15 Major Harry Potter PLOT HOLES 

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For Sirius not escaping Azkaban sooner, if I recall correctly, Sirius never even thought of escaping until he saw Peter in the Weaselys' picture; he used his dog form to stay sane and not lose his mind to the dementors, but didn't even think of the possibility of escaping until he saw the picture and realized he had failed to kill Peter, so the desire to escape kind of came as a realization that he hadn't yet finished what he originally set out to do (which was to kill Peter in revenge for betraying the Potters)

Here's a question, if Hermione's parents were able to exchange muggle money for wizarding money to buy her school supplies why doesn't Harry ever exchange some of his wizarding money for muggle money when he went home for summer vacation so he'd have money to buy clothes instead of wearing Dudley's old clothes?

My theory regarding Harry and the Dementors, is that he is a horcrux. He's not just getting his own worst memory, but Voldemort's, as they would likely be the exact same moments. The death of Lily, followed in seconds by the destruction of Voldemort's body. So he has two souls being affected by the Dementors, and gets a sort of feedback from it, like holding a microphone in front of the speaker its connected to.

In the book Harry tried to contact Sirius first but kreacher told him he wasn’t there

The camera one is fairly easy to explain, it isn't that any muggle technology doesn't work but only electronic devices that don't work at Hogwards (like electronic bugs or walkie-talkies as examples from the series). Harry Potter was based in the 90s, back then cameras were mechanical and chemical which means that they would mostly be unaffected, the flash is the part that may not work as they have been electric for some time. It wasn't until the mid 2000s that digital cameras became the norm and those would not work at around Hogwarts.

I doubt the map had a true password. Rather F&G struck up a conversation with the map until eventually pledging their mischievousness to it, which was good enough for its Marauder authors. If Harry had just told the map that he wanted to prank Snape, it would have revealed itself to him. If a password was truly required, it wouldn't surprise me if the map just offered it up to F&G once it understood their nature.

I think Sirius stayed in Azkaban because despite being innocent, he still blamed himself to some degree. Remember, he was originally going to be the Potter's secret keeper but convinced them to change the plan and make Peter Pettigrew the secret keeper, instead. It's possible that he felt some responsibility for what happened and so stayed in Azkaban as a way of punishing himself for that mistake.

Here’s one massive plot hole: Wormtail is an animagus who transforms into a small rodent. We need to transport him back to the castle without allowing him to transform into said small rodent. What would the best way to accomplish this be? Could we maybe petrify him? Stun him? Heck, conjure a magical case to confine him, a bit like Voldemort did for Nagini? Naaah, we’ll just use handcuffs, the kind he can easily escape from if he transforms.

Harry couldn’t have used the mirror to talk to Sirius because he didn’t know about it. He never opened the package and didn’t know what it was until after Sirius had died. That’s not a plot hole, it’s a plot device. It’s supposed to make Harry feel even more guilty for Sirius’ death considering how easily it could have been avoided.

i always rationalised Voldemort not using the vow as if someone betrayed him he didn't want then to just die he wanted to torture them. that and him being to full of himself

Seamus Gorman came up with a great idea on Peter Pettigrew not having been spotted by the twins on the map: perhaps only Marauders can see other Marauders on the map. In the book, Harry has never noticed Pettigrew on the map, it was Lupin who did. Knowing the Marauders were up for mischief, making themselves invisible to anyone else would make sense

In my view, the most glaring plothole of the series is the Seven Potters ploy to remove Harry from Privet Drive. There is a loosely related plothole about Hermione, but they corrected hers in the movie. Harry could simply have walked away under the Invisibility Cloak, which was still in his possession and would have hidden him from death itself. Upon reaching a reasonable distance, he could have used any transportation he wanted.

7:59 you also have to remember that Harry already had a vision of Mr. Weasley being in trouble and that turned out to be true. If Harry hadn't taken action like he did Arthur probably would have died and he himself admits that. So now the same thing is happening with Sirius, Harry has no reason to think this is any different. It makes perfect sense for him to act in haste as he did and for him to not even consider using the mirror.

Think about all the locks in your house. Most all of them you can unlock from either side, one just takes slightly more effort. I think the locks are there for privacy that should just be respected. Yes technically people could just open your door but it’s still breaking and entering.

Yes, Harry forgot about the mirror but he did try to contact Sirius before he went to the Ministry. He broke into Umbridge’s office so he could use her fire to contact Sirius at Grimmauld Place. Kreacher “answered the fire” (I’m not sure how else to describe it…) and lied to Harry and said Sirius wasn’t there. It was only after Kreacher lied that Harry (plus Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Neville and Luna) went to the Ministry.

There’s another explanation for Voldemort not using unbreakable vows: he can’t make an example out of somebody who drops dead. When people turned on him he made a point of torturing them and everyone around them, either directly or though his followers. His horrific acts are why people became afraid of him to the point of not even saying his name, and he used that fear to control people whether they followed him or not.

