Hello! Welcome back! Your friendly neighborhood Slytherin here today
and I am sitting in a red chair! Why? Because we
need to talk! What do we need to talk about? Hogwarts! Okay so I, like perhaps
most of you watching this video, have thought the Hogwarts must be the coolest
place on earth I would be desperate to go to Hogwarts, it just honestly to me
sounds like the epitome of everything I want from my life... however I've just been
re-reading all of the Harry Potter books and actually I've just discovered something
that is pretty against the grain; Hogwarts is wrong!
that's right in a few key areas Hogwarts does not get it right and today I want to talk to you about
those things. We can get out in the open we can all just acknowledge it and
hopefully move on although something needs to change at Hogwarts. a lot of
the problems that we see in the Wizarding World of Harry Potter can be
traced directly back to segregation of students or Hogwarts I think is wildly
irresponsible to lump the same type of people together in a house. I think by
now we all know that diversity is key and I'm a Slytherin which means I'm
pretty ambitious and cunning but like I don't just want to be friends with
ambitious and cunning people! If I look around my friendship group now I'm
friends with Hufflepuffs I'm friends with Gryffindor's I'm friends with Ravenclaw's
I think honestly variety keeps you a sane human being! I know that not all
Slytherins are evil however if a lot of slytherins do have that characteristic
and ability to up turn towards the dark, why on earth would you put them all in a
dungeon together? Again why would you put all of the book smart people together,
the brave people together, why would you not integrate students so people can
learn to be brave from their brave friend or learn an interest in books
from their Ravenclaw friends. The way that Hogwarts
does it keeps people segregated and I just don't think that that's great....
and also it probably encourages a weird kind of inbreeding. There aren't a lot of
wizards out there anyway and often cross house relationships are pretty frowned
upon for example, Slytherins generally only marry Slytherin so you've already
got a small pool and then you're making it even smaller and it just doesn't make
sense. Don't even get me started on the points
allocation system at Hogwarts and the declaration of a winner when they're
clearly not the winner! It's just not ok Dumbledore!!!
WHO would trust the Sorting Hat? He's a creep!! The Sorting Hat has been known to accept influence
and also spreads influence itself. It almost tries to talk Harry into being
in Slytherin. Also at the same time there was a huge silver sword hidden in there
for a long time and nobody noticed which to me is pretty strange and pretty
worrying! Okay a huge issue I have with Hogwarts is that
for a long long long time it condoned slavery! Even when Albus Dumbledore, a
really liberal headmaster, was head of Hogwarts there was still house elves
working in the kitchens. Hogwarts was partly built on slavery and I can't see
why it took so long for the Wizarding World to step up and address the issue.
Hermione Granger, a pupil at Hogwarts, shouldn't have been the pioneer against
getting house elves out of the kitchen. Dumbledore should have thought about
this. When Harry and Dumbledore have a conversation about Kreacher, Dumbledore
says ...oh...hey you know what Kreacher has to obey you... and he actually doesn't seem
particularly empathetic about the cause whatsoever!
Is being a chef not a profession in the Wizarding World of Harry Potter?
Why don't they employ actual people for an actual wage to work in the kitchens?! Okay
We're gonna get to what a wizard can grow up and graduate to be later so
stay tuned. SO is there not a more efficient way to gain entry to the
common rooms? In the Goblet of Fire there was a special charm done that meant that
nobody under a certain age was able to put their name in and yes we know that that
was tricked but shouldn't the common rooms have some kind of special charm
that only allow people from that common room in. I mean obviously I don't
think there should be segregation anyway but that does seem like a weird issue to
me. There was a lot of creeping in and out of common rooms that shouldn't have
been crept in and out of also imagine if you were a Ravenclaw and you don't
get your common room riddle right.... like what are you supposed to sleep out there
on the staircase? Speaking of the staircases... moving staircases would be a
right old pain somebody should fix that! Like imagine climbing a staircase and it
being like nope you're going over here it just seems really inefficient! Why are you
wizards if you can't solve that problem! So a lot of people at Hogwarts including
Dumbledore knew that the Chamber of Secrets existed after the first time it
was opened and a student died.... I don't know about Hogwarts but in any
other school if a student had died in a situation that would be addressed!
