New Question: You're JKR's editor!

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No: HPFGUIDX 72744

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "darrin_burnett" 
<bard7696 at a...> wrote:
> 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!'"

My moments:
Why wasn't Harry just given a penseive instead of having to learn 
Occulemencey (?sp)? He could have emptied his thoughts before bed, 
and not have to worry about LV seeing them. When you put your 
thoughts into the bowl, they are out of your head.... But then the 
tension between Harry and Snivelus would have increased, and we would 
not have seen the imperfect James.
Fran