questions on FBAWTFT

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No: HPFGUIDX 97872

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at y...> wrote:
> --- 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). 
<snip>
> 
> Carol:
> It's possible that it's JKR who made the mistake.<snip>
> 
> Carol

I tried to find the original post but couldn't so I am not sure if 
this was mentioned or not...  In the book "Fantastic Beasts and Where 
to Find Them" Kappas are mentioned as being from Japan and there is a 
notation "written in" that says "Snape hasn't read this either".  
These natations are to be viewed as being written by Harry or Ron.  I 
am not sure if this was JKR's way of smoothing out a wrinkle or if 
she was just showing that different teachers explain things 
differently.  I do think JKR knows these stories better than any of 
us and she does pay close attention to detail.  There are some things 
that she has referred to in interviews... things that she felt the 
readers would just assume, things she didn't think she needed to 
specifically clarify for us.  ::shrugs::  I like to look at it as 
Snape is not as perfect (knowledge wise) as he would like the 
students to think he is.

Lynnette, who thinks Snape IS a good guy, even if he is NOT a nice
guy!
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