Oh, I think this is definitely an issue with JKR's books, although I think the issue is biggest with OotP. Editing varies a ton by house anyway. I had a really good editor at Bantam -- very insightful. if Anne Groell were JKR's editor, there'd have been a lot more about the impact of using unforgiveable curses, because that's precisely the sort of thing she notices and makes you fix. There are publishing houses that do a lot less editing, though. Also, once someone gets really famous, there are a couple of things that happen. (1) They no longer have to listen to their editor if they don't want to. (2) No one wants to make them mad. (3) (I think this is the biggest issue, actually, with these books, as I've never gotten a prima donna vibe from JKR's interviews) The publisher wants to get their books into print as fast a possible once the author turns them in.
The biggest continuity issue in the book was the memory charm. Hermione has used it on her parents and sent them to Australia. Then later in the book she says she's never done it, right before she uses it on the Death Eater in the coffee shop. That honestly didn't bother me all that much, though -- it was a dumb mistake, rather than something that was really missing.
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Date: 2007-07-24 01:24 pm (UTC)The biggest continuity issue in the book was the memory charm. Hermione has used it on her parents and sent them to Australia. Then later in the book she says she's never done it, right before she uses it on the Death Eater in the coffee shop. That honestly didn't bother me all that much, though -- it was a dumb mistake, rather than something that was really missing.