Grindelwald’s Skull Explained | Harry Potter Theory

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Today J dives into the Wizarding World of Harry Potter to try and explain one a most unusual artifact, introduced to us in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald - Grindelwalds Skull.
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[@madtortuga]

Best one yet😂😂

[@lunalovegood7724]

Love you Super Carlin Brothers! 💙

[@originalname8316]

So does this coffee make you gay?

[@Tiny_24]

Yes!

[@nika9479]

Only thing she could say and I would belive it....

[@ginavicentijevic2255]

"The two become fast friends and start planning world domination... as you do." I'm crying.

[@arcanonn]

Wait is that not what you’re supposed to do at sleepovers?

[@nikkialkema1032]

why are you crying

[@sapphicmoonlightlilith]

other people... don't do this???

[@emmaginationstudios]

This is literally what happened with me and my friends in high school. The librarian was casually concerned by how casually we plotted 😂😅

[@theaspreysisters3587]

Yeah like imagine just like sitting in the library studying for your next exam when you here someone just planning world domination and your like ............what’s going on............am I in a class with a real life super villain?

[@doorMatt_]

That’s just Grindelwald’s vape.

[@berrym7776]

Obviously-

[@dhruvsharma3026]

Fitting for Johnny depp ( I mean... not anymore tho :/)

[@502streamer2]

hol up is it salt nic or free base?

[@christopherchedid1321]

You mean his shisha...

[@aamiranwar7455]

@@berrym7776 not a mistake

[@cloegemmel7177]

It may not be significant, but 1898 is exactly 100 years before the Battle of Hogwarts

[@cadenanderson4178]

Cloe Gemmel holy merlin

[@jacobm1678]

Cloe Gemmel in Merlins beard

[@moonrock3005]

0:

[@Rachel-uy7pv]

satisfyin

[@David-wn8xo]

Probaly just a coincidence....

[@shivprakashmishra5126]

Sooo, that's why Grindelwald says voldemort "hi Tom, I knew you will come one day"

[@llaurengoss]

omg yes

[@katrinehansen7647]

OMFG YOU'RE RIGHT

[@cainasmo9]

Lol the look was priceless

[@jezcortez3013]

and after voldy was like BYEEEEEE

[@custard131]

possibly, but there is also just the explanation that he would have known someone would end up on the elder wand trail. just like how dumbledore knew voldemort would come after the wand

[@fotinipapacharalampous5596]

_"Grindelwald would be an excellent wedding planner"_ I'm DYING!!!!!

[@stellahensey1107]

Grindlewald Wedding Planning > Voldemort Weddibg Planning

[@armadillolover99]

Destiny Leah There’s a meme/recurring joke in SCB videos based on the fact that Voldemort’s ideas never go to plan-and the fact that he hides his horcruxes in very obvious places/picks obvious objects for them-that Voldemort would make the worst wedding planner.

[@BlackVortex-ub3ib]

he

[@katiadumas4699]

Voldemort never made it to his badly planned wedding

[@barboraklepalova3886]

He wouldn't be if he couldn't see into the future though.

[@kirbyhypno2522]

I miss when all the videos had "These socks are amazing!"

[@jonnywastler4483]

Same

[@sofiarodriguezsantiago5403]

Me too

[@meemzandmoar8]

Ya

[@madhatter4743]

I was just thinking about that the other day.

[@patrikmeehan1232]

Sponsors have changed I guess. I miss the amazing socks.

[@koalaeucalyptus]

Ok, ok, just bear with me with this mind-boggling idea: maybe, MAYBE, he could've engraved the skull after the year 1898. You know, since there's no rule saying it's impossible to engrave previous years... So maybe he engraved it to remember that his expulsion from school was for the better. Maybe it's the student he had tortured, and than he later came back to finish the job and get himself a nice little souvenir.

[@dakotablount251]

The end of that kinda majorly ruined it lol

[@jmalexander]

I think he could've had the skull for a while And decided to engrave it after the fact. I can go get a tattoo right now that says "for the greater good 1994" and have gotten it in 2020. A lot of times people will have things they carry and add to it later for preserving a memory or to mark it for a specific time/event that occured before. I think it's a skull he already had, and engraved it after 1898 OR it's a skull he got later and he felt it tied back to an event or time in 1898 so he wanted to mark it as such

[@davidfreeman4085]

I was going to say the exact same thing. Their theory is cool, but predicated on a necessity of only riding the year in that year which is completely unnecessary.

