What If Harry Never Read the Half-Blood Prince’s Book? | Harry Potter Film Theory

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Today J dives into the Wizarding World of Harry Potter to find out what would have happened if Harry had never received the Half-Blood Prince’s copy of Advanced Potion Making. Does he still get the Lucky Potion? Can he still save Ron without the Bezoar? And what about the Lost Diadem?!
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@SuperCarlinBrothers 10 месяцев назад

Anything that helps Ron avoid Lavender is a win in my book!

@danielsantiagourtado3430 10 месяцев назад

Amén to that guys 🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡

@lucygarrett9785 10 месяцев назад

Agreed

@iimax_9135 10 месяцев назад

Will there be a kahoot quiz next week?

@Lovesmusic0218 10 месяцев назад

Yes

@katholmes7112 10 месяцев назад

Actually as annoying as Lavender is, I feel bad for her. She genuinely likes Ron but he's just using her to hurt Hermione. Says more about Ron's lack of character than anything else.

@alexperry2406 10 месяцев назад

Snape really should have published his own line of Potion making books. He probably would have made way more money than teaching.

@Youjvwhw 10 месяцев назад

so true

@adamtgm2405 10 месяцев назад

But you’re forgetting one thing, Snape never became a teacher because of the pay, he became a teacher because Dumbledore told him to keep Harry safe

@gerstein03 10 месяцев назад

Laughs in currently writing a fanfiction where Snape does that

@MrEvanNoyes 10 месяцев назад

@@adamtgm2405 and Dumbledore wanted to keep him close, he didnt really trust him at that point

@adamtgm2405 10 месяцев назад

@@MrEvanNoyes Yeah, Forgot to write that 😂

@laurenbrinsfield2614 10 месяцев назад

Ok so one little nitpick lol. Harry says that he tried to share the book with Ron and Hermione but Hermione didn't like the book and Ron had trouble deciphering the Prince's handwriting and Harry couldn't read him the instructions. So I don't think Ron would actually use the book in potions as effectively as Harry did.

@hannakrakowska2214 10 месяцев назад

@dinahbacher551 10 месяцев назад

Yeah, that's what I was thinking.

@anduin9141 10 месяцев назад

Also: In the books it's not slughorn that hands the books over to them, instead just directs them to each take one from the school supplies. Both harry and Ron struggle for the better looking book and is Harry that ends up losing and gets the bad one (snapes old one, apparently got quite a run down cover from years of usage) Edit: This is wrongly stated by Johnathan's voiceover AND text at 2:47

@trumpisthemessiah7017 10 месяцев назад

@@anduin9141That is exactly how it is in the movie...

@BirdNerdFilms 10 месяцев назад

@@anduin9141thats in the movie

@Holly42162 10 месяцев назад

I’m not 100% sold. Harry and Ron try to help each other all the time and Harry would have asked Ron for help, seen more of the book and might have asked Ron if he could look through it randomly later. Ron who doesn’t care about looking through text books would shrug, tease him some and let him. And Ron used Harry’s book in the original story and couldn’t read the handwriting very well.

@gerstein03 10 месяцев назад

Plus in the books Harry tries to help Ron but Ron couldn't make out the handwriting. So he wouldn't be able to use Snape's notes

@erikamohrmann7986 10 месяцев назад

@@gerstein03 yeah, and even if he could read it cause he's allowed to hold the book closer to make it out cause it's his, Harry would also have been able to read it...i don't know that Harry would have had quite the same love for it still though, idk

@samcro5934 10 месяцев назад

ron tried reading the book but he had trouble reading Snapes handwriting

@Mary_Studios 10 месяцев назад

I was just thinking about that he couldn't read the handwriting or at least struggled for them

@koltonmichalek1505 10 месяцев назад

I agree, I immediately remembered that Ron couldn’t read the handwriting in the book, so Ron would not have been able to follow its instructions.

@malcolm32 10 месяцев назад

To be fair, the bezoar antidote was one of the first things Snape ever taught Harry in his first year, if only he remembered. Apparently he didn't write *that* down.

@abraham2172 6 месяцев назад

Even if he did, it wouldnt have helped him years later. His notes wouldve long been either thrown away or burried under other school stuff.

@malcolm32 6 месяцев назад

@@abraham2172 I mean that's not how studying works but alright.

@abraham2172 6 месяцев назад

@@malcolm32 Do you still have your old school notes and use them?

@malcolm32 6 месяцев назад

@@abraham2172 That's not the point. I'm saying that if he had written that information down and (here's the important part) *studied it,* he might have been able to remember later. I'm 27. I don't have my notes from middle school, but 16 years later I still know what the Pythagorean theorem is.

