Why Do Wizards Hate Muggles?

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Has anyone ever wondered what this hatred was between wizards and muggles? Actually it seems like its one sided with wizardkind absolutely despising anything and everything to do with muggle kind. However, was that always the case? Surely they didn’t just decide to hate non magical people, surely there has to be a reason for such a high level of tension. What I want to investigate in todays video is where this hatred stemmed from on the wizarding side and what part the muggles played in order to cause it. Was there a war or some sort in the past? Lets take a deep look in what happened between wizards and muggles.
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[@HarryPotterFolklore]

This was the most challenging video i've made in a long time. Trying to find the correct imagery to suit the narrative was so difficult. So glad it finally came together.

[@jcsquadgaming19]

You did well

[@turdferguson9356]

this is excellent and you highlighted Rowling's subtle but powerful messaging about the nature of conflicting world views... we can hold on to the rights and wrongs committed by and upon our grandparents, as though life has some cynical scoreboard or a set of scales to be properly weighted, or we can forge a new future with the past as a lesson instead of a shackle

[@srstriker6420]

Harry Potter Folklore what if Professor lupine ever met Greyback again?

[@Otterwriter245]

Can You Make A Honeydukes Video

[@alekchris6829]

This video was awesome!!!!

[@alexstergiou653]

Because they don't know the function of the rubber duck.

[@orchid7493]

XD

[@kcgrano]

Yes

[@herronariela7469]

they don't know how airplanes stay up

[@alexstergiou653]

Another theory is because they don't know how the TV works.

[@jaredargento1511]

@@alexstergiou653 But in all seriousness, I think it would be very interesting to see certain pieces of muggle technology given a little magic, especially ones from the digital age. Just think of the possibilities!

[@tryptamineodyssey]

The truth is, They are afraid of our muggle wands 🔫

[@synflwr]

Voldemort in a duel with a muggle and getting shot before he can even cast Avada Kedavra.

[@TheWarrrenator]

A quick enough witch could put an arresto momentum hex on the bullet.

[@ChristopherG1990]

TheWarrrenator can you think of anyone that move faster than a speeding bullet?

[@j0rdq765]

Avada kedavara is faster

[@anders8461]

Speed of a bullet vs protego charm

[@TheWarrrenator]

JK Rowling should release a Hogwarts: A History book that creates this story that can be produced on film.

[@wariolandgoldpiramid]

Before 2016, that was a book I really wanted to read. But now... There's just too much material. Let Fantastic Beasts be the only spinoff.

[@martin6181]

It would be interesting to read a JK Rowling Wizarding World-version of Silmarillion.

[@panicontheargo7034]

I... just want to know more about the marauders...

[@adolphusquao5299]

I would be glad to read history of magic by bathilda bagshot too

[@adolphusquao5299]

I would be glad to read history of magic by bathilda bagshot too

[@maxs9062]

Salazar had every right to think the way he did back then, even if his actions were unnecessary and uncalled for. However, what today’s pure bloods excuse other than being an elitist jerk and potential dark wizard? They are living on a out dated mindset for no real reason.

[@MiraSmit]

Would the muggles of today truly react any different or would they despite now understanding what it is now, but still fear it. With weapons now even more developed and effective..... I doubt muggles would react that differently.

[@damianallen8377]

The pure bloods supremacy beliefs maybe mostly stupid and makes their society weak and dived in regard to their fellow magicals that they stupidly see as beneath them (granted them at least being mistrustful against Muggleborns do make some sense because they are the greatest security risk to the magical world and on top of that when the war between them and Muggles resumes which side will they choose? Their own kind or their muggle families?) However in other ways it's perfectly logical and they do not live in out an outdated mindset how do you figure that? Muggles today would react no differently if they were to find out that witches and wizards were real (we of today are not any real Different than our ancestors), Many of us would want to kill them all, others would want to experiment on them and others still would try to exploit the hell out of them. And how exactly do you think the hatred they Have for none-magicals would ever actually truly die went to this very day they're forced to live in Hiding on a planet that belongs to them just as much as Muggles If not more so since for all their faults Magicals don't seem to be stupid enough to destroy the very planet that keeps them alive out of moronic greed and arrogance unlike muggles.

[@Xehanort10]

Building the Chamber of Secrets was basically a really extreme attempt to stop Muggles persecuting magic folk by having the basilisk kill Muggle born children. Still evil though since he was blaming all Muggles and magical people from Muggle families for what some Muggles had done.

[@sifilore9462]

Sifilore I think there’s more reasons for all the mortals hatred towards that they don’t understand. Its not just unable to but also don’t want to, intentionally refuse to understand. And also if they knew magic can b good, not coming from Satan at all, the world isn’t black and white; it wouldn’t matter to them at all. Example speech “If ur not like us in every way, we don’t want u in our lands especially breathing another day. Regardless if we damned our souls”.

[@classictomboy3273]

@@damianallen8377 so you we're saying that they live on a planet that are similar to earth, so that's mean I'm not the only one who believe in that theory :") And Imagine when a witch/wizard Saw this kind of video, I think they would be like :/

[@indianspartan76]

The answer to this question can be summed up on one line: "humans fear that which they do not understand." Muggles don't understand wizards a la mutants in x men. The pure blood minded wizards don't understand muggles.

[@fishingmasterstudios9481]

faaaacts humans fear things that could overpower them or what they can't understand or comprehend, it's why humans did what they did when they were under religious influence and fanaticism, cause of fear, and that emotion is more dangerous than any weapon made by human hands

[@shotakazehaya17]

@@fishingmasterstudios9481 Religious influences have laid the foundations of our current civilizations, they have nothing to do with fear of the other among racists.

[@danbailey8182]

Just a correction here. Salam witches were mostly hung, and there was one pressing. Interesting fact is most of the witches who plead innocent were hung. The ones although few who plead guilty were released and left alone.

[@orlock20]

Also Europe killed far more "witches" and it was believed that the "witches" were killed for land grabbing. In North America, there was a law passed that said witches couldn't own property. At that time people were given plots of land an in order to get more land people started accusing their neighbors of being witches. Once the law was retracted the trials stopped since it served no purpose of accusing their neighbors of being witches.

[@Peecamarke]

Hmmmm.. highly doubt the ones who pleaded guilty were just "left alone"

[@danbailey8182]

@@Peecamarke look it up. The original witch was a black women who admitted to it and was left alone.

