Re: Harry Potter 7.2 - SPOILER ALERT
Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 11:50 am
I'm waiting for the BluRay (and DVD) of Half Blood Prince part 2 to be delivered tomorrow.
I read all the books but since I let my family read all my books when I'm done, I think I only have the last one on the shelf.
The Bridge you see get destroyed at the beginning of the Half Blood Prince was built in 1991 and destroyed in 1996
http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Millennium_Bridge
HOWEVER, the real bridge: The real-life Millennium Bridge had not begun construction in 1996 but in fact started in late 1998, with the main work starting on 28 April 1999.
The same sort of twisted history is seen in the LONDON EYE: The London Eye appears in the second part of the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, in the year 1997 despite the fact that the wheel was only erected in 1999,
http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/London
Rowling very slyly changes history and makes Voldemort's reign and the death of Harry's parents seem ancient, old history. IT isn't old history. It is very much modern and recent history. Remember that Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was published in 1997 in the UK and "Sorcerer's Stone" was published in 1998 in the USA. So that's fixes the climax of the entire series as before the millennium (2000).
As everybody looks back over the seven volumes of the story, one thing is clear from JK Rowling --- She knew the final scenes of volume 7 as she was writing the first book. That was one of her admissions during the roughly ten years of writing. She says one of the last chapters of book seven was written while the first book was a draft. This is Harry walking out of the woods to face Voldemort and the supposedly dead Harry being carried by Hagrid into Hogwarts. Harry was born and by the prophecy Harry had to "die" facing Voldemort 17 years later.
So there were two fixed points in the entire story -- Harry's birth and that final battle at Hogwarts. Everything else hangs off them. All of the words in seven volumes derive from those two points. Rowling doesn't waste story on side plots or anything not related directly to Harry.
Look to how many stories (books or movies or TV series) you see or read that have that coherence of plot and focus of ideas. The best stories have that clarity.
I read all the books but since I let my family read all my books when I'm done, I think I only have the last one on the shelf.
The Bridge you see get destroyed at the beginning of the Half Blood Prince was built in 1991 and destroyed in 1996
http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Millennium_Bridge
HOWEVER, the real bridge: The real-life Millennium Bridge had not begun construction in 1996 but in fact started in late 1998, with the main work starting on 28 April 1999.
The same sort of twisted history is seen in the LONDON EYE: The London Eye appears in the second part of the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, in the year 1997 despite the fact that the wheel was only erected in 1999,
http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/London
Rowling very slyly changes history and makes Voldemort's reign and the death of Harry's parents seem ancient, old history. IT isn't old history. It is very much modern and recent history. Remember that Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was published in 1997 in the UK and "Sorcerer's Stone" was published in 1998 in the USA. So that's fixes the climax of the entire series as before the millennium (2000).
As everybody looks back over the seven volumes of the story, one thing is clear from JK Rowling --- She knew the final scenes of volume 7 as she was writing the first book. That was one of her admissions during the roughly ten years of writing. She says one of the last chapters of book seven was written while the first book was a draft. This is Harry walking out of the woods to face Voldemort and the supposedly dead Harry being carried by Hagrid into Hogwarts. Harry was born and by the prophecy Harry had to "die" facing Voldemort 17 years later.
So there were two fixed points in the entire story -- Harry's birth and that final battle at Hogwarts. Everything else hangs off them. All of the words in seven volumes derive from those two points. Rowling doesn't waste story on side plots or anything not related directly to Harry.
Look to how many stories (books or movies or TV series) you see or read that have that coherence of plot and focus of ideas. The best stories have that clarity.