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JK Rowling made mistakes. (Hey, we all do.) But these mistakes, unlike others, were published and broadcast to the world. This is the place to make fun of them. Ha.
Book 1
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, it is illegal to use magic during the summer.
When Harry recieves his first letter, the discription of the seal says there is a lion, badger, snake, and an eagle. But there is no eagle in the Hogwarts crest. It should be a raven.
How can there be a thousand or more students at Hogwarts? if there are ten per year per house that would mean 40 new students per year, so, if there are 7 years times 40 students that would be 280 students...yet, in the third book, it says that most of the students were cheering for Gryffindor and only about 200 were cheering for Slytherin...how can 80 students be more than 200?
The Dursleys travel in a boat to the Hut. Hagrid and Harry leave on that boat. How did the Dursleys get back to land?
From what we know, Harry's birthday is on July 31, and Nearly Headless Nick's 500th death day was on October 31, 1992. So if you work it out, Harry's 11th birthday was in 1991. In the first book, Harry says that his birthday is on a Tuesday. However, July 31, 1991 fell on a Wednesday!
When Hagrid brought Harry to Diagon Alley, Harry heard a women say "...Seventeen sickles an ounce for Dragon liver...". However, we know that there are seventeen sickles in a galleon. So isn't that like saying "100 pennies for something" instead of a dollar?
Dean Thomas has a poster of the West Ham Soccer Team, but in the fourth they call it the West Ham football team, like it is said in England.
It says Hagri si twice as tall as a normal man, and 5x's wide, but Book 4 says he's twice as tall but only three times as wide.
Harry buys the book "One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi". However, later on in the book, it is mentioned as "One HUNDRED Magical Herbs and Fungi"
It says that when Harry looked up at the sorting stool, there were only 3 people to be sorted. However, Professor McGonagall called out 4 people.
It says that Professor McGonagall brings out a 4 legged chair with the sorting hat on it. In book 4, she brings out a 3 legged chair.
It is said that by drinking the elixir of life, it would make the drinker immortal. But later, Dumbledore told Harry that Flamel had enough Elixir stored in them to set their affairs, and that he will eventually die. But if the Elixir of Life makes you immortal, then you would NEVER die, even if you didn't have it!
Book Two
George Weasley says that his mum wanted a house elf to do the ironing. But isn’t a house elf set free if you give them clothes?
In the chapter where Harry's LEFT arm gets deflated, the illustration at the beginning of the chapter shows Harry's RIGHT arm deflated.
Harry, Hermione and Ron discover that Filch is a "squib" after finding his Kwikspell forms. There is no evidence of any of them telling anyone else about this revelation, yet two chapters later, Neville says that "they went for Filch...and everyone knows I'm almost a Squib." How did he know?
The entrance to the Chamber of Secrets is in a bathroom, and there is a snake engraved in one of the taps on a sink to show where. Prof. Binns says that the school was built sometime in the 10th century. Indoor plumbing didn't exist until the 19th.
It says that the clock in the Weasley's house has one hand and says things such as "Time to make tea, Time to feed the chickens, and You're late". Yet, in book four (page 151) it has nine golden hands and descriptions of where each member in the family is such as "home, school, work, traveling, lost, hospital, prison, and mortal peril".
The clock in Book 2 is in the kitchen, and the clock in Book 3 is in the living room.
In chapter Four ,Hermione wrote to Ron and Harry and at the end there were the word "happpening" too much p's.
In chapter 3 on the Knite Bus, the driver Stan told Harry that the price to get to London was 11 sickes. But the book then said that Harry shoved some gold into his hands. Sickles aren't gold, they are silver.
It says that Moaning Myrtle haunts the U-BEND of the toilet. In book 4, it says that she haunts the S-BEND of the toilet.
In one of the last chapters, Dumbledore says that Lord Voldemort is the last remaining “ancestor” of Salazar Slytherin..but it really should be “descendant”?
On page 132, Hermione says about Moaning Myrtle, "She haunts one of the toilets in the girls' bathroom on the first floor," while in book 4 on page 395 Harry says, "'I suppose there's always Moaning Myrtle,' he said gloomily, referring to the ghost who haunted the girls' toilet on the second floor." But that MIGHT not be a mistake, because remember, things in the castle do move around a lot.
According to page 133, Nearly Headless Nick's cake says, "Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington, died 31st October, 1492." Since it's his 500th death day party that would mean that Harry Potter book 2 takes place in the year 1992. However in book 4 it's mentioned on page 25, "chucked his PlayStation out of the window." Play Station officially came out in Japan in December 1994, while at that point in the book it's only August 1994!
In Chamber of Secrets, Ron tells Harry and Hermione that he's afraid of spiders because when he was three, Fred turned his teddy bear into a spider because Ron broke Fred's toy broomstick. When Ron was three, Fred was five and not old enough to do Transfiguration, especially with anything that big.
Book Three
At the end of Book 3, Hermione dropped Muggle Studies, and said that she had the same amount of subjects as Ron and Harry. But Harry and Ron take Care of Magical Creatures and Divinition. Hermione takes Care of Magical Creatures, Ancient Runes AND Arithmancy. 2 doesn't equal 3. Book Four
How did Dobby get the Gillyweed? When Snape's office is broken into, he clearly says that he seals his office with a charm that none but a wizard could break. So how on earth did Dobby, a house-elf, get into Snape's private stores to get the Gillyweed?
When Voldemort's wand is giving out the 'echo's' of the last spells it performed, it is supposed to be in reverse order. However, Harry's dad James comes out before his mother Lily. we already know that James was killed before Lily from Harry's flashbacks in book three.
In Book 4, Moody/Crouch tells Harry & class that he (Harry) is the only known person to survive Avada Kedavra. But, if the curse rebounded onto Voldemort, he survived it too, right?
In Defense against Darks arts, Harry says he had the Imperious curse on him four times, until he could throw it off completely. But then later, when Voldemort puts it on him, the book says, " For the Third time in his life, that feeling of unconcern drifted over him" But it wasn't the 3rd time, it was the 5th.
Misc. Harry has been told that "not a single wizard has gone bad that was not in slytherin." that means that not a single wizard from Hufflepuff, Gryffindor, or Ravenclaw have gone to the dark side. What about Peter Pettigrew? Never was it specifically said that he WASNT in slytherin, but we assume he's in Gryffindor if he hung out with James Potter all the time! HE went over to the dark side, helping Voldemort return! so there you go. By now we know that Hogwarts students get to school by train right? In book four, when the sorting hat is singing, it says "A thousand years or so ago..."---if Hogwarts started about a thousand years ago, [and it is like '94 in the books] and trains were only invented in the 1800's, how did Hogwarts students get to school before then? In the books Harry always rips his robes but he cant go buy new ones so he obviously he uses magic. But Ron is always complaining about how short his robes are - can't he use magic to make them longer?
