[HPforGrownups] Inconsistencies (Was: Hermione's parents)

[Lynda Cordova]

No: HPFGUIDX 175595

Pam says:

When my eight year old son knitted his brow and said, "but wait, polyjuice
potion is only supposed to last an hour," I knew something was seriously
wrong. I realize that when JKR introduced polyjuice potion in book 2, it was
something like eight years ago for her, a trifling detail to remember when
so much has happened in her own life. But both Bloomsbury and Scholastic
have people employed there as continuity editors; it is these peoples' sole
function to catch these kinds of errors.

Lynda:

I have a pretty good imagination, and have read a lot of books that give
various levels of description. I do not have to be told that the people who
are taking polyjuice potion to maintain an altered physical description are
doing so every hour. I know that the potion needs to be swallowed every hour
for them to maintain their altered appearances and those appearances were
maintained throughout the timeperiod required, so I simply extrapolate that
they did so. Just as I extrapolate that they, eat, sleep, bathe, without
having to be told the minute details of everything they do.

Lynda


[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]