CHAPTER DISCUSSION: Chapter 9, and a NEW Flint!!!

[justcarol67]

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 Jo Serenadust wrote:  
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> Hermione isn't *always* right (although OOP tempts the reader to 
> believe she is), and I expect there will be a day of reckoning in 
> book 6 or 7 when everyone will realize it.  Personally, I truly 
> can't wait for that to happen since "little Miss Perfect" rather got 
> on my nerves in OOP <vbg>! 

I've been wondering since I first read OoP whether "Little Miss
Perfect" might be a typographical error (maybe a bad correction by the
editor that was never re-corrected) for "Little Miss Prefect." Rita
Skeeter would see Hermione's badge and know that she was a prefect,
but I don't know why she would consider Hermione "perfect" unless that
was a sarcastic term for "Know-it-all." It bothers me that "Little
Miss Perfect" is repeated several times, so that if it really is an
error, it was deliberately perpetuated. (If it were JKR's own typo,
somehow overlooked by copy editors and proofreaders, it would have
occurred only once.) Anybody?

Carol