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Google Autofill? [Intro Music] Hey, Brother! If you're not familiar with the Google Autofill
game, it's super easy. We just go to Google, type in Why Does Harry Potter, then each letter
of the alphabet, and Google fills in the rest of the questions. Which I then answer with 100%
ISH accuracy. Occasionally Google will throw in, like, an extra word or modifier at the beginning, but that's okay. We just
roll with it. Let's begin. A! Immediately a great question that has to do with
one of the wackiest spells in all of Harry Potter: The bond of blood. Seriously, this spell is so
niche. Like, it can only be activated if someone is presently the beneficiary of the sacrificial
love protection spell, which, in our case, Harry is because Lily died for him. Then if
you are a third party- in our case Dumbledore- can cast the bond of blood spell on you,
which is then sealed by your blood relative- who would be Petunia in our case-
accepting you into their care. At which point the person who originally
attacked you- Voldemort- then cannot harm you while you're in the house until you're 17 or permanently move out. And
it's already so specific, but then the turning 17
part is just baffling to me. Like, how does the spell know when the wizarding government
considers its citizens adult? Or is the spell just so old that
it's literally what dictates the age of adulthood in the wizarding world?
Which I guess would be cool but then also, if Harry is the only one to ever enjoy
the benefits of sacrificial love, how could did anyone even know about this spell?
Like, do you see what I mean? It's just bonkers. And I used
the word enjoy just there, but I'm sure Harry has never enjoyed a second of the fact that he lives at the Dursley's,
or that his parents are dead. So. Ahhhh heh heh!!! B! Okay, so burn Quirrell actually comes up first,
but I also love the second question: So, I'm just going to do them both.
So first off, the reason Harry burns Quirrel is because of Lily's sacrifice, which is
still protecting him from Voldemort even as an 11-year-old. And when Quirrell is touching him,
he is actually acting as a horcrux for Voldemort, and is therefore repelled by the sacrificial
love. Voldemort is eventually able to overcome this when he takes Harry's blood into
himself in Goblet of Fire, but while that does let him physically and magically attack
Harry, it also tethers Harry to life because now the sacrifice lives on in Voldemort.
So, really, that's a pretty bad move for him. As for breaking the Elder Wand, this is
actually a movie only decision by Harry. In the books, he just puts the
wand back in Dumbledore's tomb. But either way, his goal is the same. Never been defeated. Okay, Harry, arrogant much? Aren't you going on to
become a dark wizard catcher? Come on. I know you just defeated Voldemort, but all pros have their off days, man.
But basically all Harry's trying to do is to remove the wand as a threat
from the future of wizarding kind. Returning it to Dumbledore's tomb is maybe
a little bit more respectful, but, for sure, breaking it is just absolutely more effective.
So, I like both options. C! Okay, gee, C, weren't you
even paying attention to B? Yeah, as we just said, it's because Voldemort
takes Harry's blood into him himself, which effectively makes Voldemort a lovecrux
for Harry, which tethers Harry to life. But there does seem to be, like, one more
layer to it that Harry also means to die. Actually, fun fact: when Harry does this, he also
cast sacrificial love on everyone he dies for, including all the defenders of Hogwarts. Which is why Voldemort's spells don't
work on them very well later on. D! Okay, well, for one, Harry never had any
Infinity Stones. Although I guess, in many ways, he sort of is the embodiment of the Soul Stone.
Like, one must die and all that. I guess in this scenario,
Lily would have been the one to jump on Vormir and Harry gets the stone. Or, I guess actually what he ends
up with is a piece of Voldemort's soul which Voldemort himself then later destroys like Thanos destroys the Soul stone.
So, that's an interesting comparison. We just did Is Harry Potter Star Wars but
Is Harry Potter Marvel? Do we only talk about one thing? Anyway, I think this question is
actually about the Resurrection Stone, which Harry drops for a reason similar to the Elder Wand. Basically he's removing the temptation from anyone else
to go searching for the hallows. Or, I guess at the very least, he's removing the
ability for anyone to find the hallow, since now it's just randomly lost in the woods. Although, if you ask me, someone else
accidentally finding it sounds like an awesome plot for a future Harry Potter story. Doot doo doot doo doo doo. E! [laughs uproariously] Uh, duh. Do you even have to ask?
Because of all their palpable, absolutely undeniable onscreen attraction to one another. Duh. I mean, who
else is he going to end up with? Hermione, his best friend
and confidante who sticks by his side no matter what? Can you even imagine? Yeah, no, I see it. Mm-hmm. Harmione for life.
Full video by clicking the card. But watch that later, I'm only at like E,
I've got so much more of the alphabet to go. F! Really? Seriously, F, that's your
question? Uhhh, could it be because, I don't know, Voldemort murdered his parents?
I mean, certainly that instilled a quote, "Furious Desire for Revenge" in Harry.
