Inconsistency in POA book (POA-movie spoiler)

[annemehr]

No: HPFGUIDX 100448

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Barbara" <bd-bear at v...> wrote:
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> 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:
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> "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 --"
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Annemehr:
Actually, I took it to mean that Pettigrew had *planned* to fake his
death. Sirius thinks he "caught up with" Pettigrew, but I think Peter
had anticipated that Sirius would be after him. He also may have
already heard some of what Sirius heard in Azkaban: that the DEs
blamed Peter for LV's downfall. So, I think PP had a spare set of
bloody robes on him to drop after shouting his line and blowing up the
street.  Then, when Sirius and Lupin turn him back into a man in the
Shrieking Shack, he was wearing the clothes he "had on" him the whole
twelve years he was a rat.

Just my interpretation, anyway.

Annemehr