1. THE WEIGHING OF WANDS
Wands are the most potent weapons in wizard’s armory. Wands are the medium through a wizard can concentrate his power at a particular point.
In the first book of the illustrious Harry Potter series (philosopher’s stone) Harry is escorted by Hagrid to Diagon alley to purchase first years requirements at Hogwarts. He enters the Olliwander’s wand shop to purchase a wand. Olliwander explains Harry that a wand chooses his wizard but the wizard does not choose his wand. He also tells that no wand of Olliwander’s has the same core, and a wand chooses its master according to his potential (Harry’s mother had a wand suitable for charms and his father had a wand suitable for transfiguration).
But there are many instances in the book where a wizard uses the wand of another with great ease. For instance, Barty Crouch jr. uses Harry’s wand to conjure the dark mark.
Moreover in the third book POA Sirius returns to Hogwarts to avenge his friend’s death and to prove his innocence. This sound quite nice but the ques. I would like to ask is, how did he manage to get a wand of his own in the 5th part?
In the POA Peter runs to his master and in the GOF he also has a wand of his own. His master who had lost his wand at Godric’s hollow also is able to find his wand in the 4th part. Most of the death eaters who duel with Harry at the ministry also appear with their wand even though they were previously at Azkaban as if (all of them went together to shop at a wand sale). THINK ABOUT IT.
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2. THE POTION MASTER
SEVERUS SNAPE has been the dodgiest character in the HP series. He is no doubt the most complex character in the whole series. Even though he has killed Albus Dumbledore in the 6th part but still speculations of him being Dumbledore’s ally are still amidst us.
Though in the 1st book he was truly on Dumbledore’s side then why didn’t he tell old D about prof. Quirrell? Some might counter argue that Snape thought that Quirrell was a meek person and he would not be able to do anything and that Dumbledore was informed by Snape but could not take action against Quirrell. The chances of either of them occurring are mime as a person who can break into Gringotts’s high security vault, try to kill an 11 year old boy, try to steal the Philosophers stone right under old D’s nose is nothing but a dark wizard and after reading all the 6 part of the book I can guarantee you all that if dumbledore had a hint that it was Quirrell he would have nailed him that very moment.
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3. PADFOOT AND WORMTAIL’S SHORTCUT
In the third book POA Harry’s godfather Sirius returns to Hogwarts with a vengeance. But the ques. is how did he get there? He just swam to the main land from middle of the North Sea though it sounds very easy but it is rather impossible. The nearest point U.K.’s mainland is about 650kms from Azkaban (estimated) and the average temp. Of this region in July is about 4 degree Celsius. Imagine a weak man (dog) swimming such a distance at such temp. without food and water.
In the same book Wormtail set to rejoin his master in form of rat and is wand less and of course as we know he succeeded in doing so. But the ques. is how? He could not have apparated, as no one knew the exact location of Voldemort. So this leaves only option that he being a mouse traveled across Europe to Albania, which is 1757kms. from England in less than a month.
THINK ABOUT IT!
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4. HARRY’S FELIX PORTKEY
Portkey would be the best mean of transport in George Lucas film about distant future of muggles. But it is a common household belonging in our world. Through great amount of study of content about portkey given in the book I have deduced the following points. - Portkey is an object which transports a wizard from one place to another instantly by touching it at a predefined time or at that very instant by a simple charm PORTUS.
- It is also mentioned that on retouching the portkey a person would reach you his initial point. As in the GOF.
In the GOF Harry is transported to Voldemort through a portkey set up by his the most loyal death eater. In front of Harry’s eyes a flash of green light murders Cedric just as his parents. And then Harry is forced to acknowledge Voldemort’s resurrection and then he is forced to duel with the dark lord. The only chance of Harry’s survival is to get to the portkey. So Harry breaks the Priori Incantatem and runs for the portkey.
The moment he touches it a familiar jolt in the stomach assures his return to the Hogwarts grounds. However my fellow Sorcerers I would like to ask you all how did Harry reach to starting point of the maze when he should have reached to the middle of the maze where he and Cedric initially touched the portkey. No justification can be found of this peculiar behavior of a portkey but one thing can surely be concluded that JKR did Harry a great favour as Harry was not at all in the condition to carry Cedric and to trace the path back to the starting line.
