fifteen variations of the first chapter of book one alone, as well as a chart that included every single character in Harry Potter’s class at Hogwarts that Rowling used to develop her plots. It didn’t stop here. Rowling published on her website8 a plot table she created to plan her fifth book. On the left-hand side, she listed every chapter, followed by a column for each subplot, and a map that helped her organize how various plotlines would unfold throughout the book.
