truly evil female character, was: Re: Icicle

[innermurk]

No: HPFGUIDX 58909

> --- 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

If you look at the title it was a tentative Harry Potter and the 
Doomspell Tournament. We all know this was changed to the Goblet of 
Fire. It's obviously a very early teaser piece and the book was 
probably not finished at the time it was given. Things change in the 
writing process what with editing and all.
JKR said the Weasley cousin was written out because of several 
reasons (One being a plot hole), but we might see him/her(I can't 
remember) later.

Also, there is an interview somewhere (sorry don't know which one, 
I'm horrible at citing) where JKR said she was really astonished that 
people didn't care that Cedric had died. She cried when she wrote his 
death, and thought others would care too. I know my sister had a 
crying fit when he died. So, I think he's the character we're 
supposed to care about.

It was interesting to see the early rumors for GOF and which ones 
actually came true. It makes you wonder how many of the OOP ones will.

Innermurk