18 Crazy Facts You Have To Accept To Enjoy The Wizarding World Movies

5. Plot Holes Are Everywhere

Like the books they're based on, the Harry Potter films are brilliantly plotted but there are still a fair few plot holes you just have to go with too. Aside from the aforementioned ones in the third and fourth films, there are loads of others and the only film which doesn't have at least one gaping plot hole is the first Fantastic Beasts film.

Why weren't the defences to the Philosopher's Stone harder to get past? How did a giant basilisk manage to get around and petrify numerous students without anyone else seeing it? How did no-one notice Peter Pettigrew (Timothy Spall) on the Marauders Map?

Why does Voldemort wait until the end of the school year to attack the Department of Mysteries? Was it really necessary to bring Slughorn (Jim Broadbent) to Hogwarts to get his memory? Why didn't Dumbledore (Michael Gambon) provide any proper guidance for the Horcrux hunt? Why didn't Voldemort check Harry's apparently dead body himself in the final film?

There are other flaws in the world itself, such as no-one ever trying to fix Harry's eye-sight, Hagrid's (Robbie Coltrane) father somehow managing to impregnate a giantess and the lack of truth potions in the justice system.

Additionally, like many other prequels before it, Crimes of Grindelwald broke the mythology with things like Professor McGonagall (Fiona Glascott) being at Hogwarts far too early and the nonsensical twist that Creedence Barebone is Dumbledore's brother.