Top 10 Awfully Convenient Things In Harry Potter

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  • @pushkarajkulkarni6014
    @pushkarajkulkarni6014 6 років тому +2329

    Dumbledore logic:
    Trip to hogsmeade? No! We need a permission slip!
    Letting a 14 year old go against dragons, mermaids, and a giant maze? Sure, why not?

    • @cunt5704
      @cunt5704 6 років тому +44

      pushkaraj kulkarni Hey. He couldn’t let a 13 year old into Hogsmeade

    • @cunt5704
      @cunt5704 6 років тому +7

      Sarcastic btw

    • @TAPn.
      @TAPn. 6 років тому +171

      Its like how here in the US you can go to war at 18 but cant drink alcohol until 21 😒

    • @OEHOEH100
      @OEHOEH100 6 років тому +73

      its like how in the US anyone can have like a 20 guns at 18 and can kill17 school kids, but cant drink alcohol until 21

    • @manbatluvr
      @manbatluvr 6 років тому +42

      Also he wouldn't let him into hogsmeade because he was afraid of Sirius murdering him. The goblet was a binding magical contract--who knows what it could have done to Harry if he'd have refused to enter

  • @cbjfan99
    @cbjfan99 6 років тому +467

    The flying car becoming sentient and rescuing them in Chamber of Secrets. Nope, they're spider-chow

    • @Calvinosaur
      @Calvinosaur 4 роки тому +30

      And then it vanished into the woods, never to be seen again. I would have enjoyed a scene of the centaurs confronting Ron and Harry and trying to make them take it back.

    • @Jamilajahankhushbu
      @Jamilajahankhushbu 4 роки тому +9

      No, there is a theory about it. Like you can't bewitch electronic things or non-manpower operated things. If you bewitch a screwdriver it'll be okay. But if you bewitch a phone it'll start thinking on its own. It'll start working on its own sooner or later. So bewitching the car 'woke' something up in it to have a sentiment.

  • @jonathanfitzharris4196
    @jonathanfitzharris4196 5 років тому +1500

    Convenient that no one dies in chamber of secrets because of the reflections

    • @tuuresarolahti6247
      @tuuresarolahti6247 4 роки тому +94

      The snake doesn’t eat them while they are petrified

    • @fenderblender356
      @fenderblender356 4 роки тому +36

      how did they not mentioned that

    • @katieholland4244
      @katieholland4244 4 роки тому +49

      and that you can petrify someone who's already dead XD

    • @JadeyCatgirl99
      @JadeyCatgirl99 4 роки тому +72

      "Maybe they should have called this 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Plot Conviences'"

    • @SilverFireworks
      @SilverFireworks 4 роки тому +52

      It always bothered me how the basilisk attacked where there just happened to be no portraits, especially since the next book heavily featured painting characters.

  • @premmeyyappan1117
    @premmeyyappan1117 3 роки тому +157

    All of book four could be condensed into like four lines.
    “Potter, wait here,” barked Moody at the end of their first Defense Against the Dark Arts class.
    Feeling confused Harry waited as the rest of the class filed out.
    “Hand me that quill will you?” said Moody.
    Harry picked up the quill...
    And boom, he gets teleported to Tom Riddle’s grave. No tournament, no cup, literally accomplishes Voldemort’s goal in two minutes without any of the drama.

    • @veronikaczr1105
      @veronikaczr1105 3 роки тому +10

      Yes! Brilliant!

    • @fedeeeeee
      @fedeeeeee 2 роки тому +17

      I think Voldy wanted to have it seem an accident that happened during the task

    • @hiplsnols4394
      @hiplsnols4394 2 роки тому +22

      even shorter:
      "HEY, POTTER" screamed moody as the rest of the students marched out of the class
      "what?" said harry
      and then moody stabbed harry with a needle for some blood and ran

    • @funloop
      @funloop 2 роки тому +10

      I think it was noted that you can't use port-keys in hogwarts due to ancient enchantments that only Dumbledore can remove (i.e. apparition trials and when he teleported harry into his office after the ministry fiasco).

    • @asthmaticbee
      @asthmaticbee 2 роки тому +3

      @@funloop That doesn't make sense either because the cup is a portkey too.

  • @Flavortastical
    @Flavortastical 6 років тому +588

    "Ireland wins the game, but Krum catches the snitch!" and then it actually happens

    • @nahor88
      @nahor88 5 років тому +51

      That's the dumbest part of Quidditch... the snitch is worth so many points versus a goal with the Quaffle. Either catching the snitch should be worth less, or a goal should be worth more.

    • @Hydrastic-bz5qm
      @Hydrastic-bz5qm 5 років тому +34

      @@nahor88 why is it dumb? It loses a variable time limit, which makes things interesting. The points for the snitch give a reason to search for even if a team is down on points. It also creates more strategy because a snitch makes up for several penalties, giving more room to operate.

    • @GabbyPanda-og3pq
      @GabbyPanda-og3pq 5 років тому +2

      lol right

    • @nahor88
      @nahor88 5 років тому +20

      @@Hydrastic-bz5qm The snitch can be that without being worth so many points. That's literally 15 goals.

    • @Hydrastic-bz5qm
      @Hydrastic-bz5qm 5 років тому +1

      @@nahor88 what do you suggest it be?

  • @Toriachip
    @Toriachip 6 років тому +402

    What confuses me a lot is why Hagrid is still not allowed to do magic. It was proven that Tom Riddle was the one who opened the Chamber of Secrets, so why is Hagrid still being treated like he was the one who did that? Is it because of Aragog? Because Harry has done worse things, and he's perfectly able to do magic. This has bothered me so much! Please do a video or something on why Hagrid is still kinda considered guilty for the Chamber of Secrets incident.

    • @nbriggs133
      @nbriggs133 6 років тому +39

      For starters, I'm not sure its ever "proved" anywhere that tom riddle is the one responsible for the chamber of secrets. Sure, dumbledore knows it but he believed that the first time as well and it didn't really matter to the wizarding world at large. As for the rest, it really seems like the whole incident is just being swept under the rug (for example, malfoy isn't being punished because there's no "proof"). They may have let hagrid go, but that's mainly because the additional attack after he was in prison made it blatantly obvious he wasn't at fault this time, but didn't do anything to actually disprove his prior conviction. Finally though, the most important reason is simply that hagrid's a half giant and the powers to be in the wizarding world are corrupt and bigoted. They aren't going to want to admit they were wrong (even when it technically wasn't their mistake) and they especially aren't going to go out on a limb for someone they are predisposed to discriminate against anyways.

    • @mattthompson6281
      @mattthompson6281 6 років тому +2

      I know!! that made me mad...if he still couldn't get a wand, harry could have repaired Hagrid's wand in the last book

    • @adolfodef
      @adolfodef 6 років тому +16

      There is also the little problem that Hagrid is a half-giant.
      -> The wizard world does not like the idea of giant learning how to use magic, because they are inmune to magic [their hybrids WILL outperform "pure human" wizards to extinction].

    • @deanmottershead1439
      @deanmottershead1439 6 років тому +3

      while I agree that the wizarding world has a prejudice against half-breeds they allowed him to go to school in the first place and Hagrid was by the sound of things a problem student Tom riddle describes him as "being in trouble every other week" I think at some point there probably was enough evidence to at least make it that the guilty charge could be revoked due to evidence but they cant turn back time and allow Hagrid to go to school after all he cant be allowed to have an unbroken wand due to not being a fully fledged wizard I guess they could give him a bag of money and say sorry and that would be something I guess

    • @nkirukaj2384
      @nkirukaj2384 6 років тому +2

      They still don’t trust him because he’s part giant

  • @HeadCannon19
    @HeadCannon19 6 років тому +76

    3:05 if harry didn’t fall over to summon it, though, we would never have heard the famous words “what you fell over for?”

    • @TheDjbz
      @TheDjbz 6 років тому +4

      I thought that he accidentally summoned the bus with his wand....

    • @Fermonos1
      @Fermonos1 6 років тому +6

      Doesn't The Knight Bus Operator say he comes for stranded wizards and witches? And since harry is underage and can't use magic outside of hogwarts, which would in turn make him stranded thus the bus turning up?

    • @curiouslytot1950
      @curiouslytot1950 6 років тому +6

      TheDjbz You are correct. According to the book it is summoned by a stranded wizard or witch sticking his or her wand out.

    • @kaylag5043
      @kaylag5043 5 років тому

      But most importantly there would never be... *always*

  • @chronicallyannoyingg
    @chronicallyannoyingg 4 роки тому +364

    2nd year: Wow polyjuice potion takes a month to make that’s so long!
    Literally every other book in the series: lemme just whip up this polyjuice potion real quick and then we can just get on with the plan.

    • @maryooowoahh
      @maryooowoahh 4 роки тому +57

      In deathly hallows I think it was handled well. Because in Grimmauld Place they were making a ton of polyjuice potion for the ministry break in and then had some left over for Bellatrix (Also they had made it before so it wasn't *too* challenging). As for the 7 Potter's, they had been planning that a long time and so many great wizards were working on that so I think the fact that they made enough of that for all 7 Potters and a little left over for Bill and Fleur's wedding. Ig the only convenient thing is that they just always made a little too much and had enough left over for one person.

    • @triciavanandler7285
      @triciavanandler7285 4 роки тому +41

      In the books they actually had Moody’s whole Polyjuice potion store, and they ran out when Hermione was becoming Bellatrix, so that’s why they had to transfigure Ron.

    • @izabellakaliszka4804
      @izabellakaliszka4804 4 роки тому +14

      Instruction said: Make a GALLON of polyjuice potion, take them into little glasses, and store it till when it's needed

    • @jasonbolding3481
      @jasonbolding3481 4 роки тому +12

      A bunch of 12 year old had a hard time secretly brewing a NEWT-level potion in a bathroom? You don't say

    • @mattblakeley1608
      @mattblakeley1608 4 роки тому +4

      @@triciavanandler7285 This always bugged me. Why would an educational facility have a large store of Polyjuice Potion? To what purpose was it ever intended to be used? (Equally, when Dumbledore set Harry his mission, why did neither of them think to stock up on massive amounts of felix felicis...)

  • @kira-py8gt
    @kira-py8gt 6 років тому +300

    Hermione was originally supposed to have a younger sister but she was cut. And Dudley was supposed to have a magical child, which was also cut. I would’ve loved these plot lines. 😔

    • @giovannipinazza
      @giovannipinazza 6 років тому +31

      emai fisher In the third book, she is described as having pale skin

    • @maggey5501
      @maggey5501 6 років тому +37

      She clearly and unmistakingly describes Hermione in the books as white. But i agree with Lunatrix i would´ve loved those plot lines especially dudley having a magical child.

    • @Shavinderyt
      @Shavinderyt 6 років тому +37

      emai fisher right. totally not because Rowling likes to retcon everything to look more PC. the books original covers showed her as white with brown hair, way before the movies came out. and im pretty sure in one of the books it mentions her white skin colour

    • @vilemriha9726
      @vilemriha9726 6 років тому +2

      www.therowlinglibrary.com/2015/12/21/is-hermione-granger-white-or-black/

    • @quantumgirl3047
      @quantumgirl3047 6 років тому +5

      Ugh who cares about the amount of pigments in Hermione’s actress’ skin?
      But regardless of that, I read somewhere that Dudley was never supposed to have magical children, because the magic-hating Dursley blood would never produce magical children!

  • @starshipstories5094
    @starshipstories5094 6 років тому +753

    Veritaserum. Why can't wizards who are on trial (like Sirius) take it to tell the truth and prove their innocence?

    • @jonlancaster7375
      @jonlancaster7375 6 років тому +42

      Kimmy Korson asking the real questions!!!

    • @Fermonos1
      @Fermonos1 6 років тому +163

      Because memories can be altered. Veritaserum only tells what the user believe to be true. So if the memory has been tampered with and they truly believed it then you understand why. Same reason why Pensives can't be used in a trail, they can be altered, the proof is shown when Dumbledore gets harry to make Slughorn show the true pensive 'memory' about telling Tom about the horcruxes.

    • @novoeduardoac1248
      @novoeduardoac1248 6 років тому +6

      I really asked myself for years!

    • @breerosiey5056
      @breerosiey5056 6 років тому +31

      Veritaserum is basically like the magical equivalent to polygraph tests is what it seems!

    • @eaglehaze1600
      @eaglehaze1600 6 років тому +20

      I still don't see the harm in making them take it and see if what they say holds any water.

