Deathly Hallows Part 2 Movie Spoilers (via The Lord of the Hallows)

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via The Lord of the Hallows

He overestimates my abilities. Do you? Most definantly

So many of us underestimate who we are and what we can do. It is not those who we have to feel sorry for. Its those who think too much of themselves. Those who see this grand future for themselves and are willing to do anything to receive that plan. Sometimes we need to make sure we do not hope for too much. But not too little.

oh to be young and feel loves keen sting

Love is a very powerful emotion. One of the most powerful in my opinion. In Hero by Nickelback there’s a line that says “…once told me love would all save us. How can that be look what love gave us. A world full of killing and blood spilling.” Love knows no age but yet…to be young mean to be hurt.

Amorentia doesn’t create real love, that is impossible.

Real love is a concept so many don’t fully grasp. It is impossible to create and can only be found in some people. The books and films fully grasp how young and innocent you can be sure that you’ve found your love then it all changes.

Another Mistake in the movies

In Half Blood Prince Luna removes Harry’s cloak with the spell Finite. How ever Harry’s cloak is a Hallow. It was not supposed to be able to be removed with any spell and the wearer isn’t visible at all no matter what. So by that little mistake, Harry’s cloak would not be a hallow. The Directors should have thought of that.

What to think about during the patronus charm

What do you think about when you do the Patronus Charm? Is it your family? Your first time on a broom? It doesn’t matter much. Just think happy thoughts. Happiness will *always* beat the sad and depressed. When you’re done, when you feel like there are dementors surrounding you, produce a mental Patronus.

I solemnly swear that I am up to no good

Messers Moony, Padfoot, Wormtail, and Prongs proudly present the best map ever. I wish Harry realized that he was holding something his dad had held in his hands. I think Snape knew it was Lupins. I’m sure he had heard the nicknames at least once. Lupin was all like “Where did you get this? This is mine. Eh you’ll have it back soon enough.” I think that every time Lupin looked at the map he thought of James and Sirius.

Oliver vs. Harry

So I was sitting watching Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone when something happened that annoyed me a whole bunch. Oliver Wood touched the snitch with his bare hands. I thought Harry was supposed to be the first one to touch it. That’s why Dumboldore put the ring in it and gave it to Harry. So it would open to him. According to the first film it should be Oliver that it opens for.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Quotes

Hagrid: Who told you about Fluffy?
Ron: Fluffy?
Hermione: That thing has a name?

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Dumbledore: It does not do to dwell on dreams, Harry, and forget to live.

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Ron: It’s spooky! She knows more about you than you do!
Harry: Who doesn’t?

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Mr. Ollivander: Curious… very curious…
Harry: Sorry, but what’s curious?
Mr. Ollivander: I remember every wand I’ve ever sold, Mr. Potter. It so happens that the phoenix whose tailfeather resides in your wand gave another feather… just one other. It is curious that you should be destined for this wand when its brother gave you that scar.
Harry: And who owned that wand?
Mr. Ollivander: We do not speak his name! The wand chooses the wizard, Mr. Potter. It’s not always clear why. But I think it is clear that we can expect great things from you. After all, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named did great things. Terrible! Yes. But great.

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Hermione: Now if you two don’t mind, I’m going to bed before either of you come up with another clever idea to get us killed – or worse, expelled.
Ron: She needs to sort out her priorities!

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[about Fluffy]
Hagrid: I lent him to Dumbledore to guard the…
Harry: Yes?
Hagrid: Shouldn’t have said that. No more questions, don’t ask anymore questions!

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Hagrid: [about Fluffy] Just play a bit of music and he falls straight asleep… I shouldn’t have told you that!

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[in the Devil's Snare]
Hermione: Stop moving, both of you. This is devil’s snare! You have to relax. If you don’t, it’ll only kill you faster!
Ron: Kill us faster? Oh, now I can relax!

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Hagrid: You’re a wizard, Harry!
Harry: I’m a what?

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Hermione: Harry, no way! You heard what Madam Hooch said. Besides, you don’t even know how to fly!
[Harry ignores Hermione and he flies up]
Hermione: What an idiot!

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Draco Malfoy: [picks up Neville's Rememberall] Did you see his face? Maybe if the fat lump had given this a squeeze, he’d have remembered to fall on his fat ass.

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Hermione: You’ll be okay, Harry. You’re a great wizard. You really are.
Harry: Not as good as you.
Hermione: Me? Books and cleverness. There are more important things: friendship and bravery. And Harry, just be careful.

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Hermione: Ron, you don’t suppose this is going to be like… *real* wizard’s chess, do you?
Ron: [looks around] You there, D5!
[one of the giant black pawns crosses the board, the white pawn smashes it with a violent blow]
Ron: [swallows] Yes, Hermione, I think this is gonna be *exactly* like wizard’s chess.

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Harry: I swear I don’t know. One minute the glass was there and then it was gone. It was like magic.
Uncle Vernon: There’s no such thing as magic!

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Draco Malfoy: Think my name’s funny, do you? No need to ask yours. Red hair… and a hand-me-down robe. You must be a Weasley.

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Dumbledore: What happened down in the dungeon between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret. So, naturally, the whole school knows.

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[about Every Flavor Beans]
Dumbledore: I was most unfortunate in my youth to come across a vomit-flavored one, and since then I’m afraid I’ve lost my liking for them. But, I think I could be safe with a nice toffee.
[eats it]
Dumbledore: Mm, alas, earwax.

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Ron: Wingardium leviosar!
Hermione: Stop, stop, stop! You’re going to take someone’s eye out. Besides, you’re saying it wrong. It’s LeviOsa, not LeviosAR!

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Hermione: Neville, I’m really, really sorry about this.
[raises her wand]
Hermione: Petrificus Totalus!
[Neville's arms snap to his sides, and he drops to the floor, frozen stiff as a board]
Ron: You’re a little scary sometimes, you know that? Brilliant… but scary.

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Hagrid: Dry up Dursley, you great prune!

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Percy Weasley: And keep an eye on the staircases. They like to change.

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Molly Weasley: [looks at Fred, hoping to get him onto platform 9 3/4] Fred, you next.
George Weasley: He’s not Fred, I am!
Fred Weasley: Honestly, woman. You call yourself our mother.
Molly Weasley: [to Fred] Oh, I’m sorry, George.
Fred Weasley: [approaches the barrier] I’m only joking, I am Fred!
[runs through the barrier]

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[deleted scene]
Hermione: Look at you playing with your cards. Pathetic! We’ve got final exams coming up soon.
Ron: I’m ready! Ask me any question.
Hermione: All right, what are the three most crucial ingredients in a Forgetfulness Potion?
Ron: I forgot.
Hermione: And what, may I ask, do you plan to do if this comes up in the final exam?
Ron: Copy off you?
Hermione: No, you won’t! Besides, according to Professor McGonagall, we’re to be given special quills bewitched with an anti-cheating spell.
Ron: That’s insulting! It’s as if they don’t trust us!

