15 Major Harry Potter PLOT HOLES

Welcome to Harry Potter Theory. Today we’re discussing PLOT HOLES. It shouldn’t come as any sort of a surprise that, even within the captivating wizarding universe, astute readers and viewers have stumbled upon perplexing plot holes. And these gaps in the narrative, where certain details seem to defy logic or leave unanswered questions, have sparked lively debates among Harry Potter enthusiasts.
Today we’ll embark on a quest to dissect some of the most intriguing plot holes that have left fans scratching their heads. Diving in to these mysteries, examining the inconsistencies and seeking to find plausible explanations or theories that help to reconcile these discrepancies. A few of the more common ‘plot holes’ identified by fans actually have simpler explanations than you may think.
Anyway, I won’t dawdle any longer, let’s dive in to it.
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[@HarryPotterTheory]

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[@salty82ndveteran]

With the map, I've always thought if it could insult Snape it could also teach how to use it. It felt as if the Twins were mischievous enough to entrust itself to. And since the Twins give it to Harry, they're basically entrusting it to another mischievous person and that's why it works for Harry.

[@mostunknowne1352]

My big plot hole is that after Draco disarms Dumbledore the next person to disarm draco was Hermione so doesnt that make her the true master of the elder wand and Harry never was? What do you think?

[@alibabapirce9782]

1: tbh i believe that due to voldemort strong believe that hes best legilamence he didnt went for unbreakable vows with his deatheaters. or tho you could say he used it or at least similiar thing on peter by giving him hand after all when peter betrayed him, he got killed by the hand 3: because you also have charm colloportus which closes the doors and im preaty sure that depending on the power of the caster of this charm it can protect from alohomora if caster of alohomora is weaker tha caster of colloportus (i imagine it as 2 forces acting on eachother depending on which is stronger the one wins) 4. it was said that magic creates some sort of force field of disturbance that makes mugole devices not work properly but it might just be that simple devices could still work. for example colin camera is the old type that uses film and doesnt have any electronics in it thus it works but if he had digital camera it would not work similar even that comes to mind are solar flair activity or emp 5. map has some sort of awareness. when snape tries to read it it not only knows its snape but it also knows how marauders would react to snape trying to read map. its possible that fred and george tried same spell on map that snape did but cause their agenda was to cause mischief without bringing real harm to anyone i believe that map would either directly tell them the password or lead them to finding it by series of questions 6. trace was always effective. but harry got warning only in 2nd and 5th year cause ministry to their best knowledge knew that at the time of harry using spell he was only wizard in area. all they had to do was inform ministry that wizards would be in little winging and ministry would have ignored the trace alert assuming that it was that wizard that casted the spell not harry same as underage true born wizards could easily cast spells all time and not get warnings cause its their parents who would be assigned the spell cast 7. harry didnt know he had a mirror untill after sirius death. sirius gave him package and told him to open it later when he will be alone. harry put it in his trunk and than forgot about it. only during packing after 5th year ended he found the package, opened it and realized that he had that means of communication. harry didnt forget about mirror itself but about the gift. additionally harry didnt acted on his fear alone but alson on the lie of kreacher who he talked to by using umbridge fire place 8. hohoho now you done it. students with minimal training? there is at best one student in many generations at hogwarts smart enough to be able to brew polyjuice potion. in the entire series i doubt anyone but hermione could have done it counting students only. and there are ingredients that are. also there are ways to counter the pollyjuice potion but most important its impractical cause you have to use it every hour. anyway it is posible for sirius to get it and use it but its simpler to just use other order members that dont have to use it 11. portkeys can but doesnt have to have set specific time of departure. the cup was actually double portkey. firstly it was enchanted to teleport winner to the start of the maze after he touches it. after that additional enchantment was put by barty to teleport harry to the cemetary after he wins taking priority over first enchantment but not removing it. thats why harry was able to return to hogwarts using it cause otherwise portkeys are one way teleporters but barty did not remove the original enchantment cause voldemort plan was to send harry body back after he kills him so people think harry died in maze and so voldemort can regain his strenght and army in secret before he is strong enough to take over the ministry and dumbledore 12. its because veritaserum like legilamance can be fought and broken additionally its very complex potion. additionally serum would not be used on people like black cause he was not prosecuted but instead send immediately to azkaban without a trial 13. sirius blamed himself for lili and james death. ha had no reason to live and basically was punishing himself untill he realized that peter is still alive 14. you literally explained how its not a plothole at all :D overall pretty shitty video but i was bored so i watched it to point out your mistakes

[@Foebane72]

Look, HPT, if you're THAT bothered by these perceived plot holes, why not email JK Rowling HERSELF, DIRECTLY?

[@hudsonbakke8836]

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)

[@chaddon7685]

Exactly. He didn't leave to clear his name -- he didn't care. He wanted his justice/revenge for James and Lily.

[@kanyew3stIover911]

I don't know about "using his dog form to stay sane", i heard that the only thing he had that made him stay sane is the thought that he is not guilty of what happened to Potters

[@hudsonbakke8836]

@@kanyew3stIover911 it was a combination of the two I think. The dog form made his emotions simpler and harder for the dementors to detect, while the knowledge that he was innocent gave him something to focus on and remember who he was

[@larryjones7618]

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?

[@johannmcalister7155]

Huh..... great question tbh 🤣

[@Priorrr]

Doesn't want them to know he has money

[@QALibrary]

My question is how did she and her parents make it to the bank?

[@josephbolcome5462]

I think part of it would be Petunia would just take it from him and give the clothes to Dudley.

