Wish Fulfillment (Or Not)

[Mike]

No: HPFGUIDX 179148

> ~Adam (prep0strus) wrote:
> 
> I wanted to pose the question - name something (minor or major) 
> that you wanted to see in the series, and got, and name something 
> else you wanted to see and didn't - and it doesn't have to just be 
> expectations between HBP and DH.

Mike:

Major thing that I got: Harry was a Horcrux (well, pseudo-Horcrux). 
As I had said, if after all the hints throughout the series (the 
pain in his scar when LV is near, speaking parseltongue, the weird 
audio-visual connection between him and LV) it had turned out to be 
nothing, I would have been extremely disappointed.

Minor things I got: Riddle's main point of questioning Slughorn in 
"A Sluggish Memory" was to find out about *multiple* Horcruxes 
because he already knew how to make them.

Got to meet Andromeda and Ted Tonks. I also missed Lee, glad to have 
him back. His Quidditch commentary throughout the books was 
hilarious. 

Major thing I didn't get: A better reason for Snape ultimately being 
on the "good" side. Although I didn't mind LOLLIPOPS or TEWW EWW or 
whatever you want to call it, I expected a more substantive reason 
for Snape than the 'love of Lily'. I was glad that Snape never really 
was Dumbledore's Man, even if he followed DD's orders. I thought it 
was disgusting that he was following orders of portrait!Dumbledore. 
Why couldn't Snape have been given a mission like Harry was, and 
carried it out by his own devices? Why couldn't we have actually 
gotten a scene where Snape consults with all the former Headmasters, 
something that we knew Dumbledore had done in previous books?

Minor thing I didn't get: The Fidelius Secret's status after the 
death of the SK. Actually, I got this from Hermione, I just got it 
badly. If Sirius had been the Potters SK, and he was the most likely 
candidate, Voldemort may have allowed Sirius to "[die] rather than 
betray [his] friends" and then go after whoever else might have known 
the secret that would have been the weakest link. 

Would the plot have really suffered if she had come up with a better 
way to force the Trio into the camping trip from hell? How about 
letting the Trio get the locket back safely to 12 GP. Then, have them 
try a *Diffindo* on it and have the spell backfire to blow part of 
the roof off. Hermione immediately realizes what this means and they 
apparate out of there after telling Kreacher to go to Hogwarts. This 
also would've given us a definitive answer as to how Hagrid found 
Harry in the ruins of the cottage at GH, and tied up that loose 
thread as to why Kreacher was outed from the Hogwart's kitchen to 
enter the battle. <winks at Steve>

Mike, who would've gladly volunteered to be JKR's continuity editor ;)