The FIRST Horcrux Creator (Herpo The Foul's Story) - Harry Potter Explained

Hey guys,

Welcome to another installment of Harry Potter Theory. In the last couple of videos, I’ve been covering some territory in Harry Potter folklore that a lot of you may have never heard. The folklore in Harry Potter is very rich, and deep, and I find it intriguing- learning about the history of spells, and investigating evil witches and wizards that existed throughout the ages. First, I discussed the story of Ekrizdis, the Dementor’s creator, and then in my last video I discussed another evil wizard known as Raczidian who was the first wizard in history to have a Patronus charm go all wrong. Telling the tales of these dark wizards is huge fun for me, so naturally, for today’s video, I’m going to continue on that path, and discuss another dark and evil wizard that you MAY have heard of: Herpo the Foul.

Herpo the Foul was an ancient dark wizard that hailed from Greece. It’s entirely unknown when Herpo walked the earth, but we do know that it was a long long time ago, as he is commonly referred to as one of the earliest known dark wizards. I would imagine that Herpo likely lived in the same era as Raczidian-just in a different part of the world. We know that the story of Illyus and Raczidian occurred in ancient times, before the existence of any of the modern day witches and wizards that we’re accustomed to. It was a time when magic was, not new, but being pushed more than ever in terms of its limits. Witches and wizards that were pure of heart were focusing on producing magic that could make the world a better place- somewhere that was safe, convenient, and prosperous. Their goal was to make life as seamless as possible, and in a time when ‘witch hunts’ likely still existed, I would imagine that there would have been a huge magical focus on protective enchantments and other spells of that nature.

However, just like in our own muggle world, not everyone that existed was pure of heart- and there were many rotten witches and wizards that were also pushing the boundaries of magic-just, in a negative way. These were the worst types of people: the power hungry, the bloodthirsty, the sociopathic. Herpo the Foul was one of these people.

Herpo devoted his life to producing and creating some of the worst kinds of magic imaginable-similar to the story of Ekrizdis who solitarily dabbled in black magic on the remote island of Azkaban in the sixteenth century. One really interesting thing about Herpo was that he was born a parselmouth, which meant that he was able to communicate with Snakes. Does that remind you of someone else? We know from the Harry potter books and films that Voldemort was also a parselmouth, and it’s been widely accepted that Voldemort was a parselmouth because he was a descendant of Salazar Slytherin. It’s a hereditary trait. This always made me consider Salazar Slytherin as the original parselmouth, but it turns that the original parselmouth was actually Herpo. What this tells me is that Herpo may have been the distant ancestor of Salazar Slytherin, which really makes a lot of sense, particularly as a lot of the forms of magic that Herpo produced seem to mesh well with people like Voldemort and Salazar.



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