Wizards used cameras. In the goblet of fire, Rita had a photographer with her when she was interviewing the champions.

The map's password is simple: Lupin states that the makers of the map would want to lure Harry out, it contains some essence / personality of the makers at the time they cast their spells. Obviously it recognised Fred and George as like minded trouble makers and revealed itself to them.

Neville and Dementors. Neville didn't have nearly the same horrible life Harry did. His parents were still alive, he got to see them. Even if they weren't able to know who he was and obviously its still horribly sad. But he was raised by family that loved him. He had lots of Uncles and Aunts. He received Trevor from his uncle for instance. Harry on the other hand was raised by people who despised him. He was bullied constantly by his cousin. He had no friends in school. Had Harry grown up in a loving home even though his parents were murdered the dementors likely wouldn't have the same effect as the do. Harry knew almost no joy before joining the wizarding world.

I have always thought that the dementors wanted to snack on Harry because he had 'more soul' than others being a horcrux and all

It's assumed that Peter's name just didn't appear on the map to anyone outside of the Mauraders themselves while he was a rat at this point. Harry only saw it in the movies - that never happened in the book.

i love how the explanation of Harry not witnessing his parents dying as a baby so therefore can not understand death and then in the very next element talks about the trauma of harry witnessing his parents death and why the Dementors effect him. lol

🔔 8:01 Theory: McGonagall's age was utterly disregarded and the character was inserted into that movie simply as a crass device to try to get more viewers from amongst those who were not overly keen on the prequels: "McGonagall's in it! You've GOT to see it!"

Have you read Order of the Phoenix? In the Summer before Harry’s fifth year, Sirius gave Harry a gift. Sirius told Harry to use this when he needs him. So Harry put the gift with the rest of his stuff and forgot about it. Over the course of the school year when Harry needed to contact Sirius, he wrote him letters or used a fireplace to speak to him through the flu network. When Harry has the vision, he snuck into Umbridge’s office to use her unmonitored fireplace to check if Sirius was at home. Kreature answered and lied to Harry and said Sirius was not there. Then all of the stuff at the ministry happened and Sirius died. When Harry was putting his stuff back together at the end of the school year, he found the gift. He opened it and it was the two way mirror. The communication method was not “established earlier in the series”. Harry didn’t even know it existed. Yes he had the method but he didn’t know because he never opened the gift. But during all the times Harry and Sirius communicated in other methods during Harry’s fifth year, Sirius should have told Harry to open the gift and use the mirror.

Neville had no direct memory of his parents torture, so that would not be a factor. His visits to his parents were not completely negative, he still took comfort from his mother giving him sweet wrappers.

I thought the polyjuice potion was supposed to be a relatively unknown potion since they only got the recipe from a book in the restricted section. It's also stated that is a "complex concoction" and the potion is successfully brewed by Hermione who, though inexperienced, also happens to be a brilliant student. Also, the ingredients are not easy to come by and how long it covers your appearance depends on how well done it was.

I think for the unbreakable vow it mostly comes down to specifics. Voldemort has a pretty huge following, so he would have to make allot of vows for each individual mission and make them specific. He could have maybe have the vow simply be “don’t betray me” or “always follow my orders” but both of those could be broken pretty easily without actually dropping loyalty. We don’t know the limits of this spell and it seems very time consuming

The one about the Marauders Map always bugged me too. While more of a post hoc rationalization, I think the answer lies with Snape. We can see that that map has the ability to detect things about the one attempting to use it. When Snape tried, it referred to him as "Professor Snape", which he wasn't when the map was created. It also seemed to know enough to insult him accurately. Perhaps the map could discern that Fred and George were mischief makers and revealed it's own password to them.

