Top 10 Things You Missed in Harry Potter! British VS American

[@teatea2113]

DID YOU PUT YOUR NAME IN THE GoBlEt Of FiReEeEeEeEeEeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!????

[@爪丨乙卂]

Fan girl No.528491 I Can’t anymore 😂

[@kismatpawar]

Fan girl No.528491 he said calmly

[@thebenbookshop]

DID YOU PUT YOUR NAME IN THE GOBLET OF FIRE?!

[@tmyers951]

DIDJAPUTCHYERNAMEINTHEGOBBITAHFIYAH.

[@niamhlikesplants]

DID YOU GET AN OLDER STUDENT TO PUT IT IN THERE FOR YOOOOOUUU!!!???

[@becki8000]

There is no philosopher vs sorcerer debate. Because, philosopher wins every time, that's what JK Rowing wanted, that's the original title and also that's the title that actually holds meaning, it tells us Nicolas Flammel's profession, he was a philosopher. Sorcerer's stone just 'sounds cool.' LAME.

[@hayun6295]

there is no debate going on Lmao. he clearly said that’s what he’ll always call it because that’s what he was grown up on. y’all are so dramatic.

[@MinishMoosen]

He wasn't a philosopher though, he was an alchemist. I don't know where the stone got that name because it doesn't seem to have anything to do with philosophy.

[@ryledra6372]

but alchemy *is* a philosophical study...

[@xlectraheart]

Becki P Obviously if jk Rowling had a problem with it she would have made them keep it so who the hell cares

[@SiriuslyPotty]

Actually, no. She wasn't *the* JKR when she made the deal with scholastic so when they said she should change it bc "Philosopher's" was too complex a word for American children, she said fine. She regrets it now. So, obviously, she cares.

[@rempanda]

Time context too. I grew up in 90s Britain and Git was used a lot, especially among kids because it was strong enough to express our feelings but we weren't told off for swearing! Also, school houses aren't exclusive to boarding schools. That happens in pretty much every high school here.

[@daggern15]

Not only high schools. I went to two different primary schools as a kid and they both had teams although it was colours rather than animals and other cool things

[@charlierobbins823]

Rachael Emma in my primary school I was in the blue house (Lourdes). I went to a catholic school so all the houses were named after Catholic places.

[@edavis7740]

Most women's colleges/universities in America have "houses" for fun little competitions, but just sorted by year. (Mostly because the schools are so small, we never have much in the way of formal sporting/competitive events with other schools, and it's old tradition from the 18th/19th century.) We have colors and each year chooses our mascot/name! My class is green and we're the Sprites.

[@lwcaexii]

We never had school houses in any of thr schools around here. Maybe it's because I'm in the North and we're all common 😂😂

[@sjn6704]

I called my lunch lady a git in the 90s and was excluded from lunch for like a week

[@SourceOfBeing]

In the books, Sirius gave Harry a mirror that would let them communicate. In Deathly Hallows, Harry has a shard of the mirror hoping to see Sirius, and sees Aberforth's eyes. In the films, Harry has this shard but Sirius was never shown giving him the mirror so if you didn't read the books, you don't know why Harry has an emotional connection to a bit of glass.

[@camdotcoms]

sTOP PRONOUNCING ‘FLAMEL’ THAT WAY pLeAsE

[@thomasoluanaigh2437]

(flah Mehl)

[@TheSoundOfDistantThunder]

Nicholas Flannel...

[@samclay950]

This really annoyed me

[@m_ms39]

Cringe cringe cringe

[@kuuphone3193]

Seriously how do you mess that up...

[@abbie2081]

In my school, the houses are Griffin, Pegasus, Dragon and Phoenix. I love this

[@Neen-a-walker]

A bee seriously that's so cool! The houses in my school are just named after the second names of local historical figures.

[@kimleahb6635]

nina redfern yeah same

[@annajohnson1801]

Which one are you?

[@abbie2081]

Anna I'm a Dragon, we lose sports day every year

[@merlinHPtwilight]

So cool!

[@natalief2508]

isn't flamel supposed to be pronounced like "flamEL"

[@AmyGleed]

Natalie F yeah but for some reason he's pronouncing it like camel 😂😭

[@arania.exumai]

At first I thought he said 'flannel', as in a wash cloth 😅

[@teesmith3460]

Fla-mel

[@vinamistry5263]

i don't know why this really bugged me hahaha

[@dirk9867]

Yes I was also bamboozled by that

[@382pigeons]

when u say 'American vs British' u really mean 'American vs everyone else'

[@missOhdrey]

The Real Izzy Grace True. Canada got the british book and movie versions.

[@Inmagumis]

Well, I read the books in Spanish, so for me it is different as well ;)

[@anthonyf3680]

Audrey-Anne same with Australia

[@blatantly-false-alibi]

It's kinda like us Americans being like pfftt who uses kilometers or Celsius? So lame (I can't tell you the Amount of times I've heard that)

[@rogerklk]

and as everyone else you mean only who read in english..

[@cameronbrowne6260]

Lol there are houses in every school in the uk. Not just boarding schools.

[@elunei6490]

Cameron Browne how do you determine who is in which house?

