or summoned creatures. Lol

[@xAbbieCx13]

What time will the next ep be out?

[@nniinjaa]

Audio malfuncion at the Boston show. They are working on it.

[@jasonburt8069]

J and Ben's thoughts on Slughorn, has sparked a memory in my mind. Slughorn seems to have been in the same position as the suspicious, shopkeeper, in the old stories, that is willing to sell his wares to anyone so long as he does not get involved in their adventures. He will act to protect his own interests, but nothing more. But, the story goes on and he may be forced to make an impossible decision. Like talking about horcruxes.

[@connor9582]

The deluminator is also cool as it turns off electricity which isn't used as often in the wizarding world as they usually use candles, making the object even more interesting and powerful as dumbledore obviously made it with muggle technology in mind. Or i guess it kinda grabs the electrons and stops the flow of the cicuit instead of turning it off.

[@Wismito]

My theory on the wand always was that the wand was one of the prewett brother's wands, either fabians or gideons and was handed down to charlie and when charlie graduated and got an income he got his own

[@lilaperez3875]

For the question "Why doesn't the diary burn", my reasoning is that the sacrificial protection works against the person who tried to kill Harry, i.e. Voldemort prime. As I see it the horcruxes tether him to life but are not him, and it is because Voldemort actively possesses Quirrel that Quirrel is hurt by Harry's skin. Following that reasoning, Nagini as a horcrux should not be hurt by Harry's skin but she would be if Harry touched her while she was controlled by Voldemort

[@53prime]

HEEEEEY BROTHERS! Any discussion on the wand under the bed in the Barebones orphanage from the good FB movie?

[@J8922-o4v]

I always wondered this too. Where did it come from and how did his fostermum know how "wicked" his real mum was? I didn't get the sense that Irma (I think it was her name) seems to have presented herself as his mum...

[@santaabolina7235]

I always thought that when Voldemort prime posses someone it's a bit different than usual horcrux. Because Nagini doesn't seem to have limited life because she was a horcrux but Voldemort says that rats and snakes he possesed as prime died soon after it. So I think that Harry can burn only Voldemort prime but not the horcrux.

[@amymelsoner5775]

Think of the hyenas in Lion King… Ed is an idiot, but follows Scar. So you have to dummy down certain skills!

[@ghqebvful]

On the topic of why Quirrel turns to dust at a touch but the other horcrux's don't, could it be because Quirrel wasn't a proper horcrux? My understanding is that Voldy made all the horcrux's he wanted before attacking Harry (except for Harry himself of course) and Quirrel was just kind of possessed by whatever was left of Voldys soul after his body was destroyed by a mother's love (split once more for the part in Harry as well). Like that version of Voldemort I would think would be akin to like a shade or something, feeding off the unicorns to hold itself together and slowly but surely destroying Quirrels body and soul (which probably also took damage from the unicorn blood). Then in some sort of force of Harry (and maybe the Voldy sliver in Harry) resonated with the shade Voldemort and it more or less shattered Quirrel; kind of like how certain resonant pitches can shatter glasses. All of this with a grain of salt, I don't really know much about the lore and I've never read the books and have only watched the movies once. But I love listening to the podcast and the theories and such on the main channel. I'm less a fan of Harry Potter and more a fan of people being fans of things.

[@AloneDoggKilla]

So with Harry fighting the Imperius wad it Harry or that but of Voldmorts soul?

[@epozofortunic]

I also though it was the horcrux fighting back.

[@jacquelynchin5513]

I’m just wondering how more students didn’t break or damage or lose their wands 😂 I knew students who broke their tablets immediately in high school and constantly lost their student IDs in HS and college. How did all those 11 year olds not somehow sit on their wand or misplace their wands 😂

[@richewilson6394]

Yeah like why didn't Lily just run through the back door of the house instead of going upstairs unless she was like in front of the stairs and that was the only way to get anywhere in the house then I can see why but if she could have run then they would have run out the back door and still be able to approrate and get away from Voldemort.

[@allydrake5634]

I want to know what you guys think happens to diary Voldemort in your guys Neville is the chosen one series or even just original Harry is the chosen one. But in your Neville what if? Harry dies and diary Voldemort gets away. Does he go and resurrect Voldemort prime? Does Voldemort prime just immediately kill him because he can’t bare to look at how he originally looked it’s just too much like his muggle father? Does diary Voldemort just take over since he has more of a soul than Voldemort prime? Could Voldemort actually repent and fuse his Voldymist with the soul from the diary??? I need it answered 😂

[@marcinz.3570]

Can’t imagine Sundays without you guys anymore! Glad theres like 3-4 years of content still on the way 😄

[@DrRexie]

How do people who are not in America watch the first chapter because we can't get to the event?

[@Cataly_ely]

​@DrRexie I think they'll record it and post it. I think they did that for their popcorn culture podcast

[@marcinz.3570]

@@Cataly_ely Either that or maybe they will just make another take of chapter one, just for youtube. One way or another, Im sure they wont leave us without it!

[@DrRexie]

@@Cataly_ely much appreciated :)

[@kolbyflora576]

@@Cataly_ely yes i agree they will record it also 3-4 years my math is 6 years total????

[@Vincent.E.M.Thorn.Author]

I think the reason Nagini and the horcruxes don't burn like Quirell did is because of how the sacrificial protection happens. Voldemort Prime (as you call him) made a deal with Lily that he wouldn't hurt Harry. The diary, Nagini, and the locket are not Voldemort Prime, but Voldemort Prime WAS in Quirell

[@jakeferreira1211]

That's the thing. Quirrell isn't a horcrux. Voldemort is living inside him. Nagini is a horcrux, just like the rest of the objects. If Harry making physical contact with a horcrux causes it to burn, what happens with the horcrux inside Harry? Clearly he isn't always in excruciating pain, so that implies that he wouldn't have that same effect of the other horcruxes. I do think that if Harry made physical contact with Nagini while Voldemort was possessing her, then she would burn in the same way Quirrell did, or the same way that Voldemort did when he tried to possess Harry.

