Marauders Map

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No: HPFGUIDX 109019

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Bex" <hubbarrk at r...> wrote:
> Alla commented:
> > > > "Marauders Map" may have Dark Magic, it may not.
> > > 
> bamf then replied:
> > > JK has Harry compare the map to Tom
> > > Riddle's Diary (which was evil) and comes to the
> > > conclucion that it isn't. While we see this from
> > > Harry's POV, I would still say that the map is not
> > > evil from that.  From an author's standpoint, why
> > > would you compare two things, if not to show their
> > > differences?
> > 
> And then Eleanor answered:
> > 
> > I got the feeling she might have put that in because her editor 
> said,
> > "But it's another piece of paper with a mind of its own!  Surely 
> Harry
> > would compare it to Riddle's diary!"
> 
> Yb thinks (but not very hard, it's still morning here):
> I really don't see the editor having the gall (or something that 
> sounds like it) to demand that JK put an explanation in, illustrating 
> the differences between the diary and the map. I think that quote was 
> certainly put in intentionally, whether to throw us off the trail or 
> to give us a hint about future allegiances.

Eleanor again:

I said that because it's the sort of thing my critiquers used to tell
me all the time.  ("Used to" because I am not in a critique group at
the moment.)  They'd see connections in the story that I hadn't.  I
would have said "beta reader" not "editor" but I don't know whether
JKR would have had any.

Eleanor