A Deep Dive into Potterheads

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see you guys tonight November 10th at 8:00 p.m. Eastern if you watch the special or not thank you so much for the support and um enjoy this video see you I solemnly swear I am goated with the sauce folks Harry Potter and the philosopher stone was released June 26th 1997 a book about an orphaned wizard boy destined for greatness navigating his first year at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry due to the immediate success of this book author JK Rowling began writing more and more installations into the Harry Potter series ultimately writing seven novels along the way immensely successful movie adaptations were created that absolutely catapulted the popularity of the Harry Potter franchise to levels never seen before they made Harry Potter games the first three were [ __ ] awesome the rest were literal dog [ __ ] they made Harry Potter clothing toys pancake mix they even made Harry Potter cologne that I wish they handed out for free at the midnight book releases PE you I'm just kidding but not really I saw the first Harry Potter film in theaters when I was 7 years old and I immediately fell in love with it I remember it was November when it came out and it hadn't snowed yet that year and it wasn't supposed to snow for like another week but when me and my family walked out of the movie theater it was [ __ ] snowing dude and I freaked out cuz I thought it was magic Looking Back Now it was just a classic case of weathermen being wrong all the time I then started reading the books after I saw the first movie but then I realized video games and skateboarding existed so I just did that instead while I waited for the rest of the movies to come out and let me tell you dude I was a huge Harry Potter fan growing up I played all the video games dude I got sorted into my Hogwarts house on the original Harry Potter Flash website I also did Hogwarts roll play on habo hotel but I'm not going to divulge any further details about that I kept up with the Harry Potter franchise up until the last movies 2011 release and it felt cool watching the finale to the series that I grew up watching seeing the characters I grew up with also dealing with the same issues I was dealing with while becoming a young adult I mean not all the same issues obviously I mean like evil snake man trying to kill you happens every teenager man when the credits rolled on the final movie that felt like a good time for me to leave Harry Potter in the past but for other people the love for Harry Potter persisted the Hogwarts Express kept on chugging although the book series and Main movie franchise came to an end Harry Potter fans also known as potterheads had no shortage in ways to keep the fandom alive and look there's nothing wrong with being a fan of a particular piece of media but as I mentioned in my deep dive into Disney adults video that I made a couple years ago some people take things a little too far and that's what we're going to talk about today on this deep dive into potterheads so at this video I categorized everything by making my very own Potter head Iceberg icebergs are a way to categorize the tame surface level stuff and gradually work your way deeper down the iceberg until you reach the super messed up stuff and not to sound like the Titanic here but before we get into the iceberg I feel like like I do need to address the transphobic elephant in the room JK Rowling I feel like I can't talk about Harry Potter without mentioning the many controversies surrounding the series author JK Rowling one of the tame criticisms of JK Rowling is how she like retroactively adds [ __ ] to the Harry Potter series like a couple years ago when she was like oh yeah Dumbledore is gay by the way did I not say that did I not tell you guys that yeah the last lines of the final book were actually supposed to be the scar had not pained Harry for 19 years all was well Dumbledore was gay but I ran out of time that's the publishing business but that's definitely not her biggest criticism JK Rowling is what many refer to as a Turf and I don't mean a fake patch of grass Turf T RF a trans exclusionary radical feminist a person whose views on gender identity are considered hostile to transgender people or who opposes social and political policies designed to be inclusive of transgender people so someone who's like I'm all for equality yeah except fuing people JK ring has posted many transphobic things on Twitter you know for example five reasons for being worried about the new transactivism and also claiming that the existence of trans people erases the lived reality of women globally she even recently claimed that she would quote unquote happily go to jail for using someone's incorrect pronouns okay then go go to jail Mr Electric send her to askaban and have her Bewitched immediately also dude what the [ __ ] does that mean dude what did what do you mean JK Rowling what when would that ever happen what are you in for DUI huh classic driving Under the Influence nah someone told me their pronouns and I DUI didn't understand it okay fine I grabbed a cop's gun and all those transphobic comments are pretty crazy things to say especially when the main themes in your seven children's novels were love acceptance and belonging you know I'd like to believe since JK's full name is just kidding I assume that these are all just [ __ ] up jokes but unfortunately they're not she's being serious and following these statements a ton of cast members of the Harry Potter films spoke out against her hateful rhetoric and distance themselves from the franchise and since then the topic of separating the art from the artist is always prevalent When anybody is discussing anything related to Harry Potter and I'm not going to sit here and tell you you know what content you should or shouldn't consume unless it's my comedy special