Like when she has snape mention a bezoar (sp) if she hadn't mentioned that Harry couldnt have saved Ron in HBP

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Of course that's not a coincidence! It's all well thought of. It's meant to be that away. Because, like if you said, if Snape haven't told Harry about Bezoar, he couldn't have saved Ron. lol. It all fits in, if you think about it. Almost every information that JKR tells us in the book, turns out to be valuable for some character! =).

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But i still dont see how she can plan all of that before she started to write the books. If so she is pretty smart. Even more thatn i thought

what does everyone else think?

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i don't think you need to be a genius to plan that (altho she is). all you need to do is think backwards. she probably thought up the bezoar as the method for saving ron in HBP first. then seeing as it's a potions and antidotes related thing she used it as a way that snape could humiliate harry.

it could have been coincidence but she probably had notes on stuff shed just mentioned in passing in each books to see if she could use them in later books. the bezoar was probably one of those things.
i think this shows how good JK is making something that was said in passing in the first book play a really important part in the sixth book

In my opinion, The Books have very little room for coincidance. If all this stuff was actually real, Harry Potter was a real person, ect. then it would be a coincidance. But not in books. Harry and us readers had to know that a beozar was the antidote to most poisons. If Jo skip those scenes in the books, Harry would ask for a beozar in HBP and we would be like, What's happening, I don't understand.

JK doesn't write coincedences. She has these little tiny comments that you dismess in earlier books, that suddenly become vastly important in later ones. I don't think that she does write coincedences. She had most of these books planned out before she started writing them. She knew what would happen for a long time, so wrote what she needed into the books.