[@blackc1479]

Iirc it was mentioned in book 1 that he didn't want them to know anything about the money for those very reasons

[@MattWells0]

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.

[@whiplashfatigue1430]

It’s obvious that Colin’s camera is a magic camera, that takes moving pictures like the ones in the Daily Prophet and the one with Harry’s parents dancing. Duh.

[@MikeDCWeld]

​@@whiplashfatigue1430the moving picture bit came from a special potion used to develop the photos. Colin explained that an older student had offered to teach him.

[@MattWells0]

@@whiplashfatigue1430 the way the Collin says when taking the picture of Harry and Prof. Lockhart it is a magic potion used to develop the photos is where the magic comes from. To me it reads as the Collin's camera is a muggle one and Collin is delighted that his normal camera can make moving pictures. I will admit that it is true that books and movies don't say either way and Collin's parents could have bought him a magic camera as a present but I would doubt that. I suspect that you are right with the Daily Prophet photographer's camera is probably magic as wizzards have a bad habbit of making muggle stuff magical despite it being illegal brooms and trains for example :)

[@mikenash7049]

The flash on Colin's camera looks like a powder-based flash, such as they used when taking school photographs at my primary school in the 1960s, so that wouldn't have been affected by the magical field at Hogwarts either.

[@idminister]

the hogwarts express and the weasley car are both mechanical systems and enchanted with magic using trends within a work to analyze other aspects of the work: the camera was a muggle origin camera, enchanted by magic lore wise: why? because it is probably the lazy way to make magic moving pictures compared to the pure magic way; and people muggle or mage possess laziness

[@terakhan6656]

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.

[@idminister]

indeed, because if his memeory was good enough for that to be his worst memory for dementor, then he shouldve seen thestrals from the beginning but if its actually the memory from voldermort shard that dementor is actively pulling and it is also affecting him as a side effect, than the passive death cloak of the thestral would hold unless harry had tried to channel power using morty shard (not that he would have cause to)

[@terakhan6656]

@idminister to be fair some do have memory like that. I described my room from our home when I was 2 years old to my mom 10+ years later, having lived in a different place for most of that time. And that wasn't a traumatic memory, just the layout of it.

[@idminister]

@@terakhan6656 i understand what you are saying, but that wasnt quite the point I was trying to make. The point wasnt whether he could or could not recall, but rather how to have consisentcy regarding the rules of magic in HP that would provide and unified and consisent ruling on why in magic situation A the memory did not apply yet in magic situation B it did. your point is more related to whether the capacity for either to occur even existed, not one occuring and the other not

[@Josipinho]

niceee, maybe he hears tom screaming in agony :D but tis clearly stated its a womans voice tho

[@ianjoystodab]

I like that analogy.

[@baystated]

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.

[@davidjames8331]

Yea and authority figures would never be able to convince the map of their mischief so it makes perfect sense

[@cameronmynhier2628]

Also F&G are exceedingly brilliant. It seems perfectly plausible that they just…. Figured out how to activate it.

[@CharlesOffdensen]

I don't think F&G stole the map. They were given the map, like Harry was, but they just wanted to look cool and made up that story.

[@Rrrafael.00]

​@@cameronmynhier2628I mean that is a phrase they could say aloud to one another with the map sitting near by.

[@Reggie2000]

Peeves told them. Imo

[@Joseph-nb4cu]

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

[@zeroanimation3956]

what I didn't get is why Haryy not physically transported there instead just face in the fire. He could search for Sirius instead of relying on what Kreacher said.

[@Joseph-nb4cu]

@@zeroanimation3956 I mean yea but he did already see the vision and when kreacher said that it pretty much confirmed it for harry even tho he was wrong

[@SQUDSNPR]

Yeah. Crazy how this guy didn’t know that

[@hollyhartwick3832]

Yeah, the book said Sirius was upstairs tending to Buckbeak when Harry "called" so he had no idea, and Kreature took advantage of this to deceive him. If he went there bodily to search for him, he would have left his friends behind at the mercy of Umbridge. It's also entirely possible he couldn't. There might have magical safeguards preventing full-body floo travel to and from the castle, while still allowing for partial use for communication. It would have been a similar line of protection and reasoning as the apparition block. Keep the kids in and bad elements out.

[@bpdub21]

If harry would have gone all the way through the fire to Grimald's place, he would never have gotten caught by Umbridge. He also could have looked through the house to make sure Sirius wasn't there. There is also the problem of a house under the fidalious charm being connected to the flu network in the first place.

[@Gjergji311]

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.

[@robertbeisert3315]

Put him in an unbreakable jar

[@alimohammed4709]

Yh it was ridiculous

[@vladorkiba1718]

I think in the book he had a spell on him that made him require a wand to undo the spell to then allow him to transform and they handcuffed him to make sure he didn't make an attempt

[@Gjergji311]

@@vladorkiba1718 Nope, the closest they come to addressing it is telling him that they will kill him if he tries to transform. At any rate, he never got hold of a wand that whole time.

[@metapotamus]

I’d consider this more of an oversight than an actual plot-hole, but definitely ridiculous.

[@xandervampire195]

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.

[@hannah9873]

Not to mention the presence of dementors who would have surely reinforced that sentiment.

[@shaaz9993]

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.

