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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) - 299 mistakes

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)

Genres: Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Harry's scar does NOT change sides in the boggart scene - various shots in that scene are filmed in a mirror. Also, as with the other films, differences between the book and film aren't movie mistakes.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban book mistakes

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Continuity: When Trelawney is looking in Neville's cup, a white cup is in front of a saucer on the table. When it cuts the cup has moved to the other side of the saucer.

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Continuity: When Tom and Potter arrive in the Minister's office Potter goes straight to Hedwig. When Tom says, "He arrived here just five minutes before yourself." you see Potter touch Hedwig's beak. When it cuts he is touching Hedwig's cheek.

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Other: When Harry is talking with Arthur Weasley at the Leaky Cauldron, the number '301' (colored in white) digitally pops up right underneath the wanted poster. The composite people neglected to remove it. Sirius Black's number is '390' (colored in black) - it's written on the paper that Sirius holds in the poster.

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Continuity: When Potter is leaning over the bed watching the 'Monster Book of Monsters' on the floor when it goes back under the bed, we can see the sheets on the edge are fine. When it cuts they are crinkled.

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Continuity: When Harry climbs out of tunnel into Honeydukes, the boxes on the stairs are straight up against the wall, including the box with the lollypops on the fifth stair. However, in the next shot from above, the box is farther from the wall for the effect.

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Continuity: When Marge flies away, she is pulling the tablecloth off. At the bottom of the frame are candles and a green bottle. In the very next shot both of these are gone.

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Continuity: When they're having their first Defence Against the Dark Arts lesson and Harry is facing the boggart, Lupin jumps in front of Harry because he thought it would turn into Voldemort, as he later states in the movie. But the boggart had already turned into a Dementor before Lupin makes a move.

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Continuity: After Harry boards the Knight Bus, Stan hands him his ticket. In the shot facing Stan he folds the paper and holds it between his index and middle fingers. However, in the shot facing Harry, the paper is straight and he holds it between his thumb and index finger.

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Continuity: When Potter and Hermione is following back in time down to Hagrid's you see Hermione leaning against a column before putting her arm down. When it cuts back she is still leaning against the column.

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Continuity: When Harry, Ron and Hermione first exit Hagrid's cabin to get away from the ministry, they wait a lot longer at the door before running away, than when Harry and Hermione go back in time.

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Visible crew/equipment: When the student's are looking at the wardrobe while listing to the teacher you can see a crew member on the glass window of the door of the wardrobe.

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Continuity: When Harry gets his turn to face the Boggart in Lupin's class, there is a wide shot showing the large clown rocking back and forth (viewer's left to right), with Lupin in the background bent over looking down at the floor. But, in the next close-up, Lupin is not as bent and is suddenly facing clown, contemplating whether or not he should do what he does next.

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Factual error: When Harry is beating up Malfoy and the two Slytherin boys in front of the Shrieking Shack, he grabs one of them by his scarf and rotates him around. The center of their revolutions should be at the end of the scarf (where Harry grabs it), but as there is no actual counterweight for the boy he has to balance only his own body, which moves the center of his revolution strongly towards him.

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Continuity: After rescuing Sirius, Harry and Hermione return to the hospital wing as the bell starts to chime. They make it up there before the bell is done, despite having to run up at least five stories. Don't you think that's a bit too fast?

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Continuity: When Snape and Harry are in the hallway and Lupin shows up and Snape goes, "Well, well, Lupin," you see Harry in the background attempting to tuck away the Marauder's Map in his pocket. When Snape grabs for it, he reaches up more, as if Harry is holding it more by his shoulder.

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Continuity: When Harry and Hermione are back in time, Lupin's transformation happens a lot faster than the first time. Also, the first time, Hermione shouts "Harry!", then Sirius yells "Run! Run!", then Lupin howls. The second time it goes "Harry!", then howling, then "Run! Run!"

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Revealing: While being hurled around by the Whomping Willow, Hermione grabs hold of Harry's shirt in the close-up. In the next shot as Harry's being lifted up, the bottom of the left side of his blue tee shirt is pinned to his pants, also visible in another shot.

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Continuity: When Malfoy and his friends take off, after Harry has beaten them, you can see Hermione and Ron standing in the background with their backs to a fence. When it cuts to a closeup of them they are standing with their backs to the trees.

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Revealing: After Ron has been dragged down the hole by the Grim, you see both Harry and Hermione get hit by The Whomping Willow and they fly backwards and land on the ground. Notice when Harry places his left arm in the ground, the ground is unnaturally soft.

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Continuity: Harry moves closer to Snape at the Shrieking Shack, as he points his wand at the professor. In the first two shots Snape stands closer to the door, yet in the close-up as the spell hits he is farther from the doorway, so he can easily fly backwards for the stunt.

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