Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire: 10 Mistakes JK Rowling Made In The Book

J.K. Rowling’s Goblet of Fire is a masterpiece of fiction, but when it comes to the book and movie, there are a few inconsistencies and errors.

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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is the fourth book in the series, releasing on bookshelves around the world back in July 2000. It was the darkest entry in the franchise to date, with the Boy Who Lived having to contend with competing in the Triwizard Tournament, strange ongoings at Hogwarts, and the return of Lord Voldemort over the course of the year. Harry manages to make it out alive – just about – but Cedric Diggory is tragically killed along the way.

Obviously, JK Rowling’s books are modern-day masterpieces, but even they contain the odd few mistakes here or there. So we’ll now take a look at the errors in the Goblet of Fire novel.

10 The Sirius Timeline

The narration in the Goblet of Fire talks about the events of the previous school year, which unfold in the Prisoner of Azkaban book. There, it’s claimed that Harry only found out that Sirius Black was his godfather two months previously. Yet this is another major error.

Harry actually discovers the truth about Sirius, who is on the run after breaking out of Azkaban, during a trip to Hogwarts around Christmastime. Therefore, it’s actually eight months since the Boy Who Lived found out that he was related to the world’s most-wanted wizard. It would have been far more accurate if they’d said it was two months since Harry had discovered his godfather’s innocence, with it happening before Remus Lupin transforms into a werewolf and messes everything up.

9 Harry’s Letter To Sirius

While Harry isn’t able to talk to Sirius in person, he is able to exchange letters with the former Azkaban convict. In one that he writes at the beginning of the fourth book, he details a huge strop his cousin Dudley had – one that resulted in the brat throwing his PlayStation out of the window.

However, given that this happens in August 1994, PlayStations weren’t even out at this point. They hit the shelves in America in December of that year before hitting the European market in 1995. Unless Dudley had a time-turner and went into the future to obtain one, this just isn’t possible. Plus, if he did, he’d likely have seized a future version of the model instead.

8 Mrs. Weasley’s Cooking

Mrs. Weasley pours a creamy sauce from her wand at The Burrow while cooking dinner for her family and Harry before the start of the Quidditch World Cup. It’s a neat little trick, one that would certainly come in handy in the real world.

However, in the magical world, this shouldn’t be possible. This breaks Gamp’s Law of Elemental Transfiguration, which states that food cannot be created by magic. A potential reason for this is that Molly merely summoned the source via her wand but, in order for this to happen, she’d have surely used a Summoning Charm instead.

7 Mr. Weasley At Privet Drive

Mr. Weasley travels to Number 4 Privet Drive with Ron, Fred and George in tow. There, they collect Harry to take him away for the Quidditch World Cup, with the family having obtained tickets for the final. Yet Rowling’s novel contains a mistake surrounding their return to The Burrow.

After collecting Harry, Mr. Weasley puts a pinch of Floo Powder into the fire for everyone to head back to the Burrow. After that, each Weasley (and Harry) simply steps into the green flames and heads off. However, in the Chamber of Secrets, when going to Diagon Alley, each person is shown to take a pinch of Floo powder – so when leaving the Durselys’, this would mean that each person should have a pinch on them, not just Arthur.

6 Hermione’s Error

Hermione stops Ron from talking about Sirius in front of Ginny Weasley who, at this point, has no idea Harry’s godfather is innocent. At this point, it’s stated that the only people who know of his true nature are Harry, Ron, Hermione and Albus Dumbledore. Yet this is something of an oversight.

Remus Lupin also knew, but his name isn’t included. It’s also stated that Ron played a role in Sirius’ escape when he was, in fact, hospitalized with a broken leg. It was only after they returned to the hospital wing that Ron was aware of Harry and Hermione’s act of heroism.

5 Apparition Chat

Before the Weasleys and Harry set off to go to the World Cup, a conversation takes place involving the majority of the family, with Bill, Charlie and Percy the only people not involved. This is because they’re apparating, something Mrs. Weasley explains isn’t possible for them because they need to take a test – with Arthur then explaining it in further detail.

Yet this is a mistake because they could merely have used Side-Along Apparition instead. Albus Dumbledore does this in the Half-Blood Prince and, in the Deathly Hallows book, families are told to use this method in order to escape Death Eaters should they come calling. Sure, you need a test to apparate yourself, but Arthur could have helped them out – which would have made their journey far speedier, given there would be no walks to a Portkey involved.

4 Harry And The Imperius Curse

On the third day of term, Harry has a rather peculiar Defence Against the Dark Arts lesson. It involves the Gryffindor student having the Imperius Curse performed on him by Barty Crouch Jr., who is, of course, posing as Alastor Moody. Not just once, either, but four whole times.

In the book, when Voldemort puts the Imperius Curse on the Boy Who Lived, the book says “for the third time in his life.” However, he’s already had it placed on him five times by this point – with the majority of them being done by Moody/Crouch in front of other students and the other by the Dark Lord himself. Therefore, it would have been better if Rowling had actually made it clear that he meant on a third separate occasion, instead of implying it was the third time in total.

3 The Class Notice

Hogwarts students are enthralled when Albus Dumbledore announces that their magical counterparts from Beauxbatons and Durmstrang will be heading to the castle to participate in the Triwizard Tournament. The movie shows the pupils from France and Eastern Europe turning up for the start of year feast in the Great Hall. However, things are different in the source material.

Dumbledore sends out a notice saying classes will end half an hour early on Friday, October 30. But this was actually a Friday in 1994, meaning Rowling got her days of the week mixed up. Of course, it’s a trivial detail – but still an inconsistency, regardless.

2 The Second Task

For the second task of the Triwizard Tournament, participants are forced to dive into Hogwarts Lake to retrieve a loved one. Harry uses Gillyweed given to him by Dobby the House Elf (not Neville Longbottom), while both Fleur Delacour and Cedric Diggory opt to use the Bubble-Head charm. Viktor Krum, on the other hand, opts to transform himself partly into a shark.

Yet many fans have a problem with this. The book Quidditch Through the Ages clearly states that if you transform into an animal, you lose all human thought – and actually become like the very creature you’ve turned into. This means Viktor should have chomped Hermione to pieces, but that would have probably been far too dark to show.

1 Priori Incantatem

In the graveyard of Little Hangleton, Harry and Voldemort’s wands connect – which Albus Dumbledore later reveals to be Priori Incantatem. The Dark Lord’s dead victims emerge from his wand in the Goblet of Fire movie, with Cedric, James and Lily Potter and Frank Bryce coming out to give Harry some much-needed encouragement. However, in the movie, there should have been an extra victim – and extra spell.

Bertha’s ghostly spirit appears from the Dark Lord’s wand, as well, in the book, and that’s where the error lies. Considering Voldemort proceeded to make Nagini a Horcrux after her death, there should have been a ghostly specter of that spell being performed in the fourth book. He had also used magic to break a memory charm placed on her by Barty Crouch Jr., yet the echoes of this spell are absent, as well.

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