Less than 1000 posts in a month - why now?

[kiricat4001]

No: HPFGUIDX 180369

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> 

<massive snip of a wonderful post that crystallizes many of my own 
feelings about the series>

> One more purely personal tidbit. Snape is dead, and while I believe
> he's happy in the afterlife (yes, I do know he's a fictional
> character), I can no longer think about him in the present. I wish 
she
> had let him survive to be headmaster of Hogwarts or at least 
allowed
> him to escape to a deserted island to put all of his marvelous
> knowledge of Potions and DADA and spell invention into books that
> would actually be useful to Hogwarts students. So much wasted
> potential. It's a sadder loss, for me, even than the death of poor
> Cedric at seventeen. The WW without Snape isn't the WW any more. 
For
> me, I mean. I'm sure others feel otherwise.
> 
> Carol, for whom the joy and intellectual stimulation of posting has
> diminished, along with the pleasure of rereading the books, thanks
> primarily to JKR herself

Marianne:

This bit about Snape is very interesting to me because it echoes 
what I felt at the end of OoP after the death of Sirius. I felt the 
same sense of loss at a life (yes, I, too know he's fictional!) that 
had not been truly lived and that was also a great waste of 
potential. (What do you know - another parallel between Snape and 
Sirius!)  I had the same wish that JKR had let Sirius survive as 
Carol had about Snape.  

So, after OoP, I had a definite lessening of interest in the 
remaining books.  In that sense, maybe I was several years ahead of 
where many fans are now.  I wanted to find out what happened 
certainly, but I didn't have the same level of enthusiasm for the 
books as I had originally had.  I thought HBP was okay, although I 
found parts hard to swallow. The 7th book, while having its moments 
of high drama, was ultimately a let-down for me, chiefly due to the 
moral messages that I came away with.

Marianne, echoing Carol's sign-off