PS/SS - chapters 2-5 post DH look

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 180927

 
> Bex:
> I read this list to remind myself of how DENSE I can be 
sometimes. :) 

Potioncat:
It was that exact feeling after each of the earlier books that had so 
many of us finding "obvious" clues in the following ones. I mean of 
course, obvious clues that were no such thing.

It generated some amazing theories and the creativity that was 
demonstrated on this list was as good as the books themselves! There 
are some Crouch family dynamic threads that would make wonderful 
books---even if names had to be changed to protect the innocent!


> > Alla:
> > Do you think JKR already envisioned Trio's breaking and riding a
> > dragon in DH when she wrote this sentence?

> Bex 
 - it;s almost like she had some parts of the books written
> already, and she filled in the bglanks. 

Potioncat:
This is what I'd like to read about. I'd like JKR to write a piece 
about the creation of the HP story. Not an interview, a history that 
she puts time and honesty into.

I'd love to hear something along the line of, "When I first pictured 
Gringott's I imagined they would have a captured dragon chained in 
the vaults to protect the treasures. Later I decided to have Harry 
make use of it."

We know from interviews that she changed some events and characters 
as the story progressed. But clearly she had a definite goal in sight.

That's actually caused an interesting response from fans. Some say 
that JRK was a slave to her original ideas, and that as the story 
began to write itself, she should have adapted the characters, story 
arc, whatever; others say that that if she said after book 3 that 
something was going to happen in book 5, she shouldn't have changed 
her mind when the time came around. (Using hypothetical book numbers--
an example is the person who would show magic late in life, an idea 
she dropped.)