Why Do Wizards Hate Muggles?

[@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.

[@Coyw19]

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!

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@sifilore]

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

[@soniccommunist]

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

[@Lawrence_Talbot]

Except a lot of older religions and cultures respected magic/witches. It was only when Christians conquered them and forced them to abandon all magical practices/start various witch trials and inquisitions to purge “heretics” that people have been taught to fear magic or witches or anything abnormal

[@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??

[@southernslav94]

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

[@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.

[@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?

[@jonathancampbell5231]

Witches weren't a big thing in the Middle Ages. The Catholic Church denied that witches existed. It was the Renaissance and Reformation period and afterwards that witch trials took off, mostly in Protestant areas, particularly Central and Eastern Europe where pagan beliefs were stronger. Only a handful of people were ever executed in the Spanish Inquisition for instance, and always by rogue priests who were condemned afterwards with the "witches" charges posthumously pardoned.

[@soniccommunist]

@@jonathancampbell5231 Central Europe maybe but Eastern Europe is definitely not a protestant area. 😄

[@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?

[@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 🤣

[@darylsdesigns6679]

“Associating with Muggles. And I thought your family could sink no lower.”

[@maxs9062]

“We have a very different idea of what disgraces the name of wizard, Malfoy.”

[@nikkaboo1106]

See you at school (insert eyebrow lift)

[@WaveForceful]

I love the arrogance of magic folk, is that why they have to live in hiding because they know that they woudl never rival the full might of a muggle army.

[@TaterSaladRP]

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.

[@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

[@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. 💛🌴

[@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.

[@michaeldavids7914]

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

[@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

[@JumboWatermelon]

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.

[@JumboWatermelon]

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

[@liampowell5014]

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

[@JumboWatermelon]

@@liampowell5014 xenophobia means fear of the unknown.

[@liampowell5014]

@@JumboWatermelon 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.

[@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

[@BjornV1994]

About Salazar Slytherin, I sometimes wonder if he is truly as evil as modern wizards (except Slytherins) see him and if his motives for creating the Chamber of Secrets was really as sinister as they were later interpreted and how it was later used. Voldemort believed it was the noble plan of Salazar Slytherin to use the Basilisk to exterminate muggle borns, yet he is the first one to use it in that way after 1000 years and from Pottermore, we know that before Voldemort, other heirs of Slytherin have walked through the hallways of Hogwarts, one even helping to hide the entrance of the Chamber, when they were putting in new plumbing. If it really was built for the sole purpose of exterminating muggle borns, isn't it strange only Voldemort went through with it? I don't think that Salazar meant the chamber to be used in such a way and would be abhored if he knew what Voldemort had done with it. Why did he built the Chamber if it wasn't meant to be used to indiscriminately murder muggleborns? As a safeguard against muggles. While Voldemort and most other blood supremacists saw muggles as inferior, this isn't the description given by Cuthbert Binns in regards of Salazar Slytherin. Salazar had reservations about teaching muggle borns because he found them untrustworthy. In other words, he feared them and I think the chamber was built out of fear, as something he hoped that never should be opened but needed to be built because his friends were too blind to see the potential danger. The Chamber was meant to be opened only if there ever was a moment that a muggleborn or muggleborns took up arms against wizardkind, calling for the need of an efficient and lethal solution that was also quite humane. The Basilisk is a silent and painless killer and in the hands of a Parseltongue a very precise weapon, so it would only kill those that were a threat. If this was indeed the case, I don't think he left Hogwarts just because he had a disagreement with the other founders but more so because he felt adhored that he had to take such drastic actions. He couldn't really live with his terrible creation, it was too horrible and if he had stayed much longer, his regret over it might become so big, he undid it all. That was something he couldn't let happen, so he made sure that he had a public falling out with his friends which he could use as a cover. He was willing to take the fall and be disgraced for the rest of history, if this meant he was certain of a safer future. Little did he expect how terrible his plans and ideas would be twisted by the last few generations of his bloodline.