  • @emmajones5446
    @emmajones5446 6 років тому +161

    "I'm taking this from you which makes this mine too" I lost it 😂

    • @emmajones5446
      @emmajones5446 6 років тому +4

      Cierra Anglin I would do that if I had siblings to do that to

    • @Iwillbringprasie
      @Iwillbringprasie 6 років тому +2

      I went back and re-watched that one part several times. 🤣🤣🤣

    • @emmajones5446
      @emmajones5446 6 років тому +1

      Audrey Jones same it just made me laugh so hard

    • @emmajones5446
      @emmajones5446 6 років тому

      Cierra Anglin thanks

    • @coreyklaustermeier3244
      @coreyklaustermeier3244 6 років тому

      Me too

  • @applebee28
    @applebee28 5 років тому +396

    "Number 7: Time Turners!" **shrugs** "Number 6..."

    • @Chloonlyfalz
      @Chloonlyfalz 4 роки тому +19

      I loved when he did that lol 😂😂

    • @firewingy
      @firewingy 3 роки тому +5

      Well it’s true

  • @happily_cj
    @happily_cj 6 років тому +177

    "Did you just stab my book? What did you think that was gonna do?" xD

    • @bluebaek749
      @bluebaek749 6 років тому +6

      😂😂 I laughed so hard when he said that

  • @mommamay01
    @mommamay01 6 років тому +1265

    I think its really weird that Voldemort thought that he was the only one that discovered the room of requirement - where did he think all the stuff in there came from?!

    • @adamstryzlakyr2720
      @adamstryzlakyr2720 6 років тому +18

      Kayla May MAGIC

    • @mommamay01
      @mommamay01 6 років тому +36

      @@adamstryzlakyr2720 except Minerva says lost items go into non-being and everything in the RoR exists, so I doubt the answer is that simple.

    • @WesStacey
      @WesStacey 6 років тому +108

      I think he thought that everyone who found it before merely did it by accident and could never find it again, and that HE was the only one who ever figured out how to work it on command. He was also very secretive i'm sure once he discovered what he thought was a secret he would never discuss it with anyone for fear of giving away the secret. So most of the school could have known about it and he wouldn't have bothered asking any of them for fear of "Hey do you know about the secret room on the 7th floor", "....well i do now!"
      He also would never bother even talking to the house elves as he thinks them beneath him. Which is also weird because who would know the castle better than the creatures who live their entire lives there...
      Even so this is STILL pretty damn arrogant of him to think "Hey this school has been here for hundreds of years, thousands of students have gone through here. Generations of House elves have lived their entire lives in this place...Noone has ever stumbled upon these secrets before, I'm the only one to EVER discover this GO ME!!!"

    • @elainshrestha5519
      @elainshrestha5519 6 років тому +26

      he is just arrogant

    • @tattleteller1426
      @tattleteller1426 6 років тому +3

      lol

  • @astutheit
    @astutheit 6 років тому +95

    1, Molly Weasley mentioning Muggles, in front of Muggles where Harry would hear it.
    2, loved all the "kn" drops through out

  • @johnwick8756
    @johnwick8756 6 років тому +248

    If James, Sirius, Lupin and Peter where gifted enough to make the map is it to far of a stretch for them to have made it to where only they would appear on the map to each other and not anyone else so that's why Fred and George never seen Peter in Rons room but Lupin was able to see Peter.

    • @trevorwilson6683
      @trevorwilson6683 5 років тому +32

      But Harry sees Petigrew. So no.

    • @huffleclaw1019
      @huffleclaw1019 5 років тому +36

      Trevor Wilson
      Isn’t that only in the movies?

    • @Lollaksyotuube
      @Lollaksyotuube 5 років тому +20

      Snape saw Lupin on it.

    • @Lollaksyotuube
      @Lollaksyotuube 5 років тому +15

      @Hybschtorie Or the threory simply isn't true.

    • @WASwashere4242
      @WASwashere4242 5 років тому +18

      @@Lollaksyotuube or since Lupin was the one who opened the map and left in a hurry leaving it open, it still showed the marauders. Snape just walked in on the open map and we know that the map doesn't know after its been opened who is reading it as it doesn't return to being a normal piece of parchment for Snape.

  • @mattball8622
    @mattball8622 6 років тому +1236

    The one that always got me (and I'm amazed wasn't in this list) was Ron opening the Chamber of Secrets in Deathly Hallows. A guy with no knowledge of Parseltongue happens to be able to open a chamber sealed up by SALAZAR SLYTHERIN HIMSELF and hidden for hundreds of years from dozens of talented magical investigators by replicating a weird hiss that his mate made five years ago. Aye, sure, why not?

    • @liamwhite3522
      @liamwhite3522 6 років тому +139

      *a week or so ago. He specifically imitates harry opening the locket, as he was not there when harry opened the chamber. Still bad, but not impossibly so.

    • @mattball8622
      @mattball8622 6 років тому +79

      Liam White Ah, yeah, my bad. Forgot about that! I know Ron has mad impersonation skillz (I seem to remember him imitating the Bloody Baron and Wormtail at least), but managing to remember and reproduce a non-human language that well is some next-level mimicry :)

    • @nbriggs133
      @nbriggs133 6 років тому +29

      More like a few months earlier, ron returns and destroys the locket only a week or two after their christmas day trip to godrics hollow. Then there are still months more camping before the malfoy manor incident, followed by a month of planning the gringotts heist. Still, that's much less than 5 years ago but its not like ron had heard it just a few days ago, not to mention how you'd think the stress of the whole locket situation would probably overshadow the single line of parseltongue harry says (or the leap in logic that single line is whats needed to open the chamber also).
      Edit: Also just to note, its harry who imitates the bloody baron (back in first year). Ron does mimic wormtail in the malfoy manor basement though, so that's something.

    • @nasrinsiddiqui2883
      @nasrinsiddiqui2883 6 років тому +41

      I always believed that Ron has an above average IQ, higher than Harry’s definitely, and was an excellent chess player after all. So why shouldn’t he remember a line of Parseltongue, even after years? Don’t most people remember nursery rhymes well into their dotage???!

    • @nbriggs133
      @nbriggs133 6 років тому +36

      I think your missing two key points there. First, nursery rhymes tend to be in a recognizable language, not just hissing. Second, people usually remember things like nursery rhymes their entire lives due to repetition, hearing them dozens or hundreds of times. Ron has heard Parseltongue like 3-4 times ever, much less heard that specific word.

  • @kyrier9827
    @kyrier9827 6 років тому +1761

    9:50 did he just say...
    k-nowledge?... I love him.

    • @Coffee-ve8ub
      @Coffee-ve8ub 6 років тому +117

      Kyrie R that started in the wizard money makes no sense video, they mentioned that “knuts” was supposed to have a silent k but they pronounced it so he started making a joke of it and pronouncing silent letters and I think he says “k-nowledge” and “k-now” in the video. Probably started an inside joke there lol

    • @Colaman112
      @Colaman112 6 років тому +32

      Coffee1864 1864 Thanks for spelling out the joke for everyone...

    • @tendnotto
      @tendnotto 6 років тому +70

      K-night bus too! (yay!)

    • @allons-yallonso4663
      @allons-yallonso4663 6 років тому +6

      Yes he did, so American.

    • @Emma-cx4ws
      @Emma-cx4ws 6 років тому

      😂Ik

  • @blueray15
    @blueray15 6 років тому +56

    The Hermione thing I always took as her growing apart from her parents. She always loves them, but as she started growing up in the wizarding world it was harder for them to relate to her and for her to relate to them. This is shown when they attempt to bound with her by taking her on a skiing trip. Which sadly ended in Hermione leave early to go the Weasley's. I wish we actually got more of their relationship in the books. Instead of having her erase their memories, it could have been a place for them to hide for a few days (then we'd see their relationship).

    • @missrrjohnson9846
      @missrrjohnson9846 6 років тому +8

      Also, I think the whole culture of British boarding schools is very different from what Americans are used to. When I read British books about kids that are at boarding school, they often spend huge chunks of their holidays staying with schoolmates. As an American, I'm like, "Don't you want to be with your kids (or your parents) for the maximum amount of time after they've (you've) been away at school for nine or ten months?" But I guess it's just what you're used to. So with that in mind, the fact that Hermione either stays at Hogwarts or with the Weasleys doesn't seem as odd to me.

    • @marcjohnston4271
      @marcjohnston4271 6 років тому

      Hermione erasing her parents' memories is one of the saddest scenes in the entire series. However, having worked at a boarding school, it used to be a big production driving the kids to the airport (especially since it was 6 hours away from the school), and the number of folks who were still at the school during the winter was SMALL (less than I could count on two hands). Usually they'd have to stay with some of the staff, because all the dorm parents and all the support staff would be gone. There would have to be a serious mitigating circumstance for them to stay, such as a) I have no parents (Harry), b) my parents aren't available (Harry), or c) it would be a really crappy situation to return to - such as the student I knew who would be sitting in an empty apartment in Singapore. They wouldn't let the kids run amuck without supervision.

  • @enirmo4917
    @enirmo4917 6 років тому +305

    What bothers me?? You know what bothers me??? How they use Expelliarmus at least a million times throughout the story (e.g. the GOD DAMN DA MEETINGS EVERYONE USED IT ON EVERYONE) and they only become masters of someone else's wand in the seventh book. Is that the moment the rules of wand usage changed? No???
    also how did all the teachers at hogwarts believe that some silly enchantments and riddles could protect the most wanted item in the whole wizarding world? an 11 year old managed, stupid ol' Quirrel managed, soo what were you guys thinking? it's the same thing as wizards locking their houses when one could simply use Alohomora to open them

    • @jeskedeniet8336
      @jeskedeniet8336 5 років тому +8

      This is exactly what I was thinking!!

    • @kasianyland9248
      @kasianyland9248 5 років тому +16

      Actually Quirrel was quite intelligent and was in Ravenclaw.

    • @stussymishka
      @stussymishka 5 років тому +32

      the wands know it's not serious combat and only change their allegiance under the right conditions. there are anti unlock charms for alohamora.

    • @MerkhVision
      @MerkhVision 5 років тому +35

      Thats not how wand allegiance works. Its only the Elder Wand that changes allegiance so easily since its more sentient than other wands. Wandwood also has an effect on its character, and Malfoy's wand happened to be Hawthorn IIRC which made it hate being used for dark magic and so willingly became Harry's.

    • @niallstellytubbyhat2711
      @niallstellytubbyhat2711 5 років тому +8

      About the wand thing, ollivander says 'the wand chooses the wizard harry' but apparently if you knock someone's wand out their hand you can suddenly just become the master of their wand and use it!? That means any wizard can use anyone's wand as long as they use expelliarmus like what!? If you can just do that then why don't wizards just go into ollivanders and choose whatever wand they feel like?

  • @gamerfellow
    @gamerfellow 6 років тому +64

    I'm loving this whole "Ben now says silent Ks thing" it's hilarious when he does it and i have to rewind a bit cause I was like "Did...did he just pronounce the K?"

    • @humanperson2775
      @humanperson2775 6 років тому

      It mostly became a thing in the k-night bus video

    • @nbriggs133
      @nbriggs133 6 років тому

      It had shown up from time to time in earlier videos thanks to the whole k-nut thing. The knight bus video is definitely where it became super obvious though.

    • @racheldaniels3806
      @racheldaniels3806 6 років тому

      gamerfellow no kl. P

  • @nikokennedy5749
    @nikokennedy5749 6 років тому +299

    I k-now that he mentioned fawkes, but he deserves his own section.
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    Also, the fact that Ron can open the chamber in deathly hallows
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    and that Harry just tells Neville that the snake has to die, and he just DECIDES to use the sword therefore destroying the piece of voldemort's soul inside nagini.

    • @jobsyadsit3338
      @jobsyadsit3338 5 років тому +2

      Stuttering profile picture theif!

    • @synflwr
      @synflwr 5 років тому +6

      I read this in Hermione’s voice

    • @VeronicaLopez-lu5je
      @VeronicaLopez-lu5je 4 роки тому

      Jobs Yadsit Harry potter profiles are a trend and Hermione is most popular

    • @Calvinosaur
      @Calvinosaur 4 роки тому +5

      Ron was able to open the Chamber of Secrets because of his talent for mimicking voices, which he demonstrated repeatedly throughout the books.

  • @stecky87
    @stecky87 6 років тому +88

    You brought up something here that would be interesting to discuss: How come Harry, who grew up in the Muggle world, is not more curious to learn about the magical world, where he *does* feel welcome/at home in?

