But I have a bit of sympathy for someone whose vision gets away from them like this. It's such an amazing world, and it's a lot to keep control over.
I agree that this is exactly what happened to her. I believe she has said that she had much of DH planned at the same time as PS and if you look at the two books, they do seem to hit on many of the same themes and places. But in between those two books, she wrote 5 others and that's where themes and characters developed--and she didn't incorporate much of that into her previous plotting and planning. It's almost as if she had to find stuff to fill up an entire book, but once she finished with that book, she just jettisoned it. For example, the Order of the Phoenix just about disappeared in DH. We see more of Lee Jordan, who wasn't in the Order, than we do of many who were.
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Date: 2007-10-31 11:23 pm (UTC)I agree that this is exactly what happened to her. I believe she has said that she had much of DH planned at the same time as PS and if you look at the two books, they do seem to hit on many of the same themes and places. But in between those two books, she wrote 5 others and that's where themes and characters developed--and she didn't incorporate much of that into her previous plotting and planning. It's almost as if she had to find stuff to fill up an entire book, but once she finished with that book, she just jettisoned it. For example, the Order of the Phoenix just about disappeared in DH. We see more of Lee Jordan, who wasn't in the Order, than we do of many who were.