ALSO, the wizards DID warn the muggles. They warn every leader of every country about their existence and give them a heads up when something bad is going on. As to why they don't explain that to any other muggles? Who would believe them if they did? For instance, when Sirius Black escaped Askaban, the muggle prime minister was told, and he got warnings put on the television. Obviously they didn't say he was a wizard, just to report any sightings. so they do help.
@irurwurst If I were prime minister of United Kingdom and a guy, out of a chimney, speak me for five minutes and then disappeared, my first reaction would be "yes, stress hallucinations are strange".
Furthermore, unless the wizards get a bionic arm I do not think they can move the wand fast enough to block a bullet traveling at 720 km/h
If you actually read that part in the books that's exactly the way he reacts when he's first contacted. As he keeps being visited however, he eventually has to accept it. As for blocking a bullet, number one, a wizard could simply summon or banish the gun from the user's hands, number two, protective spells can be used pre-emptively. Wizards have spells that can make sizable areas/people imperceptible to muggles, among other things, so warfare would be kinda impossible.
Also muggle technology like helicopters and missiles and radios shut down completely around magic. also not all magic has to be aimed through a wand, expecially if you're as powerful as voldemort. Take my word for it, muggles would be pretty much useless against Voldemort. stopping projectiles is such a basic thing that a 17 year old wizard can do it. Guns are out.
actually the time turner is never used again because it's a big deal to get a hold of one, and you can only loan it from the ministry. In the 5th book when they go to the ministry the entire stock of time turners is destroyed, and the whole wizarding world is a little busy with the whole war thing to focus on the undoubtedly complicated process of making more.
@busyak No they don't. And the History class they have is wizard history, which probably doesn't mention anything about most muggle wars except for the secret wizard battles that decided them, like the Global Wizarding War(WWII).
@yaying404 They couldn't use the time turners cause they got conveniantly destroyed when they broke into the ministry of magic. The film failed to show this even though it resulted in this massive plot hole, that makes nearly every one in the films look like complete retards, that and your not really allowed to change the past, rules of time travel in the Harry Potter world.
Random fat giant bursts into your house, threatens your uncle with a pink umbrella, turns your cousin into a pig, and tells you to follow him to a magical secret school to become a wizard, Seems legit.
@HaloMaster1337234 Well dude, this was the same family who famously locked his ass in a cupboard under the stairs and straight slaved his ass out. I think anyone shy of someone named "Father Gropey McBadtouch" would seem better. Hell, if Quirell with his Voldemort wart on the back of his head popped up I'd be straight on that shit.
By the way they do share that information with the Muggles, but only the Muggle officials, not the ordinary people because that would break the International Confederation of Wizards' Statute of Secrecy.
I hope DOB actually has seen Harry Potter. How can a man who prides himself on his knowledge of pop culture not have, if not read the book, seen at least even one movie?
@ntherewas1 Well, he hadn't by July of this year. So by the time this video was made he certainly hadn't. He did mention in an article that he was going to watch the last movie, but that was after this After Hours episode was filmed.
another thing that thye fail to bring up, it is stated that Hogwarts has a magical field set up aorund it that disables all muggle technology, so it goes to reason that the Dark Lord would have easy access to the same spell that causes this and would just use it if Wizards did ask muggles for help. Just one swish and flick and no more muggle firepower, just walking targets.
@komotoko99 Actually its just that magic screws around with and shorts our electronics, it doesn't short out stuff that works on a physical or chemical level (i.e artillery fire and old school atom bombs). What you're thinking of are the wards that keep muggle tourists out of their settlements. Not to mention you're relying on the fact old No Nose sees a rocket coming at him, which, unless you have satellites or radar, is impossible until it's too late. From there it becomes a matter of intel.
@GrimmGun1 well lets assume that he does have the intel, or that he used the imperious charm on a few dozen overnment officals seeing as magic would make it very easy to get to them. He could know about said strike and then transfigure it into a tea cup or mouse, we have seen them transfigure inanimate objects. Also hhe has legions of dark creatures at his disposal, sure we would take a few of them out but they would sitll overwhelm us in the end. And guns are usless when the become rats
@komotoko99 I think you're overstating the character of Voldemort. In his eyes, we're rats already, vermin pretenders worthy of only extermination. Tell me, how often do you converse with your cockroaches? You're correct in stating that it'd be very easy for him to become aware of a potential strike, but what you're suggesting is that Ex-Tumor McEvil would stoop so low (stoop in his eyes anyways) as to not only consider muggles a threat, but to go and deal with them instead of crushing them.
@GrimmGun1 I'm glad someone else realizes this too!
I somehow doubt that Voldemort had a magical means of detecting the launch from an MLRS battery 25 miles away and on the other side of a mountain range, bring spotted for by an SAS team. I had fantasies about an SAS team showing up at the last moment during the Battle of Hogwarts for this reason.
@Halo4Lyf: Sorry my friend, Queen Rowling wins again :)
No muggle technology works around Hogwarts - there is too much magic in the air, it disables electrical and mechanical devices. Its mentioned in the Goblet of Fire ...
"All those substitutes for magic Muggles use - electricity, computers, and radar, and all those things - they all go haywire around Hogwarts, there's too much magic in the air." (Hermione)
@kateclaudia Again, it doesn't affect stuff that works on a chemical or physical level. Sure modern day rockets computer guided would short out, but that's not to say weapons such as artillery fire or even old school atom bombs would be defunct. And even with the electrical shorting, a missile with locked coordinates need only to rise above obstacles and jet forward with a pressure sensitive trigger. And that's without resorting to black ops sniper teams or the like utilizing satellite imaging.