[@mrappgamer571]

Wizards: we are the most powerful race ever Muggles: hold our atomic bombs

[@bazeidrhook3528]

just use wingardium leviosa so it never touches ground lol

[@jibblesq]

@@bazeidrhook3528 both bombs dropped on Japan never touched the ground. Sorry to ruin your plan.

[@rodneywood5205]

just vanish them

[@codylgarcia]

Wizards: *why do we hear boss music remixed with ‘Murica music*

[@DrMonir-hd3ez]

Wizards: WINGADIUM LEVIOSAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-Ron Weasley

[@firespur]

Every time Jacob says “not another War” I get goosebumps

[@melindamercier6811]

Same. Personally, I loved this scene. Very impactful.

[@EirikHolan]

Totally agree. When you see the atom bomb and everyone are just shocked, OMG goosebumps

[@kitjohnson2767]

That actually captured a fair amount of the sentiments of Europe.

[@TracieShepherdWGU]

i cry...

[@Midnight_Lumberjack]

Also, 3:28 for anyone wanting the timestamp

[@user-zx2uq2xm2o]

Grindelwald was a seer - how did I miss that? Everything makes so much more sense

[@Mary_Studios]

yeah I missed that untill the movies came out then I realized that he had to be a seer and they said it in another video.

[@escdarkside]

HAMILTON

[@SunflowerSpotlight]

Nancy Applesmith So when “Graves” told Credence a seer had seen a vision of a powerful child they needed, it was his vision, he who was in fact Grindelwald? 😅 Man. I didn’t feel *super* confused, just somewhat unsure, and then I said... whatever that just was. 🤣 I mean the pinpointing people who will be effective in helping him, knowing who to apply pressure to, very useful. If you see a certain guard will never help you, you don’t work on turning him, but someone else. Also explains how he interacted with Queenie. I’d have liked more about how he convinced her, the mind reader, of his intentions though! Is he the greatest Occlumens ever? Maybe he could hide his true intentions behind a curtain, or under a false bottom of intent, like Snape could. She could see planted thoughts of empathy and sorrow and a longing to unite the wizarding world. But I’d like some indication of that, maybe even something as subtle as him just relaxing once she’s out of mind-reach. Or warning his right hand woman to put her guard up before Queenie came around or something. To not mention something to a character who isn’t good at Occlumens, so he wouldn’t betray the true intent. *Something* to let us know that plot point isn’t just dropped. Her ability was a major deal in the first movie and barely used in this one. I’d buy her switch if I had an indication of Grindelwald duping her. If she knew what he really thought of Muggles, she’d not have made the choices she did. But it was so poorly done that it’s rattling the suspension of my disbelief.

[@jinsstyle]

I also didn't know that too

[@melindamercier6811]

Amara Jordan I honestly don’t see why that would be necessary at all. It was used and explained in Harry Potter quite well with Snape and shouldn’t have to be revisited for Grindelwald as a recycled plot point. Queenie is clearly not as strong as he is, nor would he want a mind reader if he couldn’t block his own thoughts from one. We should know his and DD’s powers are far beyond what we’d seen or read in the HP series and be able to come to that conclusion on our own.

[@snehakashyap1968]

And what would be cooler is that it is the skull of the student being tortured by Grindelwald to expel himself. The first one to die for the ‘ GREATER GOOD’

[@angelyuqi6709]

Genius

[@DaDivo86]

He did get expelled for doing dark experiments. Ijs

[@Fede_uyz]

4:04 as a med student I'm DEEPLY offended *grabs his skulls and leaves*

[@SF-wm7zf]

Those late night study sessions for my first anatomy partial exam with just a skull for company gave me some weird dreams which still haunt me to this day.

[@chico6643]

wonder if you also thought it had to be female skull from the thumbnail pic

[@nutmeggaming11261]

4:04, time not found

[@nannasrensen7674]

I got weirdly attached to my skull. I named him, talked to him, made up a backstory and almost cried when I had to give him back after finishing up on my anatomy lessons. I even got a small model skeleton and I now pretend that he is our child. I look at him and tell him "You look so much like your father. Except for your eyes. You don't have any eyes, you're a skeleton."

[@Project_Kritical]

Or, I don't know, maybe he carved the phrase and date AFTER he had met Dumbledore? He doesn't HAVE to have carved it in 1898, he could just have carved it later and written the date to remember something important that happened at that time. Just my thoughts

[@mackenziehardy7146]

I think they met in 1998 so he took a famous thing Dumbledore said and the time they met then put it on the skull

[@hildanmaruf]

Yeah that's the simplest thought and makes all sense. You wrote something particular date doesn't mean that you must be on that date.

