Opening of Book 6 - Theories, Anyone?

[annemehr]

No: HPFGUIDX 114270


> 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.
<snipL
> What it could be however... My pitifully scarce ideas are rounded up 
> and forced to present themselves below:
> 
> 1.  More about the events of Godric's Hollow
<snip>
> 
> 2.  More about You Know Who's past.
<snip>
> 
> 3.  Something entirely different that I haven't thought of.
> 
> Er... that's it. :-)
> 
> Frankly, my money's on number 3.

Annemehr:
Thanks, Dungrollin, I had forgotten that it was one of the discarded
*first* chapters of PS/SS.  That certainly makes me think it's most
likely to be about Godric's Hollow -- perhaps Harry dreams it, either
as a long-forgotten memory of his own, or because Voldemort is
thinking about it and the vision invades Harry's sleep.  It'd be one
way JKR could insert a fully-written old chapter of PS into sixteen
year old Harry's head.  But you've got a fair point there in your
number 3...

Okay, but I still hope the second, third and fourth chapters are about
an attack on Privet Drive, Dumbledore actually explaining things (GH
maybe?) to Harry in the *beginning* of a book, and Harry's arrest and
incarceration in Azkaban! ;)

Annemehr