Never Before Seen Harry Potter Movie Mistake!

In the scene in The Chamber Of Secrets, with the Whomping Willow, where the blue Ford Anglia crash lands into the tree, the tree bashes the car with Harry, Ron and Hedwig inside and causes several smashes and cracks in the windscreen.

As the car crashes to the floor, falling out of the tree, the car bounces against the ground, and then the camera cuts to a close-up of the car, showing the inside of the car and the back window with the gaping hole. However, the front windscreen should have had a constant light on the window and on the actors, but it doesn’t. No light is on, causing everything to be dark for a second or two, until someone finally has the light turn on…creating a weird flickering light from an unknown light source in the world of Harry Potter. Maybe Harry or Ron secretly used the Lumos spell. Either that, or the crew member blatantly holding up Hedwig, in the back, cast it.

The cracks on the windscreen aren’t there at first, but then flicker on and off momentarily, before displaying properly. Seeing as in one frame Harry and Ron’s faces are in silhouette and then in the next, there is a light on their faces, presumably meant to be from the moonlight outside, so the cracks in the window could be due to the light reflecting against the windscreen, causing the cracks to light up. The only other explanation is that the action shots of the car moving and the static shots of the actors in the car with a light to keep their faces lit, were spliced together, using a flickering effect to merge the two more effectively. Check it out for yourselves in this clip

Three Of The Biggest Movie Mistakes In Harry Potter

Due to a Director’s decision, the geography of Hogwarts was changed, causing Hagrid’s hut to be by a massive hill and steps, instead of being a little way down from an entrance to the school. From the time between the second film and the third film, the hut also underwent a change in it’s size and design too. In the Philosophers Stone and Chamber Of Secrets, the hut consists of only one room, but from the third film onwards, it changes.

The Director’s decision on the change of the layout of the grounds also differed the location of the Whomping Willow, which can be seen in Chamber Of Secrets when Harry and Ron crash land the flying car, which is quite near the grounds, and yet then in Prisoner Of Azkaban, it is not seen anywhere near the grounds, but near some very rocky looking land.

Lots of times in the HP films, can there be seen a crew members arm or other minor movement which shouldn’t be there, but one of the biggest mistakes that they made when filming the scene in Chamber Of Secrets where Harry is put up against Draco, is that on the far left of one of the shots looking towards Malfoy’s side, you can blatantly see a cameraman knelt down in amongst the children.