Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Goofs/Mistakes

Movie Goof (errors in geography): In one shot, there is a white and black butterfly flying, a species that doesn't live in that region. It's a tropical butterfly, not a cold dwelling butterfly.
Movie Goof (continuity error): During the first Divination lesson, Professor Trelawney picks up Neville's cup from the table in front of Dean Thomas, comments on it, puts it back on its saucer and moves on. Immediately afterwards Neville grabs the same cup now standing directly on the tablecloth.
Movie Goof (continuity error): In Hagrid's hut the first time, Hermione opens the back door to leave and sticks her head out before Hagrid opens the front door to let in Dumbledore and Fudge. When time is turned, you can clearly see that Hagrid opens the front door before Hermione opens the back door.
Movie Goof (continuity error): During his conversation with Fudge, Harry's arm switches position on the back of the chair.
Movie Goof (audio/visual unsynchronized): When Hermione brings attention to the moon after they've left the Shrieking Shack the first time, you can clearly see she is still talking to Ron sitting in the background as Harry and Sirius talk. You hear her say "Harry!" but she is still talking to Ron. In the next shot, she's standing away from Ron and pointing towards the moon.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When Stan Shunpike hands Harry his ticket on the night bus he gives it to him using his forefinger and middle finger in the front shot but when the shot is on his back (facing Harry) he is clearly using different fingers to hand the ticket to Harry.
Movie Goof (factual errors): The Knight bus squeezes between two buses on Lambeth bridge while traveling North towards the Leaky Cauldron. The other two buses are heading South but one of them has Kings Cross as a destination which is North of the river and is therefore traveling in the wrong direction.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): During the scene where the Fat Lady is missing from the picture, and Dumbledore is coming to examine it, Filch is close behind him. As they approach the painting, you can see Filch's cat (Mrs. Norris) with her real green eyes, instead of the red eyes the cat is supposed to have in the movie.
Movie Goof (continuity error): Harry's grip on Buckbeak when they fly early in the movie changes between shots when they pull in for a close-up.
Movie Goof (continuity error): In the opening scene, Harry is practicing the spell "lumos maxima". However, as an underage wizard he should not be able to perform magic away from Hogwarts.
Movie Goof (incorrectly regarded as a mistake): After the class has finished dealing with the boggart, Harry's scar appears to be on the wrong side. We are seeing his reflection in the mirror on the door of the wardrobe that holds the boggart.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When they're in the Shrieking Shack, Ron is pointing as he says "He's an animagus!" however, his hand then goes from pointing to holding Scabbers between shots.
Movie Goof (continuity error): In the scene where Harry attacks Malfoy and his cronies from underneath his Invisibility Cloak, you can clearly see a snowflake in Harry's hair as soon as he takes off the Cloak. This would not be possible as Harry has had the Cloak on the entire time.
Movie Goof (crew or equipment visible): When Harry is bowing to Buckbeak in the pumpkin patch near the end of the movie, you can see the bulge of his microphone battery pack, which is under the back of his sweatshirt.
Movie Goof (audio/visual unsynchronized): When Fred and George drag the hidden Harry apart and pull off his Invisibility Cloak, you very clearly hear the sound of moving cloth but in the whole scene there is not a cloak to be seen.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): During the first shot inside the Leaky Cauldron, you see a waiter make a bottle disappear. If you look closely, you can tell that not only was the bottle tipped on its side to appear as though it had disappeared, but it's still visible under the cloth used to wipe down the table.
Movie Goof (continuity error): On the Knight Bus, as Stan Shunpike holds the newspaper in his hands the position of the hat on his head changes between shots.
Movie Goof (continuity error): In the hut, when the rock comes flying in the window, it breaks the urn into three large pieces. When we see it broken again later, it breaks into several small pieces.
Movie Goof (continuity error): The spot on Harry's shirt in the finale moves from a large, dark spot over his breastbone to a less distinct spot over his right ribcage.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): In many scenes either Harry Potter's scar is on the left, then the right and sometimes there is no scar.
Movie Goof (incorrectly regarded as a mistake): Both times that the Marauder's Map is activated visibly, Moony is spelled 'Mooney.' This is a deliberate in-joke referring to the film's visual effects supervisor, Karl Mooney.
Movie Goof (crew or equipment visible): During one scene when Harry is walking through Hogsmeade in his Invisibility Cloak, his footprints show up directly in between the very solid legs of someone walking.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): When Neville tries to open his Monster Book of Monsters and gets attacked by it, you can see that a large amount of the paper supposedly shooting out of the book is coming from nowhere near the book.
Movie Goof (crew or equipment visible): You can sometimes see lighting devices reflected in the characters' glasses. As Harry is telling Hagrid "It'll be fine" as they are hurrying out the door, you can see lighting equipment reflected in Harry's glasses. Also, in Trelawney's first class, you can see similar lighting equipment reflected in her glasses.
