60 Mind-Blowing Harry Potter Plot Holes (MEGA COMPILATION)
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- Опубликовано: 9 мар 2024
- Welcome to a SPECIAL episode of Harry Potter Theory. Today we’re going to be going back and taking a look at 60 Harry Potter Plot Holes discussed on the channel over the last few years. I’ve cut some out for an even 60, so please be aware of some inconsistent numbering. Also, I’ve tried my best to level out the audio across the videos, but in some instances there is a bit of variation.
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I couldn't find this anywhere, But do you think it's possible that Sirius Black and Severus Snape are brothers?
-same eye and hair color
-similar sounding names
-betrayed James and Lily in the opposite but same ways
-still regret it
-both tried to kill each other
-Snape’s mom leaves the wizarding world to marry a Muggle
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
Me at 1 AM, while having to get up to work at 6:
😂
You will need a dose of felix felicis tomorow
Bloody hell that's cutting it close may need a time turner😂
@@Knowledge.to_Come omg yes i do lol.
lol
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 🤦♂️
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”
#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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
A Canon lens on a Sony camera, that is magic !!
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
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?
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.
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.
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
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.
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?
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
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.
I think Ron’s wand is actually pretty easily explained.
If you remember, when the Weasleys were given the title of Prefect they received a gift that they desired. For Percy it was an Owl, for Ron it was the Cleansweep 11- and while it is unconfirmed whether or not Charlie became a Prefect at Hogwarts, Ron did mention he was Quidditch Team Captain- which grants access to many similar privileges as Prefects.
I think it’s perfectly reasonable to assume that Charlie’s wand was most likely a hand-me-down as well, and he probably requested a wand of his own.
Also, if you think about it, Ron never really was seen as a skilled Wizard in terms of spell casting until well after The Prisoner of Azkaban- which is when he received his replacement wand. In Chamber of Secrets and Philosopher’s Stone he has trouble casting simple spells and charms like Wingardium Leviosa, or turning Scabbers yellow.
Not exactly a plot hole when you think of it.
So you're saying hagrid mary poppined his way to the island? That's hilarious.
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
#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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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
What if the spell or ritual of receiving the dark mark "tattoo" involved some form of the unbreakable vow?
If this were the case, then it would close the obvious plot hole of why Voldemort didn't use the unbreakable vow.
Obviously, this solution opens a new plot hole for how could Snape become a double agent. However, I think that the manner in which Snape betrayed Voldemort would close this hole as well.
Snape never directly lied to Voldemort or "actively" betrayed him. Snape had earned Voldemort's trust while he was a fully committed death eater. When he turned double agent for Dumbledore, he never lied to Voldemort. He told him the truth; just not the entirety of the truth.
Remember that he told Voldemort that Dumbledore had "tried" to turn him traitor. Voldemort ordered Snape to go do it, thinking that with Snape in Dumbledore's trust, he would be able to gain secrets and useful information for him.
He gave Voldemort the truth when questioned about why he couldn't reveal the location of the headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix. He wasn't the secret keeper and therefore couldn't give up the location.
He told Voldemort the real date and time of Harry's escape from the Dursley's to the Weasley's at he beginning of The Deathly Hallows. Even though Voldemort had been given, and believed, different information from the imperioused Thickenese at the ministry.
Yes, Snape was a true master of occlumencey. But I believe that Snape ALWAYS told Voldemort enough of the truth that when he was under the influence of Voldemort's legilimency he only had to use his occlumencey to hide the rest of the truth that he hadn't spoken out loud.
Voldemort only looked into Snape's mind enough to sense the truth of what he had said, but not far enough to discover that last part that he was hiding.
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.
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.
In this video: HP theory spending an hour explaining how they don't know what a "plot hole" is
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.
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.
The biggest plot hole is the time Turner that they use in the 3rd movie. They literally figured out time travel and the only time they ever used it was to let hermione take extra classes smfh. Drives me crazy. And they never mentioned it ever again
Time turneds come at a cost, these can't be used without being aware of what you're doing. If you go back in time 10 years and then come back to the present, you will age the 10 years you skipped. Therefore, GREATLY limiting their use. Also, the battle of the Ministry in the 5th year destroyed the entire supply of time turners.
