Inconsistency in POA book (POA-movie spoiler)
Barbara
bd-bear at verizon.net
Tue Jun 8 20:11:42 UTC 2004
No: HPFGUIDX 100444
Minor
Spoiler
for
POA
I know I've read a few posts on one of these lists regarding the
moment in POA when Pettigrew turns back into a rat. How when he
turns back into a human from being a rat, he has clothes on, but
when he turns back into a rat, the clothes don't go with him. I
agree that is an error in the movie, but in re-reading POA, I
noticed JKR made the same kind of error when describing how
Pettigrew escaped from Sirius. When she's in the Three Broomsticks
in Hogsmeade talking with Hagrid, Fudge, Flitwick and Rosmerta, she
mentions:
"And Black standing there laughing, with what was left of Pettigrew
in front of him. . .a heap of bloodstained robes and a few -- a few
fragments --"
Obviously this is a mistake on JKR's part. It certainly doesn't make
sense for an Animagus not to have his clothes when he transforms.
When has McGonagall ever transformed without taking her
clothes/robes with her (or her spectacles for that matter, which are
part of her markings as a tabby)? In this very book she transforms
before teaching the class on Animagi. Imagine if she were to turn
back into herself after being a cat without her robes!
"Ugh, McGonagall naked!"
"Didn't need to see that."
Barbara
aka bd-bear
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