[the_old_crowd] Things I pray to see in OOTP

[Ebony Elizabeth Thomas]

Ellen & John Anglin <anglinsbees at ...> wrote: 
So how about you all?  What treasures do you hope to find in book 5?

 

Well, I think this is going to come as quite the shock to most of you, who know how vigorously I ship the kids... :P

What I most want is more Marauders-lore.  I am endlessly fascinated by the lives of James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew.  And the thing is this.  Fanon just *hasn't* cut it for me.  I really haven't gotten satisfied with the speculation, essays, and fanfics done about them *pre*-1981.  So I'm thrilled that this is our Nimbus theme.  I'd love to learn more about Lily Potter, Arabella Figg (*if* she is in that cohort) and others.  The chapters I read most in GoF during the second half of 2000 were ironically *not* anything Yule Ball-related (I didn't even start virulently debating ship until December of that year, IIRC).  They were "Padfoot Returns" and "The Pensieve".  I find the immediate past history of JKR's universe fascinating, and really wish she'd reconsider her "seven-books only" mantra.  I'd love for her to write one about MWPP.

I know we'll learn more about Snape, but I'm not fussed.  But I would like to see where the house-elf and giant plotlines go, as I'm interested in the themes of racial purity.  

I think that Lucius Malfoy has the potential to become more dangerous than Voldemort.  

I also want to see more of the wizarding world.  That was one of the pluses of GoF, when we learned that gee, there is magic outside of Britain!  I hope this is the book where Harry visits a new place.

I hope that the death or deaths won't be too terribly frustrating.

And I don't mind Harry-ships as much as Hermione-ones, so I am very glad that all the Ron/Hermione we'll get will be secondhand.  Thank heaven for small mercies.  

Okay, that's all for now!  

--Ebony, off to do some cleaning



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