From: bleablah@mume.invalid   
      
   on 8/11/2011, Sirius Black supposed :   
   > On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 19:45:26 -0400, John M. wrote:   
      
   >> On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 19:37:45 -0400, Chan Welbourne wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Sirius Black pretended :   
   >>>> On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 19:23:22 -0400, Chan Welbourne wrote:   
   >>>>> Sirius Black brought next idea :   
   >>>>>> On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 11:15:39 -0400, Chan Welbourne wrote:   
   >>>>>>> I do believe there would be interest and value in having JKR comment on   
   >>>>>>> the books on a deep level, but I don’t see that happening anytime   
   soon.   
   >>>>>>> We would certainly get better answers from her if she allowed   
   >>>>>>> interviews with people who will challenge her about the deeper meaning   
   >>>>>>> of the books, but will she? And if she does, I hope she gives the   
   >>>>>>> series a reread first. B-)   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>> Rowling knows her books are full of timeline problems, misdirections   
   >>>>>> and downright awful mistakes. She isn't about to let a Victor Dix or   
   >>>>>> you or John or Wil get their hands on her. It would be damned   
   >>>>>> embarrassing.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Thanks! :oÞ   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> The worst of the worst was when Dumbledore makes this statement toward   
   >>>>> the end of the first chapter of PS/SS in response to Minerva’s fussing   
   >>>>> over the excessive jubilation attendant upon the fall of the Dark Lord.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> “We’ve had precious little to celebrate for eleven years.” He goes   
   on   
   >>>>> to underline the matter by stating on the following page that for   
   >>>>> eleven years he has been trying to persuade people to call   
   >>>>> He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named by his proper name, Voldemort.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Looking back, we should have known that JKR was going to play foot   
   >>>>> loose and fancy free with timelines from that glaring error alone. :/   
   >>>> What's wrong with that?   
   >>>   
   >>> Do the math. lol   
   >>>   
   >>> That statement was made in 1981. Less 11 = 1970. In 1996 Fudge claims   
   >>> to have be hunting LV for 30 years. 1996-30 = 1966.   
   >>>   
   >>> What's this boils down to is JKR didn't give a damn. :-[   
   >>   
   >> I will one up you, she didn't respect or care for her characters   
   >> either. We are also expected to believe that the Harry who mended   
   >> Demelza Roberts’s split lip from a collision in Quidditch practice   
   >> without problems in HBP suddenly doesn’t know how to heal wounds by   
   >> Chapter 2 in DHs. It makes him look like a real dumbcluck.   
   >>   
   >> Or the brilliant Hermione Granger who can rewrite her own parents   
   >> personal histories and pack them off to Australia by chapter 6, and   
   >> yet claims she doesn’t know any memory spells a handful of chapters   
   >> later. This is one of the reasons I am convinced the book wasn’t   
   >> actually edited at all. JKR didn't care enough to do the editing,   
   >> someone did the proofreading and would have had to catch this error.   
   >>   
   >> I know 11 year old schoolchildren that did so JKR said to heck with   
   >> it.   
      
   > I got one. I got one. Kreacher’s Tale.   
      
   > Of all the irrational stupidity. It’s small wonder my Black family is   
   > all but extinct. lol   
      
   > So, let me get this straight: Regulus boasted, in writing, of his   
   > intention to destroy the Locket, then suicided (unnecessarily, since   
   > it sounds like he didn’t have to die) in a grand gesture, in order to   
   > steal it, and made no attempt to destroy it whatsoever. Leaving it up   
   > to his House Elf to actually perform that task.   
      
   > How dumb is that?   
      
   I used to keep a Live Journal of all the discrepancies, had to quit. It   
   took all my time, ruined the books and was so long it was unreadable.   
      
   Point is, Rowling knew and she didn't care. It's almost like she did it   
   on purpose.   
      
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