This fits her character perfectly. When hermoine claims that the carriage is pulling itself, Luna lets her believe it. To some degree, she’s always been in on the joke and was comfortable letting others believe she was crazy. She has nothing to prove. Great theory.
I always assumed she was right about everything. I always thought it was a hilarious joke that people living in a world of magic thought her claims were too outlandish.
@@erikhermansen3431 It's like when characters in a clearly magical setting don't believe in Santa or whatnot. Or, as has been pointed out before, people in Harry Potter not believing in fortune-telling. You tell me why it makes any sense that Divination is less believable than turning a desk into a pig.
@@erikhermansen3431exactly! You live in a world were your teacher turned himself into a couch and you yourself made a bag with infinite space,how is the existence of 1 or 2 more magical creatures (again in a world were unicorns and giants exist right next door to your school) is so weird?
I always though that "nargles" were mean, crazy, or annoying girls in Luna's language. She mentioned how mistletoe was filled with nargles and some girls during Christmas were always under mistletoe, she said that nargles took her things and we know that were the girls from her room that were being mean to her. So when I read the book I always thought that nargles were girls that Luna didn't like
Agreed. It's not uncommon at all for highly intelligent people to be a bit eccentric, and there's also a known link between high intelligence and mental illness. It's almost to be expected that really smart people might be a tad odd in some way or other.
@@pamela_fay - There's that too, but my point is that Luna being behaviourally different and having an atypical view of the world is pretty consistent with really smart people. I think, contrary to what some might think at first glance, that it affirms her belonging in Ravenclaw.
I saw a headcannon a while back about Charlie, who is also a lover of mysterious animals meeting Newt with similar questions. I would love to think that he and Luna, Rolf and other animal lovers have quietly built underground sanctuaries protecting fantastic beasts after the series was over.
I never understood why someone didn’t bring up that the thestrals take all the students to and from Hogwarts multiple times a year when Umbridge is complaining that they’re too dangerous for a lesson.
@@wsconsn and you're right but when the vast majority of the wizarding world sees them as omens of disaster no one will believe the few people who know they are actually friendly creatures
When I understood the best thing to do with a nasty person like that is keep your head down and stay out of the line of fire it’s not that you’re right or wrong. It’s that you’re not letting them exert their will unimpeded..
One thing that annoyed me about Hermione was that she literally spent all her time with Harry who consistently broke known magical laws all the time (eg his magical connection to Voldemort, etc.) and yet, she wouldn’t care to even consider something that goes against what’s in her textbooks seriously.
The way I've always seen it is that since she comes from a Muggle family, her whole worldview (magic isn't real) was totally shattered when she got her letter and because of that she's had to build a new one and in attempt to make sure that this one is right, she puts all her faith in those who broke her last one, because they must have the right one So for her, it's all about order in her mind - if the textbooks, the experts, say that it's possible than it is and if they say it's not then it's not I mean some might say "Magic is real - all fairy tales and everything I've ever heard could be true too" but Hermione is much too logical and methodical for that
@@samstromberg5593 Which is somewhat sad really. She's so determined to deny this reality might be wrong she's actually denying reality rather than it opening her to the possibility of things being different. She doesn't just do it with Luna its something she's still doing all the way through to book six. The books are right and never mistaken or outright lying.
Hermione's simply acting like a girl She's jealous of another girl that MIGHT know more than her She wants to be the one that knows the most Luna is a threat to that, and, if Luna takes her spot, a threat to the relationship that she has with the rest of the Golden Trio
@@bryancross8068 You know you didn't have to embarrass yourself, you could have just TOLD me you're an idiot and left it at that Hermione has NEVER been to PROUD to admit that she could be wrong. She puts too much faith in her books, but THAT'S her fault, not her pride. Luna has basically no proof of any other the things she believes - Hermione simply thinks she's an idiot. There's no element of pride of jealousy or fear to it. She just thinks Luna's crazy I'm also not sure how many girls you've ever talked to in your entire life but it's clearly not that many because "she's jealous of another girl that MIGHT know more than her" is not what "acting like a girl" means In fact I'm not sure there's ANY one action that you could describe as "acting like a girl" dude there's over THREE BILLION girls on the planet, there's too many to sum that up that easily Hermione also isn't that insecure - she's welcoming, and if she thought it's what Luna wanted, she would simply welcome her into the Trio and make her feel included. That's what she does with Ginny
@@samstromberg5593 yeah that's why when Harry finds the Half Blood Prince's potions book and starts using the handwritten recipes Hermione freaks out because she's following the book exactly and can't understand why Harry's potions are turning out so much better.
A lot of fanfiction is about Luna experiencing side effects from the spell that killed her mother. This could mean that she IS seeing creatures no one else can see.
I'm curious as to what spells her mother was experimenting with, what spell eventually killed her, what it was meant to do, and how it backfired. I'd like to know how this loss shaped Luna. I imagine that she and her father are exceptionally close.
I have the headcanon, that she often speaks in metaphorical in a way and people do not get it cause she can not verbalise as well... She is heavely autism coded
Part of what makes this character amazing is the casting of Eva. Not only is this, possibly the best casting ever done, but actually makes the character jump off the page in a way that is truly unbelievable.
Great point. I prefer the books (and also the wonderful audiobook read by stephen fry) over the (not bad in general) movies. But: I loved the movie luna in every second, the whole character is so adorably portrayed by evanna as if the book luna woukd be just a weak impression of her. This is so unique.... I mean, in the books she was a bit annoying and reminded me of a conspiricy theorist...but in the movies she was just adorable
Luna's a researcher. Just like her dad. They don't just talk and write about these creatures. They take elaborate trips to research them. Nothing but respect (and major crushing) for Luna.
The problem with Hermione in the books is she is too logical and too literal. Coming from a muggle background, the magical world is too foreign for her to believe unless she reads about it, and even then she can't imagine. Luna not only is Right, she always speaks the truth. Why lie? She's not interested in "attention". She's often picked on by her schoolmates, she gets enough (bad) attention as it is.
that and (book) Hermione is not really intuitive. Even in real life, "book learned" people often have a hard time looking past what they learn in books and applying it intuitively in real life. Everything is black and white to them.
Luna isn't my personal favorite character in Harry Potter (that would be Hagrid), but I think she's easily the most likable. She has an adorable innocence that nobody else does and I think Evanna Lynch elevated that a lot. She's just impossible not to love.
