Interviews, James - Seeker or Chaser? (was Re: James/MWPP in Slytherin)

[nkittyhawk97]

No: HPFGUIDX 83698

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dcyasser" <dcyasser at y...> 
wrote:
> --- 
> > Pip!Squeak:
> 
> > > Further, Sirius asks James where he got the Snitch, and James 
> says he nicked it. If James were his teams *Seeker* he would have 
no 
> need to nick the Snitch. He could ask to borrow it for some extra 
> practice. But if he's *not* the Seeker, he has no legitimate 
reason 
> to have that Snitch, and would have to nick it rather than borrow 
it.
> > 
> 
I agree that he was a seeker.
I think I'm right in saying JKR said he was a chaser in an interview?
Well, I also think I'm right in saying she said this OVER a year 
ago? (I haven't read the interview, it might have four years ago... 
i can't seem to find it)
I have a small idea of what it's like to write a story, and while 
you write it (or just plan it out) ideas zoom around your head so 
fast that you can barely write them down. I also know that it is 
VERY common for plans to change. As JKR said, herself, while writing 
GoF, her plan fell apart, and she had to rework it.
Authors DO change their minds. I'm sure when she said that James was 
a chaser, her idea was that James Potter was a pretty popular guy 
who played quidditch.
Later on, she probably got a little more specific in her ideas... 
and wished she hadn't said he was a chaser.
And plus, it's much cooler thinking that Harry played the same 
position as his dad did.