Respect / Unforgettable moments LONG

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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.
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Alla:

I totally get this, I do. As I said many times I desperately wanted 
Harry to survive and would have been upset if he would not. I WAS 
upset after Sirius' death, so many of the scenarios I imagined went 
off the window right there, but I guess what saved the interest for 
me was that I was so very interested in Harry's journey, so I just 
had to readjust my mental picture and realize that JKR is not very 
interested in keeping adults alive.

I do tell you that I started seeking AU stories since OOP for sure – 
that how I satisfied my cravings for happy endings for Sirius and 
Harry together. I simply realized that this was not a story JKR was 
interested in saying.

But I totally sympathize.


zanooda:
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He would be a different character, that's all :-). He wouldn't be
worse, and he wouldn't be better - just different, with different
motivations and life story. And if I can't see this story in the
book, if it's just something the writer said after the book was
published - here it becomes confusing to me.

Sexual orientation doesn't mean this much in DD's case, of course,
but still, I feel that I react differently to some scenes in the
book, and there is a strange mixture of old DD and new DD in my
head :-). I'm glad that Susan and others got their wish, but I
personally would have preferred not to get this outside-the-book
piece of information on DD.


Alla:

But see again, I am just not sure how he will be different 
character. I mean besides the fact that he will be interested in men 
instead of women.

I mean right now I am trying primarily figure out what would change 
for you so much in case of Dumbledore.
We already decided that for Andrey it would change things, yes, but 
again only in his love life, no?
He would still be that intelligent man, who is struggling over 
finding his place in society, who wants to serve his society better, 
who wants to help his serves, etc.
Who is a patriot, who is a brave soldier, etc, etc. Nothing of that 
effect would change, no?

Now we have Dumbledore and we know, well pretty much nothing about 
his love life before DH. She says he was gay in the interview, so 
all that one can do IF and only if one wishes to is to add this 
little information about Dumbledore to their mental picture, no?

Suppose you added this info to your mental picture of Dumbledore and 
again I am by no means saying that you are obligated to do so. What 
changed in Dumbledore as you knew him in the books?

He would be still making mistakes in his youth, wanting to dominate 
over muggles, he would still be that manipulative, secretive leader 
of the resistance and the headmaster. He would still be struggling 
to reconcile his affection for Harry with his plan. What changed so 
much? Why would your mental picture become so confusing?

I mean, I think that if we for example learned that Dumbledore and 
Minerva are married, I can understand that announcement causing the 
picture to blur, but as it stands now, I just do not get it. I mean, 
again I understand confusion but only to a small degree.

Again, I certainly would prefer this information to be in the books, 
but I am just not seeing how this information per se would cause you 
to look at DD in such different light.

Oh, oh and another thing – while I am certainly liking this reveal, 
I did not look for it or anything. I would LOVE for Sirius or Lupin 
to be revealed as gays or Snape, heheh. Dumbledore? That's great, 
but my first reaction was along the Yes, so? Lines.



Zannooda:
Take care, dear Allochka! Happy New Year!

Alla:
Same to you :)