Fictional plot holes (was: The Romance)

[Carol]

Carol earlier:
> > everything from typos like "miniscule" for "minuscule" [
] Honestly, *someone* should point out all the places where her inconsistencies distract the reader.
>  
> I don't think that distracted many readers, in fact I wouldn't be terribly surprised if you weren't the only human being on this planet who noticed that typo. 

Carol:
Oh, I don't think I'm the only human being on this planet who still knows how to spell. One or two English teachers must have noticed it, and the copyeditor should have caught it. It's spelled correctly in PoA but misspelled in SS/PS and CoS. I didn't notice that particular word in GoF, and I'm still rereading OoP (again) while I wait for someone to Apparate to Tucson to watch the film with me. (Seriously, I can't find anyone who wants to see it with me, and I hate to go to movies alone.)

Regarding DH, there *is* a discrepancy between the date of the letter, which is just after Harry's birthday and therefore very early in August, and the date of the Fidelius Charm as mentioned in PoA (a week before Halloween). And although the FC isn't specifically mentioned, DD has already borrowed James's Invisibility Cloak, which Dead!DD later tells Harry he borrowed a week before their deaths.

I'd mention a discrepancy I just noticed in OoP regarding Harry's detentions, but, as you say, nobody cares about it but me. IMO, both the copyeditor (if there was one) and the consistency editor did a lousy job in all the books, and the developmental editor should have indicated that the Elder Wand subplot was not entirely clear and consistent and should have been more fully worked out. As someone (md?) implied, JKR had a little too much clout and was a little too sure that her books were already perfect by the time she wrote the third or fourth one. Certainly, it was exhausting work and she was pressured by deadlines, and she may have been in a hurry to finish the last one and wrap it all up. She's human, and human authors need equally human editors to catch what the author's eyes simply can't. (If you know your own creation too well, it's hard to see the flaws and inconsistencies in it; that's why authors need other sets of trained eyes to fix or point out problems that they can't see.)

Carol, who also finds JKR's dangling modifiers distracting