[HPFGU-OTChatter] PS quiz

[Kathryn Cawte]

>
> I unfortunately missed that discussion, but there's only one answer that
> has a canon basis - it's because she didn't want to introduce the term
> "squib" until CoS, the same way that in PoA, the term "dementor" doesn't
> show up until after Lupin introduces it - before that, they're called
> "the Azkaban guards", which is a term that never appears again once the
> word "dementor" is used.
>
>
> Heidi


Well that's a great explanation as far as it goes - but I think people were
looking for an explanation that didn't depend on 'because the author said
so' because after all you could use that to answer any and all questions and
it would cut out most of the discussion on the main board - "Why did the
Potters' change the secret keeper to Sirius?" Because JKR needed them to
have done so for PoA to make any kind of sense; "Why does Snape trust
Dumbledore?" Because he's integral to a lot of the plot ... etc etc. Not
that I'm saying your explanation is wrong, but after all everything in the
books happens because that's the way JKR wanted or needed it to happen.

Take the Thestral question. The meta explanation for why Harry didn't see
them at the end of GoF is that JKR didn't want to introduce the concept
right at the end of a book. The internal reason is that Harry hadn't come to
terms with Cedric's death yet.

Both explanations are valid in different ways but I don't think that either
invalidates the other.

K