Malfoy looks the way he did when Hermione punched him in the face. He was sitting in the third row at the Odeon Theater at the time, and was so surprised at the way the movie changed what happened he dropped his popcorn.
With the risk of making myself unpopular, I have to sort of defend JKR here. It's a glaring mistake, I agree, but I've experienced often enough how easy it is to oversee a glaring mistake like that whenever your own work is concerned. Somehow, it's much easier to notice something like that whenever you're editing something someone else's written. While I was still writing TRotT, I often enough had to check up certain details in previous chapters, because I'd completely forgotten about them, even though I was the one who invented them and wrote them. When rereading some of my older original stories (I don't have the nerve to reread my old HP fics), I often can't help but ask myself, 'Dear God, I wrote that? What was I thinking?'
Anyway, I don't blame JKR as much for that mistake as her editors, because this is what they are there for - to catch things the author has overlooked or forgotten. I guess that it's been just the way q_spade said - they've been too much in a hurry to release the book and get their money and haven't edited it the way they should have, just like OotP wasn't edited the way it should have been. Sadly, they know very well that whatever shit JKR produces, it will sell itself more than well. :-(
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Date: 2006-05-12 06:57 pm (UTC)With the risk of making myself unpopular, I have to sort of defend JKR here. It's a glaring mistake, I agree, but I've experienced often enough how easy it is to oversee a glaring mistake like that whenever your own work is concerned. Somehow, it's much easier to notice something like that whenever you're editing something someone else's written. While I was still writing TRotT, I often enough had to check up certain details in previous chapters, because I'd completely forgotten about them, even though I was the one who invented them and wrote them. When rereading some of my older original stories (I don't have the nerve to reread my old HP fics), I often can't help but ask myself, 'Dear God, I wrote that? What was I thinking?'
Anyway, I don't blame JKR as much for that mistake as her editors, because this is what they are there for - to catch things the author has overlooked or forgotten. I guess that it's been just the way