Book 6 Chapter 1

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 123806


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pitaprh" <jwright at a...> wrote:
Jodi wrote: 
> On JK's web site she posted the following a long time ago (Extra 
> Stuff - Coffee cup - Edits section). <snip>
> "The Opening Chapter of Book Six.
> 
> 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."
> 
> What kind of chapter is this - A flash back?  The books all start
with Harry at the Dursleys'.  This one must not???  
> Any ideas?


Carol responds:
Actually, SS/PS starts with the Dursleys and then Dumbledore and
McGonagall before baby Harry arrives at 4 Privet Drive, and GoF starts
with a flashback to a fifty-year-old murder at the Riddle House and
slips from there into the conversation between LV and Wormtail
overheard by Frank Bryce. So a flashback to Godric's Hollow, which is
what I'm anticipating (read hoping for), would not be wholly
unprecedented as the first chapter of HBP. It will be interesting to
see how she handles the PoV.

Carol