That's the only time she is cconfronting what she thinks is making fun of her. She is aware otherwise about people making fun of her, she says people call her Loony. But she stays in her character anyway.
@@ItBe_KantiI remember in the 1st book, he had a dream, I think it was his first night at Hogwarts, that gave a lot of clues to the plot. Unfortunately, he didn't remember the dream. However, that could be connected to the scar, since that was the first time he was in relatively close contact with Voldemort since he got his scar.
Fun Fact: Besides Dumbledore, Luna was able to identify Harry while he was still wearing the Invisibility Deathly Hallow thanks to detecting the wrackspurts infesting Harry’s head.
@@johng482 Not see through it exactly, she could just tell that it was him because of his mannerisms It's possible that she could see through it in the movies (though I didn't remember him polyjuicing the wedding in the movies at all) but in the books, he still LOOKED like someone else to her, but she could tell it was him because he SEEMED like him
@@samstromberg5593he didn’t Polyjuice during the wedding in the movie which is dumb cuz the whole reason they had him disguised in the first place was for his safety
Crumple-Horned Snorkack are way more real than narwhals I know that much! Also the only reason to ever add cereal to milk is if you still have milk left and you decide you want more cereal.
Fun fact about narwhals their horns was sold as unicorn horns in Victorian England, they were caught in Norway brought to Scotland (whose national animal is a unicorn) and sold as medicine good luck ect to wealthy English people
@@JasperPeters I can't seem to find it for the life of me but I promise I didn't hallucinate it. And I don't watch any other HP creators than SuperCarlin so definitely not remembering somebody else - they covered things like Ron joking that Voldemort killed Myrtle (he did) or that Harry will come into unexpected money (he then did)
I love your explanation for why some (most?) of the beasts from the films are not included in Newt’s book! Even things like Thestrals (which we only get information on from Hagrid and Luna) are hardly mentioned in the text and are bundled in with “winged horses.” J and Ben, please look at the footnote for the Lethifold, you will find mention to the namesake of a certain ward at Saint Mungos. 😊 PS love the Sweeney Todd reference!
I reading Order of the Poenix and couldn't be happier with the sheer amount of Luna I'm getting. She's my second favorite studant in the series. Favorite's Neville BTW.
The way he phrased "adding milk to cereal" or "adding cereal to milk" made me immediately imagine pouring milk into the cereal box and pouring cereal into the milk jug.
Luna was far and away my favorite character in the series. She believes in herself, never seeking or needing anyone's validation of her. That, in my opinion, makes her the wisest adolescent I have ever seen.
I think this series is about the downtrodden, the dismissed, and those cast out becoming heroes, challenging the status quo and systems of power. Luna challenges readers to not dismiss her, but to rethink and see things from a different point of view.
Honestly if you were ever gong to make the trio into Quattro Luna would be the perfect addition. She brings qualities that non of rhem have yet has qualities to match up with each one.
At 7:07 he jokes that Narwhals are made up fairy tale creatures, but one of my friends actually believed they were imaginary creatures until just a few months ago at the age of 22.
Hermione was never asked about the thestrals, it was only Ron Harry asked. Yet another thing they took away from Ron. She would definitely have known it already. She what they were when Hagrid introduced them to the class and I'm sure they would have been in Hogwarts a History
I am sure Hermione would have know about thestrals but I don't see any reason she would have connect them to the carriages. 1) Hagrid start the herd with just 6 of them. I found on lines that there is around 100 carriges. So the herd had been around for less then 50 years and would have taken some time to get adequate size to be able to pull the carriages. I don't think it's unreasonable to think it's just not old enough of a tradition to be included in hogwarts a history 2) Even if Hermione had read about how thestrals being used as means of transport it would have been in the context of flight. There would be little reason for her to connect carriages being pulled on the ground to thestrals. ( I think they are on the ground since hogwarts dosent have large enough herd to be able fly ).
I wonder if it was a similar thing to not knowing about the sorting hat. Remember in the first book how Ron and Harry theorize how the sorting works. You’d think a 6th born pure blood wizard would know unless it was a magically protected secret. Maybe some of the things in Hogwarts a History are magically kept secret from some readers…… Not sure 😅 Just a theory.
@@laurenmooers1723 I think it was just considered an unimportant thing to Ron's parents. Or rather, it was only a thing to think about for the first day, and there wasn't anything to do to prepare them for it (the hat knows best, and you don't really benefit much from knowing about it beforehand), so what was there to do about it? Besides, Ron was definitely told some random things by Fred and George. I can't remember specifically, but it was either a blood sacrifice or fighting a creature. On a more interesting note, considering that the hat takes preference into account, do you think it has ever done any shipping? Like, a kid gets the hat, hat gets ready to say Ravenclaw, but the kid thinks, "dang, but that cute girl went to Hufflepuff!" and the hat says, "I got you, HUFFLEPUFF!"
@@tvrkm6897 I think its one of those traditions that everyone does like the 1st year taking boats to Hogwarts and 7th years taking them when they leave. Everyone was a first year unsure how they would have their house so no one tells the first years to ensure they have the same experience. Remember they're all together at that time and your telling me someone overhearing them wouldn't want to make themselves look better by saying "Really you think you have to fight a troll? Idiot you just put on a hat and it say's where you go."
@@abrodeur You assume that Hogwarts a history is not self-updating. I wouldn't be surprised if the Weasly swamp appeared in Hogwarts a history before umbridge-- er -- "resigned for mental health reasons."
I believe for the Harry Potter Universe, those beasts that nobody knows whether or not they exist could just be the wizarding world equivalent of the cryptids like Bigfoot or the Loch Ness Monster many people believe exist and some claim to have seen.
About Newt's deceptive book - there's a beach in the Falkland Islands that has a sign banning people from that beach due to the landmines that are still there from the Falklands War. There are, in fact, no landmines on that beach, it's just a way of keeping that spot solely for penguins to chill!
I'll watch this video later when I have more time! I'm reading Harry Potter for the first time (age 19) after watching a ton of your theories on it, and watching the movies. It's a delight so far! I especially love the beginning. I'm on the Philosopher's Stone, and I just reached chapter 11!
