What trio? /was HP Flubs - Grawp

[susanbones2003]

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> bboyminn:
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> A lot of people were disappointed with Grawp's apperance in the 
books.
> The common question is 'what purpose does he serve?'
> 
> JKR needs something to happen, she needs the Thestral to come and
> rescue Harry and the gang and take them to the Ministry, but how?
> Simply Thestrals are attracked to blood. Now we have to come up with
> some blood. OK, let's introduce Hagrid's brother, have him stubble
> onto the Centaur scene, have the Centaurs attack him, and have him
> bleed on Harry and Hermione. Problem solved. 
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> Yes, Grawp may have some larger role (forgive the pun) in later 
books,
> but his role in OotP was to bleed and nothing more. 
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> Making things happen in a story is not alway easy. I was writing a 
HP
> fiction and needed one character to make one comment, and I had to
> write 10,000 words of plot twist and turn to manuver my character 
into
> a position where he was able to make his comment. Sometime huge
> expanses of story are really nothing more than the author manuvering
> his/her characters into a specific situation. How they got there
> should certainly be interesting, but is not as important as them
> actually being where they eventually need to be.
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> I think that's what Grawp was in OotP, simply a process for 
manuvering
> Harry and Hermione into a position where they were able to do what
> they need to do. If there ever was a clear and conciser definition 
of
> 'plot device' than Grawp, I don't know what it could be.
> 
> I suspect, besides a cool special effect, in the up coming movie,
> that's all Grawp will be again; a means for Harry and Hermione to 
get
> from where they are at to where they need to be.
> 
> Just a thought.
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> Steve/bboyminn

Jen D. here, with her two cents!
JKR has taken a beating on the other site for using "plot devices" 
and on other sites as well from members who can't help themselves 
from talking about Harry! I believe on the LOTR site I frequent, she 
was ruled out from being as great as Tolkien for introducing 
characters late in the game just to achieve some plot design. I guess 
I am a pushover because I couldn't figure out to what the humble 
writer was referring. GAWP of course! But I maintain faith in JKR 
that she's got a plan that will make Gawp indispensible. Afterall, 
the rule is the stuff that's in the movies has to be there, right? 
And yes, anything we like that doesn't appear, however heart-breaking 
(like a "Shrieking Shack" scene that holds water and reflects the 
great chasem that Harry must traverse in order to see Sirius as 
something other than his parents' murderer...)just doesn't matter in 
the long run. Boo hoo.
Jen D. 
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