Dumbledore logic: Trip to hogsmeade? No! We need a permission slip! Letting a 14 year old go against dragons, mermaids, and a giant maze? Sure, why not?
Also he wouldn't let him into hogsmeade because he was afraid of Sirius murdering him. The goblet was a binding magical contract--who knows what it could have done to Harry if he'd have refused to enter
All of book four could be condensed into like four lines. “Potter, wait here,” barked Moody at the end of their first Defense Against the Dark Arts class. Feeling confused Harry waited as the rest of the class filed out. “Hand me that quill will you?” said Moody. Harry picked up the quill... And boom, he gets teleported to Tom Riddle’s grave. No tournament, no cup, literally accomplishes Voldemort’s goal in two minutes without any of the drama.
even shorter: "HEY, POTTER" screamed moody as the rest of the students marched out of the class "what?" said harry and then moody stabbed harry with a needle for some blood and ran
I think it was noted that you can't use port-keys in hogwarts due to ancient enchantments that only Dumbledore can remove (i.e. apparition trials and when he teleported harry into his office after the ministry fiasco).
That's the dumbest part of Quidditch... the snitch is worth so many points versus a goal with the Quaffle. Either catching the snitch should be worth less, or a goal should be worth more.
@@nahor88 why is it dumb? It loses a variable time limit, which makes things interesting. The points for the snitch give a reason to search for even if a team is down on points. It also creates more strategy because a snitch makes up for several penalties, giving more room to operate.
It always bothered me how the basilisk attacked where there just happened to be no portraits, especially since the next book heavily featured painting characters.
And then it vanished into the woods, never to be seen again. I would have enjoyed a scene of the centaurs confronting Ron and Harry and trying to make them take it back.
No, there is a theory about it. Like you can't bewitch electronic things or non-manpower operated things. If you bewitch a screwdriver it'll be okay. But if you bewitch a phone it'll start thinking on its own. It'll start working on its own sooner or later. So bewitching the car 'woke' something up in it to have a sentiment.
2nd year: Wow polyjuice potion takes a month to make that’s so long! Literally every other book in the series: lemme just whip up this polyjuice potion real quick and then we can just get on with the plan.
In deathly hallows I think it was handled well. Because in Grimmauld Place they were making a ton of polyjuice potion for the ministry break in and then had some left over for Bellatrix (Also they had made it before so it wasn't *too* challenging). As for the 7 Potter's, they had been planning that a long time and so many great wizards were working on that so I think the fact that they made enough of that for all 7 Potters and a little left over for Bill and Fleur's wedding. Ig the only convenient thing is that they just always made a little too much and had enough left over for one person.
In the books they actually had Moody’s whole Polyjuice potion store, and they ran out when Hermione was becoming Bellatrix, so that’s why they had to transfigure Ron.
@@triciavanandler7285 This always bugged me. Why would an educational facility have a large store of Polyjuice Potion? To what purpose was it ever intended to be used? (Equally, when Dumbledore set Harry his mission, why did neither of them think to stock up on massive amounts of felix felicis...)
Because memories can be altered. Veritaserum only tells what the user believe to be true. So if the memory has been tampered with and they truly believed it then you understand why. Same reason why Pensives can't be used in a trail, they can be altered, the proof is shown when Dumbledore gets harry to make Slughorn show the true pensive 'memory' about telling Tom about the horcruxes.
top 10 awfully convenient things in the first book 1. Hogwarts is a boarding school, so Harry doesn't have to go back to the Dursleys every night. And this boarding school lets you stay there over holidays. 2. You're filthy rich, Harry. 3. First year students are not allowed to play quidditch, except you, Potter. Here, take this new super broom right from the shelf, no need to pay me back. Love: Prof McGonagall 4. I trust Hagrid. Sure, he is easily veral and can't keep his mouth shut and blabbers out secrets without care, but still I trust him with my life. 5. Oh come on... what's the worst thing you can do with an invisibility cloak, you growing, hormone monster, you. 6. ALOHOMORA 7. And speaking of that, all the trials to the stone. Most of them beated by the first years. 8. Hi. I'm Ron Weasley. I love chess and my brother takes care of dragons. 9. Forbidden forest. No student shall pass. Except if it's a detention for Harry, you might learn something... or die. May the odds be ever in your favor. 10. Hermione, 50 points. Ron, 50 points. Harry, 60 points. Just to make Gryffindor tie with Slytherin And a bonus thought! Dursleys, out of the goodness of their hearts, sends Harry a Christmas present.. to Hogwarts, with no address.. by an owl, that just... What? How?
I don't recall it is ever stated that first years are not allowed to play quidditch. Just that they are not allowed to bring their own brooms to the school. They get broom flying classes. On school brooms. And it's just stated that there hasn't been such a young (first years) student to get into the quidditch team. Not that it is forbidden or NEVER done. In fact it only happened 100 years before Harry too! :D
For that last one, I imagine Hedwig may have harassed the Dursleys till they forked up a present for Harry... Hilarious! Hedwig is the best.... May she rest in peace... 🦉
Doesn't The Knight Bus Operator say he comes for stranded wizards and witches? And since harry is underage and can't use magic outside of hogwarts, which would in turn make him stranded thus the bus turning up?
Hermione was originally supposed to have a younger sister but she was cut. And Dudley was supposed to have a magical child, which was also cut. I would’ve loved these plot lines. 😔
She clearly and unmistakingly describes Hermione in the books as white. But i agree with Lunatrix i would´ve loved those plot lines especially dudley having a magical child.
emai fisher right. totally not because Rowling likes to retcon everything to look more PC. the books original covers showed her as white with brown hair, way before the movies came out. and im pretty sure in one of the books it mentions her white skin colour
Ugh who cares about the amount of pigments in Hermione’s actress’ skin? But regardless of that, I read somewhere that Dudley was never supposed to have magical children, because the magic-hating Dursley blood would never produce magical children!
I think its really weird that Voldemort thought that he was the only one that discovered the room of requirement - where did he think all the stuff in there came from?!
I think he thought that everyone who found it before merely did it by accident and could never find it again, and that HE was the only one who ever figured out how to work it on command. He was also very secretive i'm sure once he discovered what he thought was a secret he would never discuss it with anyone for fear of giving away the secret. So most of the school could have known about it and he wouldn't have bothered asking any of them for fear of "Hey do you know about the secret room on the 7th floor", "....well i do now!" He also would never bother even talking to the house elves as he thinks them beneath him. Which is also weird because who would know the castle better than the creatures who live their entire lives there... Even so this is STILL pretty damn arrogant of him to think "Hey this school has been here for hundreds of years, thousands of students have gone through here. Generations of House elves have lived their entire lives in this place...Noone has ever stumbled upon these secrets before, I'm the only one to EVER discover this GO ME!!!"
What confuses me a lot is why Hagrid is still not allowed to do magic. It was proven that Tom Riddle was the one who opened the Chamber of Secrets, so why is Hagrid still being treated like he was the one who did that? Is it because of Aragog? Because Harry has done worse things, and he's perfectly able to do magic. This has bothered me so much! Please do a video or something on why Hagrid is still kinda considered guilty for the Chamber of Secrets incident.
For starters, I'm not sure its ever "proved" anywhere that tom riddle is the one responsible for the chamber of secrets. Sure, dumbledore knows it but he believed that the first time as well and it didn't really matter to the wizarding world at large. As for the rest, it really seems like the whole incident is just being swept under the rug (for example, malfoy isn't being punished because there's no "proof"). They may have let hagrid go, but that's mainly because the additional attack after he was in prison made it blatantly obvious he wasn't at fault this time, but didn't do anything to actually disprove his prior conviction. Finally though, the most important reason is simply that hagrid's a half giant and the powers to be in the wizarding world are corrupt and bigoted. They aren't going to want to admit they were wrong (even when it technically wasn't their mistake) and they especially aren't going to go out on a limb for someone they are predisposed to discriminate against anyways.
There is also the little problem that Hagrid is a half-giant. -> The wizard world does not like the idea of giant learning how to use magic, because they are inmune to magic [their hybrids WILL outperform "pure human" wizards to extinction].
while I agree that the wizarding world has a prejudice against half-breeds they allowed him to go to school in the first place and Hagrid was by the sound of things a problem student Tom riddle describes him as "being in trouble every other week" I think at some point there probably was enough evidence to at least make it that the guilty charge could be revoked due to evidence but they cant turn back time and allow Hagrid to go to school after all he cant be allowed to have an unbroken wand due to not being a fully fledged wizard I guess they could give him a bag of money and say sorry and that would be something I guess
The one that always got me (and I'm amazed wasn't in this list) was Ron opening the Chamber of Secrets in Deathly Hallows. A guy with no knowledge of Parseltongue happens to be able to open a chamber sealed up by SALAZAR SLYTHERIN HIMSELF and hidden for hundreds of years from dozens of talented magical investigators by replicating a weird hiss that his mate made five years ago. Aye, sure, why not?
*a week or so ago. He specifically imitates harry opening the locket, as he was not there when harry opened the chamber. Still bad, but not impossibly so.
Liam White Ah, yeah, my bad. Forgot about that! I know Ron has mad impersonation skillz (I seem to remember him imitating the Bloody Baron and Wormtail at least), but managing to remember and reproduce a non-human language that well is some next-level mimicry :)
More like a few months earlier, ron returns and destroys the locket only a week or two after their christmas day trip to godrics hollow. Then there are still months more camping before the malfoy manor incident, followed by a month of planning the gringotts heist. Still, that's much less than 5 years ago but its not like ron had heard it just a few days ago, not to mention how you'd think the stress of the whole locket situation would probably overshadow the single line of parseltongue harry says (or the leap in logic that single line is whats needed to open the chamber also). Edit: Also just to note, its harry who imitates the bloody baron (back in first year). Ron does mimic wormtail in the malfoy manor basement though, so that's something.
I always believed that Ron has an above average IQ, higher than Harry’s definitely, and was an excellent chess player after all. So why shouldn’t he remember a line of Parseltongue, even after years? Don’t most people remember nursery rhymes well into their dotage???!
I think your missing two key points there. First, nursery rhymes tend to be in a recognizable language, not just hissing. Second, people usually remember things like nursery rhymes their entire lives due to repetition, hearing them dozens or hundreds of times. Ron has heard Parseltongue like 3-4 times ever, much less heard that specific word.
@@Lollaksyotuube i forgot if he learnt it in a different way in the books, but that's besides the point, the way he learnt it in the movies is so lame and lazy writing
How about Slytherin's common room? When the troll showed up, they were told it was in the dungeons. Dumbledore told the prefects to escort the students to their dormitories. But where is the Slytherin common room? The Dungeons! That's bothered me even since I noticed it
this is the same school that (under Mcgonagall's leadership) ordered the Slytherins to be taken to the dungeons during the second wizarding war (though that was only the movie)
The Hermione thing I always took as her growing apart from her parents. She always loves them, but as she started growing up in the wizarding world it was harder for them to relate to her and for her to relate to them. This is shown when they attempt to bound with her by taking her on a skiing trip. Which sadly ended in Hermione leave early to go the Weasley's. I wish we actually got more of their relationship in the books. Instead of having her erase their memories, it could have been a place for them to hide for a few days (then we'd see their relationship).
Also, I think the whole culture of British boarding schools is very different from what Americans are used to. When I read British books about kids that are at boarding school, they often spend huge chunks of their holidays staying with schoolmates. As an American, I'm like, "Don't you want to be with your kids (or your parents) for the maximum amount of time after they've (you've) been away at school for nine or ten months?" But I guess it's just what you're used to. So with that in mind, the fact that Hermione either stays at Hogwarts or with the Weasleys doesn't seem as odd to me.
Hermione erasing her parents' memories is one of the saddest scenes in the entire series. However, having worked at a boarding school, it used to be a big production driving the kids to the airport (especially since it was 6 hours away from the school), and the number of folks who were still at the school during the winter was SMALL (less than I could count on two hands). Usually they'd have to stay with some of the staff, because all the dorm parents and all the support staff would be gone. There would have to be a serious mitigating circumstance for them to stay, such as a) I have no parents (Harry), b) my parents aren't available (Harry), or c) it would be a really crappy situation to return to - such as the student I knew who would be sitting in an empty apartment in Singapore. They wouldn't let the kids run amuck without supervision.
What bothers me?? You know what bothers me??? How they use Expelliarmus at least a million times throughout the story (e.g. the GOD DAMN DA MEETINGS EVERYONE USED IT ON EVERYONE) and they only become masters of someone else's wand in the seventh book. Is that the moment the rules of wand usage changed? No??? also how did all the teachers at hogwarts believe that some silly enchantments and riddles could protect the most wanted item in the whole wizarding world? an 11 year old managed, stupid ol' Quirrel managed, soo what were you guys thinking? it's the same thing as wizards locking their houses when one could simply use Alohomora to open them
Thats not how wand allegiance works. Its only the Elder Wand that changes allegiance so easily since its more sentient than other wands. Wandwood also has an effect on its character, and Malfoy's wand happened to be Hawthorn IIRC which made it hate being used for dark magic and so willingly became Harry's.
About the wand thing, ollivander says 'the wand chooses the wizard harry' but apparently if you knock someone's wand out their hand you can suddenly just become the master of their wand and use it!? That means any wizard can use anyone's wand as long as they use expelliarmus like what!? If you can just do that then why don't wizards just go into ollivanders and choose whatever wand they feel like?
I'm loving this whole "Ben now says silent Ks thing" it's hilarious when he does it and i have to rewind a bit cause I was like "Did...did he just pronounce the K?"
It had shown up from time to time in earlier videos thanks to the whole k-nut thing. The knight bus video is definitely where it became super obvious though.
I k-now that he mentioned fawkes, but he deserves his own section. . . . Also, the fact that Ron can open the chamber in deathly hallows . . . and that Harry just tells Neville that the snake has to die, and he just DECIDES to use the sword therefore destroying the piece of voldemort's soul inside nagini.
If James, Sirius, Lupin and Peter where gifted enough to make the map is it to far of a stretch for them to have made it to where only they would appear on the map to each other and not anyone else so that's why Fred and George never seen Peter in Rons room but Lupin was able to see Peter.
@@Lollaksyotuube or since Lupin was the one who opened the map and left in a hurry leaving it open, it still showed the marauders. Snape just walked in on the open map and we know that the map doesn't know after its been opened who is reading it as it doesn't return to being a normal piece of parchment for Snape.
The thing that bothers me the MOST in the Harry Potter books is Dumbledores pencieve and memories in general. Why, just WHY do wizzards not use that bloody thing to prove things that might / might not have happend. e/i Serius being innocent, Harrys story about Voldemort, Harry at the trail in book 5, let alone the attempted torture by Umbridge... The more I think about this, the more it bothers me! Just had to get this off my chest.
Sebastiaan van Leeuwen possibly because you can meddle with your memories? Think about Slughorns memory. PLUS everyone has their own version of events, which would skew them as well. It just doesn’t seem very reliable.
I felt that way too, for a while, but then I thought of the tempered memory of Slughorn. It was fairly obvious what he did to that memory, whilst being a skilled wizard. But even if the memories are a bit skewed, some events are just too far fetched to be dreamt up by Harry.
And one of Marvolo Gaunt's memories Harry and Albus watch in the pensieve basically fades to black because Marvolo couldn't remember anything past that point. That said, that excuse wouldn't work for fresh memories. And is anyone seriously going to argue that Harry somehow modified his own memories? Even Umbridge probably wouldn't try that.
Monika S. I have a hope that they tried but Sirius refused it, if they saw what happened then they would know he was an amnigus and Remus was a werewolf. Sirius just wanted to protect his only friend he had left.... okay time to cry now 😅😭
Number one biggest thing that bothers me in Harry Potter. In the first book page 167 " referees have been known to vanish and turn up months later in the Sahrah desert" WHY? HOW OFTEN DOES THIS HAPPEN? I'M SO CONFUSED
Kyrie R that started in the wizard money makes no sense video, they mentioned that “knuts” was supposed to have a silent k but they pronounced it so he started making a joke of it and pronouncing silent letters and I think he says “k-nowledge” and “k-now” in the video. Probably started an inside joke there lol
Two of your points that I've also wondered about dozens of times: Firstly, Hermione's parents. She boasts about going skiing, then turns up at grimauld place "Mum and Dad are a bit disappointed but I've told them that everyone who is serious about the exams is staying to study. They want me to do well, they'll understand." Well apart from the fact that she flat out lied to her parents (because she's not staying at school to study but goes to grimauld place because ron's dad was almost fatally injured (which i'm sure IS an excuse that a mum and dad WOULD understand)) they could also be like "honey you can study at the ski resort, we'd actually be interested to see what it is you are studying!" Secondly, THE BLOODY BASILISK FANG!!!! My god Dumbledore KNEW he wasn't going to be around much longer, his priority HAD to be "Harry, that's what a horcrux is, he's got six of them, here's what i think they are and here's how you destroy them!" But no! He builds up eternally and then has no time left for the actual essentials. This is not, in the main, the fault of Harry's failure to ask, but a serious problem of Dumbledores priorities. Done.
