I’ve always loved how at Christmastime Fred and George enchant snowballs to hit Quirrell in the back of the head because it means they’re hitting Voldemort in the face
@@viagragaming I know right?? So he just has to stay silent and take it, possibly thinking to himself, ‘Lousy troublemakers. Glad they aren’t in my house. If I had my whole body and soul, I would…’ 😅
I always thought the reason Snape writes potion instructions on the board rather than having them work out of the book was because he actually WAS teaching them his improved versions. Though I can absolutely see Snape not bothering to point out the differences. He just expects them to pay attention to detail and notice for themselves. 😏
Snape gets onto Hermione constantly about reciting something directly from the book, which most of us would consider to be really impressive and more than adequate for an answer. But Snape is the type of person to come up with something better than the book, so it now makes sense why he doesn't think her answers are good enough. Not only does he hate Gryffindors, but to him she isn't thinking for herself.
@@Chris-ks4sw I disagree. Memorizing a couple things is easy, but memorizing a whole book, or even a most of a book, especially a text book, is pretty hard. The goal of learning isn't memorization but to learn it, and being able to explain something in your own words is an indication of learning. Most people who learn something didn't memorize the text word for word, but they learned the material and can explain it in their own words. So I think it is easier to learn something and be able to re-explain it rather than recite the text. As for Hermione, she probably does understand the material well, but she is only demonstrating her memory capabilities.
I always figured he displaced his rage at Lily onto the high achieving muggle born Gryffindor girl who is close with the new version of James in Snape’s opinion (Harry) Dude needed therapy yesterday
@@keithg460 Agree entirely. And Hermione as a character knows the limits of her abilities better than anyone: as she demonstrates towards the end of the book: "Books! And cleverness! There are more important things---friendship and bravery..." not to mention before she even got off the train and declared Gryffindor clearly the best house!
I think that the reason that Snape writes up the directions instead of having them from the textbook like Slughorn is because the textbook doesn’t mention the peppermint and he knows it’s better. That is why Hermione does so much better in potions in 1-5 than in 6.
There is a theory that Snape is teaching them all these things, and that's why Hermione is better at potions up untill year 6. She fallows all of Snapes instructions on the board, because he tells them too. It is only in year 6 that Snape is no longer the Teacher so Hermione fallows the instructions from the text book. While since Harry has Snapes book he is better because he has the notes that Snape would have put on the board.
I think the issue is that he teaches them the correct way to do it, but not why. And my replay would be learn the how to first and in later years learn the why. Which Snape says he only lets few people in his advanced potions and this (to me) seems like why. Because why waste alllllll the knowledge in kids who have no interest until they're advance enough to understand. He teaches the correct way on the bored! Just not why his was is right vs the book. I actually love and agree with this is why hermione does exactly what you said! It fits so perfect!
I do agree. If he didnt teach them the already adjusted recepies there would be no reason for him to write it on the board instead of just telling them to "Flip the book to the page 133".
In year 5, I think the books confirm that "double" means length, as Harry is happy that divination is not a double class, so they don't have much time for dream discussion after they read the assigned portion. On a separate note, I also connected "stopper death" to the potion that Snape uses to keep Dumbledore alive for a extra year.
@@bookcat123 yeah. When I was in my last two years of highschool (in UK. Year 10 and 11, i.e. year 6&7 of Hogwarts) some of my lessons were double slots and some were shorter. Thank God PE was a single slot.
Pretty sure "stopper death" is just continuing Snape's metaphor of treating concepts like liquids (although they're potions, so it's technically not metaphor since he does literally mean what he says). Glory is brewed, fame is bottled, and death is stoppered, as in literally sealed with a bottle stopper.
If we're talking about The story from a different characters point of view the obvious answer is the deathly hallows from Neville's point of view. Who needs the Golden trio wandering around lost in the forest complaining about mushrooms. When you can have Neville Ginny and Luna leading a resistance group in Hogwarts against the Carrows and Snape as headmaster. It could start with Neville waking up at his grandma's house, going to diagon Alley, meeting up with Ginny and Luna and his journey on the Hogwarts Express, they get updates on what Harry's doing through Potter watch, we can see them continue teaching younger students DADA lessons, they write"DUMBLEDORE'S ARMY STILL RECRUITING" on the wall, they try and steal the sword of Gryffindor from the headmasters office, at one point Luna won't come back from the holidays, and then the Battle of Hogwarts from Neville's perspective must have been insane. It would all lead up to Neville drawing the sword out of the hat and taking out nagini, watching Molly take out Bellatrix and Harry take out Voldemort effectively avenging his parents. The epilogue could be him preparing for his first herbology class with Albus Potter. The deathly hallows from Neville's point of view is the obvious answer
Yes!! Or at least go back and forth between Golden trio with horcruxes and Resistance in Hogwarts 50/50. Cuz its very intense and eventful to skip it and just founding out about it after the fact.
I found it interesting you read “putting a stopper on death” as literally stopping death. I’d always interpreted that line to mean like a bottle stopper, aka: cork. I imagined a powerful poison in a corked bottle, similar to the potions described in Snape’s logic puzzle that Hermione solved in the final chapters.
You also have to keep in mind that snap was incredibly jealous of James so just because he was hard on harry doesn't mean that his love for Lily wasn't real it could have been overshadowed by his hatred of James you have to keep in mind that Harry looked exactly like his father except for his eyes he had his mother's eyes
Sometimes it does seem like obsession. I mean, he asked Voldemort to spare her. Not her and her husband who she obviously loved. I mean, I understand not asking for Harry to be spared cause duh, but if we didn't know him and some other random Death Eater asked Voldy to spare the woman he was in love with in high school but not her husband.. it'd be way creepy of him. 🤨
The bit about certain staircases having a vanishing step is actually an amazing bit of foreshadowing of an incredibly plot-important scene in GoF. Don't forget that if Harry hadn't forgotten to jump the trick step after seeing Barty Crouch Jr. on the Marauder's Map, he would have exposed fake Moody's true identity and thwarted Voldemort's entire plan to return.
Kia ora tuakana! My siblings and I have been intending to go through the series in te reo Māori to improve our reading and this series has been the perfect like "book club" to keep us on pace with Hare Pota me te Whatu Manapou!
Hagrid wasn't directly hired as the keeper of keys, he was first hired as an apprentice/assistant ground keeper under the direct care of the previous (the current) grounds keeper and keeper of the keys. Remember Hargis was only 13 at the time, and his dad was dead and his mother location unkbown
I think this is why Hagrid is loyal to Dumbledore . He believed him. He didn't expel him. He may even have been the one to argue for him to stay/ keep his wand pieces. He got his punishment down to having a dangerous animal at school over murder ( someone did anyway) I'm betting this was Dumbledore and that's why Hagrid "owes" him. Like Peter when wizard owes another it's a serious thing. Dumbledore likely kept him out of Azkaban
There is definitely a difference in Hogwarts with dungeons versus basements. As Slytherins you have your common room in the dungeons but in Hufflepuff we are in the basement.
23:45 Snape is actually teaching them all those things. That's why he actually writes instructions on the chalkboard and main reason why Hermione has been doing so good until Slughorn came with the faulty outdated schoolbooks. 25:20 We actually see Harry read defence books. He is good at it from practice and actual learning on his own. It's one of few subjects where he was actively looking for knowledge.