[@happypanda7351]

@@elunei6490 In my school we got assorted randomly into houses before starting. Although my secondary school also consulted teachers from the primary schools we came from to ask if there's anyone they should separate etc. Also if you had an older brother or sister already at the school, you would be placed in the same house as them. I'm not good at explaining but I hope it helped :)

[@gavinstuart6704]

@@elunei6490 in my school it was sorted by family. If you had an older brother in a house then you would in the same house as him. Our houses were Mair, Smith, Olgavy and another one i cant remeber the name of

[@billysnape5686]

We just had the left a right side of the years

[@rockracingfan]

we didn't have have houses... I feel a bit left out if that's the case lol

[@pudupudu]

'We pronounce all the letters'- tell that to 'herbs'. Also, they really didn't have to transcribe the words to American English- you could just work it out, or research it- we don't get things changed from American books, here, we're just meant to figure out what 'diapers' are and who 'mom' is. It's an English book; things are different in England; rather than changing things to suit your American-centric view of the world, why not just broaden your horizons...

[@samanthaharrington4134]

I totally agree with you and I'm American. I hate how everything is different, I feel very closed off from the rest of the world. I love these videos cause it does broaden my horizons.

[@Jo-bo4rf]

@silverfoxeater But we don't do that anymore, the point is that America is a very closed off country to the rest of the world because of how heavily patriotic they are. The English did invade other countries and there's no denying that but maybe instead of getting defensive and throwing our history back at us, realise that the point of the original comment was to say that Americans need to learn about other cultures, even if it's just through books.

[@janani1826]

The American herbs is pronounced the French way I believe

[@ifusubtomepewdiepiewillgiv1569]

@Jo america has a lot of culture got 300 million people and way more places to go than uk

[@jessicataylor7174]

Changing random vocabulary to Americanisms robs the reader of immersion into the story, insults their intelligence, and inhibits their expansion of vocabulary and understanding of another context. I'd be annoyed if an American book had been changed 'for Brits', it's part of the enjoyment and adventure.

[@RobinOpheliaRose]

evan edinger and harry potter all in one video with a gorgeous background. of course i had to watch this. also that ravenclaw sweater is amazing.

[@MrNorbo95]

Knew 9/10... (although I am British, so...) Also, by the way Evan... almost all British secondary schools (not just boarding schools) have a house system!

[@claraheadstrong2143]

Ding dong, you are wrong. Not every secondary school has a house system

[@pandorah630]

Might want a re-read, original person said "almost all" =P.

[@michellesanreis1568]

Lyric Headstrong ^^

[@lehzy5669]

I wanna move to England dammit

[@danielmorris267]

Hahaha, my school's houses are: Lions, Serpents, Badgers and Eagles.

[@midnightfandoms8960]

It never occurred to me that Americans don’t get Spellotape 😂 also git is the best word to use if you don’t want to properly swear at school or in front of your grandma

[@richardmahood7478]

In America, we don't have 'spellotape' to fix everything; we have Duck Tape (nothing to do with birds). There is a saying: If it is supposed to move and doesn't...use WD40 (lubricating spray) and if it moves and isn't supposed to...use Duck Tape. I believe Harry tells Ron he is a right git in GoF. I think git is a good word for the reason you mention.

[@teatea2113]

Richard Mahood I’m pretty sure we have duck tape and wd40 in England, although I’ve never heart that saying before. Also I love the word git!

[@chrisp187]

Pretty sure neither of you have Duck Tape, most likely you guys have Duct Tape. Also, "Git" does exist in North America. We use it to shoo away an animal or person. We say, while making a shoo-away-motion, "GIT, GIT, GIT git away from here!"

[@2ndhandslayer257]

Duct tape is the type of tape. Duck Tape is a brand.

[@BeccaBearSc]

www.duckbrand.com

[@visitingstatue171]

No, no, no! You're saying it wrong! It's 'FlamEL', not 'FLAMel' !

[@shikhadahal9288]

I was literally correcting him every time he mispronounced

[@gyongyverjellinek3992]

It's "LeviOOOsa", not "LevioSAAA"

[@Charlotte-jo2zd]

I'm on Britains side

[@MinorAccidnt]

same

[@alanadi_angelo367]

Charlotte Coe same and I’m American lol

[@jamiewest5748]

Same

[@krimbalol]

THE RISE OF THE BRITS

[@mrgordyramy7061]

Same man an british

[@yara3775]

the way you pronounced FLAMEL was NOT OKAY

[@rai6337]

I thought he said Nicholas FLANNEL at first and I had to replay it 😂

[@yara3775]

Candy Rai riiight me too

[@lizziecarr8174]

yara *shudders*

[@aname1857]

yara ikr it’s fla-MEL not FLA-mel

[@lucylume]

Cringing so hard.. X

[@sharxx112]

the thing that most pissed me off about reading the sorcerer's Stone was that Seamus finnigan says "my mom's a witch" instead of "me ma's a wich!" WHAT IRISH PERSON WOULD SAY MY MOM!???

[@mscarlson1498]

Aisling they shouldn't have changed that! They shouldn't have changed lots of things....

[@adiaghcatherine7297]

I’m Irish and I say mum

[@graciebabyy9770]

mum and mom are different, when you say mum you sound pretty normal but when you say mom you immediately sound like you're doing a really shit american accent

[@_kittykat9445]

That's stereotypical... And untrue. Pfft, whatever. Everyone to their own.

[@theartytrashcan6172]

I don’t know every Irish person I know always says ma

[@syedafareeha8134]

did you know that james and oliver phelps skipped school to audition for the roles of the weasley twins LIKE THAT IS SUCH A FRED AND GEORGE THING TO DO

[@alwaysslightlyalarmed6467]

Also the americans said bangs not fringe. (As an aussie I thought we were talking about sauages for a second

[@KuzzenFeralFerret]

The Sun's Sky I never understood the whole bangs thing either, I heard British people say 'I love your bangs' I thought it was long hair either side of your ears not a fringe...