Breaking the statute of secrecy how? Her parents already know about magic... Which btw, is the incredibly stupid part about harry's trial before 5th year. He supposedly broke the statute of secrecy by casting magic in front of a muggle, who just so happened to be his cousin who already knew about magic. Always annoyed me how dumbledore never brought that point up, despite hanging on all the other technicalities.
Because those other people will be sneaking into hermione's room to look through her stuff? I mean hermione talks about studying magical stuff on other trips (for example the vacation to france summer before 3rd year) so its not like studying at a ski resort would be any different.
With the whole business of the way Harry becomes master of the Elder Wand this is what JK herself had to say (its very long to be putting the a RUclips comment, sorry) J. K. Rowling: I said to Arthur, my American editor - we had an interesting conversation during the editing of seven - the moment when Harry takes Draco's wand, Arthur said, God, that's the moment when the ownership of the Elder wand is actually transferred? And I said, that's right. He said, shouldn't that be a bit more dramatic? And I said, no, not at all, the reverse. I said to Arthur, I think it really puts the elaborate, grandiose plans of Dumbledore and Voldemort in their place. That actually the history of the wizarding world hinged on two teenage boys wrestling with each other. They weren't even using magic. It became an ugly little corner tussle for the possession of wands. And I really liked that - that very human moment, as opposed to these two wizards who were twitching strings and manipulating and implanting information and husbanding information and guarding information, you know? Ultimately it just came down to that, a little scuffle and fistfight in the corner and pulling a wand away. Melissa Anelli: It says a lot about the world at large, I think, about conflict in the world, it's these little things. J. K. Rowling: And the difference one individual can make. Always, the difference one individual can make
absolutely, I always thought it was brilliant that that's how Harry came to possess it. I mean, it's classic mystery construction: you're intentionally NOT supposed to think of that moment with the two boys wrestling as important, because its significance is only revealed at the end of the book. I like how the most subtle, natural moments are the ones that truly have the most dramatic impact in terms of the story. It's one of the things I've always loved about Harry Potter. At its heart it's about a young, humble man who is just trying to survive and protect his loved ones in a world that's tearing itself apart and has no sense of self-grandiosity or need for power to speak of.
Here is something convenient: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: *Professor Sprout* These are mandrakes, and like Miss Granger said they can revive someone when they are petrified. Also Chamber of Secrets: *huge basilisk is in the school and the only thing that can revive you if you live through it is a mandrake* SOUND FAMILIAR?
What bothers me is... ALMOST EVERY PIECE OF INFORMATION ABOUT THE WIZARD WORLD!!! JK Rowling is a great character builder but a horrible world builder so we all fall in love with the characters and don't notice that THE ENTIRE FRIGGIN WORLD OF FRIGGIN HARRY POTTER CONTRADICTS ITSELF. Thank you for your time.
People stole the elder wand became the master so the same principle. Harry stole Draco’s wand Draco was the master of the elder wand therefor it changed over to Harry
@@yesyesyes5827 Harry did not steal the elder wand, he stole malfoy's typical hawthorn wand. He did not prove that he was a better wizard than Draco, and it doesn't make sense that the elder wand would care about the fate of a different wand.
Hydrastic 12117 it’s the same principle! Off course it would the elder wand changes hand to hand by stealing of wand strength of individuals and killing. Yes he did steal the elder wand but if the wand was in his presents he would ofbtherefor it changed hands
6:00 Someone is forgotting the book . . . They only had enough potion left for one person. Hermione uses it to be Bellatrix. Ron transfigured himself and Harry uses the cloak with the Goblin on his back.
Actually that happened in the movie too (although they didn’t specify that they had run out), and I do believe that this particular usage isn’t too terrible
The thing that bothers me the most is in the second book when Harry and Ron decide that the best thing they could do in King's Cross is flying to freaking Hogwarts instead of, idk WAITING FOR RON'S PARENTS? Like, Seriously?
Yes convenient thing how Harry Ron and hermoine find the trapdoor to the sorcerers Stone while hiding from Filich because they are in the second floor corridor because the stairs moved
The fourth room doesn't count. It took no skill whatsoever, and I am not referring to the area with Fluffy because that was basically the entrance area.
Slade Wilson Fluffy was a room, The Devil's snare, the Keys, The chess, the potions riddle, and the final room with the Mirror of erised was dumbledore's final puzzle
I find it so strange and convenient that Harry is allowed to play Quidditch in his first year. “Well, Harry, first years can’t play Quidditch-except for you! Here’s a broom, now skip class and learn how to play! Yup, I’m sure no teachers will jinx your broom in a game, and this will never help you access a secret stone that we hid from students!” Like really?
Also, why didn’t Cedric and Harry just grab the cup when they reached the graveyard? They were like “Well we’re in this creepy graveyard and the way back is right there... let’s stay!” 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
how when hermione was being tortured she was lucky enough to have a obvious strand of bellatrix hair land on her. And this just happened to stay on her throughout the subsequent escape and burial despite not knowing they'd need to break into gringotts later. Although hermione being hermione probably thought ill keep this just in case
I contend that there was no binding magical contract on Harry from the goblet. Why? Because Harry did not consent. For a contract to be valid, all parties must consent. And Harry did not put his name in the cup- Barth Crouch did. Someone else can't sign to contract with your name and have it be legally binding, which is basically what Crouch did. Harry didn't even know, much less enter the contest. I say Crouch Sr was wrong. Come to think of it, had Crouch Jr entered into that contract?
But also remember that absolutely NO ONE that night believed that Harry did not put his name in except for Crouch Jr. (disguised as Moody). Even Crouch Sr. thinks that Harry did willingly enter so if they all believed he did it why would they let him back out of a contract.
Okay, so if they didn't believe him, they could use veritaserum. Also, why do they rather believe he did it and broke the spells from Dumbledore than that it was someone older, more powerful and wiser? Doesn't make sense
The invisibility cloak! His parents just happened to have not just a regular cloak, but a cloak from Death himself!! I mean, in my opinion it’s very convenient given all the times he needs it.
Meh. This isn't really convenience. It's a family item given to every new generation in the Potter family. It also links a lot of things (Dumbledore's pursuit of the deathly hallows, Harry and Voldemort...) and they're not the only family with it. To be fair, the fact he has it and doesn't use it more often is more convenient: it's to make sure he gets caught so he can overheart something or be at the right place at the right moment.
The Leaky Horcrux well we can judge a few of Joanne Kathleen Rowling’s choices (like when she said Harry was supposed to be with Hermione) and some we cannot...
The most convenient thing to me was when everyone thought Sirius Black betrayed the Potters and he denied it and then no one believed him... No wait, that didn't happen, because he definitely could have convinced Dumbledore OR Lupin of his innocence if he made any effort at all... The most convenient part was when after Pettigrew blew up a bunch of people and made his escape, Sirius also fled the scene to track down Pettigrew. No wait, that didn't happen either, he just sat there and waited until the authorities came to arrest him, laughing the whole time (for why?) and then let them take him to wizard jail, never once proclaiming his innocence. No wait, the MOST convenient thing was when they finally capture Pettigrew and are marching him back to the castle but oh no, it just happens to be a full moon and now Lupin has transformed into a werewolf again, allowing Pettigrew to escape in the distraction. That was literally my least favorite part of the entire series because it was such a cheap copout way for Pettigrew to escape.
I always thought that Sirius let himself get caught because he felt guilty, since it was his idea to change the secretkeeper and so he blamed himself for the death of the Potters and I think him laughing was just his way of coping, as he started to realize what happened he just kinda reacted that way, also he might thought that there's nothing he can do to convince people he actually is innocent
You brought up something here that would be interesting to discuss: How come Harry, who grew up in the Muggle world, is not more curious to learn about the magical world, where he *does* feel welcome/at home in?
The fact that 3 first years could just use a simple unlocking spell to get past the door were fluffy was why was there no other protection on the door they trust the kids to behave to much XD
No, they just don't care at all if any of them get killed. Why else would Dumbledore warn the students that they could die if they go there, but then put up only a locking spell that a first-year could undo? Those are children and teenagers, so that's basically putting up a sign that they SHOULD go there and test their courage and get eaten. Maybe it's how he saves money on buying food for Fluffy, but really...
Ya know what seemed most convenient for me? The fact that hermoine somehow knows literally anything that can get them out of a bad situation... And we just assume she's read it somewhere and go with it.
Well pretty much EVERYTHING that happens to Harry in the first book. Hagrid is sent to get Harry AND the Stone on the same trip, which just happens to be one day before the vault get broken into. Finding the Mirror. Every conversation with Hagrid (seriously, why would you tell him ANY secret?). I'd say its most convenient that Harry seems to always learn something new about the Wizarding World a few months before that information becomes critical to his story. I can accept it for the first or second book, but it keeps happening. Wouldn't introducing portkeys a couple of books earlier have made the whole thing less coincidental? Then there's the fact that one of the protections for the stone is something they teach in FIRST YEAR HERBOLOGY. Couldn't think of something a bit esoteric Sprout?
Even up to the last. He'd never heard of the Deathly Hallows. Here his dropped into this new and fantastic world and he seems to have zero curiosity or drive to learn anything other than what's dropped into his lap.
Carl Rood I agree with everything but the deathly hallows. The elder wand and cloak were there since book one. The stone gets introduced in book 6. Even in book one, Ron noted that the cloak was unlike any he heard of because it worked so well you couldn’t see any traces. There was something significant about it then. Besides that, I agree with you.
Carl Rood BUT I will say that Harry Potter as a character is a complete dunce. Most of the things he struggles to figure out were obvious 5 chapters ago :|
I don't think it does, a person being murdered is tragic, no matter their age. Not to mention a mother begging for her son's life. Lily is my favorite character, and the actress that portrayed her was great. Lily and James in the movies weren't old people, 35 is still young.
Rickman and Oldman were also nothing like early 30s when they showed up in the movies. Thewliss's apparent early aging can be put down to his werewolf-ness I guess.
To be fair wifi and most tech that exists today did not exist in Harry's time at Hogwarts. Harry's time at Hogwarts started in 1991 and I can tell you computers definitely weren't common in most households and smartphones most definitely did not exist. If you want the Hogwarts of today you unfortunately have to look at Cursed Child as Albus Potter started school in 2017. I can't remember if any muggle tech was mentioned in that book though.
the thing with Draco's wand: don't you think that a wand, a magic artefact, capable of the most wonderful things, would be extremely "offended" by being simply taken from its master's hands? with no magic battle involved? I think that's why it changed allegiance, it was pissed with Draco's unwillingness to fight over for it.
Lucca Bernardo it's still too convenient what about all the history behind the wand? wizards killing wizards only because they wanted the allegiance of the Elder Wand... all of that when they could've simply taken the wand off of each other hands
Two problems with that theory. First, it was only physically taken from malfoy in the movie, the book version has harry simply disarming him with the standard expelliarmus. Second, while that explanation may hold water for the allegiance of malfoy's own wand, it doesn't do much to explain how that was enough to also pass along the ownership of the elder wand at the same time (an object malfoy supposedly owned, but never had physical possession of). Quite frankly the whole wand ownership thing as explained in book 7 is crazy, and would cause some serious issues if evenly applies throughout the entire series instead of just at the end. So really I just kinda accept it and move on, while tallying it up as very "convenient."
But that actually makes sense if you think about it. House-elves basically have the powers of gods! Whatever they want to do (since they want to follow orders), they CAN do. House-elves should be the dominant magical race. They are literally all-powerful. If someone had ordered Dobby to be impervious to knives, he wouldn't have died either.
Milo O'Rourke Yes It did. Kreature’s ability to apparate out of the cave when called is how sirius’s brother got the locket. It’s how kreature and Dobby were able to apparate and sneak around the castle too
On the other hand from time to times it takes them such a lot of time to come up with certain ideas. I knew right away the locket was exchanged by Rergulus Black at the end of Halfblood Prince. I would have gone way early to Godric's Hollow because I thought the sword or a horcrux maybe there (i was wrong in that case but it would have cut things shorter). -The sword of Griffndor by the way wasn't just found. Snape knew where they were because in the book they had the portait of Phinneas Nigellus with them.
what always bothered me is that they CARRY the medallion horcrux around their necks because then they "will not lose it"... Put it in this bag hermione has after you found out the horcrux makes you think and do negative things. I mean that's exactly what they do with the Hufflepuff Cup. But they only put the Cup into the bag because (and that's written in the Book) "you can't carry it around your neck"... For real now?! If they stopped carrying the medallion things would have ended more and sometimes maybe less convenient.
Thank you for bringing this up, I specifically was looking to see if someone had even thought of this but in all the lists I've seen nobody ever thinks it's a plot hole! Hell, they could have buried it somewhere and returned when they found a way to destroy the horcrux; BUT NO, they had to wear (against their own knowledge that it would take advantage of them and manipulate them) and become depressing assholes. Thank you again Vee Vox for posting this, because if you didn't, I definitely was going to.
I was recently rereading the sixth book, and up until Harry gets the half blood princes book, hermione brews all of her potions perfectly. But immediately after, she is not very good. I feel like this was something that J. K. Rowling just got lazy with and said “ok, she’s bad now”
Thomas Brann Actually Snape would write the potion on the board almost every time and he was their potions teacher then. Once Slughorn came in he had them do it from my the book but Harry still used some of Snape's recipes
Thomas Brann agreed, but not fully for the same reason. This abviously was meant to show how much Snape's changes to the brewing process influenced the outcome. It just didn't make sense Hermione could do nothing all of a sudden, I mean she brew polyjuice potion in her second year. It also shows how big an effect distraction and mistreatment had on Harry's accomplishments (but did we really even need that? The OWLs should've been enough proof).
Thomas Brann she was jealous and reading the recipes on a book where all the recipes had tons of mistakes. that's what I call convenient. I mean there are no revisors? the book author is dumb? how can anyone allow a dumb dude to publish a book full of recipes with so many mistakes?
Lucas Vasconcelos The recipes don't have mistakes they just aren't nearly as efficient. Remember that Harry didn't even make one of the positions just presented a bezor. It's like if you've ever seen those cooking competitions on TV. Everyone there is extremely competent but you add the tight time limit and actual competion even they put out subpar things. That's why Hermione can do fine on her own with all the time in the world and an okay recipe. Remember how much time everyone waisted trying to cut up the jumping beans. Difficult but not impossible, not wrong just inefficient. But Harry just crushed it under his knife, quick, easy got a lot of juice saved a ton of time and was able to move on to the next thing right away. And Hermione did pull off an okay batch of potion just not as good as Harry's she hadn't been as efficient as him.
I think we should clarify how exactly hermione was "not very good" in potions in book 6 because I think people are getting it wrong. Hermione was still exceptional at potions throughout that book, consistently brewing nearly perfect potions that were second only to harry's potions and the one time she "failed" was the antidote class where she still was far ahead of the rest of the class while harry essentially used a loophole in the assignment. The difference is that while hermione was exceptional, harry (with snape's tips) was perfect. So hermione never really changed in her talents, harry just suddenly got much better. On the other hand, you could point to issues like hermione essentially being forced by the Rowling to only get an E on her DADA OWL just so we can be assured that harry is a defense prodigy. Despite it making no sense hermione would actually drop a grade on that single class, despite acing everything else and being taught the whole previous year by that supposed defense prodigy harry.
Ben, I am watching this video with my 5 month old son because he smiles and giggles everytime your on screen and looks hurt when you cut to movie clips
How about the fact that Ron just happens to be fabulous at chess...and McGonagall just happens to transfigure chess pieces to protect the Philosopher’s Stone! 🤦🏻♀️
00juls00 also if Quirrel beat the chess game, did the pieces all repair themselves after the game? And WHY DID RON GET ON THE KNIGHT?! the piece was already there the only missing pieces were the bishop and rook.
Well you're specifically talking about the movie. Because there is no mention of Ron mounting the knight's horse in the book. But, yes, I assume the chess pieces fix themselves after they're beaten because Quirrel would have had to get passed them.
how about the fact that in book 2, harry and Ron find the chamber, cool. AND DONT TELL A CAPABLE WIZARD ABOUT IT! "nope, we have Lockhart, we'll be fine"
Well McGonagall in first year about the stone, and they get blown off by her. Or the fact they seem to tell hagrid (kinda responsible...) about everything and he just constantly reassures them that everything's under control. Or McGonagall blowing harry off about umbridge in 5th year (admittedly a rather vague complaint), or dumbledore (and every other adult) about the malfoy situation in 6th year... I mean, they should probably keep trying regardless but I can't really blame them for not going to the adults, capable or otherwise, when that's their success rate.