The truly unavoidable reason, though, is because Voldemort set stock by the prophecy of
the Chosen One, which states that one must die at the hands of the other. And while there's
no real reason this has to be the case, Voldemort intends to make
good on it no matter what. Which guarantees that one will die at the hands of the other. And if Voldemort is hunting Harry
no matter what then, yeah, Harry has to fight him. [derisively] F. What are you, cold in here?
Ben, off screen: Frosty as a snowman. G! Do you mean visually in the movies,
or thematically as a story? Because, visually, it feels like they went way too far and really probably could
have added some color back. Especially since thematically, the story is
pretty dark even if you turn the lights back on. Avada Kedavra! H! So, the reason for this is actually kind of funny.
Harry is rich because his grandfather was the inventor of Sleekeazy's Hair Potion, which
ended up quadrupling the Potter family's already considerable wealth. Hilariously,
though, despite the success of the potion and the reason for their wealth, both James and Harry Potter both
have, like, endlessly messy hair. I! Ah, Cho and Harry, a relationship for
the ages. Three full books of buildup for one kiss beneath the mistletoe and an
awkward date to a tea shop, only for Cho's friend Marietta Edgecombe to turn in Dumbledore's Army
to Umbridge and ruin everything. Weirdly Cho's not, like, super involved in this situation other
than being the one who dragged Marietta to the DA meetings against her will.
But after Marietta turns them in, these, like, large unremovable boils appear on her face spelling the word "Sneak".
And it turns out it was actually Hermione who was the one who arranged this
little trick in case of such a betrayal. And Cho was already a little
jealous of Hermione for being Harry's close female friend, so she disapproves of it while Harry thinks it's brilliant. And you
know that's pretty much the end of those two, and why Harry ignores Cho for awhile. He
really should have just gone for Hermione, man. J! Um, excuse me, I think you
mean the Soul stone, gee! Wait, no, wait. K! Oh, well, this one is easy. So, basically, after Voldemort tried to kill Harry
as a baby and the spell backfired, it splits Voldemort's soul and a
tiny bit of that latches onto Harry, which actually makes Harry a horcrux but also gives him some of Voldemort's Powers,
such as speaking to snakes. Which Voldemort is able to do because he is
a direct descendant of Salazar Slytherin, who possessed that rare gift. L! Oh, so glad you asked. Short answer,
because the Dursleys are the freaking worst. Nobody likes Vernon or Petunia, but they
really want to make sure that Dudley knows that they do not favor Harry in any way at all.
And, like, what really drives this home for me is that their house is a four bedroom home, meaning they have not one,
but two empty rooms upstairs they aren't letting Harry use. Like, even if one
of them was just, like, a dedicated guest room, which is also indefensible, they still have a spare and yet they
make Harry live under the stairs. M! Oh, jeez. I guess it probably depends on your age.
I mean, as a child, for me, Harry Potter offered a wonderful form of escapism into the
world of Hogwarts and magic and mystery. The story generated so many happy memories, from
our dad reading it out loud to us chapter by chapter, week by week. I have such fond memories
wondering what would happen next, anticipating each new release, growing up with the
character, staying up til midnight at bookstore parties, locking myself in the room for two days
afterward to finish the book as fast as possible. I remember lining up for hours to get good seats on opening nights for
the new movies, going to college and listening to the books on CD while I drove
to visit my girlfriend slash now wife, Beth, who had given me the CDs because she also loved
Harry Potter. Then I started a YouTube channel with my brother and discovered this entire community of amazing Harry
Potter and other fandom nerds and feeling like I was just, like, finally
accepted for who I was. Then we launched a podcast where now we're reading the books chapter by
chapter with those fans, like our dad did for us. And, like, I'm now doing for my kids. And I don't
know, I guess that's why it makes me so happy. Ben, off screen: That was really good.
Oh, thank you. That was, like, a weirdly emotional one.
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Link is in the description down below. South. N! Fantastic question. Short
answer, Harry is just not in the business of killing. Like, ever. Like, Dumbledore teaches him the power of a whole
and untarnished soul, and that is his main weapon against Voldemort, who has callously ripped his
into like a million pieces. Or, well, like, eight. But interestingly, Harry does use the other
two unforgivable curses throughout the story. He uses Cruciatus on Bellatrix
after she kills Sirius, and Imperio on one of the goblins at Gringotts
to get behind the desk. O! Okay, well, he definitely doesn't, for one thing. Even the fact that this becomes
known as his signature spell is, like, a little odd to me. Like, yes, he does
learn it first in the dueling club, but he never puts it to tremendous use until book four, against Voldemort. But in the meantime, he does pick up
another rather signature spell, Expecto Patronum, which he is arguably, like,
the best in the world at. And yes, I mean that. His has this, like, amazing corporeal form and
he fights off over a 100 Dementors at once. But I suppose on maybe a more conceptual level, the reason Expelliarmus was chosen
to be Harry's signature spell is because it is the exact opposite of Voldemort's
Avada Kedavra, a very deadly curse versus Harry's very nonviolent conflict
resolution disarming spell. P! Well, as explained by Lupin, Harry has
just had horrors in his past the rest of his classmates just can't imagine,
so the Dementors affect him far worse. In a nutshell, Harry just has worse
memories to relive than the rest of them, which is kind of surprising that
no one else passes out because they are all growing up in a post-first
wizarding war world, but whatever. Neville really seems like he has some
horrors he could relive, if you ask me. Maybe he wasn't present for the torturing. Nothing for Q, but R! This question is why I wore this shirt today. Mostly I think it is because
of this scene right here. Happy Christmas, Harry.
