Comments made in brackets are corrections from other visitors. As such, any aggressive/abusive corrections (and I get quite a few) written as if they're comments I've made myself will be ignored. To submit your own corrections for mistakes, just click the edit icon under an entry, then choose "correct entry". Some entries have "duplicated entry" after them - these are entries which were already listed on the main page, but were submitted again. I occasionally leave these online for a while, just in case they were moved in error, so don't worry about pointing them out to me.
Ron said that Fred turned his teddy into a spider when he was 3 years old. But Fred would have been 6 or 7 at the time and wizards don't get their wands until they are 11. [In the very first book, Harry was able to do magic without a wand, albeit unintentionally. Why is it so difficult to believe that the son of a major wizarding family might be able to do the same?]
Corrected by Guy Brigman
In this book Percy takes 10 points from Gryffindor, when Ron Harry and Hermione are outside the girls bathroom on the second floor. "Ten points from Gryffindor" said Percy, fingering his prefect badge. However, later in the series, once Umbridge begins teaching, Malfoy tries to dock points from Harry, Hermione and Ron, and Hermione says "Prefects can't take points from students, Malfoy, only teachers can". [According to J.K. Rowling, prefects can take points from students, just not from other prefects.]
Corrected by Cubs Fan
Hermione has mentioned several times (but this may be in later books) that nobody can Apparate or Disapparate to/from the Hogwarts grounds, but Dobby frequently does this. It may be that the rule only applies to humans, but surely a clever wizard like Dumbledore would make sure that the Apparating/Disapparating rule applies to all creatures and not just humans. [This has already been submitted and corrected several times. J.K. Rowling herself has stated that House Elfs use a different kind of magic, so they can appear and disappear in and out of Hogwarts.]
Corrected by Twotall
During the Flourish and Blotts scene, Harry is presented with a complete set of his needed books by Lockhart. He then dumps these into Ginny's cauldron, mumbling 'I'll buy my own'. But before he is able to, the fight breaks out and they then immediately leave the store, travelling home by Floo powder without re-entering the store. Where did Harry get his books from, then? [In the "Half Blood Prince", we learn that students are allowed to order books after they are already at school. Harry and Ron have to get their potions books. It makes sense to assume that Harry or someone else at the school was able to order the books for him.]
On page 182 (page may be different for different versions), Harry is still in the hospital, yet when he wakes up, it says the dormitory was blazing with winter sunlight. [It's the hospital dormitory. It can't just be classed as a room, because there are several beds, due to the large number of injuries that happen...]
On page 105, Harry finds Mrs Norris petrified on the second floor. When Dumbledore asks them all to follow him, Lockhart tells Dumbledore to use his office, and he says that it's just upstairs, which would mean Lockhart's office is on the third floor. But on pages 91-92 it says that Harry is dragging his feet along the second-floor corridor to Lockhart's office for his detention. [Just because he was 'dragging his feet along the second floor corridor' does not mean Lockhart's office is there. he could have gone up a flight of stairs to reach Lockhart's office.]
Hermione says the lacewings for the Polyjuice Potion have to be stewed for 21 days. But on page 184 Ron pours the dead lacewings on top of the leeches. They couldn't already add the lacewings, as it is only the first day. [It doesn't say whether the lacewigs have to be stewed seperate from the potion or added to the potion and stewed there. Since he adds them on the first day, we can assume the latter.]
The picture at the beginning of "The Rogue Bludger" shows Harry's left arm deboned. However, it says his right arm was the one that got deboned. [Artwork is not part of the text, and should not be counted as book mistakes. The same goes for artwork on videos and DVD's on moviemistakes.com, they are not considered parts of the movie and are not accepted as mistakes.]
Corrected by Twotall
It states in the book that ghosts can't eat or drink, so how is the Mandrake Potion administered to Nearly Headless Nick? [I'm sure the great wizards at Hogwarts could find a magical way. Some items can be left to the imagination.]
Corrected by Rlvlk
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