@@Maxisamo1 Well she IS the creator . What she says goes. Doesnt matter that some fans think what they says goes its her made up world. Plus in the real world people used to shit in buckets and throw the shit out the window into the street. Its no more weird than that actually its better.
The funniest shit about casting away the shit to me is that 11 year old kids apparently can't take a dump on their own and have to call their mom to magic shit away. And apparently once they enter Hogwarts but before they master the basics of shit magic, there must be someone else there to do it for them, like "Professor Snape! Professor Snape! I require your assistance. I just took a dump, and as I'm sure you know, we haven't yet reached the Ceasura of Shit spell in the defense against dark arts class. Would you be so kind as to abjure it away, sir?"
I feel like JK Rowling has literally become part of her own toxic fandom and is obsessed with pushing Tumblr tier unironic shitposts. I loved the Harry Potter books and movies as a child but the real MVP for young adult fantasy for me was DJ MacHale’s _Pendragon._ Deeply underrated storytelling.
You are the very first person I have ever seen that also knows of and read the Pendragon series, no exaggeration. That shit was so fire, you have no idea how much this made my day.
@@austinlink Mark and Spader were my favorite characters (Mark best character arc) and Courtney is the original tomboy best girl. I always loved the writing style in these stories and the lovable boomer-type writing atmosphere MacHale wrote his stories in. Glad to see a fellow fan! In addition, I always liked the dated inspiration MacHale wrote his stories with. Denduron- Outlander and medieval fiction Cloral- Waterworld and Atlantis concepts First Earth- The Rocketeer, dieselpunk and 1920s-1930s pre-WWII pulp fiction Veelox- Ready Player One and the Matrix, 90s perceptions of the Internet Eelong- Tarzan and the original Planet of the Apes Zadaa- Sword-and-sandal Egyptian and Biblical adventure fiction and desert punk Quillan- Cyberpunk Ibara- islandpunk/tropical adventure fiction and post-apocalyptic aesthetics Second Earth- Zeitgeist of the 90s and the early 2000s Third Earth- Eco-tech futurist utopia (original), Terminator and post-apocalyptic dystopias (alter)
I don't think she became part of her own toxic fandom, because her toxic fandom was fomed in a honest way. She seems to just want to "look cool for the kids" and/or not look critically to her own work and her own person. Like, The whole thing about Dumbledore being gay despite the fact that are no lines (that i am aware off) in the books that comes close to hinting to the fact that Dumbledore is gay. In the movies you would more inclined to say that he is assexual, considering that he appears to not have any romantic interests whatsoever. It seems that the main reason that dumbledore is gay is because she doesn't want to think that deeply about why she didn't wrote any character that wasn't straight.
Something like that happened with one of my friends. At college he told everyone his name was pronounced this one way. Two years later he told everyone that his name was actuly pronounced the normal way, he just wanted it to be a joke but it spiraled way out of controls. FOR 2 YEARS he kept it a secret till he couldn't handle it anymore, but by then it was to late and everyone refused to call him anything but that lol
Snack on this. The chamber of secrets was hidden beneath a sink in a room that none of them had any cultural reason to BUILD 500 years before flushable toilets even fucking existed. Yeah, I looked it up, there's a FIVE HUNDRED YEAR gap between Hogwart's founding and the invention of the toilet. Why the fuck did they choose to adopt toilets? They didn't even buy into the human's idea that you should shit in PRIVACY! They just did it wherever they happened to be and then used magic, why would they adopt bathrooms, let alone toilets?!
@@yusufgazi7 in the text it is also written that the chamber was created where the sink was prior to the existence of the bathrrom, and the bathroom was later built on the exact same location.
so apparently the Disappearing poop was JK trying to explain why nobody found out that the Girls Bathroom was built right on top of Slytherin's evil lair, the everything else is just her being really dumb
But that doesn't make any sense either! Why would you need a bathroom if everyone just magic's away the poo? And if poo magic was so common why would no one be suspicious of something so muggle being built in Hogwarts? "Oh hey what is this new room? Oh it's useless to everyone in this school? Why would they build something like this? I better go investi- OH HEY A SECRET EVIL LAIR!"
Except they already fixed that issue in a post prior to JK's tweet. The Chamber of Secrets opening was originally a trapdoor. When Hogwarts started installing plumbing, another Slytherin descendant modified the opening to avoid its discovery. Which also explains why the snake can more around the plumbing, coz it was connected. JK's tweet just made no sense
Why is disappearing excrement canon to the universe, but Fetus Deletus isn’t? C’mon, J.K. Rowling. If you’re going to speed run being homeless again, at least give us that!