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5. THE PARSELMOUTH VIRUS (Read Dumbledore- Parselmouth, Memory Bottles… Impostor? For more)
The 2nd book in the illustrious Harry Potter series gives a brief introduction of the magnificent Hogwarts four. We learnt that it none other than Salazar Slytherin who tried to start the discrimination of half bloods and muggles and started the so-called pure blood mania. We also learnt that Salazar was famous for speaking in parseltongue. After the chapter ‘the dueling club’ there are speculations that Harry is the Heir of Slytherin. But in the after some courageous efforts by Harry and Ron, the Slytherin’s monster is destroyed. In the end Dumbledore confirms that Voldemort is the only living descendant of Salazar and also told that due to the rebound of the killing curse some powers of the Dark Lord were transferred into Harry like the ability of speaking parseltongue. Then in the 6th book The Half-Blood Prince our anxiety are raised when we come to know that Harry will take private classes with none than Albus Dumbledore. In the first class Dumbledore takes Harry to Bob Ogden’s memory lane. There we learn a shocking and an indigestible thing, Dumbledore the champions of commoners, the greatest both by on power and in heart can easily understand fluent parseltongue. This gives a platform for many theories and from this some mistakes can also be deduced, as I have done.
Fifty years ago when, the chamber of secrets was opened for the first time, old D was then the transfiguration teacher of Hogwarts. If Dumbledore knew parseltongue why he did not destroy the Slytherin monster then and there. But old D greatness does not allow us to associate him with a dark wizards mark so let us suppose that old D Learn it after the 2nd book or let us assume that JKR made a mistake in the 6th book.
Still, there is a hitch; I firmly believed that old D knew that the monster of the chamber was a basilisk, as he would have surely interrogated moaning Myrtle. In the 2nd book old D knew that COS was indeed open after Colin was attacked so why didn’t old D ask Harry to report anything unusual to him the moment he knew Harry was a parseltongue? WHAT DO YOU THINK?
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6. PRIORI INCANTATEM-THE REVERSE SPELL EFFECT
All the books of the Harry Potter series have one thing in common. In each book Harry dodges death with the help of his tremendous courage of a true Gryffindor, heart of a lion, friends like the musketeers and a cauldron full of luck. We see the same in the 4th book GOF. Harry shows great amount of strength and will power when his friend Cedric in front of his own eyes and also he is forced to see his foe, Voldemort’s resurrection. Then he has to bear the cruciatus curse twice. He then summons the strength to duel the most terrible of them all ‘LORD VOLDEMORT’.
When Harry’s disarming charm and Volde’s killing curse converges in mid air a spectacular bond, which no one has ever seen is formed, The Priori Incantatem. This unnatural phenomenon occurs when two wands of the same core substance are made to duel each other. One of the wands forces the other to regurgitate spells it has performed in reverse. Why didn’t Volde’s wand show the signs of other he had used other than the killing curse?
Moreover the first ghostly figure to come out of his wand was Cedric who was killed by Wormtail. The most probable explanation to this is, Wormtail used Volde’s wand to kill Cedric. But when Volde rises from the cauldron with his new body he slips his long finger into his pocket and takes out his wand, this would not be possible his wand was with wormtail.
Furthermore, after Cedric comes out Frank Bryce, then Bertha Jorkins, then James Potter and finally Lily Potter. Let me take you back to the Halloween 13 years ago, Volde went to the Godric’s Hollow and kills James first and then proceeds towards Harry. Lily sacrificed her life to save her son due to which Volde’s curse backfired. So why did James come ahead of Lily when he was the first to be killed in the order.
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7. THE MOST DANGEROUS UNFORGIVABLE CURSE
(by ANDROS THE INVINCIBLE)
The Last time I checked, the number of Unforgivable Curses was three, namely the Imperius, Cruciatus and of course, Avada Kedavra. The same were demonstrated by Moody and mentioned in the laws.
But check the encounter between Sirius and Wormtail after the death of James and Lily Potter. Wormtail flips his wand out, and kills 13 MUGGLES WITH ONE SINGLE CURSE. The ministry has to use the excuse of a gas Leak!!
Now won’t you call this an Unforgivable Curse?? Killing 13 people with one spell! Also, Avada Kedavra is shown as one single green beam and how will you explain such expansion of power.
Such a powerful curse was never shown being used by Big V himself (or any of his psycho Death Eaters except the puny Wormtail), or even mentioned anywhere else. If a curse of such magnitude existed, it cannot be left unnoticed. If the pathetic wizard wormtail can perform it, then I am sure that big V should have used it- It can finish half the Order of the Phoenix in onw go!
The only other logical explanation is JKR exaggerated herself on POA while showing the encounter between Padfoot and Wormtail, and it is a glitch.