[@Deevo037]

I went for years thinking bangs was a polite euphemism for a part of the female anatomy. Hey, nice bangs.

[@daggern15]

As a Brit this confused me too although "bangs" made more think of fireworks rather than sausages

[@Harukiraa]

I think for American's a bang is usually the blunt bangs and fringe would be more side swept and "scene" look.

[@silverkyre]

Daily Desiree nah that's still Side Bangs. Fringe isn't really used. At least in my part of the country. You get a lot of verity within the US. Like saying Soda or Pop.

[@camdotcoms]

*thank god for viktor krum*

[@lauren6015]

camaka REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[@rachelc1868]

A) Hermione and S.P.E.W not even mentioned in film B) Peeves never shown once C) in film- Neville tells harry about gillyweed In book - Dobby gives him gillyweed 😖 we needed more Dobby!!

[@anneloeswarmelink16]

ALWAYS MORE DOBBY

[@rachelc1868]

Anneloes Warmelink absolutely!

[@juisee36]

And where was Winky?!?!

[@chelseybun]

peeves was in scenes. but they were just deleted.

[@tovae793]

Fuck No, there was quite enough Dobby

[@oliviasewell4920]

I must side with the Brits because I am Canadian and the philosophers stone is the same as the Brits.

[@iwy8879]

It’s not just boarding schools that have houses, almost every school has them, even primary school has houses and housepoints nowadays!

[@MrVisualHigh]

You sure about that? It feels like minority to me, unless schools have adopted this over the last 10/15 years.

[@JimInProgress]

Mine didn’t and still dosnt

[@jaymercer4692]

I was just typing this comment. And all my siblings and me who have been going to schools since the late 90’s have all exclusively been in schools that have had house systems and I havnt heard of a school without.

[@larrystowing7385]

Yea my middle school has house too even though it’s not a boarding school, it’s also in the U.S.

[@ileburns6089]

Yeah my primary school had houses

[@lewisb9226]

Did I just hear an American say 'Edin-bruh', rather than 'Edin-burrow'?

[@rockracingfan]

he's adapted to our ways!

[@LiaLielamie]

Cello tape and scotch tape are two completely different things. In England you have both scotch tape is just slightly tinted but cello tape is clear

[@Fearghus]

Scotch as a company sells the cloudy and clear tape. They are both referred to as Scotch tape though.

[@rawriamanivysaur632]

Whenever I talk to non-British people about being in houses or being a prefect they always says something about Harry Potter 😂

[@kianabachmeier4197]

Rawr I am an Ivysaur I'm Canadian and my old school had a housing system and we completed for the spirit cup each year. So much fun. But not many Canadian schools do so everyone's always like "oh like Harry Potter?"

[@juisee36]

How do you get sorted into the different houses? Do you get to pick or you’re just put into it?

[@kianabachmeier4197]

Justine H-g we were put into houses during our first year by the school staff and there was an assembly where they called each student up and presented them with a shirt representing your house and you kept that house until you left the school.

[@janakav]

Rawr I am an Ivysaur not just boarding schools. My schools have had houses and prefects. We just get randomly put it houses. Usually your form/home room will all be in the same house. We have prefects head girl/boys and heads of houses, I just applied for a subject prefect

[@rawriamanivysaur632]

Justine H-g when I started at my school, we were just assigned them. In my school, your house colour also happens to be the colour of your polo shirt and lots of things are done by houses so it’s pretty important that we know 😂

[@Carina5707]

I didn't know until my late teens that in the U.K. they call dessert "pudding". I always just thought that they were obsessed with pudding lol.

[@arrgghh1555]

Dessert isn't called pudding, in general boiled cakes are call puddings but the list of exceptions is extensive. I'm not sure why American call chocolate mousse or custard, I'm not sure which exactly, pudding.

[@Carina5707]

Arrgghh American pudding isn't chocolate mousse or custard. It's something in between made mainly with milk and sometimes eggs (usually a store bought mix). It's not baked, it's boiled and then refrigerated, and it's eaten by itself, not with a crust or fruit topping or anything.

[@arrgghh1555]

Sounds exactly like custard.

[@sarahbeasley2075]

custard I think is a lot sweeter, and not quite as thick. Pudding is more gelatinous.

[@JDlovescats979]

+Arrgghh Custard in the US may be different than custard in the UK. From my experience what I would call custard as an American is different than what Juce described.

[@KatesAdventures]

You pronounced "Edinburgh" correctly, literally everything else can be forgiven that's the important part haha!

[@avamcilkenny3957]

I'm from ireland and I've never heard of a sherbert lemon

[@AP-jz1eh]

lolol it sounded like he said "edin-bruh" and i was like lol..i guess thats how its pronounced

[@whofan1212]

Kate's Adventures edin-bruh. Not harddd

[@KatesAdventures]

I didn't think so either but there are a lot of people who say "Edin-burrow" haha.

[@jonnybuijze1770]

He said Flamel wrong though

[@matthewrussell2552]

Even Non boarding schools have houses at least for my school however for my school they are not used much just for sports day and some other small events where everyone competes

[@Fd_Fd_Fd]

Same or just to see which house has the much “house points”

[@lilbitch6283]

Harry Potter was originally British... Soooo...

[@xlectraheart]

Lil Bitch Obviously if jk Rowling had a problem with it she would have made them keep it so who the hell cares

[@mitchellbooth9332]

Originally English my man, Britain is not a country.

