questions on FBAWTFT

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 97390

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "khilari2000" <hannah at r...> wrote:
> Lara:
> > 
> > Question # 4:
> > I think Our Dear Severus was trying to find something wrong with 
> > what Luin gave as information. He might just say that to say 
> > something to the contrary of what Lupin said. It could be that 
> > Kappas also "went to" Mongolia, like Fries, which are Belgian 
> > originally, but can be found everywhere in many different countries. 
> > (not that good of an analogy, but the best I could come up with). 
> > Either way, it's kind of irrelavant. 
> 
> 
> Thanks for answering, you are probably right about Winky. I am not 
> sure whether Snape being wrong about kappas is irrelevent. I agree it 
> is unlikely to have a bearing on the story, but it bothers me just 
> because it seems a strange mistake to make. If he was trying to pick 
> holes in Lupin's teaching, surely claiming that Lupin was wrong when 
> any student could verify he was right just by looking it up is rather 
> a stupid thing to do. I admit this bugs me far more than it ought to.


Carol:
It's possible that it's JKR who made the mistake. There are definite
inconsistencies within the series, many of which have been discussed
here repeatedly. An inconsistency between two books by the same
author, one part of the series and the other not, might not be worth
worrying about. It was probably just a fact she forgot to check, like
Nearly Headless Nick's death year. I really doubt that she intended
for Snape to be wrong there. It's not in character, and as you say,
the students, especially Hermione, would have caught it. "Excuse me,
Professor Snape, but turn to page 394. . . ." 

Carol