Lack of Confidence in JKR (WAS:Greatest Fear/greatest Hope)

[mizstorge]

No: HPFGUIDX 121700


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "mizstorge" <lszydlowski at h...> 
wrote:
All I have to add to this discourse, besides nodding in agreement
to those who said there doesn't seem to be a unifying Slytherin 
philosphy of evil, is my great surprise no one jumped on my comment 
about hoping the ending wouldn't be LAME! After what I consider the 
underwhelming revelations about the prophecy at the end of OOtP (Jo, 
honey, we already knew all that. Or suspected it. Whatever.)and IMO 
the poor job on POA the movie, I have felt my confidence at being in 
the hands of a skillful writer diminish. Since JKR's comment that 
when the series is finished that she wants to go back and fix a few 
things, I've begun to doubt that in fact she had it all planned out 
since before Book 1 and has been actually changing things as she goes 
along to suit the new direction. I think fan speculation and 
discussion has driven some of those changes, so in a way it's nice 
we've been part of this interactive process - on the other hand, I'm 
curious what the books would have been like otherwise. I really hope 
I'm wrong; we've too all many hours, even years, of our lives 
invested in Harry's story. I just hope when I finish HBP I will still 
want to read Book 7.


> My greatest FEAR is the ending is going to LAME! Hermione kills 
> Malfoy pere and/or fils, Neville kills Bellatrix, Harry kills 
and/or 
> is killed by LV/TR and somehow everyone who lives does so happily 
> ever after. No one changes, the injustices of the WW aren't 
> redressed, and we never find out if Remus was *living with* Sirius 
at 
> Grimmauld Place.
> 
> My greatest HOPE is that JKR isn't going to keep up with her 
bigotry 
> about Slytherins. You know, the "Why do you keep going after the 
bad 
> boys?" rant. Although she keeps comparing them to Nazis, anyone 
who's 
> actually read about Nazi Germany knows not *all* Germans, and not 
> even *all* Nazis, were murderous genocial maniacs. Maybe *most* 
> Nazis, but certainly not *most* Germans. I truly hope *some* 
> Slytherins will be ambitious enough to support their School, and 
> perhaps the Ministry, because they realize in the Brave New World 
> Voldemort supporters are going to be outcasts. I hope the 
Slytherins 
> in general, maybe Draco and Pansy in particular, are going to to be 
> the cavalry who come riding in to save the day and their House 
> finally gets the recognition it deserves at Hogwarts.