Film Theory: Harry Potter, MORE VOLDEMORT than Voldemort!

Fair warning. The current

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will completely alter the way you watch movies 3 to 7, Part 2 (aka 8 to any sane human being), of the Harry Potter series. If you want to preserve the memories of them, watch them now because after today, you will never see the battle between these two magicians the same way again. Your childhoods have been warned. (HEDWIG THEME) Hello internet! Welcome to Film Theory, the show where I was going to do an episode about Fantastic Beasts, but frankly, the

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I wanted to go back and talk about a good old-fashioned Harry Potter.

You know that feeling when you have Scamander and you just want a little more Longbottom? You know what I mean? You know what I mean? YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN! Anyway, when revisiting ancient Potter lore to piece together the secrets of magical beasts, that will eventually become a

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, so don't get your Nifflers mixed up. I discovered something that literally changed everything I thought I knew about everyone's favorite boy who ever lived, and no, it's not something that's an obvious part of the story of history, at least I don't think so. In a strange way, Harry should be thanking Voldemort, otherwise he would have been fine, Neville.

On the other hand, Neville's also surprised me when I put all the pieces together, but apparently it was old news for a bunch of Potterheads, but hey, sorry, I'm not the kind of person who remembers by heart what the Dursleys were about! having breakfast the morning Harry was invited to the Quidditch World Cup! It was grapefruit, right? I think it was grapefruit (it's MATPAT). That's my answer. Grapefruit. Let me know in the comments if I'm right. Anyway, the theory depends on an ancient form of magic, number magic, also known as MATH. (Oh no!) Man, can you think how excited everyone would be if their 5th period class was number magic instead of math?

Math, real talk, you have a branding problem, and it's no wonder Harry and company didn't solve it themselves, since number magic isn't even a subject they're taught. (Fun fact: It's called Arithmancy in the wizarding world) But don't worry because I've got you covered, so get on those Firebolts because we're leaving. For this theory we have to go back, way back... to Harry Potter Part 6. Long before Harry made the ultimate fan move and named his son Albus Severus Potter. *The price is the right sound of failure* We get this scene, where we see Tom Riddle, aka Pre-Voldemort, learning how to split his soul using dark magic: "It's called, as I understand it, a Horcrux." It's the first time we hear Tom Riddle specifically mention Horcruxes, which we know he then uses to divide his soul into little slices of soul pie and stuff them into pretty much anything he can get his hands on, from books to mugs. snakes, SNAKES not SNAKES.

Seriously though, how awesome would it be to have Snapes on a plane? Get these mo (of course) Snapes off my mother's plane (of course)! Samuel L. Jackson must have failed in potions. Oh, and by the way, this joke in fond memory of Alan Rickman. We certainly miss you, sir. T^T Now, enough of the sadness let's get back to the theory, as Slughorn mentions in the scene, talking about Horcrux is no laughing matter. "This is something very dark, very dark indeed." Tom probably says what we're all thinking: "I didn't quite understand that." Like the cheeky little rascal that he is, but in all seriousness, how does this work?

Because if you really stop and think about it, there are some pretty serious implications to this whole Horcrux thing that aren't explored in the books or the movies, so before we go. There let me remind you of the mechanics of dividing your soul. This one's for all of us who aren't tough enough to have yawned through Part 1 of Deathly Hallows fifteen times. Let's be honest for a second, we can all agree that Ron being gifted and brought back by a Deluminator is a pretty ridiculous moment, right? Am I the only one who still thinks that? Because seriously, the thing only takes away the light from things;

He also doesn't have a magical teleportation device. That's just random. You must be jk, J.K. Anyway, a Horcrux is an object that contains or hides part of someone's soul, thus allowing them to survive in case someone kills their original body. It's like a bank, but instead of money you store souls, like a real bank! Have you seen those interest rates lately? Seriously, less than 1 percent? What are you doing economics? Anyway, in the scene we saw before Slughorn does some really helpful exposition by telling us that to create a Horcrux we have to commit a murder, then somehow use the life energy transferred during that murder to split your own soul for the half and, in a sense, tear off part of your body and place it on the nearest object of your choice.

Preferably something with a little staying power and not that week-old block of cheese in the back of your refrigerator, although I admit that stuff has been there for a while and at this point I'm not going to touch it, so maybe maybe that cheese. It is the safest vessel for that soul. Anyway, based on the information in the books and movies, the actual mechanics of soul cutting and soul transfer are a little confusing, but it's not like we're writing an eHow page on the topic. We understand the general point that when you create a Horcrux you are dividing your soul in half between your body and an object and that tells us everything we need for today's theory, which is why Tom Riddle and (Professor) Slughorn talk about dividing the soul in seven pieces but we all assume that they are seven equal pieces.