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[deleted scene]
Aunt Petunia: This is what you’re going to be wearing when I finish dying it.
Harry: But that’s Dudley’s old uniform! It’ll fit me like bits of old elephant skin.

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[deleted scene]
Professor Severus Snape: For your information Potter, Asphodel and Wormwood make a sleeping potion so powerful it is known as the Draught of the Living Death, a Bezoar is a stone taken from the stomach of a goat and it will save you from most poisons. As for Monkshood and Wolfbane, they are the same plant which also goes by the name of Aconite. Well, why aren’t you all copying this down?

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[deleted scene]
Harry: Good of you to get us out of trouble like that.
Ron: Mind you, we did save her life!
Harry: Mind you, she might not have needed saving if you hadn’t insulted her.
Ron: What are friends for?

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[deleted scene]
Hagrid: Crikey, I’d love a dragon.
Harry: You’d like a dragon?
Hagrid: Vastly misunderstood beasts, Harry. Vastly misunderstood.

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Professor Quirrel: Troll! In the dungeons!
[looks sick]
Professor Quirrel: Thought you ought to know.
[faints and crumples onto the floor]

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Seamus Finnigan: I’m half and half. Me dad’s a muggle; Mam’s a witch. Bit of a nasty shock for him when he found out.

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Draco Malfoy: It’s true then, what they’re saying on the train. Harry Potter has come to Hogwarts.

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Caretaker Argus Filch: A pity they let the old punishments die. Was a time detention would find you hanging by your thumbs in the dungeons. God, I miss the screaming.

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Oliver Wood: Scared, Harry?
Harry: A little.
Oliver Wood: That’s all right. I felt the same way before my first game.
Harry: What happened?
Oliver Wood: I, uh, I don’t really remember. I took a bludger to the head two minutes in. Woke up in hospital a week later.

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Dudley Dursley: Daddy’s gone mad hasn’t he?

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Professor McGonagall: Albus, do you really think it safe, leaving him with these people? I’ve watched them all day. They’re the worst sort of Muggles imaginable. They really are…
Dumbledore: The only family he has.
Professor McGonagall: This boy will be famous. There won’t be a child in our world who doesn’t know his name.
Dumbledore: Exactly. He’s far better off growing up away from all of that. Until he is ready.

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Harry: I can’t be a-a-a wizard. I mean, I’m just Harry, just Harry.

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Ron: I’m Ron by the way, Ron Weasley.
Harry: I’m Harry. Harry Potter.
Ron: So… so it’s true! I mean, do you really have the… the…
Harry: The what?
Ron: [in a hushed tone] The scar?
Harry: Oh.
[shows him the scar on his forehead]
Harry: Yeah.
Ron: Wicked!

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Professor Severus Snape: There will be no foolish wand-waving or silly incantations in this class. As such, I don’t expect many of you to appreciate the subtle science and exact art that is potion-making. However, for those select few…
[stares at Draco Malfoy]
Professor Severus Snape: Who possess, the predisposition… I can teach you how to bewitch the mind and ensnare the senses. I can tell you how to bottle fame, brew glory, and even put a stopper in death.
[notices Harry scribbling on his paper]
Professor Severus Snape: Then again, maybe some of you have come to Hogwarts in possession of abilities so formidable that you feel confident enough to not pay attention!
[steps over to Harry]
Professor Severus Snape: Mister Potter. Our new celebrity.

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Neville Longbottom: [about his new Remembrall] Only problem is, I can’t remember what I’ve forgotten.

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Ron: I think we’ve had a bad influence on her.

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[during the final chess game; Harry looks around at the board]
Harry: Wait a minute!
Ron: You see it, don’t you, Harry? Once I make my move, the Queen will take me. Then you’re free to check the King.
Harry: No. Ron, NO!
Hermione: What is it?
Harry: He’s going to sacrifice himself.
Hermione: No, you can’t, there must be another way!
Ron: Do you want to stop Snape from getting that stone or not?
[Hermione looks stunned]
Ron: Harry, it’s you that has to go on, I *know* it. Not me, not Hermione, YOU.
[Harry takes a deep breath and nods]
Ron: [after a deep breath] Knight to H3.
[Ron and his horse advance to the next square. Ron breathes deep]
Ron: Check.
[The white Queen turns, advances slowly upon him, then draws her sword and plunges it into his horse, throwing him violently to the ground]
Harry: RON!
[Hermione makes as if to run to him]
Harry: [to Hermione] NO! DON’T MOVE! Don’t forget – we’re still playing.
[Harry moves three squares diagonally to his left and turns to face the King]
Harry: CHECKMATE.

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Ron: Happy Christmas, Harry.

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Dumbledore: It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to your enemies, but a great deal more to stand up to your friends.

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Dumbledore: Only a person who wanted to find the Stone – find it, but not use it – would be able to get it. That is one of my more brilliant ideas. And between you and me, that is saying something.

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Dumbledore: Also, our caretaker, Mr. Filch, has asked me to remind you that the third-floor corridor on the right-hand side is out of bounds to everyone who does not wish to die a most painful death.

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Ron: [Harry and Ron arrive late to Transfiguration, relieved that Professor McGonagall isn't there yet] Whew, made it. Can you imagine the look on old McGonagall’s face if we were late?
[the cat sitting at the head of the class suddenly transforms into her]
Ron: That was bloody brilliant!
Professor McGonagall: Well, thank you for that assessment, Mr Weasley. Perhaps it would be more useful if I were to transfigure Mr Potter and yourself into a pocket watch? That way, one of you might be on time.
Harry: We got lost.
Professor McGonagall: Then perhaps a map? I trust you don’t need one to find your seats.

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Ron: What do they think they’re doing, keeping a thing like that locked up in a school?
Hermione: You don’t use your eyes, do you? Didn’t you see what it was standing on?
Ron: I wasn’t looking at its feet! I was a bit preoccupied with its heads… or maybe you didn’t notice? There were three!

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[looking at a recently-hatched dragon]
Hagrid: Isn’t he beautiful? Oh, bless him! Look! He knows his mummy! Hallo, Norbert!
Harry: Norbert?
Hagrid: Yeah, well, he’s gotta have a name, don’t he?

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Ron: Immortal?
Hermione: It means you’ll never die.
Ron: [angry] I know what it means!

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Ron: Mental that one, I’m telling you.