[@sissysovereign1294]

@@Peecamarke Oh they left you alone alright. Back then if you were accused of being a witch, but decided to just go along with it instead of pleading innocent like many did, then you'd be spared your life, but everyone including friends and family would basically cut off contact with you and ignore you.

[@saradayeditha4879]

U mean magical people actually exist??

[@josie4234]

If Two muggles gave birth to a witch/wizard did they have magical ancestors? Or is it just random luck?

[@AshleysAdvice]

I had a theory that maybe over time a lot of non-magical people had ancestors who were Skwibs as we know a lot of them lived in the non-magic world so overtime they could’ve just evolved and changed into non-magical people and forgot that they used to be descendants from magical people so then when their child displayed magic the magical person that came before them was so many years prior decades ago that the current people and even their great grandparents wouldn’t have knowledge of the magical person so it was a surprise and that is how a non-magic person. Could have a magical child But that is just my opinion

[@TheFrecklish]

There was a webchat with JK a long time ago (2007), where she stated that muggleborns have a distant magical ancestor. They’re basically descended from squibs who intergrated to muggle society and some generations later the magical gene resurfaces.

[@evelyn-bz7hv]

Maybe all the muggles are just squibs... then everyone would have magic blood O.o

[@leyla-hg5pd]

One of there ancestors was a squib who decided to continue life in the muggle world and leave the Wizarding world and the Squib’s magical blood past on to one of their great grandchildren and then that child is a magical muggle aka a muggle born

[@yesmaam3536]

Maybe a squib who had powers but it was never activated had their genes passed down by generations and luckily a muggle inherited them. Not sure tho.

[@Tribies]

For magic to exist, there had to be a first, and the question is, were there a magical human first or not?

[@moonwrath1067]

Tribies maybe magic is was a genetic mutation cuz magic comes in a gene form

[@읏-s2w]

I think that the beginning of muggles was groups of squibs that despised wizards and witches because they had magical abilities and over many generations magic was completely forgotten by the new squibs. This explains muggleborns.

[@anders8461]

@@읏-s2w interesting theory

[@idiot_micdogol]

Tribies they might to have been so many squibs that they turned into mugles

[@indianspartan76]

I have a theory: humans weren't actually magical at all. Some human fucked a goblin or an elf and started a line of magic in humans. That's why goblins and elves magic is so much stronger than wizards and witches. If they had wands.....

[@TaterSalad2780]

Witch trails were actually wayyyy more common in Britain and Europe than the US.

[@ryangerrard4048]

At the time of the witch trials in Salem , USA, the citizens were English subjects, overwhelming majority of them English colonists , so they had the same superstition as the UK, Europe. The only difference was the colonies were a lot less populated than Europe, however they did rapidly grow in size due to the birth rates at the time

[@thecpmr6276]

No no, don't you understand that the USA is literally Nazi Germany!!11! George Washington invented slavery!1!!

[@roseg2239]

*Northwestern Europe. They weren't common in Eastern or Southern Europe.

[@Lilas.Duveteux]

I think the hatred for muggles in the wizarding world is more of a periodic thing that come and goes. One thing for exemple, that might have spiked the anti-muggle movements in the 60s to 80s was the Cold War. In order not to repeat another case like Nagasaki, the USSR decided to built nuclear bases in remote places. If the rules of "Wizards live in places difficult for muggles to reach" is applied, than that means some wizards might have been forced out of their homes to protect the statute of secrecy. News of this had traveled a bit across Europe, reaching Brittan. Also, dangerous chemicals where released into the environment with the health hazard to both humans and animals they imply (most of those chemicals were new and thus poorly understood) which might make wizards more close-minded about our technologies. This era also saw a rise in serial killers. Many purebloods might have heard those horror stories, and it further cemented their already existant prejudice against muggles. I also believe that a large chunk of it was due to the witch hunts, with wizards coming from countries where their were no witch hunts being far more tolerant. Also, I believe the racial tensions in wizarding Britain are necessary to their society, as not having enough "fresh blood" would end wizard kind while diluting the gene too much would cause it to disappear.

[@Lilas.Duveteux]

@kshiftkometh What do you mean by that?

[@minight1711]

Its actually possible that the muggle repelent wards that seemed to be a good idea at a time eventually backfired on the wizards because Muggles thought there was no body where they tested their nuclear weapons, leading to nuclear strikes on wizard communities And as a result some wizards might have thought the explosions were a natural disater, some others might have thought it was a powerful spell by dark wizards, but others who actually guessed it was muggle weaponry took it as a decleration of war from muggles

[@minight1711]

Ok I went far, now I m litteraly starting to theorize that the hill people in the hills have eyes are surviving wizards and they arent seen doing magic because the radioactivity destroyed their magical DNA

[@classyrassy1790]

If being a wizard is linked to a gene then what's to stop muggles genetically engineering people to be wizards? The ultimate destiny of the HP universe is for the two worlds to fuse back into one with every person being engineered to have magical powers.

[@classyrassy1790]

@@minight1711 Muggle governments are fully aware that magic exists, they wouldn't accidently bomb a wizard community. Which is a hilarious plot hole in Harry Potter cause why would wizards think muggle governments wouldn't have ulterior motives? Governments experimented with the occult and psychic abilities in our world, why on earth wouldn't they do the same in the Harry Potter universe?

[@adamski7193]

When I was taking doing English in high school my teacher loved Harry Potter so when we learnt about witches in the Middle Ages she side tracked a lot but I guess it made me understand Harry Potter more?

[@Caspar2323]

People shouldn’t fear witchcraft no more then the person across the street with a knife or gun.

[@pedrourbano501]

Could one person with a gun or a knife kill you with no trace and no hope of surviving because If you are stabbed or shot at you could still survive but the killing curse, it has no hope of survival, besides the fact that EVERY SINGLE wizard and witch in the magic world has a wand that can do that so yeah, i see from were you are coming but it just isn't right.

