Oyez, Oyez, the I Hate Horcruxes Society is Now in its Second Session

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No: HPFGUIDX 163340

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lupinlore" <rdoliver30 at ...> 
wrote:
>
> Well folks, it is beginning to look like Horcruxes are the key to 
the 
> seventh book, very unfortunately.  Personally, I strongly suspect 
> that the "Deathly Hallows" of the title are none other than the 
> Horcruxes themselves, which leads to all sorts of unfortunate 
> corollaries.
> 
> The most unfortunate is that I think we will have to suffer through 
> the hunting and destruction of all four of them -- each and every 
one 
> in wearisome detail.  I don't think we are going to have relief 
from 
> coincidences or "off-screen" developments.  I don't think two or 
more 
> of the horcruxes are going to be hidden in the same spot.  I don't 
> think the horcruxes are going to turn out to be unimportant after 
> all.  And I don't think anyone off-screen, be it Snape, Regulus, 
> Wormtail, or God in a Clown Suit, is going to destroy any of them. 
I 
> think the heart of the book is going to be four mini-quests after 
> four seperate "hallows," followed by a major confrontation at the 
end.
> 
> Now this leads to some opportunities.  Ron/Hermione could be 
> developed in the course of the quests.  Also perhaps one of the 
> Hallows is hidden at Durmstrang, which could provide an appearance 
by 
> Victor Krum.  But much else we have been promised or kind-of 
> promised, including a Weasley wedding and an Umbridge come-uppance, 
> or that we desire, such as an end to Percy's arc, will have to be 
> sandwiched among, around, and between McGuffin chases.  
> 
> Sigh. Thus we reach the end to find ourselves immersed in a video 
> game -- or a rather familiar retelling of a plot device derived 
from 
> Koschei and utilized in dozens of movies, role-playing games, and 
> novels ever since.  As Alla, I believe it was, said, the worst 
thing 
> about it is that it's all so ordinary -- and ordinary at a time 
when 
> much more interesting and pressing issues are hanging.
> 
> 
> Lupinlore, who fully expects a horcrux game for PS3 to hit the 
market 
> very quickly

Jenni from Alabama responds: I agree, the 7th book is going to be a 
bit mundane in that we'll be expecting everything. No matter what 
happens, there'll really be no surprises. 

Am I the only one that will be tempted (when the final book is 
released) to just skip to the end and find out if JKR kills off Harry 
or not? 

The more I think about it, the more disappointed I get. All the other 
books were very interesting and always left you guessing what would 
happen next - you had theories about what would happen in the next 
book but never knew for sure. Sometimes it was what you expected, 
other times it shocked you - which is what I like. But in the HBP, 
Harry told us EXACTLY what he was going to do. We know what to 
expect, and IMO it takes all the fun out of it. 

Jenni from Alabama