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[about the Bludgers]
Oliver Wood: Nasty little buggers.

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Hagrid: You all right there, Harry? You seem very quiet.
Harry: He killed my parents, didn’t he?
[puts a hand to his scar]
Harry: The one who gave me this?
[Hagrid is silent]
Harry: You know, Hagrid. I know you do.
[Hagrid sighs and pushes his bowl aside]
Hagrid: First – and understand this, Harry, ’cause it’s very important – not all wizards are good. Some of them go bad. A few years ago there was one wizard that went as bad as you can go, and his name was V-
[sighs]
Hagrid: his name was V…
Harry: Maybe if you wrote it down…
Hagrid: Nah, I can’t spell it. Alright
[whispers]
Hagrid: ‘Voldemort’
Harry: [loudly] Voldemort?
Hagrid: Shhh! It was dark times, Harry, dark times. Voldemort started to gather some followers, brought ‘em over to the dark side. Anyone who stood up to him ended up dead. Your parents fought against him, but nobody lived once he decided to kill them. Nobody… not one… ‘cept you.
Harry: Me? Voldemort tried to kill… ME?
Hagrid: Yes. That ain’t no ordinary cut on your forehead. A mark like that only comes from being touched by a curse, and an evil curse at that.
Harry: What happened to Vol- to You-Know-Who?
Hagrid: Well, some say he died. Codswallop in my opinion. Nope, I reckon he’s still out there, too tired to carry on. But one thing’s certain, something about you stumped him that night. That’s why you’re famous, Harry, that’s why everybody knows your name. You’re the boy who lived.

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Voldemort: There is no good and evil. There is only power, and those too weak to seek it.

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Harry: You! No, it can’t be. Snape, he – he was the…
Professor Quirrel: Yes, he does seem the type, doesn’t he? Why, next to him, who would suspect p-p-poor, st-st-stuttering Professor Quirrell?

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Ron: Sunshine, daisies, butter mellow, turn this stupid, fat rat yellow!

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Uncle Vernon: He will not be going, I tell you! We swore when we took him in we’d put a stop to all this rubbish!
Harry: You knew? You knew all along and you never told me?
Aunt Petunia: Of course we knew. How could you not be? My perfect sister being who she was. My mother and father were so proud the day she got her letter. “We have a witch in the family. Isn’t it wonderful?” I was the only one to see her for what she was… a freak! And then she met that Potter. And then she had you, and I knew you would be the same. Just as strange, just as… abnormal. And then if you please, she went and got herself blown up, and we got landed with you.
Harry: Blown up? You told me my parents died in a car crash!
Hagrid: A car crash? A car crash kill Lily and James Potter?
Aunt Petunia: We had to say something.
Hagrid: It’s an outrage! It’s a scandal!
Uncle Vernon: He’ll not be going!
Hagrid: Oh, and I suppose a great muggle like yourself’s gonna stop him, are ya?

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Dumbledore: Harry, do you know why Professor Quirrell couldn’t bear to have you touch him?
[Harry shakes his head]
Dumbledore: It was because of your mother. She sacrificed herself for you, and that kind of act leaves a mark.
[Harry reaches up to touch his scar]
Dumbledore: No, no. This kind of mark cannot be seen. It lives in your very skin.
Harry: What is it?
Dumbledore: Love, Harry. Love.

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[after being in the Dark Forest]
Harry: I think if he’d had the chance, he might’ve tried to kill me tonight.
Ron: And to think, I’ve been worrying about my potions final.

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Professor McGonagall: [to Harry and Ron after beating the Mountain Troll] Five points… will be awarded to each of you.
[Ron and Harry smile at each other]
Professor McGonagall: For sheer dumb luck.

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Fred Weasley: Well done, Harry. Wood’s just told us.
Ron: Fred and George are on the team, too. Beaters.
George Weasley: Our job is to make sure that you don’t get bloodied up too bad. Can’t make any promises, of course. Rough game, Quidditch.
Fred Weasley: Brutal, but no one’s died in years. Someone will vanish occasionally, but they’ll turn up in a month or two!

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Professor Severus Snape: What would three young Gryffindors such as yourselves be doing inside… on a day like this?
Hermione: Uh… well… we… we were just…
Professor Severus Snape: You ought to be careful. People will think you’re…
[sees Harry staring at him]
Professor Severus Snape: Up to something.

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Professor McGonagall: Nothing, I repeat, nothing gives a student the right to walk about the school at night. Therefore, as punishment for your actions, 50 points will be taken.
Harry: 50?
[Ron and Hermione also looking shocked, Draco smirking]
Professor McGonagall: Each.
[Harry's mouth drops open]
Professor McGonagall: And to ensure it doesn’t happen again, all four of you will receive detention.
Draco Malfoy: [smirk suddenly fades and steps up] Excuse me, professor, perhaps I heard you wrong. I thought you said the four of us.
Professor McGonagall: No, you heard me correctly, Mr. Malfoy. You see, honorable as your intentions were, you too were out of bed after hours. You will join your classmates in detention.

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[Hagrid's sad about Norbert being taken away]
Caretaker Argus Filch: For God’s sake, pull yourself together man. You’re going into the Forest after all. Got to have your wits about ya…
Draco Malfoy: The Forest? I thought that was a joke. We can’t go in there. Students aren’t allowed. And there are-
[a howling noise is heard]
Draco Malfoy: … werewolves.
Caretaker Argus Filch: Oh, there’s more than werewolves in those trees, lad. You can be sure of that. Nighty-night.

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Harry: Excuse me sir, can you tell me where I might find Platform Nine and Three-Quarters?
Station Guard: Nine and Three-Quarters? Think you’re being funny do ya?
[muttering to himself]
Station Guard: Nine and Three-Quarters!

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[stepping over Neville lying on the floor, whom Hermione has petrified using the "Petrificus Totalus Curse"]
Harry: Sorry.
Hermione: Sorry.
Ron: It’s for your own good, you know.

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Ron: I look good!

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Dudley Dursley: [on Dudley's birthday] How many are there?
Uncle Vernon: 36, counted them myself.
Dudley Dursley: 36! But last year, last year I had 37!
Uncle Vernon: Yes, yes, but some of them are quite a bit bigger than last year.
Dudley Dursley: I don’t care how big they are!

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Sorting Hat: Hmm, difficult. VERY difficult. Plenty of courage, I see. Not a bad mind, either. There’s talent, oh yes. And a thirst to prove yourself. But where to put you?
Harry: Not Slytherin. Not Slytherin.
Sorting Hat: Not Slytherin, eh? Are you sure? You could be great, you know. It’s all here in your head. And Slytherin will help you on the way to greatness, there’s no doubt about that. No?
Harry: Please, please. Anything but Slytherin, anything but Slytherin.
Sorting Hat: Well if you’re sure, better be… GRYFFINDOR!

