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

[lea.macleod at gmx.net]

No: HPFGUIDX 17458

Oh well, I´m not the nitpicking kind normally, like I didn´t mind the 
Hogsmeade Pub changing its name between book 1 and 3 (might be Madam 
Rosmerta´s marketing idea, after all), nor did I mind Nearly Headless 
Nick ageing 100 years between book 1 and 2...

On the other hand, JKR is so incredibly consistant in many respects, 
like  a little phrase in book 1 you never really noticed suddenly 
becoming the key to one of the major mysteries in a later book... I 
think we´re just so used to everything making perfect sense that we 
over-react to some things that simply don´t. Those "mistakes" usually 
don´t matter much anyway.

I just realised the last paragraph should read "I" instead of "we", I 
just mean to say I´m not trying to hide behind that impersonal plural 
form...

However, Heidi has presented an excellent explanation to Mrs Weasley´s 
reaction, so I´ll just quote it for you and then shut up on the 
subject.

"Tandy, Heidi"  wrote:

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.