  • @vipunen88
    @vipunen88 6 років тому +1610

    top 10 awfully convenient things in the first book
    1. Hogwarts is a boarding school, so Harry doesn't have to go back to the Dursleys every night. And this boarding school lets you stay there over holidays.
    2. You're filthy rich, Harry.
    3. First year students are not allowed to play quidditch, except you, Potter. Here, take this new super broom right from the shelf, no need to pay me back. Love: Prof McGonagall
    4. I trust Hagrid. Sure, he is easily veral and can't keep his mouth shut and blabbers out secrets without care, but still I trust him with my life.
    5. Oh come on... what's the worst thing you can do with an invisibility cloak, you growing, hormone monster, you.
    6. ALOHOMORA
    7. And speaking of that, all the trials to the stone. Most of them beated by the first years.
    8. Hi. I'm Ron Weasley. I love chess and my brother takes care of dragons.
    9. Forbidden forest. No student shall pass. Except if it's a detention for Harry, you might learn something... or die. May the odds be ever in your favor.
    10. Hermione, 50 points. Ron, 50 points. Harry, 60 points. Just to make Gryffindor tie with Slytherin
    And a bonus thought! Dursleys, out of the goodness of their hearts, sends Harry a Christmas present.. to Hogwarts, with no address.. by an owl, that just... What? How?

    • @wickedshadowchester6297
      @wickedshadowchester6297 5 років тому +110

      Million points to you

    • @MTBR077
      @MTBR077 5 років тому +86

      Neville got points, too.

    • @aayushkarn6198
      @aayushkarn6198 5 років тому +94

      I never really thought about the Dursley one. Shrieking Shack!

    • @Keyboardje
      @Keyboardje 5 років тому +97

      I don't recall it is ever stated that first years are not allowed to play quidditch. Just that they are not allowed to bring their own brooms to the school. They get broom flying classes. On school brooms. And it's just stated that there hasn't been such a young (first years) student to get into the quidditch team. Not that it is forbidden or NEVER done. In fact it only happened 100 years before Harry too! :D

    • @nehaathavale1135
      @nehaathavale1135 5 років тому +128

      For that last one, I imagine Hedwig may have harassed the Dursleys till they forked up a present for Harry... Hilarious! Hedwig is the best.... May she rest in peace... 🦉

  • @PhoenixPonyPhoenixOwl
    @PhoenixPonyPhoenixOwl 6 років тому +115

    Voldemorts most powerful curse was the one he placed on the Defense Against the Dark Arts teaching position.

    • @melkerengelbrecht5960
      @melkerengelbrecht5960 6 років тому +2

      Phoenix Pony curse

    • @PhoenixPonyPhoenixOwl
      @PhoenixPonyPhoenixOwl 6 років тому

      Melker Engelbrecht ok, I edited it.

    • @PhoenixPonyPhoenixOwl
      @PhoenixPonyPhoenixOwl 6 років тому +1

      Milo O'Rourke honestly? My opinion. That spell altered fate itself.

    • @luckas221a
      @luckas221a 6 років тому +1

      Milo O'Rourke actual canon fact. search "jinx on the post of Defence Against the Dark Arts Teacher" for the wiki page.

    • @kannonmcwhinney1617
      @kannonmcwhinney1617 6 років тому +2

      Phoenix Pony dumbledore should've just changed the name to dark arts defense or something similar but different

  • @OceanChild75
    @OceanChild75 6 років тому +52

    I would have added the flying car coming to save Harry and Ron from the spiders in CoS

  • @cjhs2006
    @cjhs2006 5 років тому +122

    I’ve Often Wondered,Did The Dursleys Stick Harry in The Closet Under The Stairs as Soon as They Got Him as a Baby?

    • @dakotamartinez8310
      @dakotamartinez8310 4 роки тому +10

      That would be awful.

    • @dylanjayabahu2878
      @dylanjayabahu2878 4 роки тому +15

      And how did he learn to talk - did they actually teach him?

    • @cjhs2006
      @cjhs2006 4 роки тому +3

      @@dylanjayabahu2878 Good Question

    • @conserztasfia0078
      @conserztasfia0078 3 роки тому +9

      And also did petunia fed harry with her own hands when he was young
      Or start singing lullaby when he was crying???

    • @conserztasfia0078
      @conserztasfia0078 3 роки тому +5

      @@dylanjayabahu2878 well u kinda learn how to talk by listening to others
      But how did he learn to write bruh
      Did he ever been to a school or something

  • @scombs6543
    @scombs6543 6 років тому +179

    Ben: He physically takes the wand from Malfoy? Master of the Elder Wand!
    Harry: It's mine.
    Me: 🤣🤣

    • @yesyesyes5827
      @yesyesyes5827 5 років тому +2

      Scombs 654 read the books such an idiot comment

    • @Hydrastic-bz5qm
      @Hydrastic-bz5qm 5 років тому +2

      @@yesyesyes5827 it's not an idiot comment. I have read the books.

    • @yesyesyes5827
      @yesyesyes5827 5 років тому +2

      People stole the elder wand became the master so the same principle. Harry stole Draco’s wand Draco was the master of the elder wand therefor it changed over to Harry

    • @Hydrastic-bz5qm
      @Hydrastic-bz5qm 5 років тому +8

      @@yesyesyes5827 Harry did not steal the elder wand, he stole malfoy's typical hawthorn wand. He did not prove that he was a better wizard than Draco, and it doesn't make sense that the elder wand would care about the fate of a different wand.

    • @yesyesyes5827
      @yesyesyes5827 5 років тому +1

      Hydrastic 12117 it’s the same principle! Off course it would the elder wand changes hand to hand by stealing of wand strength of individuals and killing. Yes he did steal the elder wand but if the wand was in his presents he would ofbtherefor it changed hands

  • @MK00040
    @MK00040 5 років тому +563

    How Ron just suddenly happens to be able to talk parseltongue and open the Chamber of Secrets because Harry talks in his sleep. Yeah sure

    • @Lollaksyotuube
      @Lollaksyotuube 5 років тому +21

      Read the books.

    • @MK00040
      @MK00040 5 років тому +5

      @@Lollaksyotuube i have

    • @Lollaksyotuube
      @Lollaksyotuube 5 років тому +9

      @@MK00040 So you know how he really learns it?

    • @MK00040
      @MK00040 5 років тому +12

      @@Lollaksyotuube i forgot if he learnt it in a different way in the books, but that's besides the point, the way he learnt it in the movies is so lame and lazy writing

    • @Lollaksyotuube
      @Lollaksyotuube 5 років тому +21

      @@MK00040 Yes, the movie was bad, but books are canon.

  • @micheletuesday
    @micheletuesday 6 років тому +46

    Two of your points that I've also wondered about dozens of times: Firstly, Hermione's parents. She boasts about going skiing, then turns up at grimauld place "Mum and Dad are a bit disappointed but I've told them that everyone who is serious about the exams is staying to study. They want me to do well, they'll understand."
    Well apart from the fact that she flat out lied to her parents (because she's not staying at school to study but goes to grimauld place because ron's dad was almost fatally injured (which i'm sure IS an excuse that a mum and dad WOULD understand)) they could also be like "honey you can study at the ski resort, we'd actually be interested to see what it is you are studying!"
    Secondly, THE BLOODY BASILISK FANG!!!! My god Dumbledore KNEW he wasn't going to be around much longer, his priority HAD to be "Harry, that's what a horcrux is, he's got six of them, here's what i think they are and here's how you destroy them!" But no! He builds up eternally and then has no time left for the actual essentials. This is not, in the main, the fault of Harry's failure to ask, but a serious problem of Dumbledores priorities.
    Done.

    • @liamwhite3522
      @liamwhite3522 6 років тому

      Ah yes. Break the Statute of Secrecy and rules for underage magic while on a skiing trip. That'll surely be fine.

    • @micheletuesday
      @micheletuesday 6 років тому +3

      Liam White „Studying“ surely also includes studying out of books, doesn‘t it?

    • @nbriggs133
      @nbriggs133 6 років тому +14

      Breaking the statute of secrecy how? Her parents already know about magic...
      Which btw, is the incredibly stupid part about harry's trial before 5th year. He supposedly broke the statute of secrecy by casting magic in front of a muggle, who just so happened to be his cousin who already knew about magic. Always annoyed me how dumbledore never brought that point up, despite hanging on all the other technicalities.

    • @nbriggs133
      @nbriggs133 6 років тому +1

      Because those other people will be sneaking into hermione's room to look through her stuff? I mean hermione talks about studying magical stuff on other trips (for example the vacation to france summer before 3rd year) so its not like studying at a ski resort would be any different.

  • @LokiLoverForever99
    @LokiLoverForever99 5 років тому +134

    6:00 Someone is forgotting the book . . .
    They only had enough potion left for one person. Hermione uses it to be Bellatrix. Ron transfigured himself and Harry uses the cloak with the Goblin on his back.

    • @landlighterfirestar5550
      @landlighterfirestar5550 4 роки тому +8

      Actually that happened in the movie too (although they didn’t specify that they had run out), and I do believe that this particular usage isn’t too terrible

    • @mossripalextechno6450
      @mossripalextechno6450 4 роки тому +5

      Goblin is called Griphook

    • @Umamahh-iq1qp
      @Umamahh-iq1qp Рік тому

      transfigured into what ?

    • @alliyanasgalaxies
      @alliyanasgalaxies Рік тому

      ​@@Umamahh-iq1qpchanged himself a bit like grew a beard and some facial features

  • @oscarmontes3470
    @oscarmontes3470 6 років тому +153

    9:40 "I'm taking this from you.Which makes this mine too."
    😂😂😂

  • @bryannakellogg2029
    @bryannakellogg2029 6 років тому +142

    10/10 best part of the video "I'm taking this from you. Which makes this mine too!"

  • @CaptainMorghan4152
    @CaptainMorghan4152 6 років тому +127

    The thing that bothers me most about the books is that they end

    • @kingcarterico8860
      @kingcarterico8860 6 років тому

      TheCaptain it’s also the most traumatic part.

    • @LillyMoore
      @LillyMoore 6 років тому

      Ahhh same

    • @ethanhurley-love5301
      @ethanhurley-love5301 6 років тому

      TheCaptain too true

    • @gintorehotman3259
      @gintorehotman3259 6 років тому

      What bothers me is... ALMOST EVERY PIECE OF INFORMATION ABOUT THE WIZARD WORLD!!! JK Rowling is a great character builder but a horrible world builder so we all fall in love with the characters and don't notice that THE ENTIRE FRIGGIN WORLD OF FRIGGIN HARRY POTTER CONTRADICTS ITSELF. Thank you for your time.

    • @DRSDavidSoft
      @DRSDavidSoft 6 років тому

      Would read Harry Potter and the Nightmares of Future Past if you like a JKR quality unofficial continuation involving time travel.

  • @rekameszaros
    @rekameszaros 5 років тому +44

    The whole of the 7th book was just a big convenience.. like they happened to find the right things, always hear something to help them etc.

    • @fleetskipper1810
      @fleetskipper1810 4 роки тому +3

      There were a lot of loose ends to tie up, for sure.

    • @conserztasfia0078
      @conserztasfia0078 3 роки тому

      Its a fictional movie not real life so u can't expect logic in everything

    • @nibelsteiner929
      @nibelsteiner929 Рік тому

      yeah rowling definetely set herself up for a trap with the search for the horcruxes

    • @sawanna508
      @sawanna508 Рік тому

      On the other hand from time to times it takes them such a lot of time to come up with certain ideas. I knew right away the locket was exchanged by Rergulus Black at the end of Halfblood Prince. I would have gone way early to Godric's Hollow because I thought the sword or a horcrux maybe there (i was wrong in that case but it would have cut things shorter). -The sword of Griffndor by the way wasn't just found. Snape knew where they were because in the book they had the portait of Phinneas Nigellus with them.

  • @caityg3842
    @caityg3842 6 років тому +42

    Nice fresh video
    Hermione ignoring her parents has always pissed me off

  • @girlwithwifi1359
    @girlwithwifi1359 6 років тому +46

    "Number Seven: Time Turners..."
    Nuff said.

  • @ashwatinath6817
    @ashwatinath6817 6 років тому +76

    Where was Voldemort's wand hidden after he lost his coporeal form while trying to kill one year old Harry at Godric's Hollow? And how did he get it back some 12 to 13 years later on getting back a rudimentary body?

    • @hufflepuffoftime5842
      @hufflepuffoftime5842 6 років тому +5

      yeah, that's something that's not explained, that has bothered me...

    • @laila-vp9ee
      @laila-vp9ee 6 років тому +8

      Wow I never actually thought of that...... There would be no reason for pettigrew to grab it from the Potter’s house, because he thought Voldemort was dead.