[@elizabethread6014]

@@mitchellbooth9332 Britain refers to england, Wales and Scotland, england only refers to england, while it is not a country per se, britain is a nation, containing england, so it would be correct to say either

[@Finn-lv5vd]

@@elizabethread6014 Right but thats kind of like saying Harry potter is European, while correct you can be and should be country specific. Too many US citizens think Britain is a country.

[@midnightgamer1854]

Let’s just agree: originates on the island that England is on, has been recreated by many different countries or places. :)

[@bykchoi]

i used to pronounce hermione as "her-mee-own" hahaha

[@Gentlethempirate]

k.choi That's how it's pronounced in the French version! ^__^

[@bykchoi]

i bet that sounds much classier in a french accent than in an american one!! bahaha

[@DontMindLena]

k.choi same

[@alext7500]

in Russian it's "Germiona".

[@robertgronewold3326]

I called her Harmony before I figured it out.

[@unknownunicorn387]

More facts about Harry Potter references: J.K lived for many years in Porto, Portugal. - The uniforms that Hogwarts students wear were inspired by the ones used by students in Porto colleges. - The name of Salazar Slytherin came from a portuguese dictator called Oliveira de Salazar. - Flourish and Blotts and those big big stairs were inspired by Lello Bookstore in Porto.

[@cartersessal4551]

How do you come to Oliveira de Salazar? It was António Salazar :) I'm just wondering and don't want people to let think that it's actually Oliveira 😅

[@ruteneto8423]

But it is. António de Oliveira Salazar. You are both right.

[@leonie2194]

Fun fact everybody knows already: Voldemort's middle name was changed in all translations of Harry Potter so the reveal of "Tom Marvolo Riddle - I am Lord Voldemort" would work. In German, it is Vorlost, and Voldemort writes "ist Lord Voldemort". I wrote a paper on translating neologisms in Harry Potter last semester and it was so interesting to see what the translators came up with!

[@MidnightHorrors]

leonie Omg I did a paper on the same topic too!!!

[@emeline_4]

Yeah in French they only kept Tom (he's named Tom Elvis Jedusor) but the last name Jedusor has to do with games (instead of riddles)

[@helenetrstrup4817]

Romeo Gåde Detlev Jr. - You can make "Jeg er Voldemort" (I am Voldemort) out of it, but you'll have "åde" to spare from the Danish translation of Riddle to Gåde and it breaks the idea of the entire thing as an anagram. For it to work you'll have to shorten his name to Romeo G. Detlev Jr. xD So no... In Denmark he isn't even named Tom, but Romeo. Which is a considered a rare name in comparison to the more usual Tom. This kind of defeats the purpose of him changing his name in the first place "because there are a lot of Toms" lol. But I guess they kept "gåde" to at least have a connection to the original name, haha.

[@MissVasques]

It’s Been a while since I read the 2nd book translated but I think in Swedish it’s Latin: Ego Sum Voldemort. And Mervolo instead of marvolo or some like that. Fairly sure it’s Ego sum and the added line of Tom explaining it to be latin for... Our translator left a lot of the english in I think when it came to names.

[@constanza1033]

In Spanish is Tom Sorvolo Ryddle which means "Soy Lord Voldemort"

[@eleanormcn3962]

WTF YOU DON'T HAVE SHERBET LEMONS YOU POOR SOULS!!!!!!!!!!!????????

[@hanburgundy4317]

You guys don't have Snak Pak or Jell-O pudding - you have to choose between mousse and custard, while we have the best of both worlds! lol j/k I love all sweets. I did have a friend who lived until the age of 17 and somehow had never had nor heard of pudding, however; I had to explain it to him as "like yogurt, but chocolate". He said, "that sounds gross" then later on after eating three Snak Pak cups in a row he turns and says, "I like pudding."

[@patriciamulroy1770]

just checked my book i could have sworn it was sherbert lemon in the Us version

[@Rhyianan]

Patricia Mulroy one of the later books refers to the password again and wasn’t changed, so it said sherbet lemon. I remember being confused about it because I read the version with lemon drop.

[@officert5147]

We don't have milk bottles or golden syrup either ;_;

[@georgia8392]

What are *those???*

[@charlottefitzpatrick2976]

Lol. It's not just boarding schools that have houses. I go to a public day school in Britain and we have a very competitive housing system. Go Red Dogs! (The teachers even gave the houses the same colours as in Harry Potter, like we have a red house, a blue house, a yellow house and a green house!)

[@cartersessal4551]

Charlotte Fitzpatrick Wow, that's so cool 😄

[@Macallion]

All of my (day) schools also had houses. 2/3 were just named after the colours. My primary school (age 7-11ish) named them after mythological creatures. Red was Dragon, Yellow was Unicorn, Green was Griffin, Blue was Phoenix. I was in the red houses all the way through school. Really more of a Ravenclaw, though. I've also heard of houses being named after planets and all kinds of other things. I now work in different schools and I've seen house systems with five or six houses as well as four. The last one I visited had red, yellow, green, pale blue and purple. Red/yellow/green/blue is pretty standard, though. They do tend to be named after notable people, now. A few schools back, I remember, had a house named Edison.

[@Tharlena]

I love hearing about how other schools name their houses. My primary and secondary school both named them after notable people from nearby. Not that anyone really knows who they are these days as my grammar school was founded in 1551.