[@thenowhereman3295]

If you also take it a step further, Harry is a horcrux. If he could burn horcrux's, he couldn't live. I would think it has to be is the lovecrux reacting to Voldemort wanting to harm him and the burn is reactionary

[@sowitapid]

Nope. Horcruxes themselves are not tough to destroy, they are as weak as the container the soul is put in. because of that, wizards put heavy protective enchantments on them and thats why you have to use such extreme measures as basilisk venom or fiendfire to make sure they are destroyed. Hermione explains it when she reveals what she learned from Secrets of the Darkest Art. If they were effected by the sacrificial protection at all, that would be why not.

[@jakeferreira1211]

@@sowitapid Horcruxes are definitely not easy to destroy. You have to destroy the object beyond magical repair. That's why basilisk venom, fiend fire, and avada kedavra (maybe? That could only apply to living horcruxes) are the only things we know are capable of destroying them. Even with the diary, which is the most mundane object made into a horcrux, it wouldn't have been destroyed if Harry had stabbed it with a regular knife of something. It's only because he used the basilisk fang that it was destroyed. And I don't think goblin made weapons can destroy them on their own either. Gryffindor's sword can only do it because it absorbed the basilisk venom when Harry killed it. But if you had one of those ways of destroying it, it would be fairly easy without the extra enchantments and protections of on them.

[@sowitapid]

@@jakeferreira1211 that's a misconception from the movies. Horcruxes themselves are as brittle as the object they are made from. Like I said, it is all in the chapter where Hermione explains her findings. The beyond magical repair is because of protective and regenerative enchantments the wizard puts on the object to protect the horcrux. Yes in the movies Horcruxes are portrayed as difficult to destroy because they are Horcruxes, in the books it is otherwise. Harry for example was a horcrux and could easily be harmed or killed.

[@peggylinden8146]

I think its because Quirrel is actually a host for Voldemort not just a horcrux. Voldemort can actually act through Quirrel, he can't act through any of the others.

[@WildWolf-hc4ug]

He can act through Nagini

[@mariaantoniaroldanyepes9455]

I was also going to say that that's Voldemort Prime in a vessel that has a "half life" due to unicorn blood. It is too much Voldemort prime. On the contrary, horrocruxes aren't voldemort prime and the "destroying beyond repair" wouldn't happen in this case, so they are weirdly dark-magically protected (not really the case with Nagini, but I still think because she is not voldemort prime, it's not the same)

[@romanbelcev9469]

so if voldemort came alive from the diary would he be able to touch harry? The Voldemort of the diary is not Voldemort Prime

[@UnfazedPhoenix]

Um. He acted through the diary.

[@Pr0phet_of_Fear]

@@UnfazedPhoenix The Tom Riddle we see in Chamber is the bit of soul in the diary acting on its own; not Voldemort Prime acting through the diary. The distinction seems to be important.

[@MelanieNLee]

If the Room of Requirement had been filling with objects long before Tom Riddle discovered it, then possibly the Room sensed Riddle's arrogance and murderous evil, and it decided to present itself to Tom as an empty room that no one had previously discovered, confirming Tom's self-aggrandizement.

[@wendyrock4260]

For real.

[@aud2d2]

Or it could have even made the room empty just because it knew that’s what Tom wanted

[@ambiverter]

But that won't make sense if he wanted to go back and retrieve the diadem then... Harry finds it in the room of hidden things. If Voldemort had really requested a completely safe room where NO ONE ELSE has gone or will able to go, then Harry shouldn't have seen it there in the first place I think it is possible that lot of the present day Room of Requirement's hidden items are due to Tom Riddle himself, or students after him. There is plenty of time in the frame of 50ish years, for people to deposit secret stuff

[@vignotum132]

@@ambiverterit would. If it’s the Room of Hidden Things or whatever, after Tom hides it is very possible the Room simply moves his item to the others. If Tom were to ask “I need my diadem back” it would simply retrieve it again. Sort of like an inventory

[@LiveHedgehog]

What if Dumbledore heard Harry saying his name in the Chamber of Secrets whilst he had the Deluminator, and he sent Fawkes to him?

[@mienfu9824]

OMG I love this

[@epozofortunic]

Once we knew how it worked via Ron, i asummed this next time i read CoS. It makes total sense.

[@aud2d2]

That makes SO much sense! This is just true in my eyes now

[@SlyLashes]

This is my head canon now!

[@aud2d2]

I don’t think Quirrell was ever ACTUALLY a horcrux, Voldemort was acting more as a parasite on his physical form. I think it was just completely different magic binding them together, so that’s why none of the horcruxes burn.

[@carolynbrubaker1619]

I've always thought Neville's issue was his wand.. Once he got his own he grew by leaps and bound

[@Cailus3542]

Bellatrix's escape was a huge factor too. Neville worked himself to the bone learning to fight after that.

[@ambiverter]

@@Cailus3542Yes! Why people keep forgetting that after Bellatrix's escape, Neville was working so hard in DA, he became SECOND BEST to Hermione herself! That's crazy progress

[@Arlow26]

“Floral” shirt, mustache, flip flops. What a vibe J is rocking today, love it!

[@mikebrown1881]

Quirrel is not a Horcrux, because if he were a Horcrux Voldemort’s soul would have died when Quirrel died. So Harry’s protection doesn’t work for Quirrel the same as for the Horcruxes. It only works on Voldemort Prime’s soul.

[@Amanda_Hugnkiss_]

Good point. I didn't think Quirrel was a horcrux either because who was killed to create it? Voldy was already in spirit form or whatever. Plus a horcrux is something you put part of the soul in specifically to protect the soul part from damage.