[@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.

[@gerardocovarrubias1127]

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

[@trinas48]

I’m so early there’s no good comments to read😢

[@Maeddyyy]

Yea 😭😭

[@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.

[@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

[@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).

[@hyunjinshairband1316]

Because they DIDN'T turn to page 394 ;)

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@CWZimba]

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

[@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.

[@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...

[@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.

[@PICADALOL]

Dean always dlivering crispy content!

[@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.

[@annalisageiger]

You make the best videos! Thanks for this :)

[@Ballin4Vengeance]

The burning at stake is a bit weak argument, since at the beginning of The Chamber of Secrets Harry writes a homework about how burning had little to no effect on wizards, because wizards usually charmed the flames, so that they caused them no pain or physical harm. The book Harry uses as a source even mentions a witch, that got willingly captured several times, because she liked how the flames tickled her.

[@beemoji2280]

Wendelin the Weird

[@MrYoda-su4qo]

I thought it was prisoner of azkaban

[@minight1711]

I ve always considered that story as wizard propaganda to make them believe they are safe from muggles, their ministry just love to make them believe they are safe, beside I dont remember seeing much about wizards being immune to fire when it could be useful, like in the dragon tri wizard trial Beside if the story was true, it would know the witch trials were actually hanging, not fire

[@potter286]

@@minight1711 the trials within Britain were fire whereas in America it was hanging and the book that Harry read was based on the British trials not the American ones

[@thegeniusjunkie3082]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@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)

[@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!

[@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

[@folksa5065]

Amazing video man👍

[@omniayahia4453]

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

[@omniayahia4453]

OMG THANK YOU FOR THE HEART!!!

[@LordTheft]

Love how your videos are now riddled with ads.

[@thedangerousivy]

Love ❤️ these videos

[@RT-vz5xw]

Heyy! Great vid! A video idea: the ritual for becoming a Death Eater (like who gets chosen, are you chosen or can u volunteer? How is the dark mark made, who created Morsmodre? Voldy? Or did Grindewald have a mark himself?) anyway, just an idea...

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@bjaogh]

Very interesting topic, Dean 👍🏼

[@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.

[@thunderchild1083]

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

[@haneenbaker720]

It couldve been the 4 founders of hogwarts but probobly in there familys

[@malepatikalyankumar6392]

Its Merlin

[@Monie71793]

@@malepatikalyankumar6392 But Rowling said he was a Slytherin. Then again, she thinks Cursed Child should be canon...

[@potter286]

I personally believe that the wizarding worlds creation is similar to that of the creation of the universe in the IT storyline from Stephen king and how a being created two extra creatures (this is just my personal theory). I believe that something otherworldly created magic and placed it into the DNA of one of the first ever humans creating witches and wizards and that person/people bred constantly and passed down there magical heritage over generations where it became stronger and stronger over time

[@thunderchild1083]

@@potter286 I quite like that theory but in this scenario there would have to be more than one magical being (which in any theory would be the case really). If there was only one to start with the over time their dna would become watered down by muggle dna, unless all humans are born with magical dna but only some of them can tap into that side of it

[@Otterwriter245]

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

[@aldrinmilespartosa1578]

We have to remind ourselves that there 0 intance of someone being burned at the Salem trials. Some are hanged while one was crushed by rocks, never burned.

[@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.

[@wizardingworldtheories8789]

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

[@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...

[@lizardninja007]

Why didn't Slytherin make his own pureblood school though??? Why bother helping to create a school for everyone if he doesn't like everyone???

[@somnar8930]

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

[@muhammadhashir6136]

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

[@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.

[@robinpullman1488]

Interesting topic to delve into! I loved it!

[@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.

[@mrx4022]

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

[@janodefenua4603]

Barrett M82. Yeah Tought luck wizzards, This Thing I can bet lot of money on could take Dragons/Giants down in couple rounds only. Especialy armor penetration ones.

