The Most EVIL Hufflepuff Wizard Nobody Talks About - Harry Potter Explained

In the Philosopher’s Stone, Hagrid famously remarked that “There's not a single witch or wizard who went bad who wasn't in Slytherin.”.
But..There are a few big issues with this statement.
First of all, it’s factually incorrect. While the vast majority of the dark witches and wizards in the wizarding world were indeed at one time Slytherin students, it certainly wasn’t all of them.
Second of all, many have interpreted Hagrid’s statement to mean: ‘all Slytherins will become evil’, when what Hagrid really meant was that ‘all bad witches and wizards ORIGINATED from Slytherin. Which is..Also not true.
I will admit that when you think about all of the evil in the Wizarding World, it is certainly hard to distance your mind from the green and silver house. However, in reality there are numerous other examples of BAD wizards that came from well...ALL of the other houses.
Think about it.
We had Pettigrew from Gryffindor.
We had Quirrell from Ravenclaw.
And from Hufflepuff we had….The subject of today’s video! A dark wizard SO EVIL that many SLYTHERIN wizards PALE in comparison. Join me today as we peel back the layers of the most nefarious individual to arise from the black & yellow house.
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[@TylerSilverscale]

You'd think Hufflepuff would produce the most dark wizards. Considered their work is taken advantage of.

[@NeidalRuekk]

That, and everyone looks down on them. Even in the first book; "Everyone says Hufflepuff are a load of duffers (idiots)." "Imagine being in Hufflepuff, I think I'd leave, wouldn't you?"

[@TylerSilverscale]

@@NeidalRuekk defo

[@stethespaniard2]

Except that goes against the fundamental nature of being a hufflepuff

[@TylerSilverscale]

@@stethespaniard2 yes and no. You could probably end up getting in Hufflepuff from extreme work ethic alone. If that's the case and you don't have the loyalty trait to an extreme degree then the chance of a dark wizard from Hufflepuff is entirely possible. I mean working hard but for nothing, not me, I'd go rouge. Not necessarily kill people over it but I would go rouge in other ways. Like do what I want rather than contribute to things that don't interest me.

[@MrMagoo-rg8er]

Why Hufflepuff is about loyalty, hard work and they except everyone equally unlike the other houses that think themselves better then everyone else also known as arrogants.

[@whirl43]

We need more dark wizard documentaries

[@lassesgamekanaal]

Yes, that.

[@fettyn8451]

True

[@HarryPotterTheory]

Working on it!

[@conradfrancis3174]

Awesome thankyou ​@@HarryPotterTheory

[@bestjayceejay2518]

@@HarryPotterTheoryyeah I bet theirs a lot more evil Gryffindors then you think

[@619Slipk]

My guy Hagrid out there house profiling smh

[@overgrowndwarf1628]

Despite making up only 25% of Hogwarts houses, Slytherin account for 95% of all Dark Wizards.

[@vanguardRailgun924]

To be fair he was almost jailed for life for something he didn’t do because of a Slytherin.

[@magicpyroninja]

Recognizing patterns And acting on the information you have is normal If one particular set of circumstances always leads to a bad outcome. When you see that particular set of circumstances approaching, you would avoid it. Are you being a racist or are you just trying to avoid trouble?

[@jasonandrus4977]

To be fair it was Voldemort who lied and got him expelled from school and his wand broken

[@nomooon]

house profiling makes sense because students are picked into houses based on their personalities.

[@darthandeddeu]

Hufflepuff evil is the worst because it's unexpected.

[@JulesM434]

As a hufflepuff I can confirm this

[@adamalton2436]

Like the Spanish Inquisition.

[@leahluostarinen]

why

[@meka6626]

​@@leahluostarinen Because they can easily mask their intentions unless someone see through their niceness.

[@ander2317]

I agree! Beware the unassuming ones. They don’t show their true darkness until they want to. Usually when you are at your most vulnerable.

[@FredrickTesla]

"Muggle fear and misunderstanding of magic led to widespread suspicion and violence." Or it might be the multiple killer magic hedge mazes that ate thousands of people. That might also get a rise out of the muggles.

[@user-dm2qb5ul4b]

INIT

[@mlpfanboy1701]

Ok but which came first?

[@anuragrai8283]

@@mlpfanboy1701 chil dude, you ain`t an actual wizard 😂

[@grokeffer6226]

Artemisia is another name for the plant known as Wormwood. It's a component of the intoxicant called Absinthe and has been used to treat intestinal parasite infections. 🌱

[@joea.9969]

Its also made people go into insane murderous drunken fits.

[@Boris_Belomor]

​@@joea.9969It's a myth that was debunked many times already.

[@joea.9969]

@@Boris_Belomor actually yeah i know that i was saying it for sarcasms sake. I guess it didnt translate well in writing,

[@Reddotzebra]

While Absinthe does contain wormwood it's not the ingredient responsible for most of its taste, that goes to Anise. Malört on the other hand is both named for and heavily tasting of wormwood. The name of the intoxicant is literally just the Swedish name of wormwood. Literally the word Malört translates to "Moth Herb", but it has a double meaning in old Swedish which basically means something like "Illweed", as in, a herb that is bad for you.

