Umbridge, detention, scars, and plotlines, oh my!.

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 126064


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214"
<dumbledore11214 at y...> wrote:
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> I guess my question to you will be if Ron did not see all that in the 
> Mirror, would you have considered him being Prefect not as contrived 
> as you think now? In other words is your main objection Ron becoming 
> a prefect per se, or the fact that he saw himself getting all that in 
> the Mirror?
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> I think that without Mirror I would feel better about Ron being a 
> prefect.
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> JMO,
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> Alla.

Good points, Alla.  Without the Mirror I would still have felt the
prefect subplot to be rather unbelievable, but it would not have
seemed nearly so contrived and poorly written.  You are right that it
is the incredibly clumsy foreshadowing in the mirror (if that is
indeed what it is) that makes the development of Ron seem so contrived
and manipulative.

Lupinlore