[@isabellajohnson4608]

Charlotte Fitzpatrick We have Amber!!!! Emerald, Sapphire and Ruby

[@literally-no-one9587]

I know I’m in public school and I have houses too

[@meghanh6978]

I adore Harry Potter sooo freaking much, it's amazing

[@爪丨乙卂]

Meghan Edwards same I read all the books at age 6 or 5 and no matter how many times I read the books or watch the films I still cry at all the deaths apart from the evil peoples

[@madisonwalker5566]

Diagon Alley = Diagonally Knockturn Alley = Nocturnally Grimmauld Place = Grim Old Place

[@phoebedavies5239]

OMG I'm dead you say Famel so oddly 😂😂

[@harriethobbs2922]

Phoebe Davies I know right 😫😫😫

[@KariahBengalii]

Well, you didn't spell it right, so I don't know if you have room to talk. (Flamel)

[@phoebedavies5239]

KariahBengalii fair

[@jamessteiniger7016]

He called it Flammmel. Uncultured swine.

[@theodoreferro4090]

Flannel with an m

[@thompompey32]

It's almost like when you read literature from another country, you learn about that country's culture and language. Who else read "Of Mice and Men" at GCSE?

[@erinrolfe]

I read it in year 8, I loved it until the end.

[@kianabachmeier4197]

I'm Canadian and my elementary school had six houses complete with clothing, head of houses, and we competing each year for the spirit cup.

[@josiesc2887]

Kiana Bachmeier did you go to York House in Vancouver?

[@MariaLostFairy]

sometimes i put the speed in x2 on youtube. And when I put a video of Evan I m like oh I forgot to put it to normal again. But nah he s just talking fast.

[@teatea2113]

Lmao I use the word git all the time

[@mynameismaddymwah3178]

Fan girl No.528491 same

[@carly7539]

Lmao same it's like my go-to insult

[@skepticmoderate5790]

Same, but I'm American.

[@ellie8826]

I use it ironically tbh. Like if my dad is being grumpy I'd be like cheer up you old git

[@lucietehbrh3284]

Fan girl No.528491 same, and are you a Hufflepuff as well?

[@yaraa9351]

Evan House systems arent just in boarding schools, they're in almost any normal school. I'm from dubai but i go to a british school and we have the house system, it gets v competitive too

[@karkatvantas9557]

*Some normal schools, but very few.

[@theresalwaystimefortea3771]

I went to four different schools and all of them had houses, some took it more seriously than others though, two schools it was an almost life or death battle to win at the end of the year and the other two only had it to sort out teams for sports day and literally nobody cared haha. Maybe it's a regional thing? I'm from Yorkshire and it seems pretty common around here?

[@Lee-bv7tj]

Karkat Vantas nah loads, my state comp primary and secondary had houses, in the north of England

[@The_Wandering_Mist]

Some have schools in NZ have houses too, we just had sports events and tasteless jokes

[@AllyMay]

I’m from Australia where I think most schools have houses, definitely around where I live. It was a pretty big deal and being House Captain was was like 👌

[@Car-fm4fo]

The iconic Hagrid quotation from the movie, “You’re a Wizard, Harry”, is actually written “Harry, you’re a wizard” in the book, and it hasn’t stopped bothering me 😅

[@Zachdeadpool]

Actually it it's your a Harry wizard but I'll let it slide

[@evaeustace8365]

Ok I don't know if this is an American thing but it's "flamEl" not "flamle"

[@Fearghus]

Not an Americal thing. He's just super mispronouncing it.

[@Jerry-ld1gc]

Sounds like flannel, as in the thing you use to wash your face lol

[@erinrolfe]

@@Jerry-ld1gc I thought he said that for a minute and had to do a double take

[@teatea2113]

I knew that Myrtle was portrayed by an old actress because the actress was in another film that I watched

[@MayMay-jy9mr]

yeah same, i feel like British people know this because she's been in quite a lot

[@markanne54]

She played a nutter in one season of Happy Valley, the BBC police show.

[@f4erie_]

Fan girl No.528491 I knew cause I’m a huge potterhead

[@teatea2113]

markanne54 ooh happy valley is set where I live!

[@MayMay-jy9mr]

yeah its annoying me how people in the comments are describing her as an on old lady, she was 40ish during the films its just a lot older than her character haha

[@leoniejayne4546]

I feel like I had the exact same reaction when I realised that everything you hear about American schooling is actually true. Things like spirit week, Cheerleaders, American football etc I genuinely thought it was just a common trope in films 😅

[@arrgghh1555]

The biggest shock to me was they actually recite the pledge of allegiance every day.

[@larahgonzalez1109]

Sometimes we do it twice a day, depending on where we are in the school. Also, where I live in Texas, we also "honor the Texas flag" every day, and it has it's own little pledge. I thought it was something that everyone around the world did.😂

[@leoniejayne4546]

Arrgghh omg same, I’d completely forgotten about that

[@magda5352]

What happens if you don't recite the pledge of allegiance?

[@arrgghh1555]

The closest I got to anything resembling reciting the pledge of allegiance was singing the national anthem at assembles once a fortnight in primary school and maybe 4-5 times a year in High school.

[@rea_keebz]

HARRY DIDJA PUT YER NAME IN THE GOBLET OF FIYAH

[@mirkecWii]

*He said calmly*

[@cheyennebarnes8594]

Rea Keebz he said calmly 😂😂😂

[@georginatoland]

American sneakers = British trainers.

[@musefan12345]

Georgina Toland in ireland we call them runners

[@MegaPIC1]

Except when talking chocolate bars of course, but that is merely me being ultra pedantic

[@thadtheman3751]

And jumper is a turtleneck sweater.