Why was the Chamber of Secrets still allowed to be out there functioning? How
did they not dismantle it or keep a better watchful eye over it? It should been
you know filled with Wizarding concrete or something... it just doesn't seem like
people at Hogwarts learn from their mistakes! In general I do think security
at Hogwarts is extremely lax! So you can't Apparate into the castle or its
grounds but you can use the floo network to stick your face in any fire you want?
We learned this from Sirius Black. To me it seems like a weird double standard
Professor Quirrell managed to smuggle in a troll and nobody noticed!
Also at the same time mad-eye moody was kept in a magic trunk as prisoner for an
entire year and again nobody noticed! At the time the hogwarts did want to
increase security they decided to fill a school grounds with soul-sucking
Dementors! Dementors are not safe! To me this just seems like extremely bad
decision-making! I think expelling pupils from Hogwarts
is extremely irresponsible. *Hermione quote about being expelled*
I understand if they
break the law but expelling them for doing stupid things like using magic
outside of the school is downright insane. So there aren't other schools in the
UK that witches or wizards can go too... so what exactly do they expect these
people who have been expelled to do? They can't all be lucky like Hagrid!
These are witches and wizards that they're expelling and they don't really
get a choice in being a witch or a wizard. By expelling them from the only
school in their country they're kind of expelling them from the Wizarding
community altogether, which is pretty life-altering! Also this seems crazy at a
time where there is a dark arts group out there that really want to
attract the disenfranchised! Voldemort played off this kind of thing! It seems
crazy to me and there needs to be a better punishment system in place! Okay just
to round things off.... this is a lot of people's criticism of Hogwarts; the
curriculum it is absolutely outrageous!
So witches and wizards attend Hogwarts between the ages of 11 and 18 and in
that time they don't learn any mathematics or literacy, which seems like
really bad, especially given the fact that the muggles are out there doing it!
These witches and wizards might be expected to mingle amongst muggles one
day so that their cover isn't blown but actually they don't know any math's!
Also we know that the Wizarding World DOES have a mathematic system! We know
that there are nine knuts in sickle and seventeen sickles in a galleon
without a grasp of mathematics, how would Wizards ever know if they're being
ripped off? How can they do quick math in the mind? There is also a worrying lack of
Arts subjects; I feel like Wizards also need a creative
outlet - and we know that there are wizard musician bands out there so where
exactly do they learn that skill and where they nurture that skill. Everyone
thought that Luna Lovegood was crazy but actually she was very creative and
didn't have a creative outlet Why is there no creative magic subject I
think it would be fantastic! Imagine what you could do with wizard art it would be
incredible! I don't understand why one of the best witches and wizarding schools out
there isn't nurturing that creativity! Also why do they not learn any kind of
foreign languages we know that witches and wizards do speak different languages
so how exactly are they expected to speak to their mates at Durmstrang, like
it doesn't really make any sense unless they have some kind of magical Babel
Fish but I never read anything like that! Also, once again there needs to be more
muggle studies because if witches and wizards are expected to blend in with
the real world like they can't go around being really excited by cars and plugs!
Again we're back to witches and wizards careers....
what exactly is Hogwarts training them for if they don't want to be in auora or
work at the Ministry of Magic? I'm very confused!
So in my opinion that is
everything that is wrong with Hogwarts! Now this is just a discussion video
obviously I love Harry Potter and there's no huge shade but these are some
of my burning questions and I hope... obviously it's been 20 years since we've
read about the world of Hogwarts.... I hope in these past 20 years things have
changed! Guys do let me know if you agree with any of my points and if you disagree
let me know too! No fire in the comments section just like happy
Wizard chat! Let me know if you find anything wrong with Hogwarts... do you
think people should be broken up into houses? Fine sort me into Slytherin but
let me integrate! Let me share a common room of some Ravenclaw's I think that
would be awesome! So they're all my thoughts but today that's a lot of
thoughts! So if you liked this video make sure you give it a good thumbs up share
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see you snakes, badgers, lions and eagles next time! Bye!