At least respect JKR if you can't say something intelligent

[Josh Warren]

No: HPFGUIDX 109377

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "samnanya" <yswahl at s...> wrote:
> It is entirely another to criticize an author or that author's work 
> without understanding how something YOU don't see may be critical
> in later books.
> And clearly, JKR just randomly throws around dates, and row
> numbers, and rat fingers, time turners, and pies as the mood serves
>  her and just randomly happens to come up with these 
> extraordinarily addictive storylines........

Well, the dates not making sense is fairly random... rat fingers and 
time turners and stuff are at least useful. Whether or not a 
particular date in what we assume to be 1981 was a Tuesday or a 
Thursday doesn't mean anything.... especially since we know that 
these things are wrong.

We value JKR and her books for the plotline, which is well done and 
intended for a 7 book stretch... unlike other plots lines that were 
stretched far beyond their original reach... Dune, anyone? Yes, one 
thing that would be nice for her to handle, if she does as she's said 
and revises all 7 books, is weeding out all the inconsitancies and 
perusing a calendar or 10... but we are obligated by the evidence to 
realize that there are things that simply don't matter in the books, 
and that they aren't all red herrings by intent.

> Now just so any rational person who has read this might get some
> value out of the above ravings,,,, lets see if anyone can figure
> out how 1492 and row 97 in oop  MIGHT be related to each other -- 
> or is this just random too ? 

You mean that the digits add up to 16? and therefore 7 given 
Arithmancy? Nah... digit counting games get old, and Sir Nick's 
original death is too far removed from the prophesy's storage 
location in the DoM to be related. Perhaps JKR is a Columbus fan 
(kinda surprising that was left out of a certain namesake's rendition 
of a certain book that contains it) and perhaps she came up with 
where the prophesy was stored in '97? Who knows? :)

Josh