Re: Ted Tonks was a Bad Boy

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.

>> 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.

> 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).

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