[@adamrobinson6951]

@@hildanmaruf Surely the logical conclusion is that it's the skull of someone that died in 1898? That would likely be the year Grindlewald got expelled, maybe he didn't just torture someone, and kept the skull of the first to die for his cause?

[@AliceIsSleepy]

@@adamrobinson6951 This

[@Chancellor_palpatine66]

Dumbledore: I’m the greatest wizard of all time! Grindelwald: hold my #carlinbrotherscoffee

[@01Sunshine234]

@Guðrún Birgisdóttir from my point of view, the jedi are evil!

[@bekleedee]

This comment has made my day.

[@patrikmeehan1232]

Lol this little comment thread is great.

[@shubhdashukla7692]

Fawks: hold my seeds

[@Reactiontime1118]

Nice try didnt even get liked

[@TheBeastCH]

Its not "fjur das groubwer waul" its "Für das grössere Wohl" Also, what makes you think 1898 was the year he wrote that? Maybe it was an important year for another reason?

[@AzzaB-di7rp]

TheBeastCH my thoughts exactly doesn’t mean he wrote it that year it was just somehow important to him and he could of wrote it when where

[@nutmeggaming11261]

1898 is exactly 100 years before the battle of Hogwarts, and exactly 1 year before Ariana's death.

[@alil636]

@@nutmeggaming11261 yeah and exactly 16 years b4 ww1 and exactly 41 years b4 ww2 and exactly 82 years b4 harry's born and exactly 93 years b4 harry entering hogwarts ://////////////////////////

[@andrewzhang8512]

@@alil636 no, 100 and one are more important then, say, 41.

[@alil636]

@@andrewzhang8512 hey genius couldn't you see the sarcasm in my chat?

[@teascade5961]

1:19 J: "probably don't do daily that's too much coffee" Me: *laughs in finnish*

[@kayleighlehrman9566]

90% fraud, 9% sherry enthusiast, and 1% insanely important lol

[@LS-sp5hr]

Literally heard that part of the video as I read this. Amazing timing

[@raticoochiesmith9819]

Grindelwald, 420 blazing it since 1927

[@sensitive_salamander1091]

Serpentine Hufflepuff this is my favorite comment on any video ever

[@johnnyappleseed3133]

haha yes and it was made by crabbes ancestors (if u dont get the referance google crabbe arested harry potter)

[@ericbell7]

Don‘t let him take too many huffle-puffs because that griff-indoor is kind of strong, isn‘t it?

[@johnnyappleseed3133]

Eric Lüthi jeezus *insert dont do drugs meme 😂

[@ericbell7]

Johnny Appleseed probably a good idea, haha!

[@jakobmorningstar]

The “ß” is a double s in German

[@jakobmorningstar]

@Gaius Wyrden true, however I was pointing it out for his pronunciation. He pronounced it as a “b” probably because it’s the closest looking English letter. By pointing out it’s a double “s” I was letting him know it should be pronounced as such. I guess I could’ve been a little more specific though.

[@annikathewitch3950]

“For the Greater Good, 1898”? Grindelwald was only just starting to plot his rise to power and he already had collectible memorabilia?

[@devanman7920]

Seems like the most obvious reason

[@aliail8558]

Nobody: Supercarlinbros: WHOS SKULL IS THAT!!!

[@feanorofsunspear2320]

Ali Ail yeah whose skull is it now, I must have missed it somewhere

[@kodyrhoades1740]

Yet that question never got answered in the video. J went from theorizing it was Ariana's, to giving us no alternative, just delving into the timeline

[@therpgwriter8459]

I went searching through the comments section just to see if *somebody* else noticed this! Who's is it?!

[@ItzHarley]

Ummm... So whose skull is it? I applaud your effort in shifting the focus but it did not work on me

[@celinathommesen-kahler2142]

Me neither.

[@Am3lia77]

He actually didn’t answer that question 😅

[@GailB0707]

I thought I missed the answer 😂 It was never answer 😂

[@RuneLunaris]

Good I wasn't the only one who noticed.

[@mikehu2451]

same

[@koda.m.j]

"As you do" So true. Every friendship has tried to rule the world

[@StarbitO]

can confirm, me and my beloved bestie are plotting the apocalyplse

[@austincavitt2003]

Ah, now we know the reason for his....skullduggery

[@Sushigabby]

i love that poptropica island!

[@PieOfEpicness]

It could also have been that Grindelwald saw Dumbledore and thought "who's that cutie" and just really wanted to meet him.

