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

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 126078


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Chys Sage Lattes"
<yami69hikari at y...> wrote:
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> How is it clumbsy foreshadowing if he actually gets part of what he 
> wants, having earned it himself? (I see nothing wrong with that, no 
> matter WHO is involved. Isn't the point of foreshadowing to show 
> something that could potentially happen? Just because it's something 
> the character desires doesn't make it any less of an achievable goal.)
 

Because Ron most definitely HAS NOT earned it.  Dumbledore himself
admitted that Harry was the one who deserved the badge.  Ron receiving
it as he did represents extremely poor writing on JKR's part, an
attempt to fulfill a foreshadowing that we were told wasn't a
foreshadowing (i.e. that the mirror does not predict the future).


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> As well, Draco is a person everyone would listen to. He's probably 
> academically stable, too. Some people wonder why he got to be 
> prefect. I say, why not? He probably earned it as much as Ron did.
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Because Draco is dangerous, malicious, and tyrannical.  That is most
definitely NOT a person who has earned a position of authority, or who
should be given it even if he has.


Lupinlore