Why now?

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Kneasy wrote: 
> 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.
> 

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You also said in this post you expect to be disappointed with book 
7, unless I misunderstood you.  I also hope she has a better 
imagination than we do...in fact I'm sure she does. (I went back and 
read the post you suggested, but I couldn't paste any of it here.)

Your original post on this thread asked, why is she interacting 
now?  I really wish she wasn't.  Although,  like most fans, I check 
her site for information regularly.

But for me OoP was almost ruined by the forewarning that someone 
would die.  In the first place I rushed through it so that no one 
would spoil it for me.  In the second place, once it was over, I 
felt exploited.  Someone will die: is it the Weasley kids? Arthur? 
Hagrid? McGonagal... oh, just Sirius... (sorry, but that was my 
reaction.)

So I felt jerked around. Was this afterall, just like those disaster 
movies a few years ago?  Here are the characters, who will die?
I realised that if I started the book without knowing that a death 
was an important part of it, I wouldn't have felt that way.

Although I have my favorite characters, I don't have a preferred 
ending. I already know, whatever comes,  I won't learn as much as I 
want to about my favorite characters. I'm a little puzzled by the 
posts who feel a certain ending is predetermined by literary 
tradition or some other set of rules.   

So, while I won't be upset if Snape wasn't married to Florence, I'm 
interested in what did cause his turn from LV.  And if one of the 
ships is correct, that's fine too, but I'll be as happy if it's 
never mentioned. I'm going to stop trying to predict any of this.

But maybe, just maybe, I should find a book of Churchill speeches.
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