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Jul. 16th, 2007 01:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kippurbirdWith book seven coming out this weekend, I started rereading book one. It's kinda interesting now, looking back at it. The writing is still entertaining, but you can see that J.K. doesn't have the rules completely worked out. Two things I noticed:
First of all, there's the spell that Ron tries on the train where he tries to turn Scabbers yellow. It's a spell in a sentence in regular English, which Ron, who was brought up in a wizarding family, should know wasn't a spell at all. After all most spells in the wizarding world are one or two words in a sort of bastardized Latin. So, Ron shouldn't have even believed his brothers.
Then there's the part where they first meet Hermione. She says that she's read all their text books and has tried out a few spells. Hermione is an under-aged witch. She should have gotten a notice from the Ministry telling her that she's not allowed to do that.
There are probably more, but I haven't gotten that far in my rereading, being horribly distracted.
First of all, there's the spell that Ron tries on the train where he tries to turn Scabbers yellow. It's a spell in a sentence in regular English, which Ron, who was brought up in a wizarding family, should know wasn't a spell at all. After all most spells in the wizarding world are one or two words in a sort of bastardized Latin. So, Ron shouldn't have even believed his brothers.
Then there's the part where they first meet Hermione. She says that she's read all their text books and has tried out a few spells. Hermione is an under-aged witch. She should have gotten a notice from the Ministry telling her that she's not allowed to do that.
There are probably more, but I haven't gotten that far in my rereading, being horribly distracted.
