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Book Mistakes

BOOK ONE
  • ~ On page 28 the book clearly states that Dudley's gang(Piers, Dennis, Malcolm, Gordon)are all big and stupid. Yet on page 22 Piers is described as a scrawny boy with a face like a rat.
  • ~ When Harry receives his letter from Hogwarts it specifically states that you may bring a toad, owl or cat. Yet Ron brings his rat(scabbers) and nothing is said about it by anyone(not even one of the students).
  • ~ In the book, Aunt Petunia tells Harry, Dudley, Uncle Vernon and Hagrid that each and every summer, Lily would be turning teacups into rats. We all read how quickly it was noticed by the Ministry of Magic that a spell had been performed in the Dursley household(second book), so Lily Potter should have been expelled(if she did magic every summer).
  • POSSIBLE CORRECTION: The rules may have been different in the time when Lily and James went to school.
  • ~ At the end of the first book after the Philosopher's Stone has been destroyed, Dumbledore tells Harry that Nicolas Flamel and his wife have enough Elixir left to set things in order before they die. But the Elixir of life is suppoed to make you immortal. Doesn't that mean that you can't die?
  • ~ Harry purchases One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi during his first ever trip to Diagon Alley. Later on, this book is referred to as One Hundred Magical Herbs and Fungi.
  • ~ In the first book, Severus' name is written snap not snape on one of the many pages.
  • ~ When Hagrid comes to rescue Harry from the little hut on the rock, they take the Dursley's boat to get back to the main land. How do the Dursleys themselves get back?
  • ~ In this book, page 136 Marcus Flint is referred to as ‘a sixth year'. Yet he is still at Hogwarts in the third book making him an eighth year(although there is no such thing). We all know J.K. Rowling claimed that ‘he had to repeat a year' although this was probably a simple cover up.
  • ~ When Harry first meets Ron on the Hogwarts Express(pg.75) Ron tells Harry that Fred and George get really good marks and that he is expected to live up to them. But in the third and fourth books all Mrs. Weasley complains about is their poor marks!
  • ~ Page 205 when ‘The Three Friends' are playing the giant chess game, Ron takes the place of a knight. Yet they win the game because Ron ‘sacrifices himself by taking one step forward'. Yet nights can not move only one step! Also, harry takes the place of a bishop and after Ron is taken down the book says that ‘shaking Harry moved three spaces to the left'. Bishops can only move on a diagonal.
BOOK TWO
  • ~ In this book, we find out that Moaning myrtle was killed by the stare of the Basilisk while she was hiding in the girls bathroom. She was hiding there because a girl had been teasing her about her glasses. If Colin Creevey was only petrified because he saw the stare through his camera lense, then why did Myrtle die if she saw the basilisk stare through her glasses? Are they both not made of thin glass?
  • ~ On page 101 Hermione tells harry and Ron that Moaning Myrtle haunts one of the girls toilets on the first floor. Yet in the fourth book Harry says to Ron (pg.345)'well there is always Moaning Myrtle.' It then says ‘he was referring to the ghost that haunted the girls toilets on the second floor'.
  • ~ In this book on pages 48 and 193, Ron refers to Cornelius Fudge as the Minister of Magic, but in the third book on pages 36 and 235, and in the fourth book on pages 503 and 615, Fudge's title has changed to the Minister for Magic.
  • ~ When Ron is writing one of his History of Magic essays, he tells Harry that he is eight inches short of the three feet that they are supposed to write. Then Hermione comes over to them (this all takes place in the library), they talk for a bit, and then Ron tells Hermione that he only needs two more inches. Quick writer or what?
  • ~ On page 38, one of Gilderoy Lockhart's books is called 'Wanderings with Werewolves', and then on page 78, that book is renamed 'Weekend with a Werewolf'.
  • ~ There is a word missing on page 127. It should say that either Fred or George is trying to stop 'the other Bludger FROM murdering Harry'.
  • ~ On page 246 when Lucius Malfoy is talking to Dumbledore, he says 'You're come back'. It should say either 'You're back' or 'You've come back'.
  • ~ When Harry and Ron are in the Forbidden Forest following the spiders on page 203, they hear something moving and Fang starts barking. After Harry tells Ron to shut up because whatever it is will hera him, Ron says "Hear me? It's already heard. Fang!" There shouldn't be a period before the word Fang.
