Plot in OotP

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 118182


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "scoutmom21113" 
<navarro198 at h...> wrote:
> 
> Kim wrote:
> Maybe over the coming years, after she finishes the series, she'll 
> go back to the books, do some editing, and publish "new and 
> improved" versions, and then we'll all be happy...
> 
> Bookworm:
> I couldn't find any 2004 quotes at Quick Quotes, but I remember 
> reading a few months ago that JKR would like to do just that.  If 
> you look at the writing style between the first and the fifth 
books, 
> she has obviously grown as a writer.  It will be interesting to see 
> what she changes if she does actually make a "director's cut".

Geoff:
Revision is not unknown among writers. Tolkien immediately springs to 
mind because, after all, he rewrote sections of the "Hobbit" (which 
was originally conceived as a "stand alone" book) after he started 
work on LOTR because they became part of the same canon.