HP Movie Mistakes

QueenSusanofNarnia

QueenSusanofNarnia

New member
I know, I know...finding the mistakes in the movies isn't something the biggest fan should do..but oh well! :)
(This is just for GoF)

Goblet of Fire
• Can you dance the hippogriff? - When the students are dancing to The Weird Sisters at the Yule Ball, Viktor Krum can be seen jumping up and down at the back of the group with Crabbe or Goyle jumping behind him, their hands on Krum's shoulders. However, immediately after, Krum is seen dancing with Hermione, and neither Crabbe nor Goyle is anywhere to be found - with no time to move between shots.

• Moving Fork - When Hagrid stabs Professor Flitwick in the hand with his fork, the fork changes places slightly between the wide shot of the two of them and the close-up of Flitwick's hand, even though the fork hasn't been removed yet.

• Where's my wand? - After Wormtail performs the Avada Kedavra curse and raises the "bone of the father," he places Voldemort's wand inside the left side of his coat before slicing off his right hand. When Voldemort says, "My wand, Wormtail," Wormtail retrieves the wand from the right side of his coat.

• Say what? - When Harry goes into the owlery and reads the letter from Sirius, we see that Sirius wrote "By the way, the bird bites." But when we hear Sirius reading it aloud, he says, "P.S. The bird bites."

• Interchangeable Ink - On the Hogwarts Express, when Harry writes "Sirius Black" on the envelope, it is written in thick black ink. However, in the next shot when the envelope is in Hedwig's beak, the name is written in thin ink.

• Dumbledore, Stand Here! - After Beauxbatons' entrance into the Great Hall, Fleur bows in a close-up with the wood platform directly behind her, and then Dumbledore kisses Madame Maxime's hand. In the next shot, when Dumbledore quickly runs up onto the platform to introduce Durmstrang, there is a white mark on the wood that he promptly stands on. This mark is not on the platform in neither the previous nor the following shots.

• What Did You Do To Your Glasses? - In various scenes throughout the film, Rita Skeeter and Harry have no lenses in their glasses.

• Reflections - In a number of shots within various scenes, the reflections of the reflector screen and set lights are briefly visible in the lenses of characters' glasses (such as Rita Skeeter's) or in a character's eyes.

• What's Your Name Again? - When we're first introduced to Bartemius Crouch Sr., Dumbledore pronounces his name distinctly from how it's said throughout the rest of the film.

• Tick-Tock - When the Goblet of Fire is about to reveal who the Three Champions are, the clock strikes nine. But if you listen carefully while Dumbledore is talking, it only rings eight times.

• Out of Sync - In numerous scenes throughout the film, characters are heard speaking - although their lips never move.

• Moving Staff - When Malfoy is transformed back to human form in the Ferret Scene, Moody proceeds to chase him around a tree, thus leaving his staff sticking up from the ground next to the spot where he stood. In the one shot over Malfoy's shoulder before he rounds the tree, Moody's staff is sticking at an angle up from the ground. However, when the camera cuts back to this same position after following Malfoy around the tree, the staff is now sticking up perfectly perpendicular to the ground and not at any angle.

• Swapping Spells? - In the movie, every time someone uses Expelliarmus, the victim falls unconscious - but Expelliarmus is only supposed to expel your wand from your hand... not hurt you.

• Where's Ronald? - When Filch comes running into the Great Hall before Dumbledore announces Durmstrang and Beauxbatons, he runs past Ron twice. The first time Ron is sitting up and turns his head as Filch runs past. The second time, Ron is resting his head on his arms on the table, and picks up his head as Filch goes by.

• Swapping Towels - At the end of the second task when Harry gets out of the water, Hermione runs over to him and wraps her towel around him. But in the next aerial shot, Hermione has still got the towel around her... and in the following shot, Harry's got Hermione's towel!

• Finicky Flames - Once Sirius leaves and Harry and Ron have their argument, Harry walks back to the fire to see the Daily Prophet burning brightly, flames dancing: the whole nine yards. The light on Harry's face is a soft glow, something you would not see with a dancing fire.

• Mudblood or Muggle? - During the Graveyard scene, just after Voldemort gives Harry a taste of Crucio, he goes into a speech about Harry's mother and calls her a "filthy Muggle". Lily was a witch and therefore could not have been a Muggle. Shouldn't he have said "filthy mudblood mother"?