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OTHER MINOR MISTAKES IN THE SERIES
- In the first book Harry gets a letter from Hagrid, which informs him about the other requirements needed at Hogwarts. In that list it is mentioned that students are allowed to bring a cat or an owl or a toad. But Ron brings a rat, Ginny brings a pygmy puff and Lee Jordan brought a tarantula to the school.
- In the 2nd book COS Percy deducts five points from Griffindor when he finds Ron in myrtle’s bathroom, but in the 5th book OOTP we find out that prefects do not have the power to deduct points.
- In the OOTP Hermione has a brilliant idea to form a group, which would be taught defense against the dark arts by Harry. The first meeting is held at hog’s head, Hogsmeade. Among the interested students we are able to trace Colin’s younger brother Dennis, who in the 6th book was in 2nd year. Then how did he manage to get into Hogsmeade when students below the third year are not allowed?
- In the 6th book Harry accompanied by old D visit the village of Budleigh Babberton to meet Slughorn. On reaching his house they found blood on the walls. Later Slughorn tells that it was dragon blood. But in the OOTP Hagrid has quite a no. of injuries due his little brother. He puts dragon meat to soothe his wound from which blood of green color trickles down.
- In the 3rd book POA in the last chapter it is mentioned that Percy had got top grades in his N.E.W.T.s and Fred and George had scraped few owls each. But in the 5th book Hermione enquires about their owl results to McGonagall, she informs that it would be posted in the mid of July.
5 comments:
Dear Paracelsus,
Though Your idea of finding flaws in Harry Potter Series is quite fine, I must say that I found flaws in your flaws (that is to say contradicted your contradictions), as simply as Dumbledore would cunjure an easy incantation (or a difficult one, for that matter). Your rest of the mistakes were commendable.
Let me go at your mistakes one by one:
2. The Potions Master
Snape has always been a self-made person and he has been known to take decisions on his own (like commiting treachery to Voldemort).
Wouldn't it seem foolish for a calculating and self-respecting peron like Snape to go running to Dumbledore for every small thing.
It needs to be kept in mind that he considered Quirell a puny perosn with lofty aims, and he would have enough confidence in himself to fight him on his own.
3. Padfoot and Wormtail's shorcut
Dumbledore in COS, in reference to Ginny's bewitchment, says that he according to his sources, Voldemort ought to be somewhere in Albania.
If Dumbledore could have a shrewd idea about Voldemort's location, why couldn't his trusted Death eater track him down?? The intensity of the dark mark could have guided him.
Wormtal could have simply apparated at a corner in Albania, took his rat form, and then tracked Voldemort in the warm and dense forests.
4. Harry's Felix Portkey
I think that it is unwise for a sorcerer like you to so easily assume the functioning of a portkey.
Remember in Ootp, old D simply takes the head and mutters Portus, and the portkey takes Harry to his office. Does Dumbledore mentions the destination of the portkey?? No, he doesn't, and all the minor details (over which you are fretting) are just thought over.
IS somewhere mentioned in the book that the portkey has to return the holder to the same place from where they left? No, it isn't and nobody can tell what the maker of the POrtkey thinks while muttering the spell (Not even accomplished Legilemens like us, since there is no eye contact!!)
6. Priori Incantatem
It could be that while coming out of the wand, James said to Lily- "Ladies First".
You know, European Chivalry.
Minor Mistakes
# You say that the animals in question are not allowed. Very well, but have you considered the students in question.
You are talking about Lee Jordan, the accomplice of Fred & George in their adventures. Also, Ginny isn't shown having a penchant for rules.
As for Ron's rat, itt was so long in their family that theh authorities chose to deem it family heirloom and ignored it.
# Ron was a fool and didn't know the full powers of a prefect (JKR said this in an interview).
# The two Dragons bloods in question could have been belonging to dragons of different breeds.
As for this moment, I have dissected your theories enough (My comment is giving the same effect as your article).
Though I now understand, after writing this in return of your theory, the pleasure Snape must have felt while evaporating Harry's smelly Potion...
Fellow Sorcerer,
After reading your article I must say I was impressed. I quite agree with Andros that some of your theories are guesswork . Let me like Andros point the flaws one by one (Forgive me since I won't repeat the flaws pointed by Andros.)
1.The Weighing of Wands
In your article you have unintentionally changed the wordings of Ollivander. What he told Harry was that you cannot get the same results as you get with other wizard's wand . He did not say that if you try performing spell with other wizard's wand you will not be able to get anything out of it.