These two explanations are, in fact, why a major part of the community does not considers the Cursed Child to be canon, for ignoring obvious rules and facts of the universe.
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.
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.
thinking about the unbreakable vow, it would seem to me that a person could only enter in to one at a time. imagine a double agent that made dual unbreakable vows-they would conflict rather rapidly and kill the vow keeper
The unbreakable vow could be explained with rules that we simply don't know.
For example the initiator of the vow can't also be the benefactor.
So for example wizard A proposes a vow to B to protect C. But A cannot propose a vow to B to protect A.
It could also be that vows need to be more specific. So a vow that says B has to do X or protect C works. But saying that B has to be loyal to A doesn't work because it's too general.
It could also be that unbreakable vows have a time limit and the same two people cannot enter a vow again. So Voldi maybe could force his deatheaters to be loyal with a vow but it would only bind them for let's say a year and he'd never be able to enter a vow with them again.
The magic system in HP just isn't explained really well (or at all really) and this just is a case of we don't know but there probably is a reason and Rowling just didn't want to write an exposition dumb.
The truth serum is one nasty big plot hole though.
40:15 I don't think they explain it super well in the movies, but in the book its made clear that the stone is keeping Nicholas Flamel and his wife alive, and destroying it means they'd die. When Harry comes to in the infirmary, Dumbledore tells him that the Flammels had decided that they'd lived long enough, got their affairs in order, and let the stone be destroyed. So, destroying it was the "best" option, but it wasn't their first option since other people's lives were tied to it.
I always imagined that there are many levels to the unlocking charm to learn as some locks in the wizarding world could have been more complicated or have more complicated locking enchantments placed upon them as where in the muggle world they are just normal locks
At 4:50...the point about viewers using the map being able to see Animagi in their animal forms if they knew the individual was an Animagi seems to be iffy. Because Harry seen Peter Petegrew on the map when Petegrew was running around the school halls as Scabbers despite Harry only really knowing that Petegrew knew his parents and that he was presumably killed by Sirius Black. But, IF that is the case, it would make sense as to why Fred and George never seen that Ron was always hanging out with someone named "Peter Petegrew" whenever Scabbers was with him.
To be fair, that was only added in the movie. In the books, lupin only finds out about peter after taking the map from harry and checking to see if they were out roaming the grounds after dark. Harry never sees Peter on the map.
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.
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@@vignotum132 so Giant's and Halve-Giants are immune to the killing curse then?
@@michaelbollen6680 unknown. Maybe
Only like 5 in and I'm pulling my hair out. Snape even says in the movies Dumbledore was 100 percent just raising Harry for the slaughter
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As for how Petunia, Vernom and Dudly got out of the island i thought they were rescued by a passing boat, or the owner of the boat Vernom rented came to see them, how are they, after the storm that night
It is, as far as I remeber, never said in the books, that Colin´s camera is a muggle-camera. But even if so, it is said, that muggle tech like electricity does not funktion at Hogwarts...but a camera like the one Colin uses is simple chemistry.
the stone wasn't destroyed because his friend nicholas flamel would die i think. in the end dumbledore tells harry "don't worry, he has enough potion to get his things done" or something
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
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Should be noted for two of the things with the locks the unlocked charms only work with certain locks. I’m assuming there’s different levels of power or spells that work for different ones but they also showed in the movies and the books that the unlocked charm doesn’t always work if there’s a spell on it already.
And the same thing for the camera, I know they had mentioned that it makes things go haywire, but that could’ve been more to do with like technology with phones and stuff like that maybe certain technology that isn’t radio waves for example might not get affected the same way that a more basic thing like a camera wouldn’t
To address the Lockhart plot hole. I think that, in addition to being skilled at memory charms, he would also be good at charms that raise one’s charisma and/or bedazzle those who see him, perhaps even in his photos. This WOULD explain the fascination with giving out signed photos. Hey, If Dumbledore can bewitch Chocolate Frog cards to spy on Wizardom, why not this?
I always thought Mrs Weasley was testing both Jenny and Ron as to what the platform number was. As well as maybe helping any other people that were having problems locating the platform.