BOOK THREE
  • ~ At the end of the book on page 314, Hermione tells Harry and Ron that since she's dropped Divination and Muggle Studies, she will have the same number of classes as them the following year. But didn't Hermione sign up for Ancient Runes class? Whatever happened to it? She must have dropped it sometime during the year without anyone knowing...
  • ~ On page 70 Harry is told by Prof. McGonagall that Prof. Lupin sent an owl ahead on the train to let the school know about Harry's encounter with the Dementor. Since do owls travel faster than trains? And who's owl did he use?
  • ~ When Sirius Black first gets into the castle and attacks the Fat Lady, we know that he went directly to the Gryffindor common room entrance. We assume that he was in Gryffindor, which is how he must have known where to go. But when he explains how he found out about Pettigrew to Lupin and the three friends in the Shrieking Shack (page 266), he tells them that he saw Peter in the picture with Ron and knew that he was going back to Hogwarts. Yeah, that's great, but how did he know that Ron was in Gryffindor?
  • ~ When Prof. Trelawney goes all weird during Harry's exam (page 238), she tells him that the Dark Lord's servant has been chained for the past twelve years, and that the servant would break free from its chains and rejoin its master that very night. We find out that this servant was Peter Pettigrew, but he wasn't exactly chained, was he? He was staying a rat on his own free will.
  • ~ On the very first page of the book when Harry is doing his homework, it says that he is reading 'A History of Magic' by Adalbert Waffling. But in the first book when he gets his first letter from Hogwarts, the book list says Adalbert Waffling is the author of 'A Magical Theory', and 'A History of Magic' is written by Bathilda Bagshot.
  • ~ When Harry is reading the article about Sirius Black on the Knight Bus, it makes reference to the International Federation of Warlocks. But in Harry's first letter from Hogwarts, it says that Dubledore is a part of the International Confederation of Wizards. Same organization with a different name?
  • ~ On page 114, Harry is upset because he can't go to Hogsmeade, and Ron tries to console him by telling him that there's always the Halloween feast afterward. Then Harry says that the feast was always good, but that it would be better if he had just come back from Hogsmeade. But, he's never actually attended the feast! In the first book, the feast is called off because of the troll, and in the second book, Harry goes to the Deathday Party instead.
BOOK FOUR
  • ~ In Defense Against the Dark Arts class in the fourth book, we know that Harry has the Imperious curse placed upon him four times by Prof. Moody, until he could throw it off completely. But then later, when Voldemort puts it on him, the book clearly states, and I quote, ‘For the third time in his life, that feeling of unconcern drifted over him'. But it wasn't actually the third time, we know that it would have been the fifth!!
  • ~ On page 133 in the Chamber of Secrets, at Nearly Headless Nick's deathday party his cake says, ‘Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington, died 31st October, 1492.' Since this was his 500th death day, that would mean that the second Harry Potter took place in the year 1992. However in book 4 it is stated in Harry's letter to Sirius on page 25, ‘Dudley chucked his PlayStation out of the window." Play Station officially came out in Japan in December 1994, while at that point in the book it would only be August of 1994! However, the Goblet of Fire was published in 2000, so Ms. Rowling likely went back and rewrote that particular fact, not noting the anachronistic error.
  • ~ In the chapter ‘The Dream' on page 503, Cornelius Fudge, Dumbledore, and Moody are all in Dumbledore's office when Harry overhears their meeting over Bartemius Crouch's attack. While Fudge accuses Madame Maxime of the crime, the book accidentally quotes Crouch as saying the dialogue. We know for a fact that at this point Crouch Sr. had gone missing and was not present for this meeting, and also that no one knew that Moody was actually Crouch Jr.
  • ~ It is said that Moaning Myrlte haunts the S-bend of the toilet in the girls' washroom (page 400 in this book), but in the second book on page 119, it says that she haunts the U-bend.
  • ~ On page 593, there is a grammatical error in one of Dumbledore's lines. He says to Barty Crouch Jr. 'I would like you to tell us how you COME to be here.' It should say either 'how you came to be here' or 'how you have come to be here'.

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