1 - Voldemort's ego seems to be the de facto reason for why he keeps screwing up, so it's a perfectly reasonable explanation 2 - A good theory is that the Marauders are visible only to themselves on the map, which tracks with their behavior. And while Harry does see Peter this is only a thing in the movie, so not really a plot hole in the book and, in any case, him being the son of one of the Marauders might let him see them too. 3 - Are we sure Alohomora is taught to first year students? Hermione knows the spell, but she's known precisely for being able to master advanced magic. 4 - Cameras are a thing in the wizarding world. Wizards take pictures all the time. How is this a plot hole? Muggle technology isn't useless in Hogwarts, _electronics_ are, and Colin is using and old film camera, not a digital one. While a camera's flashbulb requires an electrical contact to work it doesn't use any complicated circuitry. 5 - A popular theory for this is that the Marauders specifically planted the map in Filch's office as a way to let a new generation of troublemakers make good use of it. The map was likely enchanted to hint about its use to those who were willing to use it for mischief, kinda like how Dumbledore enchanted the mirror of Erised to read into the looker's intentions. 6 - The trace isn't really inconsistent, it's just extraordinarily ineffective for its main purpose, but otherwise it works as intended. Sure, we're not told about any effects when members of the Order use it, but it's very likely they could just have alerted the Ministry that they were going to move Harry out of the premises. While they weren't getting along at the time, it would have made sense to do so precisely to avoid more trouble for Harry, since he was already put in trial. Same when Arthur visited the Dursleys in the previous year. Since he had already connected their fireplace to the Floo network it's clear they knew he'd be the one doing magic there. 7 - Absolutely not a plot hole. The book makes it very clear that Harry simply forgot the mirror existed and he was the only one besides Sirius to know it existed. Hell, Harry had never even used the mirror before, so he had no reason to think of it. 8 - Only really a plot hole in the movie, and the entire Fantastic Beasts trilogy is full of them, so I don't know if we should really take them into account. 9 - OK, again with the "students with minimal training" thing. It's Hermione. It's always Hermione who does these things. Her entire shtick is that she's exceptionally adept to magic, able to master spells that much more advanced students or even adults cannot manage. You gotta stop pretending that just because she does something it means it's easy. But even then, how is Sirius gonna be making the potion? It needs hard to find ingredients (and being a dog isn't gonna be much help finding them) and has to be cooked for like a month. Considering that no one else wants him to leave the place and he has a domestic elf trashing the place all the time I don't see this as a viable option. 10 - But... w-why? You have literally the explanation for why this is not a plot hole right there, why even include this on the list? 11 - It's never established that Neville was present when his parents were tortured. Harry was there when his parents were killed. While he didn't _see_ them die he did hear their voices (and Voldemort's) which generated repressed memories his younger self couldn't understand but were still on the back of his mind once he was grown enough to understand the events. 12 - Is it really so hard to understand that portkeys can be created to work at a specific time for convenience reasons but that doesn't mean it's the only way they can work? It's obvious the Triwizard cup was set to be used when touched and not at a particular time frame. You can claim this is a mystery (even though no, it isn't), but calling it a plot hole is pushing it. 13 - This is probably the only actual plot hole in the whole list. While I could come up with a reasonable explanation there's nothing in the story to back it up. Snape's only words about it is that its use is watched by the Ministry, but doesn't say anything about it being hard to make or possible to resist. Like, you could make the case that powerful wizards can resist it (sort of like with the Imperius curse) and it only worked on Crouch because he was completely unprepared for it (he wasn't even conscious when forced to drink it in the book) but, again, nothing in the books even hints to it. 14 - Again, literally explained in the book. Not a plot hole. 15 - Jesus. OK, first, we're introduced to Cho in Prisoner of Azkaban, not Goblet of Fire. She only becomes more prominent in the latter. Second, you literally make the point that there's a different explanation for this in the book and the movie. You have _two_ explanations for it, why would you even call this a plot hole? This is killing me. As much as I like the Harry Potter series, I know these books are full to the brim of plot holes, yet you make a list comprised nearly entirely of nitpicks or perfectly explained story bits.

I like the theory from Super Carlin Brothers that the marauders were only visible on the map to other marauders, which is why Lupin was able to see Peter on there.

And for me the worst aspect of the movies is the failure at the end of the 3rd to reveal the authors of the Marauders’ Map

Wands : Which wand did Sirius use? (His one was destroyed by the ministry) Bellatrix: how did she got her old wand (it was supposed to be destroyed by the ministry) Voldy: how did he get his old wand? was it lying in the rubble all this time?

The situation with the mirror was Serious told Harry that the package was a way to contact him and Harry told himself that he would not use it. He then forgot about it until he was putting his school things in his trunk he hoped that when he said Serious and he didn’t see him he then threw the mirror in his trunk and it broke. While he was clearing out his trunk he found a large piece of mirror that he used later.

Marauders map password seems like a guessable pass for that duo

My thoughts on the unforgivable vow, is it requires a third party member to administer the spell… depending on someone else is something Voldemort would never be willing to do

I think Neville's lack of reaction to the dementors makes sense to me as he knew the truth of his parents from the moment he could understand. His grandmother never hid anything from him. Harry, at 11, was surprised with a whole host of changes to what he thought was the truth of his life. I have to imagine he was still coming to terms with things in a lot of ways, and hadn't had as much time to process all of it.

The Trace was only on people under the age of 17. Adults could use magic in the presence of Muggles, only children could not. That was made perfectly clear in the books and when Harry turned 17 there was discussion that the trace on him would be lifted.

I have a good theory on how Fred and George learned how to open the Marauders map. Most likely the Marauders told them themselfs. Remember how Snape tried to forcefully reveal what's written inside? The pargement started insulting Snape on its own. So my theory is that, while planning their next pranks, one of the twins had his wand on the map. While talking about their misdeeds, the Map decided to teach the young troublemakers the chant. As if it acknowledged the twins as sort of new generation of marauders. "don't trust anything that can think on its own if you can't see where it's brain is" ~Arthur Weasley. Even though I have to say, a lot of Weasleys tend to forget that particular rule.

