Harry Potter is a franchise that enthralled and entertained fans from all over the globe, and for good reason. The well-realized world, a litany of memorable characters that have become permanent figureheads of pop culture, and an amazing writing display by J.K. Rowling – barring the random arbitrary additions she's made to the series – have all contributed to the mythos of Harry Potter becoming perhaps one of the best and most coveted intellectual properties of all time. The franchise is still going so strong even to this day that the Fantastic Beasts movie series has come up in a bid to satiate fans from all across the globe who were positively hankering for more material. While the quality of the movies in this franchise might be up for debate, one thing is painfully clear – Harry Potter was, is, and continues to be a mainstay of pop culture to﷽ this very day.
In fact, the series is so popular that fans have formed stories upon stories surrounding the fantastical elements of the series. Everything from the spells, to the characters, to the very nature of the universe itself has been up for conversation to a nigh-silly extent. The reason why we describe it as such is because of the fact that some of the assumptions that fans have made when it comes to the series are completely untrue. It's time to dispell these rumors and make sure that they become a thing of the past itself. Here are 25 things about the Harry Potter fr꧋anch🧸ise that are false but everyone believes anyway.
25 The Incantation Is Important F🌊or Casting A Spell
The Harry Potter movies might've been important when it came to ensuring that the franchise truly became mainstream𒐪, but it accomplished this at a pretty heavy cost.
Namely, some of the main🍸stay features of the series were compromised.
One such part is the spells itself. The incantation of the spell is incredibly important to facilitate the casting itself, and there are multiple times during the movie series when this is c🍨ompletely ignored, for the most part. This is especially true from the fifth movie onward when spells are spammed to kingdom come without any regard for the universe's rules.
24 Wizard Duels D🦩on't Involve Frequent Beam Clashes
Another problem that arose because of the movie stems around the spel♈l system itself –again. For the most part, we understand why these changes needed to be made, s𒀰ince replicating the actions scenes from the books into the movies required some changes to make them visually appealing.
The beamౠ clashes were one such way to accomplish💞 the same.
However, the fact of the matter is that not every spell will lead to a Priori Incantatem when they clash. It's a misconception that has warped the minds of most people who know about Harry Potter ♎– or, 🌊at least, they think they know everything about it.
23 🔴 Not All Prophecies Are True – Dumbledore Has Stated That Before
The prophecy about The Boy Who Lived is one of the hard-and-fast facets of Harry Potter that propelled the notion of the story, for the most part. It turned Harry into a 🗹celebrity of sorts and also fuelled Voldemort's ambitions as well.
However, prophecies don't necessarily come true in the Harry Potter universe.
It's ཧa statement that has been echoed by greats like Dumbledore as well, making it kind of befuddling as to why most people believe that all prophecies in t🗹his magical universe will ultimately come to pass.
22 Some Pe𒐪ople Believe That Dumbledore Didn't Care For Harry, Which Is Untrue 🍃
Speaking of Dumbledore, it's time to clear out another assumption that most people made about him. The manner in which Dumbledore treated Harry might seem like he just used him and didn't r⛦eally care for him, but that couldn't be further away from the truth.
What people nee🌳d to keep in mind is that, while Dumbledore did use Harry at certain points during the story, he did it out of necessity, not malice. He truly did care for Harry, helping him grow into a mature person who could lay waste to Voldemort once and for all.
21 ☂ Harry Never Freed Nagini From The Zoo In The Philosopher's St🍸one
There's a weird fan theory making the rounds that, in the first chapter 🍰of Harry's wizarding story, the snake he released from the zoo was actually none other than Nagini itself. However, people with a keen eye for details – or snake𒅌s in general – will quickly dispel this notion as false.
The snake released in the first movie is a boa constrictor, which is not even poisonous, to begin with. This is a contradiction in every sense of the word since Nagini's poison is something we are all too familiar with in the Harry Potter universe.
20 💃 You Can'🐼t Choose Your Animagus Form
Being an Animagus is admittedly quite cool, but one needs to realize that there are limits to this power. While it's all ꦿwell and good to become an animal, the one thing that needs to be clarified is that this❀ choice is not yours – rather, it is thrust upon you.
Sirius and Pettigrew didn't choose to become a mangy 𒁃dog and a rat respectively – rather, they were stuck with what🐲 they got and nothing more. So, don't think that being an Animagus is cool – for all you know, you might turn into a fly that no one could care about.
19 You Can't Be Your Own Secr🧔et Keeper
The concept of being a Secret Keeper is admittedly something that most Harry Potter fans have forgotten, and for good reason. Let us give you a refresh💮er – by using the Fidelius Charm, a secret can be carved into the very soul of a person. So♈, the only person who can divulge the secret is the Secret Keeper itself, and no one else – not even the person who's secret is being kept in the first place.
Some Harry Potter fans have ideated the concept of a looꦰphole that will allow the person with the secret to become his or her own Secret Keeper, but this is just not possible.
18 You Don't Get A Hogwarts Letter Right On Your 1🌱1th Birthday
This one is a common misconception shared by the majority of the Harry Potter fanbase, and for good reason. Most people believe that wizards and witches get their🍌 admission letter into Hogwarts on their 11th birthday, but this isn't even remotely the tr𝐆uth.
Instead, what we need to keep in mind is that Harry's birthday just happened to fall around the same time that the letters were being sent out. There's no correlation – just before the wizarding year begins, every person eligi⭕ble to enroll in the first year will receive🌊 this letter regardless of their birthday.
17 🌳 Hufflepuff Is Not A Lame House ♌
Most people who talk about Hogwarts houses tend to either choose from Gryffindor, Slytherin, or Ravenclaw. Hufflepuff is almost universally i𒉰gnored and laughed at by the fans of the series for some inane reason.
Just because this house is welcoming does not, in the slightest, mean that the members of th🅠e house don't have any unique skills. I mean, the mere fact that the original champion of Hogwarts who would represent the school at the Triwizard Tournament was Cedric Diggory should be more than enough to indicate as to why this house is so competent.
16 Slytherin Is ꧒Not An Evil Ho𝓡use
Another common misconception that most people make when it comes to the houses of Hogwarts is that Slytherin is the house where most people with "evil" 𒁏traits and personalities end up in. While the books and movies might've portrayed Slytherin in a less-than-flattering light, this is not even remotely what Slytherin is all about.
Slytherin is a place where resourceful anꦆd cun🌞ning people pool together to combine their mettle and form something legendary. This is not "evil" in the slightest – although this statement is quite subjective.