Your greatest fear . . .

[Peggy]

No: HPFGUIDX 121196


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dungrollin" 
<spotthedungbeetle at h...> wrote:
>> 
> This is an amusing game.  My greatest fear is that I won't finish 
> book 7 thinking "Oh you *clever* *****!"
> 
> I don't mind if Harry dies, if he becomes a Squib, if Snape, DD, 
> Hagrid, Hermione etc etc kick the bucket.  I don't mind who ends up 
> with whom, I don't mind how Harry defeats Voldy, and I don't care 
if 
> Lupin is ESE or if there's large-scale promiscuous time-turning.
> 
> I want to be able to go back to book 1 and re-read them all 
> thinking "Yup... Yeah... Oh! She set that up there... Ooooh!  That 
> was *clever*..."


I'm with you, Dungrollin.  I want a sense of closure--a feeling that 
everything JKR has set up in the previous books leads to an 
inevitable conclusion.  

Even though it no longer seems that Dumbledore is the one pulling all 
the strings (where's that acronym when I need it?), I'd like a sense 
that the pattern of the books has worked out in the only way it 
could.  I want to close the cover of book 7 and say "Yes.  That's the 
way it had to happen."  And then start back with the first book to 
see it all work itself out.

Like many others, I'm terrified at the thought of a "Little Harry 
fell out of bed and it was all a dream" ending, but I also believe, 
with all of my heart, that Jo is much, much too savvy to drop the 
ball so badly at the end of the series.

Peg