Harry Potter Theory: The Giant Squid Explained AT LAST
Super Carlin Brothers
J and Ben Carlin
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2019
⏱️ 14 minutes
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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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