The last plothole -- how did Sirius buy Harry's broom? -- was explained quite well in the book. Sirius explained to Harry that Crookshanks delivered the order form, and that Sirius included instructions to take the gold from Sirius' vault at Gringott's. Goblins wouldn't have helped the Ministry track down a wizard. Goblins wouldn't have cared.
@@FabricatedPheonix It does seem that he is a bit inconsistent about canon. Sometimes he seems to take the movies as canon; less often he seems to use book canon.
My ex explained that the creatures of the bank don’t care about the legal status of bank holders. So even though it was possible for black to use his money.
From the beginning list: Harry DID try to contact Sirius after his vision. He used Umbridge's fireplace and spoke to Kreacher who lied to him about Sirius's whereabouts.
I'm sure the point he's making is that there were EASIER ways to contact him. Why did JK make a point to tell us Sirius gave him a 2 way mirror to talk to him ANYTIME he wanted, for Harry to never use this exact mode of communication with Sirius, especially under such huge time restraints??? THat's the plot hole. That's the point in mentioning it. Duh.
@@taylor7454Harry didn’t know he had the mirror until after Sirius was dead, and he was going through his school trunk. He never opened the package while Sirius was alive.
There's also a line by Harry, when Sirius gives him the packet (mirror) and tells him to use it if he needs Sirius.Sirius doesn't tell him what it was, Harry says to himself, that whatever that packet contains, he wont use it if it endangers Sirius. I don't exactly remeber where in the book it is, Maybe that was after he knew that Draco has recognised Sirius.
I think the best explanation for the Stone argument is that Flamel wasn’t ready to give it up quite yet but because he saw how dangerous it would be in the wrong hands it convinced him to let Albus destroy it
Yeah, but why Hogwarts I mean except for the convenient coincidence of the current Muggle Studies now Dada teacher being posesssed by Voldy, Harry's first year and Nich and Dumby immediately deducing that Voldy is after a Philosopher's Stone, instead of just making the damn thing himself
People try to nitpick minor details when it's simply just Molly being a mother. Carlin bros make it seem to be part of a huge complex plan of Dumbledore
So then why did she ask loud enough to have it carry like that? Either Dumbledore planned almost everything or he is the dumbest most unobservant passive bastard out there.
@@mlpfanboy1701 True. But my argument was it is a little too convenient that Molly potentially breaks the statute were Harry has been left with no information on how to get to the platform. She is also a strong supporter of his. Non-pureblood and light sided. Ron would reinforce Slytherin bad. A lot of "convenient" situations happen around Harry that helps him grow in the way that Albus wants him to.
Yup they use magic by accident all the time. Harry blew up his aunt before year3, in the books before his first year he did alot. Kids cant control their magic, thats why they go to school
The reason why the pensive doesn't work is because Fudge was determined to not publicly acknowledge he was back. fudge knew he was back but didn't want to admit it. Barty crouch junior was captured, we had Cedric's body, and both Harry and mad eye could testify Voldemort is back. However fudge was not unaware of Voldemorts return he simply refused to admit it
@@kalypso4133he says flat out that he refuses to accept and admit it because doing so would be political suicide & he'd be thrown out of office for it
@@mindovermatterbecomingyour1561 to be fair I have not read the series since I was 12, im 29 now xDD Been meaning to read rhem again when I got the disposable cash to buy the series again.
23:38 In the books it explains that after sirius found out that Peter was living with the Weasley’s (he saw the daily prophet article about the Weasley’s winning prize money and going to Egypt), he was heard muttering in his sleep “he’s at Hogwarts” over and over. Fudge thought it was in reference to Sirius wanting to kill Harry, but it’s revealed that Sirius was actually worried about Harry’s safety because he is sharing a dormitory with the man who murdered his parents. So I think that was the major driving force as to why Sirius finally decided to break out. He was only willing to risk it to save Harry
Why do the Weasley's even need money to go to Egypt? They could Apparate their kids or use Portkeys or Floo powder to an Egyptian wizarding shop. They could stay in their giant tent from GoF
@@xletragedyx The Weasleys would need money to go to Egypt because: (1) It's unclear how far a person can Apparate (without a high likelihood of splinching) or use a Portkey; it may work to get across the UK but might be insufficient to get to Egypt -- and Egyptians don't have fireplaces (and are likely not connected to the British Floo Network), so Floo Powder is out. (2) While in Egypt, I doubt the Weasleys want to live in a tent, eat British food, and not go sightseeing. Travel costs money if you want to actually enjoy yourself. I personally like "Shaun"'s point that the trip should not have been paid through a lottery but actually from Harry finding gems in the Chamber of Secrets and giving them to the Weasleys as compensation for the crashed car and those gems being the source of funding for the Egypt trip.
@@yourbabytee I'm pretty sure Dumbledore took Harry and it was fine. The only thing that went wrong was when Ron tried to Apparate himself and got splinched
I think it’s because you need a clear vision of that place you wanna apperate to and since they’ve never been to Egypt they couldn’t imagine and picture it clear enough so they could splinch
For the sirius polyjuice theory: first it takes about a month to produce and most often sirius acted for instant gratification. He was impatient and decided things on a whim. Also, though it was easy for the trio to make in COS, they had the advantage of having most of the ingredients readily available and stole the rest. How was sirius supposed to get ingredients when he was confined at home and others didnt want him out so they wouldnt help him
It was also not simple to make. Harry had Hermione, who is constantly told to be the brightest witch of their age, brew the potion. The potion was also a N.E.W.T level potion as mentioned in Half-Blood Prince.
On Colin's camera: Old cameras work by a basic chemical reaction. The lens focuses light on to the film, and the silver in the film reacts. If the magic affected the camera, then potions wouldn't work either. Or any other normal chemical reaction. Tou wouldn't even need to polish any sort of metal, because it would never oxidize.
what the op and other comments meant was no electronics like digital cameras, computers, smart phones. (Old fashion non electronic, more mechanical).
I forget the book, but... as for the poor wizards segment, it was shown they don't conjure the food, at least thats what i was led to believe in my multiple read throughs. I thought the house elves made it in the kitchens and Dumbledore merely relocated it to the tables via magic
No, Molly wasn't trying to remember the platform number, she was teaching a 10 year old Ginny to remember where she is to find platform 9 3/4 and in turn helped Harry after he asked her.
This is the problem with building large worlds full of mcguffins like magic. An author's main goal is to create a series of dilemmas for the characters to resolve on their way through the main story arc. However, there can be times when a tool is introduced - like the time turner or the pensieve - that can help with one plot point, but act as a hole for a future plot point. As intuitive people, readers will remember incredibly useful things and when they are presented with a new crisis in the story, will immediately begin to think as if they were the characters in the story. What would they do considering all of the tools introduced so far. But only to see the author completely glosses over it. Sometimes authors will forget they even had those things in their story, or a clear justification exists, but just didn't translate well in the narrative.
A McGuffin is a 'goal' object or event in the plot, which sometimes get abandoned once the plot moves on. Time turners and Pensieves are not mcguffins.
@@ngotemna8875It isnt because it is an item that is only there to explain how hermione has been in multiple places at once, it does not drive the plot especially as harry is not even aware of it until much later. It could have been used again after it was introduced. Something like the elder wand is a mcguffin as voldemort is trying to acquire it and also having trying to be the owner of the wand to become the most powerful wizard. He fails the latter and harry destroys it to not have it fall into the wrong hands. The wand drives the plot. A good example of a mcguffin is the ark of the covenant from raiders of the lost ark or even the philosphers stone from the first book and film.
Not sure if it was mentioned (didn't have time to watch the entire hour, but): In Chamber of Secrets, it's revealed that when the chamber was first opened, authorities originally concluded that Hagrid was the culprit and carried out the attacks using his pet spider, Aragog - and he is later arrested and sent to Azkaban for the reopening of the chamber and the subsequent attacks. However, it is patently obvious that a spider could not possibly have been the monster who killed Myrtle and petrified the other victims *(including* Nearly Headless Nick) because the only way a spider could do so is through biting, and *not only* are there no bite marks on *any* of the victims, but - as mentioned regarding Nearly Headless Nick - one of the victims was a *ghost,* whom it is not physically possible to even bite a ghost! It already makes zero sense to blame Hagrid for the death of Myrtle (again, when there are no bite marks, and - as mentioned in the video - given the fact that they could just ask her ghost "was it an acromantula who bit you and killed you?"), but given the new evidence of the new victims after the chamber has been reopened (and especially after Nearly Headless Nick is attacked), it's patently obvious they were dead wrong the first time and it wasn't Hagrid or his pet spider and never possibly could've been! Truly abysmal investigative work! But, then again, we also saw how bad they handled Sirius Black's case and wrongfully sent him to prison for 12 years, so that also *kinda* checks out!
Well the minister does say that they need to take some sort of action. They are clueless and parents needs to feel like something is being done so the only thing they can think of is convicting him again since he’s the only lead
8:10 I think charlie's old wand that goes to ron was a wand that had been in the Wesley family in general. When he graduated he probably was bought a brand new wand as a gift much in the same way Percy was bought an owl. But since charlie didnt need the old hand me down wand, it was passed to Ron. I always thought wizarding families, specially old ones like the Weasley's might have had a couple of extra old wands lying around that belonged to dead family members. In that way the wands would also work well enough, since they could tell they're still within the same family.
in Book 1 Olivander told Harry that another wizards wand might not work as well. It was also mentioned in book 6 ( i think) that Nevills new wand greatly improved his magic . Harry and Hermione also had someone elses wand that worked for both but not very well.Also Olivander told Voldemort to use someone elses wand. So I think its obviouse that wands can be handed down..they may not work well but they can be handed down, It doesnt say anywhere that you can only have one wand...
Why tf would they make someone who cant do magic be the janitor? Any time he complains about cleaning up after students i think how anyone in that castle could clean that mess in 2 seconds. As a matter of fact im pretty sure there are enchanted cleaning tools in these books which just do the cleaning themselves. The entire reason they keep magic a secret from the normal world is nonsense. Who cares if humans would rely on wizards. THEY LITERALLY HAVE ACCESS TO MAGIC.
Taking on Filch was a kindness. Filch wouldn't have had anywhere else in the wizarding world to go, but he also wouldn't have anywhere to go in the muggle world. Dumbledore kept him employed for Filch's own benefit.
I think Harry never remembering that gift until Sirius’ death is a big plot hole. I have used a footlocker before while traveling. They are not huge, so there is no excuse he went 9-10 months without ever seeing the gift and going “that’s right, he gave me a present”. Especially once he pulled out all of his clothing and school supplies… also, there is no reason Sirius didn’t say once during the several risky encounters they had “Harry, why aren’t you using the gift I gave you instead of putting yourself at risk”
A lot of these aren't actually plot holes, unless you've only watched the movies. Pottermore explains most of them, and even if you haven't read the books some of them are just common sense
For the Hogwarts express plot hole I think we could reasonably assume that students need new supplies every year before the term starts. They have to go to Diagon Alley as far as we know to get their school supplies and it’s in or around London amiright? If so then it would be a big to-do to go school shopping where we know they should and then hop on the train to get to school. Two birds with one stone kind of trip I guess?
This makes sense but I think it might be a simple matter of logistics. When they arrive they are brought to the great hall for the sorting ceremony, while their luggage is brought to their rooms. Even with magic, this would be far more frantic and disorganized if you multiple transports coming in. This is why even in the American military when you report for basic training you are brought to one location and then bused to the actual base. And it would also be more difficult to have enchanted platforms at so many stations across a country that, in all honesty, isn't that big. No matter where you are in the UK you are only a few hours from London.