@abraham2172 6 месяцев назад

@@malcolm32 I understand. He was probably too confused or irritated to think of writing it down. Appart from being possibly distracted from all the new stuff. It was his first week in Hogwarts after all.

@rubygracemoseley8144 10 месяцев назад

“Either way we successfully dodge Lavender Brown! Bravo everyone bravo!” Truer words have never been spoken and the way J said “Well done” was hilarious 😂

@djepp1261 10 месяцев назад

I appreciated the Aragorn call back from the J vs Ben Quiz

@vallentinac9513 9 месяцев назад

also appreciated not having to see Aragog!

@talonarayan 9 месяцев назад

I am glad I'm not the only one who noticed the call back XD.

@delikatessbruhe9843 10 месяцев назад

I'm not so sure Hermione would have been able to save Ron from the poisoning, though. One thing her character often lacks that Harry has in abundance is the ability to keep a clear head in dangerous situations, so I can actually see this ending rather badly.

@tasmiatahia_write_dream_change 10 месяцев назад

Light a Fire? But there's no wood... yep exactly that

@DeadSezSo 10 месяцев назад

Eh but we see in Deathly Hallows that she can formulate pretty intricate plans in a moments notice under significant pressure. She figures out how to get the trio out of xenophilius lovegoods house without revealing that Ron was with them while making sure the deatheaters see that lovegood wasn't lying or trying to set them up in order to keep him, luna and the rest of the weasleys safe. Also, she was able to get them out of bathilda bagshots house and even thinks of a credible story about gryffindors sword while being tortured by Bellatrix. So I think that criticism is a little off-base. Hermione was a walking cheatcode at all times, let's be real

@delikatessbruhe9843 10 месяцев назад

@@DeadSezSo Yeah she turned superhero in Deathly Hallows when left alone and needing to look out for themselves. But before that? Not so much. I'm guessing her instinctive reaction would have been to run for help, being in the sheltered school environment and all, and that might have taken too long.

@kaylapounds1359 10 месяцев назад

I mean she was younger then, as she got older and exposed to more danger, I'd imagine she got better at keeping her cool. I think this can be seen as early as Prisoner of Azkaban as she attempts to get Harry to understand why they can't change certain things in the moment, and pushes him to make the patronus to save himself and Sirius, not believing Harry's dad conjured it like Harry does.

@jellojiggler1693 7 месяцев назад

I disagree. She probably would've freaked out and yelled at everyone to find a beazor while crying about how her bf was going to die, and someone would've found it.

@charlesgaillardet5455 10 месяцев назад

What if Gilderoy Lockhart was not an impostor, what if he had really accomplished the heroic feats of his books and mastered the abilities he claims to have ?

@cameronclophus7998 10 месяцев назад

Hmm. That would be interesting

@matthewpatrick7263 9 месяцев назад

Then why wasn't he curing every werewolf like he bragged he did?

@abraham2172 6 месяцев назад

Lockhart wouldve gone into the chamber of secrets without Harry and Ron. I dont know if heroic Lockhart would be able to fight Riddle and the Basilisk though...

@PianosAndLightsabers 2 месяца назад

He can do joined-up writing now you know!!! Poor Gilderoy....

@tasmiatahia_write_dream_change 10 месяцев назад

I think it's fascinating how the second question Snape asked 11 year old Harry during his first lesson was "where do you find a bezoar".

@laurenkillebrew6576 10 месяцев назад

I appreciate J leaning into his Aragorn/Aragog slip

@jeromevaleska2014 10 месяцев назад

A few people are saying that Hermione wouldn’t grab the bezoar because she tends to lose her head in stressful situations. Many of you are forgetting that she got a lot better with that, getting her own “Are you a wizard or not?” moment with Ron, quickly adapting to the situation when escaping the Ministry, dragging them into the floo, then apparating them to Grimmauld Place, then to the Forest of Dean, and then quickly applying the dittany and wrapping up Ron’s splinched arm. I think she could handle the bezoar at 16.

@sanjoykumardas4018 10 месяцев назад

You know that line mirrors the one Ron said to her in the first book.

@jeromevaleska2014 10 месяцев назад

@@sanjoykumardas4018 Yes, that’s my point, that’s why I said she gets _her own_ “Are you a wizard or not?” moment. Glad someone else noticed though!

