Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Corrected entry: When Harry arrives at The Burrow for the first time, there is a grandfather clock that shows the location of all the Weasleys. Ron, Fred and George move from "lost" to "home" for some reason, even though they were never lost. Also, Bill (the oldest Weasley brother) moves from "prison" to something else.

Correction: They may have known where they were, but they were lost to the rest of the world.

Corrected entry: When Lockhart is trying to escape from Hogwarts, he reveals he is good at memory charms and is going to have to do the same to them, he walks past a mirror. But the picture on the mirror doesn't match where he actually is. And when he picks up his wand, he's not in front of the mirror, yet it still shows him nearly fully.

Correction: The mirror is placed relatively high so it has been angled downward, that's all. Lockhart would hardly place a mirror somewhere where it would only show himself the top of his head. That angling makes it so that his reflection appears quite nicely in the center of the mirror ar the moment when he turns around to try his little memory charm.

Garlonuss

Corrected entry: In the scene where Hagrid comes back from Azkaban, Colin Creevey is sitting at the wrong table. Harry, Ron and Hermione are sat at one table, and he is sitting on another table, even though he is a Gryffindor and should be sat with them.

Correction: When the entire scene is examined, you will see Colin is seated to Harry's left. When Hagrid is talking to the trio, he is standing in front of Ron, with Harry to his left and Hermione on his right. Harry is angled to the table causing Colin to be at his back. Colin appears to be further away then he really is due to the telephoto lens effect.

Corrected entry: When Harry is buying his wand in Olivanders you can see his wand is wooden. But in his second year when he's dueling Draco his wand is black and smooth.

Correction: When he bought it the wand was the same but the lighting makes it look more like wood.

Corrected entry: When Harry and the Quidditch team are confronted with the Slytherin team Harry was able to see Draco quite a few times, so why was he so surprised to see him?

Correction: Harry could have easily just not seen him, Malfoy is a lot shorter than than his fellow team members and he was in the middle of the group while they were walking.

Corrected entry: In the whomping willow scene Harry and Ron are ejected from the car and Hedwig is in her cage on the backseat but when Hedwig and Scabbers are ejected from the car they are both thrown from the front seat.

Correction: The car in question has only two doors therefore the only way for Hedwig and Scabbers to exit is through the front doors. In the same scene you can see the front seats swivel and move to eject them, as this is the case then you can assume that the back seats move too and pushed the cages into the front before they were ejected.

Corrected entry: During the Quidditch match, the "Rogue Bludger" nearly hits Harry for the first time and one of the players says, "Watch yourself Harry." This player is Oliver Wood who is the Keeper on the team or the one who guards the three hoops from getting scored on. Potter was in the middle of the field after missing that Bludger not at the end where the hoops are located so what the heck is Oliver doing in the middle of the field? No wonder Slytherin was in the lead. (00:54:30)

Correction: Wood could have been near Harry for any number of reasons, he could have left the goal area to check on Harry (which is allowed by the rules, other players cannot ENTER the goal area). Slytherin's Beaters could have chased Wood out of the goal area to give their Chasers a clear shot. But also Wood was not exactly able to touch Harry, he shouted a little bit away from Harry was at the time of the attack.

Corrected entry: In the shot after the cave-in when Harry opens the hatch with the snakes on it, look at the back of the hatch. It is made with riveted metal. Unless Voldemort re-did the chamber recently why would Salazar Slytherin make the chamber door with riveted metal over a thousand years ago when it wasn't even invented yet? (02:03:50)

Correction: Salazar Slytherin is a wizard, he could have made the door however he wanted with magic.

Corrected entry: Right after Harry stabs the Baslik it swings around in the chamber before falling down. When it is swinging around in the background you can see Ginny laying on the ground but Tom Riddle isn't anywhere around. In the next shot he is standing right next to Ginny.

Correction: Ginny is lying on the ground and Riddle is in the background beyond her by about ten feet. There is a closeup on Riddle's face after the basilisk falls, and when we see him next several seconds later he is moving toward Ginny opposite Harry. He had plenty of time to move from his position during the fight to Ginny's side.

Phoenix

Corrected entry: During the transfiguration class, where Hermione asks McGonagall about the Chamber of Secrets, the blackboard writing behind McGonagall is reversed. (00:46:20)

Correction: There are two mirror-image blackboards in the room. The one on the left side has the text running the right way. The one on the right side of the room, which Professor McGonagall is standing in front of here, is completely in reverse; text, pictures and all. As the scene opens, a shot of the entire classroom is seen, and it is clear that they are two separate blackboards. It looks funny, but it's not a mistake.

Corrected entry: When Harry and Ron get out of the Dark Forest, Harry shuts his door. In the next shot the car starts up and his door gets shut by the car.

Correction: Harry doesn't actually close the door: he rests his hand on it as he climbs out of the car, but he never puts much force on it and we don't hear the door shut.

Phoenix

Corrected entry: In the scene where Harry is in the hospital wing and he is talking to Dobby, he has his bedside light on. He soon hears the teachers bringing in Colin Creevey petrified and Dobby disappears. In this shot, the light is on, but in the shot when Harry is in bed, the light has just mysteriously turned off.

Correction: As the teachers walk through the door, Harry is lying on the bed with the light on, but the light does not fall on his face. The later shot is a closeup on Harry's face, with the light still not falling on it. No inconsistency.

Phoenix

Corrected entry: When Harry Ron & Hermione are at the end of year feast, Hagrid bursts into the hall leaving the door open behind him. Then, when all the children are around him the doors are closed. In the next shot, they have opened again.

