Plumbing the Death Star - What if Hagrid was 5 Years Too Late?
Episode Date: June 11, 2017In which our heroes need to save Harry Potter, tell ‘im he’s a wizard, and tell ‘im how to win the triwizard cup but fuck up and are five years too late as we ask what if Hagrid fucked up and wa...s five years too late? Check out our upcoming lives shows and purchase your tickets for our UK tour right here; http://www.sanspantsradio.com/live/ Want to help support the show?Sanspants+: sanspantsplus.comPatreon: patreon.com/sanspantsradioPodkeep: sanspantsradio.podkeep.comUSB Tapes: audiobooksontape.comMerch: redbubble.com/people/sanspantsradio or teepublic.com/stores/sanspantsradio Want to get in contact with us?Email: sanspantsradio@gmail.com Twitter: twitter.com/sanspantsradio Website: sanspantsradio.comFacebook: facebook.com/SansPantsRadioReddit: reddit.com/r/sanspantsradio Or individually at;Duscher: twitter.com/dusch13Jackson: twitter.com/AlldogsaredeadZammit: twitter.com/GoddammitZammit Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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of plumbing the death star where we ask the important questions like what if hagrid fucked
up and was five years too late and And this episode's dedicated to Angelica.
So, like, he just took a wrong turn.
He swear to bike didn't start.
He just took a five-year bend off. It's real vague wording,
because, like, Hagrid fucked up.
And was five years too late.
This is a SansPantsPlus suggestion, so here we are.
Usually what happens with these questions,
if someone submits one and we're like,
we don't quite know what they mean,
we will either fix it a little bit
so that we know what we're talking about,
or we'll incorporate it into a different episode.
With this one, that's way too tantalizing to leave alone.
Because there's so much to unpack there what event is hagrid five years too late for all right because we'll start with the very first event that hagrid is involved in in the books which is what
if hagrid was five years too late to godric hollow short answer harry dies of malnutrition rocks up
five years later
Harry lost to the elements
maybe just, I don't know
surely
like
social service
like wizard child services
no, just like
there is a baby in this bird down
oh my god
like Hagrid knew that was oppressive like five years There is a baby in this burnt down... Oh my god! I like it. Yeah.
Like, Hagrid knew that was oppressing.
Like, five years is such a long time to then still go back.
That's my favorite part of the question. So before Hagrid got on his bike and grabbed this crying baby,
the Department of Child Welfare, shall we say,
were like, my god, there's a house on fire.
It's a baby!
We've got to rescue the baby!
Who's this baby?
I guess they would deliver it to Aunt Petunia to be honest
But not necessarily if Harry had another family
that like, weren't as
good a camouflage
as the Dursleys were
I just like that fucking
because it's not like, what if Hagrid doesn't
turn up, it's what if he was five years too late?
So he still goes.
So Hagrid's still at some point like...
Shit!
I wasn't meant to do that thing!
You've got two options.
Either one, the Department of Social Service has grabbed Harry
and done Hagrid's job for him and delivered him to Arpitunia.
Yep.
Or he became a feral boy.
Woodland child.
The Godric Hollow
feral boy. It's in all of the papers.
Living off rats?
Well, that's more pleasant than
a dead kid that I said at first.
Do you think when Hagrid arrives five years too late
he's going to wreck? Is Hagrid
the kind of guy when he's like, oh,
I was meant to do this and
he goes in and he's like well there's nobody in the house the house is there's a new house here
it's been sold is he gonna look around is he gonna be like oh wow
gee i fucked up i was five years late i like to think haggard's five years like can we try and
find a reasonable explanation
because there's two that I can imagine
I was thinking going to a wrong house
but then why would he be like
for example he goes to like
just a random house like
baby is there, grabs that baby
gives that baby to Aunt Petunia
Dumbledore's like good
and then five years later
shit, probably
I like to think he's like
Hagrid we've sent you a message
an address for you to go to
and it's like Godric Harlow
this is in South Africa
Godric Harlow
South Africa well I guess
hops on his bike
does a journey
has quite an adventure
I can't find this place anywhere
oh fuck
alright so that's either dead Harry I can't find this place anywhere. Oh, fuck.
All right.
So that's either dead Harry or weirdly nothing changes except Hagrid gets fired.
Yeah, Hagrid gets mad at him.
And because he still ends up with Aunt Petunia or we have Feral Harry.
I like Feral Harry.
I think Feral Boy, the Feral Boy of Godric Hollow is my favorite as well.
Because does Hagrid rescue the Feral Boy of Godric Hollow? I don't think he does.
I think Hagrid's left it five years.
It's spectacular he's come back.
But he's still working up five years too late.
Yeah, but he's there.
Then he's basically got to acquire Feral Harry.
And then he's got to give Feral Harry to the Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon.
Who at this point have another have
a five year old
spoiled brat
yeah
and then Harry's
gonna be like
Harry's gonna bite
actually you know
they're gonna love that
they'll put him in a cupboard
he'll be fine
give him like fish heads
ah easy done
he's a feral boy
is Dumbledore gonna want
a feral boy at Hogwarts
but then
he'll eat up the hat
when they put it on him
but this is the problem
will Hagrid tell Dumbledore he fucked up no boy at Hogwarts. He'll eat up the hat when they put it on him. But this is the problem.