[@sockshandle]

@@pedrourbano501 Magic has a signature (a magical hand print if you will) In the books that you can identify via magic

[@minight1711]

@@pedrourbano501 wizards that can cast an unforgivable curse are extremely rare, its stated in book 4 and 5 by croupton jr and bellatrix. The entire classroom could have cast avada kedavra to croupton at the same time and he wouldnt have gotten more than a nose bleed

[@JPayne95]

Nah just give a 11 year old a magic wand with unlimited capabilities. These parents are as negligent as pokemoms and dads

[@A.S._Trunks]

@@JPayne95 Exactly 🤣

[@ValeTheOwl]

I'd peg it down to an inferiority/superiority complex. Wizards greatly enjoy being "superior" to muggles, and during the middle ages, they arguably were... but mugglekind has advanced greatly since that times, while the wizardkind has remained mostly the same. Most wizards can't compute the fact that they're not as special as they thought they were, and therefore look down or hate muggles to preserve their own superiority, despite the fact that muggles have reached (or surpassed) the wizards in many areas.

[@FernandoMartinez-pv1id]

Yet we as muggles say the same about them. It always goes the same way. How many of us are still holding grudges against people for the actions of their Ancestors Hundreds or Thousands of year ago?

[@ValeTheOwl]

​@@FernandoMartinez-pv1id The problem is, muggles never actually harmed wizards in any meaningful way. Witch hunts were mostly useless (and witches actually enjoyed being caught and make the fire harmless) and muggles, until recently, lacked the power and organization to actually oppose wizards. So wizards have no historical reason to hate muggle beyond their own sense of superiority.

[@JuanPerez-bc5kx]

​@@ValeTheOwlWizards are too stupid When we see it like this 😐

[@genericwhitemale9566]

Quite literally. Wizards in the HP universe aren't really all that strong or fast. Even the strongest spells are maybe destroying buildings. Realistically, most Wizards aside from exceptional ones like Voldemort and Dumbledore are going down to basic Muggle Firearms in a straight 1v1. In an all out war, what could Wizards realistically do?

[@ValeTheOwl]

@@genericwhitemale9566 Wizards actually have a HUGE edge in asymmetrical warfare. They have all kind of mind spells (mind control, mind reading, memory wiping, etc) that would make them quite easily capable of targeting Muggle leaders and basically neutralize Muggle leadership or even turn Muggle nations against each other... which is already something they do on a lesser scale. The only reason why they've been able to stay hidden is because ANY muggles that discovers them usually tend to get their mind wiped (and if they are unlucky their brain get damaged in the process).

[@kingjudiciousmorticiangodo1924]

There are two reasons why muggles wouldn’t accept wizards. Reason 1 is that people are jealous creatures,we want what we don’t have. Number 2 is Xenophobia, full stop. Edit: Muggles would fear wizards regardless of the situation.

[@liampowell5014]

Also ya know...fear of their powers.

[@kingjudiciousmorticiangodo1924]

@@liampowell5014 that falls under xenophobia, fear of what we don’t understand.

[@liampowell5014]

@@kingjudiciousmorticiangodo1924 Xenophobia is being prejudice against people from other countries...

[@kingjudiciousmorticiangodo1924]

@@liampowell5014 xenophobia means fear of the unknown.

[@liampowell5014]

@@kingjudiciousmorticiangodo1924 Are you under the assumption that if Muggles were informed about wizards, given understanding of how spells and potions work, that they’ll be open to accepting them? I’m curious because I find that highly improbable if not down right impossible. A Muggle population would know there are spells which can take away their free will, instantly kill them, torture him, turn them into an animal, read their minds and freeze them in place but to name a few as well as such potions which enables a perfect physical impersonation of whomever. Additionally they’ll also know that intelligent and skilled enough witches/wizards can create their own spells and not tell anyone about it therefore opening the door to unforeseen spells of harm. At that point, being afraid of magic users isn’t prejudice, it’s a normal and healthy response. Sure they’ll get told of the healing potential of spells and potions and no doubt there will be good magical ambassadors to help with relations so things might go well for some time. However all it takes is one dark witch or wizard to kill a few Muggles and we’re right back to being fearful of them.

[@Kiara-ii7dq]

Salem started because of two girls (Abigail Williams and Elizabeth Parris.) in 1626. The two girls were said to have ‘fits’, they consisted of hysteria, loss of memory and violent shaking. These fits could have been caused by anything, (e.g epilepsy.) but in those times people had never seen anything like it. All of the people were convinced that they were possessed and set out to find the ‘witches’ in their town. Women were hanged, drowned and burned at the stake, for absolutely ridiculous reasons ( like literally owning too many black clothes.) Just thought people should know 😂. P.s, plz like it took me ages!🥺

[@SasukeUchiha723]

interesting......... so basically humans still have a lot to evolve from, regarding the understanding of the situation... what if ghost "possessions" etc are also some kind of illness yet to be discovered, but faith and belief makes it seem like exorcism is actual medicine? Maybe there's some scientific properties in those rituals that actually calms them down? Very interesting

[@mr.lineleaf8111]

Mental health is still to early in development to be understood in a scientific way. So i doubt we'll have much understanding at the end of the century.

[@margarettburns7544]

I believe it has been accredited to ergot poisoning. LSD, acid.

[@potter286]

Some people were even killed for having pets such as black cats or hats that were exceptionally pointy in their possession (which is where the stereotype of a witch having a pointy hat comes from)

[@donuts3476]

Men were also called witches.. not just women

[@sreenivaskamath4243]

I think even at this day and age, people will still be afraid wizards and magical community. Magic in HP universe in something that cannot be plainly explained by science and technology.

[@JIMT412]

I think that's why wizards hide from Muggles, because thanks to the science and technology we can beat the Wizards because we actually learning how magic works.

[@michaelhowze8198]

We dont actually know that no one has tried.

[@pablito4762]

I think magic in Harry Potter is some DNA thing. And even if 2 muggles have a wizard child it does not contradict , because this 2 muggles could have a wizard or witch ancestor who passed down his /her genes but the genes were recessive and hidden for some generations between.

[@baz1184]

We already know about racism. People don't need a reason to hate others and deem them inferior.

[@Dave_of_Mordor]

there is always a reason to hate someone

[@liampowell5014]

Except the part where wizard-kind were hunted down and slaughtered by muggles...so the reason is legit.

[@Monie71793]

@@Dave_of_Mordor If they're evil, sure. But if you hate a skin color, please don't complain when you get hate for yours.

[@Dave_of_Mordor]

@@Monie71793 what is I have a reason to hate their skin color but they don't have a reason to hate mine? Do I have the right to complain if this was the case?

