Top 10 Harry Potter Movie Questions That Were Answered in the Books

When you have a book series as dense as this one, some things are bound to be left on the cutting room floor. For this list, we’ll be going over the unexplained plot points from the enchanting series that were fully explored on the page. Our countdown includes Why Does the Defense Teacher Always Change?, Why Couldn’t Harry See Thestrals Earlier?, How Did Voldemort’s Followers Find the Trio?, and more! If there’s a wizarding question we magically left off our list, please take your quills to the comments. Not really though - it scratches up your keyboards and phones.
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[@trinaq]

Books always do a better job of explaining, since there's more time for exposition. I wished that they'd featured Neville's parents in the hospital in the fifth movie.

[@keirarees3179]

I highly recommend to anyone wanting to watch the films to read the books first, it explains so much more than the films ever did. Not to mention the chemistry was far better. I wish we had Neville’s parents, Hermione obsessed with House Elves, Peeves, better lead up to both relationships.

[@lillykennedy2135]

In Deathly Hallows part 1, when the trio is brought to Malfoy Manor, Bellatrix briefly mentions checking what Hermione’s last spell was (jinxing Harry’s face to disguise him). They never show the wand check on screen. The ability to tell the last spell a wizard used was introduced in the fourth book. After the World Cup, Harry loses his wand, and Barty Crouch, Jr., finds it, and that’s how he creates the Dark Mark. When Harry, the Weasleys, and Ministry of Magic officials find the wand later, they do the wand check and find out Harry’s wand was used to create the Dark Mark. They also found the wand in the hands of Winky, who was Barty Crouch, Sr.’s house-elf. Believing she created the Dark Mark, he gives her clothes and fires her.

[@selinakurz8754]

LUPIN'S THE BEST DEFENCE AGAINST THE DARK ARTS TEACHER🥺

[@user-ix1rp9ff3p]

...that we ever saw within the 1991-1997 timeframe

[@SlytherinReviews]

Agreed

[@annafowdy]

You forgot to mention that three of the Marauders were Animagi and that their names referred to the animals they transformed into. Prongs (James) was a stag, Padfoot (Sirius) was a dog, and Wormtail (the traitor) was, fittingly, a rat.

[@sarahjamieson5552]

In addition to the natural constraints of films, they also suffer from what I call "premature screen adaptation". This is where movie or television versions of a literary source material are developed before all of books in the source material have been written. This means if there are small bits of character development, or minor plot points, or even some character introductions that the film makers spend little or even no time on because they feel they don't really have too much impact on the story but in the books released subsequent to the early movie productions it becomes clear that those previous minor stories are much more relevant to later plot development and so when the movies get to the later plot development there can be things that seem forced into dialogue, things happen for reasons the viewer doesn't fully get, aspects of character behaviour that isn't explained or is confusing or even what seems like complete gaps in the narrative.

[@tinas_hotdog_sophie]

I haven't watched more than PS in the past ten years but listen to the books every night and I am seriously baffled how people who have only seen the films caught up. Those are some massive plot points.

[@Omar-wq9dz]

Film adaptations can’t have absolutely everything the books have because of a limited runtime. The TV show may have everything because of more time to flesh everything out

[@Spike-ex5bp]

But that's not an excuse for leaving out important details and in the case of half blood prince and deathly hallows introduce characters without actually introducing them or even letting the viewers know their name.

[@cmzf947]

YES!!!! Thank you. Finally someone else realises that.

[@jcj268]

The TV show better have cameos by the movie actors

[@jimmyhook4852]

Exactly. :)

[@lighteningwilsonofficial]

Not always 2 hour is enough time to flush out the books

[@sunnygirl523]

This is why I can’t wait for the Harry Potter series cuz it will include everything from the books hopefully the part where snape calls lily a mudblood ❤

[@jimmyhook4852]

Indeed =3 And I'm excited for hopefully seeing the Quidditch Matches that were cut. ^^

[@SlytherinReviews]

The reason Harry couldn't see the Thestrals is because the concept of death to a baby is one that they wouldn't be able to understand until later years, seeing Cedric die in front of him, Harry can see the Thestrals. It's like In Hogwarts Legacy after you create your character and the death of one Minstery of Magic Worker

[@giuliapicchiotti]

I really hope that if in the end they will really develop the television series on HP, the authors dedicate an entire episode to the Marauders and everything that as to do with them, and that they cast the characters as the right age that they were in the books !!! .

