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Corrected entry: At the end of Chapter Twelve, when Harry is in Professor McGonagall's office, he repeats what Hermione said about the Ministry interfering at Hogwarts. McGonagall responds with "I'm glad you listen to Hermione Granger." However, Hermione made the statement when she, Harry, and Ron were sitting in the Great Hall during the Welcoming Feast. McGonagall was at the staff table and should not know what Hermione said.

Correction: From McGonagall's comment, it can be inferred that she knows he wasn't really paying attention. And as the resident brainiac is one of his best friends, it's not that big of an educated guess for her to assume Hermione understood Umbridge's speech and explained it to Harry.

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Corrected entry: In the scene where Malfoy is taking points off Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ernie Macmillan at the start of chapter 28, Ernie states that Prefects can't take away house points, but in "The Chamber of Secrets" Percy Weasley takes ten points from Griffindor because Harry & Ron are in Moaning Myrtle's.

Correction: J.K. Rowling has explained that prefects can take House points, just not from other Houses.

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Corrected entry: Harry and Hermione get their wands taken from them when they are caught using Umbridge's fire. After the centaur attack the others break free and come to meet Harry and Hermione. After this point they have their wands, even though nothing was mentioned to say how they got them back.

Correction: If you read the text closely enough, it says that Ron hands Harry and Hermione's wands back to them.

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Corrected entry: In Chapter 17 Harry hands an injured Hedwig to Professor Grubbly-Plank who says "Thestrals will sometimes go for birds, of course." The next paragraph states that "Harry neither knew nor cared what Thestrals were". However, in Chapter Ten there is a discussion about them between Luna Lovegood and Harry who can both see them pulling the carriages, as well as a paragraph where Harry is pointing them out to Ron.

Correction: True, but at those points in time, Harry didn't know what they were called. Only after Hagrid returned and resumed teaching did Harry learn why he could see them and Ron and Hermione could not.

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