World Building & The Potterverse / some Jules Verne's spoilers

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 167435

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Ken Hutchinson" <klhutch at ...> 
wrote:
>
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214"
> <dumbledore11214@> wrote:
> >
> > Ken:
> > <SNIP>
> > 
> > > 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.
> > 
> > 
> > Alla:
> > 
> > LOLOL. I am sorry but I do find Jules Verne example to be 
hilarious 
> > as 
> > example of someone who **got it right**. Okay, contrary to lovely 
> > Betsy who managed to touch Sarah Monette books without spoilering 
> > them, I am going to be discussing some spoilers here. But I will 
tie 
> > my comments with Potterverse, I hope.
> > 
 > 
> Ken:
> 
> I didn't mean to say that Jules Verne gets things right more often
> than JK Rowling. The Verne example I gave was just to illustrate how
> getting the "maths" right can actively delight the average reader 
and
> not just those who read with a slide rule in one hand and a 
perpetual
> calendar in the other. 

Hickengruendler:

The difference being, that it was crucial to the plot. The whole 
ending depended on it. The Jule Verne wasn't simply a minor detail, 
like two mondays in a row in GoF, but it was *the* most important 
twist of the whole story. Therefore I find this a rather bad example 
for a comparison, since of course Verne would pay detention to this. 
He plotted the whole storyline around this twist after all. This is 
not the case with the examples you gave regarding the errors in the 
Potter series. Even the inconcistencies regarding the full moon 
aren't really crucial. Therefore a fair comparison would be between 
similarly minor (or similarly major things), not between some random 
details of one book and the major plot twist of another.