Re: When all is said and done...


"Drusilla" <gammanormidsERASETHIS@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:71cde$4847e2a6$32697@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
santosh escribió:
Drusilla wrote:
santosh escribió:
Thom Madura wrote:

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Obviously, most
details of DH _had_ to have been filled out after OotP, since many of
the characters like Xenophilius, Moody etc. were introduced only in
OotP. Maybe the basic plot was done at about the same time of PS? If so
then I think Rowling sketched out the bare-bones of the entire series
before writing the first book. I think she said so too somewhere,
sometime.

REcently, she said that.


I think she's been saying that for some years, that she had the whole story sketched out in her head from the start, because of the need to introduce certain facts a particular times and not reveal others till later, as well as making sure all the plot details fitted, and hence all the boxes filled with notes!


But I still wonder if the Hallows sub-plot, specifically, was added
sometime later, perhaps as late as OotP or HBP. My main "evidence" for
this is that Rowling has usually shown herself to be very good at
dropping advance clues, foreshadowings and the like of major plot
events, but there is nothing like this for the Hallows. Sure, James's
Invisibility Cloak was introduced by PS itself, but there is absolutely
no indication that it was anything other than any other Invisibility
Cloak. And there is not even a whisper about the other Hallows or their
legend. Seeing as how the ultimate destruction of Voldemort rested so
crucially on the whole Elder Wand business, Rowling _should_ have given
us more clues or leads about them. Instead they appear right out of the
blue and that too halfway through DH!

I guess he hoped that us would realise that the Cloak was special. But that was asking too much for any reader. Anyone could have come up with any crazy theory without any kind of basis then, and it could have turned out to be right? Even Snape could have ended up as a vampire ;)


Exactly - there wasn't anything to suggest the cloak was any more special than any other(!) invisibility cloak. Interestingly, its property to shield the wearer from spells doesn't seem to have been used anywhere - that quality seems to be another late addition.


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HBP had, IMO, quite relevant information, or so I thought when I read
it by first time. Apparently, JKR didn't thought the Horcruxes were
relevant enough because the Hallows played a more important part in
the final book.

Indeed. It turned that Horcruxes were pretty boring after all.

The Horcrux ended up being a major distraction rather than a major quest. The truth is, IMO, that a real quest for the Horcrux was supposed teo take more than one book, perhaps a whole series, and JKR only had one book left. So, let's simplify the task. And the Horcruxes became unimportant.


The irony is that eliminating the horcruxes involved quite a bit of work, enough to fill DH, yet for some reason another element - the hallows - was still added.

DaveD

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