(I posted this info as a brief comment in bad_penny's original CC thread a while back; thought you might want to add it to the main post, considering its immediate context in DS11...?)
...I spotted *another* plagiarized line in the same long set-piece passage that began this installment. The "extra" bolded bit was of course previously identified as plagiarized from The Hidden Land; also cf. my main Technicolor post (http://www.journalfen.net/users/wombat1138/1327.html).
Draco Sinister, chapter 11 (PDF p579): "Harry stopped thinking and let the sword in his hand do its work-- he had already discovered that if he cleared his mind, it seemed to come to life in his hand, or, more likely, that the undercurrent of knowledge from Draco was able to work its way up and direct his arm. But every time he tried to analyze what he was doing, he lost his footing or missed a stroke, so he stopped trying to plan and let his instincts take over, "
The Secret Country, 2003 Firebird paperback, p. 286: "They left great shining swaths in the clear air, like fireworks but unfading. "
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on 2007-08-11 05:17 am (UTC)...I spotted *another* plagiarized line in the same long set-piece passage that began this installment. The "extra" bolded bit was of course previously identified as plagiarized from The Hidden Land; also cf. my main Technicolor post (http://www.journalfen.net/users/wombat1138/1327.html).
Draco Sinister, chapter 11 (PDF p579):
"Harry stopped thinking and let the sword in his hand do its work-- he had already discovered that if he cleared his mind, it seemed to come to life in his hand, or, more likely, that the undercurrent of knowledge from Draco was able to work its way up and direct his arm. But every time he tried to analyze what he was doing, he lost his footing or missed a stroke, so he stopped trying to plan and let his instincts take over, "
The Secret Country, 2003 Firebird paperback, p. 286:
"They left great shining swaths in the clear air, like fireworks but unfading. "