WARNING: The following article contains spoilers for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, in theaters now.

Fantastic Beasts 2: The Crimes of Grindelwald does its best to rewrite certain parts of Harry Potter canon while still moving towards the inevitable confrontation between the dark wizard Grindelwald (Johnny Depp) and the greatest threat to his rule, Dumbledore (Jude Law).

Unfortunately, the movie makes a number of mistakes along the way. This includes problems with the depiction of Potter canon, poor decisions on the part of the characters, and plot contrivances that just don’t make any sense at all. Here, we gather the worst plot holes in the newest entry of the Harry Potter franchise.

How Can Anyone Apparate On School Grounds?

One of the laws of Hogwarts is that it’s supposedly impossible to apparate on the school grounds. It’s consistently brought up as a safety measure for the students, and derails many of the wilder theories that the heroes try to suggest during the original series.

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The films have always been lax with this rule (Dumbledore apparates from the school in Half-Blood Prince, and the final Battle of Hogwarts in The Deathly Hallows features a lot of teleporting wizards), but there was always at least a plausible, if unspoken, explanation for why they could get away with it in those moments; Dumbledore being in charge of the school could create an exception for himself and generally all the school protections falling to the Voldemort invasion, respectively. But in Crimes of Grindelwald, there’s no recognition of why the Ministry could just teleport over. They just do, and it’s weird.

Why Didn’t Nicolas Flamel Just Teleport To Save The Day?

Speaking of teleportation, why didn’t Nicolas Flamel do more to save the lives of the Aurors at the gathering of Grindelwald supporters?

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The old wizard is revealed to be Dumbledore’s contact in Paris, and provides safe haven to Newt and his allies when they escape Yusuf’s cage. But gazing into a crystal ball, he sees all the death that will befall the people at Grindelwald’s rally. He eventually comes to their aid, too late to save many lives but in time to help stop the fires unleashed by Grindelwald at the conclusion of the rally. So why didn’t Flamel just apparate to the cemetery in the first place? He could have gotten there sooner, and possibly saved some more lives.

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So What’s Up With The Lestrange Family?

The most famous member of the Lestrange family in the original Harry Potter series was Bellatrix. She only ever married into the name however, originally being a member of the Black family. Which makes this film’s portrayal of the Lestrange family a bit, well, strange.

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Leta is born by Corvus Lestrange placing the mind-controlling Imperio Curse on Laurena Kama and forcing her to be with him. But that side of the family has apparently been destroyed by the death of Leta and the revelation that Credence was never a Lestrange to begin with. So how, exactly, are they connected to the other Lestrange family, specifically Rodolphus and his eventual wife, Bellatrix?

For a revelation that the film bases so much of the films tension around, the Lestrange family is surprisingly under explained.

What’s The Deal With Jacob?

When someone is hit with the obliviate spell, they lose all their memories. It’s been an established fact of the Harry Potter series since the second installment, and is even an important part of the conclusion of the prior film. It’s weird, then, that in Fantastic Beasts 2, the obliviate spell seems to take on some new rules.

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It’s why Jacob apparently was able to recover many of his memories of the prior film, because the memory spell only erases good memories. That flies in the face of what happened to Gilderoy Lockhart in Chamber of Secrets, along with all the other times someone lost all their memories from the spell. It undermines the spell, all in the name of making Jacob’s story easier to justify.

How Come Tina Isn’t The Master Of The Elder Wand?

Part of what makes Grindelwald such a dangerous threat is that he possess the Elder Wand. Forged by Death itself, the wand makes the user the most powerful wizard in the world. The rules of the wand mean that anyone who could beat the owner of the Elder Wand would become its new master.

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We know from the events of the original Harry Potter series that Dumbledore will eventually defeat Grindelwald and claim the wand for his own, but Tina Goldstein also defeated and disarmed Grindelwald. By the rules of the universe, Tina should have become the master of the Elder Wand, like Harry did when he disarmed Malfoy in The Deathly Hallows. Not only is this an annoying oversight in Fantastic Beasts' storytelling, it's one that should have had major implications for this film and those that follow as following the established rule should have made Tina even more important in the Wizarding World.

In theaters now, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is directed by David Yates from a script by Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling. Rowling. The film stars Eddie Redmayne, Jude Law, Johnny Depp, Katherine Waterston, Alison Sudol, Dan Fogler, Ezra Miller, Zoë Kravitz, Fiona Glascott and Callum Turner.