[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Question RE: new info from jkr.com

[Rebecca K Hubbard]

Yb's musings (all hyper from hot chocolate and Jo's revelation):
<snip> I'm more 
interested in "Spinners End" (a place, I'll bet mnoney on it!!) 
and "Draco's Detour." Oooh, I'm all a-quiver, won't be long now, 
chapter titles are usually the last things written, aren't they?
> 
Dudemom_2000:
<snip> If you look at the 
first three books Harry starts Hogwarts right around Chapter 6 so 
possibly Draco is not on the train but comes later and we find out 
why. I figure Spinners End is where Harry goes to right from the 
> > Dursleys. <snip>

Carol wrote:
Chapter titles are not necessarily the last thing written. They could
have been the first if JKR outlines her chapters that way, and these
chapters are all from the first half, probably the first third, of the
book. I wouldn't get my hopes up just yet.

I agree that Spinners End is a street ("End" = cul de sac, as in Bag
End, right?), probably a street with shops where spinners (women with
distaffs or spinning wheels?) sold their thread in earlier times. Or
maybe thread is still spun there by some magical means. It could be
the street where the new Order headquarters are hidden, which fits
with your observation that it's where Harry goes when he leaves the
Dursleys in chapter 2.

As for Draco's detour, is he visiting Daddy in Azkaban?

Yb again:

Well, I was figuring that Jo would have the plot down, and probably the
chapter written, before she 

used that dry humor of hers to come up with chapter titles. I am now
leaning toward "Felix" being 

a person; I was completely open to thoughts on that, and "lucky of the
lucky" (the luckiest guy 

in the world?) kinda makes sense.

 

But again, "Daco's Detour" is the most interesting in my eyes. See, the
HP series is written in 

third-person limited point-of-view. For those of you who don't know what
I'm talking about, it means 

that the narrator is not in the story; he/she is an objective viewer of
all events. But, the narrator is 

limited to what Harry can see/hear/experience. There are very few times
where we depart from this 

line of writing, and all of them occur during PS/SS.

 

So unless we get a major change in the Point-of-View (third person
limited to Draco), it means 

that Harry will be along on "Draco's Detour," because that's the only
way we'll find out what happens 

on said "Detour." So we have 3 possible scenarios (if in fact "D's D" is
referring to Draco going 

somewhere, or even having a change of heart, going to the good side):

 

1)       Draco goes somewhere and takes Harry along.Hmmm, H and D
getting some quality time in.

2)       Draco tells Harry about this "Detour" of his.

3)       Harry is eavesdropping on Draco, and hears something, like
Draco's plans/recount of breaking

Lucius out of prison.

 

I'm leaning toward number three. I don't see Draco spending any amount
of time with Harry and divulging

anything important any more than I see Lucius seeing the light and
becoming a warrior for the good side.

 

Any thoughts?

 

~Yb

 



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