There's actually one instance of Gryffindor having class with Ravenclaw, it's not Harry's class though but Ginny's. It's implied several times that she and Luna share classes but once in Order of the Pheonix we actually see Ginny and Luna leave the greenhouse after a joint period. It's when Luna first tells Harry she believes his story, I believe Harry is just coming from care of magical creatures or something.
Another thing that came to mind for Snape’s “put a stopper in death”, he stops the curse and extends Dumbledore’s life by a year. I guess you could argue that he technically didn’t stop death, but I think it counts.
In regard to Snape's teaching I think he is helping the students in a very Snapeish way something to be noticed is that whenever it mentions Snape's classes the recipe for the potion is written on the board this suggests that he's using his own recipe for the potion making it easier whereas with Slughorn the other potion Master we get to see teach he asked them to read directly from the book and that's the only time Hermione struggles in potion making this would explain why Snape gets annoyed by students and has a habit of not giving out points since he's dumbed down the recipes to the point where as long as you can read you can make the potion
The first thing that happens if Harry is Lily's double is that everyone and their grandmother (literally in Neville's case) mistakes him for a Weasley they've never met.
Molly or Percy probably absent-mindedly sweep him up into their little hodgepodge of Weasleys, assuming he's one of theirs that wandered away for a second.
Maybe he resents Neville. He realised maybe he himself or he Voldemort never thought much of the longbottoms so therefore Harry had to be the chosen one... So maybe he resents that he could never convince voldy that in fact it was Neville?
British student here! A double lesson does mean a 2 hour lesson. Not sure if this is the case in boarding schools with longer days Aswell, but they’re usually separated by one of the 2 breaks we have in the day. Also I wanted to mention that prefects and head students (whilst not being exactly the same as at Hogwarts) do exist in both boarding and public schools. 😅
Ok so what are rock cakes? And BTW I’m a huge fan of custard creams. We don’t really have an equivalent in the US and they are expensive to buy online. I haven’t found a local shop where I moved 6 months ago. In California I had an Indian grocery that stocked a row of British sweets and such and they carried them.
28:02 porridge is supposed to be doctored up. It's like when you eat oatmeal and you add the cinnamon sugar, and the raisins. It is a bland canvas to fill you up while you add your favorite flavors.
My thoughts on was Snape reading Harry's mind/noticing his eyes were just like Lily's: (First, I totally forgot Snape was a really talented legillimens.) I'll bet he STARTED with the intent of reading Harry's mind-even picking on him and making him mad just makes it easier for him because Harry will have a harder time controlling himself, a tactic Snape ends up using to shall we say great success in their occlumency classes in year 6-but as soon as he started, he realized that OH, CRAP, yeah this boy is like the spitting image of James, but he has Lily's eyes and what do I do with that? (As an aside, I think Snape would have certainly been kinder to Harry had he been his maman's doppleganger. But I aslo think he'd have been crueler in other ways? Idk, it's hard to explain.)
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I love being part of the reason that this podcast is so big in Sweden. Through the Griffin Door is such a blast every week, I have listened to several Harry Potter themes podcast through the years but this one is absolutely my favorite and I always recommend it to friends and family that like Harry Potter.
23:46 A thing to note here, Snape only ever writes his instructions down on the chalkboard, I don’t think he ever tells anyone to pull out their textbooks. He could’ve just been writing down ‘better’ instructions than what the book says.
Listening to this has brought to my attention that EVERY SINGLE DADA teacher attacks or almost attacks Harry at some point. I wouldn't go back for a 7th year either if I was running 100% chance of being attacked by the teacher that is supposed to be teaching me how to defend myself, LOL!
There is that theory that Snape does in fact teach his students some of his potion tricks, as Hermione always does really well in Snape’s class, when he gives the instructions, but not as well when they read the instructions from the book in year 6, while Harry underperforms because of Snape, but given a different teacher but Snape’s enhanced instructions he performs really well. But I agree that teachers don’t really seem to be teaching at Hogwarts. Giving a set of instructions and letting the kids at it isn’t really teaching. That always annoys me in book 6 in the antidote lesson when Harry gets the Besoar, that Slughorn don’t explain Golpalots law or whatever the name was, and apparently they can’t ask him to explain it. They are just supposed to understand it from having read it once and sucks to be you if you don’t. What is even the point of a teacher at that point?
@@vivekvs1992 Wizard education is a bit weird. You technically don't need it at all, Lupin says in DH that it's a new thing that Hogwarts becomes compulsory, before most people went, but you could opt out. But I guess most employers want their employees to have a formal education, but just OWL is enough for some jobs, even if most kids go the last two years as well. But then some jobs require more studies. McGonnagal tells Harry there is 3 more years of studies to become an auror, but it's never specified where that study is to take place, probably at the ministry though. But even if years 6 and 7 are higher education and hold the kids to a higher standard you should still be able to ask for clarification if you don't understand something in the course material.
I don’t ever get the impression that they can’t ask for clarification, except maybe from Snape. I just think Harry doesn’t ask because he is overwhelmed and/or he is worried about soiling his reputation with Slughorn. I also think we can only read so much into what the education was actually like at Hogwarts because we are only getting snippets of time. For example we know they are pretty lax when it comes to safety. As I believe Hagrid mentions there is always a certain amount of danger when you have that many kids in one place learning and experimenting with magic, but we really don’t know if they learn to divide up a larger potions recipe or what depth any concept was explained. Like in the above Golpagots law or whatever the name is, that may have been explained earlier and questions were asked but this was just a review. Or he may have asked if there were questions and Harry didn’t ask any. It is the one issue with a single point of view narrative. It can be an unreliable narrative.
23:40 Having taken graduate level classes in physics, I've seen this exact problem with professors who are otherwise geniuses. The problem is either they don't want to teach (they are only there for research), it's been so long since they were a student that they can't sympathize with their students, or they're such geniuses that they've never struggled with the material, and don't get why you are struggling. So they'll write something up on the chalk board and be like "what part of this do you not understand"?
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30:26 But.... we never hear about the astronomy lessons with Professor Sinistra, or arithmancy with Professor Vector? Maybe those are the ones that the Gryffindors have with Ravenclaw?
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Weirdly off topic, but I have to point out how cozy Ben's shirt looks. The shirt in combination with the awesome background is giving me total Christmas vibes and I absolutely love it.
I was looking at that sweatshirt going I don’t remember seeing that at the parks, it must be older. But I didn’t see it last year at Disneyland or the year before. Then I had to rewind because I missed everything they said.
So here I am, in my mid thirties, listining to gour podcast every week… and although i have read the books like thousands times, listend to Jim Dale another thousands, there are still mysteries to me revealed and adventures to go on. And now, I’m just ouzzled if I should let my kods discover this world on their own or make it a bed time story…I know it helped me a lot, when the first translation came to Poland, to get on my feet again (hard life of a teenager). Thanks guys for nice ending of the week every week!
I’ve always took double class to mean two consecutive classes in the same subject. I think at one point they also have double divination and I think they also explicitly complain in one of the books that they have extra long potions or 2 hour potions or something. It almost certainly is the case that potions are double hour because they need the extra time. In Sweden we have a class called Home-and-consumer knowledge (roughly translated), where you learn about money and household hygiene and stuff and also cook a lot of food, learning your way around the kitchen and trying different recipes and stuff, and those classes were always double so we had time to cook and taste and clean after ourselves.
