[HPFGU-Catalogue] Hostages to fortune...

[Barry Arrowsmith]

>
>  Now here's an interesting comment or two (from post 31937). Looks
>  like it kicked off a long thread, which I shall look forward to
>  coding.
>
>
>  In message 28600, Pippin made the comment:
>  >We can't rely on deduction because we can't assume that the
>  Potterverse is logically consistent, in fact we know it is not. It
>  is "catastrophic": subject to the whims of its creator rather than to
>  natural law.
>
>  I regard this as the most profound statement that I am aware of on
>  this list - in theory it deprives us of any rational way to interpret
>  the books at all. This post is my personal attempt to say when we can
>  say things - and when we are misleading ourselves in what we deduce.
>
>

Hum. Not sure I agree with either statement.
IMO the Potterverse is logically consistent *within itself* - and 
Pippin also treats it as such. Why else spend years scouring canon for 
evidence of Vampire!Snape and ESE!Lupin?

It's the difference say, between commonsense classical physics and the 
weirdness of Quantum Theory. Each is logical within it's own terms, but 
each is a bugger to explain by reference to the other.

Barry
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