Book 5:
Mistakes

Before the first Quidditch match, Harry is relieved that it's cloudy as he won't have the sun in his eyes, but moments later the stadium is in "dazzling sunlight".

Second-year student Dennis Creevey goes to the Hog's Head for the first DA "meeting", but only third-years and older are allowed to go to Hogsmeade during term time.

On page 710 it says that Parvati and Lavender were practicing basic locomotion charms making their pencil cases race each other. They use scrolls and quills, what would they be doing with pencil cases?

Picture Mistake - When Fred and George leave Hogwarts on their brooms, it says that they took off in a glorious sunset but in the chapter picture it shows them fleeing into the night sky amoung the moon and stars.

At the very beginning, Harry is listening to the seven o' clock news and bumps his head after hearing a loud bang. Later, when Dudley hits him over the head, it says 'Harry's head seared with pain for the second time in an hour.' Shortly after, he cast the Patronus charm. When he gets the letter, it says '... that you performed the Patronus charm at twenty-three minutes past nine...'. Technically, he hit his head for the second time between seven and eight. Unless he cast the charm an hour or more after, he could not have done it at the time indicated on the letter.

On page 225 it says: "Look at today!" groaned Ron. "History of Magic, double Potions, Divination, and double Defence Against the Dark Arts". A class is originally 45 minutes long which makes a double class an hour and a half, but on page 229, while in History of Magic class (which should be just 45 min. long) it says: Today they suffered an hour and a half's droning on the subject of giant wars. Harry heard enough within the first ten minutes to appreciate dimly that in another's teachers hands this subject might have been mildly interesting, but then his brain disengaged, and he spent the remaining hour and twenty minutes playing...

On page 626, when Malfoy starts to dock points, he takes 5 from Hermione, 5 from Ernie, 5 from Harry, 5 from Ron and another 10 from Hermione, giving a grand total of 30 points. Though, in the last sentence of the page, Harry says "Malfoy just docked us all about fifty points."


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