@@ashleysherlock5705 nah! I've seen wayy to many spoilers by this point! I saw spoliers before I watched the movies. These theory videos and spoliers is what got me into it! I would be concerned if I hadn't seen an extreme amount of spoilers and videos that I happily watched since they're entertaining!
I also theorize that Luna was particularly talented at finding these little creatures and that is why her father started his magazine, because he had this exceptional child that could detect things no one to his knowledge had ever seen. I think she did once see a weird magic creature when she was very young that she named the crumple horned snorkack because doesn’t that sound like a name a child would make up? So xenophilius doesn’t see all this stuff but he has absolute faith in his daughter being right.
So weird that Qilins aren't included in the Fantastic Beasts book considering how well known they seem to be in the movie as everyone seems to go along with its decision.
It's... worth remembering that the Fantastic Beasts book predates even the concept of the movie by like... 15 years. It really, really shouldn't be used as a meterstick for what happens in the Fantastic Beasts movies because... they are about as unconnected as it is possible for them to be given it was literally made about Newt Scamander and named after the book.
@@selonianth yeh, in reality I know the discrepancies are due to oversights or the inclusion/creation of creatures after the irl book was published. I was mainly referring to the SCBs' theory that in universe, Newt intentionally excluded some endangered creatures so they couldn't be found by mages who want to exploit them. Also, that whole scene in the movie just really bugs me - the way the whole wizarding world just goes along with the decision of a creature that most of them have never heard of, right after seeing how it can be rigged, just because Newt assures them this one is real. And then they also see a fight between Dumbledore and Grindlewald that all previous canon said couldn't have been seen.
I love the continuation of the Narwal joke Now we just need some Grizzly Eagle Sharks to swoop in and fight a couple of Girrafilants and we'll have covered all the classic SCB (I just referred to the era when I found the channel as "classic SCB" god I feel old) bases.
I always loved Luna as a character, this just shows how awesome she is! Also, question for all my Harry Potter fanatics, if a blind person used a Pensieve, would they be able to see the memories? Or would they just be able to hear what was happening? My friends and I can can’t decide on what the answer would be and would love more feedback, thanks!
She is my favourite Ravenclaw And by the way Narwhals are real, look it up! And I have been part of this channel since I don’t know for how long but I believe a few years, oh yeah I have been watching all the Encanto videos
They know about narwhals, I promise. They don't need to look it up. It's a long-running joke from the early days of the channel, going back to the Grizzly Eagle Shark and "These Socks Are Amazing!" days.
7:35 Well played Sir Well played. Honestly I thought this was a American thing..... TBH Candians have some weird things that a lot of swear are real too such as Big Foot (although thats shared with America) and Okopogo which is often called the "Canadian cousin to Nessie" which is said to live in Lake Okopogo in British Columbia (for our American friends who may not know where that is its where Vancouver is)
This is an interesting theory and Luna has always been 1 of my favorite characters. Anyhow, I still think and always thought that Neville & Luna should've gotten married/together.
Hey! I appreciate that you mentioned the yips, because they certainly are real! I am a professional cornhole player and I have seen the yips in person multiple times. I have never experienced them myself, but I have seen quite a few top players that have never had any problems suddenly second guess themselves before they throw the bag, multiple times in a row. I played against one of these players one time, and you could never tell when he was actually going to throw. After about 4 or 5 times each throw, he would finally throw it. He even was seeing a psychologist about the issue. It is very real indeed, and can take a real mental toll on people. It seems like it starts from a sudden severe loss in confidence.
video idea! i think it would be cool to explore luna and ginny as a couple. same year, opposites attract vibes, and ginny always liked luna/was unfazed by her strange qualities or quirks. one of my fav non canon ships personally!
I've come up with a What If that I think would be very interesting. "What If Harry Potter Was A Squib" I really want to see how you flesh out the story. Would Dumbledore know when he was a baby? Would he tell the Dursleys? Would the Dursleys treat Harry better knowing he wasn't magical? Would Dumbledore still bring Harry to Hogwarts to learn about Magic and teach him to defend himself? Would Harry still have some of Voldemort's powers such as parseltongue? Would Harry still get a wand and would his original wand choose him?(Even though he wouldn't be able to use it). Would it be public knowledge that "The Boy Who Lived" was a squib? Would Harry still be put in Gryffindor? Would Filch be kinder to Harry cause they're both squibs? Would Harry have more Astronomy, Herbology, History of Magic, Care of Magical Creatures, Divination(Maybe?) or Study of Ancient Runes classes instead of classes that involve using magic. Would Harry be taught how to fight without magic like with a sword, using potions or having pet magical creatures? Would Harry still go into the chamber of secrets and save Ginny? Would Harry still runaway from home and call the knight bus or meet Sirius? Would Harry still need to save Sirius from the Dementors? Would Harry still be enter into the tri wizard tournament? Would Voldemort still take Harry's blood and return? Would Harry be able to save himself and Dudley from the dementors? Would Harry still be allowed at Hogwarts when Umbridge becomes Headmistress? Would Dumbledore get Slughorn's memory? Would anything in The Deathly Hallows be the same?
Wizarding World Press popularized the the phrase "Don't take a character's word for it." Oddly I don't remember if they applied this to Luna at all, as they mostly talked about Ron and Hermione in this case.
@@SuperCarlinBrothers That's what I meant :) ua-cam.com/video/Hk-c3MT1FZE/v-deo.html By the way, thank you for your reply. I love your content and send you warm greetings from Poland!
@@SuperCarlinBrothers I did too until about a year ago when Ryan started playing the characters as just kind of overly mean and harsh. It wasn't nearly as much fun.
Luna is lovely and this is a great video - but - regarding the crumple horned snorkack - remember in book 7 (Deathly Hallows) when the trio are sipping tea with Xenophilius and Hermione points out the erumpet horn, which Xeno keeps insisting is from a snorkack. When the death eaters arrive, the erumpet horn is hit with a spell, causing his house to explode. So Hermione was correct in this case.
I have a favorite theory regarding some of our favorite magical creatures: The scimitar oryx is a real animal with a crumply-styled horn that went extinct in the wild in the 1980s. In 2015, a small herd of oryx was released in a preserve in Chad. Two years later, that herd had their first calves born. It is my firm belief that Rolf Scamander and his wife Luna (Lovegood) were present at that release to see the crumple-horned snorkack, back to the wild. I've had this theory for a long time, and presented it at a Harry Potter symposium, under the title Fantastic Beasts and How to Save Them, where I discuss the threats to real endangered animals that are magical creatures in disguise.