[@maverickcrow6252]

Dont forget draught of the living death

[@StevenKissinger]

Eunon Blackwood is proof that intolerance from Muggles can drive witches and wizards towards the Dark Arts. I highly doubt he was the only dark wizard from Hufflepuff, it is just simply improbable of that not happening. This is particularly true of Muggle-borns, as they face intolerance from Purebloods and Muggles alike.

[@brainflash1]

Same thing happened to Dumbledore's father and Grindelwald.

[@milanka882]

You know what else I would think would drive muggle born to the dark arts? Being plucked out of everything they know and taken away from everything and everyone they know at age 11 and placed in a completely alien world with absolutely no support or resettlement support or anything like that at all. Hogwarts is woeful when it comes to pastoral care.

[@brainflash1]

@@milanka882 Pretty sure they send representatives to explain things to Muggle born. Herminonie mentioned in the first book how she already knew she was different, but didn't realize all the things she was doing were magic. Besides she still had contact with her parents.

[@mlpfanboy1701]

⁠@@brainflash1explaining things once is not the same thing.

[@brainflash1]

@@mlpfanboy1701 Well I don't know how they explain it, I just know they don't kidnap Muggleborn children like milanka claimed.

[@bookworm7076]

Since Hufflepuff is my Hogwarts house, I was always curious about the stories of Hufflepuff wizards who went down the wrong path. I appreciate this Dark history lesson; it's a great cautionary tale.

[@Tannim42]

People forget that the mascot is a Badger...

[@joeyaigot3499]

You do know this is make believe right? Like this isn’t real lol. Y’all get so caught up in this made up world it only shows what you’re lacking in the REAL world 😂

[@ZoeBlacktail]

my hogwarts house is Hufflebuff to.

[@jeanettecarnell8933]

And mine.

[@DemonicSpirit99]

Same here, I’ve always been so curious about this

[@brentthereshiram7236]

I knew hufflepuff had a skeleton in the closet

[@Pattmore]

🚪💀 Wuaahahhuhuh

[@meka6626]

Good. Maybe every Hufflepuff rper I meet will stop acting like doormat with a free hug sign. I say the most likeable I met had a short temper but still displayed Hufflepuff traits.

[@absolutedegenerate2992]

What do you expect it's hogwarts... I mean found a skeleton the other day in a broom closet... The more you know

[@salavast1522]

Dearie... they use the bodies for fertilizer.

[@silverjohn6037]

@@meka6626 Just explain to them they should play them like Canadians. Then introduce them to what the Canadians accomplished in the World Wars. There's a difference between patience and weakness.

[@gabrielahemmings]

Hufflepuff values loyalty and justice imagine loyalty to the wrong cause or them pursuing justice for purebloods Unexpectedly evil

[@Tengu125]

I mean, don't purebloods deserve justice, too? Do you assume them all to be inherently evil and undeserving of justice based on their lineage? Justice is justice, and excluding someone on the basis of their social status at birth alone would absolutely be against the egalitarian values of Helga Hufflepuff. I'm pretty sure it's outright illegal in most of the civilised world IRL, too.

[@aquatofana9257]

I have always believed that Bellatrix Lestrange should have been a Hufflepuff.

[@drewhanna9057]

The worst atrocities known to man have all come when the wicked believed themselves to be righteous.

[@ruud9761]

Most terrorist believe their cause to be just. And the most nasty of extremists tend to be loyal to their organization until death does them part.

[@hafirenggayuda]

Hufflepuff worse aspect is like WH40K Nurgle, familial commitment to extreme

[@prestonglocar7116]

Blackwoods at Stone Haven?? That is Bracken land!!

[@dougwhiddon8227]

haggrids line only appears in the movies. In the books it merely says that Slytherin produced more of them.

[@dannybonsai7102]

How to turn a Hufflepuff evil 1. Give them a trauma 2. give them a Slytherin friend voila

[@targaryenbatman5728]

Loyal to evil and hard worker are some terrifying qualities

[@stevegallo8483]

We have to remember that Hagrid getting expelled from Hogwarts was due to a Slytherin (Tom Riddle), so Hagrid has a bias against that house. Further, was Quirrell really evil? Remember that Quirrell's evil acts took place when he was possessed by Voldemort.

[@darajeeling]

So letting Voldemort posess you is a good thing? Also - what about Lockhart? He was Ravenclaw as well and he was not the nicest either

[@stevegallo8483]

@@darajeeling Quirrell was weak willed, and Voldemort had a powerful will, even in his weakened state. Quirrell had no chance. Lockhart was driven by his ego and his need fame and glory.

[@theultimatenerd9825]

@@darajeelingwasn’t Umbridge in Ravenclaw too?

[@Not_An_EV]

I thought she was a Slytherin ​@@theultimatenerd9825

[@lynnevetter]

I always took that Quirrell wasn't evil, perse, when he was younger, but that he was too eager, foolhearty, and weak-willed, when it came down to it, and that he allowed for the possession from Voldie.

[@websurfer8670]

"Hey this should be a movie." Hbo: lets reboot the films

[@toriwildflower8574]

one flaw in this story, burning st stake dont actually affect wizards. they just feel a tickle. wedlin enjoyed it so much she let muggles burn her 46 times. her mother could of done a nonverbal freezing charm.

[@Isabel-qu3hl]

Maybe Artemisia didn't die, she only made the muggles believe that she was dead, then she joined Eunon and they went on to live secretly somewhere together.

