Chapter Twenty-Three -- Malfoy Manor

[gehayi]

In which Harry suffers a frontal lobe migraine for most of the chapter, the Random Death Eaters show common sense, Rowling completely ignores her own set-up for a character arc, all the wizards forget that they're wizards and Dobby is a deus ex machina.

Chapter Twenty-Three -- Malfoy Manor

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[xerox78]

THEORY: I really think she didn't do a series re-read before she began writing B7.

Not theory, fact. JKR has come right out and said that she has never re-read her books after she's written them. She seems pretty proud of it too.

[gehayi]

I remember that. I can't find the quote, darn it.

This is my all-time favorite of her quotes, though:

"I loathe books that have inconsistencies and leave questions unanswered. Loopholes bug the hell out of me. I hate getting to the end of a book and thinking, but if so and so had told Mr Y back in chapter three, it need never have happened. And so I try to be meticulous and make sure that everything operates according to laws, however odd, so that everyone understands exactly how and why." Sydney Morning Herald, October 28, 2001

[sigune]

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...Seriously... O_o

[smurasaki]

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?
But...but... your books... the plot holes... the complete rewrites of how things work... the character assassination... meticulous??? laws??? ARGH!

[jodel_from_aol]

And people heditate to call her a bald-faced liar...

Er, why, exactly?