Ten Things I Want for My Birthday

[alice_loves_cats]

Ten things I want for MY birthday (seeing as I've just turned 21, so 
have at last come of age to inherit my English "fortune", which is, 
unfortunately, nowhere near big enough to be able to bribe JKR with - 
I will have to rely on her good heart):

1. A strong, good, interesting (but not silly) female character 
between the ages of 20 and 40 - I am dead tired of trying to identify 
with loonies (Tonks, age and gender fitting) and little boys.

2. Snape and Harry to have to actually fight together - literally. 
Not Snape stepping in at the last minute and saving the day, nor the 
other way round. Not even loads of guys fighting together, with Harry 
and Snape among them. Just the two of them. They HAVE to get their 
issues sorted out, and this time it will have to be something bigger 
than the troll was in Hermione's case, to make them able to like each 
other. No slash reference intended. 

3. Hermione to study to become an animagus. I know lots of you are 
tired of this topic, but I hazard a guess that what you're actually 
tired of is the "Oh! It's all explained because it turns out that 
he/she is an unregistered animagus!" plot-line. Make her study for it.

4. There's got to be more to Petunia than meets the eye. I hate to 
agree even marginally with Marge (huh, bad pun), but HEY, blood has 
to out. GOOD blood should out. In a story anyway. 

5. Mark Evans to enrol at Horwarts in Book Six.

6. The Good Slytherin to appear. Not goody-goody Slytherin. But a 
Slytherin to bond with.

7. Gimme a hetero ship in the trio any day.

8. Go Neville!

9. Someone (Hermione, for instance) to REALLY and TRULY tell Harry 
off when he gets to his "but I saved the world, you nitwits" tantrum 
again.

10. Draco. I think redeeming is unfortunately out of the question, 
but at least make him talk! How I crave that scene with Nott! I want 
to see more of the little ferret!

As you can probably see, my main aim is to get all these 
interpersonal relationships well and truly MIXED UP in the last two 
books. It's war. People have to fight together and yet this kind of 
stress creates more friction. Characters should evolve. Drastically. 

Oh please, JKR, make me happy!

Unfortunately I seem to have asked for MAJOR things instead of small 
things that could actually be included without damaging the already 
existent plot-line. Too bad fo me. :)

Love, Alice



--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "joywitch_m_curmudgeon" 
<joym999 at a...> wrote:
> JKR has clearly known the basic outline of the plot of the entire 
> series from the start.  So, in books 6 and 7 we will clearly find 
the 
> answers to the various big mysteries about Voldemort, Snape, Harry, 
> etc. that we have been speculating about all along.  But she also 
> clearly invents the small bits as she goes along, and she just as 
> clearly has already put in certain details in reaction to fans 
> comments (e.g., Hermione's explaining how to pronounce her name to 
> Krum).  
> 
> So, Jo, I am officially requesting of you add the following details 
> to the last two books, just to make me happy.  Consider it 13 
year's 
> worth of birthday presents:
> 
> 1.  The McGonagall/Hootch ship!  (Just mention that they live 
> together, that's all I ask.)
> 2.  Percy Weasley finally comes to realize what a jerk he is; 
returns 
> home; Molly smacks him upside his head and makes him live in the 
> attic with the ghoul.
> 3.  Arthur Weasley gets a promotion, a raise, and – most 
importantly –
>  a bigger office.
> 4.  Hagrid gets an honorary degree making him a fully qualified 
> wizard; then he gets a new wand and stops carrying around that pink 
> umbrella.
> 5.  Lucius Malfoy goes straight to jail.  He does not pass go, does 
> not collect $200, does not escape, does not hire Johnnie Cochrane 
to 
> get him off.  He does not in ANY WAY wheedle out of paying for his 
> crimes and rots in Azkaban FOREVER.
> 6.  Harry and Hermione become Head Boy and Head Girl.
> 7.  No polyjuice.  None whatsoever.  Not even a mention.
> 8.  Harry gets an offer to play Quidditch for England after 
> graduation.
> 9.  Fudge is forced to resign in disgrace and is replaced by 
Kingsley 
> Shacklebolt.
> 10.  We find out what some of us have know all along – that Snape 
IS 
> a vampire.