The Owl House
Summary
Dana Terrace ’s animate TV showThe Owl Houseintentionally avoids the biases and plot gob of theHarry Potterseries , moving the fantasy musical genre forward . The Owl Housefollows human teenager Luz Noceda who fall through a portal into a charming world , where she befriends and learns magic from Eda the witch and King the demon . The show share some recognizable plot elements withHarry Potter , namely the education of young people with magical powers .
However , The Owl Housealludes to and even challengesHarry Potterin more specific ways . Sometimes , the show deconstruct tropes and plotlines that the audience likely recognise are essential toHarry Potter’sstory , or just limn them differently . In other cases , The Owl Housespecifically references and establish fun of something unique toHarry Potter , leaving no doubt of what the writers are doing . Despite being a critically hail series , The Owl Housewas canceledafter three seasons .
All episodes ofThe Owl Houseare available to stream on Disney+ .
10Witches Before Wizards
The Owl House makes a different distinction between witches and wizards than Harry Potter.
WhileHarry Potterdepicts a gendered social structurewhere men are virtuoso and adult female are witch , all the maincharacters inThe Owl Houseare witches , regardless of gender . However , Luz meet a thaumaturge in season 1 , installment 2,titled " Witches Before Wizards . " The sensation Adegast is played as a jest and is divulge to actually be a behemoth who is scamming Luz .
King tells Luz that"Wizards are just older masses with glitter in their pockets"andEda agreesthat " Wizards are the bad . “If there is any difference in magical ability between witch and wizards , The Owl Housedoes not specify what it is . Harry Pottertypically uses"wizards"to refer to wizardly bon ton in worldwide ( e.g. , the Wizarding World ) . Therefore , The Owl Housemight be mockingHarry Potterthrough its sole " maven " character .
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9The Choosy Hat
The Owl House features an evil Sorting Hat.
One ofThe Owl House’smore specific reference toHarry Potteris the man - eating " Choosy Hat . " In season 1 , sequence 13 , Principal Bump say Luz that she must pick one type of deception to study . Luz can not prefer , and asks,“Is there some sort of enchanted article of clothing that could sort this out for me?“Bump says that they used to have something like that , andhe has a flashback of the Choosy Hat attempting to wipe out a new student . moment subsequently , this screaming take on the Sorting Hat breaks free from its John Milton Cage Jr. .
8Hexide School Of Magic
A school of magic is also central in The Owl House.
The Owl Housegives the impression of being a piano lampoon ofHarry Potterby also including a shoal of magic in the news report . Like Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry , Hexside School of Magic and Demonics teaches several different kinds of magicand dole out incredibly dangerous penalisation – Luz drop season 1 , episode 9 stress to turn tail Hexside ’s detention fossa . Hexside ’s presence in the story alone allude toHarry Potterbecause the latter is the most large representative of a school of magic storyline in soda water finish . However , some joke unfavorable judgment of Hexside ’s policy , such as dangerous detentions and a stratified program , criticise Hogwarts by reference .
7Weaponized Herbology
Willow’s plant magic is more destructive than Hogwarts' herbology.
One of Hexside ’s educational tracks is the Plant Track . Plant Magic is also the specialty of one of the nine major covens in the Boiling Isles . Willow , one of Luz ’s dear champion , is adept at using Plant Magic . While Professor Sprout teaches Hogwarts students about potentially harmful species like Mandrakes and Devil ’s Snare , The Owl Housedepicts Willow and other Wiccan summoning vines to physically vanquish and cakehole opponents . Characters inHarry Pottercould theoretically do this using knowledge of herbology , but they have significantly less ascendence over magical plant mintage . persona inThe Owl Houseessentially use plants as a substitute for ropes or sledgehammers .
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6Modern Technology In The Boiling Isles
Luz’s witch friends have versions of cell phones and TVs.
Harry and his friends do not have accession to any sort of modern engineering science at Hogwarts , and many mass in the Wizarding World barely know what phones or TVs are . The explanation given in theHarry Potternovels is that there is so much magic at Hogwarts that it get electronic devices go haywire . In direct contrast , hag in the Boiling Isles have small scroll - like twist that are essentially prison cell phonesand can look out news broadcasts and make birdsong via crystal ball .
