Oh, no, Ms. Rowling never EVER makes mistakes!

[conuly]

They stopped replying :(

So now I'm linking here. It's old, but still confusing. How can you honestly say that somebody doesn't make mistakes? Even if you mean this in the very specialized sense of "she doesn't make mistakes when writing her HP novels", you're still bound to be wrong. She's human. Really. And Harry Potter isn't gold. I like the books, sure, but they're as mistake-prone as anything else out there.

So, anybody care to list mistakes or near-mistakes in Harry Potter? Even trivial things like "I didn't like how she wrote this character" or "she makes the books too damn long" count, though not as much as "she misspelled a word" or "she has a continuity error".

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I don't know why in the world I was looking it up, but I believe in the first book when Harry and all the first years are going through the Sorting Hat ceremony the number of legs on the stool they sit on changes. It goes from a four-legged stool to a three-legged stool within two or three pages. Totally random and obscure, but I thought I might as well mention it.