10 WORST Ways Harry Potter Canon was Broken 

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Let's be real here, the Cursed Child is just fan-fiction. There is no way to convince me of anything else.

We can and will never accept The Cursed Child as canon

So what I am hearing is that the majority of the canon breaks were caused by Fantastic Beasts and Cursed Child So with that being said we should just ignore these at all costs

"The Cursed Child" doesn't exist in my world. I read a summary on the internet, thought it was ridiculous and immediately erased it from my brain...

8. It's straight up in the book that Bill Weasley had a pen pal from the Brazilian school. The Brazilian student wanted Bill to go to Brazil in the exchange program but the Weasleys couldn't afford it. The Brazilian student was offended when he said he couldn't go and sent Bill a cursed hat.

It's amazing to think about the fact that Tolkien spent decades just a worldbuilding in an attempt to avoid this issue

There is not reason a mechanical camera couldn't work at Hogwarts. It's NOT electronic. However, the flash might throw a wrench into the fray, which is why Skeeter's photographer used a flash powder flash

For the secret keeping: Dumbeldore: 12 Grimmauld Place was not Dumbledore's, it belonged to the Black's. So it belonged to Sirius and later goes over to Harry. So he was not his own secret keeper. Bill: The Cottage was also not his but his Aunt's, so in a sence he kept her place a secret.

Oh the absolute worst for me is when Ron can open the chamber of secrets using Parseltongue because “Harry talks in his sleep”. Oh you mean that language that you have spent the whole series telling us is a very rare ability that Harry shares with Voldemort? Easy to pick up it seems. Why don’t they offer Parseltongue lessons then? Might be quite fun

Hermione is able to enlarge the inside of her bag in way that dozens of books, a sword, a big portrait, et cetera, fit in there. But sadly enough, a few cans of ravioli didn‘t fit in there and they were hungry for months… smart girl she is😂

The whole Voldemort being Bellatrix's baby daddy could've being solve by a simple change. You could have Voldemort go full God complex and actually try to create life, his personal way of symbolically put himself above the Big Guy Upstairs. Instead of Delphi being born a human witch "the traditional way" she could have being a type of magical homunculus made whith some f'ck up dark magic with Bellatrix "eggs" as the base for the experiment. Making Voldy a dark version of God, Bellatrix a dark version of the virgin and Delphi a dark version of Jesus, merry christmas Mr. Potter.

Everything about The Cursed Child was a canon breaker

Fantastic beasts movies - messy and meh Cursed child - what. How. No.

About Dumbledore being the Secret Keeper of Grimmauld Place, would that even count as being his own Secret Keeper? Sirius owned the house, so wouldn't Dumbledore technically be Sirius’ Secret Keeper? But for everything else you’re right, I have recently been rereading some of the books, and I noticed JK either wasn't very good with keeping up with small details or changed to fit the story for later books, it's nothing big, just a few things here and there. For example, Sirius gives Ron an owl at the end of POA, and by GOF everyone seems to forget it came from Sirius, and even Harry acts as if he saw it before, in COS Tom Riddle tells Harry Hagrid used to keep werewolf cubs under his bed, which makes no sense with the way werewolves work in Harry Potter.

I've no idea how wealthy Colin Creavey's family was, but even in the 1990s, newer, electronic cameras were quite expensive. It is not at all farfetched to believe he was using an all-mechanical device. As late as 2005, I worked in a store where we regularly developed film from such cameras.

The worst atrocity in the HP universe is cursed child! The #1 is also my worst but close second is the destruction of Harry's character, one of the biggest emphases in the whole series is that he's good and kind to make him such a horrible person on the cursed child is an insult to everyone

We can just choose to ignore cursed child, yeah?

It doesn’t exactly break canon but I think it‘s quite impressive how bad the inflation in the magical world was between HP2 and HP6. In 2 the weasleys owned a single galleon in their safe at Gringotts, in 6 a single school book (potions) costs multiple galleons 😂

The biggest blunder in the Fantastic Beast films has to be the bloodpact between Dumbledore and Grindlewald. The bloodpact was to prevent each other from fighting but the last time they saw each other was when they got into a fight in which they accidentally killed Ariana. If they were able to fight then, when exactly did they make this pact?

