Book 6 Chapter 1

[madlysarcastic]

No: HPFGUIDX 123816


> 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.


I believe it to definitely be a flashback. I guess I'm thinking in
terms of memories and how the only ones who could remember that scene
would be Harry (who was too young, and probably didn't witness James's
death) and Voldemort. So it could come as a result of the
Voldemort-Harry mind connection. But I can't think of why Voldemort
would either show that to Harry or be so focused on the memory that
Harry sees it too.

The other idea I have for the first chapter of HBP, is that it would
be the night that Harry became 'the boy who lived', but from a
different perspective than those who were inside the Potters' home. It
could be about the reactions of people finding out what has happened,
namely Sirius and Hagrid. It could be Sirius, Hagrid and DD realizing
what has happened. I'm not sure how this would add to the plot (except
to satisfy curiousity), but now that Sirius is dead, it might be the
first appropriate time to tell a bit of the story from his point of view.

=)
Maddy