[@peterpeterpumpkineater9451]

I didn’t think of that, but it still applies to my thought: every time V burns, it’s V Prime that comes in contact with HP.

[@simunjiii]

I wouldn’t even constrain it to Voldemort Prime. I think if Harry would have touched the Riddle from the diary he would’ve burned him. But, when he touches the diary itself, Naghini or the Locket he only touches a horcrux of Voldemort that is the container and not Voldemort himself. But with Quirrel it is different, Quirrel is hosting Voldemort, he shares his body with him. Voldemort is able to communicate with Naghini and control her through the horcrux, like he is able to with Harry, when he tries to make Harry attack Dumbledore, but Naghini isn’t Voldemort like Quirrel is.

[@Lupinemancer87]

Except Rowling confirmed that Quirrel did become a temporary Horcrux when he hosted Voldemort's soul.

[@simunjiii]

@@Lupinemancer87 I still believe he was more than that. But if Quirrel was a Horcrux that results in some interesting questions: Did Quirrel only die because Voldemort left his body and fled? What would have happened if he didn't flee? Would Quirrel survive? Or would that have been the end of Voldemort Prime because his container died? Would Harry have died because of exhaustion?

[@heylolp9]

I think that the primary reason why Voldemort wants Slughorn is covering his tracks with the horcux memory

[@plotholedetective4166]

Be quite cyborg or I'll send you back to filming another Snyder cut.....🙃

[@AHufflepuffAndASwiftie]

Good thinking! 💭👍🏻

[@connie40star]

That was a "PRETTY OBVIOUS" fact. Lol 😂

[@shhimreading906]

i was literally just about to leave this comment lol

[@donikebab86]

Surely he'd just kill him rather than try hire him

[@Johnjohnjohnz]

Head canon - only quirrell burns because the rest of them are horcruxes, quirrell is voldy prime

[@srayj]

I just had a thought about Ron’s wand. What if Bill and Charlie were given Fabian and Gideon’s wands as hand-me-down wands but because their owners died, the allegiance actually changed to their new owners but because Charlie is still alive when he passed it to Ron, the allegiance never shifts which is why Ron struggles when Charlie didn’t.

[@epozofortunic]

I thought similar, but only Charlie's is from one of Molly's brothers. The allegiance of the wands should be to the death eaters that killed them. Remember Bill was the first kid so having money for 1 wand should be ok. He was prefect and head boy, so he must have had an own wand to have great achievements. Charlie is the second, he was a good student but no awards, except quidditch captain. This maybe was due to having the handme down. Once he graduated( just before ron goes to school) he bought a new one.

[@sonjaimmonen6610]

@@epozofortunic I don't think there is evidence to imply that wands always change allegiance when defeated. The Elder Wand does that and Draco's wand did that, but there have been too many intances of disarming and defeat without allegiances changing, that it shouldn't be used as a rule. I like the theory that the Elder Wand is always looking for a stronger witch or wizard and is actually really disloyal. Draco was under a lot of internal turmoil, so it could be that his connection to his wand was weakening. Maybe Draco's wand prefered determined wizards or something and decided to hop over to Harry, when it had the chance.

[@epozofortunic]

@@sonjaimmonen6610 on that premise, the odds of the wands allegiance being bill/charlie or to the death eaters is the same. I prefer to think that regardless of that, charlie got one of these wands and thatbis why he gets a new one, rather than the dragon thing.

[@mrfelipehurtado]

ill add that maybe Ron's wand, ONLY stayed together because it was a unicorn hair! and just like their blood, it'll keep you alive but at a terrible price! not the same but it feels like the internal logic was pretty sound with this!!

[@Cailus3542]

The wand chooses the wizard. In this case, I can see the wands suffering an awful trauma as their partners died and they reset, so to speak. When given to Bill and Charlie, the wands recognise the familial connection and choose them. However, for Ron, the wand never resets. Arthur and Molly just assumed that the wand was loyal to the family, not understanding the deeper wandlore.

[@wonkywaddlingwaterwingedwriter]

This is a golden age for SCB. These questions are giving them enough content to put their children through college.

[@aud2d2]

Golden age is right! I’ve been a fan of them for 6 ish years and I think this is some of my favorite content from them. I really enjoy the theories and questions posed.

[@thirteenthandy]

I think the only reason Voldemort offered to spare Lily was to "reward" a loyal Death Eater for bringing him the info from the prophecy by "giving him" the woman he desired. Voldemort just considered it a meaningless reward for service.

[@ambiverter]

Exactly

[@paydennewkirk552]

I have one thing to say about this episode. Somehow people never do seem to count Aberforth.

[@Esquared57]

I think that Barry crouch jr is such a good teacher because he can’t help himself. He got 12 O.W.L.s and used this as an excuse to show off how clever he was and got a chance to use dark magic on a bunch of kids. Which is kinda sad from a certain point of view because if Barty Sr. Had just shown him a little more compassion then Jr could’ve been a great wizard.

[@edropsoup]

My theory on the "imperius lesson" is that Barty was just trying to put Harry under the curse. Time and again Barty has shown himself to be an incredibly clever manipulator, being the architect of long con schemes. I assume his whole intention of "teaching" The 3 unforgivable curses was just a ploy to in the open cast the imperius curse on Harry. That would make the entire rest of the plan so much easier. It just happened that Harry immediately was able to throw off its influence. That put Barty in the strange position off just needing to keep "teaching this lesson" the rest of the year. At that point when the plan to control Harry failed, I agree with J's theory that he just found it entertaining to imperius students.

[@nerdpocalypse5004]

"This boy's had his name down ever since he were born." Doesn't this imply that Harry Potter exhibited magic at birth

[@laser8389]

Feels like a bit of hyperbole to me, I think Hagrid is more referring to the fact that any child of Lily and James Potter is gonna be a very strong candidate for Hogwarts, not that he's shown signs of magic since birth.