I think it was awfully convenient how Voldemort killed Snape. Literally the one time he didn't use the killing curse, which gave Harry enough time to get the memory.
Which Seamus Gorman has used in his theory about Aberforth Dumbledore and Felix Felicis (which would also disprove the theory that the potion doesn't actually do anything)
Yes, I have seen the video, which is a very good theory, but only a theory. Either way it is either a Felix Felicis convenience or a how did Voldemort kill Snape convenience.
Well, even if it is convenience, is that necessarily a bad thing? Is it even possible to write a story without ANYTHING that could be considered plot convenience?
No, it is not possible, and the series is my favorite book series of all time, and was so well written. And you're right, a plot convenience doesn't necessarily have to be a bad thing, but if I was looking at the series from a theoretical perspective of, "If this were real", then the way in which Voldemort killed Snape would in fact be convenient/inconvenient.
Well in theory a well written story doesn't have any plot conveniences because the author manages to explain them all away within the logic of the story and universe they create. Realistically, no author is actually that talented and consistent so plot conveniences will exist, but that doesn't mean we should just ignore them. Simply pointing out the existence of plot holes isn't criticizing Rowling necessarily, it's just pointing out this is a plot point that doesn't make much sense relative to the rest of the story. And perhaps by pointing them out we can either have other people correct on us why it actually does make sense, or collectively come up with theories to sufficiently explain them.
I have a better one: Deathly Hallows: Voldemort: Avada Kedavra! HARRY POTTER IS DEAD!! (Funny laugh) Harry Potter: Surprise, Voldie!! You just activated my TRAP CARD!!!! Voldemort: WHUAAAAAAAAATTTT!?!?!?
It's not. All of the Harry Potter books are written about things set in the past. The cursed child is in the future (relative to our current time). Therefore, it is just speculation (not to mention not being written by JK herselfmaking it fanfiction) about what happens in the future.
LittleMissDelle see that’s what i’ve always said! “it’s not written by jk so it’s fanfiction” but some people stiiiiilllll claim it’s cannon bc the book says “the 8th story continues” or something like that 😭😂
JK did write the Curse Child. Well, she was one of three writers who worked on the story and a four writer converted the story into a script. While other people were involved she is still credited as a writer.
Milo O'Rourke which is such a weird concept to even think about bc it’s freaking voldy😭 the LAST person you’d think would even try to convince a child lol
Especially the Hermione one. I’ve never understood why she would spend like only a month with her parents if they love her so much. In one book she was going to go skiing with them, then just decides not to.
Like someone else said, I think it's to show how further apart they're getting. I think it shows how she's so into the wizard world and magic, she doesn't have interest anymore for the normal muggle world. She'd rather spend time reading more amazing things, discover amazing magic, than spend some chill time with her parents. They also probably don't have much in common anymore.
The last time we really know for sure hermione spent a long time with her parents was the summer between second and third year. Before 4th year harry spends more than half the summer with the weasley's and hermione is there before him, 5th year she's with ron at headquarters basically immediately, same for being at the weasleys before 6th. Christmas every year after first she either spends at school or goes with the weasleys (5 and 6). Then summer before 7th she wipes her parent's minds. Slowly growing apart is one thing, but to basically completely separate from parents by the time your 13 is way over the top. Especially when they are supposed to have a very close relationship. Like, it just seems weird how emotional and broken up hermione is over wiping her parent's minds when she all but hasn't seen them for 4+ years by then anyways.
In the prisoner of Azkaban, when Harry, Sirius, and Hermione are all about to receive the dementors kiss and get saved by the time traveling Harry, i want to know what would have happened if the dementors performed the kiss on him. He has a piece of Tom riddles soul in him and his own complete soul, would the dementors kiss remove his whole soul, the fragment of riddles, or both?
think about this, harry originally died by werewolf bite in the original time line, that's why harmoine uses the time turner, when she makes the werewolf sound, harry says "what are you doing" and she replys "saving your life" LOL
keyproductions100 that's actually pretty hard to find an arguing point on lol. Even though we never see that play out in the movie or books, we always know Hermione makes the werewolf call to lure lupin from attacking Harry. The first time he probably was killed
Everything already happened. A Time Turner is just a device that helps complete what already happened. There is no "orginal timeline". When Dumbledore is in the Hospital Wing with Harry and Hermione, he says they can save more than one life tonight. He knows that because is already happened. He knew they were going to save Buckbeak because Buckbeak disappeared as Dumbldore, Hagrid, Fudge and the executioner were talking. They all saw Buckbeak and then when they stepped out of Hagrid's Hut, Buckbeak was gone. Dumbledore knew that Hermione had a time turner, and he must have had some idea of what was about to go down that night. The point is, it already happened. Time travel works differently in the Harry Potter Universe. (I don't consider Cursed Child Canon. It's painful for me to read.)
Hazelmykitten I agree- I see that time travel in the Potterverse works much the same way as in the Supernatural universe- when Dean travels back and tells his dad to get the impala, we already know that it must have already happened, because it’s the car Dean grew up in- you can’t “change the past”, simply going back means that time must have always worked that way.
How about the security measures for the philosophers' stone being essentially elaborate puzzels? They don't limit the circle of people with access to it to a specific group with official clearance but to anyone who possesses the skills to solve them. It they had just put a portrait or gargoile in front of it asking for a secret password (as they do with every other restricted room in the castle), backed up with some powerful spells to prevent forcefull entry, Quirrel wouldn't have stood a chance.
Except, that was probably an elaborate scheme of Dumbledore's to 'test' Harry's character and what he would do to protect the stone. Check this video out for more details: ruclips.net/video/cD-wyaMp4LU/видео.html
Stuff that bothered me about the books... 1. "Troll in the dungeon!" "Let's send everyone back to their common rooms, even though two Houses have their common rooms in the dungeon!" 2. Hermione lying about having gone after the troll on purpose. Like, why did she do that? She could have gotten in a lot of trouble saying that, a detention or suspension or worse, while the truth was simply "Oh Hermione is crying in the bathroom, we should go find her." Like yeah, they should have asked a Prefect or teacher to find her instead, but still, they wouldn't have gotten in near as much trouble for that as Hermione COULD have gotten in for running off to fight a mountain troll on her own. 3. The fact that a bunch of first years could easily get into and past the series of traps "protecting" the Philosopher's Stone. Like, why not at least lock the door in such a way an alohamora wouldn't work? Even colloportus would have kept most students out of there. (And I'd be very surprised if Fred and George, at least, didn't also go in there to check it out before the Trio did.) 4. "Only the person who wanted to find the stone but not use it could get it." Things wrong with this: A. It means Voldemort could have popped out of Quirrell long enough for Quirrell to get the Stone for his master since Quirrell wasn't the one who was going to use it. (If not, how would Dumbledore be able to get it out for Flamel to use?) B. It means Voldemort could have, if he'd figured out how it worked, grabbed any random kid to get it for him. 5. Putting the Philosopher's Stone IN A BLOODY SCHOOL when the most dangerous Dark Lord in modern history wanted it! Likewise, putting a cerberus IN A SCHOOL without even properly locking the door or, I dunno, putting an age line around the door! Seriously, why wasn't Dumbledore fired for this???
About the stone, I think you needed to know that it existed and STILL not want to use it, none of the students knew it existed and even if they found out who wouldn't want to use it?
Ok, everything else aside, Hogwarts is a really bad school. Like I'd be scared to go or send my kids to a school like that. My therapist is a fan too and we legit spent a session talking about this
Ravenclaw-tower griffindoor-tower Hufflepuff-by the kitchens Slytherin-dungeon. How are there two in the dungeon?(I just said something almost entirely unrelated, didn’t I?)😂😂
Here's a plot whole that's been bothering me for some time: there shouldn't have been any potion in the basin for Dumbledore to drink. In TDH, Kreacher says that Voldemort says refilled the basin with more potion after he, Kreacher, drank it (from this we can gather the basin doesn't just magically refill itself). Then Regulus comes along and drinks THAT potion. Regulus would have been too weak to refill the basin (besides, why would he want to?), so the basin should have been empty when Harry and Dumbledore showed up nearly 2 decades later.
OMS, that's true! And Voldemort would definitely have gone ballistic had he noticed that the potion was gone, even if the locket still seemed to be there, and with the potion gone he definitely would have checked if it was the real locket.
In regards to number ten, “Harry’s lack of living relatives”, it’s not just that he has no one other than the Dursley’s to take him in, but that Dumbledore wanted to have him grow up away from fame in the muggle world and with someone who shared Lily’s blood. This leads to few options and as Petunia also had a son Harry’s age, Dumbledore had hoped that they would treat them as their own.
Chloe Bailey THANK U. I swear I read somewhere that Harry had some very distant magical relatives (like a 2nd or 3rd cousin removed) but Dumbledore wanted Harry to be under immediate family and to have that love protection spell shit
And done it a lot more efficiently. He took months (with long breaks between sessions) to give Harry information that could have been dispensed all at once in hours or days at most.
Dumbledore didn't tell everything all at once because he was afraid that the whole plan would be spoiled if Voldemort got the opportunity to read his mind (plus Harry was bad at Occlumency). That's one of the reasons why snape or dumbledoee didn't tell directly to harry where the locket was but used a patronus to show him imstead.
No no, there was certain information that it was crucial Harry did not know ahead of time and had to realize for himself at the end. Otherwise it could derail the whole plan.
Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets: THERE’S A SNAKE IN MY BOOT!! Hey look Harry, I can spell my own name and change the letters to make more words! Uh, oh, Ginny’s nearly dead, better work fast! Hah! I just stabbed you in the book Tom! Oooh!! A shiny bird! Crap. Hermione was right again. Oh right, lockhart’s still loopy. Whoops. Sorry Dumbledore. Hey Lucius! Look at this book! Dobby, hold this book. A SOCK! DOBBY LOVES SOCKS!! IMMA KILL YOU POTTER! Nope, dobby to the rescue. DOBBY IS A FREE ELF! And they all lived happily ever after! The end.
Ok, on the Marauder's Map: everything except Peter Pettigrew makes sense. I like to think about the map as a computer, where the incantations that make it work are its code. Every person in the world has their own aura that the map can understand and output. However, if the map sees two variables, when it should only see one (like with an animagus/pollyjuice user), it will probably read the second variable, not the first. Think of it like the second is writing over the first. So, with that said, whenever an animagus is in human form, they would show up on the map, but otherwise be invisible because animals don't show up on the map. The reason I believe this is how the map is supposed to function is the authors of the map: loony, wormtail, padfoot, and prongs, aka the animagi of Hogwarts, aka the trouble makers. If the map was confiscated, they wouldn't want to be seen when transformed, so they could still sneak around. When Sirius shows up, he's out of his animagus form, because he just appears then disappears after a few steps, turning back. This is why Peter is an issue: he says that he'd been stuck in the form of a rat for YEARS, as in he wasn't able to change back, as in he couldn't have been seen on the map. Now lets go back to the pollyjuice potion. If I remember this correctly, and I'm only going from the movies with this (and I haven't seen anything besides fantastic beasts in the last two years), Barty Crouch Jr shows up when he's in the woods, assumedly killing his father, Barty Crouch Sr. Now, Sr's corpse in the movie was very shocked and frightened. If Jr had just killed him as Moody, there wouldn't have been any threatening and Sr wouldn't have seen it coming, making his face normal upon death. But, if Jr had purposely changed back, Sr would've had the reaction we saw. Then Jr could've just taken another swig of potion and been on his way. But if the user of the map had been watching at the exact time Jr was Jr, they would've seen him on the map and not Moody. (The whole thing with the second variable would work with pollyjuice, since it's supposed to fully mask the individual as the person being changed into.) Oh, and another quick thing: thinking of it as a computer, the map is refreshing probably ever millisecond or so, as we can see every individual footstep. This would mean that any "glitch" would be refreshed with the map. So yes, theoretically the spell could malfunction every once-in-a-while and show peter or anyone else, but the glitch wouldn't last more than the refresh time, unless it magically (ha) happened multiple times. So basically, Peter never should've showed up, and saying that it was a glitch of the map is too convenient and almost impossible. However, Sirius and Barty Jr both make perfect sense, with some assumptions.
Defective Chaos Just throwing this out there, nearly all victims of the killing curse are said to have the look of shock and horror on their face. I think it’s the way they die that causes it. Hope that helps with you figuring it out. In the book (not the movie with you were going by), Jr was seen in snapes office on the map stealing ingredients for the potion since he was slowly running out. Peter was never seen by Harry on the map. Lupin was the one who claimed he saw him with Harry and Ron while he was in rat form. I think they can be seen in animal form; however, they were just never in the sections Harry was looking at at the time. He only had to look at the map when he was sneaking around and only in the areas he was at or was going. He octationally looked for teachers.. but Peter would have been in the boys dormitory at the time. Not in those places.
Moony Wormtail Padfoot & Prongs the Authors for the map had their Marauder names when they made the dammed thing. peter was already an animagus so his signature would have included his rat form. as for confiscation the map insults if others try to force it to reveal its so security is as simple as "Mischief Managed" c:
Where was Voldemort's wand hidden after he lost his coporeal form while trying to kill one year old Harry at Godric's Hollow? And how did he get it back some 12 to 13 years later on getting back a rudimentary body?
Wow I never actually thought of that...... There would be no reason for pettigrew to grab it from the Potter’s house, because he thought Voldemort was dead.
9:42 J: "I am taking this from u, which makes this mine too." Why did I love this part so much Also, 1) A deathly hallow that can show you dead people hiding inside of a Golden Snitch, which is pretty much used for quidditch all the time? Yep. 2) Ron loses the car in the Forbidden Forest, and it comes back at Harry and Ron's exact location just before they become an Acromantulas' appetizer? Sure, why not?
I found it convenient for the plot that even though Dumbledore begins to groom Harry for his quest for the Horcruxes, he never explains ANYTHING! Ah, they're teenagers, they'll figure it out. Can't explain too much or there will be no plot to the next 3 books... I especially hate when Dumbledore takes Harry to retrieve the locket. Harry is just standing around while Dumbledore is puzzling out the test. For being a former teacher and head of a school, Dumbledore sure misses alot of opportunities to impart his years of experience and K-nowledge.
Also: why can't Harry see the thestrals in the first place? He technically has seen his mother die right? And isn't he taken back by the carriages to Hogsmeade station at the end of Goblet of Fire..?
+Lydia Virtue However, the books only states that "only those who have seen death can see the thestrals". It didn't say "Only those who have seen and understood death can see the thestrals". Two more words and it would've been explained. Meh. :/
They did use those carriages at the end of goblet of fire. That was something I noticed as well. Harry would have understood death just as well then as in the next book. Cedric’s death was a few weeks before that scene.
i think on pottermore its stated that you have to really understand death(harry didnt do that when he saw his mother die) and the reason why he could not see thestrals in the end of GOF is (i think) that cedrics death was not long enough ago and he needed all the summer to really cope and accept it
Abriss Apfel Yeah. I looked it up last night. JK said that she didn’t want to introduce a new creature at the end of a book so she decided that you have to understand death to see them. She said that even though a month had passed since Cedric’s death. He was still too grieved to understand he died.. which is rather confusing that it would take that long in my opinion... but it’s JK’s book. She decides the rules. 🤷🏻♀️
Umbridge: Hey, I'm going to use veritasirum (I think I spelt that wrong, sorry) to see if people are in clubs when they're not supposed to! Literally everyone: Harry's lying! Voldemort is not back! Harry: He is back! Everyone: You have no proof! Me: Yay! Let's see if people are lying about being in clubs but, nooooooooo, Harry must be lying about Voldemort being back! I mean, I guess there's no way to prove it, besides the thing that makes it to where you can't lie but seeing if there's about to be another war isn't important enough for that!
exactly. I would suggest using veritaserum in trials. Maybe only on defendant's request. Like - Harry and Dumbledore could go just "you don't believe us? try asking Harry what happened, while he is on veritaserum" the thing is... What if Harry's memory was tampered, and he believes that something is the truth, although actually it isn't? Would he tell his truth, or the real truth? I think he would tell the truth that he believes is truth. (otherwise it would be possible to solve the NP problem just by drinking this and asking the right questions). Therefore, if you allow veritaserum in trials, you may end up with too many memory-tampering charms.