Wait, what do you do when you have finished your bowl of cereal and are still hungry and have milk at the bottom? Do you drink or pour out the milk and then do cereal + milk, or do you add more cereal to the remaining milk to keep eating?
Can we all just agree that of all the Hogwarts textbooks we needed Hogwarts a history is like top of the list!! Don’t get me wrong I enjoy fantastic beasts and where to find them and Quidditch through the ages, but what I really wanted was Hogwarts a history
Fire spirits may be like dementors in that, it's not that far of a stretch for the ministry to be keeping some form of powerful or destructive monster as an army given they keep dementors as prison guards.
The Carlins have joined in on the “let’s use AI to be lazy and to not have to pay artists” trend. It’s pretty sad to see these guys show their true colors because I used to respect them a lot
My headcannon is that nargles are just what Luna calls the void stuff that The Doctor encountered when they traveled through the void in Season 2 of Doctor Who, and could only be seen by wearing 3D glasses (rather like the glasses Luna wears, in fact, when we see whatever it is whizzing around Harry's head in HBP). This could place at least some form of The Doctor in the HP universe, and perhaps he took Barty Crouch Jr's face, unconsciously, as he'd done countless other times in the series. Of course, in the version of Doctor Who WE see, HP is fictional inside that universe (as seen in season 3), but that doesn't preclude some version of The Doctor existing in the HP universe.
J has gotten into stealing other artists work using AI, so it’s probably just a bunch of art regurgitated by a computer that J gets to pretend he made and use for free.
I love ur videos and all mostly the Harry Potter ones but just a suggestion I think u guys should work on your thumbnails there's room for A LOT of improvement :) most of your titles are splendid just the thumbnails- anyone agree with me?
J really likes to steal from other artists using AI, based on recent thumbnails. It’s easier and cheaper to make a computer steal the art instead of making it yourself. Sad to see what this channel is becoming
One thing, she wouldn't renounce the existence of the Crumple-horn Snorkack, it would just turn into the magical version of reality shows of big foot. She'd announce she's close, then, not here. Try again next week on Snark-week!
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Personally, I put the bowl last, but you do you brother
It's a sad truth that those who exist outside of socal normalcy often are the most insightful.
Please do a video about connecting Harry Potter to Holy Week (philosopher’s Sunday, hallows sat/Easter, etc.)
This fits her character perfectly. When hermoine claims that the carriage is pulling itself, Luna lets her believe it. To some degree, she’s always been in on the joke and was comfortable letting others believe she was crazy. She has nothing to prove. Great theory.
I always assumed she was right about everything. I always thought it was a hilarious joke that people living in a world of magic thought her claims were too outlandish.
Well said! Huzzah!
@@erikhermansen3431 It's like when characters in a clearly magical setting don't believe in Santa or whatnot. Or, as has been pointed out before, people in Harry Potter not believing in fortune-telling. You tell me why it makes any sense that Divination is less believable than turning a desk into a pig.
Also it was always weird to me that in a world of magic where pretty much everything can and does exist she is still seen as that crazy girl
@@erikhermansen3431exactly! You live in a world were your teacher turned himself into a couch and you yourself made a bag with infinite space,how is the existence of 1 or 2 more magical creatures (again in a world were unicorns and giants exist right next door to your school) is so weird?
I always though that "nargles" were mean, crazy, or annoying girls in Luna's language. She mentioned how mistletoe was filled with nargles and some girls during Christmas were always under mistletoe, she said that nargles took her things and we know that were the girls from her room that were being mean to her. So when I read the book I always thought that nargles were girls that Luna didn't like
Great point!!
Agreed, thats always been my interpretation. That said, I could see theirs as well.
This makes so much sense. Great theory.
What if Nargles are hostile intent, wrachspurts are current or future confusion, etcetera: Luna is seeing what is usually intuitively known.
I'm convinced your theory is correct
Luna wasn’t put in Ravenclaw by accident. She’s a genius.
Preach!
Agreed. It's not uncommon at all for highly intelligent people to be a bit eccentric, and there's also a known link between high intelligence and mental illness. It's almost to be expected that really smart people might be a tad odd in some way or other.
@@hollyhartwick3832 😂 Normal is just another word for Average. So anything out of the norm, whether high intellect or low, would be considered odd.
@@pamela_fay - There's that too, but my point is that Luna being behaviourally different and having an atypical view of the world is pretty consistent with really smart people. I think, contrary to what some might think at first glance, that it affirms her belonging in Ravenclaw.
@@hollyhartwick3832 definitely 💯 agree
I saw a headcannon a while back about Charlie, who is also a lover of mysterious animals meeting Newt with similar questions. I would love to think that he and Luna, Rolf and other animal lovers have quietly built underground sanctuaries protecting fantastic beasts after the series was over.
You know it's not very often someone sells me on a headcannon but I actually love that
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@elettramelodia8990 oh god, that would be terrifying 😅😅😅😅
That would be so cool.
Luna is the best presentation of quiet self-confidence, not only in this series, but in nearly all of popular media.
I never understood why someone didn’t bring up that the thestrals take all the students to and from Hogwarts multiple times a year when Umbridge is complaining that they’re too dangerous for a lesson.
Probably because other than Luna Harry and a few others non of them could see the Thestrals and didn't know they exist
@@blaze048 yes but Hagrid, Dumbledore and the majority of the staff would have to know.
@@wsconsn and you're right but when the vast majority of the wizarding world sees them as omens of disaster no one will believe the few people who know they are actually friendly creatures
@@wsconsnyou act as if they would have TOLD her about them.
When I understood the best thing to do with a nasty person like that is keep your head down and stay out of the line of fire it’s not that you’re right or wrong. It’s that you’re not letting them exert their will unimpeded..
One thing that annoyed me about Hermione was that she literally spent all her time with Harry who consistently broke known magical laws all the time (eg his magical connection to Voldemort, etc.) and yet, she wouldn’t care to even consider something that goes against what’s in her textbooks seriously.
