That's really funny for me that Lockhart has Forget-me-not blue eyes and will be obliviated at the end of this book

I think its awesome how Lucius insulting the Grangers is what causes Mr. Weasley to snap and attack him immediately and then later in the book Malfoy insulting Hermione is what causes the Twins and Ron to all try to attack him causing Ron to end up burping slugs. It's like this beautiful glimpse into how much of an impact Mr. Weasley has had on his sons lives and how much they take after him in their belief system.

Okay but hear me out. Percy passed his Divination OWLs by _using his Time Turner._ He saw what would happen one or more hours into the future, and then went back and predicted that happening. Genius strategy :D If nothing else, I could see Barty Crouch Jr doing it this way. Genius manipulator that he is.

For the "Lucius's timing" bit, what if Dobby was ordered to intercept letters by Lucius so that he could learn when the Weasleys would go to Diagon Alley, and then Dobby used that order as permission to just nab ALL the letters and keep them, so that Harry thinks his friends abandoned him and won't go to school and fall into the trap? It's more of that "Dobby is exploiting every loophole he can think of" concept, which I personally adore. Seems to make sense of everything, at first glance.

One of the Weasley kids was the target for Lucius Malfoy! Dumbledore later in the book mentioned that if it can out that Arthur’s daughter was attacking people, his muggle protection bill would be out and Arthur would be out of a job. I think Lucius was intending to get Arthur out and his plan was to Frame the muggle loving Weasleys as muggle attackers

The talking mirror at The Leaky Cauldron says to Harry "You're fighting a losing battle there dear' when he tries to flatten his hair down.

I really need to tell everyone that the Danish name for Gilderoy Lockhart is Glitterik Smørhår (literally “butter hair” or “greasy hair”) 😂😂😂

My theory about why the Dursleys don't want Harry to go to school is keeping him "under class ". Going away for school is a sign of prestige that they want only Dudley to advantage from.

1:05:23 Re: Draco being called Master Malloy. In the UK, young boys are referred to as Master, while adult men are Mister. When I was little I’d receive letters saying Master Jack, it always felt rather Victorian but kinda cool 😁

My particular head canon regarding Arthur asking Harry about "Muggle stuff" is that it is less about a lack of knowledge or library research, but more an opportunity for him to learn how a young person, who was raised as a muggle, thinks and understands these things and their first hand perspectives with them. There is a difference between book knowledge and wisdom of experiences.

39:13 they even got david tennnet to play him. Wanted more of him in harry potter

I feel that the Durdsleys don't want Harry to leave, because they are bullies. A bully often obsesses over there target. They judge their own self worth by how they lord over the target, without the target they have nothing to feel superior too.

As an electrician, this episode feels a little more magical to me for some reason. I can nerd out on you guys about all the wonders of electricity over a pint at the Three Broomsticks any day! :P

Also, I believe Dumbledore, at this point realign the DADA position was cursed, tried to use that curse to expose Lockhart being a fraud.

About the wizard hat thing, at most formal occasions there’s reference to people wearing a wizards hat (McGonagall at the Yule ball, Mrs. Weasley at the wedding) so Lockhart always dressing to the nines, hat and all, ready for a photo shoot tracks perfectly.

Ollivander used Phoenix feathers more than twice as a core. Chapter 5 in philosophers stone, the first wand he gave harry was "maple and Phoenix feather. Seven inches". Maybe other wands have the core in his store but the wands have not chosen the wizards.

Just here to confirm, that in British High Schools, it was definitely embarrassing when someone said you had a boyfriend/ girlfriend 😂 it was almost like "I'm letting everyone know that you have a crush on this person!" Or "this person clearly has a crush on you!". I don't even know why it was embarrassing, but it was 😳

As a Brit I can confirm I only just tried PB&J this year and was blown away by how much I loved it

Great show. Have you heard the theory books 1/7, 2/6, and 3/5 mirror each other. Here are some examples: 1/7- Harry is hit by a killing curse, Voldemort defeated, Harry arrives/leaves Dursley’s on motorbike. 2/6 Tom Riddle flashbacks, Horcruxes, Ginny/Harrys crush on each other, The Diary/Potions book,Polyjuice and Crabbe & Goyle. 3/5 Meet Sirius/ He dies, Azkaban breakouts, Trelawney’s prophecies,Dementor attacks,Time turners introduced and destroyed, Harry meets Cho/ breaks up with her. I’m sure you guys could find way more, just wondering if you’ve noticed before.

