Steven Zuber

The library is closed.

It's like, holy fucking shit, bitch.

This is an emergency.

How do I place an emergency phone call?

Oh, there's the flu network.

She's not in her office.

And like he – so I get confrontations like that would make him disregard the – like train him against the heuristic of I should ask for help from people, right?

But if he had trained that reflex, I think he would have remembered the Patronus earlier.

Yeah.

Because he would have been like, oh shit, there's trouble.

Luckily, I thought of ways to get in touch with people.

Let's get Dumbledore up in here right now, right?

It does.

And I, you know, I don't have as polished a take on what makes good story structure as you do as someone who's not an author.

I, you know, I can't like I've read short stories that it's not about a character arc.

It's not about growth.

It's just here's a story.

And granted, this isn't a short story, but like it's interesting because you can like I can read it.

In fact, while I was reading Wales's essay of it, I'm like, yeah, all these things are true pretty much.

The pacing did get rough, especially those of us who were doing it chapter to chapter for the last several years of it.