19 years later...

[doddiemoemoe]

No: HPFGUIDX 176399

> Bart wrote: 
> This bears repeating every couple of months:
> 
> "There are three kinds of people in this world. Those who can 
count, and those who can't." - J. K. Rowling.

Doddie here:

Too true and too funny! Also, just had to add that there is also the 
sheer genius of one who cannot count incoporating the "bad maths" 
gene into her villian who also had bad maths and inadvertently 
created seven horcruxes rather than six.(eight never struck me as a 
particularly magical number--poor Tom-LOL)

Us fans have hammered JKR's bad maths so much over the years I often 
wonder if by the time GOF came around she changed the story so there 
was an additional horcrux(Harrycrux--hence the massive volume of GOF 
and OOP--esp. caps lock Harry) she didn't initially intend.(would 
explain a plot hole or two or not...just wondering.)

I'd just love to correct JKR and tell her that it's not about 
counting, but about logic..some have it, some don't but all of 
humanity has a certain amount of logic that falls w/in a certain 
range...all IQ tests incorporate logic measurements..but that is 
just one aspect of many contained in an IQ test...although I think 
JKR gets this..there was Snape's clue in PS/SS every time I read it 
I just glaze over and can never be bothered to logic it out myself--
just continue to read until I get to Hermione's brilliant answer(now 
I know how Harry and Ron oft felt around her)...no wonder why there 
were so few NEWT level potions students in HBP they are still glazed 
over!L0L

Doddie,
(Who is glad that the kids go back to school tomorrow after having 
the summer off, and is sorry she didn't do a summer science 
experiment by putting a potted plant in the fridge just to prove to 
her kids and all their friends how long they actually keep the 
fridge open; and who also cannot believe that after all these years 
she STILL cannot sleep the day before school begins. *sigh*)