@squishmvllow 10 месяцев назад

lavender as velociraptor always gets me 😭😂

@paulzan2246 10 месяцев назад

I’m begging you to continue the Neville Chosen one series, you left it off at such a fascinating point

@DeadSezSo 10 месяцев назад

It was going to be impossible to do, they probably realized this halfway through the first book. I said when people were asking for it that it just wasn't feasible to do and got attacked for it but it's just the truth. It's not changing a specific plot point like most of these videos are, it was literally changing the entire story and it was never going to be doable in any satisfying way.

@parisakamali345 10 месяцев назад

Yeah killing half the story characters made this hard to work

@54raynor 10 месяцев назад

I actually think it’s reasonable that Harry would still know about the bezoar as an effective antidote. He was right next to Ron for the assignment, so he would have known exactly what Ron turned in for the grade. Harry does have a knack for remembering obseure things mentioned seemingly in passing. After all, he remembered the name Gregorovich three years a passing comment Krum gave to Rita Skeeter.

@siddhantchauhan1975 9 месяцев назад

Yh he also remembered snape explaining it in the first book so he definitely would be able to

@andrewdavis9838 10 месяцев назад

Ok but can we talk about how Snape has this book super valuable information and deadly spells and just LEFT IT in a high school ?

@jeromevaleska2014 10 месяцев назад

At the time he wanted to be a death eater. If he was willing to create the spells, I don’t see him worrying too much about the harm they could cause.

@tasmiatahia_write_dream_change 10 месяцев назад

@@jeromevaleska2014 I actually assumed he left the book in the cupboard by mistake - like it was the teacher copy for his own use when he taught but as he was good at this anyway or spent most of his time bullying the kids instead, he kinda forgot all about it. He just would let them follow the textbook instructions, never sharing the more useful modifications he had written down, so when he moved to DADA, he kinda just forgot about his book. Especially since he had bigger things on his mind like having to avada kedavra Dumbledore by the end of the year

@johnhostetler2167 7 месяцев назад

@tasmiatahia_write_dream_change I mostly agree with everything you said except for one thing, Snape never had them take instructions out of the book he always wrote their instructions down on the blackboard, I think he did leave the book in the cupboard by accident and it was his book from when he attended Hogwarts and he used it and kept it when he was a teacher but I think he forgot it in the potions dungeon because like you said he had bigger things on his mind like having to kill Dumbledore

@Doctor_Faust17 10 месяцев назад

I doubt that Ron wouldn't give Harry his Felix Felicis, it's pretty obvious that Harry needs it for something really important ahem getting more intel in order to defeat Voldemort. Ron isn't that selfish he knows he wouldn't need it as much as Harry does at that moment. Also Ron is way more confident in this timeline

@Jakob165 10 месяцев назад

Underrated sub-theory: what if lilly potter was so good at potion making because she was friends with Snape? That totally sounds like something good friends going to the same school would do, ie helping each other with homework and studying together. Slughorn specifically goes out of his way to compliment Harry on "having his mother's skills" but they're really snape's skills all along because they were longtime friends and snape's natural talent rubbed off on her.

@victormacs7897 10 месяцев назад

I've always thought this. Slughorn goes on about she was one of the most talented and gifted students he ever had.

@naomisrandomness8223 9 месяцев назад

What if it was the opposite? What if Snape learned it from Lily?

@abraham2172 6 месяцев назад

In that case, Snape wouldve been Slughorns favourite student and not Lily. Slughorn claimes so often that Lily was exceptionally good and had natural talent in potion making that I think we could trust him in that.

@Cheesehead_Caleb 10 месяцев назад

Something I think you guys might have forgotten: didn't Ron have trouble reading the handwriting in the book?

@ilbwfy1550 5 месяцев назад

bcs the book was in front of harry

@darkvortex2410 10 месяцев назад

I really liked this What If. It's definitely an interesting one and I like how Ron's story was about getting confidence. I've been watching you guys for years. You're some of my favorite RU-vidrs and just really good people. If you happen to see this comment, I've got a few good What if's for you. • What If Draco was sorted into Gryffindor. • What if Sirius Black survived the battle in the department of mysteries. • What if Dumbledore was the Potters secret keeper. • What if Snape was sorted into Gryffindor.

@cassiolins1203 10 месяцев назад

Draco would absolutely never be sorted into Gryffindor. The hat barely touches his head before declaring Slytherin and bravery is most certainly not one of his core characteristics. Snape on the other hand, i could entertain the idea.

@ace_magicianz3408 10 месяцев назад

that last ones got my full attention!

@liubovm9928 10 месяцев назад

Snape could be sorted to Ravenclaw, than is realistic, but it would change everything. And for Sirius, I just don't get, what was a purpose of his death, honestly.

@sanjoykumardas4018 10 месяцев назад

@@cassiolins1203 Exactly.

