New Question: You're JKR's editor!

[darrin_burnett]

No: HPFGUIDX 72717

OK, I'm back for a bit, with a question...

You've got a heavy-duty Time Turner and can go back and advise a 
certain writer and SHE HAS TO LISTEN TO YOU.

Knowing what you know now, what scenes would you change? What would 
you like to have seen happen?

I am thinking of little things, really, not major plot points, but 
have at what you will.

I'll give you an example from OoP.

I wonder what it would have been like had the first ghost Harry saw 
when it hit him that Sirius might be a ghost wasn't Nearly-Headless 
Nick, but the Bloody Baron?

The Baron, in his ominous way, offers condolences. Because of 
Sirius' family, who was undoubtedly largely Slytherin -- it's 
possible Sirius was the first non-Slyth -- the Baron would have 
known Sirius well.

I do agree that there will be a bridge between Harry and House 
Slytherin -- I don't agree that it's all on Harry to build it, 
however -- and it would have been a neat start to have it be with 
the ghost.

But what are your moments? Please, no, "Change that, JKR!" 

Give how you'd have advised her to write it.

Darrin
-- I love the 80s Moment: "The song 'It's the End of the World As We 
Know It' is mainly an excuse for drunk frat guys to shout, 'Leonard 
Bernstein!'"