[@kaylatarapaskoski2390]

In Baltimore we say "Tenner shoes"

[@kaylatarapaskoski2390]

Thad Olczyk A jumper here is like overalls with a skirt instead of shorts

[@aysenur8108]

Our primary school houses were centaurs(red) pheonix(yellow) unicorns(blue) and dragons (green)

[@user-yf8od7il1x]

You could say that you don’t really “git” it.

[@EggyMega]

woah you pronounced Flamel so weirdly

[@iftikhar2305]

“HARRY DID YOU PUT YOUR NAME IN THE GOBLET OF FIRRRREEEEEE” He said calmly

[@jammie9225]

J.K. Rowling said the "t" is silent

[@WeeScottishLass]

Sorcerer stone - I started raging But then you pronounced Edinburgh correctly and you gained ALL my respect. Thank you! Thank you!

[@ameera213]

“oh i shaved”

[@sofiagolden]

DID YA PUT YA NAME IN THA GOBLET OF FYAAAAAHHHHHH

[@flamexprincessxx4336]

Sofía G i was dying at that part oh my ahaha

[@beckeratlas]

He said calmly.

[@alexkluke6247]

The hardest part of being Canadian: whether to say the sorcerer's stone, or the philosopher's stone.

[@kayleigh3331]

AllWasWell philosopher stone ;)

[@ethanhurley-love5301]

AllWasWell philosopher's any day

[@invinciblereason1618]

Philosopher's. It's a thing in real life too.

[@happymaskmajora8175]

Why is that hard? It’s Philosophers for Canadians.

[@SarastistheSerpent]

We are part of the commonwealth. We say philosopher’s stone. Go to your local chapters or indigo. You’ll only find Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone there. Same with your local library. Good luck even trying to find a copy of the sorcerers stone in Canada.

[@grandmasterdragonborn6841]

As a British person, I laugh when I hear Americans pronounce "Harry Potter", not to be offensive, I just find it funny Seriously, it's HARry potter, the A is significant, Americans make it sound like HAIRY Potter, he is not a HAIRY man

[@lilbitch6283]

English secondary schools have houses, my school calls it 'tutor groups'

[@aeongies]

Lil Bitch Your school is strange

[@Damo2690]

My School had 6 Houses

[@brit9662]

At both schools I went to, tutor groups were a group of 20-30 (my first school was thirty from the same year, second had linear tutor groups with a mix of all years) with whom you would share a classroom in the morning and after lunch for registration and assembly. My first school didn't have houses, but my second had five named after trees which determined which tutor groups had assembly on which day of the week; it was used sports days and for any other time they needed a way to divide us up, as well as giving us a head of house to oversee things sort of in place of the authority of the headmaster, if need be. So your school calls *those* 'tutor groups'?

[@BookswithKaitlyn]

My school had tutor groups and houses. In my year about 2 tutor groups would be in one of 5 houses and so there were about 10 tutor groups in my year. Our house is what we earned points towards and what team we competed in for sports day

[@bethanymcgonigle]

In my secondary school in ireland older years had form groups named after sts but my year is just c

[@LuckyVine]

They DID pronounce the 't' in Voldemort in the movies. That was always my main gripe with them.

[@MarkOfTzeentch]

There isn't a reason why it shouldnt be pronounced that way. Tom was English born, and adopted an anagram as a name. Nowhere does it say that his last name is french origin.

[@StarshipRanger93]

That was my reaction too - I sat there like "but they DO say the T Evan ..." 😂

[@saoirse7167]

And people say 'Grindelwald', rather than 'Grindelvald', even though 'wald' is 'forest' in German. We all change names to suit our own language. You can see it in so many American names. Another one in the franchise is 'Goldstein', which would be 'Gold-stine' if it hadn't changed over time.

[@ninesquared81]

Some characters might end Voldemort on a glottal stop rather than a prounced T, as this is quite common in some British dialects. The easiest example of a glottal stop to those who don't know what a glottal stop is would be 'Eh Oh' (Teletubby greeting) or 'Uh Oh'. The glottal stop is that sound in the middle of those examples which separate the two vowel sounds.

[@moliz2242]

He was doing so well then he pronounced 'flammel' wrong

[@aniahbland4052]

I did know that Moaning Myrtle was played by an old lady! But only because she's in the Bridget's Diary series and I was freaked out when I saw her and had to do mad research.

[@Harrison_J_T]

36 is hardly old!

[@annarepova7847]

she was also in wild child! thats how i found out she isnt a teenager

[@ElizaShakiraMassani]

Spottedfeather not gonna lie that is one of the Stranger(wtf) episodes in my opinion.

[@brian-emo]

shes also in trainspotting

[@SarahTheTrekkie]

She's also in Happy Valley. I knew she wasn't a teenager as well as I found out on the Wiki.

[@emmacd6515]

As a translation student and a life-long Harry Potter fan I find this topic super interesting, there are a lot of theories of translation that argue changing small details (such as the password to dumbledore’s office) create a translation (or in this case localisation) that is less faithful to the original text because it is not an identical representation as some elements have been changed. However other theorists such as Eugene Nida would argue that for the translation and original texts to be considered as equivalent, the reader of the translation has to have the same relationship to the text as readers of the original text and thus such changes are necessary. I know The Sorcerer’s Stone is just a localisation of The Philosopher’s Stone, but I find it so interesting to compare the differences from a translation point of view 😊 (P.s as a Brit for me it’s always been the philosophers stone )

[@kayfelker8268]

I'd say ron foreshadowing things is one of my favorite things ever

[@OrenHofer]

wow the Canadian version is just the British version

[@saltyfrog75]

That would be because Canadians use British spelling for most things.