@katgmied3 10 месяцев назад

Theory. Ron gets the book, gets irritated by the scribbles, trades with Harry, story goes as it has.

@DuckyBella-kz4xv 10 месяцев назад

SuperCarlinbrothers is just adult men writing fan fiction as a job and I am LIVING for it!!!

@cdsmith8354 10 месяцев назад

Have they already done "what if harry remembered Sirious' mirror in order of the phoenix"? Cause it might have stopped his death but you know who would have to come up with a different wait of getting the prophecy

@maryann4451 10 месяцев назад

Yes they did do that one already! It's called What if Sirius told Harry how to use the mirror.

@darthvita11 10 месяцев назад

But this would mean that Ron still had the remainder of his Felix Felices, and they could have used it in the room with requirements to find the diadem. Or they may have used it earlier for some other reason.

@foolforchrist319 10 месяцев назад

Never thought about this 😅 Jeez, Harry’s pretty lucky that Slughorn chucked him that book.

@SuperCarlinBrothers 10 месяцев назад

LITERALLY THOUGH

@danielsantiagourtado3430 10 месяцев назад

@@SuperCarlinBrothersYep

@trumpisthemessiah7017 10 месяцев назад

Wouldn't he be lucky cuz he didn't buy a book??? Or maybe he's lucky ron is physically stronger than him. Or maybe hes lucky cuz snape wrote notes IN his book instead of on paper like everyone else. Or maybe hes lucky cuz he's a fictional Mary sue...

@AssassinGTM 10 месяцев назад

@trumpisthemessiah7017 both versions of Harry have way too many flaws and failures to be classified as a Mary Sue. His entire story is almost everyone around him being better than him at almost everything

@mosstwig3591 10 месяцев назад

@AssassinGTM it's more that he is the luckiest guy in fictional history. The amount of plot conveniences throughout the series is absolutely insane.

@architxavier7155 9 месяцев назад

One of the major part of the HBP Book was that the trio including Ginny had suspected Harry and warned him multiple times not to use the book fearing that it may be another Tom Riddle diary kinda thingy. And they badgered Harry a lot to let it go, hide it or destroy it. So if Ron was to be doing the same thing (aka follow instructions from a random book) at least Ginny would be confronting him even if Harry and Hermione were overlooking it cause of his glory. And Ginny can be loud and clear of her intentions which would then later either lead the Trio to investigate more about the book’s contents by reaching out to Dumbledore or to them being on their own and doing their own research. Either way I don’t agree that they’d let it slide easily even if it was with Ron, or rather especially if it was with Ron.

@eranshachar9954 10 месяцев назад

That just goes to show you how effective Snape might have been in teaching, had he not abused his students and shared his knowledge with them. I get that potions are very technical but still the man had a lot of knowledge he kept for himself.

@lydiaa9594 9 месяцев назад

He probably shared, he was writing the instructions on the board and wasn't asking the students to read them from their books

@eranshachar9954 9 месяцев назад

@@lydiaa9594 Yeah but it wasn't a true teaching. As a teacher he simply didn't give a F.

@takix2007 7 месяцев назад

@@eranshachar9954he did give lots of F's, but the "exam grade" kind of "F" 😉

@eranshachar9954 7 месяцев назад

@@takix2007 Exactly bro😆

@johnhostetler2167 7 месяцев назад

@@eranshachar9954yeah he was a pretty shity teacher, he didn't really teach them he just wrote information on the blackboard and told them to do it, he didn't help or explain anything to anyone when they were having trouble or even go over the instructions step by step and explain what everything did and why it was important to the potion

@imgabiireyes 10 месяцев назад

i honestly considered what if harry had asked snape who the half blood prince is?

@fictionfan0 10 месяцев назад

Yeah, but why would he? After the Christmas party, Harry believes that whatever Malfoy is doing, Snape is either part of it, wants to be part of it, or at the very least aware of it. Add this to their history over the past five years, and Harry has little reason to even want to ask Snape anything, let alone an old textbook that Snape may or may not know about to begin with.

@laapgamerkikooshow8732 10 месяцев назад

What do you would happen if the Dursley were kind to Harry?

