Mistakes
As Much as I hate to admit it Harry Potter does have some mistakes
- In Book 1, Dumbledore says that Flamel is going to die, but doesn't the Elixir of Life make the drinker immortal????
- In book four, during Priori Incantatem, Voldemort's victims
came out in reverse order. BUT, James came out BEFORE Lily. That
would mean that James died AFTER he killed Lily and it said all
over in the books that he killed James first.
- In the 1st book when Hagrid comes and gets Harry out of the
little hut on the rock, they use the boat that the Dursleys used
to get to the rock. So how do the Dursleys get off the rock?
- We know that Harry's birthday is on July 31 because that is
the same day as the break in at Gringotts. From the second book
we know Nearly Headless Nick's 500th Death Day Party was on 10/31/1992.
Doing the math, we know that Harry's 11th Birthday was 07/31/1991.
In The Sorcerer's Stone, Harry says his birthday is on a Tuesday,
the day after Dudley's favorite TV show (The Great Humberto).
The mistake is that July 31, 1991 fell on a Wednesday, not a Tuesday
like the book said.
- At the end of the second book Dumbledore tells Harry that Lord
Voldemort is the last remaining ancestor of Salazar Slytherin.
But it should say that Lord Voldemort is the last remaining descendant
of Salazar Slytherin.
- When Hagrid brought Harry to Diagon Alley for the first time,
Harry heard a woman say "Seventeen sickles an ounce for Dragon
Liver. They're mad." But Hagrid told Harry that there were seventeen
sickles in a galleon. So that would be like saying "100 pennies"
instead of a dollar.
- In the first book, Harry buys the book "One Thousand Magical
Herbs and Fungi", but later in the book it says Harry looked up
'dittany' in "One Hundred Magical Herbs and Fungi."
- In the first book it said that by drinking the Elixir of Life
it would make the drinker immortal, but later in the story Dumbledore
says to Harry that the Flamel's had enough Elixir stored in them
to set their affairs straight.. But, if by drinking the Elixir
of Life makes you immortal then you would never die, ever. You
can't just be immortal as long as you have a certain item, then
that would mean you could die. You would be like Achilles, you
could still die. Immortal means you can NEVER die.
- In book four, after Hermione dropped Muggle Studies, she said
she had the same amount of subjects as Ron and Harry. But she
still had (besides the mandatory ones) Arithmancy, Care of Magical
Creatures, and Ancient Runes.
- How do the Dursleys send mail to Harry at Christmas? (Maybe
Hedwig went to them?)
- In the first book, Petunia Dursley says that Lily would "...come
home every vacation with her pockets full of frog spawn, turning
teacups into rats...," but according to ministry rules, this is
illegal. If she did this in her muggle home she would most likely
be expelled as Harry almost was.
- When Dumbledore was telling everybody about the Triwizard Tournament
during the start of term speech he said: "We have worked hard
over the summer to ensure that this time, no champion will find
himself or herself in mortal danger." (Do you think facing a Hungarian
Horntail that breathes fire forty feet would classify as 'mortal
danger'? Even if there were trained hit wizards nearby you catch
one of those flame-bursts and your a corpse before the wizards
can do anything.)
- Just a thought but... security for the Sorceror's Stone could
have been much better. If three first-years can get to the stone
than you can bet any fully-trained wizard can do it. They could
have just had a password that nobody but Dumbldore knew. Then
he could tell Flamel if he had to use it than change the password
right away.
- When Tom Riddle was talking to Harry in the Chamber of Secrets
he said that they were similar because they were both half bloods.
But Harry isn't a half blood. Lily and James were both wizards
and witches. (Many people say that because Lily was muggle born
that makes Harry a half blood, but that is not true. If both parents
are witches and wizards you are not a half blood. Half blood means
ONE parent is a witch/wizard and the other is a muggle.)
- In Book one (it said), Prof.
McGonagall brings out a 4 legged chair with the sorting hat (to
the sorting ceremony). In book four (it said) she brings out a
3 legged chair with the sorting hat. What happened to one of the
legs?"
- In book one, it says that Harry looked up
at the Sorting Stool, there were only 3 people left to be sorted,
Professor McGonagall calls the names of 4 more people instead.
- Katie Bell
is in the Quidditch final, and she scores a goal for Griffindor
on a penalty shot. The book says she puts it past the Slytherin
"seeker", when the seeker is not the person she would put it by
to score, rather the keeper."
- Laura asks "Please tell me how the entrance to a secret chamber, built hundreds of
years
ago became concealed in the tap of a modern bathroom? (chamber of
Secrets)".