Finished - lots of spoilers...

[Annemehr]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "carolynwhite2" 
<carolynwhite2 at ...> wrote:
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> --- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "bluesqueak" <pip@> wrote:
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> > --- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "carolynwhite2" 
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> Jo:
> >Oh Carolyn how I laughed, thank you for that!
> >Anne:
> >Yes, me too!
> Pip!Squeak
> >I liked your breakdown of the plot. Start the day giggling, that's 
> what I say.
> 
> Carolyn:
> Ladies, I'm flattered, but alas it's one of those cases of if you 
> don't laugh, you'd have to cry!


Anne:
There's some of that -- though, I'll reserve my full and final 
opinion until we've all done some analysis.

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> Carolyn:
> OK, who is going to start the Official List of queries and 
> inconsistencies?

Anne:
Oh, I forgot to write one!  That thing where the death of the Secret 
Keeper means that everyone who was in on the secret is now a Secret 
Keeper (which is why the Order had to leave 12GP) -- that is 
absolutely not what JKR wrote in the FAQ poll answer on her site!  
Sheesh.

Some of the following, I have guesses or comments for:

Carolyn: 
> -	When did Bellatrix acquire Helga's cup? How come Voldie 
> couldn't read her mind that she'd nicked it?
> 

Anne:
As I understand it, LV entrusted it to her to put in her vault -- see 
HBP Spinners End: "The Dark Lord has, in the past, entrusted me with 
his most precious -- "  Then, near the end of DH, LV says something 
about how he shouldn't have trusted Lucius and Bellatrix with Hxes 
(can't get at the book to check right now).

Carolyn:
> -	Why didn't Voldie feel it when his soul-bits were destroyed 
> one by one?

Anne:
I don't know.  I used to accept, happily, that he couldn't, since 
they were separated from him -- but in that case, you wouldn't think 
there would be a mind link via Harry's soul-bit either.  It does seem 
inconsistent.

Carolyn: 
> -	Who was the Half-blood Prince then? Definitely Snape? And it 
> was Lily's writing in his book? 

Anne:
I'd say, definitely Snape, yeah, and it's his writing.  All the 
knowledge in that book was burned up by that oaf Crabbe -- and nobody 
gave a thought to it.  Damn.


 
Carolyn:
> Why does 
> ANY wizard try to hide things in the Room of Requirement, and 
surely 
> each time anyone goes in there to do that, by definition they see a 
> whole lot of things that other people would prefer not to be seen..

Anne:
Definitely another problem.  LV apparently thought he was the only 
one who'd ever found the RoR, which is why he hid the TiaraCrux 
there, so apparently *he* didn't see great piles of stuff in a 
cathedral-sized room -- yet Harry did?  Why the difference, and whose 
experience was the usual one?

I think people mostly used the RoR to hide stuff they wanted to come 
back for, but never did.  No idea about the sherry bottles, though.

Carolyn: 
> -	What was DD doing waiting for Harry in limbo? He's been dead 
> a while now and Nick told us that wizards need to make a pretty 
> prompt decision to move on when they die.

Anne:
I assumed that was supposed to be a Near Death Experience-type 
thing.  I believe people sometimes report seeing people who have 
died, and choosing to come back (*no* opinion from me about whether 
such things are real or a phenomenon of an oxygen-deprived brain).

Anne