Directed by Alfonso Cuarón, starring Alan Rickman, Daniel Radcliffe, David Thewlis, Emma Watson, Gary Oldman, Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Robbie Coltrane, Robert Hardy, Rupert Grint, Tom Felton (add more)
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When Molly Weasley, the mother, is running with Ron's rat to take it to him on the train, she shouts 'RON, RON' and then if you listen closely, she says 'Rupert' which is the actor's name. [She does NOT say "Rupert." She yells "Ron" several times, then she calls out "Ron" once more but it's rather elongated (Rr-oo-nn). It's definitely not Rupert.]
In the scene where the Wesley twins are teasing Ron about the newspaper clipping. Harry says "and that wizard from Belgium" His mouth doesn't move, and he shows no indication of saying anything. [Harry never says anything about the wizard from Belgium. One of the twins says it, but they're offscreen. Harry wouldn't know what Ron did with the article beforehand because he just found out about it.]
During the DADA lesson with Snape, the students' books are open to different pages. Some are near the front; others towards the back. Snape's book is more towards the middle, but he turned Ron's book closer to the back. [In any normal class environment many students have their textbooks open to pages other than the assigned lesson, as is seen in Ron's case. Then Snape takes quick notice of Ron's textbook, because of his severe dislike of him and his friends, so he opens it to the proper place. As for Snape's book, the teacher's textbooks are often distinctly different than the students' books, so that difference is quite plausible as well.]
Corrected by Rikki
During the DADA lesson with Snape, Hermione's hairstyle keeps changing. In some shots, she's wearing it partially up, and in some shots, it's completely down. [During the DADA class with substitute Snape, Hermione's hair is partially swept up only on her right side, in one large barrette at the back of her head - though she still has loose hair framing the right side of her face. In the thirteen shots where Hermione's hair is seen, there are five shots of the right side of her face and the barrette visibly holds her hair. In the two shots of the left side of her face her hair is always down, as it should be, and in the six shots facing the front of her face the hair on her right is pulled towards the back of her head, where her barrette is.]
Corrected by Rikki
During the Whomping Willow scene, Hermione is swung around on one of the branches. When the branch hits her, she is facing outwards, away from the tree. But from the above shot, when she's being pulled into the tree, she's facing inwards, towards the tree. [Once Hermione is grabbed by the branch, she throws her legs over and climbs on, so when she comes about to scream into the camera, she faces out. In the next shot she passes over Harry as he ducks, and it's only her arms that are grasping the branch, her legs are dangling off as the branch hurtles past at ground level. Then at the start of the next overhead shot, we can't see Hermione, however because of the quick momentum of the branch, as the branch goes from ground level to high above, her legs and body position would shift down and all she would have to do is throw her legs over the branch, so she faces the other way by the time the branch flies up, towards the screen.]
In the beginning when the Dursley's are sitting at the dinner table and Mr. Dursley says "Can I tempt you, Marge?" you will notice that there is a spoon in the pudding bowl. The very next shot you will notice the spoon is missing from the bowl and the reappears in the next shot. [The large silver spoon is in the bowl in every shot. When Marge snaps her fingers at Harry, the spoon's position is only different, the handle now points between Dudley and Petunia, but the position change is already noted in another mistake.]
When the train lurches while picking up the dementors, Ron and Hermione go backwards, and Harry goes backwards into his seat. It can't lurch both ways, and they would fall one way, not two. [The Hogwarts Express not only stops abruptly, it is stopped by the Dementors. The fact that the train quickly jerks SIDEWAYS (as seen when Harry peeks out of the compartment) and also forwards and backwards on the track, is perfectly believable, since it is the Dementors causing it in the first place.]
In the scene when Harry was holding the shoe by the laces for dropping it on to the floor to get the Monster's book of Monsters, then the shoe turns around completely(in his hand) between the two quick shots. [It's not in "two quick shots" that the shoe turns. In the first shot the shoe is dangling from the laces that Harry is holding, with the shoe facing him. Then there's a shot of Hedwig. When we see the shoe in the third and fourth shots the shoe, though facing out, is turning while dangling. So it is quite plausible that the shoe turned round while out of view, between the first and third shot.]
In the scene when Ron is holding his rat with Harry and Hermione, his rat bites his index finger. If you look closely, you can see that his finger has a blood mark on it before the rat even bites it. [Not true. I watched this on DVD frame-by-frame, and there is no blood mark on his finger. Only a dark shadow is visible under the finger that covers the one that is about to be bitten, but it does not look like 'blood.']