"once your work of fiction has amassed enough money for you, fans of said work become your worst nightmare (but will still give you money because they have no self control and lack the cerebral capacity to perform a boycott)" -Aristotle, probably

My favorite cannon Crack is in book 7. At the burrow, Hermione tells Harry that she's performed a memory charm on her parents good enough that they could live the rest of their natural lives without knowing that they have a daughter. But later Matthew diner on tutnam court road, she's hesitant to perform a memory charm on death eaters because she's never done it before

#11: Changing Ravenclaw from blue and bronze eagles to Blue and grey Ravens.

9. In HP early days, the American publisher Scholastic had a page on its website dedicated to HP pronunciations. The site pronounced it with a silent T. When the first film came out and everyone was using a hard T, I thought it was strange but shrugged it off. 😂

As far as secret keepers go. Dumbledore was Sirius' and Bill was his Aunts. Shell cottage belonged to their aunt and they were staying there in hiding.

I saw an unedited interview with Rowling here on RU-vid while she was still writing book 3, she actually pronounces Voldemort in the French way.

I lost it right there as soon as you started mentioning things like Voldemort and Bellatrix having "carnal relations" and whether he was "up for it". 🤣🤣🤣

I could have sworn I either read or saw an interview with JK saying the T in Voldemort was supposed to be silent in the mid-2000's. No one cared then, and she didn't sound particularly bothered by it either.

The trace. We learn in DH that it reveals magic performed AROUND under age wizards… Countless times someone performed magic around Harry when he wasn‘t 17 yet, iE… - The ministry should have known that Hagrid used his umbrella to give Dudley the pig tail in HP1 - Moody performing magic at the Dursley‘s house in HP5 and HP7 would have meant that the ministry knew that they were there - Dumbledore performing magic around him several times (apparating, Met-Glasses, moving sofa, in the horcrux cave…) - Mundungus apparating near harry in HP5 before the Dementor‘s attack …

Voldemort attacked the Potters on October 31st. The books open on Tuesday, and McGonagall states it happened, 'last night.' October 31st that year was a Saturday.

Oh, the cast was definitely cast more than ten years older. They easily look middle aged, and in the books James and Lily were 21 when they died. Practically kids.

A canon break for me was how Barty Crouch Jr got out of prison in Goblet of Fire. The film left out that entire plotline. Plus he’s revealed right at the beginning. As Dominic Noble said in his Lost in Adaptation episode on it, unless you’ve read the book, it makes no sense

Great list. The Cursed Child is just … cursed. (There must be a backstory as to why Rowling added her name to the authors list, when it’s clear she had little to do with the story).

Essentially just ignore everything written after Deathly Hallows and the changes made for casting decisions and it’s not so bad.

The clarification of Voldemort’s name pronunciation didn’t exactly come out of nowhere. The first four audiobooks of the series had Voldemort pronounced with a silent ‘T’ and it wasn’t until the fifth book, in which the first film came out at that point, for Scholastic to change how Jim Dale pronounced it because they saw the success of the movies. I’m sure that J.K. Rowling had a part in both the initial decision and the change. With the Snape and Bellatrix running in the same circles one, this can simply mean that they hung out with the same types of people, it doesn’t necessarily mean they hung out with those people at the same time. With the secret keeper one, you are unable to be your own secret keeper in the sense that you can’t hide yourself, so Lily and James could not be their own secret keepers. Dumbledore and Bill are able to be the secret keepers for their own residences, but not for themselves. This is shown in the books when, while explaining how the charm works, Flitwick says that Voldemort could have his nose against their sitting room window and still not see them, showing that the Potters themselves, and not the cottage they were in, were hidden.

