I would like to take a moment to reflect here. I know it's unusual for an author to suddenly intrude upon his (or her) story, but if Victor Hugo can do it, so can I. My character Erik is so unlike the Erik you meet in the movies and the book. I would love to portray his childhood a little more, but maybe that should be saved for another story. I like Erik's childhood so much because we can see him without the evil, or greed, or anything else he will acquire in future chapters.
My character Lily is an interesting one. There is something in her you know she knows, but we can't find out because she won't tell us. I think she is a tortured soul, akin to the kind Erik is. The fact that I choose to show Erik getting beat (and that WILL continue on in future chapters) is so that everybody will understand where he's coming from. You briefly saw in the movie him getting tortured, but it doesn't show much. In the book it doesn't even attempt anything of the sort.
That is why I like my story, I'm not on any time schedule, nor do I only have so much money to deal with. I can put whatever I like into this story, INCLUDING this reflection. Erik will be the most mysterious literature character you will ever read about. His dark past contributes to his dark present, and I hope to fulfill my duties as an author to make his stories deeper. I will take his body, the one left by Gaston what's-his-name and Alexander Lloyd Webber and mold it into something I see fit to publish.
Enough with my ramblings and on with the story.