@user-eh2wx9gg6s 10 месяцев назад

That is impossible

@fictionfan0 10 месяцев назад

@@user-eh2wx9gg6s I'm not so sure. Highly unlikely given the people in question? Absolutely. But consider that the only reason the Dursleys hated Harry was because of Petunia's... complicated relationship with Lily. Vernon was just a no-nonsense drill-maker, and Dudley was a child that followed what his parents said and believed. If Petunia, by some miracle, saw Harry not as a reminder of the magical world she claimed to hate so much, but rather as the last remaining link to her own, now-dead sister, I'm willing to bet Harry's life would have turned out slightly better. She certainly seemed to have come around by the end faster than Vernon did, and only got beat out by Dudley because Harry saved his life and because he's very open about his feelings. The worst I could personally see happening is Harry having to deal with Vernon's more Muggle background where magic is indeed weird and unnatural, as well as Dudley probably taking more after his father, as young boys are more wont to do.

@mienfu9824 10 месяцев назад

That's not a good "what if" prompt, because it completely changes the Dursleys' personalities. It would never happen, unlike this one, which, as J said, is basically a coin flip.

@HenryLongfellow-lw2gq 10 месяцев назад

Would Vernon and Petunia be able to attend quidditch matches

@BlueSparxLPs 10 месяцев назад

@@mienfu9824 A "what if" doesn't have to be possible within the universe as written, it just has to be fun enough to be worth exploring. I'm pretty indifferent on this particular idea, though.

@ugolomb 10 месяцев назад

The one remaining question is, if Voldemort again turns to vapor because the diadem is still intact -- what happens if Harry locates and destroys the diadem *after* defeating Voldemort's physical body? IIRC, it was suggested in another what-if video that, in such a scenario, destroying the last remaining horcrux would destroy the Volde-mist as well. But if that happens, would Harry know for sure that Voldemort had been destroyed, or would he still have some lingering doubts about it, meaning he'd spend the rest of his life still somewhat worried that Voldemort might return?

@S-Mania 10 месяцев назад

Interesting. Also, what video did you hear that from? Another SCB video? Harry Potter Folklore? I'd love to watch it myself 😊

@ugolomb 10 месяцев назад

@@S-Mania ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6H5Hkj8iUQE.html (I tried to point to the specific spot where they start discussing it)

@jamma.77 10 месяцев назад

Just gonna point out one issue with this: Ron can't read the Prince's handwriting - Harry tries to share the book with him early on, and he has to keep asking him to read aloud. Also, something I realised when you mentioned Levicorpus: it's noted as being cast non-verbally when Harry discovers it, so how'd the Marauders learn how to cast it after Snape invented it, since he wouldn't have been saying the incantation for them to copy.

@keithg460 9 месяцев назад

Maybe it doesn't have to be nonverbal. Maybe after the Marauders learned it from him and started using it against him, he put in a note for himself to from now on use it nonverbally so that nobody else learns the spell.

@abraham2172 6 месяцев назад

Levicorpus was described as a spell everyone knew, which simply doesnt fit together with the claim that Snape invented the spell. If Snape did invent it, he wouldve kept it from the other students and the marauders in particular. It wouldnt gain such popularity.

@hollyhartwick3832 10 месяцев назад

I think he still would have found the Diadem. It might not have been quite as easy, but they still had the knowledge of Voldemort using house founder items and Luna's knowledge about Helena Ravenclaw and the lost Diadem to at least point them in the right direction. The only thing that would have changed was Harry wouldn't happen to know the exact location and they might have to change up their search tactics.

@claraphillips7900 10 месяцев назад

Plus, the chances of Crabb destroying it seems pretty good to me.

@hollyhartwick3832 10 месяцев назад

@@claraphillips7900 - True. If the Fiend Fire was still set off and had the power to destroy horcruxes, and still engulfed the entire room as it originally did, the result would still be the same. Even if they didn't find the diadem, it still would have been obliterated in the aftermath.

@balrighty3523 10 месяцев назад

2:59 I thought Ron and Harry both found their books in a cabinet. Slughorn told them to grab some spares, they both saw a couple of books, one less dilapidated than the other, they both tried to grab the nicer book, and Harry was disappointed that Ron got the better book. Until he opened his copy and found all the helpful notes.

@roseszymanski 10 месяцев назад

That was only in the movie.

@seanmaddex4104 10 месяцев назад

I think Ron’s lack of interest in potions or attention to detail means he might struggle even with the HBP’s book. Also ron would have given Harry the Felix felicous because he’s a great person

@SuperDora150 10 месяцев назад

Haha the Aragog/Aragorn joke from JvsBen is back 😂

@lisacox4984 10 месяцев назад

I think I mentioned this after an earlier video, but it's always fun to see discussion to Advanced Potion Making 'cause it inspired my handwritten cookbook journal Advanced Meal Making in which I put in the original recipe in black ink and the changes/additions in green ink, which is very helpful! I'm always learning something and need to write it down for future reference :)

@merlinhipp7568 10 месяцев назад

Don’t really know if it’s been explained but it always bothered me that slughorn, who takes pride in his best performing students and collects them like gems is okay with a worse OWL result than Snape.

