Plot in OotP (the revised version)

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 118307


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...

<snip>
> 
> 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.


Carol adds:
And just as JKR blamed Marcus Flint for his extra year at Hogwarts,
JRRT blamed the "usually honest" Bilbo for the account of finding the
One Ring that appeared in "The Hobbit" as originally published, which
Tolkien himself changed in LOTR to "what really happened."

Carol, quoting from memory