12 Biggest Lies In Harry Potter We All Accept

12. Hogwarts Is A Great School

Okay, first things first—we’re repeatedly told that Hogwarts is a fine institution, one of the wizarding world’s pillars of education, a heralded and highly selective home of learning.

So the lie here would be everything listed above.

The school repeatedly hires frauds, charlatans, werewolves, amoral political actors and, on two separate occasions, dangerous criminals thinly disguised as other people, one of whom is possessed by literally the most dangerous wizard on earth, and that’s all for one Defence Against the Dark Arts job listing. Its curriculum doesn’t appear to include the three educational pillars of reading, writing, and arithmetic, begging the question of exactly how professors expect students to understand incantations, spells, and complex potions.

Speaking of said staff, they appear at worst disinterested in and at best mildly amused by the injuries which frequently befall students who fumble spells and potions, not to mention the fact that the school’s grounds contain, in no particular order, moving staircases, a lethally dangerous basilisk, a giant spider and his countless hungry offspring, and a three headed giant guard dog.

Again, we’re expected to believe this’s the best school Britain’s wizarding world has to offer, and not an incompetence factory primed to produce magical lawsuits and mystical broken bones.