She never undertook reweaving new information back into the existing setup. Instead she made grand pronouncements that contradicted what she's already told us.
One of the worst examples was when she used Slughorn as an exposition machine in Book 6 to explain to the reader about Horcruxes. And makes it necessary at that time because *there was no other information about them at Hogwarts*. The subject was *banned*. This works just fine. But then in book 7 when she tries to carry forth, she's already changed her mind (or forgotten) about who knew what when and has Harry abruptly *explaining* to us that of course Tom already knew what they were -- he just wanted to know about multiple ones.
This just makes Slughorn's explanation to Tom a useless diversion and probably untrue as well *for no good reason*. Harry had already seen that the RoR is full of banned books. Slughorn had inadvertantly told Tom where to go to find information on any banned subject. I mean can anyone say that Tom didn't discover the RoR at some time during his time at Hogwarts? It's perfectly obvious that he did -- he used it to hide a Horcrux after all. He didn't learn that after he left. He probably discovered at least the Room of Lost Things while he was hunting for the Chamber of Secrets.
Admittedly this isn't as bad as contradicting information handed us in the *same book* a handful of chapters later. But it's bad enough.
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Date: 2014-02-08 02:32 am (UTC)One of the worst examples was when she used Slughorn as an exposition machine in Book 6 to explain to the reader about Horcruxes. And makes it necessary at that time because *there was no other information about them at Hogwarts*. The subject was *banned*. This works just fine. But then in book 7 when she tries to carry forth, she's already changed her mind (or forgotten) about who knew what when and has Harry abruptly *explaining* to us that of course Tom already knew what they were -- he just wanted to know about multiple ones.
This just makes Slughorn's explanation to Tom a useless diversion and probably untrue as well *for no good reason*. Harry had already seen that the RoR is full of banned books. Slughorn had inadvertantly told Tom where to go to find information on any banned subject. I mean can anyone say that Tom didn't discover the RoR at some time during his time at Hogwarts? It's perfectly obvious that he did -- he used it to hide a Horcrux after all. He didn't learn that after he left. He probably discovered at least the Room of Lost Things while he was hunting for the Chamber of Secrets.
Admittedly this isn't as bad as contradicting information handed us in the *same book* a handful of chapters later. But it's bad enough.