The Harry Potter series is rightfully beloved by millions of children and adults who grew up r🤪eading or watching these movies. Back then we had no care other than to be sucked into this beautiful and appropri💯ately magical world with endless possibilities.
However, any ardent Harry Potter fan worth their salt has to have run into a large number of plot holes as they read the series repeatedly. It is unfortunate, then, that many of these plot holes are quite large that identifying them will make you realize just how absurd many matters of the Harry Potter world are and how 🔴they would never be possible if logical thinking were to be applied.
In all honesty, these mistakes are flat out dumb but J.K Rowling can be given a free pass here owing to the vast world she has created, which means it must have been crazy to keep track of all things at all times. But if you consider youওrself🃏 to be a real Potterhead and you haven’t seen these plot holes before, then get ready to have your perfect world tarnished because you can never ‘unsee’ these problems again.
For the most part they are quite hilarious and if you have a good sense of humor you can share a laugh with your fellow Potter fans and search for more flaws in the series. What is guaranteed, though, is that these plot 🔥holes are just too striking to overlook.
So without further ado, Here are 25 Plot Holes in the Harry Potter Series We Just Can’t Ig🐼nore.
25 I Wonder
Seriously, didn’t anyone think of this the first time they read Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone? Ollivander charges Harry seven galleons for his wand, the wand, keep in mind, which is said to be meant for him, the wand thatও is extremely crucial to t👍he entire story line, and has a connection to Voldemort and Dumbledore. And it cost only seven galleons!
In fact, every wand seems to cost that much, and they are supposed to stay with the witch and wizard for a lifeti𓂃me. So what kind of business is he running? The most money he makes is once a year when a handful of children show up for their first, and probably only, wands and then go of𓆉f to Hogwarts while Ollivander probably sits in his shop all alone with little to no business for another year. No wonder he seemed rather off. Curious, right?
24 Are You Smarter 𒁏Than A F𒈔ifth Grader?
Did it ever cross your mind that Hogwarts children are probably the dumbest graduates ever? They are taught none of the skills that are required to survive in the real world. No doubt they wouldn’t even be able to point out Britain on the map because they don’t study Geography. The only classes that seem to be useful are Muggle Studies and History of Magic, but these are shu𓆏nned by stu𝄹dents in general. So how are these people supposed to learn how to do Math? Are they capable of division or multiplication?
Classes gen🅰erally consist of learning spells such as turning teacups into rats, but how is that useful in any way? Hogwarts is simply sealing these kids up for seven years without giving them anything useful for 🙈the rest of their lives. Yikes!
23 Worst Daughter Ever 🦋
Hermione is the best at a large number of things, but she’s the worst daughter ever. In every book starting from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Hermione is shown to be staying the Weasleys before Harry shows up, and as Harry usually shows up barely within a month of school ending, Hermione had to have been there a few weeks prior. Considering she never goes home for the holidays while at Hogwarts, this means Hermione hardly ev﷽er see⛎s her parents.
So we’re meant 🍌to believe her parents let their only daughter stay away from them for basically seven years of her growing life! The poor old couple only have her at home around two weeks a year before she ditches them for her friends🐬. And then she places a memory charm on them so they forget her. Maybe she didn’t need to do that, considering they never saw her anyway.
22 ﷽ 🔜 Bring Me Food
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows establishes that fꦫood can’t be produced by magical means, but can be summoned. This explains why the trio is wrought with starvation in their time in the woods. But magic can still make finding food easily, if they just clunked their noggins together a bit.
The Accio spell is used quit a lot to summon all kinds of objects, so wouldn’t it have made finding food a whole lot simple if any one of them had cast that spell to gather nourishment? They could use Accio to capture a prey𒅌 in the woods or summon vegetables from nearby farms. But this never strikes them, and the trio spends many days starving. Come on, Hermione, we expected more smarts from you.
