Oh, no, Ms. Rowling never EVER makes mistakes!

[conuly]

They stopped replying :(

So now I'm linking here. It's old, but still confusing. How can you honestly say that somebody doesn't make mistakes? Even if you mean this in the very specialized sense of "she doesn't make mistakes when writing her HP novels", you're still bound to be wrong. She's human. Really. And Harry Potter isn't gold. I like the books, sure, but they're as mistake-prone as anything else out there.

So, anybody care to list mistakes or near-mistakes in Harry Potter? Even trivial things like "I didn't like how she wrote this character" or "she makes the books too damn long" count, though not as much as "she misspelled a word" or "she has a continuity error".

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How disturbing...........

[morganne13.livejournal.com]

That is psycho. Every author makes mistakes. Some are so meticulous that they go over their text a billion times to fix it and get thirty people to double check even before the editing with the publisher, but those people are few and far between. And even then typos or misprints can still occur. To start believing that someone does not make a mistake is just....dangerous.