Ok, for GoF i have read it 2or 3 times and I switch off listening to the tapes and reading the book.  Apparently each time I have *listened* to the part in the cemetary-the famous wand problem.  The tape says Pops came out first and my *book* says Mom comes out first!  I can't believe it!  Sheesh!  My very expensive hardbound book it rubbish!  I want the original write!    I feel Shanghighed (or whatever).

Kitty %{

On Mon, 10 September 2001, foxmoth@qnet.com wrote:

> 
>     It could be a Flint that Molly says Rita's a wretched woman in an 
> earlier chapter and then believes her about Hermione, but I don't think 
> so, nor do I think it was done simply for comic effect. It's a 
> foreshadowing of Fudge's behavior in the Parting of the Ways. *He* 
> certainly has reason to know that Rita's reporting is unreliable, but 
> he falls for the story about Harry. Jo is  pointing out the way in 
> which most of us take what's written with far too few grains of salt, 
> even after we've had experience of the way the media can distort a 
> story.
>     Blind spots, big and small, are a major theme of the series. After 
> all, the central premise is that there's a whole magical world, 
> partially hidden by charms and spells, but mostly by the fact that we 
> Muggles are too cloddish to notice it.  All the characters we've seen 
> have some blindness about them, even Dumbledore. Molly is not 
> omniscient or all-wise. She puts a little too much trust in the written 
> word, just as Fudge puts too much in *purity of blood*.
>     
>     I was around for the wand hoo-hah. I even came up with a far 
> fetched theory to explain it, but IIRC most of our remarks were 
> prefaced with a "well, it could just be a mistake but..." So I wasn't 
> disappointed in Jo when that's what it turned out to be, even though I 
> was a little let down to realize it wasn't a Clue after all. That 
> needn't mean there aren't *any* clues in the text. I continue to 
> believe that Rowling has a reason for informing us once and only once 
> in each book that Snape resembles a bat. <g>
>     Authors, even great ones, make mistakes and change their minds. 
> I'm not enough of a C.S.  Lewis freak to hunt up errors and 
> inconsistencies in his texts, but Tolkien certainly had them. He 
> rewrote major portions of the Hobbit after he'd conceived the Lord of 
> the Rings, and worked it into the story by saying that Bilbo simply 
> hadn't put the truth in his journal. Clever, but not neccessary...would 
> the Lord of the Rings  be a lesser work if Tolkien hadn't accounted for 
> the differences between it and the orginal Hobbit?
>     Lastly, I'd like to throw in my two sickles for C.R.A.B. It's 
> about time!
> Pippin
> 
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