@kateclaudia I really don't think you understand how simple even modern firearms are. If they wouldn't work, then torches wouldn't burn, nor would the ovens in the Hogwarts kitchens.
@kateclaudia Then why wouldn't the chemical propellants in firearms ammunition work? Along with the simple spring and blow-back operated systems? We're talking about things as simple as springs and levers here.
@kateclaudia Not to mention you're logic seems to indicate that anytype of electricity is almost instantly defunct, or becomes flawed. Because if that were the case, everyone that's magic should be insane, because the brain functions on nothing but electric signals.
Don't get me wrong, I love the book series just as much as the next guy, but it's not as tightly knit to completely exclude the use of muggles as you'd like to make it out as. Like any great series, it is not without it's flaws.
@kateclaudia What? You can't end a debate like that. It's like the Berlin Wall all over again, horrible way to end the Cold War.
Playing devil's advocate here, you could rebuttal with that the feel couldn't affect the brain since such electric signals are so low, and covered by flesh and bone, as well as integrated via magic in the body, that unless directly interfered with, the brain would function as normal, magic or no. At least that's what I would say if I were in your corner.
@GrimmGun1: Why would I choose to fight over the internet? You have an opinion, I respect that, its not my place to force you to accept mine. Have a nice day! :)
@kateclaudia A debate and an argument are two very different things. A debate presents facts, reason, the collision of two points of view, and the logical reasoning behind said points of view, much like what has been done in so far. An argument just degenerates into name calling. Not to mention our opinions and points of view can only really be tested through debate. I mean, if we keep to our beliefs only if they remain unchallenged, then what point was there in adopting them at all?
Firstly, I view beliefs and opinions as individualised notions that do not require validation by strangers on the internet in order for them to 'have a point'.
Secondly, I see no worth arising from an empty debate regarding magic's effect on the electromagnetic impulses on the human brain when Harry Potter itself is fictionalised.
Thirdly, I have important exams next week of which I emulate Hermione too much to neglect. So with that I wish you a wonderful, debate filled life. :)
I'm a huge fan of HP and still laughed. Call it the result of ignorance of the series, or whatever, but i think we should lay back and laugh at this...it's healthier :D
They never could have used the time turner to change the past. Notice how in the third book/movie everything that they did when they went back in time clearly happened when they originally went through that time? This is the sort of time travel where if you try to change the past you already know that you are going to fail because it didn't happen the first time. Read "To Say Nothing of the Dog" by Connie Willis. It has this kind of time travel better explained.
@SopranoOfTheNight Plus ALL THE TIME TURNERS BROKE in the 5th book and no-one I talk to about HP seems to remember. Although they could just make some more with magic I guess.
@SopranoOfTheNight That only happened in the movie for some dramatic effect. And if you know you're going to fail because it didn't happen the first time, then how did they rescue Buckbeak? Don't even say "A Wizard Did it", lol ;)
@pokexplosion21 Pg. 329-332 (hardcover edition) Buckbeak's "death." It happens offstage, only the noise can be heard. Pg. 384-385 Harry is saved by his future self, if it hadn't happened the first time, he would be dead/soulless/whatever. 398-402 Hermione protests trying to save Buckbeak because she thought he was doomed, but Harry disregards her and ends up being successful. "There was a swishing noise and the thud of an axe. The executioner seemed to have swung it into the fence in anger."
@SopranoOfTheNight My bad, sorry ;) I thought you mean the stuff with Hermione throwing that thing through Hagrid's window and howling to distract Lupin later on.
Some good points, but my main thought throughout this was, "Did they intentionally get every detail of the books wrong, or have they just not read them?"
I know there is a nerd amongst you willing to do this; In the genre of "secret society magical worlds" that we see in Buffy, Hellboy, and Harry Potter, please write a story that begins with this whole secret-world-of-magic in crisis forcing whatever wizardly CIA to ask the UN for military help. The armies of mordor vs navy seals. That is a movie i want to see
I love this video, but every time I watch it I automatically correct the dialogue. "NOT TRUE. The class is called 'DEFENSE AGAINST THE DARK DARTS,' and Hogwarts offered Arithmetic!"
what they failed to mention was the fact that the wizirding world did have a contact with the muggle prime minster in book 6 or 7. Also muggle studies are offered at the school, though they never go into detail to if they pertain to math, reading, and all that other good stuff.
I love that they had Voldemort wearing a Zero shirt, but after watching Deathly Hallows part 2, it would be funnier if he wore one that said "Free Hugs"
@canadianguy0987 He was a murdering psychopath who lost his mind after the ex-girlfriend he was stalking was murdered by old mouldyman...Brave? That guy was a sick freak!! So was Dumbledore, McGonagall, Lupin etc etc.
I read HP&PS when I was 9; and the first thing I remember about my experience with the series was asking my mother why a "civilized" place like the UK didn't have child-protection services. I live in a freaking 3rd world country and The government takes care of such things!!
@canadianguy0987 Yeh. I was like NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!! when tonks and lupin died. (umad, partially dedicated hp fans? I guess you shoulda read the book.) xD
Technically speaking, it's not just "All the jocks go in this house, all the nerds go in this one, all the jerks go here and then we dump all the boring people in this house." Each house actually has a virtue, even Slytherin. The character traits that a "good Slytherin" (yeah, right) would have are being good with words and debate, logical, and having good people skills. Slytherins would make good politicians IF THEY WEREN'T ALL EVIL.
