FBaWTFT (was Re: Snape and the Kappa: a Flint? )(Was: Snape and Lupin's Cha)

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> Alla:
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> What Nora said. Fantastic beasts is canon too

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I wonder at JKR for putting such a funny thing in FBaWTFT.  That is, 
that Snape made a mistake.  Was it her way of giving the die-hard 
fans a nod?  For all the times Ron and Harry didn't listen to 
Snape, it is sort of funny that they caught the mistake he made.

I've only seen FBaWTFT and QTTA once, as libary books and I managed 
to miss all the really cool stuff in both of them. So what if Snape 
made a mistake?  It wasn't his class, he was filling in...he had his 
own agenda (out Lupin without being overly obvious about it...)  And 
who among us hasn't taken pleasure at catching an unpopular teacher 
in a mistake?

If we're going to accept as canon that Theodore's father is an 
elderly widow and that Dean Thomas' father was a wizard, we have to 
accept this.

As for the Flint flint...I think JKR was poking fun at herself when 
she said something along the line if it had to be her mistake or 
Flint's mistake, she would let it be Flint's and he had to repeat 
the 7th year. But she pretty much admitted she made a mistake.  And 
she took blame for Mark Evans too.  So I accept Kappas as not being 
from Mongolia.  Snape, I'm sure, concentrated on Dark Curses and 
paid very little attention to Wee Dark Beasties.

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