[@anotherdayanotheranimation]

Depends if they were able to cast the spell to make them immune to fire. Wizards are hardier than the majority of muggles, but not invulnerable; seeing as a lot of them fall unconscious by being knocked around, get wounded from sharp objects, and earn broken bones from falls - they should also burn by being... burned. This can also be seen during floo travel. People who don't use it properly can still get slightly bruised, burnt or singed. Its possible that A was knocked unconscious before being lit on fire, the pain and her panic not allowing her to cast the spell wandlessly. Or they may have just killed her then burnt her corpse. Wizards and Witches are just as mortal as Muggles - both can die to a lethal spell or a gunshot. The former just has more ways to protect themselves. On a side note, if getting burnt tickles her, Wedlin's a masochist. I can barely handle being tickled for a few minutes straight, let alone being tickled for a few hours.

[@timsmith8489]

So if you want to completely avoid being harmed by Blackwood you just have to forego going into any hedge mazes that appear suddenly without explanation?

[@TF2CrunchyFrog]

Medieval people who believe in magic and fairies: "Hey, where did this giant foreboding hedge maze come from this morning? Should we A. run into it like idiots, B. burn it down, C. call the village priest?" People centuries later, who have heard folktales of these killer hedge mazes eating people for a dozen generations: "Yes, instant hedge maze, looks totally legit." Seriously, wherew/how would people even have _heard_ the tale that there's allegedly gold in those magically appearing hedge mazes (so that they're enticed to wander right in in search of treasure), when _at the same time_ the story claims Muggles forgot that magic exists? So... what would be their scientific explanation for a suddenly appearing hedge maze on their front lawn? And if not magic, why would there be gold in it? And in all that time, nobody ever thought of just building a wooden tower outside the outer rim and looking into the maze from above? Heck, Muggles now have technology that can fly... send some camera drone in, invade magic airspace.

[@mikamans88]

I havent watched you in like a year but you are still great

[@HarryPotterTheory]

Thank-you! Welcome back

[@BurdenBikes]

The goblet of fire maze is a Blackwood maze?.?.

[@lucdaigle5947]

Yes

[@XxAzraelGTxX]

a mimic of a Blackwood Maze,

[@TheGrifhinx]

Imitation of one, by the looks of it

[@esthersteier6840]

Is he the dude that made the man in hogwarts legacy

[@toriwildflower8574]

i dont think so. the books never stated the mazes moved. just in the books.

[@Danielle-pn4hq]

No matter how I answer the questions I'm ALWAYS a Hufflepuff GO PUFF❤😂🎉

[@DefileOdds]

It's the hash slinging slasher! Run for your lives!!!

[@factsoftheconfederacy7151]

I’ve been telling people this story for a while now. Who knew a hufflepuff may have more killings to their name than even Voldemort?

[@mlpfanboy1701]

Ok lets be honest, the only reason he was not accepted into Slytherin is because he is muggle born.

[@SubjectDelta20]

​@@mlpfanboy1701Nah, the Sorting Hat doesn't care about the blood purity thing. And I'm sure Slytherin loves having muggleborns sorted into their house. Obviously they wouldn't let "creatures" like house elves into the Slytherin dormitory, not even for cleaning. So who do you think does all that cleaning & fetching drinks & other basic slave work?

[@ThatGUY666666]

Anyone else think that Isidora Morganach from Hogwarsts Legacy should have been a Hufflepuff instead of a Ravenclaw? It you think about, what drove her to do the things she did was essentially everything that makes Hufflepuffes so great corrupted and perverted into madness.

[@ZalymBiscayn]

That would have made perfect sense too, and is a great observation!

[@doctortachyon3969]

thats cool and makes sense but remember any house member can be angelic or diabolical

[@ThatGUY666666]

@@doctortachyon3969 of course. I just think that Hufflepuff fits her better than Ravenclaw given her motives.

[@ThatGUY666666]

@@ZalymBiscayn thank you for the compliment

[@PinkMarshmallows]

Are you sure? I could have sworn she was in Slytherin, not Ravenclaw.

[@KidBPB]

evil hufflepuff is like an evil butterfly

[@KBtheKiwi944]

Evil butterly? I would follow the spiders then.

[@MrCoxmic]

it is called a moth, disgusting creatures that vanish in a puff of dust when squished

[@LordFarm]

You mean wasps?

[@Old-Thunder69]

No one suspects the butterfly

[@bmorehobo]

No one ever suspects the butterfly

[@dougwhiddon8227]

I like to think of myself as a Gryffindor, must most of my friends think I'm more Ravenclaw. But, I have this head-cannon about the early days of Hogwarts when the founders were still running things. A group of students are gathered and the first three pick the ones they want and the leftovers are scooped up by Hufflepuff. She takes them aside to her corner of the castle and sits them down and tells them, "You aren't the smartest, the bravest, or have the connections of magical upbringing, so what do you do? The one thing you can do, the one thing that can overcome the advantages of the others is you can WORK HARDER than all of them. There are plenty of smart people, or brave people, or connected people who simply never amount to anything. Hard work will see you through were those things won't" So, its not that Hufflepuff sought out hard workers, but that she MADE them hard workers.