When Harry comes out of the secret passageway, he puts on his cloak, and knocks over a box, after he does, you can see a crew member's shadow moving out of shot. [No, if you are referring to the shadow on the wall to the right of the box's original location, that is a shadow from the box and it's contents as it falls. There is a light source from the left, as you can see the shadow on the same wall of the person heading up the stairs in the previous shot, just before Harry comes out of the hole in the floor.]
When Hagrid stands up and nearly knocks over the table, McGonagall's goblet manages to stay rooted to the spot. [She could have put a charm on it to root it to the spot (maybe she was going to teach the charm to a class and was just practising it).]
When Harry, Ron and Hermione are going to Hagrid's hut before Buckbeak's execution they walk past McNair, the executioner, sharpening his blade in the courtyard. Harry and Hermione run through the courtyard again after going back in time and they pass right by McNair for a second time. Just prior to this Hermione told Harry they "must not be seen". [Hermione means they cannot be seen at the same time as the 'other' Hermione and Harry by anyone who knows them. McNair does not know either Harry or Hermione, and he is busy sharpening his axe. He would hardly notice what students were running about. Anyway, it's a chance Harry and Hermione have to take in order to get to Hagrid's hut.]
If the Marauder's Map showed Peter Pettigrew, it should have shown Sirius Black and two Harry's and two Hermiones as well. [This is not a plot hole. How do we know that it didn't? Harry didn't have the map at the time. Lupin did. In fact it was because of the map that he knew to follow them to the Shrieking Shack. He saw Peter coming out of Hagrid's hut and ran to follow. He may have simply not noticed that Sirius was there (or at least he wouldn't care about it since he knew he was innocent at this point) and didn't see the two Harrys and Hermiones.]
Corrected by Garlonuss
When Lupin stops Harry from facing the Boggart, he turns it into a balloon, and forces it back into the wardrobe. However, the wardrobe closes before the balloon reaches the wardrobe. [No it doesn't. It just looks like it because it's quite low down on the screen.]
In the Great Hall, the teachers all sit up at the top table. However, in the long shots, the filmmakers use quite a few doubles for the more popular characters (e.g. Prof. McGonagall and Hagrid), because they would cost too much if they used the proper actors. [Principal actors are not paid by the hour. Movie makers film scenes simultaneously using second unit directors. Often stunt doubles or stand-ins are used for shots that do not require close ups, while the primary actors are filming another scene at a different location.]
In the beginning when he is casting the Lumos Maxima spell, he is doing magic outside of school, which is not allowed. [This has already been explained on this site. Harry apparently had homework to do but his uncle wouldn't allow him to do his homework. In a way, it falls under the 'emergency use of magic' clause in the rules.]
If you have the (US Version) DVD set on subtitles, when Harry is in the hospital wing after quidditch, you hear one of the Weasley twins talking. He says "Let's walk you off the Astronomy tower." The subtitle says, "Let's walk you off 'a tower'." [It's quite common for subtitles to not include all words spoken by characters. As you could imagine, the subtitles could very well fall behind the action on screen or have to speed up if every last word appeared on the screen.]
In the scene near the beginning where Harry leaves the Dursley residence and sits on the street to rest (before the Knight Bus arrives and the dog appears), you can see the condensation in his breath. That would only happen if it was very cold, which in this case is not since it's the middle of the summer at that time. [It's quite normal for it to get a bit nippy at night, in the summer in England. Notice that Harry even wears a jacket, so it obviously is not a hot summer's night.]
During the Dementor's entrance into the train carriage, everything freezes. Because the frost effect is digital, the water level of the glass on the window sill does not change when it freezes. It should have risen as the ice grew in mass. [First nothing can change in mass, the ice may change in volume but not mass. If the water only froze on the surface or a thin layer all round the outside, the expansion in volume would be very slight. Third, even if the water froze all the way solid, it may have frozen fast enough and to a low enough temperature that it never had a chance to expand to its full volume (as ice gets colder it contracts again after a certain temperature).]
Corrected by Myridon
When Harry and Hermione arrive back from their 'time changing' Dumbledore does not lock the door to the hospital wing as he said he would when he left them inside the hospital wing, prior to their time travel. [He may have said this to reassure them, or maybe he didn't realize they would reappear so soon right outside the door. In any case, there's no reason for him to lock it when they're about to go back inside.]
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