Goings On
Things I've Been Doing include: trying to find a place to see The Passion of Christ on Wednesday, plagiarizing, fixing my close-to-being-busted glasses with Elmer's glue, planning a trip northward, not getting my car checked, b1llz paying, and having dreams in vivid color.
( Also thinking about OotP. Spoilers. )
( Also thinking about OotP. Spoilers. )
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JKR plays with time and timing and numbers for the best plotline effects--why not. It's her universe and she can do whatever she wants.
On the other hand, Harry & Co. did spend time in the Time Room at the DoM. Maybe that is the out you're looking for?
Maybe Snape isn't the hero Dumbledore thinks him to be. Maybe his loyalties lie elsewhere and he had to inform others (besides the Order members) first of Harry's whereabouts. Maybe I just despise him, but maybe his past has never been made particularly clear. We only have Dumbledore's word to go on, and as we see in this fifth book, Dumbledore is eminently fallible.
Suns rise, suns set; we take into account latitude and longitude and GMT and all that good stuff--and still on the night of a known full moon Lupin doesn't transform until the moonlight touches him from behind a cloud. Oh yeah, and he conveniently forgot to take his potion. Mm-hmm; what's the point of taking the Wolfsbane in the week leading up to the full moon, then? Why not just ( ... )
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I'd be willing to go with the idea of Snape intentionally postponing alerting the Order, except nobody seems suspicious: In "JKR Time", he reacted fast enough to not cause a stir. We've got Dumbledore praising Snape's thinking instead of going "By the way, Severus, how come you waited four hours to see whether Harry was going to come back out of the Forbidden Forest?"
I'm going to assume that this is not actually a plot hole or Flint, that it's just a case of time massage.
I totally intend to reply to your email, by the way. *blushes*
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