    • @nancykasner9502
      @nancykasner9502 5 років тому +5

      Peter Pettigrew (his little pet rat) got it for him.

  • @GabbyPanda-og3pq
    @GabbyPanda-og3pq 5 років тому +75

    Here is something convenient:
    Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets:
    *Professor Sprout* These are mandrakes, and like Miss Granger said they can revive someone when they are petrified.
    Also Chamber of Secrets:
    *huge basilisk is in the school and the only thing that can revive you if you live through it is a mandrake*
    SOUND FAMILIAR?

    • @thathsaraamarasinghe6774
      @thathsaraamarasinghe6774 4 роки тому +1

      And, Harry and Ron KNOWS that ' Roosters are fatal to the basilisk but...
      nah. I'll just stab 'em with this sword!
      And nearly die

    • @TV-ly3dp
      @TV-ly3dp 3 роки тому +2

      @@thathsaraamarasinghe6774 well to be fair Ginny accidentally killed all the roosters

    • @thathsaraamarasinghe6774
      @thathsaraamarasinghe6774 3 роки тому

      @@TV-ly3dp Fair point, but still... they didn't even consider it

    • @conserztasfia0078
      @conserztasfia0078 3 роки тому +1

      @@thathsaraamarasinghe6774 bruh they did
      When they figured out they realized tom Riddle is getting rid of all roosters so that the basilisk is safe

  • @redpool5324
    @redpool5324 6 років тому +178

    I found it Convenient that the three rooms that guarded the Sorcerer Stone covered something one of the three kids were good at.

    • @highsharkpriestess8210
      @highsharkpriestess8210 6 років тому +9

      there were more than 3 rooms in the book

    • @redpool5324
      @redpool5324 6 років тому

      The fourth room doesn't count. It took no skill whatsoever, and I am not referring to the area with Fluffy because that was basically the entrance area.

    • @highsharkpriestess8210
      @highsharkpriestess8210 6 років тому +10

      Slade Wilson Fluffy was a room, The Devil's snare, the Keys, The chess, the potions riddle, and the final room with the Mirror of erised was dumbledore's final puzzle

    • @redpool5324
      @redpool5324 6 років тому +3

      The number of rooms doesn't make the set up any less conveniently.

    • @highsharkpriestess8210
      @highsharkpriestess8210 6 років тому +2

      Slade Wilson I wasn't saying that, I was just saying there's more than three rooms, man

  • @theleakyhorcrux535
    @theleakyhorcrux535 6 років тому +45

    The invisibility cloak! His parents just happened to have not just a regular cloak, but a cloak from Death himself!! I mean, in my opinion it’s very convenient given all the times he needs it.

    • @Libellulaire
      @Libellulaire 6 років тому +5

      Meh. This isn't really convenience. It's a family item given to every new generation in the Potter family. It also links a lot of things (Dumbledore's pursuit of the deathly hallows, Harry and Voldemort...) and they're not the only family with it.
      To be fair, the fact he has it and doesn't use it more often is more convenient: it's to make sure he gets caught so he can overheart something or be at the right place at the right moment.

    • @h.f.a.1221
      @h.f.a.1221 6 років тому +1

      The Leaky Horcrux well it’s because a male Potter happened to marry the female (and only) heir of Ignotus Peverell so...

    • @h.f.a.1221
      @h.f.a.1221 6 років тому +1

      The Leaky Horcrux and BTW Dumbledore’s theory is that the Peverells made the Deathly Hallows themselves

    • @theleakyhorcrux535
      @theleakyhorcrux535 6 років тому +1

      Gryffinclaw Galaxy still pretty convenient 😂

    • @h.f.a.1221
      @h.f.a.1221 6 років тому

      The Leaky Horcrux well we can judge a few of Joanne Kathleen Rowling’s choices (like when she said Harry was supposed to be with Hermione) and some we cannot...

  • @xander8574
    @xander8574 6 років тому +410

    Snape- Headmaster, I’m afraid the Dark Lord has returned
    Dumbledore- Are you serious?
    Snape-No, I’m Snape
    These puns are Neville gonna stop

  • @Liutgard
    @Liutgard 5 років тому +47

    I contend that there was no binding magical contract on Harry from the goblet. Why? Because Harry did not consent. For a contract to be valid, all parties must consent. And Harry did not put his name in the cup- Barth Crouch did. Someone else can't sign to contract with your name and have it be legally binding, which is basically what Crouch did. Harry didn't even know, much less enter the contest. I say Crouch Sr was wrong.
    Come to think of it, had Crouch Jr entered into that contract?

    • @river7757
      @river7757 4 роки тому +5

      Very true, and a very good point.

    • @hhdddd4282
      @hhdddd4282 4 роки тому +2

      Your correct but Dumbledore couldn't taje the risk that Harry entered his own name and lied. Because If that was the case he would die.

    • @tyronekracht461
      @tyronekracht461 4 роки тому +1

      But also remember that absolutely NO ONE that night believed that Harry did not put his name in except for Crouch Jr. (disguised as Moody). Even Crouch Sr. thinks that Harry did willingly enter so if they all believed he did it why would they let him back out of a contract.

    • @veronikaczr1105
      @veronikaczr1105 3 роки тому +2

      Okay, so if they didn't believe him, they could use veritaserum. Also, why do they rather believe he did it and broke the spells from Dumbledore than that it was someone older, more powerful and wiser? Doesn't make sense

  • @MayMay-jy9mr
    @MayMay-jy9mr 6 років тому +32

    how when hermione was being tortured she was lucky enough to have a obvious strand of bellatrix hair land on her. And this just happened to stay on her throughout the subsequent escape and burial despite not knowing they'd need to break into gringotts later. Although hermione being hermione probably thought ill keep this just in case

    • @entertain7us148
      @entertain7us148 6 років тому +3

      imma say that bitch had a weird stray hair fetish i mean whyd she keep millicent bulstrode's hair after she pummelled her back in 2nd year

  • @00juls00
    @00juls00 6 років тому +224

    How about the fact that Ron just happens to be fabulous at chess...and McGonagall just happens to transfigure chess pieces to protect the Philosopher’s Stone! 🤦🏻‍♀️

    • @SuperSonicBlur
      @SuperSonicBlur 6 років тому +13

      00juls00 also if Quirrel beat the chess game, did the pieces all repair themselves after the game? And WHY DID RON GET ON THE KNIGHT?! the piece was already there the only missing pieces were the bishop and rook.

    • @00juls00
      @00juls00 6 років тому +11

      Well you're specifically talking about the movie. Because there is no mention of Ron mounting the knight's horse in the book. But, yes, I assume the chess pieces fix themselves after they're beaten because Quirrel would have had to get passed them.

    • @backonlazer791
      @backonlazer791 6 років тому +2

      All of the puzzles seem to reset after someone gets past them, or maybe Quirrel just used black magic to bypass them.

    • @anushkapatil7813
      @anushkapatil7813 6 років тому

      That’s true but then Ron would be useless (no offense I love Ron too) ;)

    • @adamstryzlakyr2720
      @adamstryzlakyr2720 6 років тому

      00juls00 100th like

  • @taenithy4648
    @taenithy4648 6 років тому +170

    what always bothered me is that they CARRY the medallion horcrux around their necks because then they "will not lose it"... Put it in this bag hermione has after you found out the horcrux makes you think and do negative things. I mean that's exactly what they do with the Hufflepuff Cup. But they only put the Cup into the bag because (and that's written in the Book) "you can't carry it around your neck"... For real now?! If they stopped carrying the medallion things would have ended more and sometimes maybe less convenient.

    • @nicksutcliffe9623
      @nicksutcliffe9623 6 років тому +12

      Thank you for bringing this up, I specifically was looking to see if someone had even thought of this but in all the lists I've seen nobody ever thinks it's a plot hole! Hell, they could have buried it somewhere and returned when they found a way to destroy the horcrux; BUT NO, they had to wear (against their own knowledge that it would take advantage of them and manipulate them) and become depressing assholes. Thank you again Vee Vox for posting this, because if you didn't, I definitely was going to.

    • @backonlazer791
      @backonlazer791 6 років тому +7

      Plus they should have known that it can affect them considering what Tom's Diary did to Ginny.

    • @backonlazer791
      @backonlazer791 6 років тому +2

      Now that's just silly semantics =/

    • @ninatheinkling5748
      @ninatheinkling5748 6 років тому +4

      Vee Vox yeah, also harry had this bag where only he could grab things out of it.

  • @EmmersonSprocket
    @EmmersonSprocket 5 років тому +42

    Harry: "Give me your wand!"
    Draco: "Oh no, my enemy is trying to take my wand away from me, what am I going to d- oh no, he's taken my wand!"

  • @TheAshyAshton
    @TheAshyAshton 6 років тому +257

    With the whole business of the way Harry becomes master of the Elder Wand this is what JK herself had to say (its very long to be putting the a UA-cam comment, sorry)
    J. K. Rowling: I said to Arthur, my American editor - we had an interesting conversation during the editing of seven - the moment when Harry takes Draco's wand, Arthur said, God, that's the moment when the ownership of the Elder wand is actually transferred? And I said, that's right. He said, shouldn't that be a bit more dramatic? And I said, no, not at all, the reverse. I said to Arthur, I think it really puts the elaborate, grandiose plans of Dumbledore and Voldemort in their place. That actually the history of the wizarding world hinged on two teenage boys wrestling with each other. They weren't even using magic. It became an ugly little corner tussle for the possession of wands. And I really liked that - that very human moment, as opposed to these two wizards who were twitching strings and manipulating and implanting information and husbanding information and guarding information, you know? Ultimately it just came down to that, a little scuffle and fistfight in the corner and pulling a wand away.
    Melissa Anelli: It says a lot about the world at large, I think, about conflict in the world, it's these little things.
    J. K. Rowling: And the difference one individual can make. Always, the difference one individual can make

    • @pardissafari1815
      @pardissafari1815 6 років тому +1

      Zoe MacGregor +

    • @isaiahcaston4539
      @isaiahcaston4539 6 років тому +4

      Zoe MacGregor fuck I love her

    • @cannotfindcreativename7210
      @cannotfindcreativename7210 6 років тому +4

      Damn.. thats such a nice way to put it

    • @Arinaretina
      @Arinaretina 6 років тому

      Well, more like a difference a chance encounter can make

    • @entertain7us148
      @entertain7us148 6 років тому +6

      absolutely, I always thought it was brilliant that that's how Harry came to possess it. I mean, it's classic mystery construction: you're intentionally NOT supposed to think of that moment with the two boys wrestling as important, because its significance is only revealed at the end of the book. I like how the most subtle, natural moments are the ones that truly have the most dramatic impact in terms of the story. It's one of the things I've always loved about Harry Potter. At its heart it's about a young, humble man who is just trying to survive and protect his loved ones in a world that's tearing itself apart and has no sense of self-grandiosity or need for power to speak of.

  • @lassihavukainen584
    @lassihavukainen584 6 років тому +225

    For example, in the dueling club, do you win over your opponent wand when disarm them

    • @vermontvampyre
      @vermontvampyre 6 років тому +26

      Lassi Havukainen yep you do...but I think when you hand it back you "relinquish" it back to its original owner and it acts as if it was never won. ...or maybe it can only be won in a REAL fight? Maybe wands know the difference between deuling club and a duel for dominancy?.

    • @TheIceQueen
      @TheIceQueen 6 років тому +5

      I think you win somebody's wand when you take it from them, it doesn't matter if it's magically taken or physically taken and handing it back to them relinquishes the ownership

    • @lassihavukainen584
      @lassihavukainen584 6 років тому +2

      But in the deathly hallows, when Harry just takes the wand from Draco, it changes it's ownership to Harry.

    • @lassihavukainen584
      @lassihavukainen584 6 років тому

      understandable

    • @MerkhVision
      @MerkhVision 6 років тому +7

      No no, most wands are loyal to their owners no matter what (though some, like Draco's will switch under certain circumstances). In general, the Elder Wand was the only one that changed ownership so easily. It always wanted to be near the strongest person.

  • @Ala-Stair
    @Ala-Stair 6 років тому +787

    "Calmly" we all know what I mean.

    • @armadillolover99
      @armadillolover99 5 років тому +50

      That doesn’t really have anything to do with this video…but yes.

