# 25 Things You MISSED in Harry Potter & the Philosopher's Stone

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Podcast: [Harry Potter Theory](https://stenobird.com/podcast/harry-potter-theory-5483111)
Published: 2026-07-10T19:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

Welcome to another installment of Harry Potter Theory. This is part 1 of a video series where I’ll be diving in to the Harry Potter books and taking a look, chapter by chapter, at all of the mistakes that were made. Starting with book 1: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. I’m going to be placing a particular focus on instances in which factual errors were made or canon was somehow contradicted. Trivial errors like typos / grammatical issues will not be focused on this video. I should also mention that I’m not making this video to CRITICIZE the books, but rather, take a look out of my own curiosity. Authors are only human and nearly every book series has mistakes like these made in them. Topics Covered In This Video: Things you missed in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone Strange details in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone mistakes explained Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone mistakes explained Book 1 Harry Potter continuity errors Philosopher’s Stone canon contradictions explained Details in Philosopher’s Stone that do not make sense later Harry Potter book mistakes and corrected editions Early Harry Potter lore inconsistencies The original Philosopher’s Stone cover mistake Why Harry is wearing a Gryffindor scarf before being sorted The wrong dates in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone November 1st 1981 timeline mistake explained The missing 24 hours with Hagrid and baby Harry Why McGonagall was waiting outside the Dursleys’ house Dumbledore’s strange journey to Privet Drive Hagrid and Sirius Black’s motorbike inconsistency The Vanishing Glass mistakes explained The boa constrictor winking mistake Harry’s incorrect 11th birthday date Hagrid’s “not a wizard who went bad” Slytherin quote explained Why…

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