Consistancy in the Weasley Clock (was RE: Everything you've alway s wanted to know about Clocks)

[Tandy, Heidi]

No: HPFGUIDX 17434

In my constant urge to make JKR *appear* consistant, I hereby present
arguments as to why she wouldnt've been completely reassured even IF she'd
looked at the clock which said, On Holiday or something like that (I think
it's been indicated that *traveling* is only while someone is in transit,
like while flying a car to hogwarts or apparating)
1. The clock MAY have spun to mortal peril for a moment for Ron - while the
wizards were pointing their wands at him, Harry & Hermione - and from my
Mothering Perspective, if the clock stopped on Mortal Peril even for a
SECOND, I would NOT relax until my Baby (no matter how big he is!) was back
by my side
2. Fred, George & Ginny may also have spun to mortal peril for a moment - or
even a lesser "number" like Danger Zone - again, Mother does not relax until
she sees for herself that her Baby is safe. 
3. Arthur, Bill & Charlie might have been in mortal peril, or danger, while
they were trying to stop the Death Eater rampage & riot

or 4. She wasn't nervous until she looked at the newspaper in the morning &
read all about the Dark Mark in the sky, etc., and then kicked herself for
not having been looking at the clock the night before because she was
enjoying a night alone  by catching up on reading-for-pleasure, taking a
nice bath, all the other things mums do when they are left alone after a
summer of dealing with large numbers of kids and didn't know WHAT was going
on, because the clock has no *rewind* function, and just because they were
set at *on holiday* at that moment didn't mean they were *on holiday* while
recovering from injuries, separated from each other, momentarily tortured by
death eaters, etc. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lea.macleod at gmx.net [mailto:lea.macleod at gmx.net]
> Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 4:30 AM
> To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [HPforGrownups] Re: Everything you've always wanted to know
> about Clocks
> 
> 
> Real-To:  lea.macleod at gmx.net
> 
> Since I triggered the discussion about Harry´s watch by stating there 
> are no muggle watches in HP, which was of course proved wrong right 
> away, I´d like to put in another question.
> 
> At The Burrow, there is a clock with a hand for each member of the 
> Weasley family, showing where or how they are: work, home, 
> travelling... there is one section that says "mortal peril".
> 
> When the dark mark appeared at the Quidditch world cup, Mrs Weasley 
> was in quite some state, actually thinking the other Weasleys might 
> have been killed. She was clearly thinking there was a possibility 
> that "the last thing she ever said to F and G was they didn´t get 
> enough OWLs". 
> 
> Don´t you think she might have saved herself the trouble if she had 
> taken one look on the clock and realised there was no danger? 
> 
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