Will Hagrid tell Dumbledore he fucked up?
No.
Yeah, he's there.
You're a wizard, Harry.
A wizard.
So the seven years you had him there, Vernon,
and you didn't do anything
The idea of Hagrid just telling Numbledore
He wasn't there
And you found the boy
He wasn't there
I went there and I couldn't find him
Guess he nicked off into the woods
I suppose he might have gone feral
I don't know why
He's going very well You went feral did he I suppose he gone feral. I don't know why. He's going very well.
He went feral, did he?
I suppose he went feral, maybe.
I still love laughing
where I thought that's... My brain foot in the blank
was like, suppose he went fishing.
A newborn went fishing.
I don't know. He wasn't there.
Well, you come up with a better explanation,
Dumbledore. You old wizard
fuck. He's a very talented boy, that one, isn't he?
He could go fishing if he wants to, Albus.
Maybe it's the boy who fished.
Tell me, have you ever not seen a boy go fishing?
Maybe he found one of his dad's rod?
Would?
Here's a question.
So, you know, you do magic outside of school.
It's like a crime.
Unless, no, until you graduate.
But what my question is, is that if Harry remained a feral boy,
and they say he starts doing magic illegally,
would the ministry just like, they don't know it's Harry.
No, well, that's because when he makes the glasses appear,
there's not a bunch of people come down and just tackle him.
But I mean, at a certain point.
He'd be a snake king.
Oh, he would. He'd be a snake king! I would.
He'd talk to all of the river snakes.
What are the snakes they got in Britain?
Asps?
Vipers?
Oh, man.
Imagine this.
You're going into the forest, and at a distance, you just hear this...
And then an army of snakes come at you. What's that? And then you just hear this and then like an army of snakes coming what's that and
then you just see this like four-year-old just like there's a snake slithering all over him like
what's this he's like i'm hungry he can make clothes out of snakes and that's good i like
to imagine voldemort finding out and just being like what the fuck like one of his death it is
like dark lord we found him he's a feral boy yes a feral boy to be honest if the deathers is like, Dark Lord, we found him. He's a feral boy. A feral boy?
To be honest, if the Death Eaters
were like, what's this? You're the
reincarnation of Voldemort.
I guess you're Voldy? Come back, you put his soul in you.
Voldemort wouldn't know because Voldemort's gone.
Voldemort's on the back of Quirrell, presently.
Waiting for the Harry Potter
to come to school, not realising if Death Eaters
are worshipping feral snake boy in a forest.
Well, it is 1997, yes.
Yes.
Well, I don't know.
I just thought he'd be here this year.
Can you see him?
Go ask Dumbledore.
Dumbledore?
The boy who lived out lived Where is he?
That almost turned into fucking
Porky Pig
Dumbledores folks
That was a worse impression than I've ever done
Yeah it was garbage
Where's that boy who lives
Where'd he go
He went
Faro
He's amongst lives, I'll be ready to go. He went feral.
So they say what?
He's amongst the woodland critters.
I went to go pick him up, but he wasn't
bloody there.
He belongs to the river now.
Oh, he went fishing.
What
fishing you say? The boy who
fished.
I like your Hagrid accent
It's like Yogi Bear
I hear he went fishing
I hear the boy who lived went fishing
Yeah but he goes in there
Into the forest and just steals people's
Picnic baskets
Well clearly it was just chaos
If Hagrid doesn't.
I feel like
it's going to be just like
there's a quirrel
sitting there
like just like
defeated
like what
looking at like a mirror
but like a mirror behind him.
I don't know what happened.
What do you mean
you don't know?
Where is
the boy?
A feral boy.
They did say a feral boy.
The feral boy who fished.
That's really
that's a shock
frankly.
I guess Hagrid was five years too late.
I guess he fucked up.
Are we going to go after the boy
or? I mean like let's just get the stone
honestly. I mean he's not here
to stop us. He's feral.
He doesn't know. He's not going to fight back.
Alright so let's trap him in a cage.
So he's five years too late. Dumbledore's mad at him. He's not going to fight back. All right, so let's... Trap him in a cage. So he's five years too late.
Dumbledore's mad at him.
He's not going to get fluffy.
Because Dumbledore's not going to trust Hagrid with this.
That's true.
But they might put a different thing.
So there's going to be a different thing there.
A more competent one.
He's fine.
Imagine if they put a Feral Harry in that room instead.
Jesus!
Oh, fuck me.
That's fucked up.
That pile of
snakes is a boy!
I'm the Dark Lord, and that shit's
fucked. And I've killed
people. Ron and Hermione
never get together, that's alright.
They never even meet. Hermione's just like, ooh, he's
poor.
And he's probably along the lines of
like
I don't know
who would
who would Ron be friends
with
probably like
Neville and Seamus
well as soon as they get
like Lamus
as soon as they get
Harry into the
five years till late
because he's gonna
enter the first year
as like
a fifth year
yeah
and they're just gonna
shove the hat at him
and it's just gonna be
Slytherin
oh Jesus Slytherin! Oh, Jesus, Slytherin!
