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  • ♥Shatha♥ Adha Mubarak

    Harry Potter Mistakes

    well , i have been searching and found this website :
    http://www.harrypotterfrenzy.com/sections-viewarticle-17.html

    and there i found some of the mistakes that Rowling made while writing HP seires ....

    Even witches make mistakes now and again, and JKR has made more than a few in writing the Harry Potter books!
    Here is a short list!

    In Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, we read that the Elixir of life makes the one who drinks it immortal. Later on we hear Dumblodore saying that Nicolas Flammel has just enough of it to fix some affairs and then he and his wife will die. Which of course is impossible since they must have been made immortal!

    "...come home every vacation with her pockets full of frog spawn, turning teacups into rats...,"
    This is what Harry's aunt Petunia says about his mother, Lilly Potter. Which of course can't be true cos it was illegal for Hogwarts pupils to perform magic outside the school!

    Hagrid and Harry leave the hut on the rock where the Dursleys had taken him on a little boat- the one they had used to get there. This of course meant that the Dursleys were left behind with no boat and no means of escaping!

    In Hogwarts letter it says that Harry can bring a cat, an owl or a toad. The rat Ron brings is nowhere to be found on the list!

    Ron is the knight in the game of magical chess played in the end of book1. Then it is said that he will have to move forward, so that the queen takes him, which is of course impossible as the knight never moces forward indeed!

    In the first Harry Potter movie, all those letters that came for him. Well if the Durslys and Harry went on a small island of rock with no way of getting off how could they get rid of all those letters so quickly without any one in their neighbor hood noticing.

    In Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, we read that James was a HeadBoy but in the 5th book Sirius said that James wasn't even a Prefect!

    In the 1st book Snape takes away harry's "Quidditch through the Ages" saying libary boooks are not alowed outside the libary but hermoine gave it to him to read

    In the fifth book when Malfoy docks points from Harry and his friends, Ernie goes its only prefects who can dock points Malfoy. Yet in the second harry potter book, when Ron and Harry and Hermione were found in Myrtels bathroom, Percy who was a prefect does take points from Grryfindor

    In the 2nd book Ron says that Fred had turned his bed into a spider. This is however impossible since no magic is allowed outside the walls of Hogwarts for students!

    In book one, Harry shakes hands with Quirrell in his first time in the Leaky cauldron, but isn't Quirrell suposed tu burn when Harry Touches him?(

    in book 3 when ron get pulled in the room with sirius black, his leg was injured so he sat on the bed, but when Lumpin came in it said Lumpin looked at ron who was on the floor

    in the 4th book in the chapter were they turn so called Moody into crouch with the potion. When he is turned into Barty Crouch JR. and he starts confessing it says:moody said. But he is Crouch

    in the third book, pg it says
    "...the only person Harry had heard the name (apart from himself) was professor dumbledore."
    and yet when hagrid was telling harry his history, he says voldermort, although he doesn''t like it

    In the fifth book, when Harry, Ron and Hermione have a meeting in the Hog's Head, they invite along some students from hogwarts including Dennis Creevey, who couldn't actually have gone to Hogsmade in the first place because he was only in second year.
    You can't go to Hogsmade until you are in third year. Also he probably didn't know enough magic at that stage to be as good as the other DA members.

    In the harrypotter books 1,2and three the quiditch captain for the slytherin team(marcus flint) was mentioned as a sixth year in the first book. In the second book Marcus flint is in his final year at hogwarts. However in the third book when harry faces slytherin crabbe goyle Malfor and marcus flint try to scare harryby dressing up as dementor. ther are only 7 yars in hogwarts and marcus is still in the third when his final year was in the second book.

    In book #3, it says that Percy got his top NEWTs and Fred and George scraped a handful of OWLs each, but in the fifth book, Harry said that he could expect some mail over the holidays, because they would be getting their OWL results in July. How come Fred and George got their OWL results at the end of June of their third year?

