What things that you wanted did you get? (was: Killing Harry)

[cubfanbudwoman]

No: HPFGUIDX 175486

Geoff:
> I'm a bit late coming back on this one but I'm 
> away from my own computer as I am staying with 
> my daughter, admiring our first grandchild and 
> having to fight my two teenage step-granddaughters 
> for computer time!!

SSSusan:
THAT'S where you've been!!  I was beginning to worry about you! :)


Geoff: 
> Eggplant, I have never forgotten you writing some 
> good while ago that you wanted something along the 
> lines of "murder, mayhem and b blood spilt."
> 
> Now you can't have all your choices. That would be 
> plain greedy... <snip>
> 
> Without publicising my thoughts, I had quietly  
> hoped for three outcomes in DH; I got, I suppose, 
> one and a half, one of them being that Harry lived 
> (Hooray!).

SSSusan:
Now, are you *sure* you won't publicize those thoughts, Geoff? You've 
aroused curiosity now!  I'd love to know what the 1.5 out of three 
you got were, and what the 1.5 you didn't get were.


In my case, I got so much that I'd hoped for!  To wit: 
* Harry alive; in fact, I got that Harry's BELIEF that he had to 
sacrifice himself and his WILLINGNESS to do so out of love would 
somehow be 'enough' and that he'd not actually have to do so in the 
end [this was probably my biggest thing].

* OBHWF in the pairings of Harry/Ginny and Ron/Hermy.

* DDM!Snape, including that DD was weakening & dying throughout the 
year, that Snape & DD had talked in advance about Snape having to 
kill him, and the 'command' on the tower.  

* I even, though I didn't THINK I could like it terribly (but 
actually did), got LOLLIPOPS (or TEWWW EWWWW).


What I didn't get were: 
* confirmation of what happened during the missing 24 hours (bother).

* both twins alive

* an ending which was 'elegantly simple,' a phrase I'd used many 
times over the years.  I mean, with the elder wand complexity and 
that bundle under the chair at King's Cross and all of that, it was 
certainly NOT simple... though I suppose 'elegant' is still in the 
mix as an arguable point.


Anyone else care to bite?

Siriusly Snapey Susan