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It's an interesting thing to think about because we're in book seven because I liked what you

said earlier about character that we have to care. And by book seven, we better care about the

character, right? That's what the first six books were for, but it's not just like we're done

once we get to book seven. We still have to introduce Harry in a way that we're signing up for

another book and we're rooting for him. You know, I think that's part of why we have this. It's

almost again, we always say prologue in disguise, right? It's like, here's what he's up against.

Look how pretty cold an evil Voldemort is. It's just another point and Harry's column of

why we care about him. Welcome to the fiction writing made easy podcast. My name is savannagilbo

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