[@RubyMadigan]

I feel like maybe it wold have been good to note in the video that though you are wearing a 'ravenclaw' jumper, the colours and the mascot do not match the ones in the books. Yours is like the movies - blue and silver with a raven instead of like the books - blue and bronze with an eagle. Also I find it very funny how you pronounced Nicholas Flamel :D sounded like Nicholas Flannel

[@AKMorehouse]

You just hit on my biggest complaint against the film (and all the Ravenclaw film merchandise). Why did the film producers change the house mascot and colors?

[@PunkHime89]

It’s hard to find the original colors. Most merch is modeled after the movie.

[@candyhyojung1860]

yes omg this annoys me so much too especially as silver is a Slytherin colour

[@penelopebunce]

I knew lots of these facts already, but it's fun to see them from the perspective of an American. As I'm Dutch, every word that's used, made up or not, and every name is changed. So lots of the puns didn't work and names weren't as clever.

[@itsDamson]

Marcel Lubbermans...

[@penelopebunce]

As a kid, I had endless lists of who everyone was in different languages. After a while, I began to see the connections between the names, but it sure was fun to do.

[@merlinHPtwilight]

Books and Cleverness I was a proud owner of such a handwritten list as well haha! Loved the puzzle ;)

[@mmx123]

Books and Cleverness Now you shall make a video on your experience with HP my child (jk, i'm just very curious)

[@mmx123]

pls.

[@morganok6169]

Evan: yells about fire works Me: Has memories from July and how people set off fireworks all day everyday in July and I could never fall asleep until they stopped.

[@Deevo037]

They call the language English for a reason.

[@harleyokeefe5193]

Deevo037 EXACTLY

[@MinorAccidnt]

haha YES

[@hanburgundy4317]

Yes, and before that it was called Old English and before that it was called Anglo-Saxon and before that... In America, we still have the respect to call it English and not, like, Freedom Cheeseburger Eagle Americanish. Jerks.

[@She-Devil94]

Hans Ollo I doubt that it was really called Old English when that was still used^^

[@silverkyre]

So Spanish and yet it's used as a primary language is like 40 countries I don't see your point.

[@elianna838]

Literally the only thing I didn't already know was the train station fact.

[@puppypenguin1140]

Anybody know what Dumbledore taught before he was headmaster? He taught transfiguration. It was mentioned in the second book by Tom Riddle (something along the lines of: "dumbledore, the nosy transfiguration teacher")

[@86upsmaya]

Puppy Penguin transfiguration.its mentioned in Chamber of secrets,when Tom says Dumbledore never really liked him etc

[@gabriellerose3865]

I just got that Fawkes the Phoenix is named after Guy Fawkes because of the bonfires! 😱

[@harrietokeefe9658]

Omfg how have i never realised that

[@tatepetter]

As a Canadian, I find some of this so weird because while we are much closer to the states, the British versions of the books are sold here. I'm not sure if most Canadians are like this, but my family, my mum especially, uses a lot of british slang, so the British culture references that were made in the books made sense to me. But it is so strange that I can literally drive to America in a couple hours but yet we're so different from them.

[@osirisblue2087]

Prefects and having four houses in boarding schools are a real thing here in India too. Not sure about other former British colonies though.

[@ElisabethOrchard]

I am not from Ghana but visited our partner school (which is a boarding school) in Ghana with my school (a German boarding school). And the school in Ghana did have houses and prefects, we didn't. :)

[@osirisblue2087]

ElisabethOrchard Oh I see. I guess then that Ghana being a former British colony follows the same concept of boarding school as us. This is why your school, though of German origin, had houses and prefects. Anyways thanks a lot for the info. By the way here in India too we count the number of floors from zero onwards and sherbet lemon or lemon sherbet is also a drink cherished by us a lot.. :)

[@fxckmanet]

Evan I havent watched the video yet but I just need to tell you I bit the bullet and listened to dear evan hansen, i am now in love thank you.

[@evan]

IT'S SO GOOD, RIGHT

[@kiranash472]

DEH IS THE BEST!!!!! IM LITERALLY SO HAPPY I GOT TO SEE IT IN NY WHEN I WAS THERE!!!!!

[@fxckmanet]

Kira Nash I’m watching a bootleg of it now! I really hope it comes to the uk

[@kiranash472]

ChaiTeaAndHoney same I’m getting serious withdrawal symptoms 😂😂

[@chang364]

I knew the Moaning Myrtle thing because she's the same actor as the matron in the film Wild Child

[@mercedesmartinezbruera9861]

Hazz I never noticed this!! And I love that film... I think it's time to watch it again 😅

[@alicecampling5712]

I thought I was the only one who knows this 😂

[@ninjajellyfish9902]

**Sees Harry Potter in the title** YES YES YES YES!

[@Sandra-sm3nc]

"Harry Potter ja tarkade kivi" directly translated from estonian to english is "Harry Potter and the rock of the wise", but "tarkade kivi" really means philosopher's stone :D I love your videos. Keep up the good work!

[@hanskolkman6589]

The Dutch "Harry Potter en de steen der wijzen" also translates to "Harry Potter and the rock of the wise"

[@Fayanora]

One thing that made me laugh years after first reading the books was finding out pants didn't mean trousers in Britain, it means underwear. LOL

[@A5hle1gh12]

I find these videos always really interesting because it's fun to look at the differences in cultures. Harry Potter has always been a close thing to me because my primary school (ages of 4-12) had the Hogwarts houses as our school houses because one of the teachers had been a fan. On another note though I agree with your stances on fireworks, there's literally a specific day and why is it going on for this length of time

[@kinersted1222]

Also the floor naming thing is different in Denmark and Norway. In Norway it´s like in America, and in Denmark as it´s said in England, weird stuff languages.