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[Hagrid has just very aggressively knocked down the door where the Dursleys are staying]
Hagrid: [Calmly] Sorry about that
[Picks door up and slams it back in place]

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Sorting Hat: Ah! Another Weasley. I know just what to do with you… GRYFFINDOR!

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[showing Harry the Golden Snitch]
Harry: I like this ball.
Oliver Wood: Ah, you like it now. Just wait. It’s wicked fast, and damn near impossible to see.
Harry: What do I do with it?
Oliver Wood: You catch it, before the other team’s seeker. You catch this, the game’s over. You catch this, Potter, and we win.

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Seamus Finnigan: Eye of rabbit, harp string hum, turn this water into rum.
[he checks the goblet, then tries again]
Seamus Finnigan: Eye of rabbit, harp string hum…
Harry: What’s Seamus trying to do to that glass of water?
Ron: Turn it to rum. Actually managed a weak tea yesterday! Before…
[explosion]

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Professor McGonagall: Are the rumors true, Albus?
Dumbledore: I’m afraid so, Professor. The good… and the bad.

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Hermione: Honestly, don’t you two read?

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[Hagrid tells Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Draco to split into pairs and search the Dark Forest]
Draco Malfoy: Okay. Then I get Fang!
Hagrid: Fine. Just so you know, he’s a bloody coward.

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[after seeing Ron's queen destroy Harry's knight]
Hermione: That’s totally barbaric!
Ron: That’s wizard’s chess.

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Harry: Say, Percy, who’s that teacher talking to Professor Quirrell?
Percy Weasley: Oh, that’s Professor Snape, head of Slytherin House.
Harry: What’s he teach?
Percy Weasley: Potions. But everyone knows it’s the Dark Arts he fancies. He’s been after Quirrell’s job for *years*.

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Draco Malfoy: You’ll soon find out that some wizarding families are better than others, Potter. You don’t wanna go making friends with the wrong sort. I can help you there.
[he holds out his hand, which Harry doesn't take]
Harry: I think I can tell the wrong sort for myself, thanks.

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Nearly Headless Nick: Hello! How are you? Welcome to Gryffindor!

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Seamus Finnigan: [in Charms class] Wingard Leviosa. Wingard…
[BOOM]
Harry: I think we’re going to need another feather over here, professor.

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[in King's Cross]
Hagrid: What are you lookin’ at?

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[deleted scene]
Ron: [Neville comes hopping in, his legs apparently stuck together] Leg-Locker Curse?
Harry: Malfoy.
Ron: You have *got* to start standing up to people, Neville.
Neville Longbottom: [wobbling uncontrollably] How? I can barely stand at all!
Seamus Finnigan: [jumping up, wand at the ready] I’ll do the counter-curse!
Neville Longbottom: No, that’s all I need… you to set my bloody kneecaps on fire!
Seamus Finnigan: [slamming his wand down] I don’t appreciate the insinuation, Longbottom. Besides, if anyone cares to notice, my eyebrows have completely grown back!
[stalks off angrily, showing a large chunk of hair missing from the back of his head]
Harry: I found him!
[hands Ron a Chocolate Frog card of Dumbledore]
Ron: ‘Dumbledore is particularly famous for his defeat of the Dark Wizard Grindelwald in 1945-’
Harry: Go on.
Ron: ‘-for his discovery of the 12 uses of Dragon Blood, and his work on alchemy with his partner Nicolas Flamel!’
Harry: I knew the name sounded familiar, I read it on the train that day.
Hermione: [Beaming excitedly] Follow me!
[the Trio tears out of the Great Hall, leaving poor Neville still flailing around]
Neville Longbottom: Hey, wait, where are you going? What about the counter-curse?
[Before he can say another word he topples over backwards, sparking a fresh round of laughter from the other students]

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George Weasley: [while sitting at the Gryffindor table, eating Christmas dinner] How do you like yours, Ron?
[Ron, however, keep glancing over at Harry, who is sitting far away from everyone else, staring into the fire, remembering the image of his parents from the Mirror of Erised]
George Weasley: Ron?
Ron: I’ll be right back.
[puts his utensils down and goes to Harry]
Ron: Wanna play chess?
Harry: No.
Ron: Wanna go and visit Hagrid?
Harry: No.
Ron: I know what you’re thinking Harry, but don’t. There’s something not right about that mirror.
[Harry merely nods in acknowledgement as Ron rejoins the other Gryffindors]

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Ron: [mimicking Hermione] “It’s Levi-OOOOH-sa not LevioSAR.” She’s a nightmare, honestly. It’s no wonder she hasn’t got any friends!
[Hermione comes up from behind them and rushes past, in tears]
Harry: I think she heard you.

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Ron: [looking for information about Nicholas Flamell] We’ve looked a hundred times.
Hermione: [leaning closer] Not in the restricted section. Happy Christmas.

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Hermione: [putting a large book on the table] I checked this out weeks ago for a bit of light reading.
Ron: This is light?

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Hagrid: If that dolt of a cousin of yours, Dudley, gives you any grief, you could always, um, threaten him with a nice pair of ears to go with that tail of his.
Harry: But, Hagrid, we’re not allowed to do magic away from Hogwarts. You know that.
Hagrid: I do, but your cousin don’t, do he?

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[last lines]
Hermione: Feels strange to be going home, doesn’t it?
Harry: [looking at Hagrid] I’m not going home. Not really.

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[first lines]
Professor McGonagall: [as a cat] Mraow!
Dumbledore: I should have known that you would be here, Professor McGonagall.
[Professor McGonagall transfigures into her human self]

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[after catching Harry scribbling on his paper]
Professor Severus Snape: Tell me, what would I get if I added powdered root of asphodel to an infusion of wormwood?
[Harry doesn't answer]
Professor Severus Snape: You don’t know? Well, let’s try again. Where, Mr. Potter, would you look if I asked you to find me a bezoar?
Harry: I don’t know, sir.
Professor Severus Snape: And what is the difference between monkshood and wolfsbane?
Harry: I don’t know, sir.
Professor Severus Snape: Pity. Clearly, fame isn’t everything, is it, Mr. Potter?

Harry: [trying to get Neville's Rememberall] Give it here, Malfoy or I’ll knock you off your broom!
Draco Malfoy: Is that so?
[Harry makes a grab for Malfoy but he moves]
Draco Malfoy: Have it your way then.
[Malfoy throws the Rememberall]

Hermione: You’ve got dirt on your nose, by the way. Did you know? Just there.

