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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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[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. :)