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[ladyhadhafang.livejournal.com]

Am I the only one a little bothered by Dumbledore? Not only with the fact he could end up in the Guinness Book Of World Records for "Most Incompetent Headmaster of All Time" (though I'm sure there's worse. :P), but also because...he just bugs me. I know JKR was trying to write him as the "flawed Yoda", so to speak (and to be fair, he's nowhere near Yoda. XD), but it's also how...preachy he gets. Towards Fudge, for example. You know, in Goblet of Fire, with, "You place too much importance on purity of blood, yadda yadda et cetera et cetera" -- which considering how he treated Tom Riddle and the Slytherins is...slightly hypocritical isn't it? Probably bad writing on JKR's part, though. :/

Anyways, sorry 'bout the rambling. Thoughts?

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[condwiramurs.livejournal.com]

Clearly a genius utterly, completely unfamiliar with the birth process and possibly basic physics as well.

[sunnyskywalker]

A genius who also does not know about prenatal care. Do they not have doctor-patient confidentiality in the GFFA so she could get an ultrasound and notice that wait, there's two babies in there?

[aikaterini.livejournal.com]

I've read fanfics that explain that away by saying that Padmé didn't get an ultrasound because she wanted the gender of the baby to be a surprise. Which works, but I think that the real reason why she and Anakin didn't find out that Padmé was carrying twins was because that would created even more plot holes and inconsistencies (and the prequels already had plenty).

It's one thing for Vader to not recognize Leia in "A New Hope" (even though there have been plenty of fan theories about that). It would be quite another for him to have known from the beginning that Padmé was pregnant with twins and not put two and two together once he found out about Luke. The obvious question that would come to mind would be, "Okay, so one of my kids is alive, so what happened to the other one?"

[sunnyskywalker]

She could always have the doctor not tell her! The way real people do.

How to keep Anakin from knowing there were two is another matter. Unless she wanted to surprise him... again? Hm. Well, that is George's job.

[ladyhadhafang.livejournal.com]

It *does* say in the ROTS novelization exactly that: that she didn't want the medical droid to spoil the surprise. *Has ROTS novelization as personal head!canon*

But that said...really good point. :)

[seductivedark.livejournal.com]

They wouldn't even need an ultrasound to find out there are twins. A competent doctor could tell by the two heartbeats, two heads, larger girth and weight gain. That's how they knew, not just suspected, twin births before ultrasound.

And, usually, mothers have an instinct though, for some, there is a hope for twins that can skew that.

[ladyhadhafang.livejournal.com]

*Sighs* Anyone got any useful facepalm gifs to sum up the sheer "WTF" of how a GFFA doctor couldn't have noticed *twins*? /bitch mode.

[sunnyskywalker]

No, but I bet there's a great pic of Leonard McCoy somewhere being cranky. ("Good God, man, you call yourself a doctor?") Spock probably thinks it's illogical too, and they're annoyed about agreeing with each other.

[ladyhadhafang.livejournal.com]

XD.

That's brilliant. XD XD

I'll accept that. :)