Flints (was Blood on DD face again WAS: Re: Is Snape good or evil?

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 149097

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at ...> wrote:
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> > kchuplis:
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> > I've never understood why this is a bone of contention either. The 
> map  was in fake!Moody's office. Like DD wouldn't have that returned to 
Harry, just like the cape? Just because it is not shown in a scene 
 does  not mean it is a mistake.
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> Potioncat:
> It's a flint if it's a mistake. I wouldn't call the map a flint. It 
> would be a flint if we saw Crouch!Moody destroy it in one book, but 
> Harry had it in another. The fact that we didn't see him get it doesn't 
> make it a flint. Poor transition, perhaps.

Pippin:
It might have been intentional, to set up a situation where we'll
take it for granted that Harry must have recovered his invisibility 
cloak from the tower in HBP, so that we discover he doesn't have
it at the same time he does.

Potioncat:
> The flints that I can think of, have more to do with dates and ages. It 
> seems like the membership of the Slytherin gang involve a flint because 
> the ages don't work out. The real age of the oldest Weasley sons is a 
> flint because the events and their ages don't work out together. (At 
> least I think that was the general conclusion, I long ago gave up on 
> Weasley ages.)
> 
> The Black family tree has a number of flints.
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> Has anyone actually made a list of flints? 
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Pippin:
The lexicon has lists of edits and changes for each book. Rowling has 
actively been correcting the text. I would say for the older books, 
anything obviously inconsistent which has not been corrected is 
intentional -- either a mystery yet to be resolved, or an instance of 
poetic license. 


Interestingly, though she has corrected  the  order in which the 
characters emerge from the whomping willow in PoA, the moon 
still makes an appearance before Lupin transforms:

"The moon drifted in and out of sight behind the shifting clouds" --
PoA ch 21

Like the blood on Dumbledore's face, this is a straightforward 
occurrence that if taken literally would seriously undermine Harry's
interpretation of events. 

Pippin
still ROTFLMAO over Lupinlore's assertion that Rowling would
need to have done forensic research to know  about wiping up 
blood. Vive la difference...