The forget me not blue, and eyes part is ironic because he does, in fact, forget his magical self later

Fred and George absolutely saw through Lockhart as what they did was study so they could ask super nitty gritty questions to put him on the spot

I like the idea of electronics and magic not mixing, I mean let's face it, Mr. Weasley created life when the Ford Anglia became self aware.

I think the reason why Mr Weasley doesn’t go to a muggle library or attempt to ask other muggles about things like plugs or the function of a rubber duck, if because he (and very likely all magical folk) believe that it is knowledge that muffle either learn at a very young age, or else is intuitive knowledge that muggles just have. This would mean to go to a library and ask for a book on plugs or go up to a muggle in the street, would, to him, be the same as telling them that he is a wizard. This would explain why he asks Harry such questions as he believes that Harry should already know this, this would also be the case for Hermione’s parents. Whether this is a view held by the ministry as a whole (and therefore there is a policy against direct interaction with muggles to get such information) or this is just what Arthur thinks (and the ministry/previous people in Arthur’s job simply didn’t think it worth while knowing any of these things) doesn’t really matter, as Arthur is probably the only Wizard in the books with such an infatuation with muggles and muggle artefacts. That’s my head canon/explanation for it anyway, would be interested to hear others thoughts on the matter.

I love the Order of the Phoenix when Mr. Weasley calls plumbers "pumbles" 😂

Okay, we NEED a theory on Percy, Bill, and Barty Crouch Jr. having time turners during their years at Hogwarts!

Around the 36:19 minute mark is tangentially related to a cool history fact I happen to know, in Ancient Sparta (and I'm sure many other places throughout history this is just the one I happened to know) they used to intentionally train young warriors with spears and shields WAYY heavier than the ones they'd use in combat. That way they could build the strength to not just wield the weapon, but wield the real one with comparative ease. It being heavier meant they had to think so much more about the effectiveness of their technique and really perfect it. Then when they started training with the real thing or fighting with the real thing, it would be far more mobile and light, but they'd have the skill and technique and strength built up from training with heavier weapons and would be that much more deadly with them, it acted as strength building experience as well as a way to hone their fighting techniques under far more strenuous conditions than they would be in during the real thing. Much like Gokus weighted Garments.

Don't know if anyone else mentioned it, but Harry does try out another phoenix feather wand that isn't the one he finally gets. So there are definitely more than just the two.

In the next Super Carlin Brothers video, Ben explains how a calcium reactor works and explains why it wouldn't work in the magical world. 😂

"All owls are magical." Imagine a crossover with the Guardians of Gahool series.

I love how the christmas decoration looks like sparks are coming out of Ben's head, kind of like a large top hat made of light 😄

Master is the title of a man under the age of 18. They become Mister at 18. Mister can obviously be superseded by other accolades, but boys are Master until they become Mister.

Honestly, I have read this book countless times, and not a single one of them it has ever crossed my mind that there would be any suspicion of Percy, in book 2 Percy still had spotless reputation

People get hung up on Lockhart being totally useless, and yes, he's not at all effective at teaching his supposed deeds to the students. But if it is true that all of the stuff in the books did happen, just to different people (which we must assume it is, or surely someone would have disproven it's possibility by now) it would still be valuable from a DADA perspective to read his books, and assuming he's a decent author at least, it might not be the worst way of learning these things. More exciting than reading some pure fact text about it. That being said I don't see why the Weasleys need to get 5 copies of each. Surely there is some copyright spell on them so that you can't just make illegal copies, but even so, only one class at a time is having DADA, and at most 2 Weasley kids are attending that class, which means they should get by on just having 2 sets of each book. Sure it might mean you have to plan your homework more carefully so you do your DADA when it's your turn with the book, but if you are truly pressed for money, and the books are truly that expensive, you'd make it work.