[@emanuelenegroni6824]

But later in the book Harry talks to Sirius and Lupin through Umbridge's fireplace, so at that moment why didn't Sirius just ask him why he wasn't using the mirror? It would have been logical for Sirius to ask why he was using a risky method like the fireplace and not the mirror. It's a plot hole for me

[@dilloncooper3992]

​@@emanuelenegroni6824This is exactly what bothered me in the story! I'm glad that I am not the only one who noticed this.

[@chidmania8485]

​@@emanuelenegroni6824 given the nature of their conversation and how abruptly it ended, the matter just never came up. Harry was upset about something and he and Sirius and Lupin immediately got into that conversation. Then they found out that he was no longer having occlumency classes and that was an urgent matter. And then he had to go because someone (filch) was coming. Besides all that, Sirius gave Harry the mirror without Lupin's knowledge, and the latter would surely have disapproved. So Sirius won't ask about it in his presence.

[@dangerbook4807]

Sirius gave him the present and TOLD HIM that it was a way to get in touch if Snape gave him problems, Harry actually didn't open the present because he didn't want Sirius to get mad, come storming to hogwarts and get killed. Theoretically he did know for a while that it was a way to contact Sirius, and I could easily see this being the opposite of how you forget things you intend to do - do you remember things you DON'T intend to do?

[@cj3617]

Came here to say this, too. I just reread OOTP a few days ago and didn’t realize that Harry never opened the mirror until after Sirius was gone. It definitely works to magnify his guilt.

[@THEBOB566974]

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

[@jeffbangle4710]

Death is too good for those who betray me!

[@arinerm1331]

Voldemort would not have used the Unbreakable Vow, because it would also have put Voldemort himself in jeopardy of death.

[@fallendeus5641]

@@arinerm1331 The vows can be one way... Just like Snape made a vow but there was nothing he asked for in return. Voldemort making the death eaters vow to "never betray me" doesn't put his life at risk since he has made no vow to the other person. Personally I just think that he would see it as weakness to have to rely on something like the unbreakable vow. It would be him admitting that he knows they aren't loyal to him.

[@arinerm1331]

@@fallendeus5641 You have made a great point. Also, Voldemort was one of the best Legilimens ever, and even at a young age. Snape was only able to use Occlumency by cloaking his lies in his love for Lily, and Narcissa was able to do the same by cloaking her lie in her love for her son.

[@autubeyouser8591]

It’s just because it requires physical contact with another human.

[@OceanChild75]

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

[@pointystories582]

‘I’ve just been to your office, Lupin. You forgot to take your Potion tonight, so I took a gobletful along. And very lucky I did … lucky for me, I mean. Lying on your desk was a certain map. One glance at it told me all I needed to know. I saw you running along this passageway and out of sight.’

[@OceanChild75]

@@pointystories582 ooooh well spotted!!!

[@OrchestralDude1993]

Perhaps the twins never noticed Peter Pettigrew on the map because he was disguised in the rat/animagus form. Lupin being one of the creators of the map would however be able to see him. Maybe a precaution done by the mauraders so they never were to be seen on the map when transformed by others than themselves.

[@udraj914]

@@pointystories582 the map was opened by Lupin, he forgot to "mischief manage", its like he forgot to log off his profile, so Snape could look through Lupin's log in and see Peter

[@sprokenvansami3134]

I also came up with the same theory and adjust it so it fit also the movie logic. This includes that also bloodlines of the marauders can see other marauders. This means Harry was able to notice Peter Pettigrew on the map as well.

[@arinerm1331]

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.

[@sophieirwin3497]

Hermione was of age at the point of the Seven Potters. She didn't have the track on her as she was 17 in September of their 6th year. The invisibility cloak wouldnt't cover the trace on Harry

[@arinerm1331]

@@sophieirwin3497 Yeah, Hermione's plothole was that she'd erased her parents' memories of Hermione and planted the idea that they want to live in Australia, yet when the Death Eaters attacked the trio in the coffee shop, book-Hermione said she knew in theory how to wipe memories, so she thinks she may be able to do it.

[@Bolpat]

He could have travelled in the trunk of a taxi. It worked for Pablo Escobar. And Harry could have used the invisibility cloak, too, for the off chance that anyone opened the trunk.

[@SARA-kh1kp]

@@arinerm1331i always wondered when watching that scene in the movie if her parents ever questioned why they had so many empty picture frames in their house.. or if she had any grandparents, aunts, uncles, etc who would ask them “hey hows heromine doing?” and they’d just be like “who is heromine..?”

[@kencrum2524]

Yeah, in book 3, harry considered flying to London under the cloak. Why not just do that after walking away? Sure the Death Eaters would know when the protection broke but they couldn’t have found one guy who is invisible.

[@MrEffectfilms]

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.

[@WVsarahham]

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.

[@joelplatan4298]

Also Harry didn´t know that he had the mirror. He opened the package after Sirius died. He knew that the package contained some kind of way to contact Sirius but he swore to himself that he would never use that.

[@DrankenDune]

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.

[@emmitstewart1921]

I can remember my Army sergeant talking about the locks we put on our lockers. They were the same cheap combination padlocks we had used in our high school lockers and almost anyone could get by them. He said, "Locks are for honest people. A thief can always get in." That's when I realised that a lock is simply a way to tell people not to open something. If we really needed to get in, most people can find a way to get past a lock.

[@benvanburen5633]

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.