[@jaylentorres2281]

Grindelwald vs. Voldemort for wedding plannings Ben recruit Johnny Depp for your wedding

[@rehanabegum7582]

Conclusion to this whole video: Grindelwald would be a great wedding planner. 😂

[@urmom3]

Grindelwald:..... Dumbledore:three broomsticks and chill?

[@_somerandomguyontheinternet_]

I see the title in my notification feed and I think “Grindelwald’s Skrull? Getting a bit crossover-y, aren’t we?”

[@onecrispyfrie1932]

Lol

[@silverhawking]

I did the same thing!

[@StormageddonTMS]

Ok Grindlewald, we get it, you vape

[@HHLucifer666]

Your just mad that yours doesn’t show the foocher

[@megzeman]

“Not another war” is by far my favorite line in the movie. I was all confused by the baby switch on the Titanic, but that one line had me fully bought in again

[@hbamanda20]

Seeing the future is dangerous...example...Macbeth. When your own actions based on the vision leads to your demise.

[@MsKimaKima]

So... The skull wouldn't be the student he tortured? As in he got caught in 1898 and failed at school with this mark against him 'for the greater good' That's where it looked like this theory was going with this.

[@magnus_bane]

We don't know Grindelwald killed him

[@valleyheroine]

It might be and he added the slogan later.

[@arachnesakura9375]

what if thats how he tortured the student.. used magic to carve 'For the Greater Good' in German on the skull. it would be pure horrific torture and hidden from view. student later dies of his injuries and Grindlewald in his panic after the duel that killed Arianna he retrieves the skull from a fresh grave.

[@webinatic216]

@@arachnesakura9375 "Grindlewald in his panic"... He doesn't seem to be that kind of guy that panics.

[@armadillolover99]

Arachné Sakura Like @webinatic said, sociopaths like Grindelwald don’t usually have a place for panic. Everything is cold and calculated and usually when something doesn’t turn out the way they plan, they get angry rather than panic.

[@calebsalyers1206]

Twist it’s future gridlewalds skull and he used a time turner to get it! And Gridlewald was totally the first vaper

[@kaseyr9586]

Caleb Salyers HAHAHAHAHAHHA GEEKED

[@teambeining]

Here’s a theory: Grindelwald got expelled digging up a grave of some legendary wizard to get that skull. Maybe that wizard was a seer who could show others what he saw, and legend said that power was basically in his DNA, or what was left in him - his bones. Grindelwald, being a young seer himself, became obsessed and was able to find it and dig it up. Maybe he used/manipulated another student to help him get past some magical protection (akin to Voldemort’s cave), thus the official cover story that Grindelwald was expelled for hurting another student was created.

[@nekodragonanimations3314]

"I think Grindelwald would be an excellent wedding planner" Another reason Grindelwald is better than Voldemort

[@zachrobledo2252]

I don’t mean to be rude but Professor Trelawny doesn’t get one prediction wrong in the books. She’s is 100% correct in her predictions, weirdly enough

[@timothyhammer6154]

If you notice them alot are self fulfilling. Bevause the person they are about heard them. They become true. Neville gets nervous after her prediction he will drop a cup. Voldemort kills Harry's patents and goes after him cause Snape told him the prophecy. Though that doesn't seem to hold true for wormtail's escape and return to Voldie.

[@zachrobledo2252]

Timothy Hammer her theory about there being 13 at the table and the first to rise, dies is true as well. Peter Petigrew is in Ron’s pocket and there are already 13 at the table. Dumbledore rose to great Trelawny and he is the first to die at the table.

[@timothyhammer6154]

@@zachrobledo2252 I'm glad you told me about that one.

[@adamlarus1]

@@zachrobledo2252 Well Dumbledore was the oldest so he was any way most likely to die first

[@zachrobledo2252]

Adam Lárus Sigurðarson except he was murdered? And it didn’t say anything specifically about dumbledore. It’s just a prophecy. There’s also an instance of the same prophecy happening at grimewald place

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

Grindelwald’s skull is better than the Crystal Skull. Sorry Indy

[@cameronx7923]

Yes

[@MrGabeanator]

oh

[@ian-ci1io]

Yes but the crystal skull scares ants

[@benitosandovalhere]

Yeees

[@SiriuslyAsterion]

I was the 200th liker

[@acglass]

Also, Professor Trelawney was pretty much already right with her predictions. #TrelawneyWasRight

[@masterpython]

Was she born yet?

[@royalpain9281]

@@masterpython even if she is I don’t think she was at Hogwarts yet

[@cOmAtOrAn]

The skull is Yorick. All skulls are named Yorick.

[@MerkhVision]

“Alas, poor Yorick... I knew him well”

[@ellie.b.e.]