    At the end of GoF; Harry rides the "horseless" carriages back to Hogsmeade station on his way to Kingscross. But, having witnessed Cedric die, he should have seen the Threstals pulling the carriages

    in the second book in the chapter"Dobby's Reward"it says that Dobby dissappears with a final crack when we all know that you CANNOT apparate or disapperate in Hogwarts

    in the 3rd book when harry has got a godfather he has not been chrisend

    when harry was a baby he witnessed his mother die. shouldn't he see the thestrals before the fourth year. well we knwo he went in the boats in the 1st year. 2nd year he crashed into a tree with mr. weasleys car. but the third year..... he should have seen them

    In Book5 before the OWLs Pavarti and Lavender made PENCIL cases race.But at Hogwarts you use quills and parchment.So why would they have pencil cases

    in the fourth book J.K. typed sumething then put 'said moody' and she wrote this after everyone found out about the impersonater so she should have put 'said crouch'

    In the first book, when JKR is describing Scabbers, she doesn't mention that he has a toe missing. This is not exactly a mistake, but I really think she should have mentioned it, as it now looks as if Scabbers lost his toe in book 3

    in the fourth book the word pen was used when the wizards and witches only use quills not pens.



    So i want to know what do u think ? is all of them really a mistakes or some of them are just misundersating ?! and please if u can tell us other mistakes that have been through the series which u have noticed and werent mentioned here ... i have many myself

    ♥Shatha♥ Adha Mubarak started this discussion 3 months ago (edited). ( reply )

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  • ♥Shatha♥ Adha Mubarak

    ♥Shatha♥ Adha Mubarak 

    personally i dont think that all of these are mistakes .. i will comment more later .. but i have to go now ...

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  • Fatima

    Fatima (edited)

    this indeed is a gr8 discussin shatha..gr8 job..i'm lovin it...too intersting....i didnt read all because i donot have much time but i did read some of them...umm nice topic to think of! i myself noticed some of them while reading but now here ...i 'll try n come back soon to comment..

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  • Jyoti

    Jyoti 

    first of all gr8 discussion
    evn i thought of sum of those

    In Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, we read that James was a HeadBoy but in the 5th book Sirius said that James wasn't even a Prefect!
    ...........its never mentioned tht u hav 2 become a prefect to bcum a head boy...besides there can b exceptions

    In the 1st book Snape takes away harry's "Quidditch through the Ages" saying libary boooks are not alowed outside the libary but hermoine gave it to him to read
    ............snape is snape and he jus wanted a reason to irritate harry so he took it away thinking it ws from d library...and i dont think harry wanted 2 come in his bad books thtt time

    evn sum others can b argued on.....but some do hav a point

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  • Priyanka - gearing up for annual day!!

    Priyanka - gearing up for annual day!! 

    in the second book in the chapter"Dobby's Reward"it says that Dobby disappears with a final crack when we all know that you CANNOT apparate or disapperate in Hogwarts
    -well Dobby is an elf and elf apparition is not the same as wizard apparition...

    In Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, we read that the Elixir of life makes the one who drinks it immortal. Later on we hear Dumblodore saying that Nicolas Flammel has just enough of it to fix some affairs and then he and his wife will die. Which of course is impossible since they must have been made immortal!
    - I also think it says somewhere that the person who wants to become immortal would have to keep drinking it constantly to stay immortal. But the stone was at Hogwarts to be protected and therefore they couldn't use it...

    in the third book, pg it says
    "...the only person Harry had heard the name (apart from himself) was professor dumbledore."
    and yet when hagrid was telling harry his history, he says voldermort, although he doesn''t like it
    -it was not like he said it willingly...and someone using Voldemort's name like THAT shouldn't be taken into account, because he had no other option.

    I could explain a few more...but as I'm running out of time another time......

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  • Sarah Gryffindor...where dwells the brave at heart..!!!

    Sarah Gryffindor...where dwells the brave at heart..!!! 

