I think it’s one of the best decisions that was made to make Voldemort half blood. Whenever you study hate groups and authorities based on hate, they always seem to have leaders that were the very thing they hated.
@@mmhmmmyearight7183 He wasn’t “mixed”, but he did have a qualities he considered to weak or undesirable. Many scholars believe Hitler had Parkinson’s in later life, he wasn’t physically strong throughout his life, he didn’t have blonde hair or blue eyes. He didn’t have any children, and believed people should have children to bolster future armies and expand the Aryan Race. Many of his subordinates were again either very skinny or overweight, a lot of them were suspected to have had serious drug problems. A famous Nazi officer was suspected of being LGBT. In fact, Werner Goldberg was deemed the “Ideal German Soldier", and was later used in recruitment posters for the Wehrmacht, and he was half Jewish. My point is, people often use the things they hate about themselves and project them on others. Disclaimer: I don’t think being fat or thin, Jewish, lGBT, hair colour or disabilities are bad or wrong things. I’m merely pointing out that these were things the Nazi’s believed were bad and wrong.
" you think i would keep the name of my muggle father? , I changed my name long before , a name one day people will even fear to say " Dumbeldore :- *TOM
I always thought that they all knew but didn't care. I thought that they all did some weird mental gymnastics to justify Voldy's blood status because he was powerful enough to take over and he shared their beliefs about blood purity and muggle borns.
most of the death eaters probably knew and didn't care, half bloods aren't something most of them have any issue with, they may be considered lesser by some of them, but they are accepted, because, even if voldemort kept his blood status a secret or even lied about it, snapes blood status would have been known at least by some of the death eaters. also peter knew that voldemort was a half blood because he had to dig up the remains of voldies muggle father, plus dumbledore was aware of it and he would probably tell that to anyone who asked.
similarly i thought the same thing that they knew and because it was basically his movement to kill all half bloods or enslave them and muggles, that they were fine with it because he was so powerful
@@windhelmguard5295 also to add, literally every death eatter who was there at the grave of his father heard him give that speech about how muggle his father was.. he has daddy issues
voldemort: im half-blood death eaters: what!!! voldemort: what guys it doesnt matter i didnt have a choice in it!! death eaters: then why you want to kill muggle-borns? volemort: AVADA KEDAVRA!!!!!!!
I think that Voldemort either denied the truth or he considered himself an exception because he was, in his own words, exceptional. And most of his followers may as well have been ignorant of the fact or simply feared him too much to confront him about it. I guess, ironically enough, he's the perfect example of how mistaken his bloody ideology really was.
I think that the deatheaters had no clue about his true blood status because his magic was so powerful. Even if they did question it, they knew what would come if they said anything... Its either talking about it or getting senteced to death by Voldy himself..
You might be right. Anyone who got caught talking about it would be tortured at the very least and Voldemort was good at seeing people's thoughts. I'm sure the Death Eaters told on each other constantly too so anyone who knew would be afraid to talk about it.
Video idea: what if Lily never confront Petunia that she saw the letter she wrote to Dumbledore. After her death how would she react, treat Harry? What difference would it be for his life?
I don't think that would change anything. Lily still would've went to Hogwarts and Petunia still would've been just as jealous. I'm pretty sure it was the jealousy that turned Petunia against Lily and I think it was the jealousy that turned Petunia into the nasty bitter person she was as an adult.
By backing out his Riddle DNA, Voldemort may have doomed himself yet again. The Gaunt genes were a dead-end and led to mental instability and while still possessing immense potential power, they almost lost their magical skills. If he did as you suggest, he would be purer but lose the supercharge that Riddle Senior's healthy genes gave that made him not look like his immediate Gaunt relatives as well as greater acumen. When he lost the Riddle DNA, he stopped growing in many important respects.
@@ami5849 To be fair, I am not the first to suggest Tom Sr.'s far healthier (though being gentry, some cousin-ing was likely, especially in that era) genes unwittingly gave the line that most hated Muggles a rebirth and final stand (CC, even if canon, was a contained timeline). But thank you.
It may have had a role but I think wands are almost sentient. So maybe the wand chose Harry almost because it knew it would be needed for Harry's encounters with Voldemort as Priori incantum would occur meaning Voldemort wouldn't be able to overpower Harry straight away as he would have done if his wand hadn't been linked with Voldemorts.
@@sazsha Not a 100% certain on which book, but it probably was PoA. He would transform into his animagus form, the dog. Since he was unregistered, the ministry had not taken any precautions against his ability to transform. The dementors found it more difficult to read animals, so this prevented him from losing his mind. The knowledge that he was innocent also helped in this regard. At some point, he got so skinny, he could escape his cell as a dog because he fit through the bars, I believe. He only utilised this to escape once he recognized Peter Pettigrew in the Daily Prophet, though, on holiday in Egypt with the Weasleys.
@@missautumn764 oh yeah I know that already but thanks for informing me again! :) The thing I wondered was how he escaped the place, literally lol. Didn’t Azkaban lay in the middle of the ocean? Can a skinny black dog swim that far? But idk tho. I haven’t read the books, I’ve just listened to the audiobooks and maybe I missed something?
This is a really interesting theory, i’ve never thought about it like that. I agree. And I think when it comes to the scene in OOTP Bella just didn’t want to hear it and didn’t even consider it could possibly be true so she lashed out with that response.
But in the graveyard, didn’t he basically reveal in front of an entire group of followers that he was half blood? He was literally in front of his father‘s grave.
It could just be the fact that hes rather handy with the old "Avada Kedavra!!!" that stopped them asking too many inconvenient questions?..........Though it could have something to do that he was the last remaining descendant of Sallazar Slytherin that impressed them enough that they werent worried about anything else?
@@bharatkashyap7200 Well to the Death Eaters he was Slytherins heir and,as Dumbledore said, they were a mixture of the weak seeking protection,the glory hungry eager to share in his triumphs and the thuggish looking to a leader who could show them more refined methods of thuggery.Basically he proved himself a powerful leader so they could overlook the blood status.
The Horcruxes didn't stop him ageing. I thought your argument would be that his reborn body somehow made him more pureblood. Perhaps he should have used a pureblood's blood instead of Harry's blood?
I think that the Death Eaters were fully aware of Voldemort’s history but thought that in a way he made up for it in being Slytherin’s Heir, being as powerful as he was, and his ideology.