I think that Petunia knew more than she ever let on, because, after all, she didn't want Vernon and her son to see her as a “freak.”She was happy to keep her lips sealed about anything that she may have known. I think Snape didn't say anything about the potion's book, because if Harry had found out that it was Sanpe's, it might have led Harry on a trail to his identity, that he knew his mother, and who Eileen Prince was, which was what Sanpe wanted to be kept from Harry at all costs. Voldemort showed up at the ministry because he was called for help, and probably by Bellatrix. Tom still lost several of his inner circle that night, with only Bellatrix escaping. Not all locks can be unlocked with the unlocking spell, even using certain dodgy knives. Harry found that out while in the DoM. Harry did try to contact Sirius, via Umbridge's floo, where Kreacher lied to Harry about Sirius' whereabouts. Harry didn't remember the mirror until he was packing to leave, where he broke it. Plus, his scar was burning, which addled his thoughts. They flat screwed up on Minerva's age. Polyjuice potion takes six months to brew, if I recall, and he would have needed the ingredients. Sirius could have tried to obtain some from one of the Order's members, but I'd say that Dumbledore told them not to help him leave No. 12. The portkey in the tournament was not a timed portkey, it triggered on touch. Barty made sure that Harry would reach it first. Neither Minerva nor Hagrid wished to leave Harry at the Dursleys, that was all Dumbledore's doing, and he was too cowardly to ring the doorbell. However, it was said that Minerva spent the night watching over things until Petunia found him the next morning. Remember, Dumbledore ordered them to not speak to the Dursleys, they were supposed to be left alone. Something was off about Albus and this. It looks like, from the Cursed Child, that Tom may have been interested in Time Turners, as a plot was made after their destruction in the DoM, to construct one between Malfoy, Nott, and, I think, Rookwood. Stating the above, a big plot hole was the abduction of Fortescue. JKR wrote about him, and why he was to be used. Fortescue was well-trained in magical history, and was another seeker of the Deathly Hallows. He would have been who Tom tortured for information about the Hallows, and especially, where he found out about the Elder Wand. JKR left it be, and didn't mention why he was taken.
I think you’re correct about the portkey not being timed. However, portkeys are only supposed to go one way. Touching it again doesn’t activate them to return to their place of origin (or somewhere else). But when Harry touched the Triwizard cup a second time it takes him to the entrance of the maze in front of the entire school. Therefore, when Crouch Jr (as Moody) bewitched the cup, he planned to have it take anyone who touched it first to the graveyard, then to the front of the maze. Voldemort obviously wanted to kill Harry that night, so who was meant to take that return trip?
@@romileever8885 There was another portkey made by Dumbledore for Harry when the battle at the DoM was over. It was made in front of Fudge. However, I can't remember if it was by touch, though I think it was, or by time. It could have also used a trigger word, but I can't remember without rereading the chapter.
The train only departing from London is no big deal if you have a flloo-network i think. snapes potion boos i think was kept by him as a perspnal thing and ended up in the school's stock by accident, i think.
@@romileever8885In the film at the start with the Quidditch game, Mr Weasley tells everyone to get back to the boot, implying that they can use it to get back home as well. So they must go two ways otherwise you couldn't get back.
The reason why Dementors affected Harry so much was because he was having Voldemort's fear of death being triggered by them. Since he already had part of his soul it was what made him even more special to the Dementors because they were interested in such a being. It might be a combination to that the scream of his mother was enough to terrify harry.
@@Galduhir The scream I think was voldemort's moment in his memory of when he realized that he might die. Since she just died at that moment by screaming. Any child hearing a scream like that would be scared too because of the sudden high pitch.
I thought so too, but Voldemort says dementors are his natural Allies, which still doesn't add up because they sure sucked the soul right out of his death eater Barty crouch jr
@@Jamesbull46 dementors suck all happiness out, so yes they ally to voldemort because they sense no happiness or soul to suck out of him. Also, he offers to feed them almost unlimited muggle borns. He delivered on his promise when he had muggle borns go to the ministry to be accused of stealing their magic even if ollivander really did sell them their wands and learned it at hogwarts. Then they would be given the dementors kiss after this accusation.
#5 I can explain why Dumbledore wasn’t concerned about Hagrid borrowing Sirius’ bike. It’s because that happened before Sirius had cornered Pettigrew. Only after that was Sirius presumed to have been the traitor.
Honestly the secret keeper thing isn't so much a plothole as it is characters not being smart. Why not just make Dumbledore the secret keeper, he kept everything else about Harry, Voldemort and himself a secret for 7 books ffs. Even in Deathly Hallows he's being cryptic from beyond the grave and doesn't explain anything until Harry sees him again in the afterlife/limbo. Pretty sure he would've shut up about this one as well. Making anyone but Dumbledore or Lily/James themselves (if they are protected in hiding 24/7) the secret keeper themselves as kinda dumb.
This was explained that Dumbledore was already the secret keeper for the Longbottoms as Neville was also a potential target. And apparently one couldn't be under multiple secret keeper charms at once.@shotgunpete5117
@@shotgunpete5117 or heck make HARRY the secret keeper hes 1 year old sure but get hhim to write a letter saying the houses address and keep the letter safe and suddenly voldemort aint finding hte house until harry goes to hogwarts
@@shotgunpete5117Characters being stupid for the sake of the plot to happen is worse than a plot hole. lol. Like, for instance, Arthur was the secret keeper for his own house and Sirius was secret keeper of his own house (or maybe it was Dumbledore I forget) so it makes no sense why Lily or James just couldn’t be their own secret keeper or have Dumbledore be secret keeper. It’s plot convenience. Which a lot of HP is. lol
The Charlie one was Implied to be something Similar to what happened with Neville. Someone who died left behind a Wand (in Neville's case it was his Father's that was passed to him, while I believe that Charlie got one of Molly's dead brother's wands). Then when Charlie graduated, getting a job with Dragons he bought himself a matched wand giving the old wand back to Molly (Who decided that Ron should have it, it clearly worked well enough for Charlie until he could afford a better match).
Regarding the fourth theory with the Marauders Map: I think Lupin would have known Hermione owned a Time Turner that year, since he was part of the staff. Whether he knew something larger was at hand, with the time travelling Harry and Hermione, i dont know if he would've connected the dots.
Plus, Remus was very attentive to find Sirius, he even forgot to take his potion. So it stands to reason he might have been confused but played it off in his desperation to get to Sirius
SO MANY of these plot holes are explained or dont exist if you actually read the books. 42:48 in the books he couldn't let hedwig out because the dursleys refused let him because they didn't want hedwig to be seen. 44:45 dobby explains in the books that he wanted to help harry because everyone knew harry was the reason voldemort disappeared/died and I guess under voldemorts reign of power the house elves and other creatures were treated MUCH worse than they usually are. So he essentially thought of harry as a hero to his kind. 1:00:39 in the books harry isn't using the lumos spell, he's actually just under the covers with a flashlight doing his homework because Vernon locked up all of his books, his hand and his broomstick in the cupboard but he still had to do his summer homework so he'd pick the lock at night and do it while everyone was asleep. In the film I guess they wanted to open the movie with harry using magic so they just had him use lumos. There were a few others I saw that are only "plotholes" because they only happened in the movies but those are the few I remember about. Also, wizards cant conjure food and if you're talking about hogwarts, they have house leves eho make it. For a HP channel i would assume you have read the books.
For 6 as diagon alley is in London they still have to go there to get their school supplies. And I guess it’s not mandotory to go on the hogwarts express but more of a tradition. So if they go to diagon alley in the end of August and stays in the leaky cauldron and then they go on the Hogwarts express with all their friends it’s a nice end on their summer vacation and start of the school year.
As for Petunia, not knowing about the magic rule, I could just chalk that up to her, not paying attention when Lily came back from school. She strikes me as someone who once made up her mind. She didn’t wanna care about it anymore because of that of her own, or she would’ve just filtered it all through in her head.
When I read the Harry Potter books, I noticed all sorts of frustrating inconsistencies literally everywhere. Not just small details or random arbitrary rules and limitations that make no sense, but whole premises of books. Granted I was not the target demographic, as I'd read them in my adulthood, but it didn't make the experience any less frustrating.
I'm with the person above me- such as? All I ever see is people bashing the books/movies and wanting to find something wrong with them. Please do better
#8 - The wand Ron has through CoS was "Charlie's old wand" in the sense that Charlie used it before he did, but it wasn't actually a wand that Charlie bought from Ollivander; rather, it was a wand that came from another Weasley ancestor that was given to Charlie so that the family could save money; Either after graduating or at some point during school, he saved up the galleons to go buy a wand directly. Since playing Hogwarts Legacy, I like to think that that wand originally belonged to Matilda Weasley.
16:30 Lad. Read the books. Honestly Harry takes it and vows to never use it. He doesn’t even open it until after Sirius is dead. He doesn’t know he has the mirror.
One thing that's always bugged me is that in 'the deathly hallows' when they're attacked on Tottenham court road. They discuss memory charm and Ron says 'You better do it Hermione, I've never done a memory charm' and Hermione replied ' Neither have I, but I've read the theory'. Hasn't she done one on her parents?
@BlyndFyre2077in the movie, they show Hermione doing a memory charm on her parents. In the book, she talks about how she altered their memories to make them think they are totally different people.
Think there's a diffence between Obliviate and Amnesia (the incantations) Yeah, the movie showed Hermione used Obliviate on both, but I think that on the Death Eaters she just used a slight Obliviate spell, while comletey amnesiating her parents
Good points never thought of these plot holes. With the map I heard Fred and George tried lots of word combinations and as they got closer the map would flicker signaling that they were close
The plot hole of Hagrid raising werewolf cubs has been explained. It’s likely that he raised the cubs of two werewolves that mated under the full moon so those cubs would be little more than more intelligent wolves.
@@RoPiDe True. There are actually werewolves cubs in the forbidden forest though (the same kinds that I mentioned, cubs that were conceived when their werewolf parents were in their werewolf forms so the cubs are just more docile and intelligent wolves). How did those cubs get in the forbidden forest? Sure we can assume Voldemort just made it up but I wouldn’t put it past Hagrid to actually try and raise werewolf cubs and based on this description they probably wouldn’t even be that difficult to raise.
12:37 I feel like the flip side to this Is confusing because why do they teach first years the unlocking charm I’m pretty sure it’s called the thief’s friend for a reason
They don't. It is never mentioned in any class. Hermione just knew about it. Same as she knew the repair spell arleady in the train, she tought herself a lot of spells.
One thing i always thought of in Chamber of Secrets is that apparently Hogwarts is the only supply of mandrakes as they have to wait the entire year for their mandrakes to mature to bring back the victims of the basilisk.
I hate to say this but 9 Galleons for a text book makes perfect sense. Anybody who's ever had to buy a text book for college would know that they are ridiculously expensive.
40:48, The most clear explanation is: Dumbledore says that after discussion, he and Nicolas Flamel decided that it was best to destroy the stone. Flamel probably wanted to keep the stone around to be able to continue living, but after learning that Voldemort tried to use it to get back, he sacrificed his life to stop Voldemort.
Another plothole: Why dafank was the darkest book that the world know (the one horcruxes were explained in) in Hogwarts? Even if it was in the forbidden section, that was only protected by a padlock and a janitor at most. So many young wizards sneaked in throughout the years and it was easy for them to find something like this...
I think Fred and George figuring out the map can be explained in a simple way. First it was in a Box labeled "extremely dangerous", so naturally they were interested. From the taunting of Snape, we also know it can interact with people that are meddeling with it. So, what if, at some point of Fred and George trying to find out it's secret, it asked: "Do you solemnly swear that you are up to no good?"
Also, that ghost who love to break things. Whatever his name is, he certainly would know James Potter and his gang. And definitely would also join in to wreck havoc at some point, im not surprised if the ghost knew what the password is.