@@mordis8518 with Lockhart it wasn't intentional, we just don't know if they have a specific spell for the deletus lol (also from my memory Harry didn't feel any pain either huh)
HP is one of those cases when overexplaining everything and trying to make too much lore just takes away from all the fun and magic of it. It's great as it is just as long as you don't read Rowling tweets.
I really don't like her habit of adding things to the story after the fact. Like, the bathroom thing is a bit weird if you think about it, but I'm willing to accept that, for the sake of convenience and privacy (especially with more wizards coming from muggle families) the school magick'd up some bathrooms. It's when the retcons and details are the answer to questions nobody asked that I'm really not into. Then again not reading her tweets is relatively easy to do since she's kind of a huge jerk on Twitter anyway lol
@@kaimcdragonfist4803 Has she ever retconned anything? As in saying fred and george weren't actually twins they just really looked alot like each other but born in the same calendar year would be a retcon. wizards not knowing how plubming works would be her adding shit no one asked about.
@@kaimcdragonfist4803 I just find it weird that this prestigious school would allow anyone to just shit wherever and vanish it. Like prior to modern plumbing people did have cans/buckets and designated areas on where you should go to bathroom. Having famous wizards go wherever is so uncouth even for medieval standards.
It's tough. I suppose we can agree to disagree, but the line between total mystery or absolute certainty is where much interest lies in life, art, entertainment, media, and so on, considering we often make our own head canons about this kind of stuff. When it's done by the author years later, and as someone else said, involving stuff few, seemingly no body wanted to ask the _sauce_ herself about, it can get rough, messy, and grey. It's even worse when it directly contradicts stuff and/or feels like trouble-free, facile, and non-committal "attempts" at some kind of brownie points, deflecting responsibility, too, for that matter.
I completely forgot they're making a 3rd Fantastic Beasts film after that abysmal 2nd entry. When you think of a title like that, you expect Pokemon in the Wizarding World not the Wizard version of WW2, which is ironic if you watch the 2nd film...
@@______________________-___ That's David Yates and JK herself destroying the own logic of her universe. She just can't let it go and now the series is just turning stale.
I love that they go over the "death of the author" in about a minute thirty where I went through three days over the subject in university. Its a highly debated critique and they make it as simple as "If the public likes you or not" which is pretty much the basis of the for of criticism.
Theres this thing introduced by book 6 I think. Turns out in HP its possible to cast spells without words, but it’s so risky that few people do it (they can backfire). Imagine being so sneaky that you learn to silent cast Fetus Deletus. Effectively putting your own life at risk after every nut just to make sure the fetus gets deletus.
There are something the author are right about. 1. It's pronounced "Hydro-City" in Sonic 3. 2. Master Chief's armor doesn't jack him off. 3. Han Solo definitely shot first.
I heard JK did this because she was trying to close a plot hole about the bathrooms in the second book but she just opened way to many holes with her stupid tweet. Just own up and say you didn't think that through.
This is the same woman who pretended she was holding onto the idea "Nagini is a cursed korean lady in a circus" since she came up with the concept of Harry Potter. Do you think you can trust ANYTHING that comes out of her mouth? She's had YEARS to prove Dumbledore IS gay at all, and she's NEVER fucking done it.
@@haku8135 Oh man I almost banished that memory. Nagini being a cursed lady makes Neville's cool moment then he kills her super horrific instead. Remember how she tried to say that lycanthropy was a metaphor for the AIDS crisis in the 1990s but when you look at the story the only 2 important werewolf characters were a man who maliciously infects innocent people and one of his victims that was infected as a child. Add in that back in the day AIDS was seen as the "gay disease" and the demonization of homosexuality by lumping it in with pedophilia and suddenly JK's attempt to stay relevant is looking really questionable.
tbf Actually having to think about plumbing is a wild ammount of world building, but unless it was That massive I wouldn't of actually offered up an explanation. Also JK Being like "Omg I'm an Ally" but with the new Fantastic beasts movies said that Dumbledore was gay, but because of that "Turned Asexual" WHICH IS WILD AND NOT HOW THAT WORKS.
Just want to say that Harry Potter is a children's book, and that is not a demerit in any way. It actually makes jk Rowling look even worse, as she abandoned her base and tried to make it adult for no reason. It's not just because your fans grew older that the author has to make the story more adult. We need some pure fun children's book. Some franchises stop being so famous because they make that mistake.
Like Korra. I don't mind the direction they took and the animation is fantastic. But the story became so cringy and unbearable at times, when all I wanted was more childish fun.
The Hagrid one was about how he couldnt cast the Patronus spell because he didnt have any happy memories to use for it, considering what happened to him when he was young.
