J.K. Rowling's fondness for retconning Harry Potter lore in the name of "expansion" or clarification of details (sometimes without any call from fans) is well-publicised. The Wizarding World is better considered a sprawling web of ideas, some of whose connections can be reformed at any given point. In some respects, that fluidity in discipline is admirable, as it opens narrative doors, but it also means the Harry Potter movie series had a tendency to openly flaunt some of its own rules.
Clearly, the Potterverse has been built and refurbished on the foundation of tight lore and rules. Like the MCU, Middle-earth, and Star Trek, the compendiums accompanying the primary texts threaten to overrun them in length and scope. Every spell has an origin, a set of defining uses, results, and rules, every wand a spectrum of characteristics, every portrait in Hogwarts a personal history. Put the wrong counter-curse with a curse and there's a quick recipe to chaos or worse.
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And yet, across the Harry Potter film series (and indeed the books behind them), J.K. Rowling and those who adapted her works took certain creative liberties ranging from outright plotholes to convenient retcons that undermined the very fabric of her lore. Because over and over, the Wizarding World creators broke their own established rules.
Casting Riddikulus Defeats A Boggart
The rule of defeating a Boggart is fairly simple - provided the spell caster is able to put aside their own fears - it is, as Professor Lupin instructs, to concentrate on transforming the creature's fear-inspired form into something ridiculous. Laughter is, after all, the best medicine in defeating a Boggart. Only, in the process of giving Harry Potter some one-on-one Defence Against The Dark Arts lessons, Professor Lupin teaches his young charge something else entirely. In Prisoner Of Azkaban, Lupin gives Harry tips on conjuring a Patronus, using a Boggart, whose form in Potter's presence is a Dementor. The trouble here is that a Patronus is no more useful in defeating a Boggart than a Weasley's Puking Pastel would be. So to see the Dementor defeated using a Patronus makes no sense at all.
The Wizarding World Has No Dentists
One of the great sources of enjoyment in the Harry Potter movies is watching Mark Williams' Arthur Weasley delightedly bumble his way around so-called "Muggle artifacts" with a wonder matched only by his ignorance. His line, "What exactly is the function of a rubber duck?" not only serves to make him a bit of a comic figure but also reminds the audience that Muggles are just as strange to magical folk as is true in reverse. This is important as it draws lines between the worlds.
Professor Slughorn later doubles down on this when he asks Hermione Granger what her parents do for work and is then flabbergasted to discover they are dentists. He (and some of his guests) react as if the profession is entirely new to them, and yet in the Philosopher's Stone a dentist's sign can be seen in Diagon Alley, while in Chamber of Secrets Molly Weasley's family tracking device includes a Dentist option. So they clearly exist. Perhaps audiences are supposed to believe Slughorn is merely an idiot?
The Trace Picks Up Magical Usage Around Underage Wizards
The idea of the Trace, in theory, is very clever. It controls what magic can be used and who can do so, presumably after the Trace charm is placed on them by the Ministry or Hogwarts (otherwise incidents of accidental magic, like Harry's accidental snake jailbreak would lead to confusing juvenile trials). Only the Trace isn't fit for purpose because it cannot detect who actually practiced the magic specifically, just that it was done in the vicinity of a child prohibited to do so.
That loophole was written in so that Harry Potter could be accused of Dobby's crimes in Chamber Of Secrets, but all it led to was a series of rule-breaking cases that should - in theory - have resulted in criminal trials before the Wizengamot. For instance, any time a Weasley parent did magic near their children, why weren't magical SWAT teams sent to the Burrow? And more specifically, in Order Of The Phoenix, Nymphadora Tonks casts both "Scourgify" and "Locomotor Trunk" within Privet Drive with no comeuppance for Harry.
Polyjuice Potion Doesn’t Last
As anyone capable of conjuring the image of Barty Crouch Jr masquerading as Mad-Eye Moody in Goblet Of Fire will remember, the art of Polyjuice Potion disguise requires regularly sucking on a hipflask of the concoction in order to maintain its effects. It is, as firmly established from its first use in the movies, a temporary transformation. That makes the reality of Barty Crouch Jr's escape from Azkaban - which isn't explicitly mentioned in the movies, but is an assumed backstory (since it's never overwritten) - difficult to accept. In his escape, he was replaced by his dying mother, transformed by Polyjuice Potion, who sacrificed herself so he could be free.
