Slytherins come back WAS: Re: My Most Annoying Character

[Bruce Alan Wilson]

No: HPFGUIDX 180132

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"Even the very sentence she's referring to says Slughorn 
returns with the relatives of the students who stayed to 
fight (no Slytherins there) and the shopkeepers in Hogsmeade 
(so not students). She actually did think it was a good idea 
to tell us who returned there. She just didn't say it was 
any Slytherins. So this is a place where for me, there's 
no question: what's written in the book far trumps the 
author's mis-remembering of the event. (JKR also thought 
Colin's camera didn't work at Hogwarts when it did in 
canon.) I "

I think that a few years down the road, when the dust 
settles, JKR should think about doing a revised edition 
of the books to fill in some of those holes and tighten 
up some of the inconsistancies, much as Katherine Kurtz 
is doing with some of the early Dernyi novels.

Bruce Alan Wilson

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