Harry Potter and God

[Annemehr]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "sistermagpie" <sistermagpie at ...> wrote:
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> > Kemper now:
> > Don't get me wrong! I enjoyed reading GOF and rereading it and rereading it and ....  OP is the most difficult book for me to read because of PTSD!Harry... and Grawp.  God blessed it, that chapter is long!  Out of my 5 or 6 reads of the book, I've only read it once.
> > 
> > But back to topic.  OP, imo, is a structurally well put together story with few if any blaring plot holes that one might stumble on and twist the ankle.  GOF has a huge one for me.  Moody!CrouchJr and Voldemort waiting until the last task to whisk away Harry when they could've easily done in on September 2nd.  I know it's been argued that LV is a famewhore, but still.  I don't buy it.  
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> Magpie:
> I had more trouble with that in OotP. In GoF the plot inconsistancies didn't pull me up until after I'd finished, where with OotP I felt five steps ahead of everyone throughout the book. So I wound up just thinking, "Just tell him X, stupid!" 
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> -m
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Annemehr:

Me too.  I still think there's a decent chance that Portkeys are blocked at Hogwarts, so Crouch!Moody had to wangle a situation for DD to lift the ward, but JKR just forgot to write that fact in.

Actually, the whole Hogwarts transportation situation is pretty sketchy.  It seems none of the kids ever use the floo, so mustn't the fireplaces be blocked?  But in HBP, it seems not being able to fly in on a broom is new security, which makes me wonder why people like Fred and George seemed only to use secret passages.

It just seems strange if, normally, only apparition is blocked.  What would be the point?

Annemehr