Creating spells

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 186069

> Geoff:
> You're not being one.
> 
> I set out to pose one of those threads lacking in philosophical depth and 
> having profound repercussions on the Wizarding World such as many we 
> have had recently rumbling on ad infinitum. Threads intended to revive 
> the spirits of those of us who think back to those delightful diversions 
> such as the whereabouts of Hogwarts, where Riddle got his diary from 
> and the mystery - if any - of Mark Evans to scratch away at the dust of 
> canon in search of the odd gold nugget.
>


Alla:

And I am so so happy as a reader that you did start this thread. I always thought that the variety of topics (ethical, discussing little detais of canon, any other topics) is what makes this list so great and never would want anybody to think that any topic should not be discussed. So I am keeping my fingers crossed that this thread would thrive and diverge in many other topics, etc.

This however gives me a possibility to ask question which I wanted to ask for some time, and maybe I even did, but if so I do not remember sorry about that.

You mentioned all these cool threads I remember loving to read so much in the past. I never felt that I am language profficient enough to participate in discussion on where some words in canon came from and stuff like that, but I certainly enjoyed reading them.

So, my question is coming, I promise. I certainly agree with you that the threads of the variety that you mentioned decreased after OOP a little bit, and even more after HBP. But wouldn't you agree that it is sort of to be expected based on the direction that books took?

Let me try to explain based on the example that near and dear to my heart and which used to be (to me) one of the biggest mysteries of canon I **could not wait** to be resolved and somehow my guess is that many others could not either :-)

This will be the mystery of how it will all end, no less :)

I cannot express to you how many different varieties of the ending I used to imagine before I read OOP. It was just, I don't know, so so fascinating to me that I had no clue how Voldemort will be defeated.

I mean, of course I could guess that Harry will play a part in it, but what exactly will happen? Will he fight in a battle? Will he do some spectacular magic that we did not see yet? Will he fight alone or will he get a lot of help? Why Voldemort is after him? What will be the role of his friends? And what exactly the name "death eaters" mean to the final resolution of the series, heh.

And then comes OOP and here we go, prophecy. Eh, I mean, of course I will be lying if I say that I saw in my head the end of the book 7 as JKR wrote it. Of course I did not. However, well, prophecy gave me and I am sure many others pretty good idea that the ending will come to the fight between Harry and Voldemort, no?

What I am trying to say that some grand speculations that we discussed became invalid, no? 

And then came HBP with Horcruxes, and that narrowed the ideas even more. I mean, to deal with Voldemort, Harry will have to deal with Horcruxes.

I am not saying that books became bad because of it, quite the contrary. I am just saying that I think that since we lived through the times when JKR was writing the books, I think it is to be expected that the closer we got to the ending, the less things we could discuss, no?

Which is why it is even more wonderful to me when threads like yours start :-)

Hmmm, I know that my post is canon lite, but posting it anyway, since it makes sense in my head.

Alla