2020 expectation: New year, new decade, perfect time to practice magic 2020 reality: I’ll be in my room, making no noise, and pretending that I don’t exist
Uncle Vernon: And where will you be during quarantine, Boy? Harry: I'll be in my room. Making no noise and pretending i don't exist. Uncle Vernon: Too right you will.
I know it’s a funny joke but Harry actually knows a lot of spells, that he only uses Expelliarmus on other people is a sign of the fact that he’s so good in nature that his instinct is just to disarm his enemies rather than harm them. His other instinct is to protect, and that’s why it’s with Protego that he reveals himself to Voldemort in the Great Hall.
The Room of Requirement provides everything that the person requires. Hence the name. If you need a place to hide something, a great big empty room is not much help. The very next witch or wizard that needs to hide something will just find your thing sitting alone in the middle of the floor. It makes sense that many, if not all of the items in the rooms were magically generated by the room itself the first time a wizard wanted to stash something.
It’s not that he was arrogant enough to think that nobody else would ever find the room again. It’s that he was arrogant enough to think nobody would ever find out he made a horcrux (let alone 6, which was his original intention), that he’d hide one at Hogwarts, and that they would know where to find it specifically. In fact, I’d venture to say that nobody other than Harry could’ve figured that out. His being a horcrux himself gave him a connection to Voldemort that allowed him to know him almost as well as he knew himself, and the reason he finds out it’s at Hogwarts at all is because he links to Voldemort’s mind as he (Voldemort) is going over the horcruxes’ hiding places himself.
If it makes you feel better, Snape also dies thinking he sent James’s son to his death. I’m not sure if that made it any better for Snape, but I dunno, maybe that’s a silver lining for him.
Yeah. I mean he did say that Dumbledore was raising Harry like a pig to the slaughter. Fans seems to forget that at the time Snape said that it was the truth and while he might have guessed later he didn’t know about the other aspect of the plan of Dumbledore intended for Harry to survive. Dumbledore manipulated Snape just as much as he did Harry. And in similar ways. Harry knew stuff that Snape didn’t know and Snape knew stuff that Harry didn’t know.
You missed something: The fact that Harry found Snape's potion-book can't be just by accident. Why did no one else find it before him? Why would Snape give it away in the first place, when he knows that he wrote a lot of important stuff in it. It's obvious that Dumbledore put it there, so that Harry can find it and impress Slughorn with it to get the memory.
I hated Hermione's ignorance in this book. She KNEW Lucius was a death eater and that Draco was "friends" with Fenrir Greyback as he himself said in Borgin & Burke's. Hermione, who always thinks so logically.. That really bugs me about her lol.
If Harry is allowed to do a "I told you so" dance, Hermione is certainly too when Sirius dies. No wonder she keeps loosing faith in his decisions, because she was right the whole time and Harry just threw it away. I think she didn't want this fiasco in the ministry to happen again.
@@leoyori9829 This entire video is just a giant collection of spoilers. I think most viewers knew this already. Or maybe you were joking and I'm a big dumb right now
Oh Jay, you really missed your chance when you were saying “in 2020 we stay home....” you could have totally used the clip of Harry in the chamber of secrets saying “I’ll be in my bedroom, making no noise and pretending I don’t exist” lol 🤣🤣🤣 still a great video though!!
Harry's trip to the forest is absolutely about his selflessness. Voldemort's assessment is correct, that Harry hates people dying for him. Guilt is certainly part of it, but Harry is the most selfless person in the entire series, choosing time and again to be the hero not for personal glory/recognition but to protect others.
Also serves as a protective charm a la lily's sacrifice for Harry, but for everyone fighting on the good side in the battle of Hogwarts. When Harry sacrifices himself, the good are protected more. And then Bellatrix and the rest seem to fall.
No guilt has no part in this. You are right with most but the Guilt would come from cowardice from letting people die when he could prevent it and actually letting that happen but the ACH and every second his selflessness perceivers and he relentlessly works on stopping the killing without a second to spare. So personally I would say say that there is no guilt building up inside him just the knowledge that his death can stop this is what's driving him to go into the forest
I agree. I'd actually suggest J got his assessment the wrong way around, Voldemort does come to understand Harry, we have him predicting Harry's actions with stunning accuracy in both OP and DH. But he's never understood the degree to which he himself is controlled by fear, which causes him to act rashly over and over and over, including rushing to zap Harry in the forest rather than think through his options.