I feel like portkeys can be put on a timer or set to go as soon as someone touches them. Touch ones last until the spell wears off (like hats fred and george make) or until the wizard who cast the spell is dead, or someone touches it of course. The most confusing thing about them to me is why the one Harry and Cedric take to the graveyard takes them back to the clearing. As far as I know, it's the only portkey we see travel more than once. It doesn't go back to the original place either. Pretty sure SuperCarlinBrothers think Barty Crouch Jr. must've set it up to go to the graveyard, where Voldemort would kill Harry and send a death eater back in his place as Triwizard winner so Dumbledore wouldn't be suspicious. Maybe the portkey had already been set to go to the clearing when Crouch Jr. got a hold of it. Then, he enchanted it again, leaving the first one in a queue of sorts and it wasn't going to be used. Voldemort would've felt invincible if he killed Harry and stopped the prophecy, idk if he would've cared about convincing Dumbledore he's not back.

"Why didn't Harry become an obscurial?" "Why is teleporting so underused?" "How old do wizards and witches live to be?" "How do two muggles give birth to a wizard/witch?" These are the questions that leap out to me.

I have an answer to the Marauders' Map one! The twins kept trying to get in, and the map, knowing they really were up to no good, kept giving them hints until they eventually got in.

the fact he could've talked to Sirius as much as he wanted but just never looked at the gift

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For the mirror, Harry wasn’t aware of the mirror until Sirius had already passed. It’s mentioned in one of the last chapters of order of the phoenix.

The four Marauders only show up on the map if one of them opens it. That's why Lupin saw Sirius on the map, but when Harry opened it he couldn't see Lupin, Sirius, or Pettigrew on it.

In the case of Peter Pettigrew, there are three possibilities. Fred and George would most likely have investigated, but because they were unaware of the fact that Scabbers and Peter were one in the same, they probably would think that; 1) the map was pranking them. It is a map all about being a troublemaker, so giving false alarms isnt outside the realm of possibility 2)a more logical conclusion thst the map isnt perfect and has limitations; take the fact that anyone using the Room of Requirement falls off the radar, such as Draco Malfoy. 3) Occam's Razor; Scabbers could have had a name recognized by the map. "Oi, Ron. Percy must have gotten Scabbers from some other bloke and renamed him."

Many plot holes....One I always wondered about was why create seven Potters for the escape from Privet Drive when only the real Harry needed to drink the brew and change into someone else who was not there? Any muggle would do. Or change all seven into someone else - Say, Tonks. IMO the worst gambit was creating all those Harrys.

Its mentioned many times how nobody could apparate or fly into Hogwarts due to the enchantments on the walls. In the half blood prince, dumbledore had to remove the spells as they flew to the astronomy tower after getting the locket. However, in the first book, Charlie 's friends fly in secretly to the same tower to get hagrids dragon out of hogwarts.

The two way mirror isn’t a plot hole. Sirius did not show Harry what it was, just vaguely described it as a way to let him know if Snape is giving him a hard time, in which case Harry said he wouldn’t use it because he didn’t want Sirius risking his life to fight with Snape. He ultimately forgets about it as a lot of teenagers would forget about gifts they didn’t intend on using. This makes the whole end of the book that more tragic that Harry had such a simple and effective way of checking to make sure Sirius was ok. I’m not sure about anyone else but the first time I read the book I also forgot Sirius gave Harry a method of communication so I felt the moment of tragic irony with Harry

Remember that Tom Riddle was an orphan. Even though a spell could be familiar, the Unbreakable Vow also involves a unique incentive, which is the genuine loyalty involved in even considering the spell to begin with. Tom never understood or experienced any form of loyalty in his entire life. It does otherwise still make sense that he would know better than to make the Unbreakable Vow because it works both ways and Voldemort is only ever duplicitous and could never keep a vow, therefore it would be too dangerous for himself. For the same motivation of killing to make multiple Horcruxes, those were insurance. The Unbreakable Vow would take away the insurance and create an even greater risk.

The Trace's inconsistency plot hole is actually quite easily explained. The trace really only applied to underage wizards as far as I'm aware (therefore meaning members of the order were able to use magic), and was only triggered when it was known that a muggle was aware of the magic - hence Harry was able to use 'lumos' in the 3rd book/movie, and Dobby was able to drop the cake because only Vernon and Petunia were aware of the magic, but they already knew of the magical world - but when Dudley saw harry use the patronus charm that was a different matter as he wasn't aware of Harry being a wizard. We have to remember that the entire muggle world is constantly entangled with the wizarding world so there aren't clear cut muggle or Wizarding locations, the trace charm presumably functioned off of whether or not a Muggle had genuine suspicions of witch-craft.

Why is Harry considered a Half-Blood when both of his parents were magically inclined?

