Harry not turning to adults in times of crisis is actually very accurate for an abused child; if you grow up with the primary adults in your life hurting you and mistreating you all the time, you don't see adults as helpful or caretakers--you see them as dangerous. When when presented with actually kind adults, it takes kids a LONG time to adjust to the idea that these adults are safe (if they ever get there). By 11, Harry has had more than the time to have developed the habit of handling everything himself, because asking for help only gets him blame and scorn. I can tell that the Carlin household was a loving, safe one because some of the comments and questions you guys have come from a place of knowing you could turn to your parents when you needed help. Which is wonderful! But it's worthwhile to remember that Harry is an abuse victim and his outlook on the world is drastically altered by that--not all of us grew up feeling safe in our homes or with our adults, unfortunately.
@@PcCAvioN 100%. Especially as he gets older and not only continues to go through more major trauma, but also starts to more fully understand the ways he's being mistreated. Harry has many accurate traits for a traumatized child/teen and while I'm sure people who aren't versed in that might see his behavior as strange, I find it's actually very true to dealing with trauma when you're still young (and hell, even as an adult in some ways)
He trusts Hagrid pretty much immediately. By the end of the second book he totally trusts dumbledore. He didn't go to adults because there wouldn't be a story if they did. It wouldn't be called harry potter and something. It would be 'hogwarts teachers and the chamber of secrets' or whichever
@@ajrestivo you can trust someone and still have trust issues. Brains aren't consistent or perfect, we can contradict ourselves. And yeah, obviously, there's a narrative need for kids in fiction to handle things themselves, but you could make that argument about anything that happens in fiction. It's much more interesting if there's also a reasonable in-universe explanation for something, and in this case I just think it's very fitting that Harry struggles with this. I'm not saying these books are a perfect representation of anything, I'm just commenting on a pattern I've noticed and found accurate based on my own experiences and study. People are complicated. And Hagrid and Dumbledore aren't always the right people to reach out to, either, so that would still leave him preferring to handle things alone. There's no denying Harry is an abused kid and that makes you act kinda weird and make strange choices that don't always make perfect sense
The fact that Lupin found Harry on Halloween night so that neither of them had to be alone on the anniversary of James and Lily’s death will never not make me emotional🥹
One fun detail about when Sirius attavks the Fat Lady, the canvas is slashed. 2 years later, Sirius gives Harry a knife to unlock any lock or undo any knot. Basically, Sirius tried to use this same knife to get into the tower.
Theory: the goblet Snape gives lupin is elaborate because the potion can only be fully effective served in a SILVER goblet as the last ingredient against the transformation
@@kseniavarna9131That is not the case at all in the Harry Potter canon. A mixture of powdered silver applied to a fresh werewolf bite will seal the wound, saving the victim from bleeding out. That is the only stated relationship between werewolves and silver in the HP canon
I like that idea. I think there must be more to the topic of potions than just mixing ingredients together; vessels and equipment making an impact would be interesting
I feel like Snape would choose a highly elaborate and decorated goblet for Lupin to draw attention to the fact that he is making a potion for him. I can see Snape walking through the castle with the goblet and being like "Oh this? I am just taking a potion to Professor Lupin. He needs it every MONTH."
yk it kinda just blew my mind when you said that voldemort cursed the defence against the dark arts position so people couldn't learn defence against the dark arts. bc i always thought it was just him being petty bc he wasn't allowed to teach, not that it could also have been a tactical thing to prevent people from learning.
I feel the same, when they said Voldemort cursed the teaching position I always new he was being petty, having the view of, if I cant have this teaching job then no one can, which is a huge disadvantage to future students. It never even entered my mind but the fact that multiple generations of young witches and wizards aren't being taught the full range of defence against the dark arts they were probably learning the basics, having a new teacher every year is very disruptive you have to learn there teaching style, the teacher doesn't know your learning ability, lupins the only one who seams genuinely interested in the students as individuals. Any witch or wizard that was a student after Voldemort cursed the job is at a disadvantage and he is ensuring that they are weaker should he come to full power and have to fight against them. Wow its great after so many years of reading to get different perspective.
I never really considered it as a possibility because (at least in the US) having a new teacher every year for every subject is pretty typical. It's not that they leave, it's just that each of them only teach 1 grade each. It always seemed weird to me that in Harry Potter, there was only 1 teacher for each subject for all years.
@@BlueSparxLPs i'm homeschooled/have never attended school here in the UK, but i'm pretty sure hogwarts isn't that accurate to how school works here. I think you get a new teacher every few years or as you move from primary school to secondary school to college/sixth form (thats like high school in the UK). and quite a few teachers teach multiple age groups, but you wouldn't have just one teacher from the age of 11 to 17, mostly because college/sixth form is a separate institution to school.
If Sirius broke in to murder Wormtail on Halloween, he was almost certainly motivated over the edge of caution by the anniversary of the death of the Potters.
i think snape would actually be extremely upset about the boggart turning into him and then him becoming a laughing stock because of it. If we know anything about Snape, it's that he's stuck in the past. So in Snape's eyes, the whole boggart situation is basically one of his old bullies coming back and bullying him again. I mean, basically what's happened is Lupin, one of the guys who picked on him/at the very least allowed him to be picked on by james/sirius is back at school and has facilitated a situation where Snape is being mocked by everyone all over again. I'm sure if it was another teacher, unrelated to the marauders, snape wouldn't be happy, but specifically because it's lupin who's made this happen, snape is furious.
Snape would know about boggarts, both that they show the worst fear and the best way to counter them. If anything he'd be happy that he is Neville's biggest fear.
@@jb888888888 im not sure what him knowing about boggarts has to do with anything. it could be argued that he would be pleased he’s Neville’s fear, sure, but Snape is an emotionally stunted, immature AH who takes out his anger on harry just bc harry looks like/is related to Snape’s childhood bully. He would still absolutely be fuming about the fact one if the marauders-one of his old bullies-once again has made him the laughing stock of the school. Snape is not the sort of guy to look rationally at something like that.
@@shhimreading906 _"not sure what him knowing about boggarts has to do with anything"_ IDK why Snape would be upset with Students Learning Things. It's a school, he knows Lupin is there to show the students a boggart. He almost definitely already knows what a boggart is and how to deal with it. If he's someone's greatest fear then of course making Boggart!Snape look ridiculous is how to deal with it.
@@jb888888888i honestly dont know how to respond to that because i’ve explained exactly why snape would be upset already. snape isn’t the sort of character to look at the situation logically like that. he can’t separate his personal feelings from the classroom. if he gets so triggered by harry (a literal child) just existing and looking like james/being related to james to the point that he mercilessly bullies harry then i see no reason why snape wouldn’t be fuming over the boggart situation. also ive never been under the impression snape particularly cared about students learning anything. he’s a terrible teacher who picks on most of his students and doesn’t seem to help them in class unless they’re slytherin. so he’s not going to care about gyffindors learning stuff with lupin
38:26 Hagrid hands Scabbers to Ron in the film. In the book Hermione finds him hiding in a milk jug whilst she is tidying up after Hagrid smashed the first one.
I thought that they said Lavender's rabbit died the same day Sirius broke into Gryffindor tower and was like standing over Ron's bed? I could be wrong though :)
Dementors can feel Harry's presence under the cloak, in the seventh book when the trio lands in Hogmeade they get the dementors sent on them and it works.
Right. The dementors are blind, they can’t see anything. The cloak works only on vision, it doesn’t mask any other sense. The dementors sense emotions.
"I don't think Snape would dwell on that." Are we talking about the same Snape here? In OotP we find out he's dwelling on events that happened 20 years ago. He loses his absolute mind at being called a coward multiple times. He may *also* be upset about Lupin being in the castle, Sirius being out, etc. but he is 100% upset about the Neville boggart situation because it makes him look foolish AND it publicly calls him out for being a colossal bully to a child.
I think Snape making the potion for Lupin is also part of Dumbledore’s Big Plan. He knows a second war is coming and needs 2 of his most talented lieutenants to be able to overcome the past and work together.
One important thing to remember is not to discount extra lore that is introduced through the video games. JKR provided the gaming companies with a docket of extra lore they could use for the games, one of the biggest being all of the Chocolate Frog Cards.
It makes me think of Fred and George making the protection hats and selling them to the ministry because even their wizards struggle with basic protection charms. Perhaps a real world mark of Voldy cursing the DADA job.
I have what is probably a very good theory about the Hogsmeade weekends. In Hogwarts Legacy, you see that Hogsmeade is open to all the students year-round, which is how I assume it is meant to actually be. Likely the rare weekends for the students during Harry's years is a precaution from Dumbledore because of Voldemort's actions over the previous years, and the fear of him returning again later on. In this case I can't see the shop owners being all that pleased with their main customer base only getting to shop every few months.
At one point you all mentioned that snape cares about the students safety and used him jumping in front of werewolf lupin to protect the 3. That was movie only. Book snape was knocked out at the time. The trio all 3 cast spells at him in the shrieking shack. Sirius uses a spell to levitate snape out - Not being too careful about bumping his head on the way out.
I read something that said that Rowling wanted to add that in, but she couldn't find a place for it so she just published it as is. But later when the movie was being made, she suggested it and they figure out a way to add that scene in.
@@keithg460 I very much doubt it. What's more likely is that the movie directors just have a hardon for certain characters and need to go out of their way to make them look better.
new headcannons from this episode: 1. voldemort jinxed the DADA job out of sheer pettiness, and then was pleasantly surprised when it happened to help him by depressing the ability of young wizards to learn defense. 2. sirius did first enter the grounds on october 16, which is why crookshanks made a play for scabbers that day. 3. Zonko's is wizard amazon, the bulk of their business is done by owl order, and they only keep the shop in Hogsmede open for tourists and, occaisonally, students. Also Percy is giving me "what have the romans ever done for us?" vibes. I love this podcast.
For the Katie Bell thing in Book 6, I think that’s less a dig at Oliver Wood and his abilities and more of Katie kinda hinting to Harry “Hey I know he’s your best friend but… maybe there’s a better keeper than Ron out there?”