• Only Skin Deep - When Hagrid accidentally stabs his fork into Professor Flitwick's hand, in the first and second shots you can see that it is only resting on the skin and not in the hand.

• Where's the Parchment? - When the Goblet of Fire sends out Harry's name, it shows it on lined paper; however, all the students at Hogwarts use parchment. Why would Harry's name have been written on Muggle paper?

• Confused? - When Harry, Ron and Hermione are in the Forbidden Forest with Hagrid just before they start singing the school song, Hagrid exclaims: "When I first met yer, yer were jus' a bunch o' misfits, yer kinda reminided me o' meself and here we are 4 years later!" But if they were in their fourth year it would be that they had been at the school just over three years!

• Pure Luck - In the scene after the Death Eaters came and Harry is passed out on the ground, everything around him is burnt, but he hasn't been touched.

• Two Notes - When the students are studying in the Great Hall before the Yule Ball, Fred passes Ron a note telling him to "Get a move on or all the good ones will have gone." The piece of paper that Fred throws at Ron has four lines of writing on the top half of the page, possibly even with a letter or two scratched out. When they show a close-up of the note in Ron's hands, however, there are only three lines of writing and they are in the middle of the page, with no scratch-outs. Now if only we could read what the first note said!

• How many wands? - In the Sorcerer's Stone, when Hagrid is telling Harry about Voldemort, the flashback comes up and you see Voldemort killing Lily Potter. You can see that Voldemort's wand is dark brown and thick. But in the Goblet of fire, when Wormtail is giving Voldemort his wand in the cemetery, Voldemort's wand is white, thin, and has snake fangs where you grip the wand.

• Color Me Confused - When Cedric Diggory casts his super-charged, knock-out "Expelliarmus" at the milky-eyed Viktor Krum in the maze, his wand emits a silvery light, yet when Harry fires the same spell two separate times at Lord Voldemort in the graveyard, his wand shoots a jet of red light. After the Third Task, Dumbledore fires another silver "Expelliarmus" at the imposter Moody.

• Many Friends - During the scene when the deligations of Beauxbatons and Durmstrang arrive, Ginny moves during each arrival. When the Beauxbatons arrive, Ginny is sitting on Hermione's right. However, when the Durmstrang students come into the Hall, she is replaced by Angelina Johnson, and is sitting with the Patil twins (should only be Parvati, but Padma is there too). (She could possibly be on Hermione's right.)
The only time she would have to switch was when Dumbledore was introducing the Durmstrangs right before they came in, but it is unlikley.

Inconsistencies: They aren't mistakes - but they sure are noticeable!

• Which House? - Throughout the entire film, anytime we see the Patil twins, they're together - and both wearing Gryffindor robes. However, anyone who has read the books knows that Padma's a Ravenclaw.

• Say What? - When Wormtail is performing the ritual to bring his master back to a body, he says, "Bone of the father, unwillingly given." I don't think Tom Riddle Sr. can be unwilling or willing. In the book it was unknowingly given.

• Snuffles? - In the movie, Harry writes to Sirius and puts the name "Sirius Black" in big bold letters on the envelope before sending it off with Hedwig, who is a very noticeable bird. If Sirius won't send a letter back with Hedwig for that reason, how smart of Harry is it to send a letter to "Sirius Black," who is at this time still wanted by the Ministry?

• Accidental Amputation? - In the book, Wormtail cuts off the hand that is already missing a finger. In the movie, however, he cuts off the hand that has all five fingers.

• Bravery - At the beginning of the film, Wormtail refers to Voldemort as "my Lord Voldemort." We know from reading the books that everyone is terrified of saying his name, even his followers.
 
QueenSusanofNarnia said:
yeah...me neither! :) Well, I recognized the "Inconsistencies" just not hte mistakes!
Click to expand...

yes, the inconsistencies tick me off the first time I see the movie and then I eventually grow passive ... :rolleyes:
'tis why I am always telling people they don't know what they're missing if they only watch the movies...
 
In the first Harry Potter movie when Harry is saying one of his lines (I can't remember which one, but I think they were near Hagrid's hut at the time) Emma (Hermione) is mouthing his line.

