Oops! Mistakes
from:
Harry
Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Note:
I've had some complaints about the Mistake pages saying that it's
an insult to J.K. Rowling to plaster pages with mistakes she or
the editor made. I never meant to give that impression, as I am
very aware that she has her hands full with raising a child, etc.
If you agree with the complaints, email me here, and if I get lots of emails,
I will take off the Mistakes pages. -Whitney
Mistake...
In
The Chamber of Secrets, when Harry, Ron, and Hermione find Mrs.
Norris, it says they ran UPSTAIRS and found her outside the bathroom,
Moaning Myrtle's Bathroom. But in The Deathday Party Hermione
says she haunts the bathroom on the FIRST FLOOR. [Note: Many
fans have written to say that in the UK there is a Ground Floor
and up one level would be the First Floor. In the US, the
Ground Floor and the First Floor are the same.]
Mistake... 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!
Mistake... At the end of
Book 2, Dumbldore tells Harry that Lord Volemort is the last remaining
ancestor of Salazar Slytherin, but actually he is the last remaining
DESCENDANT of Slytherin.
Mistake... It's that the basilisk kills people
by looking at it straight in the eye, and both Harry and Myrtle
wear glasses. Colin was petrified by looking at it through glass,
so wouldn't Myrtle just be petrified too? [Possible Correction:
Most glasses lenses these days are plastic. In 1991-2000,
my lenses have been plastic. Maybe the stare can penetrate
plastic but not glass.]
Mistake... When Tom Riddle
is talking to Harry, he said that the 2 of them had a lot of things
in common, including the fact that they were both half-bloods.
But if James & Lily Potter were both magical, that would make
Harry a pure-blood, not half-blood. [Note: many readers
suggest this is because Lily is Muggle-born]
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