@panda4247 The ministry probably does but they chuck that rule out the window whenever it's convenient for them. Sirius Black: HE MUST BE A DEATH EATER EVEN IF WE HAVE NOTHING BUT ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE!! Actual Death Eaters: NO WE WERE UNDER THE IMPERIOUS CURSE THE WHOLE TIME. WE DON'T NEED TO TAKE VERITASERUM! (Psst! whoever would become minister after the war is over, here's the deal. You take this bribe money and we will keep you in office. In return, you turn a blind eye to our more shady dealings and anything that has to do with the Dark Lord, you deny it!)
If I've learned one thing from the UK Government's behaviour over the last few months, it's that politicians only actually hear the things they want to and they don't want to actively seek out (or even consider) evidence that might contradict that viewpoint. They were in denial about Voldemort; proving that it was true was absolutely the last thing they would ever want to do.
I would have accepted it if instead of saying “Harry talks in his sleep” he said “Harry taught me” it would have given him more development and showed off how skilled Ron is for learning a secret language. Also how good of a teacher Harry is at many things. Also a scene of Harry teaching Ron parsaltoung or even Harry learning more about Parsaltounge would have been good.
But harry isnt even completely sure how to do it. In Chamber of secrets he finds out he can do it but doesnt know why peoplecwere staring because he thought he was speaking english. He hears it as english but everyone else just hears hissing
The problem is parsaltongue is not learned language. It’s a genetic trait found in the descendants of Salazar Slytherin. Harry never learned how to speak it. He has to be triggered by either seeing an actual snake or an image of one and as we are told he can speak it only because of the horcrux in him. Once it’t gone he can no longer understand or speak to snakes. This is why I think Rowling just wanted to move the story along to get done with it and Bs’ed her way through something that made no sense. Really if it was something that could be studied and learned wouldn’t Snape have done so in the decade before Voldemort’s return. No one in any of the books thinks Snape is an idiot. They don’t like him but they never question his intelligence. Ron on the other hand barely scrapes by and really wouldn’t without Hermione. And we’re all expected to believe that he’s bright enough to master this? Yeah...No.
What irritates me most of all in the Harry Potter books and movies, is the fact that in the 2nd book, "Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets" the entrance to the chamber is in the girl's bathroom. Girl's Bathroom. BATHROOM. With plumbing and flush toilets. Things that were only invented in the mid-19th century. This would mean that A. Wizards had invented plumbing, around the 9th to 10th century (A highly unlikely scenario given that wizards prefer to use magic, rather than technology.). Or that B. Then the about toilets got to the wizarding world, they had it installed in the school, but then they would also have found the chamber, making this scenario just as unlikely.
Martin Mølgaard Originally the entrance for the chamber was just a trap door. However the plumbing in hogwarts was being elaborated in the eighteenth century. Corvinus Gaunt who was a descendant of slytherin redid the bathroom so that the entrance remains hidden yet accessible to the true heir.
What always bothered me is how escaped prisoners from Azkaban seem to get their wands back. As if by...magic. Hagrid gets his wand snapped for being expelled, but the murderers and torturing death eaters it's more of a "nah let's just store them next to their cells for easy access".
Do grown up wizards even have wands that belong to them? I mean being disarmed at school in dueling classes for example would leave a lot of people with resisting wands. When you start thinking about it, it kinda makes your brain hurt a little.
Ediranii i could imagine, that disarming somebody only wins you the wand if you use the disarming spell with the intention to weaken the other. in classes, you just disarm others because you want to learn a new spell, so i could imagine that there is a difference.
THANK YOU!!!!! For sooooo long I've wondered why Hermione would be the only friend (other than Harry) who actually goes to the Weasley's. They have seven kids. SEVEN. It just doesn't make sense.
This could be an explanation: -Ginny kinda sticks with Ron's friends -Ron... well, Ron's friends don't count in -Fred and George often worked on WWW together -Percy was focused on his work/studying and needed privacy -Bill and Charlie were abroad. Also Harry and Hermione weren't at the Barrow all the time, someone could've been there when they weren't.
Questionnaire Yeah, it could be, but if their were other people there, why did they never stay? Mrs. Weasley would be happy with having more people in her house.
Harry didn’t have any living relatives because: 1) James was an only child 2) Lily only had 1 sister Petunia 3) James’ parents died of Dragon Pox 4) We don’t know what happened to Lily’s parents.
I disagree with it being convenient but would agree that if James did have a sibling we could have seen how Voldimort's followers might have hunted them down in hopes of finding Harry, thus giving us another reason why he was given to Petunia.
HOW CONVENIENT! Lol no, I'm just kidding, lily's parents were probably killed the first time Voldemort rose to power, as he killed a lot of unmentioned people.
The Knight Bus didn't come because Harry fell over. An excerpt from Pottermore says that the Knight Bus is summoned "whenever a witch or wizard in urgent need of transportation sticks out their wand arm at the kerb." (like hailing a cab) Harry had just seen a giant, scary, black dog and needed to get away. He was standing on a curb and raised his wand.
I'm not saying it wasn't convenient. It still has a valid place on this list. I'm saying his reasoning contained errors and is misleading about how the Kight Bus operates.
7:56 Every AVPM Fan: You're Harry Freakin' Potter! We don't prefer Gandalf, Merlin, or Oz. You're a whole lot hotter! With that lighting scar, You're a superstar to us all! If we're in trouble, we know who to call!
Something I always wondered: Hagrid shows Harry how to get to Daigonally, but how did all the other students that didn't have parents who knew that get to Diagonally?
Someone from Hogwarts goes to the muggle borns house like Hagrid goes to Harry to explain the Wizarding world and tell them how to get to Diagon Alley. They also get a small amount of money for their supplies ( Harry didn’t bc he had his paren ta money they left him)
I think Ron said that he was around them long time before the lake incident but he couldn't find Harry and Hermione because of her protective spells. And when Harry went for the sword, it was the first time that he was out of these spells. So ron first saw the patronus doe and after that he found Harry. Not so convenient...at least for Ron. ^_^
Lassi Havukainen yep you do...but I think when you hand it back you "relinquish" it back to its original owner and it acts as if it was never won. ...or maybe it can only be won in a REAL fight? Maybe wands know the difference between deuling club and a duel for dominancy?.
I think you win somebody's wand when you take it from them, it doesn't matter if it's magically taken or physically taken and handing it back to them relinquishes the ownership
No no, most wands are loyal to their owners no matter what (though some, like Draco's will switch under certain circumstances). In general, the Elder Wand was the only one that changed ownership so easily. It always wanted to be near the strongest person.
The fact that Hogwarts only has one teacher for every subject and the Hogwarts express somehow fits hundreds of students into one train (and the class sizes- at least the ones we see are tiny ) It makes no sense!!!
That was bothering me as well, so I did some math. Going on Harry’s year as normal size, (Though there might be more or less students per year, depending on baby booms) there’s roughly 10 students per level per house, 70 per house, so 240 kids for the whole school. That isn’t really that many when you think about it, especially as it’s seven years worth of all UK wizards+witches (if that makes sense.) If each house year has their class with another house (potions with first year Gryffindors and Slytherins for example) there should be 14 seperate classes for main subjects. Then again, some people drop the subject in N.E.W.T level, so if the two sixth and two seven year classes get small enough, they might get taught together. I can’t figure out how many classes one subject would have per week, but first years had one double potions and three herbology classes per week at least. (And I guessing herbology is one that is dropped as soon as people can. Sorry, Neville.) Sorry to you too, I’m thinking way too much into this 😅
There aren't that many students in Hogwarts. When they're eating in the Hall, you have what... 400-500 students ? It's way fewer than most high schools. My high school for example has over 1.2k students. Which is why I never understood why they have such a huge castle for only a few hundreds students... Even if they do sleep there, they share rooms and such. It's way too big. And like you said, only one teacher for every subjects and for 7 grades makes no sense. When do they have time to correct the quizzes and homework ?! @_@ It bothered me since book 1. I don't think she ever thought it through. For the train though, it works. Not all students use it, and trains usually have 300-500 seats.
I actually really like that harry physically took the wand out of malfoy's hands. Like the thing malfoy has been raised to despise is muggles and harry actually takes the wand in a way that uses no magic at all. Seams very poetic to me.
Dumbledore logic:
Trip to hogsmeade? No! We need a permission slip!
Letting a 14 year old go against dragons, mermaids, and a giant maze? Sure, why not?
pushkaraj kulkarni Hey. He couldn’t let a 13 year old into Hogsmeade
Sarcastic btw
Its like how here in the US you can go to war at 18 but cant drink alcohol until 21 😒
its like how in the US anyone can have like a 20 guns at 18 and can kill17 school kids, but cant drink alcohol until 21
Also he wouldn't let him into hogsmeade because he was afraid of Sirius murdering him. The goblet was a binding magical contract--who knows what it could have done to Harry if he'd have refused to enter
All of book four could be condensed into like four lines.
“Potter, wait here,” barked Moody at the end of their first Defense Against the Dark Arts class.
Feeling confused Harry waited as the rest of the class filed out.
“Hand me that quill will you?” said Moody.
Harry picked up the quill...
And boom, he gets teleported to Tom Riddle’s grave. No tournament, no cup, literally accomplishes Voldemort’s goal in two minutes without any of the drama.
Yes! Brilliant!
I think Voldy wanted to have it seem an accident that happened during the task
even shorter:
"HEY, POTTER" screamed moody as the rest of the students marched out of the class
"what?" said harry
and then moody stabbed harry with a needle for some blood and ran
I think it was noted that you can't use port-keys in hogwarts due to ancient enchantments that only Dumbledore can remove (i.e. apparition trials and when he teleported harry into his office after the ministry fiasco).
@@funloop That doesn't make sense either because the cup is a portkey too.
"Ireland wins the game, but Krum catches the snitch!" and then it actually happens
That's the dumbest part of Quidditch... the snitch is worth so many points versus a goal with the Quaffle. Either catching the snitch should be worth less, or a goal should be worth more.
@@nahor88 why is it dumb? It loses a variable time limit, which makes things interesting. The points for the snitch give a reason to search for even if a team is down on points. It also creates more strategy because a snitch makes up for several penalties, giving more room to operate.
lol right
@@Hydrastic-bz5qm The snitch can be that without being worth so many points. That's literally 15 goals.
@@nahor88 what do you suggest it be?
Convenient that no one dies in chamber of secrets because of the reflections
The snake doesn’t eat them while they are petrified
how did they not mentioned that
and that you can petrify someone who's already dead XD
"Maybe they should have called this 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Plot Conviences'"
It always bothered me how the basilisk attacked where there just happened to be no portraits, especially since the next book heavily featured painting characters.
The flying car becoming sentient and rescuing them in Chamber of Secrets. Nope, they're spider-chow
And then it vanished into the woods, never to be seen again. I would have enjoyed a scene of the centaurs confronting Ron and Harry and trying to make them take it back.
No, there is a theory about it. Like you can't bewitch electronic things or non-manpower operated things. If you bewitch a screwdriver it'll be okay. But if you bewitch a phone it'll start thinking on its own. It'll start working on its own sooner or later. So bewitching the car 'woke' something up in it to have a sentiment.
2nd year: Wow polyjuice potion takes a month to make that’s so long!
Literally every other book in the series: lemme just whip up this polyjuice potion real quick and then we can just get on with the plan.
In deathly hallows I think it was handled well. Because in Grimmauld Place they were making a ton of polyjuice potion for the ministry break in and then had some left over for Bellatrix (Also they had made it before so it wasn't *too* challenging). As for the 7 Potter's, they had been planning that a long time and so many great wizards were working on that so I think the fact that they made enough of that for all 7 Potters and a little left over for Bill and Fleur's wedding. Ig the only convenient thing is that they just always made a little too much and had enough left over for one person.
In the books they actually had Moody’s whole Polyjuice potion store, and they ran out when Hermione was becoming Bellatrix, so that’s why they had to transfigure Ron.
Instruction said: Make a GALLON of polyjuice potion, take them into little glasses, and store it till when it's needed
A bunch of 12 year old had a hard time secretly brewing a NEWT-level potion in a bathroom? You don't say
@@triciavanandler7285 This always bugged me. Why would an educational facility have a large store of Polyjuice Potion? To what purpose was it ever intended to be used? (Equally, when Dumbledore set Harry his mission, why did neither of them think to stock up on massive amounts of felix felicis...)
Veritaserum. Why can't wizards who are on trial (like Sirius) take it to tell the truth and prove their innocence?
Kimmy Korson asking the real questions!!!
Because memories can be altered. Veritaserum only tells what the user believe to be true. So if the memory has been tampered with and they truly believed it then you understand why. Same reason why Pensives can't be used in a trail, they can be altered, the proof is shown when Dumbledore gets harry to make Slughorn show the true pensive 'memory' about telling Tom about the horcruxes.
I really asked myself for years!
Veritaserum is basically like the magical equivalent to polygraph tests is what it seems!
I still don't see the harm in making them take it and see if what they say holds any water.
top 10 awfully convenient things in the first book
1. Hogwarts is a boarding school, so Harry doesn't have to go back to the Dursleys every night. And this boarding school lets you stay there over holidays.
2. You're filthy rich, Harry.
3. First year students are not allowed to play quidditch, except you, Potter. Here, take this new super broom right from the shelf, no need to pay me back. Love: Prof McGonagall
4. I trust Hagrid. Sure, he is easily veral and can't keep his mouth shut and blabbers out secrets without care, but still I trust him with my life.
5. Oh come on... what's the worst thing you can do with an invisibility cloak, you growing, hormone monster, you.
6. ALOHOMORA
7. And speaking of that, all the trials to the stone. Most of them beated by the first years.
8. Hi. I'm Ron Weasley. I love chess and my brother takes care of dragons.
9. Forbidden forest. No student shall pass. Except if it's a detention for Harry, you might learn something... or die. May the odds be ever in your favor.
10. Hermione, 50 points. Ron, 50 points. Harry, 60 points. Just to make Gryffindor tie with Slytherin
And a bonus thought! Dursleys, out of the goodness of their hearts, sends Harry a Christmas present.. to Hogwarts, with no address.. by an owl, that just... What? How?
Million points to you
Neville got points, too.
I never really thought about the Dursley one. Shrieking Shack!
I don't recall it is ever stated that first years are not allowed to play quidditch. Just that they are not allowed to bring their own brooms to the school. They get broom flying classes. On school brooms. And it's just stated that there hasn't been such a young (first years) student to get into the quidditch team. Not that it is forbidden or NEVER done. In fact it only happened 100 years before Harry too! :D
For that last one, I imagine Hedwig may have harassed the Dursleys till they forked up a present for Harry... Hilarious! Hedwig is the best.... May she rest in peace... 🦉
3:05 if harry didn’t fall over to summon it, though, we would never have heard the famous words “what you fell over for?”
I thought that he accidentally summoned the bus with his wand....
Doesn't The Knight Bus Operator say he comes for stranded wizards and witches? And since harry is underage and can't use magic outside of hogwarts, which would in turn make him stranded thus the bus turning up?
TheDjbz You are correct. According to the book it is summoned by a stranded wizard or witch sticking his or her wand out.
But most importantly there would never be... *always*
Hermione was originally supposed to have a younger sister but she was cut. And Dudley was supposed to have a magical child, which was also cut. I would’ve loved these plot lines. 😔
emai fisher In the third book, she is described as having pale skin
She clearly and unmistakingly describes Hermione in the books as white. But i agree with Lunatrix i would´ve loved those plot lines especially dudley having a magical child.
emai fisher right. totally not because Rowling likes to retcon everything to look more PC. the books original covers showed her as white with brown hair, way before the movies came out. and im pretty sure in one of the books it mentions her white skin colour
www.therowlinglibrary.com/2015/12/21/is-hermione-granger-white-or-black/
Ugh who cares about the amount of pigments in Hermione’s actress’ skin?
But regardless of that, I read somewhere that Dudley was never supposed to have magical children, because the magic-hating Dursley blood would never produce magical children!
"I'm taking this from you which makes this mine too" I lost it 😂
Cierra Anglin I would do that if I had siblings to do that to
I went back and re-watched that one part several times. 🤣🤣🤣
Audrey Jones same it just made me laugh so hard
Cierra Anglin thanks
Me too
"Number 7: Time Turners!" **shrugs** "Number 6..."
I loved when he did that lol 😂😂
Well it’s true
I think its really weird that Voldemort thought that he was the only one that discovered the room of requirement - where did he think all the stuff in there came from?!
Kayla May MAGIC
@@adamstryzlakyr2720 except Minerva says lost items go into non-being and everything in the RoR exists, so I doubt the answer is that simple.