EDIT: The line was "Why didn't I see it before?"
 
Last edited:
QueenSusanofNarnia said:
thanks guys but this is just for movie 4 mistakes... :)
(btw redsoxfreak01 i love ur location....same here, AARON!! OMG !!!! hottie!)
Click to expand...

lol thanks. :D He's my new obsession. I'll be putting him in my sig soon.

Errors from Harry Potter 1:

Crew or equipment visible: When Harry, Ron, and Hermione are struggling in the Devil's Snare, a puppeteer can be seen on the left of the screen, working at least some of the masses of tendrils.
Continuity: During the train journey, Ron's hair is parted in several different places.
Continuity: Harry's glasses sometimes have lenses, and sometimes don't, as do Dumbledore's.
Continuity: On the train, the same hill as well as lake (as seen by the waves in the middle of the water) are seen multiple times.
Audio/visual unsynchronized: Harry, Dudley, and Uncle Vernon during the flying letters sequence.
Revealing mistakes: When Uncle Vernon is ripping up the letters that come through the mail slot, you can see that the envelopes had already been cut, making it easier for him to rip up.
Crew or equipment visible: When Harry is in Ollivander's, after he goes up to Hagrid standing outside of the shop with Hedwig, you can clearly see the reflection of a camera in the window.
Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Harry is going home on the Hogwarts Express he says "I'm not going home, not really". The next view of the camera shows that Harry is still saying "not really" but you can't hear the words
Continuity: When Harry, Ron and Hermione are talking to Hagrid about Fluffy, Ron's scarf goes from being on his shoulder to being draped over his shoulder.
Revealing mistakes: At Halloween, Dumbledore announces for the teachers to follow him to the dungeon to find the troll. The next shot is of McGonagall and in front of her you can see the strings holding up the "floating" candles.
Miscellaneous: When Harry receives countless acceptance letters from Hogwarts, he fights with Uncle Vernon, saying the dialogue "They're my letters! Give it to me!" Harry's voice is far deeper than the Harry in the rest of the movie, indicating this line was re-dubbed long after main production when Daniel Radcliffe's voice had already begun to change.
Miscellaneous: When Harry receives his first letter, Uncle Vernon says "Your letter? Who would be writing to you?", Dudley is standing next to him and is seen mouthing Uncle Vernon's lines.
Continuity: When Hermione runs across the field her bag switches arms.
Revealing mistakes: When Dumbledore is awarding Neville 10 points, you can see the plastic used to make Neville's ears stick out when he turns toward Harry.
Continuity: When Harry wakes up in the beginning of the movie his shirt is tucked in the back of is trousers. In the next shot it is not.
Revealing mistakes: In the scene with the flying keys, we can see the string holding up the broomstick just before Harry grabs it.
Continuity: When Harry goes looking for a book on Nicolas Flamel in the restricted section he opens up the screaming book to the first page. When the book starts to scream he is in the middle of the book.
Crew or equipment visible: When Harry, Ron, and Hermione just left Fluffy for the first time and walk into their dorm area, we see, under the painting, the feet of someone closing the painting.
Continuity: The note that Hagrid gives to the teller in the bank is wrinkled in one shot, neat and clean in the next, and then back to wrinkled.
Continuity: When Hagrid's cabin is shown the windows are so high up that even Hagrid can't see through them while standing on the ground. Later in the film, when Draco Malfoy spies on Hagrid through the window, the window appears to be at his eye level, and he turns and runs away, revealing that he wasn't standing on anything to make him tall enough to reach the window.
Continuity: In Diagon Alley, Harry and Hagrid walk past the same cart and storefront three times. In the opening wide shot, they walk past the purple storefront with the yellow moving scissors and the cart of market goods in front of it. Three shots later, the storefront and cart are shown again in detail, as Harry and Hagrid pass. The next shot shows them passing the cart (with a stack of cauldrons in the background). Several shots later, after passing the store with the owls, they are seen once again passing the cart with the same stack of cauldrons in the background.
Continuity: Just after passing Madam Malkin's shop and before the owl emporium in Diagon Alley, a woman dressed all in black and a man with a burgandy top hat and mutton chops pass on Harry's right walking in the opposite direction. In the next shot, as Harry looks to his left, the same pair can be seen standing and chatting in the doorway of the owl emporium.
