Mistakes in Book 3

Book 3: HP & the Prisoner of Azkaban Forum

PLEASE NOTE: Many of these book mistakes were corrected in later versions, so the mistake may not appear in your HP book.

Book 3: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban


In Chapter 19, The Servant of Lord Voldemort, page 370, it states that Voldemort had been hiding for 15 years. If his power was lost only twelve years ago, why was he hiding that extra three years?

In chapter 3, The Knight Bus, the driver Stan told Harry that the price to get to London was 11 sickles. But in the book it said Harry shoved some GOLD into Stan's hands. Sickles are SILVER, not gold.

In chapter 15, The Quidditch Final, it said Madam Hooch's whistle rang out as she soared over to Montague and began shouting at him. A minute later, Katie had put another penalty past the Slytherin SEEKER. It should say the Slytherin Keeper.

Page 428, chapter 22: it took a moment for Harry to realize what a person called "Dumblefore" had just said. Note: This was fixed in later versions.

Harry's exams finished on June 6th because that is the day when they go down to Hagrid's (it says in a letter that Buckbeak will be executed on the 6th and Ron says that's the day we finish our exams). After they leave Hagrid's, they go down through the Whomping Willow. When they come out, the full moon shows when a cloud gets pushed away and Lupin turns into a werewolf. The problem is that in 1993, the Full Moon fell out on June 4th not June 6th. Therefore, Lupin should not have turned into a werewolf as it was not a full moon.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione identify Lupin by his trunk, on which could be read PROFESSOR R.J. LUPIN in peeling letters. But he was only a professor from then on, so why would the letters be peeling?

On page 341 (American Hardback) it says "Ron crawled to the four-poster and collapsed onto it" but then when Professor Lupin comes in, it says "His eyes flickered over Ron, lying on the floor." This cannot be, as Ron is lying on the bed.

After Harry and Hermione get back from saving Sirius and Buckbeak, Dumbledore locks them inside the hospital wing. However, it says "Harry and Hermione slipped back inside the dormitory." It should say hospital wing.

When they first leave the Shrieking Shack, Crookshanks went first, followed by Lupin, Pettigrew and Ron, and then Snape, Harry and Hermione and finally Sirius. However, when they go back in time and see themselves come out, Lupin, Pettigrew and Ron come out first, followed by Hermione, then Snape, then Harry and Black.

On page 285 (American book) somebody called Snap picked up Harry's Zonko bag. The e on Snape is missing.

woah. i did pick up a few of those mistakes, but the things like lupin's suitcase and ron being on the floor.....kj, you have one very sharp eye.

this isn't exactly a mistake, just something i've been wondering: since snape was a former death eater, wouldn't he have known that wormtail was the death eater and not sirius? wouldn't he have known that sirius was innocent?

I'm sure that he did, but to come forward with that information, I would think that it would blow any type of "cover" that he's supposed to have. I think that Voldemort might still believe that Snape is working for him... but than again, who knows!!!

well, i am not sure whether Snape really did know that Sirius was no death eater but wormtail is ..

i think i remember that somewhere in the books it said that the death eaters didn't all know each other - so that if one of them gets caught he can't give away all their names .. and that Voldemort liked to keep them in separate little groups ..

am i totally wrong?

ineli

PS. wouldn't it be the worst thing if Voldemort knew that Snape is a spy? .. i don't recall what V. called all the missing death eaters when he met Harry in the graveyard ...

That's true. He did say something about ones that were missing, etc... He might know that Snape has "abandoned ship" and is working with those on the side to defeat Voldemort.

yeah, you're right, Voldemort did say something like "one of us has left us forever, he will be killed". and ineli, i think you're right about the death eaters not knowing each other.

one more thing about book 3: since "scabbers" was really peter pettigrew all along, why did he show up on the marauder's map until the end?

I don't know how the death eaters could know each other as well. If they all knew one another, Voldemort would have no "secret weapons" per say to use at different times. And, you're right... they couldn't know each other, to keep from giving up all of the other death eaters should they be caught.

I don't know WHY Peter wouldn't show up on the mauraders map. That's a really good question... and something that we all might want to do a little snooping to see if we can find the answer to.