Pretty sure I've heard him use more than five in the movies... Confringo, Rictusempra, Accio, Expecto Myscrotum, Crucio, Imperio, Protego, Lumos Maxima, Sectumsempra... Loads :P
All the spells Harry ever casted in the books (not counting the cursed child of course) : accio arania exumai confringo crucio diffindo engorgio (not sure if it was only in the movies) episkey expecto patronum expelliarmus furnunculus impedimenta imperio incarcerous incendio langlock levicorpus liberacorpus locomotor mortis (not successful) lumos muffliato nox periculum point me (yes this is a real spell) protego reducio (not sure if it was only in the movie) reducto refilling charm relashio rennervate (not successful) reparo repello muggletum (not 100% sure) rictumsempra salvio hexia (not 100% sure) sectumsempra shooting spell stinging hex (not volontary) stupefy tergeo toenail-growing hex wingardium leviosa You can add to that spells such as alohomora because although we never see Harry use it it's pretty obvious he knows how to cast it. Also, because Harry passes his traansfiguration OWL, we can assume that he can do some transfiguration, even if we don't see it directly. EDIT : some errors are now fixed
Depending on which two fingers it is (i.e. if it's the "peace" sign), it actually is 6! Assuming J knows how to count on binary. Which would do a lot to explain where all the math budget went: learning to count in binary!
One tiny quibble with what you said: I would not agree that Harry “charmed” the Gray Lady in order to obtain the information she had about the diadem’s location from her. Tom Riddle charmed her, and she was hurt and furious when she realized it, too late. At first, she was furious with Harry because she thought he was no different (just as big a liar) as Riddle. She only relented and gave Harry the information he wanted when she realized that he was not trying to “charm” her. Unlike Riddle, Harry told her the truth about his motives for finding the diadem.
I think he was saying that Tom Riddle charmed her. How I understood that sentence was: Harry is then able to deduce how Voldemort found it in the first place (by charming the Grey Lady). ie charming the Grey Lady is referencing how Voldemort found the diadem, not how Harry deduces that. It could be phrased more clearly though.
@Renee McPhail Americans spell words differently from other places. We also use a completely different measuring system. It's weird but it's what we are taught.
When I see theories like this, while I greatly enjoy them, I often wonder to what extent the author was aware of it all. There are plenty of authors that claim every little detail was on purpose and that it was all planned from the start, but there are many that I simply don't believe (cough cough star wars cough). But the way every single detail in the Harry Potter universe just seems to fit really makes it hard to dispute it at least subconsciously being planed. And I have to say the more I learn about these books, the more I love them.
There's a bad joke I heard in college that I think explains how I think authors really write their stories. The book: "The curtains were blue" My teacher: the curtains represent sadness, and how the character can't escape their depression. The author: the curtains are effing blue. I think sometimes we, the readers, assign more significance to certain things in a story then the author did themselves. It is cool theorize and speculate about the plot though.
Honestly, when there are really good theories that don't disrupt canon I basically accept them into my head canon unless/until the story unconfirms it (Fawkes being a horcrux is just plain amazing in my opinion)
@@cpink102292 When someone asked Flannery O'Connor what the meaning of a character's black hat was, she answered, "The meaning of [his] hat is to cover his head." But that's not totally accurate, even from her own writings. Great writers often build a mood through physical details. The curtains don't represent sadness, but they do contribute to the mood of sadness or longing, and so in a way, you could say that everything that builds to that mood "symbolizes" something. But there are also echos and similarities in a work that the author didn't plan for. In our lives, we see meaning in happy accidents or coincidences, whether or not we attribute them to something or someone. It's the same in a story. Just because they weren't actively planned by the author doesn't mean they're not meaningful. (I have spent a good deal of my life thinking and reading about this very question - authors have wonderful things to say about how the creative process works!)