[@danny_yeets]

Kine Ørsted Jørgensen in Canada, we can’t make up our minds. Some buildings will label it as ground others as 1st.

[@ofunne892]

HI EVAN I LIVE IN LONDON NOW Also senior band in my school are performing the Harry Potter soundtrack

[@JamieJo]

This video is amazing :)

[@plestrange511]

'Oh I shaved' at the end there. I love it! I knew all but 1 and a half, half the Flamel thing, about him being real and I didn't know about the Eustis station thingy sooo...

[@lunalovegood5118]

LIVING for the Ravenclaw jumper! *#ravenclawpride* 💙

[@orlasmyth3409]

Luna Lovegood Woop!

[@isabelle-xq1wd]

In New Zealand it’s called the philosophers stone. I’ve never even heard of the sorcerers stone.

[@daggern15]

You aren't missing much. From what I've understood, Australian and Kiwi cultures are much closer to English culture than American culture is

[@madelineenns2090]

Evan I am Canadian but I grew up with the British versions. Also it is philosopher stone. If you look closely in the movie you can tell that its is suppose to say philosopher but they overlap it with soceres stone instead. So there mouth doesn’t match what there saying. It will always be philosopher stone.

[@madelineenns2090]

Also that floor system is how my brain works.

[@Harukiraa]

I think for the floor system it's cus a lot of american homes dont have basements and very few places (atleast in the south) don't have underground parking so they wouldnt refer to being on the ground as ground level. Along with if someone has a 1 story or 2 story house the first floor would be 1 and then going up would be 2. And how we number apartments like 100's are are the ground and 200's would be right up the stairs? idk just my opinion on the matter.

[@LyraTyrell]

I've never been in a house without a basement haha. We just use ground floor and 1st floor synonymously. So if you got into the elevator(lift) in a building with 2 basements and 4 floors above them the panel would read 4 3 2 1 B1 B2

[@Correa24bori]

No they literally filmed the same scene twice they just swapped the words philosophers and sorcerers in the script and scene. There’s no funny edits or dubbing over, it was filmed twice essentially.

[@ConnorNotyerbidness]

They actually re shot the scenes entirely. Unless they dubbed one or 2 scenes

[@clarabrown5553]

The way he pronounces flamell 😂😂

[@richardmahood7478]

Here at the University of Georgia in Athens, GA, the main entrance to many of the buildings actually take you into the 2nd floor; the next floor down is the 1st and, of course, the next floor up is the 3rd. Back in 2005, I took my daughter to London for her graduation gift from UGA. We took the Eurorail to Paris and back (a very long day) getting back fairly late at night. We took a double decker bus back to our B&B...pretty sure the driver was the inspiration for Ernie, the Knight Bus driver. The bus careened all over the streets. My favorite British term not used in America is 'snogging'...doesn't take much thinking to figure out what it means.

[@lauracaley8556]

"we like to pronounce the t's at the end".... yeah as an English speaker from Yorkshire I don't even do that hahaha

[@mandyschaan8776]

I didn't learn anything from this video....I don't know whether to be proud of that or disappointed in how nerdy I am 😂

[@blisscr160]

Wait?!? Americans also pronounce Nicholas flamels name like that or is that just the way you say it?!? I’m really confused!

[@isabellewalker2620]

Bliss Rendall I was going to comment this. It really confused me

[@lucyjoy1453]

I was so confused about that I was like "are you stupid"

[@trulycolleen]

I promise it's just him.

[@madisonregester3508]

I pronounce it flUH-mel

[@blisscr160]

Madison Regester same , it’s probably just Evan ?

[@DsRelaxingSounds]

Interesting, as a non-Native English speaker from Europe I had no idea there were all these little differences between the British and American version of the book. I'm sure that the translations into other languages have much of the same little differences, but you wouldn't know unless you read the original and the translated version. I read them in Dutch in 'my time', back when I still read books that were translated from English (nowadays I always read the original). If I was big enough of a Harry Potter fanatic it would be fun to go back and read them again in English, see how different it is, but unfortunately I'm not quite that dedicated. Maybe one day!

[@sukhmanikaur8899]

Cool facts! As for the fireworks, don't you remember the Fourth of July fireworks!? You hear the a week before to a week after!

[@ryantrue4844]

I lost it at "Listen here, i know you are Just Kidding"

[@rea_keebz]

i knew all of these, up your game, evan

[@ChenLiYong]

Rea Keebz well, the majority of the world didn't.

[@tmyers951]

Rea Keebz Me too.

[@Lucabythesea]

Most hard-core potterheads knew

[@indogyearsiamdead]

i knew all of these too lol

[@claraboe2755]

Me too the only new things for me were the differences between british and american

[@ladyelanor]

soRRY DID I HEAR THAT RIGHT “nicolas flahmul” evan it’s flamEl

[@vinamistry5263]

i know right!!! this bothered me so much haha

[@katherinek6392]

"Harry, did you put your name into the goblet of fire?" Dumbledore asked calmly, while strangling Harry.

[@rationaltrekker2509]

I'm American, but I MUCH prefer the UK editions of the books, which is what I own in print. Sadly, I've so far been unable to procure UK editions of the audiobooks.

[@martynnotman3467]

Read by Stephen Fry. Honestly its like being read to by your grandpa. Get them!!