Book Errors/ Mistakes : Sorcerers Stone

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1) 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?

2) 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."

3) 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.

4) In chapter 7, page 122, 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.

5) 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?

6) In Harry's letter from Hogwarts it says he could bring a cat, an owl, or a toad, but Ron brings his rat, Scabbers.

7) During the chess match, it said that Ron was the knight in the giant chess set. However, it later said that he had to 'move ahead one' so the Queen could take him, opening the path for Harry to checkmate the king. If he was a knight, he could only move 1) ahead one, sideways two, or 2) ahead two, sideways one, like an "L".

When Harry is under the Invisibility Cloak and running away from Snape, he says that he thought he was near the kitchens. However, in the fourth book, Fred and George have to tell Harry where the kitchens are.

9) On page 27 it mentions that the snake in the zoo winked at Harry. Harry can't be blamed for being so surprised, as snakes don't have movable eyelids.

10) Nearly Headless Nick says that he hasn't eaten in "nearly four hundred years", but in the second book, Harry goes to his 500th Deathday Party, meaning that Nearly Headless Nick has been dead for 500 years, not 400.

11) Ron visits Harry in the hospital wing, and says, "You missed the last Quidditch match, we were steamrollered by Ravenclaw without you..." But on page 217, in rejecting Ron and Hermione's advice to book off the match that Snape will be refereeing, Harry says, "There isn't a reserve seeker. If I back out, Gryffindor can't play at all."

12) If Petunia (Evans) Dursley had already gone through the experience of having a family member leave for Hogwarts (her sister Lily), why did she stare (page 89) when Harry named Platform 9 3/4 as the departure point of the Hogwarts Express? They didn't keep Lily's talent secret: "...my mother and father ... were proud of having a witch in the family!"

13) Hagrid is desribed as twice as tall as a normal man and five times as wide. But in every other book he is only desribed as three times as wide.

14) On the list of school supplies, it mentions wand twice.

15) In Harry Potter and the Philosopher's stone, when Hagrid is telling Harry how his parents died, he says that they were "Head boy an' girl" and in the fifth book ( OotP), in a letter from Percy to Ron it says that only prefects can become Head boy or girl, but in that same book ( OotP) it says that Harry didn't care about being a prefect because his father hadn't been one.

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Published on: 2005-06-02 (1910 reads)