[@seantodd8875]

Interesting fact that seems to be overlooked as well: each of the four founders was from a different country of the UK at that time: Gryffindor was English, Ravenclaw was Scottish, Hufflepuff was Welsh, and Slytherin was Irish.

[@LordHayabusa85]

I’m pretty sure based on the descriptions given, it was Gryffindor (from wild moor) who was Irish, Hufflepuff (from valley broad) who was English and Slytherin (from fen) who was Welsh.

[@Thunor93]

​@@LordHayabusa85yup.

[@hollyingraham3980]

Moors are associated with Scotland or Yorkshire. The Fens, or marshes, were an area of SE England mostly since drained to make farmland, but trying to sink back into marsh. It would so not be associated with mountainous Wales, where Gryff-- names are commonly found. But I just study historical onomastics, not make believe by lazy authors.

[@Thunor93]

@@hollyingraham3980 the word Moore/Moor is originally Irish, Meaning Bog, it is also a surname from Ireland. The original scottish word for Moore is Miur. When the Irish traveled to Scotland they brough many of their words. Then again many of Irish and scottish words have similar origins. Before that though the scotts were primarily Pictish and had a whole different language. Just like Gaelic, Pictish is a dying language with few knowing the language. Moor/Moore and Miur are the same. But no, Moors are more commonly known in Ireland. My Mother is a Keith of the Keith clan, she is Half Norwegian but a quarter Scottish and a quarter Irish, she was born in Ireland, her father is a Keith and was half irish/Half Scottish while his father is from Scotland.

[@Thunor93]

@@hollyingraham3980 so technically you are correct yet not at the same time. But yeah Moor does not come from Wales.

[@jueshua148]

Just like Harry chose to be in Gryffindor, I'm sure this one simply chose Hufflepuff.

[@jmoore1172]

Or the sorting Hat not sure what to do with the boy decided upon Hufflepuff because one staple is to except everyone. 🤷

[@WackoMcGoose]

@@jmoore1172 Yeah, my understanding is that most students _can_ go into multiple houses, and the Hat sorts them based on which of the four traits they "value _the most"_ at the time of the Hat being on their head. So at that moment, he might have valued Hard Work enough to end up in Hufflepuff, while having hidden ambition that later developed...

[@crushedscouter9522]

lol harry didn't choose to be in gryffindor. embarrassing

[@skyrogue1977]

Like a true badger, he f*cked things up for everyone.

[@unarealtaragionevole]

In Harry Potter lore, if you look at what they say about Morgan LeFay, she is not a Slytherin...she's a Hufflepuff. Her house is never directly said, and most people associate her with the real world mythological character, which cause them to think she's a Slytherin. But her descriptions in Harry Potter lore actually tend to describe a Hufflepuff more than a Slytherin. And given that she was in opposition of Merlin who we know is a Slytherin, it also makes sense as a Hufflepuff is about as opposite as you can get to a Slytherin.

[@doctortachyon3969]

Ive always been a slytherin. Im a merlin type not a salazar/riddle type. But as for hufflepuff being opposite of slytherin, ive always said what you said. its obvious

[@stephaniesojovelazquez3324]

I thought she was considered a Ravenclaw? She was described as having a thirst for knowledge as well. Probably a hatstall if you think about it. She embodies a lot of traits of each house. She is ambitious, she was not always confrontational. Though many remember her for being at odds with Merlin. She could be brave like a Gryffindor or loyal to her cause like a Hufflepuff. Then of course there were the rumors that she had 'a sort of sight' which could be indicative of a Seer. Combined with a thirst for knowledge, that sounds like a Ravenclaw.

[@unarealtaragionevole]

@@stephaniesojovelazquez3324 Hello there, one of the more interesting things about Harry Potter lore, is its lack of comment on Morgan LeFay in both the books and films. We just don't really know a lot about her in Potter...and some of what we know 'sort of' contradicts itself. Merlin/Morgan in Potter seem to semi-reflect their real world mythological counterparts in that they existed at the same time and they didn't seem to get along. Now, we are clearly told how powerful and influential Merlin was to the Wizarding World, so it wouldn't be too big of a stretch to say Morgan was equally powerful/influential. I have seen a few videos here that have put her as the most powerful witch in the Wizarding World (and given my love for her I agree), but the truth is that we just don't really know all that much about her in Potter to say that with any certainty. As for which house she would belong to. We do know some things about her in Potter that can give us something to stand on. For example, those who say she is a Slytherin often rely on the fact she is labeled a "dark Witch' on her trading card. But as this video points out, and we have all learned...not all Slytherins are dark or evil, and there are dark/evil people in all houses. So this doesn't automatically make her a Slytherin. I say she is a Hufflepuff due to the other things we know, or can infer, about her. As I said earlier we know she did not get along with Merlin and they even went toe to toe in a duel. So she obviously had a problem with Merlin specifically, but maybe with Slytherin mentality in general. We also know she was an animagus, a lover of herbology, a potions expert, and the thing that stands out the most...a known powerful healer and practitioner of healing magic. And this is why I believe she's a Hufflepuff, could this be a Ravenclaw also? Absolutely. A Gryffindor? Eh...maybe...I just don't see it that way. For me it's either Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw. But animal knowledge, potions, herbology, healing....I get pretty strong Hufflepuff vibes. I just wish we had more to go off of, maybe one day we will.

[@permaskunked]

Question? Where do i find content other people know about outside the books and films?