I think an answer for Colin is that he’s using an analogue camera not an electric one. Hermionie says that electrical devices don’t work around magic but Colin’s camera doesn’t utilise a battery or electrical components.

One of the biggest plot holes is how do teachers like McGonagall, Flitwick and Snape have time to teach their subject and be head of house? If they have 7 years with 4 houses(who often pair up for classes) they would teach 14 separate classes multiple times a week. Some classes are extra long, like double potions. All I know is that the time tables don't add up in my head, unless some teachers have time turners or they never have any down time.

Good job breaking some of these down for us! Thanks! *** SPOILERS BELOW *** My thoughts below : The Unbreakable Vow - Voldemort believed himself superior to all others. He was also a Legilimens & believed that no one could deceive him. That makes it plausible to me that he would not have considered having his Death Eaters swear unbreakable vows to him. The muggle camera - Their have been moving wizard photos in the Daily Prophet, Harry's family photo album, etc. The flying car was enchanted & still worked in Hogwarts boundaries as well. I believe that Colin mentioned that the photos were developed in a certain potion to make the image a moving wizard photo. The Marauders Map - I think the bigger plot hole with the map is that Hogwarts is Unplottable so how were the 4 school boys about to create a map of it at all. Why did it's magic never seem to fade over time? There are other magical objects that loose their functionality over time or supposedly when the magic caster passes away. The Trace - Yes, this was a big plot hole through out the world building. The Two-Way Mirror - I was surprised Sirius did not explain what it was to Harry when giving it to him or Sirius and Lupin pull Harry aside [away from Molly] and explain it. I'm also surprised it took Sirius so long to come up with a means of he & Harry communicating directly. Surely, there are other methods. Sirius being innocent - I would have loved the addition in Rita's article about Harry's side of things to include a comment about Sirius being Harry's godfather & him being innocence. That Rita could interview him next or blackmail her into doing that interview as well. The Ministry was not aware that Sirius was an animagus. Peter Pettigrew, Voldemort, Lucius Malfoy & the death eaters were likely aware of it. Could you imagine a polyjuice transformation that would have let Sirius be Harry's classmate or a new transfer student?! He could have been watching over Harry much more closely the entire time. Neville & Dementors - Neville is one day older than Harry. His parents were tortured by the Lestrange's & Crouch Jr AFTER Voldemort went after baby Harry. Voldemort had heard the prophecy and while deliberating between which children born could have been the possible threat to himself, he choose the half-blood not the pureblood. Voldemort is highly unlikely to have explained himself to anyone. Snape told Dumbledore that the Dark Lord though it was Lily's son. [Harry also has a piece of someone else's soul residing in his body. Dementors were surely intrigued if they sensed it. However, could some of the memories that he has so clearly, but not Harry's memories but the fragment of soul?] The Portkey - I believe this was a 'first person to touch it' type of deal. The winner was supposed to be portkey-ed out of the maze. Like the Snitch with flesh memories, having a port-key object as the goal of the maze would ensure that the winner was easily distinguishable. Veritaserum - It is tricky to make & can be overcome by skilled wizards. Sirius not escaping sooner - He stated that he knew he was innocent and that that was not a happy thought, so the Dementors could not suck it from him, so he kept his sanity. He could not overcome the Dementors until he saw Peter Pettigrew on the Weasley's lottery winnings on the Daily Prophet front page when the minister of magic visited. He's at Hogwarts. It was like a fire burning within him, an obsession that even the Dementors could not extinguish form him. He was weak & very thin from withstanding years in Azkaban when he slipped through the bars and past the dementors to escape. It was the threat to Harry that motivated him, not proving his own innocence. Cho Chang - I read her character in OotP as she liked Harry but she wanted to know about Cedric dying than she was truly interested in pursuing a romantic relationship with Harry. The Madam Pudifoot's incident, "... did he mention me at all before he died?" bit.

Considering the size, detail, and complexity of the HP world, I’m honestly impressed with how few plot holes JK made. There’s a shocking amount of consistency for an imagined magical story.

Polyjuice potion is one of the most complicated potions to make and takes over 30 days. Hermione did manage to make it in her 2nd year but she was the smartest witch of her age.

I have an answer for all of these. There wouldn't be much of a story is all the plot holes were fixed. A lot of great works of fiction have plot holes that are looked over and we usually don't care. But if you are really curious about a lot of these, the Super Carline Brothers have a lot of theories about them. They just did a video about how Fred and George figured out the Maurader's Map.

I think the door lock thing is simple. The fact the lock exists is a way to not only keep muggles and young wizards/witches out but it also makes it clear to anyone that they aren’t welcome to open whatever is on the other side There are plenty more advanced charms that would be used if a magic user really wanted to secure something

I think that Fred & George did tease Ron about his "boyfriend, Peter," inquiring as to why they were cuddling every night, and Ron (thinking they were just making things up to embarrass him) got all upset, and they thought he was just denying some weird little gay thing he had with one of his fellow students. Even if they brought it up multiple times, he would have thought they were just doing it to upset him, and they would have thought he was lying because he was embarrassed.

