World Building & The Potterverse -When it Rains, it Rains

[Ken Hutchinson]

No: HPFGUIDX 167353

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboyminn at ...> wrote:
>
> 
> A flaw in 'world building' is only a flaw if it is so 
> glaringly obvious and jarring that you are drawn out of 
> the story by it. As long as you are compelled to keep 
> reading, it doesn't really matter if Mars was /really/ 
> bright that night, or if the moon was /really/ full that
> night, or if Dragon /really/ exist.
> 

There is a mixture here because some of the flaws I noticed instantly,
others on reflection, others yet because other readers pointed them
out. A story I read only once through can get away with a lot of
errors. Part of the attraction of these stories to those on this list
is that they generally bear up to repeated reading and close scrutiny.
That puts an extra burden on the author to be accurate and the
inaccuracies here are often of a kind that were easily fixed.

The end of "Around The World In Eighty Days" has a delightful twist
because Jules Verne got it right. That is missing here in many
instances and while it does not ruin the books for me, it does grate.

Ken