Even though the students only get to visit four times a year you have to remember most adult wizards can basically just teleport everywhere, since it's the only all wizard village maybe Hogsmead is just a really popular hangout spot so tons of wizards are just randomly popping in year-round
On the subject of magical methods of underwater exploration the Bubblehead charm has to be more common because it comes into vogue in Harry’s fifth year because people are dropping Dung Bombs and Stink Pellets everywhere to make life tough for Umbridge.
Yeah, it may just be that that charme is usually tought in the 5th or 6th year. Also just because Harry dosn't find any solution for breathing under water dosn't mean there are not dozens of them. I guess the library is huge and if you are looking in the wrong spot you can search endlessly without finding anything. Remember how they couldn't find Nicolaus Flamel for the lonegst time either in the first year eventhough he must be well known among adults?
Thoughts while listening... They really did have a great teacher during Harry's fifth year. Not the official teacher, (we all hate her) but the one that was teaching in the illegal underground defense club. Unfortunately, Harry didn't learn much from him since it was Harry. I suppose if anything, Harry learned more about what it means to be a leader while teaching. He did lead his friends into battle at the end of the year, after all. As I understand it, the wolfsbane potion doesn't actually prevent Lupin from transforming into a werewolf, but instead it keeps him with his sane human mind while he's in that form. This is why he still has to disappear at the full moon even though he's taking the potion. (Ah, later corrected by Jay in the episode.) I don't think McGonagall would break the rules for Harry like that. However, I think she would probably figure out some sort of loophole to allow him to go. She seems to me the kind of person that would do that. IE always following the rules but not following the spirit of the rules when necessary. As to whether or not the dementors can see through the invisibility cloak (or more accurately, *not* see through it) I think it's one of those cases where since they're magical creatures themselves, they're not actually seeing individuals, they're just seeing the tasty delicious souls they can eat. (That said, I suppose it would sort of be similar to some characters of my own whom are themselves solidified indestructible souls. They have the ability to see souls, but only at the eyes. So I suppose the invisibility cloaks wouldn't completely work on them. They'd just see floating eyes. Additionally, I've actually considered that if a dementor tried to absorb their soul, they would actually rip the dementor apart from the inside, since the dementor word simply suck them up and being indestructible, couldn't actually destroy them.) As far as a field trip to the bottom of the lake to visit the merpeople, that was something Hagrid did with the students during the 7th year. Unfortunately, we know what happened to Harry's seventh year, and Haggard probably wasn't teaching that year anyways. (Not canon, but this all popped in my head while listening. Seriously, though, who was teaching Care of Magical Creatures during Snape's 1-year tenure as head master?) As far as Lupin brewing the wolfsbane potion, I've always kind of figured that he's decent with potions, but my completely out of the blue head Cannon is that werewolves can't actually Brew the wolf spine potion. Sugar makes the Wolf's pain potion useless, but would artificial sweeteners affect it? It just occurred to me, it's been said that when Dudley encountered the dementors, he saw himself for who he truly was and the fact that nobody actually liked him. Well aside from his parents. I think when Draco encountered the dementors on the train, he probably experienced the worst point in his life so far: the point when Harry rejected him. Given his obsession with Harry, I think that was probably the most heartbreaking horrific thing he has ever experienced. If Vernon had been the one to find baby Harry and the note before Petunia, he'd probably have taken the kid right to the orphanage. At most, he'd apologize to Petunia for being late to or missing breakfast that day.
Fun note that you guys touched on: if Crookshanks lived with the Potters, he has almost certainly met Sirius and Peter before. He recognised them. More: Trelawny's second prophecy was about Peter. If Peter is dead, Trelawny doesn't make that prophecy. EDIT: the Dementors are actually blind, right?
1. Yes, that's why I don't agree with the theory. Because Sirius said that Crookshanks was intelligent, but it took some time for him to trust Sirius. 2. Why is that necessary? The same prophecy can apply to Barty Crouch Jr too. If you are aware about prophecies, in most stories, they can have multiple interpretations. 3. Yes. Dementors sense people's emotions. So cloaks can't stop/fool them anyways.
In regards to national quidditch teams, I’ve always also thought that we don’t know how many people from the UK are just home schooled as there is literally only one school.
But a lot of them could be sent to foreign as well right? Like when Malfoy was going on about how his father wanted him to join Durmstrang cause they were more focused on the Dark Arts?
@@aritramarik4487 well with Malfoy that would have been because his family were so interested in the dark arts and had money to go abroad, for the average wizard who’s family may not fancy sending them to the other side of the country every year, they would probably just home school them.
Trelawney's prophecy about Pettigrew hasn't been made yet. If he died here, there's no reason to assume it would still be made at all. As far as Dementors go, they don't see; they just sense your emotions. It's how they never noticed that Sirius kept turning into a dog.
Dementors can't see through invisibility cloaks, but also, invisibility cloaks can't fool Dementors, because Dementors are blind. They sense people by their emotions.
Yeah, it's not specified that the invisibility cloak also hides other traces. I'm also not sure if Dumbledore can see through the cloak or just has the ability to sense it's magic.
@@philw6056 He definitely knows some of the secrets of that particular cloak since he studied it for a long time (upwards of 11 years) We see this in action in the first book (and the movie), when he directly addresses the Trio under the cloak in Hagrid's hut
@@ambiverter The question is still, has he found a way to see through the cloak or is it a special type of magic and he can distinguish the traces from other magic sources.
Please, I’m begging you at this point, HOW DOES THE DEFENSE AGAINST THE DARK ARTS CURSE WORK?!? I’m particularly curious about how it was seemingly the only piece of Voldemort’s magic that remained intact during the 13 years he was powerless. We know from Hagrid that after Voldemort fell the first time, those he had put under the Imperius curse were released (“people were comin’ outta sorta trances”). Please make a video about how this works!
Maybe none of them had been out under enchantments. Maybe they were all real Death Eaters but they were pretending to be under the imperius curse to get out of trouble. 🤔
There's another channel that gave their take on it, and I think it has a fair degree of merit. While it's probably impossible to know how a curse like this is placed or why it stayed up after his almost-death, they do go into more detail on how exactly the curse affects the people in that position. I think the channel's name was simply "Harry Potter Theory". The basic idea is that they end up experiencing their worst fear. Lupin for example is outed as a werewolf and injures someone in the process. Umbridge is carried off by the beasts she thinks she's better than. Things of that nature. The video is far more specific, if you're curious.
@riluna3695 Thanks, I thought that video was pretty solid, though it didn’t answer all my questions. One of my headcanons about this is that it’s yet another example of magic sort of having a mind of its own. I think it’s kind of unlikely that Voldemort consciously casts a spell, he’s just so evil and jaded and _so incredibly petty_ that it happened. I like to think he realized a few years later that he did it and was just like, “Well that’s what you get, Dumbledore!😝” It seems on brand to me that Voldy routinely sticks his tongue out when he doesn’t get his way. At least before he solves his problems with murder.
@@Margaret-yv9ed Snakes do be known for always sticking their tongues out, so probably :D And yeah, there do seem to be a few examples of...shall we say "deeper magic"? The bond of blood that Dumbledore puts over the Dursley's place, plus the sacrificial love that it relies on. Like you say, I can't imagine Lily cast a spell on purpose at that moment. Magic just does stuff sometimes, I guess.
Right? It's so weird because that spell is almost a low tier reality warping spell in a way. It guarantees something will happen to the DADA Prof every single year from something as simple as being fired/quitting, to something as extreme as death.
My wife was wondering the other night, what would have happened if, to really get back at Lilly, Petunia desided to rise Harry as carring as possible so that Harry didn't want to go to Hogwards and stay as a muggle (or as muggle as he can)... Maybe Snape would have had to get a job in a muggle school to keep an eye on Harry xD
51:32 Doesnt Sirius or maybe barty crouch jr say that Dementors are blind and thats why they never noticed sirius as a dog or barty being traded for his mother. They seem to get around by a different sense and so it would make a lot of sense that the invisibility cloak wouldnt work on them, especially because they seem to sense people specifically by their emptions.
First off, I never thought about Voldemort using the curse for strategic reasons, I thought it was just pettiness, but they could be right! Also Dementors are blind, it's not that they "see through" the invisibility cloak, is that they just feel people's feelings. So the invisibility cloak doesn't matter. What Dumbledore says at the start of the year is that they can't be fooled by them.
I think there's something going on here regarding Quiddich & Gryffindor. Has anyone noticed that as long as there was _at least_ one Weasley on the team, they did so well? You have Charlie, Fred & George, Ginny, and Ron all of whom were on some of the best teams Gryffindor fielded. It's almost like Gryffindor couldn't lose as long as there was a Weasley present. And Harry was just the cherry on top of the cake.
Draco being responsible for how Dobby is dressed is really a weird point. He cannot give Dobby any clothing to begin with because this invariably breaks the enchantment of the servitude of a house-elf.
But they can transfigure the clothes to look better. That's what they did with Kreacher in the last book, after he told the Regulus's story, and they made amends with him
16:30 I always thought that Snape was just saying those things to Lupin to allude to the fact that he's a werewolf in the presence of Harry without literally saying so, but potentially giving Harry enough info to figure it out (just like how he sets DADA homework on werewolves to expose Lupin) 🤔
I always thought that Charlie was the 7th year seeker, he passed on his captain position to Wood his last year so Wood can get used to being the captain while Charlie focuses on his NEWTs and the reason why they haven't won anything in Charlie's last 4 years is because all of the winners from that year (slowly) graduated and Charlie couldn't find suitable replacements
I think if scabbers would have died earlier in the year, Trelawney wouldn't have made the prediction on Peter escaping because that one was specific to Peter.
52:00 I just realized that this is the first time Hermonie has attended the Halloween feast. She was crying during her first year, and was at Nick's deathday party last year.
24:19 In book 1, Katie had been a reserve chaser the year before. So I think another 7th year was a chaser and graduated. And maybe Katie was playing seeker and was reserved for chaser? Kind of a reverse of Ginny?
1) I dont think the dementors can see through the cloak, but i think they can sense a person/people in their presence. 2) And, we can't forget that a lot of professional athletes stay in the game longer than 1 year. The graduating class of Hogwarts isn't trying to fill full team vacancies every year, they're adding in to the existing pool of career athletes. 3) Also, British husbandry of rabbits and guinea pigs have them in large hutches outside. It wouldnt be too unusual that Binky was an outdoor pet.
