hello everyone and welcome back to another video this is a series I've always wanted
to cover on the channel harry potter we're going to look at the history of vampires
and werewolves in the wizarding world how they get turned their abilities and more
one of my favorite actors Bill Nighy no not the science guy
plays the minister for magic Rufus Scrimgeour and you might know him because he plays victor
a vampire elder in the underworld movies and Davey Jones the actor Robert Pattinson plays
Cedrick Diggory but also plays a famous vampire from twilight Edward Cullen this is kind of
unrelated but I thought it was kind of cool the actor that plays young Gellert Grindelwald in the
original movies is the same actor who portrays one in the fourth season of stranger things
let's start with the vampires of the wizarding world since i feel like we know less about them
not much is said about vampires in the books or films we know that vampires are in fact real
because harry studies them in defense against the dark arts and harry does actually meet one vampire
in the book half blood prince Sanguini scenes were filmed for the movie including the vampire at the
slug club Christmas party but it ended up being cut you can still see him actually though in this
one scene standing right behind Luna vampires are considered a dark magical humanoid being
they are humans affected with the vampire curse I wonder if the curse came from some kind of spell
created by a dark wizard or if it was some kind of affliction passed from a magical creature when
someone feeds on the blood of a unicorn they are cursed with a half-life maybe to become a vampire
there's another creature you can feed off or kill that also leaves you cursed vampires are part of
the undead family with zombies and inferior there is something called the society for tolerance of
vampires which must have tried to get more rights for vampires and stop people from hunting them
the wizarding world did set guidelines to prevent their extinction and this is because they were
once human so they fall into the part human category which is treated a little more fairly
vampires seem to receive much less discrimination than werewolves for some reason
possibly because they're less likely to attack random people or they've just had less incidents
vampires feed on blood but it's been stated that they can consume regular food like pastries
the sweet shop Honey Dukes sells blood-flavored lollipops presumably for vampires in the novel
half-blood prince the vampire sanguine is seen being very interested in a group of girls
it's implied that young women are his favorite to feed on this could be the case for all vampires
or just him apparently some vampires can use a blood replenishing potion to sustain their hunger
vampires and harry potter are not immortal like in most series Carmella Sanguina lives to 196
and Amarillo last stat until 201 but many witches and wizards have also been known to live this long
and longer so it's not that impressive for the wizarding world Dumbledore lived until 115 but he
was murdered so he probably could have lived a lot longer Nicholas Flamel obviously lived for a very
long time but he kind of cheated it's unknown if vampires can reproduce but since vampires are dead
or undead they probably cannot procreate in the usual way it's not exactly clear
how someone becomes a vampire but presumably most vampires were once witches and wizards
it's unknown if a muggle could become a vampire usually only wizards become werewolves because
they're more likely to survive a werewolf attack this could also be the case with the vampire curse
werewolves keep their magical powers as seen with Remus Lupin and Fenrir Greyback but it's
unknown if a vampire also keeps their magical abilities since a vampire appeared at the slug
club party I would assume he does still have some magical ability or vampires might have
unique magical abilities of their own and don't require a wand similar to a house elf
it's also possible that when someone becomes a vampire they lose their ability to perform
magic we have no idea what kind of abilities a vampire from the wizarding world would possess
possibly super strength and speed enhanced senses transforming into a bat who knows
since the world is so rife with magic there's a lot of possibilities since vampires are usually
undead I wonder what would happen if they went through the veil or just looked at the veil
we don't know if vampires are weak to anything like silver or holy objects
but presumably since the vampirism curse comes from magic things like holy water
would have no effect vampires apparently don't like the smell of garlic dough
professor Quirrell said he had a run-in with vampires and now he hangs it around to keep
them away although garlic keeping vampires away could just be a myth
however he is the defense against the dark arts teacher so garlic could actually work
in 1913 during the defense against the dark arts lesson taught by then professor Dumbledore an
unnamed student had their Bogart assume the form of a vampire when the student cast the
ridiculous spell it made the vampire bogart take the form of a buck-toothed bunny rabbit
when professor lupin jumped in front of the bogart it showed the full moon
i wonder what a vampire would see if it stood in front of the bogart
the sun maybe Gilderoy Lockhart wrote a book with the title voyages with vampires about his alleged
meeting of vampires the book had information on a vampire that after an encounter with Lockhart
could eat nothing but lettuce as Lockhart was a fraud and took credit for other wizards
accomplishments the story about the eating vampire probably did happen but not to Lockhart
J.K. wrote in her early notes that she had a vampire named Trocar as part of the Hogwarts staff
imagine if there was a vampire teacher though would have been pretty cool there's also a
ghost teacher in the book which I always thought would have been really great for the films J.K.