It also insinuates that it wasnt always platform 9 and 3 quarters, since kings cross station was opened in 1852, and was only the modernized grand station with platforms after Molly graduated .
13:10 I once saw someone theorising that the map might have helped Fred and George figure out how to use it.
When Snape tried to reveal it, its answers were personalised and specifically meant for Snape.
I remember it saying something like: "we would like to register our astonishment that an idiot like that ever became a professor".
But if the marauders had simply pre-recorded a rude message for Snape while they were at school, in case he tried to read it, the map wouldn't have said anything about him being a professor.
This means that the map must have its own kind of intelligence and can somehow recognise who's trying to gain access.
We can therefore assume that the map's answers would have been different when Fred and George tried to read it.
And since the marauders most likely would love helping other trouble-makers such as Fred and George, it doesn't seem unreasonable that the map would try to help them figure out the correct password.
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 😂
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
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
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Charlie's wand makes sense. Wizards who can afford it buy a wand especially suited to them directly from a wand shop, while the less affluent are stuck with hand-me-downs or used wands that aren't ideal but are better than nothing. When Charlie got a job and earned some money, he was able to buy himself a new wand at Ollivander's, so he gave his previous used wand back to the family for Ron to use. After the wand was broken, the Weasleys won that Galleon Draw and were able to buy Ron a new, personally selected wand. Neville also started with his dad's old wand, and didn't get a new one until after the Battle at the Ministry, at which point he became a much better spell-caster!
Harry didn't "forget" about the two-way mirror. He just didn't open the package containing it until AFTER Sirius had died, so didn't even know he had that method of contacting him until it was too late.
That being said, there are still a couple plot holes here. Why did Harry not open the package from his beloved godfather as soon as he got back to Hogwarts? Why did he just throw it in his trunk and forget about it? And even if you explain that, why, when Harry used Umbridge's fire to talk to Sirius about Snape's memory, did Sirius not say "just use the mirror to contact me, it's safer"? EVERYONE apparently forgot about the mirror, not just Harry.
I believe in the book when Harry received the mirror from Sirius he told him to open it when he is alone and because molly wouldn't approve. And Harry made a mental note to himself not to open it so he would not be tempted with it because he feared that Sirius could get caught if Harry is in trouble so he never opened it after it was too late
I thought of two, in Harry’s 3rd year it says he checked his watch as he was going to his next class. That’s muggle tech, unless it’s a wizards watch, but it wasn’t worded that way, and he didn’t get a wizards watch until the 7th book. And second, in Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban, Harry’s future self saves him from dying from dementors. But how did the original Harry ever get to go back in time in the first place, since he would have been dead the first time around. He couldn’t have survived to go back again, if that makes sense
That’s why I think it was Snape that saved him. You can even see his cape. But that also presents another plot hole. Honestly though, I don’t care. I love Snape so much I will still believe this to be true even with the plot hole.
I’m pretty sure that time turners make it so that anything you travel back in time to do always happened. So, he always saved himself from the dementors. I don’t see this as a plot hole, just as an interesting form of time travel. Feel free to disagree though.
@@TheNaimiwow that’s a good explanation. What other plot hole does it create? Sounded good to me
@@rebeccathegachatuber3040 that sounds good to me. Makes sense. thanks!
Wizards are given watches often when they come of age
I'd say that since Barty Jr. in the guise of Moody was the one who had set up the Triwizard Cup inside the maze might've been the one who did the double enchantment on it, so that it would transport the "Pre-destined" winner to the Little Hangleton Graveyard, before the final destination back to the begging of the maze at Hogwarts.
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 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!
Hey there about Collin Creevey's camera . The technology that does not work seems to be more of electronic nature (i.e. transistors elctromagnetism etc) that would make only an electronic camera not to work. However the camera that Collin has it's one with film. These are operating by chemical reactions of the film to the light. And we ve established that chemistry works in the HP universe (things rusting, natural decay,etc). So in that logic the camera would not have any problem to work. As for the moving pics afterwards he would just need to use the right potion to develop the pics. Greetings from Greece btw
Is a person allowed to be under multiple unbreakable vows at the same time?
What happens if you first vow "I will do " and then you make another vow with another person "I will do "
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In Deathly Hallows it's explained to Harry that Shell Cottage is protected by the Fidelius Charm with Bill as secret keeper.