Impassioned defence of Oliver Wood! I've said this somewhere else. I think there's a real misunderstanding here of reserve teams in British sports. Most young people in sports in the UK are on reserve teams. It is very rare in football (soccer) for an 18 year old to be a regular first team player. Most have a few years in the reserves or the U21/23 before moving up to senior level. Furthermore, goalkeepers are often the oldest players because they require more maturity and better decision making and don't need to be as quick.
So my theory is that Lupin does NOT read newspapers. Sirius black realized that Ron's rat was Peter just by looking at his photo. He argues that he have seen him transforming to this rat so many times. Isn't this true for Lupin? Why Lupin didn't realize this earlier?
Do we know if Sirius realized immediately? He probably had that paper for a long time and nothing else to read or look at in Azkaban and might have noticed it after watching the picture so many times. You might not even notice there's a rat in the picture when reading the paper "normally"
1:15:00 regarding the Wolfsbane potion (I just looked it up on the wikia) we can take an educated guess since when that potion exists. (Edit: Or realize after typing way too much that the wikia actually gives a direct answer... 🙄😅) Newt Scamander writes in his textbook (we all know which one, I don't want to type the name xD) "There is no known cure [for Lycanthropy], although recent developments in potion-making have to a great extent alleviated the worst symptoms." So potions (at least LIKE) this one were around when Newt wrote the book. According to the wikia, it was written in 1927. (funny tidbit, I just saw that the publisher of the fictional textbook is called "Obscurus Books" which I kinda love, since the book was written by Newt and titled by Tina Goldstein) Remus was born in 1960 and turned into a werewolf in 1965 [... skip the next part if you know the Details of Lupin's childhood] (for anyone who reads this and might not know the whole story: Lupin's father was a well known expert on Non-Human Spiritous Apparations (like poltergeists and boggarts) [and on an expedition to a remote Welsh woodland to investigate reports of a very fierce boggart, he heard a (muggle) woman scream and he rushed to her aid and banished the boggart. He would later go on to marry this woman] When Voldemort was on the rise, the ministry called upon various experts on Dark creatures, in the hopes pf better understanding the threat and protect themselves. Lyall (oh yeah, that's the name of Remus' father, btw xD) then joined the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures. Early 1965 Fenrir Greyback was brought in for questioning after the deaths of two muggle children. For some damn reason, even tho he was caught WITH a werewolf pack, the ministry was not aware that Greyback himself was a werewolf (the existing registry wasn't well maintained) and he insisted that he was just a "muggle tramp", which almost everyone believed... Lyall recognised the signs of Lycanthropy in him and recommended Greyback should be detained until the next full moon (only 24h away), but the other committee members ridiculed him, which made him lose his temper and unfortunately declare that werewolves are "soulless, evil and deserving nothing but death." For that comment he was expelled from the room and Greyback was released. On the way out, Greyback's memory of the questioning should have been erased, but he escaped (with the help of two accomplices) and started hatching a plan to get revenge for Lyall's remarks.... So shortly before Remus' fifth birthday, Greyback forced open his bedroom window (while Remus was asleep) and attacked him. Lyall reached his son in time to save his life (repelling Greyback with powerful curses), but not before Greyback managed to complete his evil goal and Remus had been turned into a werewolf. His parents took him to various healers and tried everything to reverse this, but there was no cure. They were worried that Remus would not be able to attend Hogwarts and his father tried to educate him at home, but (of course xD) shortly before his 11th birthday, Dumbledore showed up unannounced at their door. The parents frantically tried to keep him out, but while the defences were strong enough to contain their werewolf son... it's fcking Dumbledore xD And he easily entered the house, without them even realising it, until five minutes later he was playing Gobstones with Remus. (🤣🤣🤣🤣) Dumbledore had learned of his condition, because Greyback boasted about it while Dumbledore's spies were around and already took measures to ensure Remus could safely attend Hogwarts (aka Shrieking Shack/Whomping Willow) [...] interestingly enough, I just saw on the wikia that while (apparently, according to Newt), similar potions already existed earlier, THIS specific Wolfsbane Potion was only invented in the mid 1970s (btw, invented by Damocles Belby, one of Slughorns favourite students), so it was invented around the time Remus would have been in his last years at Hogwarts or shortly after. There is still another difficulty, not only is the potion extremely difficult to brew and "The way one must imbibe it was very unique among potions, in that a goblet full of Wolfsbane Potion must have been taken each day for a week preceding the full moon; missing one dose alone, during such a night, was enough to invalidate all those that preceded it." BUT most importantly, the ingredients for it are VERY expensive and due to their condition, most werewolves live in poverty, which is probably why the potion isn't more wide-spread (holy shit, how much did I type?! I just wanted to say ONE small thing 😅🤦♀🤣)
1:12:56 I bought fudge just two days ago without a free sample! To be fair, it was a stall at a local farmer’s market that has been showing up every week for a couple of years, so they must be doing something right to stay in business. And it is indeed good.
Petunia would know exactly what Hogwarts is regardless of the letter, as she knew her sister went to the school and wrote Dumbledore herself to plead with him to attend.
I imagine it does make it useless because, potion are in many ways, chemical compounds. If you put something like sugar into a mixture like that, it’s probably going to change its make up and it won’t be the Wolf’s Bane potion anymore.
Dumbledore only borrowed the cloak after hearing the prophecy and knowing it might pertain to harry. Moody was part of the original order of the phoenix and was one of those most trusted allies through the years. Moody absolutely would be the perfect one to call to find harry even if his mother covered him in a deathly hallow level cloak before she was killed. If moody lost his eye in the line of duty for the order similar to Voldemort giving petigrew a hand with a dual purpose dumbledore did the same thing with moodys eye that was lost at about the same time the cloak was borrowed. An eye that would always be able to find the chosen one.
I'm not one to stand up for Draco, but your attack on him saying that how Dobby was dressed had nothing (or little) to do with the Malfoys themselves. They do not dress their house elf, since giving him clothes would free him! The garment he wears (which I think Harry refers to as something that looks like a pillowcase) is, as Donby puts it, "tis the mark of a house elf" or something like that. He might have allowed his gatment to get more dirty because he was abused, and it was part of his self-imposed punishments. But they did not dress him.
I BELIEVE (I may be wrong) Charlie Weasley graduated the year before Harry got to Hogwarts (he was in the same class as Tonks). So it's either just a lore mistake or Wood wasn't the captain in his 4th year, he just liked to give speeches. I prefer that explanation. Because I'm pretty sure it is canon that Charlie was quidditch captain, right?
I think the word difficulties implies more of a struggle than is actually there I mean Harry's not going through anything he's just disappointed Missing a school field trip is not fun but it's also not difficulties
You keep saying the Marauders were Snape’s bullies but we only have one instance to go by and it’s seen from Snape’s perspective. Snape hung out with proto-Death Eaters and Lily came to love James, so there is way more to the story.
It would be funny if lupin told the twins that he is one of the marauders and one of the creators of the map. It would be great to see the twins' reaction after telling them about it. Then when they go to grimmauld place after Mr weasley is attacked and turning around to sirius and he saying that he was a marauder as well. The twins might have a heart attack knowing this information. 😅😅
33:31 Crookshanks can distinguish animagi from other animals and can speak with an animagus, like Crookshanks does with Sirius later on in the book. Why would Crookshanks not communicate with Professor Mcgonagall about Scabbers?
Sometimes I wish Voldemort didn't return until Harry was done with Hogwarts and then we got a second series that is Harry fighting Voldemort through his 20s, the second series could have been called order of Dumbledore and it's about Harry becoming auror(?) and him and his friends starting their own order of the Phoenix to fight Voldemort after Dumbledore dies
Love your series, I really like you picking apart the books by chapters and seeing the beginnings of new theories sprout. When you talked about Crookshanks eating Peter I kept wondering: If an animagus dies on its animal form... would they change back to human and have a human corpse? Sort of like when a Skull dies.
Fun fact, if Lupin didn't take the wolfsbane potion he would have gone to the shrieking shack to keep the students safe and he would have met Sirius way sooner.
I think Snape is proud / vain enough in his calling of a master potioneer to only produce the best potions ever. In a way Lupin is in his debt, which is something he can hold over him for a long time.
I think its meant to be more showmanship. After trelawney says that, lavender now fears something bad happening on that day, so unless she has a perfect day her admiration of trelawney and likely built up paranoia just guarantees any bad thing that day fits the criteria
Charlie Weasley was the 7th year Seeker. Which is why Oliver being captain last year does NOT make sense - because Charlie was Quidditch captain. Ron says so in book 1. I think this is one of those written but not thought out scenarios we occasionally see.
Every now and then I have to remind me that only three of the marauders were Animagi. So I'm starting to wonder: Could Lupin, as a werewolf, also become an Animagus? Could this even help him to not transform or something during full moons? You'd have to keep the mandrake leaf in your mouth for a month so I guess he'd have to take the wolfsbane potion to not mess up this part.
In book 7 when the trio are infiltrating the ministry, Harry, disguised Runcorn, uses the invisibility cloak when he makes his way down to the courtroom to find Hermione. He walks through the dementors. The dementors turn to him, sensing him, but they cannot see him.
In HPMoR (I know it's a fan fiction, but nevertheless) there's a nice explanation for dementors: they represent death, not just fear, that's why you cast your patronus with happy thoughts, mostly thoughts about things worth living for. And since they represent Death, they can't see under the Invisibility Cloak.
I think that Lee says something about Katie Bell being just a reserve player the previous year in Harry's first game. So there could have also been a 7th year chaser. (Also raises the question of what happened to this practice of having reserve players? Just not something Wood believes in? Or another hint towards population changes at the school?) 24:00
Though with House Elves, you're not supposed to see them. If you're a guest or visitor to a house with an elf working in it, you'll likely never counter them. The mark of a good elf is that the chores seem to be doing themselves.
17:11 Can't wait to see you guys in Berkeley! Quick note, in chapter 20 Snape does not protect the golden trio from werewolf Remus because he's unconscious when all of that goes down. This was invented for movie 3 in line with the more heroic portrayal he has in the films.