that premier tonight you absolutely should consume that but when it comes to consuming Harry Potter content that directly supports JK Rowling monetarily I don't know maybe just just maybe just don't do that life's fine without Harry Potter you know it's it's the [ __ ] same if you really want to watch children go to school that bad I don't know dude that's a whole other problem you got to deal with like being a dieh hard potterhead pre-rp was already like a side eye but now dude that's not a [ __ ] side eye that is a what's more like a back eye fully all the way around this is me back eyeing you criminal offensive back eye okay sorry I just feel like I couldn't really make a Harry Potter video without uh talking about that off the top so Iceberg time so this iceberg is five levels deep and the potterhead Mania gets crazier the deeper we go so the first level is casual potterhead watches the movies once a year knows their Hogwarts house and their Patronis possibly read the books once and I feel like this is the majority of the potterhead fandom people who know everything about Harry Potter and how they would fit into the Harry Potter universe but they don't really make it a part of their personality that much I probably say this is the level I operated in when I was a kid dude I remember getting sorted into Hufflepuff when I was a kid and having like a literal existential crisis because I wanted to get sorted into Raven claw thinking back I think I [ __ ] cried which is so embarrassing that's for those of you who don't know there are four houses in Hogwarts where the students are segreg sorry sorted into and each house is associated with certain traits but to boil it down as simple as I can Gryffindor is Good Guys slytherin's bad guys Ravenclaw is smart people Hufflepuff is everybody else and it's [ __ ] cuz like Gryffindor and Slytherin are opposite right good guys bad guys so therefore the other houses should be opposites of each other as well and if Ravenclaw is smart then Hufflepuff is I guess that would mean they're I don't know what the opposite of smart is I'm a Hufflepuff we're [ __ ] stupid I cried when I got sorted online alone in my computer room if I had to do that in front of like thousands of kids if I was an 11-year-old magic buy and I sat down and some [ __ ] person put on a magic hat and he was like dumbass I [ __ ] transfer to a public school immediately and usually the people in the first category also know what their petronus is and a petronis is like a sort of spectral animal that protects that person when they cast the spell expecto patronum she expect my patronum until I ow and that was one thing I never liked in the movies I'm realizing now the first part of this iceberg is just me making fun of the movies but let me get it out of my system I never liked the petronis concept in the movies cuz like some kids [ __ ] petronis was like a grizzly bear and then another kids would be like a rat you're telling me both of those are going to do the same amount of protecting [ __ ] no that's impossible and you can't change your petronis like what if you just got like a super shitty one that doesn't help you at all oh my God a dementa that's okay I know the perfect spell expecto [Music] petrum what the [ __ ] is that that's my Patronis he's an early 2000s break dancer I thought a Patronis was supposed to be an animal I'm an animal on the Dance Floor brother okay well I'm going to kill you now the Tron is are you going to do [Applause] anything okay let's move down one more level of the iceberg the next level is genuine potterhead watches the movies several times a year and they've read every book they straight up bring butterbeer to a pre-drink and have their own wand they have at least one Harry Potter tattoo join their College's quidd team this is where it starts to get a little more gnarly once you get a Harry Potter tattoo there's no going back I'm afraid and that's coming from someone with a [ __ ] Gooby tattoo remember the actor who does the voice for Gooby was Robbie cold train rest in peace he also played Hagrid in the Harry Potter movie so I kind of inadvertently have a Harry Potter tattoo the deathly hollow's tattoos are a staple obviously that design kind of lends itself to a tattoo and I feel like JK ring knew that when she was cooking up that design I'm going to create a design that is so simple but some Harry Potter tattoos are a little more questionable like this Harry Potter full leg piece I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that you shouldn't go out on a limb there okay LD I also found a Harry Potter forehead tattoo of the number seven with Harry Potter's face in the number absolutely [ __ ] unhinged tattoo to get it's called a forehead not a seven head must be a Hufflepuff I assume she got the number seven because that's how many books there are but like dude could you imagine if JK rling surprise dropped an eighth book this person would be [ __ ] but I think the most questionable Harry Potter tattoo to get is the dark mark tattoo for those of you who don't know there's a group of evil wizards who follow Lord Voldemort and they're called Death Eaters their goal is to create a Wizarding pure blood ethnos State and kill anybody who isn't a pure blood these Death Eaters all have a dark mark burned into their forearms to show their allegiance to this genocide and people in real life get this dark mark tattooed what the [ __ ] and look you can say it's just fiction all you want but the message is still the same it's a genocide it represents a genocide if someone has a [ __ ] SW a tattoo they're not going to be like no I just like the movie and glorious bastard obviously I'm not saying anybody with a dark mark tattoo is a Nazi but like out of all the things from Harry Potter to get tattooed that's the thing you got I'm giving you another back eye but the last line of this level that I want to talk