[@kukokokot]

And even if not, Harry was present when his parents died, Neville wasn't. If he was I'm sure the Death Eaters would have used him as a leverage when torturing his parents. But this in my opinion disproves that Rowlings' theory about witnessing death in order to see thestrals. It just seems too convenient that for the purposes of dementors Harry experienced the death of his parents (I know about the horcrux in him theory, and it is a good one) but for the purposes of thestrals he needed to understand it

[@denisucuuu]

@@kukokokot What's crazier is that he remembers the EXACT conversation Voldemort had with his parents before killing each one of them, yet he didn't "witness" it for the Thestrals

[@Tommybgoode]

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.

[@alexw4482]

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.

[@catsaresocute650]

Or Bellatrix and Snape are playing 3d chess. Bellatrix is trying to protect Draco and goad Snape into agreeing, while Snape undeestands that an cathes two birds with one Stone - make Bellatrix belive in his loyalities not being with Dumbeldore and fullfill Dumbeldores orders

[@robertmartin4449]

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

[@Dolores.Umbridge]

She used a "magical" camera. That's considered as a wizard device and obviously it works at Hogwarts. Collin used a muggle camera as he brought it from home. He explained in the book that some older student (or his classmate) offered to teach him to use a certain potion to turn his muggle photos into wizard photos.

[@Mialikesthings]

@@Dolores.Umbridgecamera’s in the 90s were mechanical and chemical rather than technological so it might not be a far fetched to say that while muggle electronics might not work muggle mechanics could.

[@Rocket_Man232]

🔔 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!"

[@tailkinker1972]

My theory is that it was her mother, after whom she was named.

[@Rocket_Man232]

@@tailkinker1972 🔔 Not bad. I hope it's true. I like that idea far better than the movie makers deliberately ignoring the established timeline for the sake of trying to squeeze a few extra dollars out of the franchise.

[@TemariNaraannaschatz]

@@Rocket_Man232 It's not. Isobel Ross, later McGonagall married a Muggle and during this time lived with him in the Muggle world and had post-partum depression.

[@mathiasborgbjerg3283]

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

[@gameschadwick]

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.

[@prachi6802]

This video makes me feel you don't have enough Harry Potter knowledge

[@itzTheChachi]

That book was so horrendously boring to read that I skipped it and don’t regret it.

[@moonlitmungoose1757]

The mirror was not given to Harry until Christmas break. Not the summer before. Now I don't clearly remember but I think that the last time Sirius talks to Harry before the ministry fight was during that time.

[@gameschadwick]

@@moonlitmungoose1757 yeah I was just reminded of that earlier today actually. But that’s further proof that the mirror was not “established earlier in the series”. It was just halfway through the school year. I do remember him not opening it until after Sirius had already died. So he still didn’t know he had that method of communicating with Sirius until it was too late.

[@joelplatan4298]

@@moonlitmungoose1757 I was going to say the same thing but actually Harry talked to Sirius and Lupin in Umbridges fireplace after Harry saw Snapes memory about James and Sirius.

[@clfoster82]

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.

[@FluffySylveonBoi]

Actually the twins saw Ron with Peter multiple times, but didn't question it. Probably thought Ron might be gay.

[@balrighty3523]

I always figured that their names did appear on the map, just on the front and using their aliases instead. So where Ron would appear on the map as a set of human footprints with “Ronald Weasley” next to it, Peter was showing up as a tiny set of rat footprints with no name tag (and “Wormtail” was next to the names “Mooney”, “Prongs”, and “Padfoot” on the cover). So the Marauders would know to keep an eye out for mysterious unnamed footprints that might not always be human, but no one else would even know about that quirk.

[@TheSonofruss]

The only time anyone notices someone who is not supposed to be there is when Harry sees Barty Jr lurking in Snapes office as Moody while he was stealing ingredients for the potion

[@Rrrafael.00]

​@@balrighty3523love that. Good point.

[@baldrian22]

beeing one of the creators of the map and potenitaly having seen it in the hands of the twins i would think that he would have a way to hide his name on the map or maybe have it apear at other locations. i would have done something like that if i made it incase it landed in the wrong hands and the person found out how to use it.

[@FreeTibetFTW]

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.

[@TheDeezy250]

This guy didn’t even read the book lol

[@Lefty7788tinkatolli]

"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.

[@Flamefox20]

Quick google search. When a young witch or wizard suppressed their innate magic, either through will power or as a result of violence or abuse, a powerful parasite could form within that child - a dark energy called an Obscurus. Harry never suppressed his magical powers. For teleporting. First off, wizards don't want Muggles to know about their world, so they won't just randomly teleport everywhere cause that would risk giving the world away. Cause ya know people don't just randomly appear. If we're specifically talking about apparition, it's not so much a simple spell. You actually have to take a test to be allowed to use it. And again googled it and it says range is limited and the further you try to travel the harder and more risky it is. I'm sure there are ways magically to prolong one's life especially for really powerful wizards. So it could probably be your average human life span to longer. Genetics. I'm sure as long as there was a wizard/witch somewhere along the line, there is the chance that someone could be born with magic. Even if we look at humans, people can be born with genes for certain defects and diseases that are passed from generation to generation, but it doesn't always manifest in the person. They are just a carrier of it. Something could happen with whatever makes magic happen in a person.

[@elizabeths.3634]

I have my own theory for how wizard genetics work that explains both how you get a muggle born wizard and a wizard born muggle. I actually made a video about it.

[@dianef4227]

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.

[@ClarenceCochran-ne7du]

Correct. Neville wasn't present at his parent's torture. He was with his Grandmother at the time the LeStranges tracked the Long bottoms down.

[@anthonyjohnson71]

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

[@Dreadjaws]

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.

