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I don't know if it is shown in the DVD. . .after all Dan I don't have the DVD. . .I only have the second film on VHS, video You have the DVD Dan, so why don't you check it on the DVD??

[quote name='Miseria' date='Jul 27 2004, 10:39 AM' post='13933']
In CoS when Harry has his first scene with Dobby you can see the yellow ball on tyhe stick that Harry had to act with in the reflection of his glasses.

I saw no yellow ball dude... ive seen that movie thousnds of times... and i dont think i missed it..

also in POA, wen the vase breaks. that was just stupid!! how could they not realize that it wouldnt break exactly the same way if they did it twice!!! they really shouldve had too different camera angles so it was the same...

http://www.moviemistakes.com/film2434 Check this out. there are quite a few errors lol. also if you serf that page a little there are errors and stuff on almost every movie.

Did you all ever notice that in the book of the CoS Fred is supposed to be driving the Ford Angelica and when At First Harry says Fred (james nods in the back) and says george ( oliver nods in the front) but when they are driving off and ron says happy bday fred (James) is driving the car! Ha ha!

Ha I just noticed the another one! in GoF! Whe n harry is in the bath tub, and he goes underwater, he is breathing under the water!. I mean you ca see the chest movie in and out, also he comes up and its at a different camera angle! I was laughing so hard! ~Kaili~

Ha I just noticed another one! in GoF! When harry is in the bath tub, and he goes underwater, he is breathing under the water!. I mean you can see his chest moving in and out, also he comes up and its at a different camera angle! I was laughing so hard! ~Kaili~

Most of the mistakes are small things that have no importance. So what if the vase didn't break the exact same way? How do you know that the 'hidden' Hermione didn't realize she needed to throw the rock earlier than the Hermione you saw?

How do you know house elves don't have magic that means their reflection is a yellow ball in glasses?

Unless it is a big enough error that it draws your attention completely away from the movie the first time you see it, I don't see why anyone should care. If you watch the same thing 100 times, of course you are going to see stuff that others missed. I just don't know why every tiny error needs to be fussed.

I dont know if this has been already told but in GOF film the parvati twins are both in Gryffindor tower and as far as i remember only house member can enter a common room.

I thought the vase thing was pretty funny.

I never seen the supposedly yellow ball in harrys glasses.

RE: Parvati and Padma both in the House Tower...

I doubt this is a problem. In fact, I'm positive it's not. Harry and Ron have both been in the Slytherin Common Room, because Draco let them in witht the password. All it'd take is for Parvati to tell Padma the password, or let her in herself. While I don't think Parvati would do this, I don't really see it as being a 'mistake' as such.

Haha, I didn't know there was this many mess-ups in the movies. I watch the Dobby scenes but didnt see a reflection though. You would think filmmakers would be a tad more careful considering the nature in which these movies are watched.

No i don't think it's a big mistake either but i don't think it is the password thing but i'm not certain but in Mad Eye Moodys class.. I think they are both wearing Gryfinndor robes. Even if they are it isn't that bad a mistake because it doesn't seem it's going to be serious to the book.

Mmm, come to think of it, I'm not sure if the movies ever even say that the Patil twins ARE in different houses. If you are right, and they both wear Gryffindor robes in DADA class, then that would make sense.

Don't quote me on this, as I am not going to go through and check each movie for a reference, but I can't say I honestly remember any reference to the Patil twins ever being sorted into seperate houses. Feel free to correct me if I am wrong.

In the books Padma is in Ravenclaw and Parvati is in Gryffindor. When Harry asks Parvati to the ball she asks if Lavender can go with Ron. She says Lavender already has a date but she'll ask her sister Padma from Ravenclaw.



I agree. All movies are going to have some errors because humans made the movies and humans aren't perfect. I can only imagine how stressful it is to make a movie as detail tedious as the HP movies.

I have one...
ok in GoF, i noticed that when Harry threw the Daily Prophet into the fire that it landed next to it after grazing the top of it.
After Harry had talked to Sirius later that night,all of a sudden it was in the fire, in the flames...
i thought it was odd...

I'm sure all of you are aware of Harry not having green eyes in the film. However, the other point I have I wonder if you know — Harry's scar is backwards. Yes, backwards; and by that I mean it should look like a zigzag S rather than a zigzag Z. How do I know this? In order to obtain a certain easter egg / extra on JKR's site, you have to draw a lightning-bolt scar in a pad; however, it's one like an S, not a Z. And it being shaped like an S goes along with my theory on what the scar signifies (not going into that here since I'm not sure what forums are non-spoiler).