It definitely isn't. Every time Voldemort splits his soul in half, he only leaves half of the soul remaining in his own body; then, the next time he creates a Horcrux, he splits in half again. And again. So what does that mean? Well, let's go over some history that must not be named to see how it all plays out. It begins in 1943 with a whole soul. This conversation with Slughorn occurs after the school year begins in 1943, when Tom is 16 years old. In Chamber of Secrets, we learned that Tom Riddle puts his 16-year-old soul into his diary. Thus creating the first Horcrux.

To create this Horcrux, he kills Moaning Myrtle, which we also confirm when he describes her killer as a child who speaks a strange language. "But they said something funny, some kind of made-up language." (A Tom Riddle speaking in Parseltongue) With a Horcrux made, the one who should need a rhinoplasty has up to 50 percent of his soul, and the other 50 percent is locked in the diary. At this point we know then that The Diary is the Horcrux that contains the highest percentage of Voldemort. After that, the creation of each Horcrux is supposedly tied to a major murder committed by Tom, at least according to J.K.

Rowling in a rule that we will see her break in just under 45 seconds. Now, when Tom kills his father, Tom Riddle Senior, he creates the Horcrux Marvolo Gaunt Ring that we see on his finger in the scene with Slughorn. This is around the time he created the diary, also when he's 16 or 17, and since we're taking half of Voldemort's remaining soul, this means the Gaunt Ring is 25 percent Tom and Tom himself is down to 25 percent, and his prospects are falling rapidly. Then, he kills Hepzibah. Hepzibah. I don't know how to say your name Hepzibah, but I'll say it that way because it's fun to say.

He then kills Hepzibah Smith in 1945, followed by a random muggle like I said, J.K. breaking your own rule. Anyway, two characters aren't actually in the movies, but were confirmed in a web interview with JK Rowling in 2007. Tom kills them both and divides their soul into the Hufflepuff Cup we see in Goblet of Fire and the Locket. Slytherin showing at Sirius Black Estate, so these Horcruxes are 12.5 percent soul and 6.25 percent soul, and Tom himself has been reduced to 6.25 percent. If you think about what that means, it's actually not surprising that as he rises to power you see him begin to change physically in response to the draining of his soul.

If you could lose more than ninety-five percent of your soul and only be missing some pigment from your skin, hair, and nose, all things considered it's not a bad trade-off for immortality. Just say. Anyway, the next Horcrux is from 1956, The Ravenclaw Diadem. (The subber is a Ravenclaw) We meet Voldemort. (Ravenclaw squad, where are you?) He returns to Hogwarts at this point to ask Dumbledore to become the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, which Dumbledore turns him down. After that, Voldermort, get this, curses the position and everyone who holds it from then on, hence the reason why every year there is a new master in the position.

I honestly didn't know until I read all the lore bits on the Pottermore site. It's not crazy? Voldermort is like the biggest sore loser of all time, and it's worth mentioning that this is probably Voldermort's most effective spell in the entire series. Anyway, JK Rowling has also confirmed in several interviews that Voldemort cursed the position and the curse was not broken until he died, and since he was in the neighborhood anyway, he hid the Diadem Horcrux in the Room of Requirement, which which despite what it says about it in the book, was ridiculously easy to find.

Here's a brilliant idea. Let me hide this item in a room that, if someone needs to kill me, will make sure it appears just in time for that person, what a great hiding place! Then again, I guess he demanded that the room be hidden so he wouldn't die, so now we have the Room of Requirement as a favorite. I see, of course, that you are also choosing Team Harry. Anyway, even shorter short story, if Malfoy hadn't shown up, the whole thing would have taken like three minutes, but I digress. The important thing here is that at 30 years old Voldemort's soul has been reduced to 3.125 percent of his original soul, and despite talking about this grand plan to split the soul into seven pieces;

He must be absolutely bad at counting because he actually stops counting at six. Five elements and the original soul of it. Way to do a job only 857 hundredths of the way, Voldie, because yes, at that point Voldemort takes a little nap for about 30 years. I don't know, maybe he's afraid of more appendages falling off, which is why there isn't another Horcrux creation until 1981. That's the time Voldemort attacks Harry Potter, and it's not even an intentional Horcrux creation. I don't think this guy will ever make it to seven. By the way, as a side note, does anyone else notice that Voldemort is 54 years old when he attacks Harry?

