I wonder. Is this supposed to be funny? I mean, is JKR deliberately writing this break-in as failing in order to portray her heroes as adorable bumblers?
I doubt she wanted the scenes to be 'funny', but you're right, they're certainly bumblers (albeit not 'adorable'). But even the characters know this. Harry ruminates on how all those weeks/months of planning at Grimmauld Place only got them through the front door of the Ministry. Here their plan falls apart *before* they get in the front door. Ron exclaims "we thought you had a plan!" during the infinite camping trip. They forget about footsteps in the snow in the graveyard. Oops, oops, oops, oops.
Rowling seemed determined for the kids to win through with only fourth year magical spells and the first-year Invisibility Cloak and so had to dumb everyone else down to compensate.
Hermione was established in HBP as being a terrible actress, and Ron is supposed to be rather good at mimickry.
Sigh. My poor Hermione has been copping flak from all over this past week. :-(
By 'supposed to be rather good at mimickry', are you referring to Ron's doing the parseltongue trick coming up in DH? I can't remember offhand when else any such skill was displayed? Many fans poo-poo'ed Ron's mastery of parseltongue just because it was such an out of the blue, one-off talent.
They forget about footsteps in the snow in the graveyard. Oops, oops, oops, oops.
And that is after in OOTP Hermione once did manage to cover up footprints in snow just as they were walking. Rowling just can't keep her characters' skills straight.
Well, Hermione did volunteer to start cleaning up the footprints, but Harry overrode her, he "did not want to enter the village like a pantomime horse, trying to keep themselves concealed while magically covering their traces". And so he walked them into Nagini's trap. Yet another case of the boy blunder casting caution to the winds. But not an error on Rowling's part.
I doubt she wanted the scenes to be 'funny', but you're right, they're certainly bumblers (albeit not 'adorable'). But even the characters know this. Harry ruminates on how all those weeks/months of planning at Grimmauld Place only got them through the front door of the Ministry. Here their plan falls apart *before* they get in the front door. Ron exclaims "we thought you had a plan!" during the infinite camping trip. They forget about footsteps in the snow in the graveyard. Oops, oops, oops, oops.
Rowling seemed determined for the kids to win through with only fourth year magical spells and the first-year Invisibility Cloak and so had to dumb everyone else down to compensate.
Hermione was established in HBP as being a terrible actress, and Ron is supposed to be rather good at mimickry.
Sigh. My poor Hermione has been copping flak from all over this past week. :-(
By 'supposed to be rather good at mimickry', are you referring to Ron's doing the parseltongue trick coming up in DH? I can't remember offhand when else any such skill was displayed? Many fans poo-poo'ed Ron's mastery of parseltongue just because it was such an out of the blue, one-off talent.
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And that is after in OOTP Hermione once did manage to cover up footprints in snow just as they were walking. Rowling just can't keep her characters' skills straight.
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