Details (was Re: Full Moon - A Rant About Lycantrophy Symptoms)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 124011


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Renee" 
<R.Vink2 at c...> wrote:
 Most of the  errors, flints and inconsistencies are about matters 
of secondary  importance and not detrimental to the overal story. 
I'd almost be  inclined to say something like "if it's erroneous 
and/or leads to  confusion, it's most likely not crucial".  <

> However, one problem with such a statement is, that we can't 
be sure  it's valid as long as we've still got two books to go. 
Another  problem is that we (or maybe it's just me?) seem to lack 
a good  overview. Does anyone remember details from an 
earlier book that seemed wrong at the time but suddenly made 
sense when viewed in the  context of later developments and 
revelations? Contradictions  resolved over the course of several 
books? Apparent mistakes that  turned out to be no such thing? 
I'm not talking about details that stood out as strange or 
inconsistent in retrospect, but about things  that did so at first 
sight.
> 

Pippin:
Oh yes. Scabbers suddenly falling asleep in PS/SS  seemed 
very contrived to me at the time  but made sense once I found out 
he's not only a phony rat but a "sleeper" servant of Voldemort. 

Ginny's tearful collapse at the end of CoS was so overdone it 
seemed  phony. In the light of OOP, I now understand it was 
intended that way. Not only is Ginny not the shy helpless damsel 
she appeared to be for four books, she's crying to conceal her 
guilt.

Mr. Weasley lectures her about not showing the diary to him or 
her mother, and Ginny sobs two answers in a row about how 
she didn't know the diary was dangerous. Clearly a lie, if you 
think about it. She *did* know it was dangerous by the time she 
stole it back from Harry.

Dumbledore interrupts "firmly" and sends her off to the hospital 
wing. Legilimens that he is, he must know full well that she's 
holding her guilty knowledge back, and  *that's* why he 
reassures her that there has been no lasting harm done.

Pippin