How you described him losing his muggle side doesn't eliminate it but describes it more like cancer(?). It may be "useless" or "dormant" but it's still there. And lest we forget that Wormtail knew because he had to take Riddle bone to bring Voldemort back. I think that those closest to him knew but they feared him way too much to question it.
But diddnt, he said something like : "Harry you are standing on the remains of my father, he lived in this very town and gosh i hate that muggle, who had to destroy my wizard mother and left her to die, so i killed him with pleasure" or smth like that ar the graveyard, when all the Death Eaters were there on night, when he returned?
Right. There's no reason to think that making horcruxs erases somebody's nonmagical DNA either. What if a muggle born made a horcrux? Would they just not have biological parents anymore? Would they have no DNA left? This theory has so many problems.
@@jessicacharlton7347 what you are saying makes no sense. changing his dna through magical means has nothing to do with his parents or their dna. thats not how genetic manipulation works even in scientific means. all of life evolved from something that was at once completely different that what it was originally. thats literally how the variation of life exists that we see now in different species. All he did was use magic to do what would naturally be done over generations of genetic changes.
@@jaydubbs8277 The argument was that Voldemort made himself a pure blood through magical means. A witch or wizard isn't considered a pure blood if they have a muggle parent. Therefore Voldemort couldn't make himself a pure blood unless he somehow magically changed his DNA to get rid of any genes he inherited from his muggle father. This is impossible even in the Harry Potter world. I've seen comments saying that making horcruxes caused Voldemort to become a pure blood by getting rid of his nonmagical DNA. This is also impossible. If this was true then any muggle born who made horcruxes would have no DNA left. No matter how much a species has evolved from what it originally was, it can never change or outgrow it's ancestry. Being a pure blood is literally about ancestry and nothing else. You either have the magical gene or you don't. The only genetic difference between a pure blood and a muggle born is their ancestry. Muggle borns aren't any more or less magical than pure bloods. Blood status is just an arbitrary means to feel superior and to discriminate against others. Unless a witch or wizard can magically change their ancestry there is no way they make themselves a pure blood.
@@jessicacharlton7347 im pretty sure the only one who can tell us what is or isnt possible in the harry potter world is jk rowling herself. are you her? lol in fact she herself has said that the process for making horcruxes is so evil and complex that she chose not to include it in any of the books. So we really dont know what all creating a horcrux does to the body. Especially given that he made many of them. The point still remains that even if blood status is an arbitrary concept rooted in nothing more than bigotry, if he did in fact manage to alter his dna through the creation of horcruxes to become essentially inhuman, then that same arbitrary principle based on ones genetic connection to muggles does in fact change his blood status.
I feel like the purebloods are like the hapsburgs. Horribly inbred to the point of severe genetic disorders. For example you see a lot of mental illness that seems to be hereditary as well as unusual physical features being way more common amongst purebloods like aristocratic facial features that comes from the founders principal in biology.
@@mrinsanity6063 They would learn that 1. you can't steal magic, you either have the gene or you don't, and 2. keeping your bloodline pure is not a good idea, quite the opposite. It's doing a major disservice to your descendants to inbreed like a moron.
I think that Voldemort's body was pure blood when he was reborn from cauldron. First: his body was created in fully magical process. It's almost alchemy-engineered. Second: the blood of his enemy used in process was pure status. So... the question is the blood status bound to your body, or to your ancestry and soul? If to the blood that runs through your system, well... maybe Voldermorts body is closer to being a magical creature than human :D
The body that was created using his muggle fathers bone? This theory makes no sense at all. If Voldemort changed his DNA to erase his nonmagical DNA then he would have no biological father and the potion wouldn't have worked. Also Voldemort used Harrys blood to make his new body and Harry is a half blood. The whole reason that Voldemort could touch Harry after his rebirth and the reason that Voldemort couldn't kill Harry after his rebirth was because Voldemort had Harry's blood in him, keeping Lilys protection alive, so even if Voldemort had erased his own muggle blood he would've ended up with muggle blood in him from Harry after his rebirth anyway. There is no way to make this whole "Voldemort erased his muggle heritage" theory work.
6:02 - I don't think it's how it works. You're either a wizard or not. Pure-bloods are not any more magical than muggle-borns or half-bloods. There are no "magical cells" and "muggle cells" within the same person. You either inherit the magical gene (perhaps it's a combination of genes, as it gets a bit complicated with muggle-borns and squibs) and you're a witch/wizard or you don't and you're a muggle/squib. Wizards and muggles are the same species that are only differentiated by that small portion of DNA that determines if you're magical or not (just like any other singular hereditary feature doesn't make you someone completely different comparing to other humans), not two separate species with two different sets of DNA. You can't be a half-wizard. You're either trully a wizard or not at all.
In the fourth book, he specifically told them when he returned. He explained why they were in that cemetery, about his father who didn't like magic and left his mother when she told him what she was. There's no way they don't know. Maybe Bellatrix because she wasn't present at that meeting, but the DEs as a whole, they knew for sure.
There is also blood of a foe forcibly taken. Nevill also destroyed the last horcrux which could have been where Tom Riddle forced his "muggle" DNA to go, into each horcrux so that as his soul divided it stripped more human traits from the body
I thought you and several other people have made MANY videos already explaining that he was a halfblood and the deatheaters knew... they just didn't care because he was the heir of slytherin and killed all muggles in his family
Alex John's, what Your saying is you are 1/2 Blood and your coming up for greatness. It ok to kill good 1/2 bloods to kill half witch or warlock Is to kill under you? It that you saying.
@@louisfigueroa6113 I'm saying that's what EVERY video on the subject states...as well as being confirmed by voldemorts actions and dialogue in the books
@@alexjohnson1261 why would I need to see his videos. this is a theory channel, thats his theories, not canon. You cant accept everything he says as canon.
I appreciate the theory, but this logic might also imply that magical people are immortal by nature. I think one can still be half-blooded, even if they are immortal.
I just have one question in particular: "Why is it that Voldemort looks are so much scarier in The Goblet of Fire, when he is "reborn" as oppose to every other movie? Of course, it comes down to the VFX, but still though, anyone else agree?
People don’t realize they don’t even care about half bloods because they still have a wizard parent. muggle borns are from muggles and non magic families
i don't know why, but it seems like half-bloods and mudbloods can at times surpass the purebloods in magical prowess. what if the purebloods are hurting themselves and weakening their magical power by only seeking out other purebloods.