Oddly , these witch do not seem to know what human technology is either . In season 1 , sequence 16,Luz references teaching King about the net . In season 2 , episode 11,Luz ’s girlfriend Amitymispronounces"phone"after Luz leaves hers behind , march that she does not know what exactly the twist is . The Owl Housegets some sense of humour out of witches misunderstanding human engineering science , even though they basically have the same thing . In contrast , the Wizarding World seems to run off a caboodle of meter sending message by bird of night when a phone call would be much quicker .
5Categorization is Bad (Coven System)
The coven system and Hogwarts houses are different yet the same.
When Eda state disdain about going to the " Covention " in time of year 1 , episode 5 , Luz says,“I get it , Eda . Covens bad . laissez faire good . “While the coven system personnel witch into category base on the case of magic they desire to consider , the Hogwarts house system separates student based on personality trait . However , a major plot power point inThe Owl Houseis about how this is a corrupt system and new witches savour learning about different types of magic . Hogwarts arguably implements a harsher compartmentalisation organisation because houses supposedly delineate fundamental aspect of a someone ’s identity element .
4Battle Of Hogwarts Stand-In
The students of Hexside also defend their school from the forces of evil.
The Owl Houseagain alludes toHarry Potterby depict a conflict where the students and stave at a school of magic fight off an malign encroachment . In season 2 , episode 18 , the Emperor ’s Coven comes to the school to force students into covens of their own and are adjoin with electric resistance . The " Battle of Hexside " has a much light tone than the Battle of Hogwarts , but it is still a notably like plot point . The confrontation at Hexside is more interested with depicting a sense of oneness among the bookman and showing howEmperor Belos ' ruleis beginning to crumble .
3Source Of Magic In The Boiling Isles
The Owl House has a more defined magic system than Harry Potter.
Fans have prospicient questionedHarry Potter’smagic systembecauseit is not exonerated why a combining of Romance words should produce a witching effect , or why some whiz do n’t need to say these words or even use wands for their spells . The Owl Houselays out two authoritative author of magic . First , witches have a magic bile sac attached to their Black Maria that allows them to perform illusion . Luz does not have this because she is human .
However , magic also fall from the deity known as the Titan , who is tat with the Boiling Isles . Luz learns to utilize this deception through glyphs . The Titan , who is King ’s Padre , dies when he use the last of his power to revive Luz inThe Owl Houseseason 3 closing curtain . After this , Luz can no longer perform magic with glyphs . As King grows up , Luz ’s glyphs begin to mould again , since King is also a Titan himself .
The Palismen are the familiars and womb-to-tomb friends of the witches in The Owl House who aid perform magic and supply emotional funding .
2The Rusty Smidge
The Owl House explicitly mocks Quidditch.
One ofThe Owl House’sfunniest quotesis whenLuz very straight make fun of Quidditch . She and her friends have seemingly triumphed over Boscha ’s team in a Grudgby match when Boscha catches the " Rusty Smidge , " automatically yield her team the triumph . Luz is mad because this supply the whole secret plan excess . Die - hardHarry Potterfans might repoint out that catching the Snitch is not a guarantee of victory if the other team ’s chasers have scored enough points to win after the Snitch ’s additional 150 points are added . Yet the team that gets the Snitch usually wins , which is whyLuz ’s quoteis so funny .
1The Chosen One
The Owl House deconstructs Harry Potter’s foundational trope.
The Chosen One storyline is central toHarry Potter , in which one particular role is deem the only person who can defeat the main scoundrel and save the public . This is a very popular trope in mainstream soda civilisation . For example , it is also all-important to the plots of theStar WarsandThe Matrixfranchises . On the other hand , The Owl Houserejects the estimation of any one person have a fate to save the humans .
After Luz is lured into Adegast ’s trap with promises of being a Chosen One , Eda gives her some salvia advice . Eda says,“Everyone wants to believe they ’re chosen , but if we all waited around for a divination to make us special , we ’d die waiting , and that ’s why you necessitate to choose yourself . “By take apart tropes like this and satirizingHarry Potterevery once in a while , The Owl Housereminds its audience to appear to the future of the genre rather of the past .