[@Monie71793]

@@Dave_of_Mordor No one should hate a skin color. All people of a certain complexion haven't done anything to you. Hate the evil from a person, not a skin pigment.

[@slavwolf94]

it is Miss Burbage's belief that Muggles are not so different than us She would given her way ... have us.....mate with them. Bellatrix: EEEEWWWW

[@KateeAngel]

Meanwhile, Bellatrix is in love with Voldy, who wouldn't exist if wizards didn't mate with muggles

[@dutchpangermanist5673]

@@KateeAngel But Bellatrix is bat-shit crazy

[@JIMT412]

Meanwhile Muggles: So I have Arabic and middle East blood because my ancestors, my father is a Mexican Half Spanish and my mother is a British-irish

[@astranix0198]

@@JIMT412 My ancestors are from West Africa

[@JIMT412]

@@astranix0198 I was saying it as a joke but nice to know it. Be proud of it

[@mustang1888]

Great video. Wizards def had reason to mistrust muggles, be wary of them. Fear breeds hate. I’m sure there were wizards like Marvolo Gaunt back in the day who saw no problem in jinxing muggles for fun. Like all “wars” between peoples, both sides have reason and fault. 💛🌴

[@Frogg104]

There just mad they don’t get Rubber Ducks in there baths

[@pervertedstoner69reborn70]

What do they have, rubber hippogriffs?

[@keriezy]

* _They're_ just mad _there_ aren't any rubber ducks in _their_ baths.

[@_Professor_Oak]

@@pervertedstoner69reborn70 They don't know rubber exists lol

[@GhastlyG]

keriezy you understood what he said, it’s the internet no one should care about grammar

[@imsomewhatcertain1024]

Magic People: “We will kill the Muggles with our magical capabilities!” Muggles: “Prepare the nukes!”

[@WaveForceful]

It woudl even take nukes. We have conventional weapons that would do the job.

[@hyunjinshairband1316]

Because they DIDN'T turn to page 394 ;)

[@beyo5]

This might be partially true, but I would have to make a modification. Magical abilities would be far superior to muggle technology throughout most of history - leading to manipulation and domination. Resentful muggles would target magical people out of fear (preserving Abracadabra as a corrupted word referring to Avada kadavra - a death curse). Wizards/witches could fend off many muggle attacks, but war between the two camps would be undesirable - many wizard/witches were related to or were in friendly relationships with muggles and would defend them, and every magical person killed would decrease the tiny population to a point of extinction. Magical government/restrictions and sequestering would have to be established to prevent hostilities and handle the squib/muggle-born dealings in society. The wizarding world's sense of superiority would also cause a sense of blindness to the muggle world's growing technological advancements other than muggle-borns being indoctrinated while they were still too young to learn much of the new muggle sciences, and modern pure-blood wizards would feel that muggles were much too "uppity" and desire to reestablish their superiority.

[@gerardocovarrubias1127]

Or make more Harry Potter what ifs like what if Harry's parents raised him

[@catladylion5186]

I ve always wondered this question when I was introduced into this magic world at age of 11, (I’m 29 this year), thank you so much for making this video . Harry Potter series has been a huge part of my childhood all the way to my adulthood, it’s one of the main reason got me into English history ( I know it might sound absurd to some people , but those ancient castles really fascinated me when I was a kid) I read somewhere that JK Rowling based the personality of vodmort on hitler, who obsessed with “pure ideal blood” and despised people who are not “perfect bred”. Which is probably why pure blood wizards and witches don’t like muggles

[@Stormkrow280]

I remember from the Goblet of Fire that the Muggles witch hunts were actually not effective since whenever they actually did catch a wizard or witch, said wizard or witch would merely cast a spell to make the flames non lethal and pretend to scream in agony when in reality it was a mild tickling sensation. One wizard actually allowed himself to be caught no less than 27 times

[@thecpmr6276]

I'm chocking that one up to propaganda. The wizarding world is famously misinformed about the going's on of the muggle world, and are definitely not immune to misinformation. They're opinions of muggles are clearly quite low, and it would be reasonable to assume a fact like this could be embellished.

[@abdirahmanidris290]

That was in Prisoner of Azkaban but you're right

[@thorpizzle]

"Madness ... is like gravity. All it takes is a little push." -The Dark Knight That is a very true statement, and can apply to Salazar Slytherin leaving Hogwarts.

[@michaeldavids7914]

I love how we can hear the passion in your voice as you speak about anything Harry Potter, it truly is great.

[@konuralpyldzkan1495]

Salazar Slytherin was right. Accepting muggleborns to Hogwarts just a short time after muggles tried to kill all wizards was really a stupid and risky decision.

[@timothygodwin7575]

The way you immerse yourself in the wizarding world and the way you speak of it as if it’s real shows so much dedication to your channel and your fans and your work and it is just so awesome. I find your mindset on this subject so inspirational, not to mention i love how much work you have put into your channel in order to help all of us harry potter fans get the full picture. Without you so many questions would go unanswered and because of you we all are able to experience a full immersion into the wizarding world almost as much as you seem to be immersed into it. When I watch your videos it honestly brings the series to life in a way i could never find anywhere else. Actually you bring the series to life in a way that even the books or movies weren’t able to accomplish. So congratulations on such a great job well done and thank you for doing what you do. In today’s world it’s really nice to have a sort of escape in order to help us get away from the drama and pain of the real world and fall head first into an amazing, spectacular fictional universe. None of that would be possible without you and your degree of belief. When you speak of it as if it is the real thing it makes us all forget reality for a second and makes us truly believe that we are living in some amazing magical alternate universe and it is truly a gift. So once again, thank you for all that you do.

[@foxfirerobertadams6915]

I still wonder where does magic come from? Either a Muggle family had a magic child which would have been the first wizard/witch, or a magic family had a non magical child (Squib) which when the blood line goes too far down even forget that there was magic in there family, or Muggles and wizards/witches are different species

[@pablito4762]

Maybe its a not dominant gene

[@Rymar101]

Magic is a really hard thing for muggles to accept

[@Dave_of_Mordor]

i think the christian muggles were the only ones that had a hard time accepting magic. i'm sure everyone else in south america, africa, and asia would've see them as gods.

[@JIMT412]

Actually I think we can reverse engineer it.

