Epilogue (was Re: Ron and Parseltongue)

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 183502

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:

> Puzzles like the presence of Lily's letter to Sirius in 
> the Black family home are left for the reader to figure 
> out--JKR herself seems not even to notice the problem. 
> Nor does she realize that the date of the letter, just 
> after Harry's first birthday, conflicts with the statement 
> in GoF that Wormtail was made SK only a week before the
> Potters' deaths. 


The date of the letter also conflicts with DD's statement in "King's 
Cross" chapter about James showing the Cloak to DD "just a few days 
previously", meaning a few days before their death (p.714). According 
to DD, James showed him the Cloak, and DD took it to examine just a 
few days before Lily and James died in October. However, Lily 
mentions in her letter (which is supposed to be written some time in 
August, I believe) that DD has the cloak and James can't go out 
because of that. 

I usually forgive the books inconsistencies easier than Carol does 
(for instance, I'm not bothered by the fact that the letter got 
somehow to 12 GP :-)), but the date of the letter really bothers me. 
Either this is an inconsistency, or we have to assume that Lily wrote 
a thank you letter to Sirius three months after Harry's birthday, 
which makes no sense at all.


zanooda, who thinks that it would be very easy to correct the timing 
of the letter, if JKR wanted to ...