Half-Blood Prince

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 183868

Carol earlier:
> > > Stll, though, I find it annoying to have to search for
explanations as to how a character could have known something. It's
like Ron knowing that Draco had a Hand of Glory (which, canonically,
he didn't because Lucius refused to by it for him)
> 
> Lynda:
> What I do not understand is why it is annoying to think, oh, I guess
that Draco either asked his mother for the same thing, or went into
town by himself when he was older and bought himself a Hand of Glory.
I have never understood why some people have to have everything
delineated to them to understand why. After all, real people go back
to the store and buy things or have someone else purchase them for
them. Is there any reason that an author cannot expect the readers of
a book to make that same logical leap?

Carol:
What's annoying (to me) is not Draco's having the Hand of Glory but
Ron's somehow knowinag about it. See my responses to other posters.

And I *don't* want everything delineated to me any more than you do. I
enjoy drawing inferences and analyzing characters' motives as much as
the next person. It's outright inconsistencies involving "fictional
facts" that I find annoying. To provide an obvious example, eventually
corrected in later editions, Ron's red and gold Prefect badge is
described as "identical" to Percy's silver one. Obviously, the badges
are *not* identical and the description of one or the other must be
changed to make it true. I would also like to have James's age in SWM
consistent with his birthdate in DH. (He should be sixteen, not
fifteen in that scene, but he's referred to three times as being
fifteen, perhaps because JKR, like Harry, has a July 31 birthday and
forgets that most students would celebrate their birthdays during the
schoolyear.)

Carol, noting that annoyance is a subjective reaction and that I'm not
trying to persuade anyone to share my annoyance, only to explain why I
feel as I do