I found one in the books...it was about prefects and head boys/girls...but i'm not sooo sure that it is a mistake... But when percy is HB, there was something about having to become a prefect before you could become HB, but harry's dad was HB with out being a prefect? How does that one work out?

hiya rjtwerp!

You've made a bit of a mix up, this is actually a thread discussing mistakes that were in the movies, not the books. There's a topic about 'things that don't make sense here (EDIT: That's the right link... easy done ) for the books.

I'm just about to Owl you, because I know the answer to this something I rejoiced for a minute. It doesn't happen very often

Ygraine

In CoS in the duelling scene... when Draco (Tom Felton) is throw in the air by Harry's attack when he crash at the floor and when his lift up by snape (alan rickman) in the left corner a boom manager is seen... come on... or is a wizard wearing jeans?

good point!! i didn't get why they didn't put that in the film, i think it would have been good. i don't think it would have taken to long so i don't think the film would have been much longer.

Well it does feature in the second disc where you find the Philosopher's stone. I don't see why it is not in the movie though

i think that they should have kept snapes challenge in it because for people who are more elaborate thinkers and havent read the book would notice this sort of thing but i suppose they thought it would be too long if they kept every single thing from the book in it.
You also have to remember that the movie is 'based on the books by JKR' so technically they can change it and leave small bit out of it if thay want.

As has been stated they took that from the book when Snape actually had his challenge mentioned. I do agree that it should have been put in the movie. It really screwed up the plot when they didn't. But they do that in every movie.


Fawkes

I don't know, I wish I had seen the Potion, it would have been very cool. We who have read the books, would have known already that the trio is strong.
Also another thing that disspoints me is the fact that they don't show the flying keys. Where Harry must pick out which one fits in the door. That owuld have been cool to see.

I have to admit that the first movie didn't wash all too well with me once I'd read the book (I watched the movie first then changed to the books) The teachers obstacles should have been far more dangerous than they were. Even in the book it is vaguely ludicrous that three first years (talented ones I'll admit) managed to get past protections in place to keep Voldemort away. From what we've seen of Voldemort, he's not about to be stopped by a Giant Chess Set.

But anyway, it's a shame that the scenes weren't included in the movie because they would've made it a bit more edgy, not the Disney movie that it resembled.

Yes, I must say the First Harry Potter Movie was very kid-like and I would have much rather seen more of the books into it.
I think the diectors w ere worried about reviews and moreo f what people thought than the true movie stroy line.

They do show the flying keys bit. I't not very long, but it's there. I have to admit though, it was not nearly as good a part as in the book, it was quite boring auctally.



I thought about that as well. I've noticed that each challenge in the each book gets harder and harder as they get older. But yes, the teacher 'protections in PS were lame. Fluffy - Avada Kedrva. Devils Snare - well, if they learn it in first year herbology. Key's - has anyone heard of Accico. Chess Set - I think Voldermort knows how to blast away stone. The troll - o.k. if they sent ALL the teachers to fight it at Halloween, it could be considered a challenge. The potions- Those could have been challengeing as well. The Mirror - The ultimate protection, Voldermort could never have gotten it. It was only that Harry wanted to stop Voldermort that he could get it.



Yeah, PS was way to like a mickey mouse disney.

I think that would have been a good part for the film.You can't expect them to cover everything that takes place in the books.When has that happened?
I also agree about everyone being equal in the trio.That would of let amazing Ron out of the film.hehe

The potions scene was not needed. In film, what would it have looked like? Hermione standing and thinking while Harry twiddles his thumbs. It would completely kill the suspense. If it takes great logic to deduce the correct potions, Hermione would need time to figure it out. It makes a very unexciting scene.

In CoS, after Harry chases Dobby down the stairs, Dobby is in the kitchen and Harry is asking him to "get back here". Harry steps forward on his right leg, but in the next shot, he is in the same position (He hasn't moved forward again), but his left leg is forward, not the right.