As a fellow Swede, I can confirm. Also, I believe the best translation for the subject is "Home Economics" (as in that's what's used in the Anglosphere)
While I was in high school, the timetable was on a fortnightly basis. For design technology (cooking, woodwork, graphic, and textiles, you rotated them so did each for a few months), we had 5 hours across the two weeks and one of those was a double. The way cooking worked was in one class (always one of the single ones) we'd get a demonstration of how to cook something, where we would have to watch and write instructions, and then the next class (single or double) we'd cook it. One of the most stressful classes was when we were making bread puddings, which needed to be in the oven for 45 minutes. We ended up practically running to the classroom and doing all of the prep as quickly as we could so they would be done in time, because the teacher also needed to do the judging at the end.
@@vignotum132 I've heard that as well, but I don't know how much, if any, cooking is involved in that, while Hemkunskap for me was like 75+% cooking, so I've actually stopped using Home Economics when talking about it.
When this series is over my son should be somewhere around 12 years old. It's crazy to think that far ahead. Lol. I have really been enjoying these videos. Being able to discuss each chapter and spot light it has brought a lot to light that I have never really thought about before. Thank you for this channel.
Snape is writing the instructions on the board because he is writing his way of doing it, with his tips. If not he would tell them to follow the instructions in the book like slughorn. 23:24
I wonder if Voldemort’s face out the back of Quirrel’s head takes the whole school year to fully form into a full face. It’s actually a magical process that takes times and that’s why it smells.
Thanks so much, J and Ben. I listen to your podcast every Sunday night while I travel to university, and I look forward to the next one for the whole week. The amount of facts you are able to discover in such short chapters is awesome.
I think a better analogy for the stopper on death is him helping Dumbledore. Not die from the horcrux. Yeah he maybe a year to live but he stopped him from dying.
In regards to Snape-there is a theory that he was in fact teaching with the tips but never saw the students as smart enough to understand the why of what they were doing. That’s why his instructions were always written out but when Slughorn comes along they learn out of the book. That’s also why Hermione was doing so well in Potions until Snape stopped teaching because she was no longer getting the good tips.
I discovered this channel about a year ago. My daily routine is wake up, listen to your videos in the shower and on the way to work, on the way home, and again in the shower before bed. At this point I've watched every video at least once! I love the spin you guys put into every line of the stories! I consider myself quite deductive when it comes to figuring things out but you guys are blowing my mind all the time. My only complaint is not being able to binge your deep dives through the gryffin door since they're weekly lol we love the content, keep it up!
9:50, So the thing about the muggles view of magic as dangerous is that, at least in our world, the whole witch burning and persecution of those deemed witches and magic users only started in the 15th and 16th century. When Hogwarts was founded in the tenth century and back then the dealing of people with magic was seen as a matter that was to be handled by the Church if anything was done at all. If they were seen as healers or other non-dangerous types of magic that help people (known as white magic), nothing would be done. If they were seen as dangerous then the Church would be notified that a person was practising magic, the Church would then send someone to investigate, and if they were charge the person, they wouldn't charge them with witchcraft they would charge them with heresy because to even believe that witchcraft was real was heretical and even outlawed in some areas. If convicted these people would be sent to religious retreats or monasteries for a number of years. The burning at the stake and other forms of execution came during the Protestant Reformation, when church and state started to meld together.
You're questioning why is Snape so mean to Neville - well, of course he is: if Voldemort would have marked Neville as the Chosen one, Lily could still be alive!
I also think if he had really read his mind he would have learned he was more like Lilly. I feel like he wanted to hate him as soon as he saw he looked like James. And this is another point I would say to those that defend Snape and say he’s a good guy or hero. He is a villain that did a good thing for all the wrong reasons. He was loyal to Dumbledore because he felt guilty for Lilly’s death.
I like how you interpreted the "Stopper to death" part. I´m from Germany, so when I was a child, I´ve always read the german version of the book and this line is translated to "Den Tod verkorken" which basically means to put a cork/stopper to a phial or bottle. So Snape tells them in the first lesson that he´s gonna teach them deadly stuff. But I guess you can interpret it both ways: He teaches how to kill with potions and also how to defend yourself against this attack via potion.
something i realized recently is that there isn't a true potions textbook required until slughorn comes and the reason why is obviously (based on the half blood prince's book) because Snape believes them to be nearly useless because he has to modify everything so much. that's why he's always putting the instructions for the potions on the board and only had them buy 1000 magical herbs and fungi. to your point about the way Snape teaches, I think he's trying to have the students learn the way he did which was doing a lot of work and research himself. it's one thing to memorize facts out of a book and another thing to learn from experience and hard work.
When you talked about how you would love the story from different characters' POV in the show (you said the Weasely twins' POV) I would also love Draco's POV.
The merriam-webster dictionary defines a stopper as; one that closes, shuts, or fills up. especially : something used to plug an opening. stopper. When Snape says "even stopper death" he is not talking about stopping death, but a death potion. It also fits in better with the "bottle" fame and "brew" glory. Bottle, brew and stopper are all potion making terms, so it makes more sense to read it as putting a stopper on a death potion rather than stopping death.
Been saving this podcast for when I had something to do during it and I've been sitting here watching chapter after chapter building a magical inspired book nook I got for Christmas. Such a great podcast for the occasion and I'm absolutely loving all the breakdowns, really helps my wanting to reread the series (I'm a really slow reader, even though I absolutely love doing it)! I'm afraid to get caught up though, I love binging episodes while I clean or do fun things!
I always felt that Snape also saw Lily in Hermione. The muggle born girl who is the smartest in the class. Then I think her proximity to Harry brought that bullying upon her.!
I'm pretty sure hard magic system for soft magic system refers to the rules of the system, not weather it causes you physical exhaustion or not. For example, in Brandon sanderson's Cosmere every planet has its own exact hard magic system like hemullergy, allomancy, or Stormlight vs waving your wand and saying a few funny words
In the UK, "double" lessons means 2 periods back to back. Strikes me as odd that Hagrid already knew Hedwig's name ("send your response with Hedwig") given Harry found the name after they'd parted ways- unless he told him on the boats?
Snape's hatred of Neville is the most cruel aspect of him. These two children are you know, CHILDREN- with no memory or bias. Imagine if James HAD survived, then Harry would have known lol. His hatred of neville like, "oh if the Dark Lord had picked YOU she would still be alive" is pathetic. He would still proably be a Death Eater! And Voldemort would proably have won. But all he cared about is Lily like she was his favourite IDEA or a pet.
The hard rolls are called hard tack and was used on long voyages/trips, because it took months to go bad. You would put it in soup/coffee/tea to soften it.
Mrs. Norris is a regular cat who has become the mobile fetter of a poltergeist (Filch). She follows Hagrid around because she knows that he helps animals and can't understand why he won't help her.
That might be the funniest thing I have heard all day. Like dude your breath is so bad I smell it. I know you don’t have a nose but that doesn’t mean the rest of us don’t!!!😂
In the MOVIE- when Harry meets quirrell, he goes to shake his hand, and quirrell actually does NOT shake his hand back. Something I always caught and thought about.
