The second half of the Harry Potter franchise takes us down a very different route in comparison to those first four films. We were used to light-hearted Hogwarts fun and some small-scale adventures with a bubbly, childish cast.
By the time of The Order Of The Phoenix, Voldemort is back and everything is darker and a lot less fun. This doesn’t mean the plot is any more fool-proof though, and plot holes are littered everywhere. We’ve found ten of the biggest plot holes in the last four Harry Potter films.
10 Mrs. Figg Gets It Wrong
Mrs. Figg is quite an old lady. She wanders the streets of Privet Drive looking after Harry without him even knowing, before finally revealing herself when the dementors of Order Of The Phoenix disappear. She refers to the death of Cedric Diggory as happening ‘last year’.
As a schoolchild, you might be used to referring to something that happened in the previous school year as ‘last year’, but Mrs. Figg seems to have left school about fifty years ago. To her, this should just be ‘a couple of weeks ago’.
9 Not Enough Pensive Use
The pensive seems like a really useful piece of kit for a wizard, especially one who might need to extract some particularly important secrets about some particularly important things. It appears more frequently than other incredibly powerful items (such as the time turner) but it could definitely do more. Using that instead of veritaserum, for example, could get much better information from subjects, while using it to find out true affiliations could be very helpful in seeing who to trust.
8 Thestrals Should Have Been Visible For Years
This is a classic Harry Potter plot hole; Harry saw death four times before his fifth year at Hogwarts, but apparently only that fourth one counts. JK Rowling has tried to explain it many times to no avail.
Apparently Harry was too young to comprehend the deaths of his parents (well, he still saw them die, so it shouldn’t matter. You don’t see thestrals when you remember death, do you?) and, in the book at least, he saw Professor Quirrell die in The Philosopher’s Stone.
7 Why Do They Leave Harry On The Ground?
At the end of The Half Blood Prince, Snape and Bellatrix have the perfect opportunity to simply pick up the unconscious Harry Potter, bring him to the feet of Voldemort and have him killed right then and there. The saga would be over (as far as they know) and Voldemort would have untainted power. For some reason, they just wander past him and leave him there to eventually wake up, destroy a load of Horcruxes and then kill their master. Great.
6 Fred And George Short-Range Apparition?
It’s hard to tell whether this is a plot hole or a continuity error. We learn that Fred and George become big fans of short-range apparition as soon as they are old enough to use magic outside of school. However, when they’re inside no.4 Privet Drive, they seem to jump suddenly from the back of the room to the front. If this is a continuity error, then they obviously filmed two scenes with them standing in different places. If it’s a plot hole, then they forgot about the anti-apparition charm that had been put on the house.
5 Voldemort Is Careless With Nagini
Voldemort knows he has a piece of his own soul buried inside his snake, Nagini. As such, he should technically be looking after her with as much care as he looks after himself. Instead, he sends her on a variety of weird missions that endanger her quite a lot/
In particular, sending her to Godric’s Hollow to impersonate Bathilda Bagshot seems unnecessarily bold. He doesn’t make the decision to defend her properly until he only has a couple of Horcruxes left.
4 Why Do They Need To Identify Ron And Hermione?
The end of The Deathly Hallows Part 1 shows Hermione, Ron and a face-mangled Harry Potter stuck in the grasp of Voldemort at Malfoy Manor. Firstly, we know for a fact that Lucius Malfoy has seen Ron and Hermione before, so there is absolutely no need to identify them; he already knows who they are. He also knows that they are traveling with Harry Potter, so the idea that the swollen-faced guy standing next to them who still basically looks like Harry Potter might not be Harry Potter doesn’t really make sense.
3 Why Does Dumbledore Take Such A Strange Approach?
This problem sort of plagues the entire last few entries into the Harry Potter franchise. Dumbledore knew what was going on with Voldemort. He knows about the Horcruxes, and he knew about most of them, so he could have pretty easily just explained all of this to Harry and given them a much quicker endpoint. For some reason, he leads them through a series of very confusing riddles that indirectly lead to many avoidable deaths. If Dumbledore had just told them exactly what needed to happen, they’d have still done it all. Sure, the storyline would have suffered immensely, but it would have definitely made more sense.
2 The Wrong Prophecy
Professor Trelawny isn’t exactly known for her skill as a sightseer. Dumbledore knew she had made two real prophecies and was otherwise a bit of a faker, but gave her a job anyway.
When the prophecy about Harry and Voldemort is found and read out during The Deathly Hallows, they play the audio of the wrong prophecy. Instead of hearing about Voldemort and Harry (“neither can live while the other survives”), we hear the one about Wormtail (“he will return tonight”). This is a massive blunder that really undermines a lot of the plot during the scene.
1 Overly Damaged House
The Deathly Hallows Part 2 shows us exactly what Harry’s parents’ house looked like in the aftermath of Voldemort’s visit. There were two dead parents and a crying Harry, but no large-scale destruction. This doesn’t match what we were shown in Godric’s Hollow in the previous film, in which the house was falling apart and the top floor seems to have been blown up. You could say it is simply the house degrading over the near-20 years it had been abandoned, but it doesn’t make a lot of sense that the whole top floor would pretty much explode in this time.
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