Maybe, but technically he made himself a halfblood again with his 'rebirth' using Harry's blood, and even more, he used 'bone of the father', his father was a muggle so his bones were all muggle...
I disagree how do we know the aging process was halted? He was only 70 something when he was killed. Many wizards were shown to have lived 30 or more years than that and were still active. For all we know Voldemort would have been a 150 year old vegetable until he told finally welcomed death. Another thing, he used a muggle bone for his rebirth
Cells (mostly) all contain the same DNA, half of which comes from each parent. It's not that some cells come from the mother and some from the father, which is what it sounds like you're saying. I'm not sure if that's actually what you meant and we're talking about magic anyway but I felt the need to point that out.
I believe in this, mages (gender neutral of witches and wizards) and mortals r both humans, 1 can do things the other can’t. Mages don’t have magic cause of something in their dna 🧬...they just have it as simple as that. Or else if mortals knew, they would try to harvest and give magic to everyone else. The physical side of Voldemort claimed to have purged away is delusional, but if so, his history and spiritual soul remembers always. He’ll never accomplish that no matter what.
I disagree. I think the death eaters, or at least some of them, knew that Voldemort was a half blood. He even told one of them, Wormtail, in the forth book. He explicitly says that Harry is standing on the grave of his muggle father.
Hmm...I was under the impression that the reason he was immortal was because the Horcrux's saved a portion of his soul that would be released if the his body was destroyed. I am not informed on Cannon, this is just the way I understood how Horcrux's worked
I am confused by this video. Does this mean that magical cells don’t age. If that is true then do pure bloods have non-magical cells in them? We know pure bloods grow old and die. So does that mean they are not really pure blood? What I am trying to understand is how is someone’s cells related to them being pure blood? Blood cells are not the only cells in the body. Could someone please explain this to me?
No, in the graveyard with Harry when Voldemort came back, he used a potion that needed his fathers bone. If Voldemort had changed his DNA by making horcruxs then this wouldn't have worked. If Voldemort wasn't a half blood anymore then his fathers DNA wouldn't be in him anymore. If Voldemorts fathers DNA wasn't in him anymore then Voldemort biologically wouldn't have a father. That's not how genetics work anyways. It only takes a very small part of your DNA to cause a specific trait. This seems to be the way inheriting magic works in Harry Potter too. That's why there are squibs and muggle borns. The magic trait is something you either have or you don't. You aren't more or less magical based on whether or not your parents are magical. You can even have no magical parents and still end up magical. Just like having blue eyes. You aren't more or less blue eyed because only one, or neither one, of your parents have blue eyes. You can't have the part of your DNA that causes blue eyes take over the rest of your DNA, even if magic did exist, because the rest of your DNA has nothing to do with the blue eyed trait. The same would be true for magic. The magical part of Voldemorts DNA can't take over the rest of his DNA because the rest of his DNA has nothing to do with the fact that he is magical. Before anyone else points this out, yes, I understand that I'm arguing about the way science works in a book about magic. There are other problems with this theory but my comment is already way too long.
I mean if he got rid of his fathers dna he would be a literal clone of his mother, so since he doesnt look like a direct replica of her we can presume that he would have his fathers genetics still active. Also he would have only 1 sex chromosome, the X chromosome, so that could feesably cause a whole host of genetic issues that we don't see evidence for in the books.
i dont think halfbloods have literal half muggle half magical blood. what would that make muggleborns? its a term created by people who dont understand how the genetics of magic truly work. All wizards are fully magical.
A pureblood is any wizard or witch or denies having any muggle ancestors. So if your muggleborns and you can successfully deny having any muggle ancestors, that makes you pureblood by definition
All this hatred for muggles and pure blood mania would probably be non-existent for Voldemort if he just had been shown some love. I feel if Tom Riddle Sr had taken Voldy in to raise him, there may be no Lord Voldemort. I know Merope was wrong in giving Tom Sr the love potion but he still had a son. At some point he should've tried to step up & raise him IMO. Although Harry lost his parents at 1 years old, all the love he was shown in that 1 yr with his parents, then with Lily's ultimate love sacrifice, that made all the difference in his survival and ultimate defeat of Voldemort despite living with those nasty Dursleys.
all of them were scared shitless of him, even if they knew, not even Bellatrix would have the balls to confront baldy and risk getting killed on the spot or worse. He had an army moved by fear and false freedom, so there you go. For empathy-less TOM, everyone was weak and disposable, except himself.
ok voldermort was reborn using a few drops of blood from harry as part of the ingredients ... harry is a half-blood as lily is muggleborn ... so isn't it obvious that voldermort is "half-blood" after his rebirth? or is there something else?
Uhm, you do realize that wizards and witches die too, they’re not immortal, so your theory makes no sense, just because he made horcruxes didn’t have anything to do with his blood status, that theory is beyond grasping, it just doesn’t make sense. Besides, Voldemort didn’t really care about blood status, he was using it as a weapon, similar to how many dictators use a race to unify a group against another, he only cared about himself and acquiring power, just like most of the above mentioned dictators tend to be like.
I think this is a stretch, but there is evidence in the text that Tom's use of dark magic began to alter his appearance. It's possible he was delving in magic that would "rid him" of the "muggle impurities" in his blood or it simply could be because he was using so much dark magic that he was losing his humanity. (Chapter 23 of HBP)
Horrocrux magic was inspired in the Lich undead ritual, so I think when he created them his muggle half became undead therefore a magical creature that would extend his magical lifespan indefinitely but didn't turn his body invulnerable to magic. Then when he resurrected into an alchemical body turned completely into a magical creature, but with undead properties via his horrocrux and snake properties via the possession of Nagini, so even further turned into a darker magical creature more than a pure blood wizard.
This theory doesn't work because there isn't 2 types of DNA in wizards. Wizards have a mutated gene in their human/"muggle" DNA that gives them their powers where as muggles are missing the gene. Think of it as a genetic defect in the real world. If you have 2 carriers breed then you will most likely get a wizard if one is a carrier and the other isnt their is a lower percent chance to have the gene And if both are non carries then their is a very low chance to obtain the gene but still possible as genes/DNA mutates at a random but low chance.
It also explains why he hated it so much, was literally infuriated every time Dumbledore addressed him after his Hogwarts days as Tom. It was a literal reminder to Voldemort that no matter how high he rose, no matter his immortality, at the core of him was just an ordinary man with a very ordinary name. After all, who's going to revere a guy named Tom? Tom's were people who worked in places like the Leaky and served people.