I paused and went down a rabbit hole reading up about Filch, Peeves, the dungeons, etc... Peeves was created when the castle was built and has always existed at Hogwarts, paradoxically even before there were unruly students around to generate a level of mischief and rule breaking. Filch, on the other hand, was not. He was not the first caretaker of Hogwarts, they have one named from the founding of the school and also Molly Weasley tells Harry about the previous caretaker Appolyon Pringle who was there when she was in school in the '60s who caned Arthur for being out sneaking off with her after dark. So if he was a poltergeist he would have been at Hogwarts since its founding just like Peeves was, its not as if there was some sudden event of rule following in the '70s that spawned Filch out of nowhere. He seems to have been born of human (wizard) parents and hired by Dumbledore as caretaker, presumably because as a squib he wasn't really fit for any other job in wizard society and Dumbledore always liked to support downtrodden people. The dungeons also existed since the castle was built, and having dungeons was pretty standard for medieval castles. They wouldn't have been used to house prisoners but rather to punish misbehaving students, like how Filch dreamed of being able to hang students from the walls by thumbscrews like in "the old days." Apparently it was Dumbledore who first outlawed corporal punishment of students when he became Headmaster, so Filch would be old enough to remember a time when that was standard practice (and his predecessor Pringle was fond of punishing the students as well).
Double potions - maybe more of a UK thing if you aren’t familiar with this in the US. It is just having a lesson that takes two lesson period blocks back to back - so the lesson takes twice as long as a normal lesson (ie rather than having two hour long lessons between 9-11am, you would have one 2 hour lesson (a double lesson).
29:00 in answer to your question about "double potions", that just means that instead of a half hour lesson, they have a one hour lesson, or however long their school periods are.
Love the series! After watching your reviews of book covers, I just HAD to get the MinaLima edition, so thanks for giving me the excuse to buy one! Only reading a chapter or two per week leaves time to really appreciate all the artwork in there, too. (from UK)
Going ahead to book 6 here, but since you mention both Snape’s potion skills and the HBP book here, I find it odd that they apparently never update the book. Snape’s old copy is almost 50 years old, but is apparently still fine when Harry needs it, and Snape’s amendments would be about 20 years old by the time Harry reads them. Even if Snape wasn’t interested in publishing his own findings, do you mean to tell me that no one in at least 50 years has figured out how to improve these recipes? If the better versions are out there, why is a sub standard potions book still in print un-amended and why would Hogwarts set it as a course book?
In my university, there are Monday, Wednesday Friday classes one hour long each (for 3-credit-hour classes), and the ones on Tuesday were 1:40 each. I think they were longer because they were all lab classes. My own university lab classes were once a week, 1 credit hour, but 3-4 hours long to do the experiment.
Snape says simething about "you couldnt even be bothered to open your books before class" and the narrator says "harry had looked through his books, but did snape expect him to have memorized the whole herbs and potions book?" Be warned i am paraphrasing, but it seems like the answers to the questions he asks harry are in those books, which is why hermione raises her hand.
I think Snape figured out all those things on his own as a student so he expects the students to do the same. Fine in a higher learning environment at times, terrible in beginner lessons!
Mrs. Norris follows Hagrid around because he is the game keeper, he tromps around outside in the dirt and Mrs. Norris is angry he's dragging dirt into the castle.
When you were talking about Voldemort’s stinky breath in the turban it reminded me of the bit in a very potter musical about then having to share a body. Really funny 😂
Question: why is it such a big deal to be an aniamagus? It doesn’t seem like it should be that hard. Mcgonagall turns a deck in to a pig, in class they turn tea pots in to turtles and when it comes to humans transfigurating to animals there`s barty crouch turning Malfoy in to a ferret, Hagrid, an unquaified wizard known for messing up spells still manages to give Dudley a pigs tail which I think is pretty impressive for him. Krum, a 17-year old, also transfigures half of himself to a shark after maximum a couple of months practice. This makes me feel like a lot of powerful wizards should be able to transfigure in to animals and even better than an animagus, be able to choose the animal depending on the situation. What do you think? PS, I’m from Sweden.
To me it seems more crazy that you can transfigure inanimate objects into animals. Because presumably animagi can communicate with animals when they’re transformed in some way right? I mean at least snakes we know for sure. Say someone was a snake animagus (or just a parseltongue I guess), but was then trying to converse with some object (rope, or something) that had been transfigured into a snake! What would a rope have to say? 😂
Harry eating porridge for breakfast, I think, is just a British thing again. Porridge is just THE go-to breakfast in Britain especially for school-age children. I used to be an Au Pair in the UK for several years and the kids I looked after would either eat porridge, Weetabix or Cheerios for breakfast on school days. That was true for all the families I worked for and I also worked in different regions of the country.
I'd say Harry's true DADA teacher (other than Lupin for the one good year he had) was Voldemort. Every year Voldemort comes after Harry forcing him to learn defensive magic by necessity but at the same time he still has Lily's protection. Honestly Voldemort just wanted to teach DADA.
Science labs in high school and college were always double the length. So it makes sense for potions to be double the length. I guess that has to be with two houses so that Snape doesn't have to teach double the amount as other teachers? Then Herbology may be similar. Maybe it first year it was Gryffindors only because they were learning the basics. And then starting in 2nd year, they needed a longer class because it was more like a science lab. Ginny and Luna have Herbology together in their fifth? year. So maybe that switches between the grade levels
It could also just be how the timetable lines up. I'll always remember when I was doing my a levels (between high school and uni) and had 4 hours of maths because I did maths and further maths, and so one of my days was maths, computer science, further maths, maths, maths. I also had triple maths on a Friday (two further maths and one maths)
I’ve always loved how at Christmastime Fred and George enchant snowballs to hit Quirrell in the back of the head because it means they’re hitting Voldemort in the face
And it’s even better when you realize that Voldemort can’t really do anything about it cause it’ll blow his cover 😂😂
@@viagragaming I know right?? So he just has to stay silent and take it, possibly thinking to himself, ‘Lousy troublemakers. Glad they aren’t in my house. If I had my whole body and soul, I would…’ 😅
“AVADA KEDAVRA!!”
Imagine Voldemort being actually thankful because Quirrel's hat gets hot.
@@Restryouis True, that's a good point
I always thought the reason Snape writes potion instructions on the board rather than having them work out of the book was because he actually WAS teaching them his improved versions. Though I can absolutely see Snape not bothering to point out the differences. He just expects them to pay attention to detail and notice for themselves. 😏
Snape gets onto Hermione constantly about reciting something directly from the book, which most of us would consider to be really impressive and more than adequate for an answer.
But Snape is the type of person to come up with something better than the book, so it now makes sense why he doesn't think her answers are good enough. Not only does he hate Gryffindors, but to him she isn't thinking for herself.
I mean it's not that hard to memorize something. Actually understanding it and being able to explain it in your own words is much harder.
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I disagree.
Memorizing a couple things is easy, but memorizing a whole book, or even a most of a book, especially a text book, is pretty hard.
The goal of learning isn't memorization but to learn it, and being able to explain something in your own words is an indication of learning. Most people who learn something didn't memorize the text word for word, but they learned the material and can explain it in their own words.