Hermione: Are you sure that’s a real spell? Well, it’s not very good, is it?

Draco Malfoy: Wait ’til my father hears about this! This is servant’s stuff!
Harry: If I didn’t know any better, Draco, I’d say you were scared.
Draco Malfoy: I’m not scared, Potter!
[howling noise]
Draco Malfoy: Did you hear that?
Harry: [calls the dog] Come on, Fang!

Voldemort: Harry Potter. We meet again.
Harry: Voldemort?
Voldemort: Yes. You see what I’ve become? See what I must do to survive? Live off another, a mere parasite! Unicorn blood can sustain me, but it cannot give me a body of my own. But there is something that can; something that, conveniently enough, lies in your pocket!

Hermione: [after Hermione and Harry sink in the Devil's Snare, Ron is still panicking] He’s not relaxing, is he?
Harry: Apparently not.
Hermione: I’ve gotta do something!
Harry: What?
Hermione: Oh, I remember reading something in herbology… um…
Ron: Hel-!
Hermione: Devil’s Snare, Devil’s Snare…”It’s deadly fun, but will sulk in the sun!” That’s it! Devil’s Snare hates sunlight! Lumos Solem!
[she conjures a type of sunlight from her wand; Ron falls to the ground below]
Harry: Ron, you okay?
Ron: Yeah.
Harry: Okay.
Ron: [sigh] Lucky we didn’t panic.
Harry: Lucky Hermione pays attention in herbology.

Hagrid: [after kicking in the Dursley's door] Sorry about that.
[puts door back in frame]

Hagrid: [after telling Harry, Ron and Hermione how to get past fluffy] Oh! I shouldn’t have said that.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Goofs

• Continuity: When Harry breaks his right arm playing Quidditch, he takes great care to keep it held up as he rolls from side to side to avoid the bludger, but at one point he puts his weight on it without any apparent discomfort. In the next shot he is holding it across his stomach again.
• Revealing mistakes: During the Quidditch match, the wire that attaches the broom to Harry is visible for several seconds.
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: The students are able to carry on conversations and hear instructions while wearing the earmuffs that protect them from the screams of the mandrake roots. We assume the earmuffs to be enchanted to specifically block mandrake screams, but not other sounds. Despite what “it says in the book” there is nothing in the movie to suggest that this could not be the case.

