Errors/Mistakes : Order of the Phoenix

Following is a list of errors in the book.

1) Before the first Quidditch match, Harry is relieved that it's cloudy as he won't have the sun in his eyes, but moments later the stadium is in "dazzling sunlight".

2) Second-year student Dennis Creevey goes to the Hog's Head for the first DA "meeting", but only third-years and older are allowed to go to Hogsmeade during term time. For those of you who don't believe us and insist that he's a third-year, open your copy of Goblet of Fire to see him introduced in the chapter involving the Sorting Ceremony (making him a second-year in Order of the Phoenix).

3) There's an illustration mistake in chapter thirty-eight, The Second War Begins. Nymphadora Tonk's t-shirt is supposed to say 'The Weird Sisters'. In the illustration, you can't see all of the writing, but if you look closely you can see that only an 'erd' is visible on the first line. Since 'weird' has an 'i' after the 'e', the 'i' should be visible as well--but it's not.

4) On page 710 it says that Parvati and Lavender were practicing basic locomotion charms making their pencil cases race each other. They use scrolls and quills, what would they be doing with pencil cases?

5) Page 147: "'Dumbledore was having real trouble finding a new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher this year. Not suprising, is it, when you look at what's happened to the last four?' said George. 'One sacked, one dead, one's memory removed and one locked in a trunk for nine months.' Quirrel is dead, Lockhart's memory's gone, Moody was locked in the trunk but Lupin didn't get sacked, he resigned.

7) On page 166, chapter 9 ("The Woes of Mrs. Weasley"), it says: He pretended to be rummaging for something while Hermione crossed to the wardrobe and called Hedwig down. A few moments passed; Harry heard the door close but remained bent double, listening...He straightened up and looked behind him. Hermione and Hedwig had gone. Harry hurried across the room, closed the door...Yet, Harry had already heard the door close.

On page 504 of the American OotP, Harry says, "Dobby did, he left the Malfoys' to give me warnings two years ago. He had to punish himself afterward, but he still managed it." This is in the fifth book, and what he is talking about happened in the second book. So, it wouldn't be two years ago, but in fact three years ago.

9) We are told that fifth-years are allowed out in the corridors until nine o'clock. Later in the book, during the DA meeting when Umbridge comes hunting for the group, Harry hopes that his fellow DA members will have the sense to take refuge in the library, the Owlery, or a bathroom instead of trying to make it all the way to their dormitories, because it is only ten to nine. However, not all the members of the DA are in fifth-year or above, so they would not be allowed in the corridors at ten to nine, and they would have to make it all the way to their dormitories or else get in trouble anyway.

10) The Order of the Phoenix, chapter twenty-seven, page 614:
"Oho!" said Fudge bouncing up and down on the balls of his feet again. "Yes, do let's hear the latest cock-and-bull story designed to pull Potter out of trouble! Go on, then, Dumbledore, go on ---- Willy Widdershins was lying, was he? Or was it Potter?s identical twin in the Hog?s Head that day? Or is there the usual simple explanation involving a reversal of time, a dead man coming back to life, and a couple of invisible dementors?" Fudge never knew about Hermione and Harry using the Time Turner to go back in time to save Sirius and Buckbeak.

11) Page 714: It says that when they are taking they O.W.L.s practical exam that Harry is performing for his judge and he says that Hannah Abott was trying to vanish a iguana! But they wre called in in alphabatical order by last name, so why would Abott and Potter be together? Possible Answer: I was told that British Exams weren't taken in Alphabet order.

12) O.W.L.s are taken in fifth year and N.E.W.T.s are taken in the seventh year. On page 228 Ron is talking to Harry and Hermione about what Bill had told him about the career advice meeting they'd be having that year. Ron says, "...so you can choose what N.E.W.T.s you want to do next year..." Next year they'll all be in the sixth year not the seventh, so they wont be taking their N.E.W.T.s next year. ? Thanks to Casey
Fan response: Harry, Hermione & Ron are able to choose what N.E.W.T. subjects they want to do next year, not necessarily that they are doing the exams. They prepare for their N.E.W.T. testing 7th year by taking the courses 6th year and 7th year.

13) When Harry is taken to Dumbledore?s office by Dolores and Dumbledore escapes, it says that next day that talk was going around about how Dumbledore had overcome two Aurors, The Minister of Magic, The High inquisitor, and Fudges junior assistant. However, Percy had left minutes earlier to send his notes to the Daily Prophet.

14) In book five, chapter 30 (Grawp), pages 683 and 684, at the Gryffindor/Ravenclaw Qidditch match, it says: "They [Harry & Hermione] found seats in the topmost row of the stands." Later on, when Hagrid comes to take them to see Grawp, it says: "Apparently he [Hagrid] had squeezed his way all along the row behind." How can that be if Harry and Hermione were in the top row?

15) The cover of OotP shows Harry in the Department of Mysteries holding his wand in his left hand. However, it is clearly stated that his right arm is his wand arm.