Both of them can see through the cloak because Barty Crouch Jr takes Moody’s magical eye when he transforms into him. The eye is an external item (it can be removed) so wouldn’t be included in the transformation.
So about Wood only being good enough for Puddlemere’s reserve team…if we use football(soccer) as a reference point, most professional players in the UK (and Europe in general) come through academy systems operated by the sports teams themselves, so they don’t necessarily go through the mainstream school system. So if professional Quidditch is organised in the same way, most professional Quidditch players won’t have gone through Hogwarts. So for a player who went to actual school to make even the reserve squad of a team of people that have basically been doing nothing other than Quidditch since childhood, Wood must actually be pretty good. This would also explain the number of professional Quidditch players out there relative to the students of the magical schools.
I've just realised that when harry, lupin, sirius and wormtail are all in the shrieking shack, it's the only time the 4 marauders are together again *with harry looking like James and with him being the only child the 4 marauders had between them at that point* meanwhile Snape does technically see them he doesn't know wormtail is scabbers at that point. He is also knocked out when the 4 of them are all in the room together so just imagine if he had of woken up, seen what looked like lupin, sirius, Peter and James and then passed back out in disbelief 😅 but I just think it's kinda cool, that scene is the only time they are ever in the same room together and Snape is also there who is like the most important person in the terms of why everything is the way it is. Without Snape being who he is, him not seeing wormtail back until presumably the night voldy returns. Or does Snape belive harry at the end of POA but can't bring himself to show that he does for either pride or hatred or maybe both?
The point that was brought up about how it seems that everyone is trying to keep Harry out of hogsmead made me think, what if it wasn't really Harry that blew up aunt marge? It's mentioned that Harry was being watched by the order since Sirius escaped so that it would have been known of the agreement that Harry and Vernon made about the permission slip. This could be a reactionary part of Dumbledore's big plan, he could have had someone do something to ruin the dinner so that Harry's slip didn't get signed. This could also be why Harry doesn't get in trouble for the underage magic as it wasn't him that did it.
Pretty risky seeing as Harry fled from the Dursleys that night and Black was on the loose. (And Dumbledore didn't know he was a good guy yet) It would have to be the case that whoever did it was watching Harry the whole time, and when Harry left, they would have had to call the Knight Bus for Harry, and then they would have called Fudge to meet Harry once he got off the bus. It sort of makes sense because Harry summoning the Knight bus is the biggest coincidence in the series and Fudge being there right when he got off is highly suspicious since you'd think the Minister would have better things to do that night.
Intriguing, but ultimately I suspect it's untrue simply because of how perfectly everything lines up. We know from other places that witches and wizards, especially children, can cast magic by accident, wandlessly and nonverbally, when their emotions flare up in a big way, and Harry was most definitely at his highest emotional point during that moment. There's also a nearly invisible detail that tells us exactly what magic Harry was accidentally casting. The end result is that Marge swelled up. We see in a future book, possibly the fifth, that when Harry's taking some sort of practical exam (maybe OWLs, maybe not), he's tasked with using a certain spell on a croaking frog, and he botches the spell and it swells up. The same way Marge did. The spell he was supposed to cast? "Silencio". Which makes all too much sense, since he wanted nothing more than for Marge to shut up in that moment. This is the style of foreshadowing and lore-hiding that Rowling does all the time, so it's pretty likely that this one is deliberate. And there's no reason to set it up this way if Harry wasn't actually the one to inflate Marge. He got overly emotional, and his magic spilled out of him uncontrollably, trying to silence her but failing and swelling her up instead. And he wasn't punished for it for one or both of two reasons: Firstly, Sirius Black was on the loose and they just wanted Harry somewhere where they could see him. Secondly, there's very likely a standard set up where accidental casting has less of a strict ban than intentional casting, due to being....accidental. I imagine you'd still see consequences if it happened too frequently or caused too much of an uproar, but it's mostly understood that sometimes this stuff just happens.
The lady at the magical menagerie did a slightly more indepth examination of Scabbers and couldn't tell it was animagus. I guess she could just work there kinda like how the guy selling you a cell phone probably couldn't build one, but also if I brought a chunk of tree bark into US cellular hopefully the clerk could at least recognize that it's not a phone.
I feel something that could stop Lupin from becoming a good potion maker is that certain potion ingredients are affected by the phases of the moon and need to be collected or added to potions on the full moon itself which he’d be unlikely to do as a werewolf
Ok so as a bunny parent the thing is they really can be really fragile almost all of us a have a story of a bun passing 😢 also I love the name binki cuz when bunnies are happy the binki around 🥰
Going on to be the back-up keeper for the Puddlemere United straight after Hogwarts is impressive. And that's the last time Oliver Wood's career is mentioned. We don't know what he becomes. So this "Only the Puddlemer United practice squad" isn't the punch you think it is😂
It’s a good idea, but Lupin specifically says that the Wolfsbane potion was not invented at the time he was at school, hence the need for the Whomping Willow.
@@Margaret-yv9ed well we don't know when the potion was invented but I think it was just mostly for him to have a place to hide during the full moon as well as someplace no one would think about going there.
@@richewilson6394 “Before the Wolfsbane Potion was discovered, however, I became a fully fledged monster once a month. It seemed impossible that I would be able to come to Hogwarts. Other parents weren’t likely to want their children exposed to me. But then Dumbledore became Headmaster, and he was sympathetic. He said that as long as we took certain precautions, there was no reason I shouldn’t come to school. …” Lupin sighed, and looked directly at Harry. “I told you, months ago, that the Whomping Willow was planted the year I came to Hogwarts. The truth is that it was planted because I came to Hogwarts. This house” - Lupin looked miserably around the room, - “the tunnel that leads to it - they were built for my use. Once a month, I was smuggled out of the castle, into this place, to transform. The tree was placed at the tunnel mouth to stop anyone coming across me while I was dangerous.” Direct quote from lupin from the book. The whomping willow is only necessary when lupin is dangerous, which he isn’t when the wolfsbane potion is in effect. We also know the reason the marauders became Animagi is because werewolves are harmless to animals and Sirius and James needed to be something big enough to stop lupin if he happened along a human during one of their night time prowls, and we know that the marauders didn’t successfully become animagi till 5th year so I think it’s safe to say unless the wolfsbane potion came out within the last two years lupin was at hogwarts then I doubt lupin had access to wolfsbane during his time at hogwarts
The thing with the flobberworms is to illustrate how insecure Hagrid got after the Buckbeak incident. I guess they are in the curriculum but usually just a couple of classes, but the fact that Hagrid is harping on about them for most of the year is to illustrate that he just picked the least dangerous thing imaginable and stuck with it to avoid any further trouble.
Harry not turning to adults in times of crisis is actually very accurate for an abused child; if you grow up with the primary adults in your life hurting you and mistreating you all the time, you don't see adults as helpful or caretakers--you see them as dangerous. When when presented with actually kind adults, it takes kids a LONG time to adjust to the idea that these adults are safe (if they ever get there). By 11, Harry has had more than the time to have developed the habit of handling everything himself, because asking for help only gets him blame and scorn.
I can tell that the Carlin household was a loving, safe one because some of the comments and questions you guys have come from a place of knowing you could turn to your parents when you needed help. Which is wonderful! But it's worthwhile to remember that Harry is an abuse victim and his outlook on the world is drastically altered by that--not all of us grew up feeling safe in our homes or with our adults, unfortunately.
One of my favorite parts about Harry is that sometimes he is needlessly angry. Exactly like any other abused teenaged boy with undiagnosed ptsd
@@PcCAvioN 100%. Especially as he gets older and not only continues to go through more major trauma, but also starts to more fully understand the ways he's being mistreated. Harry has many accurate traits for a traumatized child/teen and while I'm sure people who aren't versed in that might see his behavior as strange, I find it's actually very true to dealing with trauma when you're still young (and hell, even as an adult in some ways)
Brilliant insight
He trusts Hagrid pretty much immediately. By the end of the second book he totally trusts dumbledore. He didn't go to adults because there wouldn't be a story if they did. It wouldn't be called harry potter and something. It would be 'hogwarts teachers and the chamber of secrets' or whichever
@@ajrestivo you can trust someone and still have trust issues. Brains aren't consistent or perfect, we can contradict ourselves. And yeah, obviously, there's a narrative need for kids in fiction to handle things themselves, but you could make that argument about anything that happens in fiction. It's much more interesting if there's also a reasonable in-universe explanation for something, and in this case I just think it's very fitting that Harry struggles with this. I'm not saying these books are a perfect representation of anything, I'm just commenting on a pattern I've noticed and found accurate based on my own experiences and study. People are complicated. And Hagrid and Dumbledore aren't always the right people to reach out to, either, so that would still leave him preferring to handle things alone. There's no denying Harry is an abused kid and that makes you act kinda weird and make strange choices that don't always make perfect sense
The fact that Lupin found Harry on Halloween night so that neither of them had to be alone on the anniversary of James and Lily’s death will never not make me emotional🥹
One fun detail about when Sirius attavks the Fat Lady, the canvas is slashed. 2 years later, Sirius gives Harry a knife to unlock any lock or undo any knot. Basically, Sirius tried to use this same knife to get into the tower.
OH MAN I did not ever make that connection. That's a really cool idea :D
Mind. Blown.
And had it in hand when he ripped Ron's curtains open to stab Peter.
Theory: the goblet Snape gives lupin is elaborate because the potion can only be fully effective served in a SILVER goblet as the last ingredient against the transformation
Ooooh! Nice idea! New headcanon! 😃
But Lupin wouldn't be able to hold a silver goblet since werewolfs are 'allergic' to silver
@@kseniavarna9131That is not the case at all in the Harry Potter canon. A mixture of powdered silver applied to a fresh werewolf bite will seal the wound, saving the victim from bleeding out. That is the only stated relationship between werewolves and silver in the HP canon
@@dyinginside8716 Even if werewolves are harmed by silver, that might only apply when they're in wolf form.
I like that idea. I think there must be more to the topic of potions than just mixing ingredients together; vessels and equipment making an impact would be interesting
I feel like Snape would choose a highly elaborate and decorated goblet for Lupin to draw attention to the fact that he is making a potion for him. I can see Snape walking through the castle with the goblet and being like "Oh this? I am just taking a potion to Professor Lupin. He needs it every MONTH."
