[HPforGrownups] Inconsistency in POA book (POA-movie spoiler)

[Mrs.) Lee Storm (God Is The Healing Force]

No: HPFGUIDX 100483

| From: Barbara
| Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 16:12 PM
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| Minor
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| Spoiler
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| POA
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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 --"
<Schnip>

[Lee]:

I'm gonna surmise that maybe Peter had two sets of robes on, perhaps
magically removing the blood-stained one, and cutting off the finger, then
transforming in the other set.  Not necessarily an error on the part of JKR,
but a slight-of-hand, so to speak, unwitnessed due to the ensuing chaos of
the moment.

Cheers,

Lee :-)

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