Movie Goof (crew or equipment visible): As Harry and the others run up the stairs to the Fat Lady picture for the first time, you can see the markers on the floor where characters have to stop for focus/lighting reasons. They're white crosses on the floor with gaffer tape.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When Harry, Ron and Hermione meet Malfoy's gang before reaching Hagrid's hut, Hermione is threatening Malfoy with the wand on her right hand. At the very next scene she punches him using the same hand though she holds the wand with her left one.
Movie Goof (factual errors): In the closing credits, "Book of Monsters Repair Shop" is misspelled "Book of Monster's."
Movie Goof (continuity error): The length of the chain used for Hermione's Time Turner varies throughout the film - sometimes it's quite long and other times it's barely longer than a normal necklace.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): In opening scene in Harry's bedroom, it can be seen in one shot that Harry is lying on a sheet of glass (to allow magical lighting effect) rather than on a sheet.
Movie Goof (crew or equipment visible): When Dumbledore reaches the landing where the Fat Lady had been ripped, we are put into the door's view, as he rubs the loose paper up so the screen goes black for a short time. In the next scene you can see the small camera and the camera hole on the door.
Movie Goof (crew or equipment visible): When Lupin is talking to Harry about Harry's parents a piece of lighting equipment is reflected in Harry's glasses.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): When Sirius (as Padfoot) goes to jump over Harry and Hermione to get to Ron, Harry and Hermione look up before Padfoot ever jumps over the two.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): In the later part of the movie, when a cloud moves to reveal the full moon, Harry and Hermione's faces light up as though a light shines directly in front of them. The moon however, is to their right.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When Harry and the gang are back in Hogsmeade after tormenting Malfoy, Harry is shown wearing the hood of his hoody. However, we see him a second time with the hood on and the next shot he is invisible. When he goes into the pub to listen to the conversation with Fudge, he is under the Cloak with no hood on.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When the DADA class lines up to each have a go at the Ridikkulus Charm, Seamus is clearly behind Ron in the queue, followed by Harry. Once Ron ends his turn, Parvati is then next (not Seamus), followed by Harry.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): At the beginning of the scene when Mr. Weasley warns Harry of Sirius Black, the cut number 302 flashes at the bottom left of the screen.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): When Hermione angrily knocks over the crystal ball during the last Divination scene, a red and black tube can be seen jutting out of its side.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): When the Whomping Willow hits Harry and Hermione, they land on the grass hard. However, as Hermione gets up, she pushes down on the grass they are on, and you can tell that it is separate from the rest of the grass around them. They obviously landed on a softened mat rather than the regular ground.
Movie Goof (continuity error): In the scene where Hermione punches Malfoy in the face, you see her point her wand to his neck with her right hand. When she turns around you can still see the wand in her right hand. When she actually punches him, she uses her right hand, but there is no wand in it.
Movie Goof (crew or equipment visible): When Harry blows up his aunt, you can see the cables that she is attached to.
Movie Goof (continuity error): In the first scene with the fat lady, the background of the painting appears to be inside a structure, with a pillar to the left of the picture. When the picture is next seen after having been slashed, the background has completely changed, with a structure in the far distance. Whilst the portrait characters are known to move, the scenes behind them are usually static.
Movie Goof (continuity error): In several scenes where Hermione is in the pink jacket she can be seen wearing a g-string under her jeans, but in one seen she is not wearing any underwear, in the next shot she is seen wearing a g-string again. Further more the g-string clearly changes colors throughout the movie (although the producers may have done this as a joke).
Movie Goof (continuity error): When the line forms to battle the Boggart, there is a boy between Ron and the girl that fights the snake. After Ron's turn, he is still there for a brief shot, but she then goes next and he is no longer seen.
Movie Goof (crew or equipment visible): At the beginning of the film, when Aunt Marge enters the Dursley's, she is closely followed by a camera under a umbrella, just before it cuts to a shot from behind Aunt Marge.
Movie Goof (continuity error): Ron's pimples move about his face from one shot to the next.
Movie Goof (continuity error): In the CoMC class, when Harry is approaching Buckbeak, Ron is behind him. Sometimes he has his "Monster Book of Monsters" under his left arm, and sometimes the book is missing.
Movie Goof (plot holes): Wizards under the age of seventeen are not allowed to use magic outside of school. So how can Harry illuminate his wand in the opening scene?
Movie Goof (continuity error): The mud on Hermione's trousers changes throughout the time-turner scene.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When Harry is bowing to the hippogriff, his tie is done up wrong - the thin part is much longer than the front part. But when he is riding the hippogriff his tie is done up properly.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): When Harry, Ron, and Hermione first enter their train compartment with Lupin sleeping, the train appears to be shaking, but the liquid in Lupin's bottle does not move.