Only that doesn't work if Polyjuice Potion runs out so quickly. Her supply should have run out, but for the plan to have worked, she had to be buried (presumably by humans) who would be considerably less easily duped than Dementors unless she still somehow looked like her son.
The Punishment For Breaking Out Of Azkaban Is A Dementor’s Kiss
The Dementor's Kiss is supposed to be considered a fate worse than death (despite the fact that Sirius Black and Harry Potter - twice - survived partial Kisses mostly unharmed) and punishment so extreme that it is officially only used for the crime of escaping Azkaban. Barty Crouch Jr suffers that very fate after the events of Goblet Of Fire, after all. But what of the other Death Eaters who escaped Azkaban alongside Bellatrix Lestrange in the 1996 mass breakout? Not one of them suffers the Dementor's Kiss and all are free to escape again in 1997 to rejoin Lord Voldemort's bid to destroy Harry Potter. How?
Those Who Have Witnessed Death Can See Thestrals
As Luna Lovegood so tragically recounts to Harry Potter in Order Of The Phoenix, only those who have witnessed death can see a Thestral. Luna is able to after witnessing the death of her mother in an unfortunate accident when she was 9 and Harry can see them because he too has witnessed death. Only, Harry cannot see Thestrals prior to Order Of The Phoenix, despite already having witnessed death. Sure, he witnessed his mother's death as an infant, so couldn't process it, which gives some explanation, but then he should have been able to see them following Cedric Diggory's death or Professor Quirrell's at the end of Philosopher's Stone.
In this case, the rule break was covered by post-release retconning to suggest the death had to be fully processed before Thestrals would appear, which sounds like no more than contrived housekeeping. Since Harry had not processed Cedric's death until weeks later, he was blind to the Thestrals. That doesn't fix the fact that he witnessed Quirrell's death much earlier. Here, J.K. Rowling's excuse that he was unconscious at the time of death doesn't work for the movies as Quirrell dies in front of Harry, at Harry's own hand. So from there on, he should have been able to see the Thestrals.
The Rules Of How A Portkey Works
The rules of a Portkey are complex, but essentially it boils down to the fact that there are two types: one can be enchanted to transport the user to a pre-determined location at any time when touched and the other only leaves at a pre-determined time, like a bus or train. Once used, the Portkey reverts to non-magical state, lest it be accidentally used by Muggles or becomes a security risk more generally.
Those rules are broken in Harry Potter movies under the guise of magical loopholes. For instance, at the Quidditch World Cup in Goblet Of Fire, the Weasleys, Diggorys, and Harry use a timed Portkey to arrive with no issues. But when the event is attacked, they all flee to the Portkey at Arthur's behest and seemingly leave when they touch it. A Portkey cannot be both kinds of Portkey at once and it's never stated how they're able to reuse it.
And then in later in Goblet Of Fire, viewers are introduced to perhaps the most important of all of the Wizarding World's Portkeys: the TriWizard Cup, which Barty Crouch Jr has turned into a Portkey to teleport Harry Potter to his master. It later becomes the means by which Harry escapes back to Hogwarts, only quite apart from the repeated use, the Portkey also somehow manages to transport him to an entirely different place within the grounds from where he and Cedric left. This too is not possible per the established rules.
You Can’t Apparate On Hogwarts Grounds
In Half-Blood Prince, Dumbledore tells Harry that it is "usually impossible to Apparate or Disapparate within Hogwarts" thanks to an enchantment. The same story also establishes that Dumbledore himself can navigate that restriction as being him comes with certain privileges, presumably because, as Headmaster, he has some control over the enchantments guarding the school. But jump forward to the Fantastic Beasts timeline (or backward, more appropriately), and the rule is broken. In The Crimes Of Grindelwald, as early as the trailers, in fact, Ministry officials were shown apparating onto the bridge within Hogwarts grounds, seemingly ignoring the enchantment.
And before it is suggested that the enchantment was only the work of Dumbledore, the headmaster tells Harry in Half-Blood Prince that "most wizarding dwellings are magically protected from unwanted Apparators,” establishing precedent. Not only that but when Snape and Draco Malfoy escape Hogwarts at the end of the same book, they are forced to wait until they've left Hogwarts gates before they can Disapparate. In short, Harry Potter is all terribly inconsistent.
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