How Rich Was Harry And Other Questions I Had About Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

[@Nattyzeenha]

I’m so used to watching deep dives on old media that I didn’t realize this was a 300 views video lol it felt like one of those 200k-1million views videos. I’m glad to be here while you’re still growing ❤

[@GracieTalksAboutThings]

Thank you!! Yeah just started 3 months ago! So still trying to get the hang of it, but that’s the best compliment I can receive haha thank you!

[@LiveHedgehog]

Housepoints in Harry Potter are much like real-life housepoints in school - completely arbitrary, the value of actions and the points awarded for them are meaningless, and teachers abuse the system so their houses win.

[@GracieTalksAboutThings]

I kind of like the ~drama~ and pettiness of that

[@LiveHedgehog]

@@GracieTalksAboutThings At my school they entrusted the students themselves with adding on housepoints to the tallies, which had exactly the outcome you'd expect.

[@GracieTalksAboutThings]

This is anarchy

[@lemondrop2609]

I MAINTAIN OVERTHINKING IT IS FUN! YOU ARE RIGHT

[@GracieTalksAboutThings]

THANK YOU IT’S THE ONLY WAY

[@joshuawells835]

My father says thematically, Harry Potter starts on Christmas and ends on Easter.

[@GracieTalksAboutThings]

I like this

[@tr3way70]

i don’t understand his point with this

[@joshuawells835]

@@tr3way70 Contrary to what some Christians might say, Harry Potter is actually a good example of the Christian Myth, which is the telling of the Gospel story outside a Biblical narrative. Other examples include The Lord of the Rings and The Chronicles of Narnia. Harry himself is a Christ-like figure, as to save the world from evil, he must die and is resurrected. So in The Sorcerer’s Stone, there is Christmas and then it is in The Deathly Hallows that Harry dies and comes back to life.

[@tr3way70]

@@joshuawells835 intreasting i have never thought of it like this but granted im not christian

[@glitterberserker1029]

The consistency problem with Harry Potter that has bothered me for years is how many students there are. There are 5 Gryffindor boys in Harry's year so assuming all the houses are relatively even that's only 40 students in the whole year. But somewhere in the books it's explicitly stated that there are something like a 1000 student. 40×7=280 so where did the other 700 kids come from? I know some people have theorized it's because of the first wizarding war but that seems like to steep a drop off to have the other classes be about 150 kids and Harry's class is about a third of that. I'm pretty sure this a book exclusive problem but that's been bother me since I was 15.

[@GracieTalksAboutThings]

Wait this is amazing!! Ok need to do full research on this. I had seen the estimate for students at Hogwarts was 280, which ties to your math, but yeah what is the 1,000????

[@glitterberserker1029]

@@GracieTalksAboutThings I want to say the 1000 student estimate is given in the first book, maybe when the first year's walk in to be sorted which would mean the 1000 students doesn't even include Harry's class. But it's been a long time since I read the books so that could be completely wrong.

[@GracieTalksAboutThings]

I should look into this!!

[@FumblsTheSniper]

The books, or Rowling, briefly cover this sometime after fourth year. Someone noticed there are more younger years. Then it is mentioned something about few kids being born towards the end of the war and more after. This is why in both the books and the movies they get away with there not being that many kids in the beginning. There was less than normal kids at the school when he was a first year and a normal amount by the time he was in fifth. This doesn’t excuse how these hundreds and hundreds of students have zero impact on him outside of the general “Harry is evil this week” nonsense.

[@GracieTalksAboutThings]

Oh cool! So you’re saying like 40/year for the older years but over 100/year for the younger classes?

[@tocodreams5910]

Your channel is honestly saving my life these days because I'm doing some home renovations and watching your videos really makes doing the yucky things easier because at least I can laugh and gain new nerdy perspectives 😅❤❤

[@GracieTalksAboutThings]

ahahah this is what I'm here for!! Good luck with the renovations!

[@9124Nove]

The excuse of "magic can fix it" always rang hollow to me. Dumbledore clearly stated that there was NO way to bring someone back from the dead. So clearly magic can't fix the dead, yet the school's entire staff act lackadaisical to blatant hazards that threaten their student's lives. I mean, these are the same people who, even though a basilisk was slithering down the halls at night, refused to evacuate the school and send their students home. Also, as someone who overthinks about the minute details of different media, I am absolutely loving this channel. Keep up the good work!

[@GracieTalksAboutThings]

That’s what I’m saying!! The dangers here are so high! Thanks so much!

[@ClaireMitchell-gm4sl]

I love this channel overthinking and just doing deep dives favorite thing to watch

[@GracieTalksAboutThings]

Heehee yessssss

[@RobbieSkaff]

Currently rereading the whole series

[@GracieTalksAboutThings]

So so good

[@breaziabourg271]

i do always remember watching this during christmas time! Its a hot cocoa movie for sure.

