Why now?

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No: HPFGUIDX 110807

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at m...> wrote:
> Oh, Kneasy, you are an optimist.  You do know what an optimist is?
> When the situation is at its darkest and someone says, "It can't get 
> any worse." The optimist comes back with, "Oh, yes it can!"
>

Kneasy:
Worse? Who said anything about it getting worse? Mind you, it could -
especially if those fluffy SHIPpers have their way. Can't think of
*anything* worse than the series degenerating into romantic slush.

Apart from that the word 'worse' doesn't apply, but the word 'different'
does. I like these books a  lot and  the sword of Damocles so far as
I'm concerned is labelled 'cliche'. That would be a real downer.  I've
expressed my thoughts before (see 101614 - Which way?) on this
theme. I'm hoping that JKR can come up with a resolution sufficiently
challenging to lift this series into a class apart.

There are others with similar hopes out there (or so the contents of
my mail box says) and that's not really surprising. Posters often give
clues to their backgrounds, personalities and tastes in their messages
and the crowd on this site are as diverse as any you'll find on the web.
Not the sort to congregate around run-of-the-mill fantasy (though I
was a little disappointed at some of the opinions expressed on the OT
Board recently re favourite books. Pretty trite, some of them. I expected
a more challenging selection from the membership.) 

Potioncat: 
> And the with the long wait for the next book fans became restless. 
> They began to find one another and bounce theories off each other. 
> (sometimes painfully) Will the next book confirm or destroy our 
> theories?  What new things will happen?  If this... then that...?  
> Suddenly fans are reading up on mythology, researching word roots, 
> and reading Jane Austen.
> 
> At some point, as you said, it went from "I wonder if..." to "It 
> just has to be..."  Then (for me) along came Mark Evans and ruined 
> it all.  How could something so obivious be so wrong?  (Choose what 
> is right over what is easy?)

Kneasy:
Sending readers out to read other books is a signal success for JKR;
long may this continue to  happen  (though there are those of us who
see half quotes in the books and wonder if the  other half is going to
turn up - DD's "..truth is precious.." spoken on more than one occasion
could just be a partial quote from Churchill that might yet be completed
"In wartime... truth is so precious that she should always be accompanied
by a bodyguard of lies." It would match my view of DD too - sneaky.

Never trust the obvious. A lesson we should all have learned reading 
these books. Never did like the Mark Evans theories, much, much, too
obvious. It would hhave been really depressing if those had come about
 - for one thing it would have meant that the author had lied to us. That
would have been unforgivable.

Although I recognise that my preferred resolutions are unlikely, they are
still possible. I keep my fingers crossed and, as I said in the 'Which way?' 
post I'll hope like hell that she has a better imagination than we have.

Kneasy