Dumbledore the shipper/flint-searching/JKR's consistency

[davewitley]

Catlady wrote:

> Why did Dumbledore tell Harry to tell only Ron and Hermione about the
> Horcruxes, not Ron, Hermione, and Ginny? Did he not know about H/G
> ship, did he think Ginny is too underage to be involved, did he
> think Ginny retains a link to LV from CoS? 

Delusional, my dear, delusional.  Those anvil-sized bat-bogey hexes 
totally passed him by.

The way he encouraged Harry and Hermione to go hippogriff-riding at 
night showed that he was a danger to the fandom who had to be got rid 
of.  No doubt Snape is an R/H man to the core, hence that expression 
of loathing.

Kirst wrote:

> You know, scratching around for flints always leaves me feeling 
> slightly sordid.

Indeed.  No doubt that's the attraction.

--

There has been considerable discussion of the extent to which JKR's 
world is consistent.  I think it's worth pointing out that nobody has 
yet been able to write a consistent description of our *own* world, 
despite the collective effort of thousands of well-funded scientists, 
let alone an invented one of realistic complexity.

David