    • @laurah5998
      @laurah5998 5 років тому +22

      _DID YOU PUT YOUR NAME IN THE GOBLET OF FIRE_

    • @GabbyPanda-og3pq
      @GabbyPanda-og3pq 5 років тому +23

      if we didn't know what you mean we're not true Potterheads ;P

    • @andydbr2969
      @andydbr2969 5 років тому +21

      HAAARRAY DIDJA PUT YAH NAME INTO DA GOBLET OF FYAH?

    • @allaboutalice8543
      @allaboutalice8543 5 років тому +15

      @@GabbyPanda-og3pq I mean u can still be a potterhead if you didn't watch the movies. The books are the real thing

  • @keegan6448
    @keegan6448 5 років тому +65

    I find it so strange and convenient that Harry is allowed to play Quidditch in his first year. “Well, Harry, first years can’t play Quidditch-except for you! Here’s a broom, now skip class and learn how to play! Yup, I’m sure no teachers will jinx your broom in a game, and this will never help you access a secret stone that we hid from students!” Like really?

    • @keegan6448
      @keegan6448 5 років тому +14

      Also, why didn’t Cedric and Harry just grab the cup when they reached the graveyard? They were like “Well we’re in this creepy graveyard and the way back is right there... let’s stay!” 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

    • @alf1306
      @alf1306 4 роки тому +9

      @@keegan6448 because they didnt know it was a two way port key

    • @pansexualsimmer8384
      @pansexualsimmer8384 4 роки тому +3

      SaintAlf I mean they could’ve easily just tried it because why not

    • @TV-ly3dp
      @TV-ly3dp 4 роки тому +1

      @@alf1306 Also Harry just Accios the cup to him so he obviously knew that the cup was a two way port key or something like that

    • @CaliCosmicGal
      @CaliCosmicGal 3 роки тому +3

      @@TV-ly3dp No he didn’t he was told that

  • @sassigal1327
    @sassigal1327 6 років тому +33

    The fact that 3 first years could just use a simple unlocking spell to get past the door were fluffy was why was there no other protection on the door they trust the kids to behave to much XD

    • @TheYasmineFlower
      @TheYasmineFlower 6 років тому +6

      No, they just don't care at all if any of them get killed. Why else would Dumbledore warn the students that they could die if they go there, but then put up only a locking spell that a first-year could undo? Those are children and teenagers, so that's basically putting up a sign that they SHOULD go there and test their courage and get eaten.
      Maybe it's how he saves money on buying food for Fluffy, but really...

  • @KageTaylor
    @KageTaylor 6 років тому +56

    In the prisoner of Azkaban, when Harry, Sirius, and Hermione are all about to receive the dementors kiss and get saved by the time traveling Harry, i want to know what would have happened if the dementors performed the kiss on him. He has a piece of Tom riddles soul in him and his own complete soul, would the dementors kiss remove his whole soul, the fragment of riddles, or both?

    • @keyproductions100
      @keyproductions100 6 років тому +4

      think about this, harry originally died by werewolf bite in the original time line, that's why harmoine uses the time turner, when she makes the werewolf sound, harry says "what are you doing" and she replys "saving your life" LOL

    • @KageTaylor
      @KageTaylor 6 років тому +4

      keyproductions100 that's actually pretty hard to find an arguing point on lol. Even though we never see that play out in the movie or books, we always know Hermione makes the werewolf call to lure lupin from attacking Harry. The first time he probably was killed

    • @hazelmykitten1067
      @hazelmykitten1067 6 років тому +14

      Everything already happened. A Time Turner is just a device that helps complete what already happened. There is no "orginal timeline".
      When Dumbledore is in the Hospital Wing with Harry and Hermione, he says they can save more than one life tonight. He knows that because is already happened. He knew they were going to save Buckbeak because Buckbeak disappeared as Dumbldore, Hagrid, Fudge and the executioner were talking. They all saw Buckbeak and then when they stepped out of Hagrid's Hut, Buckbeak was gone. Dumbledore knew that Hermione had a time turner, and he must have had some idea of what was about to go down that night.
      The point is, it already happened. Time travel works differently in the Harry Potter Universe. (I don't consider Cursed Child Canon. It's painful for me to read.)

    • @katherinemorelle7115
      @katherinemorelle7115 6 років тому +2

      Hazelmykitten I agree- I see that time travel in the Potterverse works much the same way as in the Supernatural universe- when Dean travels back and tells his dad to get the impala, we already know that it must have already happened, because it’s the car Dean grew up in- you can’t “change the past”, simply going back means that time must have always worked that way.

  • @dadleyjenkins3194
    @dadleyjenkins3194 6 років тому +20

    Number one biggest thing that bothers me in Harry Potter. In the first book page 167 " referees have been known to vanish and turn up months later in the Sahrah desert" WHY? HOW OFTEN DOES THIS HAPPEN? I'M SO CONFUSED

  • @hopethisnamesnottaken
    @hopethisnamesnottaken 5 років тому +20

    How about the security measures for the philosophers' stone being essentially elaborate puzzels? They don't limit the circle of people with access to it to a specific group with official clearance but to anyone who possesses the skills to solve them. It they had just put a portrait or gargoile in front of it asking for a secret password (as they do with every other restricted room in the castle), backed up with some powerful spells to prevent forcefull entry, Quirrel wouldn't have stood a chance.

    • @mjfan8704
      @mjfan8704 4 роки тому +1

      Except, that was probably an elaborate scheme of Dumbledore's to 'test' Harry's character and what he would do to protect the stone. Check this video out for more details: ua-cam.com/video/cD-wyaMp4LU/v-deo.html

    • @fleetskipper1810
      @fleetskipper1810 4 роки тому

      Why didn’t they secure the philosopher’s stone in the ministry in the same room where the prophecies were kept?

    • @hopethisnamesnottaken
      @hopethisnamesnottaken 4 роки тому

      @@fleetskipper1810 Well, Flamel probably didn't want the ministry to get involved. He trusted Dumbledore not to abuse the stone

    • @az1202
      @az1202 2 роки тому

      Why not just put it within a Fidelius charm?

  • @wowPfil
    @wowPfil 6 років тому +67

    The thing that bothers me the MOST in the Harry Potter books is Dumbledores pencieve and memories in general. Why, just WHY do wizzards not use that bloody thing to prove things that might / might not have happend. e/i Serius being innocent, Harrys story about Voldemort, Harry at the trail in book 5, let alone the attempted torture by Umbridge... The more I think about this, the more it bothers me!
    Just had to get this off my chest.

    • @moldygoldy1772
      @moldygoldy1772 6 років тому +8

      Sebastiaan van Leeuwen possibly because you can meddle with your memories? Think about Slughorns memory. PLUS everyone has their own version of events, which would skew them as well.
      It just doesn’t seem very reliable.

    • @wowPfil
      @wowPfil 6 років тому +6

      I felt that way too, for a while, but then I thought of the tempered memory of Slughorn. It was fairly obvious what he did to that memory, whilst being a skilled wizard.
      But even if the memories are a bit skewed, some events are just too far fetched to be dreamt up by Harry.

    • @Debatra.
      @Debatra. 6 років тому +2

      And one of Marvolo Gaunt's memories Harry and Albus watch in the pensieve basically fades to black because Marvolo couldn't remember anything past that point.
      That said, that excuse wouldn't work for fresh memories. And is anyone seriously going to argue that Harry somehow modified his own memories? Even Umbridge probably wouldn't try that.

    • @monikas.6536
      @monikas.6536 6 років тому +8

      Even if the pencieve and memories weren't reliable, WHY DIDN'T THEY USE VERITASERUM?! It seems like a plot hole to me

    • @lunalovegood5632
      @lunalovegood5632 6 років тому +4

      Monika S. I have a hope that they tried but Sirius refused it, if they saw what happened then they would know he was an amnigus and Remus was a werewolf. Sirius just wanted to protect his only friend he had left.... okay time to cry now 😅😭

  • @raptorus7773
    @raptorus7773 6 років тому +143

    Incredibles 2 trailer is out, I know you will probably do it (probably, I mean more like Tuesday) but I really want to hear your thoughts.

    • @tannermoore9871
      @tannermoore9871 6 років тому +2

      Raptorus77 it worries me looks funny but still worrying

    • @raptorus7773
      @raptorus7773 6 років тому +1

      tanner moore all we can do is wait, and hope ;-)

    • @missbrightside1991
      @missbrightside1991 6 років тому +2

      trailer spoiler (if that's a thing!?) I love the fact that they make a movie about being a (super) dad JUST as Jonathan becomes a dad :D did any of you think of that? :D

    • @raptorus7773
      @raptorus7773 6 років тому +1

      maria højberg I thought of that too, can't be a coincidence ;-)

  • @luccabernardo145
    @luccabernardo145 6 років тому +28

    the thing with Draco's wand: don't you think that a wand, a magic artefact, capable of the most wonderful things, would be extremely "offended" by being simply taken from its master's hands? with no magic battle involved? I think that's why it changed allegiance, it was pissed with Draco's unwillingness to fight over for it.

    • @drogadepc
      @drogadepc 6 років тому +1

      Lucca Bernardo it's still too convenient
      what about all the history behind the wand? wizards killing wizards only because they wanted the allegiance of the Elder Wand... all of that when they could've simply taken the wand off of each other hands

    • @LillyMoore
      @LillyMoore 6 років тому

      oooh I like that!

    • @nbriggs133
      @nbriggs133 6 років тому +1

      Two problems with that theory. First, it was only physically taken from malfoy in the movie, the book version has harry simply disarming him with the standard expelliarmus. Second, while that explanation may hold water for the allegiance of malfoy's own wand, it doesn't do much to explain how that was enough to also pass along the ownership of the elder wand at the same time (an object malfoy supposedly owned, but never had physical possession of).
      Quite frankly the whole wand ownership thing as explained in book 7 is crazy, and would cause some serious issues if evenly applies throughout the entire series instead of just at the end. So really I just kinda accept it and move on, while tallying it up as very "convenient."

  • @ishka8835
    @ishka8835 6 років тому +60

    7:52 -
    Ben: "This isn't some random student, it's HARRY FREAKIN' POTTER -"
    Me: "- YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND, YOU'RE A LEGEND MAN - "

    • @רוניבןעזרא-ו6ש
      @רוניבןעזרא-ו6ש 5 років тому +5

      To us all
      Every son and daughter
      *SAFE!*

    • @mitchellcooper314
      @mitchellcooper314 4 роки тому +1

      Literally, the second I heard this the second I started to look in the comments section

    • @azzahrahanamayindra7253
      @azzahrahanamayindra7253 4 роки тому +1

      From You Know Who
      All because of you!
      You were small
      But i wonder if you recall...

  • @MrMordo85
    @MrMordo85 6 років тому +43

    I doubt i'd be able to last at Hogwarts... the lack of technology there would cause me to cry into my butterbeer as I scream "ACCIO WIFI" to no avail

    • @thesimslover82884
      @thesimslover82884 6 років тому

      i know right, I love technology. Gotta invent a spell that allows tech to work lol.

    • @KohakuAmber22
      @KohakuAmber22 6 років тому

      To be fair wifi and most tech that exists today did not exist in Harry's time at Hogwarts. Harry's time at Hogwarts started in 1991 and I can tell you computers definitely weren't common in most households and smartphones most definitely did not exist. If you want the Hogwarts of today you unfortunately have to look at Cursed Child as Albus Potter started school in 2017. I can't remember if any muggle tech was mentioned in that book though.

  • @reuben3588
    @reuben3588 6 років тому +173

    9:50. Did he just say k-nowledge??? How do I subscribe twice??

  • @ugolomb
    @ugolomb 6 років тому +19

    One of the things that bothered me was the notion of the continuous Imperius Curse. The Death Eaters gain control of "good" people for months and years on end using the Imperius Curse -- the most notable example being Pius Thickness. But doesn't that mean that the Imperiused individual has to be shadowed constantly, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, by the person who cast the curse? After all, as shown when Harry uses the curse (and has it used on him), the curse doesn't just say "Turn into a Death Eather" or whatever; the person casting the curse has to dictate his target's each and every action, down to the smallest details. That can work for a short time, or when the two people (curse-caster and curse-victim) are alone and in close proximity (e.g., the two Barty Crouches); but how the hell can it work on someone like Thickness for almost a year without a break? Not to mention that it is possible to fight the Imperius curse.
    I suspect even the script writers for "deathly hallows" were bothered by this; maybe that's why they turned Thickness from an Imperiused stooge to an outright, willing traitor. I actually found this idea much more satisfying, for many reasons.