[@Umdeuter]

Thanks

[@MasterTMO]

#9 - Another reason why people would want Sirius to stay at Grimauld Place is that so Snape could truthfully tell the Death Eaters that Sirius was trapped and useless. If Sirius himself was aware of this reason he'd break out just to make Snape's life difficult, of course.

[@lxxvx]

I thought it was said that animagus cannot take polyjuice potion. To become one, you have to hold the leaf of a magical plant (that's also an ingredient in polyjuice potion) under your tongue for a full moon to full moon or something, and it alters how your body is effected by transfiguration etc. I think it makes them immune to the effects afterwards.

[@MasterTMO]

@@lxxvx I hadn't heard that one that I can recall, but it could be.

[@MasterTMO]

1 - I mentioned in a different comment that the Vow is shown in the movie entwining both wrists, so it's possible that the spell does affect both, even if only one is bound by the Vow, and that Voldemort may not want to put that many spells on himself. But I also thought of another reason: you have to hold hands, and I bet Voldy really would hate that.

[@casperxpyt]

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

[@tailkinker1972]

It also requires a third party to act as a binder. There is no way in hell that someone as narcissistic as Voldemort would allow someone to bind him.

[@hollyhartwick3832]

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.

[@TheLethalDiva]

n the "Harry Potter" books, it is explained that the Marauders' Map only reveals the names of those whom the creators of the map knew personally. Since Peter Pettigrew was believed to be dead for many years and was living in his Animagus form as Scabbers, he was not recognized by Harry or the map.

[@hollyhartwick3832]

@@TheLethalDiva - My comment wasn't about Pettigrew (who did appear on the map when it was plot-relevant for him to in Year 3). It was about the twins ability to use the map without instructions when they stole it from Filch. It was able to sense things about Snape to effectively insult him as he is at present (such as referring to him as "Professor"). It likely was also able to detect that Fred and George were mischief makers and conveyed the instructions to them.

[@TheLethalDiva]

@@hollyhartwick3832 Not only are they mischief makers but I'd say their geniuses at what they do and that probably helped them figure out the map as well.

[@hollyhartwick3832]

@@TheLethalDiva - If nothing else, it may have at least helped them discern it wasn't dangerous, given their mother's warning to her children about meddling with things that can communicate and you can't see where it keeps it's brain. Even if it revealed the solution willingly, you know that warning bell was ringing in their mother's voice. They would have likely put it through some tests to make sure it was safe to use.

[@udraj914]

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?

[@josephjoestar995]

Wand store

[@eoinmurphy5757]

if ron could get his hands on a replacement wand while using a hand me down one all through the first book, im sure the rest could, voldemorts was deffo taken by a death eater from the scene for safe keeping

[@MrSkater3]

I was also wondering about that. And given the fact olivander recognizes the old death eaters wands, proofs that they didn’t simply got new ones. Also I don’t understand why they don’t simply destroyed them when bellatrix and the others went to ascaban. Seemed a quite common method with people who got kicked out of hogwarts (Hagrid)

[@gregorydamario7977]

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.

[@MikeDCWeld]

Yet it was triggered by Dobby levitating Petunia's dessert.

[@CattyCycler]

But since they can’t tell who does the magic and there are no known wizards but Harry living there any magic would more likely have been blamed on Harry.

[@matthewpatrick7263]

In Half-Blood Prince, when Harry asked Dumbledore how 16-year-old Tom Riddle got away with murder (when they watched the memory of him meeting his uncle, who he framed for the murders), Dumbledore told him the Trace is a myth that the Ministry spreads around. The Ministry only monitors the homes of underage witches and wizards with no magical relatives (which means they only persecute muggle-borns mostly). I don't know how Harry forgot that in the next book. I figured that on the days that Adults were coming to pick Harry up, they informed the Ministry of this, so they temporarily turned off the monitoring spells on his house. Imaging if Draco Malfoy knew about that. He could've gone to Harry or Hermione's house, snuck into their back yard and performed a spell to get them in trouble. Just 2 times would've gotten them expelled.

[@MikeDCWeld]

@@matthewpatrick7263 very good point. I'd forgotten about that bit. It does explain how Fred and George were able to get away with their various joke shop product experiments over the years.

[@dannylagangonzalez6832]

@@matthewpatrick7263I doubt Draco knew exactly where Harry or Hermione lived.

[@gumbycat5226]

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

[@rosebud7233]

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.

[@pointystories582]

Sadly, it's disproven. Severus: ‘I’ve just been to your office, Lupin. You forgot to take your Potion tonight, so I took a gobletful along. And very lucky I did … lucky for me, I mean. Lying on your desk was a certain map. One glance at it told me all I needed to know. I saw you running along this passageway and out of sight.’ Snape saw Lupin, the Marauder.

[@markborishnikoff5485]

I don’t like that theory just face value it seems like a lot of mental gymnastics

[@sebastianwittmeier1274]

Perhaps the Marauder's Map (in the books) does not show Animagi in their animal form?

[@tomedmonds1714]

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.

[@jokerzyo]

Marauders map password seems like a guessable pass for that duo

[@andrewmatelski6027]

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

[@MasterTMO]

It's also represented visually in the movie wrapping around both participants' wrists. It's possible that it leaves traces on the other person, even if not a death curse. Possibly Voldemort didn't want to open himself up to his followers that close and that often. Pure speculation there though, no evidence supporting it.

[@ChaosUnleashed265]

unbreakable vow my guy. and voldemort was far too flashy to care for some promise binding spell that literal children can do

[@TheSonofruss]

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.