Michael, this man is shitting snakes!
It's just snakes coming out of everything!
Oh, Jesus!
Wait, no, so he's, hang on, where's he getting...
Because if he's a feral boy, so he's five years too late,
so at the age of five, he's a feral boy,
and then presumably they catch him,
so he's still going to be there in year seven.
So he's still going to be in year seven so he's gonna
be so the take in the hog was he's gonna be rolled up like a cannibal lexer oh yeah yeah
they're gonna put the sonic hat on him and it won't just yell slither and it'll just scream
i like to think they'll be like well we've got to teach him charms i was like we're gonna teach
him english actually all right five years, that's developmental
years there.
He's got raised by snakes
from zero to five.
Can you teach a boy to unhinge
his jaw?
Six to ten.
Or six to twelve.
Surely the Vernon and
Petunia have at least...
They'll have to be
sending him somewhere else
two regular parents
are not well equipped enough to deal
with a child of age of five that's been
raised by snakes
plus in all of those stories where
a child is raised by
animals, those animals always try and get them back
so Hagrid has grabbed him
given him to the dirties
Daryl's like, no, no thank you.
Then you've got the whole army of snakes in the wings waiting, being like, we need him back.
Too bad, isn't it? He's your kid now.
Because Hagrid is irresponsible, the snakes are going to grab him again and then chuff off with him.
So is the argument here that he is being raised by snakes from 0 to 5,
then kidnapped by snakes at 5,
to then be raised by snakes from 5 to 12?
You know, realistically, I think they would give him to...
Because wizards don't have a terrible grip on reality.
Just anything.
So I think the moment Hagrid's in Dumbledore's office,
he's got Harry by the scruff of his neck,
Harry's scratching with his filthy fingernail, and Dumbledore's like, he's got Harry by the scruff of his neck Harry's scratching with his filthy finger
And Dumbledore's like
Well he's almost like a fantastic creature
I think you should look after him
Hagrid
Put him in a small pen
I think Hagrid's looking after
A feral Harry that the kids can come and see
And poke
Here's my new fantastic creature
It's the boy who was raised wrong
it's the boy who fished
do you hear about the boy who lived
this is him
he's the boy who lived wrong
and then you have Hermione
and that's the first book there
is like them being like
you know he's been here for five years
he's the boy who
fished and lived.
Wrong.
And lived wrong.
Everyone gather round.
Don't get too close now.
Here's a bucket of slop.
Throw it at him.
Who wants to feed the boy?
And Malfoy's going to, like, you know, do something.
And then Hermione's going to be like, he's a real boy.
Isn't he the boy who lived?
This is fucked up.
That's a person.
I was raised by muggles.
I got a better
idea on this than you guys.
Book one's gonna be
the liberation of Feral Harry.
Book two is gonna be
like
Harry Potter and the My Fair
Lady. But also,
book two is when Basilisk
comes. So I think just like by the second
book, Tom Riddle wins.
Well, that makes sense.
Yes and no, because there's so much involved with Harry
that it's for book two to happen.
With book one, arguably, if Harry's not there, Quirrell hasn't died.
Yeah, that's true.
So Quirrell is still around in book two,
and then Voldemort's going to be chuffing about at the same time.
Couldn't Voldemort just find his young self's diary and give it a read?
Maybe.
That's my point.
I think by the second book, Voldemort wins.
But that's only if...
No, because he's not going to win.
He's just going to be a basilisk young Tom Riddle.
But Harry kills the basilisk.
But at this point, he might befriend him.
But why would they let that?
Because that Harry was like,
I've got to solve the mystery of the Chamber of Secrets.
This Harry's like...
So, like, no one's going to look into it.
Well, this Harry has been raised by snakes,
and he's going to be like, he wants to be the alpha snake.
And he's rattling in the walls of the...
That's how snakes work, yeah.
And he's rattling in the walls of the female toilets and whatever,
and they're going to be like, there's a basilisk in there they're gonna cut open the pipe and it's gonna be harry
chewing the head off a basilisk
yeah it's a great snake king he's also possessed by a devil at this point i guess
it's like there's only one thing that spiders run from a basilisk or a feral boy
um and that's this is all only situations if...
Situation A.
In this situation A,
where Hagrid is late to Godric Hollow by five years.
Yeah.
The next time where Hagrid needs to do something is...
Situation B.
Situation B, which is Hagrid rocking up
to tell Harry that he's a wizard.
Which is five years too late for that.
Five years too late for that is funny
because Dumbledore sent those letters by hour that kept getting ignored Harry that he's a wizard. It's five years too late for that. Five years too late for that is funny because
Dumbledore sent those letters by hour that kept
getting ignored until they go to that island
which then Hagrid arrives at.
So it's funny that Hagrid had a pretty clear
mission.
I don't know how he got lost again.
Five years.
So he spent
five years trying to hunt down
and maybe look, look, Vernon
and Petunia were all good.
They just like, just keep zipping about the country town,
ignoring the letters and like going on the lam.
So like his education has suffered.
Straight up.
Well, again, not more than normal.
Yeah.
It's much more much.
Actually, probably better education because he would have been homeschooled.
Yes, by trash people, but like.
They educated trash people.