• Continuity: Ron receives the “Howler” from his mother. After his owl, Errol, crashes into the table, you can see that the red envelope is open. As Ron removes it from Errol’s mouth. We then see Ron breaking the seal on this envelope so he can read it.
• Continuity: When Harry and Ron’s car is caught by the tree, a limb smashes a hole in the rear window but the hole is missing in one shot when the car tips forward while falling out of the tree.
• Continuity: At all times the Locomotive ‘Hogwarts Express’ is played by a Great Western Railway Hall Class Locomotive. However, when Harry and Ron are in the car and look behind them to see the train bearing down on them the front of the engine is quite different, although the numberplate and nameboard are the same.
• Continuity: When Harry is chasing after Dobby in his house and they get to the downstairs hallway they both stop running. Harry stops and he has one leg in front of him. In the next shot, the other leg is in front of him instead.
• Continuity: When Professor Lockhart is knocked backwards by Professor Snape’s charm during their duel, his wand can be seen flying through the air. When he lands, however, the wand is back in his hand.
• Revealing mistakes: When Crabbe and Goyle pluck the chocolate cupcakes out of mid-air, you can see the shadow of the string on Goyle’s face.
• Continuity: When Harry and Ron are in the Whomping Willow tree, one of the branches punches a dent in the roof of the car, but when the car drives away the dent is gone.
• Continuity: When Harry and Ron are in the car trying to get away from the spiders, Fang gets into the car twice. Then he is alternately sitting down, standing up, leaning forward, and looking out the back window between shots.
• Continuity: When Harry’s cart hits the barrier between platforms 9 and 10, Hedwig’s cage door very clearly pops open. In the next shot she is shown ruffling her feathers with a very closed cage door.
• Crew or equipment visible: When Snape leans over to pick Draco up after he has been thrown through the air by Harry’s spell in the dueling scene, a crew member in blue jeans can be seen on the far left.
• Revealing mistakes: When the pixies drop Neville on the chandelier, the pointy plastic ears used when the pixies pull him up are still on him after they let go.
• Crew or equipment visible: When the spiders are coming out in great numbers, stage lights are visible.
• Revealing mistakes: When Ron, the twins, and Harry enter the Weasley home toward the beginning of the movie, there is a pan washing itself in the sink. You can see the edge of the circular cut-out in the pan used to make the brush spin in a circle.
• Continuity: When Harry and Ron are in the car being chased by the spiders, Ron switches gears with Harry’s hand over his. The clothing sleeves shown on them in that brief shot are not the clothes they’re wearing in that scene, but what they’d worn in the earlier flying car scene at the beginning of the movie.
• Revealing mistakes: When Harry tries to run through the wall to Platform 9 3/4 but bumps into the wall instead, you can see an obvious dummy of the owl inside the cage when it falls over.
• Crew or equipment visible: In the scene where Ron and Harry turn into Crabbe and Goyle, as they leave a crew member can be seen crouching in the background behind Malfoy.
• Continuity: In the girls’ bathroom, immediately after Hermione says “add the hairs”, Ron can be seen with an empty hand. In the next shot, he is putting the hairs into the glass with that same hand.
• Crew or equipment visible: When Harry and Ron are in the car fleeing from the spiders, there is a close-up of them looking towards the back of the car as they drive backwards. Two shots before the close-up of them yelling, “Wooooh!!!” there is a wide shot of the Dark Forest and the car at the top of the screen just as it starts to jump over the tree roots. In this wide shot at the bottom of the screen, the heads of two crew members are visible.
• Continuity: Throughout the film, one of the young actors may have one or more pimples on their face, yet in the following shots which may take place only moments later, the pimples are gone, or visa versa. For example, when Hagrid joins Harry, Hermione and Ron outside when he overhears, “Mad and hairy…,” Harry has one on his cheek. Neville tells them to rush to Harry’s room. While Harry, whose own pimple has disappeared, searches the mess, the one on Ron’s chin is visible, though it wasn’t in the shot outside. Scenes are shot out of sequence, hence the erratic complexion continuity problem.
• Continuity: As Ron and Harry watch in the background, Crabbe and Goyle hold cupcakes that change position, then start eating Hermione’s cupcakes. When the close-up faces Crabbe, the little bit of cupcake in Goyle’s hand is visible. However, when Goyle rolls his eyes up as he begins to fall backwards, the cupcake in his hand is nearly whole.
• Continuity: In the Whomping Willow, the trunk of the car receives a noticeable gash just above the lock on the trunk as well as a huge dent in the trunk. However just before the trunk pops open to eject Harry and Ron’s belongings, it is blatantly apparent that it is not the same car trunk. The gash and dent are both gone, the Ford Anglia nameplate on the right side is gone, the lock is different, the area under the bent fender is different, etc. After the spider escape, though the nameplate is back, the dent and gash are still gone.
• Continuity: While in the Whomping Willow, the center point of the cracks and spider cracks around it on the car’s windshield changes shape and position. In the first shot of the windshield being smashed to four shots later of Harry turning towards the back, with the windshield visible behind him. Regardless of whether more damage occurs to the windshield, the center point of each of the two cracks should be in the same place, which it is not.
• Crew or equipment visible: When in the Whomping Willow, Ron asks, “What’s happening?” and Harry replies, “I don’t know.” After a few other shots, in the next two front close-ups of the boys as they scream, Harry, Ron and Hedwig are not alone in the car. A crew member’s hand is quite visible holding the bottom of Hedwig’s cage and in the 2nd close-up is actually laying the cage on its side.
• Continuity: As Ron’s luggage trolley slams into Harry’s, Ron’s trunk is visible. As Ron begins to flip over in the overhead shot, the trunk has five strips of brown trim – two on the edges and three in the middle. When Harry and Ron moan and get up, Ron’s trunk now has four strips of brown trim – two on the edges and two in the middle.
• Continuity: When Harry is in Borgin & Burkes in Knockturn Alley, he approaches the glass dome with skulls sitting on the shelf and to the right is a large round mirror sitting atop a cabinet. When he walks away after freeing his hand from The Hand of Glory, in this wide shot there is now a very tall, ornate, wrought iron fixture behind him that stands beside the shelf, in front of the round mirror and cabinet, that was not in that previous shot.
• Continuity: During the car flight on the way to Hogwarts, Harry and Ron have gone out of control outside Hogwarts. During the scene when the car is approaching the whomping willow, the car is massively out of proportion compared to when the car is in the tree.
• Continuity: After Harry and Ron are in the car in the tree at the beginning the tree breaks the back window. When the car is seen in distant shots there is no hole in the window.
• Continuity: In the scene where Harry, Ron, and Hermione are drinking the Polyjuice Potion, Harry leans toward the mirror and starts to gag. His shirt is half-unbuttoned. A few frames later, his shirt is buttoned up, nice and neat.
• Continuity: There are eleven vertical front bars on Harry’s window, five on each side of the center bar. Ron hangs the hook to the bars on Harry’s window and when he says “Let’s go!” we see the hook between the third and fourth bar on the right. Yet in the next shot and also in the shot looking up as the bars fall, the hook is between the fifth and sixth from the right.
• Revealing mistakes: Just arriving at Diagon Alley Hagrid says, “I was looking for Flesh-Eating Slug Repellent. They’re ruining all the school cabbages.” In the next shot Hermione exits the shop and runs towards Harry. On the ground is Daniel Radcliffe‘s (Harry) red mark, which he promptly steps on just before Emma Watson (Hermoine) glances down and steps on her own black tape mark.
• Revealing mistakes: Rushing to make Hogwarts Express at the train station, the shot opens as the camera pans Ginny’s trunk and TWO marks come into view. While Ginny and Mr. Weasley push her trolley, Mr. Weasley (Mark Williams) is cued and begins to say, “10:58, come on, come on!” just as the actor hits his tape-mark on the ground below, while Percy’s (Chris Rankin) trolley hits its tape mark, so Harry is visible behind him, and cues Mr. Weasley to continue speaking. In the shot when Mrs. Weasley says, “Okay” for Ginny to go and in the shot as Harry says, “Let’s go,” their marks are obviously gone.
• Continuity: As they fly over Hogwarts Express Ron yells, “Take my hand!” the corner rubber trim of the door frame is peeling up. When Ron grabs hold in the shot facing Ron, their hands are positioned differently than in the next close-up where it’s visible that the frame of the door is fairly clean, there are two parcels behind the seat, etc. Yet when Ron grabs hold after Harry says, “…Your hand’s all sweaty,” the rubber trim is fitted into place, the frame of the door is filthy and there are different parcels behind the seat, etc.