It's quite simple how delphini was born. Voldemort was feeling "down bad" but didn't have anyone to do it with. He just began to unzip when he got the bright idea, to fetch bellatrix. 😂😂😂

the worst enemy of HP is its author. Sometime fanfics is better constructed than what JK does, this even including the sequels and pottermore content

My biggest cannon break is that in the HP its often mentioned wizards and witches dont get muggle clothing as they usually where robes. Yet in the time of fantastic beast they really where all up to date on muggle fashion and we see them in suits and dresses. We even see dumbledor teaching while wearing a suit.

9. The part about the pronunciation of "Voldemort" that always got me is, it wasn't some random, out of the blue thing that happened in 2015. I distinctly remember the original, Jim Dale audiobooks pronouncing the name with a silent T, which threw me off for a while, but I had come to accept it by the time the movie came out and threw me off yet again with the hard T. If memory serves, both of the first audiobooks, Philosopher's Stone and Chamber of Secrets, had the silent T pronunciation, and by the time audiobook 3 came out it felt like they'd "given in" to the movie pronunciation.

2:08 thinking about it, I would think that Aberforth absolutely could read, as he owns a business that would require him to differentiate items.

6:41 i don't know how cannon can be broken if nowhere in cannon it is mentioned that Nagini was just a plain snake ,just like it wasn't mentioned that she isn't a plain snake. Edit: to be fair only thing that's weird after Fantastic Beasts is how she ended up in Albania, to meet Voldemort, not even why she joined him. After that many years meeting someone who could speak to you probably made decision easy

‘ By the time Cursed Child was released, it should’ve been apparent that Rowling just wanted to milk the franchise for money. And yes, many Potterheads wanted to expand the wizarding world but not the expense of the world that’s already built.

The time turner was the thing that disturbs me most and how convenient they all got damaged beyong repair at the DoM.

I wonder if there were advancements in "Secret Keeper" spells since it failed so tragically for the Potters and then Dumbledore developed a better one between the two wars and would have shared it with his allies.

I heard an answer to the James being his own secret keeper one- they needed somebody outside of the pair of them to keep in contact with the outside world. Yes, it would have been most safe to completely cut contact, but that would be incredibly tough for a person.

10. Most of what we know about Aberforth came from Dumbledore/his friends, it's possible they were being petty. When we actually talk to him in "Deathly Hollows" he doesn't act dumb. 6. I have no problem with no knowing Nagini was a human, mostly because it's been so long that no one remembers her, and if her human mind is still in there so few people would be able to understand her. 5. On the surface seems dumb but if you wanted to stay in hiding but still wanted someone to be able to send people to you it may seem better for someone else to be the secret keeper. 2. That camera should work just fine. Due to it's age it's mechanical, not electrical, and plenty of cameras even into the 90s didn't use batteries. 1. I know the thought is right up there with thinking about your parents doing it but the thing is even evil people like to get their rocks off. In plenty of places women go right back to work plowing fields after giving birth and I can see Bellatrix very motivated to get right back to the fight. As to where Delphi is during Deathly Hollows, I don't think Bellatrix seems like the maternal type. She'd be likely to just pass it on to someone eles to take care of. Also, Voldemort did seem to have some attachment to Bellatrix at least on some level, because he did rescue her in the ministry and he yelled in rage when he saw her killed by Molly and tried to go after Molly. It's a strange reaction from him, it's not like he had any real reaction about the deaths of any of his other people.

Even if you couldn't perform the Fidelius charm on yourself they still could have done it on each other. James could have made Lily the secret keeper or vice versa.

Three words: The Cursed Child

Maybe Delphini WASN'T Bellatrix and Voldemort's kid, but a follower succumbing to her own fantastical delusions of grandeur? I mean, do we have ANY way of confirming her parentage, other than people's word? Not just her own word, but whoever else told her she was Crazy B and Voldy's kid? Isn't there some kind of spell that can determine parentage? Fetus Confirmus, maybe? This is the same problem they have in Star Wars - everybody is trusting their "feelings" to tell them Vader, Luke and Leia are related. They have spaceships in that universe, but they don't have DNA tests? WTH, man?