21 🌺 Simple Solution
The entire Triwizard tournament was used as a ruse to deliver Harry to Voldemort. It took a whole year of meticulous planning to make it so, and itꦬ is finally executed upon Harry touching the cup which had been turned into a portkey. But we’re not so quick to pat Voldemort in the back for a job well done.
Considering the impostor Moody was around Harry the whole year, he had multiple opportunities to turn any old thing into a portkey and trick Harry into touching it. Making a portkey is extremely easy, as the spell is seen numerous times. Then why go through all that effort when the impostor Moody could have summoned Ha💫rry under any false pretenses and transported him to Voldemort? Would’ve saved a lot of time, and honestly would’ve been much more discreet as Harry would’ve basically vanished from everyone’s point of view.
20 Eye See𒁏 You
The Deathly Hallows aren’t really all that powerful, considering there are many ways once can go around them. For instance, take the Invisibili𝓡ty Cloak, which can be seen through Mad Eye Moody’s eye. This was exploited by Dolores Umbrid🍬ge after Moody’s death. Umbridge was probably the only smart person here, as nobody else ever had the good sense to employ such an effective security measure.
Harry and his pals are even able to rob Gringotts ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚdue to being under the Invisibility cloak. You’d think Wizards would have gotten wiser over this and started using devices such as Mooody’s eye to prevent anyone robbing them using an invisibility cloak. It doesn’t seem like the eye was created by Moody himself, as he never displayed any genius level of intellect that would indicate he had the ability to invent it.
19 Dude, Where's My Entertainment? 𝄹
The Quidditch tournament in Hoඣgwarts was specifically cancelled to make room for the Triwizard tournament, but honestly, what a total waste that was. Who did the tournament benefit in any way? Atꦰ least in Quidditch you get to have multiple matches where many people can partake and the crowd can actually witness it.
𝓰The Triwizard tournament has to be the most boring competition ever. Except for the First Task, which at l⛦east provided some spectacle for viewers, the other tasks had nothing for fans who just had to stare at the lake for over an hour in the second task or stare at hedges for several painstaking hours in the third. The champions themselves had a torrid time trying to figure out puzzles and evade fatal situations, so what was the fun in any of this?
18 Anybody Wat🌠ching?
J.K Rowling clearly never paid much attention to the nu💎mbers when crafting the Wizarding world because the population just doesn’t add up. She claims Hogwarts has over a thousand students but we never see that many.
In the same vein, Quidditch has this issue, as it is supposed to be a sport watched by thousands of people. But considering that there aren't that many people in Britain, especially magical folk, their matches must be in empty stadiums. The Qu🤪idditch league has nine teams but there’s no way these matches must have high viewership as children are at Hogwarts the whole year and adults are at their jobs. There are no televisions or internet facilities for wizards, so Quidditch matches must be like a deserted town with no one to cheer on.
17 I'm Bored
Maybe this generation has become far too reliant on technology. Maybe that’s a bad thing, but there’s no denying technology has done a lot good for us as far as recreational time is concerned. The Harry Potter universe ﷺwizards have no such option, and their free time is spent just lying around waving their wands and conjuring silly spells 🐭for entertainment.
In a scene from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, this can be noticed when Ron, Ginny, and Harry are sitting around eating cakes and looking utterly bored as they have nothing to pass the time. What makes this absurd is that they do have access to all the cool technology, seeing as they live in the (90s) modern world. But wizards are so backwards they’d rather bo♒re themselves to no end.
16 A Binding Contract 𝔉
In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the concept of the Unbreakable Vow is introduced which involves two people entering a binding contract, failure of which to follow through with would mean the cessation of life to the one who breaks the vow. There was a neat explanation provided here but none in the matter of The Goblet of Fire.
In said book, Harry is unwillingly entered in the Triwizard tournament, when the Boy Who Lived attempts to get ꦰout of the situation he is flatly denied with the reasoning given that he had entered a ‘binding’ magical contract’. However, it is never explained what that is. Surely it can’t be serious, considering he was only 14 years old and the tou🍃rnament was meant to be for the sake of entertainment!