[@onebaldjay1110]

Thanks for that. Saved me some typing.

[@Josipinho]

Also mr weasly was attacked before, he contacted everyone and just was barely able to save arthurs life. He wouldnt risk it with his godfather, the last of his living "faimly"

[@CoyoteLovelyLV]

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.

[@lilnerdboy69]

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.

[@MikeDCWeld]

Dumbledore had set the cup to bring the victor out of the maze to the clearing. Barty Crouch Jr, disguised as Mad-Eye Moody, volunteered to place the cup in the maze so that he could tinker with the Portkey spell on the cup to take the victor to the graveyard first. I believe that Voldemort was likely planning on using the cup to make a triumphant return in his new body after killing Harry. It's also possible that he could have had some Polyjuice potion ready and waiting so that he, or one of his Death Eaters, could go to Hogwarts disguised as Harry for whatever reason, but I don't think that fits Voldemort's style.

[@npickle54]

Don't they get the same portkey back from the world Cup?

[@marcopolo1472]

I don't think it had a timer, they just knew when to touch it bc it was an appointment. If so many of them are set 2 travel 2 the same place, it must be blocked until that exact time to avoid accidents. Kind of like a scheduled email.

[@Jake-hz1zu]

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.

[@SuperMitchells1]

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.

[@Reggie2000]

It has a lightbulb to produce a flash, ergo, it has a battery.

[@AltairZielite]

Magnesium flash. All chemical.

[@Reggie2000]

@@AltairZielite Google the picture of the camera. It doesn't use flash powder like it's the 1800s. It has a bulb. It's clearly circa 1950s. That camera 100% uses a battery. Period.

[@AltairZielite]

@@Reggie2000 I stand corrected. The wiki says it ran off magical electricity.

[@Reggie2000]

@@AltairZielite 👍🙂

[@dreamcream3738]

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."

[@lando6420]

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

[@bobpourri9647]

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.

[@joshc9453]

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

[@augoosto11]

I am almost positive he actually did explain it. He told Harry that he had to look in it, and say Sirius's name. I don't have my copies on hand, just the audiobook, but I'll try to verify. Almost positive.

[@joshc9453]

@@augoosto11 he may have. What I more meant was Sirius never said “Harry, this is a two way mirror.” He did put it in the card though.

[@augoosto11]

@@joshc9453 I mean, if he told him how it works, and how to use it, why does it matter if he told him what it's called formally?

[@joshc9453]

@@augoosto11 Well the exact line of the book is “Use it if you need me, it’s a way of letting me know if Snapes giving you a hard time”. It was a very poor explanation. I’m also pointing out that it would be normal for 15 year old to forget about a gift that he pre determined he’d never open. Also, after Sirius gives Harry the mirror, Harry sneaks into Umbridges office to use her fire. You’d think the first thing Sirius would say is “Harry, why didn’t you use the mirror?”

[@joshc9453]

@@augoosto11 The main point I’m trying to make is that it’s not a plot hole. It was done very intentionally and the way the mirror is revealed makes the whole situation even more tragic.

[@LorelLa22]

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.

[@bailatwerski2951]

Thank You for making this video!! Some of your questions were already answered but they're all interesting!!!❤

[@petrri323]

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

[@KeiGeri0406]

Harry's mom was a muggle-born. That means it doesnt count because Lily didnt have any wizard relatives or family, so it would've been weird to call Harry a pure-blood.

[@yjk1037]

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.

[@crazzyjjj1]

That could just be to the increase in security. Since Voldermort be back.

[@yjk1037]

@@crazzyjjj1 maybe, but Hermione is always quoting Hogwarts a history when mentioning it

[@ferencercseyravasz7301]

@@yjk1037 That refers to Apparition. Charlie's friends fly.

[@pablosuarez7602]

Yeah, Dumbledore specifically says in the books that he adds extra protections to the castle when he leaves it. 1. Enchantments and 2. Extra patrols by the order and the teachers.

[@jonmedina259]

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.

[@marcopolo1472]

Nope, year 6 and 7 are only one class each. Maybe they don't teach each class twice a week? Plus, they have servants and they don't do much in their head of house function except for giving lectures and detention, do they?

[@all-caps3927]

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.

[@jonunya1163]

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.

[@Dolores.Umbridge]

The theory is not valid. Snape saw Lupin on the map when he went to Lupin's office to bring him the Wolfsbane Potion (Lupin wasn't there, the map was left on the desk and Snape saw him)

[@adrianblake8876]

​@@Dolores.UmbridgeLupin was the one who opened the map in that case. The map refused to open for Snape...

[@eoinmurphy5757]

@@adrianblake8876ah so it reflects differently for whoever opens it not who happens to be looking at the time, clever!

[@DissectYaFit]

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.

[@chipowow9957]

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

[@untitled6391]

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.

[@philbear7882]

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.

[@udraj914]

and the Order of the Phoenix is not? Sirius could have at least used some transfiguration to disguise himself

[@aisleelovegreenwood6448]

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.

[@granthropologist3622]

‘Weird little gay thing’? Is this 1995?

[@WildeKat357]

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.

[@kinggrass689]

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

[@tailkinker1972]

280 students and 20 staff in the school. Easy to miss a single name. I always assumed that if they noticed Pettigrew at all, they just assumed that he was a Gryffindor in Ron's year.

[@kinggrass689]

Orr what if only marauders can only see other Marauders on the map? Harry of course isn’t a Maurader but he is related to one. Idk 🤷‍♂️

[@cokebottles6919]

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.

