Harry Potter Theory: Why Didn't Voldemort Return as a Ghost?!
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J and Ben Carlin
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2019
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Today's video is brought to you by Candidco. |
| 0:02.9 | Hey brother! |
| 0:04.2 | Okay, so like I think we can all agree that the way that ghosts work in Harry Potter |
| 0:10.0 | is like a little unusual, like they can float through walls but then they also for some reason |
| 0:15.8 | seem to be able to like displace water and that's weird because the water also |
| 0:19.5 | seems to not like slow them down at all they can still just go straight through it so why |
| 0:25.2 | aren't we using ghosts to like explore the deep seas of the ocean? |
| 0:29.9 | Is it because they're like limited to the proximity in which they died or do Wizards just not care about ocean life? |
| 0:36.7 | But if they are locked to where they died, does that mean that like all of the Hogworts ghosts died at Hogwarts? |
| 0:44.0 | Seriously, why does everyone think this is such a safe place? |
| 0:46.5 | Marine exploration and water displacement aside. |
| 0:49.6 | Here is my real question, though. |
| 0:51.4 | At one point in time, nearly Headless Nick explains to Harry that he can't tell him what death is like or what serious is going through because as a ghost he's never actually died. In fact he tells him that serious won't come back |
| 1:06.6 | that he will have chosen to go on and that is the much more like noble thing to do. |
| 1:13.1 | And based on how the story ultimately builds up |
| 1:15.4 | to the point where Harry becomes master of death |
| 1:18.1 | and chooses to die, that theme seems to ring pretty true. |
| 1:21.5 | On the other hand, though, Harry's polar opposite. |
| 1:24.3 | Voldemort himself's greatest fear is dying. He has gone to such great lengths to not die and |
| 1:32.1 | he's also considerably not noble. |
| 1:34.8 | So the real question is why didn't Baltimore come back as a ghost? |
| 1:40.0 | Or maybe even more importantly, could he. |
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