In one of the earlier posts I was whining about the impossibility of spinning around your own axis while holding onto someone who has to do the same himself.
Teleportation is such a staple of sci-fi/fantasy, as is the idea that if you grab onto someone who is teleporting, you'll go as well. Frankly, I liked Apparation better in the first book, before Rowling tried to explain how it was done. At the time, it seemed like highly advanced magic that only a certain few could do.
That's why I was so surprised in HBP when we saw that Harry's class was actually going to learn how to do it (I know the twins did the year before, but I never reread between novels, nor was I in the "fandom"). Of course, Rowling's always had a hard time keeping track of difficulty, numbers, how much money is a lot, how much money the Weaslys have (no galleons in their account in CoS, yet enough that Ron could possibly buy 40 galleon binoculars in GoF if he hadn't bought the Krum doll?), how magic works, etc.
Blegh. This series is a lot more fun if you wait a few months or years between books. That way, you forget as much as the author did . . .
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Date: 2008-08-30 10:14 pm (UTC)Teleportation is such a staple of sci-fi/fantasy, as is the idea that if you grab onto someone who is teleporting, you'll go as well. Frankly, I liked Apparation better in the first book, before Rowling tried to explain how it was done. At the time, it seemed like highly advanced magic that only a certain few could do.
That's why I was so surprised in HBP when we saw that Harry's class was actually going to learn how to do it (I know the twins did the year before, but I never reread between novels, nor was I in the "fandom"). Of course, Rowling's always had a hard time keeping track of difficulty, numbers, how much money is a lot, how much money the Weaslys have (no galleons in their account in CoS, yet enough that Ron could possibly buy 40 galleon binoculars in GoF if he hadn't bought the Krum doll?), how magic works, etc.
Blegh. This series is a lot more fun if you wait a few months or years between books. That way, you forget as much as the author did . . .