Correction: In this shot, before the doors are shown open again, the background is the side of the dining hall, not the back. What appears to be closed wooden double doors is a wall decoration.

Phoenix

Corrected entry: In the dueling scene, the first spell is performed on Harry. He flips through the air, but when he lands, he lands a different way than he should according to the way he was flipping.

sdgirl98

Correction: Malfoy hits him in the chest slightly off-center, which blasts Harry up and into a backflip with a slight turn to the left. He flips backwards twice, then lands on his left side. When he sits up, he is leaning on his left side. Nothing unusual here.

Phoenix

Corrected entry: In the first film, during the quidditch scene, Hogwarts can be seen in the background, across the lake (it can easily be seen after Harry almost falls off his broom). But in this movie, Hogwarts is right next to the field.

Correction: They moved the quidditch field. It does not have to be in the same place every year.

Corrected entry: Harry's arm guard comes off after it is hit with the bludger during the Quidditch scene. When he catches the snitch and falls, it is still on. When he is on the ground, it's gone again.

Correction: Harry loses his right arm guard to the bludger. He then catches the Snitch with his left hand and falls. The missing guard never reappears, though Harry does have a dark leather glove that extends up his wrist to his robe.

Phoenix

Corrected entry: Harry sees Lucius Malfoy put the diary in Ginny's cauldron in the beginning of the film. How come he never remembers it until the very end of the film? If he remembered, he would know who had searched his dormitory and a little about the diary.

sdgirl98

Correction: Harry didn't realize that Lucius Malfoy put the diary into the cauldron until the end of the movie. This is when he started to put two and two together, and realized that Ginny must have gotten the diary when Lucius slipped it into her cauldron. It's a deduction, not a memory.

ACertainShadeofGreen

Corrected entry: In the first film, when they performed the spell "Windgardium Leviosa" they had to hold up your wand to keep the spell occurring. In this film they only have to say the spell but did not have to hold up their wands. You can tell from the feather levitating in the last film and the cupcake levitating in this film.

sdgirl98

Correction: In the first film, they were learning the spell and how to control it. In the second one, they probably had mastered the whole technique, and didn't need the "added support" of the wand.

Sereenie

Corrected entry: When Harry finds the final entrance to the Chamber Of Secrets, you see a round door. This door is held closed by somewhere around five serpents which go off the edge of the door and onto the wall. therefore if you were to push the door they would keep the door from opening. There is one problem though, the door opens outwards and therefore the snakes do nothing to stop the door from opening. Since there are no snakes that act as locks on the inside of the door, the entrance apparantly was never really locked.

Correction: Each snake has it's nose inserted under an iron loop that is attatched to the wall. As the door is opening, there is a close up of the door and one of the loops can be seen.

Garlonuss

Corrected entry: In the scene near the end of the film where Harry tricks Lucius Malfoy into freeing Dobby, Malfoy is understandably enraged. He pulls out his wand and snarls "You've lost me my servant, boy." and then begins to shout "Avada....." before Dobby interrupts with "You shall not harm Harry Potter." Readers of the books will recognize this as the first word of "Avada Kedavra", the Unforgivable Curse which results in the instant death of the victim. An interesting way to show just how angry Malfoy was. It was also quite reckless. If anyone found out he did it, he would spend the rest of his life in Azkaban (until Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix anyway) if it was ever discovered he did it. And of course Dobby would have been a witness, unless Lucius killed him too. DVD subtitles actually show that he is starting to say "Vera-", but that doesn't match his mouth movements.

Phil C.

Correction: On the contrary, his mouth does match the words if he was rolling his "r" in the word "vera-" as I suspect.

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Visible crew/equipment: In the dueling scene, when Snape pulls Malfoy back onto his feet, a cameraman is visible kneeling down on the far left of the screen (Widescreen version only). (01:07:46 - 01:20:00)

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Uncle Vernon: And Dudley, you will be?
Dudley Dursley: I'll be waiting to open the door.
Uncle Vernon: Excellent. And you?
Harry: I'll be in my bedroom, making no noise and pretending that I don't exist.

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Trivia: When Hagrid is welcomed back to Hogwarts and everyone stands up and applauds, Vincent Crabbe also stands up and starts to applaud as well. This wasn't in the script and Tom Felton, staying in character, quickly grabbed Jamie and pulled him back down.

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Question: Does any one know the Japanese golfer joke Uncle Vernon was telling at the beginning of the movie?

Answer: The joke goes like this, "A California business man, while in Japan for some business meetings and a few rounds of golf, arrived in Tokyo a day earlier than expected. Feeling lonely that evening, he employed the services of a beautiful young Japanese girl to be his companion for the evening. Although the Japanese girl spoke very little English and the businessman spoke no Japanese, their passion roared and in the heat of the moment she began yelling "Machigatta ana. Machigatta ana" Hearing this, the Californian believed he had pleased his female Japanese friend and soon afterwards went to sleep. The next day while playing golf with his Japanese business colleague, his Japanese partner holed his shot from 170 yards away. Wanting to impress his friend, the Californian began yelling, "Machigatta ana!" The Japanese business man turned to the Californian and with a confused look on his face asked, "What do you mean wrong hole?"

Answer: The punchline is actually quite vulgar, but you can read a copy of the joke at http://www.sugarquill.net/forum/index.php?s=1a43217a81cc245555ad6ac82d3bcc5b&showtopic=6214&view=findpost&p=225388.

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