Wand Order; JKR response

[Penny & Bryce Linsenmayer]

No: HPFGUIDX 6706

Hi --

Dave Hardenbrook wrote:

> At 06:26 PM 12/11/00 +0000, heidi tandy wrote:
> > > "Lilly comes out first".
> >
> >What, you didn't get more details than that?
>
> What details are there to get?  She made a boo-boo in the
> narrative.

Like Amanda, I'd be very curious to know if she actually wrote the
revisions herself (doesn't sound like her style at all) or if she just
authorizing "fixing it" and didn't want to be bothered with re-thinking
the entire scene.

Like Trina, I too would have preferred if she'd just come up with a
creative explanation or plot device in a later book for why it worked
the way it did.  After all, our group came up with several plausible
reasons why James might have come out first!  This, in my mind, would be
preferable to having such a big "goof-up" in over 3.8 million US copies
alone.  And, the fix just seems lame to me; the scene doesn't read right
at all.

Nick, I'm glad you can occasionally get us a response (even if it's a
rather terse one) for simply worded questions.  That could be
convenient.  I do intend to send Jo a hard-copy of the Mysteries &
Inconsistencies FAQ (I may include some of the other FAQs as well to
hopefully entice her to come visit our group occasionally).  I think if
she sat down & focused on some of the questions we've raised (and the
theories we've come up with), it might result in more carefully
thought-out responses from her.  I think those chats she did that week
in October in the US were rushed (the AOL one was only 30 minutes),
intended for kids mainly and just didn't give her the opportunity to
think through her responses.  I'm of course thinking of the Hogwarts has
1000 students response (which I still don't buy for a slew of reasons).
<vbg>

Penny



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