Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Corrected entry: When the Goblet of Fire is about to reveal who the three champions are the clock strikes 9. But if you listen carefully while Dumbledore is talking it only rings 8 times.

Correction: There is alot of background noise making it hard to hear the chimes. Missing one is very easy.

Ssiscool

Corrected entry: After the Dragon Chase, Harry has the use of both arms in the scene where he opens his egg and makes up with Ron, yet his arm is in a sling in the following scenes - where Ron opens the box with his dress robes in, and for the dance lesson.

Correction: Harry is on a high from passing the task, so likely isn't going to feel the pain while is on an adrenalin rush. When the excitement wears off, the pain appears.

Ssiscool

Corrected entry: When Harry is at the bathroom he looks at the golden egg you can see a crew member reflected on the egg.

dell

Correction: At no point is a crew member reflected in the egg. I have just studied this scene three times.

Ssiscool

Corrected entry: When Wormtail slices his own flesh in order to revive Voldemort, he cuts off his wrist before the shot switches to Harry. Later on, as Wormtail approaches harry to receive his blood, his arm is missing from the elbow.

Correction: The length of Wormtail's arm, after the hand has been severed, remains consistent during this scene. It is never "missing from the elbow".

Super Grover

Corrected entry: When Harry is in the Owlery, an owl flies in through the window and lands on a post. When Harry takes the letter off it, it shows the window again, but the beams on it are arranged differently. (00:40:00)

Correction: They are two different windows opposite each other. The owl Sirius sent flies in through one window, as Harry stands by another window on the opposite side. When Harry takes the note from the owl and reads it the window he stood by is seen behind him. The windows are consistent.

Super Grover

Corrected entry: During the film, Rita Skeeter's and Harry's glasses have no lenses in some scenes.

Correction: Too vague. Which scenes?

Ssiscool

Corrected entry: During the first challange, Harry's hiding behind the rock as the dragon sprays it with it's fire. In the closeup of Harry, just before he flys away on his broom, you can see his breath from the cold. This shouldn't be if he's so near to the dragons flame.

Correction: This just isn't true. I've been to many a bonfire on a cold night. If you aren't within three or four feet of the fire, your teeth are chattering. It's entirely plausible that the air into which Harry exhales his breath is cold enough to cause that breath to condense into a fog.

Phixius

Corrected entry: In the scene where Dumbledore talks about Cedric Diggory's death, after he finishes talking, the camera moves upward and you can see the top of the hall. The top of the hall is supposed to reflect the outside sky, but in this shot it does not. (02:13:45)

Correction: This was a somber euligy for a murdered student. They probably thought it appropriate to not use the spell on the ceiling for such an emotional event.

Corrected entry: At the end, when the polyjuice potion is wearing off, we see Barty take off his magic eyeball, but we never see him take off the false leg -- the one he took off before the first task.

Correction: We may not see it but that doesn't mean he didn't take it off. Barty is in close-up for much of the shot, so we can not see his legs at all. Also, as his real leg "grew" back, it may have simply pushed the mechanical one off.

Corrected entry: At the Yule Ball, the Weird Sisters' bass player isn't really playing the bass. When the bass plays a higher note, his hand should go up the fretboard, instead it goes down. Also he doesn't pluck in sync to the music. (01:16:10)

Correction: On any stringed instrument, the further down the neck (i.e. the closer to the body) of the instrument the player's fingers are positioned, the higher the note produced will be. So the bass player is playing correctly.

Corrected entry: Harry couldn't have just snatched that giant gold egg up in one hand as we are led to believe he does. He would either need both hands or to get his one hand underneath the egg, yet the reflection we see shows his hand in a snatching position.

Correction: If it's possible for someone to grab a basketball on the ground with one hand without going underneath the ball, which people have done before, then it is possible for Harry to grab the egg with one hand.

Corrected entry: When Hagrid accidentally stabs his fork into Professor Flitwick's hand, in the first and second shots you can see that it is only resting on the skin and not in the hand.

Correction: That's because Professor Flitwick pulled it out right away.