@@jeanneann3545Peeves enjoys chaos in any way he can cause it, including snitching on others who are up to no good. He loves nothing more than getting students in trouble
@@Devlinator61116 Yes he is. A poltergeist IS a ghost. Geist is german for ghost and a poltergeist is just a ghost that's up to no good or straight up evil or that's just actively haunting you. Depending on the source
8:50 Snape literally asks Harry to bring him his books. Harry takes Ron’s instead. Snape likely had the book in his office and left it there over summer. When they came back, Snape took up the role as DADA teacher, Slighorn sees the book and puts it in the drawer with the other spares
13:11 If anyone in the entire HP universe was going to just happen to say "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good", coincidentally, for reasons having nothing to do with using it as a password to activate the Map, I'd put Fred and George right at the top of the list as the two most likely candidates, by a wide margin.
The map actually helped Fred and George because it knew those two were looking to make trouble, so it hinted them towards what to say like how it told Snape to buzz off and that he is an ugly git with a large nose and it's crazy how he ever became a professor, which was because the map didn't really like Snape in the sense of a trouble maker like Fred and George were
6:19 it’s not a plot hole. It’s just unexplained. They probably just jumped in a flu flame and went from Scotland to London to catch the train. One could always ask why isn’t it just a platform to where the kids can get in a flu flame and go straight from wherever they are to Hogwarts it’s probably tradition again. This is not a plot hole. It’s just unexplained.
Sirius also stayed in prison because he felt guilty about lily and james death, and i fully believe that the dementors probably make him relive the bad memories that have james in it just so he can keep seeing his brother in all but blood
Im pretty sure that although ron doesnt know it, his wand belonged to someone before charlie had it, it was either Fabian or Gideons wand that molly gave to charlie and when charlie graduated hogwarts and started his job in romania he finally had enough money to buy his own wand and gave that one back to molly bc he knew it meant alot to her to still have a part of her older brothers with her
I also would argue that harry did have roughly 12 years of "peace" October 31st was 1 day but the entire 15 months before that, atleast for a baby harry, would've seemed pretty peaceful but idk that might just be me
A few more which weren't mentioned. - Draco Malfoy's greatest fear about the Forbidden Forest is werewolves. However, werewolves are human when there is no full moon. Do actual humans live in the Forest, or what? - Salazar Slytherin planned to get Hogwarts rid of Muggle-borns, but only them. How did he know the Basilisk that can kill anyone with its gaze, won't meet anyone he wouldn't want to hurt? - Why can't Sirius Black, one of the most talented former Hogwarts student, disguise himself after his escape from Azkaban? - Why does Barty Crouch Jr want to kill Harry after he left the maze? As a Death Eater, he should know Voldemort wants to kill Harry himself. - Why can't Voldemort and his Death Eaters, most wanted people of the Wizarding World, use any disguise upon the Ministry heist? - Tom Riddle is, according to the lore, past his second Horcrux when he asks Slughorn about the effects of multiple Horcruxes. What use is that info for him at that point? He already entered a one-way road. - Levicorpus is a non-verbal spell. It it's Snape's invention, as he claims it to be, how did the Marauders learn it to use it against Snape? - Why don't the Death Eaters capture Harry after Snape defeats him in the battle after Dumbledore's death? Snape does have a reason not to, but the others don't. - Is Nagini immortal? If not, it makes no sense why Voldemort sentences a shard of his soul to die with her. - Why is Nagini disguised as Bathilda Bagshot of all people in Godric's Hollow? Voldemort doesn't know Harry will need Bathilda's help. - Nagini's venom kills Snape within minutes, but Harry, also bitten by Nagini, survives it. Not to mention, Nagini shouldn't bite Harry, as Voldemort, who has direct control over her, wants to kill Harry himself.
1. As a young boy, I doubt he knew that. There were probably only werewolf cubs there and a rumour to keep people out of the forest 2. The opener of the chamber would probably target a single person, guiding the basilisk who could just look downwards while using it’s sense of smell 3. There aren’t THAT many people in each house, they’d realise if a stranger walked in, even if disguised. The dementors also aren’t fooled, and Sirius doesn’t have access to neither a wand nor potions ingredients 4. None of them knew until after his resurrection, right? Even if they did, he was young and probably only a fringe death eater until he sacrificed a life sentence in Azkaban for Voldemort 4. Good question 5. To reassure himself, to see if it’d get worse after even more than just two 6. Probably spread with his Slytherin gang and then got leaked. Or else they reversed-engineered it; levicorpus just means levitate body and liberacorpus just means free body. 7. Also good question 8. Her dead body would probably still work fine 9. He might’ve guessed he’d turn to Bathilda if he returned. Or he needed a magical person to bewitch the body or an old lonely person as to not be suspicious 10. Maybe she could control her venom? Also Snape was bit multiple times, and Arthur survived a similar attack. Her venom could be very weak and only stop non-magic attempts at stemming blood flow (as with Arthur)
Voldemort knew Harry would've visited Godric's Hollow, it was predictable. The real plothole is HOW Nagini was so powerful, what kind of magic was that? It was way too OTT. And why would Voldemort let Nagini out of his sight? He could've just used an imperius curse in Bathilda so she would send him a mesage whenever Harry showed up there. 😅
1. Excerpt from the Werewolves page on wizarding world website: Such a litter was once set free, under conditions of extreme secrecy, in the Forbidden Forest at Hogwarts, with the kind permission of Albus Dumbledore. The cubs grew into beautiful and unusually intelligent wolves and some of them live there still, which has given rise to the stories about ‘werewolves’ in the Forest - stories none of the teachers, or the gamekeeper, has done much to dispel because keeping students out of the Forest is, in their view, highly desirable.
21:12 I believe what Harry lives through when facing a dementor is not actually the death of his mother. Well sort of, but not from his point of view. What Harry experiences is Voldemorts soul reliving his own death, his worst experience, in front of a dementor. That is what the dementors are feeding on.
Or perhaps, it is the sacrificial protection trying to fight off the dementors. Harry might not remember the scene, but the part of Voldy's soul in Harry does and that is how he can hear her scream.
Your explanation of the Dementors plothole made me think of another: If Harry didn't process his parents' death enough to see Thestrals, how did he process it enough to relive his mother's dying screams when faced with Dementors? His baby self shouldn't have remembered that let alone recognized it as an intense trauma for a Dementor to dig up.
I sometimes wonder if Charlie wasn't dead in earlier drafts of Philosopher's Stone and that's why Ron got his old wand. Alternatively, maybe Charlie has a different kind of wand now, for working with dragons. Maybe one that has an exchangeable core, so that he can switch out the heartstring to correspond with whatever kind of Dragon he's working with at the time.
I simply thought Charlie didn't get a new wand either, that his one was an inheritance to Molly from her brothers who died in the war when Charlie was 9. She simply gave it to her son, to honor her brother and keep the wand of a hero in the family. Charlie had problems with it, so when he made some money, he bought a new wand and returned the old one to Molly as it was an important relic.
15:24 if I remember correctly, Harry tried to contact Sirius once through the chimney thing, but Sirius didn't answer due to the fact that he was busy with tending to an injured Buckbeak.
Well it was kreacher who was lying to Harry about what happened and said serious wasn’t at grimauld place , that’s what made Harry panic and go to minstry
For how the Basilisk got around the school using the pipes: Perhaps the pipes are meant to fit the need of whatever is passing through it. You can't tell me neither Fred and George or The Marauders wouldn't have thought it extremely funny to engorge a bm to make filch clean it with out magic
JK Rowling *did* fix the "werewolf" cubs plothole - by making it even worse. It's not a plothole anymore - it's just awful! Werewolves in wolf-form can mate during the fullmoon, and they have regular wolves as cubs. It's not explained how that works. (Whether the woman is stuck as a wolf until she delivers, or if she as a human delivers wolf cubs.) In fact, I always thought that Rowling added that little bit just as revenge for people noticing the original plothole! (Or possibly as a malediction to deliver to her own kids when they were misbehaving?)
i have a feeling that the unlocking charm. is not ment to be used to much in the magical world but instead in the muggle world. because any place in the magical world thats worth using that charm on most likely has high end locks/charms on the door to prevent that first year spell.
@@amnabatool7946 well a lot of theories think that dumbledore did a lot of what he did to train/test harry. so if you go along those lines then he didnt put a high end lock/charm on that door for that very purpose.
All those things - Veritaserum, the Pensieve, Legilimency - Fudge would have cried foul; he wouldn't have believed anything at this point. He was high-strung, paranoid, worn-out over last year's events and had that Parselmouth prejudice. Also, since Harry was getting older - GoF serves as a rite-of-passage book - Fudge was beginning to be fed up with him In conclusion, denial is strong, believe me
The prophecy specifically says one can not live while the other survives, and in the end the two would have to battle for survival. It makes sense that only Tom can kill that part of his soul in Harry. The basilisk fang would not work on him. The prophecy is very clear.
If you think it's weird that a textbook would cost 9 gal, when 1 Galleon is considered to be expensive, I don't think you've ever looked at the price of a college textbook.
13:05 Things like computers and TVs don't work around magic. That camera is completely mechanical. It will work just fine. Just like any mechanical device.
Having students from places outside London isn't a plot hole. The location of Hogwarts is heavily guarded and is implied to be hidden by secret keepers. That's the whole reason Malfoy had to use the vanishing cabinet in the Half-Blood Prince. So, no, not a plot hole, just a very inconvenient thing for wizards living all over Great Britain.
49:40 I choose to believe that the same descendant who worked on the plumbing purposefully made them oversized, or spelled them to always allow the basilisk to move in them.
biggest plot hole for me is how you give a whole school thin sticks to perform magic with, but during the series you only read about breaking a wand once or twice they are kids they break everything
What I wonder is why tf Ollivander doesn't use some time of reinforcement spell; there has got to be something like this, to turn a s tick as durable as steel
It's most likely that Hagrid probably had troubles with the motorcycle, and needed to get some food for Harry, then have to wait until dark to be able to travel.
5:00 Not a plothole. Harry is often just looking in his vicinity of the map. Not analysing it. The map doesn’t lie. There is a very short period between where Harry knows the name Peter pettigrew and when he has the map as Scabbers disappears not long after Harry gets the map. Then the map also doesn’t show people in the forbidden forest which is where they are on the edge of until Lupin goes into the Shack
Why on earth does Lupin only transform in Prisoner of Askaban, when the cloud moves? If a werewolf would only transform if moonlight hit him, the very obvious and easy answer would be to just remain inside on a full moon night and close the curtains. Problem solved.
Super-dramatic effect, of course ;) No, even that won't work; I mean, I've seen a bunch of lore, where you SPECIFICALLY chain yourself up in your dungeon - so long as you don't have any concious control over your wolf form - so, you'd think, down there you'd be safe
@tracim3080 you're missing the point. HPT wasnt pointing out plot holes that would otherwise make sense if you read the books. These plot holes originate from the books and are unexplained anywhere.
@@cirqusboy Majority of these are explained in the books they’re not plot holes. We know the answer if we read the book. I’ll start with the very first one the pensive we already know you can manipulate memories they’re not true syrup You’re not going to convince somebody who is under the belief you’re trying to fool them that your memory is proof you’re right That’s just people being dumb that’s not a plot hole
The other thing would be, you have to be extraordinary specific when making the unbreakable vow so one slip up or slight vagueness and and you’ve either accidentally killed a useful follower or are trusting someone who found a loophole. I am also quite curious what happens if the person enters into or breaks an unbreakable vow while not under their own free will (i.e. Imperius curse)
Also, could you use the unbreakable vow to make sure someone told you the truth? You could make them enter an unbreakable vow to tell you the entire truth about some person or event? And who gets to determine what constitutes “to the best of your abilities?”. I’m not sure of that was just what they said in the movies and the specific vow Snape said in the books was different but if not, what party gets to decide what the best of one’s abilities are? Does the vow just “know”?
I believe McGonagall was added to Fantastic Beasts as fan service, bringing back beloved characters-for familiarity's sake. It's not accurate, but movies still tend to do it. For the basilisk not killing Harry's horcrux might have needed to strike somewhere vital to work-not just his arm. But this is just speculation.
One Sirius/Hagrid issue that always bugged me was the fact that Hagrid was even there at the Potter house so soon after the attack. Plus, if Sirius had really betrayed the Potters he could have killed Hagrid and then finish off Harry.
