The writing of the series

[Cezar T]

No: HPFGUIDX 70374


Hi! I'm new here, and let me say to all of you that I enjoy your emails and hypotheses very very much. And I have a question:
Personally, I don't believe that JKR planned the whole series right from the beginning, when she published PS/SS. I think she wasn't expecting this kind of success and this kind of feed-back, not even when she wrote CoS. For example, since she mentions Sirius's motorbike in PS, and then Sirius himself appears in PoA, we may be tempted to believe that she had Sirius, with all his characteristics, in mind from the start, when in fact it may just be that she devised the new character in PoA, sought a name for him, then remembered Sirius Black from book 1.

 I don't want to minimalize her performance in the least, I just say that we cannot be sure that she had the whole picture planned from the very beginning. In my opinion, Harry doesn't see the Thestrals in GoF simply because JKR hadn't thought of the Thestrals when she was writing the book. By the way, I'm not in the least bothered by these logical mishaps, since I enjoy being surprised, and I think that the kind of epic she writes is  based on surprise more than anything else. Homer makes this kind of "mistakes" too, and he is still the greatest poet of Greece (although, I must admit, he may not have existed as a person at all). So, what do you think? I would be very interested to know of any theories regarding the writing of the series, and speculations about the evolution of JKR's goals.
Also (since I believe that now she has the next two books figured out) I wonder why everybody (at least, as far as I know) seems to imagine Harry with Ginny or Hermione, and not with Luna Lovegood. I think both Ginny and Hermione are much too  friends with Harry for any relationship to develop...and besides, Ron will never appreciate Luna, even if she may have fancied him at first,

hope it's not too long,

drymusalastor