Which is bullshit. If I'm remembering correctly there's nothing that says it has to be a happy childhood memory that make Patronuses. If anything the fact that Tonks's patronus changed to a wolf implies, at least to me, that the memories that fuel her patronus switched to those she had with Lupin.
@@SolarArmadillo Yeah, and Hagrid's supposedly been having such a shit life since his childhood that he still hasnt been able to make a memory happy enough to summon a patronus with. It sounds alot like depression imo.
Yeah, even in the worst of the worst lives, you still have small, tiny moments you cling to and treasure because you have so little. If his life was so bad, perhaps walking past a pet shop snd imagining having a puppy would do it.
worse when you consider what the patrons was mainly used for: fighting dementors, who according to Rowling were a (tbh super clumsy) metaphor FOR DEPRESSION!
She didn't write it. But she approved of it and said "Yes, the absolutely shitty story these two guys wrote is completely canon" And THEN the fandom went "No it fucking isn't".
I’m more of a Percy Jackson fans because the author knows not to do stuff like J K does like randomly post lore stuff that should be in the books or the other disgusting stuff I can’t talk about on RU-vid. Rick Riordan is great
@@thyme3972 I haven't finished them, I'm on the first book. Heck, I can't even get through HoO books because it's in 3rd Person, I miss the witty sarcastic narration 😔 (also because its too big a book)
The problem with the pronunciation of "gif" is that it has 3 ways to say, gif, jif, and the worst of all, but also the first recorded way of saying it yif.
I didn’t grow up with Harry Potter so I didn’t feel burned when JK starting being weird. I was more of a Percy Jackson fan as a kid. I’m really glad Rick Riordan hasn’t turned to the dark side, least that I know of. Percy Jackson fans rise up!!!!
Me too, man. Percy Jackson was amazing, and I think I could relate better with the American culture than the British one. Riordan just seems to love that universe so much, and that is very cool. The movies were shit, though hahahaha
I didn't grow up with either, only started around my late teens, but I have successfully read the entirety of both series. (minus Cursed Child and subsequent screenplays)
In my language we pronounce gif with a soft g, but when i learned english i started to pronounce it as jif, because thats how my understanding of english pronunciation rules were. Even to this day i pronounce it jif.
Yeah typically English uses a soft g for 'gi' and 'ge' but it's inconsistent. Gimbal is pronounced with a hard g. English is the messiest soup you've ever had
6:00 when connor talks about Wizards being fascinated with human stuff: something similar actually happened in the Harry Potter Universe. when Wizards first saw Trains they were awestruck because of how cool they were (which is reasonable) and that is why they use trains to send the Muggle Born children to Hogwarts because: A) Wizards think trains are fucking awesome B) it would be jarring for a 12 year old boy to ride on a broomstick/apparate to Hogwarts.
"use trains to send the Muggle-born children to Hogwarts" makes it sound really dark, especially considering that 'Muggle' borders on being a slur in the books.
What I like the most about the toilet thing is that it implies kids are just walking around with pants full of shit until they're old enough to get a wand.
Dumbledore was a renowned headmaster and Harry's sugar daddy with prior BDSM relationship with Grindelwald and Voldemort And Voldemort was a misunderstood teenage girl the whole time JK Rowling probably
I love that Joey and Garnt are dying from laughter and Connor is progressively getting more frustrated at first JK Rowling, and then cos he cant get his point across.
Terry Pratchett kind of summed up how stupid it would be to teleport stuff out of your own body I’m pretty sure years before that infamous tweet. To quote Vetinari in Unseen Academicals: “My dear lady, anyone drunk enough to let wizards, who themselves had just been partaking copiously of the fruit of the vine, I might add, take anything out of him would already be so drunk as to be dead.” Admittedly in this scenario the wizards are drunk, but imagine some drunk wizard relieving himself, then trying to apparate the evidence away only to take out a chunk of the wall by where he was standing.
@@masteroogway9297 Tolkien himself retconned things multiple times. And on some occasions he threw stuff out without replacing it (such as the origin of orcs).
@@TonkarzOfSolSystem this is very true, there are several things he didn’t even decide on (at least never canonically in his writings) but I’m referring more to someone outside of the Tolkien family wanting to retcon something rather than Tolkien himself
@@TonkarzOfSolSystem I’ll give you that one, although I would argue that literally no one wanted those retcons and they are viewed as a negative part of an otherwise very solid game but most players
Just a small note that they aren't teleporting it away, they're magically disappearing it. There's nothing left behind. It's perfectly clean, cleaner in fact that the muggle way. Just totally disgusting.
There wouldn't be anything left behind if it teleported either. "Magically disappearing it" and "teleporting it" are not obviously different. You have to DEFINE the first one for this to make any sense at all.
