small thing in COS: Possibility

[Arya]

No: HPFGUIDX 98265

> >Antigone q. wrote:
> > Ever since I saw the interview with Rowling where she says 
> > she "nearly gave it all away" in Chamber of Secrets, I've been 
> > turning it over and over in my mind and wondering what little 
> > detail I missed that might give away the whole story.
> 
> "cubfanbudwoman" wrote:
> Wow--you SAW the interview?!?  Many of us have looked & looked for 
> this particular phrase of "nearly gave it all away" without luck.  
> Can you provide the source??-------
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Arya now:
I think two different comments are being confused here.  There 
is the "one thing" comment pertaining to the CoS movie (see my quotes 
below) but I don't seem to find or recall that the comment 
about "giving it all away" was in relation to this.  
I actually seem to recall JKR commenting about the first book, and 
how she had written it all out (nearly twice the size of what we have 
now for the book) and that after finishing it, she went back and 
edited, edited, and edited some more.  I seem to recall her 
saying that it was "all given away in the first chapter of the first 
draft" or such.  Which, if you imagine how that first chapter goes, I 
think it could be very easy for a narrative to give away all too much 
there--too much of the BIG secrets, I mean.  <g>

In the CoS DVD interview w/Steve Kloves, JKR says this:
[But yeah, I've told Steve probably more than I've told anyone else, 
because he needs to know. Because it's incredibly annoying of me when 
he says "Well shall we cut that", or "I wanted to do this" and I 
say, "Well no... because, you know, in book six, something will 
happen and you'll need that in" or "that will contradict something 
that happens" and I can feel him on the end of the emails, you know, 
*does impression of frustrated Steve typing* "would you mind telling 
me why?" So I have told him things.]

and then a few moments later, Kloves says: 

[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.]

http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/quickquotes/articles/2003/0302-
newsround-mzimba.htm

Arya