I don't quite understand the point of this conversation. Proving that Hogwarts is bad? Pointing out that magic is useless? And what is really secretly terrifying? That Dumbledore's gay? I don't see any organized arguments here. :/
What about in Sorcerer's Stone during the Christmas Feast when they're pulling wizard crackers and Dumbledore swaps his wizard hat for a flowery bonnet?
Wait, doesn't school in Harry Potter occur in the summer? Thus they would be learning math and English during Sept. through May in regular schools, correct?
@alec52MINNESOTA Havn't read the books, only seen the movies, so I could be wrong but....every movie takes place during a regular school year from around september to the start of summer. They are always at Hogwarts for things like Halloween and Christmas. They then leave for the summer and come back in the fall for the next year...like any regular school year. So, yeah it's a fair question. When do they actually learn normal things?
@frostgiant7 But that's not the standard teachings of Hogwarts. The standard teachings never taught malevolent spells. (Again, with the exception of Barty Crouch Jr.) Also, Potions was never renamed "Poisons" in the 7th book. But indeed, in the 7th book, DADA class was turned into Dark Arts class.
@MissDemeter I can kill someone with a gun...I can also do it with a pen or with my bare hands. Those kids learnt spells from Potter himself in book 5 that could kill; It doesn't matter what you call something. As far as I'm concerned, You can kill with tickling & summoning charms too. The Wizards don't know how to do such things? Well, They're stupid.
My point of view may not be the same as yours, but frankly the entire Wizarding world seems to one great big dysfunctional pile of trash!!
I think Rowling said in an interview that if a dark wizard cornered a shotgun-wielding muggle on a sidewalk, the muggle would win. So.... yeah. Go guns.
The great swallowing, so funny- I think it's cute how every harry potter follower wants you to convert by reading the book- Like bible thumpers except with wands-
This is awesome. Unfortunately, they don't teach Dark Arts or X-ray vision. They teach Defense Against the Dark Arts and one of the characters happened to have a magical X-ray vision eye. Also, Slytherins live in a dungeon, they don't wear purple capes and the Time Turners were destroyed in the 5th book and if you used it before that it could really mess everything up.
they really do need to read the books cuz even if you bomb voldemort u wouldnt kill him... he has horcruxes and u need to destroy those before you go for his body otherwise he will keep coming back. and they do teach muggle studies like math SO READ THE BOOKS BEFORE YOU JUDGE!!!! like if you agree
On the up-side, all the evil wizards are too incompetent and inbred to defeat a handful of teenagers. I mean, why not just use the Imperius Curse on heads of state, and gain control of the world while outmaneuvering an opposition that is unwilling to reveal themselves to the public? All wizards are idiots, and a very high percentage of them are also cowards. Dumbledore is the prime example - a good man who allows evil to persist for decades while hiding vital truths from the wizard messiah.
@MegaRemusLupin Aside from the fact that in book 3 instead of putting Harry in hiding and giving him a tutor, they decided to surround children with horrible creatures that eat souls and make people relive their worst experiences. Which I'm surprised Harry didn't get beat on for (not his fault, but kids are like that). Why? Imagine this.
*PUNCH!* "That's for making me relive my uncle touching me!"
Dude, er, this kinda pissed me off. But since I don't wanna get kicked out of Youtube, Imma be backing out now from commenting on how much it pissed me off. =))
@aelix56 Voldemort was a powerful wizard most of his life. To go back to before he was powerful would mean at least, like, thirty years. Three turns took Hermione and Harry back half a day. Do the math.
@MigeulP Ok, if it meant killing the most powerful dark wizard alive and saving the world, I'd have no problem sitting around turning a time turner 64,800 times give or take a few hundred. Also, you could just go back to when he was in Quirrell, and imprison him with no way of getting out while you wait for the other Horcruxes to surface.
@LetumComplexo The horcruxes weren't revealed until book six, after the destruction of the time turners. So when they have the time turners, all they know is that he's been killed twice already and still managed to come back somehow. So maybe if the time-turners had lasted long enough for someone to figure out Voldy had scored a bunch of magic 1Ups, it would've looked like a viable strategy to time travel on his ass, but before then it's a case of "Whadaya gonna do?"
I would soooo love to talk to you guys and discuss all these topics
MissStoryTelling 16 hours ago in playlist Favorite videos
Hitler killed himself
notoddencamping4life 1 week ago
Like to Point out a GRIFFINDORE called PETER PETTIGREW
RivierRose 1 week ago
@RivierRose Like to point out that there is no E in GRIFFINDOR lol
Cazzanevo 1 week ago 3
Horace Slughorn was a Slytherin.
gsurfer04 2 weeks ago
why you all trying to defend some crappy books with plot holes big enough to drive a bus through
kelliop 3 weeks ago
@kelliop because some people (including me) have no lives to speak about :3
pokefan19234 20 hours ago
Ok, there'd better be a classic movie episode this year, or Dan really got gypped.
Lamporre 4 weeks ago
"[Slyhterin] is guaranteed evil"
What about Snape? Or Andromeda? Or Slughorn? Or R.A.B.?
shikamarurules12 1 month ago
ALSO, the wizards DID warn the muggles. They warn every leader of every country about their existence and give them a heads up when something bad is going on. As to why they don't explain that to any other muggles? Who would believe them if they did? For instance, when Sirius Black escaped Askaban, the muggle prime minister was told, and he got warnings put on the television. Obviously they didn't say he was a wizard, just to report any sightings. so they do help.
irurwurst 1 month ago
@irurwurst If I were prime minister of United Kingdom and a guy, out of a chimney, speak me for five minutes and then disappeared, my first reaction would be "yes, stress hallucinations are strange".