Happy Christmas, Ron. "Happy Christmas, Harry!
Happy Christmas, Ron." Harry being 11 before he has a proper
Christmas morning is a pretty big deal. It really represents how much better
life at Hogwarts is versus the Dursley's. "I've got presents!" Christmas in the first book,
and especially the first movie, is given a lot of screen time for this purpose. Like, you get to see Hagrid dragging in the
trees, Flitwick decorating the Great Hall, and Harry getting the cloak- which Harry
getting the cloak? Also? Pretty big deal because it allows him to see his
parents later that night. Which, like, plot-wise, I've always known that, but I've never really
considered how the first time Harry sees his parents, it's on Christmas. In a way, it's as if he's actually being
born into the wizarding world in that moment as his true place in the world. Hunh. I wonder if there's any significance of
being born on Christmas. That's a Jesus joke.
Yeah. [giggles] S! Easy. Harry's Father James could transform
into a stag, which naturally means Harry's mother represents a doe, and since Snape
has been in love with Lily for his whole life, his Patronus represents a doe.
Which, if you ask me, should act as this, like, sort of Ironclad reminder to
him every time he casts the spell that she truly belongs with James, but
he still can't ever seem to get over her. Forever. T! Okay, so, this is another,
like, movie versus book thing. In the book, Snape gives him memories out
of his head, similar to how Slughorn does in book six. But I guess I thought it would
be more, like, visually emotional for Harry to collect those same memories from Snape's
tears instead. I don't know, I guess it's fine. U! Wow, you know what? I have never considered that.
Britain is metric and Olivander is as old as time and yet uses inches for some reason. And, no,
this is not like an American versus English printing of the book. Even if you have
the English printing, it says inches. But it's very much something I hadn't considered
and I had to look it up and I found a very short and
concise Pottermore article and I'm just going to read the whole thing to you, because it's only, like,
two sentences.
Okay, so, two things there. First of all,
that actually makes a lot of sense in-universe. I like that. But, but, also, since when can
they do math magically? Like, how does that never come up?
And how? How? Mathematics locomotor!
MATHESmatics, sorry. Surprisingly nothing for V,
since Harry's worst enemy's name starts with V, but whatever. Ahhh heh heh!! W: Yeah, this is sort of a weird thing
you might not have ever noticed, but, yes, Harry wears the
same blue t-shirt in every movie. My guess is that he got it from Dudley when he was 11 and it just continued to fit
until he was 17. Harry might be swimming in that Sleekeazy's Potion money but he is humble when
it comes to his wardrobe. Also, also, actually, actually,
in Deathly Hallows, is Hermione wearing Harry's old shirt from
his first year that now fits her? No wonder Ron left.
Harmione for life. Now I'm over here. How the sausage is made, people. Nothing for X or Y, but Z! Okay, Z, that's, like, a really
grammatically incorrect question, but I'm going to give you a pass, because you normally don't show
up with anything. So, bravo. But at the same time, Harry Potter
doesn't really zombie at all. The word zombie does come up in Philosopher's
Stone as something, like, Quirrell ran into, but it's never actually a
thing Harry has to deal with. Sort of. There is, like, a version of
zombies in Harry Potter which are just called the Inferi which do vary slightly, because they are corpses
that are reanimated by dark magic rather than corpses that came back to life. Part of the decision to use Inferi in Harry Potter
instead of "zombies" had to do with how much zombies get
portrayed on their own in pop culture, and it gave the Inferi, like, a way to stand out as being
unique. Plus there's just so many different versions of zombies out there. And in some cultures, it is the case that, like, sorcerers are controlling them
by imparting part of their soul to them, which then sort of conflicted with the
overall horcrux plot. So, just to avoid any sort of cross-contamination,
Inferi were used instead. But there you go, guys, those are the answer to Google's most
common questions about the man himself, Harry Potter. [Outro Music] Hey, Brother! These socks are amazing! Guys, thanks so much for watching, as
always. I know I made a bunch of jokes about why Harry should end up
with Hermione in this video. If you want to see a whole video about why we think that, you can check that out right here.
But I'd love to also know, what are your other favorite 'ships in the Harry Potter fandom? Let me know in
the towel section down below. But, Ben, otherwise I will
see you in another life, Brother.
