The Problem: Harry arch nemesis, Voldemort, is seeking the Sorcerer�s Stone, a magical artificial that could make him immortal. Harry has to find it first � and get his homework done too.
Quidditch Update: Harry makes his house team to play the broom-bound sport of wizards.
Scary Monster: Fluffy, a giant three-headed dog who guards the way to the stone.
Magical Gadget: The Mirror of Erised. Whoever gazes into it sees what he or she desires mist in the whole world.
Defence Against the Dark Arts: A position at Hogwarts with an extremely high turnover rate. This year it�s Professor Quirrell, a meek, inoffensive man with a stutter � and a surprising dark side.
New Spell: Wingardium Leviosa. Your basic first-year levitation charm.
What Harry Learns: That wonderful, magical things lurk just beneath the ordinary.
Mistake:
Dumbledore says that Flamel is going to die, but doesn't the Elixir of Life make the drinker immortal????
In book four, during Priori Incantatem, Voldemort's victims came out in reverse order. BUT, James came out BEFORE Lily. That would mean that James died AFTER he killed Lily and it said all over in the books that he killed James first.
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?
When Hagrid brought Harry to Diagon Alley for the first time, Harry heard a woman say "Seventeen sickles an ounce for Dragon Liver. They're mad." But Hagrid told Harry that there were seventeen sickles in a galleon. So that would be like saying "100 pennies" instead of a dollar.
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."
It said that by drinking the Elixir of Life it would make the drinker immortal, but later in the story Dumbledore says to Harry that the Flamel's had enough Elixir stored in them to set their affairs straight.. But, if by drinking the Elixir of Life makes you immortal then you would never die, ever. You can't just be immortal as long as you have a certain item, then that would mean you could die. You would be like Achilles, you could still die. Immortal means you can NEVER die.
Petunia Dursley says that Lily would "...come home every vacation with her pockets full of frogspawn, 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.
Just a thought but... security for the Sorcerer�s Stone could have been much better. If three first-years can get to the stone than you can bet any fully trained wizard can do it. They could have just had a password that nobody but Dumbledore knew. Then he could tell Flamel if he had to use it than change the password right away.
Prof. McGonagall brings out a 4-legged chair with the sorting hat (to the sorting ceremony).
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.
Katie Bell is in the Quidditch final, and she scores a goal for Gryffindor on a penalty shot. The book says she puts it past the Slytherin "seeker", when the seeker is not the person she would put it by to score, rather the keeper."
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