Eneasz Brodsky

This is why it was so hard to... Why it took 11 years for people to figure out what the story is about.

It never tells you this.

It only shows you it.

And...

like seeing it across a work this long took some major skills.

So huge props to William on this.

But, and so this, this even happened in, I'm going to refer back to Alexander Wales's essay as a foil for this.

Alexander Wales says that the core conflict between Voldemort and Harry doesn't even, the plot, the conflict plot doesn't even begin until chapter 83 or something, because until then it's 88.

Okay.

Sorry.

I love it.

You're a good rationalist being the correct amount of pedantic there.

Before that, it's just Quirrell and Harry and they're not fighting.

There isn't really a conflict between them.

And in 88 is like where the two of them come to a head where they're fighting against each other.

and that the other major plot conflict is between Coral and Dumbledore, and that's entirely off-screen, with Harry sometimes seeing the consequences of it.

And so it sucks that it's two-thirds of the way through the book before the central plot even starts, and then it's resolved through violence at the end, and...

And William says, no, no, no, you're misreading what the plot actually is.

There's a single clear main plot, which is foreshadowed in chapter one and established in chapter six, and then properly begins in chapter 16, and then goes on for 100 chapters until it's finally resolved in chapter 114.

And that plot is that he says this is a standard Disney plot where somebody wants something.