[@magicpyroninja]

​@@unarealtaragionevoleHow exactly is the most interesting thing about it? The thing they don't mention?

[@gavinjonsn]

I've always thought that a Hufflepuff willing to do terrible, terrible things, in the name of loyalty, would be a very compelling villain. A good example from other media would be like, Killmonger.

[@tony056]

Sick of the stigma towards my Slytherin companions! They're not all evil, lol.

[@lenninmontiel4539]

Exactly some of us slytherins are not that evil up to old voldy. Sure the snake represents deception, cunning, ambitious, daring, sligh single minded and swift.

[@Bexinnamon]

True, stop the Slytherin slander 😂🐍🐍🐍

[@Pattmore]

Plus there’s Merlin, The Merlin 🧙🏼‍♂️ who was a slytherin

[@user-gs7iw6kl7o]

they aren't evil at all. pure blood are the good guys.

[@lenninmontiel4539]

​@@user-gs7iw6kl7o Ah a fellow death eater or a fellow grindewald follower, a pleasure to meet you 🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍

[@animeking5068]

3:32 when the video actually starts

[@Smosig]

I’ve never been early and being a Hufflepuff this is an awesome video to open KZbin to🔥❤️

[@patrickd9551]

As an avid tie knot enthusiast, let's just appreciate the different knots and styles at @0:17 You can so clearly see that Malfoy is from a high ranking family, knows how to tie a proper knot and has done so his entire life. Crabbe and Goyle simply not caring like the goons they are and Pansy just in between with a slightly crooked four-in-hand. Just perfect. It's these kinds of attention to detail that really make a movie.

[@lucabestea6844]

A pureblood who doesn't hate Muggleborns, but instead feels bad for them and sees them as victims of Muggles is something I never knew I needed. Although, it does make one wonder, in the Middle Ages, did Muggleborns get killed out of fear by their parents?

[@Yuktopus]

Oh yes, Eunon Blackwood. I remeber him from the stories you can read when you meet the magic labyrinths around the huge map of Hogwarts Legacy

[@WackoMcGoose]

Cursed hedge maze: _exists_ Me: "Accio Flamethrower."

[@cfcblue8]

I'd pay good money to see Grindelwald and Dumbledore navigate their way through that and the magic they'd use along the way

[@WackoMcGoose]

@@cfcblue8 Dumbledore would probably see an Unspeakable Evil racing toward him, calmly say "No.", and the Unspeakable Evil just _stops and leaves_ like a told-off puppy.

[@thattrickydude]

Great video HP theory, you've done it again!

[@toniestes4949]

it is apparent to me that this character’s primary qualities are ambitious, cunning, and resourceful so he only ended up in Hufflepuff because they don’t ever accept Mudbloods in Slytherin???

[@markuhler2664]

He was rejected by his family so gave his tremendous loyalty to the magical community? He also, per the video, desired knowledge, a la a Ravenclaw. Essentially you can't boil a person down to 1 or 2 traits. Another mark against the House System as instituted.

[@XiaoYueMao]

slytherin had many muggleborns sorted there, they just dont talk about it. he was sorted into hufflepuff because he was hard working, he literally helped his family trim hedges before he was even 10 years old

[@maartenl.1365]

Slytherin favors the ambitious. People that put their own needs above those of others. The second requirement is, atleast 1 wizarding parent. mudbloods are not welcome, muggles are not welcome. So they take the ambitious "nobles". They take the leaders. Because the Slytherin look down on mudbloods, so they'll never follow a mudblood, But an ambitious self-centered mudblood may rise to evil, he'll just not be sorted in Slytherin. Do not worry, there 11 schools of magic and only Durmstrang and Slytherin bar muggle-born mages entry.

[@Hauke-ph5ui]

There are many more than 11 schools. These 11 are just the big ones that are registered with the International Confederation of Wizards.

[@XiaoYueMao]

slytherin has had many muggleborns in history, there is no requirement to be a halfblood or pureblood. muggleborns just rarely get sorted into slythering because its hard to have ambition in a world you know nothing about, instead they are either brave for accepting the opportunity to join a new world, or hungry for knowledge about said new world, and occasionally just hardworking, but not often ambitious

[@faramir]

The sorting hat certainly got Pettigrew wrong.

[@Cheezeblade]

Slytherin the “chip on your shoulder” house. Green and silver. Always envious and feeling like you’re in second place.

[@The_Real_Mr_Al]

Which is understandable, considering lots of Gryffindors love pretending all of Slytherin are like the Malfoys while simultaneously being unable to shut up about their self-righteous and self-proclaimed moral superiority... I got put into Ravenclaw but I'd rather pick Slytherin or Hufflepuff over Gryffindor.

[@Cheezeblade]

@@The_Real_Mr_Al im a ravenclaw too. super weird i took the test a dozen times and got into gryffindor once. all the rest the the test said ONLY a ravenclaw would answer the questions so perfectly to get into gryffindor, welcome to ravenclaw. lmao

[@user-gs7iw6kl7o]

2:41 who is the actress that plays helga hufflepuff??? i can't find anywhere on the net.

[@tarotreadingsbysteven8545]

No one ever played her on screen so no actress but the photo was done with a model as part of the lore/promotion so try looking for that. Hope that helps!

