I FINALLY Gave In and Watched *HARRY POTTER* 

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Hermione was the screenwriter's favourite character so he glowed her up and gave her all of Ron's best bits relegating him to comic relief. The dynamic should have been Harry the hero in training, Hermione the gifted but prone to freeze under pressure prodigy and Ron the streetwise kid who grew up in the magic world and knows how to navigate it.

Alex: What does Snape have against Harry? All of us: Don't worry, you'll get there.

hold up, it's so weird how the movie has some scenes that you don't find in the UK version. like how petunia makes fun of harry for going to smeltings, or how she cracks the eggs open to find the letters, or how harry snaps back at snape

The Potter Family have a long history of inventing spells, charms, magical objects and medical potions that people use on a regular basis. Harry being the only surviving member of his family inherited everything. He is the owner of all of those patents. That’s why he’s super rich. The money magically appears in his vault.

In the books Ron is the only one with "street knowledge" - being the only one of the trio growing up in the magical world. Also he is very loyal. He stands up for his friends and would jump infront of Harry or Hermione to save them.

Ron adds a lot to the story in the books. Since both Harry and Hermione were raised by non-magic people, Ron is the one introduces wizarding world to them. Also he has a lot of practical knowledge and is Harry's best mate. The movies did him dirty, turning him into a gluten and comic relief. In each movie, they gave the best of his lines to Hermione to make her look more badass.

I'm so proud of our Potterheads. Whenever youtubers react to the series and have a bunch of questions, we answer them with sheer sophistication mixed with sarcasm without giving away the spoilers. Best part, nobody tells the other to not spoil it's kind of a given cause we all wanna see your reaction to this masterpiece 😅

When he said what’s his name when dumbledore appeared, I just knew he was gonna say Gandalf💀💀

Uncle V's performance is among the best in the entire series. Very true to the literature. Casting extraordinaire.

By the end, these get much better and darker. The finale is just awesome and the fact these actors all stayed around for all 8 movies was amazing.

Alex and Dylan is in trouble are like long lost twins this is so funny! Love the content!

FYI about the Sorting Hat: - the whole conversation between Harry and SH only happened in his head. So was with all other kids. - the SH assigns kids to the house according to what they value, not by how they act. - Gryffindor values courage, Ravenclaw values knowledge, Hufflepuff values loyalty, Slytherin values ambition. - some kids took longer than the others, because they weren't clear of the things they value yet, or which one they value more. - Harry has the ambition. He's an orphan who just found out about his fame, wealth, a whole new world etc. But when meeting Malfoy + probed by the SH, he became resolute that he'd rather have courage over reputation.

It gets a lot darker and more mature as the series goes on

The first 3 books dropped in the 90s, the 4th in 2000, and the 1st movie released in 2001. The books were gaining a big following before the movie, but afterwards it drew in a huge new audience. Book stores started doing midnight releases for each book after that, where people would stand in line for hours to get their book. There were a few years between each book, so people were theorizing like crazy on forums online during that time. It was seriously one of the most fun times of my life and I hate that there is nothing else like it.

At 38:25 when ron falls off the knight piece in wizards chess and gets knocked out you can see a piece fly into screen and hit him in the face. During the behind the scenes he mentions that it was an actual piece of debris and you can actually see it leave a cut above his eyebrow in the scene when he gets hit in the face but he didn't even let it phase him and continued to act unconscious.

In the books, Ron is a highly loyal friend, although he has insecurities about being The Chosen One's friend later on when his masculinity becomes more of a thing he wants to assert. Ron is recklessly brave, he protects them in various events and stands up bravely for them in most encounters. He's self-sacrificing most times too and very caring. He learns from Hermione more often than she realizes (though he doesn't make it a point to let on that he does), and when she slowly starts to see how much he pays attention to her and her efforts and vision (like with SPEW - an elfish activist initiative), she falls for his more pristine qualities. Although, he is also a jerk, dim to the point of being a muggle, and she's sort of compromising, but you can't miss that he has a really good highly loyal heart faults and all.

My excitement for this video is immeasurable! Alex has become one of my favorite reactors on this platform, and him reacting to one of my favorite franchises is going to be dope!