[@GracieTalksAboutThings]

It’s a Christmas movie!!

[@the.amarok]

If you are interested in this and know german, I would suggest the "5 Minuten Harry Potcast" series by cold mirror (german youtuber), which goest through the first movie in 5 minute increments (and talking ~1h about each increment). From there, I bring the following knowledge: In the books, the stairs aktually never move! Yes, they are stated as such, but it is mor a magical "the stairs always know where you need to go and lead you there" and less a "have fund finding your way to the classroom" vibe.

[@GracieTalksAboutThings]

“If you are interested in this and know German,” I so appreciate your confidence in me, unfortunately I do not which makes me sad because this sounds AMAZING. The stair thing is good info; thank you!!

[@the.amarok]

@@GracieTalksAboutThings I just checked (it is one of those great series one has to rewatch after mentioning them), all episodes have complete englisch subtitles. I will update you when I have found the episode about the stairs :D

[@GracieTalksAboutThings]

YESSSS I CANNOT WAIT TO CONSUME THIS

[@realityapostasy2158]

"2001 went so hard" yeah it was quite a...dynamic year :)

[@GracieTalksAboutThings]

IN THE MOVIE INDUSTRY. I know I know. Tried to specify hahahaha

[@realityapostasy2158]

@GracieTalksAboutThings On that subject did you ever heard about the theory of the real plan of dumbledor ? It's a rather well known on the french internet but I don't know if its popular on the english speaking side.

[@GracieTalksAboutThings]

NO WHAT?? I must know everything, I’ll do research

[@realityapostasy2158]

@GracieTalksAboutThings okay its rather complicated but it was a theory advanced by Jean Claude Milner in his book "Harry Potter à l'école des sciences morales et politiques", which has since become kinda cult on the french harry potter fandom (in part because Milner was an academic at the Paris Diderot University, known for his works on Lacan and Mallarmé, and had a repution for being rather grim and elitist, not the kind to do pop philosphy). It says that the wizard society is profoundly uncreative and static, olivander has been making wands for now 25 centuries, all of their institution are pretty much unchanged for at least a millenia, amd innovations are generally just the invention of a different kind of spell, or a list of properties, more aristotelician classification than actual research. It is also a very intellectually incestuous one, only interested in magic and their own history and culture, deeply uniformed of the world ohtside and lacking any curiosity for it. And the reason for that is that the entire ideology underpinning their civilization is a superiority complex toward muggles. As such taking any interest in anything muggle is to be brought down to their level. Magic is what makes wizard special and as such it becomes their only defining trait. Moreover they have a kind of theological stewardship relationship with magic, it has been given to them and so they practice it, honor it, but it is not a subject of research or something to be instrumentalize to better their civilization, magic is their civilization. And there is man that understood that, somebody that shows time and time again its intimate knowledge of muggle culture and institutions. That man is of course dumbledor, he understood that wizard society was doomed and he made a plan to save it. I'm going to leave at this atrocious cliffhanger because this is only the beginning and it's very late where I live lol. I'll try and finish it tomorrow.

[@GracieTalksAboutThings]

Ok I’ll look into it; thank you for sharing!! This is amazing

[@joachimbambury6376]

Pleaseeeeee do some LODR content!!

[@GracieTalksAboutThings]

hahah I want to so bad, but I am SO concerned about the amount of people who would come for me if I got something wrong with the lore of it. I read all the books, have watched all the movies countless times, but I would still probably get stuff wrong since I'm not an expert and I fear the backlash hahaha

[@Ninjaguy1b]

Fun bonus fact on snake-head-nodding knowledge: This isn't even universal among humans! In several cultures, shaking your head means 'yes' and nodding your head means 'no'. This is just as obvious to them as it feel wrong to us!

[@GracieTalksAboutThings]

THANK YOU this is what I’m saying the nod is not intuitive!!

[@ezradanger]

Im here for these types of analysis of HP. Its a great series but really falls apart under scrutiny. And thats honestly just fun to me. It actually makes ne enjoy the series even more cause you can make up your own theories and explanations for the holes.

[@GracieTalksAboutThings]

Thanks for being here! Totally agree! Doing a deep dive lets me live in the story more!

[@danasidoryk4105]

Always entertaining- love these videos!

[@GracieTalksAboutThings]

Thank you for always watching!

[@thelifeofgio]

the wizarding world doesn't have economics so there is no concept of interest or inflation

[@GracieTalksAboutThings]

Totally valid point…..But on the other hand…..where is the fun in that hahaha

[@mr.crumbles2557]

I know where my vote for Comptroller for the Ministry of Magic's going

[@GracieTalksAboutThings]

Hahahaha THANK YOU