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[va32h]

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Petra <ms_petra_pan at ...> wrote:

> In some ways, fleshing out a plot is like reverse engineering -
> you know what you want the end result to be like but how do you
> choose the many various ways of getting there?
> 
> Inconsistencies are often signs that a detail is of little
> significance to the author, even if they mean a lot to *us*
> during the process of trying to weed through her red herrings
> to discover the real clues [aka can(n)on for theory/ships]
> *before* the saga concluded.

va32h:


To an extent, I do blame the readership.  JKR honestly answered that
Harry's grandparents are all dead because she needed Harry to be an
orphan.  Plain and simple.  But many, many readers won't just accept
that and continue to ask why and how they died.  So it's half our
fault for not being able to (as I said earlier) use our own
imaginations for these incredibly minor, petty details. 

But JKR certainly did not help, with her winking and vamping and "ooh
I can't tell you" type answers.  

Inconsistencies by themselves do not bother me. Taken as a whole (and
given the sheer volume of them in DH) they do undermine my trust in
the author.  How am I supposed to know what is "real" and what is a
"Flint" when the author is so consistently careless in her details? 

And on a whole other level, I find it sort of rude.  It would take
minutes to pop onto the Lexicon and solve these "Flints".  That JKR
could not be bothered to take that time (when fandom has taken the
time to create something like the Lexicon) just strikes me as rude. 
If we can waste the space in our brains to remember the definition of
a Secret Keeper, why can't she?  Or at least employ someone to
remember it for her?

va32h