Honestly, Fred and George are so crazy good with magical items, they probably took it with them as a prank hoping it'd bother Filtch, realized it wasn't an important letter or whatnot but a magical item, and messed around with it until they cracked the code after a long time. Another option is that you can 'converse' with the four when you fail to crack it, and they could've matched the 'gryffindor troublemakers' checklist and gotten the password from the items itself as a 'hey try this and continue our work'. Also, at about 15:00 minutes in - Doesn't Harry try but fail to contact Sirius before he goes to the ministry? Through floo powder? Even has to make use of all sorts of stuff to get to Umbridge's fireplace. I always figured that Sirius stayed in Azkabam because he felt responsible for what happened to his friends. Like he explained, it was seeing Peter Pettigrew on that picture that he felt like he had to break out and avenge them. Before, he probably thought him dead as well.
Agreed. However, it does not explain why some wizards have shabby or damaged clothing It should be able to be maintained in Christine condition except maybe if it had been hit with curses.
@@jordirapper he rearranges the house to its pre wrecked state so everything that the origional house had was still there but shattered and he simply had it rearrange itself to its origional shape
I actually can easily explain away V's not using the Unbreakable Bond with his Death Eaters: He was a megalomaniac and psychopath. His Death Eaters were NOT his friends, nor even his allies to him, they were tools to be used and, if need be, disposed of when convenient. If there was a simple 'I won't betray you or our cause' bond in place, and he felt, say, a DE wasn't living up to the position... He couldn't just fire one and move on could he? No, simplest way to remove a repeat failure was Avada Kedavra... Which I'm darn skippy the Bond's magicks would have seen as a betrayal on V's part and kiled him for it. Tools are to be used, not promised to.
Locks in the real world are pretty useless in the real world with lock pics. I imagine bathrooms an offices have magical blocks for the unlocking charms
@@queerdorwhich is plain wrong as Harry remembers his is both the second year and in the epilogue. More likely is a Fidelius Charm with the Hat as the Keeper which was “killed” when burned by Voldemort in the Battle of Hogwarts
Also: •Polyjuice Potion •Alohomora •Giant-Human Interbreeding •Other species (like Veela) human interbreeding Is Ron just dumb, or does he have Muggle-born/author's discretion desease In hindsight, Ron was fine - he also had a good arc - but he should have been a less agressive Hermione, guiding Harry (and us) thorugh this new world, also being a straight-O student
41:17 wow, most of these aren't plot holes at all. More like things that are only explained in the books or changed in the movies. 41:18 In the books, Harry immediately notices that he's wearing glasses after transforming because he doesn't need them anymore. 42:09 In the books, it's stated that the Dursleys had padlocked Hedwig in her cage, so Harry didn't have the key. 44:13 In the books, Dobby explains how conditions were worse for house elves during the time Voldemort was most powerful. Which is why he's so grateful to Harry for "defeating" Voldemort, and why he wants to protect him. But yes, doesn't explain how he knew what was going to happen at Hogwarts. 45:44 In the books, it's explained that Lockhart was the only applicant for the job as Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher (except for Snape, but Dumbledore obviously refused to give him the job). Either way, the teachers obviously knew Lockhart was inept, but Dumbledore didn't really have any other options than to hire him. 48:18 Hagrid's absolutely worked as well as Ron's wand. When Hagrid gave Dudley a pig's tail, he confesses to Harry that he actually meant to turn Dudley into a pig. So, I'd say Hagrid's wand and Ron's wand both produced very inconsistent results. There are a lot more points made in this video that are explained by the books, but I digress.
In the books they were having muggle borns go to the ministry for a trial, their wands would be taken away from them and they would be accused of stealing magic. They would plead that they got their wand at ollivanders and learned it at hogwarts and got their letter, but were accused still and then sent for the dementors kiss. This is what would happen to every muggle born until there arent any left. Because the other wizarding schools/parts of the world didnt take voldemort seriously, being immortal would allow him to easily take those over too. Muggles would be made literal slaves to pure bloods, like house elves only lower. It would have been ultimate worst case scenario
The main plot hole that bothers me is the fact that the evil potion that makes you see the worst memories of your life which guarded Slytherins Locket in the cave should not have been there. If it had been drank by Regalus black and the actual locket stolen, why would there be potion in the basin again? One might argue that it automatically refills after the locket is taken, but first of all, why would it? Why would Voldy want it to auto-refill? If the locket was stolen, there would be no reason for the potion to magically reappear. Secondly, in deathly hallows, when Voldemort has Kreacher drink the potion for him to test it, after he places the locket in there, he "refills it with potion". It doesn't say that the basin auto-refills. But again, there's no reason for Voldemort to want it to auto-refill if someone else steals the locket. Quite the opposite in fact.
I had always thought Harry could see the thestrals since Voldemort killed his mum right in front of him when he was a baby. Never thought it was because of Cedric’s death.
I'm 2 minutes into the video and I just thought it was hilarious because your first plot hole is like my biggest issue with the series at whole Love your channel keep up the great work
for the one about charlie's wand, I totally agree. it might have made sense to have used his dead uncle's wand, or another wands passed down in the family. We know that dumbledor was buried with the elder wand, but I tihnk it is strange that wands aren't passed down more often, even if only as mementos.
I feel like the ones where it’s like “why didn’t everyone else do this op thing” can be chalked up to the fact that magic isn’t predictable which allows the characters to be innovative.
Why do we have locks in the muggle world when anyone can learn to open a lock by watching a youtube video? Pretty sure Wizards like the security theatre they provide, same as we do.
Wizards usually have courtesy and respect, they aparate outside someones house and knock. Breaking and entering is against the law in wizard world too. Its not really a plot hole lol
I think a reasonable explanation for Ron using Charlie's wand was, Charlie's was a second hand wand, its possible the weaslys were too poor to buy Charlie hes own wand so they got him a second hand wand, when he became a dragon tamer he was able to afford his own wand so he gave his old second hand wand to his youngest brother
The wand was worn out Ron says the unicorn hair is nearly poking out. Which tells me Charlie decided to get himself a new one and gave his old one to Ron.
Rons wand was so bad at magic in book/movie 2 because A. It was broken (not completely but nearly) B. It wasnt his true wand but a second hand one that he was given. C. Its likely that charlie got this wand in a similar way as arthur and molly were never mentioned to have alot of money at any time. Hence he got a new one when he graduated
I don't necessarily take the time frame that McGonagall gives to Umbridge. about how long she's been teaching at Hogwarts, as fact. She was filling in the blanks to move the conversation along. Plus she might have wanted to see if Umbridge would bother to fact-check her.
I"m writing a fanfiction of Harry Potter and this vid will help a lot. I'm doing a fix-it story and while I address some of these plot holes there were quite a few I over looked or didn't even notice. So... thanks for this vid.
One of the most glaring that I've never seen anyone talk about is in the 7th book Hermione when they're in Rons room before the wedding say she "modified my parents memories" to help them escape to Australia. Then just a few chapters later when they are sitting in the cafe trying to decide what to do with the death eaters, they agree to modify their memories but all three of them all say they've never performed a memory charm before. Directly contradicting what Hermione said mere pages earlier.
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The last plothole -- how did Sirius buy Harry's broom? -- was explained quite well in the book. Sirius explained to Harry that Crookshanks delivered the order form, and that Sirius included instructions to take the gold from Sirius' vault at Gringott's. Goblins wouldn't have helped the Ministry track down a wizard. Goblins wouldn't have cared.
This guy really doesnt seem to know all thatuch about Harry Potter
@@FabricatedPheonix It does seem that he is a bit inconsistent about canon. Sometimes he seems to take the movies as canon; less often he seems to use book canon.
My ex explained that the creatures of the bank don’t care about the legal status of bank holders. So even though it was possible for black to use his money.
@@Octoberdoomster1Goblins hate wizards. Especially the ministry. They wouldn't have cared. Unless goblins were dying.
but why hermione has to convert into bellatrix she could also use this easy way
From the beginning list: Harry DID try to contact Sirius after his vision. He used Umbridge's fireplace and spoke to Kreacher who lied to him about Sirius's whereabouts.
Exactly!!
I'm sure the point he's making is that there were EASIER ways to contact him. Why did JK make a point to tell us Sirius gave him a 2 way mirror to talk to him ANYTIME he wanted, for Harry to never use this exact mode of communication with Sirius, especially under such huge time restraints??? THat's the plot hole. That's the point in mentioning it. Duh.
@@taylor7454Harry didn’t know he had the mirror until after Sirius was dead, and he was going through his school trunk. He never opened the package while Sirius was alive.
There's also a line by Harry, when Sirius gives him the packet (mirror) and tells him to use it if he needs Sirius.Sirius doesn't tell him what it was, Harry says to himself, that whatever that packet contains, he wont use it if it endangers Sirius.
I don't exactly remeber where in the book it is, Maybe that was after he knew that Draco has recognised Sirius.
@@DaemonJulian No he didn't but he knew that it contained the means to contact Sirius. That's why he vowed never to use it.
I think the best explanation for the Stone argument is that Flamel wasn’t ready to give it up quite yet but because he saw how dangerous it would be in the wrong hands it convinced him to let Albus destroy it
or albus could have lied about it being destroyed. he's good at that.
Yeah, but why Hogwarts
I mean except for the convenient coincidence of the current Muggle Studies now Dada teacher being posesssed by Voldy, Harry's first year and Nich and Dumby immediately deducing that Voldy is after a Philosopher's Stone, instead of just making the damn thing himself
This isn't an accurate plot pt. The stone kept flimmel alive so destroying it killed him. Dumbledore didn't want his friend to die ❤
Mrs. Weasley knew the platform number. She was just giving Genny a chance to pipe in with "9 3/4!" so that she would feel included.
Was going to say that. She was engaging the youngest daughter and making her feel helpful.
People try to nitpick minor details when it's simply just Molly being a mother. Carlin bros make it seem to be part of a huge complex plan of Dumbledore
So then why did she ask loud enough to have it carry like that?
Either Dumbledore planned almost everything or he is the dumbest most unobservant passive bastard out there.
@@andylee6022well most muggles would assume she is delusional.
@@mlpfanboy1701 True. But my argument was it is a little too convenient that Molly potentially breaks the statute were Harry has been left with no information on how to get to the platform. She is also a strong supporter of his. Non-pureblood and light sided. Ron would reinforce Slytherin bad.
A lot of "convenient" situations happen around Harry that helps him grow in the way that Albus wants him to.
A weird thing I remember was how petunia talked about lily using magic when she came home for the summer but that should have been illegal
Yup they use magic by accident all the time. Harry blew up his aunt before year3, in the books before his first year he did alot. Kids cant control their magic, thats why they go to school
Maybe the Ministry hadn't established the Trace back then?
My thought was always that she was able to get away with it because she lived next to Snape’s family who are magical
@@sweep_swoopor she used it by snape and they were outside there house
I think the laws were different then
The reason why the pensive doesn't work is because Fudge was determined to not publicly acknowledge he was back. fudge knew he was back but didn't want to admit it. Barty crouch junior was captured, we had Cedric's body, and both Harry and mad eye could testify Voldemort is back. However fudge was not unaware of Voldemorts return he simply refused to admit it
I wonder if someone lies about something enough for them to believe it, that it would show it?
definitely, but the point still stands
Even me at... what age would i have been...8-9 or so, knew this. He knew, he had to have known. He just refused to accept it.
@@kalypso4133he says flat out that he refuses to accept and admit it because doing so would be political suicide & he'd be thrown out of office for it
@@mindovermatterbecomingyour1561 to be fair I have not read the series since I was 12, im 29 now xDD Been meaning to read rhem again when I got the disposable cash to buy the series again.
