How many of you are aware that Goblins are not really the biggest fans of wizards?
Well although it’s not exactly evident in the movies, it’s quite apparent in the book.
Hey everyone welcome back to a new video. Ah Goblins, our long fingered creepy little friends
definitely have etched their place into wizarding society but
there not exactly happy with that place. They feel like they’ve been stepped on and mistreated for
centuries and if they had their way, they would quite happily take control of the Wizarding World.
There’s a lot of reasons that factor into such a statement so let’s get right to it.
Goblins are considered second rate creatures by wizarding society,
as a matter of fact, the ministry labels them as creatures of near human intelligence,
near human intelligence. They can talk, hold conversations, write books, add and subtract but
are only looked upon as near human intelligence. It’s quite contradictory as they have complete
control over the finances of the Wizarding World with the ownership of gringotts bank and therefore
the economy itself. They are extremely goal orientated and very heavily money focused. I
think it’s pretty obvious even at this rate as to why Goblins are kept at the level they’re at but
we’ve got a whole lot more to talk about so lets keep going because I’ve probably left out the most
important thing up until now, they are magical, fully magical creatures with powers and skills
that not even wizards could match. Goblins are very gifted with wandless magic and can channel it
almost effortlessly, well they’d have to because they aren’t permitted to carry wands whatsoever.
It’s actually a written rule that they cant use them. The underlying issue being that wizards fear
the possibility of goblins being an unknown threat with a wand and there’s really not more to it.
In response to this, Goblins refused to divulge their own secrets of magic, in particular the way
they made their stunning artefacts, weapons and armour. They were excellent silversmiths and were
responsible for minting the galleons, sickles, and knuts used as currency in the Wizarding World.
It’s been said that the worst thing to bribe a goblin with is gold because
chances are, they’ve a lot more than you and more than they’ll ever need. Everything they
create just seems to be timeless but I think its safe to say the sword of
Gryffindor stands out more than anything as being the most well known goblin artefact,
something thats treasured by Wizarding society as its craftsmanship is unrivalled.
One of the biggest arguments from goblins is that the sword belongs to them and has been stolen,
despite it actually being created for and sold to Godric Gryffindor. It is of their belief that any
goblin creation will always belong to that goblin and sale of the item is only binding until the
holder dies, of which the item must then be returned. It’s pretty silly but it’s Goblin
custom so we’ll go with it. Despite everything they offer, they’ve been looked down upon for so
long by wizardkind..its probably best represented by their depiction in the statue in the fountain
at the ministry’s lobby where they’re seen looking up in awe of wizards along with elves.
The statue itself infuriated goblins right up until its removal as it publicly represented
their place in the world, something they feel they didn’t deserve. They could more than likely take
control of the Wizarding World if they did in fact have wands as they have so many different aspects
of magic within them. Don’t forget they are fully magical creatures, they aren’t born with a gene,
there’s no goblin squibs or anything of the sort. Speaking of controlling the community,
they basically already do with their running of gringotts bank and the amount of people who
own them money. It wasn’t as if they didn’t try before, there have been several goblin rebellions
throughout the 16, 17th and 18th centuries, rebellions that definitely made a mark.
They refused to be subservient as elves did, they refused to look at themselves as anything less
than equals and all rebellions were labelled as bloody and vicious, which basically means quite a
big loss of life. Even today theres’ secret goblin groups plotting against the current government
but I can’t imagine anything would ever be taken public anyway. Minister for magic and
leader of that government Cornelius fudge actually wanted remove goblins from control
of the economies finances, he wanted to take gringotts bank as a government owned establishment
and employ wizards there instead but the proposed plan was met with fierce backlash and even
Cornelius himself worried what the reaction would have been too, more than likely another rebellion.
Goblins even refused to stand with the aurors and government when voldmeort came into power.
They would not take up arms against him, even when he slaughtered a goblin family,
the creatures still refused to side against him and remained neutral for the remainder of the war.
You can probably see just how much of a distaste the goblins had for wizardkind, it was a long
standing distaste that stretched back centuries and I wouldn’t be surprised to see another goblin
uprising but with that being said, it would definitely require the right chain of events
to set things in motion. I actually feel like that would’ve been a great sequel to the Harry Potter
books, harry’s children, all that generation to be involved in battling a goblin rebellion. Maybe
a good title would be Albus Potter and the Goblin Rebellion. I don’t know let me know what you guys
think in the comment section below. Anyway with that being said, that is my video on why goblins
hate wizard kind and want to take over, if you have anything you’d like to add guys then please
do so in the comment below. I have a question for you all today, are you happy to see Harry Potter
folklore return? Its so good to be back. Thanks again and I’ll see you all in the next video.