[@user-gs7iw6kl7o]

@@tarotreadingsbysteven8545 thanks, i still couldn't find her though oh well

[@sifilore9462]

Well as Slytherin has the most dark witches/wizard, Hufflepuff has the fewest. Can't exspect them to alway live up that way. I'm a hufflepuff, and being open-minded means I c things in the middle, instead of fully on 1 side that needs time to change my thought. I give the benfit of the doubt on both sides at 50-50. Eunon Blackwood rare ability to manipulate blackthorns must been a chlorokinetic ability that's rare like metamorphmagus and seers, or nonverbal wandless plant based spells he was good at.

[@magicpyroninja]

I never really took hagrid's statement as 100% fact. I figure he was making a generalization or exaggerating a tiny bit And accepted it as far more dark wizards come from Slytherin than from anywhere else

[@TheSiladhiel]

Was Quirrel Evil? Wasn't he possessed similarly to how Voldemort possessed Harry in the Order of the Phoenix, only Quirrell didn't possess Lily's protection to protect him. From what i Recall Quirrell was wandering a forest in search of some creature or something and Voldemort stumbled across him and used his head as a AirBnB. It makes me wonder though... why did he need unicorns blood? He had existed at that point as a spirit for 11/12 years. And had no need for Unicorns blood until after he possessed Quirrell? Also... it is said that drinking the blood gave you a cursed half life. Does this include those who drink it unwillingly? And who was Cursed? The person drinking... or the spirit in control who was reaping the benefit? That simple question of "Is Quirrell Evil?" is a deep rabbit hole. BUT.. you want to really bake your noodle? After he was yeeted out of Quirrell... how in the name of Merlins great stained y fronts... did Voldemort get from being a spirit... to the withered baby corpse he was in the Goblet of Fire? There is no explanation for that apart from speculation that i can find.

[@realmdarkness]

Quirrell was actually seeking out Voldemort in Transylvania, having been obsessed with finding him. Voldemort then took over him due to his obsession, weak mind and the fact that he was about to begin teaching at Hogwarts, and we begin Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's (Philosopher's) Stone

[@luckyowl6432]

It's often misquoted about Horcrux's but Rowling has an idea of how Voldemort got a rudimentary body back after being a spirit and it almost made her editor throw up. I often hear it talked about it being the Horcrux creation process that made her want to throw up but that is incorrect. But we never hear or get a idea of what that process might be in the series.

[@l.a.williams1879]

He said wormtail helped him do it in the beginning of goblet of fire

[@XxAzraelGTxX]

to answer your questions, the unicorn blood was so Voldi could inhabit Quirrell, he needed that magic influx to maintain himself. His magic was almost depleted and couldn't cast wand magic, only reason he remained alive was due to the Horcruxes. Who was cursed? Quirell of course, he was the living host, the homunculus (the baby) that Voldi inhabited was created with the help of Wormtail, Voldemort knew the steps needed for him to regain a body but as i said couldn't cast magic, Wormtail being a death eater answered the summons of Voldi and followed his instructions, the homunculus needed feeding, but now Voldi had Nagini, who was also an Horcrux, that milk was a much better catalyst to anchor his spirit to the homunculus. In the Goblet of Fire, Wromtail tries to talk Voldi out of trying to capture Harry, saying "any blood would do" but Voldi wanted to counter the protection Harry had, so he needed his blood "unwillingly taken", and used Wormtail's bones "willingly given" to complete the alchemic process, he then entered the cauldron and was able to regain his body (mutilated as it was of course). that's from the books, but i believe, if allowed to regain power, Voldi would have continue regenerating his body to his prime, since what Wormtail did was so butchered wrong, so he would stop being so snake like but human looking. But that's just my theory.

[@LordFarm]

He needed unicorn blood to keep Quirrel alive.

[@swegamerhdlandbergt677]

I have always thought about it this way. Evil wizards coming from slytherin usually share the same thing: they value blood purity. The death eaters shared this ideology, hence why they all originate from slytherin. An evil wizard that is just mental and enjoys killing people no matter WHO they are doesn’t have to be categorized in a specific house. Evil wizards that values blood purity - slyterin. Evil wizards with other ideologies - any house.

[@mlpfanboy1701]

5:58 in other words he would have been a slythern if it were not for the fact he was muggle born.

[@jolaiikey1015]

Pettigrew and Squirrel were not truly evil, but with week character and hungry for approval.

[@The_Real_Mr_Al]

And neither one were in Slytherin.

[@k.alipardhan6957]

chatGPT said Hufflepuff: Helga Hufflepuff’s descendant, Hepzibah Smith - While not a dark witch herself, Hepzibah was a wealthy and vain witch who owned two important magical artifacts: Helga Hufflepuff's cup and Salazar Slytherin's locket. She was murdered by Tom Riddle (Voldemort), who stole the artifacts and later turned Hufflepuff’s cup into a Horcrux. Her involvement with these dark artifacts, and her unfortunate death, ties her to dark magic, albeit indirectly.

[@immortalsofar5314]

I remember rejecting the "team" I was put into at school because to me power was (and still is) not the ability to tell others what to do but the rejection of being told what to do. In later years, I appreciated the irony that collective punishment is being so immoral as to be against the Geneva Convention but, in a trivial way, this is what the house system actually is.