For Lockhart's books, I think they're more like novels, not a textbook. So like for one of my college lit classes, I had to get 7 books, all for around $5-10. Books like "The Scarlet Letter", "The Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglas", and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow & other stories". We just went through each, taking 1-2 weeks. I can see Lockhart assigning books that talk about his "adventures" and then they talk about what they read for homework.

Out of all the chapters in the first three books, this discussion is probably the one that I am most excited for. We get the introduction to Gilderoy Lockhart and all the good feels from years of SCB content for Lockhart.

I always find it so satisfying how those briefcases perfectly line up with the wall that juts out behind them 🤭

That ghoul in the attic should stay . You NEVER know when a situation will occur when you need one .

I've often thought that Petunia and Vernon set out to do what they could to "un-magic" Harry. Like if they could squeeze him in a box of normalcy he wouldn't end up being magical at all. I think perhaps it started from a "good" place. I'm not sure Vernon understands much about magic at all, but Petunia has some understanding of it and I think it all always seemed very dangerous and evil and sketchy and terrifying to her (if you think about her experiences it's not that surprising, Snape used it to chase her away, what she overhears of dementors and Azkaban is terrifying, her sister getting farther and farther away from her, and it was a time when Voldemort was gaining power, until he finally killed Lilly...) I think she may have genuinely started out wanting to do right by her sister's son at first and keep him away from the stuff that killed his parents. But then weird things happened to Harry anyway and if anything the more they restricted him the more it exploded out of him (like his hair growing messily back in a night) and at some point she lost track of the goal and he became a scapegoat for all thing weird and going wrong. I'm not saying she was ever good or caring to him, but in her own messed up way I think she did start out wanting to do what she thought was best for him. Her attitude reminds me a bit of strongly religious Catholics who can't tolerate people with other beliefs because those people will go to hell for believing the wrong thing, and if they as Catholics don't try to convert the misguided people and stop them from going to hell, then they'll go to hell as well. For them the end justifies the means, it doesn't matter how much hurt they inflict because if they prevent someone from going to the greater hurt that is hell then everything they did no matter how awful was for the greater good.

Floo powder is also green, which is the same color as the killing curse, representing death. Which makes sense because using a phoenix’s ashes represents death as well

Every time you release an episode it’s like getting to see an old friend again

1:28:03 This exchange between Luscious and Arthur always reminds me of the exchange between Draco and Harry a year earlier before the sorting ceremony. "I think I can sort out the 'wrong sort' for myself thanks."

Regarding Percy’s owl in divination, I feel like you’ve answered your own question there, it’s easy to tell the future when you can turn back time

We’re a day late but I couldn’t be happier

My interpretation of the Muggle Protection Act and the connection to the poisons Malfoy was selling was those poisons were specifically targeting muggles.

The fastest butterflies in the world are the are the skippers which can fly at 37 miles per hour but on the average most butterflies fly about 5 to 12 miles per hour. Bonus fact european swallow is 20 miles and hour and african swallow is about 24 miles and hour, however it would take an eagle to carry the coconut, good thing for migration.

These chapter deep dives always make my day a little better!!

I saw a theory once that the reason Mr. Weasley was asking Harry all those muggle things questions was partially curiosity and partially to make him feel included and smart, and possibly as a distraction/cheering up - especially the rubber duck one

I just wanted to tell you guys that I very much appreciate the content you both make. These chapter by chapter break downs have really helped me stay grounded during these unsure and difficult times. It also helps me get out of my own head and do something constructive like re reading the HP series and then getting to put my own comments and opinions on a video breaking down each chapter. I've really struggled with some serious health issues and it seems getting out of my own head has gotten harder and harder as the country I grew up loving and still do, becomes unrecognizable. Which is another reason this channel has really helped me, you guys keep politics out of the entertainment you provide. Which has really separated the wheat from the chaff as far as KZfaq content goes. Plus, the genuine good nature of both brothers is a total breath of fresh air. Keep up the hard work gents

About the timeturner. A topic you could make a video of: A calculation of how much Hermione ages in year 3 using the time turner.