about is the college quidd team because I had no idea that this was a real thing and the Harry Potter series there's a popular sport called quidd where everybody flies around on broomsticks and the Chasers try to throw the quaffle through the hoops and the keeper tries to block the quaffle from going in the hoops and the whole time there's these these beaters that try to bat away the ludgers that are flying around trying to hit everybody and there's also these two Seekers who try to fly around and catch a little ball little magic ball called the Golden snitch cuz if they catch it they win the game if anybody said what I just said pre Harry Potter they'd be put in a [ __ ] straight jacket dude CRA but believe it or not quidd doesn't just exist in the Wizarding World it's also here now in the Muggle world the only difference is they just run with brooms between their legs instead of flying and unlike the movie they don't draw a crowd okay sorry that was mean s of a moment the funniest thing about real life quittage is how they incorporate the golden snitch I was really curious how they were going to do this because the golden snitch is a is a magic little flying ball that sort of Zips around so I had no idea how they were going to add that to the real life game but this is how they do it Seekers job is to catch the snitch and The Seekers have to get the tennis ball without actually touching the snitch Runner The Seekers have to go look for me out on campus dude some poor bastard dresses up in all gold and The Seekers have to just hunt him down and find him somewhere on the campus and grab a tennis ball out of the weird sock that's hanging from his groin and that's how they win the game what the [ __ ] that might be the funniest thing I've ever seen just two dudes holding a broomstick between their legs running around a college campus like where is it where the [ __ ] is that son of a snitch like do you try out to become a snitch like how can't be the thing that you want it to be right or maybe it is I don't know like I wonder who like the best snitch ever was you know that is a sports docu series that I would watch front to back welcome back to snitch a golden story where we learn about the trials and tribulations of Tyler the best snitch the world of real life quidd has ever seen Tyler was the best snitch I've ever seen nobody could ever find him I've been a Seeker on my College's quidd team for 10 years you've been in college for 10 years yeah in the four years that Tyler played he was never found nobody could ever find him on campus not once it's crazy but sometimes I think he actually might be magic every sport has their great Michael Jordan Tiger Woods Mike Tyson but I think another name needs to be added to that list Tyler and in a snitch a golden story exclusive we've secured the very first on camera interview with the golden snitch himself Tyler how are you able to elude every quidd player for all those years oh dude it was so easy all I had to do was go to the one place a Harry Potter fan will never go a girl's bedroom okay sorry we'll move down to the third level of the iceberg now this is where things really start to kick up a notch Harry Potter exists in every aspect of their life they have Harry Potter themed weddings Harry Potter collections clothing and even name their children after Harry Potter characters weirdly obsessed with the actors in the movies they go to The Wizarding World theme park any chance they get this level of fandom it's kind of like the bully Maguire Montage in Sam Ry Spider-Man 3 where Peter has like fully accepted the Symbiote into his life and he's letting it like dictate how he behaves and how he acts and dances that's what's happening to these potterheads but instead of like a black suit it's it's just like black robes and a Gryffindor scarf and dude I don't know what it is about Millennials in fandoms but you don't have to make your wedding based off of the thing you like you could just have a wedding or two I had two of them dude that and none of them were Harry Potter and I know it's their wedding day they can do whatever they want I know that like who am I to judge right but also at the same time let me be a hater for a second dude straight up if I got an invitation to a serious Harry Potter wedding I am acting a fool I'm showing up dressed as Moaning Myrtle and during the whole ceremony I'm going to be in the back row like don't invite me to a Harry Potter wedding or else I might cast my Patronus at the reception also the part where they have Harry Potter collections I'm not saying that's bad I've got a crazy stupid collection of a bunch of nerdy ass [ __ ] so I can't make fun of anybody in that sense but naming your child after a Harry Potter character that I can make fun of dude there are countless articles online giving examples of like Harry Potter names for babies what are we doing if you're naming your baby Lucius or seus or Bunty that is child abuse and I am so serious you are ruining that baby's life before it even takes its first breath dude not even the actors in the movies would do that and they were in the movies speaking of the actors this is a good time to talk about the other line in this level weirdly obsessed with the actors in the movies like how a Harry Potter fan legally changed his name to Lucius Maloy and sent a letter to the actor Tom Felton who plays Draco Malfoy the son of Lucius Malfoy and this Harry Potter fan who changed his name to Lucius wanted Tom to change his name to Draco Maloy legally so this new guy named Lucius Malfoy could legally adopt Tom Felton that's so [ __ ] weird and also I don't think it works like that if some kid also has the last name Connor can I just adopt him legally is that true if it is I am going to adopt every single Connor until I have acquired them all it will be the biggest con of all time and finally I will be the true Connor but the last