    Yeah Shatha these r not really mistakes.....and i think it has no other mistake at all ....thats y HARRY POTTER is fantastic story and i love it !!:-)

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  • ♥Shatha♥ Adha Mubarak

    ♥Shatha♥ Adha Mubarak (edited)

    there is something that is wierd for me ... i dont know if it really an error or not but can u explain it ?!

    Katia Bell is one year older than Harry right (we can know this bz when he was in his 6th year she was still at hogwarts) ... and when Hary entered Hogwarts she was alrady on the Qudditch team ... and she was a second year which means she was there since her first year ...

    unless there was a Qudditch tryouts in the second day of the term and this cant be true bz Dumbledore said at the feast :
    "Quidditch trials will be held in the second week of the term. Anyone interested in playing for their house teams should contact Madam Hooch.


    and to make sure i have just checked the book to find this line:
    "Flying lessons would be starting on Thursday" first week ...

    so can u explain this to me .... how Bell was in the team ... bz after this Harry wont be the youngest in a century ?!? right ...............

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    • Kusum a.k.a hermione cullen

      Kusum a.k.a hermione cullen 

      ay ya!i never noticed..hmmm...

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    • Jyoti

      Jyoti 

      mee 2....i never use my brain a lot for these kand of thigs ..or i get a headache

      posted 3 months ago. ( reply )
  • Michael

    Michael 

    this is surely a group for brainy's n nutters...not my typo..lol ;)

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  • ♥Shatha♥ Adha Mubarak

    ♥Shatha♥ Adha Mubarak 

    something else that is a mistake for sure

    when Dobby performed the "hovering charm" harry was blamed for it ... and later Dumbledore told Harry that the minstry cant know which witch or wizard performs the charm .. they only know where it was performed ...

    yet in the fifth book ... at the "advanced gaurd" chapter , when they cam to collect harry to the headquatrter ... tonks performed more than one charm (one to collect harry's things, another to carry the trunk) and lupin perform a charm to unlock harry's bedroom door ....

    in the 6th book , Dumbledor conjuigered the wine glasses and made other charms and spells ...

    in the 4th book Mr. Weasley destroyed the fire place by magic and then fixed Duddly and clear up the room by magic ...

    So how come harry didnt get expelled for all these magics does anybody have an explianition ?

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    • Michael

      Michael 

      yes becoz this is a story n jk rowling is for heavens sake a human ...n so she can make a mistake.... unlike our admins who NEVER EVER madea mistake wid our points..

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    • ♥Shatha♥ Adha Mubarak

      ♥Shatha♥ Adha Mubarak (edited)

      u can cross ur fingers for that mike but it will never ever happwen .. and as sewar (which is on thje phone with me) says .. that i should make a mistake and take 5 points from u ... lolz

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    • Michael

      Michael (edited)

      lol..yeah after this wht admins are really good at giving marks or deducting them..lol

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    • Kusum a.k.a hermione cullen

      Kusum a.k.a hermione cullen 

      k ya but im thinking when dumbledore wen t to pick up harry he would have informed the ministry or something..
      and aslo that was a time of turmoil so im sure the miistry wouldnt be looking at every tiny spell when there are ppl being killed and imperiused..

      and as for the mr weasley thing he was frm teh ministry himslef so im thinking he informed them too???i dunno about taht one...

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    • Jyoti

      Jyoti 

      when Dobby performed the "hovering charm" harry was blamed for it ... and later Dumbledore told Harry that the minstry cant know which witch or wizard performs the charm .. they only know where it was performed ...

      they must hav guessed that harry must hav dne it because ther was no other wizard there......

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    • Priyanka - gearing up for annual day!!

      Priyanka - gearing up for annual day!! 

      I think I will agree with Jo...

      So does this mean Molly and Arthur can never perform magic wen their children are underage??

      It's the same concept...they knew that Dumbledore or Arthur for that matter were elderly...

      and as for Lupin and Tonks, they went away after douing the charms so even if the place was found there were no residents to blame.........

      Do I make sense? I think I do...

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    • Lauren Marie L(says Happy New Year!!! Fireworks, baby!!!)