So I think it is easier to learn something and be able to re-explain it rather than recite the text.
As for Hermione, she probably does understand the material well, but she is only demonstrating her memory capabilities.
I always figured he displaced his rage at Lily onto the high achieving muggle born Gryffindor girl who is close with the new version of James in Snape’s opinion (Harry)
Dude needed therapy yesterday
@@keithg460 Just remembering the information is the lowest level of understanding.
@@keithg460 Agree entirely. And Hermione as a character knows the limits of her abilities better than anyone: as she demonstrates towards the end of the book: "Books! And cleverness! There are more important things---friendship and bravery..." not to mention before she even got off the train and declared Gryffindor clearly the best house!
I think that the reason that Snape writes up the directions instead of having them from the textbook like Slughorn is because the textbook doesn’t mention the peppermint and he knows it’s better. That is why Hermione does so much better in potions in 1-5 than in 6.
There is a theory that Snape is teaching them all these things, and that's why Hermione is better at potions up untill year 6.
She fallows all of Snapes instructions on the board, because he tells them too. It is only in year 6 that Snape is no longer the Teacher so Hermione fallows the instructions from the text book. While since Harry has Snapes book he is better because he has the notes that Snape would have put on the board.
Yes!
I think the issue is that he teaches them the correct way to do it, but not why. And my replay would be learn the how to first and in later years learn the why. Which Snape says he only lets few people in his advanced potions and this (to me) seems like why. Because why waste alllllll the knowledge in kids who have no interest until they're advance enough to understand.
He teaches the correct way on the bored! Just not why his was is right vs the book.
I actually love and agree with this is why hermione does exactly what you said! It fits so perfect!
I do agree. If he didnt teach them the already adjusted recepies there would be no reason for him to write it on the board instead of just telling them to "Flip the book to the page 133".
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In year 5, I think the books confirm that "double" means length, as Harry is happy that divination is not a double class, so they don't have much time for dream discussion after they read the assigned portion.
On a separate note, I also connected "stopper death" to the potion that Snape uses to keep Dumbledore alive for a extra year.
Yeah. That makes way more sense.
Plus that’s just the way block scheduling works, right? Some of your classes are double length but on fewer days.
@@bookcat123 yeah. When I was in my last two years of highschool (in UK. Year 10 and 11, i.e. year 6&7 of Hogwarts) some of my lessons were double slots and some were shorter. Thank God PE was a single slot.
Pretty sure "stopper death" is just continuing Snape's metaphor of treating concepts like liquids (although they're potions, so it's technically not metaphor since he does literally mean what he says). Glory is brewed, fame is bottled, and death is stoppered, as in literally sealed with a bottle stopper.
@@malcolm32 agreed, these are basically potions puns and at least in the UK, the word stopper would be used like that.
If we're talking about The story from a different characters point of view the obvious answer is the deathly hallows from Neville's point of view. Who needs the Golden trio wandering around lost in the forest complaining about mushrooms. When you can have Neville Ginny and Luna leading a resistance group in Hogwarts against the Carrows and Snape as headmaster. It could start with Neville waking up at his grandma's house, going to diagon Alley, meeting up with Ginny and Luna and his journey on the Hogwarts Express, they get updates on what Harry's doing through Potter watch, we can see them continue teaching younger students DADA lessons, they write"DUMBLEDORE'S ARMY STILL RECRUITING" on the wall, they try and steal the sword of Gryffindor from the headmasters office, at one point Luna won't come back from the holidays, and then the Battle of Hogwarts from Neville's perspective must have been insane. It would all lead up to Neville drawing the sword out of the hat and taking out nagini, watching Molly take out Bellatrix and Harry take out Voldemort effectively avenging his parents. The epilogue could be him preparing for his first herbology class with Albus Potter. The deathly hallows from Neville's point of view is the obvious answer
Yes!! Or at least go back and forth between Golden trio with horcruxes and Resistance in Hogwarts 50/50. Cuz its very intense and eventful to skip it and just founding out about it after the fact.
I found it interesting you read “putting a stopper on death” as literally stopping death. I’d always interpreted that line to mean like a bottle stopper, aka: cork. I imagined a powerful poison in a corked bottle, similar to the potions described in Snape’s logic puzzle that Hermione solved in the final chapters.
In Polish translation it was translated as stopping death too
that really seems a stretch given the context
yeah, in the german version it is translated as a bottle stopper aka cork. Pretty interesing to hear the original wording now...
I always assumed it was a reference to the Philosopher's Stine, the pinnacle of potion making as it stopped death.
I think Snape’s treatment of Harry this early on is a good argument that Snape’s “love” for Lily is much better described as obsession
You also have to keep in mind that snap was incredibly jealous of James so just because he was hard on harry doesn't mean that his love for Lily wasn't real it could have been overshadowed by his hatred of James you have to keep in mind that Harry looked exactly like his father except for his eyes he had his mother's eyes
Sometimes it does seem like obsession. I mean, he asked Voldemort to spare her. Not her and her husband who she obviously loved. I mean, I understand not asking for Harry to be spared cause duh, but if we didn't know him and some other random Death Eater asked Voldy to spare the woman he was in love with in high school but not her husband.. it'd be way creepy of him. 🤨
The bit about certain staircases having a vanishing step is actually an amazing bit of foreshadowing of an incredibly plot-important scene in GoF. Don't forget that if Harry hadn't forgotten to jump the trick step after seeing Barty Crouch Jr. on the Marauder's Map, he would have exposed fake Moody's true identity and thwarted Voldemort's entire plan to return.
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Hagrid wasn't directly hired as the keeper of keys, he was first hired as an apprentice/assistant ground keeper under the direct care of the previous (the current) grounds keeper and keeper of the keys. Remember Hargis was only 13 at the time, and his dad was dead and his mother location unkbown
I think this is why Hagrid is loyal to Dumbledore
. He believed him. He didn't expel him. He may even have been the one to argue for him to stay/ keep his wand pieces. He got his punishment down to having a dangerous animal at school over murder ( someone did anyway) I'm betting this was Dumbledore and that's why Hagrid "owes" him. Like Peter when wizard owes another it's a serious thing. Dumbledore likely kept him out of Azkaban
There is definitely a difference in Hogwarts with dungeons versus basements. As Slytherins you have your common room in the dungeons but in Hufflepuff we are in the basement.
23:45 Snape is actually teaching them all those things. That's why he actually writes instructions on the chalkboard and main reason why Hermione has been doing so good until Slughorn came with the faulty outdated schoolbooks.
25:20 We actually see Harry read defence books. He is good at it from practice and actual learning on his own. It's one of few subjects where he was actively looking for knowledge.
There's actually one instance of Gryffindor having class with Ravenclaw, it's not Harry's class though but Ginny's. It's implied several times that she and Luna share classes but once in Order of the Pheonix we actually see Ginny and Luna leave the greenhouse after a joint period. It's when Luna first tells Harry she believes his story, I believe Harry is just coming from care of magical creatures or something.
Another thing that came to mind for Snape’s “put a stopper in death”, he stops the curse and extends Dumbledore’s life by a year. I guess you could argue that he technically didn’t stop death, but I think it counts.