wrote though that she decided that she didn't want vampires to play a big role in her stories because
there was already a lot going on now let's take a look at lycanthropy the werewolves of harry potter
werewolves are usually looked down on in the wizarding world since werewolves are usually
hunted by witches and wizards they are at much higher risk of becoming cursed in the late 19th
century the English authority on werewolves professor Marlo Forfang did a full study on
their habits nearly everyone that he studied was a witch or wizard before being a werewolf so
although it's possible and does happen sometimes it's unlikely for a muggle to become a werewolf
wizards live longer and are much more likely to survive an attack compared to a muggle
the professor also learned that muggles taste different to werewolves
this could also be another reason that it's more likely to spread among witches and wizards
the ministry classification for werewolves is 5x the most dangerous class the ministry of magic has
never been good at dealing with werewolf relations in 1637 they developed a werewolf code of conduct
werewolves were supposed to sign it promising they would not harm anyone it would lock themselves up
on full moons big surprise nobody wanted to admit to being a werewolf so nobody signed
later the werewolf registry suffered from the same problem so it's an unreliable source for
finding lichens they have been balanced between the beast and being division for years because
the ministry could not decide if they were human or beast eventually the registry was closed down
it was often a joke around the ministry that being sent to the werewolf registry meant that
you were soon to be fired Delores Umbridge was responsible for a werewolf legislation
that made it almost impossible for a werewolf to get a job so most of them live in poverty
how does someone become a werewolf well you must be bitten by a werewolf while it's in its wolf
form during the full moon once the saliva of a lichen reacts with the blood of the victim
they will become a werewolf turning into a werewolf is a painful ordeal your bones and
body growing to almost twice the size Remus howls and yells in pain when he transforms
unless treated the person will also suffer sickness for a few days before
and after the transformation we see Remus looking a little off and staring into the
grass sort of like an animal and Tonks says it's because the full moon is coming
when a werewolf takes its wolf form it completely loses its sense of right and wrong they would kill
their best friend if they got in their way that is unless your friends are Animagus when Sirius
and his friends would take their animal form they could roam the grounds with lupin in his
wolf form with no worries so werewolves are only dangerous to humans you may recall professor lupin
in serious fighting but that was only because Sirius was trying to protect harry and his friends
at one point professor lupin even tries to ignore Sirius to try to attack the kids and he has to
jump back in the way if there are no humans around werewolves will sometimes attack themselves out
of frustration which is why Remus has so many scars they also usually look prematurely aged
it's unclear if it's the physical or mental stress that causes this or a mixture of both
in the film the werewolf has a bit more of a human wolf hybrid appearance but in the
books werewolves are described as looking indistinguishable from a real wolf although
the snout may be slightly shorter pupils smaller and a tough tail instead of a full and bushy one
the easiest way to tell if it's a werewolf or just a wolf is the behavior genuine wolves are not that
aggressive and they will only attack humans in very harsh circumstances but werewolves hunt
humans exclusively and are little to no danger to other animals which I mentioned before people used
to think that wolves were very dangerous but this was most likely werewolves being misidentified
there is no cure for lycanthropy but the condition can be treated to make it easier for the person
many potions have been developed over the years to help werewolves but the most popular is wolfsbane
this potion when taken will allow the werewolf to retain their human mind while transformed this
eliminating the risk of attacking humans and doing something they might regret these potions are very
hard to make or very expensive to buy and because most werewolves live in poverty they go without
dementors cannot detect animals that's how Sirius escaped Askaban but I wonder if dementors would
be able to see werewolves if they don't affect Animagus I think a werewolf would also be safe
what about a vampire though since they're possibly dead
and might not have a heartbeat dementors might ignore them like they're not there
