Omniscient Author/In defense of JKR)

[prefectmarcus at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 25849

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., cynthiaanncoe at h... wrote:
> Then there are other things that could have been avoided with a few 
> simple edits.  One of these (for me) is the fact that champions 
don't 
> think to obtain the dragon egg using a Summoning charm. 

I have always explained it by the following: "The first task is 
designed to test your daring."  GOF-AE p281.

How daring would a simple summoning charm be?  It would be like an 
olympic diver doing a simple half-turn.  Very safe, but not worth a 
whole lot of points.


> Then there was Harry's failure to 
> use a Summoning charm to obtain the Marauder's Map when his leg was 
> stuck in the stair.  I would have liked to see him mentally 
chastise 
> himself for not thinking of this faster.  
> 

That's the point, he didn't think of it.  Just like when he and Ron 
flew the car to Hogwarts.  Neither of them thought to send Hedwig 
until McGonagall mentioned it.  Then they realized how stupid they'd 
been.  Both of them had had hours to think about it.  :)

> By my measure, then, the really horrible one is the only one that 
> jumped out at me on my first reading:  the wand order.   I will say 
> this, though.  I don't entirely understand why everyone is so 
unhappy 
> about the way this was fixed.  Perhaps someone will enlighten me.
> 
> Cindy

I wish I could, but I don't really understand it either. It jumped 
out at me the first time too.  I figured that it was either an error 
or something revealing like the gleam. I'm just glad it got corrected.

Marcus