In defense of Joanne Kathleen Rowling

[prefectmarcus at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 25844

I keep reading about all the flints in GoF and what a sloppy job it 
is.  I respectfully disagree.  Other than the famous wand order and a 
typo here and there, what irreconcilable conflicts are you referring 
to?  What slop?

Remember, the text is canon, but it does NOT tell all, nor is anybody 
in it perfect in thought, action, or anything else. Everybody -- and 
I do mean *everybody* -- makes mistakes and just plain misses or 
mistakes things.  It is a fact that Harry is very aware of what is 
going on around him, but he certainly is not omniscent.  He does not 
notice everything, and many things he thinks he does notice turn out 
to be just plain wrong.  

JKR is too good of a writer to make anybody perfect.  She also does 
not go into excruciating detail.  She tells what she has to plotwise, 
and very little more.  It's one of her strengths as a writer.  I like 
to think it is the Jane Austen influence.  This board wouldn't be 
nearly as fun if she told all.  How boring if she gave it all to us 
on a silver platter.  I would have long since moved on to somebody 
else.

Marcus