[@classyrassy1790]

It would be split, many would be horrified, some would worship them as gods while the most woke muggles would be like "give me the gene"

[@megamagikarp8512]

@@Dave_of_Mordor what do u mean asia? Christianity started in Asia. There are many Muslim countries in Asia and they would fight against wizards too.

[@Dave_of_Mordor]

@@megamagikarp8512 lol stupid...

[@AimeePavai]

Listening to this video really makes me think about what is going on in the real world right now, seeing so many parallels between Wizards and Muggles vs Whites and 'other' Races. The point to it is at the end of the day, all of us are humans, no matter our color or gifts and we, in both the fictional and real world need to stop 'punishing the child for the sins of the Father'. I took a very deep message from this one, and thank you

[@robertdeffenbaugh9004]

Even though in the real world there’s no such thing as Witches and Wizards in the Harry Potter universe Witches and Wizards were put on trial or hunted down for murdering Muggles and for giving muggles diseases so Muggles were justified in their crusade but they went too far by targeting all Witches and Wizards instead of the individuals involved.

[@Faralexander]

Virgin Wizards vs Chad Muggles 🐺💪

[@blarschnarph]

just a small correction for historical accuracy: Witch burnings never happened in America. In Salem specifically, all of the accused were either hanged or died in prison (with the exception of Giles Corey who was squished to death). Witch burnings were an exclusively European event.

[@chandansaha6997]

But the Malfoys became rich by interactions by muggles. I'm confused why they hate muggles.

[@thenetherlands5838]

They just follow whatever they believe will grant them the most influence.

[@dustingaethje1332]

The Malfoys of old actually protested the decision to seperate the two worlds.

[@s0lar.ecl1pse83]

"Burn the witches!" "Let them die!" Theres your answer right there

[@thecpmr6276]

I feel like the muggle world was likely not unprovoked. The wizards are known for being imperial and with superiority complexes (See the enslavement of house elves, the subjugation of goblins, the persecution of giants, their absolute joke of a justice system, literally everything involving buckbeak, the current popularity of blood purists) we have reason to believe Wizards would attempt the same thing with muggles, or at least not seek to peacefully resolve conflict with beings that see as their lessers. In fact, the violation of muggle rights is a regular practice even in the modern world. Ron quite casually mentioned he confunded a muggle to get his license 19 years after the events of the series!

[@s0lar.ecl1pse83]

@@thecpmr6276 I do agree now, that commment was made in my harry potter phase lol

[@JuanPerez-bc5kx]

​@@thecpmr6276That is the truth that the Pottertards do not want to accept, wizards are not beings of light or saints that are why they were chosen by magic, they are arrogant beings. PS: I didn't expect that from Ron...

[@annalisageiger]

You make the best videos! Thanks for this :)

[@CWZimba]

You somehow keep giving new life to this book series. AMAZING!!

[@Izzy_xx06]

What’s your favorite Harry Potter book mine is the goblet of fire Edit : wow I have never been replied so much thanks everyone

[@thedangerousivy]

FamRiveraP mine’s the Half-Blood Prince

[@kaidenreece3529]

Mines half-blood prince

[@Frogg104]

Prisoner of Azkaban

[@wizardingworldtheories8789]

FamRiveraP same

[@blahblahblah321]

Order of the Phoenix

[@JabezFuutonSpecialis]

IRL no one in Salem was burnt at the stake, everyone accused of witchcraft was hung to death

[@PICADALOL]

Dean always dlivering crispy content!

[@silverpact1008]

Just a few points to make : Salazar had several problems with the other head masters, and they did not stand united as a group. None of them agreed on anything. Godric and Salazar were best friends, and brothers in arms from the last magical war against the goblins, which made them close personally, but they had major professional disagreements. It was the same thing with the others. All of them had major differences. Mudbloods are all distant relatives of purebloods. Wizardkind and Mugglekind were two distinct races. Not like skin color, but actual race; think elf vs human. They could interbreed safely, but they were still different. THAT is why Godric and Helga wanted to accept them to hogwarts. Because in their eyes, Mudbloods were stranded and isolated wizards in a hostile environment, who needed saving from the evil muggle race. They did NOT like muggles any more than Salazar did. They only saw Mudbloods differently. The reason pureblood purists still exist is the same as the reason that magical society remained separated. They were too afraid to go out into the muggle world to learn about them, and find out if it was safe for them to return to the world at large. Pureblood purists were just an extremety of this fear. And it's fair to mention pureblood purists had valid reasons to worry. Who wants their children to grow up to be Filch? That's the life a wizard's child leads if they're born without magic, and that's a happy ending kind of case. Some are just left to die because they can't function in wizard society.

[@ginger942]

Are we sure wizardkind and mugglekind are two different races?

[@silverpact1008]

@ginger942 Yes. That's a baseline fact in the Wizarding world. They're different species, but they can interbreed. However, the effects of interbreeding are radical. You either do or don't have the magic gene, and it is entirely random, just like all the other genes you could get from your parents. That's the canonical driving force behind the pureblood purists. They're terrified of having squibs in their family. No one wants their baby to not have magic.

[@toeray5864]

I always thought it was implied that there was a war between muggles and wizards 10-20 years before the Statute of Secrecy was passed. The muggles may or may not have "won" in the traditional sense but the wizards certainly lost. If it was enacted in 1692 then muggles would have had access to firearms for years beforehand. A muggle with a musket is more than a match for an unsuspecting wizard, and I find it hard to believe that 20 armed muggles couldn't overpower even the strongest wizard. Muggles can replace their losses in this fight, wizards can't. And so wizards quietly disappeared from the world stage. Maybe there was some kind of agreement between wizards and their muggle monarchies to disappear. Maybe that's why they're so bitter, they lost a war to muggles and had to accept that muggles had passed them by with technology.

[@KateeAngel]

Hogwarts was built long before the separation of two societies. The separation happened only in late Middle Ages - early Modern times, while Hogwarts was built in early Middle Ages

[@kathleenatkinson5617]

They just hating bro. Muggles rule!

[@Maeddyyy]

Not really muggles were burning wizards

[@romanovnagenesis1944]

I SUMMON BELLATRIX AND VOLDEMORT

[@chiriviscospower]

@Lord Voldemort sniff my muggle butt! oh wait..