line I put on this level the iceberg is they go to The Wizarding World theme park all the time and the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios is actually what inspired me to make this video Disney adults and Harry Potter adults they're cut from the same cloth they all take stuff just a little bit too far when it comes to the theme parks and I've been to the Wizarding world before I went in 2012 and I had a great time but let me tell you there is nowhere on Earth less magical than Orlando Florida no matter how many British people in cloaks they put in that Park nothing will take my mind off of the fact that I have an ungodly amount of sweat in my ass crack and balls in my balls [ __ ] miserable man I was so hot I was sweaty I was thirsty actually that reminds me speaking of being thirsty this video is sponsored by air up folks if you've never heard of air up you listen here airup is a completely new and unique hydration experience with airup you can easily stay hydrated every single day with plain old regular tap water while also experiencing a wide variety of delicious flavors without the sugars and additives with the use of scent based taste I've always struggled with drinking my daily 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imagine like rushing to catch your train because you have a really important job interview coming up and when you find they get to the station there's like thousands of people there and they're all just like looto airo or even worse dude what if you were like an actual wizard trying to get to Hogwarts but there was all these [ __ ] people in the way so you you missed the train so you got to go steal your buddies dad's flying car and then you end up crashing the whip into the whopping Willow then what then what sorry back to the Harry Potter theme park really quick I think Universal Studios is much better than any Disney park because they got Simpsons land and I like drinking Duff beer but still dude there's people who've had like gorilla style weddings in The Wizarding World of Harry Potter when they're not allowed to do that there and there's also people who go to this park every single day and you know I start judging this [ __ ] like crazy and then I see a video like this where it's someone crying the entire time they're at Harry Potter world because they're so happy and then I feel like an [ __ ] maybe being a potterhead isn't so bad if a piece of media can bring someone this much happiness then maybe there's nothing wrong with it at all maybe we just need to accept some people oh wait sorry I just remembered the last level of the iceberg disregard what I was just saying let's keep going the second last level we have is they genuinely believe Harry Potter is real they write their own Harry Potter fan fictions they call people Muggles unironically well into their 30s but still waiting on a Hogwarts acceptance letter in the mail actually enjoys the Fantastic Beast films question mark question mark question mark the last line is the most egregious of all because that movie sucks I watched it on a plane I've never wanted to Skydive so bad in my life and this level of the iceberg is the point of no return for potterheads this is when the delusion fully consumes them and they genuinely believe that they are legitimate Wizards like this let's look at this one Facebook post from Potter heads for Life Harry Potter International Day in memory of all those who died during the Hogwarts battle today is May 2nd the day of the battle of Hogwarts the day that Harry Ron and hermion snuck back into Hogwarts and destroyed the hor cruxes the day that Harry finally defeated Voldemort the day we could see the real courage and sacrifice we will never forget everyone who fought in the War and all those who died Fred Weasley nadora Tonks Remis Lupin Colin cevy severis Snape and many more let's raise our wands for those who fought and died remember May 2nd 1998 and these next comments are great this is a fictional event please read another book and that's from Carl boom boom Carl boom no it's not Carl boom where I get the [ __ ] boom boom from straight up can't read I'm a Hufflepuff man we're [ __ ] dumb and then in response to Carl boom boom Nathan says Carl you do realize that the ministry of magic modified all of the Muggles memory so they would not remember this historic event right you do realize you had your memory erased by the ministry of magic but even though me telling you that they did that sort of negates any effect that that they had right I totally get you know immersing yourself into a piece of media you know as a form of escapism and stuff but like it's it's wild to genuinely believe that hogwards exists dude I talked about this in my internet's most absurd Lies video but someone posted a video saying that they actually received an acceptance letter from Hogwarts and they're being 100% serious like there are people out there who genuinely think Harry Potter is real and I don't think it's like funny or cute at a certain level it's like harmful I think and you'll agree after you read this I found a Reddit post in /h Harry Potter that is super messed up if it's real I hope it's not I hope I'm getting [ __ ] pranked but here it is since our daughter was five and my wife and I first started reading her the Harry Potter books we have told her that she is a witch and that the Wizarding World Is Real she is almost eight and as her questions have gotten deeper we've kept building the illusion with more details about our family genealogy and his connection to book characters stories about times we use magic and the life and moral lessons we learned about it she has processed many difficult subjects like r racism climate change and even the Corona virus through this lens before other parents judge or lecture we know it's gaslighting and that eventually she'll that eventually she'll have be disappointed