JKR Brought it Upon Herself

[va32h]

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> Random:
 It's simply NOT RELEVANT.
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> Alla:
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> Oh I so agree with every word.

va32h:

Well I agree and disagree.  Actual dates are irrelevant - I don't know 
why JKR bothered with them on the Potters' gravestones either. Nick's 
deathday cake in CoS was written before the series became insanely 
popular, I don't fault JKR for not realizing how obsessive and nitpicky 
her readers would become. 

But in a larger sense - we have to be able to trust the author.  To 
feel that what she's telling us is important.  When the author makes a 
series of factual mistakes, it undermines that trust.  It makes me 
wonder - is this little factoid or that supposed to be meaningful, or 
is it just another oversight?

JKR has had little hiccups in the past, but DH just had too many boo-
boos in one place for me.  I began to feel that the "rules" of the JKR 
universe had become "whatever keeps the plot moving goes."

va32h