23:38 In the books it explains that after sirius found out that Peter was living with the Weasley’s (he saw the daily prophet article about the Weasley’s winning prize money and going to Egypt), he was heard muttering in his sleep “he’s at Hogwarts” over and over. Fudge thought it was in reference to Sirius wanting to kill Harry, but it’s revealed that Sirius was actually worried about Harry’s safety because he is sharing a dormitory with the man who murdered his parents. So I think that was the major driving force as to why Sirius finally decided to break out. He was only willing to risk it to save Harry
Why do the Weasley's even need money to go to Egypt? They could Apparate their kids or use Portkeys or Floo powder to an Egyptian wizarding shop. They could stay in their giant tent from GoF
@@xletragedyx The Weasleys would need money to go to Egypt because: (1) It's unclear how far a person can Apparate (without a high likelihood of splinching) or use a Portkey; it may work to get across the UK but might be insufficient to get to Egypt -- and Egyptians don't have fireplaces (and are likely not connected to the British Floo Network), so Floo Powder is out. (2) While in Egypt, I doubt the Weasleys want to live in a tent, eat British food, and not go sightseeing. Travel costs money if you want to actually enjoy yourself.
I personally like "Shaun"'s point that the trip should not have been paid through a lottery but actually from Harry finding gems in the Chamber of Secrets and giving them to the Weasleys as compensation for the crashed car and those gems being the source of funding for the Egypt trip.
@@xletragedyxthey probably can’t apparate with kids as we saw what happened when it goes wrong and they probably have to pay to register port keys
@@yourbabytee I'm pretty sure Dumbledore took Harry and it was fine. The only thing that went wrong was when Ron tried to Apparate himself and got splinched
I think it’s because you need a clear vision of that place you wanna apperate to and since they’ve never been to Egypt they couldn’t imagine and picture it clear enough so they could splinch
For the sirius polyjuice theory: first it takes about a month to produce and most often sirius acted for instant gratification. He was impatient and decided things on a whim. Also, though it was easy for the trio to make in COS, they had the advantage of having most of the ingredients readily available and stole the rest. How was sirius supposed to get ingredients when he was confined at home and others didnt want him out so they wouldnt help him
It was also not simple to make. Harry had Hermione, who is constantly told to be the brightest witch of their age, brew the potion. The potion was also a N.E.W.T level potion as mentioned in Half-Blood Prince.
@@thershaysoni947 I'm pretty sure black got 10-12 owls/newts when he tested.
...order by owl?
but our moody in GOF used it every hour for a yearr
Why tf wouldn't they wanna help him
He's a seasoned, brave, ruthless warrior
You only need to have something once, and then you can infinitely copy it
On Colin's camera: Old cameras work by a basic chemical reaction. The lens focuses light on to the film, and the silver in the film reacts. If the magic affected the camera, then potions wouldn't work either. Or any other normal chemical reaction. Tou wouldn't even need to polish any sort of metal, because it would never oxidize.
Yes other simple technologies work such as watches, more complex technologies, especially the internet do not work.
You realize almost all technology uses chemical reactions to function
what the op and other comments meant was no electronics like digital cameras, computers, smart phones. (Old fashion non electronic, more mechanical).
Old cameras relied on mirrors reflecting to get the picture to the viewfinder.
I forget the book, but... as for the poor wizards segment, it was shown they don't conjure the food, at least thats what i was led to believe in my multiple read throughs. I thought the house elves made it in the kitchens and Dumbledore merely relocated it to the tables via magic
Yes the elves cook the food and it's apparated up to tie tables
@@emjayee Yes, that was all revealed in the books with the whole SPEW storyline that was totally cut out of the movies.
There was Gamos law of configuration. No money, no food no bringing back from the dead.
@@emjayeeyup four house tables in the great hall, four identical tables in the kitchen below.
Correct. Rember the Weasleys lived on a farm. The Engorgio spell could increase the food supply.
No, Molly wasn't trying to remember the platform number, she was teaching a 10 year old Ginny to remember where she is to find platform 9 3/4 and in turn helped Harry after he asked her.
This is the problem with building large worlds full of mcguffins like magic. An author's main goal is to create a series of dilemmas for the characters to resolve on their way through the main story arc. However, there can be times when a tool is introduced - like the time turner or the pensieve - that can help with one plot point, but act as a hole for a future plot point. As intuitive people, readers will remember incredibly useful things and when they are presented with a new crisis in the story, will immediately begin to think as if they were the characters in the story. What would they do considering all of the tools introduced so far. But only to see the author completely glosses over it. Sometimes authors will forget they even had those things in their story, or a clear justification exists, but just didn't translate well in the narrative.
A McGuffin is a 'goal' object or event in the plot, which sometimes get abandoned once the plot moves on. Time turners and Pensieves are not mcguffins.
@@tedmax6558 The time turner is most definitely a McGuffin lmao
@@ngotemna8875It isnt because it is an item that is only there to explain how hermione has been in multiple places at once, it does not drive the plot especially as harry is not even aware of it until much later. It could have been used again after it was introduced. Something like the elder wand is a mcguffin as voldemort is trying to acquire it and also having trying to be the owner of the wand to become the most powerful wizard. He fails the latter and harry destroys it to not have it fall into the wrong hands. The wand drives the plot. A good example of a mcguffin is the ark of the covenant from raiders of the lost ark or even the philosphers stone from the first book and film.
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@@Knowledge.to_Come omg yes i do lol.
lol
Me lying down to go to bed at 9:30am to wake up at 7pm
Not sure if it was mentioned (didn't have time to watch the entire hour, but):
In Chamber of Secrets, it's revealed that when the chamber was first opened, authorities originally concluded that Hagrid was the culprit and carried out the attacks using his pet spider, Aragog - and he is later arrested and sent to Azkaban for the reopening of the chamber and the subsequent attacks. However, it is patently obvious that a spider could not possibly have been the monster who killed Myrtle and petrified the other victims *(including* Nearly Headless Nick) because the only way a spider could do so is through biting, and *not only* are there no bite marks on *any* of the victims, but - as mentioned regarding Nearly Headless Nick - one of the victims was a *ghost,* whom it is not physically possible to even bite a ghost!
It already makes zero sense to blame Hagrid for the death of Myrtle (again, when there are no bite marks, and - as mentioned in the video - given the fact that they could just ask her ghost "was it an acromantula who bit you and killed you?"), but given the new evidence of the new victims after the chamber has been reopened (and especially after Nearly Headless Nick is attacked), it's patently obvious they were dead wrong the first time and it wasn't Hagrid or his pet spider and never possibly could've been!
Truly abysmal investigative work! But, then again, we also saw how bad they handled Sirius Black's case and wrongfully sent him to prison for 12 years, so that also *kinda* checks out!
Yeah, I mean - most fantastical worlds are kinda stuck in medieval levels, so persecution systems are faulty as well
@@CasualObserver9493 It's super realistic. Nowadays people are blamed of eating your cats and dogs and people believe it.
Well the minister does say that they need to take some sort of action. They are clueless and parents needs to feel like something is being done so the only thing they can think of is convicting him again since he’s the only lead
8:10 I think charlie's old wand that goes to ron was a wand that had been in the Wesley family in general. When he graduated he probably was bought a brand new wand as a gift much in the same way Percy was bought an owl. But since charlie didnt need the old hand me down wand, it was passed to Ron. I always thought wizarding families, specially old ones like the Weasley's might have had a couple of extra old wands lying around that belonged to dead family members. In that way the wands would also work well enough, since they could tell they're still within the same family.
The wand choses the wizard!
in Book 1 Olivander told Harry that another wizards wand might not work as well. It was also mentioned in book 6 ( i think) that Nevills new wand greatly improved his magic . Harry and Hermione also had someone elses wand that worked for both but not very well.Also Olivander told Voldemort to use someone elses wand. So I think its obviouse that wands can be handed down..they may not work well but they can be handed down, It doesnt say anywhere that you can only have one wand...
@@adajefferson8251It would also explain why Hagrid's broken wand worked better than Ron's hand me down broken wand.
Why tf would they make someone who cant do magic be the janitor? Any time he complains about cleaning up after students i think how anyone in that castle could clean that mess in 2 seconds. As a matter of fact im pretty sure there are enchanted cleaning tools in these books which just do the cleaning themselves.
The entire reason they keep magic a secret from the normal world is nonsense. Who cares if humans would rely on wizards. THEY LITERALLY HAVE ACCESS TO MAGIC.
Taking on Filch was a kindness. Filch wouldn't have had anywhere else in the wizarding world to go, but he also wouldn't have anywhere to go in the muggle world. Dumbledore kept him employed for Filch's own benefit.
Harry didn’t know about the two/way mirror until after Sirius’s death.
Yea. . . I came down here to say this too.
But he knew he could contact Sirius with it
@@vignotum132 He forgot he had it. He didnt remeber he had it until he accidentally broke it after Siris' death
@@FabricatedPheonix I know. So say that instead of “he didn’t know”
I think Harry never remembering that gift until Sirius’ death is a big plot hole. I have used a footlocker before while traveling. They are not huge, so there is no excuse he went 9-10 months without ever seeing the gift and going “that’s right, he gave me a present”. Especially once he pulled out all of his clothing and school supplies… also, there is no reason Sirius didn’t say once during the several risky encounters they had “Harry, why aren’t you using the gift I gave you instead of putting yourself at risk”
A lot of these aren't actually plot holes, unless you've only watched the movies. Pottermore explains most of them, and even if you haven't read the books some of them are just common sense
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If you need to fix your plot holes on a website after you finished your series, nobody is taking you serously lol
@@michalnavratil5961yeah it’s not like lord of the rings did that… let’s ignore all the letters he sent that explained plot holes
@@stevenburton5850name a single plot hole In lord of the rings that isn't explained during the book or rooted in common sense
@@daniel15yearsago66that was the point of this first comment 🤦♂️
For the Hogwarts express plot hole I think we could reasonably assume that students need new supplies every year before the term starts. They have to go to Diagon Alley as far as we know to get their school supplies and it’s in or around London amiright? If so then it would be a big to-do to go school shopping where we know they should and then hop on the train to get to school. Two birds with one stone kind of trip I guess?
This makes sense but I think it might be a simple matter of logistics. When they arrive they are brought to the great hall for the sorting ceremony, while their luggage is brought to their rooms. Even with magic, this would be far more frantic and disorganized if you multiple transports coming in. This is why even in the American military when you report for basic training you are brought to one location and then bused to the actual base. And it would also be more difficult to have enchanted platforms at so many stations across a country that, in all honesty, isn't that big. No matter where you are in the UK you are only a few hours from London.
And why are we talking about "all the way to London?" Girl throw some floo powder in a grate, you're there.
@@intermidable or just get your parent (if you have wizard parent) to use side along apparation into leaky cauldron then take a taxi to kings cross
I think that Petunia knew more than she ever let on, because, after all, she didn't want Vernon and her son to see her as a “freak.”She was happy to keep her lips sealed about anything that she may have known.
I think Snape didn't say anything about the potion's book, because if Harry had found out that it was Sanpe's, it might have led Harry on a trail to his identity, that he knew his mother, and who Eileen Prince was, which was what Sanpe wanted to be kept from Harry at all costs.
Voldemort showed up at the ministry because he was called for help, and probably by Bellatrix. Tom still lost several of his inner circle that night, with only Bellatrix escaping.
Not all locks can be unlocked with the unlocking spell, even using certain dodgy knives. Harry found that out while in the DoM.
Harry did try to contact Sirius, via Umbridge's floo, where Kreacher lied to Harry about Sirius' whereabouts. Harry didn't remember the mirror until he was packing to leave, where he broke it. Plus, his scar was burning, which addled his thoughts.
They flat screwed up on Minerva's age.
Polyjuice potion takes six months to brew, if I recall, and he would have needed the ingredients. Sirius could have tried to obtain some from one of the Order's members, but I'd say that Dumbledore told them not to help him leave No. 12.
The portkey in the tournament was not a timed portkey, it triggered on touch. Barty made sure that Harry would reach it first.
