Harry Potter: 10 Times The Movies Ignored How Magic Works

Harry Potter’s rules about magic can be pretty strict, but when did the movie versions of Voldemort, Harry, and Dumbledore break those rules?

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It’s not easy to constrict the infinite potential of magic in Harry Potter into specific categories, meaning that is no real way to estimate why it exists or how it works. Well, the Wizarding World does publish its research in a number of academic journals, but how are these experiments even performed, let alone validated by a scientific consensus?

However, Rowling has established a few rules that vaguely approximate the functioning of different spells and charms. Unfortunately, the films didn’t always follow this set of guidelines while incorporating magic into their stories.

10 Voldemort Vs. Dumbledore

The duel fought between Albus Dumbledore and Lord Voldemort completely glided over the magical finesse portrayed by the book versions, in which the Headmaster casts spells of such complexity that they are almost impossible to explain.

In one case, he charms the Magical Brethren statues to perform four completely unrelated tasks, and avoids being struck by the Killing Curse when he is shielded by the centaur statue and Fawkes the Phoenix. The film includes a variety of spells that are not explained, but the most glaring error is in the scene where Dumbledore and Voldemort’s wands are temporarily fused together in what looks like a Priori Incantatem situation.

9 Rictusempra Is Not Stupefy

Although Rictusempra is used in the films, the result of the spell is not even close to its original usage. Known as the Tickling Charm, it is supposed to reduce the opponent into unbearable fits of laughter, to the point of forgetting that a duel is going on.

Instead, the movie makes it look like a Stunning Spell, that is, when Harry shouts it at Draco Malfoy, the latter is merely pushed backwards as if he just got walloped in the stomach. In fact, the etymology of the term refers to “rictus”, or “a frozen grin/grimace”.

8 Not Everyone Can Do Without A Wand

The art of wandless magic is a lot more prevalent in the cinematic adaptations, with various wizards performing special kinds of sorcery without the need for a wand. This includes Hermione, who shoots a stream of birds at Ron’s head, Dumbledore quenching candlelight, Remus unlocking a Boggart-containing box, Voldemort somehow deflecting spells with a simple wave, and many more.

This style is actually far too complex to use in such a cavalier manner: one of the most iconic book scenes has Dumbledore finding the entrance to Voldemort’s Horcrux-cave by reciting a few mystical words.

7 Students Rarely Perform Non-Verbal Spells

A few film characters occasionally announce spells being cast, even if they are extremely simple and have non-verbal precedence. In other scenarios, though, Hogwarts students are shown generating a plethora of spells without making a single sound, for instance, during the final Battle of Hogwarts (during which there is supposed to be a lot of screaming and confusion.)

In fact, the books make it very obvious that non-verbal spells are ridiculously difficult: which is why they are only introduced in the sixth year.

6 People Don’t Dissolve Into Flakes Of Charcoal Soot

Along the same lines as above, Harry clearly says Expelliarmus, his final spell that actually bounces off Voldemort’s Avada Kedavra, which then reflects towards its caster. Also, after Voldemort dies, his body is kept away from those of Lupin, Tonks, and the other heroes. He doesn’t slowly fragment and vanish into the wind.

The same thing happens with Bellatrix — her death is instant, yes, but she certainly doesn’t freeze and shatter into a million bits when Molly Weasley kills her.

5 Fiendfyre Can Destroy Horcruxes

The Diadem of Ravenclaw, discovered in the Room of Requirement, is disintegrated along with everything else when Crabbe sets off the demonic curse. Furthermore, regardless of the object used to house a Horcrux, the magical heat produced by Fiendfyre should reduce it to ashes.

The film preferred to show both the Cup and the Diadem being destroyed by the Basilisk Fang, which is quite pointless in terms of narrative versatility. Another point: Fiendfyre doesn’t produce Voldemort-faces, because what sense would that make, really?

4 Vulnera Sanentur Is Supposed To Be Musical

After Harry curses Draco with Sectumsempra in the sixth book, the resulting injuries are far too deep for any minor healing charm to fix. Snape arrives in the nick of time, and “mutters an incantation that sounded almost like song.”

Known as Vulnera Sanentur, this powerful spell is blandly recited by Snape, although in a slightly hypnotic fashion. Nevertheless, it’s possible that the potency of Vulnera Sanentur is dependent on the tonality of its delivery, that is, the musical aspect could well be important to the outcome.

3 Confundo Vs. Confundus

The Confundus charm is intended to disorient an opponent enough that they end up making fatal mistakes on their own, with no further input from the user. The incantation, specifically, is Confundo, but when Hermione does it on Cormac McLaggen in the sixth movie, she utters the word Confundus.

This is as ridiculous as yelling out Killing Curse in lieu of Avada Kedavra, or Exploding instead of Bombarda, or Thief’s Friend rather than Alohomora. Random words don’t work, and might even backfire.

2 Not Even Dumbledore Can Apparate Within Hogwarts

The magical spells that bind Hogwarts are both powerful and layered, in the sense that the castle has a kind of sentience of its own. Therefore, any Anti-Disapparition Jinx set-up on castle grounds would not be breakable, not by any single person, and certainly not without bringing the whole thing down.

It doesn’t matter that Dumbledore is the most powerful wizard in the Western Hemisphere, neither he nor Voldemort would be able to apparate/disapparate inside Hogwarts as they do in the films. However, House-elves are not affected by this rule in any way.

1 Where Have All The Squibs Gone?

Squibs are those born into wizarding families, but possess not a single drop of magical talent, not even to trigger the most basic of spells. They are barely referred to in the movies, but the books go quite deep into the subtleties of their lives.

Argus Filch and Arabella Figg are the best known Squibs in the story, and it was initially believed that Neville Longbottom might have been one too. These folk occupy the lowest rung of Wizarding Society, as they are considered less valuable than even muggleborn magic-users.

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