It has lovely inlaid carvings of moons and wolves for some reason too, no doubt!
yk it kinda just blew my mind when you said that voldemort cursed the defence against the dark arts position so people couldn't learn defence against the dark arts. bc i always thought it was just him being petty bc he wasn't allowed to teach, not that it could also have been a tactical thing to prevent people from learning.
Oh, he was absolutely being petty. That was just an added bonus.
I feel the same, when they said Voldemort cursed the teaching position I always new he was being petty, having the view of, if I cant have this teaching job then no one can, which is a huge disadvantage to future students. It never even entered my mind but the fact that multiple generations of young witches and wizards aren't being taught the full range of defence against the dark arts they were probably learning the basics, having a new teacher every year is very disruptive you have to learn there teaching style, the teacher doesn't know your learning ability, lupins the only one who seams genuinely interested in the students as individuals. Any witch or wizard that was a student after Voldemort cursed the job is at a disadvantage and he is ensuring that they are weaker should he come to full power and have to fight against them. Wow its great after so many years of reading to get different perspective.
I never really considered it as a possibility because (at least in the US) having a new teacher every year for every subject is pretty typical. It's not that they leave, it's just that each of them only teach 1 grade each. It always seemed weird to me that in Harry Potter, there was only 1 teacher for each subject for all years.
@@BlueSparxLPs
i'm homeschooled/have never attended school here in the UK, but i'm pretty sure hogwarts isn't that accurate to how school works here. I think you get a new teacher every few years or as you move from primary school to secondary school to college/sixth form (thats like high school in the UK). and quite a few teachers teach multiple age groups, but you wouldn't have just one teacher from the age of 11 to 17, mostly because college/sixth form is a separate institution to school.
If Sirius broke in to murder Wormtail on Halloween, he was almost certainly motivated over the edge of caution by the anniversary of the death of the Potters.
In another universe:
Harry potter 3. The prisoner of Azkaban.
Harry potter 4. The OTHER prisoner of Azkaban.
😂😂
Harry Potter 5. A BUNCH of prisoners of Azkaban 😂
Harry Potter 6: EVEN MORE prisoners from Azkaban
Harry Potter 7: The Final Roster of prisoners from Azkaban
harry potter 2: the wrongly convicted prisoner of Azkaban
Harry potter 1: No prisoner of Azkaban
i think snape would actually be extremely upset about the boggart turning into him and then him becoming a laughing stock because of it. If we know anything about Snape, it's that he's stuck in the past. So in Snape's eyes, the whole boggart situation is basically one of his old bullies coming back and bullying him again. I mean, basically what's happened is Lupin, one of the guys who picked on him/at the very least allowed him to be picked on by james/sirius is back at school and has facilitated a situation where Snape is being mocked by everyone all over again. I'm sure if it was another teacher, unrelated to the marauders, snape wouldn't be happy, but specifically because it's lupin who's made this happen, snape is furious.
They are too pure to understand Snape 😂
Snape would know about boggarts, both that they show the worst fear and the best way to counter them. If anything he'd be happy that he is Neville's biggest fear.
@@jb888888888 im not sure what him knowing about boggarts has to do with anything. it could be argued that he would be pleased he’s Neville’s fear, sure, but Snape is an emotionally stunted, immature AH who takes out his anger on harry just bc harry looks like/is related to Snape’s childhood bully. He would still absolutely be fuming about the fact one if the marauders-one of his old bullies-once again has made him the laughing stock of the school. Snape is not the sort of guy to look rationally at something like that.
@@shhimreading906 _"not sure what him knowing about boggarts has to do with anything"_ IDK why Snape would be upset with Students Learning Things. It's a school, he knows Lupin is there to show the students a boggart. He almost definitely already knows what a boggart is and how to deal with it. If he's someone's greatest fear then of course making Boggart!Snape look ridiculous is how to deal with it.
@@jb888888888i honestly dont know how to respond to that because i’ve explained exactly why snape would be upset already. snape isn’t the sort of character to look at the situation logically like that. he can’t separate his personal feelings from the classroom. if he gets so triggered by harry (a literal child) just existing and looking like james/being related to james to the point that he mercilessly bullies harry then i see no reason why snape wouldn’t be fuming over the boggart situation.
also ive never been under the impression snape particularly cared about students learning anything. he’s a terrible teacher who picks on most of his students and doesn’t seem to help them in class unless they’re slytherin. so he’s not going to care about gyffindors learning stuff with lupin
38:26 Hagrid hands Scabbers to Ron in the film. In the book Hermione finds him hiding in a milk jug whilst she is tidying up after Hagrid smashed the first one.
So does this mean J and Ben have finally figured out that the Fat Lady gets attacked on Halloween and not the day Lavender's rabbit dies?
Shade officially thrown 😂
Shots fired! But you’re right, that bothered me too
I thought that they said Lavender's rabbit died the same day Sirius broke into Gryffindor tower and was like standing over Ron's bed? I could be wrong though :)
@@lilygolden8720 a bit off, but that is pretty much what they said
given they were talking about the day when sirius broke into the castle, and not when the fat lady was attacked, no. they were still wrong, but still.
Dementors can feel Harry's presence under the cloak, in the seventh book when the trio lands in Hogmeade they get the dementors sent on them and it works.
Right. The dementors are blind, they can’t see anything. The cloak works only on vision, it doesn’t mask any other sense. The dementors sense emotions.
Yeah, cloaks are pointless, because Dementors are blind anyway
Yeah i was about to say this. They cant see, hence why Sirius wasnt discovered to be a dog in azkaban. They only sense people through their emotions.
"I don't think Snape would dwell on that."
Are we talking about the same Snape here? In OotP we find out he's dwelling on events that happened 20 years ago. He loses his absolute mind at being called a coward multiple times. He may *also* be upset about Lupin being in the castle, Sirius being out, etc. but he is 100% upset about the Neville boggart situation because it makes him look foolish AND it publicly calls him out for being a colossal bully to a child.
@@nathans9764 thank god someone else brought this up as well😂fr snape would be furious
Snape stepping in front of the students to protect them from werewolf Lupin, only happens in the movie
Thank you! I was gonna comment that. Can't believe they count this as a canon event🤦🏼♀️
Another nail in the coffin of book Snape
@@nafasghafoori1247 movie Snape and book Snape are not the same. book Snape is far worse than the movies show
@@conormurphy4328 how many nails is that now? I lost count
@@Chikararyoku and all the fangirls who tatoo "Always" on their bodies have only watched the movies🥲
I think Snape making the potion for Lupin is also part of Dumbledore’s Big Plan. He knows a second war is coming and needs 2 of his most talented lieutenants to be able to overcome the past and work together.
Theory: that is actually Snapes plainest, most boring drinking vessel. Underneath the dark exterior, he’s very flamboyant
He totally is😂
One important thing to remember is not to discount extra lore that is introduced through the video games. JKR provided the gaming companies with a docket of extra lore they could use for the games, one of the biggest being all of the Chocolate Frog Cards.
It makes me think of Fred and George making the protection hats and selling them to the ministry because even their wizards struggle with basic protection charms. Perhaps a real world mark of Voldy cursing the DADA job.
I have what is probably a very good theory about the Hogsmeade weekends. In Hogwarts Legacy, you see that Hogsmeade is open to all the students year-round, which is how I assume it is meant to actually be. Likely the rare weekends for the students during Harry's years is a precaution from Dumbledore because of Voldemort's actions over the previous years, and the fear of him returning again later on. In this case I can't see the shop owners being all that pleased with their main customer base only getting to shop every few months.
The idea of cutting the spine off of a book does bring tears to my eyes.
I know! 😰
I physically recoiled.
At one point you all mentioned that snape cares about the students safety and used him jumping in front of werewolf lupin to protect the 3. That was movie only. Book snape was knocked out at the time. The trio all 3 cast spells at him in the shrieking shack. Sirius uses a spell to levitate snape out - Not being too careful about bumping his head on the way out.
I read something that said that Rowling wanted to add that in, but she couldn't find a place for it so she just published it as is.
But later when the movie was being made, she suggested it and they figure out a way to add that scene in.
@@keithg460 I very much doubt it. What's more likely is that the movie directors just have a hardon for certain characters and need to go out of their way to make them look better.
new headcannons from this episode: 1. voldemort jinxed the DADA job out of sheer pettiness, and then was pleasantly surprised when it happened to help him by depressing the ability of young wizards to learn defense. 2. sirius did first enter the grounds on october 16, which is why crookshanks made a play for scabbers that day. 3. Zonko's is wizard amazon, the bulk of their business is done by owl order, and they only keep the shop in Hogsmede open for tourists and, occaisonally, students. Also Percy is giving me "what have the romans ever done for us?" vibes. I love this podcast.
I mean, I think they could be onto something there, Voldemort wanted to use the DADA post as a means of control anyway.
i don't understand the percy bit, could you explain?
@@failurenotsorry6600 reference to Monty Python's Life of Brian
@@itsallme1234 ah, gotcha
"headcannons" bahahaha, that's a hilarious mental image, head-mounted cannons ("cannon" is a massive gun; "canon" is the spelling you're going for)
Comment 4: Adding sugar to the wolfsbane potion probably makes it useless because it's adding a new ingredient, which changes what the potion is.
For the Katie Bell thing in Book 6, I think that’s less a dig at Oliver Wood and his abilities and more of Katie kinda hinting to Harry “Hey I know he’s your best friend but… maybe there’s a better keeper than Ron out there?”
Even though the students only get to visit four times a year you have to remember most adult wizards can basically just teleport everywhere, since it's the only all wizard village maybe Hogsmead is just a really popular hangout spot so tons of wizards are just randomly popping in year-round
On the subject of magical methods of underwater exploration the Bubblehead charm has to be more common because it comes into vogue in Harry’s fifth year because people are dropping Dung Bombs and Stink Pellets everywhere to make life tough for Umbridge.
Yeah, it may just be that that charme is usually tought in the 5th or 6th year. Also just because Harry dosn't find any solution for breathing under water dosn't mean there are not dozens of them. I guess the library is huge and if you are looking in the wrong spot you can search endlessly without finding anything. Remember how they couldn't find Nicolaus Flamel for the lonegst time either in the first year eventhough he must be well known among adults?
