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Harry Potter Plot Holes and Influence

Published September 10, 2017 Felis domestica-licious Leave a Comment
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Long time no write! 🙂

Many friends once told me that Harry Potter book series are way better than the movies. My open hostility towards the bad acting of the trio in the movies (some people will hate me for sure for saying this!) has deterred me from reading the books all these years. Something inside me changed after I visited the Warner Bros. Studio Tour London recently. I started reading Harry Potter. Book after book after working hours and whenever I could squeeze time. The influence of the story on my life is becoming more and more apparent to my close friends and family. I have become a fan now! 🙂

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How was my wand-brandising?

Toot sent me a stray cat photo one day.

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I replied: bottle-brush tail! (which is an exclusive description of Crookshanks in the books)

I texted Toot on another fine day:

Revelation: every time works are eating into too much of my personal time, I go berserk!

I picked up “berserk” from the books!

Re-watching the Harry Potter movies now makes me feel so
.. belonged! Even though I still cringe at the bad acting!

Being a critical person, it’s only natural that I discuss the plot holes of the story with others.

Plot hole 1: So the magical community also celebrates Christmas? Jesus is a wizard?

Plot hole 2: If the magical community can send owls to people without even an address (like how Harry sent Hedwig to Sirius’s hiding place in GoF), then it would be really easy to catch criminals in the magical word!

Plot hole 3: Since the Unlocking Charm (Alohomora) is a charm that unlocks and opens doors and windows that are not protected by magic, why would the magical world be bothered to put on non-bewitched locks at all?

Plot hole 4: Since the Repairing Charm (Reparo) can be used to seamlessly repair a broken object and works on most materials, why is there broken object at all in the magical world?

Plot hole 5: How do wizards and witches get food? Magical farming? How come magical farmer is not on the career list?

Plot hole 6 (this is more like curious question than plot hole): Hagrid is half-giant. A (normal-sized) giant is about 20 ft. in height. How did Hagrid’s mom, who is a giant mate with the dad who is a muggle? Toot commented, “Maybe because Hagrid’s dad is a wizard, he either enlarges himself or shrinks the giant mom.”

Ah
 Enough of break time. I shall go back to book 6 of Harry Potter series!

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