[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: The Weasley Clock

[Lee Storm (God Is The Healing Force)]

| Pippin:
| 
| People thought the pub in Hogsmeade had been inconsistently named "The
| Hogs Head" in PS/SS and "The Three Broomsticks" in PoA, until it
| turned out there were two pubs. 
| 
| IMO, just as Hogsmeade had more than one pub, the Weasleys have more
| than one clock. From memory, since I am also too lazy to look this up,
|  the grandfather clock mentioned in CoS is in the living room. The
| kitchen clock, first mentioned in GoF, tells where members of the
| Weasley family are and is the one that Mrs. Weasley carried about with
| her.

[Lee]:
Well, yes and know.  The grandfather clock is in the living room or sitting
room.  It is described as follows:

"Mrs. Weasley glanced at the grandfather clock in the corner. Harry liked
this clock. It was completely useless if you wanted to know the time, but
otherwise very informative. It had nine golden hands, and each of them was
engraved with one of the Weasley family's names. There were no numerals
around the face, but descriptions of where each family member might be.
"Home," "school," and "work" were there, but there was also "traveling,"
"lost," "hospital," "prison," and, in the position where the number twelve
would be on a normal clock, "mortal peril." "  (GOF, US Edition.)

Now, no mention was made of two clocks, so we have an inconsistency of
description:

"She turned to look at a large clock that was perched awkwardly on top of a
pile of sheets in the washing basket at the end of the table. Harry
recognized it at once: It had nine hands, each inscribed with the name of a
family member, and usually hung on the Weasleys' sitting room wall, though
its current position suggested that Mrs. Weasley had taken to carrying it
around the house with her. Every single one of its nine hands was now
pointing at "mortal peril." " (HBP, US Edition.)

So, I guess either she did a Reducio on the grandfather clock or this really
is a serious Flint which warrants fifty points from JKR's house. :-)

Cheers,

Lee :-)

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