More OoP FLINTS/ Inconsistencies?

[Ali]

No: HPFGUIDX 69412

(All quotes are from the UK edition of OoP)

Without further explanation, the following appear to have FLINT-like 
qualities:

1)	Harry's Monday timetable:

Harry has History of Magic followed by Double Potions in the 
morning. Divination and double Defence against the Dark Arts in the 
afternoon.

To me, the phrase "double" means that it is two lessons together. 
This appears to be confirmed by JKR as on p. 214 Harry thinks 
that "the one good thing to be said for (the Monday afternoon 
Divination lesson) was that it was not a double period". This is 
Brit-speak for a double length lesson.

History of Magic should be only one lesson. Yet, Harry "suffered an 
hour and a half's droning on the subject of giant wars" p. 207. Then 
for Double Potions which should be double the length of History of 
Magic, Snape says to the class "You have an hour and a half
start". 
Admittedly, Snape had spent a few minutes talking to them 
beforehand, but the timings do not add up properly.

2) When Harry & co touch the Portkey and are transferred to 
Grimmauld Place after Mr Weasley's attack 

"they were of course still in their pyjamas" p. 421.

Ginny even asks Sirius "Can you lend us cloaks or anything".

Yet, on p. 425 "their trunks had arrived from Hogwarts while they 
were eating lunch so they could dress as Muggles
they changed out of 
their robes into jeans and sweatshirts".

Yet, until the trunks arrived, they didn't have any robes to change 
into.

3) This one is an unexplained inconsistency; did Harry serve his 
third week's worth of detentions "awarded" for his Quibbler 
interview? Is so, where and when?

On the night he was given the detention, he was in the Gryffindor 
Common room, not in detention. Of course, he could have done the 
detentions later. His first detention was after all served the day 
after it was given, but the detentions are not mentioned again nor 
where he had to do them.

When Harry has to go to Umbridge's office after Dumbledore went 
AWOL, it is sometime after the Quibbler incident, so he should have 
had the detentions by then. But,

"Umbridge's office, so very familiar to Harry from his many 
detentions, was the same as usual except
.his Firebolt and Fred and 
George's Cleansweeps".

This seems to indicate that he had not seen the brooms since they 
were confiscated as Umbridge had said 

"I shall keep them safely in my office" p. 369.

He could have done the detentions elsewhere, but as they would have 
interfered with both his Occlumency and DA lessons and yet they are 
never mentioned again, I believe that JKR simply forgot about them – 
or Umbridge did, but that I cannot believe!

Ali