  • @yousnatchedmyweave105
    @yousnatchedmyweave105 4 роки тому +60

    Dumbledore- You can’t undo death
    Time turner- let me save a bird

    • @macgyver42563
      @macgyver42563 4 роки тому +10

      I have a better one:
      Deathly Hallows:
      Voldemort: Avada Kedavra! HARRY POTTER IS DEAD!! (Funny laugh)
      Harry Potter: Surprise, Voldie!! You just activated my TRAP CARD!!!!
      Voldemort: WHUAAAAAAAAATTTT!?!?!?

    • @TV-ly3dp
      @TV-ly3dp 3 роки тому +4

      but in exchange pumpkin dies soooooooo yeah
      R.I.P Pumpkin fro Prisoner of Azkaban here is funeral
      ????-1993
      Edit: a fence gets hurt but never dies

    • @dothedo3667
      @dothedo3667 3 роки тому +3

      @@TV-ly3dp No it was just a fence.
      And I won't go into how wrong the original comment is.

    • @namehere7309
      @namehere7309 3 роки тому

      @@TV-ly3dp who is pumpkin

    • @TV-ly3dp
      @TV-ly3dp 3 роки тому

      @@dothedo3667 I wrote that before I saw the book

  • @Cassie-nd8kb
    @Cassie-nd8kb 6 років тому +62

    THANK YOU!!!!!
    For sooooo long I've wondered why Hermione would be the only friend (other than Harry) who actually goes to the Weasley's. They have seven kids. SEVEN. It just doesn't make sense.

    • @questionnaire8157
      @questionnaire8157 6 років тому +15

      This could be an explanation:
      -Ginny kinda sticks with Ron's friends
      -Ron... well, Ron's friends don't count in
      -Fred and George often worked on WWW together
      -Percy was focused on his work/studying and needed privacy
      -Bill and Charlie were abroad.
      Also Harry and Hermione weren't at the Barrow all the time, someone could've been there when they weren't.

    • @Cassie-nd8kb
      @Cassie-nd8kb 6 років тому +5

      Questionnaire Yeah, it could be, but if their were other people there, why did they never stay? Mrs. Weasley would be happy with having more people in her house.

    • @questionnaire8157
      @questionnaire8157 6 років тому +2

      Cassie 5000 Well, fixing a plot hole is tough stuff

    • @Cassie-nd8kb
      @Cassie-nd8kb 6 років тому

      Questionnaire That it is

    • @ninatheinkling5748
      @ninatheinkling5748 6 років тому +4

      Questionnaire fred and georg did have friends also they often didnt work on there tricks and hung out with each otger or ron and harry.

  • @unicornilluminati9019
    @unicornilluminati9019 6 років тому +421

    7:56 YOU'RE HARRY FREAKING POTTER ♪

    • @Rowbacca
      @Rowbacca 6 років тому +16

      I thought the exact same thing! And then I wanted to watch the Very Potter Musicals again lol

    • @lemoncakekitten510
      @lemoncakekitten510 6 років тому +1

      Just Z's Stuff lol lol lol lol lol lol 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

    • @anastasialivanos2240
      @anastasialivanos2240 6 років тому +2

      i opened a new tab with AVPM to watch when the video ended 😂

    • @cash_machi0896
      @cash_machi0896 6 років тому +3

      Just Z's Stuff I WOULDN'T WINCE AT ALL YOU'RE INVINCIBLE FROM ALL HARM- .....no ok wrong vid bye...

    • @tjhammer1792
      @tjhammer1792 6 років тому +2

      same!!!!!!

  • @zoez5680
    @zoez5680 6 років тому +151

    What about Ron showing up just in time to save Harry when he jumps into the cold water to get the sword 🗡

    • @thomasraines1396
      @thomasraines1396 6 років тому +5

      Zoe z the Deluminator was a plot device that up until that point was nothing but a magical flashlight.

    • @zoez5680
      @zoez5680 6 років тому +4

      Thomas Raines that still doesn’t explain the fact that Ron shows up at the right time when harry is about to die

    • @thomasraines1396
      @thomasraines1396 6 років тому +6

      Zoe z it’s what referred to as a Deus Ex Machina.

    • @paulosline7300
      @paulosline7300 6 років тому +16

      I think Ron said that he was around them long time before the lake incident but he couldn't find Harry and Hermione because of her protective spells. And when Harry went for the sword, it was the first time that he was out of these spells. So ron first saw the patronus doe and after that he found Harry. Not so convenient...at least for Ron. ^_^

    • @marleyfagin4921
      @marleyfagin4921 6 років тому +2

      Person 12 both Harry and Ron were lead to the same place by the patrons

  • @MagisterWigbo
    @MagisterWigbo 4 роки тому +60

    The most convenient thing to me was when everyone thought Sirius Black betrayed the Potters and he denied it and then no one believed him... No wait, that didn't happen, because he definitely could have convinced Dumbledore OR Lupin of his innocence if he made any effort at all... The most convenient part was when after Pettigrew blew up a bunch of people and made his escape, Sirius also fled the scene to track down Pettigrew. No wait, that didn't happen either, he just sat there and waited until the authorities came to arrest him, laughing the whole time (for why?) and then let them take him to wizard jail, never once proclaiming his innocence.
    No wait, the MOST convenient thing was when they finally capture Pettigrew and are marching him back to the castle but oh no, it just happens to be a full moon and now Lupin has transformed into a werewolf again, allowing Pettigrew to escape in the distraction. That was literally my least favorite part of the entire series because it was such a cheap copout way for Pettigrew to escape.

    • @lottik9728
      @lottik9728 4 роки тому +10

      I always thought that Sirius let himself get caught because he felt guilty, since it was his idea to change the secretkeeper and so he blamed himself for the death of the Potters
      and I think him laughing was just his way of coping, as he started to realize what happened he just kinda reacted that way, also he might thought that there's nothing he can do to convince people he actually is innocent

    • @mattblakeley1608
      @mattblakeley1608 4 роки тому +10

      Yeah why didn't Hermione just go back a few hours and tell Lupin to take his medicine... then they wouldn't have to do anything else.

    • @clowningmywaytomcdonalds6679
      @clowningmywaytomcdonalds6679 3 роки тому +3

      Matt Blakeley you do realize that the potion only relieves the pain? It doesn’t stop the transformation I’m pretty sure.

    • @Duckerbee
      @Duckerbee 3 роки тому

      It's...pretty obvious - Gilderoy Lockhart

    • @owenjames8575
      @owenjames8575 3 роки тому +3

      @@clowningmywaytomcdonalds6679 it keeps him in his right mind. so they would have had an ally werewolf

  • @ahsoka_tano_98
    @ahsoka_tano_98 6 років тому +88

    Laughed so hard about J's little performance!!! I think it's super convenient that no one looked the basilisk directly in the eye, and that Moaning Myrtle is the only ghost that can move stuff, usually water, it's just not according to the previously set rules!!

    • @MaryJMajesty
      @MaryJMajesty 6 років тому +2

      Actually as far as I know all ghosts can create disturbances in certain materials like water, but no ghosts other than Myrtle like diving into toilets.

    • @ahsoka_tano_98
      @ahsoka_tano_98 6 років тому

      TodesBrot I believe that no other ghost moves/can move anything whatsoever, they never do, but Myrtle even turns on the taps to flood the bathroom several times, that's just not possible!!

    • @MaryJMajesty
      @MaryJMajesty 6 років тому

      "They pass through solid objects without damaging themselves or the material, but create disturbances in water, fire and air.", taken from the Harry Potter wiki, as reliable as that may be. I don't remember Myrtle turning on taps though. Which book did that happen in? I always thought in Chamber of Secrets she flooded the bathroom by diving into toilets a lot and making them splash, but I don't recall the book specifically saying how she flooded the bathroom. I might be misremembering though.

    • @ahsoka_tano_98
      @ahsoka_tano_98 6 років тому

      I found the exact same quote on Pottermore, so it's reliable. I've mixed up the movie and the book, in the movie Chamber of Secrets Myrtle has turned on all the taps after the diary was thrown at her. In the book no taps are mentioned, although it isn't said where all the water comes from:
      "A great flood of water stretched over half the corridor, and it looked as though it was still seeping from under the door of Moaning Myrtle's bathroom. ... It was dark in the bathroom, because the candles had been extinguished in the great rush of water that had left both walls and floor soaking wet. ... 'Don't ask me,' Myrtle shouted, emerging with a wave of yet more water, which splashed onto the already sopping floor."
      How could she have gotten so much water on the floor? By splashing in and out of the toilet a lot of times perhaps, but because I had the movie in mind, I assumed she had turned on the taps...

    • @MaryJMajesty
      @MaryJMajesty 6 років тому +2

      Ah, the good old movies, changing lots of things around, like not changing a character's voice when they've taken polyjuice potion, which totally doesn't create plot inconsistencies. And maybe Myrtle just flew into the toilet nearest to the door and had incredible aim to make the water splash toward and subsequently under the door? It's reeeaaally convenient plot wise, like you've said, no matter how you look at it.

  • @Hinatachan121
    @Hinatachan121 6 років тому +21

    1. House Elves being able to apparate in or out of places that wizards can not.

    • @TheYasmineFlower
      @TheYasmineFlower 6 років тому +2

      But that actually makes sense if you think about it. House-elves basically have the powers of gods! Whatever they want to do (since they want to follow orders), they CAN do. House-elves should be the dominant magical race. They are literally all-powerful. If someone had ordered Dobby to be impervious to knives, he wouldn't have died either.

    • @curiouslytot1950
      @curiouslytot1950 6 років тому

      Milo O'Rourke Yes It did. Kreature’s ability to apparate out of the cave when called is how sirius’s brother got the locket. It’s how kreature and Dobby were able to apparate and sneak around the castle too

    • @curiouslytot1950
      @curiouslytot1950 6 років тому +1

      Milo O'Rourke It’s also how Dobby got everyone out of the Malfoy’s home in book 7...

  • @tekla9035
    @tekla9035 6 років тому +18

    Especially the Hermione one. I’ve never understood why she would spend like only a month with her parents if they love her so much. In one book she was going to go skiing with them, then just decides not to.

    • @Libellulaire
      @Libellulaire 6 років тому +1

      Like someone else said, I think it's to show how further apart they're getting.
      I think it shows how she's so into the wizard world and magic, she doesn't have interest anymore for the normal muggle world. She'd rather spend time reading more amazing things, discover amazing magic, than spend some chill time with her parents.
      They also probably don't have much in common anymore.

    • @nbriggs133
      @nbriggs133 6 років тому +1

      The last time we really know for sure hermione spent a long time with her parents was the summer between second and third year. Before 4th year harry spends more than half the summer with the weasley's and hermione is there before him, 5th year she's with ron at headquarters basically immediately, same for being at the weasleys before 6th. Christmas every year after first she either spends at school or goes with the weasleys (5 and 6). Then summer before 7th she wipes her parent's minds.
      Slowly growing apart is one thing, but to basically completely separate from parents by the time your 13 is way over the top. Especially when they are supposed to have a very close relationship. Like, it just seems weird how emotional and broken up hermione is over wiping her parent's minds when she all but hasn't seen them for 4+ years by then anyways.

  • @kaicallewaert2059
    @kaicallewaert2059 4 роки тому +12

    Something I always wondered: Hagrid shows Harry how to get to Daigonally, but how did all the other students that didn't have parents who knew that get to Diagonally?

    • @jaklintahmasian4494
      @jaklintahmasian4494 3 роки тому +6

      Someone from Hogwarts goes to the muggle borns house like Hagrid goes to Harry to explain the Wizarding world and tell them how to get to Diagon Alley. They also get a small amount of money for their supplies ( Harry didn’t bc he had his paren ta money they left him)

  • @Fayanora
    @Fayanora 6 років тому +109

    Stuff that bothered me about the books... 1. "Troll in the dungeon!" "Let's send everyone back to their common rooms, even though two Houses have their common rooms in the dungeon!" 2. Hermione lying about having gone after the troll on purpose. Like, why did she do that? She could have gotten in a lot of trouble saying that, a detention or suspension or worse, while the truth was simply "Oh Hermione is crying in the bathroom, we should go find her." Like yeah, they should have asked a Prefect or teacher to find her instead, but still, they wouldn't have gotten in near as much trouble for that as Hermione COULD have gotten in for running off to fight a mountain troll on her own. 3. The fact that a bunch of first years could easily get into and past the series of traps "protecting" the Philosopher's Stone. Like, why not at least lock the door in such a way an alohamora wouldn't work? Even colloportus would have kept most students out of there. (And I'd be very surprised if Fred and George, at least, didn't also go in there to check it out before the Trio did.) 4. "Only the person who wanted to find the stone but not use it could get it." Things wrong with this: A. It means Voldemort could have popped out of Quirrell long enough for Quirrell to get the Stone for his master since Quirrell wasn't the one who was going to use it. (If not, how would Dumbledore be able to get it out for Flamel to use?) B. It means Voldemort could have, if he'd figured out how it worked, grabbed any random kid to get it for him. 5. Putting the Philosopher's Stone IN A BLOODY SCHOOL when the most dangerous Dark Lord in modern history wanted it! Likewise, putting a cerberus IN A SCHOOL without even properly locking the door or, I dunno, putting an age line around the door! Seriously, why wasn't Dumbledore fired for this???