16) In the Astronomy O.W.L. exam, Harry is completing his drawing of the constellation of Orion. At England's latitude Orion would only be visible approximately from November until March. However, they are taking their exams in June.

17) In book 3, Fred and George receieve their O.W.L. results before the end of school. However, in OotP, Harry, Ron, and Hermione have to wait until July to get their results.

1 In the chapter "The Sorting Hat" in the first book (page 121), a "Perks, Salley-Anne" is sorted before Harry; however, in the fifth book (page 713) she is not called to take her O.W.L.S. - Thanks to Nathan
Possible Explanation: Salley-Anne Perks may have left the school between books 1 and 5.

19) In Chapter 1, Harry hears a sharp crack, the sound of someone Apparating. Later in the book, when he arrives at Grimmauld Place, Fred and George are also Apparating in and out with sharp cracks. However, in previous books the sound of someone Apparating was a *pop*.

20) On page 625 (UK edition), 1st paragraph, it says: "You will sit the theory papers in the mornings and the practice in the afternoons." The word practice should be practical.

21) On page 709 (UK edition), 4th paragraph, it says: "Harry flung the prophecy across the floor, Neville span himself around on his back and scooped the ball to his chest. Malfoy pointed the wand instead at Neville, but Harry jabbed his own wand back over his shoulder and yelled, 'Impedimenta!'" It should read "Neville spun himself" instead of "Neville span himself."

22) In Chapter 27 of book 5 ("The Centaur and the Sneak"), Professor McGonagall says that "usually when a person shakes their head, they mean 'no'. So unless Miss Edgecombe is using a form of sign language as yet unknown to humans..." Actually, in some countries and cultures, like in Bulgaria, you shake your head when you mean "yes" and nod when you mean "no."

23) Page 583, "Seen and Unforseen": After Harry had given his interview in the Quibbler about the night Voldemort returned, a disgruntled Umbridge banned the artical after its release, though this didn't keep students from finding out and reading it, including Seamus. Umbridge was monitoring the mail, both in and out of Hogwarts, as she said elsewhere in the book. Seamus, however, informed Harry that he beleived him and he'd sent the article to his mother. Obviously, there's a glitch here because Seamus surely would have been punished for being in possession of the article, had Umbridge come across it in the outgoing mail.

24) In OotP, page 60, it is describing Number Twelve, Grimmauld place. It reads:"The silver door knocker was in the form of a twisted serpent. There was no keyhole or letterbox." However, it clearly shows on the title page (the drawing of Snuffles exiting Number Twelve) that there a keyhole, and no letter box.

25) Educational Decree 24 bans all clubs, defining a club as "a regular meeting of three or more students," so shouldn't Harry, Ron, and Hermione get in trouble just for studying together every night?

26) On page 530 at Harry's first Occlumency lesson, Snape says "Only Muggles talk of 'mind reading.'" But on page 382 Ron states, "Harry, you're reading You-Know-Who's mind..."

27) Chapter 21, page 454, American edition: At the last DA meeting prior to Christmas, the DA members are reviewing the stunning spell and the book states, "Space was really too confined to allow them all to work this spell at once: half the group observed the others for a while, then they swapped over." Since the Room of Requirement gives you exactly what you need, wouldn't it give them the necessary space as well?

28)In chapter 28, "Snape's Worst Memory," Harry sees his father in the Great Hall, taking his Defense Against the Dark Arts O.W.L. It says that James "turned in his seat and grinned at a boy (Sirius) sitting four seats behind him." But in an exam they would be sitting in alphabetical order, so why is "Black" four seats behind "Potter"?

29)Fred and George shove Montegue in the Vanishing Cabinet on the First floor, but in CoS, Peeves drops it over Filch's office.

30)The Statue of the centaur from the Magical Brotherhood statues in the Ministry of Magic was the one protecting Harry as Dumbledore and Lord Voldemort duled. Then as Lord Voldemort sent a killing curse to Dumbledore, the centaur was the one that blocked it. But then when Lord Voldemort dissapeared and Dumbledore told Harry to stay there, there was a statue still protecting Harry. True it didn't say wich one, but all the other statues were occupied at the moment.

31)After leaving the Ministry, Dumbledore told Harry that his parents escape from Lord Voldemort 3 times and he escaped 4, but he actually escaped 5 times, 1st after he was born, 2nd in the 1st year at Hogwarts, 3rd in the Chamber of Secrets, 4th after the tournamnt, and the 5th at the Misterys department!

32) While Harry and the Dursley's are sitting in the kitchen, a howler comes for Aunt Petunia from an owl who arrived and left via the chimney. In Goblet of Fire, we are told that the chimney had been blocked up as they use an electric fire.
EDIT: The owl came through the kitchen fireplace, and it was the living room fireplace that was blocked up. It might be that JKR messed up there, or the Dursley's have two fireplaces.

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Published on: 2005-06-14 (2227 reads)