Okay, I don't know if anyone else has posted these already but here gos...

In PS when Oliver Wood takes the Golden Snitch out of the box and lets it go, he and Harry are both looking around at it flying about, but they are looking in different directions, and neither of them are actually focused on the Snitch. You would have thought that at least one of them would be made to look as if they were really looking at it.

And the same sort of thing in GoF when the Beauxbatons carrige is approaching, all the students are looking in different directions.

Also in GoF, when Harry's name comes out of the Goblet it is written on lined paper, like you get in notebooks. I thought wizards only used parchment. This is more of a script writing error rather than a filming one, though.

Yeah, I noticed that one, too. When I made my post about CoS, I was sitting here thinking about PS, as I was sure there was one in there, but I couldn't remember it. So, I'm glad you brought it up, as it would have driven me nuts!

Yeah, I guess that that scene would have been really boring, but it still would have benn kinda cool to see. A bunch wierd potions in different bottles with a note would look cool, but the scene its self would have been boring.

I dont think it would have been boring. Because there is a chance they might drink something that could kill them. I Also missed Quirrels too, a BIG ugly smelly troll

Well in GoF they skipped out Dobby and the house elf stuff, and they re arranged it all. So I cant really pick and choose what I didnt like but they made it good in the end.

O.O Seriously?!?!? where in the world did you see her? I don't remember seeing her? Please tell me!



I agree. I kind of understood how the pot didn't break exactly the same way. I thought of it this way...maybe she threw a little too hard this time, her throw was more forceful than it was the first time. Because when they go back in time there's a bit of urgency in their actions you know? They're literally running throughout the entire "time turner" scenes! just my tid bit on this ^.^



I'm sorry if i'm responding to very early posts....but i just registered to this site and I'm really curious about all of this. please forgive me

Actually the only one who wasn't introduced in the 4th movie was Cho. Technically both weren't introduced but you DID see a hufflepuff seeker, which would be Cedric. And about Pigwedeon, I have this to say. Go back to the first time their in Hagrid's hut. there is a small owl sitting on the chair in Hagrid's hut. I know it doesn't mean anything but isn't it a bit weird....a small owl in hagrid's hut?! He usually has more bizarre creatures than an owl! The thing about his firebolt i got really mad cuz they also didn't show the INTENSE rivalry with Slytherin, NOR Gryffindor winning the quidditch cup!!!! I wish they had mentioned oliver...especially after harry wakes up..."Where's Oliver?" - Harry "Still in the showers...I think he's trying to drown himself." -one of the twins. I would of loved to hear that!!! lol. And about the students. I noticed that in almost every "big group gryffindor" scene....the same black girl with i think dreadlocks is in the scenes everytime! She's the one standing next to ron as he's telling harry about his brromstick in the hospital wing. Oh, in the background the hufflepuff team are surrounding a member of their team...and i think that's cedric. also...did any other gryffindor teammate get injured? cuz there's another one of the gryffs lying in bed bein spoken to by other team members in that scene o.O bizzarre really....makes it look like there's more than 7 players to a team!

by the way you have my dream homework assignment!!!



I think what Chatlanta11 was trying to say is that unlike the other two films where their uniforms and robes were perfect the 3rd one is a bit more relaxed. Hagrid's class is the perfect example. look how their uniforms are....really...well....sloppy. But the director i think explained this. the kids were going to be more outside so he wanted them to be comfortable, he told them wear your uniform as you would in school. On this not i noticed something. Before Harry gets on Buckbeak and is standing next to ron her hair is down and she's wearing her robe all perfect and neat. when harry lands after his little flight on the creature...hermione has no robe...her shirt is a bit askew and i think her tie is too. So saying the students looked sloppy i think that's what Chatlanta11 was referring to, if he/she wasn't...then i'm sorry i babbled on about it @.@;;



I actually noticed that but i thought i was seeing things @.@ whoot i wasn't then!