[@mlg_banana679]

There are a lot considering the size of the series. This video is what? 15 of them? In only 7 books? It’s still a fun series but man, it’s not perfect.

[@eoinmurphy5757]

@@mlg_banana679 lol man you sit down and right a book series 3500 pages long and have less plot holes

[@George-ld9xu]

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.

[@Reggie2000]

I would call poly juice potion ingredients potentially hard to get as opposed to rare.

[@54raynor]

It is established that the marauders can be seen by anyone on the map. Snape uses it to track Lupin to the Whomping Willow in PoA.

[@Reggie2000]

@54raynor It was irresponsible of JK to introduce a map of that power, and not even think about its potential to create story problems. Imo

[@Swearengen1980]

Yet Crouch Jr had enough polyjuice to last an entire school year? The first time the kids make it, Hermoine says it takes a long time to make, but the rest of the series, people seem to make it overnight (like when she turns to Belatrix).

[@54raynor]

@@Swearengen1980 I don’t see either of those as plot holes. Snape mentioned in GoF that his ingredients were being raided for the potion, so Crouch was clearly making more of it during the school year. And the planning for breaking into Bellatrix’s vault took several weeks.

[@ajwinberg]

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.

[@soccerphysicsreplays4584]

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.

[@ciminkitaplar-seslikitapla9596]

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.

[@johnnytower6169]

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

[@toeray5864]

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.

[@pointystories582]

Severus: ‘I’ve just been to your office, Lupin. You forgot to take your Potion tonight, so I took a gobletful along. And very lucky I did … lucky for me, I mean. Lying on your desk was a certain map. One glance at it told me all I needed to know. I saw you running along this passageway and out of sight.’

[@warsilver1221]

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

[@clarestewart877]

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

[@mystic0maggot401]

This has been explained in Half blood Prince, Snape played it off to Voldemort that he assumed it was only Quirrell doing it and that Voldemort wasn't involved

[@pointystories582]

‘I think you next wanted to know,’ he pressed on, a little more loudly, for Bellatrix showed every sign of interrupting, ‘why I stood between the Dark Lord and the Philosopher’s Stone. That is easily answered. He did not know whether he could trust me. He thought, like you, that I had turned from faithful Death Eater to Dumbledore’s stooge. He was in a pitiable condition, very weak, sharing the body of a mediocre wizard. He did not dare reveal himself to a former ally if that ally might turn him over to Dumbledore or the Ministry. I deeply regret that he did not trust me. He would have returned to power three years sooner. As it was, I saw only greedy and unworthy Quirrell attempting to steal the Stone and, I admit, I did all I could to thwart him.’

[@aisleelovegreenwood6448]

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.

[@grahf4077]

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.

[@oseasdafonseca2100]

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.

[@korraiswaifu6245]

Snape is damn good than.

[@granthropologist3622]

@@korraiswaifu6245Yes. Yes he is.

[@winterhaunt897]

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.

[@oofiethetroll2059]

Love this channel!

[@crawdaddy2004]

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.

[@Umdeuter]

He remembers it (perhaps sub-consciously) but didn't understand it back when he experienced it. Imagine you know a word in a foreign language, but you don't know its meaning. You just know how it sounds like.

[@arinerm1331]

Ironically, it's not Harry's memory. He is reliving Voldemort's worst memory in those moments he hears his mother's scream. Having that bit of extra soul is also a good explanation for the Dementors' added interest in Harry.

[@crawdaddy2004]

@@arinerm1331 Then he should be able to see the thestrals due to Voldemort’s soul having seen death. He can speak parsletounge but not see thestrals?

[@arinerm1331]

@@crawdaddy2004 Also a good point to raise with JKR. I cannot explain that canonically.

[@feverinicent4634]

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

[@KamenRiderGumo]

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.

[@matthewpatrick7263]

The real plot hole is when Harry flooed Sirius and Lupin from Umbridge's office (in the book only) to talk about Snape's memory of being bullied by James. Sirius should've asked him why he wasn't using the mirror and gotten him to leave her office and use that mirror.

[@dannylagangonzalez6832]

@@matthewpatrick7263the answer to that is that Rowling herself probably forgot completely about having written the part about Sirius giving Harry the mirror when she was writing that scene. I’ve experienced things like that myself when writing fanfiction, it’s easily done.

[@eoinmurphy5757]

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

[@joshuab4586]

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.

[@caseycopeland626]

Its fun to discuss these can’t wait to watch. Even with the plot holes it’s still one of the best series ever written!

[@canteventhough]

Ohhh, been waiting for this one.

[@WilliamWizer]

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.

[@mybutthasteeth1347]

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"

[@all-caps3927]

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.

[@sprokenvansami3134]

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.

[@georockstar09]

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

[@CattyCycler]

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.

[@dannylagangonzalez6832]

For the first one, it’s likely that Rowling didn’t think of Pettigrew’s character until after Philosopher’s stone was published, but thought it was too good of an idea that the slight contradiction there was worth having in order to still use that plot for POA. The second one is probably just a writing mistake.

[@BaRaKa667]

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.

