JKR's "small thing" in CoS

[cerebella316]

No: HPFGUIDX 94726

Kathy posted this snippet from Steve Kloves interview:

February 2003

Interview with Steve Kloves and J.K. Rowling, Moderated by Lizo 
Mzimba

Steve: I will sometimes ask Jo. I will say, you know, this detail, 
you just seem to have cast just a bit more light on this in this 
scene than the other details. Sometimes I'm wrong, but often she'll 
say "No, that is going to play." There's one thing in Chamber, 
actually, that Jo indicated will play later in the series...."


Cerebella ponders his wording and the context of "There's one thing 
in Chamber..." and decided to comment:

OK guys....for some reason I think that this "one thing" Kloves is 
talking about here is how, in the movie script, he took the liberty 
to add that awkward hug between Ron and Hermione.

Doesn't happen in the book. I assume it was added as a stretch to 
make the Trio seem more like normal preteens who are beginning to 
see the gray area between friendship and attraction to the opposite 
sex.

That was a thing in COS that Kloves added in and JK okayed because 
the tension between Hermione and Ron is going to "play later in the 
series."

That's just what I think he was alluding too!

~Cerebella, who *does* think something important happens in COS 
that, in a way, foreshadows the end of the series, but does not 
think that that is what Kloves is talking about here! 

(And, who also thinks that the *clues* JK is talking about in COS 
are probably so straightfoward, so *right there*, that we're all 
going to slap our foreheads when JK reveals them when the last book 
is released!)