      Lauren Marie L(says Happy New Year!!! Fireworks, baby!!!) (edited)

      mkay. i know it is mentioned in one of the books that the main reason was harry was in a house full of muggles. magic in front of muggles is punishable by azkaban. quite different from being in a house full of wizards. also in the books it says that the ministry doesn't punish the children of witches because it is supposed to be the parents who discipline the chirdren. also it mentions in the 7th book that kids under 17 have the "trace'' on them. molly and arthur don't have the "trace"- which applies also to dumbledore and tonks and lupin- on them anymore. i know for a fact that this is right. trace is talked about with moody on pgs 46-47 0f 7th book. dobby might fall under the category of trace since his magic is unlike wizards.

      posted 2 months ago. ( reply )
  • ♥Shatha♥ Adha Mubarak

    ♥Shatha♥ Adha Mubarak 

    Sewar suggest another one :

    Hermione had modified her parents memory ... then in the coffee shop (after the wedding) she said that she never tried it before but she knows the theory ...

    so what answer u have for this ...

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  • Lauren Marie L(says Happy New Year!!! Fireworks, baby!!!)

    Lauren Marie L(says Happy New Year!!! Fireworks, baby!!!) (edited)

    concerning lilly potter and teacups and frogs.
    - was the law about not using magic outside of school a law back then? and i believe that aunt what's her face is exaggerating and just making lilly seem like a freak that she thought she was. i don't think this was a mistake. more of aunt petunia exaggerating which we know that the entire family besides hp does very well.

    concerning the boat.
    - who cares how they got off the island. i'm sure the guy they rented the boat from decided to go and look for them since (pg 44) they hadn't come back. makes sense right? wouldn't you want your boat back?

    concerning the rat.
    - like ron and his family never broke any rules. i doubt that anyone truly cares that ron brought a rat and who knows besides ron, hermy, hp, hagrid, and ron's fam?

    concerning the knight.
    - a knight moves in an L. a knight moves forward two and over two. therefore he does move forward. forward could also mean ahead- like he is a step ahead rather than a step behind in the moves of chess. more likely it is the fact that a knight does move forward two. when he moves foward one he is taken since the queen is in that spot.

    concerning the letters.
    -the letters are all inside the house so nobody would notice them. the letters follow hp wherever he is staying so nobody would notice the letters since the letters are inside the house and no more are going to the house.


    concerning the prefects and points.
    - where is this found in the books?

    concerning ron on the bed.
    -pg 338 says," On a magnificent four poster bed with dusty hangings lay Crookshanks, purring loudly at the sight of them. ON THE FLOOR BESIDE HIM, CLUTCHING HIS LEG, WHICH STUCK OUT AT A STRANGE ANGLE, WAS RON." therefore he was on the floor to begin with.


    concerning crouch and moody.
    - because of the polyjuice potion they are essentially the same person. i have looked through this chapter again and did not see it. please give me the page number where it is said.


    concerning quirell and voldie.
    - voldie becomes a part of him (pg 291) when he is not able to steal the stone from gringotts. voldie probably waited till quirrell went home and then forced him to become a part of him. i mean i doubt that vold would become part of quirrell while he was walking down diagon alley. i'm sure it was painful and all that so it probably didn't happen till that night.


    concerning dennis creevey.
    - colin creevey probably got his brother to sneak out. he's underage but it's not like hp and the others never snuck out to hogsmeade before. the weasley twins probably helped. they didn't want anyone particualrly powerful just people who believed them.

    concerning threstrals and hp.
    -he only saw the green light and heard the screaming. it never mentions that he saw his mother's death. i think the movie took some poetic license to the fact he was standing up watching. it's not mentioned like that in the book.

    sorry guys, i'm tired but hopefully you understood what i was saying and figured out that i was right. which i am. not to be a snob or anything. i just know i'm right becuz i looked up a bunch of that stuff. in my opinion, the person who found allt his stuff should spend some time going through the books before saying that jkr made a mistake because obviously, as i have proven, it was not a mistake. sorry guys, not trying to rain on anyone's parade.

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