CHAPTER DISCUSSION: PS/SS 4, The Keeper of the Keys

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> Alla:
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> Right, personally I tend to be a bit skeptical about JKR's claim that she planned *everything*, you know? I do not think it is possible for any writer and I wish she would have stuck to saying that while the story was planned in advance (and I totally believe that main story was), she had to do side trips and change things , etc, etc.  

Potioncat:
But she has said that.
 
She's talked about the deleted side-story of Theo Nott and Draco talking at Draco's house. That was a scene intended--iirc--to show us Draco interacting with a true peer. Also there was Ron's cousin--Mafalda, Meleficent---something like that---who didn't make it into the book at all.

I don't have any specific interview in mind, they've all blurred at this point. But I don't see a contradition or untruth in saying she had it all planned out, yet having some things change as she went along. 

Back to Lily and James being recruited, do we have either canon or interview that said that LV attempted or wanted to get them to join the DEs? I feel like we do, I just don't remember what it was.

I also think that as she went along with her planned version, real life interfered. So that reader reaction may have influenced some events and even her interaction with the actors in the movies had some small affect on the story. She's admitted that her mother's death drove the story into a darker beginning than she originally intended. But I doubt that any of those changes were counter to her vision.


Alla: 
> Because Hagrid is clear IMO, he is asking if things happened around Harry when he was angry and upset and he IS upset when Dursleys do it to him, but nothing happens, you know?

Potioncat:
I know we are commenting on our own opinions and reactions to canon, but I don't see an inconsistency. We know that magic does not solve all problems; nor is it perfect. Hagrid asks, "Never made things happen when you was scared or angry?" He isn't asking if things always happened. Think of Neville, apparantly he never had any accidental magic at all until he was dropped out a window; even though his family had started trying to trick it out of him.
JMO