[HPforGrownups] Florian Fortescue

[AnitaKH]

No: HPFGUIDX 181900



Carol <justcarol67 at yahoo.com> queried:                               Anyone have any ideas regarding what happened to Florian Fortescue and
 why? [akh then committed a serious act of snipping]
 
 Carol, wondering why JKR included him in the story unless it's just to
 show that Diagon Alley in HBP isn't what it used to be in earlier books
 
 
     
         akh responds, not knowing if others have already said this:

In one interview I read on The Leaky Cauldron web site, Jo says she had intended to involve Fortescue in a plot line that, ultimately, she had to abandon.  What she doesn't explain is at what point she decided to abandon it.  Perhaps it was prior to HBP, in which case she needed to dispense with him somehow and decided to kill him off in the general melee in Diagon Alley.  

The other possibility is that she still hoped to finish his trajectory as of HBP, which included some sort of reappearance, but she realized his story line was bogging down the plot, so she left him presumed dead.  

I'd be interested to know if she would remove such specific early references to him if she were to revise the early books in light of her final outcomes.  

akh, who will soon have to blame her inability to remember where she read things on old age and not on powerful medicines





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