HBP - mistakes?!

Hey, i'm not sure if there is a thread about this already but i couldn't find one (sorry if there is).
I dont know if any of you have noticed this, but me and Weegie definitely have. In HBP we've noticed some things that don't seem to be correct, that have gone against what the first five books say.

These are:
- that first years are allowed to play on the house Quidditch teams (that's when they have the tryouts for Gryffindor).
- also (Weegie pointed this out to me) on page 454, Slughorn is talking about Ron but he says the name 'Rupert' which is obviously a mistake, but it still seems like a silly mistake, which i don't think JKR would make.

There were a few more, though i can't remember them right now. But i will point them out when i do.

- also (Weegie pointed this out to me) on page 454, Slughorn is talking about Ron but he says the name 'Rupert' which is obviously a mistake, but it still seems like a silly mistake, which i don't think JKR would mak

isn't a mistake, Slughorn is just very bad with Ron's name... he made a mistake before, and Harry told him it was Ron... but later he seemed to forget again, and Harry didn't take the time to tell him he was wrong about Ron's name.. seemed to be pointless 😉

Hmm, true. Slughorn did call Ron 'Ralph' before. I suppose it seemed like a mistake to me because 'Rupert' Grint plays Ron Weasley in the films and so i thought she might have made a mistake - just a coincidence i guess. But still, about the first years playing Quidditch?! What's that all about?!

I don't know, I didn't noticed.. where does it stand in the book?

Don't forget, Molly says that Slughorn never noticed Arthur either; he wasn't important enough. Getting Ron's name wrong just means that Slughorn doesn't think he's worth remembering.

First year's can play on the Quidditch team--it's just that they usually aren't good enough to make it.

Here's something that's bothering us: Fred and George said that Professor Quirrell had taught them the year before Harry and Ron started. In HBP, Dumbledore says that no professor has lasted longer in the DADA position for longer than a year.

Originally posted by weasel
Hey, i'm not sure if there is a thread about this already but i couldn't find one (sorry if there is).
I dont know if any of you have noticed this, but me and Weegie definitely have. In HBP we've noticed some things that don't seem to be correct, that have gone against what the first five books say.

These are:
- that first years are allowed to play on the house Quidditch teams (that's when they have the tryouts for Gryffindor).
- also (Weegie pointed this out to me) on page 454, Slughorn is talking about Ron but he says the name 'Rupert' which is obviously a mistake, but it still seems like a silly mistake, which i don't think JKR would make.

There were a few more, though i can't remember them right now. But i will point them out when i do.

maybe they changed the rules about quidditch, or they were just trying out anyway to see if they could beat the rule.

Also, slug called ron rupert bcos slug is rubbish with the names of anyone who is not big or important

It is in the chapter 'After The Burial' i think, when Harry, Hagrid and Slughorn are in Hagrid's hut after they bury Aragog. (to daeri)

Are you sure that first years are allowed to play on te team, i'm pretty sure that Harry was an excepton back in his first year. They said that he was the youngest person to play seeker in over a hundred years or something didn't they?! (to GodricaG)
BTW where does it say that Quirrell had taught them the year before? And even if he did, it was probably a different subject and not DADA? Or does it say it was DADA? I think i might go and check...

Well...I dunno...maybe because Quirrel died before the end of his second term...I dunno? Maybe Quirrel came in the middle of the first year because the other teacher quit. Kinda like Firenze came mid-term.

I dunno...

JK wouldn't put rupert instead of ron would she, lol. She knows we would pick up on this so she would change it right??

How could McGonagall have remembered that Neville's grandma failed her Transfiguration OWL?

Maybe they were in the same class? McGonagall isn't exactly a spring chicken.

But she couldn't have remembered after all those years unless she has insanely good memory.

I think she does. She's not ancient or anything. I mean, if you are friends with someone and they fail a class that you fancy...wouldn't you remember? Not that I know if they were friends, but still...

that first years are allowed to play on the house Quidditch teams (that's when they have the tryouts for Gryffindor). I expect that first years just weren't chosen, but were still allowed to apply.

- also (Weegie pointed this out to me) on page 454, Slughorn is talking about Ron but he says the name 'Rupert' which is obviously a mistake, but it still seems like a silly mistake, which i don't think JKR would make. Slughorn just didn't find Ron interesting, he isn't nice to ordinary students.

It never says first years arn't allowed to play. It said that first years weren't allowed to own thier own brooms. They just didn't usually back the team, because they usually don't have the natural talent and many of them havn't even learned how to fly yet.

I saw one (actually my friend pointed it out) on the first page of the third chapter (American edition) it said something about harry breathing against the window and fug....yes, fug....I believe she meant fog...

Originally posted by Director_Joe
I saw one (actually my friend pointed it out) on the first page of the third chapter (American edition) it said something about harry breathing against the window and fug....yes, fug....I believe she meant fog...

Actually I think she meant to say "fug". It is a British thing....

Here I pulled this definition off the web:

an airless smoky smelly atmosphere

Not that I'm an expert in British language or anything, heck it took me half the book to figure out what "trainers" were!?!

Well that would explain it then... I was a little unsure bout it... thanks for clearin that up for me!

Originally posted by weasel
Hey, i'm not sure if there is a thread about this already but i couldn't find one (sorry if there is).
I dont know if any of you have noticed this, but me and Weegie definitely have. In HBP we've noticed some things that don't seem to be correct, that have gone against what the first five books say.

These are:
- that first years are allowed to play on the house Quidditch teams (that's when they have the tryouts for Gryffindor).
- also (Weegie pointed this out to me) on page 454, Slughorn is talking about Ron but he says the name 'Rupert' which is obviously a mistake, but it still seems like a silly mistake, which i don't think JKR would make.

There were a few more, though i can't remember them right now. But i will point them out when i do.

ok, slughorn also called run, "Ralph, " so that was intentional.

and if first years aren't allowed to play quidditch, how come arry did, and they siad a century ago somebody did.

Originally posted by Bubbapilot
Actually I think she meant to say "fug". It is a British thing....

Here I pulled this definition off the web:

an airless smoky smelly atmosphere

Not that I'm an expert in British language or anything, heck it took me half the book to figure out what "trainers" were!?!

yeah its a british thing! 😄 You know us Brits, we have to complistercate everything 😂