I've been loving these takes. This one, though, while it's still great and well-thought-out... there's one point I'm not sure I agree with. I'm not sure Harry's ability to return from the dead has anything to do with the fact that he believed that he had to die, or the whole "Master of Death" thing. Those are actually three completely unrelated things, that all tie into their own themes. Harry had a choice about whether to return from the dead because, as you mentioned in an earlier video, Voldemort had kind of unintentionally become _Harry's_ Horcrux when he took Harry's blood to give himself a body. The theme here is that Voldemort orchestrated his own demise by not understanding the true nature of the most powerful magics (or, to quote my brother, "hubris is bad"). The whole "Master of Death" quote, OTOH, was about something else entirely... it was to contrast Harry with the younger Dumbledore. The younger Dumbledore wanted to become "Master of Death" because he thought it was this incredible status that would basically make him and Grindlewald invincible. It was only later that he realized that Harry, in his humility, truly deserved the title (which is really just that... a title. Nothing more). Meanwhile, the reason it was important for Harry to not know that he could survive was also for a completely different reason: by walking into the Forest fully expecting to die so that somebody else might finally defeat Voldemort... that was an act of incredible love for everybody who was still fighting for their lives in Hogwarts. This granted the same sort of protection on every single one of them that Harry had gotten from his mother, and made it virtually impossible for them to lose at that point. So... still loving the basic premise (Dumbledore's big plan), and most of your points, I still agree with. It's just this particular point that, in my view, conflates three completely separate points and themes together, that I had a bit of trouble with.
Honey, noone was protected from Harry's love. Have you not read the books? Soooo many people died in the battle of Hogwards. If it was that simple, he would have done it from the beginning. So that Tonks and Lupin and all the others would be just fine...
@@aekforever21g Voldemort would also be just fine, seeing how at the beginning only three Horcruxes had been destroyed. And how, according to they prophecy, Harry was the one with the power to defeat the Dark Lord. Of course, this would have entirely defeated the purpose of Harry going to Hogwarts in the first place. And then, after Voldemort Killing-Cursed him in the forest, suddenly his spells stopped working right. His Cruciatus Curse failed to hurt Harry, his Silencing Charm failed to hold, and Neville broke free of the Body-Bind Curse. It certainly sounds like everybody's protected by a love shield, right? Everybody, including Harry, apparently, given the failure of Crucio to affect him. But how could Harry be protected by his own love shield? I have a new theory that occurred to me while typing up this comment: Avada Kedavra, cast from the Elder Wand, fails not because of Harry's blood in Voldemort but because it is being used against the wand's true master (props to J for figuring out this is why Snape was killed by Nagini, not magic). This is also why Crucio fails.
@@Calvinosaur I would disagree, I just posted a comment about this a few mins ago in the main tread with my theory. If that was the case Harry would not have died in the forest either. I honestly never though about why Harry was also protected by it, its a thinker. Possibly because he sacrificed himself for anyone who would fight Voldemort and now Harry is also fighting him?
The Horcrux was destroyed basically Harry was wearing a 1 shot bulletproof vest and he got shot so it’s not good now it prolly just knocked him out for a spell 😉
Harry's willingness to die, believing fully that confronting Voldemort in the forest would be the last thing he ever does, creates a powerful magical effect on all his allies at Hogwarts, because Voldemort unwittingly does it again ... much like giving Lily the choice to step aside, he gives Harry the choice not to come to the forest. That saves lives
Honey, noone was protected from Harry's love. Have you not read the books? Soooo many people died in the battle of Hogwards. If it was that simple, he would have done it from the beginning. So that Tonks and Lupin and all the others would be just fine...
@@aekforever21g They only got hurt before Harry's sacrifice. Afterwards, nobody was hurt by Voldemort. I don't think the sacrifice protected them from the Death Eaters, though.
Earlier today I was telling my little brother about how harry potter was translated into other languages and how voldemort's middle name is Elvis in the French version. And then all I could think about was Ogden going to the Gaunt's shack and talking to Voldemort's grandfather, Elvis.
It is a good point. He's primarily driven by his fear of death, which he'd never actually believe. He thinks the drive for power is what he's all about
@@jasper8712 actually that quote is in half blood Prince, when Dumbledore picks up Harry from privet drive and tagged him to Slughorn and the burrow. Also, I like half asleep Chris.
So I get that if Harry knew that, when he died, he would come back, then he couldn't come back. But if he knew that he could't come back because he knew he could come back then he would think he couldn't back, leading to him actually coming back.
there is another failsafe in place: Dumbledore sacrifice on the tower, preventing him being found protecting Harry with another, yet weaker love sacrifice charm.
Today I was at school today and my “Draco Malfoy” told me I was a nerd for knowing so much about Harry Potter and so instead of yelling at him like I often do I had a debate with him about how everyone was a nerd and 15 minutes later he said “I hate you but I guess your right...” And I used your videos for help😁 you guys are the best and keep making your videos.