I believe the first wand Harry holds at Ollivander's is like 7' inch Maple and Phoenix Feather, so it is definitely getting feathers from other sources.

I honestly welcome this dropping on a monday. Its a great start to my week!

I never saw Percy as the red herring, simply because I was 3 when the book was released, so I saw the film first, lol. However, I do like the idea of having him as the red herring, simply because of the shady stuff he does later on in the series (Imperiused or not!) Here's a possible "What If...?" for you guys. What if Lucius HAD given the diary to Harry and the Diary possessed him the same way it had Ginny? Love this channel, I've been watching the Super Carlin Brothers since the beginning and I love all of the Harry Potter content that you guys do! Keep up the good work!

As a person who grew up in a Dursley-rivaling clean household, i can vouch for Harry's appreciation for the chaos at the Burrow. It's insane how much a little mess helps with making a place feels like a home and lived in. I like my place clean, but i don't make a fuss if my jacket hangs over a chair😅

I think coming from the Muggle world and using Floo Powder for the first time must be kinda like my experience coming from Stockholm, Sweden, where our busses have screens showing the next stop and sometimes the several next stops in advance, to Sydney Australia, where busses looks and works much the same, but has no way of telling what the next stop is, no screams, no PA system (at least not on the busses I went on), no nothing. Like, I know where I'm going, that's not the problem, but I'm not a local, so I don't recognize anything, and there is an awful lot of stops to get mixed up and get uff early or miss the stop and have to get off late.

You can absolutely play all of the old Command and Conquer games, one of my favorites! They have a combo pack with all of the games in one

A good way to remember the colour of Lockhart's robes in Flurish & Blotts could be FB. - For Forget-me-not Blue ???? Just thought of that while listening to you ! Love the podcast, I've listened to all kinds of theory videos and can't get enough 😊

I think ghouls are the wizard version of an ugly stray cat that never leaves and you eventually feed it

It's always felt like the fact that they could do magic has sort of stunted their creativity for certain things

I do think it’s funny that when Umbrige is the dada teacher, there’s this whole rebellious dueling club to actually learn spells, but when a more ineffectual teacher, lockheart, there’s no secret stuff whatsoever ever. I guess, they could just practice it from somewhere else, but I doubt anyone passed their dada owls that year.

1:14:00 i was pretty late in reading the books, not doing so till i was out of high school, but even when reading it i never found percy suspicious at all. i literally spent the book wondering who had tried to frame hagrid until the twist happened. edit: oh, they did the same thing.

39:30 - The thing with divination in HP is like art classes. If the teacher is ok, you'll learn about perspective, color theory, using the right tools etc. And you'll get fine effects and good grades. You won't get an exhibition in MOMA, but you can draw or paint fine. That would be the Percy-level. You get the right tools and right instructions to use them in divination. And the predictions are fine - something more or less unimportant or vague. And then there's the Art level. Where you really get it, crack the art code, think about it in new ways. You're the van Gough of divination - seeing what others don't, using the same boring tools but in ways others don't quite understand but sooner or later admire. And you're making the prediction of a century about the Dark Lord and his downfall. Trelavney was like many art teachers - came there for the Art, stayed for the money and roof over their head. Had a glimpse of genius in her youth and than went back to the mundane tools and arts as described in books. Even worse - the inspired rhetoric stayed but sounds nowe fake when used on the boring old art-techniques from books.

OMG COMAND AND CONQUER TIBERIAN SUN. What a throw back. I loved that game! Our family computer was so slow lol 😂

So happy to start my week with Through the Gryphin Door!

you should do a what if vodlamort killed harrys parents and raised him to try and change the profacey

At the end of all breakdowns you should do ranking of best or all chapter arts.

32:01 “What would have been even funnier, looking at the butterfly, following the beaugghht”

I’ve just realised a vanishing cabinet wasn’t even for sale in Borgan, they used the Room of requirements as a storage of rare foods !!! And it is always up to scale, you never run out of place !

This chapter is another point for that great writing of hers ❤ so amazing everytime I recognize it

Hermione never thought to use the timeturner to get extra hours to study and sleep which means all 3 of the boys we know that had timeturners used it for extra hours to sleep, study and do Prefect/Head Boy duties

I can't wait for Prisoner and the issue with Hermione double classes(like transfiguration exam clashes with extra curriculum).

