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    I'm going back and rereading some of it. Goddammit, it's still so good. Rowling was so good at making each chapter have a point, making it super addictive, cause you always know you'll get what you want by reading the next one. And I love how there are little name drops that become full characters later on like Lovegood and Mandagus Fletcher.
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      Editing … When authors drop names that won't actually become characters until later sequels I always wonder whether they already had the idea for that character or whether it was just a random meaningless name at that point.
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      Editing … Buffy was really good at that. I wonder if Rowling knew the horseless carriages actually had invisible skeleton horses when she wrote the first few books.
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      Editing … I think she came up with them for the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Comic Relief book and then made them part of the series after that in Order of the Phoenix. She had to make up a "Harry hadn't processed Cedric's death yet" excuse for why he didn't see them at the end of Goblet of Fire.
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      Editing … I think it's probably a mix. Sometimes it is all elaborate plotting for things later on, but just as often or maybe even more often it's just taking advantage of something you threw in at one point. I think Rowling is a bit more of the former, knowing her attention to the world, but I think it could also be a bit haphazard. A lot of writers also might be in between on something, realizing it may be useful to expand on later as they put it in, but without any explicit intention of doing so at the time.
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