I think he thought that everyone who found it before merely did it by accident and could never find it again, and that HE was the only one who ever figured out how to work it on command. He was also very secretive i'm sure once he discovered what he thought was a secret he would never discuss it with anyone for fear of giving away the secret. So most of the school could have known about it and he wouldn't have bothered asking any of them for fear of "Hey do you know about the secret room on the 7th floor", "....well i do now!"
He also would never bother even talking to the house elves as he thinks them beneath him. Which is also weird because who would know the castle better than the creatures who live their entire lives there...
Even so this is STILL pretty damn arrogant of him to think "Hey this school has been here for hundreds of years, thousands of students have gone through here. Generations of House elves have lived their entire lives in this place...Noone has ever stumbled upon these secrets before, I'm the only one to EVER discover this GO ME!!!"
he is just arrogant
lol
What confuses me a lot is why Hagrid is still not allowed to do magic. It was proven that Tom Riddle was the one who opened the Chamber of Secrets, so why is Hagrid still being treated like he was the one who did that? Is it because of Aragog? Because Harry has done worse things, and he's perfectly able to do magic. This has bothered me so much! Please do a video or something on why Hagrid is still kinda considered guilty for the Chamber of Secrets incident.
For starters, I'm not sure its ever "proved" anywhere that tom riddle is the one responsible for the chamber of secrets. Sure, dumbledore knows it but he believed that the first time as well and it didn't really matter to the wizarding world at large. As for the rest, it really seems like the whole incident is just being swept under the rug (for example, malfoy isn't being punished because there's no "proof"). They may have let hagrid go, but that's mainly because the additional attack after he was in prison made it blatantly obvious he wasn't at fault this time, but didn't do anything to actually disprove his prior conviction. Finally though, the most important reason is simply that hagrid's a half giant and the powers to be in the wizarding world are corrupt and bigoted. They aren't going to want to admit they were wrong (even when it technically wasn't their mistake) and they especially aren't going to go out on a limb for someone they are predisposed to discriminate against anyways.
I know!! that made me mad...if he still couldn't get a wand, harry could have repaired Hagrid's wand in the last book
There is also the little problem that Hagrid is a half-giant.
-> The wizard world does not like the idea of giant learning how to use magic, because they are inmune to magic [their hybrids WILL outperform "pure human" wizards to extinction].
while I agree that the wizarding world has a prejudice against half-breeds they allowed him to go to school in the first place and Hagrid was by the sound of things a problem student Tom riddle describes him as "being in trouble every other week" I think at some point there probably was enough evidence to at least make it that the guilty charge could be revoked due to evidence but they cant turn back time and allow Hagrid to go to school after all he cant be allowed to have an unbroken wand due to not being a fully fledged wizard I guess they could give him a bag of money and say sorry and that would be something I guess
They still don’t trust him because he’s part giant
The one that always got me (and I'm amazed wasn't in this list) was Ron opening the Chamber of Secrets in Deathly Hallows. A guy with no knowledge of Parseltongue happens to be able to open a chamber sealed up by SALAZAR SLYTHERIN HIMSELF and hidden for hundreds of years from dozens of talented magical investigators by replicating a weird hiss that his mate made five years ago. Aye, sure, why not?
*a week or so ago. He specifically imitates harry opening the locket, as he was not there when harry opened the chamber. Still bad, but not impossibly so.
Liam White Ah, yeah, my bad. Forgot about that! I know Ron has mad impersonation skillz (I seem to remember him imitating the Bloody Baron and Wormtail at least), but managing to remember and reproduce a non-human language that well is some next-level mimicry :)
More like a few months earlier, ron returns and destroys the locket only a week or two after their christmas day trip to godrics hollow. Then there are still months more camping before the malfoy manor incident, followed by a month of planning the gringotts heist. Still, that's much less than 5 years ago but its not like ron had heard it just a few days ago, not to mention how you'd think the stress of the whole locket situation would probably overshadow the single line of parseltongue harry says (or the leap in logic that single line is whats needed to open the chamber also).
Edit: Also just to note, its harry who imitates the bloody baron (back in first year). Ron does mimic wormtail in the malfoy manor basement though, so that's something.
I always believed that Ron has an above average IQ, higher than Harry’s definitely, and was an excellent chess player after all. So why shouldn’t he remember a line of Parseltongue, even after years? Don’t most people remember nursery rhymes well into their dotage???!
I think your missing two key points there. First, nursery rhymes tend to be in a recognizable language, not just hissing. Second, people usually remember things like nursery rhymes their entire lives due to repetition, hearing them dozens or hundreds of times. Ron has heard Parseltongue like 3-4 times ever, much less heard that specific word.
How Ron just suddenly happens to be able to talk parseltongue and open the Chamber of Secrets because Harry talks in his sleep. Yeah sure
Read the books.
@@Lollaksyotuube i have
@@MK00040 So you know how he really learns it?
@@Lollaksyotuube i forgot if he learnt it in a different way in the books, but that's besides the point, the way he learnt it in the movies is so lame and lazy writing
@@MK00040 Yes, the movie was bad, but books are canon.
"Did you just stab my book? What did you think that was gonna do?" xD
😂😂 I laughed so hard when he said that
How about Slytherin's common room? When the troll showed up, they were told it was in the dungeons. Dumbledore told the prefects to escort the students to their dormitories. But where is the Slytherin common room? The Dungeons! That's bothered me even since I noticed it
Zayden Nightshade LOL Dumbledore was irresponsible sometimes
this is the same school that (under Mcgonagall's leadership) ordered the Slytherins to be taken to the dungeons during the second wizarding war
(though that was only the movie)
The Hermione thing I always took as her growing apart from her parents. She always loves them, but as she started growing up in the wizarding world it was harder for them to relate to her and for her to relate to them. This is shown when they attempt to bound with her by taking her on a skiing trip. Which sadly ended in Hermione leave early to go the Weasley's. I wish we actually got more of their relationship in the books. Instead of having her erase their memories, it could have been a place for them to hide for a few days (then we'd see their relationship).
Also, I think the whole culture of British boarding schools is very different from what Americans are used to. When I read British books about kids that are at boarding school, they often spend huge chunks of their holidays staying with schoolmates. As an American, I'm like, "Don't you want to be with your kids (or your parents) for the maximum amount of time after they've (you've) been away at school for nine or ten months?" But I guess it's just what you're used to. So with that in mind, the fact that Hermione either stays at Hogwarts or with the Weasleys doesn't seem as odd to me.
Hermione erasing her parents' memories is one of the saddest scenes in the entire series. However, having worked at a boarding school, it used to be a big production driving the kids to the airport (especially since it was 6 hours away from the school), and the number of folks who were still at the school during the winter was SMALL (less than I could count on two hands). Usually they'd have to stay with some of the staff, because all the dorm parents and all the support staff would be gone. There would have to be a serious mitigating circumstance for them to stay, such as a) I have no parents (Harry), b) my parents aren't available (Harry), or c) it would be a really crappy situation to return to - such as the student I knew who would be sitting in an empty apartment in Singapore. They wouldn't let the kids run amuck without supervision.
What bothers me?? You know what bothers me??? How they use Expelliarmus at least a million times throughout the story (e.g. the GOD DAMN DA MEETINGS EVERYONE USED IT ON EVERYONE) and they only become masters of someone else's wand in the seventh book. Is that the moment the rules of wand usage changed? No???
also how did all the teachers at hogwarts believe that some silly enchantments and riddles could protect the most wanted item in the whole wizarding world? an 11 year old managed, stupid ol' Quirrel managed, soo what were you guys thinking? it's the same thing as wizards locking their houses when one could simply use Alohomora to open them
This is exactly what I was thinking!!
Actually Quirrel was quite intelligent and was in Ravenclaw.
the wands know it's not serious combat and only change their allegiance under the right conditions. there are anti unlock charms for alohamora.
Thats not how wand allegiance works. Its only the Elder Wand that changes allegiance so easily since its more sentient than other wands. Wandwood also has an effect on its character, and Malfoy's wand happened to be Hawthorn IIRC which made it hate being used for dark magic and so willingly became Harry's.
About the wand thing, ollivander says 'the wand chooses the wizard harry' but apparently if you knock someone's wand out their hand you can suddenly just become the master of their wand and use it!? That means any wizard can use anyone's wand as long as they use expelliarmus like what!? If you can just do that then why don't wizards just go into ollivanders and choose whatever wand they feel like?
I'm loving this whole "Ben now says silent Ks thing" it's hilarious when he does it and i have to rewind a bit cause I was like "Did...did he just pronounce the K?"
It mostly became a thing in the k-night bus video
It had shown up from time to time in earlier videos thanks to the whole k-nut thing. The knight bus video is definitely where it became super obvious though.
gamerfellow no kl. P
Snape- Headmaster, I’m afraid the Dark Lord has returned
Dumbledore- Are you serious?
Snape-No, I’m Snape
These puns are Neville gonna stop
Xander Mayfield nothing Ron with that
Siriusly guys?
Get out.
The Dumbledore is over there
I guess this comment is just lupin everyone now huh
Harry up and stop it.
I k-now that he mentioned fawkes, but he deserves his own section.
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Also, the fact that Ron can open the chamber in deathly hallows
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and that Harry just tells Neville that the snake has to die, and he just DECIDES to use the sword therefore destroying the piece of voldemort's soul inside nagini.
Stuttering profile picture theif!
I read this in Hermione’s voice
Jobs Yadsit Harry potter profiles are a trend and Hermione is most popular
Ron was able to open the Chamber of Secrets because of his talent for mimicking voices, which he demonstrated repeatedly throughout the books.
If James, Sirius, Lupin and Peter where gifted enough to make the map is it to far of a stretch for them to have made it to where only they would appear on the map to each other and not anyone else so that's why Fred and George never seen Peter in Rons room but Lupin was able to see Peter.
But Harry sees Petigrew. So no.
Trevor Wilson
Isn’t that only in the movies?
Snape saw Lupin on it.
@Hybschtorie Or the threory simply isn't true.
@@Lollaksyotuube or since Lupin was the one who opened the map and left in a hurry leaving it open, it still showed the marauders. Snape just walked in on the open map and we know that the map doesn't know after its been opened who is reading it as it doesn't return to being a normal piece of parchment for Snape.
The thing that bothers me the MOST in the Harry Potter books is Dumbledores pencieve and memories in general. Why, just WHY do wizzards not use that bloody thing to prove things that might / might not have happend. e/i Serius being innocent, Harrys story about Voldemort, Harry at the trail in book 5, let alone the attempted torture by Umbridge... The more I think about this, the more it bothers me!
Just had to get this off my chest.
Sebastiaan van Leeuwen possibly because you can meddle with your memories? Think about Slughorns memory. PLUS everyone has their own version of events, which would skew them as well.
It just doesn’t seem very reliable.
I felt that way too, for a while, but then I thought of the tempered memory of Slughorn. It was fairly obvious what he did to that memory, whilst being a skilled wizard.
But even if the memories are a bit skewed, some events are just too far fetched to be dreamt up by Harry.
And one of Marvolo Gaunt's memories Harry and Albus watch in the pensieve basically fades to black because Marvolo couldn't remember anything past that point.
That said, that excuse wouldn't work for fresh memories. And is anyone seriously going to argue that Harry somehow modified his own memories? Even Umbridge probably wouldn't try that.
Even if the pencieve and memories weren't reliable, WHY DIDN'T THEY USE VERITASERUM?! It seems like a plot hole to me
Monika S. I have a hope that they tried but Sirius refused it, if they saw what happened then they would know he was an amnigus and Remus was a werewolf. Sirius just wanted to protect his only friend he had left.... okay time to cry now 😅😭
Number one biggest thing that bothers me in Harry Potter. In the first book page 167 " referees have been known to vanish and turn up months later in the Sahrah desert" WHY? HOW OFTEN DOES THIS HAPPEN? I'M SO CONFUSED
I'm suspecting foul play by adept and sneaky enemy players.
Drace90 thank you so much!
1, Molly Weasley mentioning Muggles, in front of Muggles where Harry would hear it.
2, loved all the "kn" drops through out
I’ve Often Wondered,Did The Dursleys Stick Harry in The Closet Under The Stairs as Soon as They Got Him as a Baby?
That would be awful.
And how did he learn to talk - did they actually teach him?
@@dylanjayabahu2878 Good Question
And also did petunia fed harry with her own hands when he was young
Or start singing lullaby when he was crying???
@@dylanjayabahu2878 well u kinda learn how to talk by listening to others
But how did he learn to write bruh
Did he ever been to a school or something
9:50 did he just say...
k-nowledge?... I love him.
Kyrie R that started in the wizard money makes no sense video, they mentioned that “knuts” was supposed to have a silent k but they pronounced it so he started making a joke of it and pronouncing silent letters and I think he says “k-nowledge” and “k-now” in the video. Probably started an inside joke there lol
Coffee1864 1864 Thanks for spelling out the joke for everyone...
K-night bus too! (yay!)
Yes he did, so American.
😂Ik
Two of your points that I've also wondered about dozens of times: Firstly, Hermione's parents. She boasts about going skiing, then turns up at grimauld place "Mum and Dad are a bit disappointed but I've told them that everyone who is serious about the exams is staying to study. They want me to do well, they'll understand."
Well apart from the fact that she flat out lied to her parents (because she's not staying at school to study but goes to grimauld place because ron's dad was almost fatally injured (which i'm sure IS an excuse that a mum and dad WOULD understand)) they could also be like "honey you can study at the ski resort, we'd actually be interested to see what it is you are studying!"
Secondly, THE BLOODY BASILISK FANG!!!! My god Dumbledore KNEW he wasn't going to be around much longer, his priority HAD to be "Harry, that's what a horcrux is, he's got six of them, here's what i think they are and here's how you destroy them!" But no! He builds up eternally and then has no time left for the actual essentials. This is not, in the main, the fault of Harry's failure to ask, but a serious problem of Dumbledores priorities.
Done.
Ah yes. Break the Statute of Secrecy and rules for underage magic while on a skiing trip. That'll surely be fine.
Liam White „Studying“ surely also includes studying out of books, doesn‘t it?
Breaking the statute of secrecy how? Her parents already know about magic...
Which btw, is the incredibly stupid part about harry's trial before 5th year. He supposedly broke the statute of secrecy by casting magic in front of a muggle, who just so happened to be his cousin who already knew about magic. Always annoyed me how dumbledore never brought that point up, despite hanging on all the other technicalities.
Because those other people will be sneaking into hermione's room to look through her stuff? I mean hermione talks about studying magical stuff on other trips (for example the vacation to france summer before 3rd year) so its not like studying at a ski resort would be any different.
With the whole business of the way Harry becomes master of the Elder Wand this is what JK herself had to say (its very long to be putting the a RUclips comment, sorry)
J. K. Rowling: I said to Arthur, my American editor - we had an interesting conversation during the editing of seven - the moment when Harry takes Draco's wand, Arthur said, God, that's the moment when the ownership of the Elder wand is actually transferred? And I said, that's right. He said, shouldn't that be a bit more dramatic? And I said, no, not at all, the reverse. I said to Arthur, I think it really puts the elaborate, grandiose plans of Dumbledore and Voldemort in their place. That actually the history of the wizarding world hinged on two teenage boys wrestling with each other. They weren't even using magic. It became an ugly little corner tussle for the possession of wands. And I really liked that - that very human moment, as opposed to these two wizards who were twitching strings and manipulating and implanting information and husbanding information and guarding information, you know? Ultimately it just came down to that, a little scuffle and fistfight in the corner and pulling a wand away.
Melissa Anelli: It says a lot about the world at large, I think, about conflict in the world, it's these little things.
J. K. Rowling: And the difference one individual can make. Always, the difference one individual can make
Zoe MacGregor +
Zoe MacGregor fuck I love her
Damn.. thats such a nice way to put it
Well, more like a difference a chance encounter can make
absolutely, I always thought it was brilliant that that's how Harry came to possess it. I mean, it's classic mystery construction: you're intentionally NOT supposed to think of that moment with the two boys wrestling as important, because its significance is only revealed at the end of the book. I like how the most subtle, natural moments are the ones that truly have the most dramatic impact in terms of the story. It's one of the things I've always loved about Harry Potter. At its heart it's about a young, humble man who is just trying to survive and protect his loved ones in a world that's tearing itself apart and has no sense of self-grandiosity or need for power to speak of.
Here is something convenient:
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets:
*Professor Sprout* These are mandrakes, and like Miss Granger said they can revive someone when they are petrified.
Also Chamber of Secrets:
*huge basilisk is in the school and the only thing that can revive you if you live through it is a mandrake*
SOUND FAMILIAR?
And, Harry and Ron KNOWS that ' Roosters are fatal to the basilisk but...
nah. I'll just stab 'em with this sword!
