The Internet and Potterama

[Nirjhar Jain]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67"
<justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
> As for the effect of the Internet on Rowling's writing, I don't
think> it affected either the length or the darkness or the books. Surely,
> she planned the three important deaths we've encountered so far from
> the beginning, along with the pivotal restoration of LV to his body in
> the fourth book--surely always intended to be dark, with the
> kidnap/murder plot, the Death Eaters, the Unforgiveable Curses, and
> the murder of Cedric Diggory.


Nirjhar:

Do you really believe that the Publishers would have allowed Book 4 to
be that long if Harry Potter had not become popular?

I do not think so. IMO, GoF would have been less voluminous and more
"PG" friendly had it not been for the immense success of Potterama.
The climax of GoF would not have been allowed if it not for the
success of the earlier books. Cedric's brutal death and Wormtail
cutting off his hand would have been regarded by the publishers as
being to violent for a children's book. They would have told Jo to
rewrite it. Jo Rowling would not have been able to say no.

I do not believe Jo Rowling would have got the freedom to write
Potterama the way she wanted to if it had not been for the success of
Potterama.

JMHO :)