• Continuity: Harry and Ron’s trunks are being thrown out of the car and in the shot just before Harry’s close-up, Ron’s trunk (the other trunk says HP) slams down on the grass. The top of this trunk has a large perfectly symmetrical hole in the center with four round marks around it, which was probably involved in the throwing somehow. In the wide shot as Hedwig is being tossed out, the trunks are clearly visible and there is no hole in either, nor is there a hole in Ron’s trunk at any other time.
• Continuity: During the Quidditch match, just after the close-ups of Snape and Lucius Malfoy, there is a shot of Harry flying towards the camera, coming to stop, with Draco Malfoy flying in beside him and in this shot the goal posts cast a shadow on the sand. Malfoy remarks, “All right there, Scarhead?” and Harry looks down below at the approaching Bludger. Now in this shot, not only do the goal posts have a completely different shadow, there are no hoops at the top of the poles’ shadows (while the angle might make them hard to spot, putting everything in a line, the shadows should at least thicken at the top where the hoops are).
• Continuity: As Harry chases the Snitch after his arm is broken, he reaches and catches it in the shot facing him. In the next side shot, as he begins to roll over while still balancing on top his broom, the attached foot rest is visible between his thighs. However, when he rolls under his broom then skids to the ground, it is clear that the foot rest is gone. Whether the foot rest is in the open or closed position, it would still be visible either above or below his leg.
• Revealing mistakes: After Harry says, “Rictusempra!” Malfoy is thrown across the room and lands at Snape’s feet. Snape grabs Malfoy at the back of his neck and as he pulls him up, Alan Rickman‘s mark, the green tape, is visible at his feet, as well as Tom Felton‘s white tape mark at his left foot. Whereas in the earlier shot, when Snape suggests someone from his own house he says, “Malfoy, perhaps?”, the end of the mat is visibly without any marks.
• Continuity: In the duel scene between Harry and Draco, Lockhart walks in front of Harry to cast his spell on the snake. Lockhart is standing between Harry and the snake, though when the snake lands, Lockhart is far behind Harry, back in his original position.
• Revealing mistakes: When Harry and Ron are under the invisibility cloak in Hagrid’s hut, Hagrid, Dumbledore and Fudge are joined by Lucius Malfoy. In the wide shot as Malfoy steps in, all the mats – their marks – are visible under Malfoy, Fudge and Dumbledore. Then later Dumbledore says, “If the governors desire my removal, I will of course..” and in the shot facing Malfoy as he finishes, “..step aside,” the mat that Malfoy now stands on is visible as is the blue mark behind his feet. It’s also visible in an earlier shot after he announces the order of suspension. The mat at the foot of Hagrid’s chair disappears as well.
• Continuity: As Aragog approaches Harry and Ron, Harry says, “We’re friends of Hagrid’s,” and Harry carries the lantern palm side up, at his hip. Yet in the next shot, it’s palm side down and the lantern handle is at his shoulder. In the next shot, though it’s still at his shoulder it’s palm side up now. Then in the two shots facing Aragog, the lantern is down low, but in between those two shots, in the shot facing Harry, his elbow is bent, the lantern is higher up and Fang stands further away.
• Revealing mistakes: (At 1:19.20) A reflection of the flames from the torch at the upper left corner on the floor is clearly visible, suggesting there might be a mirror used for Nearly Headless Nick.
• Continuity: When Harry’s hand is hit by the bludger in the Quidditch scene his arm guard is clearly seen flying off his arm but the next time you see his arm, the arm guard is still there.
• Crew or equipment visible: When they have the dueling class, when Draco casts the snake spell at Harry and Professor Snape walks away from Draco, there is a crew member chair in the background.
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: The scene in Flourish & Blotts, where Hermione’s parents are seen inside Diagon Alley, has been called a plot hole. Normally, Muggles cannot enter, or see, Diagon Alley. However, the Grangers are accompanied by Hermione, who, as a witch, would know how to enter through the Leaky Cauldron (and be able to see the pub). In the book, the Grangers comment to Mr. Weasley about having visited Gringotts to exchange their Muggle money for Wizarding money. If this is the case, they obviously aren’t the first Muggles to enter Diagon Alley (indeed there have been numerous children who must have been taken there by their parents alongside a school staff member to buy their first year equipment for Hogwarts).
• Crew or equipment visible: When the Weasleys’ enchanted car has ejected them and Ron and Harry are chasing the car, you can see the hand and silhouette of the driver.
• Revealing mistakes: The green puppet used to represent Dobby during the shoot is reflected in Harry’s glasses.
• Revealing mistakes: When Harry is flipping through his photo album at the very beginning of the movie, he views a picture of himself, Ron, and Hermione that should’ve been taken during the last school year, however, it’s clearly a recent photograph as Ron and Harry both sport longer hair, and Hermione’s hair is curlier.
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: For most of the movie, it is shown that Moaning Myrtle is not solid, and that solid objects pass through her. However, when she jumps into the toilet, the water splashes. A splash can only be made by a solid object having sudden impact with water (this was also in the book). However, traditional ghost lore has ghosts able to move physical objects when they (the ghosts) are in an aggravated state of emotion, so we can assume the book/film follows that notion.
• Revealing mistakes: In Flourish and Blotts, when Lockhart says “Which, incidentally, is currently celebrating its 27th week atop the Daily Prophet bestseller list!”, the overhead camera pans up. As the camera passes his feet, Tom Felton‘s (Draco Malfoy) mark, two long strips of white tape are perfectly visible on the balcony floor where he stands.
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Harry first meets Hermione in Diagon Alley, she casts a spell that fixes his broken glasses. (Arthur Weasley did this in the book.) Underage wizards/witches aren’t allowed to use magic outside of school, yet Hermione isn’t prosecuted. In a heavily populated area, it’s impossible to trace any spell to a specific person.
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Harry is entering the Weasley’s house, he sees a pair of bewitched knitting needles. The needles are clacking together, but not actually knitting any stitches.
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In Professor Lockhart’s first lesson, he mentions that he ‘didn’t get rid of the Bandon Banshee by smiling at him.’ Banshees are always ‘her’, not ‘him’. The book got this right, but the film changed it to make Lockhart look even more like an idiot.
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: In the flash back sequence, Tom Riddle tells Hagrid to step aside. Hagrid replies “No” but his lips don’t move.
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: The magic clock in the Weasley home shows a “Dentist” label. The series’ running gag is that the Wizarding world has no idea what dentists are and what they do. However, this label was added by Arthur Weasley, a Muggle Studies anthropologist who learned about dentists by watching Hermione’s parents.
• Errors in geography: In Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001), #4 Privet Drive is a detached home. Only a garage connects it to the other similar homes on one side. A double car-garage home of a different design that is not attached to the Dursley’s house (save for a fence that leads to the garden) stands on the other side. In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), when Uncle Vernon is putting the bars on Harry’s window, the house is clearly connected on both sides by two like homes, and there is no sign of the double car-garage house from the first film.
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Dobby starts to cry and goes to jump off the bed, Harry’s eyes follow him, but don’t keep up with his speed. The on-set puppet Dobby was not as fast as the CGI Dobby that was added in later.
• Continuity: During the Halloween Feast, Filch comes running down the hall. He runs past Ronald Weasley near the door, and then again nearer to Dumbledore.
• Revealing mistakes: At the beginning of the transfiguration lesson, the writing on the blackboard behind Professor McGonagall is reversed, and this has been reported as a flipped shot. Further observation reveals that the right-hand board is, for undisclosed wizardly reasons, a mirror image of the left-hand board and so this might not seem to be an error. However, near the end of the scene, when Hermione asks what’s in the Chamber, as McGonagall is answering ‘The Chamber is said to be home…’, she’s in front of the right-side board and we get a better look. Although the drawing is indeed a mirror image of the left board, the writing is still flipped (we can see the words Lesson VI in front of the drawn peacock’s beak as being backwards)
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Tom introduces himself in the diary, his last name appears misspelled as “Ridolle” instead of “Riddle”. However, as the name forms, what appears to be “ol” fleshes out together into the second D in his name.
• Continuity: Throughout the movie, Harry’s eyes change between green and blue.