Okay, but a “stopper” is just the top to a bottle. So “put a stopper in death” could just be bottling poison.
I think the elder wand is like a race car. Anyone can use it but only skilled people can drive it to its potential.
Harry Potter: The Wizard Version of Mario Andretti
In regard to Snape's teaching I think he is helping the students in a very Snapeish way something to be noticed is that whenever it mentions Snape's classes the recipe for the potion is written on the board this suggests that he's using his own recipe for the potion making it easier whereas with Slughorn the other potion Master we get to see teach he asked them to read directly from the book and that's the only time Hermione struggles in potion making this would explain why Snape gets annoyed by students and has a habit of not giving out points since he's dumbed down the recipes to the point where as long as you can read you can make the potion
The first thing that happens if Harry is Lily's double is that everyone and their grandmother (literally in Neville's case) mistakes him for a Weasley they've never met.
Molly or Percy probably absent-mindedly sweep him up into their little hodgepodge of Weasleys, assuming he's one of theirs that wandered away for a second.
I think maybe Snape knows the prophecy could have referred to Neville and blames Neville for not being the Chosen One, which caused Lily to die.
Maybe he resents Neville. He realised maybe he himself or he Voldemort never thought much of the longbottoms so therefore Harry had to be the chosen one... So maybe he resents that he could never convince voldy that in fact it was Neville?
I said the same thing before I read your comment. Lol
We do know that Snape has his stupid reasons for bullying the children in his care.
Came here to say this. It hit me while listening to this episode.
Let's say Voldemort went after Neville, being the paranoid psychopath that he is, he would've tried to kill them both.
British student here! A double lesson does mean a 2 hour lesson. Not sure if this is the case in boarding schools with longer days Aswell, but they’re usually separated by one of the 2 breaks we have in the day. Also I wanted to mention that prefects and head students (whilst not being exactly the same as at Hogwarts) do exist in both boarding and public schools. 😅
Ok so what are rock cakes? And BTW I’m a huge fan of custard creams. We don’t really have an equivalent in the US and they are expensive to buy online. I haven’t found a local shop where I moved 6 months ago. In California I had an Indian grocery that stocked a row of British sweets and such and they carried them.
im British and its like a cookie cake looking thing@@occheermommy🍰
Ben and J are so lucky to not know what a double class is, that shit was horrible. Not from the Uk but we have those in the Netherlands too
28:02 porridge is supposed to be doctored up. It's like when you eat oatmeal and you add the cinnamon sugar, and the raisins. It is a bland canvas to fill you up while you add your favorite flavors.
My thoughts on was Snape reading Harry's mind/noticing his eyes were just like Lily's: (First, I totally forgot Snape was a really talented legillimens.) I'll bet he STARTED with the intent of reading Harry's mind-even picking on him and making him mad just makes it easier for him because Harry will have a harder time controlling himself, a tactic Snape ends up using to shall we say great success in their occlumency classes in year 6-but as soon as he started, he realized that OH, CRAP, yeah this boy is like the spitting image of James, but he has Lily's eyes and what do I do with that? (As an aside, I think Snape would have certainly been kinder to Harry had he been his maman's doppleganger. But I aslo think he'd have been crueler in other ways? Idk, it's hard to explain.)
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23:46 A thing to note here, Snape only ever writes his instructions down on the chalkboard, I don’t think he ever tells anyone to pull out their textbooks. He could’ve just been writing down ‘better’ instructions than what the book says.
This series gave me the inspiration to listen to the audio books again! I'm loving it.
Listening to this has brought to my attention that EVERY SINGLE DADA teacher attacks or almost attacks Harry at some point. I wouldn't go back for a 7th year either if I was running 100% chance of being attacked by the teacher that is supposed to be teaching me how to defend myself, LOL!
There is that theory that Snape does in fact teach his students some of his potion tricks, as Hermione always does really well in Snape’s class, when he gives the instructions, but not as well when they read the instructions from the book in year 6, while Harry underperforms because of Snape, but given a different teacher but Snape’s enhanced instructions he performs really well.
But I agree that teachers don’t really seem to be teaching at Hogwarts. Giving a set of instructions and letting the kids at it isn’t really teaching. That always annoys me in book 6 in the antidote lesson when Harry gets the Besoar, that Slughorn don’t explain Golpalots law or whatever the name was, and apparently they can’t ask him to explain it. They are just supposed to understand it from having read it once and sucks to be you if you don’t. What is even the point of a teacher at that point?
I suppose the last 2 years equate to college because I don't remember them having any other courses past hogwarts..
@@vivekvs1992 Wizard education is a bit weird. You technically don't need it at all, Lupin says in DH that it's a new thing that Hogwarts becomes compulsory, before most people went, but you could opt out. But I guess most employers want their employees to have a formal education, but just OWL is enough for some jobs, even if most kids go the last two years as well. But then some jobs require more studies. McGonnagal tells Harry there is 3 more years of studies to become an auror, but it's never specified where that study is to take place, probably at the ministry though. But even if years 6 and 7 are higher education and hold the kids to a higher standard you should still be able to ask for clarification if you don't understand something in the course material.
I don’t ever get the impression that they can’t ask for clarification, except maybe from Snape. I just think Harry doesn’t ask because he is overwhelmed and/or he is worried about soiling his reputation with Slughorn.
I also think we can only read so much into what the education was actually like at Hogwarts because we are only getting snippets of time. For example we know they are pretty lax when it comes to safety. As I believe Hagrid mentions there is always a certain amount of danger when you have that many kids in one place learning and experimenting with magic, but we really don’t know if they learn to divide up a larger potions recipe or what depth any concept was explained. Like in the above Golpagots law or whatever the name is, that may have been explained earlier and questions were asked but this was just a review. Or he may have asked if there were questions and Harry didn’t ask any. It is the one issue with a single point of view narrative. It can be an unreliable narrative.
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Having taken graduate level classes in physics, I've seen this exact problem with professors who are otherwise geniuses. The problem is either they don't want to teach (they are only there for research), it's been so long since they were a student that they can't sympathize with their students, or they're such geniuses that they've never struggled with the material, and don't get why you are struggling. So they'll write something up on the chalk board and be like "what part of this do you not understand"?
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142 staircases it's a mnemonic rule. 1+4+2 = 7
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30:26 But.... we never hear about the astronomy lessons with Professor Sinistra, or arithmancy with Professor Vector? Maybe those are the ones that the Gryffindors have with Ravenclaw?
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Weirdly off topic, but I have to point out how cozy Ben's shirt looks. The shirt in combination with the awesome background is giving me total Christmas vibes and I absolutely love it.
and his shoes are quite cool
I was looking at that sweatshirt going I don’t remember seeing that at the parks, it must be older. But I didn’t see it last year at Disneyland or the year before. Then I had to rewind because I missed everything they said.
at 49:00 u talk about mrs norris following hagrid everywhere. I think reason for that is cat feels or can smell mice in hagrid's coat
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48:05 Well, Hagrid does have mice in his pockets....
I’ve always took double class to mean two consecutive classes in the same subject. I think at one point they also have double divination and I think they also explicitly complain in one of the books that they have extra long potions or 2 hour potions or something. It almost certainly is the case that potions are double hour because they need the extra time. In Sweden we have a class called Home-and-consumer knowledge (roughly translated), where you learn about money and household hygiene and stuff and also cook a lot of food, learning your way around the kitchen and trying different recipes and stuff, and those classes were always double so we had time to cook and taste and clean after ourselves.
