Again, you cannot use the author's after-the-fact justifications to defend her. The ingenious planner people claim she is would have worked in a mention of those things before they became the main plot points of later books.

You're one of the people I disagree with, then, because--if you include SPEW--she's no better in the books, in my opinion. Almost every single line she has is "We can't do what you want, Harry" or "We MUST do this now, Harry" or "OMG! Studying!" What small consolation she was to Harry in 1-4 was given to Luna in 5 (not that I'd get rid of Luna).

As I recall, Lucas' answered the question of "you scanned the masters to make the special edition, so why not just release that scan as a restored original?" by saying "those scans were irrevocably turned into the special edition as they were restored, so there's no restored original." Some people interpreted that to mean the master film elements were destroyed.

However, that is immaterial. When Disney is ready to make more money off the effort, they'll have someone rescan the masters at super-high-res (16k maybe) whereas Lucas had scanned them at, I think, 4k. (Remember the timeframe we're talking about here.) Then they (Disney) will control the nature and extent of the restoration, something they are VERY EXPERIENCED AT.

Well, either you're closing your eyes
To a situation you do not wish to acknowledge
Or you are not aware of the caliber of disaster indicated
By the presence of a pool table in your community.
...
Trouble, oh we got trouble,
Right here in River City!
With a capital "T"
That rhymes with "P"
And that stands for Pool,
That stands for pool.
We've surely got trouble!
Right here in River City,
Right here!
Gotta figure out a way
To keep the young ones moral after school!