I don't think so. I think he may have lied in his school years and everyone just believed it. Then, later, no one cared to ask since they just assumed and maybe the death eaters from his school years perpetuated the fib
Interesting, but how does Harry's blood affect it later? He had to infuse some of Harry's blood into himself in order to get around the inability to touch him, so does that then undo his immortality & make him half-blood again?
misleading title, just assuming the death eaters thought he was pureblood didn't make Voldemort pureblood.... and it's a bit far fetched to assume the horcruxes altered muggle cells making him pureblood? We also know horcruxes just protect the soul according to the novels, not altering the ageing process... perhaps at some point down the line for another body he may have had to do another regeneration spell to preserve the soul further.
I know Peter pettigrew knew is father,was a muggle for sure,he was there in the graveyard the night of the Dark Lord's resurrection and helped perform,the spell and the potion to bring him back, I don't know how much Peter would have heard because he had cut off his arm for Voldemort's regeneration potion and spell but Voldemort stated plainly that his father was a muggle. It Is possible out of fear he did not tell the other Death Eaters.
And Voldemort’s boggart is Harry Potter, what do you think about that theory?, in the LEGO Harry Potter video games if you play as Tom Riddle or Lord Voldemort and you are near a boggart in the game it’s Harry Potter
The imagery of pure blood played a very important part in Nazi ceremonies. Hitler used the issue of spilt pure Aryan blood at the annual Nuremberg rallies. The so-called ‘Blood Banner’ (Blutfahne) was a special Nazi flag that had been supposedly drenched in the blood of “Nazi martyrs” at the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch. Each year at Nuremberg, Hitler would accept new party colours with one hand holding the new colours while his other hand grasped the ‘Blood Banner’. The Blood Order’ (Blutorden) was the highest honorary decoration given out by the Nazi Party and it was awarded to those still alive in 1933 who had participated in the Beer Hall Putsch - about 1500 in total
If the wizarding world became all pureblood (which is highly unlikely). It would eventually die out. Seeing how there are few pureblood families so they would have to eventually be in-bred. That is why muggleborns and half-bloods are essential to expanding the wizarding community. And squibs, however their children don’t always have the magic gene active and instead it takes generations to make it active in their family.
The thing is that muggles and wizzards are the same species. The only difference is either one or a couple of genes that allow the person who has those genes to use magic. And the thing with muggle borns is that they likely underwent a random mutation which gave them the gene to use magic. Same thing probably also happened in ancient history before the whole blood purity thing came about. So really, all wizards, even the pure blooded ones, all had ancestors who were muggles.
I think it’s one of the best decisions that was made to make Voldemort half blood. Whenever you study hate groups and authorities based on hate, they always seem to have leaders that were the very thing they hated.
Like when
Like Hitler.
@@charlottemobbs168 Exactly.
@@zandernewson9933 what was he mixed with?
@@mmhmmmyearight7183 He wasn’t “mixed”, but he did have a qualities he considered to weak or undesirable. Many scholars believe Hitler had Parkinson’s in later life, he wasn’t physically strong throughout his life, he didn’t have blonde hair or blue eyes. He didn’t have any children, and believed people should have children to bolster future armies and expand the Aryan Race. Many of his subordinates were again either very skinny or overweight, a lot of them were suspected to have had serious drug problems. A famous Nazi officer was suspected of being LGBT. In fact, Werner Goldberg was deemed the “Ideal German Soldier", and was later used in recruitment posters for the Wehrmacht, and he was half Jewish. My point is, people often use the things they hate about themselves and project them on others. Disclaimer: I don’t think being fat or thin, Jewish, lGBT, hair colour or disabilities are bad or wrong things. I’m merely pointing out that these were things the Nazi’s believed were bad and wrong.
" you think i would keep the name of my muggle father? , I changed my name long before , a name one day people will even fear to say "
Dumbeldore :- *TOM
*Thomas*
Dark Lord Thomas Riddle, I doubt anyone will take him seriously.
Like the train
Voldemorts reaction: D:
Exactly
@@zawwin1846 that just makes him more terrifying
I always thought that the death eaters knew that he was a half blood but they were too scared to do something about it
Same here. He'd just kill anyone who asked questions.
I always thought that they all knew but didn't care. I thought that they all did some weird mental gymnastics to justify Voldy's blood status because he was powerful enough to take over and he shared their beliefs about blood purity and muggle borns.
most of the death eaters probably knew and didn't care, half bloods aren't something most of them have any issue with, they may be considered lesser by some of them, but they are accepted, because, even if voldemort kept his blood status a secret or even lied about it, snapes blood status would have been known at least by some of the death eaters.
also peter knew that voldemort was a half blood because he had to dig up the remains of voldies muggle father, plus dumbledore was aware of it and he would probably tell that to anyone who asked.
similarly i thought the same thing that they knew and because it was basically his movement to kill all half bloods or enslave them and muggles, that they were fine with it because he was so powerful
@@windhelmguard5295 also to add, literally every death eatter who was there at the grave of his father heard him give that speech about how muggle his father was.. he has daddy issues
Topic video starts at02:33
Thanks!
Thanks!!!
👍👍
voldemort: im half-blood
death eaters: what!!!
voldemort: what guys it doesnt matter i didnt have a choice in it!!
death eaters: then why you want to kill muggle-borns?
volemort: AVADA KEDAVRA!!!!!!!
I think that Voldemort either denied the truth or he considered himself an exception because he was, in his own words, exceptional.
And most of his followers may as well have been ignorant of the fact or simply feared him too much to confront him about it.
I guess, ironically enough, he's the perfect example of how mistaken his bloody ideology really was.
i’m obsessed with this channel at this point it’s not ok
I think that the deatheaters had no clue about his true blood status because his magic was so powerful. Even if they did question it, they knew what would come if they said anything... Its either talking about it or getting senteced to death by Voldy himself..
You might be right. Anyone who got caught talking about it would be tortured at the very least and Voldemort was good at seeing people's thoughts. I'm sure the Death Eaters told on each other constantly too so anyone who knew would be afraid to talk about it.