[@MarnėStorm-s2h]

Hagrid didn't mean that _EVERY_ dark witch or wizard originated in Slytherin. He meant that if you grab a group of them, the odds that they were all Slytherin students is high as hell. That's not factually incorrect - it's a fact. Slytherin house produced the most dark witches and wizards. That was the point he was making. I can't believe that it's 2024 and we're still needing to have this discussion. 😂

[@Rambo007-_-]

I think it's stupid none of the wizards just get a gun .... Cause wand reflexes aren't faster than a bullet .....

[@benjamintang8782]

I mean it is set in the UK...

[@rachelgreer3457]

Loyalty is a characteristic most sought after by the mob.

[@TrumanJPray]

Good point very good point

[@derrickwaller9519]

Damn I’m early, W video

[@lodunost]

The thumbnail of this video looks like an aggressive seller of fish sticks.

[@zanemartin6699]

Another example of an evil Ravenclaw is Gilderoy Lockhart. He stole credit for others accomplishments and used the Memory Charm to leave them amnesiac. That’s arguably worse than if he just killed them

[@thevolunteerfiredepartment816]

Hagrid’s opinion comes from bias. He was a Gryffindor, he is part of the Order, and he was expelled for the crimes of a Slytherin while at Hogwarts. I just wish Rowling fleshed the house (all of the Hogwarts houses) more.

[@The_Real_Mr_Al]

Are you sure you wish that? She has said odd stuff about Slytherin like "not all Slytherins are evil, but all pureblood supremacists are Slytherins" which people has criticized for being a bit too much like saying something akin to "not all Germans are bad, but all Nazis are German" ^-^;

[@matthewbeaty7702]

I’ve benn subscribed so long I actualy had to check. I’ve been subscribed since I was in highschool. I’m almost 30 now.

[@Harry-Hartmann]

A Very Good Video 👌🏻👍🏻

[@SirJeremyBridges]

Excellent video, sir.

[@HarryPotterTheory]

Thank-you!

[@SirJeremyBridges]

@@HarryPotterTheory you are most welcome. I have loved the world of Harry Potter for a very long time and your videos keep it so very much alive and fresh.

[@DumbbestEarthling]

So if Magneto put on the sorting hat, he would be Hufflepuff right?????

[@user-bf1nu1gm4u]

Great video and keep make great videos. I look forward see more videos.

[@richarddavis3980]

Thank you for putting a picture of a hobbit hole in your description of Hufflepuff because in my opinion most hobbits would be sorted into Hufflepuff with a smaller number probably from Gryffindor and ravenclaw anyway thank you from the Tolkien fans amongst us

[@tylerfraze873]

so this is the maze we see in the TriWizard Tournament?

[@vanguardRailgun924]

Hogwarts is in Scotland so it’s entirely possible I suppose. 🤷‍♂️

[@Hauke-ph5ui]

No. That maze was created by the Hogwarts teachers specifically for the tournament.

[@ethanmcelwaine1010]

So a maze created by teachers who protect and teach these kids from a young age who then if they so choose to enter the tournament, can technically be killed by their teachers hand because they created a maze that kills? I dont get it

[@markuhler2664]

​@@ethanmcelwaine1010 They have a Forbidden Forest which is forbidden because of the danger there. And then send stufents there in the middle of the night as punishment. They have a 3 headed guard dog behind a locked doorthat opens with a simple charm. They allow professors to openly verbally abuse or show blatant favortism to students. It ain't a great school honestly.

[@skedi33]

@@ethanmcelwaine1010they cant be killed in the maze

[@amitbenhur3722]

The sorting hat decided that he was more boring than evil.

[@nerd_patriot_disciple]

When I theorized about how a Hufflepuff could go evil I figured it might be everyone they’re loyal to getting horrifically killed causes them to snap and go crazied revenge fulled rampage. But this is even more interesting and true to life. Blackwood was never taught the value of loyalty because those who should have been most loyal to him aka his family were horrible to him.

[@SlytherinFan-jd3ne]

Eunon had other children too that nobody talks about. What he did will explain why all Blackwoods are typically pure-blooded and sorted into Slytherin.

[@MrMagoo-rg8er]

I think deviding students and sticking them with those that think alike is the worst thing ever. Learning is all about meeting new people and looking at different perspectives. I would talk and make friends with people from all four houses regardless of what house I was placed in. Your house doesn’t define you your choices and character do.

[@jeanettecarnell8933]

Same...

[@MaddestTroll]

I heard he was so bad he told the Hat to put him in Hufflepuff so nobody would suspect him.

[@mikegenovese3017]

Still, that's a long way from "all (or nearly) all Slytherins are SOBs (or worse ... far worse)." Given that Hogwarts was founded in the 9th or 10th century ... and GIVEN that the victor's usually write the history ... I've often wondered if Slytherin wasn't nearly as "evil" as he's been made out to me ... maybe he was from a family horribly persecuted by Muggles / Muggle-Born (and rightly feared them), maybe the Basilisk was simply a doomsday weapon / fail-safe against muggles gone horribly awry (or mis-used, given that the length of time between when he squirrelled it away and when it was released). Given a thousand years of solitary confinment, even a magical beast might get very cranky ... not that Basilisks are generally known for their charming personalities and sweet tempers. My point is, maybe Salazaar (sp?) isn't nearly the b*st*rd made out to be in HP, and was simply trying to save Wizards and Witches from persecution at the hands of Muggles / Muggle-born. A LOT can happen in ~ 1000 years, including vastly distorted history ...