Brilliant. The internet should bow to your brilliance.

[@nexuslax3284]

You never finished explaining the skull. You went off on a tangent and never returned.

[@cesarvalencia8457]

IKR!!! Now we'll never know :(

[@zwhitaker]

3:06

[@michelefields5381]

I miss you say "these socks are amazing!" We need a "this coffee is amazing!" At the end now.

[@TurquoiseInk]

I think the skull belongs to the student Grindlewald tortured.

[@UltimateKyuubiFox]

“Or, should I say, skullblowing.” I’d prefer you didn’t.

[@eleanorewald7016]

What if the way he tortured the student was by TAKING OUT HIS SKULL, and that is the skull he used?????!?!?!!

[@atk05003]

That would really mess a kid up. Imagine having someone magically remove your skull (presumably without killing you) and then showing it to you. Sure, you could grow it back (assuming Skele-Gro already existed at that time and you got immediate care), but that's still going to cause some deep emotional scars.

[@fatima_nadeem]

Then he should've been in Azkaban not expelled

[@Emrys91]

@@atk05003 skele grow was around. Harrys great times 8 grandfather invented it in the middleages

[@allana2019]

Just to let y'all know, I've made "Chudley Cannons, Chudley Cannons, BOOM BOOM BOOM!!! We are not pirates!" my ringtone

[@kittenpeachyos4278]

Great!

[@javvi9]

LOL

[@Cbell14-]

Hahhhhhhahahahahahahajahaj

[@accio_firewhiskey8256]

How? I MUST KNOW ♥️

[@allana2019]

@@accio_firewhiskey8256 found the clip online and then set it as my ringtone. only works on android. i found that out when i switch to my iphone :(

[@emilyb4812]

Nobody: JK Rowling: The skull is actually his aunt's best friend's niece's pet monkey

[@benip7941]

e m i l y who’s also gay Jewish and black

[@waverider6302]

LOL

[@blackwintergaming4609]

Actually JK Rowling: the skull is Gay

[@chinmaypandey5354]

And the monkey is Gay

[@TubbzTheGamer]

Auntie Jackie’s sister’s brother’s boy

[@keralah3885]

I love how we now know his name is pronounced GrindelVALD, but we still pronounce that W 😂 It's like Voldemort all over again!

[@alexanderwu]

Woldemort

[@ZombieCleaner]

Murica.

[@armadillolover99]

Wait, we *now* know? As in, it wasn’t obvious before? I know most Americans are oblivious about other cultures and specifically the pronunciation of names in other languages but I didn’t think we were that bad that people didn’t know that most European languages pronounce a W in that part of a name as a V.

[@mielipuolisiili7240]

@@armadillolover99 I'm an european and didn't know that.

[@littlesunshine9218]

@@mielipuolisiili7240 It's of German origin...

[@TeTaongaKorora]

This is just kinda.... sad. I'd always pictured Grindy thinking of Dumbledore as a potential ally and then losing that image over time. This shows Grindy manipulating Dumbledore from the start, which if we accept Rowling's more recent "additions" has some reallllllllllly nasty implications

[@direhuskyalpha5634]

yayyyyyy I love the implications that keep popping up from these retcons /s

[@SarastistheSerpent]

I don’t know. Grindelwald was terrified of Dumbledore. He knew that Dumbledore was more powerful than he was and could defeat him. He counted on emotional manipulation to keep Dumbledore away, not to bring him close.

[@TeTaongaKorora]

@@SarastistheSerpent Exactly, he manipulated Dumbledore- who keep in mind both loved Grindy and according to Rowling got quite physical with him- from the start. It's some "pickup artist" level grossness. This theory changes it from an ordinary falling out or scheming, to planning to emotionally and physically manipulate Dumbledore before ever even having met him. That is, if you accept additions that Rowling threw in with minimal/no evidence in the text & films

[@SarastistheSerpent]

Old Blanco Rd Productions ah I see what you mean. In their youths. Yes you could be right. Dumbledore would’ve been a useful tool for Grindelwald had Dumbledore been in his pocket. It’s risky though. Dumbledore was a more powerful and skilled wizard and would always pose a threat to Grindelwald, even if they were on the same side. All that went out the window after Ariana’s death though.

