The Most Useless Harry Potter Artifact No One Even Remembers

Some are incredibly powerful, like the Deathly Hallows, Time-Turners, and the Philosopher's Stone, while others are more subtle and niche, like Anti-Cheating Quills, Ron's Deluminator, and Omnioculars.

Some are the real deal, and others are highly situational, right?

But there's also the third category: utterly useless magical items that fail to even do what they were designed for. We have at least one item that belongs in this category.

Do you remember remembralls, the things that remind you if you've forgotten something?

Nevill's grandma gave him one in The Philosopher's Stone and Harry and Draco fought for it mid-air which resulted in Harry becoming the youngest Seeker in Hogwarts. That's in case you forgot, duh.

Admittedly, Nevill's remembrall was only good for one thing: advancing Harry's quidditch career early on.

Because otherwise, it never helped Nevill stay on track — the poor boy remained just as oblivious as he'd always been, and eventually, he lost the remembrall somewhere and couldn't remember where exactly. Again, duh.

But we can't blame him: considering remembralls are magical items, you would at least expect them to tell you what exactly you forgot…

They totally don't do that. They just give you a signal, and that's it — it's more of a mocking rather than actual help, really.

Some people compare remembralls to the Muggle method of tying a string around your finger, but even in this comparison, remembralls lose: when you tie a string, you already know what exactly you're not supposed to forget, and that alone helps you remember about it.

Whereas remembralls specify nothing at all — if you're afraid to feed your cat, they could go off about you leaving your stove on, and you wouldn't know.

For some reason, remembralls were banned during the exams, and it could mean that they were not as useless as they appear…

But honestly, the more realistic version is that teachers don't want a bunch of glowing and puffing magical balls around the class causing huge anxiety for their students during tests.

Because all things considered, a piece of paper and a pen are far more superior to a remembrall.

All those little globes do is mock you and cause anxiety as you frantically try to understand what you forgot and deal with the embarrassment of the situation.

But hey, at least a remembrall wouldn't allow an escaped convict to roam students' bedrooms like a piece of paper once did, so there's that.

That's about the only positive thing we can say about them. Duh.