The unbreakable vow works both ways. Voldy wanted to be able to sacrifice his pawns at any moment. Only Marauders could see other Marauders on the map. I’m sure there was a charm to make unlocking charms ineffective. A camera is not a connected device. The map was designed to be passed down to troublemakers and certainly helped them get into it, being semi-sentient, as evidenced by its insults towards Snape. Sirius wasn’t easily reached, and if in danger, wouldn’t have access. More than one person can be named macgonnigle. Polyjuice ingredients are rare. Neville wasn’t there. Verituserum use was frowned upon, and not completely reliable.

With the door lock thing, I think it’s similar to having locks inside your house, most (at least in America) can be easily opened with a small screwdriver or paper clip (let alone just kicked down if someone really wanted to get in, the doors are super thin) but it’s so you know the person doesn’t want to be walked in on. I don’t think any of them would walk up to a locked bathroom and just “alohamora” it open, they’d know it was being used.

The only thing I can say about the Marauders map and Peter Pettigrew is that maybe at night time Pettigrew was actually running around the castle doing stuff instead of sleeping with Ron which would make him show up somewhere else on the map. However this doesn’t really help explain why the Weasley didn’t see him during the day

1) peters name appears ONLY in the movie map.Animagus don’t appear on maps. Also Peter was one of the creators of Marauders map, so it is possible that the map is enchanted to hide the 4 creators. 2) the camera was analogue. So its just mechanics with a small battery. It should work on the Hogwarts premises just fine. 3) Dobby performed magic in the Infamous Harry Potter house, which us highly monitored since harrys arrival. So its self explanatory. Order of the Phoenix performed magic EXPECTEDLY by the bad and the good guys. Both times 4) that juice needs extreme work and time and consistency. Which is impossible for a fugitive. A tired, old and in pain fugitive. 5) neville never saw his parents torture. He was bot present. He was at grandma.

Harry did try to contact sirius via the fireplace. Creature made it seem like sirius was indeed captured.

neville wasnt present when his parents were being tortured, thats why mad eyes lesson on the cruciadus curse effected him so badly, it was his first time seeing the curse in action, harry always had a dormant memory of a flash of green light that only got worse and more revealing the more he came into contact with the dementors

Ohhh, been waiting for this one.

The one about the Locks is pretty easy to explain in my opinion. It’s not to prevent people from coming in. It’s to show the people outside that someone inside does not want you to come in. Like in public Bathrooms. If a door is locked you often can still get inside but the lock shows that you are not supposed to

One question I have is . Why did Voldemort still trust Snape. He was attached to the back of Quirrell’s head during the first quidditch match. He would have known that Snape was uttering a counter curse

Another plothole: lack of refereeing in the quidditch matches. Harry's broom is bewitched by Quirrell to try and kick him off? Madam Hooch: I sleep Rogue bludger attacks Harry the entire game? Madam Hooch: I sleep Hundreds of dementors invade the pitch (yes the book specifically says at least ONE HUNDRED) Madam Hooch: I sleep

Dementors made Sirius super depressed and dreadful, as they do. He had no will or intention to get out. Finding out about Peter still being alive is what motivated him to get out.

The Unbreakble Vow was never used because Voldemort was an amazing mind reader. No one ever was able to hide any information from him, no one that he had noticed, at least.

Harry didn't just forget the mirror existed - he never even knew what it was until it was too late. It was wrapped up when Sirius gave it to him. All Sirius told him was that Harry could use it to get in touch with him, and Harry refused to do anything that would lure Sirius out of hiding and get him into trouble. Months go by, the mirror is still wrapped and in Harry's trunk and with everything from the DA to Quidditch going on Harry never gave it a second thought until after Sirius was already dead. So it's not so much a plot hole as "Harry was a bloody idiot", which pretty much sums up most of the books.

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Because the Trace stops working when you turn 17, I have to assume that since it gets triggered any time magic is done by an under-aged person or a non-wizard near them, but not when an adult human does it around them (and considering that it would be a nightmare for them if every time a wizard child growing up in a wizard family had a parent perform magic in front of them the Trace was triggered), I assume that it's set up so that adult human magic is specifically non-detectible to the Trace.

Answer to most of these - Magic does EXACTLY whatever JK needs it to do for a given scene and stops doing the thing when she wants characters to do something different. McGuffins are created and forgotten at least a dozen times throughout the books. Potterverse is a great sandbox but she would have benefited from a better proofreader.

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I imagine requiring an unbreakable vow would have put a lot of people off of joining up. It's one thing to join up, it's another to literally have a magical contract saying "do anything I don't like and you die"

I think the portkey in Goblet of Fire is easily explained. The ones used for the Quidditch World Cup all had specific activation times to protect muggles. However the one used in the maze was enchanted to work based on touch, possibly even on Harrys touch.