[@toriandtilly]

Hagrid isn't really the most reliable source. I am pretty sure he just meant since he was a baby. Like how when people say "I have been this way since I was born" even though thats impossible we are meant to understand that what they are talking about is pretty damn close

[@ambiverter]

@@toriandtillyYeah, and Harry does show some magic when he is a baby, by the way of flying on toy broomstick. (Maybe magic?) We know that full-scale broomsticks have some "intelligence" to them, and they can sense whether the rider has it in him/her to ride, as explained to us in their first ever flying lesson. Maybe the toy broomsticks also have that. If so, Harry showed the aptitude when he was

[@toriandtilly]

@ambiverter no I think that the broom itself was magical, but Harry did become a magical object when he was turned into a horocrux. Either way it could be a number of things!

[@wilfred8391]

I feel with squibs and magic, one can be non magical, passively magical and actively magical. If one is non magical they are a muggle If one is passively magical one becomes a squib If one is actively magical oke is a witch or wizzard What i mean is that a squib has to be able to percieve more magic then a muggle otherwise Arabella Figg wouldnt know it had been dementors in the order of the phoenix and more importantly if squibs are pure muggle from magical parrents filch would see hogwarts as a ruin as that is one of the enchantments on the castle. So what i think what happens is that if a magical child is born the quill wants to write a name but only when the child shows the abillity to channel that magic actively instead of merely percieving magic it will allow its name to be written down. I do wonder however if a squib would be able to make potions. If it is active magic i think not if it is merely passive i do think so.

[@jackaylward-williams9064]

The fact that James’s sacrifice didn’t make a difference has an extra layer of tragedy when you realise that Snape could have begged Voldemort to leave both of Harry’s parents alive but chose to just ask for Lily to be spared. In other words, Snape’s hatred towards James is ultimately what cost Lily her life.

[@drm726]

Yet another reason why I feel Snape doesn’t deserve the love the fandom has for him. Regardless of his choice to become a spy, he is still overall a terrible person.

[@khaymengraves]

Don't forget that the only reason Snape became a spy in the first place was because he didn't know that Voldemort was going to go after Lily's son. That means he was totally on board for letting Voldemort kill a baby, as long as Lily was safe. He didn't even really care if Harry was killed as long as Lily survived.

[@cybeerus120]

Can sacrificial love even work for more than one person? If it does it invalidates the prophecy and if it doesnt lily would still die. Other than that it sounds like snape was bargaining like how people go through the processing of death and not asking for a better deal

[@kamiltauroginski9950]

​@@cybeerus120It can. Harry's sacrifice in Forbidden Forest gives protection to all Hogwart's defenders.

[@doug3454]

@@drm726 can't speak for others, but I personally love Snape as a character, though absolutely wouldn't like him as a person.

[@coolnerdlll6053]

I came up with a burning question while watching this series. Why don't we ever see more than one family going through the King's Cross barrier at the same time? Hogwarts has around 280 students per year. There should be a massive crowd of people waiting between platforms 9 and 10 every year and we only really see the Weasleys going through with a few assorted students already having passed through.

[@Ismail-kv3ex]

No real plot relevance I can see J.K consider introducing another magical family that way but she found a variety of other ways to accomplish that, likely to prevent repetitive reading and introduce us to more things (like Harry learning of new magical transportations each year).

[@laurahudson8210]

The whole series is from Harry's perspective... and mostly, he was with the Weasleys... and usually running late. Everyone else was pretty much already on the platform.

[@isaiahpinkerton3445]

It is always shown that the weasleys are close on time and getting there like 5 minutes before the train leaves. Presumably, other families are just better prepared and leave on time and not many other wizarding families have as many children as them.

[@ajrestivo]

In chamber. Were they late and the barrier closed or did dobby close the barrier

[@nicosweb]

There's that scene at the end of the first book where the guard is throttling the crow going out the platform in order to avoid muggles noticing them

[@richewilson6394]

The swastika was based on a Tibetan symbol that they turned on its side. The Yundrung, meaning indestructibility and eternity.

[@harrypotteranddisneyfan5800]

Is the episode coming later??

[@Nerdnotwashere]

Its weird because they didn't even say anything on the main page like the last time something came up.

[@nniinjaa]

Audio malfuncion at the Boston show. They are working on it.

[@MyBookStory]

Best HP content to listen to while doing deliveries!

[@LifeOfMoss]

Right!? They're the best when I'm doordashing

[@Anna-B]

This should definitely be a thing that happens after every book

[@Frenchiesfiberfiles]

Neville was a marginal wizard until he got a wand that choose him

[@maja-kehn9130]

But shouldn't that also be true for Ron, before he gets his own wand? But even before that Ron is a lot better at magic than Neville.

[@Frenchiesfiberfiles]

@maikejahn9130 it is also true for Ron, he does get better after he gets his own wand.

[@Beeba10]

With the blood status question, its pretty simple; two Purebloods make a Pureblood, two Muggles make either a Muggle or Muggleborn, and anything in between is a Half Blood. And then, of course, any combo including at least one magical parent, regardless of blood status, can produce a Squib. Pure + Pure = Pure Pure + Half = Half Pure + M-born = Half Pure + Muggle = Half Half + Half = Half Half + M-born = Half Half + Muggle = Half M-born + M-born = Half M-born + Muggle = Half Muggle + Muggle = Muggle or M-born All of that said, idk if it's true but I've heard that apparently, if there are enough generations of Purebloods marrying in to a Half Blood family, then there will eventually come generations that are just considered Pureblood. As if they're like "close enough" lol.

[@surferdude4487]

Just think of all that racist crap in the USA. even if a person was 1/16 black, they were considered to be black. The blood status thing in the Harry Potter books smells like the same garbage.

[@brianshrode72]

Are we not getting a recording of the live show today??? Guys!! Where's my Prizoner of Azkaban Chapter 1?!?!?!

[@nniinjaa]

Audio malfuncion at the Boston show. They are working on it.