Neither Minerva nor Hagrid wished to leave Harry at the Dursleys, that was all Dumbledore's doing, and he was too cowardly to ring the doorbell. However, it was said that Minerva spent the night watching over things until Petunia found him the next morning. Remember, Dumbledore ordered them to not speak to the Dursleys, they were supposed to be left alone. Something was off about Albus and this.
It looks like, from the Cursed Child, that Tom may have been interested in Time Turners, as a plot was made after their destruction in the DoM, to construct one between Malfoy, Nott, and, I think, Rookwood.
Stating the above, a big plot hole was the abduction of Fortescue. JKR wrote about him, and why he was to be used. Fortescue was well-trained in magical history, and was another seeker of the Deathly Hallows. He would have been who Tom tortured for information about the Hallows, and especially, where he found out about the Elder Wand. JKR left it be, and didn't mention why he was taken.
I think you’re correct about the portkey not being timed. However, portkeys are only supposed to go one way. Touching it again doesn’t activate them to return to their place of origin (or somewhere else). But when Harry touched the Triwizard cup a second time it takes him to the entrance of the maze in front of the entire school. Therefore, when Crouch Jr (as Moody) bewitched the cup, he planned to have it take anyone who touched it first to the graveyard, then to the front of the maze. Voldemort obviously wanted to kill Harry that night, so who was meant to take that return trip?
@@romileever8885 There was another portkey made by Dumbledore for Harry when the battle at the DoM was over. It was made in front of Fudge.
However, I can't remember if it was by touch, though I think it was, or by time. It could have also used a trigger word, but I can't remember without rereading the chapter.
@@romileever8885Pettigrew as an imposter so they didn’t realise Harry died
The train only
departing from London is no big deal if you have a flloo-network i think.
snapes potion boos i think was kept by him as a perspnal thing and ended up in the school's stock by accident, i think.
@@romileever8885In the film at the start with the Quidditch game, Mr Weasley tells everyone to get back to the boot, implying that they can use it to get back home as well. So they must go two ways otherwise you couldn't get back.
The reason why Dementors affected Harry so much was because he was having Voldemort's fear of death being triggered by them. Since he already had part of his soul it was what made him even more special to the Dementors because they were interested in such a being. It might be a combination to that the scream of his mother was enough to terrify harry.
What if the screams where from someone voldy tortured ?
In the 3rd movie, when sirius is getting soul sucked by 1dementor, you can see 2 dementors come to harry, because he has 2 souls in him…
@@Galduhir The scream I think was voldemort's moment in his memory of when he realized that he might die. Since she just died at that moment by screaming. Any child hearing a scream like that would be scared too because of the sudden high pitch.
I thought so too, but Voldemort says dementors are his natural Allies, which still doesn't add up because they sure sucked the soul right out of his death eater Barty crouch jr
@@Jamesbull46 dementors suck all happiness out, so yes they ally to voldemort because they sense no happiness or soul to suck out of him. Also, he offers to feed them almost unlimited muggle borns. He delivered on his promise when he had muggle borns go to the ministry to be accused of stealing their magic even if ollivander really did sell them their wands and learned it at hogwarts. Then they would be given the dementors kiss after this accusation.
#5 I can explain why Dumbledore wasn’t concerned about Hagrid borrowing Sirius’ bike. It’s because that happened before Sirius had cornered Pettigrew. Only after that was Sirius presumed to have been the traitor.
But Dumbledore "knew" Sirius was the secret keeper of the Potters
Honestly the secret keeper thing isn't so much a plothole as it is characters not being smart. Why not just make Dumbledore the secret keeper, he kept everything else about Harry, Voldemort and himself a secret for 7 books ffs. Even in Deathly Hallows he's being cryptic from beyond the grave and doesn't explain anything until Harry sees him again in the afterlife/limbo. Pretty sure he would've shut up about this one as well. Making anyone but Dumbledore or Lily/James themselves (if they are protected in hiding 24/7) the secret keeper themselves as kinda dumb.
This was explained that Dumbledore was already the secret keeper for the Longbottoms as Neville was also a potential target. And apparently one couldn't be under multiple secret keeper charms at once.@shotgunpete5117
@@shotgunpete5117 or heck make HARRY the secret keeper hes 1 year old sure but get hhim to write a letter saying the houses address and keep the letter safe and suddenly voldemort aint finding hte house until harry goes to hogwarts
@@shotgunpete5117Characters being stupid for the sake of the plot to happen is worse than a plot hole. lol. Like, for instance, Arthur was the secret keeper for his own house and Sirius was secret keeper of his own house (or maybe it was Dumbledore I forget) so it makes no sense why Lily or James just couldn’t be their own secret keeper or have Dumbledore be secret keeper. It’s plot convenience. Which a lot of HP is. lol
The Charlie one was Implied to be something Similar to what happened with Neville. Someone who died left behind a Wand (in Neville's case it was his Father's that was passed to him, while I believe that Charlie got one of Molly's dead brother's wands). Then when Charlie graduated, getting a job with Dragons he bought himself a matched wand giving the old wand back to Molly (Who decided that Ron should have it, it clearly worked well enough for Charlie until he could afford a better match).
Regarding the fourth theory with the Marauders Map: I think Lupin would have known Hermione owned a Time Turner that year, since he was part of the staff. Whether he knew something larger was at hand, with the time travelling Harry and Hermione, i dont know if he would've connected the dots.
Plus, Remus was very attentive to find Sirius, he even forgot to take his potion. So it stands to reason he might have been confused but played it off in his desperation to get to Sirius
SO MANY of these plot holes are explained or dont exist if you actually read the books. 42:48 in the books he couldn't let hedwig out because the dursleys refused let him because they didn't want hedwig to be seen. 44:45 dobby explains in the books that he wanted to help harry because everyone knew harry was the reason voldemort disappeared/died and I guess under voldemorts reign of power the house elves and other creatures were treated MUCH worse than they usually are. So he essentially thought of harry as a hero to his kind. 1:00:39 in the books harry isn't using the lumos spell, he's actually just under the covers with a flashlight doing his homework because Vernon locked up all of his books, his hand and his broomstick in the cupboard but he still had to do his summer homework so he'd pick the lock at night and do it while everyone was asleep. In the film I guess they wanted to open the movie with harry using magic so they just had him use lumos. There were a few others I saw that are only "plotholes" because they only happened in the movies but those are the few I remember about. Also, wizards cant conjure food and if you're talking about hogwarts, they have house leves eho make it. For a HP channel i would assume you have read the books.
For 6 as diagon alley is in London they still have to go there to get their school supplies. And I guess it’s not mandotory to go on the hogwarts express but more of a tradition. So if they go to diagon alley in the end of August and stays in the leaky cauldron and then they go on the Hogwarts express with all their friends it’s a nice end on their summer vacation and start of the school year.
Yeah it’s just the most common way you can make your own way to school by the way of hogwarts ad harry did in tootp by the way of the knight bus
Also they are wizards so probably use port keys or fires to get to London. So it's not like it's any different
As for Petunia, not knowing about the magic rule, I could just chalk that up to her, not paying attention when Lily came back from school.
She strikes me as someone who once made up her mind. She didn’t wanna care about it anymore because of that of her own, or she would’ve just filtered it all through in her head.
When I read the Harry Potter books, I noticed all sorts of frustrating inconsistencies literally everywhere. Not just small details or random arbitrary rules and limitations that make no sense, but whole premises of books. Granted I was not the target demographic, as I'd read them in my adulthood, but it didn't make the experience any less frustrating.
Such as?
I'm with the person above me- such as? All I ever see is people bashing the books/movies and wanting to find something wrong with them. Please do better
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Charlie obviously bought his own wand and passed his down to Ron
#8 - The wand Ron has through CoS was "Charlie's old wand" in the sense that Charlie used it before he did, but it wasn't actually a wand that Charlie bought from Ollivander; rather, it was a wand that came from another Weasley ancestor that was given to Charlie so that the family could save money; Either after graduating or at some point during school, he saved up the galleons to go buy a wand directly. Since playing Hogwarts Legacy, I like to think that that wand originally belonged to Matilda Weasley.
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Lad. Read the books. Honestly
Harry takes it and vows to never use it. He doesn’t even open it until after Sirius is dead. He doesn’t know he has the mirror.
One thing that's always bugged me is that in 'the deathly hallows' when they're attacked on Tottenham court road. They discuss memory charm and Ron says 'You better do it Hermione, I've never done a memory charm' and Hermione replied ' Neither have I, but I've read the theory'. Hasn't she done one on her parents?
@BlyndFyre2077in the movie, they show Hermione doing a memory charm on her parents. In the book, she talks about how she altered their memories to make them think they are totally different people.
Think there's a diffence between Obliviate and Amnesia (the incantations)
Yeah, the movie showed Hermione used Obliviate on both, but I think that on the Death Eaters she just used a slight Obliviate spell, while comletey amnesiating her parents
Good points never thought of these plot holes. With the map I heard Fred and George tried lots of word combinations and as they got closer the map would flicker signaling that they were close
Or they overheard filch using it before they decided to steal it from him
@@Knowledge.to_Come I mean I originally heard it from the channel movie flame and he said Rowling had revealed it after the series was done
Lots of “guesswork” as dumbledore called it in the hbp novel
I think Dumbledore played a part in that, knowing it would go to Harry eventually
Filch didn't know how it worked, as the twins pointed out to Harry how he didn't know about all the shortcuts on the map @@Knowledge.to_Come
The plot hole of Hagrid raising werewolf cubs has been explained. It’s likely that he raised the cubs of two werewolves that mated under the full moon so those cubs would be little more than more intelligent wolves.
It was Voldemort whonsaid that. He was most likely exaggerating, or even lying, even though is a stupid lie...
@@RoPiDe True. There are actually werewolves cubs in the forbidden forest though (the same kinds that I mentioned, cubs that were conceived when their werewolf parents were in their werewolf forms so the cubs are just more docile and intelligent wolves). How did those cubs get in the forbidden forest? Sure we can assume Voldemort just made it up but I wouldn’t put it past Hagrid to actually try and raise werewolf cubs and based on this description they probably wouldn’t even be that difficult to raise.
12:37 I feel like the flip side to this Is confusing because why do they teach first years the unlocking charm I’m pretty sure it’s called the thief’s friend for a reason
They don't. It is never mentioned in any class. Hermione just knew about it. Same as she knew the repair spell arleady in the train, she tought herself a lot of spells.
One thing i always thought of in Chamber of Secrets is that apparently Hogwarts is the only supply of mandrakes as they have to wait the entire year for their mandrakes to mature to bring back the victims of the basilisk.
Yeah, impossible to imagine this slow life today
I hate to say this but 9 Galleons for a text book makes perfect sense. Anybody who's ever had to buy a text book for college would know that they are ridiculously expensive.
Everything went out the window when time travel was introduced
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Werewolf cubs are the offspring of werewolves which have mated while transformed. They are just intelligent wolves. They’re not human babies.
32:21 American wizards probably didn’t get involved because Voldemort didn’t have oil.
and because theres a giant ocean that would take several weeks even with apparation to coss
Harry did try to contact Sirius with the Floo network in Umbridge's office.
40:48, The most clear explanation is: Dumbledore says that after discussion, he and Nicolas Flamel decided that it was best to destroy the stone. Flamel probably wanted to keep the stone around to be able to continue living, but after learning that Voldemort tried to use it to get back, he sacrificed his life to stop Voldemort.
Bullshit
Where did he get the Stone in the first place
Voldemort could have just made hid own
Another plothole: Why dafank was the darkest book that the world know (the one horcruxes were explained in) in Hogwarts? Even if it was in the forbidden section, that was only protected by a padlock and a janitor at most. So many young wizards sneaked in throughout the years and it was easy for them to find something like this...
I think Fred and George figuring out the map can be explained in a simple way. First it was in a Box labeled "extremely dangerous", so naturally they were interested. From the taunting of Snape, we also know it can interact with people that are meddeling with it. So, what if, at some point of Fred and George trying to find out it's secret, it asked: "Do you solemnly swear that you are up to no good?"