The biggest problem for me is about wizards marrying non-wizards. Based on the relations of the characters in the story, it seems like none of them would every marry a muggle because they would have to throw their life away and do something they knew nothing about. They would also have to keep their entire past a secret the whole time, including while they are drunk. In the epilogue (and cursed child), there is no muggle character introduced as a wife or husband to one of the book's characters, so I find it pretty hard to believe that a quarter or a third are half-bloods.

7:19 he did try and communicate with Sirius through the floo network

A few of these have easy explanations. Peter Pettigrew is invisible to Fred and George because the marauders can only be seen by other marauders. Pettigrew and Sirius are seen on the map by Lupin but Harry never mentions seeing any of them when he's using the map. Harry doesn't use the mirror to call Sirius because it was a present from Sirius that he forgot to open. He rediscovers the unopened package to his horror after the events at the Dept of Mysteries.

Personally, I think the question about Neville and the Dementors can be explained with one simple statement. Neville wasn't a horcrux. Harry had experienced truly horrible things, but even JK says he didn't or couldn't understand them, so that being the explanation for his reaction to Dementors doesn't seem entirely plausible.

funny fact, voldemort knew that people may betray you without you knowing (peter sold the potters) so, why not make sure nobody could become a spy for dumbledore? this is just a theory based on fict but, perhaps, the map has trouble with entities that have multiple names. for example, sirius black was also known as padfoot so, maybe, the map would show that name. in the case of scabbers, the name shown would be scabbers. it may also be that the map doesn't show non-humans (that includes animagi on their animal form) so the map would show peter only if he took his human form. neither theory is good but both have a point. while alohomora can open simple doors, it can't open all of them. besides, using regular locks may be for pure convenience. a regular lock is a lot better than having to cast an unlocking charm, enter a place, cast a locking charm. it is my understanding, I may be wrong, that muggle "technology" works fine. what doesn't work is electrical devices. mechanical devices, like old cameras, would work perfectly fine. given that they are never up to no good, it could be that they just found the password by pure sheer luck. it's still a poor excuse for a plothole. and yes, there's no excuse for the multiple inconsitencies with the trace. one excuse would be that Dobby managed to copy harry's "magical signature" causing his hoovering charm to look as if harry cast it. despite what some fans may claim to try to justify the inconsistencies, the charm tracks a wizard not a place or a wand. otherwise, in places with more than one underage magical it would be impossible to know who cast the magic. but an interesting thing is that the trace seems to be able to diferentiate between accidental magic, wand magic and wandless magic. harry not contacting with sirius isn't a plot hole. he just didn't know how. he tried to flo-call but kreatcher lied to harry and told him sirius wasn't there. harry didn't knew about the comunicating mirrors and, evidently, using his owl would be too slow to save sirius. Mcgonagalls age inconsistency comes from a single fact. fantastic beasts just sh*ts on any sort of canon. it's just there to get fans to pay more money. the story itself is so full of inconsistencies that there's no worth in considering it canon of anything. while polyjuice only lasts for an hour. barty crouch Jr. proved to all that you just need to drink a bit every fifty minutes to stay transformed. something Sirius could do easily. in fact, to make it even easier to hide himself, he could transform not on a member of the order but on a muggle. we never explore the idea but, what happens if you use two sets of DNA on the polyjuice? for example make a polyjuice potion using Molly Weasley and Nymphadora Tonks. it may also be that portkeys aren't always activated by a timer. maybe you can prepare them to be activated by touch. what I will never understand is why the cup was made into a reversible portkey but nobody made sure harry couldn't use it to escape. the ministry doesn't use veritaserum because it would make corruption near impossible. the official reason is that it's expensive and that strong wizards may be able to overcome it. the real reason is that some trials would become a nightmare for the corrupted politicians. just imagine what would happen if Malfloy was asked about the imperius defense while under veritaserum. no, no, no. that can't be allowed.

Here’s another one based on the potholes listed here: How can Harry’s biggest horror of his past involve his mother’s screaming and death but not comprehend death? Either he remembers it, or he didn’t comprehend it.

Underage students are not allowed to use magic outside of Hogwarts. In the movie "Harry Potter and The Philosophers Stone", When Hermione introduces herself to Harry and Ron, she admits to using a few basic spells. She should have been sent a letter immediately notifying her that she has been expelled and won't be attending Hogwarts. In *Harry Potter and The Prisoner Of Azkaban", Harry is using lumos outside of school but doesn't get expelled.

I always thought the dememtors on the train were reacting to the horcrux that is Harry, since that kill was what made him into a horcrux. You know Harry's mother

Why was Ron able to bring scabbers when students are only allowed to bring a cat, toad or owl. In the spell that makes a wand show in reverse the last spells done, Harry’s father came out first when it should have been his mother.