Thoughts while listening...
They really did have a great teacher during Harry's fifth year. Not the official teacher, (we all hate her) but the one that was teaching in the illegal underground defense club. Unfortunately, Harry didn't learn much from him since it was Harry. I suppose if anything, Harry learned more about what it means to be a leader while teaching. He did lead his friends into battle at the end of the year, after all.
As I understand it, the wolfsbane potion doesn't actually prevent Lupin from transforming into a werewolf, but instead it keeps him with his sane human mind while he's in that form. This is why he still has to disappear at the full moon even though he's taking the potion.
(Ah, later corrected by Jay in the episode.)
I don't think McGonagall would break the rules for Harry like that. However, I think she would probably figure out some sort of loophole to allow him to go. She seems to me the kind of person that would do that. IE always following the rules but not following the spirit of the rules when necessary.
As to whether or not the dementors can see through the invisibility cloak (or more accurately, *not* see through it) I think it's one of those cases where since they're magical creatures themselves, they're not actually seeing individuals, they're just seeing the tasty delicious souls they can eat.
(That said, I suppose it would sort of be similar to some characters of my own whom are themselves solidified indestructible souls. They have the ability to see souls, but only at the eyes. So I suppose the invisibility cloaks wouldn't completely work on them. They'd just see floating eyes. Additionally, I've actually considered that if a dementor tried to absorb their soul, they would actually rip the dementor apart from the inside, since the dementor word simply suck them up and being indestructible, couldn't actually destroy them.)
As far as a field trip to the bottom of the lake to visit the merpeople, that was something Hagrid did with the students during the 7th year. Unfortunately, we know what happened to Harry's seventh year, and Haggard probably wasn't teaching that year anyways. (Not canon, but this all popped in my head while listening. Seriously, though, who was teaching Care of Magical Creatures during Snape's 1-year tenure as head master?)
As far as Lupin brewing the wolfsbane potion, I've always kind of figured that he's decent with potions, but my completely out of the blue head Cannon is that werewolves can't actually Brew the wolf spine potion.
Sugar makes the Wolf's pain potion useless, but would artificial sweeteners affect it?
It just occurred to me, it's been said that when Dudley encountered the dementors, he saw himself for who he truly was and the fact that nobody actually liked him. Well aside from his parents. I think when Draco encountered the dementors on the train, he probably experienced the worst point in his life so far: the point when Harry rejected him. Given his obsession with Harry, I think that was probably the most heartbreaking horrific thing he has ever experienced.
If Vernon had been the one to find baby Harry and the note before Petunia, he'd probably have taken the kid right to the orphanage. At most, he'd apologize to Petunia for being late to or missing breakfast that day.
Fun note that you guys touched on: if Crookshanks lived with the Potters, he has almost certainly met Sirius and Peter before. He recognised them.
More: Trelawny's second prophecy was about Peter. If Peter is dead, Trelawny doesn't make that prophecy.
EDIT: the Dementors are actually blind, right?
1. Yes, that's why I don't agree with the theory. Because Sirius said that Crookshanks was intelligent, but it took some time for him to trust Sirius.
2. Why is that necessary? The same prophecy can apply to Barty Crouch Jr too. If you are aware about prophecies, in most stories, they can have multiple interpretations.
3. Yes. Dementors sense people's emotions. So cloaks can't stop/fool them anyways.
In regards to national quidditch teams, I’ve always also thought that we don’t know how many people from the UK are just home schooled as there is literally only one school.
But a lot of them could be sent to foreign as well right? Like when Malfoy was going on about how his father wanted him to join Durmstrang cause they were more focused on the Dark Arts?
@@aritramarik4487 well with Malfoy that would have been because his family were so interested in the dark arts and had money to go abroad, for the average wizard who’s family may not fancy sending them to the other side of the country every year, they would probably just home school them.
Trelawney's prophecy about Pettigrew hasn't been made yet. If he died here, there's no reason to assume it would still be made at all.
As far as Dementors go, they don't see; they just sense your emotions. It's how they never noticed that Sirius kept turning into a dog.
Dementors can't see through invisibility cloaks, but also, invisibility cloaks can't fool Dementors, because Dementors are blind. They sense people by their emotions.
Yeah, it's not specified that the invisibility cloak also hides other traces. I'm also not sure if Dumbledore can see through the cloak or just has the ability to sense it's magic.
Dementors are blind
Love is blind
Conclusion: Love is a dementor
@@philw6056 He definitely knows some of the secrets of that particular cloak since he studied it for a long time (upwards of 11 years)
We see this in action in the first book (and the movie), when he directly addresses the Trio under the cloak in Hagrid's hut
@@ambiverter The question is still, has he found a way to see through the cloak or is it a special type of magic and he can distinguish the traces from other magic sources.
Please, I’m begging you at this point, HOW DOES THE DEFENSE AGAINST THE DARK ARTS CURSE WORK?!? I’m particularly curious about how it was seemingly the only piece of Voldemort’s magic that remained intact during the 13 years he was powerless. We know from Hagrid that after Voldemort fell the first time, those he had put under the Imperius curse were released (“people were comin’ outta sorta trances”). Please make a video about how this works!
Maybe none of them had been out under enchantments.
Maybe they were all real Death Eaters but they were pretending to be under the imperius curse to get out of trouble. 🤔
There's another channel that gave their take on it, and I think it has a fair degree of merit. While it's probably impossible to know how a curse like this is placed or why it stayed up after his almost-death, they do go into more detail on how exactly the curse affects the people in that position. I think the channel's name was simply "Harry Potter Theory".
The basic idea is that they end up experiencing their worst fear. Lupin for example is outed as a werewolf and injures someone in the process. Umbridge is carried off by the beasts she thinks she's better than. Things of that nature. The video is far more specific, if you're curious.
@riluna3695 Thanks, I thought that video was pretty solid, though it didn’t answer all my questions. One of my headcanons about this is that it’s yet another example of magic sort of having a mind of its own. I think it’s kind of unlikely that Voldemort consciously casts a spell, he’s just so evil and jaded and _so incredibly petty_ that it happened. I like to think he realized a few years later that he did it and was just like, “Well that’s what you get, Dumbledore!😝” It seems on brand to me that Voldy routinely sticks his tongue out when he doesn’t get his way. At least before he solves his problems with murder.
@@Margaret-yv9ed Snakes do be known for always sticking their tongues out, so probably :D
And yeah, there do seem to be a few examples of...shall we say "deeper magic"? The bond of blood that Dumbledore puts over the Dursley's place, plus the sacrificial love that it relies on. Like you say, I can't imagine Lily cast a spell on purpose at that moment. Magic just does stuff sometimes, I guess.
Right? It's so weird because that spell is almost a low tier reality warping spell in a way. It guarantees something will happen to the DADA Prof every single year from something as simple as being fired/quitting, to something as extreme as death.
Later in the book, Snape still steps in front of the students.
Book: No he doesn't. He's out cold
My wife was wondering the other night, what would have happened if, to really get back at Lilly, Petunia desided to rise Harry as carring as possible so that Harry didn't want to go to Hogwards and stay as a muggle (or as muggle as he can)... Maybe Snape would have had to get a job in a muggle school to keep an eye on Harry xD
51:32 Doesnt Sirius or maybe barty crouch jr say that Dementors are blind and thats why they never noticed sirius as a dog or barty being traded for his mother. They seem to get around by a different sense and so it would make a lot of sense that the invisibility cloak wouldnt work on them, especially because they seem to sense people specifically by their emptions.
the best teachers are the ones who are passionate about their subject. Lupin is passionate about teaching
First off, I never thought about Voldemort using the curse for strategic reasons, I thought it was just pettiness, but they could be right!
Also Dementors are blind, it's not that they "see through" the invisibility cloak, is that they just feel people's feelings. So the invisibility cloak doesn't matter. What Dumbledore says at the start of the year is that they can't be fooled by them.
I think there's something going on here regarding Quiddich & Gryffindor. Has anyone noticed that as long as there was _at least_ one Weasley on the team, they did so well? You have Charlie, Fred & George, Ginny, and Ron all of whom were on some of the best teams Gryffindor fielded. It's almost like Gryffindor couldn't lose as long as there was a Weasley present. And Harry was just the cherry on top of the cake.
Such a joy that I can always look forward to this podcast every Sunday, especially when I've had a lousy week at work:)
Draco being responsible for how Dobby is dressed is really a weird point. He cannot give Dobby any clothing to begin with because this invariably breaks the enchantment of the servitude of a house-elf.
But they can transfigure the clothes to look better.
That's what they did with Kreacher in the last book, after he told the Regulus's story, and they made amends with him
16:30 I always thought that Snape was just saying those things to Lupin to allude to the fact that he's a werewolf in the presence of Harry without literally saying so, but potentially giving Harry enough info to figure it out (just like how he sets DADA homework on werewolves to expose Lupin) 🤔
I always thought that Charlie was the 7th year seeker, he passed on his captain position to Wood his last year so Wood can get used to being the captain while Charlie focuses on his NEWTs
and the reason why they haven't won anything in Charlie's last 4 years is because all of the winners from that year (slowly) graduated and Charlie couldn't find suitable replacements
4:28 "Flat lady" still works. She is a painting and therefore flat.
Can’t really argue with that logic
I think if scabbers would have died earlier in the year, Trelawney wouldn't have made the prediction on Peter escaping because that one was specific to Peter.
52:00 I just realized that this is the first time Hermonie has attended the Halloween feast. She was crying during her first year, and was at Nick's deathday party last year.
Oh dang you’re right
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In book 1, Katie had been a reserve chaser the year before. So I think another 7th year was a chaser and graduated. And maybe Katie was playing seeker and was reserved for chaser? Kind of a reverse of Ginny?
That was Alicia Spinnet. Katie is a year older than Harry, so she would have been a first year the previous year.
@@MulanBelle Oh yeah, you're right. So was she a chaser her first year? Or is book 1 her first time being a chaser, and she's Also new to the team?
@anaisabelpais7389 She's new to the team. That's why Harry being on the team as a first year is such a big deal.