It's implied that the Order of the Phoenix have been using the charm to keep themselves hidden for a while. (Possibly around the xmas hols when Ginny was pulled out of school, or at the start of term after Luna was kidnapped, or even before then.)
But at Malfoy Manor Ron was able to tell Dobby, Harry, Luna, Dean, and Olivander about the place.
I haven't read the books in a while, but here's some stuff I remember:
1. JK explained that if 2 werewolves mate at full moon, their cubs are pretty much normal wolves except they posses much higher intelligence
2. Charlie might have had someone else's wand before passing it down to Ron and buying a new one for himself. One of Molly's brothers' for example
3. F&G said that they tried a lot of passwords and spells on the map before finally figuring it out. Plus the map knows who it interacts with like in this instance with Snape. It is likely that the map saw their nature and just helped them unlock itself eventually
4. Harry did try to contact Sirius through the Grimmauld 12 chimney but got caught before he could do that and on the other side he was greeted by Kreacher who trash talked him and lied about Sirius' whereabouts. He forgot about the mirror and only remembered it existed after Sirius died when he kicked his trunk and found broken glass in there, that's why he was using a shard of it to communicate with Ab.
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How was hermione able to block her thoughts from Bellatrix at Malfoy manner with so strong with the dark side she is. I enjoyed these plot holes sir thank you for your work.
Adrenaline makes their magic peak I've noticed
Colin's camera is very old fashion and unlike our numeric equivalents. Moreover, there's strong evidence to believe Colin's camera is indeed enchanted: In HP2 for the Playstation, Colin lets you access his photo album in the common room, to which he states the photos to be magical. They are, in effect, a handy chapter mode to replay previous parts of the game to ensure you haven't missed anything. While outside of videogame logic I don't think Colin's photos would allow such a thing, there's a strong possibility that his photos can show moving parts like most other pictures taken in the wizarding world.
thing about the wand plot hole it was cleared up in book 7 when harry inquires of olivander about several wands that had on them. Olivander explains that a wands "allegiance" can change if the wand was take in a duel
With Unbreakable Vow I figure there must be something more involved than just the case of death if fail to uphold. Personal headcanon to make it make sense is that a portion of the participants' magical power is permanently "locked" (at least until such time as the vow is fulfilled to a point it no longer applies) - with the locked portion of their power being what maintains the vow. Thus, people would be reluctant to use the vow if not essential as it would actually weaken them. Voldemort especially would never give up any of his power when his own methods seemed sufficient to himself - and doubly especially would never do so multiple times (once per Deatheater/core member).
For Snape's text book, I always assumed that the book actually belonged to the school and Snape was too poor to be able to buy his own book at the beginning of the year.
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
when harry was talking to sirius and lupin through the fire, why didn't sirius say next time use the mirror
It maybe most likely that when Hagrid had come to collect Baby Harry and to the point in which Sirius had given his magic motorcycle may have taken place before Sirius had gone to hunt for Peter Pettigrew; the celebration of Voldemort's apparent first death was the calm before a new and brief storm and just after Hagrid collected Baby Harry and just as they were flying over Bristol was also around the time Dumbledore arrives to Privet Drive.
17:09 the portraits was explained too. The headmasters would get a portrait made before their death. They would spend time with it and imprint themselves onto it
The Marauder's Map: It was in Filch's office, which makes it highly likely it's contraband, as that seems to be Filch's job. As to how they figured out the password: In the books, we see the blank map briefly confiscated by Snape who tries to make it reveal its secrets, and it instead insults him. So it can do more than be a map, and I figure that Fred and George likely just poked at it for a bit until they got a response, then joked back and forth with the imprints of the Marauders' personalities, and then eventually hit on the right phrase.
Harry contacting Sirius - He does try to contact him. Owl post is too slow, and the Floo network at Hogwarts is being monitored by the ministry, apart from Umbridge's personal floo. Harry tries to break into her office while she's distracted, and tries to contact Sirius, but instead finds Kreacher who lies to him about Sirius' whereabouts.