Neville wouldn't have reacted to the dementors on the train because they weren't out to get him at all - harry was the only one on the train who was affected by the dementors kiss because of his relation to Sirius black of course. When Neville experiences the Bogart in the form of the dementor - he is told to remember what he fears most, NOT his worst memory, and what he fears most happens to be Snape, rather than his parents death which he wouldn't have any reasonable reason to fear. That's why they affect Harry so badly solely.

When Fred and George first discovered the map it was just a blank piece of parchment. After writing on it, and having an interesting conversation with it the map trusted them and revealed its true self knowing that the twins we're not going to do evil with the map. When they passed it on to Harry the map recognized him as the son of one of the previous owners. And as far as the twins not seeing Peter Pettigrew on the map, because Peter was one of the creators he would not have been shown on the map to the twins as Peter in his rat form, because of how the maps enchantments work only the original four creators and their descendants would have been able to see each other on the map

About the mirror: In fact, Harry never knew anything about the mirror before Sirius died. Sirius gave him the mirror as a Christmas present, all wraped up and with the explanation written on a note inside, and only told him to "use this if Snape is giving Harry a hard time", without any other explanation. Harry took it and put it away without checking it, very adamant to NOT use it, very adamant to not do anything that would cause Sirius to leave the house and risk being arrested, so it's very likely he forgot about it. The plot hole appears later, when Harry uses Umbridge's fireplace to talk to Sirius: why didn't Sirius use the opportunity to tell Harry to use the mirror for a longer and less risky talk ? After all, probably Sirius spent days and weeks with the Mirror in front of him, waiting to be called by Harry, so it's unlikely Sirius would have forgotten about it.

Few of these plotholes are decent explained in the books

@8:42 That is a really good question. Isn't it brought up in the books and movies that the ingredients for Polyjuice are very hard to get and the creation of the potion is very hard to get right??? perhaps this is why he couldn't get his hands on any Poly Juice Potion???

For the Portkey one, I thought Barty Crouch Jr was the one who enchanted it to go to Voldemort instead of the outside of the maze. It's been a while since ive read the books so I might be mistaken. As for the trace, I always assumed that the order removed its from the members who were still under its effect, such as Harry.

The Sirius escape plan are with several issues. 1 Sirius never thought about it, since he wasn't aware that the dementors didn't notice animals. 2 He turned into an animal after he practise magic alot without a wand. Since this is hard to do, he trained for years to master it. perhaps one decade. 3 If you can't turn yourself into an animal without a wand, you might need one. Sirius never got a wand until he got away. How did he get a wand in the first place. Yes well good question, NEXT! I don't know, perhaps Dumbledore or some other friend helped him getting a wand, and perhaps came up with the idea. They smuggled the wand into Azkaban or flew with their broomsticks at his window, creating a small hole in the protected defence field and threw the wand through the window. Or they send him in pieces a wand, hiding piece by piece in the news paper undetected by the ministry. Perhaps with some ingredients (hidden in the same way as the wand) and a glass of water Sirius made a potion that could fix the wand for the most part, like Ronalds wand. Sirius got a wand that doesn't function well and is risky, but yes freedom is worth every risk. With sheer dumb luck the spell worked and Sirius turned into a dog and he was hopping threw the bars. The wand wasn't perfect.

1. The unbreakable vow was specific to get something done. Voldemort maybe used it, but it didn't seem to work to just "keep his followers loyal". 2. Peter Pettigrew could have been the name of a classmate of Ron's in his dormitory, to the twins 3. No, only Hermione knew the spell because she was a nerd. It was not taught to first years or anyone. 4. True. 5. The map talked to them, the way it talked to Snape. 6 or 7. In subsequent books, didn't the press take pictures of Harry at Hogwarts? It wasn't just Colin's camera. Might have been a magic cam. 8. Polyjuice potion is very hard/takes a long time to make or obtain and only lasts an hour (we had all of book 4 to show it wasn't easy to pull off). Also, who's to say he didn't sometimes. 25. Maybe Neville wasn't present when that happened

My theory of why Fred and George never noticed Pettigrew comes from simply taking the twins' behaviour into consideration. They got the map early on and had a lot of time to memorize passages and the layout of the castle. Supported by their claim to Harry that they know the whole map already. Then we should take a peek at the twins' relationship with Ron. They are shown to be rather uncaring about Ron's activities around the castle. So judging from this, I think that Fred and George simply did not care about Ron's whereabouts enough to look him up on the map. Most of their mischief required them to know the location of the teachers, the janitor and his cat, Peevees and the other ghosts. Why they would bother gawking at where Ron is when its simply not important for their adventures? Especially during prime mischief time when Ron would be in the dorms already with dozens of other names stacked. As for how Fred and George figured out the map's secret, I remember hearing a theory that perhaps the map itself gave little hints that ultimately led them to figuring the secret out.

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Here's a plot hole: axio map, axio egg. He learned to use axio for the first try wisard task, why didn't he use it when he got stock in the stairs?