Less than 1000 posts in a month - why now?

[Jim Ferer]

No: HPFGUIDX 180185

Katie: "I think none of these threads catch on because we just aren't
ready yet. I'm interested in the rest of the world that JKR created,
and I think there's enormous potential there for fanfic, discussion,
and investigation...but I'm not done talking about Harry yet!"

Excellent point. Fanfic and feigned history are excellent vehicles for
doing this. Logical holes or plain cockamamie notions stick out like a
sore thumb. And, like everyone else, I'm most curious about our
fictional friends' futures.

Jim Ferer (me) "There are so many stories left   to tell, though - we
could spend a lot of time discussing those and how the wizard world
works, but there seems little interest in it."   

Potioncat: "Exactly. None of those sorts of threads seem to catch on."

Too bad, too. I had the thrill of a lifetime when JKR explained how
something worked that was essentially the same as how I speculated. I
wondered, "What would I do if one of my daughters got a Hogwarts
letter?" (Never mind I'm in the U.S.) I'm no Vernon Dursley, far from
it, but I wouldn't just let her nip off to a magic school based on a
letter in green ink, would I? Besides, I'd be on a terrible emotional
roller coaster. So I wrote a fanfic saying that Muggle parents of
Hogwarts students visit the new family and help them get over the
shock. (I also speculated some things that were 100% wrong.) JKR had
young Snape explain to Lily that people from the Ministry to that. My
way is better. This is what I mean when I say I like to walk around in
the Wizarding world to see how it works. We could keep busy with
that forever.	

Jim Ferer (me again): "There was a sense of   discovery that may be
impossible to recapture."

Katie: "It's *definitely* impossible to recapture. Because we know
what happens. There's nothing left to discover. At least in Harry's
story. We can nitpick over details, and wonder about little things,
but in terms of the actual story, it's all there. No more wondering if
Snape is DD's man, or how on earth Harry was going to find all those
Horcruxes, or whether Harry himself was one...it's all been given to us."

Not impossible once we look past what's happened already and take a
look at all the stories we haven't heard yet, even including about
Harry and his future; but I take your point, obviously.

Jim Ferer