I also noticed that Fred and George got their O.W.L. results at the end of their 5th year, but Harry, Ron and Hermione have to wait until mid-July.
Willow, check you out! Witch-Fu!
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Aims - Mar 30, 2006 8:40:12 am PST #287 of 28061
Shit's all sorts of different now.
§ ita § - Mar 30, 2006 8:40:48 am PST #288 of 28061
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Waiting until July maps better onto my O level experience.
DebetEsse - Mar 30, 2006 2:52:17 pm PST #289 of 28061
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Aimee has just noticed the continuity problems in HP. Has she pondered the problems with the Sirius reference in Book 1? Let's watch and find out.
Yeah, for as much as she talks about having a plan, there are a lot of holes. Mostly little ones, but it is sloppy, IMO.
And I always go with the pulling it out of her ass explanation ("How much credit do we give the creators?" is a common problem I have with trying to predict stuff)
Kathy A - Mar 30, 2006 2:56:51 pm PST #290 of 28061
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I just hope that if she does the "Encyclopedia of Harry Potter" as she mentioned as a possibility back when HBP was released (and I really hope she does--awesome way to share backstory she wasn't able to put in the books!), she'll be able to reconcile the plot holes.
DebetEsse - Mar 30, 2006 3:00:30 pm PST #291 of 28061
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I hope she does, too
But I think you may be a bit overly hopeful.
Aims - Mar 31, 2006 6:59:45 am PST #292 of 28061
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Aimee has just noticed the continuity problems in HP. Has she pondered the problems with the Sirius reference in Book 1? Let's watch and find out.
I missed this - what is it?
Consuela - Mar 31, 2006 12:07:44 pm PST #293 of 28061
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Have we talked about His Majesty's Dragon here yet? Cause dude, that was fun.
Wheee! And two more (plus!) coming!
Yay dragons!
DebetEsse - Mar 31, 2006 12:12:02 pm PST #294 of 28061
Woe to the fucking wicked.
When Hagrid shows up, in Chapter 1:
"Hagrid," said Dumbledore, sounding relieved. "At lasst. and where did you get that motorbike?"
"Borrowed it, Professor Dumbledore, sir," said the giant, climbing carfully off the motorbike as he spoke."Young Sirius Black lent it to me. I've got him, sir."
"No problems, were there?"
And that's it. Dumbledore 'knows' that Sirius betrayed James and Lily, and, yet, that's a completely neutral reaction to the reference. The whole timeline of the 24 hours immediately preceding that scene are weird, so it's just another data point of oddness.
Jessica - Mar 31, 2006 12:15:47 pm PST #295 of 28061
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
I've always heard the fannish interpretation of that line to mean that Dumbledore was already aware of Sirius' innocence at that point.
sumi - Mar 31, 2006 12:17:19 pm PST #296 of 28061
Art Crawl!!!
That he just allowed him to be incarcerated etc for his own purposes, I guess.