Also, I loathed Hermione's sleek and non-bushy hair in the movies. That's a sort of mistake — now instead of having Hermione with big teeth, bushy hair, and a complete know-it-all, we have an attractive, looks-obsessed girl who female viewers can Mary-Sue themselves into; no wonder there are all these Harry/Hermione shippers, since the girls are imagining themselves as Hermione and want someone like Harry to sweep them away! But that's off topic; sorry.

PoA..

1.When Harry and co. were at Hagrid`s hut, Hagrid`s pottery thing was shattered by a stone Hermione threw.Well, right after Hermione said " I meant, me", the pottery bottle got shattered.And if you notice, when They went back in time, and Hermione said, "I meant, me", The stone hadnt hit the bottle yet.Thats when Hermione just found the stone on the pumpkin.It shouldntve been hit earlier.What? Did time just freeze?

2.When Harry and co. were getting out of the pumpkin patch, Harry looked back and Buckbeak growled.When he and Hermione went back in time, he didnt do it.Cause Harry wouldntve spotted the future Harry and Hermione.

3.When Hermione and Harry were saving Buckbeak, during that time, Harry and co. were going up the stone stair case.But it didnt take them that long to get up to the stonehenge.So Buckbeak shouldntve been saved earlier.

4.When Harry and co. were leaving Hagrid`s Hut, down the exitway, when Fudge and the others were entering, it didnt show Harry and Hermione going down inside the Trees.And at that moment, when they went back in time, it shows them at the exact same place, going down.But it didnt show when Harry and co. were going down to the patch.

5.When Harry was in front of the lake with Sirius and saw the patronus that his future self did, he fainted right after the light went out.well, When he went back in time and did the patronus, Harry fainted during the light. Mistake right there.

I have one!...eh...gah da***t I forgot! Eeeh...*thinking*..Oh yeah. Kinda a mistake. In GOF book Voldy has said 'I do not forgive. I do not forget..' and that Lord Voldemort shows no mercy, but in the movie it basically had him say that he was a merciful lord. Lies! Boo..I think that's important. Merciful people or whatever have some compassion or pity people. Voldy is like BAH! DIE YOU WORTHLESS SCUMBAG! *bwahaha* I'm an idiot I thought that was important. And when Harry considered in GOF movie to leave Cedric. That bugged me. Harry wouldn't choose the cup over Cedric's life or whatever, like in the book. And in the 2nd task, he stayed there the whole time even though he knew he'd be last or whatever. At least they got that part right. He wouldn't hesitate. Tcha. haha..And Harry couldn't know that Krum was bewitched. The Imperius curse doesn't show any..physcial signs or whatever. It'd be pretty obvious then to be able to tell whether or not someone was under the curse. Their eyes would've been cloudy. Bah....That stuff bothers me. And the fact that they have two spells doing the same thing [Lumos Holum and Lumos Maximas. That one someone else said but they both do the same thing!]

But I look foward to the 5th movie ...My favorite might be CoS so far, because it has Harry being funny [1st movie was all serious] and it's more correct. 5th one looks nice.

I want to preface this with the idea that it is not a movie mistake technically, it is a book-to-movie slip up, if you will (and I hope you will.)

In the PS/SS (book) when Harry is talking to the snake at the zoo, it is a Brazilian snake. However in the movie it is a Burmese Python.

Well, I argue that this was intentional, given the fact that Naga was a serpent-god from pre-Buddhist Burma (hi, Nagini... reference/foreshadowing!)

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wow im suprised that no one has noticed this one yet-- in OotP, in the department of mysteries luna casts the spell "levicorpus" at a death eater, but in the books, none of them know about that spell until HBP, where harry reads it in the Half blood princes potions book

Okay I've got one...

In PS, when they are peering down the trapdoor, Fluffy drools on Ron's shoulder. However when they have fallen onto the Devil's Snare his shirt is completely dry!

Also in PS, even before the sorting Harry has a Gryffindor tie on with his robes.

That's all I have right now.

I can't exactly remember how OotP went, but here goes. They went to the Mimistry in Muggle attire. But weren't they doing their OWLS in their robes the same day? I don't think anytime was wasted between Harry seeing Sirius at the MoM during the fireworks to going in Umbridge's office to check. Surely they wouldn't go to the domitories to change if it was something as important as Sirius? I always thought they went to the MoM in robes.

I just watched POA this morning, and i relaized something that i didn't really think of the first few times around... i the opening scene of POA Harry is under his sheets trying to read a book and he uses the spell ' Lumos Maxima ' and Uncle Vernon comes in and then Harry does it 2-3 more times after.... this is before he blows up Marge.

