Corrected entry: When Harry, Ron, and Hermione first go into the forbidden corridor, the pillars that burst into flame for light do not begin until after a person would be walking through the hallway. However, Harry's face is lit when he turns around to see Filch's cat (Mrs. Norris). If the first fire is behind him, why isn't his face in a shadow?
Corrected entry: In the scene right after the Quidditch game (when Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Hagrid are walking through the brick tunnel thing) Ron's scarf is like Harry's - one part over his shoulder, hanging in the back, and the other part of the scarf in front. But when they all walk forward more, and the camera gets closer to them, Ron's scarf is hanging over both shoulders.
Correction: Actually, the scarf always remains on both shoulders, it's just a bit difficult to see when Ron is far from the camera.
Corrected entry: When Harry came back down from when he caught Neville's Remembrall, all the other students cheered and ran towards him. Wouldn't half the students stay back and look mad, since half of them are Slytherin? (00:56:35)
Correction: Not all the students in Slytherin hate Harry.
Corrected entry: When everyone is at the end-of-term feast, Harry has a cast on his wrist, but couldn't Madam Pomfrey (the nurse) have fixed it with magic?
Correction: As witnessed in "Chamber of Secrets" (and in the books), Madame Pomfrey can't just wave a wand and heal serious injuries; she can accelerate the healing process with magic, but it still takes some time.
Actually, Madame Pomfrey herself says "I can mend bones in a heartbeat" (in CoS). It is regrowing bones that is difficult and takes time. Assuming Harry's bones weren't removed in his struggle with Quirrell, the injury would have been fairly simple for Madame Pomfrey to fix. And if Snape can mend Malfoy after Dark magic is used in HBP, surely Madame Pomfrey can fix a cut on Harry's arm.
Corrected entry: When Harry, Ron, and Hermione are hiding from Filch, they find Fluffy, scream, and run away. But when they are speaking of it later, Hermione says something like "Honestly, don't you two have eyes? Didn't you see what it was standing on?" But it never shows Hermione looking down at the trap door when they were face-to-face-to-face-to-face with the three-headed dog.
Correction: The scene cuts frequently therefore she could have glanced down when the camera was not focusing on her face.
Correction: They first see Fluffy while looking down, then travelled all the way up to its face. That's when she saw the trap door.
Corrected entry: When Hermione is trying to figure out the Devil's snare she pulls her magic wand out of nowhere and once she uses it and wants to check if Ron is OK the magic wand disappears.
Correction: She pulled it out of her skirt and put it back in the process of kneeling.
Corrected entry: In the scene when Harry, Ron, and Hermione visit Hagrid, Malfoy is visible through the window. He appears to be eye level with the window and is shown turning and running away. When the camera zooms out later in the film, the same window that Malfoy is supposedly looking through is far too high for anybody to see through without a ladder. He obviously didn't have a ladder or he would have fallen off it when he turned to run away.
Correction: It's not the same window - there's no outside view of it, so we can't be sure how high it is.
Corrected entry: In the first scene Professor McGonagall's broach disappears and reappears several times.
Correction: This may be explained by the fact that she is wearing a cape over her shoulders. As she moves her head, the broach becomes less (or more) visible.
Corrected entry: Hagrid appears at the hut on the rock to fetch Harry on Harry's 11th birthday, which is July 31. The next day they go to London to buy Harry's school supplies, then end the day at King's Cross. But the letter Hagrid hands Harry at the hut (in the book, anyway - and in the film if you stop it to read what Harry doesn't) tells him to report to the train on September 1. What happened to the month of August?
Correction: It is never specified when is Harry's birthday This is a film/book discrepancy.
This seems far-fetched as it is way too well known in the HP universe, the date of Harry's birthday, and it becomes very significant to the plot as to why Voldemort targeted him. A more likely explanation is the film didn't actually say they went out for school supplies the very next day. It was just assumed as that was the next scene we saw. For all we know, Harry and Hagrid stayed elsewhere for a month, and the filmmakers considered it insignificant to show.
