Good Writing (was Why now?)

[sevenhundredandthirteen]

No: HPFGUIDX 110706

Kneasy wrote:
> Remember -  these books were not conceived with a fan-base in the 
> hundreds of millions in mind and it's totally impossible for  all 
of us 
> to get the ending we want. Me - I'm already getting prepared.  I  
can 
> think of three endings that would satisfy me - and all of them 
have low 
> probabilities of coming to pass. So it's likely that I'll re-read 
> volumes 1-6 fairly frequently and  pass the final one on to a 
Charity  
> shop. I  expect to  read it just once.
> Unless she surprises me, of course.
> But I'm not very  optimistic about  that.


I (Laurasia) reply:

We all seem to have so little faith in JKR. No matter what the 
ending is, if JKR is a good writer she will make us believe that it 
was the best way for the books to end.

If JKR is a good writer, the ending should feel inevitable and the 
only possible way in which the events preceeding it could ever be 
resolved.

If JKR is a bad writer, then there will be so many loose ends that 
we could conseiveable see dozens of other more sastifying ways for 
the book to end.

I think JKR is a good writer. No matter what the ending is, I have 
faith that when it comes I will have been positioned to believe that 
it is the only solution that the characters can take.

I think deciding what endings would sastisfy is foolish at this 
point in the series. We don't even know if the prophecy is true. 
Hopefully JKR really is a good writer and when the last chapters of 
Book 7 unfold the story will reach a high-point which only has one 
possible way out. That way, when the story follows that path we will 
*all* realise that it was necessary and the only sastisfying end. 

This, I think, is why Sirius's death was deemed 'sloppy writing' by 
some fans. Because, as yet, we can see dozens of possible ways out 
of Sirius's death, and, as yet, not many ways it could possibly 
actually benefit the story.

There will hopefully be a point of no return in which, if anyone 
turns back, Voldemort will rule over the world forever. Not many 
fans want that. And I think he will be overcome. Surely that one 
simple fact is what the books are leading us up to. If JKR is a good 
writer every step along the way was leading us up to Voldemort's 
downfall. And that means whatever consequences occur after he is 
destroyed are only the necessary outcomes of acheiving the one most 
important goal.

No matter which SHIPs sink and which one sail I believe that by the 
end I will believe that they are 'meant to be.' No matter who lives 
or who dies, I hope that any death was necessary to the story.

~<(Laurasia)>~