But there's two situations here
because that means that
Hagrid's less late and more
Vernon and Petunia...
Yeah, that's true. It's got to be late.
It's got to be something came up
when he decided not to be in that island
for five years.
Well, just assume that rather than being homeschooled
that they move the island for a bit,
the letters stop, then they go back to Pivot Drive.
I like to imagine that Hagrid arrives at Pivot Drive.
They're not there, and he's like, gets on his phone.
I don't know.
Dumbledore, I think he's dead.
Hangs up.
Dumbledore's like, well, I guess I won't send any more hours.
That's grim.
That's one horcrux done.
Okay, I guess that's kind of good. That finds out later. Dumbledore, I think well, I guess I won't send any more owls. That's grim. That's one horcrux done. Okay, I guess that's kind of good.
That finds out later.
Dumbledore, I think he's gone feral.
I think he's feral boy.
I like to imagine...
I hear you went to an island to go fish.
McGonagall, could you please get Hagrid into my office?
Guess what we found, Hagrid?
What?
I honestly could not think of one possible thing.
Did you find that spider I let loose
I mean nothing
is that basilisk back
no
what is it
remember that Harry Potter lad
the one that died yeah
no
there's two of us
Hagrid's
aye this is just one of the many problems of having a magic school there's two of us Hagrid's I
this is just one of the many problems of having a magic
school
sometimes you get two of the same guy
it's cool we roll with it
so when you went to find Harry Potter
the first time
I assume you came upon an
empty privet drive
yes I did
And your evidence for Harry's death
There was no one home
Right
Where else could he have been but dead
The two of you are fired
Because we found him
I'll go get him
Did you not check for a forwarding address
Look I knocked on the house door.
Ari, are you in there?
I don't need a recreation of it, Hagrid.
And then I was like, Ari, if you're not there, I'm going to assume you're dead.
And he didn't answer.
Ari, if you don't respond, you're dead.
And he didn't respond.
Bloody dead.
A sound argument. Well he didn't respond. Bloody dead! That's sound argument.
Well it's not.
Even a bit.
I'll go get him. And then
Hagrid gets Harry to tell him
he's a wizard but Harry is now 16.
Harry is a very fucked up
16 because his formative years were spent
under a fucking stairs and he
never had any hope. Plus the
Dozers are going to be mad at him for that
three week period where they got a lot of
letters and L's. And they're going to
beat it out of him. Alternatively?
Does that mean that
there's a scene where Dobby comes to
Harry and is like, Harry Potter
must not go to Hogwarts. And he's like,
what? What you fucking
say, you little prick?
Who are you? What are you?
Kills him with a bat.
Bloody fucking Lucius Malfoy
is like, where
has Dobby gotten to?
He needs to be more
Lucius is more pained.
Where has Dobby gone to?
I need that
Dobby. My house. Where has Dobby gone to? Where is... I need that Dobby.
Dobby.
My house, Sal.
Where is he?
Flash cut to Harry burying Dobby in the backyard, crying.
Like, what was that?
I can't tell anyone.
I can't tell anyone.
I think I killed a hamster.
It was a very big, very large hamster.
I think I killed a little man with a skin condition.
Oh, my fucking God.
Oh, Jesus. What was that? So, Harry's a traumatized boy. No, but Oh, my fucking God. Jesus, what was that?
So, Harry's a traumatized boy.
Also, Dobby wouldn't know about him.
Yeah, Dobby would have no idea.
You're right.
Dobby wouldn't be there.
Harry's not killing an elf with a bat.
That's lucky but sad.
But I feel like, yeah, I mean,
it's all fun and games to go down the abusive household situation,
but I reckon what would probably happen is that after,
because Petunia would be well aware of how Hogwartswarts works yeah yes well not well magic they would be afraid of him they'd be afraid of him
but they'd also be and he'd be doing wild magic but accidental wild man yeah that's what i mean
like but so which i mean like i don't think that's how it works i think it because if that's how it
works then why is it not happening to students all the time at Hogwarts? Because they're learning.
Because they're learning it.
Because this is a-
Well, hang on.
Hang on.
He's going to obscure himself.
Oh, shit.
He's going to make an obscurial.
Yeah.
I also imagine he'll move out because, like-
He's 16.
Yeah.
That's fine.
No, I reckon what'll probably happen is they'll be scared of him for a bit,
but then after he turns, like, 13,
Petunia will be like,
guess they're not coming for him.
Maybe you're not magic.
Maybe it didn't work.
Maybe he's just a regular old fella.
And then, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
Ari!
I'm here now!
Ari, it's me!
Agrid!
I'm a bit late!
Petunia's like, fuck you!
Where's Ari? Ari, fuck you. Where's Harry?
Harry, are you there?
If you don't come to the door, I'm going to shoot me dead again.
He lives in student housing.
Oh.
Where is that?
Excuse me, then.
The idea of Hagrid turning up at your door when you're 15.
Like, when you're 12 or 11, it's a bit magical.
But when you're 15, you're like, is this man going to kill me?
Am I being abducted?
Am I going to be sold into slavery?
Is that what's happening?
Yeah, you might turn Harry
into, like, a newt.
