was Re: Interview w/ JKR [Sirius]

[kiricat2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 73051

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dublinaaireland" 
<fashionmenu at h...> wrote:
> <snipped>
> 
> Dublina: Lisa, sorry to hear that the comment "are you for real" 
was 
> considered rude but the comment that was made and I quote
> ****So, the final two books have lost a lot of their potential 
allure 
> for me****, actually made me laugh out loud to the point where my 
co 
> worker in the next bay to me wanted to know what I was laughing 
at.  
> Again, as I said before it is getting to the best bit and stating 
> that the potential allure is lost on someone, I found quite 
humorous.
> 
> Lisa:
> >> Each of us has our own reasons for liking these books, and our 
own 
> emotional reactions to them, and seeing such a dismissive response 
to 
> someone's reactions bothered me. >>
> 
> Dublina:  Such a dismissive response?  Isnt saying that *potential 
> allure is lost* dismissing the last two books of the HP series?  

Since mine was the original quote of how some of the "potential 
allure is lost" I feel I must respond.  This is not dismissive at 
all.  It's not the same as saying "I won't read the books." Or "The 
books are going to be awful because my favorite character is gone."

It merely means that I won't have the same level of anticipation, the 
same counting-down-the-hours thrill that existed before OoP. I will 
read the books, probably much more slowly, the first time through 
because I want to know what happens, but I won't be chomping at the 
bit, sweat pouring from my brow, locking myself away for the weekend 
to *devour* the books. They will be more, well, like books, and less 
like a life-pausing experience.

I can't help but think how all the devoted Snapists would feel if it 
had been Snape who died.  I'm sure they all would want to finish the 
series, but I would find it hard to believe that, at least some of 
them, wouldn't feel a lack of something in them. Would their eager 
anticipation of the new books be the same, knowing there was no more 
Snape? 

Marianne