@millerjames908 9 месяцев назад

I always thought it was because Harry got an E. So he just changed it so Harry could take the class. Otherwise I think McGonagall wouldn't have waited to the last minute to tell Harry

@matthewpatrick7263 9 месяцев назад

McGonagall takes E students in advanced Transfiguration. I figure that Snape is the only one who won't, because he enjoys destroying student careers before they start. I can only imagine how many more aurors (and healers, etc) there would've been had he not spent 15 years sabotaging students in potions class.

@Kafoo_X 10 месяцев назад

New what if idea: What if Harry looked like Lily but with James’ eyes?

@backonlazer791 10 месяцев назад

I thought it would be cool if Harry remembered bezoars from his first potions class, although I don't remember if it's effects in counteracting poisons was mentioned.

@sofiaabate8262 10 месяцев назад

i love these types of videos i’ve been watching them for like 3 years now!!❤❤

@SuperCarlinBrothers 10 месяцев назад

Enjoy!

@danielsantiagourtado3430 10 месяцев назад

@@SuperCarlinBrothersYou guys are incredible

@user-eh2wx9gg6s 10 месяцев назад

Of course they are

@TheHeartlessAlchemist 10 месяцев назад

You know what's funny? I always see your videos with passages from the books and now that I'm reading them is always fun when I get to a passage that I remember from one of the videos.

@felipepadilha4737 10 месяцев назад

Another thing to consider is that Harry gave the rest of the liquid luck to his friends before leaving with dumbledore and that saved their life. Would Ron think about that? Would Harry adk Ron to do that? Idk maybe Giny would died that night also

@joshuadesautels 10 месяцев назад

Harry had been thinking of using the Felix Felicis to get Ron's permission to date Ginny, and Harry's use of the Felix Felicis to get Slughorn's memory also causes the breakups of Ron and Lavender (which I guess never happened in your version anyway) and Dean and Ginny (which would have still happened in your version, presumably?).

@adamrabe3105 9 месяцев назад

Always enjoy the clip of Lavender as a raptor on the plane. Thanks Riley Sr.! Also, can't help but laugh every time there is a side-clip with "I know what a nickname is Potter!"

@nobodyfamousX 10 месяцев назад

I love your what if scenarios. This channel writes some of my favorite fan fiction. I would honestly love to see you two give a stab at writing an original story. I mean a fully originally story. You two just seem to have an eye for details.

@xeidamoka 10 месяцев назад

these "what ifs" really are incredible now that i think of it really , we change one thing and relisten to all the timeline with the previous scenes in mind , everything is already built in the background for us to create infinite harry potter stories and different opinions triggers more theories within and i love it

@gerstein03 10 месяцев назад

Gotta love fanfiction

@matteoairaghi790 10 месяцев назад

At first I thought you meant the actual book that we read 😂

@TheMegazonyx 10 месяцев назад

If there is a spell I think on sometimes, and that is sectumsempra. Getting stabbed and slashed by invisible knifes and swords, where the effect that you will bleed uninterruptly and the only way to counter it is repeatedly repeating words while counter-clockwise whirling your wand? Imagine firing off this spell instead of expeliramus or avadakedavra... Scary thought...

@nathanguillaume1247 10 месяцев назад

I always think that you guys will be running out of ideas for what ifs, but I am continuously surprised. Keep up the good work 👏

@stfnknbb 9 месяцев назад

What an absolutely stellar video. More please! As a book fan, there can never be enough analysis and "what if" videos.

@True_Camo 10 месяцев назад

Although the half-blood prince's book teaches Harry about bezoars I remember a delete scene from the first movie where Snape just straight up tells Harry and the rest of his first year classmates, "A bezoar is a stone taken from a stomach of a goat and it will save you from most poisons." So I wonder if he would've just remembered that when Ron was dying of poison on the ground.

@joshualonghi8313 10 месяцев назад

well presented! I thought back on the book and then the movies and a lot of ur logic makes perfect sense that some thigns would just go as they go based on the characters personalities and what they do in certain scenarios!Great Content!

@CheezsterYT 10 месяцев назад

These what if videos are always a treat!