Then when he meets the Minister at the Leaky Cauldron he asks him whys hes not in trouble dor using magic against Marge but it was accidental... but Lumos wasn't.

Not like its a harmfull spell, but in the 2nd movie Dobby used like a hover charm or some useless spell like that, and Harry was warned...

Mistake...? Whats your thoughts, did you notice that 2?

I noticed that too...the robes mistake was quite silly.
I saw another one. In PS/SS at the first Potion lesson Harry writes down 'put a stop on death' wich was the last thing Snape said but then we see him still writing after finishing this sentence. What was he writing? 'Then again maby some of you have came to Hogwarts in possesion of abilitys so formidables that you feel confident enough to not pay attention'?

I noticed that in OOTP, and I think they use it in the DA while they are practicing. I thought it was interesting to use it in this movie when Harry doesn't even know about that spell until the 6th book.

I don't know if anyone posted this, but in SS when Harry is sorted he sits down next to Ron who is seated with George and Fred, but when the feast begins he is sitting between Hermoine and Percy.

yea i noticed that!! i was like hey?!

in poa when they go back in time and harry and hermione have a discussion about whats going on and how hermionie's been getting to lessons, there is like a 30 second gap between the first hermione turning round to punch malfoy and punching malfoy

I don't know if anyone else has noticed this but in the scene with the boys in the dorm a dementor goes by the flowers and they freeze. If the dementors are that cold why was there rain dripping from the dementor's fingers? oh and in the book poa stan tells him how much it was in sickles but the book said harry handed him gold.(something like that i don't have my book with me) sickles are silver so why would harry hand him gold ?A tip maybe? and did anyone else notice the skip in the poa movie when scabbers bit ron? It went from ron holding him to scabbers on the ground and ron was bleeding but scabbers never moved it was like they cut the scene to close and didn't notice it. this happened with my dvd, my sisters dvd, and in the theaters. Did anyone else see this or is it just us?

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donnow if i'm the first one mentioning it, but for me, there are some basic mistakes in the movies relating to the books and just don't understand. maybe they are just details, but thes are mentioned so often in the books, I can't see why they changed these in the movies:

- Mcgonagall has square spectacles (btw as a cat she has also black squares around her eyes) in the movies, they're defenetly not square
- mr. weasly wears hornrimmed glasses in the books, as so does percy i guess, but not in the movies.
- aunt petunia has a huge horsey face and blonde hair, well obviously not in the movie.

there are more, but i can't remeber right now. I'll be back

I wouldn't say they were mistakes so much as subtle changes.



These are the sort of mistakes I like, the ones that are continuity errors, but my biggest bug bear is the one where the DA go to change out of their robes before going off to rescue Sirius....how bizarre is that! "Sorry Sirius, I couldn't come straight away because I was wearing my school uniform and I didn't think it suitable attire for being a hero"!! Riiigggghhhttt!!

Forgive me if this is a repost...I just couldnt find it and my curiosity is taking over...

In the Philosopher's Stone film where Harry and Hagrid encounter Professor Quirrel @ the Leaky Cauldron, why doesnt Harry's scar appear to hurt?! Right after the sorting ceremony it does, although Harry mistakenly thinks Snape is causing his scar to hurt?

I was wondering if there was a reason for this or if it has been explained previously?

Thanks in advance!

becuase at that point voldy wasn't in quirell's body yet. at forst he was just using him as a slave but then he thought he needed to keep a closer watch on him so goes into the back of his head...before that though voldy could have been anywhere

well all in all it is probably just a film thing. but the only thing that i can think of is the when he sees prof. Q in the leaky cauldron they are face to face and when he sees him at the sorting ceramony harry sees the back of his head or.. lord voldemort and curiusly snape sees harry sort of wince in pain from looking at prof. Q snape then turns to look quizicly at the back of quirrels head

hope that helps

crookshanks04

MISIA
i dont think that you are 100 percent correct on that voldy was in prof. Qs body because if u notice prof Q avoids touching harry when harry tries to shake his hand

sorry i thought we were talking about the books, because that's what happens in the books, but then i looked at the topic title...silly me....but yeah you're right that that's what happened in the movies

It's been a little while since I flicked through/watched the Philosopher's Stone but as far as I remember, Voldemort's spirit entered Quirrell while Quirrill was travelling out of England, so he must have been possessed when he met Harry that first time. I'd like to give an explaination but really it's probably just another little mishap in the Potter series nothing big, but if the question was posed to Jo I'm sure she could give a good explaination, she always does lol.