Furthermore, unless the wizards get a bionic arm I do not think they can move the wand fast enough to block a bullet traveling at 720 km/h
NLSJ 4 weeks ago
@NLSJ
If you actually read that part in the books that's exactly the way he reacts when he's first contacted. As he keeps being visited however, he eventually has to accept it. As for blocking a bullet, number one, a wizard could simply summon or banish the gun from the user's hands, number two, protective spells can be used pre-emptively. Wizards have spells that can make sizable areas/people imperceptible to muggles, among other things, so warfare would be kinda impossible.
irurwurst 4 weeks ago
Also muggle technology like helicopters and missiles and radios shut down completely around magic. also not all magic has to be aimed through a wand, expecially if you're as powerful as voldemort. Take my word for it, muggles would be pretty much useless against Voldemort. stopping projectiles is such a basic thing that a 17 year old wizard can do it. Guns are out.
irurwurst 1 month ago
actually the time turner is never used again because it's a big deal to get a hold of one, and you can only loan it from the ministry. In the 5th book when they go to the ministry the entire stock of time turners is destroyed, and the whole wizarding world is a little busy with the whole war thing to focus on the undoubtedly complicated process of making more.
irurwurst 1 month ago
they dont use the time turner again cause she returns it!!!
StopMotionMichigan 1 month ago
nononono, you guys fucked up - they had math and humanities courses in addition to their magic stuff
busyak 1 month ago
@busyak No they don't. And the History class they have is wizard history, which probably doesn't mention anything about most muggle wars except for the secret wizard battles that decided them, like the Global Wizarding War(WWII).
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THIS SHOW IS COOL!!!!!!!!!!!
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Donditopia 1 month ago
Hitler Hussein and Houdini
NOOBHACK 1 month ago
@eamond619 it was the fifth book
Artsy19Girl 1 month ago
I always wondered why they didn't use the time turner again... if I had such a thing I'd be using it all the time ...
yaying404 1 month ago
@yaying404 They couldn't use the time turners cause they got conveniantly destroyed when they broke into the ministry of magic. The film failed to show this even though it resulted in this massive plot hole, that makes nearly every one in the films look like complete retards, that and your not really allowed to change the past, rules of time travel in the Harry Potter world.
FinnRHarg 1 month ago
@yaying404 i think it says in one of the books (can't remember which) that they all got destroyed
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"... that he has to aim through a wand. We can shoot a thousand rockets... IN SPACE... with iPhones."
Greatest Line Ever.
KoyomiHiroyuki 2 months ago 10
I wanted to hear them talk about "No Country"..:(
alismouha 2 months ago
Wow you guys remind me of my friends and me
hackhorse 2 months ago
Who does all the awesome drawings??? And why do the Death Eaters look like Sith Lords??
wdm276 2 months ago
Random fat giant bursts into your house, threatens your uncle with a pink umbrella, turns your cousin into a pig, and tells you to follow him to a magical secret school to become a wizard, Seems legit.
HaloMaster1337234 2 months ago
@HaloMaster1337234 Well dude, this was the same family who famously locked his ass in a cupboard under the stairs and straight slaved his ass out. I think anyone shy of someone named "Father Gropey McBadtouch" would seem better. Hell, if Quirell with his Voldemort wart on the back of his head popped up I'd be straight on that shit.
GrimmGun1 1 month ago
We can launch a thousands rocket from outer space! With iPhones!
Hapcelion 2 months ago
By the way they do share that information with the Muggles, but only the Muggle officials, not the ordinary people because that would break the International Confederation of Wizards' Statute of Secrecy.
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Have you met...us?
Oh that is my life...
emmahouli 3 months ago in playlist Season 1 2
they start when they're 11, actually...
imacrumpet 3 months ago
I hope DOB actually has seen Harry Potter. How can a man who prides himself on his knowledge of pop culture not have, if not read the book, seen at least even one movie?
ntherewas1 3 months ago
@ntherewas1 Well, he hadn't by July of this year. So by the time this video was made he certainly hadn't. He did mention in an article that he was going to watch the last movie, but that was after this After Hours episode was filmed.
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TheFinalVampireKing1 3 months ago
so Dan has seen Twilight but none of the Harry Potter series?
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Pretty homolarious
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My god! You got details of the Harry Potter series wrong! The public must be informed!!!!!
DarthSka 4 months ago
another thing that thye fail to bring up, it is stated that Hogwarts has a magical field set up aorund it that disables all muggle technology, so it goes to reason that the Dark Lord would have easy access to the same spell that causes this and would just use it if Wizards did ask muggles for help. Just one swish and flick and no more muggle firepower, just walking targets.
komotoko99 4 months ago
@komotoko99 Actually its just that magic screws around with and shorts our electronics, it doesn't short out stuff that works on a physical or chemical level (i.e artillery fire and old school atom bombs). What you're thinking of are the wards that keep muggle tourists out of their settlements. Not to mention you're relying on the fact old No Nose sees a rocket coming at him, which, unless you have satellites or radar, is impossible until it's too late. From there it becomes a matter of intel.
