How HBP could have interwoven into CoS (Was: Re: Eileen Prince)

[Goddlefrood]

No: HPFGUIDX 156271

> Carol wrote:

> I'm completely thrown by this particular piece of information,
> frankly. Does anyone have any ideas how the HBP plot could have been
> interwoven with the Chamber of Secrets/diary/Basilisk plot?

Goddlefrood suggests:

When JKR informed us all that she had removed all traces of the HBP 
storyline from CoS it struck me that perhaps the plot of the series 
had changed around without actually being altered. That is the order 
of events was changed. I'm afraid I have to say that I do not think 
Dumbledore was ever intended to have been killed off in book 2 nor do 
I think the Advanced Potions book was to have made its entrance that 
early.

The basic plot element that is discovered in HBP is the existence of 
LV's cache of Horcruxes. This is what I think JKR meant in that she 
would have introduced us to Horcruxes in Cos (wehich would have been 
called HBP but for the alteration of the sequence of events), and 
part of the revelation originally was to have come from the HBP 
himself (leaving us in less doubt as to his loyalties). After all, as 
we now know the diary was a Horcrux container.

Had the Horcruxes been introduced so early it would have made no 
sense that a hunt for the others did not start earlier than it has. 
In fact four books later it would be quite plausible that all 
Horcruxes had been located and neutralised / destroyed.

Perhaps it would have made for a far less interesting series and if I 
am anywhere near correct then the tension in the series would not 
have been so easily sustainable by Ms. Rowling as it has been.

Goddlefrood who is glad Horcruxes were not introduced earlier and 
reminds list members that CoS was only her second published work.