Video idea: what if Lily never confront Petunia that she saw the letter she wrote to Dumbledore. After her death how would she react, treat Harry? What difference would it be for his life?
it would be a bad difference ngl
Petunia was a bitch one change in circumstance won’t change what a nasty person she was
I don't think that would change anything. Lily still would've went to Hogwarts and Petunia still would've been just as jealous. I'm pretty sure it was the jealousy that turned Petunia against Lily and I think it was the jealousy that turned Petunia into the nasty bitter person she was as an adult.
...when Harry said that about Voldemort's parents, Bellatrix DID lash out. Or tried to, before Lucius Malfoy stopped her. In the book anyway.
By backing out his Riddle DNA, Voldemort may have doomed himself yet again. The Gaunt genes were a dead-end and led to mental instability and while still possessing immense potential power, they almost lost their magical skills. If he did as you suggest, he would be purer but lose the supercharge that Riddle Senior's healthy genes gave that made him not look like his immediate Gaunt relatives as well as greater acumen. When he lost the Riddle DNA, he stopped growing in many important respects.
I agree. Riddle's genes weren't as worn down as the Gaunt's and therefore enhanced the magical potential that remained in what was left.
Who would have guessed 10 centuries of inbreeding was a bad plan?
@@zeroexmachina ikr? lol
Your theory is absolutely amazing. I love it.
@@ami5849 To be fair, I am not the first to suggest Tom Sr.'s far healthier (though being gentry, some cousin-ing was likely, especially in that era) genes unwittingly gave the line that most hated Muggles a rebirth and final stand (CC, even if canon, was a contained timeline). But thank you.
VIDEO IDEA - Did Voldemort making a horcrux in Harry have a role to play when Harry was choosing his first wand?
It may have had a role but I think wands are almost sentient. So maybe the wand chose Harry almost because it knew it would be needed for Harry's encounters with Voldemort as Priori incantum would occur meaning Voldemort wouldn't be able to overpower Harry straight away as he would have done if his wand hadn't been linked with Voldemorts.
I still want to know how Tom Riddle found the location of the Chamber of Secrets when he was at school.
How did Sirius escape Azkaban?
@@sazsha That is answered in the books.
@@missautumn764 oh which book?
Edit: And how? :)
@@sazsha Not a 100% certain on which book, but it probably was PoA. He would transform into his animagus form, the dog. Since he was unregistered, the ministry had not taken any precautions against his ability to transform. The dementors found it more difficult to read animals, so this prevented him from losing his mind. The knowledge that he was innocent also helped in this regard. At some point, he got so skinny, he could escape his cell as a dog because he fit through the bars, I believe. He only utilised this to escape once he recognized Peter Pettigrew in the Daily Prophet, though, on holiday in Egypt with the Weasleys.
@@missautumn764 oh yeah I know that already but thanks for informing me again! :)
The thing I wondered was how he escaped the place, literally lol. Didn’t Azkaban lay in the middle of the ocean? Can a skinny black dog swim that far?
But idk tho. I haven’t read the books, I’ve just listened to the audiobooks and maybe I missed something?
This is a really interesting theory, i’ve never thought about it like that. I agree. And I think when it comes to the scene in OOTP Bella just didn’t want to hear it and didn’t even consider it could possibly be true so she lashed out with that response.
But in the graveyard, didn’t he basically reveal in front of an entire group of followers that he was half blood? He was literally in front of his father‘s grave.
It could just be the fact that hes rather handy with the old "Avada Kedavra!!!" that stopped them asking too many inconvenient questions?..........Though it could have something to do that he was the last remaining descendant of Sallazar Slytherin that impressed them enough that they werent worried about anything else?
I have to disagree with Riddle being ol' Slytherin's last descendant .
Isolt sayer's squib daughter in America might have descendants
@@bharatkashyap7200 Well to the Death Eaters he was Slytherins heir and,as Dumbledore said, they were a mixture of the weak seeking protection,the glory hungry eager to share in his triumphs and the thuggish looking to a leader who could show them more refined methods of thuggery.Basically he proved himself a powerful leader so they could overlook the blood status.
@@bharatkashyap7200
Elp
Yeah ?
Voldemort made himself pure blood by killing his father and his grandparents, he had no muggle relatives by the end
Have you done a video on what would have happened if Harry had accepted Draco's offer of friendship in the first movie?
No I don’t he did but this other channel Harry Potter Theory did it
He’s done a video of if Harry was sorted into slytherin, I can’t remember if it covered the draco friendship or not though
@@carahr9413 He did talk about their friendship in that video
The Horcruxes didn't stop him ageing. I thought your argument would be that his reborn body somehow made him more pureblood. Perhaps he should have used a pureblood's blood instead of Harry's blood?
Harry IS pureblood. Lily is the one who was was muggle born.
@@charlainagarcia9572 That makes Harry a half-blood. One of the big themes in the series was that Harry and Voldemort were both half-blood.
I think that the Death Eaters were fully aware of Voldemort’s history but thought that in a way he made up for it in being Slytherin’s Heir, being as powerful as he was, and his ideology.
Thank you for continuing to help and educate us 💕💕
How you described him losing his muggle side doesn't eliminate it but describes it more like cancer(?). It may be "useless" or "dormant" but it's still there. And lest we forget that Wormtail knew because he had to take Riddle bone to bring Voldemort back. I think that those closest to him knew but they feared him way too much to question it.
"The first thing we reach for after waking up is our smartphone"
Me: *Reaches for my bong*
But diddnt, he said something like :
"Harry you are standing on the remains of my father, he lived in this very town and gosh i hate that muggle, who had to destroy my wizard mother and left her to die, so i killed him with pleasure" or smth like that ar the graveyard, when all the Death Eaters were there on night, when he returned?
I think he said that before he summoned Death Eaters? Anyway, definitely Barty Crouch Junior and Wormtail knew.
Translation: here's how Voldemort avoided being a shameless hypocrite.
I always thought being descendant from Salazar Slytherin balanced out the muggle blood along with him using the killing curse on his muggle relatives.
I don't care if horcruxes caused him genetic changes, his origins cannot be reset.
Right. There's no reason to think that making horcruxs erases somebody's nonmagical DNA either. What if a muggle born made a horcrux? Would they just not have biological parents anymore? Would they have no DNA left? This theory has so many problems.
I concur.
@@jessicacharlton7347 what you are saying makes no sense. changing his dna through magical means has nothing to do with his parents or their dna. thats not how genetic manipulation works even in scientific means. all of life evolved from something that was at once completely different that what it was originally. thats literally how the variation of life exists that we see now in different species. All he did was use magic to do what would naturally be done over generations of genetic changes.
