[HPforGrownups] Apparate or die trying

[Dave Hardenbrook]

No: HPFGUIDX 39601


Thursday, June 6, 2002, 9:33:29 PM, Brooks Rowlett wrote:

BR> Frankly I think the bottom line of all this is that JKR adds ideas as she comes 
BR> up with them, and doesn't think out that there are certain logical consequences 
BR> that would reverberate through her world...  a phenomenon we have encountered a 
BR> LOT in Star Trek, for example.

Or Oz... For the first three Oz books, Baum couldn't even make up his
mind whether the Wizard (not a minor character by any assessment) was
merely a well-intentioned humbug, or a malicious, opportunistic
b-s--rd.  (Baum finally settled on the former, after Glinda trained
the Wiz to be a bone fide wizard, though I think he must have taken
night courses at Hogwarts too. :) )

Anyway, because JKR worked out her series beforehand, there's far
fewer continuity boo-boos than in other worlds.

And getting back to Dumbledore, frankly I can't help thinking that he
may be one of those people who finds broomstick flying not only safer,
but more fun. (A view that I think Harry himself will likely adopt.)

-- 
Dave