Wizards Lack Common Sense Part 3

by Boy-Who-Hates-Hyphens

There are things that make absolutely no sense in Harry Potter. Some are serious plotholes. Some are not plotholes per se, but more like events that are supposed to be impossible. Some are more along the lines of hypocrisy, self-contradiction and not using an obvious spell at a time of need. This story resolves the ones in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. COMPLETE!

14. In Which Means Are Unjustified

Chapter Thirteen: In Which Means Are Unjustified

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"Ha!" said Hermione triumphantly. "See! I told you it was from him!"

"Yes, but he hadn't jinxed it, had he?" said Ron.

Harry had stopped reading.

"So that's it? The ends justify the means now? You snitched on me, but that's completely ok because you were right in the end? You went behind my back and betrayed our friendship, but that's not important, is it? Not as important as Hermione Granger being right, at any rate. All evidence pointed towards the fact that Crookshanks had killed Scabbers, but it wasn't important, was it? Because in the end you were right all along, and Scabbers was just hiding. That's my life now, where everything you say turns out right in the end and that somehow gives you the moral high ground. Guess what, it doesn't!" said Harry angrily.

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AN: What Hermione should have been doing was to say — "I'm sorry for snitching on you, but I truly believed that the broomstick was jinxed. I should have talked to you about it before taking it to Professor McGonagall!"

But no, why would Hermione ever apologize? She was right after all. Never mind the fact that the broomstick wasn't jinxed, never mind the fact that there was blood on the sheets.

I — I — just have no words for how bad this is. JKR wants Hermione to be right in the end, no matter what happens in the 300 pages that come between the beginning and end. Lazy writing!