Mistakes from

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
or
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

 

I've been having some complaints about the mistakes pages, saying that it's an insult to J.K. Rowling to have the mistakes she or the editor made plastered all over the page. I know that, if it is her fault, that she has her hands full looking after her daughter etc. and never meant it in that way. What do you think? Should I take off the Mistake pages? E-mail me your comments.

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Mistake... In the first Harry Potter, Harry buys ONE THOUSAND MAGIC HERBS AND FUNGI but near the end it says harry looked up dittany in ONE HUNDRED MAGIC HERBS AND FUNGI

Mistake... In Harry's letter from Hogwarts it says he could bring a cat, an owl, or a toad, yet Ron still brings his pet rat, Scabbers.

Mistake... In book 1 Professor Dumbledore says that Nicolas Flamel destroyed the sorcerer's stone, and has just enough Elixar to set his affairs straight and then he and his wife would die. But earlier in the book, it says that the Elixar of Life makes the drinker imortal. So if Flamel drank it than he never would die.

Mistake... In the first book, Petunia Dursley says that Lily would "...come home every vacation with her pockets full of frog spawn, turning teacups into rats...," but according to Magical rules, this is illegal. If she did this in her muggle home, she would most likely be expelled as Harry almost was.

Mistake... In book 1, when Hagrid is taking Harry down Diagon Alley for the first time, a woman says "17 sickles an ounce for dragon liver, they're crazy!" but Hagrid told Harry that 17 sickles makes a galleon. It would be like saying 100 pennies, instead of 1 dollar.

Mistake... In book one chapter 7, "The Sorting Hat" they say after Harry's turn at the sorting hat that there are three more people to be sorted but there are really four. Here are the four people.... Dean Thomas, Lisa Turpin, Ron Weasley, and Blaise Zabini. [Note: This mistake doesn't appear in The Philosopher's Stone however, because the sentence mentioning Dean Thomas' name isn't there.]

Mistake... In Book 1, JK Rowling wrote that Ron was the knight in the giant chess set! However, he later said that he had to 'move ahead one' so the Queen could take him, opening the path for Ron and Hermione to check-mate the king. If he was a knight, he could only move 1) ahead one, sideways two, or 2) ahead two, sideways one.

Mistake... In Philosopher's Stone, Harry's equipment list says 1 wand twice, once at top, once at bottom.[Note: this mistake appears in only one printing]

 

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