The way I've always seen it is that since she comes from a Muggle family, her whole worldview (magic isn't real) was totally shattered when she got her letter and because of that she's had to build a new one and in attempt to make sure that this one is right, she puts all her faith in those who broke her last one, because they must have the right one
So for her, it's all about order in her mind - if the textbooks, the experts, say that it's possible than it is and if they say it's not then it's not
I mean some might say "Magic is real - all fairy tales and everything I've ever heard could be true too" but Hermione is much too logical and methodical for that
@@samstromberg5593 Which is somewhat sad really. She's so determined to deny this reality might be wrong she's actually denying reality rather than it opening her to the possibility of things being different. She doesn't just do it with Luna its something she's still doing all the way through to book six. The books are right and never mistaken or outright lying.
Hermione's simply acting like a girl
She's jealous of another girl that MIGHT know more than her
She wants to be the one that knows the most
Luna is a threat to that, and, if Luna takes her spot, a threat to the relationship that she has with the rest of the Golden Trio
@@bryancross8068 You know you didn't have to embarrass yourself, you could have just TOLD me you're an idiot and left it at that
Hermione has NEVER been to PROUD to admit that she could be wrong. She puts too much faith in her books, but THAT'S her fault, not her pride.
Luna has basically no proof of any other the things she believes - Hermione simply thinks she's an idiot. There's no element of pride of jealousy or fear to it. She just thinks Luna's crazy
I'm also not sure how many girls you've ever talked to in your entire life but it's clearly not that many because "she's jealous of another girl that MIGHT know more than her" is not what "acting like a girl" means
In fact I'm not sure there's ANY one action that you could describe as "acting like a girl" dude there's over THREE BILLION girls on the planet, there's too many to sum that up that easily
Hermione also isn't that insecure - she's welcoming, and if she thought it's what Luna wanted, she would simply welcome her into the Trio and make her feel included. That's what she does with Ginny
@@samstromberg5593 yeah that's why when Harry finds the Half Blood Prince's potions book and starts using the handwritten recipes Hermione freaks out because she's following the book exactly and can't understand why Harry's potions are turning out so much better.
A lot of fanfiction is about Luna experiencing side effects from the spell that killed her mother. This could mean that she IS seeing creatures no one else can see.
I'm curious as to what spells her mother was experimenting with, what spell eventually killed her, what it was meant to do, and how it backfired. I'd like to know how this loss shaped Luna. I imagine that she and her father are exceptionally close.
@@rawdaaljawhary4174Scb have a theory
I have the headcanon, that she often speaks in metaphorical in a way and people do not get it cause she can not verbalise as well... She is heavely autism coded
I wonder if newt liked any of Lunas names for the beasts he was protecting better than the species name he gave them lol
@@rawdaaljawhary4174wasn’t she trying to stop her final transformation into a wolf
Part of what makes this character amazing is the casting of Eva. Not only is this, possibly the best casting ever done, but actually makes the character jump off the page in a way that is truly unbelievable.
Great point. I prefer the books (and also the wonderful audiobook read by stephen fry) over the (not bad in general) movies.
But: I loved the movie luna in every second, the whole character is so adorably portrayed by evanna as if the book luna woukd be just a weak impression of her.
This is so unique....
I mean, in the books she was a bit annoying and reminded me of a conspiricy theorist...but in the movies she was just adorable
Luna's a researcher. Just like her dad. They don't just talk and write about these creatures. They take elaborate trips to research them. Nothing but respect (and major crushing) for Luna.
The problem with Hermione in the books is she is too logical and too literal. Coming from a muggle background, the magical world is too foreign for her to believe unless she reads about it, and even then she can't imagine. Luna not only is Right, she always speaks the truth. Why lie? She's not interested in "attention". She's often picked on by her schoolmates, she gets enough (bad) attention as it is.
that and (book) Hermione is not really intuitive. Even in real life, "book learned" people often have a hard time looking past what they learn in books and applying it intuitively in real life. Everything is black and white to them.
Luna isn't my personal favorite character in Harry Potter (that would be Hagrid), but I think she's easily the most likable. She has an adorable innocence that nobody else does and I think Evanna Lynch elevated that a lot. She's just impossible not to love.
Agreed.
I found it ironic how the only time she thinks someone is making fun of her, is Ron, when he is 100% serious
That's the only time she is cconfronting what she thinks is making fun of her. She is aware otherwise about people making fun of her, she says people call her Loony.
But she stays in her character anyway.
Would love to see a video on whether Harry is a seer. There are multiple times when he has correct (though muddled) dreams of the future
what dreams again?
@@ItBe_KantiI don’t recall anything not him seeing vodermort from a third person perspective. That could be the moment they are referring to
@@ItBe_KantiI remember in the 1st book, he had a dream, I think it was his first night at Hogwarts, that gave a lot of clues to the plot. Unfortunately, he didn't remember the dream. However, that could be connected to the scar, since that was the first time he was in relatively close contact with Voldemort since he got his scar.
@matthewpatrick7263 that dream b included Quirrel's turban talking, if I remember correctly
Didn't he have a book 3 dream about Sirius as a dog too?
Fun Fact: Besides Dumbledore, Luna was able to identify Harry while he was still wearing the Invisibility Deathly Hallow thanks to detecting the wrackspurts infesting Harry’s head.
That's only in the movie - in the book, Tonks is the one to find Harry
@@samstromberg5593 Ah ok
@@samstromberg5593at the same time, remember that Luna could see through the polyjuice disguise Harry had at Bill’s wedding.
@@johng482 Not see through it exactly, she could just tell that it was him because of his mannerisms
It's possible that she could see through it in the movies (though I didn't remember him polyjuicing the wedding in the movies at all) but in the books, he still LOOKED like someone else to her, but she could tell it was him because he SEEMED like him
@@samstromberg5593he didn’t Polyjuice during the wedding in the movie which is dumb cuz the whole reason they had him disguised in the first place was for his safety
Crumple-Horned Snorkack are way more real than narwhals I know that much! Also the only reason to ever add cereal to milk is if you still have milk left and you decide you want more cereal.
Agreed, that's acceptable. But for your first bowl, adding cereal to milk is just weird.
I sometimes pour milk first. Plus I like pineapple on pizza
@@AmandaPrice-f8c valid
Luna strikes me as a milk first kind of character.
adding milk after cereal results in the cereal causing the milk to splash, common sense really.
