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Yes, but this doesn't mean she doesn't edit as she go. She changed the entire course of GoF midway through writing it. I think that she has general things planned, and some specific "this is how it ends" stuff ready--but I'm sure (like any good writer), she's going to edit some plot threads along the way.
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I'm sure you right. As she writes, I'm sure she finds that things she thought would work in fact don't, and she has to rethink things. I'd be amazed if that didn't happen.
But I'm doubting that her edits of plot threads would include the ultimate fate of the title character, especially given her care in laying things out and foreshadowing all of the really major events far in advance. In think she knows the destination she is heading to, she made herself a map of how to get there before she started, and as she goes she finds adjustments that she needs or wants to make in her map. But the destination is, I bet, the same. Every interview with her that I have heard or read indicates that she has no doubt how it will all end.
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Do you have a link to a transcript of that Biography interview??
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'fraid not. I just looked at the A&E site, but didn't find much there either.
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MysticCat, I've heard the whole "final chapter is already written" a kajillion times, and I've never seen proof of it. She did flash a notebook showing her original plans for all the Hogwarts students, but despite multiple fans searching the net for the "last chapter" reference, no one has ever been able to provide a link to that interview, though some swear they saw it. It's supposed to have appeared sometime in 2000, but the evidence hasn't been provided. It's kind of an urban legend. I know that she did appear in a Biography channel interview, but it's an older one. Did she flash the chapter in it? I'm really fascinated about this because it's kind of a holy grail of Potterdom.
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Too true. Best I can tell you is that in the interview I saw on A&E (which may indeed have been an old one) she pulled out a manila envelope, took a worn pale green spiral bound notebook from it and identified it as containing "the final chapter of the last book, which wraps up all of the loose ends and tells what happens to the characters -- those that survive, at least. Not everyone will survive." (Fairly accurate quote, I think.) She did definately say "final chapter."
Sorry I can't help more on the grail search.