Mistakes/inconsistancies within the 7 books.

Emily_loves Harry

This just shows how mad I am about the books but I have found a few mistakes in the books (English editions) that i think Jo Rowling should know about!

Firstly the change of first name of the Death Eater Rookwood, in the Goblet of Fire during Harrys trip in the Pensieve and the trial of Karkaroff he is called "Augustus" and yet in The Order of the Pheonix when the trio read the article of the escaped Death Eaters his name is "Algernon"

Secondly the spell that is used to reawaken someone in the Goblet of Fire is "Enervate" whereas in Half Blood Prince its "Renervate"

Just wondered if anyone knew anymore because I thought it was quite interesting, i will post more if i come across any more =)

{W~C}

Has anyone else relised that harry coudnt see thestrals until he saw sirius die, but he had already seen his mother die and he coudnt see them after that.

keet

[quote={W~C}]Has anyone else relised that harry coudnt see thestrals until he saw sirius die, but he had already seen his mother die and he coudnt see them after that. [/quote]

:O i hadn't realised that!

{W~C}

yer i know it gives you somthin to think about doesnt it?

{W~C}

i dont know if it was a mistake or i missed somethin, hey, maby his back was turned..

keet

Maybe....... But in the film wasn't he looking at her!?
(I know the films are abit different from the books)

{W~C}

awww well i guess well never truly kno.

harry4ginny09

wait sirius died at the end 0f the 5th 0ne - harry c0uld see thestrals at the beginning cause 0f cedric
and he w0uldnt remember his mum dieing - he w0s 0nly 0ne

Wilbo421

[quote={W~C}]Has anyone else relised that harry coudnt see thestrals until he saw sirius die, but he had already seen his mother die and he coudnt see them after that.[/quote]

It's cause Harry wasn't old enough for his mum's death to really have any concious mental affect on him.

Also, if you notice, he doesn't see the Thestrals until the start of his fifth year, even though he saw Cedric Diggory murdered at the end of his fourth year. That's cause the death hadn't yet sunk in, and Harry hadn't really registered that someone had just been killed in front of his own eyes. By the end of the summer holidays, Harry had gotten used to the idea that Cedric was gone and not coming back.

GriffindorsFinest!

Isn't that because he wouldn't see the Thestrals until the beginning of the 5th year anyway? Or do they see them on the way home too?

Wilbo421

[quote=GriffindorsFinest!]Isn't that because he wouldn't see the Thestrals until the beginning of the 5th year anyway? Or do they see them on the way home too? [/quote]

No, they get the carriages back down to the train as well.

GriffindorsFinest!

Ohhh right I see. I didn't spot any of these mistakes :/ woops. I'd love to know about more though, I love these typs of things!

hp4gw

wilbo -

exactly what i said! haha

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bethany123

hmm, bit late but
what about how polyjuice potion is supposed to take months to make, yet in deathly hallows hermione makes it an a few days?
i dont know if this is actually right haha
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decarus

Hermione takes Mad eyes leftover polyjuice potion after he dies.

bethany123

ahh okay.. i had actually been wondering about that for quite a while so thanks haha

tefaz

well... what about in the 4th or 5th book hermione tells us that the reason why any1 never has been flying to hogwarts was because of the protecting spells around the castle
(those which dumbledore removes in the 6th book when harry and him are returning from voldemorts cave)... but in the first book Ron weasley's big brother charlies friends flies to a tower to take hagrids dragon Norbert so he wont go to azkaban...

tefaz

please if anyone can come with a good reason i would love to hear it

marques18

I think that they can fly inside or outside the limits of the proteccion of the castle, but they can't cross any "lines"... so I guess that what Fred and George did was ok. For example, you could fly anywhere in the castle gardens, but you couldn't pass a certain limit, and the same happens for the outsiders.

tefaz

yes but charlies friends came from the outside of the castle and flied into hogwatrs' airspace.... (so my question leaves unanswered)
anythough i dont know why you talk about fred and george? i was talking about charlie weasleys colleges from rumania

Rachae Potter

I think J.K Rowling forgot.
also I noticed that in the first one, although it never really said it,that it seemed like Professor Quirrel had been the Defense against the Dark arts teacher for at least one year already and then later it said that the job was cursed and no one had ever held it for more than one year after Voldemort didn't get it.

Sora_H

I think it's because the protections from Dumbledore are protecting Hogwarts from evil :P I might be wrong