If you were JKR....

[heidi.h.tandy.c92 at alumni.upenn.edu]

No: HPFGUIDX 26045

And you'd planned out seven entire books, where terrorism, random attacks, 
mass murders and violence were - not a subplot, not a theme - an overarching 
Thing in the background, and then THIS happened - this horrible, 
unpredictable, but not unimaginable THING happened - would you consider 
changing any plot points that came too close to what really happened? 

Would it make a difference if those plot points were scheduled for Book 5 or 
Book 7?

Or would you consider it more of a reason to remind people to remember, if 
the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and 
what is easy, remember what happened to planeloads and offices full of people 
who were good, and kind, and brave, because they strayed across the path of 
terrorists? Or would you reiterate that we are only as strong as we are 
united, as weak as we are divided? Or would you force yourself into things 
you normally do, because you could do with a few laughs, you know that we 
could all do with a few laughs, and you have a feeling we're going to need 
them more than usual before long?

If you were the writer, what would you do?


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