History of the UNSPEAKABLES and Department of Mysteries - Harry Potter Explained

Welcome to Harry Potter Theory. Today, we’re going to be unpacking one of the more mysterious aspects of Harry Potter- the department of mysteries. Honing in further, we’re going to be taking a look at the peculiar workers of this department- Ministry employees known as The Unspeakables. We’ll also be looking at, later in the video, all of the rooms / chambers that reside inside the Department of Mysteries.

The ministry of magic is the primary form of government in the magical world - at least in the UK. Like a muggle government, the ministry’s responsibilities are vast, as they are the primary body that attempts to sustain law and order in the magical world. Like any system of government, in an effort to cover as much ground as possible, the primary governmental body is systematically divided to focus on different sectors of the wizarding world.

These ‘sectors’ or ‘departments’ cover the more common areas like the Department of Magical Law Enforcement and the Department of Magical Transportation, but there are also OTHER departments reserved for less..obvious pursuits. Queue level 9 and the Department of Mysteries.

The department of mysteries is responsible for studying the mysteries of the wizarding world, mysteries associated with love, space, thought, time, death, and other things. Basically anything that is unknown. Anything pertaining to this department is highly confidential, and those who work in this department are referred to as ‘unspeakables’. The divisions of this department are broken up by area of study, and includes the following: The brain room, the hall of prophecy, the death chamber, the love chamber, the space chamber and the time room. These rooms are accessed via the ‘room of doors’ - a large circular room where everything is black.

What’s particularly curious or dare I say..Mysterious about the Department of Mysteries is that it actually preceded the existence of the Ministry itself. The Ministry was established in 1707 and the Department of Mysteries had activity as early as 1672. The name checks out.

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[HarryPotterTheory]

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[Other_Jeremy]

Iirc, the veil is rumored to be even older than even the department of mysterious, with many asserting that the department was actually built AROUND the veil itself.

[zogkuma]

I like how Hogwarts Legacy has a character who is an elderly professor who was once an Unspeakable. Quests as well as dialogue options hint that she should be in her thirties at least, but something in her old profession aged her rapidly to her dismay. This could be interpreted as her handling something that warps time somehow, but ultimately backfiring at her.

[Gamble]

I have often wondered if a horcrux was tossed through the veil if it would have taken care of voldemorts soul fragment inside. That’s be cool and very interesting and opens a plethora of questions lol

[jefthereaper]

Honestly sounds like one of the most interesting Wizarding World jobs.
Researching and pushing the boundary's of magic.

[MomfTwins]

One problem with the Fidelius Charm is when the Secret Keeper dies then everyone to whom the Secret Keeper revealed the secret, becomes multiple Secret Keepers watering down the security. Perhaps using the Unbreakable Vow upon joining the department might be a bit more secure? Love all of your videos!

[devonharmon]

We were robbed of these rooms in the movie, all we got was prophecy room and death arch room

[grec.]

The brains could come both from muggles and extraordinary wizards.
Maybe they are subjected to many experimental charms that make them angry/aggressive for some reason.
Poor Ron, he got a permanent scar from those angry brains. Lol.

[dannieros]

It makes sense to me that they wouldn’t have used the fidelius charm because what if some giant tragedy happened where the entire department was killed. Then everything protected by the fidelius would be lost forever

[nahhfam]

I've always been fascinated by the harsher aspect of fantasy or sci fi world in opposition to the positive. Aurors being the FBI of the wizard world I always wondered what a special forces type unit or ministry assassins would be like who handled the dirtier aspects of wizarding world. The unspeakables felt more like researchers than combatents.

[moxxy]

Ok this guy definitely has a time turner to make videos so fast

[WolfofMibu-Saito]

I would love to see a harry Potter equivalent of an X Files series

[namugriff]

When I saw the black and white photo I knew exactly where it was taken, as I live a couple miles away from it. Titchfield Abbey, that's what's left after the abbey was converted into a Tudor mansion. A nice ruin to go looking around.

[syzygyygyzys]

In Prisoner of Azkaban, a patron of The Leaky Cauldron is reading Stephen Hawking’s book A Brief History of Time. Where’s a video about how the magical world looked at muggles?! Aurtur’s department at ministry!!!!

[cjeffygo]

CAN YOU PLEASE DO AN EPISODE ON THE UNDETECTABLE EXTENSION CHARM???

[sweetlady]

Man u are good I'm 53 yrs old and truly enjoy your channel keep doing what your doing

[yoyosummers]

I’m starting to have my own theory about the fidelias charm. It seems like it might be either taboo, hard to perform, or a mix of the two because it can explain away so much stuff in Harry Potter and fix so many issues that it is puzzling that it was not done.

[maksimilian]

We do know a little bit about how becoming an unspeakable works. In the mobile game Wizards Unite, there was an unspeakable Grim Fawley. Before joining them, he worked as an investigator for the auror office. He was a very skilled wizard, so that's likely one of the reasons he was accepted

[brycedinyer]

The fact that the love room is always locked but the time room isn’t speak volumes

[mmiller]

Narrator: Come to think of it, Snape would have made a perfect Unspeakable
Me: Obviously!!