and have trust issues with us when she learns the truth we justify it that we are adding magic to her childhood and giving her motivation to reach her full magical potential since she needs to study hard to be accepted to Hogwarts we've asked serious questions of her teachers and they think it's more awesome and creative than damaging at the very worst case my take is that it's analogous to children being raised to believe that traditional religious stories are true and that when the truth hits it will teach her to ask critical questions and not accept everything she hears or reads at face value just absolutely diabolical parenting this is literally a villain origin story for this child this is how voldermort are made when this kid actually finds out magic isn't real they're going to be so angry and betrayed they're going to be like and then nothing's going to happen because magic isn't real also to compare it to religion and frame it as like a weird lesson to never take things at face value dude what a [ __ ] terrible lesson for your child you're dumb for believing us we're your parents you should never believe a word we tell you got it okay we love you this is like a modern version of Plato's allegory of the cave but instead of an allegory it's just someone's life it's like being the last kid that believes in Santa but a million times worse like I feel like this could escalate to something like really dangerous hey Dad up here check it out oh my God what are you doing up there get down right now no it's okay Dad I'm going to fly just like you told me here we go hey wo wo wo don't oh my God I can't watch oh my gosh I could see everything from up here oh my God you're flying you're really flying you're you are a wizard no I think I died when I hit the ground I'm going to Heaven yeah bye ah looks like I'm going to be in the dog house and I think the potterheads at this level take their Hogwarts houses way too seriously as well I've seen a lot of posts where people will put their like Hogwarts house in their like Tinder and hinge bios which I don't know what would compel you to do that but I also found a YouTube video titled these Harry Potter YouTubers have something to say when I saw that I was like damn dude this is going to be some hard-hitting [ __ ] this is going to be some serious a stuff recovering let's see what they have to say one thing that really annoys me about being in slivering is that people think we are all bad just because we are in slivering does not make us bad people our house mascot is a fliming eagle it is not a raven be called a fake fan from being in griffindor because people always assume that you're in Gryffindor house because Harry Ron and herione are in Gryffindor I think other houses are favorited over hu Beth because if you're hu then you're weak or you can't do this or you can't do that one thing that really annoys me is when I say I'm in the slivering house people think it means I'm in the house of Voldemort the stereotypical image of us is asking for more homework who even asks for more homework huffle bubs are often the but of jokes I don't think anyone has heard more jokes about any other house at huffle B we are so misunderstood and it drives me insane dude none of that is real it's so [ __ ] funny dude to make an emotional video where you all like defend yourselves from the people who criticize the arbitrary labels you've given to yourself guys like if being in a Hogwarts house is this sad and confusing and misrepresentative of what you are stop stop it stop labeling yourself as that dude gryffindors aren't just Brave and courageous we're also cool and have a lot of money the potterheads at this level of the iceberg will do anything to insert themselves into the Harry Potter universe and what's the best way to do that fanfiction I want to start off by saying there's nothing wrong with writing fan fiction there are a lot of great Fanfictions that are comparable to the source material in terms of quality like for example a fanfiction titled All the Young Dudes fanfiction set in the Harry Potter universe that is over 500,000 words long and it's also created an entire fan base of its own centered around the older characters in the series lives as young adult with any fandom there's good fanfiction and there's uh question able fanfiction guys I could have made an entire video strictly about Harry Potter fanfiction but I've picked one to take a quick look at I found a short story titled Harry Potter and the tumbling towers uh it takes place on September 11th 2001 and it's about Hermione rushing to New York to save Ron when she finds out about the 911 attacks I'll read a few exerpts 11th September 2001 just as she was placing a piece of bread in the toaster the voice of the newscaster on the television caused her to suddenly drop her cup which shattered at her feet we've just received breaking news from the US only moments ago flight 11 crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center the plane had departed from Portland Maine and was scheduled to land in Boston Massachusetts American sources say this sudden event could possibly be a terrorist attack so many thoughts are rushing through her head making her weak in the knees and forcing her to sit down in the nearest chair Ron was in New York he had told her that he would be underground most of the time but not all the time why hadn't she asked for more information what if Ron had been above ground when the plane hit what if for whatever reason he had been the North Tower when it had hit spoiler alert they both escaped the collapse of the Twin Towers but here's another little paragraph 11 September 2001 9:59 a.m. so why were you by the World Trade Center asked heran weekly her anguish filled eyes searching his well we've planted some spies throughout the city above ground to see if they could find where the Death Eaters were a few days ago one of them