    • @totemartiste9436
      @totemartiste9436 6 років тому +9

      Fayanora Ahnabahn Every... things that bother in the first book you mean?

    • @luciacardosoveloso9458
      @luciacardosoveloso9458 6 років тому +1

      About the stone, I think you needed to know that it existed and STILL not want to use it, none of the students knew it existed and even if they found out who wouldn't want to use it?

    • @lunawroblewski
      @lunawroblewski 6 років тому +4

      Ok, everything else aside, Hogwarts is a really bad school. Like I'd be scared to go or send my kids to a school like that. My therapist is a fan too and we legit spent a session talking about this

    • @BrianStorm742
      @BrianStorm742 5 років тому +3

      Now do the other 6 books.

    • @generalcow3000
      @generalcow3000 5 років тому

      Ravenclaw-tower griffindoor-tower Hufflepuff-by the kitchens Slytherin-dungeon. How are there two in the dungeon?(I just said something almost entirely unrelated, didn’t I?)😂😂

  • @peterstuart6817
    @peterstuart6817 6 років тому +18

    Ya know what seemed most convenient for me? The fact that hermoine somehow knows literally anything that can get them out of a bad situation... And we just assume she's read it somewhere and go with it.

    • @djmccarthy2352
      @djmccarthy2352 6 років тому +3

      Havent you read Hogwats: A history

    • @peterstuart6817
      @peterstuart6817 6 років тому +1

      Well, I picked up some of it in History of Magic class... When I wasn't asleep.

  • @chloebailey7940
    @chloebailey7940 6 років тому +8

    In regards to number ten, “Harry’s lack of living relatives”, it’s not just that he has no one other than the Dursley’s to take him in, but that Dumbledore wanted to have him grow up away from fame in the muggle world and with someone who shared Lily’s blood. This leads to few options and as Petunia also had a son Harry’s age, Dumbledore had hoped that they would treat them as their own.

    • @kevintyson1947
      @kevintyson1947 6 років тому

      Chloe Bailey THANK U. I swear I read somewhere that Harry had some very distant magical relatives (like a 2nd or 3rd cousin removed) but Dumbledore wanted Harry to be under immediate family and to have that love protection spell shit

    • @cOmAtOrAn
      @cOmAtOrAn 6 років тому

      I always got the impression that Voldemort murdered all of Harry's wizarding relatives while he was trying to figure out where Harry was.

  • @jesshannon1033
    @jesshannon1033 5 років тому +127

    Did you - did you just say Knowledge pronouncing the “K”?
    I- love that?
    9:51

    • @jamescunningham4268
      @jamescunningham4268 5 років тому +11

      Was looking for this comment 😂

    • @skribblet.
      @skribblet. 5 років тому +8

      That's like how some people pronounce the k in knife just for fun. Some people pronounce the p in pterodactyl for fun.

    • @bur2576
      @bur2576 5 років тому +8

      It's a reference to how their monetary coin is pronounced

    • @juliarivera6071
      @juliarivera6071 4 роки тому +5

      @@bur2576 As well as the K-night Bus

    • @momoslayedtbh
      @momoslayedtbh 4 роки тому +4

      @@juliarivera6071 and also K-Nut (Knut)

  • @onesimplefeather5948
    @onesimplefeather5948 6 років тому +386

    Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets:
    THERE’S A SNAKE IN MY BOOT!!
    Hey look Harry, I can spell my own name and change the letters to make more words!
    Uh, oh, Ginny’s nearly dead, better work fast!
    Hah! I just stabbed you in the book Tom!
    Oooh!! A shiny bird!
    Crap. Hermione was right again.
    Oh right, lockhart’s still loopy.
    Whoops. Sorry Dumbledore.
    Hey Lucius! Look at this book!
    Dobby, hold this book.
    A SOCK! DOBBY LOVES SOCKS!!
    IMMA KILL YOU POTTER!
    Nope, dobby to the rescue.
    DOBBY IS A FREE ELF!
    And they all lived happily ever after! The end.

    • @brittlediamond
      @brittlediamond 6 років тому +8

      that's a seriously underrated comment :v

    • @evelynhoniotes9850
      @evelynhoniotes9850 6 років тому +5

      Funny but no one disrespekts hary potter

    • @thegreatck7088
      @thegreatck7088 6 років тому +4

      Evelyn Honiotes *Harry

    • @mariosnt
      @mariosnt 6 років тому +1

      Lorinda Brooks α

    • @ldtobi1
      @ldtobi1 6 років тому +1

      Lorinda Brooks what about the start of the story

  • @samreese4228
    @samreese4228 6 років тому +20

    Ok, on the Marauder's Map: everything except Peter Pettigrew makes sense.
    I like to think about the map as a computer, where the incantations that make it work are its code. Every person in the world has their own aura that the map can understand and output. However, if the map sees two variables, when it should only see one (like with an animagus/pollyjuice user), it will probably read the second variable, not the first. Think of it like the second is writing over the first. So, with that said, whenever an animagus is in human form, they would show up on the map, but otherwise be invisible because animals don't show up on the map. The reason I believe this is how the map is supposed to function is the authors of the map: loony, wormtail, padfoot, and prongs, aka the animagi of Hogwarts, aka the trouble makers. If the map was confiscated, they wouldn't want to be seen when transformed, so they could still sneak around. When Sirius shows up, he's out of his animagus form, because he just appears then disappears after a few steps, turning back.
    This is why Peter is an issue: he says that he'd been stuck in the form of a rat for YEARS, as in he wasn't able to change back, as in he couldn't have been seen on the map.
    Now lets go back to the pollyjuice potion. If I remember this correctly, and I'm only going from the movies with this (and I haven't seen anything besides fantastic beasts in the last two years), Barty Crouch Jr shows up when he's in the woods, assumedly killing his father, Barty Crouch Sr. Now, Sr's corpse in the movie was very shocked and frightened. If Jr had just killed him as Moody, there wouldn't have been any threatening and Sr wouldn't have seen it coming, making his face normal upon death. But, if Jr had purposely changed back, Sr would've had the reaction we saw. Then Jr could've just taken another swig of potion and been on his way. But if the user of the map had been watching at the exact time Jr was Jr, they would've seen him on the map and not Moody. (The whole thing with the second variable would work with pollyjuice, since it's supposed to fully mask the individual as the person being changed into.)
    Oh, and another quick thing: thinking of it as a computer, the map is refreshing probably ever millisecond or so, as we can see every individual footstep. This would mean that any "glitch" would be refreshed with the map. So yes, theoretically the spell could malfunction every once-in-a-while and show peter or anyone else, but the glitch wouldn't last more than the refresh time, unless it magically (ha) happened multiple times.
    So basically, Peter never should've showed up, and saying that it was a glitch of the map is too convenient and almost impossible. However, Sirius and Barty Jr both make perfect sense, with some assumptions.

    • @curiouslytot1950
      @curiouslytot1950 6 років тому +2

      Defective Chaos Just throwing this out there, nearly all victims of the killing curse are said to have the look of shock and horror on their face. I think it’s the way they die that causes it. Hope that helps with you figuring it out.
      In the book (not the movie with you were going by), Jr was seen in snapes office on the map stealing ingredients for the potion since he was slowly running out. Peter was never seen by Harry on the map. Lupin was the one who claimed he saw him with Harry and Ron while he was in rat form.
      I think they can be seen in animal form; however, they were just never in the sections Harry was looking at at the time. He only had to look at the map when he was sneaking around and only in the areas he was at or was going. He octationally looked for teachers.. but Peter would have been in the boys dormitory at the time. Not in those places.

    • @coreyklaustermeier3244
      @coreyklaustermeier3244 6 років тому +1

      Well at least CERTAIN animals can be seen on the map because Harry could see Filch's cat Mrs. Norris.

    • @erubianwarlord8208
      @erubianwarlord8208 6 років тому +1

      Moony Wormtail Padfoot & Prongs the Authors for the map had their Marauder names when they made the dammed thing.
      peter was already an animagus so his signature would have included his rat form.
      as for confiscation the map insults if others try to force it to reveal its so security is as simple as
      "Mischief Managed" c:

    • @curiouslytot1950
      @curiouslytot1950 6 років тому

      Oh! I forgot to add that they never saw his body in the books. Barty turned his body into a bone and buried it so no one could find it.

  • @Lynnindy27
    @Lynnindy27 6 років тому +19

    I found it convenient for the plot that even though Dumbledore begins to groom Harry for his quest for the Horcruxes, he never explains ANYTHING! Ah, they're teenagers, they'll figure it out. Can't explain too much or there will be no plot to the next 3 books...
    I especially hate when Dumbledore takes Harry to retrieve the locket. Harry is just standing around while Dumbledore is puzzling out the test. For being a former teacher and head of a school, Dumbledore sure misses alot of opportunities to impart his years of experience and K-nowledge.

    • @hufflepuffoftime5842
      @hufflepuffoftime5842 6 років тому +1

      Yes, and when Dumbledore decides to not explain what to do when Harry and Hermione go back in time, ahhhh!

  • @spain_suchandandatta10
    @spain_suchandandatta10 4 роки тому +12

    It's awfully convinient that a school full of qualified wizards has a deadly room that can be opened with ALOHOMORA by a first year

  • @havvik3505
    @havvik3505 6 років тому +25

    how about the fact that in book 2, harry and Ron find the chamber, cool.
    AND DONT TELL A CAPABLE WIZARD ABOUT IT!
    "nope, we have Lockhart, we'll be fine"

    • @maddiesiegmund5623
      @maddiesiegmund5623 6 років тому

      when do these kids ever tell a capable adult about anything? lmao

    • @nbriggs133
      @nbriggs133 6 років тому

      Well McGonagall in first year about the stone, and they get blown off by her. Or the fact they seem to tell hagrid (kinda responsible...) about everything and he just constantly reassures them that everything's under control. Or McGonagall blowing harry off about umbridge in 5th year (admittedly a rather vague complaint), or dumbledore (and every other adult) about the malfoy situation in 6th year...
      I mean, they should probably keep trying regardless but I can't really blame them for not going to the adults, capable or otherwise, when that's their success rate.

  • @RedEveTillDawn
    @RedEveTillDawn 6 років тому +16

    “I’m taking this from you, which makes this mine too!”

  • @candelareboirastrincado3371
    @candelareboirastrincado3371 6 років тому +22

    The thing that bothers me the most is in the second book when Harry and Ron decide that the best thing they could do in King's Cross is flying to freaking Hogwarts instead of, idk WAITING FOR RON'S PARENTS? Like, Seriously?

    • @markuswilson872
      @markuswilson872 6 років тому +3

      Yes convenient thing how Harry Ron and hermoine find the trapdoor to the sorcerers Stone while hiding from Filich because they are in the second floor corridor because the stairs moved

    • @jsmukam
      @jsmukam 6 років тому +2

      the only answer i can give is that was for the PLOT. also, they're in GRYFFINDOR for a reason, not ravenclaw. they're adventurous and quick to action.

    • @candelareboirastrincado3371
      @candelareboirastrincado3371 6 років тому

      lovexjackie24 i understand what you say, but with that argument you could justify everything in the video. But yes, they trully are quick to action 😂

    • @TheYasmineFlower
      @TheYasmineFlower 6 років тому +2

      It would have even made more sense if they had just said "Should we wait for the adults?" - "Hell no, we can drive ourselves! Hellyeah!".

  • @emersoncurtin5045
    @emersoncurtin5045 6 років тому +7

    7:57 "it's Harry freakin Potter" don't tell me I'm not the only one who sang the song after that

  • @yourspudbud6024
    @yourspudbud6024 6 років тому +7

    Regarding the Marauder's Map, my sister and I were wondering how Fred and George figured out how to use it. We eventually came up with a theory that the enchantment on the map recognized them as fellow trouble-makers. It then proceeds to give them clues as to its use(much like it insulted Snape) so they could use it for mischief.