[@TeTaongaKorora]

​@@SarastistheSerpent I think we're talking about two different things- I'm not talking about the struggle for power/magical war bit. I'm talking about the domestic abus3 bit. Forming a relationship, that in Rowling's words was intense and physical, and gaslighting Dumbledore in an effort to emotionally manipulate and break him has some really awful implications. This wasn't moving apart- based on this theory he planned it from the start to "disarm" Dumbledore through essentially domestic abus3, or at the very least made this his plan on realising Dumbledore might be susceptible to it. No one's arguing Grindy was ever benevolent, but this theory in the light of Rowling's recent statements on the relationship places this as an especially emotionally powerful and gross crime

[@Tyler5346812]

What if the skull was already Dumbledore's and he gave it to Grindelwald as a gift? A powerful magical object given to the one person Dumbledore cared for most...

[@dustrahne]

THIS is why I subscribe to your channel. The theory is completely plausible and actually makes sense. Knowing Grindelwald is a seer changes a lot.

[@warriorcatskid003]

When I watched this I called this thing “Grindelwald’s Vape” in my head the whole time

[@EBestLetterE5]

Lol

[@dianaoflesbos6197]

We all know that Grindelwald would be an AMAZING wedding planner, but the real question is... Would Dumbledore?

[@toanzhou]

• AwkwardAlien • I have the feeling that a Dumbledore planned wedding would be awesome at first, and then drama would happen, like one of the llama’s would pop out of the catering tent being chased by a waiter and a bevy of small dogs, and the swans would be startled and upend the ice bowls in the aisle and the ushers would all fall into the seated people causing domino chains that fall over meanwhile the pipe of a guest would set off the fireworks prematurely and so the bagpipers would head in, trying to walk down the side aisles but tripping over the sprawled guests and upended chairs, the groom would be in a crouch trying to avoid the ear damage a complement of distressed bagpipers and angered swans can cause while Dumbledore calmly lays down cloaks and coats from the coat check over the icy aisle so the bride,who has already kicked off her shoes and is busy hiking up her skirts, can get to her assailed husband to be to fend off the animals with mighty swings of her bouquet. And SOMEHOW, everyone will go home with pockets full of lemon drops, having had a grand old time and he will be awarded the best wedding planner award.

[@stellahensey1107]

toanzhou That was a roller coaster and i am now in the floor laughing

[@user-vn8oh5dp3b]

I feel like a Dumbledore planned wedding would involve none of the guests, nor the bride or groom, even knowing its happening until they're already at the Altar. They would figure out that they're made for each other only as the groom is told to kiss the bride.

[@djbarszcz]

It is just amazing how you turn things that no one cares or even think about to something so interesting and mind blowing that I want to tell everyone about it! Really, you are one of best channels on YT, I watch your every video and I hope you will record to the end of time.

[@brianmegyessi6224]

AMAZING theory guys!!! Definitely your best one yet!

[@madtortuga]

You videos (especially the Harry Potter ones) always make my day! Great video

[@angie-noh8]

Jk Rowling just came out with a statement that the skull is getting its own movie series that she had planned since she wrote the first Harry Potter book

[@helenamirian908]

I think she is watching theory videos for past ideas now.

[@ryannovitski917]

Drace90 i mean she may not be lying but I have had some trouble with her comments recently. Ever since she considered the cursed child canon and broke her own canon with the Minerva cameo I’ve been sketched out by all the excess info lol

[@LuisGarcia-703]

Maybe she saw the future and that's how she knew everything from day 1

[@ryannovitski917]

Drace90 still love her tho lol she gave me my childhood

[@TheMetastasia]

She planned it before her own birht.

[@jamiedavidson7799]

J... when you get your mind-projection skull, you can carve a nifty saying on it and a date at any time AFTER the original owner is done with that skull. Just a thought.

[@mihaipop4163]

Gosh darn it, you two come up with the coolest, most well-thought-out theories. Sometimes I don't even care if that's the case or not, I can just feel the passion and thought you put into them and I just like them.

[@MontgomeryWenis]

The ß character in German is a double s. Größere = gross eh reh Gross meaning great, like gross domestic product.

[@olliedavis4531]

The more you know!

[@Georgeg15]

Elliott Lars Olsen that part really frustrated me .

[@radyperry]

"gross eh reh" reminds me of 'grocery' in an accent... Coincidence? I THINK NO- actually, probably "For the grocery good"

[@ashleygunn8947]

Thank youuu. This bugged me too

[@zlatkakardaleva5738]

the "h" is silent, it isn't pronounced (for the people reading your comment. They might get confused how to read it)

[@abbiepickett9]

Finally, a good wedding planner.

[@phil9447]

These videos are so useful and honestly I love the fantastic beasts movies at first nothing makes sense (and many things still doesn’t) but trying to figure it out yourself (or the help of your videos :D) ist so much fun I‘m so excited for more theories and of course the next movie

[@kaitlyntomko9463]

Größer is pronounced grosser...but thank you for the warning lol. Love your videos

[@Necromancer4267]

Ok but.... whose skull is it then?