*snickers* the only time i remember them EVER being green is when he wakes up at the beginning of the 4th movie other than that his eyes are always blue.

in Pillosiphers Stone, when they are entering the great hall for the sorting, hermione tries to tell the girl next to her about the ceiling. I quote" the ceilings not really like that, its just bewitched to look like the night sky. I read about it in Hogwarts :a history" I noticed that she says 'a history' unnaturally late. wether it was planned to be like that or she just forgot her line is unknown to anyone apart from Emma Watson alone.

Note: I know youve got to leave a slight pause, but it was unnaturally late. watch the movie and you'll see what i mean. *giggles**

I just read the first page of mistakes reported but those mistakes don't really matter to me, the mistakes that destroys the films in my eyes is all these changes that they do who change the whole story even if it is the removal of Winky or the fact that Barty jr. is in Little Hangleton with Voldemort and Pettigrew...

I actually agree with you on that one. How they basically changed the entire storyline for GoF. But am I wrong but....didn't they show Barty Jr. with Pettigrew and Voldy in that house, in Harry's dreams..or was I mistaken?

He wasn't there in the book, at least not that I remember and I read it two weeks ago... And that they changed Albus memory in the pensieve is just horrible and Harry should recognise Barty jr in the pensieve for he saw him in the dream...

in GoF when sirius is talkin to harry in the fire he asked him wheter or not he put his name in the Gof when how would he know? bout the whole harry and the tri wiz tournament thing?

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i mean in the book it explains that he would go into hogsmeade asd a dog from the mounts. and get a newspaper from a trashbin. but if ur only watching the movie how r u supposed to know all about that. Te books cant do all the movies talking hentch some people dont like to read

O.O I just realized that yeah! How DID sirius know that!?! In the book they explained it..the trio met sirius as a dog in hogsmede! I think in the movie the way they want you to think sirius heard about it is from the papers, you know Skeeter's article. He read the papers before he could of seen the article about harry too? just guessing but yeah thankx for pointing that out! ^.^ nice one.

Sorry off topic but THX ShyltherinHead Girl because u r the first one to acually reply to one of my posts



i found another thing i didnt get in GoF, it might not be an error but i still dont get it
......in the end mad-eye (aka barty crouch jr.) said he put harrys name in the Gof, but erlier in the movie we see karkaruf go into the great hall mystreiesly

Oh man I was wondering about that too!!! God my brain is really dead right now, but I was wondering about that too...can ANYONE answer that one for us? WHY did karkaroff go in there or why did they even show it?! was there something like that in the book? he couldn't of put viktor's name in there cuz' viktor put his own name in it...so what was the ex-death eater doing?

Oh and your welcome ^.^ when i see someone i agree with i always quote them to let them know i was agreeing or something like that lol.

I think that was just put in the film so that people who hadn't already read the books would think that it was Karkaroff who put Harry's name in the Goblet. Like a red herring. If I hadn't already known that it was really Moody then I probably would have been like, "It was Karkaroff, it was karkaroff!" But as I did know, that bit didn't really work for me. But I can see how it might confuse you if you hadn't read the Goblet of Fire book. Also, they didn't include any clues that Moody was really Barty Crouch Jnr. except for that bit where he was saying something to Crouch Snr. and he did the tongue thing. And even that wasn't all that obvious. So you can see why someone would think it was Karkaroff all along, cant you?

Yeah, I wondered about that too, with Karkaroff locking himself in with the Goblet of Fire.
I didn't even notice how Crouch JR had this spastic tounge thing going on, until one of my friends told me about it. I was completely baffled as to why Crouch SR was running away from him!
Something on the same lines as the Karkaroff thing: I also noticed that they made Lupin look kind of... evil, if you get my drift. You know, with the moustache and all. I think it was because they want to make non-book-readers unsure of whether to trust him or not. I wonder if anyone else noticed that...

