It is. So many elements in the plot are just not logical - it seems to me that JKR had a list of things that needed to happen, and didn't really care how her characters got there. I doubt that I can find good explanations for all the strange leaps, and for some reason I can't rid myself of canon.
I have always had a problem with the prophecy - probably because I don't understand how anyone can believe in that kind of stuff. Prophecies are things that come true when people make them come true. I always thought that Snape only told Voldemort what he had heard because 1) he thought it was nonsense and wouldn't hurt anyone, and 2) he thought the thing had no value because Dumbledore couldn't be bothered to detain him over it. That's how I would reason, I think :).
Most problems with canon come down to shallow world-building, I think. The fact that we never get a proper definition of what Dark Arts are, that we don't really know what Grindelwald did, and some magic that we do know gets changed along the way (Secret-Keeping being a prominent example). Very frustrating, that. Especially if you have as little imagination as I have :(.
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Date: Monday, 10 January 2011 02:32 pm (UTC)I have always had a problem with the prophecy - probably because I don't understand how anyone can believe in that kind of stuff. Prophecies are things that come true when people make them come true. I always thought that Snape only told Voldemort what he had heard because 1) he thought it was nonsense and wouldn't hurt anyone, and 2) he thought the thing had no value because Dumbledore couldn't be bothered to detain him over it. That's how I would reason, I think :).
Most problems with canon come down to shallow world-building, I think. The fact that we never get a proper definition of what Dark Arts are, that we don't really know what Grindelwald did, and some magic that we do know gets changed along the way (Secret-Keeping being a prominent example). Very frustrating, that. Especially if you have as little imagination as I have :(.