I would love to binge all of these episodes after it's all been released in like 5 years

I feel so seen - I managed an aquarium store and we were very much performing DIY maintenance. I made the mistake of mentioning that I was on light crew in college theatre, which meant I got to "fix" all the aquarium lights when issues arose. That’s how I learned that saltwater makes electricity extra spicy! We also had frogspawn corals, but I was head of the freshwater department so I didn’t interact with them as much as I’d have liked. That was hands-down the best job I ever had. I miss it so, so much.

TBH Harry's time in regular school is taking place in late 80s England. So there was still strong class system in place (and somewhat still is) back then. So I think those clothing things might not reflect that badly. Sometimes you reflect things too much for your own perspective and to American way of thinking. Loving these deepdives so much!

My dad liked to borrow this book from the public library, _How to Fix Damn Near Everything._ I looked at it once and saw a diagram on how to fix a table lamp with a new plug and how it works with house electricity. I'm sure he borrowed it for the name, but he was genuinely interested in how to fix household items, much like I like to pick up survivalist information tho I live near the heart of the Midwest and away from Tornado Alley, thus away from most natural disasters in the country. (although I felt a mild rumble from Reelfoot Lake a few decades ago.) People do have learning hobbies!

I loved Command and Conquer Tiberian Sun and Red Alert 2... makes me feel young and old at the same time.

I’ve always interpreted it as the Dursleys hate Harry so much, their hatred of idea of Harry being happy overrules their hatred of Harry overall. Like when he’s at Privet Drive, yes he’s there but they can actively make him miserable, when he’s a Hogwarts he’s happy, learning magic, he’s becoming more confident so he could eventually learn how to use his magic to make his life easier and they can do nothing about it.

Master is the title for boys, like Mister is the title for Men. This is the case here in the USA too. My Yiayia (grandmother) would address letters to my son as Master Aaron ….(last name). I’m really enjoying your podcast! Thank you so much for doing this!! 🙏🤗

I like the idea, that Bill figured out Trewlany cause i feel like it fits him, and then gave Percy advice, when he asked

Barty Crouch Jr. is essentially the Darth Maul of the HP universe

Regarding the Dursleys: for me, it's a twisted sense of "caring" for Harry. They're trying to stamp out his uniqueness and magic because they genuinely think that's what is best for Harry, to make him normal. They really think that the abuse and neglect, the opposite of how Lily was raised, will "cure" Harry.

Also a point of Dursleys bs Weasleys vis a vis domestic messiness: the Dursleys have two kids, one of whom has very few personal possessions that aren't locked up, while the Weasleys have five kids still living with them, two of whom are Fred and George, and a variety of muggle and magical animals living around.

I find it interesting that Percy, along with other students passed their OWLs and NEWTs despite Lockhart. He’s like that teacher in school, where you know the lecture is useless so you just self study for the standardized tests.

One of my favorite head-canon things is that Arthur was under the imperius curse for a bit during the wizarding war and was witness to Lucius being awful. This from Barty Jr as Madeye telling Ron that his father would have known all about that. Is it real? No, but it would have potentially increased his devotion to muggles if he had wronged some unwillingly

Yay it’s here. Right after school watching this is the best.

42:10 "you can't imagine how inconvenient travel was before I invented floo powder" - Ignatia Wildsmith

I just bought the exact same series print that yall have from Scholastic and I’m super excited to catch up and be reading with yall every week. It’s great to be able to read the books for the first time and be able to follow along with yall with the chapter arts and my own notes of the read throughs!

14:00 The plastic cover allows you to slide the metal prongs into the outlet so that they touch the metal contacts and that is the only point where your power lines are actually exposed and the wire just runs to your breaker box where all of your wires connect to the power grid. There are a few bizarre devices that connect to other devices as if they were the outlet (the only thing I have like this is my car battery charger) which inspires some people to search out or create extension cords that have the metal prongs on both ends. Some hardware stores have pictures of these with a warning that says "We won't make this for you and it should not exist" because if you plug that in you've got a live power connection you can just touch

Since the Quill of Acceptance and the Book of Admittance record names of magical children in order to send the letters from Hogwarts to new students, I wonder if the book will also automatically "update" the addresses when a current or future student moves? Because if someone's name gets recorded when they are a baby, a lot of addresses could wind up being very out of date by the time they turn 11

On Fred and George - I would watch a fly on the wall documentary of them in class.

