The Timing of Lupin WAS - 'That Night'- Fudge After the Fact

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No: HPFGUIDX 109326

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <asian_lovr2 at y...> wrote:
> 
> You might be right if we could assume that people, and more important
> Mr. Weasley, speak with technical perfection, but they don't. 
> 
> There is a difference between the narative part and actual speech in
> any book. If JKR is a good writer, we would indeed expect narative to
> adhere to properly applied English, but in natural speech, it's pretty
> much anything goes, as long as it's consistent with the character. 
> 
> I don't personally find it all that uncommon or out of place for
> Arthur to say "...Black's been talking..." which we assume means
> 'Black has been talking'. Especially when it is the guards speaking
> and the time proximity is the very night Black escaped and perhaps
> only minutes from that escape. 
> 
> Really, it's just a thought.
> 

Agreed, that's a possibility.
But unless I read it my way there's little chance of a conspiracy,
and what would I have to write about then?

I hate SHIPs, Time Travel and the "Ooh! wouldn't it be good if..."
sort of posts. What's left? Character assessments or analysis of
possibly significant events - I'm starting to repeat myself on those
- and conspiracies of one sort or another, actual or imagined.

Final resolution theories are a bit iffy to say the least, we're 
missing too much information on key figures and events; there's 
great gaping holes all over the place. After the next book we should
be able to tackle that with a fair chance of success, but at the 
moment.....

Besides, JKR is a linguist, she studied languages at university, so
there's a fair chance that verb forms and tenses are accurate
reflections of what she's trying to tell us.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Kneasy