Also, that ghost who love to break things. Whatever his name is, he certainly would know James Potter and his gang. And definitely would also join in to wreck havoc at some point, im not surprised if the ghost knew what the password is.
@@jeanneann3545 Peeves isn't a ghost.
@@jeanneann3545Peeves wouldnt help anyone.
@@jeanneann3545Peeves enjoys chaos in any way he can cause it, including snitching on others who are up to no good. He loves nothing more than getting students in trouble
@@Devlinator61116 Yes he is. A poltergeist IS a ghost.
Geist is german for ghost and a poltergeist is just a ghost that's up to no good or straight up evil or that's just actively haunting you. Depending on the source
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Snape literally asks Harry to bring him his books. Harry takes Ron’s instead.
Snape likely had the book in his office and left it there over summer. When they came back, Snape took up the role as DADA teacher, Slighorn sees the book and puts it in the drawer with the other spares
13:11 If anyone in the entire HP universe was going to just happen to say "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good", coincidentally, for reasons having nothing to do with using it as a password to activate the Map, I'd put Fred and George right at the top of the list as the two most likely candidates, by a wide margin.
The map actually helped Fred and George because it knew those two were looking to make trouble, so it hinted them towards what to say like how it told Snape to buzz off and that he is an ugly git with a large nose and it's crazy how he ever became a professor, which was because the map didn't really like Snape in the sense of a trouble maker like Fred and George were
6:19 it’s not a plot hole. It’s just unexplained. They probably just jumped in a flu flame and went from Scotland to London to catch the train. One could always ask why isn’t it just a platform to where the kids can get in a flu flame and go straight from wherever they are to Hogwarts it’s probably tradition again. This is not a plot hole. It’s just unexplained.
So you're saying hagrid mary poppined his way to the island? That's hilarious.
Who’s Mary Poppins? Is he cool?
Sirius also stayed in prison because he felt guilty about lily and james death, and i fully believe that the dementors probably make him relive the bad memories that have james in it just so he can keep seeing his brother in all but blood
Im pretty sure that although ron doesnt know it, his wand belonged to someone before charlie had it, it was either Fabian or Gideons wand that molly gave to charlie and when charlie graduated hogwarts and started his job in romania he finally had enough money to buy his own wand and gave that one back to molly bc he knew it meant alot to her to still have a part of her older brothers with her
I also would argue that harry did have roughly 12 years of "peace" October 31st was 1 day but the entire 15 months before that, atleast for a baby harry, would've seemed pretty peaceful but idk that might just be me
A few more which weren't mentioned.
- Draco Malfoy's greatest fear about the Forbidden Forest is werewolves. However, werewolves are human when there is no full moon. Do actual humans live in the Forest, or what?
- Salazar Slytherin planned to get Hogwarts rid of Muggle-borns, but only them. How did he know the Basilisk that can kill anyone with its gaze, won't meet anyone he wouldn't want to hurt?
- Why can't Sirius Black, one of the most talented former Hogwarts student, disguise himself after his escape from Azkaban?
- Why does Barty Crouch Jr want to kill Harry after he left the maze? As a Death Eater, he should know Voldemort wants to kill Harry himself.
- Why can't Voldemort and his Death Eaters, most wanted people of the Wizarding World, use any disguise upon the Ministry heist?
- Tom Riddle is, according to the lore, past his second Horcrux when he asks Slughorn about the effects of multiple Horcruxes. What use is that info for him at that point? He already entered a one-way road.
- Levicorpus is a non-verbal spell. It it's Snape's invention, as he claims it to be, how did the Marauders learn it to use it against Snape?
- Why don't the Death Eaters capture Harry after Snape defeats him in the battle after Dumbledore's death? Snape does have a reason not to, but the others don't.
- Is Nagini immortal? If not, it makes no sense why Voldemort sentences a shard of his soul to die with her.
- Why is Nagini disguised as Bathilda Bagshot of all people in Godric's Hollow? Voldemort doesn't know Harry will need Bathilda's help.
- Nagini's venom kills Snape within minutes, but Harry, also bitten by Nagini, survives it. Not to mention, Nagini shouldn't bite Harry, as Voldemort, who has direct control over her, wants to kill Harry himself.
1. As a young boy, I doubt he knew that. There were probably only werewolf cubs there and a rumour to keep people out of the forest
2. The opener of the chamber would probably target a single person, guiding the basilisk who could just look downwards while using it’s sense of smell
3. There aren’t THAT many people in each house, they’d realise if a stranger walked in, even if disguised. The dementors also aren’t fooled, and Sirius doesn’t have access to neither a wand nor potions ingredients
4. None of them knew until after his resurrection, right? Even if they did, he was young and probably only a fringe death eater until he sacrificed a life sentence in Azkaban for Voldemort
4. Good question
5. To reassure himself, to see if it’d get worse after even more than just two
6. Probably spread with his Slytherin gang and then got leaked. Or else they reversed-engineered it; levicorpus just means levitate body and liberacorpus just means free body.
7. Also good question
8. Her dead body would probably still work fine
9. He might’ve guessed he’d turn to Bathilda if he returned. Or he needed a magical person to bewitch the body or an old lonely person as to not be suspicious
10. Maybe she could control her venom? Also Snape was bit multiple times, and Arthur survived a similar attack. Her venom could be very weak and only stop non-magic attempts at stemming blood flow (as with Arthur)
Voldemort knew Harry would've visited Godric's Hollow, it was predictable. The real plothole is HOW Nagini was so powerful, what kind of magic was that? It was way too OTT. And why would Voldemort let Nagini out of his sight? He could've just used an imperius curse in Bathilda so she would send him a mesage whenever Harry showed up there. 😅
1. Excerpt from the Werewolves page on wizarding world website:
Such a litter was once set free, under conditions of extreme secrecy, in the Forbidden Forest at Hogwarts, with the kind permission of Albus Dumbledore. The cubs grew into beautiful and unusually intelligent wolves and some of them live there still, which has given rise to the stories about ‘werewolves’ in the Forest - stories none of the teachers, or the gamekeeper, has done much to dispel because keeping students out of the Forest is, in their view, highly desirable.
Several kinds of venomous snake can control whether they inject venom or not. I assume this is the case.
Barty was imperiused wasn’t he?
21:12 I believe what Harry lives through when facing a dementor is not actually the death of his mother. Well sort of, but not from his point of view.
What Harry experiences is Voldemorts soul reliving his own death, his worst experience, in front of a dementor.
That is what the dementors are feeding on.
Or perhaps, it is the sacrificial protection trying to fight off the dementors. Harry might not remember the scene, but the part of Voldy's soul in Harry does and that is how he can hear her scream.
Charlie’s wand was probably purchased second hand. He would have purchased a new wand when he got a job. He gave the second hand wand to Ron.
Your explanation of the Dementors plothole made me think of another: If Harry didn't process his parents' death enough to see Thestrals, how did he process it enough to relive his mother's dying screams when faced with Dementors? His baby self shouldn't have remembered that let alone recognized it as an intense trauma for a Dementor to dig up.
Not his memory but the piece of voldy in him
Those aren't HIS memories
He was 15 months old; no memory yet
That was Voldy's memories
I sometimes wonder if Charlie wasn't dead in earlier drafts of Philosopher's Stone and that's why Ron got his old wand. Alternatively, maybe Charlie has a different kind of wand now, for working with dragons. Maybe one that has an exchangeable core, so that he can switch out the heartstring to correspond with whatever kind of Dragon he's working with at the time.
I simply thought Charlie didn't get a new wand either, that his one was an inheritance to Molly from her brothers who died in the war when Charlie was 9. She simply gave it to her son, to honor her brother and keep the wand of a hero in the family. Charlie had problems with it, so when he made some money, he bought a new wand and returned the old one to Molly as it was an important relic.
@@neverstopschweikingthis is exactly what I thought up to explain this one too. It would make the most sense in universe and with subsequent lore.
15:24 if I remember correctly, Harry tried to contact Sirius once through the chimney thing, but Sirius didn't answer due to the fact that he was busy with tending to an injured Buckbeak.
Well it was kreacher who was lying to Harry about what happened and said serious wasn’t at grimauld place , that’s what made Harry panic and go to minstry
For how the Basilisk got around the school using the pipes:
Perhaps the pipes are meant to fit the need of whatever is passing through it. You can't tell me neither Fred and George or The Marauders wouldn't have thought it extremely funny to engorge a bm to make filch clean it with out magic
JK Rowling *did* fix the "werewolf" cubs plothole - by making it even worse. It's not a plothole anymore - it's just awful!
Werewolves in wolf-form can mate during the fullmoon, and they have regular wolves as cubs. It's not explained how that works. (Whether the woman is stuck as a wolf until she delivers, or if she as a human delivers wolf cubs.)
In fact, I always thought that Rowling added that little bit just as revenge for people noticing the original plothole! (Or possibly as a malediction to deliver to her own kids when they were misbehaving?)
i have a feeling that the unlocking charm. is not ment to be used to much in the magical world but instead in the muggle world. because any place in the magical world thats worth using that charm on most likely has high end locks/charms on the door to prevent that first year spell.
Good point
then why didnt dumbledore put a high end magical lock or charm on the third floor corridor? in the first year that would stop the deaths im sure
@@amnabatool7946 well a lot of theories think that dumbledore did a lot of what he did to train/test harry. so if you go along those lines then he didnt put a high end lock/charm on that door for that very purpose.
Thanks
For Voldemort's revival, why did they not use veritaserum on HP? -.-" About half of the plot of HP is a pothole tbh XD
All those things - Veritaserum, the Pensieve, Legilimency - Fudge would have cried foul; he wouldn't have believed anything at this point.
He was high-strung, paranoid, worn-out over last year's events and had that Parselmouth prejudice.
Also, since Harry was getting older - GoF serves as a rite-of-passage book - Fudge was beginning to be fed up with him
In conclusion, denial is strong, believe me
The prophecy specifically says one can not live while the other survives, and in the end the two would have to battle for survival. It makes sense that only Tom can kill that part of his soul in Harry. The basilisk fang would not work on him. The prophecy is very clear.
Not all phropecies come true, Dumbledore said so himself.
If you think it's weird that a textbook would cost 9 gal, when 1 Galleon is considered to be expensive, I don't think you've ever looked at the price of a college textbook.
13:05 Things like computers and TVs don't work around magic. That camera is completely mechanical. It will work just fine. Just like any mechanical device.
Having students from places outside London isn't a plot hole. The location of Hogwarts is heavily guarded and is implied to be hidden by secret keepers. That's the whole reason Malfoy had to use the vanishing cabinet in the Half-Blood Prince. So, no, not a plot hole, just a very inconvenient thing for wizards living all over Great Britain.
49:40 I choose to believe that the same descendant who worked on the plumbing purposefully made them oversized, or spelled them to always allow the basilisk to move in them.
biggest plot hole for me is how you give a whole school thin sticks to perform magic with, but during the series you only read about breaking a wand once or twice
they are kids they break everything
Olivander knows his business. Wands have to stand up to a lot of hard use. They won't bre3ak easily..
@@DannyJane. and besides dumbledore would probably just repair the wand since the elder wand is able to repair most if not all wands that are broken
What I wonder is why tf Ollivander doesn't use some time of reinforcement spell; there has got to be something like this, to turn a s tick as durable as steel
the dobby thing is explained in the books. harry was nice to elves
It's most likely that Hagrid probably had troubles with the motorcycle, and needed to get some food for Harry, then have to wait until dark to be able to travel.
Get some food? It is an hour old infant. Did he go to Brestmilk'Donalds?
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Not a plothole. Harry is often just looking in his vicinity of the map. Not analysing it. The map doesn’t lie. There is a very short period between where Harry knows the name Peter pettigrew and when he has the map as Scabbers disappears not long after Harry gets the map. Then the map also doesn’t show people in the forbidden forest which is where they are on the edge of until Lupin goes into the Shack
THE MAP NEVER LIES!!!