I see what you mean now. I didn't read the books till after GoF came out on DVD all the comments people made, made me curious. but yeah i see how they tried to trick us/the viewers. Thank you!! ^.^ oh i have something to point out....was it just me..or did Barty Crouch Sr look like a taller Hitler? lmao!

I have a theory as to why in GoF the movie they showed Karkaroff going into the room with the Goblet of Fire. I think that Barty Jr. used polyjuice on Karkaroff like he had on Mad Eye and when he did this, Barty Jr. pretending to be Karkaroff put Harry's name in the GoF so that suspicion would not be thrown off onto Mad Eye who was suppossed to be looking out for Harry anyway. Just a thought on that one.
In GoF when Fred passed the note to Ron the writing was at the top of the page, but when Ron looked at it the writing was in the middle of the page.
Another thing in GoF the book the prefects bathroom was described as having a diving board and such and that HArry swam around for awhile. In the movie, he got into the tub (no diving boards in site) and began pondering over the egg.

I like your theory on that one. Don't know for sure but it is a good "fill in the blanks kind of theory" me like it. And I think the audience i was with that night at GoF would of had half of the audience having heart attacks if we got to see Dan swim around in a tub. i hadn't read the book yet and my mouth FELL OPEN big time when i see dan sitting in the tub. all the girls around me though were snickering and getting all excited when they heard cedric talking about harry taking a bath lol. i found out WHY they were grinning and snickering and getting excited lol. so i'm glad they didn't show him swimming around @.@ *heart attack* lol

lmao about girls having fits of giggles and heartattacks over Dan swimming in the prefects bathtub! Yes that would have even givne me a slight blush to see that! The Karkaroff theory is one that I have thought of since I first saw the movie, it is interesting indeed

I realized a few things as i was watching the Harry Potter movies. I've been in a MAJOR HP mood lol.

Chamber of Secrets: I know this isn't considered a mistake, but it's something i caught when i was watching the 2nd movie. I didn't know where else to put it. Through out the movie Harry, Ron and Draco all go through puberty XD. In one scene, example when Draco calls Hermione a Mudblood, the two quidditch teams all around. Draco is tall, well taller than Harry and Ron. But then in the scene when harry and ron are crabbe and goyle...he shrank! o.o i started laughing about that. the other thing i noticed is that the boys' voices all go from deep and the voices they have now in life to their little high-pitched ones. it's hilarious! XDD just wanted to point that out *shrugs*



Goblet of Fire: in the scene where Fred and George are holding up harry on their shoulders after he grabs the golden egg, they kind of have their timing off. when he opens the egg everyone covers their ears and starts moaning in pain. uhh if you notice fred and george it takes a minute or two before they realize they have to drop harry lol. they look like they spaced out for a moment lol.

How about in the PoA when Harry is not allowed to go into Hogsmeade with the others, it shows him looking out a window where the big clock is and there is nothing behind him at all. Well at the end after the time turner scene when he and Hermione are running back up to the hospital wing you see the same window and it has all kinds of mechanical things behind it, how on earth did Harry get up there in the first place with all of the mechanical things in the way!
And in GoF when they were at the second challenge, when you first see the champions they are on one side of the podium, when they all go into the water they are on the other side, how did they do that?
Oh yeah speaking of GoF, at the Yule Ball when it shows all the kids dancing to the Hippogriff song, if you look in the back you at first see Goyle and Crabbe dancing with Viktor Krum, then in a split second Goyle disappears and Hermione is in front of Viktor shaking her money maker, what on earth? Why was Viktor even dancing with Crabbe and Goyle to begin with? Too funny!

