my greatest fear....

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 121256


TrekkieGrrrl wrote:
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> 
> MY biggest fear is also a mix of either the series ending in general
or the series NOT ending because something happens to JKR.
> 
> I've also devoured the books in one go every time a new one was out,
and I know that I'll probably take a few days off work when HBP comes
out, so that I can read it in peace and quiet. But until then (and
after) we have to 
> resort to fanfiction I guess.

Carol responds:
Surely we'll still find plenty to discuss on this list, not only Book
7 itself (and not just what we like and don't like about it) but the
whole series, which hopefully we'll see from a new perspective when
Book 7 comes out. Or I should say from 13,000 new perspectives, since
no two people think alike. We can reassess all our favorite (or least
favorite) characters and start looking more at thematic elements
(aside from those that have been, erm, discussed to death). I'll give
you an Aristotelian interpretation: "The Harry Potter series has a
beginning, a middle, and an end. . . ." (That's a joke for anyone
who's read Aristotle's Poetics or Frederick Crews's "Pooh Perplex.")

Carol, who needs to reread "The Pooh Perplex" and read "The Postmodern
Pooh" in hopes of finding a connection to the HP books, which could be
used for the same purpose (skewering modern or postmodern literary
criticism)