however vampires might still have a soul so dementors could still give him the kiss
according to Gilderoy Lockhart the amorphous charm could force a werewolf
back into human form however because Lockhart's reputation is again
a liar his information should be taken with a grain of salt but it's well known
that many of Lockhart's claims were based on true stories that other wizards told him
we learn in chamber of secrets that Lockhart would steal other wizards accomplishments and stories
and then erase their memory with a memory charm so even though Lockhart didn't do many of the
things that he wrote about there is a chance that the charm did in fact exist and actually work
some people think that when someone becomes a werewolf they're even vicious in their human form
however this is not always true professor lupin is very kind and normal when he's in human form
which is the case for most however you do have werewolves like Fenrir Greyback who try to bite
and savagely attack people even while in human form he also keeps his fingernail sharpened as
a form of attack like I stated before if you're attacked by a werewolf in human form you will
not become a werewolf you have to be attacked by them in wolf form however if they're attacked in
human form those people will sometimes take on wolf-like characteristics such as liking
raw meat but nothing too serious if a werewolf attacks you the wounds do not heal like normal
even if the werewolf is in human form bill is attacked by Fenrir Greyback and he remains
scarred for his life Fenrir leads a group of werewolves that fought for Voldemort in
the second wizarding war they believed that under Voldemort they would be treated better
but this didn't seem to be true death eaters looked down on them and they were
not even allowed to wear the dark mark they were basically just used as a way to threaten people
muggles have created a lot of myths and legends about werewolves but they're actually not weak
to silver silver does have its place in werewolf lore though we learned that when
someone is bitten or attacked the wounds don't heal properly and if it's a large
bite wound the person can die pretty quickly a mixture of powdered silver and dittany can
be used on a fresh bite wound to seal it off and prevent the person from bleeding
out although it's not uncommon for people to beg to die rather than become a werewolf
usually werewolves reproduce by attacking someone and turning them
but werewolves can reproduce with other werewolves or humans most werewolves were framed from trying
to have children due to the fear of passing on their condition when professor lupin had
a child with a wizard the child was born normal there's actually no evidence that
lycanthropy can be passed down through birth so why lycan's fear having children is a bit strange
although we don't know what would happen if the mother was a werewolf instead of the father
it's also unknown if their child just got lucky there might have been a possibility
of him being born a werewolf if two werewolves mate it's presumably the same as when a werewolf
and a human mate but there is something special that can occur with two werewolves
if they made on a full moon instead of regular children they will look exactly like wolves but
have human level intelligence and they are not aggressive toward humans this is extremely rare
and has only happened twice as far as anyone knows one of these litters of unique werewolf pups was
allowed to live on Hogwarts grounds under extreme secrecy by Dumbledore rumors spread of werewolves
in the forest and the teachers never tried to dismiss the rumors because they knew there was
no danger and it kept the kids out of the forest it said some of these wolves still live there
harry potter is one of my all time favorite series and I've always wanted to make a video about it
so hope you guys enjoyed and even if you've seen harry potter a lot like I have hopefully
learned something new Remus lupin is such a special character and I really like what they
did with werewolves and vampires and harry potter although I do wish we got a little more vampires
not a biased opinion prisoner of Azkaban is one of the best harry potter movies in my opinion
and the bogart scene will always hold a special place in my memory if I missed anything please
let me know and if there's any other movies or tv series you think I should cover leave it in the
comments as I always read them I have a list in my phone of a bunch of suggestions you guys have left
a couple that I've been thinking about recently is the vampires from American Horror Story
and also what we do in the shadows thanks so much for supporting the channel and if you
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thanks so much for watching and I'll see you in the next video