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

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 175531

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "cubfanbudwoman" 
<susiequsie23 at ...> wrote:
>
> 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.

Geoff:
Well, just promise that you won't laugh....

The 1.0 was that I really didn't feel that Harry should 
hook up with Ginny. I'm not a huge fan of her - she 
always seems a bit pushy and I feel that she takes after 
Molly a lot. I could see Harry becoming a bit henpecked, 
although I think he's got more backbone that Arthur to 
try to fight his own corner. I have also said that I felt 
I would like to be able to envy Harry as a deep, enigmatic 
mystery with hordes of fantasising girls trailing 
forlornly in his wake. Marry in due course, yes, but be 
like many of the present younger generation who may not 
marry until their late twenties or early thirties which 
lets him have some time as a free agent.

The 0.5 was Draco. I always argued that Draco was not 
beyond redemption and hoped that, after the uncertainty 
he displayed at the Tower in HBP that he might be 
tempted into moving more obviously towards the side of 
light. I feel that he did move up to a point and Narcissa 
also helped Harry - although I suspect it was not out 
of altruism in any way. His curt nod to Harry at the 
railway station in the epilogue gave me some 
encouragement, but I would have valued a little more -  
hence 0.5.