[@JuanPerez-bc5kx]

​@@romanovnagenesis1944*me with Oppenhaimer in the backpack* 🗿

[@somnar8930]

What if the Boggart in Prisoner of Azkaban turned into Voldemort as Lupin feared?

[@projectjake1017]

Everyone’s forgetting one thing, not everything is black and white, if humans and wizards went to war, there’s no telling who would be on who’s side doing what.

[@gerardocovarrubias1127]

Do you think you can make what if Harry never broke the the Elder wand and kept it

[@youtubelife921]

dr103 one of many examples of the movies making people believe incorrect things

[@steventomes2258]

He only broke the Elder wand in the Movies, in the Books he returns it to Dumbledore's mausoleum after fixing his wand. It's one of the many areas where the movie adaptations differ from the books.

[@_Professor_Oak]

I knew every reply would be correcting him lol

[@donkeybutt3239]

In Salem Massachusetts, they didnt burn people alive they hung them, and one man they pressed him to death by putting big stones/rocks on top of his chest while he is laying on the ground, trying to make him confess to witchcraft. They kept putting more and more on top, until he had so much pressure on him he couldn't breathe, and he suffocated to death. He wasn't going to confess to anything he wasn't or did. The man in my mind is brave and heroic. Some of the people who were accused would just confess and then repent for their sins by dealing with witchcraft and the devil then set free. Which is sad that they had to do that or they would die, but that man refused to do so, he wasn't about to confess to something he didn't do or was a witch when he wasn't. Totally a brave soul. Hope he is resting in peace! Poor man deserves it at least since no justice for murdering him and the rest of these innocent people!

[@jaredargento1511]

The human’s primal fear of the unknown is certainly not something to be taken lightly.

[@Dave_of_Mordor]

i think the christian muggles were the only ones that had a hard time accepting magic. i'm sure everyone else in south america, africa, and asia would've see them as gods.

[@Monie71793]

@@Dave_of_Mordor They weren't even Christian, then. The bible says nothing about randomly murdering people. They would have used the bible to commit crimes, like irl. & Christianity isn't European. Rome took it & made it their official religion because of Constantine. "Christian" isn't even in the bible because Rome gave that name to them.

[@Dave_of_Mordor]

@@Monie71793 didn't the Christian believe that anyone who have magic of to be considered a Satan spawn? Even though Christianity came from Rome, aren't most of the believers in the west?

[@Monie71793]

@@Dave_of_Mordor Satan spawn? Maybe the lunatics that don't bother reading did, but it's believed that it's Satanic to do witchcraft because they didn't get the power from God or nature. People who don't read the bible really think "Devil's children" means that they're literally spawned from him. 🤦🏽‍♀️ It means they listen to Satan. Colonization & other factors led to it being practiced in the West & didn't come from Rome (just the name).

[@Dave_of_Mordor]

@@Monie71793 but wether they read the Bible or not, is this the belief of the majority? If most Christian believe that those who uses magic are evil then it's part of Christianity now. Religion is about belief after all, right?

[@Roguejedai]

I can kinda see it from thier pov that they didnt want to associate with muggles because they wanted to avoid any war or exposure of their magic but future wizards took it way too far by killing muggles and muggleborns

[@poppyplays8335]

You should do “What if Voldemort trained Harry as a chief death eater” that would be amazing

[@Shayla.r]

Why would he do that?

[@potter286]

@@Shayla.r if he had decided to take Harry instead of trying to kill him to make an heir or something in case he was killed off for any reason Harry would be so corrupted by him that he would, in theory, take over as the dark lord and try to achieve everything if not more of what the dark lord did

[@dustingaethje1332]

@@Shayla.r He may do that if he realized Harry was his horcrux

[@andreiii204]

Don't all witches and wizards have some muggle ancestry also?

[@jb888888888]

3:40 *No (alleged) witches were burned at the stake, alive or otherwise, during the Salem Witch Trials.* They were all hanged. Except one who refused to plead guilty or not guilty who was pressed to death during the attempt to make him plead.

[@folksa5065]

Amazing video man👍

[@mansivasavada3642]

You should make a what. If Harry Potter was raised by Voldemort

[@MrYoda-su4qo]

Voldemort would probably chop his nose off and force him tk make horcruxes

[@x.caylax]

Then we wouldn’t have the book series. He would torture the poor infant till death

[@bjaogh]

Very interesting topic, Dean 👍🏼

[@eddieg2828]

It's funny how JK represented the Dursleys loathing every aspect of the Wizarding World.... they are basically the opposite of Death Eaters..... What if Their lil Diddie had a magical child

[@LumTheAlien]

Daisy Dursley is a character that almost made it into the books, which I would have loved to see.

[@eddieg2828]

@@LumTheAlien Really? That would be cool to see. I wonder what house she would be in. I feel like it would Ravenclaw,and she would be something like Luna Lovegood. Haha. That would be funny.

[@potter286]

@@eddieg2828 Rowling said after the series came to an end that daisy dursley was born with magical properties and was sorted into huffelpuff

[@thegeniusjunkie3082]

i havent been watching your videos in a while but i am back and staying

[@adhunikmanav2638]

I think i somewhat remember something about Salem Witch Trials mentioned in the HP books. And it said that magic folks were unaffected by the trails or rather enjoyed it. Since it was hard to kill wizards and witches by burning them since....you know....they know magic. And some wizards deliberately got caught again and again.

[@potter286]

In the goblet of fire Harry was doing homework on the witch trials of Britain and found that most of the accused who were actually magical would simply cast a spell when at the stake to make the flames non lethal and instead would make a slight tickling sensation while pretending to scream in agony.

[@Branch_]

love your vids bro

[@robertkotal2231]

Based on the books the ratio is more then 5,000 to one not 100 to one

[@thunderchild1083]

I’d like to know who was the first ever Wizard/Witch, was there a time before magic?

[@omniayahia4453]

you are amazing Dean! new subscriber but all time hp fan here!

[@omniayahia4453]

OMG THANK YOU FOR THE HEART!!!

[@wizardingworldtheories8789]

Great Video! This really inspires me for my Harry Potter Channel❤️❤️❤️

[@Otterwriter245]

Great Video! I Love Your Channel! I Subscribed! 😃

[@williamrust374]

Just an FYI - The Witch trials in the US, most were executed via hanging, only one was pressed under a stone (Giles Corey). Burnings were more common on the Convenient (Germany and France, predominantly)

[@srstriker6420]

What if Professor lupine ever met Greyback again?