[@lamplighter5545]

I don't think Mariope was a good candidate to become an obscurus. She wasn't discouraged from using magic, quite the opposite. However, she was bullied and abused. Her fear of doing anything wrong rendered her incapable performing magic competently.

[@cocoslibrary4166]

I agree. I think she always had magical potential, and could perform spells when her family wasn't watching, but they made her too nervous to get them right in front of them. Once they left, she could learn more out of books and practice freely.

[@thirteenthandy]

I was just watching Chamber again and it struck me how the "multiple Voldemorts" problem would be solved. If the diary Tom Riddle got a living body for that piece of soul, the piece of soul you call "Voldemort Prime" would simply rejoin that body. Those pieces of soul would not be repaired, as he would not go through the process of genuine remorse to repair his fractured soul, he would just be in the state of 16-year-old body with a fractured soul just like the moment he murdered Myrtle. He would be able to either live with a fractured soul, or to create a new Horcrux whenever he wanted to. The only thing that would have caused a conflict would be if two separate pieces of soul managed to get inside living bodies at the same time, but that never happened.

[@ambiverter]

But would the young Tom Riddle allow it? Or would he consider his older version to be weak, and a failure, and would think he must start afresh?

[@BilliamJoyBoy]

Can squibs make potions? Can they learn to read the stars like a centaur? Could they make wands? Could they make broomsticks? Magical zoologists? Even just a photographer? I feel like there are a lot of things a squib could do because you know about the magical world.

[@jamma.77]

So are we getting recorded versions of the tour episodes on YT or not? I love the podcast, and I don't want to miss it just because I live on the wrong side of the Atlantic to be there for the live events. Edit: Just found some comments on their last community post saying they will be posting recordings of the tour - maybe advertise that a little more next time, though? Just to reassure those of us who can't be there in person.

[@joosthuibregtse8143]

I would like to see those shows too, cause I also live on the other side of the Atlantic. (Europe)

[@Psycoman2012]

I would even argue on Q4 that blood purity is even more loaded with connotation. Every single one of the most powerful wizards in the story is either muggle-born or half-blood. Voldy, Hermione, Harry, Lily, Snape, Tonks (who has an ultra rare magical gift despite being half-blood) and Dumbledore are all one or the other. Meanwhile, the Sacred 28 have Crabbe, Goyle, the underwhelming Death Eaters, and even the Malfoy family to a certain degree, who are all downright stupid or subpar at magic compared to the main heroes. I think that Voldemort realized this, and cultivated a situation where-in he could eliminate the more dangerous potential threat in Muggle-born and half-blood wizards like himself while ruling over a group of wizards that would offer him less of a potential threat, the increasingly inbred blood purists. He still gets to rule wizardkind forever with any powerful blood purists like Bellatrix being inherently loyal, and any random powerful wizards that pop up can be killed on principle, literally.

[@ambiverter]

Yeah, and he does hide his blood status from his followers...

[@ambiverter]

Although I disagree about the most powerful wizards being strictly non-pure-blood. Slytherin, Merlin etc. were all pure blood, and they were quite powerful. Sirius, James, Bellatrix, Barty Crouch Jr as well as Sr, are all quite powerful. Though not as much as Dumbledore or Voldemort who are much more powerful. But I think the point is that blood purity is simply irrelevant to magical power/prowess.

[@Psycoman2012]

@@ambiverter Yeah, it's kinda ambiguous and love-related as well which fits the themes of the narrative well. Like, all of the Weasleys are powerful wizards and it makes sense that they are living proof of Dumbledore's theory of the power of love in magic. But it's clear that in Voldemort's eyes the blood purist ideology is merely a tool he uses to manipulate his followers. I'd even say it makes sense that since Voldemort is so much more powerful than any Gaunt for multiple generations that the infusion of non-inbred genes from Tom Riddle Sr. is why he is personally so strong. That honestly may matter more than the blood purity thing, the pureblood families are pretty inbred.

[@richewilson6394]

I'm pretty sure that slughorn might have been able to use a charm to mimic the dark mark in the sky by just shouting a spell that would create something in his mind that would look exactly like the dark mark. Like Lockhart's face that he was able to project over buildings.

[@Jensen-C]

The room of requirement csnt be the place where vanished objects go because when the room turns into other things that the user needs it for, those objects get vanished

[@bcd05b]

I think Charlie’s wand was a hand-me-down from one of Molly’s brothers, Gideon or Fabian Prewett. They would have died shortly before Charlie went off to school. Charlie isn’t described as being bad at magic during school, but the things he excels at (Quidditch and Care of Magical Creatures) are both types of wand-less magic. Once he graduates and makes his own money (and harvests a dragon heartstring), he treats himself to a new wand. I also like the idea that Ron receives a hand-me-down of a hand-me-down.

[@Musicteachersheff]

While I know the next show was live on June 2…when is the podcast of it being released?

[@WKP1996]

Should be any minute if it's normal time.

[@Musicteachersheff]

I usually listen through Apple Podcasts and it’s usually there when I wake up and it’s not there Today. 😢

[@WKP1996]

Not on Spotify either.

[@nniinjaa]

There was an audio malfuncion at the Boston show. They are working on it.

[@DrRexie]

Ben's connection with the dragons and Charlie is such a deep and prominent point I would love to just watch maybe a short movie about Charlie becoming a true dragon master and then he ends up helping the birth of a special baby dragon that he helps raise the dragon considers him part of his kin and it actually opens his chest and offers him one of its pure dragon heart strings Which he respectfully and honourably takes from the beautiful unique and powerful dragon and then not only has the wand chose the Wizard the dragon that produced the core chose him as well it's such a deep and beautiful topic to think about in fantasy

[@SithScribe21]

Can’t wait for PoA!! 🪄

[@erikag.7396]

When is the episode for the Boston live show going up?