Fun fact about narwhals their horns was sold as unicorn horns in Victorian England, they were caught in Norway brought to Scotland (whose national animal is a unicorn) and sold as medicine good luck ect to wealthy English people
The spiritual successor to the "Ron is always right" video. Love it!
Where is that video?
And Trelawny's predictions are always right
@@JasperPeters I can't seem to find it for the life of me but I promise I didn't hallucinate it. And I don't watch any other HP creators than SuperCarlin so definitely not remembering somebody else - they covered things like Ron joking that Voldemort killed Myrtle (he did) or that Harry will come into unexpected money (he then did)
@@kaylabayusik1868I remember this too
@@JasperPeters I don't think it's an SCB one cause I don't remember seeing it either
I love your explanation for why some (most?) of the beasts from the films are not included in Newt’s book! Even things like Thestrals (which we only get information on from Hagrid and Luna) are hardly mentioned in the text and are bundled in with “winged horses.”
J and Ben, please look at the footnote for the Lethifold, you will find mention to the namesake of a certain ward at Saint Mungos. 😊
PS love the Sweeney Todd reference!
I reading Order of the Poenix and couldn't be happier with the sheer amount of Luna I'm getting. She's my second favorite studant in the series. Favorite's Neville BTW.
The way he phrased "adding milk to cereal" or "adding cereal to milk" made me immediately imagine pouring milk into the cereal box and pouring cereal into the milk jug.
I wanna see a spinoff series of Luna and Rolf on their many adventures to see all sorts of magical beasts😍
as a Ravenclaw this video is really important to me, Luna's such a unique character! she's amazing and I absolutely adore her
Luna was far and away my favorite character in the series. She believes in herself, never seeking or needing anyone's validation of her. That, in my opinion, makes her the wisest adolescent I have ever seen.
whole heartedly agree with everything you said about Luna and it’s not because I am a #Ravenclaw But it’s so obvious how intelligent she is.
Ikr?
I think this series is about the downtrodden, the dismissed, and those cast out becoming heroes, challenging the status quo and systems of power. Luna challenges readers to not dismiss her, but to rethink and see things from a different point of view.
Honestly if you were ever gong to make the trio into Quattro Luna would be the perfect addition. She brings qualities that non of rhem have yet has qualities to match up with each one.
Neville
At 7:07 he jokes that Narwhals are made up fairy tale creatures, but one of my friends actually believed they were imaginary creatures until just a few months ago at the age of 22.
11:05 you can see the raxspurts in the film if you look closely. It’s little wavy lines around Harry’s head, those ARE the raxspurts
It would be interesting if they discussed the predictions Ron and Harry made in prisoner of azkaban during divination class
I like the idea that muggles have magical fantasy creatures, and wizards have ordinary (thought magical) fantasy creatures
I always figured Hermione always was so aggressive towards Lund because she saw Luna liked Ron and Ron seemed to find Luna atleast interesting
Hermione was never asked about the thestrals, it was only Ron Harry asked. Yet another thing they took away from Ron. She would definitely have known it already. She what they were when Hagrid introduced them to the class and I'm sure they would have been in Hogwarts a History
I am sure Hermione would have know about thestrals but I don't see any reason she would have connect them to the carriages. 1) Hagrid start the herd with just 6 of them. I found on lines that there is around 100 carriges. So the herd had been around for less then 50 years and would have taken some time to get adequate size to be able to pull the carriages. I don't think it's unreasonable to think it's just not old enough of a tradition to be included in hogwarts a history
2) Even if Hermione had read about how thestrals being used as means of transport it would have been in the context of flight. There would be little reason for her to connect carriages being pulled on the ground to thestrals. ( I think they are on the ground since hogwarts dosent have large enough herd to be able fly ).
I wonder if it was a similar thing to not knowing about the sorting hat. Remember in the first book how Ron and Harry theorize how the sorting works. You’d think a 6th born pure blood wizard would know unless it was a magically protected secret. Maybe some of the things in Hogwarts a History are magically kept secret from some readers…… Not sure 😅 Just a theory.
@@laurenmooers1723 I think it was just considered an unimportant thing to Ron's parents. Or rather, it was only a thing to think about for the first day, and there wasn't anything to do to prepare them for it (the hat knows best, and you don't really benefit much from knowing about it beforehand), so what was there to do about it? Besides, Ron was definitely told some random things by Fred and George. I can't remember specifically, but it was either a blood sacrifice or fighting a creature.
On a more interesting note, considering that the hat takes preference into account, do you think it has ever done any shipping? Like, a kid gets the hat, hat gets ready to say Ravenclaw, but the kid thinks, "dang, but that cute girl went to Hufflepuff!" and the hat says, "I got you, HUFFLEPUFF!"
@@tvrkm6897 I think its one of those traditions that everyone does like the 1st year taking boats to Hogwarts and 7th years taking them when they leave. Everyone was a first year unsure how they would have their house so no one tells the first years to ensure they have the same experience. Remember they're all together at that time and your telling me someone overhearing them wouldn't want to make themselves look better by saying "Really you think you have to fight a troll? Idiot you just put on a hat and it say's where you go."
@@abrodeur You assume that Hogwarts a history is not self-updating. I wouldn't be surprised if the Weasly swamp appeared in Hogwarts a history before umbridge-- er -- "resigned for mental health reasons."
I believe for the Harry Potter Universe, those beasts that nobody knows whether or not they exist could just be the wizarding world equivalent of the cryptids like Bigfoot or the Loch Ness Monster many people believe exist and some claim to have seen.
About Newt's deceptive book - there's a beach in the Falkland Islands that has a sign banning people from that beach due to the landmines that are still there from the Falklands War. There are, in fact, no landmines on that beach, it's just a way of keeping that spot solely for penguins to chill!
Saw Luna's name and automatically clicked lol
That's basically how it works
@@SuperCarlinBrothersAmén to that🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤
Precisely
@@SuperCarlinBrotherslove your channel
I'll watch this video later when I have more time! I'm reading Harry Potter for the first time (age 19) after watching a ton of your theories on it, and watching the movies. It's a delight so far! I especially love the beginning. I'm on the Philosopher's Stone, and I just reached chapter 11!