The issue with Ron’s role in the Harry Potter Movies is, that they they stole a lot of HIS smart remarks and made it hers. In the books, Hermine still is smart as heck, but as she’s a Muggle born, she cannot know as much stuff about the wizard’s world, as Ron. I find it sad, they made him a laughing stock, so they can make Hermione some kind of unrealistic Super Girl. There was no reason to do that. She already had a great role to play in the books.

They never actually explain it in the movies, which is so annoying, but in the books the reason Harry has to live with the Dursleys is because his aunt is blood related to his mother, which strengthens the protective charm that Harry’s mom made when she died, so he’s in the safest possible place living in their abusive household lol

Catching the Golden Snitch doesn't necessarily means your team wins. Catching it awards your team 150 points, which in most cases, means victory because it's rare for a team to even be that far ahead in points.

Ron's contribution to the trio is being street smart. Ron is a pureblood, which means his whole family is magical and he lives in wizarding society. He knows about culture, people, magic and even a little about politics. Hermione is book smart. She knows a lot because she reads a lot, but some things aren't taught through books. She also has a difficulty of accepting ideas that aren't 100% logical. Harry is simply powerful. He doesn't study that much, but when it's time to act, he's the best.

As a total Potter Nerd, it’s so hard not to yell out answers to Alex’s questions that we know would be answered in the books

Being a huge Harry Potter Fan, yes I started with the movies. I was 9, when Stone came out in theaters. But watching the movies first, and then reading all the books. Best experience, none better.

To your point about getting lost in this world: that is absolutely what happened to me as a kid. My childhood was …not ideal. I couldn’t be myself a lot of the time and the Wizarding World was my only escape sometimes. I know this is true for a lot of us who were kids when the books came out.

I'm 33 years old, and I still remember the day I saw this movie in theaters for the first time! The Harry Potter series is so iconic, yes please keep watching these movies!!

Hermione: "pertrificous totalus" Alex: "take your teddy bear pyjamas and go to bed" Neville: falls Alex: "Oh..."

You were talking about each kids role. Well they took quite a few of Ron’s lines from the books and gave them to Hermione. So Ron is somewhat different in the books. He knows a lot more than the way they portrayed him in the movie. You have to remember he grew up in a wizard in the family and the other two didn’t. So the movies kind of forgot that

One of the saddest parts of the movies is like all the side characters basically got all their lines cut. Your basically funneled into the main 3. You rarely hear shamus or dean talk even tho in the books they actually have a decent amount of lines. It hurts that feeling of Harry going to a school and making a ton of friends. It’s more like he only knows 2 ppl.

this is my first time watching his videos and im baffled by how much adult jokes are in this video 😭

The sorting is actually done in alphabetical order but the movies changed it to just show the main characters' sortings.

I feel like one of the strong reasons that Harry didn’t befriend malfoy or try in the beginning was because he lived with the worst people ever. He knew how to recognize bad souls so his moral compass was pristine in that sense

I cannot wait to see you get through the entire series! It’s genuinely SO good.

Im just so glad you watched the extended version

Just to clarify, Alex, the Phoenix gave two feathers for the two wands, Harry’s and Voldemort’s. That’s what the shop keeper meant when he said, “it’s brother gave you that scar.” The wands are brothers because both their cores came from the same source.

Gonna go ahead and say it before I even watch. Stoked to see you react to these and HOPE you watch all of them. As an adult, the first 2 may be a bit of a slog to get through but from 3 - the end is really something incredible.

I love that he has the uncut version with all the deleted scenes!

i need a part two bro this was hella funny, goated vid

Why not do reactions with her? Having someone who is brand new to the series and someone who is a beloved fan of the series would be a good combo for a reaction series. She may also know some info that the movie either misses out or isn't super obvious straight away and she can help out with that stuff. Would be great!

I really hope you do the entire series because the story's definitely get better as they go.

that brick action at your 9:50 totally transitioned my perspective of the movie from kids flick to serious story. Some how CGI budget is really important to me, and that scene nailed it. I first saw this 17 years ago, and that moment still stands out.

RIP Alan Rickman (Snape), Robbie Coltrane (Hagrid), John Hurt (Mr. Ollivander), and Richard Harris (Dumbledore) such amazing people who are gone but in our hearts forever.

i am a 50 year old grown man and i still enjoy watching these movies i suppose it appeals to the imaginative child that resides in us all..

