The dust corpse

[Ken Hutchinson]

No: HPFGUIDX 174982

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
>
> Carol responds:
> 
> As for the tongue-tying curse, since Snape didn't intend to reveal the
> Secret anyway, it would have provided him with a new,
> Legilimency-proof excuse for not revealing the Secret. (I choose to
> believe that the Pensieve memories are in their proper sequence and
> JKR's chat response is uncanonical. ;-) )
> 
> Carol, who thinks that the Order had no more clue regarding Snape's
> powers than his loyalties
>

Ken:

I never thought of this until now but what good is the tongue-tying curse
anyway? Snape could write the address on a pieces of paper, or parchment
if he really must, and hand them out as party favors at the next DE
shindig at the Malfoy's. That is how Harry was let in on the secret after 
all.

I really do find DH a satisfying conclusion to the series for some reason.
The more I think about it, the more comments I read here, the more it
seems like a really good first draft rather than a finished book. The things
that Rowling does well, she seems to do really well and almost effortlessly.
I guess that saves it for me because she simply can't get the details right.

Ken