Why on earth does Lupin only transform in Prisoner of Askaban, when the cloud moves? If a werewolf would only transform if moonlight hit him, the very obvious and easy answer would be to just remain inside on a full moon night and close the curtains. Problem solved.
Super-dramatic effect, of course ;)
No, even that won't work; I mean, I've seen a bunch of lore, where you SPECIFICALLY chain yourself up in your dungeon - so long as you don't have any concious control over your wolf form - so, you'd think, down there you'd be safe
I love how for every explanations u jus forward us to a video u made. I cant remember how many videos I have to go see
This is more “plot holes if you didn’t read the books”
Right
not really, these are all from the books
@@colincasey9778 yeah, that’s literally what my comment is saying 😂
@tracim3080 you're missing the point. HPT wasnt pointing out plot holes that would otherwise make sense if you read the books. These plot holes originate from the books and are unexplained anywhere.
@@cirqusboy Majority of these are explained in the books they’re not plot holes. We know the answer if we read the book.
I’ll start with the very first one the pensive we already know you can manipulate memories they’re not true syrup
You’re not going to convince somebody who is under the belief you’re trying to fool them that your memory is proof you’re right
That’s just people being dumb that’s not a plot hole
44:09 maybe ghosts recover naturally faster.
What if the unbreakable vow requires both involved parties to possess complete souls to work properly?
Was thinking the same
The other thing would be, you have to be extraordinary specific when making the unbreakable vow so one slip up or slight vagueness and and you’ve either accidentally killed a useful follower or are trusting someone who found a loophole. I am also quite curious what happens if the person enters into or breaks an unbreakable vow while not under their own free will (i.e. Imperius curse)
Also, could you use the unbreakable vow to make sure someone told you the truth? You could make them enter an unbreakable vow to tell you the entire truth about some person or event? And who gets to determine what constitutes “to the best of your abilities?”. I’m not sure of that was just what they said in the movies and the specific vow Snape said in the books was different but if not, what party gets to decide what the best of one’s abilities are? Does the vow just “know”?
Urgh, sweet Jesus - opening up a whole can of worm, if not having a 100% soul matters practically
I believe McGonagall was added to Fantastic Beasts as fan service, bringing back beloved characters-for familiarity's sake. It's not accurate, but movies still tend to do it.
For the basilisk not killing Harry's horcrux might have needed to strike somewhere vital to work-not just his arm. But this is just speculation.
One Sirius/Hagrid issue that always bugged me was the fact that Hagrid was even there at the Potter house so soon after the attack. Plus, if Sirius had really betrayed the Potters he could have killed Hagrid and then finish off Harry.
Giant blood
@@vignotum132 so Giant's and Halve-Giants are immune to the killing curse then?
@@michaelbollen6680 unknown. Maybe
@@vignotum132 No they are not.
Avada Kedavra is final. You use it, the other one drops (if you hit)
@@ngotemna8875 source please? What, Hogwarts Legacy. I haven’t found anything that specifies how it would interact with Giants.
Honestly, Fred and George are so crazy good with magical items, they probably took it with them as a prank hoping it'd bother Filtch, realized it wasn't an important letter or whatnot but a magical item, and messed around with it until they cracked the code after a long time.
Another option is that you can 'converse' with the four when you fail to crack it, and they could've matched the 'gryffindor troublemakers' checklist and gotten the password from the items itself as a 'hey try this and continue our work'.
Also, at about 15:00 minutes in - Doesn't Harry try but fail to contact Sirius before he goes to the ministry? Through floo powder? Even has to make use of all sorts of stuff to get to Umbridge's fireplace.
I always figured that Sirius stayed in Azkabam because he felt responsible for what happened to his friends. Like he explained, it was seeing Peter Pettigrew on that picture that he felt like he had to break out and avenge them. Before, he probably thought him dead as well.
LOL did he actually said " why don't they conjure food and money?" ? and you call yourself an HP fan?
Agreed. However, it does not explain why some wizards have shabby or damaged clothing It should be able to be maintained in Christine condition except maybe if it had been hit with curses.
Gamps law of configuration. Something can’t be made of nothing. Including repairs.
@@swipeswifejess3234and yet Hermione fixes Harry's glasses twice. Dumbledore fixes a whole house with one wave of his wand.
@@jordirapper he rearranges the house to its pre wrecked state so everything that the origional house had was still there but shattered and he simply had it rearrange itself to its origional shape
@@swipeswifejess3234 gamps law of elemental configuration states no one can conjure food or money and i think there were 3 other points
I actually can easily explain away V's not using the Unbreakable Bond with his Death Eaters: He was a megalomaniac and psychopath. His Death Eaters were NOT his friends, nor even his allies to him, they were tools to be used and, if need be, disposed of when convenient. If there was a simple 'I won't betray you or our cause' bond in place, and he felt, say, a DE wasn't living up to the position... He couldn't just fire one and move on could he? No, simplest way to remove a repeat failure was Avada Kedavra... Which I'm darn skippy the Bond's magicks would have seen as a betrayal on V's part and kiled him for it. Tools are to be used, not promised to.
A Canon lens on a Sony camera, that is magic !!
Locks in the real world are pretty useless in the real world with lock pics. I imagine bathrooms an offices have magical blocks for the unlocking charms
Something I never understood was why in book 1 Ron didn’t know how they got sorted into their houses ?!
I have heard a theory that the sorting hat wipes the memory of the sort from students.
@@queerdorwhich is plain wrong as Harry remembers his is both the second year and in the epilogue. More likely is a Fidelius Charm with the Hat as the Keeper which was “killed” when burned by Voldemort in the Battle of Hogwarts
Because Fred and George lied to him saying it was a test...maybe no one in the Weasley family corrected them so Ron just believed his older brothers
Also:
•Polyjuice Potion
•Alohomora
•Giant-Human Interbreeding
•Other species (like Veela) human interbreeding
Is Ron just dumb, or does he have Muggle-born/author's discretion desease
In hindsight, Ron was fine - he also had a good arc - but he should have been a less agressive Hermione, guiding Harry (and us) thorugh this new world, also being a straight-O student
41:17 wow, most of these aren't plot holes at all. More like things that are only explained in the books or changed in the movies.
41:18 In the books, Harry immediately notices that he's wearing glasses after transforming because he doesn't need them anymore.
42:09 In the books, it's stated that the Dursleys had padlocked Hedwig in her cage, so Harry didn't have the key.
44:13 In the books, Dobby explains how conditions were worse for house elves during the time Voldemort was most powerful. Which is why he's so grateful to Harry for "defeating" Voldemort, and why he wants to protect him.
But yes, doesn't explain how he knew what was going to happen at Hogwarts.
45:44 In the books, it's explained that Lockhart was the only applicant for the job as Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher (except for Snape, but Dumbledore obviously refused to give him the job).
Either way, the teachers obviously knew Lockhart was inept, but Dumbledore didn't really have any other options than to hire him.
48:18 Hagrid's absolutely worked as well as Ron's wand.
When Hagrid gave Dudley a pig's tail, he confesses to Harry that he actually meant to turn Dudley into a pig.
So, I'd say Hagrid's wand and Ron's wand both produced very inconsistent results.
There are a lot more points made in this video that are explained by the books, but I digress.
What would Voldamot do with his extra long life if he had killed Harry?
In the books they were having muggle borns go to the ministry for a trial, their wands would be taken away from them and they would be accused of stealing magic. They would plead that they got their wand at ollivanders and learned it at hogwarts and got their letter, but were accused still and then sent for the dementors kiss. This is what would happen to every muggle born until there arent any left. Because the other wizarding schools/parts of the world didnt take voldemort seriously, being immortal would allow him to easily take those over too. Muggles would be made literal slaves to pure bloods, like house elves only lower. It would have been ultimate worst case scenario
Take over the wizarding world, muggle world, and purge mudbloods and muggles
Snort Floo powder and host an eternal rave
Read Cursed Child
The main plot hole that bothers me is the fact that the evil potion that makes you see the worst memories of your life which guarded Slytherins Locket in the cave should not have been there. If it had been drank by Regalus black and the actual locket stolen, why would there be potion in the basin again? One might argue that it automatically refills after the locket is taken, but first of all, why would it? Why would Voldy want it to auto-refill? If the locket was stolen, there would be no reason for the potion to magically reappear. Secondly, in deathly hallows, when Voldemort has Kreacher drink the potion for him to test it, after he places the locket in there, he "refills it with potion". It doesn't say that the basin auto-refills. But again, there's no reason for Voldemort to want it to auto-refill if someone else steals the locket. Quite the opposite in fact.
I had always thought Harry could see the thestrals since Voldemort killed his mum right in front of him when he was a baby. Never thought it was because of Cedric’s death.
I'm 2 minutes into the video and I just thought it was hilarious because your first plot hole is like my biggest issue with the series at whole Love your channel keep up the great work
Very Early, nice vid! (Time turners make it 1000 plot holes lol)
for the one about charlie's wand, I totally agree. it might have made sense to have used his dead uncle's wand, or another wands passed down in the family. We know that dumbledor was buried with the elder wand, but I tihnk it is strange that wands aren't passed down more often, even if only as mementos.
I Love your long videos! Thank you
I feel like the ones where it’s like “why didn’t everyone else do this op thing” can be chalked up to the fact that magic isn’t predictable which allows the characters to be innovative.
Why do we have locks in the muggle world when anyone can learn to open a lock by watching a youtube video?
Pretty sure Wizards like the security theatre they provide, same as we do.
Wizards usually have courtesy and respect, they aparate outside someones house and knock. Breaking and entering is against the law in wizard world too. Its not really a plot hole lol
@@Knowledge.to_Comejust put on a mask, appear in, grab money, appear out 😂
@@kylec171 what you gunna do if they are a wizard and set a anti dissapartion charm on the place?
I think a reasonable explanation for Ron using Charlie's wand was, Charlie's was a second hand wand, its possible the weaslys were too poor to buy Charlie hes own wand so they got him a second hand wand, when he became a dragon tamer he was able to afford his own wand so he gave his old second hand wand to his youngest brother
The wand was worn out Ron says the unicorn hair is nearly poking out. Which tells me Charlie decided to get himself a new one and gave his old one to Ron.
Rons wand was so bad at magic in book/movie 2 because
A. It was broken (not completely but nearly)
B. It wasnt his true wand but a second hand one that he was given.
C. Its likely that charlie got this wand in a similar way as arthur and molly were never mentioned to have alot of money at any time. Hence he got a new one when he graduated
7:00 erm actually(☝️🤓) if two werewolves mate under a full moon int the Harry Potter universe, the babies will be actual wolves, not people.
I don't necessarily take the time frame that McGonagall gives to Umbridge. about how long she's been teaching at Hogwarts, as fact. She was filling in the blanks to move the conversation along. Plus she might have wanted to see if Umbridge would bother to fact-check her.
I"m writing a fanfiction of Harry Potter and this vid will help a lot. I'm doing a fix-it story and while I address some of these plot holes there were quite a few I over looked or didn't even notice. So... thanks for this vid.
I believe Sirius said he used Crookshanks to go to Gringotts with a note to get the gold then purchase the Firebolt.
Or he could have used kreacher, or a member from the order
Smart!!
@@Knowledge.to_Comethe order? They were against him at that point
@@vignotum132 not lupin
@@Knowledge.to_Come what? Lupin believed in Sirius’s guilt until the very night they saw Pettigrew again
One of the most glaring that I've never seen anyone talk about is in the 7th book Hermione when they're in Rons room before the wedding say she "modified my parents memories" to help them escape to Australia. Then just a few chapters later when they are sitting in the cafe trying to decide what to do with the death eaters, they agree to modify their memories but all three of them all say they've never performed a memory charm before. Directly contradicting what Hermione said mere pages earlier.