The BIZARRE Reason Vernon Couldn’t Harm Harry | Harry Potter Theory

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J and Ben Carlin

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4.8 • 880 Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp - go to http://betterhelp.com/super to get 10% off your first month. This episode is sponsored by Shopify - Go to http://shopify.com/scb to sign up for your $1-per-month trial period. In today’s episode Ben explores a potential NEW power of the “Bond of Blood” charm that we had never previously considered. How far does its power extend? Just Voldemort? His agents? What about the Dursley’s themselves? A recent discovery may just change how we interpret this novel and obscure brand of magic. THROUGH THE GRIFFIN TOUR MIDWEST Tickets ON SALE NOW! https://supercarlinbrothers.com/events/ Midwest Tour Dates: Indianapolis, IN - 9/16 St. Louis, MO - 9/17 Des Moines, IA - 9/19 (SOLD OUT) St. Paul, MN - 9/20 (SOLD OUT) Milwaukee, WI - 9/21 Chicago, IL - 9/23 Detroit, MI - 9/24 (SOLD OUT) Cleveland, OH - 9/25 (SOLD OUT) #HarryPotter #SuperCarlinBrothers Written by :: Ben Carlin Edited by :: Ethan Edghill

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0:00.0	Today's episode is sponsored by BetterHelp.
0:02.0	26% of Americans recently surveyed have avoided seeking mental health support due to fear of being judged.
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0:16.0	Hey, brother!
0:17.0	Yo, let's talk about life at the Dursleys, because it's not great.
0:22.6	How many all then?
0:25.6	Bring my coffee boy!
0:26.6	Fortunely's escaping!
0:27.6	Our boy HP sure does endure some stuff during his tenure in the household.
0:32.6	And yet it's complicated, isn't it?
0:34.6	Dumbledore explains that Harry that many wizarding families would have been more than glad to
0:38.6	raise Harry as their own son.
0:40.8	And yet, he must return to the Dursleys.
0:43.5	Year in, year out, even once Harry has left for Hogwarts and made friends with the likes
0:47.7	of the Weaslies.
0:48.8	In fact, in year four, after Harry returns from the maze, we know that Mali goes so far
0:52.9	as to actually visit Dumbledore in his office to request that he comes straight to them for the summer instead of returning to the Dursleys, and Dumbledore refuses this request. She wouldn't ask him if you could come straight to us this summer, he said, but he wants you to go back to the Derslies, at least at first. Why? said Harry. She said Dumbledore's got his reasons. We will eventually learn what that reason is in Order of the Phoenix when Dumbledore finally
1:14.8	explains to Harry the ancient magic that he invoked when he was left on the Dersla's doorsteps
1:19.3	all those years ago, a special charm known as the bond of blood.
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