CHAPDISC: HBP1, The Other Minister

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 141817

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "a_svirn" <a_svirn at y...> wrote:
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> > SSSusan:
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> > And then this "I wanted to use this before" chapter which had us 
> > all thinking, "Oh, boy!  BIG stuff!"  Only to have it be "just" a 
> > meeting between the WW and MW head honchos.  
> > 
> > Truth be told, I have a hard time imagining just how JKR would've 
> > used this earlier.  There would have been so much less to share 
> > between the two men.  ...
> > 

> a_svirn:

> I am more interested to know why she wanted to use it at all. I 
> mean, it is not in the least surprising that she should have taken 
> pains to *separate* the two worlds in the previous five books. It is 
> a feasible solution plot-wise besides enabling her to avoid some 
> inevitable awkwardness where muggle/wizard inequality is concerned.
> 
> ..edited...
> 
> a_svirn
>

bboyminn:

Sometimes an author just has a cool plot idea. I'm sure JKR thought it
would be cool to see the interaction between the Muggle and Magic
governments, and it was at least that, cool. 

But, I also agree that it couldn't have possibly worked before now.
Certainly PoA could have started with Fudge informing the PM, but
that's kind of a waste of a good scene; not all that much to say and
do, an not that much of a reason for the PM to get frustrated.

So, really, I don't think it was much more than that, a cool chapter
idea that finally worked.

Just a thought.

STeve/bboyminn