Of human errors

[kkersey_austin]

Mrs. Lee Storm  wrote:

> Again, JK isn't trying to please an employer; she's creating a work
of art.
> And if an artist or anyone isn't supposed to make mistakes, then
we're all
> in trouble.  Let he or she who has never made a mistake or been
inconsistent
> cast the first cauldron cake. :)


...or be tasked with reconciling the timelines in Anna Karenina. You
think JKR has trouble with maths, take a look at Tolstoy!

I wish that she put the manuscript in the freezer for six months and
then pulled it out and reread it before sending it to publication. IMO
her editorial team let her down (as they did in OotP) in not being
more critical with some of the confusing or excess parts. I thought
some parts of DH were really well done and other parts didn't seem
like finished work. Scholastic does have a continuity editor for the
HP books - I heard or read an interview with her recently and she is
credited on the last page. It would be interesting to see just how
much editing / correcting was done on this manuscript.

Still, I can imagine that JKR was ready to move on with her life and
let the secrets go. That was a long time to not talk freely about one
of the most important things in her life.

Elisabet