Also, when you're a child
and someone's like,
you're a wizard,
you're like, fuck yes, I am.
At 15, if someone had been like,
you're a wizard,
I would have been like,
uh, yep, I'm getting sold into slavery.
This is going to end poorly for me.
Uh-huh, call in the cops.
Cops get called in Hagrid.
Dial 999 if you're in the UK, I think.
Harry, I'm in jail, Harry.
You got to bust me out, Harry.
I put you in there.
I'm not letting you out.
For old time's sake, you got to bust out Hagrid.
I thought you'd be writing this like a paper in like his English class
about the old time, the time
a weird, large, homeless
man tried to abduct him.
Yeah? I don't think Harry would
come. Eventually, surely.
What if an owl came? He remembers
the owls.
But the owls were like 11
when he was like 11, so like he'd be like, that was
weird. By the time he was 16
he'd be like, did I make that up in my head? Was it a dream? He'd be a bit more cynical So like, he'd be like, that was weird. Did I just, by the time he was 16, he'd be like, did I make that up in my head?
Was it a dream?
Because again,
he'd be like,
no,
like he'd be a bit more cynical.
I reckon he'd be very goth.
Oh yeah.
Like we're talking late nineties.
This is goth Harry.
That's all right.
And he'd be very cynical and be very like,
no.
And then he'd be very creeped out by this,
oh,
like this giant of a man trying to abduct him.
Battle of Hogwarts happens in 97.
He's a teenager in the early 90s.
He's going to be into Britpop and probably Ecstasy.
Like, Harry might just be in Trainspotting now.
I like that.
Which is heroin, but hey.
Well, this is the problem.
It's like, if he is in that abusive home life
and he doesn't have anyone to turn to,
he might sneakily be one of them wayward youths and he doesn't have anyone to turn to, he might, like,
sneakily be one of them wayward youths.
Fuck, Harry's gonna turn into sick boy.
Or Spud.
Oh, Harry's gonna be Spud.
He's gonna shit the bed.
Don't shit the bed, Harry.
Don't shit the bed, Harry.
Then they're gonna, like,
pick him up and they're gonna be like,
right,
we're gonna put you in this room.
That bucket's for piss. That bucket's this room. That bucket's for piss.
That bucket's for vomiting.
And that bucket's for shit.
Don't come back here for a week.
Hagrid, where is Harry?
He's coming down.
We're trying to get him off cold turkey.
Harry's there, just in the fucking room.
Sweat dripping down his face.
Seeing this house elf just crawl up the wall, turn his neck.
I killed you!
And then,
well, if, say, Harry finally does get sent to Hogwarts,
do they, like,
at 15, would he still be in first year?
Well, I think what would probably happen is
he'd probably get the equivalent of,
it's something we've never seen in the Harry Potter books,
but he'd probably get, like,
a weird combination of homeschooled and private tutoring. Ah's true to get him up to speed what's funny is that
he he will be smarter than his entire class his entire theoretical school yeah theoretically
maybe not that's if he's just been fucking doing heroin maybe not that's because it could just be
one of these things choose magic why the fuck would I choose anything like that when I could choose heroin?
It's like the muggle magic.
So ideally, like, if he's gone to school,
and, like, maybe he's, like, say, if he went to a decent,
even depending on the teachers he got.
Like, for example, if he had a good teacher
that was very picked up on a lot of the things,
they'd be like, oh, he's being abused at home.
Oh, my God, look at these like,
like these very dark and neat essays and stuff.
I just like to think.
Something is amiss here.
Social services could get called on from the school.
Harry's in the foster home somewhere.
And then taken like, and so is like Dudley.
Dudley as well.
They're now in the foster home.
Because clearly these two people
are
they're not parents
is that how that works though?
like in a situation
where one child's being abused
but the other one's not
that would take both?
I would assume yeah
because like those parents
are going to jail
what's to stop those parents
abusing the other kid as well
that's true
I like that this means
maybe Hagrid is another
five years too late
because when he arrives
at their new home,
they're like, ah, they got put in a foster care.
Do you know where?
No, we're not allowed to.
Oh.
Damn.
Christ almighty.
I'm going to tell him he died again.
Here's a bit of paper.
Can you do the airs a quill?
Can you write that Harry died, eh?
Can I borrow an owl?
You got me an owl spare.
I need to send a letter.
Are you sure he's not dead?
Reasonable doubt.
Even a tiniest smidgen
and I can work with that.
When it comes to foster,
do they change names as well?
You keep your old name.
But they just ship you off somewhere.
And they wouldn't give your old parents where you've gone,
in case they come and nab you.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm trying to think what else Hagrid could be late for for Harry.
But would Harry, like...
You know what you're doing.
And if he's an orphan, then, you're basically creating a Tom Riddle.
Yeah, you are, actually.
That's a good point.