[@kleine.5438]

I kind of wish some of these were in the actual movies

[@TheVicvega26]

They'll probably be in the series whenever that comes out. Expected in 2025.

[@samuelcollantes1175]

Happy sunday afternoon, Rebecca, take care and God bless you. Greetings from Colombia to you as well.

[@katherineknapp4370]

Thank goodness my dad passed down his love of reading to me and introduced me to the Harry Potter series.

[@jimmyhook4852]

Just you wait: When the TV Series from Max comes out in two years time, we'll see these questions be showed properly albeit on the small screen in full just like from the books. ^^

[@laughingdog6007]

I always wondered how Dumbledore knew to look for the ring and locket before he had seen Slughorn's unaltered memory explaining the horcruxes.

[@cashallez]

In the books Dumbledore already knew about the horcruxes. He just needed Harry to get confirmation of the number of horcruxes from Slughorn; 7, 3, 13?

[@broniebrothers5509]

Can the books answer this: How did Remus Lupin become a werewolf in the first place

[@samwetherhold08]

The books did: Lupin was turned as a child, by Fenrir Greyback, as punishment for something Lupin's father did.

[@annafowdy]

Another thing, we never meet Ted and Andromeda Tonks (though I did see Andromeda in the game Hogwarts Mystery).

[@anniedonahue3089]

I love Harry Potter. Such a timeless series

[@user-ix1rp9ff3p]

how dare you describe the Gaunts as merely "Voldemort's relative[s]" when they were in fact *Voldemort's maternal family as well as the last descendants of Salazar Slytherin* (before anyone can breathe 1. Isolt Sayre's children Martha Steward was a Squib and Rionach Steward died as a spinster allegedly due to being a Parselmouth 2. There is no Cursed Child in Ba Sing Se) the Taboo revelation was a deleted scene

[@justineves3588]

Very very great epic list I like it a lot very very great job mis mojo one of my absolute favorite list ever 😊❤

[@alexking5429]

I know pretty much everything in Harry Potter

[@TheVicvega26]

Madeye calls him Padfoot when he's in dog form. I think it was in Order of the Phoenix. He was walking next to Tonks on a bridge.

[@queenofdisney4932]

I love Harry Potter

[@DANNYTHEFROG123]

It was important to know why Snape had a 1 year timeline

[@charleysonnydickinsonvuori7833]

even if they had taken a few seconds or minutes to explain who the Mauraders were in the third film I still son't think Harry would use Sirius name in front of Umbridge when trying to tell Snape that he thinks Sirius has been kidnapped by Voldemort. He wouldn't want to say that in front of the horrible woman seeing as she's probably one of the people who firmly believe that Sirius is a mass murderer. Because they didn't get the chance to prove the man's innocence in PoA.

[@aleksandrakettner905]

❤❤❤

[@blobitz9648]

Just for clarity the Defence against the Dark Arts Position being cursed is just a theory right? There's no actual tangible evidence in the books that it was actually cursed and people just theorized it was based on something Dumbledore said to Harry?

[@JamesDavy2009]

There were rumours that a jinx was placed on the job even prior to the so-called confirmation. It also didn't only affect people officially hired for the job. Harry himself fell victim to the jinx thanks to Marietta Edgecombe squealing to Umbridge about it and falling victim to the hex on the sign-in sheet in the form of the word "SNEAK" appearing on her forehead spelled out in pimples.

[@Aloharayray808]

Anyone else read books like the Harry Potter books. And can visually visualize what you’re reading when reading I know I can

[@evangelinecheng1222]

Helena bonahm Carter isn’t too bad either, she was a thenadier in the movie version of Les Mis

[@kimturner282]

I disagree with #6. He took a boat with the rest of the first years in the first book and missed the Thestrals in the second book because he and Ron took the car and were late. That was reason I thought

[@chetoyou22]

Why did the brothers give the map to Harry and not their own brother Ron.

[@CollinFeatherston]

Rebecca, you are so good!!! I love your voice (and you are really HOT!)

[@richardhoehn9922]

I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.

[@singlelady-US]

In my childhood, I still let my children watch this movie