[@gingersnap8543]

The same way that Harry doesn’t become an obscurus because he’s not actively repressing his magic is the same reason merope doesn’t become one. She truly believes she’s a squib, just like Harry truly believed there was nothing special about him, thus she’s not actively repressing it, she just never has the confidence to truly even try until Marvolo and Morphen (don’t know how to spell it, I listen to the audiobooks) left. Thus why there is no obscurus. By the time she DOES actively start repressing her magic she is pregnant with Tom riddle, giving credence (pun intended) to the theory that Tom riddle is the bi product of an obscurus manifesting in the form of an unborn child, thus why he is born evil and unable to love from his very first breath.

[@calebbaird4379]

Look forward to your videos every week! Thank you for all you do!

[@EnesAtalay-qn2rs]

I think if Voldemort occupied a body or possessed a body himself then Harry would be able to burn the body. But after Quirrel died, Voldemort remained bound to life by his Horcruxes. If Voldemort had occupied Nagini's body and attacked Harry, she would have died with the piece of Voldemort's soul. Voldemort must actively possess a living body for Harry's touches to cause harm. If Tom Riddel's diary was able to obtain a body through Ginny, Harry could destroy him too, but the other Horcruxes still remain.

[@Wolfknfe]

I feel like this will probably get lost in the weeds, but I've always wondered something. When Ron cast the spell to turn his rat yellow in the first book, do you think it would've ACTUALLY worked if the rat wasn't Pettigrew? I can't help but be curious.

[@cyt3633]

Has anyone ever thought Barty crouch Jr kind of likes Harry? One of the best things about the majority of Harry Potter characters is that they are morally ambiguous. Barty JR is a psychopath and a sycophant, and I generally get the vibe that he gets a kick out of Harry, and sort of wants to see what he can do, while at the same time having no chance that will sway him in his position. He can be interested in Harry without having any emotional response that would motivate him differently

[@kennethnash598]

Harry's children would become pure blood again. You have to have two generations of half blood to become pure blood.

[@epozofortunic]

But charlie graduates 1 year before ron goes to school, so no much time to find this special dragon. I think Charlie's wand is another handme down from one of Molly's brothers. Although it might have been hard he managed to graduate. ( no prefect no headboy, just a good student) once he got money he bought a new one with his own money.

[@CalderaWolf]

Considering that Squibs can still see magical things, such as the castle which is hidden to muggles, it would make sense there is some kind of “magic gene” that the quill might pick up on, while the book is checking for performed magic, essentially keeping squibs out of the school (as mean as that sounds)

[@kukui1679]

do you think bill and charlie as the two oldest got hand-me-down wands from fabian and gideon when they died? maybe charlie’s new dragon heartstring wand was his first actual wand and ron had a hand-me-down of a hand-me-down?

[@derdodo1993]

I think, the fact that Mrs. Figg can see dementors proofs there can be some amount of residual magic power in squibs.

[@Kamahin]

I think the reason the diary doesn't burn is that only Voldemort Prime burns. Not the horcruxes.

[@ambiverter]

38:43 There is a theory I think you guys yourself did, that Barty Crouch Jr WANTED Harry to escape back from the graveyard. The conversation he has with Harry after his return from the graveyard, he says to Harry "You weren't supposed to escape. But you did. Imagine how much the Dark Lord will reward me, after I gave him you, for his revival, and when he failed to kill you, I did it for him" So he wants glory for killing Harry. Of course he is mistaken because he doesn't know the prophecy, doesn't know that Voldemort doesn't want anyone Else to kill Harry. But that's why the cup as a portkey actually worked for returning to Hogwarts. Barty wanted Harry to escape, for his own personal glory

[@chefRyan38]

I think professor slughorn has a horcrux, they don't teach about it in school, (in the film) when Tom brings it up his initial reaction seems to be fear but he deflects by going into teach mode, I think he removed his own memory of this and experiences a feeling of fear when it's brought up as a result.

[@aud2d2]

Ooooh I would love to see a theory about this

[@itsthatbeardedgamecatsaje8635]

J out here giving us free feet 😂

[@cdoole1984]

You are considered pureblood if both your parents and their parents are magical, meaning that at the very least all 4 of your grandparents need to be magical anything between that and muggleborn is halfblood Edit 1: 09/06/2024 After seeing a comment I did some further research and while pureblood maniacs do not consider you pureblood if you have any muggle or squib ancestors. However, I was only slightly wrong; in order to regain pureblood status your parents and grandparents cannot be muggle-born, squib or muggle. This means it takes 3 generations. To show an example Harry’s children are half-blood like him as Lily Evans was muggle-born but his grandchildren will be pureblood provided James, Albus and Lily Potter marry other half-bloods or purebloods

[@ambiverter]

Not just your grandparents, the whole fricking lineage!!

[@rhondacrosswhite8048]

In Order Of The Phoenix, Harry was lying on the ground outside the Dursley's window and Vernon caught him and tried to strangle him. Vernon was knocked away by an electrical-like force when he had his hands wrapped around Harry's neck. It seems that Harry had a built in self defence mechanism that protected him from serious harm.

[@ambiverter]

But before that, he gets a twitch in his scar! Maybe it was the Horcrux in Harry's head acting to protect itself!