I just thought Colin creevy's camera was modified to be a wizarding camera, or that's what wizarding cameras looked like. And they still make magical photos that move, don't they?

Regarding Colin’s camera I’m pretty sure you just answered your own question. A more fun head canon is Dumbledore allowed it to work because he like Colin and low key enjoyed him annoying people

In Universe, i can see the Fidelius Charm having been experimented with between the Potters' deaths and the time of the books; that no one at the time had considered that they could be their own secret keeper.

The Delphini thing is so stupid. Voldemort is so far removed from what a human being is he shouldn't even have a sex drive.

Was nagini's "canon" broken? I didn't know there was any origin story on her until fantastic beasts movies

I agree. I’ve never even considered the cursed child! It’s ridiculous! And another one I find silly is in the Deathly Hallows when Harry keeps wondering why Dumbledore never told him about his family living in Godric’s Hollow (and other family information) when he and Dumbledore barely even ever had tea together! When did he have a chance? They really weren’t together that often! I’ve actually found a couple of mistakes JK made while writing the books. She forgets what her characters are doing or wearing.

Cursed Child showed me that JK had lost the plot. She should read Roland Barthes, The Death of the Author. Once you put something out, you lose control.

My question involves Snape showing up at Godric's Hollow. How did he know where the Potter's were? Voldemort would not have said anything to his Death Eaters and Pettigrew would not face angering his boss. Maybe a dramatic scene for the movie, but lacking logic.

Now on the pregnancy you can be 9 months pregnant and still have no belly. There was a whole show series about this.

To me Voldemort wanting to have a child makes total sense: A: Voldemort had seen downsides of old age in Dumbledore and perhaps in Nicolas Flamel B: Voldemort know that if his body would die his soul would persist and he could take over other wizards body sharing it with their soul C: Dementors can suck out a soul leaving a living empty body shell behind So the child would not have been destined to anything but a vessel to host Voldemort's soul once the body he had would have starting to get frail. Bellatrix makes sense as Voldemort would consider nothing less than a pure-blood heir (no romance needed). Perhaps at the point when the child would had got it's Hogwards letter Voldemort would had arrived accompanied by a Dementor ready to transfer his soul to "his" new body.

I liked Nagini being a past witch with a horrible curse, I felt that it made sense!!!

I think about mid way through she got that movie deal and had to hurry to get the books done thats when you start getting the plot holes and continuity issues.

A lot of people like to complain about the ages of Harry’s parents, the Marauders etc in the films but what people seem to forget is their ages weren’t revealed until Deathly Hallows when Harry and Hermione visited Godrics Hollow. The book was released in 2007 and by that time the film franchise had released 4 films with the 5th film being released the same year. I read the books before seeing the films and I never imagined Snape in his early thirties, I always pictured him in his late thirties to mid forties. But yes I agree with the rest of the things you’ve talked about, the Fantastic Beasts films are completely contradictory and Cursed Child; don’t get me started on that crap!

The guy that did the audiobooks was instructed on how to pronounce every name correctly by JK. He says it without the T sound from the beginning.

Jim Dale pronounced 3:45 it properly in the audiobook

You're too nice for just mentioning "headache" comments to cursed child. Many potterheads just simply throw it in a bin 😂

In my opinion, the worst examples of lore breaking are when the Author JK Rowling makes statements after the fact, that directly contradict what she wrote in her book. That's even worse than changes made in the film, since you'd think she would respect her own lore more.

The concept of the time turner was quite an upset in Rowling's world. That's why she had them all destroyed at the ministry. Easy way out.

the Voldemort part i'll choose to explain away like this. Voldemort not being his real name, his pronunciation was French, but being in the UK Brits pronounced the T not knowing it had French pronunciation... Now I have images of Volde being a Karen screaming at the students for mispronouncing his name xD "IT'S VOLDEMOR HARRY!!!"

