New places in Order of the Phoenix

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 18078

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., eggplant107 at h... wrote:
> I recall a long time ago, I think it was right after the second 
book, 
> JKR said something about a land where giants ride dragons but she 
> wouldn't get around to it until book 5. This lady does think ahead.

I've never heard this one before!  (Of course, I had no clue who HP 
was until after 3 and didn't read the books, much less any 
interviews, until after 4).  That does sound likely to pop up in 5, 
doesn't it?

She does think ahead--she plotted out all 7 books before writing 
PS/SS--though she also says she makes up a lot of things as she 
goes.  One day I hope we'll see the JKR Notebooks and know which ones 
were which (I personally want to know whether when she wrote Book 1 
Chapter 1, she knew who "young Sirius Black" was going to turn out to 
be, or whether it was just a throwaway name, as I reckoned at the 
time).  When something happens like the "huge plot hole" opening 
under her feet during the writing of 4, it might force the reworking 
of plots and characters not only in the book in question, but in 
future ones--e.g., will she need that discarded Weasley cousin later 
on?

Amy Z