So we're witness to Potterism's Gnostic Heresy Period?

The link does not work for me. Damn. I was in the mood for PGHP fanfic.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Hil, I totally remember doing that, too. That was the first time I really got that it was a serious curse word.

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.

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.

Regarding your last point, Anne, I think she's going to go there, just not in Book 7. I think she'll keep writing in and around the world she created.