[@ejoarkhamgamer567]

Necromancer4267 keep questioning it and it’ll be yours

[@GamerBoy-cp4ck]

It’s Areannas

[@GamerBoy-cp4ck]

I literally wrote that and then Jay said it 😐

[@masondrake4272]

I was thinking the same thing!!!

[@Rachel-uy7pv]

exactly 😂

[@DanielSambar]

Man... _really hankering for some coffee right now._

[@tigektoppin9032]

That is freaking awesome. Makes Grindlewald look so diabolical. I love this theory

[@namwonglue]

You are so good at these fan theories!!

[@catoninetales]

"You know what I think? I think Grindelwald would be an excellent wedding planner." Ahahaha!!! TAKE THAT, VOLDY!

[@juno2884]

Me: What'd I miss? J.K. Rowling: Grindelwald is a seer

[@benwalker5879]

really one of the best youtube channels. content for all ages with great explanations/ theories. keep up the great work. been a fan since the pixar theory video

[@spencerd6126]

I think it’s more likely he had a vision of the final duel and the rest was a plan to avoid it

[@HelmutNevermore]

I think a simpler explanation would be that 1898 stands for the year when this person died for the greater good and not for the year when the inscription was made.

[@DrewWutsit]

All of your videos are an immediate 'drop what I'm doing and watch '

[@Snowshowslow]

I really like this channel. You're good at weird but well-researched theories, you geek out in a fun way and you make good quality videos. But why does any of that translate into you making (or choosing) good coffee?

[@magoo8386]

You & Ben are freaking BRILLIANT. Hugely entertaining & thoughtful explanation of a formerly confusing detail.......

[@spacepuma9]

Nobody: Jk Rowling: the skull is his mother’s

[@theotherguy__9684]

JK Rowling: ...and it was gay all along

[@LadyKay9190]

Cubone?

[@jacksonsavage1696]

Or the skull could be a squirrels

[@GabrielRodrigues-ro1ep]

JK Rowling: the skull was his secret pansexual lover's

[@tangcyka]

JK Rowling: the skull is his own

[@Rutanachan]

Makes a ton of sense to me. It also might be an explanation for the Body Swap - maybe Grindelwald knows that he'll need Abernathy at some point in the future and thus rescuing him was of importance ;)

[@musicmymusic2323]

Thanks, for the coffee info... you guys really read this stuff....👍☕️

[@ancientchaos5804]

I can write 3156 on anything i want I dont have to be in 3157 to do that

[@Heager_Swordsman]

I think that the skull is actually trelawnys great grandmas, it would fit the time and also the power of skull, also it would connect Dumbledore to know about trelawny later on....

[@Heager_Swordsman]

@@Drace90 yes but honestly I don't remember how she found him or vis versa

[@mobiusgaming781]

In the book Grindelwald refused to tell Voldemort who had/where the Elder Wand was... So in the end... Grindelwald really did love Dumbledore, too

[@javvi9]

Hurkiles Gaming true

[@StarbitO]

based

[@aylasuarez69]

Grindelwald would be an excellent wedding planner😂 loved that

[@ligeiaztomb2755]

Go back and read the books and focus on what Trelawny says specifically. She is actually never wrong. Yes that includes getting Harry's "midwinter" birthday "wrong". Harry houses part of Voldemort's soul...and he WAS born in midwinter. In HBP she pulls the lightning struck tower and also the Knave of Spades...who we end up knowing is Draco, "Knave of spades: a dark young man, possibly troubled, one who dislikes the questioner" She gets the " 13 first to rise first to die", correct at the table...Lavender's rabbit death, Hermione leaving, Neville and his broken cup...her babble is always right if you pay attention...it isn't just the big prophesies.

[@mirrynmcwilliams937]

She's unknowingly good at it, I see the same in Ron "you're gonna suffer, but you're gonna be happy about it?"

[@hatsuharuboi]

Yes, few people notice that almost all her predictions are right, but I think only when she isn't trying to impress. Like McGonnagall says, every first class she predicts someone is going to die... and nobody ever dies while in Hogwarts...

[@certainlynotthebestpianist5638]

Hey, if I understood correctly, the whole theory bases on the fact, that he must have written the inscription in 1898. But... couldn't he write "1898" in 1899? Let alone what for, but he could, couldn't he?

