Add’l question: In the Sorting Hat chapter, there was originally an authors’s note stating that if anyone could guess what would happen at the start of the next chapter, Eliezer would tell them “the rest of the plot” (might not be the exact phrasing, can’t remember). As far as I know, that went unredeemed, but if he had needed to pay out, what would he have said? Curious to know how the “rest of the plot” was conceptualized in his head as of chapter, like, 9 or something.
Hard to say at this point! In my head it would’ve included breaking Black out of Azkaban, Hermione being eaten by the troll, Quirrell and Harry descending together to go after the Philosopher’s Stone, the final duel between Harry and the Death Eaters foreshadowed in Ch. 1, Dumbledore’s prophecies, and Harry’s ascent over magical Britain. I don’t know if I would’ve revealed every one of those beats to the winning reader, but those are the most central plot beats as I saw them.
Add’l question: In the Sorting Hat chapter, there was originally an authors’s note stating that if anyone could guess what would happen at the start of the next chapter, Eliezer would tell them “the rest of the plot” (might not be the exact phrasing, can’t remember). As far as I know, that went unredeemed, but if he had needed to pay out, what would he have said? Curious to know how the “rest of the plot” was conceptualized in his head as of chapter, like, 9 or something.
Eliezer’s reply, sent to me and copy-pasted in:
Hard to say at this point! In my head it would’ve included breaking Black out of Azkaban, Hermione being eaten by the troll, Quirrell and Harry descending together to go after the Philosopher’s Stone, the final duel between Harry and the Death Eaters foreshadowed in Ch. 1, Dumbledore’s prophecies, and Harry’s ascent over magical Britain. I don’t know if I would’ve revealed every one of those beats to the winning reader, but those are the most central plot beats as I saw them.