Regarding the secret keeper thing, there is a potentially good reason that Lily and James used someone else as the secret keeper. That reason being that they were meant to never leave the house while Voldemort was after Harry. But they needed a secret keeper that they trusted who could exist outside in order to share the secret as needed, with the likes of Dumbledore and their immediate peers. They obviously could have just told those people the secret first and just went into hiding after, but remember that this was also wartime and they couldn't trust that all their companions and those in on the secret would survive indefinitely while they were stuck inside. But by having the secret keeper outside, able to keep apprised of the situation and move about and give the secret to others, they would be able to ensure that they wouldn't ever need to be forced to leave the house to get information or seek help. Dumbledore didn't need to hide in 12 Grimauld Place, and while Bill and Fleur were hiding in Shell cottage, they were not being actively hunted by Voldemort like the Potters had been, so they have more flexibility and could afford to leave on occasion and serve as their own secret keeper.

I would say that Colin creevy's camera isn't that bad, and he could've bought an enchanted one that prints moving pictures like we see on the daily prophet. Arthur Weasley did have a flying car after all, it's not all ran on gasoline, it converts motion into electric energy to power lights and steering.

11:30 I remember seeing that and wonder why didn't they bring Maxim gun to fight death-eaters, you know, turn them into lead-eaters.

I don't think there is a statement that claims time turners can't change the past. Hermione even talks about wizards who time travel kill themselves in confusion and if the future one kills the past, it creates a alternative timeline just as the cursed child. And while 5hour is the safe line for time traveling without danger, it certainly is possible to travel way further without the side effects(aging etc) if the artifact is improved or enhenced like in the cursed child where Nott creates the so called true time turners.

I remember when the books were being released, how excited I was to read Deathly Hallows, and then being so bothered by Ron opening the Chamber of Secrets that I thought “nothing in the series will ever bother me as much as this”. And then, almost a decade later, we got the Cursed Child.

Sounds like one of the best solutions is to disregard everything after deathly hallows as non canan including some of the silly things that the author JK said herself after the conclusion of the series. Maybe the Harry Potter TV series will cast everyone at the right ages. It just sounds like they're just needing some kind of exposition as to why the Potters didn't want to be their own secret keeper. Makes me wonder why Voldemort didn't make people secret keepers for his horcruxes and then just kill them. Shouldn't that have kept them safer?

The camera shown is an Argus C3. A popular camera in it's day and made from the 30's into the 60's. And, as most cameras were in those decades, completely mechanical. If the flash attachment was fitted it would of course have used a battery to set off the flash.

I always thought Colin's camera was enchanted, much like those used by the Daily Prophet.

I always thought the cursed child was a torture attempt. A fan wanted to know what crusio felt like, so rowle made a book that would make the fans deal that amount of pain.

I think dumbledore saying that aberforth couldn't read is just classic British sarcasm and the chances of that being true are very low.

Dumbledore didn’t own Grimould place nor did Bill own shell cottage. Also, the secrets being kept were the headquarters and a safe house locations of the order. The secrets were to protect the order not specifically Bill and Dumbledore.

Great vid! Love your takes and agree with them.

The secret keeper thing is frustrating. Bill being his own secret keeper serves no purpose to the story. It was literally a pointless addition that only creates problems for the previous canon. I hope the HBO series excludes it

Cursed Child is the easiest of all, it's not just the obvious, but when you look at Harry's kids, it only focuses on Albus Severus Potter, where's the other 2? Especially James Sirius Potter is omitted.

Secret keeper you're assuming Bill cast the charm and Dumbledore cast the charm for The Potter's. Remember bill was married to Fleur and she was a well practiced which you could do very very difficult charms. Also we don't know who cast the fidelius charm for The Potter's.

I suppose this isn't a major canon break, but I found it hilarious that the trolley witch suddenly had claws in The Cursed Child - yet another reason that I absolutely hated that book.

Awesome as always thanks

I’d like to think that Nagini met Merope (at some point at the orphanage someone says that she looked right out from a circus) and promised her that she will look after the kid even as a snake, that she will protect him….