  • @carlrood4457
    @carlrood4457 6 років тому +21

    Well pretty much EVERYTHING that happens to Harry in the first book. Hagrid is sent to get Harry AND the Stone on the same trip, which just happens to be one day before the vault get broken into. Finding the Mirror. Every conversation with Hagrid (seriously, why would you tell him ANY secret?).
    I'd say its most convenient that Harry seems to always learn something new about the Wizarding World a few months before that information becomes critical to his story. I can accept it for the first or second book, but it keeps happening. Wouldn't introducing portkeys a couple of books earlier have made the whole thing less coincidental? Then there's the fact that one of the protections for the stone is something they teach in FIRST YEAR HERBOLOGY. Couldn't think of something a bit esoteric Sprout?

    • @rivereatswords
      @rivereatswords 6 років тому +2

      Carl Rood yep.
      Exactly

    • @carlrood4457
      @carlrood4457 6 років тому +1

      Even up to the last. He'd never heard of the Deathly Hallows. Here his dropped into this new and fantastic world and he seems to have zero curiosity or drive to learn anything other than what's dropped into his lap.

    • @curiouslytot1950
      @curiouslytot1950 6 років тому

      Carl Rood I agree with everything but the deathly hallows. The elder wand and cloak were there since book one. The stone gets introduced in book 6. Even in book one, Ron noted that the cloak was unlike any he heard of because it worked so well you couldn’t see any traces. There was something significant about it then. Besides that, I agree with you.

    • @curiouslytot1950
      @curiouslytot1950 6 років тому

      Carl Rood BUT I will say that Harry Potter as a character is a complete dunce. Most of the things he struggles to figure out were obvious 5 chapters ago :|

  • @aceramsey9364
    @aceramsey9364 6 років тому +21

    I feel like Expelliarmus's power went from like 4 in the first book to like 30 in the last one. Since when did expelliarmus make it so when you use it on somebody the wand changes owners?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

  • @ironking1774
    @ironking1774 6 років тому +211

    What bothered me is THAT IF DUMBLEDORE WAS PLANNING HIS OWN DEATH HE COULD HAVE TOLD HARRY EVEYTHIIINGG

    • @chrisconcannon6490
      @chrisconcannon6490 5 років тому +34

      And done it a lot more efficiently. He took months (with long breaks between sessions) to give Harry information that could have been dispensed all at once in hours or days at most.

    • @taniamanik2012
      @taniamanik2012 5 років тому +59

      Dumbledore didn't tell everything all at once because he was afraid that the whole plan would be spoiled if Voldemort got the opportunity to read his mind (plus Harry was bad at Occlumency). That's one of the reasons why snape or dumbledoee didn't tell directly to harry where the locket was but used a patronus to show him imstead.

    • @GabbyPanda-og3pq
      @GabbyPanda-og3pq 5 років тому +8

      you obviously haven't read the whole series, as everything comes together in the last three books

    • @MerkhVision
      @MerkhVision 4 роки тому +3

      No no, there was certain information that it was crucial Harry did not know ahead of time and had to realize for himself at the end. Otherwise it could derail the whole plan.

    • @candykittenlove2504
      @candykittenlove2504 4 роки тому +3

      I had reasons

  • @yonathantaye1797
    @yonathantaye1797 6 років тому +14

    In the seventh book, they had a large supply of Polyjuice Potion they stole from Mad-Eye... that's why they used it so many times in the Deathly Hallows

    • @naptimegaming1347
      @naptimegaming1347 6 років тому +1

      Yonathan Taye that's not the point, the point is that it became awfully convenient in all the later books for every single task.

    • @nbriggs133
      @nbriggs133 6 років тому

      It's stated that malfoy was seated directly in front of the polyjuice in that class, while the felix felicius was farther away. Also very convenient of an explanation, but it at least gives an excuse for that.

  • @elladavis5731
    @elladavis5731 6 років тому +24

    7:56
    Every AVPM Fan:
    You're Harry Freakin' Potter!
    We don't prefer Gandalf,
    Merlin, or Oz.
    You're a whole lot hotter!
    With that lighting scar,
    You're a superstar to us all!
    If we're in trouble, we know who to call!

  • @majinally3527
    @majinally3527 6 років тому +21

    the entire concept of voldy having a child(HOW) AND the cursed child as a whole still does not make any sense to me and i refuse to say its cannon

    • @daniellemalyn
      @daniellemalyn 6 років тому +1

      It's not. All of the Harry Potter books are written about things set in the past. The cursed child is in the future (relative to our current time). Therefore, it is just speculation (not to mention not being written by JK herselfmaking it fanfiction) about what happens in the future.

    • @majinally3527
      @majinally3527 6 років тому +1

      LittleMissDelle see that’s what i’ve always said! “it’s not written by jk so it’s fanfiction” but some people stiiiiilllll claim it’s cannon bc the book says “the 8th story continues” or something like that 😭😂

    • @zanicnight
      @zanicnight 6 років тому +1

      JK did write the Curse Child. Well, she was one of three writers who worked on the story and a four writer converted the story into a script. While other people were involved she is still credited as a writer.

    • @majinally3527
      @majinally3527 6 років тому

      Zanic Night and that’s why everyone says it’s cannon🤦🏽‍♀️😭

    • @majinally3527
      @majinally3527 6 років тому

      Milo O'Rourke which is such a weird concept to even think about bc it’s freaking voldy😭 the LAST person you’d think would even try to convince a child lol

  • @UzUMaK1-Lee
    @UzUMaK1-Lee 4 роки тому +8

    9:42 J: "I am taking this from u, which makes this mine too."
    Why did I love this part so much
    Also, 1) A deathly hallow that can show you dead people hiding inside of a Golden Snitch, which is pretty much used for quidditch all the time? Yep. 2) Ron loses the car in the Forbidden Forest, and it comes back at Harry and Ron's exact location just before they become an Acromantulas' appetizer? Sure, why not?

    • @sawanna508
      @sawanna508 Рік тому

      No, I don't think Snitchs are reused.

  • @LoreKeeperv01
    @LoreKeeperv01 6 років тому +21

    How Harry is remarkably well adjusted considering he grew up with the Dursleys...

    • @b.sylphaen
      @b.sylphaen 6 років тому

      THAT! Give Harry some anxiety problems, or make him at least a little awkward!

  • @maleksanteri
    @maleksanteri 6 років тому +31

    James and Lily were 21 when they died, they look like 35 years old in the movies, so like, what's the deal with that?!

    • @lunalovegood5632
      @lunalovegood5632 6 років тому +3

      B Rabbit terrible casting 😂

    • @breerosiey5056
      @breerosiey5056 6 років тому +1

      It's really sad because all it did is undermine the tragedy of their death.

    • @thesimslover82884
      @thesimslover82884 6 років тому +3

      Alan Rickman was casted, he's was older then the character that he was portraying. Having a young Lily and James, and an older Snape would be odd.

    • @thesimslover82884
      @thesimslover82884 6 років тому +2

      I don't think it does, a person being murdered is tragic, no matter their age. Not to mention a mother begging for her son's life. Lily is my favorite character, and the actress that portrayed her was great. Lily and James in the movies weren't old people, 35 is still young.

    • @mattblakeley1608
      @mattblakeley1608 4 роки тому

      Rickman and Oldman were also nothing like early 30s when they showed up in the movies. Thewliss's apparent early aging can be put down to his werewolf-ness I guess.

  • @hypocrite4318
    @hypocrite4318 6 років тому +149

    Ben
    Did
    You
    Just
    Say
    KNolage
    9:51

    • @quantumgirl3047
      @quantumgirl3047 6 років тому +8

      berlin he did it because of his previous video on the KNight bus! 😅

    • @hypocrite4318
      @hypocrite4318 6 років тому

      Quantum Girl I know

    • @hypocrite4318
      @hypocrite4318 6 років тому

      Quantum Girl it’s just funny

    • @quantumgirl3047
      @quantumgirl3047 6 років тому +2

      Oh I agree 😁 I wish he said “Knut” as well 😒

    • @hypocrite4318
      @hypocrite4318 6 років тому

      Quantum Girl lmao same

  • @spezz0253
    @spezz0253 Рік тому +3

    I actually really like that harry physically took the wand out of malfoy's hands. Like the thing malfoy has been raised to despise is muggles and harry actually takes the wand in a way that uses no magic at all. Seams very poetic to me.

  • @Lego-Joe-1
    @Lego-Joe-1 6 років тому +679

    i think the invisibility cloak is convenient.

    • @cathaldowd7971
      @cathaldowd7971 6 років тому +32

      Joseph Schroeder it's an integral part of the series and literally gives Harry half the information he has. They are books literally everything good is convenient

    • @Lego-Joe-1
      @Lego-Joe-1 6 років тому +14

      It is a one of the kind thing and Harry just gets it on his first year no less nothing can see him not even death if that's not convenient i don't know what is.

    • @darthxader1112
      @darthxader1112 6 років тому +2

      I agree

    • @archivist_13
      @archivist_13 6 років тому +8

      The most convenient thing in Harry Potter is Voldemort deciding to kill Harry and not Nevile because Nevile would have died. Also the fact that for no reason Wormtail some how finds out how to Animagi and can tell Voldemort about the Potters location.

    • @bayehrman1306
      @bayehrman1306 6 років тому +2

      I can’t believe they don’t use it more often. What about the Disillusionment charms - why didn’t they use that for Harry to leave the Dursleys the last time?

  • @Ediranii
    @Ediranii 6 років тому +19

    Do grown up wizards even have wands that belong to them? I mean being disarmed at school in dueling classes for example would leave a lot of people with resisting wands. When you start thinking about it, it kinda makes your brain hurt a little.

    • @poisonpotato1
      @poisonpotato1 6 років тому

      Ediranii I thought it was only the elder wand that did that

    • @abrissapfel4833
      @abrissapfel4833 6 років тому +1

      Ediranii i could imagine, that disarming somebody only wins you the wand if you use the disarming spell with the intention to weaken the other. in classes, you just disarm others because you want to learn a new spell, so i could imagine that there is a difference.

    • @jeannemorgan397
      @jeannemorgan397 6 років тому +1

      Since wands seem to have some kind of intelligence to them, I'm sure they can tell the difference between a real battle and a simple disarm training.

  • @TASHITE
    @TASHITE 6 років тому +32

    "kuh-noledge"...I'm dying.

    • @rosaliehale2501
      @rosaliehale2501 6 років тому

      Shinoharō・Tashite (しのはろお・たして) - Kuh-nuts - just saying

  • @unicornpower7626
    @unicornpower7626 5 років тому +13

    7:56
    YOU’RE HARRY FREAKIN POTTER! YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND, YOU’RE A LEGEND MAN TO US ALL

  • @akirachaossuta
    @akirachaossuta 6 років тому +135

    I would have accepted it if instead of saying “Harry talks in his sleep” he said “Harry taught me” it would have given him more development and showed off how skilled Ron is for learning a secret language. Also how good of a teacher Harry is at many things. Also a scene of Harry teaching Ron parsaltoung or even Harry learning more about Parsaltounge would have been good.

    • @Eunseo2984
      @Eunseo2984 5 років тому +8

      yeah, if i could just magically speak a secret language I would at least try and look it up,
      meanwhile Harry: "eh"

    • @SeraphimCramer
      @SeraphimCramer 5 років тому +26

      That was only in the movie. In the book, Ron learns that specific phrase because it's how Harry got the locket to open.

    • @kaylag5043
      @kaylag5043 5 років тому +13

      But harry isnt even completely sure how to do it. In Chamber of secrets he finds out he can do it but doesnt know why peoplecwere staring because he thought he was speaking english. He hears it as english but everyone else just hears hissing

    • @karmamarie2543
      @karmamarie2543 5 років тому +10

      The problem is parsaltongue is not learned language. It’s a genetic trait found in the descendants of Salazar Slytherin. Harry never learned how to speak it. He has to be triggered by either seeing an actual snake or an image of one and as we are told he can speak it only because of the horcrux in him. Once it’t gone he can no longer understand or speak to snakes. This is why I think Rowling just wanted to move the story along to get done with it and Bs’ed her way through something that made no sense. Really if it was something that could be studied and learned wouldn’t Snape have done so in the decade before Voldemort’s return. No one in any of the books thinks Snape is an idiot. They don’t like him but they never question his intelligence. Ron on the other hand barely scrapes by and really wouldn’t without Hermione. And we’re all expected to believe that he’s bright enough to master this? Yeah...No.

    • @WhatRemainsofNovaJames
      @WhatRemainsofNovaJames 4 роки тому +1

      What about the illuminator situation with Ron?