24 hours

[Barry Arrowsmith]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, susiequsie23 at ... wrote:
> Carolyn:
> >>> I hadn't read this interview before, and expect it has been endlessly 
> discussed but I found this snippet about the missing 24hrs extremely 
> depressing:
> 
> When I think of the theories that have been built around that 
> discrepancy... she really is the end. <<<
> 
> 
> SSSusan:
> I'd missed this as well, Carolyn, and I have to say that it bugs me, too.  Having been one 
of those people who devoted a fair bit of time to contemplation of the missing 24 hours 
and, well, truthfully, got a lot of glee from developing a theory about it (for once, since I'm 
not typically a creative theorizer), it's quite sad to hear this admission.
> 
> I guess I hope that, rather than just making up something (potentially lame or lacking in 
detail) which is totally different from what I'd envisioned, she just admits the error.  That 
way, I can more easily hang on to my own idea. 
> 
> SSSusan,
> wishing everyone a Happy New Year and wondering how Kneasy's duck came out
> 

Duck? What duck?
Madam, twas a goose.
Not a mere run-of-the-mill goose either, but a svelte super-star of
a bird, raised on sun-lit rolling pastures, in a veritable goose nirvana of 
an existence, and a mere 3 miles from my front door:

http://www.brisbournegeese.co.uk/freerangegoose.html

Visible from the main road too, so able to monitor their well-being from
early summer onwards, drooling slightly in anticipation.

As for the JKR stuff: taken her time about it, hasn't she? Ten years since
that 24 hour discrepancy(sic) appeared in the first book.
Frankly, like you I think I'll stick with my illusions. It's more fun.
As retrospective corrections/additions get dumped on the readership (how
many more to come?), the less fascinating the books become IMO.
Others may feel differently, and good luck to them, but impressive it ain't
from this reader's viewpoint.

Kneasy