Really hope you watch them all. Really looking forward to these reactions!

this is my first video of yours and i have seen the entire series multiple times and jfc, ur commentary made it 1000x times better😭😭😭

I’ve seen this movie and read these books so many times. Love watching people seeing it for the time. This was absolutely hilarious. Bravo

The fortunate thing is that you'll still want to rewatch the HP movies with your wife sometime after you've finished them all. And she knows it. :)

The epicness of this story is that every book/movie becomes more complex, sinister and darker until the climatic ending of the series. Storytelling at its finest.

This was the first reaction of yours that I saw and I loved it! You're easy on the eyes and a fun to watch guy!❤

I planned to do my yearly rewatch of all the Harry potters...but figured hey why not join with Alex this year and watch it with a friend for the first time! That's how these videos feel 😊

There's something deeply unsettling about sex jokes about 11 y/o kids o.O

I’m already emotional imagining Alex watching that last frame of the 8th movie. How he’ll want to start over right away just so he can go back to Hogwarts. You have to watch them all!

So fun trivia. The goblin in the bank scene that had the letter handed to him by Hagrid is played by Warwich Davis who played Willow, also the really little goblin who took Harry to his vault is the same guy who played Mini Me from Austin Powers.

OMG This was way more entertaining than I thought it would be. Thank you for this, im going to watch the rest of them right away.

You mentioned how cool the movie was despite the fact you're 29. I first watched the movies when I was 59, after reading the books for the first time. I'm 66 now, and I still enjoy reading the books.

Also totally get your wife in front of the camera with you for these! That'd be fun!!!

“When kind, genuine, authentic people don’t play by the rules, that’s how you change the world“ is honestly one of the best and most true quotes I’ve ever heard in a RU-vid video 🤌🏻🤌🏻 Also, have fun getting thousands and thousands of views on these reaction videos; you’ll find that for so many of us potterheads, it is a literal hobby to watch people react to them for the first time.

your videos have become my comfort bedtime/food eating routine

Seems like you're watching a version with some extra / extended scenes that they may have added later! :D So exciting! Almost feels like I'm watching it again for the first time as well. I'm glad that they added them in-- it gives you even more depth into such an amazing world with wonderful characters.

I'm sure someone else already said this, but the books came first. They were INSANELY popular! Bookstores would have midnight specials when they were finally allowed to sell them. Parents would bring their children to wait outside bookstores while wearing Hogwarts costumes. People would take off school or work until they had finished the book! Rowlings was still writing the subsequent books when the first movies came out. There was DEFINITELY Harry Potter Mania. I had babies at that time and couldn't be bothered with such things. Thank goodness I tried it later. Marvelous series.

I love that you’re watching it on peacock, you got to see the scenes that were cut out cause they “didn’t add to the story” the “first” time you watch it!

Alright got introduced to you with the 2nd one and I need the whole series man. The 3rd and 4th movies are amazing. Your reactions are hilarious.love the genuine fear and random screams

Can we all agree that if magic ever existed, you would study the life out of it!!! Why is Hermione the only nerd? I would have so many degrees in that shit!😂😂

After the first book, there were lines of kids and their parents around bookstores when each new volume was released. The books front-loaded an audience for the movies. Fortunately, the movies recreated the imaginary world of Harry Potter well enough to make the entire series.

I love that you are sort of seeing this for the first time! I wished many times to watch this again for the first time at this age! I got to see that through this :D Thanks!

Little known fact, the goblin, Griphook, who helps Harry and Hagrid is in Gringotts, is played by the one and only Verne Troyer. Also, I think that was the point of the Dursley's was to show the ridiculous lengths they would go to get away from magic.

21:55 About twenty years after the release of the first movie, this is the most iconic line of Hermione in the entire series. 26:05 I had not noticed her smile before, it was a quick scene, but it makes sense.

