Adverbs can be your friends WAS: Re: The Return of Tom Swift

[Kirstini]

 Annemehr, after quoting my "hotly/coolly" POA horror, wrote, 
responsively:
> I'll bet she just thought it was funny.  After all, she's said she
puts in what she herself finds funny.  And maybe her editor thought it
fit in well enough with the style and humor of the story -- or maybe
only had the time or clout to look out for even worse things...> 

"Now, you know," said Kirstini, reflectively, "you may actually have 
a point there. Because I've just found something too awful not to be 
a joke." Here she brandished a copy of PoA triumphantly, before 
clearing her throat inquisitorially.

"Hem, hem... 

"'Because her cat acted like all cats do,' Hagrid continued, 
doggedly."(Bloomsbury hardback POA, 202) 

I can't see any excuse for this whatsoever. This has to be a joke, 
doesn't it? Not a very funny one, but still..." She trailed off, 
preliminarily. 

"Now I worry about veering very close to on-topic -" she mutterd, 
precariously. "I wonder if JKR has formed a sort of metatext of 
private author-reader communication around all these adverbs? I know, 
obviously, that that's basically what adverbs do anyway. I'm just 
speculating as to the liklihood of her having taken the extra step." 
she finished, significantly.

Too many adverbs do spoil the broth a bit, don't they?
Kirstini, who will dutifily take this over to Main List and plonk on 
the adverb thread over there should it continue.