20 Movies So Good You Ignore Huge Plot Holes

I love Harry Potter. You love Harry Potter. We all love Harry Potter.

It's a wonderful and endlessly thrilling coming-of-age story that unfolds in an enthralling, vividly-drawn story world populated with fantastic characters... but the harsh truth is this: it doesn't always make much sense. The flawed but largely excellent movie series inherited many of the plot holes from the novels. 

To give some of the biggest examples, Hogwarts itself is a ridiculously dangerous school that wouldn't survive one safety inspection; the justice system in the Ministry of Magic has no truth potions; and Hagrid's father, a small human, somehow impregnated a giantess. 

In the first movie, an extremely dangerous artifact is guarded by a series of supposedly impassable obstacles... yet three 11-year-olds get past them. In the second movie, a ginormous basilisk somehow gets around Hogwarts without being seen, and each person who does see it survives through contrived means. 

In the third movie, Hogwarts staff give a 13-year-old a dangerous time-turner just so that she can take extra classes. In the same film, Fred and George Weasley give Harry the Marauders Map, which shows everyone in Hogwarts, and they somehow never saw that Ron's pet rat was actually a Death Eater in disguise. 

In the fourth movie... actually, never mind, we'll be here all day! The bottom line is that, with fantasy stories, there are usually a few contrivances, and if you can let those slide, you're in for an absolute treat.