Harry Potter Theory

Harry Potter Theory

Welcome to Harry Potter Theory! This podcast features Harry Potter Theories, Fantastic Beasts Theories, Explanations, Top Lists, News, Character Backstories, Fan Fictions & More!

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Top 20 Most POWERFUL Wizards & Witches in Harry Potter History (RANKED)

December 25, 2025 • 43 mins
Today we’ve got a bit of an interesting one. Earlier this year, I made two separate videos—one ranking the most powerful wizards, and the other ranking the most powerful witches. In those videos, I covered ten of each. And today, just over 10 months later, we’re going to pitting them against each other and taking a closer look at what the top 20 most powerful looks like..When both groups are ranked together. Before you watch,...
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What Were House Elves BEFORE They Served Wizardkind? - Harry Potter Theory

December 22, 2025 • 18 mins
If we go strictly by canon, then the only elves that we’re ever made privy to in the Harry Potter universe are house-elves—beings bound to magical servitude, owned by wizarding families, and expected to obey without question. But in one of my previous videos—The History of House-Elves—I introduced the idea that house-elves are likely not a natural, original species at all, but rather the end result of something that happened to el...
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What If Dumbledore Survived? (LUCIUS Kills DRACO?) - Harry Potter Theory

December 16, 2025 • 21 mins
This video is one part of a multi-part series. We left part 1 at the conclusion of the battle of the astronomy tower. Except, in this version of events... things went very differently. Dumbledore, alive and well, survived the battle because he never succumbed to temptation and put on the Gaunt Ring. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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What If Dumbledore Never Died? (How It Changes EVERYTHING) - Harry Potter Theory

December 12, 2025 • 20 mins
Dumbledore’s death was one of the most heartbreaking moments in the entire series, a turning point that shattered the illusion of safety Harry had always relied on. But not only that, it represented a distinct shift in innocence in the series- a moment that made it clear that no one, not even the greatest wizard alive, was beyond Voldemort’s reach. It also left things looking pretty bleak for the good guys, with Death Eaters taking...
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Voldemort Would Have Won If He Did This One Thing...

December 9, 2025 • 12 mins
Voldemort Would Have Won If He Did This One Thing... See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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How Are Wands CREATED? - Harry Potter Theory

December 6, 2025 • 14 mins
In the past I made a wand documentary that covered all of the wand materials- woods, cores, the lot. I even discussed wand FLEXIBILITY and SIZE, and how those things can be indicative of the type of wizard wielding the wand. But what I strangely never touched on…Was wand CREATION. Or rather, construction. How are wands actually..Made? And what makes this question increasingly interesting is just how few wandmakers there are in th...
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MASSIVE Harry Potter News Update (HBO Reboot Season 2, JK Rowling, Daniel Radcliffe & More!)

December 3, 2025 • 11 mins
It’s that time again. NEWS. Sorry for the voice, I’m sick. There’s been lots going on in the Wizarding World as of late, and that’s an exciting prospect because for a little while the Harry Potter buzz seemed to have died off a bit. Did it die? Absolutely not. But am I excited that there’s some new LIFE being injected into it across a number of different areas? Absolutely. From stage plays to Audible releases and new HBO updates,...
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Sorting the Harry Potter Characters Hogwarts NEVER Sorted - Harry Potter Theory

November 30, 2025 • 17 mins
Welcome to another instalment of Harry Potter Theory. Today, we’ll be taking a look at some of the most well known characters who show up in the Harry Potter series, but whose Hogwarts houses are never identified. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Sirius Black WASN’T KILLED in Rowling’s Original Draft? (A Very Different Ending)

November 26, 2025 • 13 mins
You probably remember Sirius Black’s death in Order of the Phoenix—a tragic moment amidst the Battle of the Department of Mysteries that seemed to instantly shift the entire tone of the story. But according to J.K. Rowling’s original draft, that wasn’t how Sirius was meant to die at all... See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn m...
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What Happens If You FAIL a Spell? (The DARK Side of Miscasting)

November 23, 2025 • 16 mins
Welcome to Harry Potter Theory. When a young witch or wizard has no understanding of magic, they rely entirely on the way that it’s taught to them. They copy sounds. They mimic gestures, and they perform rituals they barely understand.  At Hogwarts, students mostly imitate what their professors demonstrate, and long before that, in magical homes, young witches and wizards often pick up bits of magic just by watching their parents....
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When Harry Potter Fan Culture Goes TOO FAR (Snamione?!)