Yes, the books came first. I'd love to answer all your questions, but I simply can't - not without spoiling the plot of the next 7 movies. :) One thing that I will comment on is the trios roles in the story and mainly Ron. Harry is of course the main character and "the chosen one" and as such gets the most attention. He is naturally gifted in certain areas of magic (mainly defenssive magic and flying) and fairly average in the rest. He doesn't have the same drive and academic skills as Hermione for sure. Hermione is extremely gifted academicly and has high discipline. as she is known: "the most brilliant witch her age". But like Harry she grew up in the muggle world and all her knowledge about the wizarding world comes from books. She lacks experience. Then we come to mr. Ronald Weasley. He, like Harry, isn't academicly gifted and doesn't have the discipline for studying. Sadly in the movies his character has kinda been reduced to comic relief and many of his lines given to Hermione as she is the "smart one". Ron isn't stupid - for one example: he's the only one of the trio that can actually play chess properly. (the chess sequence was changed in the movie - in the book he doesn't ride the chess piece, but takes its place - so he actually IS knocked out - but I guess they didn't want to show that in a kids movie). His big advantage over both Harry and Hermione is that he's from a wizarding family - he's known magic his whole life and knows how the wizarding world works. His father works at the ministry and his family has been part of the restiance against Voldemort since the beginning.

Oh my God, this was hilarious!!! I can`t stop now. This will be an Alex-HP reaction marathon The best reaction ever!!! You made me laugh out loud so much that I scared myself :))))))))))))))))))))))) Thank you for turning a lousy day into PURE-HP-Fan-Happiness!

"When kind, genuine, authentic people don't play by the rules, that's how you change the world." -Alex Hefner Love that

Recently found the channel. Hilarious reactions bud! Looking forward to watching some of your new and old videos. Keep it up!

Back in the late 90’s my mom bought my son the first 4 books. I was like, what are you giving my 8 year old son, so I read them first and became an addict myself, yes, I was a grown ass adult, and promptly handed them down to him to read. I also started reading them with my 5 year old. When this movie came out, we were all amazed how much it matched our imagination. I can’t wait to go on this ride with you. We were all so sad when the ride ended. Between the books and movies, this series was a major part of my boys’ childhood. We even dragged my daughter, who was much younger into it, although like you, she never read the books…lol

It's a funny thing you mention the toad thing because in the actual book, hagrid, when asking Harry to pick a pet, he said "toads Went out of fashion years ago you'd be laughed at"

19:44 ... Dude. Wth. That hit me so hard. You're a stand up dude. ♥️💯

This makes me this much more excited for my 21st, I’m having a Harry Potter themed birthday and 2 of the people who are gonna be there have never seen Harry Potter. I get super excited to see peoples reactions and stuff, so getting to see this movie through someone else basically is so much fun💛💛💛💛

When the first harry potter book came out (1997) I was 11, the same age as Harry. We grew up together, and we both turned 18 when the Deadly Hallows, the last book, was released. I have this distinct memory of me and my friends glued to the books, far before the movies came out. It was truly magical.

If I had an cloak of invisibility I'd listen to what friends and workmates say about me. I'm sorry if i wrote something incorrect (my english is not perfect). Greeting from 🇩🇪

Ron is their connection to wizard culture, as the only one born and raised in it. He is also surprisingly good in buzzer-beater moments.

also, yes, PLEASE watch every movie. i love watching movies with ya, and harry potter is one of my comfort series

I can not wait for you to react to the rest of this series. There are so many answers from questions you ask early on that get answered in awesome ways. I absolutely love this series, glad your reacting to it!

Yyyyaaasss can't wait to see how you fall in love with this series as much as I do

It's fun that you said "Hat's off to the cooks preparing the food for all these students" The movies decided to skip over the "lower class species slaves who are happy to serve" storyline that the books have.

Pretty much all the lines that show Ron's useful traits were given to Hermione, in an interview the producer did that because she was his favorite character. and the author approved the changes because she says Hermione was supposed to be her

I love Alex reactions, always funny, says stupid shit and still manages to provide us with real emotional, factional reactions! Keep them coming bro 💯

Huge Potter nerd here, it's so much fun watching someone see this for the first time and enjoy it! I grew up with these stories, waiting in line for the midnight releases of the books and then the midnight showings of the movies!

