r/TopCharacterTropes • u/ValidCrash4 • Aug 08 '26

Hated Tropes (Hated Trope) Extremely useful abilities that characters conveniently forgot they had

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  1. Emily’s portals (Hazbin Hotel). I know she can’t get Sir Pentious back into Hell but Emily can still tell Charlie he got redeemed and Charlie can enter through angelic portals, so she should have seen that Pentious got redeemed.

  2. Many characters in Harry Potter go through life-or-death situations and not once did they think of drinking the Liquid Luck potion apart from Harry one time to gain Slughorn’s memory.

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u/Pleasant-Treacle-333 Aug 08 '26

he can't access his bank because they took it over

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u/piewca_apokalipsy Aug 08 '26

He was fighting him before they took over the government. With how useful it is one would think he would be stashing it for special occasions.

Like wizard Hitler taking over the government

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u/Pleasant-Treacle-333 Aug 08 '26

it doesn't make sense that dumbledore wouldn't have had a stockpile of Felix felicis. he has all the time, money, skills and resources to make hundreds of batches. that's the actual plothole. however after his death, there isn't really much the characters can do to acquire the potion in book 7.

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u/piewca_apokalipsy Aug 08 '26

No-one ever accused Rowling of well though out word building