I believe that Lockhart wearing "Forget-Me-Not" Blue robes that match his eyes is excellent foreshadowing to his only real skill...Memory Charms.

I'm showing the Harry Potter movies to my sister for the first time and it's seriously amazing to see her reactions to all the twists

Im really hoping you guys dont stop like halfway through book 4. This could be am awesome series for a couple years

The cauldrons are obviously your mac and cheese cauldron from your Founders Sims series! (If you know you know)

I’m in a hospital bed getting another blood transfusion, and your channels are getting me through. I watch your videos daily, perhaps a bit of a Harry Potter addiction. Thank you though for the work. And I’m glad to hear Ben is feeling better.

Googled it: The fastest butterflies are the skippers, which can fly at 37 miles per hour (60 kilometers per hour), but most butterflies fly at 5 to 12 miles per hour (8 to 20 kilometers per hour).

Theory: Food is "a plenty" in The Burrow because while you cannot conjure food, you can replicate it. (Also explains how they can "over feed" Harry so much and still not have anyone overweight [other than Molly, I suppose] in the household.)

The "WHAT" from Ben acting Voldemort about the diary being destroyed by Harry had me rolling.

The best part of that joke 8:33 is my accent is I say Aunt like ant

Hey Brothers! (And crew!) I’ve been a fan of you guys for a while now. My Dad and I found your channel during the pandemic and have been enjoying it ever since. We really like your Harry Potter, Disney, Pixar, Mavel and Star Wars content, and always try to watch the new videos together. I’ve really been enjoying Through the Griffin Door series since it has been so long since I’ve read the books. Like your dad did, my mom read most of them too me as they came out and Deathly Hallows was the longest book I had ever read on my own up to that point, so I’ve really loving getting to hear parts of the stories I haven’t for so long. Since I really love your guy’s idea of Hogwarts being a dragon that the founders transfigured into the castle, I wanted to add something to it. The dragon asked to be turned into the castle because it was old and lonely and this way it would never be lonely again and could live on in a different way. I also had an idea about the friendships between the founders based off of your idea of all of them knowing about and liking the Basilisk. What if Godric, Rowena and Helga were the ones who got the Basilisk for Salizar as a surprise gift, and it liked all of them for giving it a home and friends. One top of that, I had the idea that each founder had a gift that was a fantastic creature of some kind from the other three as a group gift. Godric would have gotten a lion of some kind, not a Griffin. Maybe a descendant of the Nemean Lion from Greek myth. You can’t tell me that Godric wouldn’t have a field day getting to spare with a lion that he would have a hard time hurting. Rowena would have gotten an eagle of some kind, or a raven. Maybe one that was similar to the Eagle of Zeus who was sent to torture Prometheus. Having the descendant of the eagle used to punish the bringer of knowledge to mankind as the familiar of the founder of the house associated with knowledge just seems to fit. And last, but not least, for Helga they would have gotten a badger of some kind. I don’t really have a suggestion for this one since there aren’t a lot of badgers in mythology. But I’m sure the other three would have worked very hard to find her a familiar that would fit her. Then again, maybe they just got the giant squid that still lives in the lake to this day. I just really like the idea of them all working really hard to find each other a familiar and having each of them care for them. Also, the idea of Godric having to distract Salizar while Rowena and Helga go and get the Basilisk is just hilarious to me for some reason. From Animanda Tsuki no Usagi, a fellow KZfaqr.

From a quick google: The fastest you're likely to be going in a speedboat is 30mph, with 20 being more typical (50 if you're really opening up in a fast boat). Some butterflies can fly 37mph, though around 12mph is more typical. I would surmise that the noise and impact of the waves creates a kind of illusion of speed, the same way staring straight out of a car at the trees makes it seem like you're going a lot faster.