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Harry Potter Theory: Nitwit Blubber Oddment Tweak Explained

Super Carlin Brothers

J and Ben Carlin

News, Tv & Film, Entertainment News

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2019

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

You may recall these four bizarre words that Dumbledore chooses to address the student’s of Hogwarts after Harry is sorted into Gryffindor in his first year: Nitwit, Oddment, Blubber, and Tweak -- These words may be making a reference to each of the Hogwarts Houses and may have a much greater meaning than we might have thought. #harrypotter #wizardingworld

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0:00.0

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0:02.8

Hey brother, Nitt Quit, Oddbent, Blubber, and Tweak.

0:07.6

Now, to be honest, the very first time I ever heard Dumbledore speak these words,

0:11.9

I pretty much just thought they were

0:14.0

plain gibberish at best he was just sort of like poking fun at the way that people

0:19.2

are like now just a few words and then sort of like go off into distant ramblings forever.

0:24.4

You know Harry was just sitting there thinking like it's never a few words and it's been forever

0:29.7

since I ate those pumpkin pasties on the train.

0:32.4

Which by the way, what on earth is a pumpkin pasty?

0:36.4

Pasty?

0:36.9

It sounds like the type of thing they would make on the Great British Bake-Off

0:39.8

for like the round two, you know, the technical one

0:41.8

where nobody knows what it is.

0:43.0

And I could probably just look it up and find the answer, but I feel like finding out this way in the comments is going to be way more interesting.

0:48.0

But no, I think that Dumbledore selected these four words very carefully to come right after Harry sorting in his first year.

0:56.5

I think these four words represent the four houses.

1:00.6

Today, we explain. We explain.

1:03.0

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1:07.0

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1:13.8

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1:16.8

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1:21.4

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