[HPforGrownups] Re: Opening of Book 6 - Theories, Anyone?

[Melete]

No: HPFGUIDX 114263


--- dungrollin <spotthedungbeetle at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Angie wrote:
> > Just wondered what half-baked theories anyone had
> about how Book 6
> > will open.
> >


> Annemehr:

> Another possibility would be for Dumbledore to order
> Harry, Ron, and
> Hermione to headquarters to receive some real
> information and some
> training. 
> <snip> 

> 
> Dungrollin quoting JKR's website:
> 
> On the first chapter of PS/SS:
> "The trouble with that chapter was (as so often in a
> Harry Potter 
> book) I had to give a lot of information yet conceal
> even more. 
> There were various versions of scenes in which you
> actually saw 
> Voldemort entering Godric's Hollow and killing the
> Potters..."
> 
> On the first chapter of HBP:
> "I have come close to using a chapter very like this
> 
> in 'Philosopher's Stone' (it was one of the
> discarded first 
> chapters), 'Prisoner of Azkaban' and 'Order of the
> Phoenix' but 
> here, finally, it works, so it's staying. And that's
> all I'm going 
> to say, but when you read it, just know that it's
> been about 
> thirteen years in the brewing."
> 
> Dungrollin's thoughts on the opening of HBP:
> If the first chapter of HBP could have fitted into
> PS/SS, PoA or Oop 
> aswell as HBP, then it *must* be referring to a time
> before Harry 
> knew he was a wizard, mustn't it? 


Certainly, I immediately thought when she said this on
her site that she must be finally revealing the
Godric's Hollow events in full.  If you think about
how  GOF opens with the Riddle house and then goes to
Harry at the Dursleys.  IF the book were to open with
the events of Godric's Hollow then it would certainly
be understandable if there is less time spent on
describing Harry's stay at the Dursleys and more of a
quick plot movement towards Harry returning to
Hogwarts.  This is of course an unsupported opinion.  
But events 13 years in the making I can certainly only
think of a toddler Harry during or directly after the
Godric's Hollow incidents (doing the math at least.) 
If so, then my own excitement level over this next
book has to be lassoed in again so I don't boil over :
).  But perhaps JK will have something entirely new to
reveal to us instead.  She can be very difficult to
predict.

Cheers,

Ellyddan




		
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