@@jaydubbs8277 The argument was that Voldemort made himself a pure blood through magical means. A witch or wizard isn't considered a pure blood if they have a muggle parent. Therefore Voldemort couldn't make himself a pure blood unless he somehow magically changed his DNA to get rid of any genes he inherited from his muggle father. This is impossible even in the Harry Potter world. I've seen comments saying that making horcruxes caused Voldemort to become a pure blood by getting rid of his nonmagical DNA. This is also impossible. If this was true then any muggle born who made horcruxes would have no DNA left. No matter how much a species has evolved from what it originally was, it can never change or outgrow it's ancestry. Being a pure blood is literally about ancestry and nothing else. You either have the magical gene or you don't. The only genetic difference between a pure blood and a muggle born is their ancestry. Muggle borns aren't any more or less magical than pure bloods. Blood status is just an arbitrary means to feel superior and to discriminate against others. Unless a witch or wizard can magically change their ancestry there is no way they make themselves a pure blood.
@@jessicacharlton7347 im pretty sure the only one who can tell us what is or isnt possible in the harry potter world is jk rowling herself. are you her? lol in fact she herself has said that the process for making horcruxes is so evil and complex that she chose not to include it in any of the books. So we really dont know what all creating a horcrux does to the body. Especially given that he made many of them. The point still remains that even if blood status is an arbitrary concept rooted in nothing more than bigotry, if he did in fact manage to alter his dna through the creation of horcruxes to become essentially inhuman, then that same arbitrary principle based on ones genetic connection to muggles does in fact change his blood status.
Can you imagine a pure-blood maniac reading an "intro to genetics" book and going "ah... sh*t".
What do u mean
I feel like the purebloods are like the hapsburgs. Horribly inbred to the point of severe genetic disorders. For example you see a lot of mental illness that seems to be hereditary as well as unusual physical features being way more common amongst purebloods like aristocratic facial features that comes from the founders principal in biology.
@@mrinsanity6063 They would learn that 1. you can't steal magic, you either have the gene or you don't, and 2. keeping your bloodline pure is not a good idea, quite the opposite. It's doing a major disservice to your descendants to inbreed like a moron.
5:40 The thought had crossed my mind.
i think this is a reach. magical cells have prolonged life however not infinite
I agree. I think this is a stretch.
It's still a nice theory.
They do?
Also the genetics would make no sense. Like he would only inherit genetics from his mother if he managed to do that.
I think that Voldemort's body was pure blood when he was reborn from cauldron. First: his body was created in fully magical process. It's almost alchemy-engineered. Second: the blood of his enemy used in process was pure status.
So... the question is the blood status bound to your body, or to your ancestry and soul? If to the blood that runs through your system, well... maybe Voldermorts body is closer to being a magical creature than human :D
The body that was created using his muggle fathers bone? This theory makes no sense at all. If Voldemort changed his DNA to erase his nonmagical DNA then he would have no biological father and the potion wouldn't have worked. Also Voldemort used Harrys blood to make his new body and Harry is a half blood. The whole reason that Voldemort could touch Harry after his rebirth and the reason that Voldemort couldn't kill Harry after his rebirth was because Voldemort had Harry's blood in him, keeping Lilys protection alive, so even if Voldemort had erased his own muggle blood he would've ended up with muggle blood in him from Harry after his rebirth anyway. There is no way to make this whole "Voldemort erased his muggle heritage" theory work.
Tom this is why you have no friends...
Edit. MySpace was his secret final form horcrux. F
6:02 - I don't think it's how it works.
You're either a wizard or not. Pure-bloods are not any more magical than muggle-borns or half-bloods. There are no "magical cells" and "muggle cells" within the same person. You either inherit the magical gene (perhaps it's a combination of genes, as it gets a bit complicated with muggle-borns and squibs) and you're a witch/wizard or you don't and you're a muggle/squib. Wizards and muggles are the same species that are only differentiated by that small portion of DNA that determines if you're magical or not (just like any other singular hereditary feature doesn't make you someone completely different comparing to other humans), not two separate species with two different sets of DNA. You can't be a half-wizard. You're either trully a wizard or not at all.
Day 6 of asking for what if Ginny came with Harry, Ron and Hermione on the Horcrux hunt
That would have been a complete disaster as Ginny still had the Trace on her wand, being underage.
In the fourth book, he specifically told them when he returned. He explained why they were in that cemetery, about his father who didn't like magic and left his mother when she told him what she was. There's no way they don't know. Maybe Bellatrix because she wasn't present at that meeting, but the DEs as a whole, they knew for sure.
There is also blood of a foe forcibly taken. Nevill also destroyed the last horcrux which could have been where Tom Riddle forced his "muggle" DNA to go, into each horcrux so that as his soul divided it stripped more human traits from the body
Voldemort was the biggest hypocrite in the wizarding world
Top 10 most bravest characters ( ranked )
Already done that
Tom Riddle
Dumbledore
Mad Eye Moody
Snape
Lilly and James
Sirius
Harry
Barty Crouch Jr
Fred and George
Ron
@@Rín-wín this list has 12, not 10.
@@denizkenger52 thanks for counting lol I didn't put much thought into yet either. it's a difficult task to rate them
Snape
Albus
Harry
Barty crouch JR
Hermione
Ron
James
sirius black
Nevil
Grindelwald
I thought you and several other people have made MANY videos already explaining that he was a halfblood and the deatheaters knew... they just didn't care because he was the heir of slytherin and killed all muggles in his family
i dont think they were aware that he was heir of slytherin or that he killed his muggle family members.
@@denizkenger52 then u haven't seen the MULTIPLE other videos he has on it 🤔
Alex John's, what Your saying is you are 1/2 Blood and your coming up for greatness. It ok to kill good 1/2 bloods to kill half witch or warlock Is to kill under you? It that you saying.
@@louisfigueroa6113 I'm saying that's what EVERY video on the subject states...as well as being confirmed by voldemorts actions and dialogue in the books
@@alexjohnson1261 why would I need to see his videos. this is a theory channel, thats his theories, not canon. You cant accept everything he says as canon.
I appreciate the theory, but this logic might also imply that magical people are immortal by nature. I think one can still be half-blooded, even if they are immortal.