[@AHufflepuffAndASwiftie]

I THINK, actually, that I saw a video awhile ago by another Harry Potter KZbinr about the blood status question, and it claims (if I remember correctly) it's a 4 generation thing in terms of IF you do NOT have ANY muggleborns or half-bloods in your family for 4 generations, THEN you ARE considered purebloods. But again, it was a long time ago & I don't remember WHERE this KZbinr got that information, so . . . Take that info with a grain of salt, as they say. 😅 Also, yes, J, you are correct, J: the Nazi did NOT invent the swastika. If I remember correctly, it WAS a Native American symbol depicting the 4 seasons a long time ago BEFORE the Nazi used it, as well as in other cultures, too, I think . . . 🤔 But, history buffs, feel free to correct me if I'm totally off on that! 😉 Okay, then, I have another question: why DID Voldemort even GIVE Lily that option to BEGIN WITH?? Considering the fact that Voldemort does NOT even understand love to BEGIN WITH?? 🤔 Also, you mentioned at the end of this episode/video that you guys received many more questions (including mine 😉) that you did not get to answer, so are you planning on doing this Q&A episode again?? Maybe like at the end of each book?? That could be fun . . . Or maybe at the end of each chapter, even, since you have SO many more questions to answer . . . ?? 🤔😉

[@nataliemccarthy9140]

is it possible that Nagini did take damage from physical contact from Harry but she was just able to handle it better than Quirrell? To put it in video game terms, Harry dealt both Quirrel and Nagini 10hp/minute damage from touching him but Nagini (fully healthy and probably magically strengthened by voldemort to protect his horcrux) has 200hp and Quirrell (already so weakened by voldemort that he's drinking unicorn blood to stay alive) has 20hp. A lethal amount of damage for quirrell is an accceptable sacrifice for Nagini to incapacitate/kill Harry

[@kaylamullins9497]

Heyyy Brother(s) - long time listener, first time commenter! I accept at least 9 3/4 out of 10 of SCB theories as absolute headcanon! It really is awesome tuning in to you guys especially being the same age and also originally from VA so I relate so much when you talk about the yester-years and discovering the wizarding world for the first time. I’ve had a lot of thoughts and questions along the way.. 1.) since it’s pretty obvious we’re not going to get any more Fantastic Beasts movies, I know I would love to have a SCB version/series of the remaining storyline to include what we know but how it all ties in together and maybe go as far as my girl and fellow Ravenclaw Luna becoming a maledictus wolf. 2.) kind of on the same topic, a full 7ish book/podcast of SCB versions of the Founders series and the Marauders series 3.) Theory - Maybe Harry’s “fire hands” didn’t burn the horcruxes like they did Quirrell, because he wasn’t a horcrux but just a host that Voldy-prime was just parasiting off of and the horcrux in Harry was saving itself from harm? 4.) Theory - Prof. Barty Crouch/Moody performed the imperius curse on Harry because he already survived one unforgivable curse and was testing a theory to see if Harry may be impervious to the others as well as field testing him for the maze. 5.) #DorkLord and #SwampFart need to be more of a thing 😂 Everyone at SCB is totally great, I love that I can listen and watch with my kids without worrying about them hearing something they shouldn’t and still hoping to spark that HP fire in them especially with my son turning 11 next year - hoping to swing a HP bday vacay at Universal with an acceptance letter and everything, you know living vicariously through my kids since I didn’t get my own Hogwarts or even Ilvermorny letter! 😂 ohhh I’ve heard a couple of theories/explanations of why our particular age group didn’t get our letters, but what is your take on it?? Can’t wait to see what yall do next!

[@doracidlinska697]

Actually, I think you are considered "pure-blood" if you have all magical parents AND grandparents. There's a parallel again with the Naz*s, who would determine your "Jewishness" by going two generations back (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Laws#/media/File:Nuremberg_Laws_English.jpg) and you were considered "of German blood" if all your grandparents were "pure German". JK said this herself: "If you think this is far-fetched, look at some of the real charts the Nazis used to show what constituted 'Aryan' or 'Jewish' blood. I saw one in the Holocaust Museum in Washington when I had already devised the 'pure-blood', 'half-blood' and 'Muggle-born' definitions, and was chilled to see that the Nazis used precisely the same warped logic as the Death Eaters. A single Jewish grandparent 'polluted' the blood, according to their propaganda.". So Harry is half-blood, but his and Ginny's children should be considered pure-blood again.

[@barizaumar8135]

HEY BROTHER!!!!!! This is an amazing podcast, this podcast is the one I listened to for 24 hours straight. I have a question, what if… snape got the defense against the dark arts job instead of Lockhart, what are your thoughts. Bye! P.S hope you have a great summer. From Zameer

[@ebenezerocansey2920]

I think the reason why Quirrel was hurt was that Quirrel was not a horcrux. He was merely being possessed by Vordemort. So Vordemort was indirectly touching Harry, not a horcrux touching him. That’s why when he (Vordemort) possessed Harry in book 5, he was in pain. That’s why when Harry touches a horcrux, nothing happens to the it. They are just containers for the soul. But Vordemort is the physical being himself

[@veerakuusela5005]

Could the Quill & Book of Acceptance be a way to verify the type of magic in half-breed children? I mean there are magical creatures out there that can do magical things, but only humans can do spells that are taught in Hogwarts? The book would then verify that the possible student is enough human to count as a wizard or witch. Like Flitwick being part goblin, part human, but still being able to attend Hogwarts. But full goblins aren't allowed to wield wands or learn magic. And house-elves can't get in as students despite having magical powers.

[@shamanoflust5721]

About the diary question. Quirell burns because voldemort is literaly in Quirell`s body. In the graveyard Voldi says "I can touch you now" implying that he couldn´t before. It`s Voldemordt who was supose to burn but he was using Quirell`s body.

[@vignotum132]

39:23 because Lily’s protection was broken when he turned 17/moved from his relatives. Or is that only Dumbledore’s protection?