Rewatching these videos and God I love your reaction.

hi alex, your vids popped up when you started watching HP movies.. i just watched all 3 and i'm now subscribed 😊 love your reactions and facial expression 😂🤘 can't wait for the next one, i'll be watching your old vids for the meantime (im on the spiderman trail).. happy to have found your channel ❤

Yes need your reaction to the whole series. You're too hilarious

The Harry Potter Theory channel did a "What if Harry was in Slytherin" theory, where Hagrid never made the comment about most dark wizards being Slytherins, so Harry didn't insist on "Not Slytherin" to the hat. A very interesting video. Slytherins are NOT "The Bad Guys" as many fans seem to think. It's just that their house values Ambition and cleverness, and a lot of ambitious clever people can break bad more easily. Heck, MERLIN was a Slytherin, and he was about as far from a dark wizard as you can get.

Oh my god that was the most enjoyable reaction I've seen to this series! I LOVED it You're the coolest! with your filthy little comments LOL 😂 and you paying attention at the same time and enjoying the world that was cool 😍❤️ I just found your channel and I CANNOT WAIT to watch you react to this beautiful series! I can already tell you're gonna love the ride it is WILD 🤯 I also love that your wife is a huge fan! Try to get her to watch some with you here we'd love that! And you could get inside details from her on each book as you finish its movie if she'd read them. 👌🏻 A lot of lost content in the books that didn't make it to the movies, it'd clear a lot for you and answer A LOT of future questions you might have 👌🏻 I'm sure myself and other potterheads here in the comments would fill you in every reaction anyhow ❤️👌🏻

I watched the first movie as a child and immediately fell in love! I then found out that it was based on a book. I begged my parents to please buy me the book. That christmas they surprised me with a paperback box set because, unbeknownst to me, there were actually 4 books out at the time. I thought there was only one at the time lolol I loved to read, so I devoured those books and read them so many times that they literally started falling apart, and I mean that in a literal sense. The spines are split and peeling, there are pages missing and bent in a million directions, the covers for some of them have come off and one of my cousins, who was always a complete ass to me, grabbed my Goblet of Fire book while I was reading it, and threw it on the floor. And because my books were literally falling apart because I read them so much, the book split into two pieces. I was so sad, but continued reading it because it was a gift from my parents. Whenever the next book in the series came out, my parents would buy it for me 💕 and they would specifically buy me the hardcover with the sleeve. I think they thought they would survive more wear and tear, but they are all messed up too from me reading them over and over. I still have all of those books and even the box the first 4 books came in! And the first 4 books are still in that box 💕 The book series have meant so much to me. I'm 30 now and I'm eternally grateful that my parents bought me that box set and the rest of the books 🥹

Brooooo you're killing it with the movies! SO happy you're watching Harry Potter now!!!!

Wow great video, Alex! Can't believe you haven't seen this movie!! Half-ass!!!

I guess it’s just like other things but I can’t imagine growing up having not known Harry Potter. It’s a yearly movie marathon, it’s a comfort blanket when needed, it’s a rabbit hole of lore and theories when you want it, it’s got tonnes of related products available everything from slippers to video games. Like it’s everywhere and it doesn’t seem to get old. And so it’s so cool to see people experience these things for the first time and see what they make of it, finding the same joy in the moments that I still love many years on. These films and books brought me up through my teen years and I wouldn’t have it any other way

I am so loving watching your first reaction to Harry Potter. It makes me so happy. Brings me back to my first time. Adorable.

Books came first Alex. I read them as an adult after my mum recommended them to me. They work for us too, as I think it takes you back to being a kid while being entertaining even as an adult too. First time I've watched the US version. I knew they renamed the books/movie title, but was surprised they even got the actors to redo their lines to fit the title. Added scenes in it too.

And can we just give props to director Christopher Columbus for the excellent casting in these movies? He directed the first two and every character from Harry to the Durnsleys, Dumbledore to Snape were all cast perfectly.

Funny you asked what Ron’s role in the trio was cause the movies pretty much cut his role from what I remember. He’s the only one of the three who was raised in a wizard family, so he’s their anchor and guide in a way in the wizard world. He’s also just super loyal and really calm under pressure, which kinda counteracts Hermione who kinda panics when pressed, but they cut that too, so I guess he provides jokes? Is what it is I guess

I remember the Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans. There wasn't originally a dead fish flavor. The worst flavor at the time was vomit. What was so strange was that, based on the image on the back of the box, when you thought you had toasted marshmallow, you actually had vomit. It's as if there was some massive manufacturing mix-up.

Take a shot every time Alex makes a sexually charged comment about a kid. You'd be surprised how tipsy you'd be by the end. What happened to this guy?