[HPforGrownups] JKR's Poetic License

[Peg Kerr]

No: HPFGUIDX 2916

Bonnie Kretschmer wrote:

> --- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Brooks R" <brooksar at i...> wrote:
> <snip>
> > I think it is clear that JKR just wrote this whole bit for
> > dramatic effect, and didn't bother to actually correlate the
> > astronomy with the calendar of the year it would seemingly be
> > set in; or she is not giving a 'true' timing of the years of
> > occurence;
> <snip>
> > -Brooks
>
> I think you've hit the nail on the head there Brooks.

As someone who has written a novel, I do, too.  I speak from
experience.  I remember when I saw my book cover flat for the first time
(for Emerald House Rising), I was complaining bitterly because they put
a moon on it, and I said, "There is no moon in that world, I made sure
of it; so why is it on the cover?"  And then I re-read the damn thing,
and there was a reference to the rising moon, in the first chapter.  And
I had completely forgotten I'd stuck it in.  Boy, was I embarrassed.

Peg
Who sometimes loses things, but rarely anything as big as a moon,
although it does happen upon occasion.