[HPforGrownups] Re: Oyez, Oyez, the I Hate Horcruxes Society is Now in its Second Session

[Magpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 163378

Lupinlore:
> Well, she certainly let many other beautiful subplots die in the
> transition to HBP (the DA, anyone?  How about Luna?).  If the
> horcruxes are not McGuffins, let us compromise and call them
> annoyances.

Magpie:
I don't know about anything she might drop or not drop but the DA and Luna 
are not ongoing subplots dropped or otherwise that I can see. The DA was an 
element of the plot of OotP and Luna was a character with a part in OotP and 
a part in HBP--she's not the first character to have a larger part in some 
books than others (though I don't think her part was all that much smaller 
in HBP). There's nothing to resolve with the DA since, as Harry himself 
said, the need for it disappeared along with Umbridge. JKR might have used 
it in HBP beyond the references to it that we got, but there weren't any 
dangling threads. SPEW was a plot element that was more obviously dropped, 
what with Hermione spending two books hammering on House-elves as a problem 
and then seeming to forget all about it when Harry himself actually owns 
one, though even there it's not exactly an unanswered question.

-m