[HPforGrownups] Re: Copyediting Errors - Listed? (was:Voldemort killed personally?)

[Jordan Abel]

No: HPFGUIDX 157242

> > Random832:
> > Well, Flint himself, ...- there's nothing in canon that
> > explicitly states that no-one EVER gets left back a year.
> >
>
> bboyminn:
> I think perhaps what Mike is getting at is that just because we don't
> understand something or just because it seems inconsistent in the
> story so far, that doesn't mean these things are Flints (the general
> term for mistakes in the books).

Random832:
But I think it's a perfect example of a Flint - something that doesn't
outright contradict anything said in canon but nonetheless is highly
likely to be a mistake. There was absolutely no reason to think JKR
wasn't being serious in saying that Marcus Flint failed his exams and
was left back a year until finding out later that it had been quietly
corrected in subsequent editions of PS/SS. Saying "the general term
for mistakes in the books" oversimplifies - calling something a Flint
implicitly draws an analogy to the case of Marcus Flint.

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