Consistancy in the Weasley Clock ... Nitpicking

[nera at rconnect.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 17464

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., lea.macleod at g... wrote:
> Oh well, I´m not the nitpicking kind normally
<snips>

> 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.
<More snips>

, so I´ll just quote it for you and then shut up on the 
> subject.
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If not for nitpicking, this group would have ended long ago. Let's 
all face it ... nitpicking is what we *do*. Where else *can* we 
nitpick? Have you tried to even discuss HP with people who have not 
read it? 

There are books that you buy, read, and then either throw them away, 
give them away, donate them to the book drive, or sell them at a 
garage sale.

Then there are the books which occupy the top shelves in the  
bookcase. HP is one of them. These are the books we love and love to 
discuss, to the point of nitpicking over every page, paragraph, 
sentence, word, and illustration.

We are like family. Our common bind is our love of HP. If we did not 
love HP and love to pick it apart and enjoy it, line by line, and 
sometimes, even word by word, as in the case of the prepostion posts, 
what fun would this group be?

Some books get one-line reviews. HP has groups which have daily 
discussion posts. 

So please, do not just shut up. The mistakes *do* matter, but not in 
a negative way, rather in a curiosity kind of way. I wonder why she 
wrote that? I wonder why she did not write it this way. I wonder ... 
I wonder ... I wonder ... do you ever wonder too? 

Doreen, who recently joined Nitpickers Anonymous