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• Audio/visual unsynchronized: SPOILER: When Harry is reading off the paper that explains the Basilisk, he says “Spiders flee before it”, but his mouth is saying something else. What Harry is actually saying is “and the crowing of a rooster can kill it.” A scene was filmed, but cut in the theatrical version that shows Harry running into Hagrid, who is carrying a dead rooster and explaining that it’s the second one he’s found dead. The scene was later added on the second disc of the DVD as part of the deleted scenes section. The full text of what Harry is saying is “Spiders flee before it, and the crowing of a rooster can kill it.”
• Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: Near the end of the film, when Harry and Ron find out that Lockhart’s a fake, they push him towards the stone washstand in the girls’ bathroom. When Lockhart touches the stand, it shakes considerably, proving that it isn’t stone.
• Crew or equipment visible: SPOILER: Just after Harry and Ron realize the basilisk is getting around by using the pipes, they walk fast down a corridor to warn people. Wires from a camera or a boom microphone are visible on the left-hand side of the screen.
• Continuity: SPOILER: When Ron and Harry run into Professor Lockhart’s office, after they’ve just found out that Ginny has been taken into the Chamber of Secrets, Lockhart can be seen briefly in a mirror beside the door, waiting for his cue.
• Continuity: SPOILER: When Harry goes through the large round door and enters the Chamber of Secrets, he is carrying his wand in his left hand. When he sees Ginny on the ground and runs to her side, he clearly drops his wand from his right hand.
• Continuity: SPOILER: Lockhart’s cloak goes from flayed out to straight down between shots when he is sprawled between two stone basins at the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets.
• Continuity: SPOILER: When Harry and Ron go in to Lockhart’s office, Lockhart is not wearing a cloak. But when they arrive in Moaning Myrtle’s bathroom Lockhart has a cloak on.
• Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: At several points while Harry is in the Chamber of Secrets, the ceiling of the sound stage can be seen reflected in the great pool of water.
• Continuity: SPOILER: It takes Gilderoy Lockhart 6 seconds to fall down the entry to the Chamber of Secrets, but it takes Harry and Ron three times as long. In addition, when Harry and Ron land in the bone-covered room, crunching noises are heard from their landing on the bones. When Gilderoy landed in the room ahead of them, the crunching noises are missing (though they may have been too faint to hear over a distance in the tunnel).
• Continuity: SPOILER: During the scene where Harry is stabbing the basilisk in the mouth with the sword, he’s supposed to have been stabbed by a fang at that moment. But if you look at his arm during the closeup, his arm isn’t near any of the fangs, but when he pulls away he clearly pulls out a fang from on top of his arm.
• Continuity: SPOILER: Dumbledore asks, “Why then did the Sorting Hat place you in Gryffindor?” and in this close-up the Sorting Hat sits on two books. In the next shot, as Harry answers, “Because I asked it to.” The hat now sits on three books in this close-up. During this entire scene in Dumbledore’s study, things including the Sorting Hat and lamp behind Dumbledore to his right, change position depending on camera angle.
• Continuity: SPOILER: There is a scene where Harry is talking to Ginny in the Chamber, and he is holding his arm right below the wound. In this shot Harry has blood on his hand. When Ginny notices the wound, Harry moves his hand up to cover the wound. Now his hand is spotless. In the very next shot, however, Harry has blood on his hand again.
• Crew or equipment visible: SPOILER: After Harry climbs up the side of Salazar Slytherin’s stone head in the Chamber of Secrets, the first time the Basilisk slams his face into the stone in the wide shot, the bottom of a crew member’s denim pant leg and shoe are visible lying on a work surface, beneath the stone head’s beard.
• Crew or equipment visible: SPOILER: Upon entering the Chamber of Secrets, Harry spots Ginny and runs towards her. After the last close-up of Harry’s face as he runs, there is shot that faces Ginny, showing Harry’s back. At the very start of this shot, on the bottom left corner of the screen two overhead studio lights, other equipment and scaffolding are perfectly visible, reflected in the puddle to Harry’s left. Later when he runs out of the pipe, towards Ginny, some light reflections are visible as well.
• Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: Near the end, when Lucius Malfoy is fuming at Dumbledore in his office, Malfoy’s hair is fanned back behind his shoulders. The lighting in the room illuminates the back of his neck, where you can see Jason Isaacs‘ real, short brown hair.
• Continuity: SPOILER: At the end of the year feast, when Ron, Harry and Hermione look up at Dumbledore after Hagrid has explained that Errol got lost delivering his release papers to Azkaban, you can see Katie Bell and Oliver Wood change position to keep watching Hagrid as he walks past them. In the next shot, Hagrid has not yet passed them, and they change their positions again.
• Continuity: SPOILER: In the scene where Ron and Harry enter the flooding bathroom, all the sinks are overflowing. When they return later with Professor Lockhart, the faucet to the sink that they use to enter the chamber does not work, presumably because it is not connected (as in the following sequence).
• Crew or equipment visible: SPOILER: Ron and Harry discuss the Basilisk’s victims and, speaking about Mrs. Norris, Harry says, “There was water on the floor that night. She only saw the Basilisk’s reflection.” Just before Harry reads aloud from the paper again, the crew’s gas torch canister with regulator and tip, that sits in a bucket beside another bucket, leans against the wall.
• Continuity: SPOILER: In the scene where the Chamber finally opens, we first see Harry, Ron and Professor Lockhart from the front, and Harry and Ron are slightly behind Lockhart, and in a position to threaten and guard him. When you next see them a moment later from behind, Lockhart is behind them and they are in no position to guard him.
• Continuity: SPOILER: In the Chamber, when Harry runs from the Basilisk he ends up at a gated dead end, with steel bars that are embedded in a circular stone wall. When Harry crouches down, as the Basilisk’s face nears, the manner in which the bars are embedded in the stone is actually quite different.
• Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: When Harry, Ron and Lockhart are in the girls’ bathroom, Harry speaks Parseltongue to open the Chamber. Lockhart then tries to escape so the boys push him back. In this shot, the white strips taped to the small black mat, which itself is taped to the floor for Rupert Grint‘s (Ron) mark, are plainly visible at his feet.
• Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: In the basilisk scene when you see a close up of Harry impaling the basilisk’s head with the sword. The blood on the blade was obviously painted on beforehand as the the bottom half of the blade has no blood on it.
• Crew or equipment visible: SPOILER: While Harry is in Dumbledore’s study, in the two semi-overhead shots as Lucius Malfoy says, “So it’s true. You have returned,” and later when he says, “Come Dobby, we’re leaving,” sitting on the floor directly behind Dumbledore is a large steel piece of the crew’s equipment, plus in the second shot another piece of equipment actually moves in front of the steel piece.
• Plot holes: SPOILER: When Harry is in the library after everyone found out he is a Parselmouth, people are looking at him funny. One of the people they show is Ginny. Not long after that, Harry hears the basilisk and follows the voice up to a petrified Justin and Sir Nicolas. Since Ginny, while under the power of Tom Riddle, was the one who controlled the Basilisk, she could not have been calmly in the library at the time. She would have had to be out in Moaning Myrtle’s bathroom controlling the basilisk.
• Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: Harry hides in the alcove with the basilisk in pursuit. The now blind basilisk stops and tries to sense if he is there and puts its head in to the alcove carefully avoiding the walls. Again after Harry tosses the stone to distract it the Basilisk carefully removes its head before moving on.
• Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: During the duel with the basilisk, a safety button is clearly seen tipped on the sword in many shots.