came back and reported that he had spotted a few Death Eaters in an Alleyway by the Twin Towers when the first plane hit I was already above ground but shortly after the second plane hit I saw you outside the South Tower I had no idea why you would be here or if it was even possible for you to be here but I knew it was you even from the back okay dude this rocks okay I know they just announced that they're rebooting the Harry Potter series as a television show please include this want no I need an entire movie about Harry Ron and Hermione tracking down the people responsible for the 9/11 attacks dude I dude at one point in the movie Harry is just like Osama Ben Laden holy [ __ ] think of all like the Fred and George TN jokes they could make in it too please JK rling please include that we'll forgive you if you do that we won't but please do it anyway okay holy [ __ ] um we've covered a lot of ground so far and I I appreciate you watching if you're still here and now it's time to talk about the final level of the potterhead iceberg and I know what you're thinking we just talked about a Harry Potter 911 fanfiction can it get any crazier than that yes yes it can in this final level I put three words Snape wives shifting Draco talk these are three different subc communities within the Harry Potter fandom that are truly Bonkers to me and I seriously cannot believe that they're real first up Snape w strange aons made a really great in-depth video about this community so if you want like a deep dive into that Community specifically go check out that video after this video but here's a definition the Snape wives also known as Snaps are a group of women in Harry Potter fandom who believe that they Channel Sous Snape allow his Spirit to inhabit their bodies and speak to him are engaged in romantic relationships with him and see him as a vital spiritual guide for their daily lives they practice snapeism a a new religious movement centered on Snape they believe seus Snape is not simply a character in the Harry Potter books but an omnicient and Immortal deity and in fact believe that the books were written because JK Rowling was channeling snake I should say that the Snape wives Community doesn't really exist anymore at least not publicly they were most active in 2006 on live Journal but these middleaged women would Photoshop pictures of themselves with Professor Snape and they'd all take turns in him and talking to him and even going as far as worshiping him as like a Godlike being Professor snake like the potion's instructor from the books the Snape wives also believe that Snape was always watching over them here's a little excerpt from one of the Snape wives live Journal about her encounters with Snape in a dramatic tale he took away a hair band from her and later returned it Rose recounts tossing her hairband on the floor and being unable to locate it afterwards she realized my darling was teaching me not to throw thank you darling yeah you lost something and then you found it again must have been snake this is such an interesting way to go through life when anything remotely strange happens to you you just automatically assume it's the work of some otherworldly all powerful entity that has control over everything oh wait sorry a lot of people live their lives that way but who knows man Miracles can occur maybe every good thing that has happened to us throughout all of history is because of seest Snape from the Harry po franchise here's another example Snape seems to be particularly useful during burglaries one of Tanya's nonspecified friends was aided by him in such an event she was being robbed and seus shoved her down and caused the lights to go out she said she clearly heard his voice telling her to stay down unfortunately Tanya was robbed at work when she failed to heed snap's advice about not opening the door late at night in a more fortunate scenario Tanya was saved by Snape when she was home alone in the early hours of the morning she heard him scream girl get up and get a knife now I love picturing Snape as like a slightly annoyed drag queen girl get up and get a knife now and don't [ __ ] it up but Snape also apparently made his presence known in the physical world pretty frequently Snape makes his presence in the physical world known in a variety of subtle ways including through the weather on January 9th Tanya looked at her window after being commanded to by Snape she saw an S shape in the form of fog on the glass she later found out that snap's birthday is on January 9th strange s shapes continued to appear in unexpected places after this event for example in a vivid recount of March 15th 2008 Tanya conveyed her excitement of a day spent with snap's presence she received a variety of signs from him such as a string from her carpet forming the letter s conita looked out of a bus window Upon A Nearly Cloud the sky and saw an S formation there also she kept looking at the cloud s until it vanished making her miss her stop by some distance dude if a bunch of s's me means that Snape is around these women would have freaked the [ __ ] out if they saw my third grade notebook I drew that cool looking s a million times a day dude imagine like a Snape wife going to the zoo and seeing like a a snake enclosure oh cool a python oh my God that's so many as weird as it is to start a religion based off a fictional character uh it's not the first time that has been done so you know I can't really make fun of it I guess and it seemed to bring these women a bunch of Joy so I'm officially converted okay I'm a Snape husband now you hear that Snape I got a Half Blood Prince right here for you bro okay the next section of the final level is Shifting I'm not going to spend too much time on this because I already made a whole podcast episode about this and I also talked about it in my internet's most absurd Lies video but tldr there are people out there who