Copyediting Errors - Listed? (was:Voldemort killed personally?)

[Ken Hutchinson]

No: HPFGUIDX 157357


> Carol wrote:
> 
> Another continuity error that jumps out at me, even though no one else
> seems to care about it, is Ron's reference, months before Draco lets
> the DEs into Hogwarts, to "Malfoy's Hand of Glory." How did Ron know
> about that? Harry never mentioned it, and even he didn't see Draco
> buying it. Draco asked his father if he could have it and Borgin
> recommended it as an aid to thieves and plunderers, but Lucius sneers
> that he hopes his son becomes something better than a thief or a
> plunderer, and besides, Lucius is *selling* Dark artifacts, not buying
> them. So Draco himself must have bought the Hand of Glory at some
> point, but neither Harry nor Ron could know that.
> 

Ken:

I've been bothered by it to the extent that I have been trying without
success to find the earlier reference where Draco brags about getting
his Hand of Glory. It's nice to know that other's can't find such a
reference either. I suppose that Lucius could have relented at some
point or as you suggest that Draco bought it himself. It might be
considered a bit sloppy not to include a scene where Draco brags about
it. We can assume that Draco *did* brag about it when he got it even
though we don't see that happening in the text. I'd stop short of
calling it an error, but then I don't believe that *everything* has to
be, or is, called out explicitly in canon. I can accept that she would
expect us to make that connection on our own, the clues were all there.

Ken