And nearly die
@@thathsaraamarasinghe6774 well to be fair Ginny accidentally killed all the roosters
@@TV-ly3dp Fair point, but still... they didn't even consider it
@@thathsaraamarasinghe6774 bruh they did
When they figured out they realized tom Riddle is getting rid of all roosters so that the basilisk is safe
The thing that bothers me most about the books is that they end
TheCaptain it’s also the most traumatic part.
Ahhh same
TheCaptain too true
What bothers me is... ALMOST EVERY PIECE OF INFORMATION ABOUT THE WIZARD WORLD!!! JK Rowling is a great character builder but a horrible world builder so we all fall in love with the characters and don't notice that THE ENTIRE FRIGGIN WORLD OF FRIGGIN HARRY POTTER CONTRADICTS ITSELF. Thank you for your time.
Would read Harry Potter and the Nightmares of Future Past if you like a JKR quality unofficial continuation involving time travel.
Ben: He physically takes the wand from Malfoy? Master of the Elder Wand!
Harry: It's mine.
Me: 🤣🤣
Scombs 654 read the books such an idiot comment
@@yesyesyes5827 it's not an idiot comment. I have read the books.
People stole the elder wand became the master so the same principle. Harry stole Draco’s wand Draco was the master of the elder wand therefor it changed over to Harry
@@yesyesyes5827 Harry did not steal the elder wand, he stole malfoy's typical hawthorn wand. He did not prove that he was a better wizard than Draco, and it doesn't make sense that the elder wand would care about the fate of a different wand.
Hydrastic 12117 it’s the same principle! Off course it would the elder wand changes hand to hand by stealing of wand strength of individuals and killing. Yes he did steal the elder wand but if the wand was in his presents he would ofbtherefor it changed hands
I would have added the flying car coming to save Harry and Ron from the spiders in CoS
lol
6:00 Someone is forgotting the book . . .
They only had enough potion left for one person. Hermione uses it to be Bellatrix. Ron transfigured himself and Harry uses the cloak with the Goblin on his back.
Actually that happened in the movie too (although they didn’t specify that they had run out), and I do believe that this particular usage isn’t too terrible
Goblin is called Griphook
transfigured into what ?
@@Umamahh-iq1qpchanged himself a bit like grew a beard and some facial features
Voldemorts most powerful curse was the one he placed on the Defense Against the Dark Arts teaching position.
Phoenix Pony curse
Melker Engelbrecht ok, I edited it.
Milo O'Rourke honestly? My opinion. That spell altered fate itself.
Milo O'Rourke actual canon fact. search "jinx on the post of Defence Against the Dark Arts Teacher" for the wiki page.
Phoenix Pony dumbledore should've just changed the name to dark arts defense or something similar but different
The thing that bothers me the most is in the second book when Harry and Ron decide that the best thing they could do in King's Cross is flying to freaking Hogwarts instead of, idk WAITING FOR RON'S PARENTS? Like, Seriously?
Yes convenient thing how Harry Ron and hermoine find the trapdoor to the sorcerers Stone while hiding from Filich because they are in the second floor corridor because the stairs moved
the only answer i can give is that was for the PLOT. also, they're in GRYFFINDOR for a reason, not ravenclaw. they're adventurous and quick to action.
lovexjackie24 i understand what you say, but with that argument you could justify everything in the video. But yes, they trully are quick to action 😂
It would have even made more sense if they had just said "Should we wait for the adults?" - "Hell no, we can drive ourselves! Hellyeah!".
I found it Convenient that the three rooms that guarded the Sorcerer Stone covered something one of the three kids were good at.
there were more than 3 rooms in the book
The fourth room doesn't count. It took no skill whatsoever, and I am not referring to the area with Fluffy because that was basically the entrance area.
Slade Wilson Fluffy was a room, The Devil's snare, the Keys, The chess, the potions riddle, and the final room with the Mirror of erised was dumbledore's final puzzle
The number of rooms doesn't make the set up any less conveniently.
Slade Wilson I wasn't saying that, I was just saying there's more than three rooms, man
I find it so strange and convenient that Harry is allowed to play Quidditch in his first year. “Well, Harry, first years can’t play Quidditch-except for you! Here’s a broom, now skip class and learn how to play! Yup, I’m sure no teachers will jinx your broom in a game, and this will never help you access a secret stone that we hid from students!” Like really?
Also, why didn’t Cedric and Harry just grab the cup when they reached the graveyard? They were like “Well we’re in this creepy graveyard and the way back is right there... let’s stay!” 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
@@keegan6448 because they didnt know it was a two way port key
SaintAlf I mean they could’ve easily just tried it because why not
@@alf1306 Also Harry just Accios the cup to him so he obviously knew that the cup was a two way port key or something like that
@@TV-ly3dp No he didn’t he was told that
10/10 best part of the video "I'm taking this from you. Which makes this mine too!"
Ikr 🤦🏼♀️
9:41
:)
how when hermione was being tortured she was lucky enough to have a obvious strand of bellatrix hair land on her. And this just happened to stay on her throughout the subsequent escape and burial despite not knowing they'd need to break into gringotts later. Although hermione being hermione probably thought ill keep this just in case
imma say that bitch had a weird stray hair fetish i mean whyd she keep millicent bulstrode's hair after she pummelled her back in 2nd year
9:40 "I'm taking this from you.Which makes this mine too."
😂😂😂
Annabella Montes I laughed out loud😂😂
🤬
I contend that there was no binding magical contract on Harry from the goblet. Why? Because Harry did not consent. For a contract to be valid, all parties must consent. And Harry did not put his name in the cup- Barth Crouch did. Someone else can't sign to contract with your name and have it be legally binding, which is basically what Crouch did. Harry didn't even know, much less enter the contest. I say Crouch Sr was wrong.
Come to think of it, had Crouch Jr entered into that contract?
Very true, and a very good point.
Your correct but Dumbledore couldn't taje the risk that Harry entered his own name and lied. Because If that was the case he would die.
But also remember that absolutely NO ONE that night believed that Harry did not put his name in except for Crouch Jr. (disguised as Moody). Even Crouch Sr. thinks that Harry did willingly enter so if they all believed he did it why would they let him back out of a contract.
Okay, so if they didn't believe him, they could use veritaserum. Also, why do they rather believe he did it and broke the spells from Dumbledore than that it was someone older, more powerful and wiser? Doesn't make sense
Nice fresh video
Hermione ignoring her parents has always pissed me off
"Calmly" we all know what I mean.
DID YOU PUT YOUR NAME IN THE GOBLET OF FIYA?!
That doesn’t really have anything to do with this video…but yes.
_DID YOU PUT YOUR NAME IN THE GOBLET OF FIRE_
if we didn't know what you mean we're not true Potterheads ;P
HAAARRAY DIDJA PUT YAH NAME INTO DA GOBLET OF FYAH?
The invisibility cloak! His parents just happened to have not just a regular cloak, but a cloak from Death himself!! I mean, in my opinion it’s very convenient given all the times he needs it.
Meh. This isn't really convenience. It's a family item given to every new generation in the Potter family. It also links a lot of things (Dumbledore's pursuit of the deathly hallows, Harry and Voldemort...) and they're not the only family with it.
To be fair, the fact he has it and doesn't use it more often is more convenient: it's to make sure he gets caught so he can overheart something or be at the right place at the right moment.
The Leaky Horcrux well it’s because a male Potter happened to marry the female (and only) heir of Ignotus Peverell so...
The Leaky Horcrux and BTW Dumbledore’s theory is that the Peverells made the Deathly Hallows themselves
Gryffinclaw Galaxy still pretty convenient 😂
The Leaky Horcrux well we can judge a few of Joanne Kathleen Rowling’s choices (like when she said Harry was supposed to be with Hermione) and some we cannot...
The most convenient thing to me was when everyone thought Sirius Black betrayed the Potters and he denied it and then no one believed him... No wait, that didn't happen, because he definitely could have convinced Dumbledore OR Lupin of his innocence if he made any effort at all... The most convenient part was when after Pettigrew blew up a bunch of people and made his escape, Sirius also fled the scene to track down Pettigrew. No wait, that didn't happen either, he just sat there and waited until the authorities came to arrest him, laughing the whole time (for why?) and then let them take him to wizard jail, never once proclaiming his innocence.
No wait, the MOST convenient thing was when they finally capture Pettigrew and are marching him back to the castle but oh no, it just happens to be a full moon and now Lupin has transformed into a werewolf again, allowing Pettigrew to escape in the distraction. That was literally my least favorite part of the entire series because it was such a cheap copout way for Pettigrew to escape.
I always thought that Sirius let himself get caught because he felt guilty, since it was his idea to change the secretkeeper and so he blamed himself for the death of the Potters
and I think him laughing was just his way of coping, as he started to realize what happened he just kinda reacted that way, also he might thought that there's nothing he can do to convince people he actually is innocent
Yeah why didn't Hermione just go back a few hours and tell Lupin to take his medicine... then they wouldn't have to do anything else.
Matt Blakeley you do realize that the potion only relieves the pain? It doesn’t stop the transformation I’m pretty sure.
It's...pretty obvious - Gilderoy Lockhart
@@clowningmywaytomcdonalds6679 it keeps him in his right mind. so they would have had an ally werewolf
You brought up something here that would be interesting to discuss: How come Harry, who grew up in the Muggle world, is not more curious to learn about the magical world, where he *does* feel welcome/at home in?
Good point honestly...
His 2 best friends are a book worm and a pure blood, why bother?
The fact that 3 first years could just use a simple unlocking spell to get past the door were fluffy was why was there no other protection on the door they trust the kids to behave to much XD
No, they just don't care at all if any of them get killed. Why else would Dumbledore warn the students that they could die if they go there, but then put up only a locking spell that a first-year could undo? Those are children and teenagers, so that's basically putting up a sign that they SHOULD go there and test their courage and get eaten.
Maybe it's how he saves money on buying food for Fluffy, but really...
Ya know what seemed most convenient for me? The fact that hermoine somehow knows literally anything that can get them out of a bad situation... And we just assume she's read it somewhere and go with it.
Havent you read Hogwats: A history
Well, I picked up some of it in History of Magic class... When I wasn't asleep.
Harry: "Give me your wand!"
Draco: "Oh no, my enemy is trying to take my wand away from me, what am I going to d- oh no, he's taken my wand!"
Well pretty much EVERYTHING that happens to Harry in the first book. Hagrid is sent to get Harry AND the Stone on the same trip, which just happens to be one day before the vault get broken into. Finding the Mirror. Every conversation with Hagrid (seriously, why would you tell him ANY secret?).
I'd say its most convenient that Harry seems to always learn something new about the Wizarding World a few months before that information becomes critical to his story. I can accept it for the first or second book, but it keeps happening. Wouldn't introducing portkeys a couple of books earlier have made the whole thing less coincidental? Then there's the fact that one of the protections for the stone is something they teach in FIRST YEAR HERBOLOGY. Couldn't think of something a bit esoteric Sprout?
Carl Rood yep.
Exactly
Even up to the last. He'd never heard of the Deathly Hallows. Here his dropped into this new and fantastic world and he seems to have zero curiosity or drive to learn anything other than what's dropped into his lap.
Carl Rood I agree with everything but the deathly hallows. The elder wand and cloak were there since book one. The stone gets introduced in book 6. Even in book one, Ron noted that the cloak was unlike any he heard of because it worked so well you couldn’t see any traces. There was something significant about it then. Besides that, I agree with you.
Carl Rood BUT I will say that Harry Potter as a character is a complete dunce. Most of the things he struggles to figure out were obvious 5 chapters ago :|
James and Lily were 21 when they died, they look like 35 years old in the movies, so like, what's the deal with that?!
B Rabbit terrible casting 😂
It's really sad because all it did is undermine the tragedy of their death.
Alan Rickman was casted, he's was older then the character that he was portraying. Having a young Lily and James, and an older Snape would be odd.
I don't think it does, a person being murdered is tragic, no matter their age. Not to mention a mother begging for her son's life. Lily is my favorite character, and the actress that portrayed her was great. Lily and James in the movies weren't old people, 35 is still young.
Rickman and Oldman were also nothing like early 30s when they showed up in the movies. Thewliss's apparent early aging can be put down to his werewolf-ness I guess.
I doubt i'd be able to last at Hogwarts... the lack of technology there would cause me to cry into my butterbeer as I scream "ACCIO WIFI" to no avail
i know right, I love technology. Gotta invent a spell that allows tech to work lol.
To be fair wifi and most tech that exists today did not exist in Harry's time at Hogwarts. Harry's time at Hogwarts started in 1991 and I can tell you computers definitely weren't common in most households and smartphones most definitely did not exist. If you want the Hogwarts of today you unfortunately have to look at Cursed Child as Albus Potter started school in 2017. I can't remember if any muggle tech was mentioned in that book though.
7:52 -
Ben: "This isn't some random student, it's HARRY FREAKIN' POTTER -"
Me: "- YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND, YOU'RE A LEGEND MAN - "
To us all
Every son and daughter
*SAFE!*
Literally, the second I heard this the second I started to look in the comments section
From You Know Who
All because of you!
You were small
But i wonder if you recall...
the thing with Draco's wand: don't you think that a wand, a magic artefact, capable of the most wonderful things, would be extremely "offended" by being simply taken from its master's hands? with no magic battle involved? I think that's why it changed allegiance, it was pissed with Draco's unwillingness to fight over for it.
Lucca Bernardo it's still too convenient
what about all the history behind the wand? wizards killing wizards only because they wanted the allegiance of the Elder Wand... all of that when they could've simply taken the wand off of each other hands
oooh I like that!
Two problems with that theory. First, it was only physically taken from malfoy in the movie, the book version has harry simply disarming him with the standard expelliarmus. Second, while that explanation may hold water for the allegiance of malfoy's own wand, it doesn't do much to explain how that was enough to also pass along the ownership of the elder wand at the same time (an object malfoy supposedly owned, but never had physical possession of).
Quite frankly the whole wand ownership thing as explained in book 7 is crazy, and would cause some serious issues if evenly applies throughout the entire series instead of just at the end. So really I just kinda accept it and move on, while tallying it up as very "convenient."
1. House Elves being able to apparate in or out of places that wizards can not.
But that actually makes sense if you think about it. House-elves basically have the powers of gods! Whatever they want to do (since they want to follow orders), they CAN do. House-elves should be the dominant magical race. They are literally all-powerful. If someone had ordered Dobby to be impervious to knives, he wouldn't have died either.
Milo O'Rourke Yes It did. Kreature’s ability to apparate out of the cave when called is how sirius’s brother got the locket. It’s how kreature and Dobby were able to apparate and sneak around the castle too
Milo O'Rourke It’s also how Dobby got everyone out of the Malfoy’s home in book 7...
"Number Seven: Time Turners..."
Nuff said.
The whole of the 7th book was just a big convenience.. like they happened to find the right things, always hear something to help them etc.
There were a lot of loose ends to tie up, for sure.
Its a fictional movie not real life so u can't expect logic in everything
yeah rowling definetely set herself up for a trap with the search for the horcruxes
On the other hand from time to times it takes them such a lot of time to come up with certain ideas. I knew right away the locket was exchanged by Rergulus Black at the end of Halfblood Prince. I would have gone way early to Godric's Hollow because I thought the sword or a horcrux maybe there (i was wrong in that case but it would have cut things shorter). -The sword of Griffndor by the way wasn't just found. Snape knew where they were because in the book they had the portait of Phinneas Nigellus with them.
what always bothered me is that they CARRY the medallion horcrux around their necks because then they "will not lose it"... Put it in this bag hermione has after you found out the horcrux makes you think and do negative things. I mean that's exactly what they do with the Hufflepuff Cup. But they only put the Cup into the bag because (and that's written in the Book) "you can't carry it around your neck"... For real now?! If they stopped carrying the medallion things would have ended more and sometimes maybe less convenient.
Thank you for bringing this up, I specifically was looking to see if someone had even thought of this but in all the lists I've seen nobody ever thinks it's a plot hole! Hell, they could have buried it somewhere and returned when they found a way to destroy the horcrux; BUT NO, they had to wear (against their own knowledge that it would take advantage of them and manipulate them) and become depressing assholes. Thank you again Vee Vox for posting this, because if you didn't, I definitely was going to.
Plus they should have known that it can affect them considering what Tom's Diary did to Ginny.
Now that's just silly semantics =/
Vee Vox yeah, also harry had this bag where only he could grab things out of it.
