TheHarry Potterseries is great,bursting at the seams with its story.

In a way,the entire book pivotson this one newspaper article.

This power makes sense and emphasizes the link between The Boy Who Lived and the Dark Lord.

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It’s a simply ridiculous moment.

This plot point conveniently bypasses the need for a gradual buildup of magical knowledge or any prior foreshadowing.

One of its most saccharine aspects is the fact that pretty much everybody ends up with their childhood sweetheart.

The Weasleys pose in a photo in Egypt in front of the pyramids in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

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The cat sees its reflection in the water.

Colin looks at it through his camera.

For this reason, they’re all petrified rather than killed.

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Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger return to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for their third year of study, where they delve into the mystery surrounding an escaped prisoner, Sirius Black, who poses a dangerous threat to the young wizard.

So much for being a fearsome monster.In this movie, the Basilisk’s score is 0 for 5.

This is all statistically highly unlikely.

The second installment of boy wizard Harry Potter’s adventures at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

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I mean, where did Madame Pomfrey (Gemma Jones) study?

The Hanna-Barbera School of Medicine?

Voldemort had entrusted her with safeguarding it.

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This would be like a senior government official mentioning nuclear secrets in casual conversation.

Voldemort would certainly not be pleased.

Lucius Malfoy (Jason Isaacs) sharing Voldemort’s location on his Instagram story?

Ron talks to Hermione in a dark cavern in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2.

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However, Regulus tells nobody that he’s done this, other than the crotchety house-elf Kreacher.

Why, Regulus?!

Clearly aware of the yawning plot holes she had created,J.K.

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Harry, Ron, and Hermione search for Voldemort’s remaining Horcruxes in their effort to destroy the Dark Lord as the final battle rages on at Hogwarts.

This is certainly one way to quickly eliminate a problematic story element.

While this thankfully does put the time-travel issue somewhat to rest, this moment isincrediblyconvenient, on multiple levels.

The idea that such powerful magical technology would be treated so carelessly is hard to buy.

The Marauder’s Map showing the text “Peter Pettigrew” in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

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Harry races to get in touch with Sirirus -but completely forgets about the mirrors.

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Hermione in a suspended state lying on a bed in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

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The second installment of boy wizard Harry Potter’s adventures at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. A mysterious elf tells Harry to expect trouble during his second year at Hogwarts, but nothing can prepare him for trees that fight back, flying cars, spiders that talk and deadly warnings written in blood on the walls of the school.

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Harry inspects a student who is in suspended animation in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

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Helena Bonham Carter as Bellatrix Lestrange looks shocked in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1.

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Harry holds a locket in ‘Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince’

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Hermione holds a necklace with an hourglass in the middle in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

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With their warning about Lord Voldemort’s return scoffed at, Harry and Dumbledore are targeted by the Wizard authorities as an authoritarian bureaucrat slowly seizes power at Hogwarts.

Harry looks at his reflection in a piece of mirror in ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1’

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