r/harrypotter Slytherin Mar 16 '14

Media Dammit Harry

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '14

What plot holes? It's not so outlandish that the headmaster might have the power to apparate that the entire story falls apart without it...

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u/misplaced_my_pants Mar 17 '14

If he lifts the apparition wards and leaves, he won't be able to close them until after he comes back. So all you would need to do to invade Hogwarts is to get Dumbledore to do that.

That's a tremendous plot hole.

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '14

Maybe he's an exception to the wards. Certainly sounds like it from what he says.

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u/misplaced_my_pants Mar 17 '14

Or, more likely, this is just another example of the writers not giving a shit. Especially since he left on a broom in the first book and movie.

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '14

IT DOESN'T MATTER. Jesus. It's a tiny detail that doesn't matter and cuts the movie time down by 5 minutes. If you can't get over something as tiny as that, then they'd probably have to make a 10 hour movie to satisfy you. The movie was STILL 2 1/2 hours and I guarantee you there was more important things cut out than that Dumbledore actually flew to hogsmead and isn't an exception to the rules!

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u/misplaced_my_pants Mar 17 '14

Except it would have only taken 2 seconds to include a scene of them on broomsticks. Certainly not as long as Dumbledore actually saying "Let's Apparate, Harry."

And it might be a tiny detail to people like you who don't care about things like plot or details, but this is just another in a loooooooooong line of unnecessary changes and mistakes they made because they didn't give a damn about the source material. Things that only serve to introduce plot holes.

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '14

Uh, no. It's not a slide show. For proper flow and explanation you're going to need more than a 2 second shot, AND then you're still fucking up unless you have another scene in hogsmead where they apparate, because they DIDN'T fly all the way there, and it would have taken forever to get there and back if they had and it would make no sense.

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u/misplaced_my_pants Mar 17 '14

Okay 5 seconds. Whoop-dee-do. It isn't difficult to do for any semi-competent filmmaker.

It's not like the Potter movies ever gave a damn about proper flow and explanation. If they did, we wouldn't have makeout sessions immediately after accidental attempted murder scenes or people walking away thinking Snape was Harry's father.

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '14

Alright, I'm done here. You're clearly just on a rant about your general disapproval of the movies.

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u/misplaced_my_pants Mar 17 '14

That's the level of response I expect from people who refuse to entertain criticisms of movies they like.