[@Richardsonprincess00]

Never heard of him from the Harry Potter nor Fantastic Beasts series at all... Great backstory on him.

[@The_Real_Mr_Al]

His lore is the context for sidequest challenges in Hogwarts Legacy about four different magican mazes with a chest of random loot at the end of each. Nothing fancy in-game, very short and easy mazes with no danger to you at all, but a very interesting tidbit of lore from the history notes found at each maze.

[@Aquanios08]

*sigh* I miss the old outro.

[@bryce4228]

At the time when Hagrid said all dark wizards were from Slytherin, the second most famous alleged dark wizard was Sirius Black!

[@Guzy_B]

Searching for logic in reason in HP worldbuilding is a futile and stupid.

[@Ronin3453]

Doesn't count. Bro would have 100% been in Slytherin if not for his muggle parents. Sorting must have considered that and put him into the "rest".

[@WackoMcGoose]

That's the "house for the heroes, house for the villains, and two NPC houses to fill out the numbers" logic from _Harry Potter and the Natural 20._ We're _not_ a house of NPCs, for Merlin's sake! It must've simply been that the Hat saw that _at the moment of Sorting_ he valued Hard Work the most and declared him a badger, being unable to predict that his ambition would later develop into his strongest trait... The Hat isn't a Predictamancer, after all.

[@jokerzyo]

What is this information in?

[@AbdulrahmanAlYahmadi]

What creeper me most is the line(by nightfall artesia was burned to a steak

[@Hellfurian1972]

A well done video as I was wondering about the notes found in the game of Hogwarts Legacy

[@themandalor]

Been subscribed. You matter . You do enkugh . You are enough

[@DanBeech-ht7sw]

What worse is that, being a Hufflepuff, he worked REALLY HARD at being evil

[@ChazWalser]

An Dark Wizard/Witch from Hufflepuff is the scariest

[@gewoonik687]

Ravenclaw also produced lockheart. Wouldn't call him a white wizard.

[@vocalsunleashed]

Why didn't you link the sources for this video in the description? I want to read it for myself.

[@XiaoYueMao]

Puffs are the perfect dark henchmen, think about it, they value loyalty, which is what dark lords want in henchmen

[@atlas_of_prescottia]

How did the witch hunters manage to burn Artemisia at the stake? I recall reading that witches could just cast a fireproofing charm on themselves. There was one witch who liked the sensation of being "burned" so much that she made sure to repeatedly get outed as a witch so as to be burned again and again.

[@chikowashere]

So Harry Potter canon includes the mobile games, the stage play, the Fantastic Beasts films even though there are contractions, random things that JK says without any proof to back them up from the novels, and now video games. I wish Harry Potter canon was simple. I can't even look up stuff on the Wiki page without seeing something ridiculous from either the mobile game or Cursed Child pop up as if it's canon.

[@iio_moon]

Hp canon only includes tings rowling wrote or approved as canon for example)all the orignial 7 books, curse child story, fantastic beasts script, book of spells story and rowlings wog(twitter quotes, rowlings archive in wizarding world)

[@CJ_Dub]

The most evil hufflepuff wizard was my hogwarts legacy character

[@mmx4gaming12]

What about the dudes who did dark wizard things from other schools hagrid

[@mecahhannah]

❤ Awesome as always thanks!

[@Reddotzebra]

I mean, the guy could control plants with his mind and he made hedge mazes that killed people. These things would more or less have to be Horcruxes, wouldn't they?

[@paulohalderic2322]

1- Creating giant, elaborate, magical mazes = Hard work and Patience. 2- Punishing muggles = Justice in his mind. 3- His life choices = Loyalty to magic.

[@anders8461]

Hufflepuff is a collection of other houses' outcasts. I kinda wonder what kind of dark wizard my house would produce lol. And this video answers it 😅

[@Isabel-qu3hl]

The story of Sleeping Beauty may come from this story. Many princes tried to enter the thorn hedge to rescue her, but no one returned, until the last one (perhaps a powerful wizard) could do it.

[@morganconklin8849]

But dark wizard from Gryffindor would be crazy. They would actually most likely have to become evil in their later years as opposed to starting out younger something would have to twist them.

[@maverickcrow6252]

As a hufflepuff, i'm oddly glad that there is a dark wizard in my house, Ravenclaw gets way to many jerks in their house.

[@Semnome-gv5yg]

ambission and evil thoughts are always close together and that's the reason why so many Slytherin mages turn evil, most Slytherin mages managed to keep their wish to greatness in whatever area they dreamed about, from it becoming something dark. Its nice to learn the darkness from other houses to put Slytherin bad apples in pespective

[@happyslapsgiving5421]

Hagrid is ignorant. He didn't finish school. He says all evil wizards are from Slytherin because _most_ evil wizards *IN HIS GENERATION* were in Slytherin... since they were Voldemort's class mates and (wannabe) friends.

[@stormmaster108]

I wonder why Artemisia didn't apparate out from the fire. It may be difficult without a wand, but she seemed like a capable witch. And we know that some witches used to allow to catch themselves, then freeze the fires, scream for fun, and get away.