Immortality does not necessarily mean "not aging".
What is a child of two muggle borns called? Are they still considered half-blood for the sake of having magical parents but non magical grandparents?
I just have one question in particular: "Why is it that Voldemort looks are so much scarier in The Goblet of Fire, when he is "reborn" as oppose to every other movie? Of course, it comes down to the VFX, but still though, anyone else agree?
Because they forgot to update to the latest version of Photoshop
@@WrestlingZoneYT Oh, thank you my lord! Now i know why you are less terrifying!
@@DBLCreations yeah. Blame it to those filthy mudbloods
People don’t realize they don’t even care about half bloods because they still have a wizard parent. muggle borns are from muggles and non magic families
i don't know why, but it seems like half-bloods and mudbloods can at times surpass the purebloods in magical prowess. what if the purebloods are hurting themselves and weakening their magical power by only seeking out other purebloods.
Maybe, but technically he made himself a halfblood again with his 'rebirth' using Harry's blood, and even more, he used 'bone of the father', his father was a muggle so his bones were all muggle...
I disagree how do we know the aging process was halted? He was only 70 something when he was killed. Many wizards were shown to have lived 30 or more years than that and were still active. For all we know Voldemort would have been a 150 year old vegetable until he told finally welcomed death.
Another thing, he used a muggle bone for his rebirth
If Horcruxes stop people from aging shouldn't Voldemort be the same age he was in the diary?
Even if thats true he recreated himself with the blood of a halfblood so he'd still not be a pureblood
gotta be honest. Having an 8 minute video but 2 and a half minute ads is a little ridiculous
Better explanation: new body was created out of magic, making him “pure”.
Cells (mostly) all contain the same DNA, half of which comes from each parent. It's not that some cells come from the mother and some from the father, which is what it sounds like you're saying. I'm not sure if that's actually what you meant and we're talking about magic anyway but I felt the need to point that out.
Family mother father borther have most money 💵💵💵 you
I love this channel so much!
Cue dave chapelle: "i just never bothered to correct it."
I believe in this, mages (gender neutral of witches and wizards) and mortals r both humans, 1 can do things the other can’t. Mages don’t have magic cause of something in their dna 🧬...they just have it as simple as that. Or else if mortals knew, they would try to harvest and give magic to everyone else. The physical side of Voldemort claimed to have purged away is delusional, but if so, his history and spiritual soul remembers always. He’ll never accomplish that no matter what.
Such an interesting theory, another great video!
I disagree. I think the death eaters, or at least some of them, knew that Voldemort was a half blood. He even told one of them, Wormtail, in the forth book. He explicitly says that Harry is standing on the grave of his muggle father.
I got called to hr for calling my coworker a muggle 😂 😭
Hmm...I was under the impression that the reason he was immortal was because the Horcrux's saved a portion of his soul that would be released if the his body was destroyed. I am not informed on Cannon, this is just the way I understood how Horcrux's worked
I am confused by this video. Does this mean that magical cells don’t age. If that is true then do pure bloods have non-magical cells in them? We know pure bloods grow old and die. So does that mean they are not really pure blood? What I am trying to understand is how is someone’s cells related to them being pure blood? Blood cells are not the only cells in the body. Could someone please explain this to me?
I always got the feeling that Bella knew... she didn't really address it, she chose to ignore Harry's statement.
If Slytherin's blood was what made Voldemort "exceptional" wouldn't the rest of the Guant family by that logic have been extremely powerful as well.
The Gaunts had been exceptional but they had ruined it by inbreeding.
No, in the graveyard with Harry when Voldemort came back, he used a potion that needed his fathers bone. If Voldemort had changed his DNA by making horcruxs then this wouldn't have worked. If Voldemort wasn't a half blood anymore then his fathers DNA wouldn't be in him anymore. If Voldemorts fathers DNA wasn't in him anymore then Voldemort biologically wouldn't have a father.
That's not how genetics work anyways. It only takes a very small part of your DNA to cause a specific trait. This seems to be the way inheriting magic works in Harry Potter too. That's why there are squibs and muggle borns. The magic trait is something you either have or you don't. You aren't more or less magical based on whether or not your parents are magical. You can even have no magical parents and still end up magical. Just like having blue eyes. You aren't more or less blue eyed because only one, or neither one, of your parents have blue eyes. You can't have the part of your DNA that causes blue eyes take over the rest of your DNA, even if magic did exist, because the rest of your DNA has nothing to do with the blue eyed trait. The same would be true for magic. The magical part of Voldemorts DNA can't take over the rest of his DNA because the rest of his DNA has nothing to do with the fact that he is magical.
Before anyone else points this out, yes, I understand that I'm arguing about the way science works in a book about magic. There are other problems with this theory but my comment is already way too long.
I mean if he got rid of his fathers dna he would be a literal clone of his mother, so since he doesnt look like a direct replica of her we can presume that he would have his fathers genetics still active. Also he would have only 1 sex chromosome, the X chromosome, so that could feesably cause a whole host of genetic issues that we don't see evidence for in the books.
i dont think halfbloods have literal half muggle half magical blood. what would that make muggleborns? its a term created by people who dont understand how the genetics of magic truly work. All wizards are fully magical.
Interesting theory but I don't think that's how that works
A pureblood is any wizard or witch or denies having any muggle ancestors. So if your muggleborns and you can successfully deny having any muggle ancestors, that makes you pureblood by definition
No, a "pure blood" is a witch or wizard who only has magical ancestors going back 3 generations.
@@iluineredrambar4111 look on the wiki
VIDEO IDEA!! “How Voldemort Knew He Was The Heir to Slytherin” I think it would be very interesting!
All this hatred for muggles and pure blood mania would probably be non-existent for Voldemort if he just had been shown some love. I feel if Tom Riddle Sr had taken Voldy in to raise him, there may be no Lord Voldemort. I know Merope was wrong in giving Tom Sr the love potion but he still had a son. At some point he should've tried to step up & raise him IMO. Although Harry lost his parents at 1 years old, all the love he was shown in that 1 yr with his parents, then with Lily's ultimate love sacrifice, that made all the difference in his survival and ultimate defeat of Voldemort despite living with those nasty Dursleys.
all of them were scared shitless of him, even if they knew, not even Bellatrix would have the balls to confront baldy and risk getting killed on the spot or worse. He had an army moved by fear and false freedom, so there you go.
