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Super Carlin Brothers

Harry Potter Theory: The Giant Squid Explained AT LAST

Super Carlin Brothers

J and Ben Carlin

News, Tv & Film, Entertainment News

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2019

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Today J dives into the Black Lake of Harry Potter and tries to solve the mysteries of the GIANT SQUID and its purpose in the Wizarding World

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey brother Ben, Hogwart's Castle has many mysteries like how do the paintings

0:06.2

consume alcohol like does their drink ever run out?

0:09.3

Why is hairy content to talk to the painting of Albus Dumbledore, like, does he count as the real guy?

0:14.4

And are you telling me not one single portrait saw the giant basilisk slithering through the hallways

0:19.5

and chamber of secrets?

0:20.5

I mean, look at this shot, like how many paintings even are there 36

0:23.9

counted them myself personally I think it's more but maybe someone didn't pay

0:27.2

their math budget also maybe it's possible I just don't understand how the paint

0:30.4

works in Harry Potter paint aside though there is one giant thing living at

0:35.4

Hogwarts that I feel like we never got much of an explanation for and that is

0:40.0

the giant squid living in the lake.

0:43.2

What in the name of Marlin's pants is even the point of this thing? Hey Brother!

0:55.0

Ben, question for you.

0:57.0

How do you make a squid laugh?

1:00.0

Ten tickles.

1:02.0

Oh, sorry, really, cracking myself up there.

1:05.0

That's going to be a good video.

1:07.0

The Giant Squid has been around in Harry Potter

1:10.0

since the beginning, and I mean like the beginning, even in JK Rolling's earliest sketches of Hogwarts Castle, she made sure to include in the middle of the lake the giant squid.

1:22.0

Like she even references it in her notes as is the Wamping Willow which I just love by the way because it just shows how much of the story she actually had planned in advance

1:31.0

but with that in mind the Wamping Willow serves several major

1:35.1

plot elements like Harry and Ron crash into it. Ron breaks his wand which makes

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