Because that's the problem here, is that he's now more abusive um like upbringing yeah he and then he's
going to do exactly what tom riddle did which was to find out that he has magic and if he's been
abused and moved around and can't really trust anyone or any in his life he's going to use that
magic to to uh harm or at least help himself out in very selfish ways
so it's very selfish harry and also this is a world where i assume voldemort doesn't come
back physically because voldemort needed the blood of the enemy or whatever but
voldemort's still stuck on the back of quirrell if yeah and if voldemort assumes harry's dead like
well i mean who's my second worst enemy Give me that unicorn blood
Worst case scenario is
That they get the philosopher's stone
And then Voldemort comes back
Immortal
But he's not going to get the philosopher's stone
Because the reason
That was
Didn't need Harry's help to stop him
Yeah
He couldn't figure it out
They followed Harry He was just stuck there looking in the mirror Didn't need Harry's help to stop him. Yeah. He couldn't figure it out.
Oh, that's right. They followed Harry in, didn't they?
He was just stuck there looking in the mirror being like, where is it?
Then again, the basilisk just destroys Hogwarts.
But the basilisk only destroys Hogwarts because Lucius gives the diary to Ginny.
And his reasoning was...
Because he knew that Ginny would read the diary.
Did he fucking hate Harry Potter at that point?
No, he didn't even know it
I'm just trying to think though, was that
I don't think Harry was related to that at all
That was just one of Voldemort's
Hedged bets
But if Quirrell, if he's still in the back of the head of Quirrell
Then that's not happening
Yeah it is, this is another Horcrux
It doesn't rely on Voldemort
Yeah but assumedly that
Did Lucius know about the back of the head of Quirrell
Or if he did
He still would have done it
Because why not hedge your bets
Get Voldy back
The diary is going to happen no matter what
Ginny starts reading it
But nothing happens about it
It's just that Ron's like
Ginny's in a weird way
Ginny disappears
Et by a basilisk
Voldy's back
Tom Riddle's back Tom Riddle's disappears by a basilisk. Voldy's back.
Tom Riddle's back.
Tom Riddle's back.
Yeah, that's true.
Young Voldy's back.
Actually, what happens if the... What was the point of number two?
I don't know really what was...
Was it just a basilisk?
No, because...
No.
Because Tom Riddle was going to come back.
Because he was sucking the life force out of Ginny, right?
And Harry stopped it by stabbing the book.
Yeah, so I guess presumably he just sucks the life force out of Ginny. Ginny dies. So in this universe, Ginny is now Tom Riddle. Well, Ginny, right? And Harry stopped it by stabbing the book. Yeah, so I guess presumably he just sucks life force out of Ginny. Ginny dies.
So in this universe, Ginny is
now Tom Riddle. Well, Ginny's dead, yeah.
Ginny's dead and Tom Riddle has used her life force.
I like the idea that Ginny has become
Tom Riddle. Alright. Yeah, sure.
Why not? I'm not stopping it. Tom Riddle. Just morphed into it.
So Ginny
is no more. We now have Tom Riddle. Yep.
Ron's like, I hate my new younger brother.
Yep. And we also have Voldem hate my new younger brother. Yep.
And we also have Voldemort on the Batgirl's head.
Yeah.
And what happens in the third one?
Pettigrew comes back.
Yep.
With no interruptions.
Harry is so- I mean, I think we did an episode on him.
Harry's so irrelevant to so many of the books.
Then in the fourth book-
No, the third one is about Sirius Black.
Yeah, but the only big thing-
Oh, well, Sirius Black dies.
No, that's-
No, he does. Yeah, yeah, no. Because Harry doesn't go, Sirius Black dies. No, that's... No, he does.
Because Harry doesn't go back in time to save him.
That's true, but he has no reason
to go to Hogwarts because Harry's not there.
In fact, would Sirius
escape because he's like, ah, damn.
James' kid's like fucking... Yeah, his kid
died. Which defense is...
Has been reported dead three times.
Ah, that's a bummer.
First it's a feral boy, now it's a...
Quirrell's still defense against a dark arts teacher.
Lockhart doesn't get the gig. Lupin doesn't
get the gig. Fuck.
Grim. In the fourth year, is that just like a
fight? I feel like there's going to be a fight between Quirrell
as Voldemort and
Tom Riddle as Voldemort.
And Ginny as Voldemort. There's going to be
a Voldy off. There's two Voldemorts.
Only one can win. And that's the thing, like, Voldemort is There's going to be a Voldy off. There's two Voldemorts. Only one can win.
And that's the thing.
Voldemort is too egocentric and selfish to allow... To not share the power.
So he's going to fight himself.
Would there be three Voldemorts?
Because of the Triwizard Cup?
No, no, no.
Because the third Voldemort is like the remains of Voldemort.
Of the first Voldemort.
Okay.
But that doesn't happen.
The Trap is a cup.
Just like a fun time for everyone.
That's pretty good.
Hey, Cedric lives.
I like this reality.
Much better.
Two Voldemorts, but an alive Cedric is better than no Voldemort.
That's a good trade off.
Yeah.
And that's pretty good.
And actually, you could argue like plus a new rise of evil in Harry.
Yeah.
I mean, potentially an evil Harry because it was always going to go one way or the other. It was a little bit of a in Harry. Yeah, I mean potentially an evil Harry, because it was always
going to go one way or the other.
If he's been raised wrong
then...
I like that Harry comes in in the sixth year
when the prophecy...
It's just like...
I'm just like, yay Harry won, he beat
Voldemort! Right.
All you cunts are fucking into it now.
What?
