It really annoys me (but not me )

[eggplant107]

No: HPFGUIDX 163906

Inge: 

> Why on earth then is it, that Sirius
> had to go to Azkaban with no  trial,
> when all they needed to do, was to
> check *his* wand, to see if  he indeed
> *did* cast the spell that killed all the Muggles

Even assuming the Ministry wanted to find the truth and not just find
a scapegoat (and I see evidence of that) it would still prove
precisely nothing. If I got it into my head to cast a horrendously
evil spell I wouldn't use my official wand, the one that everybody has
seen me use for years. I'd spend a galleon at a second hand wand shop
for a junk wand, and then I'd ditch it after the dirty deed was done.
Remember in book 4 there was uncontroversial proof that Harry's wand
had conjured the Dark Mark, but nobody thought Harry was the one who
had done it, not after a few seconds of thought anyway.

But there is a far more important inconsistency, in book 1 the
official stool used in the sorting ceremony had 4 legs, in book 2 it
only had 3. That completely destroyed the entire series for me. NOT!
Seriously though, considering all the thousands and thousand of tiny
little details in 6 books that JKR must keep track of I'm amazed there
aren't far more inconsistencies then there are. Perhaps she's made a
flowchart or a computer database of every person animal concept or
thing in the entire Potter saga.

Eggplant