When he is then caught, he informs Snape, who *does* tell the order what happened, but couldn't let on to Harry that he was on his side, or that he even knew what Harry meant when he yelled out "They have Padfoot at the place where it's kept!"
The one other thing that they have, the two-way mirror Sirius gave him at Christmas, Harry had previously vowed to never use so that Sirius wouldn't do something stupid and get captured, and in the heat of the moment after getting caught in Umbridge's office, he just forgot it existed. As for how it could be forgotten, Sirius took Harry to the side and handed it to him in private, after which Harry promptly puts it into his trunk under other things and intentionally forgets about it for the above reasons. Nobody else knew that Harry had the mirror aside from *maybe* Remus, and he wasn't in a position to remind Harry about it at the time. Nobody in his friend group was aware of it.
Okay so about the HBP text book, there's a simple explanation. All students (so far as the author has explained) know in advance the textbooks they need to buy. So there is probably a very rare instance in which a student needs to borrow one. Snape the former potions master probably put his copy in the stack of school copies simply to store it never thinking a student would happen upon it since 1 he taught the class and would recognize if someone had picked it up and 2 he thought he would never teach another subject. However, he got the DADA post and promptly changed his classroom without having given any thought to his old textbook, because it would be on Slugnorn to make sure the Advanced Potions student were sorted out
About plot hole 10, Voldemort was scared to come to the ministry, he needed Harry to come because prophecies can be retrieved only by those about whom they are made. As for why he came even after the prophecy got destroyed, I don't know if there is any particular reason behind it or just another chance to kill Harry that lured him there.
Ron got Charlie's wand, but Charlie also got that wand from someone else (maybe a deceased family member), when he graduated he or his parents bough him a new wand that actually fitted him
Haggis’s wand was repaired by Dumbledore with the elder wand. It’s the same way Harry repairs his phoenix feather wand with the elder wand, but Albus was trying to hide it so that Hagrid could skirt by with it and also so it wouldn’t be obvious that he was extremely overpowered and had the elder wand
I feel like a Goober. I couldn't figure out how Quirrell could shake Harry's hand at the Leaky Cauldron but then be burned when he tried to grab Harry in the mirror room. I spent the weekend with the 1st book and finally realized that after Quirrell failed to steal the stone from the vault, Voldamort attached to his head. Which explains the turbin thought/comment on the 1st night in the great hall. 😂
I think the werewolf cub reference is Hagrid thinking some wolf cubs were werewolves or something and not getting it quite correct and other students taunting him about it. 'Werewolf cubs' in parenthesis would have helped. Regarding the potion book, Snape is surprised that Harry Tries to use Septum Sempra against him so i doubt that he left it on purpose. Im happier that he just lost it or like all school books it was collected in at the end of the year as some schools do.
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”?
I have a possible theory for why Dumbledore didn't ask myrtle. Myrtle didn't originally inhabit Hogwarts, she only went there after she was forced to desist from terrorising one of her former classmates by the ministry. So it's possible Dumbledore never knew that she was the ghost of the person who died
About the broken wands: Dumbledor fixed Hagrid's wand with the elder wand, then hagrid hid it in his umbrella to hide that it was fixed. Ron's wand was just briken, and didnt want to work for him to begin with due to its components, making it completely inusable. Probably also why it backfires so often, it didnt want to perform for him (or really anyone who wasnt charlie), so why would it want to when it was in pieces? It probaly took it out on people in frustration.
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.
If I remember correctly, the Philosopher's stone was not immediately destroyed because that also means its creator Nicolas Flamel would then finally die, and only in the end after the events with Quirrel happened did Dumbledore and Flamel have a talk about destroying it.
I think the thing about Volde using the unbreakable vow comes down to his arrogance and cruelty. He's arrogant enough to believe no one can fool him, he'll find out all faithlessness due to his power. He can't fathom someone being able to fool him. But in his cruelty, I think if he does catch someone, he'd much rather torture and kill them himself than let a binding spell do it.
there are a couple of things that can be explained, like how hedwig being allowed to fly constitutes as "using magic" as far as the durselys are concerned, and how the hogwarts syllabus does in fact contain muggle education, but rowling left it out of the planner because it's not interesting enough. also the gaunts have been passing down the responsibility of feeding the basilisk for centuries.