Book Errors/ Mistakes : Chamber of Secrets

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1) 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.

2) Page 283 at the start of Chapter 16, very last word on the page is Professorr, it should be Professor, with only one R.

3) There is a typo on page 157. It says '"Get-- away- from-- there," Perry said striding towards them.' It's supposed to say Percy not Perry.

4) In their Hogwarts Equipment list, it says the Lockhart book "Wanderings with a Werewolf." However, later in the book, it mentions "Weekend with a Werewolf."

5) In Lockhart's equipment list, it says "Year with the Yeti" but on page 78 (British version), he mentiones his book "Year with a Yeti."

6) On page 133 at Nearly-Headless Nick's deathday party, Harry and Ron were standing by the ghostly, mouldy food. Harry asked the ghost, "Can you taste it if you walk though it?" It should say through instead of though.

7) On page 95, it states that Nearly Headless Nick "took several deep breaths, and then said, in a far calmer tone, 'So what's bothering you?'" However, on page 506 of GoF, Myrtle says that ghosts do not breathe: "When I can't ...when I haven't...not for ages..."

At Nearly Headless Nick's Deathday party, Hermione says that Myrtle haunts the bathroom on the first floor. However, she should say on the second floor. Just before they find the writing on the wall, it says "Harry hurtled around the whole of the second floor" and when Hermione is talking to Myrtle, she says "because a cat was attacked just outside your front door on Halloween." Her bathroom is on the second floor, not on the first.

9) In the back of the paperback version of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, on the last page where it gives a preview of the next book, it reads: "Harry Potter has to sneak back to his third year at Hogwarts after accidentally inflating his horrible Aunt Petunia." It should say he inflated his Aunt Marge.

10) The chapter picture for the chapter "The Rogue Bludger" shows Harry's left arm deboned, but in the story, his right arm has been deboned.

11) On page 166, Hermione is telling Ron and Harry that one of the ingredients for the Polyjuice Potion is lacewings, and that they have to be stewed for twenty one days. But on page 184 it says Ron pours dead lacewings on top of the leeches. They couldn't add the lacewings already, it being only their first day making the potion.

12) On page 96, 1st paragraph, it says that Colin Creevy held an ordinary Muggle camera. However, in the magic world, muggle technology doesn't work.

13) The books state ghosts cannot eat or drink, yet Nearly Headless Nick is revived with the Mandrake Potion. How could he be revived if you had to drink the potion?

14) On page 4, the day of Harry's Birthday, Rowling says, "and then, exactly a year ago, Hogwarts had written to Harry..." but they had actually written before Harry's 11th birthday. He'd been receiving them before, he just never had the chance to read one. So technically he had been written to before his 11th birthday.

15) In CoS, when Dumbledore finds Colin Creevey petrified, he immediately opens the back of the camera to see if anything is there. However, when someone opens the back of a camera, with the film advanced, the exposure to light will immediately destroy any image that may have been on the film, leaving even the print completely black. And even if there was a reason for that, until the film has been developed, nothing but the blank film (which is a very unhelpful puce color) can be seen.

16) "...Harry was dragging his feet along the SECOND floor corridor to Lockhart's office. He gritted his teeth and knocked." However, on page 141, after Mrs. Norris is found petrified on the second floor, Lockhart urges Professor Dumbledore to use his office to examine her, saying that it is just upstairs. That would mean that his office is on the THIRD floor, not the second.

17) In chapter fourteen (Cornelius Fudge), it says, "Harry had inherited just one thing from his father: a long and silvery Invisibility Cloak." However, we learned in Sorcerer's Stone that Harry also inherited a vault of gold from his parents, so the Invisibility Cloak was not the only thing he inherited from his dad.

1 Ron said, "If you must know, when I was three, Fred turned my -- my teddy bear into a great big filthy spider because I broke his toy broomstick." When Ron was three, Fred was only five and hadn't entered Hogwarts or even gotten a wand. How could he have changed the teddy bear into a spider? POSSIBLE EXPLENATION: Fred may have been mad when that happened and "made it happen" with out meaning to.

19) Professor Dumbledore cancels exams. However, just how easily can you cancel everyone's end-of-the-year exams? 5th and 7th years' O.W.L.s and N.E.W.T.s are extremely important to their wizardry future, and if they are canceled, how will that affect their careers?

20) After Harry, Ron and Hermione find Mrs. Norris in the second floor, the Halloween feast lets out and they hear the other students making their way back to their dormitories. And it seems that all of the students go through the hallway, including Draco. And we learn later (when Harry and Ron took the Polyjuice potion) that the Slytherin dormitories are in a different direction.

21) Tom Riddle said that Hagrid always kept werewolf cubs under his bed. How was he able to do that, werewolves are werewolves once a month. Unless he kept kids under his bed.

22) In chapter eight (the deathday party) on page 101 it says moaning myrtle haunts the toilets on the first floor, but on page 118 (the writing on the wall) its says that moaning myrtle haunts the girls toilets on the second floor.

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Published on: 2005-06-03 (1448 reads)