That whole 'task' with Slughorn was ridiculous anyway.
I was particularly offended (by the slur on her readers' intelligence) when, upon finally being presented with Harry's findings - the real memory - Dumbledore merely spends two seconds patting himself on the back saying "yes, as I thought so".
And the memory is no actual guarantee on the limit of the number of Horcruxes anyway!
Just a pathetic plot. But the characters weren't allowed to think any differently.
Have Severus be the one that obtains the memories from the kids. Or have him participate in the evaluation of the memories.
Ah, gotcha. Yeah, none of that back in book 3; Rowling hadn't worked it out yet.
But the breach of continuity didn't stop here when she needed a one-book wonder later on. :-(
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Date: 2015-06-06 02:50 pm (UTC)Have Severus be the one that obtains the memories from the kids. Or have him participate in the evaluation of the memories.
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Date: 2015-06-06 11:15 pm (UTC)Heh.
That whole 'task' with Slughorn was ridiculous anyway.
I was particularly offended (by the slur on her readers' intelligence) when, upon finally being presented with Harry's findings - the real memory - Dumbledore merely spends two seconds patting himself on the back saying "yes, as I thought so".
And the memory is no actual guarantee on the limit of the number of Horcruxes anyway!
Just a pathetic plot. But the characters weren't allowed to think any differently.
Have Severus be the one that obtains the memories from the kids. Or have him participate in the evaluation of the memories.
Ah, gotcha. Yeah, none of that back in book 3; Rowling hadn't worked it out yet.
But the breach of continuity didn't stop here when she needed a one-book wonder later on. :-(