I hate muggles.
Fucking hate muggles?
You know what I fucking hate most of all?
Giants.
Yeah, going down.
Where's that aggro?
Fuck.
I don't know.
I think he died.
He died.
My name is Gagrid.
Gagrid.
No, I'm not a giant.
I'm a dwarf.
A big one.
A big one.
There's one.
I just remembered a third situation where Hagren could be five years late.
Yeah.
And it doesn't happen until the fourth book.
That's fine.
So the first two happen.
We've now got those realities.
Third situation.
Cut to when Harry is 20 either 20 or 21
okay
Harry
I figured out which dragon
you gotta fight
it's a Norwegian
some shit
not like Harry is 25
it's like Harry is just like
ash
and Harry's like
oh I figured it out.
Now I know. Too late.
The problem there is
like, did that
really give Harry a leg up?
It did. Yeah, I think so.
Because you're fighting dragons.
Well, he's still late for it.
It's still funny to imagine five
years after the event. Hopefully maybe.
Harry, yes. remember that dry wizard tournament?
Yes.
You were fighting a dragon.
Yeah, I did.
It's sad that your mind went accurate.
I miss when you were really with it.
No, I'm with it.
I'm just saying.
I keep being five years late for things.
But yeah, if you come with me to this forest,
five years ago, there would have been some dragons here.
It was a Hungarian horned tail.
I promise. The idea of him
actually taking him to be like, Harry, I got something
for you. A little surprise.
Alright.
See this field here?
About five years ago, it was
Scorchmark. Bullet dragons to the
brim. Now, obviously not so much.
One of them was the one you were fighting.
You were fighting one of them.
That Cedric guy was fighting.
One of the women was that lovely lady.
She was fighting the two Fleurs.
She was all right.
And that crumb cunt.
I'd like to imagine Harry looking at Hagrid,
but with like a tear in his eye being like,
oh, Hagrid.
Good luck with it.
Harry, I lost.
I lost so badly.
Fuck me.
Fuck me, that's crazy.
Who won then?
Cedric.
Oh, he's all right.
He's a bit of an all right fellow.
I think, would Harry have been in the Triwizard Tournament?
If Hagrid was, no, because in this situation,
Hagrid wasn't late for the other tournament.
But I like that because he's late for this and Harry loses.
That means that Cedric just touches the portkey and Voldemort's like, what?
You're not Harry Potter.
I'm Cedric Diggory.
Oh, this is all fucked up.
That bloody Hagrid fella.
Was Harry in the tribe?
I thought I put in.
No, he was, but he lost in the first.
Ah, fuck.
He's all largely time sensitive.
We fucked it.
Guys, call it quits.
We fucked it.
I can't think of anything else that Hagrid could be like.
What about when he nearly, when he gets sent to Azkaban?
Oh, that's the second one.
Does he nearly die?
Hagrid?
Yeah.
He fights some people when Voldemort, when Dumbledore's dying, doesn't he?
I'm not getting buck big. Is that what I'm saying? Hagrid? Yeah. He fights some people when Dumbledore's dying, doesn't he? How come Buckbeak is on there?
No, but again, that's not Hagrid's fault.
Like, isn't it?
Hagrid doesn't...
Because Hagrid's sad because they've taken Buckbeak off him
to shoot him or something.
He's five years too late.
This was his mourning period.
What if...
Harry.
He killed Buckbeak.
Yeah, I know.
Five years ago. I know five years ago
it happened
five years ago
you didn't seem to care
he just got me now
ah yeah
shit
grab a time turner
oh my god
so much
let's go back in time
and kill myself
oh my fucking
click click click
five years of
click click click
click click
so much
this is polymate
click click click
what if he's five years late for the Battle of Hogwarts?
He just turns up in the rubble and he's like, oh.
I hope we won.
McGonagall, here we win.
Yes.
Hagrid, that's just a cat.
Dumb.
Oh, Hagrid.
We got to put Hagrid in a home.
Five years late getting his brother? Five years late getting his brother. Oh, Hagrid. We gotta put Hagrid in a home, guys.
Five years late getting his brother?
Five years late getting his brother.
Well, then the Giants just rampage through Europe.
The Giants killed his brother too.
Ah, fuck.
What else has Hagrid been needed to be on time?
That's a question I never thought I'd be asking.
What did Hagrid need to be on time for?
Five years late for class.
Alright, students!
Shit.
Who are you? Where's Ari?
You graduated five years ago.
Oh, boy.
Fuck me dead.
Oh, I don't want to Oh, shit! My stone cakes!
I've left them in the oven for five years!
Where's me house?
Stop burning
stain or just a scorch mark
on the ground.
Oh no.
Squirrel waiting in a bar for five years.
Where is he?
I thought we were going to make a trade.
What about if Hagrid is five years late for everything?
Every moment of Hagrid's life,
he's five, every big thing,
five years late.
That's bad.
Well, the thing is, actually,
he might have graduated Hogwarts
because he wouldn't have been in the same class as Tom Riddle.
That's true, he'd be five years late starting.
Five years late graduating.
That's ten years of his
life now gone. He's a bit slow.
I can't help it.
I never claim to be on time.
Look, us giants,
we get there in the end.