@@haku8135 What she actually said was that they were "vanishing it" which in Harry Potter refers to "making it stop existing". I thought "disappearing it" would be a better way to convey this to the uninitiated, since in the video they thought it might mean "making it invisible".
The thing I love about this is that somehow outhouses didn't exist for wizards ever? Like by her logic they didn't think to have a room dedicated for this so there was some clean privacy to magic the mess away? Eck.
I was absolutely sure there was some contraception potion in the Harry Potter books that their nurse off-handedly commented either Hermione or Ginny was too naive/nice/proper to know about.
As an asian who has grown up in a western country. I cannot tell you how many times so many other people pronounce my last name incorrectly and other Asian last names. At this point, it's become too constant that I gave up and say yeh that's my last name cuz I'm not bothered to teach you anymore.
for the longest time my dad would say the “we only use 10% of our brain” thing and it would drive me nuts he finally gave it up some time a while back but it took him way too long to accept the fact that this simply isn’t true, and I think if I brought it up he might backpedal and defend the claim. like if I bring it up he’ll regress and dig his heels in.
The thing they're debating here is "Death Of The Author" - the idea that it doesn't matter what the author's intent was, people can interpret things based on their own perception and context. I mean, infamously, Fahrenheit 451 was intended to be about how the author was worried that book reading would die out because people watched too much TV...but hardly anyone ever interprets it that way. Of course, an author's intent about their work isn't meaningless, but how much weight it has is completely subjective and reliant on context. (Personally, I don't take a lot of what Rowling has to say about HP too seriously, since it's mostly her trying to appease her fanbase by delivering their own years-old memes and in-jokes back to them.)
Though it's a fair point, although book burning is obviously heavily associated with censorship due to how real-life book burning by was hand in hand with cross-media censorship, was his book actually about how ideas were being censored across all media or simply a particular medium was being destroyed to force another medium? It put forward some bold propositions that there's something special about getting ideas written on paper and bound in a book rather than getting the information from a screen but does that actually exist outside the fiction of the book?
@@Treblaine Oh yeah, the real life book-burnings that happened in the run-up to the Second World War is something that really informs that interpretation, and I think there's elements of being anti-censorship in Bradbury's writing; that kind of context isn't useless, and the author's views can be relevant. My point though is that the book is "actually about" whatever you personally interpret it as being. That's the point of "death of the author". Grave Of The Fireflies, to give an anime example, is another text where the intentions of the writer and directer might be different from how people interpreted the finished work (food for thought: is a film innately portraying an "anti-war" message if it is about people suffering due to war?).
Btw: "Hogwarts didn't always have bathrooms" well thanks JK, you really thought we forgot the chamber of secrets that one of the founder hid in a bathroom?
I would say, "Dumbledore is gay" is the first one J.K. did, everybody loved it so she learned from that that people like introducing concepts that were never part of the original story.
For those wondering, JK Rowling wrote a barrage of tweets explaining that Harry, Ron, and Hermione were the only friends Hagrid had, and after they graduated he tried to make new friends (first with students and then with teachers) and when that failed he just locked himself in his hut and died alone, which apparently people only found out weeks later because no one in Hogwarts cared for him.
@@nayeemhaider8367 nope. In fact she specifically said that he tried to become the assistant quidditch team coach to get closer to kids, but they, and I quote Rowling herself, “roast him for being their equipment bitch and for dressing like a poor person.”
Eh, all her random, worthless whims don't change the story. I don't consider them canon. The movies and books are over, she can cook up whatever crackhead post-story she wants.
The toilet retcon doesn't make any sense to me because the Chamber of Secrets was built specifically under a sink in a girl's bathroom, when Hogwarts was first constructed. If no one used bathrooms in the beginning, then why was there a bathroom at the beginning?
As someone who was *really* into Harry Potter when I was a kid but then sort of took a break from the fandom for several years after I finished the last book (as in, The Deathly Hallows. I’ll be dead and gone before I consider the Cursed Child canon!) I will say this: Some parts of the HP fandom has gone so extremely off the rails and just become downright disturbing and J.K Rowling has not helped matters *at all* in that regard!
It's like with one of the biggest arguments and debates of star wars fanbase, with what to pronounce the walker AT-AT. If it's pronouncing it "@-@" or "80-80" Tha fanbase pretty much got used to callling "80-80" But Mark Hamill did say recently that he and many others on set did always call it "@-@" when filimg star wars. But many fans argued with mentioning other walkers. As example, stating that you don't go around calling or prounounce the walker AT-ST as "@-sssssst" you say "80-S.T"
