This may be subjective on my part (hence the question) but every time I read a comment or interview by Rowling I get the impression she’s building on the idea of “I had it all planned out from the beginning” (warning, TV Tropes link) and back justifies a lot of stuff in very weird ways.

Other than the old “being bad at math”, has she ever acknowledged openly something on the lines of “yeah, when I wrote that part this complete other side of the plot hadn’t been fully defined so I had to adjust a bit to make it work”? Or, “yeah that part about Slytherin being mostly bad became a pain later on when the series evolved.”

Note: this is not meant as a rant against her. 99% of the quotes I see for Rowling are on this site. As such it makes sense my perception is all are justifications as they are brought up to precisely answer a question on this site. I’m curious if she’s normally open about her work or not.

This may be subjective on my part (hence the question) but every time I read a comment or interview by Rowling I get the impression she��s building on the idea of “I had it all planned out from the beginning” (warning, TV Tropes link) and back justifies a lot of stuff in very weird ways.

Other than acknowledging being bad at math, has she ever acknowledged openly something on the lines of “yeah, when I wrote that part this complete other side of the plot hadn’t been fully defined so I had to adjust a bit to make it work”? Or, “yeah that part about Slytherin being mostly bad became a pain later on when the series evolved.”

Note: this is not meant as a rant against her. 99% of the quotes I see for Rowling are on this site. As such it makes sense my perception is all are justifications as they are brought up to precisely answer a question on this site. I’m curious if she’s normally open about her work or not.

This may be subjective on my part (hence the question) but every time I read a comment or interview by Rowling I get the impression she’s building on the idea of “I had it all planned out from the beginning” (warning, TV Tropes link) and back justifies a lot of stuff in very weird ways.

Other than the old “being bad at math”, has she ever acknowledged openly something on the lines of “yeah, when I wrote that part this complete other side of the plot hadn’t been fully defined so I had to adjust a bit to make it work”? Or, “yeah that part about Slytherin being mostly bad became a pain later on when the series evolved.”

This may be subjective on my part (hence the question) but every time I read a comment or interview by Rowling I get the impression she’s building on the idea of “I had it all planned out from the beginning” (warning, TV Tropes link) and back justifies a lot of stuff in very weird ways.

Other than the old “being bad at math”, has she ever acknowledged openly something on the lines of “yeah, when I wrote that part this complete other side of the plot hadn’t been fully defined so I had to adjust a bit to make it work”? Or, “yeah that part about Slytherin being mostly bad became a pain later on when the series evolved.”

Note: this is not meant as a rant against her. 99% of the quotes I see for Rowling are on this site. As such it makes sense my perception is all are justifications as they are brought up to precisely answer a question on this site. I’m curious if she’s normally open about her work or not.