[HPforGrownups] Re: Meaning of FLINT

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 39641

Ali wrote:

>I think that JKR has "acknowledged" the "Flint" over Marcus Flint. I
>have 2 copies of PS, one dated from 1998 and another from 2001. In
>the first, Flint is a 6th year, but in the second he's a fifth year.
>To my mind, this is evidence that the mistake has been acknowledged,
>and rectified for later editions. I don't know what that says about
>JKR's interviews being canon though - clearly if canon is
>inconsistent it can change! I guess she made up the fact about Flint
>retaking a year on the spur of the moment, and then decided to change
>it later on.
>

Heidi lamented:

>Oh, I hate when they do this. This is like what happened with the >Wand 
>Order situation - read posts from july - nov 2000 for more - if >even the 
>books themselves can be changed so long after publication, >then is 
>anything "canon"?
>
>Am I the only one very bothered by these changes?


I wish they hadn't changed it because her spur-of-the-moment correction was 
clever and funny.  But it all becomes part of the lore, doesn't it?

I am 99% sure I have heard her talk about coming up with this solution in 
response to a close-reading child.  Am LOONily searching for the reference 
now.  BTW, our term was coined by Pippin in a stroke of genius even cleverer 
than JKR's original dodge, and wasn't originally an acronym.  Tabouli 
honored it with an acronym later.

Amy Z

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