GrimmGun1 4 months ago in playlist Season 1
@GrimmGun1 well lets assume that he does have the intel, or that he used the imperious charm on a few dozen overnment officals seeing as magic would make it very easy to get to them. He could know about said strike and then transfigure it into a tea cup or mouse, we have seen them transfigure inanimate objects. Also hhe has legions of dark creatures at his disposal, sure we would take a few of them out but they would sitll overwhelm us in the end. And guns are usless when the become rats
komotoko99 4 months ago
@komotoko99 I think you're overstating the character of Voldemort. In his eyes, we're rats already, vermin pretenders worthy of only extermination. Tell me, how often do you converse with your cockroaches? You're correct in stating that it'd be very easy for him to become aware of a potential strike, but what you're suggesting is that Ex-Tumor McEvil would stoop so low (stoop in his eyes anyways) as to not only consider muggles a threat, but to go and deal with them instead of crushing them.
GrimmGun1 4 months ago
@GrimmGun1 I'm glad someone else realizes this too!
I somehow doubt that Voldemort had a magical means of detecting the launch from an MLRS battery 25 miles away and on the other side of a mountain range, bring spotted for by an SAS team. I had fantasies about an SAS team showing up at the last moment during the Battle of Hogwarts for this reason.
Halo4Lyf 4 months ago
@Halo4Lyf: Sorry my friend, Queen Rowling wins again :)
No muggle technology works around Hogwarts - there is too much magic in the air, it disables electrical and mechanical devices. Its mentioned in the Goblet of Fire ...
"All those substitutes for magic Muggles use - electricity, computers, and radar, and all those things - they all go haywire around Hogwarts, there's too much magic in the air." (Hermione)
kateclaudia 4 months ago
@kateclaudia Again, it doesn't affect stuff that works on a chemical or physical level. Sure modern day rockets computer guided would short out, but that's not to say weapons such as artillery fire or even old school atom bombs would be defunct. And even with the electrical shorting, a missile with locked coordinates need only to rise above obstacles and jet forward with a pressure sensitive trigger. And that's without resorting to black ops sniper teams or the like utilizing satellite imaging.
GrimmGun1 4 months ago
@kateclaudia So you're saying that something as simple as a door hinge - which is a mechanical device - doesn't work in Hogwarts?
Halo4Lyf 4 months ago
@Halo4Lyf: Not me saying it, JK Rowling.
Thats why Ron's Flying Ford Anglia went spastic once it entered Hogwarts.
I can't tell you about a hinge, I'm afraid, but I can assure that muggle warfare would be useless at Hogwarts.
Have a lovely day! :)
kateclaudia 4 months ago
@kateclaudia I really don't think you understand how simple even modern firearms are. If they wouldn't work, then torches wouldn't burn, nor would the ovens in the Hogwarts kitchens.
Halo4Lyf 4 months ago
@Halo4Lyf: Combustion is not product of Muggle's electrical manipulation. It occurs naturally as well.
kateclaudia 4 months ago
@kateclaudia Then why wouldn't the chemical propellants in firearms ammunition work? Along with the simple spring and blow-back operated systems? We're talking about things as simple as springs and levers here.
Halo4Lyf 4 months ago
@kateclaudia Not to mention you're logic seems to indicate that anytype of electricity is almost instantly defunct, or becomes flawed. Because if that were the case, everyone that's magic should be insane, because the brain functions on nothing but electric signals.
Don't get me wrong, I love the book series just as much as the next guy, but it's not as tightly knit to completely exclude the use of muggles as you'd like to make it out as. Like any great series, it is not without it's flaws.
GrimmGun1 4 months ago
@GrimmGun1: Okay. Bye! :)
kateclaudia 4 months ago
@kateclaudia What? You can't end a debate like that. It's like the Berlin Wall all over again, horrible way to end the Cold War.
Playing devil's advocate here, you could rebuttal with that the feel couldn't affect the brain since such electric signals are so low, and covered by flesh and bone, as well as integrated via magic in the body, that unless directly interfered with, the brain would function as normal, magic or no. At least that's what I would say if I were in your corner.
GrimmGun1 4 months ago
@GrimmGun1: Why would I choose to fight over the internet? You have an opinion, I respect that, its not my place to force you to accept mine. Have a nice day! :)
kateclaudia 4 months ago
@kateclaudia A debate and an argument are two very different things. A debate presents facts, reason, the collision of two points of view, and the logical reasoning behind said points of view, much like what has been done in so far. An argument just degenerates into name calling. Not to mention our opinions and points of view can only really be tested through debate. I mean, if we keep to our beliefs only if they remain unchallenged, then what point was there in adopting them at all?
GrimmGun1 4 months ago
@GrimmGun1:
Firstly, I view beliefs and opinions as individualised notions that do not require validation by strangers on the internet in order for them to 'have a point'.
Secondly, I see no worth arising from an empty debate regarding magic's effect on the electromagnetic impulses on the human brain when Harry Potter itself is fictionalised.
Thirdly, I have important exams next week of which I emulate Hermione too much to neglect. So with that I wish you a wonderful, debate filled life. :)
kateclaudia 4 months ago
I'm a huge fan of HP and still laughed. Call it the result of ignorance of the series, or whatever, but i think we should lay back and laugh at this...it's healthier :D
tpink90 4 months ago 2
IT SOLVES ANY PROBLEM
ShearArtAttack 4 months ago
Read the books. Everything said in this video is wrong except for Dumbledore being a homosexual.
TheTysonKane 4 months ago in playlist Season 1
"Have you met... us?"