It's not a mistake. He was not possessed by Voldemort untill Quirll failed to retrieve the stone from Gringotts bank . Thus Harry met him right before what happened to get him possessed!

The book makes no mention about Quirrell not shaking Harry's hand. So that is entirely made up for the movie. Now, I believe that Voldemort was already in Quirrell by then. That was the reason he needed to wear the turban all the time.

So, if Voldemort was in Quirrell, why didn't Harry's scar hurt? I can only answer that Voldemort was not feeling vengeful at that time. Remember, Quirrell was Harry's teacher at Hogwarts. Harry had him in classes several days every week. If his scar hurt every time Quirrell/Voldemort was around, Harry would have been in constant pain.

Harry's scar hurt during the sorting ceremony because Quirrell was facing away from Harry, so Voldemort was 'watching' Harry. At that time, he probably felt envious and spiteful toward Harry.

Hey, everyone!

Just to let you all know, I am merging this thread with the general "Mistakes in the HP Movies" thread.

As far as the current question at hands goes, I'm going to agree with most of the people before me. It depends on whether you are looking at the movie storylines as seperate entities from the book storylines, or if you are looking at them together. It is hard tob do the latter because the two differ so much, so I'd stick to thinking of the "error" in terms of the movies only. In that case, I'd agree with Militarized or AtB.

Ok so in COS when Harry goes to diagon alley and meets hermione, she then realizes he broke her glasses. then whips out her wand and fixes them! Umm...no magic outside of hogwarts?? In the book it was Mr. Weasley who fixed his glasses. so why purposely to change it to be hermione, when shes not even allowed to do magic outside of school.

I hope no one's said this yet, but in the first film, Ron says "Knight to H3"

To do that move from where he was (he hadn't moved at all during the game) he would have to be white and a queen side knight.

He tells Hermione to be a queen side castle, and he isn't standing next to her, so he must be a king side knight. He is black, because their team do not move first. So it should be Knight to A6! (Sad I know)

Another thing that really bugs me is the way that they randomly waltz around the Forbidden Forest. It's supposed to be Forbidden.

Okay, I'm not sure if anyone pointed this out but in PoA (at least I think that's the movie) in the very beginning Harry is in his room doing the light spell but he is at the Dursley's so he shouldn't be doing magic so that bothers me when they change stuff from the movie to me it's one thing if you leave stuff out BUT TO JUST CHANGE IT!!!!

Yes, I believe that has already been mentioned but that's OK. That's actually the only mistake I realized in all of the movies so far (besides them cutting all that stuff out)! Everytime I watch the beginning of PoA, I get mad, and tell my family, that Harry and other underage wizards and witches absolutely can not use magic.

I don't know if anyone else has ever noticed this before but in the first scene of GoF after they kill Bryce they show a clip of the coffee pot steaming and if you listen close you can here Bryce screaming in the background. But how could he be screaming if he had already been hit with Avada Kedavra and is dead? That's just something I have thought was funny since the first time I noticed it.

I once saw a version of GOF on T.V. with bonus features. They pointed out a mistake that became obvious once I watched the movie again. In the letter that Sirius sends to Harry, the end says "P.S. The owl bites." But the voice that reads the letter out loud says 'By the way, the owl bites." This is a very minor mistake compared to some of the other ones I've read about. I found the use of Levicorpus in the fifth movie particularly annoying, not only because it went against the book and potentially messed up the sixth movie, but also because every time it was used, something different happened. If they're going to go against the book, the spells should at least have consistent effects.

In CoS Hermione uses magic in Diagon Alley before school starts. At the Quidditch match Harry leans on his broken arm after he falls off his broom. The obvious one in PoA mentioned often already where Harry does magic in his bedroom mirrors the mistake in CoS - how could they make that same mistake twice???

I just re-watched OotP. This may just be a "movie thing", but when Moody et al are bringing Harry from Privet Drive to Grimmauld Place, they are using brooms and flying VERY close to the earth. In other words, they were flying in such a way that they would be seen quite obviously by muggles. That wouldn't be too big of a deal if Harry wasn't about to be expelled for using magic in front of a muggle (casting the patronus charm in front of Dudley).

Like I said, not necessarily a mistake (like seeing a mic pac or cameraman), but for continuity sake within the movie, you'd think they'd not have Harry doing obvious magic. (Of course, that would keep some pretty awesome shots of London at night from being utilized )

What pains me is how careless they are when creating the movies.

Rather can creating beautiful artwork they are doing careless scenes!

I don't really notice any mistakes in the movies per se... I don't really pay that much attention. The only thing that ever really irked me was Ron being in the Grawp scene but I know that was because they cut Quidditch.