I was recently rereading the sixth book, and up until Harry gets the half blood princes book, hermione brews all of her potions perfectly. But immediately after, she is not very good. I feel like this was something that J. K. Rowling just got lazy with and said “ok, she’s bad now”
Thomas Brann Actually Snape would write the potion on the board almost every time and he was their potions teacher then. Once Slughorn came in he had them do it from my the book but Harry still used some of Snape's recipes
Thomas Brann agreed, but not fully for the same reason. This abviously was meant to show how much Snape's changes to the brewing process influenced the outcome. It just didn't make sense Hermione could do nothing all of a sudden, I mean she brew polyjuice potion in her second year.
It also shows how big an effect distraction and mistreatment had on Harry's accomplishments (but did we really even need that? The OWLs should've been enough proof).
Thomas Brann she was jealous and reading the recipes on a book where all the recipes had tons of mistakes. that's what I call convenient. I mean there are no revisors? the book author is dumb? how can anyone allow a dumb dude to publish a book full of recipes with so many mistakes?
Lucas Vasconcelos The recipes don't have mistakes they just aren't nearly as efficient. Remember that Harry didn't even make one of the positions just presented a bezor.
It's like if you've ever seen those cooking competitions on TV. Everyone there is extremely competent but you add the tight time limit and actual competion even they put out subpar things. That's why Hermione can do fine on her own with all the time in the world and an okay recipe. Remember how much time everyone waisted trying to cut up the jumping beans. Difficult but not impossible, not wrong just inefficient. But Harry just crushed it under his knife, quick, easy got a lot of juice saved a ton of time and was able to move on to the next thing right away.
And Hermione did pull off an okay batch of potion just not as good as Harry's she hadn't been as efficient as him.
I think we should clarify how exactly hermione was "not very good" in potions in book 6 because I think people are getting it wrong. Hermione was still exceptional at potions throughout that book, consistently brewing nearly perfect potions that were second only to harry's potions and the one time she "failed" was the antidote class where she still was far ahead of the rest of the class while harry essentially used a loophole in the assignment. The difference is that while hermione was exceptional, harry (with snape's tips) was perfect. So hermione never really changed in her talents, harry just suddenly got much better.
On the other hand, you could point to issues like hermione essentially being forced by the Rowling to only get an E on her DADA OWL just so we can be assured that harry is a defense prodigy. Despite it making no sense hermione would actually drop a grade on that single class, despite acing everything else and being taught the whole previous year by that supposed defense prodigy harry.
Ben, I am watching this video with my 5 month old son because he smiles and giggles everytime your on screen and looks hurt when you cut to movie clips
Did you - did you just say Knowledge pronouncing the “K”?
I- love that?
9:51
Was looking for this comment 😂
That's like how some people pronounce the k in knife just for fun. Some people pronounce the p in pterodactyl for fun.
It's a reference to how their monetary coin is pronounced
@@bur2576 As well as the K-night Bus
@@juliarivera6071 and also K-Nut (Knut)
How about the fact that Ron just happens to be fabulous at chess...and McGonagall just happens to transfigure chess pieces to protect the Philosopher’s Stone! 🤦🏻♀️
00juls00 also if Quirrel beat the chess game, did the pieces all repair themselves after the game? And WHY DID RON GET ON THE KNIGHT?! the piece was already there the only missing pieces were the bishop and rook.
Well you're specifically talking about the movie. Because there is no mention of Ron mounting the knight's horse in the book. But, yes, I assume the chess pieces fix themselves after they're beaten because Quirrel would have had to get passed them.
All of the puzzles seem to reset after someone gets past them, or maybe Quirrel just used black magic to bypass them.
That’s true but then Ron would be useless (no offense I love Ron too) ;)
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how about the fact that in book 2, harry and Ron find the chamber, cool.
AND DONT TELL A CAPABLE WIZARD ABOUT IT!
"nope, we have Lockhart, we'll be fine"
when do these kids ever tell a capable adult about anything? lmao
Well McGonagall in first year about the stone, and they get blown off by her. Or the fact they seem to tell hagrid (kinda responsible...) about everything and he just constantly reassures them that everything's under control. Or McGonagall blowing harry off about umbridge in 5th year (admittedly a rather vague complaint), or dumbledore (and every other adult) about the malfoy situation in 6th year...
I mean, they should probably keep trying regardless but I can't really blame them for not going to the adults, capable or otherwise, when that's their success rate.
I think it was awfully convenient how Voldemort killed Snape. Literally the one time he didn't use the killing curse, which gave Harry enough time to get the memory.
Which Seamus Gorman has used in his theory about Aberforth Dumbledore and Felix Felicis (which would also disprove the theory that the potion doesn't actually do anything)
Yes, I have seen the video, which is a very good theory, but only a theory. Either way it is either a Felix Felicis convenience or a how did Voldemort kill Snape convenience.
Well, even if it is convenience, is that necessarily a bad thing? Is it even possible to write a story without ANYTHING that could be considered plot convenience?
No, it is not possible, and the series is my favorite book series of all time, and was so well written. And you're right, a plot convenience doesn't necessarily have to be a bad thing, but if I was looking at the series from a theoretical perspective of, "If this were real", then the way in which Voldemort killed Snape would in fact be convenient/inconvenient.
Well in theory a well written story doesn't have any plot conveniences because the author manages to explain them all away within the logic of the story and universe they create. Realistically, no author is actually that talented and consistent so plot conveniences will exist, but that doesn't mean we should just ignore them. Simply pointing out the existence of plot holes isn't criticizing Rowling necessarily, it's just pointing out this is a plot point that doesn't make much sense relative to the rest of the story. And perhaps by pointing them out we can either have other people correct on us why it actually does make sense, or collectively come up with theories to sufficiently explain them.
Dumbledore- You can’t undo death
Time turner- let me save a bird
I have a better one:
Deathly Hallows:
Voldemort: Avada Kedavra! HARRY POTTER IS DEAD!! (Funny laugh)
Harry Potter: Surprise, Voldie!! You just activated my TRAP CARD!!!!
Voldemort: WHUAAAAAAAAATTTT!?!?!?
but in exchange pumpkin dies soooooooo yeah
R.I.P Pumpkin fro Prisoner of Azkaban here is funeral
????-1993
Edit: a fence gets hurt but never dies
@@TV-ly3dp No it was just a fence.
And I won't go into how wrong the original comment is.
@@TV-ly3dp who is pumpkin
@@dothedo3667 I wrote that before I saw the book
the entire concept of voldy having a child(HOW) AND the cursed child as a whole still does not make any sense to me and i refuse to say its cannon
It's not. All of the Harry Potter books are written about things set in the past. The cursed child is in the future (relative to our current time). Therefore, it is just speculation (not to mention not being written by JK herselfmaking it fanfiction) about what happens in the future.
LittleMissDelle see that’s what i’ve always said! “it’s not written by jk so it’s fanfiction” but some people stiiiiilllll claim it’s cannon bc the book says “the 8th story continues” or something like that 😭😂
JK did write the Curse Child. Well, she was one of three writers who worked on the story and a four writer converted the story into a script. While other people were involved she is still credited as a writer.
Zanic Night and that’s why everyone says it’s cannon🤦🏽♀️😭
Milo O'Rourke which is such a weird concept to even think about bc it’s freaking voldy😭 the LAST person you’d think would even try to convince a child lol
Especially the Hermione one. I’ve never understood why she would spend like only a month with her parents if they love her so much. In one book she was going to go skiing with them, then just decides not to.
Like someone else said, I think it's to show how further apart they're getting.
I think it shows how she's so into the wizard world and magic, she doesn't have interest anymore for the normal muggle world. She'd rather spend time reading more amazing things, discover amazing magic, than spend some chill time with her parents.
They also probably don't have much in common anymore.
The last time we really know for sure hermione spent a long time with her parents was the summer between second and third year. Before 4th year harry spends more than half the summer with the weasley's and hermione is there before him, 5th year she's with ron at headquarters basically immediately, same for being at the weasleys before 6th. Christmas every year after first she either spends at school or goes with the weasleys (5 and 6). Then summer before 7th she wipes her parent's minds.
Slowly growing apart is one thing, but to basically completely separate from parents by the time your 13 is way over the top. Especially when they are supposed to have a very close relationship. Like, it just seems weird how emotional and broken up hermione is over wiping her parent's minds when she all but hasn't seen them for 4+ years by then anyways.
In the prisoner of Azkaban, when Harry, Sirius, and Hermione are all about to receive the dementors kiss and get saved by the time traveling Harry, i want to know what would have happened if the dementors performed the kiss on him. He has a piece of Tom riddles soul in him and his own complete soul, would the dementors kiss remove his whole soul, the fragment of riddles, or both?
think about this, harry originally died by werewolf bite in the original time line, that's why harmoine uses the time turner, when she makes the werewolf sound, harry says "what are you doing" and she replys "saving your life" LOL
keyproductions100 that's actually pretty hard to find an arguing point on lol. Even though we never see that play out in the movie or books, we always know Hermione makes the werewolf call to lure lupin from attacking Harry. The first time he probably was killed
Everything already happened. A Time Turner is just a device that helps complete what already happened. There is no "orginal timeline".
When Dumbledore is in the Hospital Wing with Harry and Hermione, he says they can save more than one life tonight. He knows that because is already happened. He knew they were going to save Buckbeak because Buckbeak disappeared as Dumbldore, Hagrid, Fudge and the executioner were talking. They all saw Buckbeak and then when they stepped out of Hagrid's Hut, Buckbeak was gone. Dumbledore knew that Hermione had a time turner, and he must have had some idea of what was about to go down that night.
The point is, it already happened. Time travel works differently in the Harry Potter Universe. (I don't consider Cursed Child Canon. It's painful for me to read.)
Hazelmykitten I agree- I see that time travel in the Potterverse works much the same way as in the Supernatural universe- when Dean travels back and tells his dad to get the impala, we already know that it must have already happened, because it’s the car Dean grew up in- you can’t “change the past”, simply going back means that time must have always worked that way.
How about the security measures for the philosophers' stone being essentially elaborate puzzels? They don't limit the circle of people with access to it to a specific group with official clearance but to anyone who possesses the skills to solve them. It they had just put a portrait or gargoile in front of it asking for a secret password (as they do with every other restricted room in the castle), backed up with some powerful spells to prevent forcefull entry, Quirrel wouldn't have stood a chance.
Except, that was probably an elaborate scheme of Dumbledore's to 'test' Harry's character and what he would do to protect the stone. Check this video out for more details: ruclips.net/video/cD-wyaMp4LU/видео.html
Why didn’t they secure the philosopher’s stone in the ministry in the same room where the prophecies were kept?
@@fleetskipper1810 Well, Flamel probably didn't want the ministry to get involved. He trusted Dumbledore not to abuse the stone
Why not just put it within a Fidelius charm?
Stuff that bothered me about the books... 1. "Troll in the dungeon!" "Let's send everyone back to their common rooms, even though two Houses have their common rooms in the dungeon!" 2. Hermione lying about having gone after the troll on purpose. Like, why did she do that? She could have gotten in a lot of trouble saying that, a detention or suspension or worse, while the truth was simply "Oh Hermione is crying in the bathroom, we should go find her." Like yeah, they should have asked a Prefect or teacher to find her instead, but still, they wouldn't have gotten in near as much trouble for that as Hermione COULD have gotten in for running off to fight a mountain troll on her own. 3. The fact that a bunch of first years could easily get into and past the series of traps "protecting" the Philosopher's Stone. Like, why not at least lock the door in such a way an alohamora wouldn't work? Even colloportus would have kept most students out of there. (And I'd be very surprised if Fred and George, at least, didn't also go in there to check it out before the Trio did.) 4. "Only the person who wanted to find the stone but not use it could get it." Things wrong with this: A. It means Voldemort could have popped out of Quirrell long enough for Quirrell to get the Stone for his master since Quirrell wasn't the one who was going to use it. (If not, how would Dumbledore be able to get it out for Flamel to use?) B. It means Voldemort could have, if he'd figured out how it worked, grabbed any random kid to get it for him. 5. Putting the Philosopher's Stone IN A BLOODY SCHOOL when the most dangerous Dark Lord in modern history wanted it! Likewise, putting a cerberus IN A SCHOOL without even properly locking the door or, I dunno, putting an age line around the door! Seriously, why wasn't Dumbledore fired for this???
Fayanora Ahnabahn Every... things that bother in the first book you mean?
About the stone, I think you needed to know that it existed and STILL not want to use it, none of the students knew it existed and even if they found out who wouldn't want to use it?
Ok, everything else aside, Hogwarts is a really bad school. Like I'd be scared to go or send my kids to a school like that. My therapist is a fan too and we legit spent a session talking about this
Now do the other 6 books.
Ravenclaw-tower griffindoor-tower Hufflepuff-by the kitchens Slytherin-dungeon. How are there two in the dungeon?(I just said something almost entirely unrelated, didn’t I?)😂😂
Here's a plot whole that's been bothering me for some time: there shouldn't have been any potion in the basin for Dumbledore to drink. In TDH, Kreacher says that Voldemort says refilled the basin with more potion after he, Kreacher, drank it (from this we can gather the basin doesn't just magically refill itself). Then Regulus comes along and drinks THAT potion. Regulus would have been too weak to refill the basin (besides, why would he want to?), so the basin should have been empty when Harry and Dumbledore showed up nearly 2 decades later.
YES that was my thought to! I thought noone had ever looked at this moment!
OMS, that's true! And Voldemort would definitely have gone ballistic had he noticed that the potion was gone, even if the locket still seemed to be there, and with the potion gone he definitely would have checked if it was the real locket.
Truth!
I have a solution:
Magic.
In regards to number ten, “Harry’s lack of living relatives”, it’s not just that he has no one other than the Dursley’s to take him in, but that Dumbledore wanted to have him grow up away from fame in the muggle world and with someone who shared Lily’s blood. This leads to few options and as Petunia also had a son Harry’s age, Dumbledore had hoped that they would treat them as their own.
Chloe Bailey THANK U. I swear I read somewhere that Harry had some very distant magical relatives (like a 2nd or 3rd cousin removed) but Dumbledore wanted Harry to be under immediate family and to have that love protection spell shit
I always got the impression that Voldemort murdered all of Harry's wizarding relatives while he was trying to figure out where Harry was.
What bothered me is THAT IF DUMBLEDORE WAS PLANNING HIS OWN DEATH HE COULD HAVE TOLD HARRY EVEYTHIIINGG
And done it a lot more efficiently. He took months (with long breaks between sessions) to give Harry information that could have been dispensed all at once in hours or days at most.
Dumbledore didn't tell everything all at once because he was afraid that the whole plan would be spoiled if Voldemort got the opportunity to read his mind (plus Harry was bad at Occlumency). That's one of the reasons why snape or dumbledoee didn't tell directly to harry where the locket was but used a patronus to show him imstead.
you obviously haven't read the whole series, as everything comes together in the last three books
No no, there was certain information that it was crucial Harry did not know ahead of time and had to realize for himself at the end. Otherwise it could derail the whole plan.
I had reasons
Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets:
THERE’S A SNAKE IN MY BOOT!!
Hey look Harry, I can spell my own name and change the letters to make more words!
Uh, oh, Ginny’s nearly dead, better work fast!
Hah! I just stabbed you in the book Tom!
Oooh!! A shiny bird!
Crap. Hermione was right again.
Oh right, lockhart’s still loopy.
Whoops. Sorry Dumbledore.
Hey Lucius! Look at this book!
Dobby, hold this book.
A SOCK! DOBBY LOVES SOCKS!!
IMMA KILL YOU POTTER!
Nope, dobby to the rescue.
DOBBY IS A FREE ELF!
And they all lived happily ever after! The end.
that's a seriously underrated comment :v
Funny but no one disrespekts hary potter
Evelyn Honiotes *Harry
Lorinda Brooks α
Lorinda Brooks what about the start of the story
Ok, on the Marauder's Map: everything except Peter Pettigrew makes sense.
I like to think about the map as a computer, where the incantations that make it work are its code. Every person in the world has their own aura that the map can understand and output. However, if the map sees two variables, when it should only see one (like with an animagus/pollyjuice user), it will probably read the second variable, not the first. Think of it like the second is writing over the first. So, with that said, whenever an animagus is in human form, they would show up on the map, but otherwise be invisible because animals don't show up on the map. The reason I believe this is how the map is supposed to function is the authors of the map: loony, wormtail, padfoot, and prongs, aka the animagi of Hogwarts, aka the trouble makers. If the map was confiscated, they wouldn't want to be seen when transformed, so they could still sneak around. When Sirius shows up, he's out of his animagus form, because he just appears then disappears after a few steps, turning back.
This is why Peter is an issue: he says that he'd been stuck in the form of a rat for YEARS, as in he wasn't able to change back, as in he couldn't have been seen on the map.
