[HPforGrownups] The canon or The Canon or JKR post-Potter assignment

[Margaret Dean]

No: HPFGUIDX 32288

Whirdy at aol.com wrote:

> Aside from the dumbing down of PS to SS because us Americans wouldn't be able
> to comprehend the concept of a philospher's stone - let us add classic
> education, then - and the need to make specific editorial corrections to
> typos, illogic and mistakes, what explanation is offered to explain (as in
> GoF) murder vs curse vs obstacle, etc.  (and that is a long sentence)

My wild guess:  JKR originally meant for Crouch Jr. (or whoever)
to have killed Moody and taken his place, but in the course of
writing him she decided the character of Moody was Just Too Cool
and that she wanted to use him (Real!Moody) later.  (And who
shall blame her?  Certainly not me!)  So she modified the story
to suit, but missed the correction in the earlier chapter until
after the book was first published.

What do you all think?  Will it fly?


--Margaret Dean
  <margdean at erols.com>