[HPforGrownups] Resignation & Book 7 Predictions (Way long/HBP Spoilers)

[Avery Ke]

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ladyljd wrote:
>Like I said, I'm bitter!  The thrill is gone.  If you've made it this
>far, please let me know your thoughts on my ranting.  And thanks!!

Made it through your email about Snape. Don't buy it, simply because
you aren't, and I'm not, and none of us (so far as I know <grin>) are
JKR. For me, and I say this quite seriously, book 7 will make sense --
whatever is in it -- after I've read it.

For both HP5 and HP6, my response has been to read the previous books
again, overlaying my knowledge from the newest book onto my experience
of the previous books. I almost regret reading the HP books before the
series is finished.

Imagine reading LOTR as the books were published. Aragorn and Arwin --
c'mon, she's boring! I think he'll get together with Eowyn. Eomer?
He's bound to meet a cute elf from Galadriel's forest, and as for
Gimli and Legolas... And so on...  since I read LOTR as a unit, I
accepted the ships and the events.

We know now that Gandalf returns, but the original readers did not. I
put my trust in JKR -- her writing that is, not necessarily her
interviews which might be intentionally or unintentionally deceptive
. It'll make sense to me in the end, and if it's not necessarily what
I would have chosen, then I'll get over it.

With book characters as with friends, in the end you have to love the
person even when you deplore his or her (or their:) actions.

Avery (a Purple Pygmy Puff on another list :)