Opening of Book 6 - Theories, Anyone?

[gelite67]

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-Angie wrote >
> > I can see Voldemort trying to attack Harry at the
> > Dursleys' house.
> 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? It's unlikely that a
> present-day-Harry situation would have been applicable to the 
> overall plot over a 5 year time span. If HBP opens with an attack 
on 
> Privet Drive... <snip>.
> I'm
> thinking more along the lines of the opening of GoF, a 
retrospective 
> scene.
> 
<snip> 
> 1.  More about the events of Godric's Hollow
> 
> <snip>

Angie (rubbing her hands together gleefully):
See, this is why I started this post -- I knew there were those who 
knew more than I!  I didn't know JKR had said that (it's all I can do 
to keep up with this page!)  I personally would love to find out more 
about the events in Godric's Hollow and it has to happen sometime. I 
can readily see that fitting in the opening of HBP. What I can't 
imagine is how an explanation of those events would relate to Harry 
having his shortest visit ever at the Dursleys.  But that's what 
makes it so much fun!