Mistakes in Logic for Deathly Hallows: Kreacher's Tale

[bdclark0423]

No: HPFGUIDX 181398

Mistakes in Logic for Deathly Hallows:  Kreacher's Tale

I'm very good and remembering details when I read, but for some reason I
found that I had actually missed over quite a bit in Half-Blood Prince.
It was during a casual conversation with a co-worker that made me
realize this when discussing HP, and the 7th book was coming out soon
and what it would be like.  Order of the Pheonix had just come out on
the big screen and it was getting reviews about how dark the plot has
turned
things like Harry Potter has lost it's Disney Magic.  I
just wanted to slap those people to the back of the queue for it's a
small world after all ride.  Harry is not Disney:  it's a story of
young adults coming of age, which means there is going to be obvious
changes being made!

Anyway, back to the topic
my friend replied, yeah I can't
believe DD died, and without even thinking I replied, `he did?'
He then reminded me of how they went to the cave and got the locket
Horcrux, then back to the tower where Snape killed him.  And I don't
know how or why I couldn't remember this.  (I guess I subconsciously
repressed all this because of the tragedy of it all.)

So as I'm reading Deathly Hallows, I realized I must have not paid
any attention during HBP (or was just way too stoned :-P ) because
everything seemed disjointed, in fact, I would not have even been able
to tell you who the HBP was
..

So when Kreacher started to tell Harry about the locket and V's
cave, JKR says Harry's mind goes back to the same scene and how
there's the boat enchanted as to carry one wizard and one victim.  I
started to think back to HBP and don't ever remember a boat
requiring a wizard and a victim.

So, I went back to that chapter and re-read first just to make sure I
hadn't missed something, but secondly to sort-of-relive it as Harry
was doing during Kreachers rendition. But I think perhaps JKR is having
Harry associate the test devised by V to get to the locket Horcrux:  a
wizard would need to sacrifice a victim.  And this does not describe a
boat enchanted as to carry one wizard and one victim.

DD does say the boat was enchanted so that a powerful wizard could
summon it from the Inferi yet with just enough magical support for one
wizard to carry it to the island, yet there were two on the boat,
Harry's powers not yet considered to be enough (which could be
theoretically a truth since he's not yet 17).

Yet looking at the rest of the passage, the poison must be completely
drunk without any solution besides the water where the Inferi exist, and
of course, using their water meant you were there's
.unless you
use fire, a suggestion DD makes to Harry before they even get to the
island.  So why wouldn't this have been factored in to DD's plan
as he's thinking to solve the riddle of the basin?

Anyway, with such a cheesy escape like simply casting a fire spell to
confuse them and use the boat a second time to cross the lake, I
don't feel the boat could be considered to be enchanted as such as
she puts it.

It was the basin with poison that requires a victim to reveal it's
contents, in combination of water belonging to the Inferi, but never the
boat.

I see this just a small loophole in JKR's logic, but I can't
believe that Harry would have considered this requirement for the boat.
Now with Kreacher's tale and DD's escape, this would only
reinforce that V's plan wasn't fool proof and I truly would that
feel Harry would ever endorse it as valid.

Another thing that really had me wondering, though is how does Harry
know they're called Inferi?  DD didn't even know what they were
during the entire passage as the only name he uses as description is
`creatures.'  Then, of course, there isn't any mention of
them by name by DD to HP up until he dies.

I'm probably being way too analytical here, but I definitely see it
as a mistake (very, very small one) if she's trying to circle in
some of her plot lines yet doesn't make a complete closure.


bdclark0423