Chapter 39: Answering some questions raised by reader

Answering some questions raised by reader "Yakumo-Murasaki" regarding the plot of this book at its current stage...

Early this morning, I saw the long review written late at night by the great Yakumo-Murasaki in the book review section; after reading it carefully several times, I felt the great one put a lot of heart into the review, which moved and inspired me greatly.

Since this is the first long review this book has received in eighteen days of solo operation, I feel it is necessary to open a single chapter to reply.

The main question raised by the great one is that the protagonist's personality does not seem like that of an adult, and his style of action is too taken for granted.

In fact, the author is very clear about this problem, but various reasons have led to the current situation.

1. The most important reason is that the author's writing ability is insufficient.

Voldemort (Quirrell) is a very cunning person; being in the enemy camp, he must be cautious everywhere. When describing him, his cunning should be portrayed at a higher level; at the very least, he should not make himself look like a villain so obviously, but limited by the author's writing ability, the final choice was to use the most clichéd, stereotypical template of the great evil overlord to describe him.

2. This is the author's first time writing a book, and experience is lacking.

This is reflected in the fact that the motivation the author arranged for the protagonist to go find Quirrell is not strong enough; the readers know the plot direction, so there is no sense of urgency, but the protagonist does not know the plot direction, and the author did not focus on describing the protagonist's thoughts, and since this book has no system, it cannot simply and brutally make the protagonist do something by issuing a mission, so the motivation for doing something needs to be described clearly, and the author has not done this well enough yet, so it looks taken for granted and has a huge sense of disconnection.

This is also reflected in the fact that the author did not fully convey to the readers the information and conjectures the protagonist possesses; because the protagonist does not know the plot, he currently believes the main threat will come from the outside, so he did not suspect the villainous behavior of Professor Quirrell; this is information the author failed to convey to the readers, and I will take time to revise the previous chapters.

The plot regarding the Thunderbird's eyes is the same; after it appeared, I forgot to think about how to handle and use the Thunderbird's eyes, such as whether to tell Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall to study it together; of course, I definitely would not tell them, because there is no way to explain the source of such a large amount and precise ancient runes, besides, this is the protagonist's golden finger. Professor Quirrell only saw part of the runes recorded by the protagonist, and moreover, he treats the ancient runes as a bargaining chip to tempt the protagonist, so he will not suspect the protagonist at this stage. Of course, this part of the plot will also be revised to make the protagonist's behavioral logic more complete.

Finally, let me talk about the author's current thoughts.

In fact, the author has always not wanted the protagonist's power to grow too fast, so the author has been very restrained regarding the protagonist's strength growth, because the author believes that the first year is the time to lay the foundation, wanting to explain the underlying logic of the protagonist's power during this period, not just that the protagonist leveled up from level 1 to level 10.

But looking at it now, doing so is undoubtedly somewhat of a failure; this leads to the book's pacing being relatively slow, and the protagonist's weakness and ignorance of the plot will limit his influence on the plot, which will lower readers' expectations.

Although the author is creating out of love, everyone wants better results, so to improve readers' expectations, I overturned the previous outline and started to increase the weight of the Quirrell line, because I think a newbie who doesn't know the plot together with the great evil overlord will have many interesting dramatic conflicts, which will give readers expectations, but looking back at this section now, the transition is indeed quite stiff...

For the first time, I feel the characters under my pen are starting to resist me...

Writing code is my main profession, and writing novels is my side job, but the difference between the two is too great!

Code is solidified text, while novels are text with tension.

A string of code, if you tell it to return zero, it will definitely return zero.

But a person in a book, if you tell him to do something, he might not listen to you...

Just as I cannot make Allen instantly learn the Disarming Charm, the Summoning Charm, or the body spell.

Because all of a character's actions must follow a certain logic...

Some readers might say you are the author, you are the God of this book, but I must say that even God must follow logic!

Finally, thank you again to the great Yakumo-Murasaki for the book review, and welcome more reader lords to offer their own opinions on this book; the author has a very good temper, I will seriously study and read every single one of your opinions, and every single one of your opinions will become the nourishment for my growth and progress!

Thank you to the reader lords who read this far; I won't say more, going to type now!