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[kentauros]

7. It doesn't seem weird to me that she'd forget that.

Consider just how much she's written. Unless you have an eidetic memory, many details are lost the more you write. I'm often kind of surprised at some of the things I've written because I'd forgotten all about that passage or bit of dialogue.

Also, as a writer, you tend to have in your head what your characters look like. If she had Hermione visualized in a way that was open to any skin color, it's still easy to see her forgetting she had written in such a thing at some minor point in the story.

She's written how many books? An average book length is 100,000 words, and her books are known to be longer than that. So, she's probably written at least a million words in the Harry Potter universe. How is one supposed to remember all of that?