claim to have the ability to shift to a reality where Hogwarts is real and they live out their lives as a Hogwarts student often spending months at a time in their alternate reality if you're there for that long I don't think it shift in anymore okay shift more like caps lock why would you shift for months when you could just press caps lock and also they're capping and the last part of the iceberg that we're going to talk about is a little community on Tik Tok called Draco talk and this community highlights the biggest issue I've seen with the fandom Draco talk is a community of people either cosplaying as Draco Malfoy or thirsting over the character of Draco Malfoy you know some are weird some are cringe but some are just ter able father would he about this oh super funny thing to say when you dress up in a maid outfit I'm going to tell my dad also here's this great video of what it's like to be in a seven-year relationship with Draco [Music] Malfoy yay seems like he doesn't like you that much ladies don't settle okay wait until you find a man who takes 5 years to hold your hand and look you can do whatever you want on Tik Tok you can make whatever content that you want to make but my issue is with the thirst trap edits more specifically my issue is with adults on Tik Tok thirsting over a character who's like at the oldest 17 oh my God some of these videos the character of Draco Malfoy is like 13 years old dude and there's people in their 20s making like romance edits of them what the [ __ ] don't do that obviously right askaban go to askaban and it's not just with Draco Malfoy [Music] [Applause] either dude his name is Harry not Harry okay Harry Potter is a little boy what are you [ __ ] doing dude what's next a [ __ ] Tommy Pickles thirst trap you know a [ __ ] you strip teas like this is [ __ ] weird right this is a kids fantasy novel series what is happening I know this is a very small percentage of the fandom but it's still happening and it's [ __ ] gross these characters should not be sexualized at all but it happens more than it should like this Reddit exchange for example as a snam shipper this scene is pure gold too a snam shipper if you didn't catch that that's Snape and Hermione in the sixth book Hermione is 16 and in the same book Snape is 38 bro what the hell dude at least now we know what the s that was shown to all the Snape wives stands for satory okay that concludes my potterhead Iceberg but it would feel wrong to end this video without hearing what it's like to be a potterhead from an actual potterhead I got to hear it from the hippogriffs mouth I reached out to a ton of Harry Potter content creators and they pretty much all declined or just uh didn't respond which is fine you know they're probably busy sweating their balls off in or Orlando Florida but the more I thought about it the more I I figured the Potter head I talked to should be a fan who was trying to make Harry Potter more inclusive and lgbtq plus friendly and in my research I found a not for-profit fan-made web series called the rise of the order that puts the lgbtqi plus community at the Forefront I reached out to their team and was connected with Ash the actor playing young Remis lopin in the film so here's my interview with a potterhead enjoy I got okay welcome everybody to Hogwarts radio uh we're just waiting for our guest today in the studio Ash to appear in this magical picture frame also one announcement I've been told to make to the owner of a brown Nimbus 2000 your broom is currently being towed and by towed I mean it it's been it's been turned into a toad so I'm sorry about that oh looks like our guest is here okay wow looks like our Our Guest Ash is is materializing right in front of us hello you have to do that with your hands for the spell to work it wouldn't work otherwise some say that Wizards need wands I just need jazz hands yeah you have 10 little wands I have 10 little wands thank you so much for for coming on and talking to me um I've been yapping over here for a while about potterheads without really getting a nice Insider opinion so I appreciate it do you want to just like introduce yourself really quick I'm Ash and I play Remis Lupin in the rise of the order which is a Marauders band film I don't know if you've talked on it already but the Marauders is kind of like a little subsection of like potterheads but it's kind of a bit like separated as well so it's more the generation before Harry Potter okay great um we'll talk about that a little bit later Ash would you would you describe yourself as a as a Potter head I think I used to definitely say potterhead more now I just say am a Marauders fan but I definitely like I love the World of Harry Potter so that's kind of a fit the criteria so what was it about like the Harry Potter franchise that originally like you know was appealing to you I think so obviously Harry Potter's been kind of something that was there since my childhood and it was just this magical world it was one of the first book series I read and I just I fell in love like most people do with Harry Potter it's just such a um like you can kind of see yourself there you know as I've grown older uh the reason that I've I've stuck with this magical world is that um I've found places in the fandom that I can see more representation that isn't just this little tight thing that you find in the actual books so yeah obviously what I wanted to touch on it's pretty crazy cuz like I feel like now it's like saying in the movies and books it's like you can't say Voldemort right like you can't say his name and [ __ ] right like now I feel like it's gotten to like you can't say JK rling anymore like I nobody wants to [ __ ] she has become no one wants to speak the devil's thing she has become the villain with all of her like transphobic Turf [ __ ] it's like you know it's gotten really I feel like it's gotten really weird and difficult for