[the_old_crowd] Re: Dark Lord's Birthday (was some questions

[Kathy King]

Talisman terribly snipped:



Of course she may have added it all after her mother's death. There is
a certain symbolic felicity in connecting *death of mother* with *birth
of Voldemort,* whether you read his name as *flight from death* or
*flying death.*

In the end, there is no way to determine the exact time these details
entered her plan, at least from extant books and interviews.

 Snow:

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*Barnes&Noble.com* *September 8, 1999 Chat Transcript*

THE SORCERER'S STONE took five years to finish, but during that time I was
working full-time as a teacher, and I was also planning the whole series of
Harry books. CHAMBER OF SECRETS took two years, and AZKABAN took one year.
They're getting faster to write because of a kind of snowball effect. I know
the characters very well by now. And the plots are fully worked out.



Snow:



In 1999 the plots were fully worked out. If you add the time she said it
took; five years to finish, two years for COS and one year for POA. Walla
you have the year her Mom passed away.

I may be viewing this badly but I have always felt, through her interviews,
that she is totally connected to the series i.e. Hermione was the younger
version of herself, but she is like Harry, dementors being like depression,
etc.

I really liked Potioncat's catch of the fact that Voldemort's mother died
that night as well, something that did not come to mind. (Touché girl)

Is there a psychologist amongst us that we could call on for interpretation
between JKR's life and her counterpart...Harry?

Snow


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