0:18 before I get into today's episode I'd like to say that this makes my Sunday morning routine happy every week
As a blind person, I love your guises review of the chapter art, I never knew it existed, so it’s great to hear you guys describe it.
1) I dont think the dementors can see through the cloak, but i think they can sense a person/people in their presence.
2) And, we can't forget that a lot of professional athletes stay in the game longer than 1 year. The graduating class of Hogwarts isn't trying to fill full team vacancies every year, they're adding in to the existing pool of career athletes.
3) Also, British husbandry of rabbits and guinea pigs have them in large hutches outside. It wouldnt be too unusual that Binky was an outdoor pet.
Impassioned defence of Oliver Wood! I've said this somewhere else. I think there's a real misunderstanding here of reserve teams in British sports. Most young people in sports in the UK are on reserve teams. It is very rare in football (soccer) for an 18 year old to be a regular first team player. Most have a few years in the reserves or the U21/23 before moving up to senior level. Furthermore, goalkeepers are often the oldest players because they require more maturity and better decision making and don't need to be as quick.
So my theory is that Lupin does NOT read newspapers. Sirius black realized that Ron's rat was Peter just by looking at his photo. He argues that he have seen him transforming to this rat so many times. Isn't this true for Lupin? Why Lupin didn't realize this earlier?
Do we know if Sirius realized immediately? He probably had that paper for a long time and nothing else to read or look at in Azkaban and might have noticed it after watching the picture so many times. You might not even notice there's a rat in the picture when reading the paper "normally"
1:15:00 regarding the Wolfsbane potion (I just looked it up on the wikia) we can take an educated guess since when that potion exists. (Edit: Or realize after typing way too much that the wikia actually gives a direct answer... 🙄😅)
Newt Scamander writes in his textbook (we all know which one, I don't want to type the name xD)
"There is no known cure [for Lycanthropy], although recent developments in potion-making have to a great extent alleviated the worst symptoms."
So potions (at least LIKE) this one were around when Newt wrote the book. According to the wikia, it was written in 1927. (funny tidbit, I just saw that the publisher of the fictional textbook is called "Obscurus Books" which I kinda love, since the book was written by Newt and titled by Tina Goldstein)
Remus was born in 1960 and turned into a werewolf in 1965 [... skip the next part if you know the Details of Lupin's childhood]
(for anyone who reads this and might not know the whole story: Lupin's father was a well known expert on Non-Human Spiritous Apparations (like poltergeists and boggarts)
[and on an expedition to a remote Welsh woodland to investigate reports of a very fierce boggart, he heard a (muggle) woman scream and he rushed to her aid and banished the boggart. He would later go on to marry this woman]
When Voldemort was on the rise, the ministry called upon various experts on Dark creatures, in the hopes pf better understanding the threat and protect themselves. Lyall (oh yeah, that's the name of Remus' father, btw xD) then joined the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures.
Early 1965 Fenrir Greyback was brought in for questioning after the deaths of two muggle children. For some damn reason, even tho he was caught WITH a werewolf pack, the ministry was not aware that Greyback himself was a werewolf (the existing registry wasn't well maintained) and he insisted that he was just a "muggle tramp", which almost everyone believed... Lyall recognised the signs of Lycanthropy in him and recommended Greyback should be detained until the next full moon (only 24h away), but the other committee members ridiculed him, which made him lose his temper and unfortunately declare that werewolves are "soulless, evil and deserving nothing but death."
For that comment he was expelled from the room and Greyback was released.
On the way out, Greyback's memory of the questioning should have been erased, but he escaped (with the help of two accomplices) and started hatching a plan to get revenge for Lyall's remarks....
So shortly before Remus' fifth birthday, Greyback forced open his bedroom window (while Remus was asleep) and attacked him. Lyall reached his son in time to save his life (repelling Greyback with powerful curses), but not before Greyback managed to complete his evil goal and Remus had been turned into a werewolf. His parents took him to various healers and tried everything to reverse this, but there was no cure.
They were worried that Remus would not be able to attend Hogwarts and his father tried to educate him at home, but (of course xD) shortly before his 11th birthday, Dumbledore showed up unannounced at their door. The parents frantically tried to keep him out, but while the defences were strong enough to contain their werewolf son... it's fcking Dumbledore xD And he easily entered the house, without them even realising it, until five minutes later he was playing Gobstones with Remus. (🤣🤣🤣🤣)
Dumbledore had learned of his condition, because Greyback boasted about it while Dumbledore's spies were around and already took measures to ensure Remus could safely attend Hogwarts (aka Shrieking Shack/Whomping Willow)
[...] interestingly enough, I just saw on the wikia that while (apparently, according to Newt), similar potions already existed earlier, THIS specific Wolfsbane Potion was only invented in the mid 1970s (btw, invented by Damocles Belby, one of Slughorns favourite students), so it was invented around the time Remus would have been in his last years at Hogwarts or shortly after.
There is still another difficulty, not only is the potion extremely difficult to brew and "The way one must imbibe it was very unique among potions, in that a goblet full of Wolfsbane Potion must have been taken each day for a week preceding the full moon; missing one dose alone, during such a night, was enough to invalidate all those that preceded it." BUT most importantly, the ingredients for it are VERY expensive and due to their condition, most werewolves live in poverty, which is probably why the potion isn't more wide-spread
(holy shit, how much did I type?! I just wanted to say ONE small thing 😅🤦♀🤣)
My dad 15 years ago was a printer by trade, and he had one of those machines in our basement. It was a pretty cool setup
1:12:56 I bought fudge just two days ago without a free sample! To be fair, it was a stall at a local farmer’s market that has been showing up every week for a couple of years, so they must be doing something right to stay in business. And it is indeed good.
Surprised the goblet for Lupin wasn’t made of silver
Petunia would know exactly what Hogwarts is regardless of the letter, as she knew her sister went to the school and wrote Dumbledore herself to plead with him to attend.
Imagine sugar doesn’t make it useless, it’s just something Snape told Lupin because lolz
This is the best explanation. Snape definitely had a silent laugh about that.
I imagine it does make it useless because, potion are in many ways, chemical compounds. If you put something like sugar into a mixture like that, it’s probably going to change its make up and it won’t be the Wolf’s Bane potion anymore.
Dumbledore only borrowed the cloak after hearing the prophecy and knowing it might pertain to harry. Moody was part of the original order of the phoenix and was one of those most trusted allies through the years. Moody absolutely would be the perfect one to call to find harry even if his mother covered him in a deathly hallow level cloak before she was killed. If moody lost his eye in the line of duty for the order similar to Voldemort giving petigrew a hand with a dual purpose dumbledore did the same thing with moodys eye that was lost at about the same time the cloak was borrowed. An eye that would always be able to find the chosen one.
I'm not one to stand up for Draco, but your attack on him saying that how Dobby was dressed had nothing (or little) to do with the Malfoys themselves. They do not dress their house elf, since giving him clothes would free him! The garment he wears (which I think Harry refers to as something that looks like a pillowcase) is, as Donby puts it, "tis the mark of a house elf" or something like that. He might have allowed his gatment to get more dirty because he was abused, and it was part of his self-imposed punishments. But they did not dress him.
I BELIEVE (I may be wrong) Charlie Weasley graduated the year before Harry got to Hogwarts (he was in the same class as Tonks). So it's either just a lore mistake or Wood wasn't the captain in his 4th year, he just liked to give speeches. I prefer that explanation. Because I'm pretty sure it is canon that Charlie was quidditch captain, right?
Yes Charlie was a quidditch captain so it was probably him before Wood
I think the word difficulties implies more of a struggle than is actually there
I mean Harry's not going through anything he's just disappointed
Missing a school field trip is not fun but it's also not difficulties
17:16 that only happened in the movies, Snape was still unconscious when that happens.
"don't worry about Tom coming for you guys. I have a squib watching over you guys AND a wizard watching Your sister."
You keep saying the Marauders were Snape’s bullies but we only have one instance to go by and it’s seen from Snape’s perspective. Snape hung out with proto-Death Eaters and Lily came to love James, so there is way more to the story.
Charlie was the seventh year seeker the year before PS. He had stayed on the team but gave up his captaincy to focus on Dragons
It would be funny if lupin told the twins that he is one of the marauders and one of the creators of the map. It would be great to see the twins' reaction after telling them about it. Then when they go to grimmauld place after Mr weasley is attacked and turning around to sirius and he saying that he was a marauder as well. The twins might have a heart attack knowing this information. 😅😅
This does seem like an obvious and tragic missed opportunity in the story-telling. Might need to create this scene in head-cannon....
Yep it would be a great head cannon @heartscapesreiki1496
Yeah, they say they owe the marauders so much so it would have been fun to see them fanboy a bit when they meet 2 of them.
33:31 Crookshanks can distinguish animagi from other animals and can speak with an animagus, like Crookshanks does with Sirius later on in the book. Why would Crookshanks not communicate with Professor Mcgonagall about Scabbers?
38:34 no, Hermione finds scabbers in the milk jug. hagrid never gets a close look at him, and doesn't hand it over to ron, actually.
Sometimes I wish Voldemort didn't return until Harry was done with Hogwarts and then we got a second series that is Harry fighting Voldemort through his 20s, the second series could have been called order of Dumbledore and it's about Harry becoming auror(?) and him and his friends starting their own order of the Phoenix to fight Voldemort after Dumbledore dies
I love the idea! Though, the actors were starting to get tired and wanting to do other roles. It's a lot of years to commit to.
What lavender was really dreading was her parents having binky stew that night, gambits third law after all
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I personally don’t understand why Lupin didn’t tell Harry from the start “I knew your Dad” he would have had instant rapport with Harry
Love your series, I really like you picking apart the books by chapters and seeing the beginnings of new theories sprout.
When you talked about Crookshanks eating Peter I kept wondering: If an animagus dies on its animal form... would they change back to human and have a human corpse? Sort of like when a Skull dies.
Fun fact, if Lupin didn't take the wolfsbane potion he would have gone to the shrieking shack to keep the students safe and he would have met Sirius way sooner.