November 20, 2025 • 16 mins
Hey everyone, welcome to another installment of Harry Potter Theory. Many..In fact, most corners of the Harry Potter fandom are wholesome, creative, and endlessly imaginative… …but there’s one corner — a slightly strange, often bewildering corner — that sometimes even longtime fans tiptoe around. It’s a world where canon, logic, ethics and timelines are seemingly out the window. A world where a simple pairing can ignite hundred-pag...
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What Actually Happened to Voldemort’s Soul? (A Fate Worse Than Death)

November 16, 2025 • 18 mins
When Voldemort dies in the films, he disintegrates into thousands of pieces and blows away in the wind. And when he dies in the books, his body falls with a mundane finality—revealing something far more fitting. In the end, there is nothing grand or mythic about his death at all. He simply… dies.  But in the end, neither depiction of his death answers the real question. His body might fall or crumble, but that tells us nothing abo...
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Why Didn’t Voldemort Seek All 3 Deathly Hallows?

November 14, 2025 • 13 mins
We know Voldemort pursued one of the Deathly Hallows — the Elder Wand — said to be the most powerful wand in all of existence. And the reasons for that seem fairly self-explanatory. Voldemort craved power, and the wand would have been the perfect tool he needed for domination, supremacy, control. And from the moment he became aware of the wand’s existence, his pursuit was relentless. To Voldemort, it was the weapon that would fina...
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HUGE Harry Potter TV Show Update… No One Saw This Coming

November 10, 2025 • 10 mins
Hey everyone, welcome to another installment of Harry Potter Theory. It’s been nearly a decade and a half since the Harry Potter film saga came to an end.   And now, for the first time in ages, we’ve got a show on the horizon- set to debut sometime in 2027. But since the announcement of the show last year, we’ve been through an absolute whirlwind of new information. And that whirlwind doesn’t seem to be slowing down anytime soon....
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The Life of Rita Skeeter - Harry Potter’s Most HATED Journalist

November 7, 2025 • 23 mins
There are few witches in the wizarding world who can silence a room quite like Rita Skeeter. Not with a curse — but with a quill. With a quick scribble from her Quick-Quotes Quill, reputations trembled. Careers ended. Truth blurred. And somewhere, behind a thick layer of lipstick and lime-green fingernails, Rita Skeeter smiled with satisfaction. Hermione was certainly never shy in sharing what she thought of her: “You horrible w...
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The 8 Hidden RULES of Magic Nobody Talks About - Harry Potter Explained

November 3, 2025 • 18 mins
Welcome to another instalment of Harry Potter Theory. Today, we’ll be discussing a list of EIGHT Major things that magic simply CANNOT do. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Does Hogwarts LIE to the Parents of Magical Children? – Harry Potter Theory

October 31, 2025 • 10 mins
Welcome to Harry Potter Theory. Today, we’ll be discussing how ordinary Muggles react when they find out that their child is magical. The majority of Muggle-born witches and wizards do not discover that they are magical until they are invited to come study magic as a child. In the United Kingdom, this momentous occasion takes place the year of a child’s eleventh birthday by way of mail. Each young witch or wizard receives their le...
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Before Voldemort: The Untold Story of Quirinus Quirrell (1967-1992)

October 27, 2025 • 22 mins
The trembling stutter of a nervous man. A turban concealing a horrifying secret. And behind it all: the face of the Dark Lord himself. Quirinus Quirrell is often remembered as the timid, stuttering Defence Against the Dark Arts professor from Harry Potter’s first year at Hogwarts. Nervous, soft-spoken, and constantly hiding behind that signature purple turban — he appeared (at least at first) to be one of the least threatening fig...
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Inside the CHAOS of the New Harry Potter Reboot

October 22, 2025 • 13 mins
Hey everyone, welcome to another installment of Harry Potter Theory. Today’s topic is pretty simple — the upcoming Harry Potter TV reboot, and every controversy surrounding it. The show hasn't even aired yet, but between unexpected casting choices, creative reinterpretations, and the ongoing debate over J.K. Rowling’s involvement, the series has already managed to polarize the Harry Potter fandom — especially amid rumors of a gen...
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The REAL Reason Harry Beat Voldemort (CONFIRMED by JK Rowling)

October 19, 2025 • 10 mins
Welcome to another installment of Harry Potter Theory. In today’s video, we’re exploring a theory that challenges one of the series’ core assumptions: the belief that Albus Dumbledore was the Elder Wand’s rightful owner. Because according to some fans — and a closer reading of the events themselves — the wand’s true allegiance may not have been with Dumbledore at all. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California P...
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