Harry Potter plotholes/ goofs that really annoy you

[Aproductofmyera80s]

I absolutely love Harry Potter, I watch it twice a year, would watch it more if I had the time. One plothole that gets me every time, so Fred and George had the marauders map all that time and didn’t notice that Ron’s rat was Peter pettigrew?
every time I watch it, it grinds my gears.
any one else notice anything?

Plus the two older boys were working weren't they? In good jobs, and they seem like the kind of family who would financially support each other.

If you haven't read the books, you should. So much more is explained. Can't wait for the new series

He gives them the winnings at the end of the book (way more the 30), but they make a big bet (around 30) at the quidich Cup, so where did they get that?

They presumably they aren't getting pocket money, at least not in those amounts, so maybe selling stuff at school? But then they haven't developed much yet and do the other kids really have enough disposable income to facilitate that? If you accept 1G buys you 5xbooks & cloths for a year & a wand, so equivalent to at least £100, even with second hand. Are any parent really giving their kids more then a couple of G a year.

I read the slytherins were sent away so that they wouldn't have to fight their parents

Harry didn't kill Quirel. Voldermort did

He did regret not using it! It's literally in the book! He then throws it in his trunk and smashes it. Which is why he then cuts his hand on it in book seven when he is packing to leave.

Not really a plothole, but we know that James and Lily were in their early twenties when they died, when Harry was 1.

So the adults who were the same age should be no more than 20/21 years older than Harry. Snape should be in his early thirties in the first film, Lupin and Sirius mid-thirties in the third film. Petunia is younger than Lily so should be late twenties in the first film. The actors are all much older than that. Fiona Shaw was mid forties and Alan Rickman was mid fifties in the first film.
It doesn't irritate me too much because Alan Rickman is perfect in it. But it's a bit annoying.

This drives me nuts!

Bad enough film Harry had blue eyes not green but 'you have yours mother's eyes' - erm...

Not a plot hole, but it bothers me that Aberforth tells Harry that Mundungus told him that Harry would be ‘hacked off’ if he discovered Aberforth had the mirror. It sounds such an unlikely expression for an elderly wizard to use.

Also, Hermione’s parents were in the bookshop in the Chamber of Secrets; who told the muggle parents how to get there? Would someone have to go with them? Or would they go via the pub that no muggles would even have noticed? Same for getting on to platform 9&3/4s.

And why didn’t Harry and Ron just wait five bloody minutes to see if the Weasleys did come back through the wall, rather than immediately steal the car?

And the dress robes! The Yule Ball is held every 4 years at Hogwarts. The Weasleys are aged as follows;

• Bill Weasley - 1970.
• Charlie Weasley - 1972.
• Percy Weasley - 1976.
• Fred and George Weasley - 1978.
• Ron Weasley - 1980.

So it’s a reasonable assumption that Bill, Charlie or Percy would also have worn hand me down robes at some point, if not those same robes. So how come Fred & George got decent robes?

He did. End of book 2.

You can't dissaperate from inside a house protected by a fidalius charm. You have to be just outside the boundary.

My red-haired brother and niece have blue eyes - only anecdotal evidence of course and I googled it, yes, it's the rarest combination.

Wasn't it Ron who said this, when they were sorted by the Sorting Hat?
Or was that just in the film and not in the book?

Very succinct explanation! Are you JKR?!

Petunia was older than Lilly

Killing Peter Pettigrew

No the Yule ball only happens when the triwizard happens. It hadn't been played in years.
Fred and George bought their own dress robes with money they earned through their various schemes!

No, it was Hagrid. But I think Hagrid saying this was plausible, even though not technically correct. People often have preconceptions and "Slytherin = evil house" is the kind of preconception that sticks with you so you'll write exceptions off as exceptions.

Hagrid did exaggerate/get details wrong on a number of occasions.

I always thought it was weird that Hagrid and Voldemort must have been like at least 62 years old.

I found this annoying too and I am weird apparently but I really disliked Alan Rickman as Snape, he wasn't anything how I imagined Snape to be. I saw him much thinner, wiry, his hair was too clean.

They did enough CGI in the films, I feel like they could have changed people's eye colour by CGI!

Was this in the book? I would put folding money on Ron saying it to Harry as they were waiting to get Sorted, Malfoy gets Sorted into Slytherin, Ron says 'there wasn't a witch or wizard that went bad that wasn't in Slytherin ' and that helps prompt Harry to keep saying 'anything but Slytherin' when he is under the Sorting Hat.....

All true except Petunia is older than Lily

Harry moved closer to the boy. Snape looked no more than nine or ten years old, sallow, small, stringy. There was undisguised greed in his thin face as he watched the younger of the two girls swinging higher and higher than her sister.

“Lily, don’t do it!” shrieked the elder of the two.

However, in defence of the films, we don't get ages for the parents' generation until DH (their birth dates are on the gravestone) which came out several years after the first film had been made and the actors long since cast. No one knew they were all supposed to be so young until the very end and - as JKR is notoriously poor at maths - she might not have even intended for them to be as young as they ended up... I just can't imagine that she really planned for Lily to be pregnant at 19.

(in the film)

Yes - it's in the book, during the shopping trip to Diagon Alley. In the film, Ron says it.

I have so many posts I need to quote and explain but can't!

Lots of things are explained in the books and lots annoyed me at the time with the books.

It is used, in the Deathly Hallows.