Comments | kerravonsen: Pieces and Bits

kerravonsen

Pieces and Bits

Aug 19, 2011 22:41

I just finished listening to "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" this week, read by the delectable Stephen Fry.

I noticed a few things this time around that I had either forgotten or not noticed before.
( cut for spoilers, just in case )

books, fandom:harry potter, fandom:liaden

Comments 6

jhall1 August 19 2011, 19:09:00 UTC

I love the extract from your own story. :)

I suspect that JK Rowling didn't know as much about either Snape or James at this stage as she did by the time she was writing the later books.

kerravonsen August 19 2011, 23:39:01 UTC

8-)

I suspect that JK Rowling didn't know as much about either Snape or James at this stage as she did by the time she was writing the later books.

Good point.

jaxomsride August 19 2011, 21:23:59 UTC

I'm intrigued by the extract.

kerravonsen August 19 2011, 23:43:03 UTC

I was writing it for the au_bigbang but I didn't manage to finish it by the deadline, not because I hadn't written enough (I did 20,000 words) but because there was another 20,000 words of story left to be written. (!)

I will get back to it at some point, but this month I'm participating in naarmamo so I'm arting instead of writing.

sue_bursztynski August 21 2011, 04:00:18 UTC

When you go back again and look at Dumbledore, it's not unlike going back to Obi-Wan Kenobi in the original Star Wars movie. Back then, you trusted him utterly when he said that Darth Vader had killed Luke's father. Then he made excuses in the third movie... I'd sit there thinking, "You lying bastard!"

But Dumbledore is indeed a complex character and far from perfect. We think he's Gandalf for the first few books, but by OOP, he's starting to be human and flawed.

There are certainly glitches along the way. For example, in the first chapter of the first book, Hagrid says he has to be going, to return the motorbike to Sirius. Then, in the third book, he says Sirius told him to keep it when he came to borrow it and this should have told him something strange was going on.

There are other errors, but this is the one that comes to mind. I believe they're called "Flints" in Potter fandom? :-)

kerravonsen August 21 2011, 04:12:54 UTC

Oh, there are a lot of problems with Sirius. His bike is only one of them. What about the broom he got for Harry? How is a wanted fugituve going to purchase and post a very expensive broom?

I believe they're called "Flints" in Potter fandom?

I haven't come across that term, but I don't consider myself to be well-versed in Potter fandom; I've only touched the edges of the actual community.