Yes in school double usually does mean 2 of the same class back to back.
that's what the wikipedia article says, and that's what I've always believed.
As a fellow Swede, I can confirm. Also, I believe the best translation for the subject is "Home Economics" (as in that's what's used in the Anglosphere)
While I was in high school, the timetable was on a fortnightly basis. For design technology (cooking, woodwork, graphic, and textiles, you rotated them so did each for a few months), we had 5 hours across the two weeks and one of those was a double. The way cooking worked was in one class (always one of the single ones) we'd get a demonstration of how to cook something, where we would have to watch and write instructions, and then the next class (single or double) we'd cook it. One of the most stressful classes was when we were making bread puddings, which needed to be in the oven for 45 minutes. We ended up practically running to the classroom and doing all of the prep as quickly as we could so they would be done in time, because the teacher also needed to do the judging at the end.
@@vignotum132 I've heard that as well, but I don't know how much, if any, cooking is involved in that, while Hemkunskap for me was like 75+% cooking, so I've actually stopped using Home Economics when talking about it.
When this series is over my son should be somewhere around 12 years old. It's crazy to think that far ahead. Lol. I have really been enjoying these videos. Being able to discuss each chapter and spot light it has brought a lot to light that I have never really thought about before. Thank you for this channel.
Snape is writing the instructions on the board because he is writing his way of doing it, with his tips. If not he would tell them to follow the instructions in the book like slughorn. 23:24
I wonder if Voldemort’s face out the back of Quirrel’s head takes the whole school year to fully form into a full face. It’s actually a magical process that takes times and that’s why it smells.
Thanks so much, J and Ben. I listen to your podcast every Sunday night while I travel to university, and I look forward to the next one for the whole week. The amount of facts you are able to discover in such short chapters is awesome.
I think a better analogy for the stopper on death is him helping Dumbledore. Not die from the horcrux. Yeah he maybe a year to live but he stopped him from dying.
In regards to Snape-there is a theory that he was in fact teaching with the tips but never saw the students as smart enough to understand the why of what they were doing. That’s why his instructions were always written out but when Slughorn comes along they learn out of the book. That’s also why Hermione was doing so well in Potions until Snape stopped teaching because she was no longer getting the good tips.
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9:50, So the thing about the muggles view of magic as dangerous is that, at least in our world, the whole witch burning and persecution of those deemed witches and magic users only started in the 15th and 16th century. When Hogwarts was founded in the tenth century and back then the dealing of people with magic was seen as a matter that was to be handled by the Church if anything was done at all.
If they were seen as healers or other non-dangerous types of magic that help people (known as white magic), nothing would be done.
If they were seen as dangerous then the Church would be notified that a person was practising magic, the Church would then send someone to investigate, and if they were charge the person, they wouldn't charge them with witchcraft they would charge them with heresy because to even believe that witchcraft was real was heretical and even outlawed in some areas. If convicted these people would be sent to religious retreats or monasteries for a number of years.
The burning at the stake and other forms of execution came during the Protestant Reformation, when church and state started to meld together.
You're questioning why is Snape so mean to Neville - well, of course he is: if Voldemort would have marked Neville as the Chosen one, Lily could still be alive!
ok but thats no excuse lol
@@rosyellis14 true but it's Snape. he does not care.
I also think if he had really read his mind he would have learned he was more like Lilly. I feel like he wanted to hate him as soon as he saw he looked like James. And this is another point I would say to those that defend Snape and say he’s a good guy or hero. He is a villain that did a good thing for all the wrong reasons. He was loyal to Dumbledore because he felt guilty for Lilly’s death.
Love seeing Snape blame children for her death instead of himself
@@occheermommyI would say he was loyal to dumbledore solely because he wanted to take down voldy for killing Lily. Rather than being guilty
I like how you interpreted the "Stopper to death" part. I´m from Germany, so when I was a child, I´ve always read the german version of the book and this line is translated to "Den Tod verkorken" which basically means to put a cork/stopper to a phial or bottle. So Snape tells them in the first lesson that he´s gonna teach them deadly stuff. But I guess you can interpret it both ways: He teaches how to kill with potions and also how to defend yourself against this attack via potion.
something i realized recently is that there isn't a true potions textbook required until slughorn comes and the reason why is obviously (based on the half blood prince's book) because Snape believes them to be nearly useless because he has to modify everything so much. that's why he's always putting the instructions for the potions on the board and only had them buy 1000 magical herbs and fungi. to your point about the way Snape teaches, I think he's trying to have the students learn the way he did which was doing a lot of work and research himself. it's one thing to memorize facts out of a book and another thing to learn from experience and hard work.
I LOVE the thought of Mama Carlin pulling a Palpatine.
“DO IT.” 😈
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Snape is like the Dad from Fairly OddParents. Everytime something bad happens to him, he immediately blames his neighbors.
I also feel like Luna would be impervious to Snape's bullying and that would infuriate him which would be funny
When you talked about how you would love the story from different characters' POV in the show (you said the Weasely twins' POV) I would also love Draco's POV.
The merriam-webster dictionary defines a stopper as; one that closes, shuts, or fills up. especially : something used to plug an opening. stopper. When Snape says "even stopper death" he is not talking about stopping death, but a death potion. It also fits in better with the "bottle" fame and "brew" glory. Bottle, brew and stopper are all potion making terms, so it makes more sense to read it as putting a stopper on a death potion rather than stopping death.
Been saving this podcast for when I had something to do during it and I've been sitting here watching chapter after chapter building a magical inspired book nook I got for Christmas. Such a great podcast for the occasion and I'm absolutely loving all the breakdowns, really helps my wanting to reread the series (I'm a really slow reader, even though I absolutely love doing it)! I'm afraid to get caught up though, I love binging episodes while I clean or do fun things!
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I always felt that Snape also saw Lily in Hermione. The muggle born girl who is the smartest in the class. Then I think her proximity to Harry brought that bullying upon her.!
I love when Ben uses his full name for Through The Griffen Door.
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I'm pretty sure hard magic system for soft magic system refers to the rules of the system, not weather it causes you physical exhaustion or not. For example, in Brandon sanderson's Cosmere every planet has its own exact hard magic system like hemullergy, allomancy, or Stormlight vs waving your wand and saying a few funny words
In the UK, "double" lessons means 2 periods back to back.
Strikes me as odd that Hagrid already knew Hedwig's name ("send your response with Hedwig") given Harry found the name after they'd parted ways- unless he told him on the boats?
Snape's hatred of Neville is the most cruel aspect of him. These two children are you know, CHILDREN- with no memory or bias. Imagine if James HAD survived, then Harry would have known lol. His hatred of neville like, "oh if the Dark Lord had picked YOU she would still be alive" is pathetic. He would still proably be a Death Eater! And Voldemort would proably have won. But all he cared about is Lily like she was his favourite IDEA or a pet.
The hard rolls are called hard tack and was used on long voyages/trips, because it took months to go bad. You would put it in soup/coffee/tea to soften it.