Harry Potter fans do you think there is like a a way for people to like be a Potter head today uh while also disagreeing with what JK rling stands for yeah I definitely think I definitely think though so [ __ ] sorry sorry I wasting I was casting a a mumbling spell on you I think it really depends on uh you've got to do it right you can't you can't just ignore it you can't just like pretend that there isn't the history behind JK rolling and that's actually a present thing happening today is that she is actively against trans people and supporting anti-trans groups and stuff so I think it's not something that could be ignored so but there is a right way to do it I make it very vocal that I don't support her views but it's not only that I don't support her views I also don't support her like MoneyWise anymore I don't fund anything that I know is going to go into her pockets and just making sure that if you have a platform where you're engaging in Harry Potter related things you're making it clear that you don't support those views okay yeah and I guess it's true it's like with like with how big Harry Potter has gotten I guess it's so easy to find people who make their own like like Harry Potter merch too and it's probably better than the official [ __ ] anyway so exactly like supporting small businesses that like have their own merchandise that's not official is great and that's what I personally do I want to touch back on what you said mentioned earlier you're um you're playing you're playing young Remis young Remis l in series called the rise of the order mm we can talk about that for a little bit what's like the um what's the overall goal with that project yeah so the rise of the order is kind of it's the main goal is to kind of show This World of Harry Potter with representation that we didn't get to see as kids um so we've got diverse range of cast like uh in terms of lgbtq spec different ethnicities like it it's just a very wide range of a cast where we're representing characters that we wish we had seen when we were a kid as well it's a not for profit because obviously if it was then we would have to give money to JK Rowling so we we're very much we are very openly against her views we have it all on our website and it's yeah cool so do you have um like a release date in mind yet or yeah so I think it will be it'll be next year sometime we're hoping for early next year like first quarter but um not sure exactly yet the release date's not out cool and that will just be like on on YouTube or like on the website or YouTube okay awesome go [ __ ] follow them go check go support money not going to JK Ash thank you again for taking the time to talk to me and um if there's any final message you want to give out to Hogwarts radio cuz that's that's what I said at the beginning [ __ ] that's that's where we are just be yourself and uh don't don't let people who have positions of of power because of content that they've made don't let them Define you separate yourself from that and live your truth hell yeah I know that was deep thanks again Ash Goodbye Oh yeah there you go whoa holy [ __ ] all right it seems someone may have cast a haircut spell on me well folks that concludes our deep deep dive into potterheads as long as this video is I feel like it easily could have been twice as long trust me I really tried to condense it to the the most interesting stuff that I found in conclusion I think the Harry Potter fandom is in a really interesting spot right now the main movie series has been done for over 10 years now and any attempt at a new movie in the Harry Potter franchise has been a flop all that paired with the fact that the author is a proud trans fo I honestly think we've seen the peak of the fandom and I think when it comes to separating the art from the artist like what Ash said there are ways to continue being a potterhead without supporting JK Rowling and after talking with Ash and learning about uh you know projects like the rise of the order it made me feel good about just the future in general this group of young people had this huge amount of love for this franchise that they no longer felt safe or accepted in so they were just like [ __ ] it we'll do it ourselves we do it live [ __ ] it [ __ ] thing sucks and that's [ __ ] badass dude and I think it's like an extra slap in the face to JK rling because that's literally a plot to one of the Harry Potter novels in the Order of the Phoenix everyone's trying to like control the students and all their opinions are being being ignored and invalidated so the hogw students all say [ __ ] it we'll just do it ourselves [ __ ] thing suck and it's just so weird because obviously I can't deny the positive effect the Harry Potter franchise had on my life growing up and although it's difficult to navigate being a potterhead today it will never be as difficult as navigating King's cross station on September 1st but all jokes aside potterheads may seem cringy or weird from an outsider's perspective but if you try to empathize with them and if you look hard enough you might see the letter s that means Snape is looking after you turn to page 394 okay thank you so much for watching this video I hope you enjoyed it and if you did please press the like button leave a comment let me know what you thought of this video let me know what you think about uh being a potterhead today and also buy my comedy special for crying out loud seriously it's super funny it premieres tonight at 8:00 p.m. Eastern but if you can't get there tonight at 8:00 p.m. it's all good it'll be available it's and stream until November 24th but I'll be there in the chat tonight at 8:00 p.m. so I will see you there it's going to be so much fun I hope you enjoy it if not sorry okay I would stick around but unfortunately you got to go buy my special see you

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Published: Fri Nov 10 2023