The Dementors would feel Harry's emotions because even under the cloak he would be feeling either scared or extremely happy therefore they would know
Didn't Lupin (in his werewolf form) almost kill Snape? I think that might explain the dark glances,it could be genuine concern
I think Snape is proud / vain enough in his calling of a master potioneer to only produce the best potions ever. In a way Lupin is in his debt, which is something he can hold over him for a long time.
I've heard a theory that Lavender is afraid of losing friends, so when she and Hermoine have this argument, that is what she is afraid will happen.
I think its meant to be more showmanship. After trelawney says that, lavender now fears something bad happening on that day, so unless she has a perfect day her admiration of trelawney and likely built up paranoia just guarantees any bad thing that day fits the criteria
Charlie Weasley was the 7th year Seeker. Which is why Oliver being captain last year does NOT make sense - because Charlie was Quidditch captain. Ron says so in book 1. I think this is one of those written but not thought out scenarios we occasionally see.
But don't characters repeatedly say Gryffindor hasn't won the Cup since Charlie left? That implies that he's been gone for several years.
Every now and then I have to remind me that only three of the marauders were Animagi.
So I'm starting to wonder: Could Lupin, as a werewolf, also become an Animagus? Could this even help him to not transform or something during full moons? You'd have to keep the mandrake leaf in your mouth for a month so I guess he'd have to take the wolfsbane potion to not mess up this part.
In book 7 when the trio are infiltrating the ministry, Harry, disguised Runcorn, uses the invisibility cloak when he makes his way down to the courtroom to find Hermione. He walks through the dementors. The dementors turn to him, sensing him, but they cannot see him.
Might homeschooling be extremely popular among wizarding Community?
In HPMoR (I know it's a fan fiction, but nevertheless) there's a nice explanation for dementors: they represent death, not just fear, that's why you cast your patronus with happy thoughts, mostly thoughts about things worth living for. And since they represent Death, they can't see under the Invisibility Cloak.
I look forward for the next episode every week, love this concept! Thank you Ben and J, you are great!
I think that Lee says something about Katie Bell being just a reserve player the previous year in Harry's first game. So there could have also been a 7th year chaser. (Also raises the question of what happened to this practice of having reserve players? Just not something Wood believes in? Or another hint towards population changes at the school?) 24:00
The wolfsbane was invented that year and my head cannon is Dumbledore wasn't able to hire Lupin until this year because of it.
the wolfsbane potion was invented between the years 1984-1991
@@TheFrontzClubmaybe there was some double blond testing in the prior years
Re: dressing house elves. In days of slavery, the slave owners dressed their indoor slaves well because of how that would reflect on themselves.
Though with House Elves, you're not supposed to see them. If you're a guest or visitor to a house with an elf working in it, you'll likely never counter them. The mark of a good elf is that the chores seem to be doing themselves.
17:11 Can't wait to see you guys in Berkeley! Quick note, in chapter 20 Snape does not protect the golden trio from werewolf Remus because he's unconscious when all of that goes down. This was invented for movie 3 in line with the more heroic portrayal he has in the films.
#Correction Moody never sees through Harry's invisibility cloak. It was Barty Crouch Jr. _impersonating_ Moody who could see through the cloak.
Both of them can see through the cloak because Barty Crouch Jr takes Moody’s magical eye when he transforms into him. The eye is an external item (it can be removed) so wouldn’t be included in the transformation.
So about Wood only being good enough for Puddlemere’s reserve team…if we use football(soccer) as a reference point, most professional players in the UK (and Europe in general) come through academy systems operated by the sports teams themselves, so they don’t necessarily go through the mainstream school system. So if professional Quidditch is organised in the same way, most professional Quidditch players won’t have gone through Hogwarts. So for a player who went to actual school to make even the reserve squad of a team of people that have basically been doing nothing other than Quidditch since childhood, Wood must actually be pretty good. This would also explain the number of professional Quidditch players out there relative to the students of the magical schools.
17:07 thats just in the movie, snape was unconscious the whole time in the book
I've just realised that when harry, lupin, sirius and wormtail are all in the shrieking shack, it's the only time the 4 marauders are together again *with harry looking like James and with him being the only child the 4 marauders had between them at that point* meanwhile Snape does technically see them he doesn't know wormtail is scabbers at that point. He is also knocked out when the 4 of them are all in the room together so just imagine if he had of woken up, seen what looked like lupin, sirius, Peter and James and then passed back out in disbelief 😅 but I just think it's kinda cool, that scene is the only time they are ever in the same room together and Snape is also there who is like the most important person in the terms of why everything is the way it is. Without Snape being who he is, him not seeing wormtail back until presumably the night voldy returns. Or does Snape belive harry at the end of POA but can't bring himself to show that he does for either pride or hatred or maybe both?
The point that was brought up about how it seems that everyone is trying to keep Harry out of hogsmead made me think, what if it wasn't really Harry that blew up aunt marge? It's mentioned that Harry was being watched by the order since Sirius escaped so that it would have been known of the agreement that Harry and Vernon made about the permission slip. This could be a reactionary part of Dumbledore's big plan, he could have had someone do something to ruin the dinner so that Harry's slip didn't get signed. This could also be why Harry doesn't get in trouble for the underage magic as it wasn't him that did it.
Pretty risky seeing as Harry fled from the Dursleys that night and Black was on the loose. (And Dumbledore didn't know he was a good guy yet)
It would have to be the case that whoever did it was watching Harry the whole time, and when Harry left, they would have had to call the Knight Bus for Harry, and then they would have called Fudge to meet Harry once he got off the bus.
It sort of makes sense because Harry summoning the Knight bus is the biggest coincidence in the series and Fudge being there right when he got off is highly suspicious since you'd think the Minister would have better things to do that night.
Intriguing, but ultimately I suspect it's untrue simply because of how perfectly everything lines up. We know from other places that witches and wizards, especially children, can cast magic by accident, wandlessly and nonverbally, when their emotions flare up in a big way, and Harry was most definitely at his highest emotional point during that moment.
There's also a nearly invisible detail that tells us exactly what magic Harry was accidentally casting. The end result is that Marge swelled up. We see in a future book, possibly the fifth, that when Harry's taking some sort of practical exam (maybe OWLs, maybe not), he's tasked with using a certain spell on a croaking frog, and he botches the spell and it swells up. The same way Marge did.
The spell he was supposed to cast? "Silencio". Which makes all too much sense, since he wanted nothing more than for Marge to shut up in that moment.
This is the style of foreshadowing and lore-hiding that Rowling does all the time, so it's pretty likely that this one is deliberate. And there's no reason to set it up this way if Harry wasn't actually the one to inflate Marge. He got overly emotional, and his magic spilled out of him uncontrollably, trying to silence her but failing and swelling her up instead.
And he wasn't punished for it for one or both of two reasons: Firstly, Sirius Black was on the loose and they just wanted Harry somewhere where they could see him. Secondly, there's very likely a standard set up where accidental casting has less of a strict ban than intentional casting, due to being....accidental. I imagine you'd still see consequences if it happened too frequently or caused too much of an uproar, but it's mostly understood that sometimes this stuff just happens.
The lady at the magical menagerie did a slightly more indepth examination of Scabbers and couldn't tell it was animagus.
I guess she could just work there kinda like how the guy selling you a cell phone probably couldn't build one, but also if I brought a chunk of tree bark into US cellular hopefully the clerk could at least recognize that it's not a phone.
I feel something that could stop Lupin from becoming a good potion maker is that certain potion ingredients are affected by the phases of the moon and need to be collected or added to potions on the full moon itself which he’d be unlikely to do as a werewolf
Ok so as a bunny parent the thing is they really can be really fragile almost all of us a have a story of a bun passing 😢 also I love the name binki cuz when bunnies are happy the binki around 🥰
Going on to be the back-up keeper for the Puddlemere United straight after Hogwarts is impressive. And that's the last time Oliver Wood's career is mentioned. We don't know what he becomes. So this "Only the Puddlemer United practice squad" isn't the punch you think it is😂
Lupin's robes are patched because he keeps ripping them during transformation
At 1:16:13, when Percy says "I' Head Boy!", I involuntarily rolled my eyes.... (P.S. I LOVE your chairs)
Thinking about it makes me wonder if Dumbledore had Slughorn make Lupin potion for him during his school years.
didn't the Whomping Willow was planted for Lupin, specifically because there was no known methods to counter the werewolf transformation?
It’s a good idea, but Lupin specifically says that the Wolfsbane potion was not invented at the time he was at school, hence the need for the Whomping Willow.
@@Margaret-yv9ed well we don't know when the potion was invented but I think it was just mostly for him to have a place to hide during the full moon as well as someplace no one would think about going there.
@@richewilson6394 “Before the Wolfsbane Potion was discovered, however, I became a fully fledged monster once a month. It seemed impossible that I would be able to come to Hogwarts. Other parents weren’t likely to want their children exposed to me. But then Dumbledore became Headmaster, and he was sympathetic. He said that as long as we took certain precautions, there was no reason I shouldn’t come to school. …” Lupin sighed, and looked directly at Harry. “I told you, months ago, that the Whomping Willow was planted the year I came to Hogwarts. The truth is that it was planted because I came to Hogwarts. This house” - Lupin looked miserably around the room, - “the tunnel that leads to it - they were built for my use. Once a month, I was smuggled out of the castle, into this place, to transform. The tree was placed at the tunnel mouth to stop anyone coming across me while I was dangerous.” Direct quote from lupin from the book. The whomping willow is only necessary when lupin is dangerous, which he isn’t when the wolfsbane potion is in effect. We also know the reason the marauders became Animagi is because werewolves are harmless to animals and Sirius and James needed to be something big enough to stop lupin if he happened along a human during one of their night time prowls, and we know that the marauders didn’t successfully become animagi till 5th year so I think it’s safe to say unless the wolfsbane potion came out within the last two years lupin was at hogwarts then I doubt lupin had access to wolfsbane during his time at hogwarts
didn't the shrieking shack get it's name because Lupin as a kid was biting and scratching himself and screaming in pain?
The thing with the flobberworms is to illustrate how insecure Hagrid got after the Buckbeak incident. I guess they are in the curriculum but usually just a couple of classes, but the fact that Hagrid is harping on about them for most of the year is to illustrate that he just picked the least dangerous thing imaginable and stuck with it to avoid any further trouble.