History Headscratchers / MissPeregrinesHomeForPeculiarChildren

** [[spoiler: More specifically, if all the children leave Miss Peregrine's Home on the morning of September 4th, 1940, why haven't they run into Abraham Portman yet and why didn't everyone know that the kids had left in the modern times when Jacob first came to the island?]]
** [[spoiler: I think because Abraham was no longer inside the loop to leave the loop, they don't see him outside it when they leave at the end of the book. I mean, within the constraints of the time loop, the kids are still aware of "the next day" and they can do different things everyday unlike the regular people on the island, so they aren't looping, technically, so I figure Abraham doesn't, either. Maybe there's some weird [[TimeyWimeyBall Timey-Wimey effect]] that makes you immune to that sort of thing after you've lived in a loop, aware of the loop. Of course Abraham could be out there, they just don't run into him.]]
** [[spoiler: Also, they left in the dead of night, to make sure no one knew.]]
*** [[spoiler: ''And'' they left by way of some rowboats, from a little-used part of the island. Abe walked right through town and caught the ferry over, so took off from another part of the island and probably went to another part of Britain.]]

* If Millard is invisible, then why wasn't [[spoiler: his blood invisible when he was shot?]]

** Based on the movie, "peculiarities" somehow run in the family. Bother and sister sharing exceptional strength, the twins being whatever-they-are, granfather and grandson having a second sight. So, it's possible that one of Enoch's parents was peculiar too. And running a funeral home. Sleep tight.

* And why did he shout "rise dead-man" when he was raising [[spoiler: Martin]]? It's obviously unnecessary because he doesn't do it in the 2nd book.

* What was even the purpose of the wights in [[spoiler: making ambrosia]] anyway? I mean, I get that they were experimenting on peculiar soul extraction, but why give it to the peculiars living outside of their fort? Why didn't they just dump it or something?
** It was all for learning how to [[spoiler: impart soul and, therefore, powers, to new owners,]] which was how [[spoiler: Caul ultimately intended on ruling peculiardom.]]

* At the climax of Library of Souls, [[spoiler: an epic kaiju battle destroys said library,]] where all Peculiar souls return upon death. Without that [[spoiler: library,]] what's going to happen to the souls of Peculiars who die after that? Will their powers just disappear into the ether and eventually lead to the end of Peculiardom?

* Specific to the film (haven't read the book), but how exactly does [[spoiler: killing Barron in 2016 save Abraham's life? It's said that killing Barron prevents the experiment that created the Hollows in the first place thus meaning Abraham can't be killed by one, but the Barron they kill isn't the "early" Barron who was preparing the original experiment, it's the Barron who, in his own timeline, has already carried out the experiment, created the hollows, killed Abe and is now prepping the next experiment. And what's more, they kill him in 2016, admittedly about a month or so before Abe dies, but that shouldn't matter given the linear experience of Barron and Jake themselves. On top of this at the end, after killing Barron, they explicitly mention the hollows as still being a threat, even though the only reason Abe is now alive (which he is) is because the hollows now apparently never existed.]] Have I missed something really obvious with the time travel here because it's kind of breaking my mind.
** Bit of a Wild Mass Guess here, but it ''could'' work if [[spoiler: Barron recruited at least one of the four hollowgasts that participate in the last battle from one of the Loops, rather than from Jake's time ... and unwittingly drafted ''his own former self'' into the group. We don't know how many years film-Barron spent as just another hollowgast, after all, or how well he remembers the period when he was still a blind, half-savage predator with little self-control. If 2016-Barron had forgotten that he'd been snooping around near Miss Peregrine's Loop in 1943, trying to pin down its location, and he just called up any hollowgasts in the area as extra muscle to guard his captives, then he might have unknowingly brought his own former self to 2016 along with him. In which case, 2016-Barron unwittingly got his own 1943-self killed in the battle with the animated skeletons ... or even by Jake's crossbow bolt (!), after eating ''his own'' eyes (!!!) just as unwittingly.]] With [[spoiler: 1943-hollowgast Barron]] dead, history re-writes itself so that [[spoiler: ''Barron'' no longer exists to track down Abe]], but the other hollowgasts are still out there, wandering around as leaderless predators.

* How is there a peculiarity relating to hollowgast vision [[spoiler: and control]] if the hollows are abominations that were created artificially? Does peculiarity have adaptations that can develop for new purposes that have never existed before?

** Explained in the third book. [[spoiler:It's revealed that some peculiarities have functions beyond their primary manifestation. A peculiar healer puts forth the idea that some Peculiars might be able to do other things if it wasn't taken for granted that peculiarities have one purpose, they might be able to do more. For example, if Emma had come up differently, she might be able to manipulate more elements. It's later revealed that Jacob can see soul jars stored in an ancient library, something that only people with his peculiarity are known to be capable of.]]

* What exactly did Abe do his whole life? "Tracking down hollows and killing them"? The flashback shows 11 Peculiars turned by Barron's experiment, including himself. Miss Peregrine killed one, the Nazi bomb another, the 4 in the battle, the 4 humanized ones (train, squished, petrified, and elephant), and Barron himself. That's the 11. Did Abe really spend 60 years on this project with zero results?

** Explained in the third book. [[Spoiler: It's revealed that some peculiarities have functions beyond their primary manifestation. A peculiar healer puts forth the idea that some Peculiars might be able to do other things if it wasn't taken for granted that peculiarities have one purpose, they might be able to do more. For example, if Emma had come up differently, she might be able to manipulate more elements. It's later revealed that Jacob can see soul jars stored in an ancient library, something that only people with his peculiarity are known to be capable of.]]

** Phones are dependent on satellites.

* How did Enoch discover his power? was he just randomly shoving hearts in to dead people?
** Based on the movie, "peculiarities" somehow run in the family. Bother and sister sharing exceptional strength, the twins being whatever-they-are, granfather and grandson having a second sight. So, it's possible that one of Enoch's parents was peculiar too. And running a funeral's home. Sleep tight.