truly evil female character, was: Re: Icicle

[Ersatz Harry]

No: HPFGUIDX 58908

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Samantha" <elfmom01 at y...> wrote:
> I just went to the link that tells info on GOF.  I'm confused...
> 
> 1. "The first truly evil female character makes her debut."---Rita?

I can't really imagine anyone else, but see below.

> 2."There will be a number of deaths, including that of one character 
> readers have grown to love."----I only remember Cedric?  Who else 
> died?  Did we "love" Cedric?  I mean he's ok and all, but "love"?

If you go back to the source you mentioned, you'll see that GoF was
also predicted to come in at something like 500 pages.  The US
hardcover version, however, clocks in at something like 737.  So I'm
wondering if the insertion of 200+ pages of additional material pushed
some of the items mentioned into the next book.

The only potential problem with this is that we end up in a new school
year by pushing things off to a new book; at the least we are into the
summer.  Still, our man Hadrig is off on a secret mission for
Dumbledore during the vacation, possibly with Madame Maxime.  If that
secret mission happens right away (DD recommends to Fudge that envoys
be sent to the giants very quickly), then maybe Hagrid's death -- if
that's the one being referred to -- is going to happen at the
beginning of the fifth book.  But I don't see why it couldn't
originally have been plotted out for the end of the fourth one,
perhaps with the tournament ending a week or two earlier.

I do agree that Cedric does not seem likely to be the character we loved.

> 3.Another Weasley, Ron's cousin, appears.---HUH???  I must have 
> missed that.

Perhaps it's the accountant, but in any event, no cousin appeared in
GoF.  Again, maybe it's someone who was originally scheduled to but
who got pushed off to OoP.

Ersatz Harry, wondering which of the 200+ pages got added late in the
game if his idea is correct