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Been looking forward to this for DAYSSSSSSS !!!❤
Mrs. Norris is a regular cat who has become the mobile fetter of a poltergeist (Filch).
She follows Hagrid around because she knows that he helps animals and can't understand why he won't help her.
When I read about the turbin smelling, I imagine Quirrel trying to brush Voldemort's teeth.
That's so funny stop
That might be the funniest thing I have heard all day. Like dude your breath is so bad I smell it. I know you don’t have a nose but that doesn’t mean the rest of us don’t!!!😂
In the MOVIE- when Harry meets quirrell, he goes to shake his hand, and quirrell actually does NOT shake his hand back. Something I always caught and thought about.
I paused and went down a rabbit hole reading up about Filch, Peeves, the dungeons, etc...
Peeves was created when the castle was built and has always existed at Hogwarts, paradoxically even before there were unruly students around to generate a level of mischief and rule breaking.
Filch, on the other hand, was not. He was not the first caretaker of Hogwarts, they have one named from the founding of the school and also Molly Weasley tells Harry about the previous caretaker Appolyon Pringle who was there when she was in school in the '60s who caned Arthur for being out sneaking off with her after dark. So if he was a poltergeist he would have been at Hogwarts since its founding just like Peeves was, its not as if there was some sudden event of rule following in the '70s that spawned Filch out of nowhere. He seems to have been born of human (wizard) parents and hired by Dumbledore as caretaker, presumably because as a squib he wasn't really fit for any other job in wizard society and Dumbledore always liked to support downtrodden people.
The dungeons also existed since the castle was built, and having dungeons was pretty standard for medieval castles. They wouldn't have been used to house prisoners but rather to punish misbehaving students, like how Filch dreamed of being able to hang students from the walls by thumbscrews like in "the old days." Apparently it was Dumbledore who first outlawed corporal punishment of students when he became Headmaster, so Filch would be old enough to remember a time when that was standard practice (and his predecessor Pringle was fond of punishing the students as well).
Been waiting all week for this
Double potions - maybe more of a UK thing if you aren’t familiar with this in the US.
It is just having a lesson that takes two lesson period blocks back to back - so the lesson takes twice as long as a normal lesson (ie rather than having two hour long lessons between 9-11am, you would have one 2 hour lesson (a double lesson).
It’s just what this is commonly called in the UK
I was just going to make that comment. In my school, lessons for each subject could be single or double periods.
Wow, I'm surprised how much I enjoy this series. Thank you for your time and effort
29:00 in answer to your question about "double potions", that just means that instead of a half hour lesson, they have a one hour lesson, or however long their school periods are.
Love the series! After watching your reviews of book covers, I just HAD to get the MinaLima edition, so thanks for giving me the excuse to buy one! Only reading a chapter or two per week leaves time to really appreciate all the artwork in there, too. (from UK)
Going ahead to book 6 here, but since you mention both Snape’s potion skills and the HBP book here, I find it odd that they apparently never update the book. Snape’s old copy is almost 50 years old, but is apparently still fine when Harry needs it, and Snape’s amendments would be about 20 years old by the time Harry reads them. Even if Snape wasn’t interested in publishing his own findings, do you mean to tell me that no one in at least 50 years has figured out how to improve these recipes? If the better versions are out there, why is a sub standard potions book still in print un-amended and why would Hogwarts set it as a course book?
This into never fails to bring a smile to my face❤️
We sip out tea wile we gather through the "Griffin Door!"!
Great video as alway. Love this series
Porridge is a great breakfast! I usually listen to these on Monday mornings while eating porridge for breakfast.
Agreed but it depends a lot on how the Porridge is made.
In my university, there are Monday, Wednesday Friday classes one hour long each (for 3-credit-hour classes), and the ones on Tuesday were 1:40 each. I think they were longer because they were all lab classes.
My own university lab classes were once a week, 1 credit hour, but 3-4 hours long to do the experiment.
Love Ben's reference to Encyclopedia Brown! I grew up on those books. Lol.
Snape says simething about "you couldnt even be bothered to open your books before class" and the narrator says "harry had looked through his books, but did snape expect him to have memorized the whole herbs and potions book?"
Be warned i am paraphrasing, but it seems like the answers to the questions he asks harry are in those books, which is why hermione raises her hand.
the part about the rock cakes remind me of the first time I had a biscotti
I think Snape figured out all those things on his own as a student so he expects the students to do the same. Fine in a higher learning environment at times, terrible in beginner lessons!
I got all caught up over my weekend and couldn't wait for the next episode. Sadly, I'll have to wait a full week for the next 😭
Mrs. Norris follows Hagrid around because he is the game keeper, he tromps around outside in the dirt and Mrs. Norris is angry he's dragging dirt into the castle.
Love this guys! You're the best! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤
Yesss! Another episode
When you were talking about Voldemort’s stinky breath in the turban it reminded me of the bit in a very potter musical about then having to share a body. Really funny 😂
Question: why is it such a big deal to be an aniamagus? It doesn’t seem like it should be that hard. Mcgonagall turns a deck in to a pig, in class they turn tea pots in to turtles and when it comes to humans transfigurating to animals there`s barty crouch turning Malfoy in to a ferret, Hagrid, an unquaified wizard known for messing up spells still manages to give Dudley a pigs tail which I think is pretty impressive for him. Krum, a 17-year old, also transfigures half of himself to a shark after maximum a couple of months practice. This makes me feel like a lot of powerful wizards should be able to transfigure in to animals and even better than an animagus, be able to choose the animal depending on the situation. What do you think? PS, I’m from Sweden.
To me it seems more crazy that you can transfigure inanimate objects into animals. Because presumably animagi can communicate with animals when they’re transformed in some way right? I mean at least snakes we know for sure. Say someone was a snake animagus (or just a parseltongue I guess), but was then trying to converse with some object (rope, or something) that had been transfigured into a snake! What would a rope have to say? 😂
Thank you! I enjoyed this very much.
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Harry eating porridge for breakfast, I think, is just a British thing again. Porridge is just THE go-to breakfast in Britain especially for school-age children. I used to be an Au Pair in the UK for several years and the kids I looked after would either eat porridge, Weetabix or Cheerios for breakfast on school days. That was true for all the families I worked for and I also worked in different regions of the country.
I love the reference to Encyclopedia Brown. Those were great books of my childhood!
I'd say Harry's true DADA teacher (other than Lupin for the one good year he had) was Voldemort. Every year Voldemort comes after Harry forcing him to learn defensive magic by necessity but at the same time he still has Lily's protection. Honestly Voldemort just wanted to teach DADA.
Science labs in high school and college were always double the length. So it makes sense for potions to be double the length. I guess that has to be with two houses so that Snape doesn't have to teach double the amount as other teachers?
Then Herbology may be similar. Maybe it first year it was Gryffindors only because they were learning the basics. And then starting in 2nd year, they needed a longer class because it was more like a science lab.
Ginny and Luna have Herbology together in their fifth? year. So maybe that switches between the grade levels
It could also just be how the timetable lines up. I'll always remember when I was doing my a levels (between high school and uni) and had 4 hours of maths because I did maths and further maths, and so one of my days was maths, computer science, further maths, maths, maths. I also had triple maths on a Friday (two further maths and one maths)
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I was waiting for the next episode 😊.. love from hamburg germany