Okay, look, I really love your videos, but this one irritates me on several accounts, because telling you something that never came up before is not "breaking cannon," not by a long-shot. I've learned surprising things about people I've known my whole life that didn't seem to fit with the version of them I knew. I learn surprising facts about _history_ all the time, _ones that don't fit with the version of things I previously knew._ Just because it doesn't fit with how _you_ saw a character, like Aberforth or Nagini, doesn't make it "breaking cannon." Not one bit. It's just "surprising."

I LOVE the Harry Potter series- books and films, but I won’t watch any of the continuations: Fantastic Beasts, Cursed Child etc. because they don’t make sense to me (respectfully).

You could have made the whole video the Cursed Child.

How about the fact that in deathly hallows Hermione both alters her parents memory and then later IN THE SAME BOOK (chapter 9) says "Nor have I, but I know the theory"? After Ron says " I've never done a memory charm"

Why didn't James ask someone from Hufflepuff to be secret keeper. They're known for loyalty. Or why did he only cast one spell. Yes it was a powerful one but did he actually think one spell would defeat Voldemort?

I would like to add that Iam a german reader of Harry Potter. And our books and audio books asked Rowling of the pronounciation of Voldermort. And she revealed its french origin and the „t“ was silent in every audio book read since Philosophers stone here in germany. So its not entirely true.

Colin's camera was film, not digital. The only electronics involved with that kind of camera would be for the flash. A simple battery would most likely not be affected by all the magic. However, try using video tape (magnetic) or digital then everything is overwhelmed. As for other problems related to Fantastic Beasts, that series of films was pretty much a pile of flobber worms and really contributed nothing useful to the series. I regret very much watching them.

I believe in the cursed Child it is explained how they got the time Turner. It had something to do with Scorpius's family friend or something?

You don't need to love someone to have sex with them

Most of these inconsistency is due to the fantastic beasts movies or the cursed child books, both media that were not directly written by J.K Rowling, you can really tell at that point it was no longer about maintain the canon it was to milk the franchise with all these references and cameo canon to the main story, the first fantastic beasts movie worked cause it was mostly on its own as we got a spin off that focused on a new area and lore of the wizarding world without referencing harry potter much at all and than they just had to connect it to dumbledore and Grindelwald and you know what happened after.

When I reread the books over the summer I came across another "the characters are all being really dumb" type of plot hole that's as mind boggling as the secret keeper one. The Goblet of Fire introduces the pensieve. The pensieve was in Dumbledore's office the whole time, the entire series. There's no reason to believe it wasn't there since before the series even started. Yet in The Prisoner of Azkaban, Dumbles never once suggests to Fudge to pull Sirius's memories and see the truth of what happened on the day of Wormtail's alleged death. We can also assume that the Ministry of Magic would have their own pensieve, so why would they not use this clearly well-established lie detector in all criminal cases? Seems like a pretty cut and dry way to rule out which Death Eaters were lying about the Imperious Curse. Even if the Ministry didn't have their own pensieve, Dumbledore's still would've the clearest course of action to prove that Harry wasn't lying in Order of the Phoenix about Voldy's return. TLDR: Book 4 introduces the pensieve, yet none of characters ever once think to use it as a lie detector at any point throughout the series, resulting in several plot holes that range from mildly annoying to downright infuriating.

Surprisingly enough, I don't think the idea of Delphini all that impossible. And I don't think that intercorse between Bella and Uncle Vova is that unimaginary although definitely horrible. But why oh why did that put her in 1998? Why not 1979? That would make so much more sense! Bella was much younger and Vova wasn't... well, THAT thing, but still pretty human.

I see the Nagini-as-a-maledictus issue as a new discovery, not a breach of canon. So we learn something new about the wizarding world. That's what Harry Potterverse is all about, right? And frankly, it very well could explain Filch's obsession with Mrs. Norris. And...well....Nagini was smoking' hot.

Everything about the abomination known as Cursed Child should be moved to the category of Fan Fiction. From the story to the casting, remove all of it.