[HPforGrownups]Chapter 3, the Advance Guard/Superflurous

[Buttercup]

No: HPFGUIDX 76145


 "Ali" wrote:
> >> 
> > (Q 12)  Much of this chapter could be viewed as
> superfluous 
> > narrative. Is this a chapter which a more rigorous
> editor would have 
> > stripped down to a few lines? Has JKR's success
> actually meant that 
> > her editors are now reluctant to offer advice and
> guidance which 
> > might have lead to the OoP being a shorter and
> punchy book?

> 
 Kneasy wrote:
> Her editors are probably scared stiff of cutting
> *anything*. She 
> hasn't confided plot details or development to them;
> they were 
> probably so damn grateful to finally receive the
> manuscript that
> they would have printed a bus ticket used as a page
> marker, had 
> one been there. 


Buttercup:

I agree that the editors don't know the plots for the
last two books. They have no idea if something is
significant or not, so their hands are pretty much
tied. They have to take the books as they are and be
grateful, which they should be since I'm sure it's
made the publishers more successful and richer than
they ever imagined.  Who are we to say what's
unnecessary? Maybe after Book 7 we'll have the right
to judge.




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Buttercup

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