LaraDarkwood 5 months ago in playlist Season 1
Putting ZERO on Voldemort's Robe was a subtle and amazingly funny jab at Billy Corgan LOL
Toyman1982 5 months ago
They never could have used the time turner to change the past. Notice how in the third book/movie everything that they did when they went back in time clearly happened when they originally went through that time? This is the sort of time travel where if you try to change the past you already know that you are going to fail because it didn't happen the first time. Read "To Say Nothing of the Dog" by Connie Willis. It has this kind of time travel better explained.
SopranoOfTheNight 5 months ago
@SopranoOfTheNight Plus ALL THE TIME TURNERS BROKE in the 5th book and no-one I talk to about HP seems to remember. Although they could just make some more with magic I guess.
Cazzanevo 4 months ago
@SopranoOfTheNight That only happened in the movie for some dramatic effect. And if you know you're going to fail because it didn't happen the first time, then how did they rescue Buckbeak? Don't even say "A Wizard Did it", lol ;)
pokexplosion21 4 months ago
@pokexplosion21 Pg. 329-332 (hardcover edition) Buckbeak's "death." It happens offstage, only the noise can be heard. Pg. 384-385 Harry is saved by his future self, if it hadn't happened the first time, he would be dead/soulless/whatever. 398-402 Hermione protests trying to save Buckbeak because she thought he was doomed, but Harry disregards her and ends up being successful. "There was a swishing noise and the thud of an axe. The executioner seemed to have swung it into the fence in anger."
SopranoOfTheNight 4 months ago
@SopranoOfTheNight My bad, sorry ;) I thought you mean the stuff with Hermione throwing that thing through Hagrid's window and howling to distract Lupin later on.
pokexplosion21 4 months ago
"Secretly" terrifying? Did you guys even read the books? The secret's out; the Potter-verse is no place that anyone should want to live.
GeneralBolas 5 months ago
@GeneralBolas I GET TO MAKE PEOPLE BARK SLUGS!
I GET TO FLY WEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!
I GET TO KISS HOT GIRLS RANDOMLY!!!!!!
Yeah I would wanna live there
MrScaabz 4 months ago
Mm... young Hermione...
TheRealBarrett 5 months ago
Ahaha, "I'm Eating CAKE!!"
JDLupus 5 months ago
Some good points, but my main thought throughout this was, "Did they intentionally get every detail of the books wrong, or have they just not read them?"
Jaejaebean 5 months ago
Oh great... now I got to go back and read Harry Potter just so I can find all the parts that make Albus gay.. thanks crack.
throwinguprainbowss 5 months ago
I've watched this-and other After Hours episodes-SO many times!! Are you guys going to do a 2nd season! I love watching you guys!
bakabakashii4 5 months ago 33
"Dumbledore refers to it as a great swallowing."
bakerj590 5 months ago 39
she looks hottest in this.
thearthurshow 6 months ago
I know there is a nerd amongst you willing to do this; In the genre of "secret society magical worlds" that we see in Buffy, Hellboy, and Harry Potter, please write a story that begins with this whole secret-world-of-magic in crisis forcing whatever wizardly CIA to ask the UN for military help. The armies of mordor vs navy seals. That is a movie i want to see
butchdeadlift10 6 months ago
best line in the whole thing "their a terrorist cell"
JoshDias1 6 months ago
@JoshDias1 that would have worked better it you got you grammer right.
systemleech 5 months ago
We couldn't kill Rasputin after hundreds of tries... we muggles couldn't do anything to a real wizard.
tymes10 6 months ago
@tymes10 Everything dies when you cut off it's head. It'd take more firepower to kill a wizard than a muggle, but it's entirely doable.
Halo4Lyf 6 months ago
i would of just join voldemort and... rule the world! mwuhahahaha
xel99 6 months ago
I love this video, but every time I watch it I automatically correct the dialogue. "NOT TRUE. The class is called 'DEFENSE AGAINST THE DARK DARTS,' and Hogwarts offered Arithmetic!"
ImTheOneThatIWant123 6 months ago
@ImTheOneThatIWant123 yeah you should probably stop doing that..
shittyfagg 5 months ago
what they failed to mention was the fact that the wizirding world did have a contact with the muggle prime minster in book 6 or 7. Also muggle studies are offered at the school, though they never go into detail to if they pertain to math, reading, and all that other good stuff.
komotoko99 6 months ago
I love that they had Voldemort wearing a Zero shirt, but after watching Deathly Hallows part 2, it would be funnier if he wore one that said "Free Hugs"
SirusXIII 6 months ago
well, they never use the time turner bcuz hermione turns it in to Professor McGonacall in the third movie at the end
raheelandleon 6 months ago
do a video telling why Super Mario Bros. 3 worships Satan
Vierzbanator 6 months ago
@canadianguy0987 He was a murdering psychopath who lost his mind after the ex-girlfriend he was stalking was murdered by old mouldyman...Brave? That guy was a sick freak!! So was Dumbledore, McGonagall, Lupin etc etc.
