[the_old_crowd] Dumbledore the shipper/flint-searching/JKR's consistency

[Waldo Glatisant]

--- davewitley <dfrankiswork at ...> wrote:
> 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

I couldn't agree more. Further, how likely or possible
is it that any of us could create a magical fantasy
world that significantly deviates from the rules of
physics in our world; supports a complex storyline;
yet remains internally consistent throughout?  This
would require god-like powers. Magical fantasy worlds
in general are not internally consistent because they
are *make believe*.  If they could exist according to
the laws of our world, they would be a part of our
world.  I forget who said it / wrote it, but some
clever person I read recently wrote that one of JKR's
"subversions of the genre" is that the understanding
of the magic and the magical world is not explicated
as an integral part of the plot. It (the magic) rests
upon the characters and plot, without being interwoven
and we are not pushed to try to understand the magic
as anything other than ... *magic.*

HOWEVER ... (g), I still find it fun to notice the
flint like occurrences.  The location(s) of
inconsistencies may be meaningful as indices of our
author's basic assumptions about the story and about
life.  


		
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