book mistakes - philosophers stone

Mistakes I have found in PS

* Petunia Dursley says that Lily would "...come home every vacation with her pockets full of frog spawn, turning teacups into rats...," but according to ministry rules, this is illegal.

* It says that Harry looked up at the Sorting Stool, there were only 3 people left to be sorted, Professor McGonagall calls the names of 4 more people instead.

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

yes, true... and lily couldn't do that cause...

yes, omg you're totally right!!

x) stay cool

Duuude I never noticed that -well the scabbers part I did but the rest was like not even thought about. Cool job on spotting those heh.
Jesse

i did notice stuf like that but i neva made a big deal out of it we all make mistakes

i did notice the thing about 3 ppl needing to be sorted, but 4 more were called. i never really cared about the fact that ron brought a rat (or something that looked like a rat and was really a murdering midget... lol)

but snaps for u on the other things, i didnt notice those

In certain versions of Book One, One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi is at one point called One Hundred Magical Herbs and Fungi

In Book one, Prof. McGonagall brings out a 4 legged chair with the sorting hat (to the sorting ceremony). In book four, she brings out a 3 legged chair with the sorting hat. What happened to one of the legs?

In Book One, Harry said his birthday was on a Tuesday. However, July 31st, 1991 took place on a Wednesday!

I noticed Harry's birthday one and the one about 1000 Magical herbs and Fungi.

LOL But most of the time I don't pick up on these things because I am too engrossed in the story.

Honestly I've never noticed any of these mistakes until you've pointed them out...Now off to search for some of my own...

during the sorting ceremony weren't some of the names out of alphabetical order?

Wow, I actually don't notice many mistakes in books...I bet if you handed me a harry potter book with loads of mistakes in and I readit without knowing mistakes were in it then I would think it was prefectly good...But then I'm just slow like that

~When Hagrid comes and gets Harry out of the little hut on the rock, they use the boat that the Dursleys used to get to the rock. So how do the Dursleys get off the rock?

~On Harry's equipment list in the letter from Hogwarts, "1 wand" is listed twice. This was corrected quickly and only appears in the earlier versions

~When Hagrid brought Harry to Diagon Alley for the first time, Harry heard a woman say "Seventeen sickles an ounce for Dragon Liver. They're mad." But Hagrid told Harry that there were seventeen sickles in a galleon. So that would be like saying "100 pennies" instead of a dollar. Think of it this way: if the Dragon Liver weighed three pounds, a galleon (or for our purposes, a dollar) per ounce is quite a lot of money.

Ooh, I have something to add. It may not be right, but the Fat Friar mentions that Hufflepuff was his old House - surely, if he is a member of the Church, he couldn't have gone to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry! Because don't you have to start illuminating manuscripts and stuff at age 11? (At the time when the Friar was alive, at least). Feel free to bash this theory with anything that comes to hand, by the way

Near the ending of the sorting JK says that there is three people left to be sorted, but there really is four.

at the zoo, the snaked winked at harry... snakes can't wink they don't have eyelids

(found it on mugglenet.com)

I don't notice much of these mistakes but I read them on mugglenet so now I know. And by the way. The Fat Friar had to have gone to Hohwarts because I think JK Rowling said that all house ghosts were members of the house they represent.

I'm not sure if it's a mistake or if Petunia was just pulling an attitude to be mean to Harry but:

In the first book when Harry tells Petunia and Vernon which platform he is supposed to go on they both just stare at Harry. Then Vernon tells Harry that there was no platform nine and three quarters. However, Petunia should know that there really is a platform nine and three quarters because she was at the train station when Lily went off.

But then again Petunia was probably just being mean.

i think the rat thing was because the weasley were poor so they let him bring him.but he was important to so they should have put that in the letter.