Corrected entry: During the first task, Harry hides behind a boulder; the Horntail shoots some rather substantial fire at the boulder, which glows from the heat, but none of that heat seems to affect Harry, who's right against the glowing rock. (00:59:25)

Kyle Walker

Correction: Harry just barely makes it behind the large round boulder as the flame appears. Once behind it, the boulder's size prevents any harm from the Horntail's flames, including its intense direct heat, and the large boulder does not "glow" on the other side, where Harry sits.

Super Grover

Corrected entry: Harry summons his Firebolt when facing the dragon; He specifies "Accio Firebolt". But the broom that comes is a dirty old thing that looks like a small tree branch with some straw attached - Definitely not the sleek, highly polished racing broom that everyone was drooling over in the third film. This is most clear when Harry tries to unhook the broom from the tower window as the dragon stalks him.

Correction: That's due to the films being made/directed by different people - they had different ideas about how things like the Firebolt, Hogwarts, the teachers etc. should look. Artistic license, not a mistake.

Twotall

The broom has aged by a year. So it has been used to the point where its won't look brand new. Look at the broom he got in Philosopher's Stone. It looked sleek as well but by Prisoner of Azkaban, it didn't look as good.

Corrected entry: In the Bathroom scene, when Harry is underwater he obviously has the egg open to listen to the clue. But when he comes up, the egg is suddenly closed again.

Correction: Harry closed the egg on the way up so it wouldn't make the deafening sound again.

Corrected entry: After Harry discovers Snape and Karkaroff having a discussion in the potion room, Karkaroff rushes past Harry to leave and quickly walks down the hall. As he is shown walking away, the wall on the left sway back and forth.

Correction: If you look closely, there is a sort of tapestry hanging on all of the walls that the pictures are hanging on, and there is solid wall beneath it. The tapestry is causing the swaying.

Correction: He has his glasses on throughout the entire scene.

Mortug

Corrected entry: During the scene where Dumbledore is explaining to all the students what happened to Cedric, there is one shot where you can see Viktor, Ginny, Fred and George sitting in one of the front rows. However, later in the scene we see Viktor again, but he is no longer sitting next to Ginny, and is sitting in a row closer to the middle.

Correction: That's not Viktor.

Mortug

Corrected entry: On the train on the way to Hogwarts, Harry sits down next to Hermione. When she talks to him, though, she leans forward, and he is magically on the seat across from her.

Correction: He never sits down beside her. Check the seat numbers on the wall behind him. The numbers are always 2 and 3.

Mortug

Corrected entry: In the graveyard scene after Voldemort is restored, he is talking to Harry about his parents but says that Lilly, Harry's mother, is a Muggle, but she was a 'mudblood': half witch, half Muggle.

Correction: While Lily was a fully-fledged witch, she was Muggle-born (both parents were non-magical), which would earn her Voldemort's contempt - calling her a Muggle is an intentional insult.

Tailkinker

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Continuity mistake: When Harry and Cedric are transported to the cemetery, the Triwizard cup lands on the grassy slope, well beyond the Riddle monument, with its luminescent top facing away from the cauldron area. During Priori Incantatem, three shots after Voldemort exclaims, "He's mine!" the cup lies on the corner of the Riddle monument's stone base and it faces the opposite way. The cup is back up on the grassy area in the following shots. (01:19:00 - 01:28:40)

Super Grover

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Trivia: There is an actual band in Canada called the Wyrd Sisters who tried to stop the November 18th release of 'Goblet of Fire' in Canada because there is a band of the same name in the movie, but they lost their case.

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Question: If I understand correctly, Lily Potter's "love" protection no longer keeps Harry safe after the graveyard ritual, due to Voldemort getting some of Harry's blood. Why, then, doesn't Voldemort attack Harry at the Dursleys' house in the summer?

Answer: Voldemort's spell undid the Sacrificial Protection that Lily bestowed on Harry, but the Bond of Blood is a separate protection bestowed if the person sacrificing their lives is a relative. THAT spell is still renewed as long as Harry keeps returning to the Dursleys until age seventeen. Voldemort has removed one protection, but a second is still in place.

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