That's the Hagrid
family motto. We get there
in the end. A wizard arrives exactly
when he says he's gonna.
Or whatever the Gandalf quote is exactly and i
arrived just when i needed to be five years late five years over the day for everything
the beauty of five years too late is that it's such a long period of time you actually
no matter what it was you fucked it like there's nothing you can be five years too late for where
you're like well this is salvageable it just never is kind of think of what building like if you were building a house
or something maybe but then the people that wanted their house built probably like for yourself
now then i guess the only person you're letting down is you so like that's fine
five years is the only thing i think of tv show is is when he doesn't pick up the kid, Harry, who has a baby,
that the Department of Human Services or whatever,
they're going to give it to Aunt Petunia because there's no other living relative.
So if he's five years late for that, everything remains largely unchanged,
except that Hagrid gets a bit of a scolding too from, I guess, both McGonagall and Dumbledore.
And Hagrid probably just never becomes quite as close friends with Harry.
Or doesn't become quite as close friends
or is trusted with Dumbledore and other things.
I hope Dumbledore then fires him.
So probably, yeah, he might get fired.
So they wouldn't be fluffy.
Giants are definitely like,
he tries to see the giants on size,
but he fucks up anyway.
Yeah, I think so.
So anyway, that's irrelevant.
Never gets his little dragon, whatever that's name was.
Yeah.
What else happens?
What else does Hagrid do?
He teaches a class.
They get someone else, probably somebody competent.
Malfoy never gets scratched in the face.
Buckbeak never gets put down.
Yeah.
Buckbeak mightn't have existed, though.
Like, Buckbeak mightn't have been taken to Hogwarts.
Unless they got, like, an equally as reckless teacher.
No one eats stone cakes. No one eats stone cakes.
No one eats stone cakes.
They don't witness
someone eating unicorn.
Yep.
Fuck.
They miss out on a lot.
What if Hagrid
had been born
five years too late?
If he was five years younger.
Yeah.
Well, he would have been
expelled from Hogwarts
because he would have
missed all of that shit.
That's pretty good.
Which then means
that he probably
wouldn't be a teacher.
He would still be a wizard.
He could be like an auror or something
He might be a teacher though
He might be a competent one
He'd have a wand not an umbrella
And he wouldn't be on the groundskeeper
He'd be like I'm teaching charms
Alright Harry it's what you gotta do
I'm young and handsome still
Still pretty bloody big
Being born five minutes
Five years late.
Really held up.
What's it called?
Not the opposite of premature birth.
Well, mum had a five year gestation period.
I hear that's normal for giants.
Not too normal,
but normal enough.
I believe that it has happened
at least once in the universe
when I was born. I believe that it has happened at least once in the universe when I was born.
I came out fully formed.
My father was very confused.
He was like, yeah, you're going to give birth yet?
He's like, are you pregnant or are you just kind of stacking on the kilos there?
It's been a while.
It's been a while. It's been a while here. I think five years too late for being alive is a very good Hagrid.
That's a very competent Hagrid.
Yeah, because any of the problems that he would have had with Tom Riddle,
and I guess would Tom Riddle have blamed someone else for anything?
No, because the problem there was Hagrid just had a spider.
Yeah, so it probably wouldn't happen.
So let's see.
So Tom Riddle, he has a snake or a basilisk that he escapes,
and then he blames that on the creature that Hagrid has.
So without the creature that Hagrid has, Tom Riddle gets...
Fuck, that might have gotten Tom Riddle quick.
What do you mean?
Oh, yeah, they're like, well, Tom Riddle, we're blaming you.
They send him to Azkaban.
Yeah.
I mean, like, the prophecy will still have to be fulfilled,
but it's a lot easier.
They just need to take Harry to...
Because it was a prophecy... The prophecy's a prophecy.
No, but what was the prophecy, like, given?
It's always happening, though. Isn't it a
prophecy? Well, because the thing is, if we're changing
that far back in the future, the prophecy might not have had to
happen. Because, for example, if
Hagrid's not there for Tom Riddle
to blame on him fucking
doing some shit and everyone's like no it's tom riddle he's doing shit everyone's like azkaban
and harry potter is born a regular boy yeah like he might not have gone to azkaban because i don't
know if they do that to students but he might have been in trouble and he might have either
gotten caught early or maybe taken a like you know people take well hopefully if they were like
that's interesting so you know that that sociopath kid you picked up, Dumbledore? Yeah, well, he's a sociopath.
He's like, it's fucked.
He's brought a big snake in.
Hopefully Dumbledore will be like,
all right, all right, fuck him off.
So there's going to be something there.
Put him in student jail.
Cut off his head?
Put him in student Azkaban.
Just ice him.
Little baby Dementors.
Juvie Azkaban, basically.
And then that might have maybe stopped Voldemort.
It made him worse.
I like to think that the takeaway here is that Hagrid is the cause of a lot of the strife in the Harry Potter universe.
I think we should do a follow-up episode one day where we're like, what if Hagrid was five years early?
What if Hagrid fucked up and was five years early?
But not today.
Not today. Maybe not ever.
Maybe we'll do it in five years.
Maybe we did it five years ago.
Hard to say.
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