That i think i can explain, well i'll try. when it shows him, i kind of thought about that too. You know the pathway they run down and you see them disappear around the corner and then it zooms out through the window and goes to show them now running on the grounds. Well i think the walk-way goes AROUND all that metal stuff. you know like a walkway or something like that. when it shows him looking down out through the window i'd have to watch again, but maybe cuz of the frost on the window you couldn't see through/behind him clearly *shrugs* that's my guess lol




I never noticed that!!!!! O.O Oh oh oh!!! they really did change the book/movie. i noticed that RITA SKEETER is standing by Igor Karkaroff when they announce the rules and all that. i was re-reading GoF, have no idea why just was and i saw her! o.o i know in the movie it never says rita can't be on the grounds but still seeing her shocked me lol. i just never realized she was there. i mean at the 3rd task i dont think you see her and the first task i saw her, she gets his by the dragon hehehe. those who got hit are very lucky they didn't get killed by the horntail's tail!!! o.O



oh yeah now that i think about it goyle is there and you can't see emma/hermione! i watch that scene most of all i want to see if i can spot everyone. fred, george and cedric are NOT hard to miss. Robert/cedric has a hair problem BIG TIME lol! ginny is right below where krum and crabbe, goyle are. i can't see draco in the mosh pit darnit! but he's slow dancing on the floor when ron and hermione are arguing and are leaving the great hall hehe. so are the twins, ginny/neville of course and cedric/cho. but yeah hermione seems to of disappeared o.o!

i know this isn't a blooper but i am shocked as hell to say that the girl and boy playing ernie macmillian and hanna abbott are still the same since CoS O.O in GoF the two hufflepuffs that block harry's way, when he's going to go speak to Ced THAT'S hannah and ernie!!! o.o he GREW!! if you have the CoS watch the additional scenes they show both of them. british guys have very BIG growth spurts XDDD lol malfoy is evidence of that BIG TIME XDDD

Why is that about British guys (hot as they amy be) having huge growth spurts? Is that not odd? Draco shot up from like a pipsqueak to a giant, he is actually taller than Lucius now, he is 6'1 now, very tall. Speaking of tall have you noticed that Dean Thomas dwarfs Fred and George in height now? He is like 6'4 at least!
Yeah that scene is spoiled by not showing Draco shaking his money maker on the dance floor, and I so wanted to see his moves lol..He was slow dancing when Ron and Hermione had their spat? I knew that everyone else you mentioned was but not dear Draco, with Pansy....
I never knew that the 2 Hufflepuffs blocking Harry's way in GoF were Hannah and Ernie and the original ones at that. How odd... yeah Cedric's hair was 80's style big hair at the Yule ball lol.
And speaking of the first task when Hermione shows up in the champiions tent to talk with Harry and after Dumbledore says "What are you doing here Miss Granger?" She looks at Dumbledore and evaporates off the screen, it was like *poof*.

Well, I see mistakes all the time. Sometimes big sometimes small. Now they edited this one out, but in the first few movies (I have mine unedited on VHS), when Harry is first finding the Mirror of Erised, he drops his Invisibility Cloak, right? Well, if you keep looking int he background for a while,l you will see a green sheet (the green screen cover). these are used to make Harry invisible. How it works is that Dan Radcliffe is in front of a green screen with a green sheet over him. When he takes off the green sheet, after someone edits to make the room look like an old classroom, you get Harry taking off an invisibility cloak. Rather cool .

And in Chamber of Secrets, when Harry is trying to catch Dobby near the end of their meeting, Dan is completely looking in the wrong direction. Not overly in the wrong direction, but he is talking to Dobby and his eyes are far in the wrong direction. There are a few more, but my mind is darwing a blank at the moment .

LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!! ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I said that in my mind but thank you for saying it out loud about our Tom becomming a giant lol! But god was that a good thing *puuurrrrs* heheh anyways....yeah i think in the genes of British guys there's growth genes or something! I mean seriously even look at Neville he's taller than harry now!!! o.O ginny grew too! so did dan as well but not by much! but god hehehehe all cute in the end lol


Oh oh oh!!!!! I spotted something or well i spotted him and i looked at the scene more closely Hermione IS in the group she's just not by Krum at the time the camera is on that group. She's dancing below him, with the group of girls all surrounding ginny. you have to watch the scene in slow motion or something. she's there just not by him at the moment. Okay the blooper i found was that...if you notice (and i don't know how anyone CAN'T) fred and george are on the OTHER SIDE of the dancefloor jumping up and down like idiots @.@ lol!!! but when hermione is dancing with krum and it flashes to harry saying the line about going to the library for not just the books, it flashes to hermione and krum again and BEHIND Krum is MALFOY! o.o he popped out of no where! and then also the other thing one of the twins popped out of no where and is standing/dancing right behind hermione!! o.O but yeah when i looked at the slow dancing part a bit better, i noticed this time one of the patil twins dancing. i think it was ron's date. *shrugs* couldn't tell. but yeah everyone i stated is on there oh and seamus too!! (devon was the "master dancer" when all of them were first learning to dance lol he can REALLY dance...well formally that is ) lol.

yeah i checked it's the same two of them so is Susan Bones of course! thank goodness! she's also there, hannah is that is. When it shows them all jumping up and down, by hermione and ginny's group she gets pulled into the air, she's wearing the dark blue/black dress kind of fun to stop the movie and see who's where lol. Draco's in the scene when they get hit over the head lmao! XDDD


O.O LMAO!! I didn't notice that! i saw her turn to leave but i just realized you never SEE HER actually WALK OUT thanks!!!!

This is a small one but in GOF when harry is in the prefect bathroom taking a bath and he puts the egg under water and opens it, he listens to the little song and comes up but when he comes up the egg is already closed. So there.

Its not very big but it looks really ODD. hehe.

Nice one! I noticed that but i just thought "oh he closed the egg as he was coming up" you know like we didn't see it or something as he was coming up and the camera cut away to be on harry as he came up he closed the egg but yeah now i think about it, my thought doesn't make sense lol! nice one!!!!

Thank you!

I actually noticed that one today while watching it on HBO, it was quite funny because i was looking through this thread and just as i looked at the screen it was happeneing i was like OH SNAP!

I didn't see a post like this so here does in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban when Aunt Marge starts blowing up you can see a white sleeve move in and out of the screen at the edge I could be crazy but it iswhat I saw.

Did anyone see the making/behind the scenes of PoA? Did you know the creators of Buckbeak made him poop in the movie? go watch ...**** which is it....it's one of the making behind the scenes thing. but it's when it has buckbeak on the left side of the screen and i think harry and hagrid on the right. it's just before harry goes up to him. i think it's when hagrid is introducing him...something like that but it shows a shot and buckbeak is near the left side of the tv screen and is facing the right and the creators made him poop! i've seen it!!! you have to watch for it closely! XDDD anyone find it tell me!! tell me what you think!

I don't know if anyone has mentioned this but in Chamber Of Secrets..
In the forest when Harry and Ron are being chased by the spiders..
Fang jumps into the Ford Angila twice....

Sorry if that has already been mentioned...

I just thought of one, in PoA whenever the trio first gets on the train Lupin is sleeping on one side of the train car, then whenever the Dementor shows up he is on the opposite side where Hermione and Ron had been sitting moments before, and also Harry passes out on one side of the car but wakes up on the other side...too funny..
In GoF when Cedric gets killed it shows him lying in one spot then whenever Voldy appears Cedric's body is lying in a different spot..

Really i never noticed any of them..
I don't know if this has been mentioned if it has sorry..
But in COS Video when Hermione runs to Harry in diagon alley i think theres a cross for her to stop on the floor.
I'm sure i heard that somewhere.

Dan, me and Jade told you that!!
And it is true, when she runs to Harry there is a black tape line on the floor so Emma knows where to stop!

I knew i'd heard that somewhere..

It's a small but big mistake i suppose it can happen to any film...

It's not shown in the DVD is it?

I was wondering if they cut it out.