[@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

[@ricardokojin7]

There is a lot of hatred towards white people right now, that is indeed true.

[@gregoryfenn1462]

Since we know that muggles and wizards can mate and produce healthy children, then they must be the same species. Sure there will be some genetic difference (eg similar as between couples of mixed races) but nothing as substantial as a totally different set of skills and powers. So what is the difference between a muggle and a witch? In the fifth book, Umbridge accuses muggle born witches of stealing a wand to use magic, which implies that muggles CAN do magic with the right equipment. Is the only difference that a muggle doesn’t realise or accidentally produce magic of their own?

[@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

[@Lako7]

Please where did you get this information? I want to read more about the topic

[@Chinacommunist]

Death eaters dispised the Muggles the most. If death eaters beat Harry potter and his army, eventually they will attack the muggles. Their knowledge of modern warfare wouldn’t be known. The Wizards left the muggle world in the medieval times. Only the young generation like Harry Potter would know about the guns but unsure if magic can beat it. Death eaters stubborn would keep their old age warfare. First month, most of the army of the death eaters would be dead from gun fire, eventually they would make a spell to defend against guns, comes the bombs, napalm bombs. If the CIA finds about magic the end of Wizards is at the end.

[@alasarcher400]

They knew about guns. Arthur Weasley had a report on firearms in his officer. And in Daily Prophet when Sirius Black escaped gun was described as "kind of metal wand".

[@Chinacommunist]

@@alasarcher400 Ok, even if they knew about the early guns, they wouldn’t know about the extensive weaponry a muggle would have. They should know what a colt is. But they wouldn’t know about navy seals or the CIA.

[@Branch_]

love your vids bro

[@DemonsRun87]

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

[@Charolette21]

Unless you're the badass Giles Corey, who was killed by having heavy stones placed on his chest until it crushed him. His final words were "More weight".

[@onespicysauce6599]

J'acob Albers I learnt that from Sam O’Nella 😂

[@DemonsRun87]

@@Charolette21 Yeah but he wasn't accused of witchcraft, he was killed because he refused to reveal the source of information during a court. So my point still stands

[@Charolette21]

@@DemonsRun87 But he was still a victim of the trials, so....yea.

[@jameswest981]

Beautiful work

[@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"

[@maitreyib6514]

Could you please upload a video on doing wizard magic without wands ? Like the Swooping Evil's venom is kinda like the memory charm etc . I really appreciate this because wizard shouldn't be tooo dependent on wands for magic

[@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

[@jianfengwang9903]

The truth is, they are afraid of our boxers muggle dueling skills. 🤜🏻🤛🏻

[@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

[@robertkotal2231]

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

[@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

[@Faralexander]

Virgin Wizards vs Chad Muggles 🐺💪

[@laurolion7]

CORRECTION: The victims of the Salem Witch Trials in 1692 were never burned at the stake. All but one were hung. The other was pressed to death.

[@thenetherlands5838]

To be honest this was the case for all English speaking parts of the world. In the UK they were hanged/drowned. Occasionally their bodies would be burned after they were killed in Scotland though.

[@gregoryfenn1462]

If magic folk hate muggles due to Christian persecution, then why do they still celebrate Christmas?

[@andyiswonderful]

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

[@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?

[@bharadaksa3380]

I wonder when the world begins( such big bang) are the first wizard start from pureblood or muggles?

[@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

[@Jimbo_502]

Love your vids

[@corbinnystrom4759]

Feels great to get the first comment of the day

[@2jz735]

Hockey Bros, you aren’t first

[@Maeddyyy]

@@2jz735 dont ruin their day

[@satyamsrivastava850]

Nice DP, Dean!!!

[@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

[@ryanglitcherrrr]

Really love these videos, thanks for them. Any question i ever have about the Harry Potter universe you have answered in these videos. Thought I was the biggest potterhead in Ireland until I discovered your channel :P

[@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* 🗿