OOP: "This is obviously some strange usage of the word 'everything' that I hadn't known of before" (was: Re: Our Not-So-Solid Rock Solid Predictions)

[koinonia02]

No: HPFGUIDX 67380

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jesta Hijinx" 
<jestahijinx at h...> wrote:

>Koinonia:
> Plus we didn't find out many things that
> >k> we have all wondered about for so long. I think that was one 
thing
> >k> that disappointed me. So many unanswered questions which lead 
me to
> >k> believe they are still important to the story. 
.Dave wrote:
> >I feel much the same way -- When I saw the teaser that said, "Sit 
down
> >Harry, I'm going to tell you everything," I thought that really 
meant
> >*EVERYTHING*: Why Voldy wants Harry dead so badly, why *exactly*
> >that Voldy's AK was deflected, why James "had to die" but Lily 
didn't,
> >what Petunia is hiding, and a full bio of Severus Snape.  Instead, 
all
> >we got was a prophecy that most of us had already anticipated.  A 
bit of
> >a let down in an otherwise superlative book.

Felinia wrote:
> Huh.  Am I the only one who saw that line as just a clever teaser, 

I sure don't mind teasers but part of the problem is that she has 
left us with so many teasers and yet so few answers. I don't think it 
was expecting too much to learn a bit more.

 
> There was *no way*, with two more books to go, that we were going 
to be told 
> *everything*. 

One of the teasers has Dumbledore telling Harry that he was going to 
tell him everything. Well, we were only given what most of us had 
already guessed. I'm not disappointed in the Prophecy. I'm 
disappointed in not finding out the things Dave mentioned. 

>I don't mean to diminish your disappointment, but I don't 
> find this a letdown at all:  I think it's completely expected and a 
good 
> idea.  JKR is continuing to string us along with our guessing and 
wondering 
> "why".  

Now I loved the book. I don't believe I am nearly as disappointed as 
many others are. Unlike some I found the book to be funny and not as 
dark as GOF. I had decided I was just going to enjoy the book on the 
first read and not look for all the little hints. It is a very 
enjoyable book even though I probably rank GoF, PoA, and PS ahead of 
it. 

BUT there were disappointments for me. GoF left me hanging on the 
edge, wanting to find out (actually see) where Snape was going, 
wanting to see more of Lupin, wanting to see more of Sirius, to name 
a few. Yes, I know the books are about Harry but I was hoping to get 
a good idea of what everyone was up to and instead we were only given 
bits and pieces. Plus in an interview JKR said, " But you do find out 
a lot more about Snape and quite a lot more about him actually." 
Being a Snape fan I couldn't wait to find out more. About a third of 
the way through the book I sensed we weren't going to find out that 
much about him and I wasn't going to see the other characters I had 
been waiting three years to see. It was such a dramatic change from 
GoF to OoP. It was unexpected on my part. I'm hoping, but not holding 
my breath, that Book 6 will actually be the book I've been waiting 
for since GoF. 
 

> *That's* what I'm hoping of JKR, actually:  I'm hoping we *don't* 
figure it 
> quite out until the last couple of chapters, at least.  I don't 
want 
> Dumbledore to explain everything in a sitdown like that; I'd love 
it if more 
> puzzle pieces fell in front of us as the last two books unfold.

Oh, I don't want all the puzzle pieces either. But I sure wanted more 
than what we got. So....I'll just wait around for the next book and 
hope we get more answers. I mean, how long is one suppose to wait to 
see Snape in his vampire form?  <G>

"K"