[@srstriker6420]

@Maria Samhoun but it would be like Bruce Banner and Black Dwarf from infinity war

[@Jimbo_502]

Love your vids

[@tielphinstone3556]

Do a video about LGBT wizards in Harry Potter. Rowling stated that Wizards are way more tolerant than muggles. I believe it would be more an issue if a pureblood wizards doesnt have children yet so that his family wants him to have a spouse and reproduce. Hogwarts Mystery which is Semi-canon there you can also date the same sex and obviously no other student bullies you for that

[@wilsongardener6069]

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

[@ktgrnhig]

This is probably just JK being JK. Wizards mentioned as being more tolerant...her only gay character couldn’t be outted until after the series was done. Draco talks about him like “Everyone knows that Dumbledore is a disgrace to the title of Headmaster”, despite none of his policies being particularly radical. Implying that it’s possible that people in wizarding society might have “known” about Dumbledore, and discussed it in hushed tones.

[@joobletmaster5000]

Also, she's a terf. So the tolerance can't go TOO deep, if we assume all the "good" characters would follow a similar morality as Rowling.

[@robinpullman1488]

Interesting topic to delve into! I loved it!

[@shadewolf8038]

I really wanna know HOW the school Hogwarts was built, that would be a good video idea, how long did it take, what was used to make it, what kind of spells were used to protect it from muggles?

[@wariolandgoldpiramid]

That would be entirely fan fiction though. There are no clues at all...

[@potter286]

The spells used to protect Hogwarts were spells that would make the castle look like ruins to muggles with signs everywhere saying "extreme danger ahead, enter at your own risk"

[@jameswest981]

Beautiful work

[@andyiswonderful]

Here's another idea for a video. "What is it that makes a person magical"?

[@fartingarrix9619]

We need a harry potter prequel with some dark and cruel story ending with the buildup of voldemort and then you have the following 3 innocent and happy movies of harry potter before it gets dark as well

[@emeraldkrown848]

You know what would be cool if for your Riddle series you had a metamorphagus

[@khylerbane4523]

Imagine if we got a muggle born wizard character or a person who was a wizard but raised by muggle side of the family like Harry was, but due to being a registered citizen in the muggle world he and his muggle brother were drafted to fight in Vietnam. Picture if you will; having the ability to not only survive but win the Vietnam war and not being able to use *any* of it regardless of circumstance. In the tunnels, imprisonment at the Hanoi Hilton, Ka San, even the Fall of Saigon. He’d survive but with battle scars, the knowledge of how outmatched the Wizard world is, endless war stories to build a franchise off of, and enough ptsd that his therapist could write a bestselling book on. Who later became head of Muggle studies at the main wizarding school in the US. Think Skinner from Simpsons with his Vietnam flashbacks. And during the war Voldemort began he used both magic and wizarding stuff along with and guns and guerrilla warfare to cut down the deatheater army like a magical Rambo. That would be quite the story. Now imagine a conversation between him and Arthur Weasley.

[@bruhnisher5454]

Dark wizards just need a reason to attempt world domination.

[@mrx4022]

Wizards: "I have magic! What does a muggle have?" Miggles: "I have an AK 47."

[@YellowBear-kx1ff]

@HarryPotterFolklore in honour of the 75th anniversary of WW2, can you please do your take on how the Global Wizarding War and WW2 are linked?

[@lipstickjelly6831]

I like that you narrate these theories as the “truth.” It blurs the line of reality and fiction, it’s such a great way to disconnect from our world.

[@braxtonburchard3701]

I'm actually a direct descendant of Sarah Cloyce, Rebecca Nurse's sister.

[@abbyrose6660]

i have a headcanon that salazar didn’t necessarily hate muggleborns, he was just mistrustful of them because of how muggles treated witches and wizards back then. im not gonna jump the gun and say that salazar was a completely misinterpreted character, but i do believe that he wanted to be more careful about the muggleborns who were admitted to hogwarts should they pose a threat to the school. i also believe that while salazar did build the chamber of secrets and leave the basilisk behind, he did it in case hogwarts was ever truly under threat from muggles. the theory is plausible because we all know that binns was hardly a reliable teacher and myths/legends tend to get mixed up over the years, especially when the myth in question is nearly a thousand years old.

[@legostopmotionguys.]

Super good job 👍 man loves Harry Potter

[@breacat]

Considering what the wizarding world is capable of I doubt muggles were that big of a threat. Most of the people killed were either muggles accused of witchcraft or witches that were either passive or too weak to fight back. It's strange that the the wizards couldn't dominate such a battlefield so maybe there's a reason they preferred separation and exclusion from the muggles. Perhaps magic is finite and if they tried to conquer the world they would use it up. As such they might've come to the conclusion that it was better to let the muggles think they were masters of the world while they lived in secrecy.

[@minhajnizam5090]

When Newt went to the ministry for his interview one of the interviewers says the magical and non magical world has been at peace for more than a century so I'm guessing something must have happened then and this would be after the statute of secrecy

[@corbinnystrom4759]

Feels great to get the first comment of the day

[@2jz735]

Hockey Bros, you aren’t first

[@Maeddyyy]

@@2jz735 dont ruin their day

[@DivineRedwood]

Muggles existed before ANY wizard ever did. The ORIGINAL first generation wizard(s) came directly from muggle parents. Every wizard that ever existed afterwards is a descendant from that/those person(s). Wizards segregated themselves from the general populous due to a feeling of superiority and a desire to rule over the "inferior".

[@lunalovegood8931]

They hate muggles because in reality they are a lot cleverer then but kid themselves that they are inferior to them because they have had to invent and adapt to a life without magic whereas wizards have a privelage that they are born into

[@LoveK1]

Grace Gardner And they hate it! They hate that muggles have accomplished so much without magic and their numbers are far greater. Deep within themselves I think that’s know that the Muggle population could eliminated Wizards and Witches as a whole.

