Oops! Mistakes
from:
Harry
Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
or Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Note:
I've had some complaints about the Mistake pages saying that it's
an insult to J.K. Rowling to plaster pages with mistakes she or
the editor made. I never meant to give that impression, as I am
very aware that she has her hands full with raising a child, etc.
If you agree with the complaints, email me here, and if I get lots of emails, I will take
off the Mistakes pages. -Whitney
Mistake...
In
the first Harry Potter, Harry buys ONE THOUSAND MAGIC HERBS AND
FUNGI but near the end it says harry looked up dittany in ONE
HUNDRED MAGIC HERBS AND FUNGI
Mistake... In Harry's letter from Hogwarts it says
he could bring a cat, an owl, or a toad, yet Ron still brings
his pet rat,Scabbers.
Mistake... In book 1 Professor Dumbledore says that
Nicolas Flamel destroyed the sorcerer's stone, and has just enough
Elixer to set his affairs straight and then he and his wife would
die. But earlier in the book, it says that the Elixer of Life
makes the drinker immortal. So if Flamel drank it, he never would
die.
Mistake... 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 Magical rules, this is illegal. If she did this in her
muggle home, she would most likely be expelled as Harry almost
was.
Mistake... In book 1, when Hagrid is taking Harry down
Diagon Alley for the first time, a woman says "17 sickles
an ounce for dragon liver, their crazy!" but since Hagrid
told Harry that 17 sickles makes a galleon, than she was wrong.
It would be like saying 100 pennies, instead of 1 dollar.
Mistake... In book one, chapter
7 "The Sorting Hat" they say after Harry's turn at the
sorting hat that there are three more people to be sorted but
there are really four. Here are the four people.... Dean Thomas,
Lisa Turpin, Ron Weasley, and Blaise Zabini. [Note: This mistake
doesn't appear in The Philosopher's Stone however, because the
sentence mentioning Dean Thomas' name isn't there.
Mistake... In Book 1, JK
Rowling wrote that Ron was the knight in the giant chess
set! However, he later said that he had to 'move ahead one'
so the Queen could take him, opening the path for Ron and Hermione
to check-mate the king. If he was a knight, he could only move
1) ahead one, sideways two, or 2) ahead two, sideways one, But not ahead one
Mistake...
In
Philosopher's Stone, Harry's equipment list says 1 wand twice,
once at top, once at bottom.
Mistake...On page 123 of Harry Potter and
the
Sorcerer's Stone, Nearly Headless Nick says "I haven't eaten
for nearly four hundred years," Then in Harry Potter and
the Chamber of Secretson page 129 Nick says "Well, this Halloween
will be my five hundredth deathday," There was only one year
in between the two. It doesn't work.
- Thanks to Sarah Shrider
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