Continuity: In Diagon Alley, Harry and Hagrid pass many groups of people multiple times, though they appear to be walking continuously in one direction. Watch for the wizard with curly red hair, the man with a top hat and mutton chops, and the group of three girls who cross in the foreground of the opening shot.
Continuity: When Ron gets drooled on by Fluffy and gets wet, but two shots later he's completely dry.
Errors in geography: When Harry arrives at Hogwarts, Professor McGonagall announces that the Sorting Ceremony will begin "momentarily". In UK English, momentarily means "for a moment" (i.e. briefly), and a Scottish witch as pedantic and precise as McGonagall would never use the American meaning of the word ("in a moment" or "soon"), even though the American meaning might be well understood. Then again, given that the otherwise equally pedantic Snape says "less" when he means "fewer", it could just be that the teaching staff's use of English is just as sloppy as it is in schools all over the muggle world.
Continuity: When the first years climb the stairs and meet Professor McGonagall for the first time, Ron's robe is hanging partly open in one shot, but is closed in the next.
Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Harry and Ron are fighting the troll in the girl's toilet, they use a spell to lift the troll's club over its head and drop it. The club does hit the troll and makes an appropriate sound effect, but then the club falls to the floor, it makes no sound at all.
Crew or equipment visible: During the chess scene, the shadow of a figure can be seen covering a light shining on the chess board near the bottom of the screen.
Continuity: When Harry, wearing his cloak of invisibility, spies on Professor Quirrell being bullied by Professor Snape, the shots filmed from Harry's point of view have him at eye level with the adults even though he is clearly shorter than they are.
Continuity: In the scene in the hut on the rock, where Hagrid comes to fetch Harry, Harry's T-shirt is hanging off his left shoulder at the beginning of the scene, however, for the rest of the scene, it is covering both his shoulders.
Audio/visual unsynchronized: In the scene following the defeat of the troll, Quirrel is shown speaking with the other professors, at which point they, and the trio, leave the girls' bathroom. Their footsteps are clearly heard as they move down the hall; however, in the next shot of the troll laying on the floor, the sound effects have ceased. In the last shot, of Quirrell jumping nervously in response to the troll grunting, the footsteps can again be heard.
Crew or equipment visible: At the zoo, as Harry is talking to the snake, just before Dudley rushes over, you can see the reflection of a cameraman and camera just above the snake.
Continuity: When Mr. Dursley is talking about how there's no post on Sundays and the first letter shoots out of the fireplace, the log poker is in the middle of the hearth, when all the other letters come shooting out, the poker is on the right side.
Miscellaneous: Hagrid picks up Harry at the hut on the rock on Harry's birthday, July 31st. Apparently, they go immediately to Diagon Alley to get Harry's school supplies, after which Hagrid leaves Harry to catch the train to Hogwarts. But school doesn't begin till September 1st. What happened to the month of August?
Miscellaneous: When Filch enters the Restricted Section of the library in search of the disturbance, he passes Harry, who's hiding under the Invisibility Cloak. The camera angle leads the viewer to believe Harry is as tall or taller than Filch. Harry should be a foot or two shorter.
Continuity: When confronted by the Troll, Hermione runs into the first bathroom stall. When the Troll attacks the stalls Hermione is in the 4th stall.
Factual errors: When the children are wearing their school robes they are supposed to be wearing a tie with their house colors. In the flying scene, Malfoy is wearing a dark blue and light blue tie which are the colors of Ravenclaw House. His tie should be green and silver because he is in Slytherin House.
Miscellaneous: When Hermione uses the spell "Alohomora" to open the door to the room in which Fluffy is locked up, she uses her left hand, but a few scenes later, in the Charms lesson, the shot clearly shows her using her right hand to perform the spell "Wingardium Leviosa".
Continuity: During the first meeting of Harry, Ron and Hermione on the Hogwarts Express, Hermione's tie changes from being crooked to one side, to straight then back to crooked again
Continuity: When Harry is trying to come out of his cupboard and Dudley shoves him back in, Harry emerges rubbing his head as if the door had hit him, but he was too far away by the time Dudley had slammed the door for it to be anywhere near his head.

^^I got them from IMDB^^
 
Back
Top