@noorykorky5056 3 месяца назад

I loved the "Aragorn's funeral" 😂😂😂

@92sonntagskind 10 месяцев назад

Is my hearing bad or did J say Aragorn's funeral? 😂 What a crossover, Harry Potter and Lord of the rings

@MeatballMusic 10 месяцев назад

I had been asking for this video for about a year... THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR MAKING IT

@90Ariel09 9 месяцев назад

Watch these like their a TV show! keep up the good work Ben & J

@inyeusi 10 месяцев назад

I had just recently watched all of the Harry Potter films again, and I was wondering, it seems that an owl can find anyone, anywhere. If that is the case, how is it that anyone is able to hide from someone that is looking for them. You may of course not be able to send owls to people that are under the Fidelius Charm but for those that aren't you just put some sort of tracking spell on the item that is delivered or the owl, or follow the owl on your broom or whatever.

@marquezhall6459 10 месяцев назад

I think that Harry or Dumbledore should have just put some veritaserum in Slughorns drink oneday

@JP-hq8my 10 месяцев назад

That would have been nice, but I think Dumbledore says that he suspects Slughorn carrying a Veritaserum antidote on hand because he's so paranoid and ashamed about how he helped Voldemort rise to power and would be prepared for that sort of trick

@tokekage2150 9 месяцев назад

I love your what ifs keep ‘em coming bro thanks

@shortfilmguy 10 месяцев назад

One of the funniest running gags on my RU-vid feed these days is the ‘won won’ Cursed dinosaur dream thing.

@jameskirk4692 10 месяцев назад

Thanks for the great what-if story. I hope you never stop creating them, they are far too intetesting😊.

@darkacademiabutnotreally 9 месяцев назад

'He was so mean to so many of the other characters!' The line that immediately comes to mind: Ron: He struck Hermione too, look! Snape: I see no difference.

@scarlett.23 10 месяцев назад

I don’t remember if in the book the destruction of the diadem caused a three headed flame to appear. But if yes, it may be a pretty good sign of the horcrux being destroyed

@roseszymanski 10 месяцев назад

Harry was trying to get the diadem but Malfoy Crabbe and Goyle showed up and Crabbe started a Fyendfire (Three headed flame) and The Golden Trio escaped on broomsticks but went back for Malfoy and Goyle (Crabbe had died) Harry then saw the diadem fly into the air and he swooped back and grabbed it (All the while Malfoy was screaming in his ear.) Then they left the room and the Fyendfire/three headed flame was the thing that destroyed the Horcrux after they got out. Hope this helped! ☺

@edjosef7159 10 месяцев назад

Watching this in the wb studio in london, saved it. Anyway really good theory well thought out as usual!!!

@lordred9122 9 месяцев назад

The real question is how many other students used that book over time to cheat at potions just like Harry did

@jansonwang 10 месяцев назад

It’s a good day when they come out with a new what if video

@DonDueed 10 месяцев назад

Q: What would have happened if Ron got the Half Blood Prince's potions book? A: Book Six would not have been titled "Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince".

@kimberleylewis8822 9 месяцев назад

I think a big problem they would have is they wouldn't have the muffliato spell for when they go horcrux hunting, this is one of their main protection spells

@Pokemaniac_101 10 месяцев назад

12:11 It's 7 pieces of Voldy's soul (with Harry being the accidental 8th). So 6 intended/7 actual horcruxes. Voldy counted his own body in the 7. 1 - Voldy 2 - The diary 3 - The ring 4 - The locket 5 - The cup 6 - The diadem 7 - Nagini 8 - Harry

@mmoney3523 5 месяцев назад

I know. I've had to explain that to so many people. I'm pretty sure Voldy did want to create 7, but his destruction after Godric's Hollow prevented him from doing so (even though he accidentally did)

@katholmes7112 10 месяцев назад

I doubt Ron would do well with the book, not because he's dumb because he's not. But rather, he's lazy and unmotivated unless it's food or quidditch. And even then his nerves get in the way.

@user-eh2wx9gg6s 10 месяцев назад

How dare you, he is not lazy or unmotivated. That is just the movie

@callumtherealist1163 10 месяцев назад

Not sure if it’s an editing problem or a me problem but you seem to miss out how harry gets slughorns memory in this timeline, you go straight from harry finding out about the hidden room to harry leaving with dumbledore

@claraphillips7900 10 месяцев назад

I think it's cause it happened exactly the same way.

@callumwilson9805 10 месяцев назад

@@claraphillips7900 that's fair but they should still explain that Harry had to go back to Ron to re ask him to use it as last we heard Rin thought he could keep it

@hannahmcwilliams5553 10 месяцев назад

@@callumwilson9805I think you missed it, j said that Harry went to the class and there were three people in class because everyone’s doing their apparition tests, he fails to get it by making the euphoria potion so goes back to Ron and hermione, Ron who’s feeling pleased about passing his test because he’s so confident gives Harry a sip, and everything went down the same with going to hagrids and getting the memory. I recited it all back to you so you don’t have to go and find it😂

@markbrown2640 10 месяцев назад

10:51 I'm thinking, "What if, rather than just ignoring the chocolate cauldrons, Harry had given them to people who would then annoy Romilda?" My prime candidates are Crabbe and Goyle. Dean and Michael Corner spring to mind also. What do you think would happen if he gave one to Lavender?

