10 Character Inconsistencies In Harry Potter

The Harry Potter world and the film adaptations illustrate the mastery of JK Rowling’s writing. But even Harry Potter has character inconsistencies.

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Harry Potter is both a book and film series every YA storyline hopes to be. With seven novels and eight films, the world-building and incredible detail entranced fans the world over. Harry Potter should get all the credit in the universe for the amazing success it achieved.

But like anything, Harry Potter isn’t perfect, though it certainly has our respect for making fewer mistakes than it could have over such a long story. While it certainly has respect, this hasn’t stopped fans from picking over the story to find any missing details or oversights in the narrative. Here are just a few character inconsistencies fans have noticed.

10 Moaning Myrtle

Moaning Myrtle, the young student, was murdered by Tom Riddle and the Slytherin Basilisk only to spend eternity haunting the girl’s toilet in Hogwarts Castle. She can move through the pipes (as fans see when she visits the prefects’ bathroom in Goblet of Fire) but it’s still a rough existence.

The question remains, however, if Myrtle can see Harry, Ron, and Hermione brewing Polyjuice potion in the bathroom, why didn’t she see Ginny Weasley, under the influence of Riddle’s diary, opening the sink in the bathroom to enter the Chamber of Secrets?

9 Sirius Black

In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Sirius lets everyone know that Severus Snape and Sirius’ own hated cousin, Bellatrix Lestrange, hung out at school together. However, when examining the timeline, Snape would not have started attending Hogwarts (with Sirius) until about nine years later.

It’s a small thing and a very minimal detail, but one still has to wonder how Sirius, of all people, could forget who he was at school with.

8 Prefects

There are quite a few prefects across the Harry Potter series, from Percy Weasley in book one to Ron and Hermione in book five. Yet, there are a lot of discrepancies.

In book two, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Percy is allowed, as a prefect, to take house points from his own brother, Ron. However, in the Order of the Phoenix, when students in Harry’s year are made prefects, Ernie Macmillan states that they are not allowed to deduct points from other students.

7 Albus Severus

Albus Severus learns quite a lot between his appearance in the epilogue of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, even though the same scene is depicted in both.

In the Cursed Child, Albus Severus knows quite a bit more about Slytherin than he seems to in the epilogue. One has to wonder where or why he scrounged up the details that make him so nervous in a house full of Gryffindors.

6 Voldemort

In the Harry Potter films and novels, Voldemort believes in Bellatrix as one of his greatest lieutenants but doesn’t show her affection, in fact, he seems incapable of showing real affection to anyone (look at how he hugs Draco in the Deathly Hallows film).

And yet, in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, it is revealed that he fathered a child, a daughter with Bellatrix, at some point in the series. One has to wonder how that actually went down between the pair.

5 Lupin

In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Albus Dumbledore is depicted in a much harsher light than in previous books. And he is not the only one. Lupin is actually shown in the book to abandon Tonks and his unborn child to try and go with Harry on his Horcrux hunt. This from a man who was so loyal to his friends (namely James and Sirius) that he was willing to commit murder for them (he wanted to kill Peter Pettigrew in Prisoner of Azkaban).

It certainly seems out of character for him and, unlike Dumbledore, fans are never given enough backstory to back up his actions.

4 Fred And George

Fred and George are observant enough to pick out Albus Dumbledore on the Marauders Map and point him out to Harry (he’s pacing in his office, which he apparently does a lot). However, it is strange that, even though Lupin eventually sees Peter Pettigrew on the map, Fred and George never did.

Their younger brother has been at Hogwarts with them for three years and for some reason the twins never spied on him or noticed someone named “Peter Pettigrew” following him around — even in his dormitory?

3 Harry

In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Thestrals are introduced as the previously invisible animals who pull the Hogwarts carriages. Why can Harry suddenly see Thestrals? Well, because he has seen someone die (namely Cedric, during the Triwizard Tournament).

Thestrals are only visible to people who have seen death. And yet, Harry was in the room when his mother, Lily, was murdered by Voldemort. He saw death as a baby but apparently couldn’t see Thestrals until he was 15.

2 Newt Scamander

Newt Scamander is mentioned long before the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them films were released. He is, of course, the author of the classic magical textbook, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.

In the author’s biography in the book, it is mentioned that Newt is a Hogwarts graduate. Yet, when we meet Newt on screen in the Fantastic Beasts movies, it is mentioned that he was expelled from Hogwarts. That’s quite a difference.

1 Lily Evans Potter

Whether it’s in the books or in the films, everyone likes to mention how Harry has his mother’s eyes. For those who knew his parents, it is his eyes, not his scar, that confirms his identity.

Yet, in the films, it is very clear that Harry and his mother have very different eyes. Where Harry’s eyes are blue on-screen his mother, as a child, has brown eyes. Neither of them has green eyes, as mentioned in the book, but in the movies, they can’t even match as brown or blue. It’s certainly offputting and many people have mentioned this discrepancy.

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