[@AustynSN]

Thoughts while listening... I wonder if the fact that the not so bright death eaters can cast the dark mark so quickly, but Slughorn would take time might not be related to the fact that they're actually wearing it. Perhaps the spell is designed so that it's easy to do if you have the mark on you, but much more time consuming and difficult if you have to create it from memory. As to the idea that criminals should not leave evidence, and thus the death eaters should not leave the dark mark, it's good to remember that the death eaters are not criminals, they're terrorists. They're at war, and they want their enemies to know they have acted. As far as blood status in Harry Potter, if I remember right , Harry and the children of Ron and Hermione are considered half blood still. Even Harry and Ginny's kids are half-bloods. Since Harry was a half-blood. It takes basically three generations of no muggle ancestry to be considered "repaired" pure bloodline to the racist wizards. It also takes three generations for a "New bloodline" to be established. The one I've always wondered about is if a wizard has two squib parents, and four pure blood parents, are they considered pure blood? In that case, the bloodline wasn't broken, but that wizard's parents are in a way still muggle. Either way, as you say, it is a ridiculous concept. But then, from what I understand, even the third generation repair concept was based on the actual beliefs of the Nazis. So it makes sense that it's ridiculous.

[@53prime]

Kind of odd that Arianna Dumbledore and Aurelius Dumbledore BOTH developed an obscurus. Now we have to wonder if the Sudanese girl was somehow related to the Dumbledores.

[@Kane-BOT]

These guys are like: "That itinerary is about a week off, and we are going to handle it."

[@tessmoniques]

Not everyone can afford a new wand, so some people will have a wand that "works" but not well for them. Yes the wand chooses the wizard but you guys seem to be forgetting Harry's distress about the borrowed wands' poor abilities but Draco's working very well. and Ollivander directly addressing this very issue but saying any good wizard can channel their abilities through any wand but to do magic "well" the wand has to choose the wizard. (You guys often speak from a place of privilege and it skews some of your theories)

[@DutteH96]

Maybe Harry is only toxic to voldemort prime and where ever he is. He was in Quirrell when he got burned from Harry's touch. But he wasn't in Nagihni when she attacked Harry at Bathilds home 🤔

[@topknotg5530]

My assumption with Ron having Charlie's old wand is that maybe that wand was already a hand me down to begin with. The Weasley's could barely afford the expense of books and robes every year, so having to buy new wands for every child in the family would have been quite a big expense. However, we know that Fabian and Gideon were killed, so their wands likely would have been sent to their last living relatives, and it would make sense if the oldest sons would have used them as their first wands when they started at Hogwarts. Charlie then could have afforded to buy his own wand after graduating and getting a job studying dragons (or perhaps Bill, who had a better job working for Gringott's could have paid for it), thus passing his old one down to Ron.

[@simunjiii]

Well to the first question I have to add, that we *do* know a canon squib, which is Mrs. Fig. And she is able to see a dementor, so she is clearly not as non magical like a Muggle. I think the line between Squib and wizard is a little more blurred, where people, that have very little magical abilities are considered squibs. A Kwikspell course may help those Squibs that are unable to do basic spells to learn and get better at magic. Filch on the other hand is either a full squib, or a *poltergeist* both of which would explain, why the course was ineffective on him.

[@mariaana6710]

About you are saying about the room of requeriments... To me, it`s a super magical room that gives to you what you need, even the house elf with the excess objects. And about the charms that dissapared things, I`m soooo cientific about that: all is make of atoms, atoms is make, principal, with protoms... The charm make the atoms of the things they desapared transfigurate in the atoms we have in the like air...

[@mattschiesl3131]

My guess with the Horcrux burning question is that Voldemort specifically told Quarrel to kill Harry so the protection was awoke because it was a threat on his actual life. Nagini never tried to kill him, just trap him.

[@kayleighlehrman9566]

What If idea: what if James and Lily's positions had been swapped on the night Voldemort attacked? What if James took Harry upstairs and Lily tried to defend as Voldemort entered?

[@checkmugged]

It’s okay not to pronounce everything perfectly but I have to draw the line at Fleur’s name. It’s Fleur, which is not even in the same ballpark as ‘Floor’. Do better, it’s painful.

[@jordanNCM]

Why does Harry use "He who must not be named" when "Voldemort" is tabooed rather than continuing to follow Dumbledore's example and calling him Tom? It would be a step further in decreasing fear of the man and theres no way they could taboo such a common name as "Tom"

[@RootSK89]

More Q&A please!!!! This was so fun!!!

[@TaiaFlake]

For The room of Requirements, he thought he was the only one who could work it. People could find it by accident but not know how to re-find it. Also students who hid things there could could avoid the spell that shows what your wand just did, if they didn't actually vanish anything they physically took it to a room.

[@Omagadam1]

I thought that for blood purity it's only 4 generations i.e. all great-great-grandparents are magical so all great-grandparents are half blood. I think it was on Pottermore somewhere

[@Dynamic_Aerial_Adventures]

Is such a grey area of conversation since All the extra wizarding schools were so vaguely talked about so I think it goes without saying That the quill and book at Hogwarts didn't accept every single magical person in the world. I guarantee that there were students that didn't get accepted to hogwarts that got accepted to other schools and visa versa. It wouldn't make much since that every school accepted everyone and you.just get to take your pick

[@eveairey7048]

Ron's wand was already broken when he got it. Not fully but it's described "it was cipped in places and something white was glinting at the end. " The magic of the wand might have been failing so Charlie got a new one and kept his original one for sentimental value. It was broken because the unicorn hair was already coming out the end of it. He might not have informed his parents about why he got a new one just that he did. They thought that a way too save money was to give Ron Charlie's old one not knowing they were handing him a broken wand.

[@janvavra3667]

Sadly, late with my own question: Would Fred and George be able to pass Dumbledore's age line around Goblet of Fire if they used Percy's time-turner as many times as needed?

[@brantjustilian3791]

Really the only animal that I was ever close to is cats. They always choose me and one of those cats was extremely unique. It’s face and front of his body was tiger stripes, while the back part of its body and tail was very raccoon like. So I called it tycoon because of mixed fur patterns.

[@RoberttheWise]

55:35 Just got the thought: If Voldy promised Snape to spare Lilly and it's the only reason he doesn't just kill her outright, why does he after she refuses his mercy? Why didn't he just _stupor_ or _imperius_ her to get her out of the way? And what would have happened if he did?