@@ashleysherlock5705 nah! I've seen wayy to many spoilers by this point! I saw spoliers before I watched the movies. These theory videos and spoliers is what got me into it! I would be concerned if I hadn't seen an extreme amount of spoilers and videos that I happily watched since they're entertaining!
I also theorize that Luna was particularly talented at finding these little creatures and that is why her father started his magazine, because he had this exceptional child that could detect things no one to his knowledge had ever seen. I think she did once see a weird magic creature when she was very young that she named the crumple horned snorkack because doesn’t that sound like a name a child would make up? So xenophilius doesn’t see all this stuff but he has absolute faith in his daughter being right.
So weird that Qilins aren't included in the Fantastic Beasts book considering how well known they seem to be in the movie as everyone seems to go along with its decision.
It's... worth remembering that the Fantastic Beasts book predates even the concept of the movie by like... 15 years. It really, really shouldn't be used as a meterstick for what happens in the Fantastic Beasts movies because... they are about as unconnected as it is possible for them to be given it was literally made about Newt Scamander and named after the book.
@@selonianth yeh, in reality I know the discrepancies are due to oversights or the inclusion/creation of creatures after the irl book was published. I was mainly referring to the SCBs' theory that in universe, Newt intentionally excluded some endangered creatures so they couldn't be found by mages who want to exploit them.
Also, that whole scene in the movie just really bugs me - the way the whole wizarding world just goes along with the decision of a creature that most of them have never heard of, right after seeing how it can be rigged, just because Newt assures them this one is real.
And then they also see a fight between Dumbledore and Grindlewald that all previous canon said couldn't have been seen.
All the people saying narwhals are real weren't around when socks were amazing
Preach, proof that you should always listen to Luna. She may be unapologetically weird, but she's extremely wise. 😍
Dude I feel like I see your comments everywhere😂
@@supersoup4672there is no escape from grand admiral trinaq
Luna is the best,a true Ravenclaw
Fun fact
My surname is Lovegood, my husband is called Lucius and my daughter has middle name luna lol
Lol 😂
How can those glasses see Harry under deaths invisibility cloak when its meant to be perfect.
Luna: Mission Failed Successfully
Or would it be mission accomplished fail…fully? 🤔😵💫
Luna only says Nargles are behind hiding her things to avoid having to blame people for it all the time.
I love the continuation of the Narwal joke
Now we just need some Grizzly Eagle Sharks to swoop in and fight a couple of Girrafilants and we'll have covered all the classic SCB (I just referred to the era when I found the channel as "classic SCB" god I feel old) bases.
You’re telling me my favorite character was right about everything? I’m on board.
Love that Ryan George "wow wow wow wow" reference 🤣
Super easy. Barely an inconvenience.
Referencing Ryan George is tight
Yes
Narwhals, narwhals,
Swimming in the ocean,
Causing a commotion,
Because they are so awesome!
I can't believe he bought back the narwhales thing, I've been messing with people with this for years
I always loved Luna as a character, this just shows how awesome she is! Also, question for all my Harry Potter fanatics, if a blind person used a Pensieve, would they be able to see the memories? Or would they just be able to hear what was happening? My friends and I can can’t decide on what the answer would be and would love more feedback, thanks!
That narwhal reference was a throwback
I love all the videos you guys make!!!!
2:40 To be half fair, the house elves aren’t in Hogwarts: A History either.
She is my favourite Ravenclaw
And by the way Narwhals are real, look it up!
And I have been part of this channel since I don’t know for how long but I believe a few years, oh yeah I have been watching all the Encanto videos
They know about narwhals, I promise. They don't need to look it up. It's a long-running joke from the early days of the channel, going back to the Grizzly Eagle Shark and "These Socks Are Amazing!" days.
@Miss_Myth I for one miss the socks 😢
7:35 Well played Sir Well played. Honestly I thought this was a American thing..... TBH Candians have some weird things that a lot of swear are real too such as Big Foot (although thats shared with America) and Okopogo which is often called the "Canadian cousin to Nessie" which is said to live in Lake Okopogo in British Columbia (for our American friends who may not know where that is its where Vancouver is)
keep up the quality content ❤
Narghouls actually LOOK like mistletoe. They're an off shoot of Bowtruckles
Except when she's Left lolol.
Respect and keep up the epic work.
Nailed it
@@SuperCarlinBrothersYou guys rock 🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤
You first pour milk into the cereal, then you add cereal to the milk once you finish the cereal and realize you poured way too much milk.
Did you reupload this with a different icon? I could have sworn I saw this yesterday but with the actress's face as the thumbnail.
Absolutely crumpled horn snorkacks are real. Always were. Love your channel!
Yeah, when Movie Flame didn't place her high on the IQ scale, I was offended for her 😂
Luna is the best character. I always liked Luna but when Harry saw the portraits in her room and everything they represented, I came to love her.
Hermione is weirdly closed minded for someone who didn't really know magic was real until their tweens
When you open up UA-cam and the first video is:
1. SCB video
2. Has Luna in it
3. Uploaded 15 min ago
🔥🔥🔥
This is an interesting theory and Luna has always been 1 of my favorite characters. Anyhow, I still think and always thought that Neville & Luna should've gotten married/together.
Yes Narwhals callback! A classic!
Hey! I appreciate that you mentioned the yips, because they certainly are real! I am a professional cornhole player and I have seen the yips in person multiple times. I have never experienced them myself, but I have seen quite a few top players that have never had any problems suddenly second guess themselves before they throw the bag, multiple times in a row. I played against one of these players one time, and you could never tell when he was actually going to throw. After about 4 or 5 times each throw, he would finally throw it. He even was seeing a psychologist about the issue. It is very real indeed, and can take a real mental toll on people. It seems like it starts from a sudden severe loss in confidence.
Is it just me or did they change the thumbnail i swear i saw evanna lynchs version of luna before or am i mixing up videos
Does Newt also know where to find Giraffelants and Grizzly Eagle Sharks??
video idea! i think it would be cool to explore luna and ginny as a couple. same year, opposites attract vibes, and ginny always liked luna/was unfazed by her strange qualities or quirks. one of my fav non canon ships personally!
Growing up as an athlete that struggled with the yips...I appreciate the comparison
I've come up with a What If that I think would be very interesting. "What If Harry Potter Was A Squib" I really want to see how you flesh out the story.
Would Dumbledore know when he was a baby?
Would he tell the Dursleys?
