Harry Potter 10 Things That Make No Sense About Trolls

Harry Potter: 10 Things That Make No Sense About Trolls

The Trolls in Harry Potter are famously powerful but there are many things about them and their history in the Wizarding World that don’t make sense.



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Harry Potter 10 Things That Make No Sense About Trolls

The Trolls in Harry Potter are incredible, in size, durability, as well as how ridiculously stupid they are. Interestingly, the O.W.L. and N.E.W.T. exams abbreviate the worst possible grade after them (T for Troll.) Well, at least they have the basic mental faculties required to use tools and wear clothing.

They are generally classified into three main subtypes: the River Troll, the Mountain Troll, and the Forest Troll, each of which differs from the others in terms of aggression, skin tone, hair quality, and other such taxonomic features. For such interesting beasts, there is little clarity about them.

10 Are They Related To Giants?

Harry Potter 10 Things That Make No Sense About Trolls

Trolls are enormous, standing at around 3 meters tall and weighing over 2000 pounds. Giants, however, are nearly double in both height and tonnage, not to mention far smarter than Trolls.

As such, it seems quite unlikely that there is more than a surface connection between these two magical species; for one thing, Giants can actually speak human languages, but Trolls can barely speak their own.

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9 How Do They Maintain Bipedal Balance?

Harry Potter 10 Things That Make No Sense About Trolls

Considering their dimensions — massive bodies that are balanced on a pair of lumbering legs — it’s a miracle that they are able to stand at all, let alone walk around without tripping. Their misshapen anatomy notwithstanding, it’s impossible for them to carry clubs that are half their size, and yet they swing them around with incredible force (and bare minimum effort.)

Troll physiology might have worked on a four-legged creature, as the weight would have been distributed more equally, but it doesn’t hold up in their case.



8 They Can Breed With Humans

Harry Potter 10 Things That Make No Sense About Trolls

Harry mocks Marcus Flint, the Slytherin Quidditch team Chaser, by assuming that “he had some Troll blood in him.” While that doesn’t turn out to be the situation, people have been known to have children with Trolls (if Hagrid can be half-Giant, then why not?)

In fact, the Circus Arcanus in The Crimes of Grindelwald hosts a half-troll as one of its curiosities, along with several other creatures, such as Onis, Maledicti, Zouwus, Kappas, Graphorns, and so on. This most likely means that these chimeras borrow more features from their Troll parent than they do from their human one.

7 Are They Magical Or Not?

Harry Potter 10 Things That Make No Sense About Trolls

Trolls are categorized under “Beasts” according to the Ministry’s Magical Creatures department, but that’s because it is very hard to domesticate them. They do possess some magical energy, however, because their whiskers have been employed as wand cores by Ollivander.

Nevertheless, the wandmaker prefers not to use this material if possible, because it doesn’t have the punch offered by Phoenix feathers, Unicorn tail hair, and Dragon Heartstring. Trolls cannot perform any kind of spells, though, with or without a wand.

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6 They Can Be Trained?

Harry Potter 10 Things That Make No Sense About Trolls

Although they are rather feral in nature, Trolls have been trained for specific jobs (mostly as bodyguards or to protect important objects like the Philosopher’s stone.)


Dumbledore obtains a pair of them to stand watch outside the Gryffindor Common Room when Sirius Black makes his way into the castle, staying until the conclusion of the academic session. Few people are able to comprehend them as well, such as Quirrell and Barty Crouch, Sr., but only at a basic communication level.

5 How Do Graphorns Bear Their Weight?

Harry Potter 10 Things That Make No Sense About Trolls

In The Cursed Child, Hungarian wizards claim that local Mountain Trolls have been seen on Graphorns, who are not entirely thrilled with their role as beasts of burden.

As seen in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find them, these animals are quite large and heavy, but there is no way they should be able to carry Trolls without collapsing instantly. More importantly, this strange partnership is observed in sloped regions, which makes the whole thing more unbelievable.

4 Why Are They So Violent?

Harry Potter 10 Things That Make No Sense About Trolls

For their total lack of mental capacity, Trolls are ridiculously aggressive towards everything in their area of vision, which isn’t saying much, honestly. In other words, they are all brawn, no brain: but does this mean they have to be violent?

Giants and Dragons aren’t, at least unless they are disturbed or their territory is “invaded”, but Trolls are just born destroyers. Does going out of their way to eat humans pleasurable to them in some way? It’s a good thing that the International Confederation of Wizards keeps a constant tab on most tribes in Europe.

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3 Who Has The Nerve To Poach Them?

Harry Potter 10 Things That Make No Sense About Trolls

Hunting Trolls used to be a popular sport in earlier times, but their numbers have been dwindling ever since the advent of urbanization. Still, there have been important politicians who have attempted to legally ban the activity, citing it as cruel and unjustified abuse.

It’s obvious that this continues to happen because the Black family home has an umbrella stand built out of a Troll’s leg. Forget killing them, how do hunters even manage to bring them down? Pure luck?

2 How Did A Troll Enter The Dungeons?

Harry Potter 10 Things That Make No Sense About Trolls

In the first year, Professor Quirrell comes into the main hall, screaming something about a Troll in the dungeon (that he had himself planted there.)

He later reveals that he had offered the creature to help improve the security around the Philosopher’s Stone, explaining how he had access to a Mountain Troll in the first place, but how did it get to the dungeon from the third floor without being seen by anyone? It’s not like they can move quickly even if they want to.

1 The Troll Of Nadroj

Since the word “Nadroj” reads Jordan in reverse, the Troll of Nadroj is possibly a tribute to one of the artists employed in the making of The Prisoner of Azkaban, Jordan Crockett.

This variant is far stranger than the other three mentioned earlier, possessing gigantic clawed arms and thick legs with spikes protruding out of them. How does it wield its iconic club without opposable thumbs? Does it have any special traits?

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