[@EcceJack]

Yeah, my thoughts exactly. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the speculations, but I think he could have easily etched that into the skull in, like, 1910 or whatever, and just commemorate the year when his planning began + his motto

[@millicentbystander4502]

sure, but where's the fun in that. It's more fun to spend hours researching it online

[@annaberrong7415]

In the fifth book after Harry sees Nagini attack Mr. Weasley, Dumbledore uses some object to produce smokey images of the future/past? I thought that the skull would be in the same category as that device. Love this theory and all the depth into how Grindlewald may have pursued Dumbledore for a different motive/with the plan for dominance already in mind.

[@adamsmith5171]

Anna Berrong it’s for memory’s if I’m thinking the same thing

[@MerkhVision]

@@adamsmith5171 no, they’re not talking about the pensieve, which is what you’re thinking of.

[@kushleytrieseverything]

best video ever!!! honestly Crimes of grindelwald left me with way too many questions but this clears up a lot! All Grindelwald's planning was a result of him being smart, charismatic and being a freaking seer!!! Question, do y'all think he can conjure up the visions or do they come randomly like in Sybil?

[@seizethehonkuss]

Hey, I love your videos! You guys dive so deep into everything and help explain it to us. I have a question that maybe worthy of a video but maybe not. I might have just missed it. Why do you think Barty Crouch Jr was a good teacher. Like he taught them actual things they could use against or to counter curses from death eaters. And he was nice to Neville as well. I know he was trying to make everyone believe he was really Moody but it seems like he went above and beyond. Even turning Draco into the ferret when Lucious was a death eater like Barty Jr. thanks!

[@AsaNoGaijin]

The actual explanation is JK Rowling thought it looked cool

[@sheop874]

As a writer I can confirm that that happens and j and my brother do over think things

[@armadillolover99]

Olanda sheep Even when JK does something because it’s convenient or looks/sounds cool, she always has an explanation for where the thing came from and why it looks cool.

[@sheop874]

@@armadillolover99 true but, in my stories I don't think I have to give an explanation as to why a tree is shaped the way it is or why a ghost appears to be blue or purple or stuff like that.

[@armadillolover99]

Olanda sheep You don’t have to but it would make the story more interesting and more importantly, create more lore for the universe which in turn gives more identity to your stories

[@nitroturbostar]

Grindelwald sought Dumbledore for, in his vision, he also saw his soulmate.

[@cyspiegel8603]

I dont think Grindelwald cared about Dumbledore at all... a person like that sees others simply as tools to achieve a desired outcome. Throughout it never mentions Grindelwald "loving" or even having stirrings for Dumbledore, but Dumbledore is the one that says they were more than brothers. Classic one sided relationship, and at the beginning of the film they say Grindelwald is "very persuasive so they cut out his tongue". Dumbledore was seduced by Grindelwald's views and ambition but all he was to Grindelwald was a sharp tool... he's so much better than Voldemort. 🤤

[@averydizzle]

Love you dudes for keeping me entertained and sharing in the fandom!! Haven’t met but maybe 1-2 people who actually like the Harry Potter books/ movies 🥺

[@frenchalamex517]

Now that we uploaded a Harry Potter video we can’t stop watching all Harry Potter videos 👏🏼❤️

[@forestgrump4723]

So then, you still didn't say whose skull it was. I think it is the skull of the student he was caught torturing.

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

I have a room full of skulls of my enemies and everyone that opposed my rule

[@Tiny_24]

Good...um....for you....

[@pokemonprojektczandrockruf2388]

Lol

[@jzb7394]

NUKE!!!!!!

[@_somerandomguyontheinternet_]

(Little does he know that Grindelwald did too, and so he is copying Grindslwald...)

[@raeannhoward2231]

Love how u break things down

[@dandaix8262]

You guys should definitely write a book series you guys got some amazing brains

[@alexandrejodoin4870]

Love you guys, continue does amazing hp and fb theory

[@unstablespinach]

I’ve been wondering about this!!

[@hleebeg]

I always thought he got expelled and although brilliant, he knew he couldn't find the hallows alone and tried to think of the smartest person, someone more brilliant than himself and perhaps his aunt told him about Dumbledore and Grindelwald decided Albus would probably be a great help so decided to stay with his aunt for a while. I never once thought it was an accident that two of the most intelligent young men of their age, from two different countries, ended up staying in the same place. Maybe he did get expelled on purpose but I thought he was maybe trying to get information on the hollows from fellow students and got a little carried away in frustration

[@jesamima]

I think it much more probable that he went back at a later date and found the skull of that person he assulted and possibly killed at durmstrang (or ariana's skull) and inscribed the date as the date he considers his journey began. . Great video as always though i love hearing your theories!