Re: Ted Tonks was a Bad Boy

Fish Eye no Miko <fisheye@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
: nystulc@xxxxxx wrote:
:
:> Trond Michelsen wrote:
:>> nystulc@xxxxxx wrote:
:>>> Brent Braten wrote:
:>>>
:>>>> Oh, lay off the numbers. JKR has already said that she is not a
:>>>> mathematician.
:>>> You are rather boring. You are also, in effect, arguing that
:>>> JKR has made a mistake. This is a rather disrespectful
:>>> assumption, since there is no evidence that a mistake has been
:>>> made.
:>>
:>> JKR has demonstrated that she doesn't really know the exact age
:>> of her lesser characters.
:>
:> She does not need to know the age of every minor character, in
:> order to avoid mistakes, contradictions and errors in the book
:> themselves.
:
: Except we've SEEN her make mistakes in the books. She's ADMITTED to it.
: Remember Marcus Flint, who apparently went to Hogwarts for 8 years?
: It's not like saying she's made mistakes that actually end up in the books
: is any groundshaking idea. She, herself, has admitted to it.

But there's a perfectly good explanation on Flint:
he failed his NEWTs and tried again...remember some
OWL-failers are there in HBP...

:>> When asked about Charlie Weasley's age, she said he was two
:>> years older than Percy, which meant he should have been at
:>> Hogwarts in the first book. She later corrected this to three
:>> years older than Percy, which still makes no sense based on
:>> the information in Philospher's Stone.
:>
:> Well, this, of course, does not establish a mistake, error, or
:> contradiction within the books themselves.
:
: Marcus Flint does, though.

Not necessarily.

:> But even if it does establish an error, it only establishes one mistake.
:> It does not prove, as you seem to believe, that everything she ever
:> wrote was in error.
:
: Where is he saying that...?
:
:> So far, she seems to have succeeded on this issue,
:
: What issue? Getting all her numbers right? Except we know that's not
: true, or Marcus Flint, referred to as a 6th year in the first book, would
: not have been in the third book. (fyi: Later version of PS/SS change
: Flint to being a fifth year. But Jo herself had admitted to the goof).

I regret that change,frankly,because it reduces the number of
students at that age Harry is shown with ANY contact with.

: Catherine Johnson.

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