I read HP&PS when I was 9; and the first thing I remember about my experience with the series was asking my mother why a "civilized" place like the UK didn't have child-protection services. I live in a freaking 3rd world country and The government takes care of such things!!
redtihor1 6 months ago
Its true though, Harry potter has more in it then Avatar....
if thats possible.
fromdaghettowithlove 6 months ago
LOL When everyone was like SHHH and Dan also like, said shh
Grinder815 6 months ago
@canadianguy0987 Yeh. I was like NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!! when tonks and lupin died. (umad, partially dedicated hp fans? I guess you shoulda read the book.) xD
JetBlackNero 6 months ago
Technically speaking, it's not just "All the jocks go in this house, all the nerds go in this one, all the jerks go here and then we dump all the boring people in this house." Each house actually has a virtue, even Slytherin. The character traits that a "good Slytherin" (yeah, right) would have are being good with words and debate, logical, and having good people skills. Slytherins would make good politicians IF THEY WEREN'T ALL EVIL.
shinichan42 6 months ago
I don't quite understand the point of this conversation. Proving that Hogwarts is bad? Pointing out that magic is useless? And what is really secretly terrifying? That Dumbledore's gay? I don't see any organized arguments here. :/
MrsLovegee 6 months ago
BLASPHEMY!
MissBoomerang19 6 months ago
Freaking love Swaim in this episode
bigninja27 6 months ago
What about in Sorcerer's Stone during the Christmas Feast when they're pulling wizard crackers and Dumbledore swaps his wizard hat for a flowery bonnet?
jordanthewizard 7 months ago
I have no idea what they said. OMG, I know nothing about Harry Potter. Who is Doubledoor?
gininigin 7 months ago
she looks like Harry Potter sister....if he had one
marcelle215 7 months ago
I'm sure that Michael, Katie, and Soren went to the Deathly Hallows midnight premiere while Daniel stayed at home and watched the True Grit remake.
248productions 7 months ago 5
make that 2:43
LauraLaJane 7 months ago
2:46 seriously the cutest thing I've ever seen
LauraLaJane 7 months ago
for anyone saying Muggle Studies, 1. The Class is optional, 2, it's learning about muggle culture, and technology, not Math and Science and stuff.
jordanthewizard 7 months ago
lol, great swallowing.
jordanthewizard 7 months ago
they do learn history...
benzo546 7 months ago
@benzo546 yeah, History of Magic, not Muggle History
jordanthewizard 7 months ago
@debbiegurillhqq God, just...fuck you. Really, fuck you. Spambot or not, this is the dumbest comment I've seen in a long time.
batosai370 7 months ago
Wait, doesn't school in Harry Potter occur in the summer? Thus they would be learning math and English during Sept. through May in regular schools, correct?
alec52MINNESOTA 7 months ago
@alec52MINNESOTA Havn't read the books, only seen the movies, so I could be wrong but....every movie takes place during a regular school year from around september to the start of summer. They are always at Hogwarts for things like Halloween and Christmas. They then leave for the summer and come back in the fall for the next year...like any regular school year. So, yeah it's a fair question. When do they actually learn normal things?
raith0818 7 months ago
i have been wondering why they don' learn academic things for years
yourepicboss 7 months ago
No ,Dan- nothing is worse than Avatar.
macr0machine 7 months ago
@macr0machine
Hate to break it to you, but there are worse things than Avatar.
The idea of an Avatar sequel, for example.
tredlow 7 months ago
I love how everything in this series is so beautifully, intricately done...
JDLupus 7 months ago
So much innacuracies. "They learn dark arts, poisons" NO SOREN. NO THEY DO NOT.
MissDemeter 7 months ago
@MissDemeter
Yes they do. When Death Eaters took over the school, they turned potions and defense against the dark art evil.
frostgiant7 7 months ago
@frostgiant7 But that's not the standard teachings of Hogwarts. The standard teachings never taught malevolent spells. (Again, with the exception of Barty Crouch Jr.) Also, Potions was never renamed "Poisons" in the 7th book. But indeed, in the 7th book, DADA class was turned into Dark Arts class.
MissDemeter 7 months ago
@MissDemeter I can kill someone with a gun...I can also do it with a pen or with my bare hands. Those kids learnt spells from Potter himself in book 5 that could kill; It doesn't matter what you call something. As far as I'm concerned, You can kill with tickling & summoning charms too. The Wizards don't know how to do such things? Well, They're stupid.
My point of view may not be the same as yours, but frankly the entire Wizarding world seems to one great big dysfunctional pile of trash!!
redtihor1 6 months ago
Have you.. met...us?
davincent98 7 months ago
Are these actual conversations?
TheAlphaTank 7 months ago
I think Rowling said in an interview that if a dark wizard cornered a shotgun-wielding muggle on a sidewalk, the muggle would win. So.... yeah. Go guns.
creasonbryan 8 months ago
Actually it says it one of the books that hogwarts does offer muggle studies.
CallMetheMusicMan 8 months ago
The great swallowing, so funny- I think it's cute how every harry potter follower wants you to convert by reading the book- Like bible thumpers except with wands-
Noirjyre 8 months ago 2
I like Dan the best
DWarrior4 8 months ago
This is awesome. Unfortunately, they don't teach Dark Arts or X-ray vision. They teach Defense Against the Dark Arts and one of the characters happened to have a magical X-ray vision eye. Also, Slytherins live in a dungeon, they don't wear purple capes and the Time Turners were destroyed in the 5th book and if you used it before that it could really mess everything up.
Kookiish 8 months ago
they really do need to read the books cuz even if you bomb voldemort u wouldnt kill him... he has horcruxes and u need to destroy those before you go for his body otherwise he will keep coming back. and they do teach muggle studies like math SO READ THE BOOKS BEFORE YOU JUDGE!!!! like if you agree
1239spongebob 8 months ago
@1239spongebob Ah, overactive fans, the bane of any joke based off a series.
DarthSka 8 months ago
@DarthSka it wouldnt be a joke if u read the series! ur videos are stupid by the way
1239spongebob 8 months ago
@1239spongebob Ah, the justification of my comment on overactive fans has arrived. Thank you for confirming my previously mentioned statement.
