Fictional plot holes.

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Me: 
>> In my opinion by far the most serious plot hole in the entire >>series is Harry deciding not to use the Elder Wand, and wise >>characters who should know better agreeing that it is a smart thing >>to do; but even that egregious error could be rectified by changing >>a couple of dozen words. This is one time where I really hope the >>movie makers DEPART from the book!

Carol:
> And I hope they don't! That sort of thinking got
> Boromir into serious trouble in LOTR. 

And being Master of the Elder Wand could cause Harry trouble too, but it can't be helped. Besides, an author is not obligated to make her characters happy, her only obligation is to make them interesting. That's why I hope that in the very last scene of the 8 movies they have Harry limping or having a bad hand or something to indicate that the last 19 years haven't been totally uneventful. I wonder if Harry was right and if Aurors live long enough they all start to look like Mad Eye. 

>  It's not "a gap or inconsistency in a storyline that
> goes against the flow of logic

I think a flaw I logic is exactly what renouncing the use of but remaining the Master of the Elder Wand is. Logically it's ridiculous and artistically it's a cliché. And this isn't some small inconsistency in the timeline that really doesn't matter very much, this will profoundly effect Harry's entire future so it's important that it make some sense. The moviemakers could correct that flaw easily and improve on JKR.
   
> I don't think brother-on-brother homicide quite fits
> with the themes JKR had in mind

But what JKR is describing in her last book is a civil war, and in wars of that sort brothers sometimes end up on different sides. I really think that's what she originally intended to do because she set up everything beautifully for it, but then for some reason she lost her nerve. 

We don't need another good Weasley so if the moviemakers don't have the guts to turn Percy evil (they probably don't) then, as he serves no earthly purpose, he should just be ignored. It wouldn't be hard; Percy hasn't even been mentioned much less seen in the last 2 films. 
 
Me:
>>By the way, the cliffhanger of Harry and friends being lead away in >>chains to torture and certain death at the Malfoy Manor is the >>break point between part 1 and part 2 of the DH movie.

Carol:
>Are you sure? (Chains?) I read that the filmmakers had decided to >end DH1 with a cliffhanger but no specifics. Do you happen to have
>a link? 

It was in a magazine interview with David Yates, I read it in a bookshop and didn't buy the magazine. He mentioned it casually as an aside and I think he might have slipped up because I later heard the move company was trying to keep the break point secret.

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