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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., foxmoth at q... wrote:
>  > --- - In HPforGrownups at y..., "Amy Z" <aiz24 at h...> wrote:
> > > > >  Plot Devices We Don't Want to See Again for A Bit
[snip]
> and I'll add, The villains have everything they need to make their 
> attack, but inexplicably wait till the end of term. PS/SS and CoS 
> are the worst offenders, but GoF comes close.
> 
This doesn't add up for me.  It probably took Quirrell quite some 
time how to work out ways of overcoming all of the obstacles to the 
Stone: Fluffy, Devil's snare, etc.  He didn't wait till the end of 
term to "attack."

In CoS, it took Ginny writing in the diary for months before Tom 
Riddle's memory became strong enough to emerge from the book.  Her 
writing in it produced a cumulative effect.  

And I recently opined that Barty Crouch, Jr. could very well have 
needed all year to research the perfect Portkey, so that explains 
that timing.

The inexplicable one, in my book, is PoA.  Once he was free, Sirius 
Black could have sent an owl to Remus Lupin explaining what really 
happened with the Fidelius Charm and inform him that Peter Pettigrew 
is alive and well and being kept as a pet rat by Ron Weasley, who was 
at Hogwarts.  Sirius needn't even have known that Lupin was teaching 
at Hogwarts, although that would have made it easier for him to go 
apprehend Peter.  If Lupin doubted such a letter from a prison 
escapee who he thought betrayed his friends, all he had to do was get 
Ron to bring him the rat and put the spell on him to turn him into a 
human again.  If it didn't work, as was pointed out in the Shrieking 
Shack chapter of PoA, there wouldn't be any harm done.  The timing of 
the climax for the other books makes a certain amount of sense, 
IMHO.  For PoA, less so.

--Barb