[HPforGrownups] Planning the plot in advance -- prompted by Ebony's idea

[John Walton]

No: HPFGUIDX 10186

Emily Owens wrote:

> I'm not sure if this has been discussed yet, but now that I am in the
> process of re-reading the books I am beginning to wonder to what degree JKR
> planned out the details of the plot, and to what degree she is adding things
> as she thinks of them. There are several examples that are troubling me,
> some of which seem to suggest extreme forethought, some of which suggest JKR
> changing her mind, and some of which are ambiguous.

Well, she has said on many occasions that she has files and files and boxes
and boxes and other storage methods full of Harry stuff, so she must have a
really intricate plan and character map laid out, even if only in her mind.

As I've found when working from a preplanned plot, some of my best ideas
come from completely outside the plot -- the Castle in Harry Potter and the
Song of Time being an example.

For the Song of Time, I plotted the Prologue and Chapter 1, and have plotted
Chapter 7 (current release is 5 as soon as Cassie posts it to FFN [I can't
because FFN is, as they say, buggered.]) so far, mainly to get all my ideas
down on paper.

--John

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In 1555, Nostradamus wrote:
"Come the millennium, month 12
In the home of greatest power,
The village idiot will come forth
To be acclaimed the leader."
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