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Ashutosh Dixit
Ashutosh Dixit asked Jonathan Stroud:

Hi! I'm a huge fan of the Bartimaeus Trilogy. Nathaniel, and the entire journey he goes through, is very fascinating. My question is, how did you come up with Ptolemy's character? What was the process of developing and writing him?

Jonathan Stroud Ptolemy was always in the shadows, through most of the writing of the trilogy. I knew he existed from day 2 of my writing (Bart mentions him in chapter 4 of Amulet) but it wasn't until I was writing the third book that I began to explore who exactly he was. And I didn't create the flashback scenes until very late on - when I realised that Ptolemy was in some ways a foreshadowing of Nathaniel.
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