You say that Wormtail killed Cedric .You say this because Voldemort shouted " KILL THE SPARE". My friend I sincerely think that this order was a mis saying by Voldy in his rush of excitement.I hope you remember Moody's word when he said that-YOU CAN ALL POINT THAT THING AT ME AND SAY THE INCANTATION BUT I DOUBT I WOULD HAVE EVEN A NOSEBLEED.Are you suggesting that a wizard who could not distinguish a werewolf could have pulled off AVADA KEDAVRA not once but twice? So I think that the murders of Frank and Cedric were performed by Voldemort and he was quite capable of holding wand at that time
7-The most dangerous Unforgivable curse
I hope you remember who told Harry of the fact that the Ministry said it was a gas explosion-Stan and Ernie.Both of them work as pity wizards.It was Stan who told Harry that he blew 13 wizards with one single curse. Maybe Wormtail performed a curse similar to that which caused hurricane in England(Book-6)
5- The Parselmouth virus
When is Dumbledore shown to speak Mermish? Yes in Book 4 . When Harry handed Dumbledore the diary he was sure it was a hocrux(book-6 , chapter-hocruxes). So I think it can be assumed that D thought that learning different languages might help. Remember he extracted the memory from Morphin who only talked with respect to people who spoke Parseltongue
Maybe the younger students were allowed in Hogsmeade with an older brother or sister
I hope ur next post is perfect and is saved from keen-eyed observers
Till then
Magically Yours
DEAR BOWMAN AND ANDROS,
i am impreesed that u 2 hAve put in a lot of effort in finding flaws.
first i will take this oppurtunity to dabate with Andros.
1. the potion master
here u have considered a plan to steal the philosophers stone and to kill Harry as a small thing for which he would not run around dumbledore.
3. I put my hands up and say that i made a great mistake in not explaining this point properly. thank u andros for giving me the oppurtunity but i thought that u would understand what i wanted to say.
when wormtail ran away in was june. though i am still not convinced that he had ever gone to albania, which could fulfill the third d i.e. distance. so it means that he would have had to overpower bertha, find his dark lord, extact all information from bertha, provide a temporary body to his master,go back to england,to locate barty jr.,and then reach a temporary hide at the riddle house as he killed frank bryce around the begening of aug which i think is not at all possible.
4. i also think that the destination of a portkey is set in the mind. now let us review this point logically. why in this holy world would barty jr. did make the tri wizard sheild a two and fro portkey. even if he did for some unexplainable reson he wouldnever want any one from the graveyard to return anywhere in the vicinity of old D.
I agree that ron doesn't know the power of a prefect but uwill agree with me that Hermione does for sure.
to Bowman,
i could not digest the point that volde said 'kill the spare' and himself killed cedric.
i request u to read the articles carefully as it was andros who has written the 7th point.but i still want to comment on it . there was a great creater on te road which can only be caused by a blast. in the 6th book the hurricanes were caused by the gaints. no spell can be equal to the forces of nature this old d himself hinted.
as for the parseltongue virus i agree that old d could have leart parseltongue but the ques. is from whom? moreover if old d knew parseltongue the basilisk in the cos would have destroyed long ago.
Fellow Comrade Paracelsus!!
I have formulated a very simple explanation for the Portkey thing.
Old D must have surely taken security measures in the maze. He knew that lots of ill minded people (i.e. death eaters still obsessed with causing mayhem) will want to disrupt the proceedings for the fun of it, similar to the World Cup aftermath.
Wouldn't one of the measures be that no one with a portkey should be allowed to appear on the maze?? Of course, he would have ensured that no one from outside can appear in the maze and steal the TriWizard cup (He wouldn't have thought that someone could have made a portkey to go from the maze!!) He owuld have done it so that someone trying to appear in the maze would appear outside it and would have to deal with old D.
Hence, this explain Harry appearing at the outside in front of Dumbledore.
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To Bowman,
My Friend, I think that the fact that wormtail killed 13 people can be verified from more reliable sources also, like the teachers talking in 3 broomsticks and of course when Sirius talks to Wormtail in the Shrieking Shack.
So, Wormtail indeed killed 13 people and I have no doubt that it was he who killed Cedric (I don't know how you devised this strange thing that Voldemort first ordered Cedric to be killed but then killed him himself??)
to Paracelsus,
I acknowledge the hardwork you must have put in this article to find flaws of such a tremondous bestseller.
I would also like to mention that the way u supported and argued your points with Bowman and Andros was mind blowing.
PS: Andros u have also done a wonderful job. For the first time a blog of Harry Potter has impressed me.
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