OOP: Disappointing

[annemehr]

No: HPFGUIDX 66261

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Scott" <insanus_scottus at y...> 
wrote:
 And, I know people have 
> brought this up, but at the point Harry et al. go into the 
Ministry 
> via the phonebooth he was still considered a "nutcase" and a liar 
> who likes to play the hero. If there is ANY sort of screening 
> process for people entering the MoM then I feel sure "Harry Potter-
> Rescue Mission" would be right up there on the NO ADMITTANCE LIST 
> with "Voldemort-Murdering Spree" or something similar. 


Annemehr:
I took this as a joke (and enjoyed it very much)!  Here is this 
elaborate system to screen visitors, beautifully automated (by 
magic, of course), and /nobody's watching who's coming in/!  
Nobody's updating the list, if it exists, of who may be a security 
risk, and when the security wizard goes home for the night, it turns 
out there is no night shift!  And the wording of the badge itself 
was hilarious: exactly true, and the exact opposite of what the 
Ministry would have wanted, had they been PAYING ATTENTION!

It makes me laugh all the more because I've seen much the same in 
real life -- the most elegant system in the world (to do anything) 
is only as good as the humans who are supposed to be running it.  
Perhaps this little quirk in the system will come in handy in the 
next book?

Scott:
> [Phyllis wrote:]

> "No one from the Order guarding the prophecy when the DEs show up 
at 
> the end"
> --Like I said I thought they'd been killed by the DEs, but 
> apparently not...
> 

Annemehr:
Or lured away on a wild goose chase, perhaps (extremely kind of the 
DEs if that's true, though)...

Phyllis:
> "No mention of Halloween whatsoever"
Scott:
> --No mention of Harry's birthday either, and that's a first. Well 
> there was a passing mention of his "birthday card" but the day 
> itself was a non-issue.

Annemehr:
And Harry also threw away the Honeydukes chocolate Ron and Hermione  
had sent him! I took this as an emphatic indicator of how angry he 
was; his fifteenth birthday was no better than any of the ones 
between his second and tenth!

Annemehr
still digesting the book...