![]() It isn’t clear why or how there is an house in the middle of the ocean, It may have been on an island but because the Harry Potter world is deeply routed in magic it may have been levitating above the waves. ![]() He takes a boat out to investigate and discovers the ruins of a house. According the JK Rowling, the first draft of T he Boy Who Lived would have followed Mr Puckle, another muggle like Vernon Dursley, (muggle meaning a non magical person) who notices an explosion out at sea. This might be because the earlier books (books 1-4) were targeted at children rather than adults and Rowling may have thought it would be better for the reader to be eased into the world of magic and introduced to it from an outsider’s perspective.Īlthough I find the opening chapter to one of the most success book series of all time odd, I prefer it to the original idea. Although the Dursley’s appear at the beginning of each Harry Potter novel, we don’t get another point of view chapter from them and they don’t play a large role in the series. Upon re-visiting the series this chapter is rather strange. That evening Professor Dumbledore, Professor McGonagall and Hagrid arrive at the Dursley’s home and leave baby Harry on the their doorstep. Men in robes are speaking about You-Know-Who and a large number of owls have been spotted across the British skies. The first chapter of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, The Boy Who Lived, follows the character of Vernon Dursley, Harry Potter’s Uncle, as he notices odd things happening on his usual day at work. ![]() Thankfully for me, other writer’s also had strange ideas in their first drafts.ġ) Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by JK Rowling When that idea is compared to the finished novel is seems completely ludicrous yet it was in the manuscript for several months before I removed it. The first draft of Empty Nights, for example, featured a scene of my two protagonists train surfing out of London Bridge. Often than not the first draft is almost unrecognisable from the finished article. I think that the point of a first draft is to exist so the author can improve upon it. ![]() Before I published my first novel in September the pinned tweet on my Twitter account was ![]()
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