Corrected entry: In all the shots of Snape that show the area around his feet, his cloak is either dragging on the floor behind him or gathered about his feet showing that it is quite long. However, after he wishes Harry luck in the Quiddich game against Slytherin, when he walks away the cloak is short enough in the back so Harry can see his limp from being bitten by Fluffy.
Correction: He could have had more than one cloak. So when he got the injury on his leg, the other cloak could have gotten ripped so it needed repairing. That meant that he had to wear a different cloak until his other one got mended.
Corrected entry: When Harry visits Gringotts, and is seen at vault 713 he is carrying 3 bags (presumably money he has just taken from his own vault). When he has picked up some supplies, and is just about to go to Olivander's, he and Hagrid are only carrying boxes. (00:23:25)
Correction: Maybe Hagrid was carrying them in his coat, or maybe they had spent almost all the money, so they didn't need to carry the bags.
Corrected entry: When Ron is playing chess on top of the knight, why does he not just get off it when the other side's piece comes to destroy it? I could not understand why he clung on. It took an age for the other piece to arrive to destroy his knight, he had all the time in the world!
Correction: Jumping off would be the same as resigning.
Corrected entry: When Harry comes back to his room after having seen his parents in the mirror, he is still wearing the invisability cloak. However when Harry pulls back Ron's duvet to wake him you cannot see his hand yet he would have had to take his arm out of the cloak to do the action.
Correction: No, he would not have had to removed his hand from underneath the cloak as even through the cloak he can move objects.
Corrected entry: When the troll is in the girls toilets, it looks like there's only one line of cubicles, and he smashes the top half off twice.
Correction: he only smashed a few of the stalls the first swing, then the rest of them the second time. There is still only one row of stalls.
Corrected entry: At the battle with the professor, the professor was perfectly fine when he tried to strangle Harry. It's only when he was touched by Harry's hands did he start to melt. But later Dumbledore said that the power was in Harry's skin (But apparently not at the neck).
Correction: The power is in his touch, ie. when Harry uses his hands - it doesn't necessarily apply to any part of his body.
Corrected entry: Harry Potter has lovely green eyes. When Voldemort is about to kill baby Harry during the flashback, Harry's eyes are blue.
Correction: Almost all Caucasian babies have blue eyes initially - they only change colour as the child gets older.
Corrected entry: When Harry first finds the mirror of Erised, he walks through the door and the mirror is on his right. This is the same when he takes Ron to see it, but when Dumbledore finds him in front of the mirror, if you look where the door should be, there is just wall.
Correction: It took a close look to resolve this one. The room's laid out such that the door is between the outer wall and a shorter inner wall - Harry has to run around it to get to the mirror. As such, when we see the room it looks like the door's disappeared, whereas actually it's just behind a short wall.
Corrected entry: When Ron, Hermione, and Harry are looking at James Potter's seeker plaque in the trophy case, a similar crest next to his says that McGonnagall was on the same Gryffindor Quidditch team - the movie leads you to believe she was pretty old. That means, by my reasoning, that she would have been at least 20 years old when she started playing for the Gryffindors in the 1970s.
Correction: This might be a different McGonagall, or a child of Professor McGonagall, for there's no evidence that this is the McGonagall currently teaching at the time.
Corrected entry: In the scene where the troll has just gone into the girls washroom, Hermoine quickly goes back in to the 1st stall on the right hand side, but when you see the above view she is in the 3rd from the right. (01:07:23)
Correction: The overhead shot of her shows that she has her feet in the second cubicle from the left, most of her body in the third cubicle from the left, and her head just in the fourth one. She is crawling from one cubicle to the next. When she emerges, a few shots later, she has crawled up almost to the end of the cubicles.
Corrected entry: At the end of the movie Hagrid gives Harry the photo album. After Harry looks at it and tells Hagrid goodbye, he walks back to the train with his hands at his side and there is no sign of the album in either hand.
Correction: He could just put in one of the pockets of his robes.
Correction: It's the light from the open doorway.