[@lunalovegood8931]

@lovek exactly

[@damianallen8377]

Honestly you sound like a hypocrite you know that right? You say that Wizards have a privilege that they are born into and you are right they do after all their genetics are what make them what they are. However how are Muggles any different? Our only savings grace is our incredible capacity to learn and it is because of our genetics that we have that capacity to learn it is the only things that sets us apart from other animals. So just as you feel they were born into privilege well guess what so did we muggles. And how do you come to the conclusion muggles are cleverer than Magicals? The cleverness that muggles have that is our only saving grace (and isn't that depressing since we do nothing but use it for shortsighted greed and arrogance which involves wiping out other animals and killing the environment of the very planet that keeps us alive. You don't see magicals being stupid enough to do that last part do you?) Well guess what Witches/Wizards have it too, so they have everything that muggles have and much more in the form of their magical powers that allow them to warp the world around them. But that power is also dangerous to them and everyone around them and so it requires Control and Intelligence/Cleverness and for them to create the many many Charms, Curses, Jinx's and many other spells and enchantments of all kinds it requires them to be very clever. And even a few of the common things they have achieved with their magic will take us centuries and thousands of years for our science and technology to achieve something similar, Teleportation for instance we know it's real and we have been able to do it but we've only been able to teleport a single atom and Scientists agree that it will take centuries if not thousands of years and a lot of data storage to properly teleport a single human. And yet Harry teleport himself as a mere child. Just because they haven't created the same things as muggles have doesn't mean that they can't merely that they either don't want to or see no point in doing so because the people have no need or desire for those things after all their society and mindset is different from muggles. So ultimately the same way we Muggles Believe ourselves to be the most superior Species on this entire planet (hell some people believe we are the greatest in the universe) merely because we have a greater capacity to learn than other species Is the same way Magicals have every right to believe themselves superior to us because of their magical powers and a capacity to learn that is equal (if not greater because of mind magics like Occlumency) to us Muggles. I should probably also add that I mean no disrespect to you by my comment however I do stick by it.

[@damianallen8377]

@@LoveK1 The magical World could wipe out all of Muggle civilization in a single day, how you ask? Well that's simple and it only requires three spells at most those being Apparition or Portkey and the Fiendfyre curse. Wizards and Witches would Simply need to Portkey to every muggle city and town on the planet (which would be absolutely easy for them) and unleash the Fiendfyre curse and poetkey away to safety. If you don't know the properties of Fiendfyre i will tell you, It is bewitched fire that is filled with dark magic and it is hot enough to burn or melt pretty much anything and it has a will of its own so it seeks out all living thing in its vicinity and burn them to ashes it also spreads on his own so if it's unleash in a city or a town it will spread throughout the entire city or town burning everything it only extinguishes itself when there's nothing left for it to burn that it can reach. It also cannot be extinguished by any Muggle technology that we have And can only be extinguished with magic and even then even enchanted water would not be able to extinguish or even affect it. So once this Fiendfyre has be unleashed their is nothing we could do to stop it and just like that Muggle civilization has come to an end in a single day. And while we could do the same to them with Nukes we would have to find them first and I have no doubt that various Magical communities all over the planet are protected by various shielding enchantments and their probably some villages/towns that are underground And with their magic they would be able to Live down there completely comfortably. So us striking at them would not nearly be as easy as them striking against us. And considering the fact that magic literally flows through every single cell Off a magical body they Most likely would not even be affected by the radiation from nuclear weapons because magical energy is a far superior energy to the radiation from nuclear weapons.

[@lunalovegood8931]

@damian Allen you make a valuable point however I am not an expert on phycology, sociology or the human race nor do I pretend to be, I was simply commenting on a video about Harry Potter because I like the franchise and occasionally think about the what ifs in my spare time, I am sorry you feel that i am a hypocrite Yours apologetically Grace Gardner

[@LordTheft]

Love how your videos are now riddled with ads.

[@Shaden0040]

One thing about the books puzzled me. Why would izards and witches be christian? As a modern day Wiccan, and someone who had over 40 ancestors who were directly involved in accusing and being the accused during the Salem Witch Trials, it os completely mind boggling that anyone would even give christianity even a passing glance, let alone being christian and be of the wizarding world.

[@deyoncew3311]

@dr103 Well the Weasley's are Pure Blood and they celebrate Christmas (along with a lot of other Wizards to the point of Hogwarts having Christmas break).

[@floydwilson3085]

Ironic. I myself am a believer on Christianity, but I don’t take it as seriously as some other people do Like this girl I used to talk to, she was a very committed Christian, which I mean like, good on her for having a strong belief. But when I brought up to her that “I’m starting to read the Harry Potter books, the movies left out SO much from them” Than she was like “Harry Potter? Your reading that? That encourages witchcraft” And in my head I was like “seriously? You can’t even enjoy a book or movie???” Fun fact was she lied which is also against the religion, I brought it up once and she was like “I only watched the first one but I didn’t really get into it so I didn’t watch the rest of them” Than when I said “I grew up on watching them so I don’t think of it that way. It’s just a good movie series” “Me too, until I saw it went against my religion” Me*😑

[@muhammadhashir6136]

I love the new channel Icon. Those goggles remind me of professor trewalney's goggles

[@Maja-oh7kt]

Anyone realise that abracadabra sounds like avada kedavra like THIS IS THE PROOF THAT THE WIZARDING WORLD IS REAL(sorry for shouting 🙂) but like right muggles thought their children this to mock or (this is my opinion) even use it as a call or even warning for example imagine a boy in school seeing a girl use magic and the he screams ABRAKADABRA and the teachers just burn the girl alive I would really think that probably happened (this is my opinion and I know that this is probably not true but I really wish that it was that any sign of the wizarding world was real but I mean I video about this would be interesting)

[@muneeb6265]

That's the first thing I noticed about it

[@russellpuff1996]

So it's either "stay hidden in secret" or "rule over the muggles." Where is the person in the middle who just want muggles and wizards to live in harmony? Surely there's a way to transition peacefully from hiding to out in the open.

[@ΑρηςΚαστορας]

The real question is "Why muggles hate wizards?"...

[@anthikatsarou4755]

Yes why do muggle burn every witch/wizard at the middle ages? I don't know

[@wrbeasts9030]

@@anthikatsarou4755 that were scared of them and thought thay would bring devil's

[@wrbeasts9030]

@@anthikatsarou4755 superstition in short

[@dhruvbharija172]

Fear

[@oldscoolgaming6700]

I'm a wizard and as for me, I'm indiffernt towards muggles..

[@Shadow-hw3kn]

indifferent*