For empathy-less TOM, everyone was weak and disposable, except himself.
ok voldermort was reborn using a few drops of blood from harry as part of the ingredients ... harry is a half-blood as lily is muggleborn ... so isn't it obvious that voldermort is "half-blood" after his rebirth? or is there something else?
I think you have a very good idea here.
Uhm, you do realize that wizards and witches die too, they’re not immortal, so your theory makes no sense, just because he made horcruxes didn’t have anything to do with his blood status, that theory is beyond grasping, it just doesn’t make sense. Besides, Voldemort didn’t really care about blood status, he was using it as a weapon, similar to how many dictators use a race to unify a group against another, he only cared about himself and acquiring power, just like most of the above mentioned dictators tend to be like.
he became even more half blood by taking harry's blood who was a half blood.
Yea and his muggle dad's blood.. Wait did I just talk to you on another vid??
*bones
@@simplymudblood4370 sirius black your favourite character right?
@@simplymudblood4370 if only we knew about pettigrew's blood status. maybe his potion was full of muggle blood...and bone:)
@@denizkenger52 yea..
I mean...he's also not in his original body any longer either so there's that.
I think this is a stretch, but there is evidence in the text that Tom's use of dark magic began to alter his appearance. It's possible he was delving in magic that would "rid him" of the "muggle impurities" in his blood or it simply could be because he was using so much dark magic that he was losing his humanity. (Chapter 23 of HBP)
Horrocrux magic was inspired in the Lich undead ritual, so I think when he created them his muggle half became undead therefore a magical creature that would extend his magical lifespan indefinitely but didn't turn his body invulnerable to magic.
Then when he resurrected into an alchemical body turned completely into a magical creature, but with undead properties via his horrocrux and snake properties via the possession of Nagini, so even further turned into a darker magical creature more than a pure blood wizard.
I think Voldemort definitely thought this was the case but that was only in his mind so he’d stop hating himself as a halfblood.
This theory doesn't work because there isn't 2 types of DNA in wizards. Wizards have a mutated gene in their human/"muggle" DNA that gives them their powers where as muggles are missing the gene. Think of it as a genetic defect in the real world. If you have 2 carriers breed then you will most likely get a wizard if one is a carrier and the other isnt their is a lower percent chance to have the gene And if both are non carries then their is a very low chance to obtain the gene but still possible as genes/DNA mutates at a random but low chance.
It also explains why he hated it so much, was literally infuriated every time Dumbledore addressed him after his Hogwarts days as Tom. It was a literal reminder to Voldemort that no matter how high he rose, no matter his immortality, at the core of him was just an ordinary man with a very ordinary name. After all, who's going to revere a guy named Tom? Tom's were people who worked in places like the Leaky and served people.
But when he started sharing same blood with Harry je became halfblood again
Video: what would’ve happen if the Dursley’s did treat Harry right?
Pure bloods accept half bloods with hatred of there muggle heritage and rarely accept muggleborns who hate there muggle heritage
I personally think he just never talked about it and since no one who knew him before the rise said anything (prolly died) no one could say nothing
I don't think so. I think he may have lied in his school years and everyone just believed it. Then, later, no one cared to ask since they just assumed and maybe the death eaters from his school years perpetuated the fib
Interesting, but how does Harry's blood affect it later? He had to infuse some of Harry's blood into himself in order to get around the inability to touch him, so does that then undo his immortality & make him half-blood again?
This is something I have been so interested in!! He was half blood as he confessed in chamber of secrets when Tom riddle was talking to Harry!!!
Barty Crouch jr. knows about Voldemort's father but he still considered him pure blood because Voldemort founded immortality.
Basically voldemort gave himself a magical blood dialysis or transfusion of sorts. This indeed is an interesting theory.
misleading title, just assuming the death eaters thought he was pureblood didn't make Voldemort pureblood.... and it's a bit far fetched to assume the horcruxes altered muggle cells making him pureblood? We also know horcruxes just protect the soul according to the novels, not altering the ageing process... perhaps at some point down the line for another body he may have had to do another regeneration spell to preserve the soul further.
his mortal body was already gone, he was built with Wormtails's flesh and Harry's blood
Maybe he was considered to have "killed" the muggle part of him by killing that side of the family.
I know Peter pettigrew knew is father,was a muggle for sure,he was there in the graveyard the night of the Dark Lord's resurrection and helped perform,the spell and the potion to bring him back, I don't know how much Peter would have heard because he had cut off his arm for Voldemort's regeneration potion and spell but Voldemort stated plainly that his father was a muggle. It Is possible out of fear he did not tell the other Death Eaters.
And Voldemort’s boggart is Harry Potter, what do you think about that theory?, in the LEGO Harry Potter video games if you play as Tom Riddle or Lord Voldemort and you are near a boggart in the game it’s Harry Potter
Glad I got here early! :)
Thank you so so much for another great video !
Long money to help you have most money 💰🤑💰🤑💰💰 for music game
The imagery of pure blood played a very important part in Nazi ceremonies. Hitler used the issue of spilt pure Aryan blood at the annual Nuremberg rallies. The so-called ‘Blood Banner’ (Blutfahne) was a special Nazi flag that had been supposedly drenched in the blood of “Nazi martyrs” at the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch. Each year at Nuremberg, Hitler would accept new party colours with one hand holding the new colours while his other hand grasped the ‘Blood Banner’. The Blood Order’ (Blutorden) was the highest honorary decoration given out by the Nazi Party and it was awarded to those still alive in 1933 who had participated in the Beer Hall Putsch - about 1500 in total
They must have known just from the fact that he took them to his dad's grave, I think him being Slytherin's heir helped alot.
If the wizarding world became all pureblood (which is highly unlikely). It would eventually die out. Seeing how there are few pureblood families so they would have to eventually be in-bred. That is why muggleborns and half-bloods are essential to expanding the wizarding community. And squibs, however their children don’t always have the magic gene active and instead it takes generations to make it active in their family.
so IRONIC how Voldemort is half a Muggle and grew up as Muggle kid for the first 11 years of his life lol
The thing is that muggles and wizzards are the same species. The only difference is either one or a couple of genes that allow the person who has those genes to use magic. And the thing with muggle borns is that they likely underwent a random mutation which gave them the gene to use magic. Same thing probably also happened in ancient history before the whole blood purity thing came about. So really, all wizards, even the pure blooded ones, all had ancestors who were muggles.