Mistakes from

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

 

I've been having some complaints about the mistakes pages, saying that it's an insult to J.K. Rowling to have the mistakes she or the editor made plastered all over the page. I know that, if it is her fault, that she has her hands full looking after her daughter etc. and never meant it in that way. What do you think? Should I take off the Mistake pages? E-mail me your comments.

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Mistake... In The Chamber of Secrets, when Harry, Ron, and Hermione find Mrs. Norris, it says they ran UPSTAIRS and found her outside the bathroom, Moaning Myrtle's Bathroom. But in The Deathday Party Hermione says she haunts the bathroom on the FIRST FLOOR.[Note: Many fans have written to say that in the UK there is a Ground Floor and up one level would be the First Floor. In the US, the Ground Floor and the First Floor are the same.]

Mistake... 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!

Mistake... At the end of Book 2, Dumbldore tells Harry that Lord Volemort is the last remaining ancestor of Salazar Slytherin, but actually he is the last remaining DESCENDANT of Slytherin.

Mistake... It's that the basilisk kills people by looking at it straight in the eye, and both Harry and Myrtle wear glasses. Colin was petrified by looking at it through glass, so wouldn't Myrtle just be petrified too? [Possible Correction: Most glasses lenses these days are plastic. Maybe the stare can penetrate plastic but not glass.]

Mistake... When Tom Riddle is talking to Harry, he said that the two of them had a lot of things in common, including the fact that theywere both half-bloods. But if James & Lily Potter were both magical, that would make Harry a pure-blood, not half-blood. [Note: many readers suggest this is because Lily is Muggle-born]

 

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