Wand order: Should there have been a public whoops?
foxmoth at qnet.com
foxmoth at qnet.com
Tue Sep 11 00:55:09 UTC 2001
No: HPFGUIDX 25909
...waits while everyone who is S&T of discussing this scrolls on
past...
A public whoops! might have made us feel better, but it would
only have spoiled the illusion for the 99% of readers who would never
notice anything was wrong. I agree the corrected version isn't quite
as graceful or affecting as the original, but you know, that could be a
way of being as fair as possible to the people who'd already bought the
book...either you get the graceful version, or the correct
one...neither is perfect.
As ingenious as all our inventions are, they all rely on either
the scene at Godric's Hollow not unfolding as we've been led to
believe it did, or priori incantatem not working the way we've been
told it does. Given JKR's predilection for re-using plot devices, that
probably wouldn't fly. I have a feeling we can expect priori to show up
again, and at that time it will be very important that Harry not be
able to interfere with the way it works.
Pippin
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