It's funny though -huh? It's literally a canonical split.
Well, people have been re-writing other canons when they didn't like them since ever (Christ: divine or human?), so why not Harry Potter?
I think what my daughter's trying to say is: nyah nyah nyah nyah.
Joyce ,'Same Time, Same Place'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Volans - Aug 05, 2005 9:18:01 pm PDT #8905 of 10002
move out and draw fire
Topic!Cindy - Aug 06, 2005 2:33:07 am PDT #8906 of 10002
What is even happening?
So we're witness to Potterism's Gnostic Heresy Period?
Narrator - Aug 06, 2005 8:08:02 am PDT #8907 of 10002
The evil is this way?
The link does not work for me. Damn. I was in the mood for PGHP fanfic.
Megan E. - Aug 08, 2005 4:48:26 am PDT #8908 of 10002
I read HBP over the weekend so I can now return to this thread. Have people been making any speculations about HP7 and where the story is going to end up? Elena and I and her DH spent a while last night talking about our respective theories, which were strangely similar.
Narrator - Aug 08, 2005 4:57:39 am PDT #8909 of 10002
The evil is this way?
Yes, scroll back starting with the book's release date of July 16, 2005, and you'll see a lot of whitefont discussing the story and the possible outcome in Book VII.
DebetEsse - Aug 08, 2005 5:15:14 am PDT #8910 of 10002
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Well, I think there's only so much leeway in the story at this point, since it's really unlikely that it'll work out as Voldemort Wins and Harry DIES! Mwahahahaha.
I think she's also laid out the events well enough, and set enough foreshadowing precedent, that there are things that simply need to be paid off (and usually in a farily limited number of optional ways)
But, then, most of this book was fairly predictable, but still well worth the reading.
Hil R. - Aug 08, 2005 5:34:00 am PDT #8911 of 10002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Going back a bit in the conversation (since I just caught up), we read Pygmalian in eleventh grade English. There's a bit in there where someone says that Eliza has to stop using "That word ... the one that starts with a B" (or something to that effect). We were all totally confused, since the only "bad" b-words we could think of were "bitch" and "bastard," and neither made sense there. When our teacher finally told us that the word in question was "bloody," there was a collective, "Huh?" from the entire class.
DebetEsse - Aug 08, 2005 5:43:30 am PDT #8912 of 10002
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Hil, I totally remember doing that, too. That was the first time I really got that it was a serious curse word.
Megan E. - Aug 08, 2005 6:00:06 am PDT #8913 of 10002
Well, I think there's only so much leeway in the story at this point, since it's really unlikely that it'll work out as Voldemort Wins and Harry DIES!
That would be an awesome turn of events. I would expect additional fan "rewrites" if that were to happen.
Anne W. - Aug 08, 2005 6:08:50 am PDT #8914 of 10002
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Given all the kerfuffles about the ending of HP6, it's probably just as well that it'll be two years before HP7. That should give time for some of the wankery to die down.
Things I want to see in HP7 that haven't been discussed to death yet (I think):
Some explanation of what the veil thing in HP5 was. I don't necessarily want to see Sirius come back, but it bugs me that something as potentially interesting as the veil was there only as a booby-trap.
Draco to be somewhat redeemed, but not for him and Harry to be all buddy-buddy. I'll leave that to the fic writers, who can have them be buddy-buddy, by which I mean porn.
Things to be still up in the air romantically for Harry. He might be thinking that he could give the Ginny thing another try, but no real resolution.
More backstory on Harry's parents.
More Remus. A Remus vs. Greyback smackdown.
Some more history on the founders of Hogwarts.