--Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone Preview--
Harry Potter has never played a sport while flying on a broomstick. He's never worn a cloak of invisibility, befriended a giant, or helped hatch a dragon. All Harry knows is a miserable life with the Dursleys, his horrible aunt and uncle, and there abminable son, Dudley. Harry's room is a tiny closet at the foot of the stairs, and he hasn't had a birthday in eleven years.
But all that is about to change when a mysterious letter arrives by owl messenger: a letter with an invitaion to a wonderful place he never dreamed existed. There he finds not only friends, aerial sports, and magic around every corner, but a great destiny that's been waiting for him...if Harry can survive the encounter.
--Sorcerers Stone Mistakes--
We know that Harry's birthday is on July 31 because that is the same day as the break in at Gringotts. From the second book we know Nearly Headless Nick's 500th Death Day Party was on 10/31/1992. Doing the math, we know that Harry's 11th Birthday was 07/31/1991. In The Sorcerer's Stone, Harry says his birthday is on a Tuesday, the day after Dudley's favorite TV show (The Great Humberto). The mistake is that July 31, 1991 fell on a Wednesday, not a Tuesday like the book said.
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.
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?
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."
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.
Just a thought but... security for the Sorceror'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.
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. (Thanks to 'Mac'.)
In Book one (it said), 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?
In Harry's letter from Hogwarts it says he could bring a cat, an owl, or a toad, but Ron still brings his rat, Scabbers.
In Book 1, JK Rowling wrote 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 and Hermione 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". |
