While The Harry Potter universe offers a great foundation for building on, it also has plenty of places where Mrs. Rowling has left us with inconsistencies, contradictions, and other plot holes. These stories, often through the use of satire and/or farce, expose some of those.
- Confounded Confundus
- Author: Right What Is Wrong
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Date(s):
- Published: 2018-10-11
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Comments:
There is a thread of condescension and bigotry that even the supposedly pro-muggle wizard displays that goes unnoticed and unaddressed in cannon. Here one instance of it is addressed.
- Dosed
- Author: Herochick007
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Date(s):
- Published: 2024-03-16
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Comments:
I hesitated on how to categorize this. I’m not a huge fan of the free-form poetry style it is written in, but it mostly works for this one-shot? Anyway, the story highlights a frequent criticism of the plot, the way Harry met the Weasleys (though I actually have less of a problem with it than most people). More importantly, it addresses a truly disturbing anecdote at the start of book three, where Molly tells the girls about her past uses of love potions. It does so in the way I find most believable, this is not some grand plot involving everyone, but rather its Molly’s plot, and most of her children are simply guilty of not stopping her (I’m okay with the exception it makes).
- Magical Contracts
- Author: Kalen Darkmoon
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Date(s):
- Published: 2007-12-12
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Comments:
Harry’s name coming out of the Goblet of Fire is not really satisfactorily explained. The explanation given opens up all sorts of conclusions. This is one of the most logical.
- The Board
- Author: Clell65619
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Date(s):
- Published: 2011-01-27
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Comments:
I really want to like this story. The problem is that the author ignores so much that really ought to be obvious to someone calling out the things that this story does call out as problematic.
- This story supposedly takes place after the Riddle War, and yet Lucius is a school govenor. I do not understand how people continously forget that he was removed at the end of book two.1
- On a minor note, this story has nine govenors, not twelve.2
- The author can be forgiven for not including the fact that the wand Lucius formerly hid in his cane was shattered in book seven. The author probably had not read book seven when writing this. It is also believable that Lucius would replace it with a similar model supposing he is allowed a wand at all.configs:
- The author uses the common misperception that Binns only teaches about Goblin rebellions. We see examples of him teaching about several other subjects in books one and two.3
- The thoughts on making detention teach something are the sort of mindless drivel I expect out of modern society. The disipline process at Hogwarts does need to be looked at, the way it is handled in the books there’s a real risk that a student can end up in sufficient detentions that he or she cannot both sleep and do his/her school work, leading to … more detentions. This will quickly spiral out of control. But that is both a longer rant, and not the same thing as what the author describes. configs:
- Far more problematatic than any of these examples however, is the fact that while both McGonagall and Flitwick are called out for their neglect of the students under their charge, Sprout is actually praised despite her participation in that abuse during Harry’s fourth year. Indeed, the idea that Sprout objected in any way to the badges used to mock Harry that year is laughable. I mean, McGonagall and Flitwick do need to be called out, and for more or less precisely the reasons the author gives. That is why I want to like this story so much. It is one of the few that does call them to task so precisely without crossing over into bashing. I just wish it had finished the job.
- The Greater Will
- Author: Magi_Silverwolf
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Date(s):
- Published: 2018-10-08
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Comments:
A brutal disection of Dumbledore’s inaction disguised as in interview with the Oracle of Delphi.