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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)

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• Continuity: When Harry and friends are riding in a cart from the Hogwarts Express station to Hogwarts, in a shot from behind, Luna Lovegood's head is facing to her left. In the following reverse angle, her head is facing to her right.
  
  
• Continuity: When Harry is fighting off the Dementors, he produces a patronus and his wand is pointing at the Dementor that attacked him. When the scene cuts to Dudley on the ground, Harry's wand is at his side. When it cuts back to Harry, his wand is pointing at the dementor again.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Lucius has Harry and company at wandpoint in the Department of Mysteries, Bellatrix Lestrange walks out from behind him. In the audio she is laughing maniacally and talking to Harry, but when you look at her, her mouth is barely moving. She mouths "He knows how to play" a full second after it is heard, and her mouth moves at a much slower pace. She also has a deadpan expression on her face, not the maniacal face you would expect her to have while laughing like that.
  
  

• Continuity: In the scene of Professor Umbridge's first class with Harry and co. she gives them all books, then proceeds to tell the class what to expect. During her speech, several of the students's books -- particularly Ron's -- switch positions from being examined by the students to being flat on the desk. The position of the books repeatedly switch positions as the camera angles switch.
  
  
• Continuity: In the Department of Mysteries scene, when Lucius is approaching the six students, in one shot he has his wand out, and in the next shot it's back in his cane.
  
  
• Continuity: In the scene when Harry has to write lines for Umbridge, you clearly see him put his hand on the desk, then when the shot changes to a front view his hand is down by his side, and then when it changes back it is on the table again.
  
  
• Continuity: While discussing the newspaper at #12 Grimmauld Place, Harry alternates between holding the newspaper and laying it flat on his plate, depending on the angle of the shot.
  
  
• Continuity: During the scene where Harry meets Ron and Hermione at the headquarters, Hermoine's hair changes position. In the first shot Hermione's hair is behind her left shoulder, and in the next it is in front.
  
  
• Continuity: When Harry reports to Dolores Umbridge's office for discipline, she straightens a single crookedly placed pen on her desk. Later in the scene, the pens are no longer all in alignment.
  
  
• Continuity: During the O.W.L. examination proctored by Dolores Umbridge, the large clock pendulum in the background fails to swing with uniformity between shots.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: During the first "D.A." training/meeting, harness and wires are visible as characters are thrown back after being struck by a spell.
  
  
• Continuity: When Luna Lovegood is attacked, there is blood by her mouth. When she is held by a death eater, the blood is missing from a brief shot.
  
  
• Continuity: The scars put on Harry's *left* hand by Umbridge's special quill keep switching hands between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: When Harry, Hermione, Ron and Neville are in the carriage with Luna her hair is curly, yet in the next scene (what would be shortly after) her hair is completely straight, yet she wouldn't have had time to straighten it, nor any reason to.
  
  
• Continuity: When Sirius hands Harry the photo of the Order of the Phoenix, Sirius' arm changes from the top of the bench to the seat of the bench.
  
  
• Continuity: When Harry and Mr Weasley are descending into the Ministry, using the visitors' entrance, only the inside of the phone box in the street moves. When the scene cuts to the interior of the Ministry, they're in a complete phone box.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Mad-Eye Moody tells Kingsley to take point as they escort Harry to headquarters, but throughout the flight Moody is in the lead. During the flight over the Thames River -- just before the ferryboat -- Kingsley can be seen to Harry's left. Moody should have told Kingsley to guard their flank.
  
  
• Continuity: When Harry is asleep during his first night at Hogwarts, he is wearing a striped, light blue T-shirt. But when he has a vision of Voldemort and sits up in bed, his shirt is now solid dark blue with buttons.
  
  
• Continuity: In the opening scene, Dudley's necklace/chain appears and disappears with every shot as he and Harry watch the clouds mass and the sky darken.
  
  
• Continuity: During the first Occlumency lesson, Snape is only wearing his frock coat, but after he uses Legillimency on Harry the second time during the lesson, he briefly appears wearing his full set of robes.
  
  
• Continuity: In the veil room in the Department of Mysteries, when Harry tells the others to get behind him, we see Ginny stand directly behind Harry with Ron to her right. In the next shot when the Death Eaters arrive and swarm over them, Ron and Ginny have swapped positions in the formation.
  
  

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