[@emanuelenegroni6824]

I totally agree, this is a plot hole

[@andyiswonderful]

Very good plot holes. How about these? 1) How is it possible that first year students are unaware of the sorting hat? Even Ron, who has 4 older brothers, has never heard of it? 2) Judging from the mountains of stuff hidden in the Room of Requirement, how is it possible that its existence is such a secret, even to Dumbledore? 3) Why bother with a portkey or flue powder when most wizards and witches can simply disapparate? 4) At the Quidditch tournament, the Weasleys use some enlargement charm to make their puny tent into a huge, comfortable house. So, why didn't they use it on their own, actual humble residence? 5) In Bellatrix's vault, the gemini curse causes her valuable objects to multiply. Why don't witches and wizards use it on galleons? (I suppose it would crash the magical economy, but that is besides the point.) 6) Why didn't Dumbledore give Petunia Dursley a method to contact him in case of emergencies?

[@cherylbradley5356]

These facts are all true. To me, the thought is this...This lady who was writing these books on cafe napkins because she couldn't afford to buy paper, never dreamed so far into the future of herself, Harry Potter, or any of the people associated with him. I believe she did a tremendous job being un-taught and un-able to see any kind of future of Harry. She wrote what came to her and did an excellent job. Years later, people are picking apart her plots in her books like she had been a pro, producing books for decades. She is not Stephan King, folks. Give this beautiful woman a break and get over all of this pick pick pick. Why do we do this to each other in this day??? Let this lady, who gave us Harry Potter, be happy with herself instead of trying to make her feel that she didn't do enough, explain enough, go far enough. Let It Be. Let Her Be. GEEZ. Leave this beautiful story teller alone for goodness sakes. I said it and I stand by it.

[@JonnyMcD]

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.

[@Dalorian1]

@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???

[@cwispygiraffe]

Yes!!! That's what I'm saying. They're NOT easy to make

[@cwispygiraffe]

But then again, Moody is in the order and has a large stock of the potion

[@Erik-um1zn]

Most of these 'plot holes' have reasonably decent explanations in the text of the story itself. Meanwhile, you missed one of the biggest plot holes in the books: How is Snape, a known murder suspect on the run from the Ministry and the Order, getting instructions from Dumbledore's portrait to confound Mundungus Fletch into coming up with the 7 Potters plan to get Harry away from Privet Drive for the last time?

[@DevilFootball6910]

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

[@theweedishchef420]

Love this sort of topic

[@gestaltdude]

There is a misconception regarding muggle technology. Electronic devices will not work, but Colin's camera didn't rely on electricity, as it was a purely mechanical device with levers and gears. I wont deny being unable to explain the operation of the flash attachment, but if the camera itself would have been fine anywhere in the castle, assuming there was sufficient light. Even the book mention the antique record player used to play music for the dancing lessons, as again, it was a mechanical device that turned the physical vibration of the stylus running through the grooves of the record into sound vibrations. The issue regarding "cracking the map" would be related to their brother Charlie's chosen field. It is possible to determine whether an object has been enchanted, plus what the enchantment is. Once you know that, it would be safe to assume it would also be possible, through means possible taught outside of Hogwart's, what conditions need to be met to safely use an item. In other words, it would be not dissimilar to being a curse breaker, a task that would surely require more than luck to do the job safely. Reverse thaumaturgy, if you will.

[@alexandersims1613]

1. Do you make everyone sign a contract for everything they (and you) come to an agreement on? 2. They don't care that much about their brother. They also said they didn't really need it anymore, so it's possible they didn't even use it recently. 3. I'm sure there are a lot of locking charms that will encode any unlocking charms used on it. 4. It's enchanted 5. It's well established that the brothers possess ingenuity vastly beyond all students and most teachers. They're also shown to be relentless, almost vindictive, to anything that gets in their way. I could see them taking years to not let the password get the best of them. Also, the map talks back, they could have used context clues from the responses to get the magical opening charm. 6. Fair 7. Harry always rushes recklessly. That's why his growth in the last book is so impressive. 8. No idea 9. Pollyjuice potion was complex to make and took time. 10. JK answer is good enough for me. 11. Neville never experienced the torture experiences, or any bad ones really, first hand at a decent age. 12. The timing window can be whatever the creator wants it to be. 13. Why don't we use chemical compounds to force confessions out of suspected criminals? Not legal...obviously. 14. He didn't have a reason to live. The newspaper sparked his desire to survive and protect Harry. 15. Movies are wrong.

[@KCchamberlain3711]

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

[@benvanburen5633]

Snape and Mad Eye saw creators and descendants on the map so you're wrong there. But yeah, when Fred and George tried to use the paper to see what it was the map would have said something to them like when Snape first tries to reveal its secrets. They would have then been able to figure it out from there since the map and its creators would have wanted people like Fred and George to use it.

[@oddish4352]

- According to Rowling, the Marauders Map (which is canonically revealed to be able to think for itself, as seen when it insults Snape) sensed that it had found worthy users, and it dropped a series of hints to the twins, allowing them to figure out the password. - Harry didn't discover Sirius's mirror until after his death. - Rowling said after GoF that Dumbledore was 150 and Mcgonagall was 70. But since Dumbledore's age was later reduced to 117 at his death, who knows about Minerva? - Because polyjuice only works for an hour, its usefulness is kind of limited. And maybe Sirius wasn't much of a potion maker. - Portkeys almost certainly can activate in different ways. The one in the maze was triggered by touch, rather than being on a timer. - Rowling says that a highly skilled wizard can use legilimency to fool veritaserum. - Here's mine. Moaning Myrtle says NO ONE ever asked her about her death. Given that she was eyewitness to her own murder, it seems almost certain that someone would. Especially Dumbledore, since he believed Hagrid was innocent. Five minutes with Myrtle would have established that she died by Basilisk, not Acromantula, exonerated Hagrid, and cast serious eyes on Tom Riddle.