@Ecci2 10 месяцев назад

i love all these theories! keep it up my dudes

@sergioeduardo3797 10 месяцев назад

I always thought that Dumbledore might have put the book there in the hopes that Harry gets it. He knew that Harry thought he wouldn't be able to study potions that year, and what better way to make Slughorn more open to Harry than to make him his favourite student?

@danielsantiagourtado3430 10 месяцев назад

LOVE your HP theories guys!!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤❤

@annasorrells2247 10 месяцев назад

ARAGORN FUNERAL!!! That was hilarious!

@matthewthomas6123 10 месяцев назад

Any video that includes velociraptor-brown is a good video to me!

@claraphillips7900 10 месяцев назад

I'm SO glad I caught the video where Veloco-Lav first showed up cause otherwise I'd be so lost as to why that edit even exists...

@chloecoledegitz1047 10 месяцев назад

Ooooh, Harry Pottah!~ This seems like fun to watch. Love you guys by the way.

@frede0000 10 месяцев назад

7:35, Hands down funnies gag I have seen in a very long time

@Deverosfear 10 месяцев назад

Suggestion: what if Harry was a full Horcrux?

@prestonwinkles 10 месяцев назад

Only finished the HBP yesterday for the first time ever reading. This was amazing work as well as coincidence

@emafolo 10 месяцев назад

it's not random that Harry gets that book. Slughorn gets that copy from the cupboard and gives it to him. I'm gessing at Albus's request, and he just never opened the book to see the notes in the margin. ["Slughorn strode over to a corner cupboard and, after a moment's foraging, emerged with two very battered-looking copies of Advanced Potion-Making by Libatius Borage, which he gave to Harry and Ron along with two sets of tarnished scales." (Ch9 THBP)]. Snape either gave the book to Albus or Kreacher stole it for him, then Albus tells Slughorn "Harry is going to be added to your class register late, give him this copy of the book to work from" and Slughorn just does it.

@gior9204 8 месяцев назад

love how all the clips from half blood prince are so dark I keep having to put the brightness up and down LOL

@shaantanunema3073 10 месяцев назад

By the way, I really think that the book was actually planted there by Dumbledore (or Snape on Dumbledore's wish). Dumbledore needed Harry to retrieve Slughorn's memory and likely wanted him to impress Slughorn and get closer in his circle of students.

@arikgershon 10 месяцев назад

17:25 ARAGORN's funeral LOL

@TuurFrings 9 месяцев назад

17:28 rest in peace king ellesar, you had a good 210 years

@lucygarrett9785 10 месяцев назад

The what ifs have become my favorites

@mahinurakther9179 10 месяцев назад

Love your HP theories so much 💕💕💕

@jacksonu9531 10 месяцев назад

17:28 lord of the rings reference in a video about harry potter

@demirooijakkers42 9 месяцев назад

You are such a great storyteller!!!!

@emeseszentgyorgyi7277 10 месяцев назад

Harry obviously would attend the King of Gondor's funeral.

@EuKaRoLuJa 9 месяцев назад

I always wondered what would have happened if the Dursleys weren't THAT crazy and would have raised Harry basically the same way like Dudley as their own. Like: Harry would be an big, strong, more selfish and arrogant persona (but would still travel to Hogwarts cause he thinks "magic is cool" and Vernon and Petunia might not be able to say "no" to him, if he truly wants something). Probably bathing in fame, befriending Malfoy and looking down to Ron for being poor.

@Ernoskij 10 месяцев назад

@SuperCarlinBrothers you say that Harry don't know how to open the room of requirements, because he didn't have to hide the book in there, but that is incorrect, he very well knows how to open it, Dumbledore mentions it in passing to him a that Christmas party where he needed a toilet, and then Dobby tells him how to use it in his 5th year for Dumbledore's Army, so he very much know to get into the room. The reason he can't get in to Malfoy is that he don't know what he wants the room to become, so when he knows that he needs the part where all the stuff is hidden, then he most definitely can get in there. The problem for him is that he don't actually know what to look for when he is in there, and the room is massive, so searching it for the diadem, with no inclination to how it looks or where it might be would take much much longer than he has in the situation. After all he is on a time crunch when he goes to destroy it.