OotP thoughts and a link to my review

[psychic_serpent]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, Stephanie Keener 
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> 2) Flints. Hope I'm not harping on stuff other folks have 
> mentioned, and just missed.   And these are maybe not Flints, 
> exactly, but things that JKR didn't really think through:

Oddly enough, although the Flints annoyed me at first, the most I 
can come up with is six for the whole thing, and some of those could 
actually have very plausible explanations, which would mean that, 
compared to earlier entries in the series, this one is really 
relatively error-free (especially when you consider the sheer SIZE 
of the thing).  I didn't address the Flints in my review at all as I 
felt that they didn't really impact on the overall story.
 
> c)The Marauder's Map. How did Harry get it back? Did I miss 
> something? Didn't Dumbledore have it at the end of GoF? 

I don't even count this as one of my six (person) Flints.  
Dumbledore also gave Harry back his Invisibility Cloak in first 
year.  It's not implausible that he should have just handed the map 
back to him as well, before Harry left.  This happens off-screen, so 
to speak, and it would have been nice for it to be mentioned in 
passing, but it's not really Flint-like, IMO.

> 4) Ginny. I'm in the Ginny Rocks camp. And did you notice that she 
>  swore!

I noticed that.  I don't even think we've had a case of Hermione 
swearing at this point.  She frequently screams, "Ron!" in shock 
when he does it.  Which could be why Ginny swears, of course.  She's 
behaving a lot more like a girl who's grown up with a lot of 
brothers, who, we know (because of Ron, for a start) don't watch 
their language.  She's also fourteen going on fifteen (or she may 
even have turned fifteen by the end of the book).  You don't want to 
know about my language when I was fifteen. ;)

> And dating all those boys (okay, not all those boys, but she does s
> seem a little racy-er than the other girls at Hogwarts)! She'll be 
> kissing on Roger Davies if we don't watch out. Go Ginny. 

Again, dating and shipping isn't something I really address in my 
review, as there were other things that seemed more important in 
this book.  In fact, shipping seemed monumentally unimportant, and 
perhaps not just because of JKR having so many younger readers.

Anyway, here's the link to my woefully-underused LiveJournal review, 
so I don't overwhelm people's mailboxes (it's about 13K):

http://www.livejournal.com/users/psychic_serpent/

--Barb