I always assumed he was in his thirties, and that's still decades before the book. He is literally 70 years old when we see him return to power. That is crazy. Do people give the guy a hard time for looking as tough as him? Pfff. Come on. If I look like this when I'm 70, then I must have had some plastic surgery because he's really missing key features of his face. It is also worth mentioning that in real life Harry Potter would be almost 40 years old. Ugghhhh makes me feel sad and old. Anyway, we all know the story, when Harry Potter and Voldemort meet, Voldemort's spell rebounds and he inadvertently splits his soul again, turning Harry into the unwilling Horcrux.

Now, there is some debate about Harry's real Horcrux, but in a web interview with J.K. Rowling on the Leaky Cauldron site, she directly confirms that Harry Potter is indeed the last involuntary Horcrux, so for this episode I'm with her. The important part here is that when the attack occurs, Voldemort's soul splits again. His body basically vaporizes and turns the remaining 1.5625 percent of his soul into some kind of strange floating spirit that then attaches itself to the back of Professor Quirrell's head like some kind of facial leech. This also means that we have identified exactly how much Voldermort there is in Harry.

Just over 1.5 percent. Maybe that's what Harry's scar really is, just a little bit of soul on his forehead, you got something, just uhh, lick your thumb and something small right there that uhh... Leave me alone... since I don't No I have a mother, I have to do it for you. OOOHH that hurts. So what does all this tell us as the Harry Potter series begins? Well, first of all the entire Potter series is based on a 1.5 percent soul mass, which seems to take a bit of the seriousness out of this series. It also tells us that when Harry destroys the Horcruxes, some of them matter much more than others.

The first one Harry destroys is actually the most important because it literally contains half of Voldermort. Half. Fifty percent. More than any other Horcrux, and much more than Voldemort himself at the end of the series, so actually, at the end of book 2, Voldermort is mathematically, for the most part, dead. From there, the Horcruxes are destroyed in practically the same order in which they were created, effectively eliminating 96.875 percent of the soul ofVoldemort before the final movie even begins. Very good, but I listen to you remember the trivia of the Harry Potter movie and you will see what I leave here.

It's not the elephant in the room; It is the SNAKE. Any true Potterite knows that Nagini is also a Horcrux in the series, but that I haven't mentioned at all yet. Well, here's why. Nagini was created in 1994, 13 years after he met Harry Potter. During Harry's fourth year, Nagini becomes Voldermort's last attempt to split his soul into even smaller soul crumbs, but what this means for this series is the really fascinating part because at this point with the creation of the Final Horcrux, Voldemort's soul splits into one. last time leaving him with just 0.78 percent; less than 1 percent of his original soul, meaning Nagini has the other 0.78 percent.

With so little left, it's no surprise that Voldy is unable to effectively use the Elder Wand at the end of the series. Yes, yes, I know the real explanation given in the movies is about taking apart the Elder Wand from other wizards, but that's a completely different episode in itself, my friends, but what's even more shocking about this revelation is Which means that Harry Potter himself, from the fourth

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to the end of the series, is more Voldemort than Voldermort. In fact, he is literally Voldemort's double as Voldemort! As of the fourth

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, Tommy Riddle has a 0.78 percent soul.

Harry, since his birth, is rocking 1.5 percent Voldemort, and when you stop to think about it that way, the last few battles of this series are really anticlimactic. They are literally fighting for a villain with a health bar of less than 1 percent. In this epic battle for Hogwarts, the big bad wizard is just a fraction of a fraction of a fraction, so there you have it. Definitive mathematical proof supported by the author and lore that Harry Potter is more Voldermort than the real Voldermort in the Harry Potter series. Makes you look at it a little differently, huh?

Every time you see Harry on screen, you're literally watching the largest percentage of the Dark Lord walking in the entire series. Oh yeah, and if you want one last thing to completely ruin the way you'll view Harry Potter from now on, Daniel Radcliffe starred in the Broadway production of Equus in which he rides a horse naked, so have fun. Google image searching for that one. Put away your wand Harry! Save it! but hey, that's just a theory... a film theory! And cut!... Accio, subscribe button and remember that it is called a subscribe button and not a subscribe button, so please work your own magic and click the subscribe button like I mentioned, since Fantastic Beasts is a new series, you can bet theories are on the way! about that and if subscribing isn't your thing then do me a favor, click on your favorite character, Harry, Ron or Hermione.

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