During the first and second year, Dumbledore didn't know that Harry needed to die. It wasn't until he was the diary that he realize that it was a horrocrux and that Harry was one. Then, he raised him as a pig for a slaughter during his third and fourth year until he sees that he might survive. And then, fifth, sixth and seventh year is about making sure Harry would survive basically. But even the years that he though Harry had to die, I don't think he ever stopped looking for a way for him to survive. He just found one after the graveyard.
7:48: Thats not just arrogant, thats nonsensical. Basically a plot-hole, aint it? I mean, the Room of Requirement was found by HUNDRETS of People, evidend by how the Room is FULL with Stuff!! Full to the Brim!!
Noooooo. If its book six this series is almost over. This has literally been my favorite one of yours and thats saying a lot as I love love love all your theory videos
Hey SCB, you guys should do book themed quizzes for the live stream, so we can prepare for it! Like book 1 next week and then book 2....we're loving all the HAWT LIPS MOLDEVORT!
2:50 I hear the Art of War and my mind just is like “Blood for the blood god.” “When in doubt the answer is slavery.” “You lose squid kid.” “Potatoes.” Thanks Techno, thanks.
I've just introduced my significant other to the books and this miniseries came out just in time. In any other show like The walking dead or once upon a time he doesn't care about spoilers but I turn this video on (he is only on goblet) and he says shut it off or I'm leaving.
16:15 The type of conundrum you are referring to is commonly refereed to as a 'catch 22'. A circumstance from which there is no escape because of mutually conflicting or dependent conditions.
“And he’s even armed [Harry] with _two_ whole spells” Expelliarmus: - a simple disarming charm Expecto Pateonum: - one of the most powerful defensive charms known to wizardkind - immensely complicated and extremely difficult One took Harry Literal Years to master. The other took Harry an afternoon to fully learn.
Love these videos. I have watched many of them at least twice. They are long and well thought out and have (probably temporarily) replaced my usual background noise, the Harry Potter audiobooks. All hail Jim Dale! He really makes each person in the books come to life.
Wow excellent timing, I was literally just scrolling through your channel thinking "I wonder when the next Dumbledore episode will come out" and then I see this was uploaded 13 seconds ago haha. Great vid as always.
Harry not knowing he could live made it so Voldemort’s curses don’t work on Harry’s loved ones. He came back because of the blood, and he fact that used the elder wand, which Harry was the master of, could not harm his own master. It was were those two things that had Harry live.
Hey once this series is over I think it would be great if you could mash them all together into one long vid. That way we could follow and see the full scope
Voldemort - "Nothing is worse than death, Dumbledore!" Hermione - "If you two don't mind, I'm going to bed before either if you come up with another idea that'll get us all killed, or worse, expelled."
Here's a question to ask about the last book: Did Hermione ever get her wand back after the battle of Hogwarts? It was taken from her when they were taken to Malfoy Manor. It's never mentioned whether she does or not. I'd really like to know.
One of Voldemort’s losses that you forgot to mention with the diary is the fact that he actually created the weapon that destroyed some of his other horcruxes, the venom imbued Sword of Gryffindor. The basilisk attacked Harry on Riddle’s orders thus, Voldemort is responsible for its creation as a destroyer of horcruxes.
Yes! If Dumbledore wants Harry to destroy Horcruxes, why he did not explain how to do it directly? Hermione had tough time to find out the foolproof process of destruction.
I don’t know if you remember this but last live stream I asked the question about Phineas Nigellus not knowing about horcruxes. Seems kinda odd that he’d just forget the extensive conversation about horcruxes between Harry and Dumbledore right after they watched Slughorn’s true memory. They also discussed the fact that the ring was a horcrux and that Dumbledore destroyed it. There’s a specific line in that chapter that points out that “every single portrait was listening” meaning Phineas definitely heard every word. I thought that maybe, just maybe, Dumbledore asked Phineas to not directly tell Harry that the sword could destroy horcruxes because Dumbledore wanted Harry to figure it out for himself. It fits the theme of Dumbledore never telling Harry more than he needed to know. Of course it still seems off that Harry doesn’t remember that Phineas was listening, but plot holes do happen sometimes. That’s my two cents on the matter 🤷♀️
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