What would disappoint you about HBP?

[Hannah]

No: HPFGUIDX 127705


Lupinlore wrote:
> I saw this question on another site and thought I'd try it out 
here.  
> What would disappoint you should it happen/not happen in HBP?  My 
> list includes:
> 
> 1) Harry recovering too quickly and easily from the various things 
> that have happened.  Also Harry forgiving various people for 
various 
> things too easily.

Hannah: I would like to see Harry dealing with things and coping.  
Maybe I've just read too many angsty!Harry fanfics.  We've already 
seen Harry struggle to cope with the aftermath of GoF, and JKR ha 
indicated that in HBP he will have to at least partially recover, 
from necessity as much as anything.  For me, I don't think this is 
going to be a problem in the next books.

> 4)Hermione not getting a much-needed lesson in humility and 
> understanding.

Hannah:  I don't mind either way.  In fact, I would argue that she 
did have something of that lesson at the end of OotP, with Umbridge 
and the centaurs.  Not a lot was made of it, but that's because it's 
Harry's POV and he had other things on his mind at the time.

> 12) Not learning that something exceedingly nasty has come of 
> Umbridge.

Hannah:  Something exceedingly nasty - if unspecific - has already 
happened to Umbridge.  Whatever the centaurs did traumatised her, 
she's been thrown out of Hogwarts with the mockery she deserved, and 
Fudge has fallen from grace.  I've no desire to see her further 
tortured - she had her comeuppance.  Unless she has some sort of 
plot relevance, I don't even know if we'll hear anything about her.  
She's old news now.

As I said in another post, the only thing that would really 
disappoint me about HBP is if it was badly written with poor 
explanations and plot holes etc.  But I don't think that it will 
be.  I still have faith in JKR, and even plot twists that I think I 
wouldn't like could be made brilliant by her pen.  For example, 
Grawp.  I didn't like him OotP, but I believe that she could still 
use him effectively.  And even though OotP had its faults, I still 
loved it.  Although I have theories that I like, and things I'd 
quite like to happen, I'm not going to be disappointed if they're 
wrong.  I'll just think up some new ones.  And what's fanfic for if 
it's not for writing/ reading what we'd have liked to see in canon 
but didn't get?

Hannah