Would the Dursleys treat Harry better knowing he wasn't magical?
Would Dumbledore still bring Harry to Hogwarts to learn about Magic and teach him to defend himself?
Would Harry still have some of Voldemort's powers such as parseltongue?
Would Harry still get a wand and would his original wand choose him?(Even though he wouldn't be able to use it).
Would it be public knowledge that "The Boy Who Lived" was a squib?
Would Harry still be put in Gryffindor?
Would Filch be kinder to Harry cause they're both squibs?
Would Harry have more Astronomy, Herbology, History of Magic, Care of Magical Creatures, Divination(Maybe?) or Study of Ancient Runes classes instead of classes that involve using magic.
Would Harry be taught how to fight without magic like with a sword, using potions or having pet magical creatures?
Would Harry still go into the chamber of secrets and save Ginny?
Would Harry still runaway from home and call the knight bus or meet Sirius?
Would Harry still need to save Sirius from the Dementors?
Would Harry still be enter into the tri wizard tournament?
Would Voldemort still take Harry's blood and return?
Would Harry be able to save himself and Dudley from the dementors?
Would Harry still be allowed at Hogwarts when Umbridge becomes Headmistress?
Would Dumbledore get Slughorn's memory?
Would anything in The Deathly Hallows be the same?
That’d be a great What If!
Which do you add first? The cereal or the milk?
Me: the bowl.
Who's the girl on the thumbnail?
Is that supposed to be Luna?
Why change the thumbnail?
Love the wedding connection. Never put those two together despite their distance lol
0:16 Ryan George reference??
Referencing Producer Guy is TIGHT!
Wizarding World Press popularized the the phrase "Don't take a character's word for it." Oddly I don't remember if they applied this to Luna at all, as they mostly talked about Ron and Hermione in this case.
Wowowowow.. wow. Whas that a reference to Pitch Meetings? :)
I mean probably I'm not sure what your referencing, but i do love Pitch Meetings
@@SuperCarlinBrothers That's what I meant :)
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By the way, thank you for your reply. I love your content and send you warm greetings from Poland!
@@SuperCarlinBrothers I did too until about a year ago when Ryan started playing the characters as just kind of overly mean and harsh. It wasn't nearly as much fun.
I'm glad this theory was expanded upon. I always observed her to be sort of a Cassandra-type character.
Luna is lovely and this is a great video - but - regarding the crumple horned snorkack - remember in book 7 (Deathly Hallows) when the trio are sipping tea with Xenophilius and Hermione points out the erumpet horn, which Xeno keeps insisting is from a snorkack. When the death eaters arrive, the erumpet horn is hit with a spell, causing his house to explode. So Hermione was correct in this case.
I have a favorite theory regarding some of our favorite magical creatures: The scimitar oryx is a real animal with a crumply-styled horn that went extinct in the wild in the 1980s. In 2015, a small herd of oryx was released in a preserve in Chad. Two years later, that herd had their first calves born. It is my firm belief that Rolf Scamander and his wife Luna (Lovegood) were present at that release to see the crumple-horned snorkack, back to the wild.
I've had this theory for a long time, and presented it at a Harry Potter symposium, under the title Fantastic Beasts and How to Save Them, where I discuss the threats to real endangered animals that are magical creatures in disguise.
Why did the thumbnail change?
Wait, what do you do when you have finished your bowl of cereal and are still hungry and have milk at the bottom? Do you drink or pour out the milk and then do cereal + milk, or do you add more cereal to the remaining milk to keep eating?
Drink the milk and start over
Can we all just agree that of all the Hogwarts textbooks we needed Hogwarts a history is like top of the list!! Don’t get me wrong I enjoy fantastic beasts and where to find them and Quidditch through the ages, but what I really wanted was Hogwarts a history
And A History of Magic by Bathilda Bagshot. Maybe even The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore by Rita Skeeter
Fire spirits may be like dementors in that, it's not that far of a stretch for the ministry to be keeping some form of powerful or destructive monster as an army given they keep dementors as prison guards.
Why did you change the thumbnail????? I loved the original one with Evanna Lynch! Who are these strange people/actors in the new thumbnails? 😩
The Carlins have joined in on the “let’s use AI to be lazy and to not have to pay artists” trend. It’s pretty sad to see these guys show their true colors because I used to respect them a lot
I’m so glad they changed the ugly AI back to the actress
It seems to keep changing. I see the AI one again
@@martinschalken7583 great 🤦🏽♀️
My headcannon is that nargles are just what Luna calls the void stuff that The Doctor encountered when they traveled through the void in Season 2 of Doctor Who, and could only be seen by wearing 3D glasses (rather like the glasses Luna wears, in fact, when we see whatever it is whizzing around Harry's head in HBP). This could place at least some form of The Doctor in the HP universe, and perhaps he took Barty Crouch Jr's face, unconsciously, as he'd done countless other times in the series. Of course, in the version of Doctor Who WE see, HP is fictional inside that universe (as seen in season 3), but that doesn't preclude some version of The Doctor existing in the HP universe.
Please do a video about connecting Harry Potter to Holy Week (philosopher’s Sunday, hallows sat/Easter, etc.)
I saw Luna, SCB, Theory and ALWAYS and needed to know about this.
Why the thumbnail change and who is she?
J has gotten into stealing other artists work using AI, so it’s probably just a bunch of art regurgitated by a computer that J gets to pretend he made and use for free.
I love ur videos and all mostly the Harry Potter ones but just a suggestion I think u guys should work on your thumbnails there's room for A LOT of improvement :) most of your titles are splendid just the thumbnails- anyone agree with me?
I love Luna and she loves pudding!
Now i want a fanfic of Rolf telling Luna all about his grandpa's adventures finding the snorkack etc
Very good I love this content
Thannks!
Is the Platypus a magical creature that muggles have discovered.
Did y'all change the thumbnail to an AI rendering? Why not the actress like normal?
J really likes to steal from other artists using AI, based on recent thumbnails. It’s easier and cheaper to make a computer steal the art instead of making it yourself. Sad to see what this channel is becoming
One thing, she wouldn't renounce the existence of the Crumple-horn Snorkack, it would just turn into the magical version of reality shows of big foot. She'd announce she's close, then, not here. Try again next week on Snark-week!
Is it me or the Thumbnail different 👀🤔.