BubbleHead Charm (was Beedle the Bard SPOILERS\Animagi comentary)

[Jerri&Dan Chase]

No: HPFGUIDX 185192


> What I found so annoying, along with about a hundred other things in
> the series, was that Herms and Harry could find no record of the
> bubblehead charm in all their searching but a year later everyone in
> school knew it.
> JLyon

This is one point that I didn't have trouble accepting.  Once everyone knew 
the charm existed, then they could all learn how to do it.  Cedric would 
almost certainly have shown the Hufflepuffs in their common room after the 
2nd task.  And, if one knew the name of the charm one wants to learn and is 
not forbidden by the "rules" of the TWT from asking for help from teachers, 
Flitwick would be delighted to help, and one could also ask the librarian 
for help finding a specific named charm.  In fact, it could even have been 
in one or more of the books HRH had looked through, but they were so focused 
on "water" that if the charm was not described with the word "water" in a 
prominent enough part of the description, they easily could have missed it.

Of course, I do think that Gilly Weed was a much better method, helping 
Harry keep warm, and giving him flipper like hands and feet to make swimming 
easier.

But, the Bubble Head Charm issue doesn't bother me like the sudden mention 
of "the trace" or a number of other inconsistencies.

Jerri