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[va32h]

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> Allie:
> 
> > And here I MUST comment because it becomes clear from DH that MANY
> > MANY things were planned in advance, from the time that SS was
written:

va32h:

OR that she went back through previous books looking for objects she
could re-use.  

I don't think it's possible to *know* how much JKR planned or did not
plan from day one unless we ask her very specific questions or get to
read all her notes. 

Either scenario (she planned it/she improvised as she went along) is
equally likely.  

We do know that she has changed her mind at times because she said so
(the character that was supposed to do magic late in life, for
example.) And from the extras on her website we know that she had
ideas that she rejected (Hermione's father witnessing the Godric's
Hollow explosion). 

It does not matter to me either way whether she planned it or not -
I've just never personally found it plausible that every aspect of the
books had been planned from the beginning. 

Things like the Vanishing Cabinet were very cleverly done and the use
of that cabinet may have been planned as early as CoS (since JKR said
CoS and HBP had intermingling plots.)  But Draco's Hand of Glory was
badly done (he didn't even buy it in CoS and Ron and Ginny never saw
it, yet they are the ones who identify it) so I don't think she
planned that from the beginning. 

va32h