Reacting to 30 Harry Potter PLOT HOLES

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:50 Why couldn't James & Lily be their own Secret Keepers?
1:38 Why could Order members use magic at the Dursley's?
2:56 Why didn't the trio multiply their food?
3:38 Why couldn't Harry see Thestrals earlier?
5:05 Why didn't the twins see Ron sleeping with Peter Pettigrew?
6:37 Why didn't Sirius use Polyjuice Potion instead of turning into a dog?
8:31 Why didn't the Ministry use Veritaserum in court cases?
9:56 The flaw with the 7 Potters
11:46 Why did Polyjuice potion change Barty Crouch Jr's voice?
13:00 Why didn't they use Liquid Luck for the Battle of Hogwarts?
14:31 Why can Harry touch the Sword of Gryffindor?
15:21 Why didn't the Basilisk fang destroy the Horcrux in Harry?
16:43 How did Ron & Hermione get back up when they went to the Chamber of Secrets?
18:00 How did Fred & George know how to get into the Marauders Map?
18:45 Why didn't Voldemort make his Death Eaters make the Unbreakable Vow?
19:38 How did the Death Eaters get their wands back after the Azkaban breakout?
20:27 How did Hagrid fly to the island Harry & the Dursleys were on?
21:09 Inconsistencies with Magical Paintings
22:05 Why didn't Hogwarts do background checks on their professors?
23:38 Why was McGonagall at Hogwarts before she was born?
24:47 Problems with the Wizarding Education System
26:15 Portkey inconsistencies
27:15 The Triwizard Tournament was boring for spectators
28:20 Flaws with the Hogwarts Sorting System
29:34 Why didn't Professors think of Alohomora?
30:24 Why did Charlie give Ron his wand?
31:22 Why could Dennis Creevey go to Hogsmeade as a second year?
32:03 Why didn't Voldemort steal the Prophecy himself?
33:27 How was September 2nd ALWAYS a MONDAY?
34:07 Where did Slytherins go when the Troll was in the school?

[konqurthest]

To really answer the flaw of the 7 potters plot hole you have to remember that Dumbledore told Snape he had to give the Death Eaters the real plan... This means no matter what the plan was it would get interrupted.

[mrsentimental]

For the polyjuice potion voice, it's easy, from a film perspective didn't do that because they wanted the audience to remember it's a disguise. As for Barty as Mad-Eye, he clearly disguised his voice willingly to maintain his cover. It doesn't need overthinking.

[brittneybossidy]

To answer the Alohemora question, in the sixth book when Tonks is walking back up to the castle with Harry after finding him after being attacked by Draco, Harry tried using alohomora but Tonks explained that Dumbledore had bewitched the locks so you couldn’t use that spell. (p.159)

[Xeyxey]

Actually, the one about the death eaters' wands is a really good point. Bellatrix's wand is specifically used as identification, unless we're meant to believe she re-registered her replacement wand at Gringotts following her escape? When she was a fugitive?

I don't think Charlie's wand was one that chose him, either, it probably belonged to one of Molly's brothers, but to Ron it was "Charlie's old wand".

[AntH]

One plot hole that’s always interested me is how Aunt Petunia didn’t know Harry wasn’t allowed to use magic outside of school the summer between his first and second year. Lilly was a witch, so shouldn’t she know that she wasn’t allowed to use magic? I guess you could say she was so jealous of Lilly that she didn’t pay enough attention to her to notice, but it always had my mind wondering.

[annabradshaw]

For plot hole 3 - In the books, they did multiply their food, and Hermione also pointed out that while she could multiply it, it wasn't creating any more nutrition in the food so it was only to satiate their hunger, but the nutrients were still being split in thirds.

For the plot hole of Ron and Hermione getting out of the Chamber of Secrets - they used the flying broom that was in the room with the keys.

As far as the sorting, the houses are much more nuanced than those brief descriptions. Slytherin is not evil, it is for those who will put their ambitions above all else and nurtures that, which, to be fair, does tend to turn out evil tendencies.

Thank you for this fun video!

[MegaGandalf]

Sirius wasn't given a trial. He was thrown straight into Azkaban by Crouch senior.

[papasquatofficial]

I think some people confuse plot holes with characters not making the perfect decisions, because they’re human.

[elainemccormack]

For how Hagrid got to the island to tell Harry he was a wizard, I personally believe he did a Mary Poppins and flew across the water with his umbrella. Im pretty sure he said that his umbrella had pieces of his wand, so it definitely would have been able to do that. I also just think that Hagrid flying over a lake with a pink umbrella would be hilarious.

[LogianoPiano]

Why is ‘impirio’ an UNFORGIVABLE CURSE so regulated but love potions that have similar effects to it?

[hollypennington]

I can't remember where I heard this fan theory, but when you are sorted into a house, it's not based on your personality it's based on what you value most, e.g Neville wasn't brave but he strived to face his fears and meet his peers expectations.

[generallegath]

5:56 This theory that only the four Marauders can see each other on the map falls short when you consider that in the book of Prisoner of Azkaban, Snape tracks Lupin to the Whomping Willow by seeing his movement on the map left open on his desk. Also, in the books, Harry literally sees Peter Pettigrew's name on the map before he is confronted by Snape after a trip out to Hogsmeade.

[matthewpatrick]

McGonagall told Umbridge exactly how many years she'd been teaching in Order of the Phoenix. She was put in the Fantastic Cashgrabs movies as a memberberry, and also to pretend that Dumbledore was the DADA teacher instead of Transfiguration, which was revealed in Chamber of Secrets.

[jojotchen]

I think Ron and Hermione definitely used Broomsticks to get out of the Chamber of Secrets because when they met up with Harry again Ron carried one with his arm.

[Lil_Valor]

7:00
Why would Sirius go through all the trouble concocting quite a difficult potion to use when he literally has the ability to disguise himself.
Choosing to just turn into a dog instead of all those extra steps is something he’d absolutely do

[kalegolas]

The thing with Rons hand-me-down wand also was the case with Neville, Neville had his fathers wand for years.

[griseldamiller]

Also, with the 7 Harries plot, it was imperative for lord Voldemort to put his trust on Snape 100%. And he achieved this by giving lord Voldemort the right date the order was moving Harry.

[brittanyalexis]

With the thestrals thing, maybe Harry was still dealing with Cedric’s death and he just didn’t notice it. When I get depressed or I’m grieving, I get so lost in my head, obvious things will just go unnoticed, so I can kind of understand Harry not seeing them immediately. It’s not that he couldn’t see them, he just wasn’t paying attention.

[lukebaxter]

With Ron and Hermione entering and exiting the Chamber of Secrets, at least in my edition of Deathly Hallows, Ron is described as having a broomstick under his arm, so there you go, not a plothole, they used the broomstick to at least exit the Chamber.

[matthewpatrick]

I'd guess that Charlie's original wand was already a hand-me-down, so as soon as Charlie got a job and could afford it, he finally bought his own wand, giving the hand-me-down back to the family. Then Charlie's old wand was the one in the family pile that worked best for him.