DarthSka 8 months ago
HOW DOES THIS NOT HAVE 283937283 VIEWS
IT IS GLORIOUS
JayaJTV 8 months ago
I am Dan here.
kara2lucy 9 months ago
i facepalm. you muggles dont get it
LeopardstreamAtLarge 9 months ago
"...it's a terrorist cell." HAHAHAHAHAHHA
EyeWillRefuseYou 9 months ago
Homolarius.
urbanvic 9 months ago 2
@urbanvic WHAT THE F****** DID YOU JUST SAY
ohsnap8186 8 months ago 35
@ohsnap8186 :)
urbanvic 8 months ago
hahahah the "inner aryan" part killed me :D
CeReAlgurl95 9 months ago
Michael Swaim is COOL!
CrzyEX 9 months ago
Dans "I dont care to talk to you anymore" was absolutely hilarious.
BelieMyBurial 9 months ago
Haha, DOB's face when Spider Man was mentioned was hilarious.
jon791h 9 months ago
@megaremuslupin so they out all of the damn things in one place, smart. Also, where are the American (all of them, not just the U.S.) Wizards?
CaptainDahr 9 months ago
On the up-side, all the evil wizards are too incompetent and inbred to defeat a handful of teenagers. I mean, why not just use the Imperius Curse on heads of state, and gain control of the world while outmaneuvering an opposition that is unwilling to reveal themselves to the public? All wizards are idiots, and a very high percentage of them are also cowards. Dumbledore is the prime example - a good man who allows evil to persist for decades while hiding vital truths from the wizard messiah.
DTighe42 9 months ago
And they do take History.
MegaRemusLupin 9 months ago
Pissed myself laughing. "What the FUCK did you just say?!"
runujhkj 9 months ago
The time turners were destroyed but they had forever to use them LITERALLY forever 6_6
missmcpirate 9 months ago
And the Time Turners were destroyed.
MegaRemusLupin 9 months ago
@MegaRemusLupin When?
Choomanama 9 months ago
@Choomanama
It mentions that they were destroyed in the Order of the Phoenix during the battle of the Department of Mysteries.
MegaRemusLupin 9 months ago
First of all the class isn't "the dark arts" it is Defense Against the Dark Arts and it's not "Poisons" it's Potions.
MegaRemusLupin 9 months ago 2
This has been flagged as spam show
There is nothing stupid about Harry Potter.
MegaRemusLupin 9 months ago
@MegaRemusLupin Aside from the fact that in book 3 instead of putting Harry in hiding and giving him a tutor, they decided to surround children with horrible creatures that eat souls and make people relive their worst experiences. Which I'm surprised Harry didn't get beat on for (not his fault, but kids are like that). Why? Imagine this.
*PUNCH!* "That's for making me relive my uncle touching me!"
I rest my case.
GrimmGun1 4 months ago
Billy Corgan is the most evil wizard of all time and has an army built up of the members from Slipknot
MarilynFanMansonMan 9 months ago
I love HP, but I found this HILARIOUS.
LilHamtastic 9 months ago 21
@LilHamtastic more HOMO- LARIOUS
DaKook14 6 months ago
Weren't the time turners all destroyed?
strangedayscraze 10 months ago 3
Dude, er, this kinda pissed me off. But since I don't wanna get kicked out of Youtube, Imma be backing out now from commenting on how much it pissed me off. =))
coleenbeatrice 10 months ago
I'm eating CAKE!
thinman25 10 months ago
never really cared for harry potter, no offense, but this gave me ammo to use for when im arguing with friends about it
britticus1232 10 months ago
How do we know that Slytherin is guaranteed evil?
rosethorne 10 months ago
Homolarious - great word, or greatest word?
Sobrekay 10 months ago
They do have 'Muggle Studies' at Hogwarts - perhaps they cover all non-magical subjects in that.
fleabag500 10 months ago
@fleabag500 it's possible, sadly it's not a required class
kurei2001 10 months ago
What did you just say? What the F#$% DID YOU JUST SAY?!?
TheWatcher51393 10 months ago 2
@TheWatcher51393 Did Soren say that?
Revyaaa 10 months ago
@Revyaaa I think it was Michael, because Michael said the same thing in an earlier episode; maybe he felt slighted. :p
TheWatcher51393 10 months ago
harry potter and harry potter things
glasshorse018 10 months ago
The time turner could be used to kill lord gaydelmort. Why not use it?
aelix56 10 months ago
@aelix56 Voldemort was a powerful wizard most of his life. To go back to before he was powerful would mean at least, like, thirty years. Three turns took Hermione and Harry back half a day. Do the math.
MigeulP 10 months ago
@MigeulP Ok, if it meant killing the most powerful dark wizard alive and saving the world, I'd have no problem sitting around turning a time turner 64,800 times give or take a few hundred. Also, you could just go back to when he was in Quirrell, and imprison him with no way of getting out while you wait for the other Horcruxes to surface.
LetumComplexo 10 months ago
@LetumComplexo The horcruxes weren't revealed until book six, after the destruction of the time turners. So when they have the time turners, all they know is that he's been killed twice already and still managed to come back somehow. So maybe if the time-turners had lasted long enough for someone to figure out Voldy had scored a bunch of magic 1Ups, it would've looked like a viable strategy to time travel on his ass, but before then it's a case of "Whadaya gonna do?"
MigeulP 10 months ago