Now lets go back to the pollyjuice potion. If I remember this correctly, and I'm only going from the movies with this (and I haven't seen anything besides fantastic beasts in the last two years), Barty Crouch Jr shows up when he's in the woods, assumedly killing his father, Barty Crouch Sr. Now, Sr's corpse in the movie was very shocked and frightened. If Jr had just killed him as Moody, there wouldn't have been any threatening and Sr wouldn't have seen it coming, making his face normal upon death. But, if Jr had purposely changed back, Sr would've had the reaction we saw. Then Jr could've just taken another swig of potion and been on his way. But if the user of the map had been watching at the exact time Jr was Jr, they would've seen him on the map and not Moody. (The whole thing with the second variable would work with pollyjuice, since it's supposed to fully mask the individual as the person being changed into.)
Oh, and another quick thing: thinking of it as a computer, the map is refreshing probably ever millisecond or so, as we can see every individual footstep. This would mean that any "glitch" would be refreshed with the map. So yes, theoretically the spell could malfunction every once-in-a-while and show peter or anyone else, but the glitch wouldn't last more than the refresh time, unless it magically (ha) happened multiple times.
So basically, Peter never should've showed up, and saying that it was a glitch of the map is too convenient and almost impossible. However, Sirius and Barty Jr both make perfect sense, with some assumptions.
Defective Chaos Just throwing this out there, nearly all victims of the killing curse are said to have the look of shock and horror on their face. I think it’s the way they die that causes it. Hope that helps with you figuring it out.
In the book (not the movie with you were going by), Jr was seen in snapes office on the map stealing ingredients for the potion since he was slowly running out. Peter was never seen by Harry on the map. Lupin was the one who claimed he saw him with Harry and Ron while he was in rat form.
I think they can be seen in animal form; however, they were just never in the sections Harry was looking at at the time. He only had to look at the map when he was sneaking around and only in the areas he was at or was going. He octationally looked for teachers.. but Peter would have been in the boys dormitory at the time. Not in those places.
Well at least CERTAIN animals can be seen on the map because Harry could see Filch's cat Mrs. Norris.
Moony Wormtail Padfoot & Prongs the Authors for the map had their Marauder names when they made the dammed thing.
peter was already an animagus so his signature would have included his rat form.
as for confiscation the map insults if others try to force it to reveal its so security is as simple as
"Mischief Managed" c:
Oh! I forgot to add that they never saw his body in the books. Barty turned his body into a bone and buried it so no one could find it.
Where was Voldemort's wand hidden after he lost his coporeal form while trying to kill one year old Harry at Godric's Hollow? And how did he get it back some 12 to 13 years later on getting back a rudimentary body?
yeah, that's something that's not explained, that has bothered me...
Wow I never actually thought of that...... There would be no reason for pettigrew to grab it from the Potter’s house, because he thought Voldemort was dead.
Peter Pettigrew (his little pet rat) got it for him.
9:42 J: "I am taking this from u, which makes this mine too."
Why did I love this part so much
Also, 1) A deathly hallow that can show you dead people hiding inside of a Golden Snitch, which is pretty much used for quidditch all the time? Yep. 2) Ron loses the car in the Forbidden Forest, and it comes back at Harry and Ron's exact location just before they become an Acromantulas' appetizer? Sure, why not?
No, I don't think Snitchs are reused.
I found it convenient for the plot that even though Dumbledore begins to groom Harry for his quest for the Horcruxes, he never explains ANYTHING! Ah, they're teenagers, they'll figure it out. Can't explain too much or there will be no plot to the next 3 books...
I especially hate when Dumbledore takes Harry to retrieve the locket. Harry is just standing around while Dumbledore is puzzling out the test. For being a former teacher and head of a school, Dumbledore sure misses alot of opportunities to impart his years of experience and K-nowledge.
Yes, and when Dumbledore decides to not explain what to do when Harry and Hermione go back in time, ahhhh!
9:51 I love that the "k-nowledge" joke has continued.
Is that from a specific video?
It's from the video Ben did last week: ruclips.net/video/4EmCpE2xE04/видео.html
I see, thanks. I missed that one
No problem! :)
Also: why can't Harry see the thestrals in the first place? He technically has seen his mother die right? And isn't he taken back by the carriages to Hogsmeade station at the end of Goblet of Fire..?
Sebastiaan Bax My guess is he wasn't able to understand that she died.
+Lydia Virtue However, the books only states that "only those who have seen death can see the thestrals". It didn't say "Only those who have seen and understood death can see the thestrals". Two more words and it would've been explained. Meh. :/
They did use those carriages at the end of goblet of fire. That was something I noticed as well. Harry would have understood death just as well then as in the next book. Cedric’s death was a few weeks before that scene.
i think on pottermore its stated that you have to really understand death(harry didnt do that when he saw his mother die) and the reason why he could not see thestrals in the end of GOF is (i think) that cedrics death was not long enough ago and he needed all the summer to really cope and accept it
Abriss Apfel Yeah. I looked it up last night. JK said that she didn’t want to introduce a new creature at the end of a book so she decided that you have to understand death to see them. She said that even though a month had passed since Cedric’s death. He was still too grieved to understand he died.. which is rather confusing that it would take that long in my opinion... but it’s JK’s book. She decides the rules. 🤷🏻♀️
Umbridge: Hey, I'm going to use veritasirum (I think I spelt that wrong, sorry) to see if people are in clubs when they're not supposed to!
Literally everyone: Harry's lying! Voldemort is not back!
Harry: He is back!
Everyone: You have no proof!
Me: Yay! Let's see if people are lying about being in clubs but, nooooooooo, Harry must be lying about Voldemort being back! I mean, I guess there's no way to prove it, besides the thing that makes it to where you can't lie but seeing if there's about to be another war isn't important enough for that!
exactly. I would suggest using veritaserum in trials.
Maybe only on defendant's request. Like - Harry and Dumbledore could go just "you don't believe us? try asking Harry what happened, while he is on veritaserum"
the thing is... What if Harry's memory was tampered, and he believes that something is the truth, although actually it isn't? Would he tell his truth, or the real truth? I think he would tell the truth that he believes is truth. (otherwise it would be possible to solve the NP problem just by drinking this and asking the right questions). Therefore, if you allow veritaserum in trials, you may end up with too many memory-tampering charms.
@panda4247 The ministry probably does but they chuck that rule out the window whenever it's convenient for them. Sirius Black: HE MUST BE A DEATH EATER EVEN IF WE HAVE NOTHING BUT ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE!! Actual Death Eaters: NO WE WERE UNDER THE IMPERIOUS CURSE THE WHOLE TIME. WE DON'T NEED TO TAKE VERITASERUM! (Psst! whoever would become minister after the war is over, here's the deal. You take this bribe money and we will keep you in office. In return, you turn a blind eye to our more shady dealings and anything that has to do with the Dark Lord, you deny it!)
If I've learned one thing from the UK Government's behaviour over the last few months, it's that politicians only actually hear the things they want to and they don't want to actively seek out (or even consider) evidence that might contradict that viewpoint. They were in denial about Voldemort; proving that it was true was absolutely the last thing they would ever want to do.
I would have accepted it if instead of saying “Harry talks in his sleep” he said “Harry taught me” it would have given him more development and showed off how skilled Ron is for learning a secret language. Also how good of a teacher Harry is at many things. Also a scene of Harry teaching Ron parsaltoung or even Harry learning more about Parsaltounge would have been good.
yeah, if i could just magically speak a secret language I would at least try and look it up,
meanwhile Harry: "eh"
That was only in the movie. In the book, Ron learns that specific phrase because it's how Harry got the locket to open.
But harry isnt even completely sure how to do it. In Chamber of secrets he finds out he can do it but doesnt know why peoplecwere staring because he thought he was speaking english. He hears it as english but everyone else just hears hissing
The problem is parsaltongue is not learned language. It’s a genetic trait found in the descendants of Salazar Slytherin. Harry never learned how to speak it. He has to be triggered by either seeing an actual snake or an image of one and as we are told he can speak it only because of the horcrux in him. Once it’t gone he can no longer understand or speak to snakes. This is why I think Rowling just wanted to move the story along to get done with it and Bs’ed her way through something that made no sense. Really if it was something that could be studied and learned wouldn’t Snape have done so in the decade before Voldemort’s return. No one in any of the books thinks Snape is an idiot. They don’t like him but they never question his intelligence. Ron on the other hand barely scrapes by and really wouldn’t without Hermione. And we’re all expected to believe that he’s bright enough to master this? Yeah...No.
What about the illuminator situation with Ron?
What irritates me most of all in the Harry Potter books and movies, is the fact that in the 2nd book, "Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets" the entrance to the chamber is in the girl's bathroom. Girl's Bathroom. BATHROOM. With plumbing and flush toilets. Things that were only invented in the mid-19th century. This would mean that A. Wizards had invented plumbing, around the 9th to 10th century (A highly unlikely scenario given that wizards prefer to use magic, rather than technology.). Or that B. Then the about toilets got to the wizarding world, they had it installed in the school, but then they would also have found the chamber, making this scenario just as unlikely.
There is an article about this on Pottermore saying how a previous descendant of Slytherin before Voldemort dealt with this issue
Martin Mølgaard Originally the entrance for the chamber was just a trap door. However the plumbing in hogwarts was being elaborated in the eighteenth century. Corvinus Gaunt who was a descendant of slytherin redid the bathroom so that the entrance remains hidden yet accessible to the true heir.
... I like how the official explanation just screams "CONVENIENCE" even more XD
Wow. I didn't know that, thank you.
What always bothered me is how escaped prisoners from Azkaban seem to get their wands back. As if by...magic.
Hagrid gets his wand snapped for being expelled, but the murderers and torturing death eaters it's more of a "nah let's just store them next to their cells for easy access".
It's awfully convinient that a school full of qualified wizards has a deadly room that can be opened with ALOHOMORA by a first year
Do grown up wizards even have wands that belong to them? I mean being disarmed at school in dueling classes for example would leave a lot of people with resisting wands. When you start thinking about it, it kinda makes your brain hurt a little.
Ediranii I thought it was only the elder wand that did that
Ediranii i could imagine, that disarming somebody only wins you the wand if you use the disarming spell with the intention to weaken the other. in classes, you just disarm others because you want to learn a new spell, so i could imagine that there is a difference.
Since wands seem to have some kind of intelligence to them, I'm sure they can tell the difference between a real battle and a simple disarm training.
THANK YOU!!!!!
For sooooo long I've wondered why Hermione would be the only friend (other than Harry) who actually goes to the Weasley's. They have seven kids. SEVEN. It just doesn't make sense.
This could be an explanation:
-Ginny kinda sticks with Ron's friends
-Ron... well, Ron's friends don't count in
-Fred and George often worked on WWW together
-Percy was focused on his work/studying and needed privacy
-Bill and Charlie were abroad.
Also Harry and Hermione weren't at the Barrow all the time, someone could've been there when they weren't.
Questionnaire Yeah, it could be, but if their were other people there, why did they never stay? Mrs. Weasley would be happy with having more people in her house.
Cassie 5000 Well, fixing a plot hole is tough stuff
Questionnaire That it is
Questionnaire fred and georg did have friends also they often didnt work on there tricks and hung out with each otger or ron and harry.
“I’m taking this from you, which makes this mine too!”
Harry didn’t have any living relatives because:
1) James was an only child
2) Lily only had 1 sister Petunia
3) James’ parents died of Dragon Pox
4) We don’t know what happened to Lily’s parents.
Its still very convinient
I disagree with it being convenient but would agree that if James did have a sibling we could have seen how Voldimort's followers might have hunted them down in hopes of finding Harry, thus giving us another reason why he was given to Petunia.
HOW CONVENIENT! Lol no, I'm just kidding, lily's parents were probably killed the first time Voldemort rose to power, as he killed a lot of unmentioned people.
Thats the convenient part
the Potters are a wealthy wizard family living 120+ years should be easy for them so Harry's great grandparents could be alive and well
The Knight Bus didn't come because Harry fell over. An excerpt from Pottermore says that the Knight Bus is summoned "whenever a witch or wizard in urgent need of transportation sticks out their wand arm at the kerb." (like hailing a cab) Harry had just seen a giant, scary, black dog and needed to get away. He was standing on a curb and raised his wand.
scyythe yeah, thats not convenient at all.
I'm not saying it wasn't convenient. It still has a valid place on this list. I'm saying his reasoning contained errors and is misleading about how the Kight Bus operates.
scyythe yess thank you! exactly what i thought.
Well its not as cool as a story as
British _Well what you fell over for
7:56 YOU'RE HARRY FREAKING POTTER ♪
I thought the exact same thing! And then I wanted to watch the Very Potter Musicals again lol
Just Z's Stuff lol lol lol lol lol lol 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
i opened a new tab with AVPM to watch when the video ended 😂
Just Z's Stuff I WOULDN'T WINCE AT ALL YOU'RE INVINCIBLE FROM ALL HARM- .....no ok wrong vid bye...
same!!!!!!
7:56
Every AVPM Fan:
You're Harry Freakin' Potter!
We don't prefer Gandalf,
Merlin, or Oz.
You're a whole lot hotter!
With that lighting scar,
You're a superstar to us all!
If we're in trouble, we know who to call!
Something I always wondered: Hagrid shows Harry how to get to Daigonally, but how did all the other students that didn't have parents who knew that get to Diagonally?
Someone from Hogwarts goes to the muggle borns house like Hagrid goes to Harry to explain the Wizarding world and tell them how to get to Diagon Alley. They also get a small amount of money for their supplies ( Harry didn’t bc he had his paren ta money they left him)
What about Ron showing up just in time to save Harry when he jumps into the cold water to get the sword 🗡
Zoe z the Deluminator was a plot device that up until that point was nothing but a magical flashlight.
Thomas Raines that still doesn’t explain the fact that Ron shows up at the right time when harry is about to die
Zoe z it’s what referred to as a Deus Ex Machina.
I think Ron said that he was around them long time before the lake incident but he couldn't find Harry and Hermione because of her protective spells. And when Harry went for the sword, it was the first time that he was out of these spells. So ron first saw the patronus doe and after that he found Harry. Not so convenient...at least for Ron. ^_^
Person 12 both Harry and Ron were lead to the same place by the patrons
For example, in the dueling club, do you win over your opponent wand when disarm them
Lassi Havukainen yep you do...but I think when you hand it back you "relinquish" it back to its original owner and it acts as if it was never won. ...or maybe it can only be won in a REAL fight? Maybe wands know the difference between deuling club and a duel for dominancy?.
I think you win somebody's wand when you take it from them, it doesn't matter if it's magically taken or physically taken and handing it back to them relinquishes the ownership
But in the deathly hallows, when Harry just takes the wand from Draco, it changes it's ownership to Harry.
understandable
No no, most wands are loyal to their owners no matter what (though some, like Draco's will switch under certain circumstances). In general, the Elder Wand was the only one that changed ownership so easily. It always wanted to be near the strongest person.
The fact that Hogwarts only has one teacher for every subject and the Hogwarts express somehow fits hundreds of students into one train (and the class sizes- at least the ones we see are tiny ) It makes no sense!!!
That was bothering me as well, so I did some math. Going on Harry’s year as normal size, (Though there might be more or less students per year, depending on baby booms) there’s roughly 10 students per level per house, 70 per house, so 240 kids for the whole school. That isn’t really that many when you think about it, especially as it’s seven years worth of all UK wizards+witches (if that makes sense.)
If each house year has their class with another house (potions with first year Gryffindors and Slytherins for example) there should be 14 seperate classes for main subjects. Then again, some people drop the subject in N.E.W.T level, so if the two sixth and two seven year classes get small enough, they might get taught together. I can’t figure out how many classes one subject would have per week, but first years had one double potions and three herbology classes per week at least. (And I guessing herbology is one that is dropped as soon as people can. Sorry, Neville.)
Sorry to you too, I’m thinking way too much into this 😅
There aren't that many students in Hogwarts. When they're eating in the Hall, you have what... 400-500 students ? It's way fewer than most high schools. My high school for example has over 1.2k students.
Which is why I never understood why they have such a huge castle for only a few hundreds students... Even if they do sleep there, they share rooms and such. It's way too big.
And like you said, only one teacher for every subjects and for 7 grades makes no sense. When do they have time to correct the quizzes and homework ?! @_@
It bothered me since book 1. I don't think she ever thought it through.
For the train though, it works. Not all students use it, and trains usually have 300-500 seats.
I actually really like that harry physically took the wand out of malfoy's hands. Like the thing malfoy has been raised to despise is muggles and harry actually takes the wand in a way that uses no magic at all. Seams very poetic to me.