Potions and Book 7 (was Why Harry will still study Potions in book 6...)

[cantoramy]

No: HPFGUIDX 110829

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Cathy Drolet" <cldrolet at s...>
wrote:
> Salit
> "JKR: "Sometimes invention gives out. I was writing the latest chapter
> of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince and I needed to come up with
> another name for another potion. I sat for ten minutes at the keyboard
> then I just typed "X". I thought, "I'll go back and fill that in
later.""
> 
> Okay, not quite a proof, but the phrase "another name for another
> potion" suggests that several are described in the HBP book. The
> likeliest explanation to that is that Harry manages to continue
> studying potions."
> 
> 
> DuffyPoo:
> Not necessarily, although I am quite certain HP will continue with
potions.  The Trio made Polyjuice Potion outside of class, although
Hermione, at least, had heard about it in class.  This could be as
simple as that.  Hermione continues to take the classes, even though
HP and RW do not, and she tells them about a potion that can do
something or other to further their cause.


About Potions:
Harry, et al, will most certainly attend Potions class, or else how
will he be able to have contact with and aggrevation from Snape?!  He
told McGonagall in OoP that he wants to be an Auror and she replied
that he would need to take Potions for the next two years, and that
she would help him "if it's the last thing I do!" (OoP, "Career
Advice").  However, he will need an "Outstanding" on his Potions
O.W.L., and I wonder how that will happen?

About Book 7:
To have Voldemort and Harry both die in a fight to the
death--"Frankenstein," anyone?  Been there, done that.  JKR is much to
clever and original to use that for an ending.

However, I shall reiterate:  Warner Brothers' will not allow its most
profitable licensed character, Harry Potter, to be killed off.  He's
worth too much, as are Hermione and Ron.  If they are willing to let
him die, there will have to be a stupendous substitute for "happily
ever after."  Otherwise, the public relations department at WB will be
working overtime for years.

JKR owns the text between the book covers, but Warner Brothers owns
all the characters and inanimate objects unique to the books (e.g.,
the Snitch) and the licensing rights.  Scholastic and Bloomsbury own
publishing rights and exclusivity in their respective countries (USA
and Great Britain), in order to prevent competition.  

This is the eternal creative conundrum--how far is an artist of any
kind willing prostitute himself or herself before it's all about the
money and no longer about the art?  JKR in now wealthy enough that
it's no longer about the money, so we fans have nothing to fear! 

I have been called mercenary and cynical whenever I have expressed
this opinion, but WB is in business for one reason--to make money. 
They would never do anything to purposely cause themselves a loss--
unless it was for tax purposes, just like all American corporations!

cantoramy