Nagini's attack on Arthur in OotP
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deathtocapslockWe know that Arthur was an Order member, guarding the door to the DoM (and asleep on the job under an invisibility cloak which didn't hide him from a creature that hunted by heat and scent), when Voldemort's snake attacked him.
What did the Ministry think, and the average Prophet reader?
If Fudge had realized Arthur was there on Dumbledore's orders, surely he'd have sacked him?
In fact, why wasn't Arthur sacked anyway? What business had he to be in the Ministry at all in the middle of the night? Much less loitering suspiciously outside the DoM with an invisibility cloak?
And just what kind of security does the Ministry have, that Order members, Voldemort's slaves and pets, and schoolkids, can come and go after hours as they please? I've never worked anywhere that didn't lock up when everyone left.
In fact, aren't the Aurors based in the building? Shouldn't they have a night shift (what, Dark wizards never operate at night, you tell me?), and therefore a night shift on reception to check people in who have business there?
Finally, if Fudge didn't think the snake was Tom's pet, whose did he think it was and how did he think it got in and escaped?
Thoughts?
What did the Ministry think, and the average Prophet reader?
If Fudge had realized Arthur was there on Dumbledore's orders, surely he'd have sacked him?
In fact, why wasn't Arthur sacked anyway? What business had he to be in the Ministry at all in the middle of the night? Much less loitering suspiciously outside the DoM with an invisibility cloak?
And just what kind of security does the Ministry have, that Order members, Voldemort's slaves and pets, and schoolkids, can come and go after hours as they please? I've never worked anywhere that didn't lock up when everyone left.
In fact, aren't the Aurors based in the building? Shouldn't they have a night shift (what, Dark wizards never operate at night, you tell me?), and therefore a night shift on reception to check people in who have business there?
Finally, if Fudge didn't think the snake was Tom's pet, whose did he think it was and how did he think it got in and escaped?
Thoughts?
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Date: 2011-09-23 12:57 am (UTC)Really? Heh. :-)
Anyway, I'm principally thinking of the interviews and such around the media spectacle of DH; maybe she wasn't the editor for book #4. Or maybe she's a bad editor. That's consistent with my/our argument about the lack of quality/any editing with the (later) HP books.
Though some things beg an editor to ask pointed questions. Shouldn't an editor have alerted Rowling to the fact that in PS Hagrid seems to have been flying about with Harry for more than a day?
You'd think so. There was an 'editor test' floating around the internet a few months ago, 50 questions or so, multiple choice, what changes would you make in these passages, and it was all very detailed 'low level' stuff - grammar, proper wording, etc. Nothing remotely close to 'overview of the story as a whole'. I've always assumed that real editing would cover that aspect of a book as well, though.