Credit where credit is due....

[Barry Arrowsmith]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "mooseming" <josturgess at e...> wrote:
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> 
> Coo, well impressed, please pass on standing ovation when next in 
> contact.
> 

Don't worry, he'll probably notice later today.
He's a member of toc.

> Also a laugh at my expense. I was thinking had I read this prior to 
> HBP I would have said that there was insufficient foreshadowing to 
> justify this idea in particular Voldy's own apparent uncertainty as 
> to what he's done.  I would have argued that we'd have to have been 
> tipped off by some references to Voldy's fondness for certain 
> objects. Plus if there were multiple parts then it would stand to 
> reason that one of Harry's tasks would be to hunt them down and 
> there simply wasn't enough room in the last *two* books to add a 
> quest of this magnitude. Ha Ha. So much I know.
> 
> On the topic of foreshadowing I think the theorists can have a field 
> year or two, it would appear that JKR's idea of what constitutes 
> fair and reasonable information is, shall we say,  parsimonious. We 
> can accept any theory which casts as much shadow as an ant at high 
> noon in death valley frankly.
> 
>

Worrying, isn't it?

We pore over the text, analyse canon and carefully craft theories, the
majority of which are often considered most unlikely if not impossible
by a fair proportion of the membership.

Then Jo pulls a whole rabbit farm out of the hat and the realisation
begins to sink in that far from being too fanciful, we've been depressingly
timid by comparison. Look at this last book - Snape is HBP (why does that
make my mind itch?); Fractured!Voldy; a poisoned bird-bath that DD glugs
down; power-stuffed Founders relics (though we really should have predicted
that one); zombies; Draino turning really nasty (the opposite to what most 
predicted); Snape getting DADA job *and* AK-ing DD. If you'd put even a 
small selection from that lot in your predictions they'd have called for the 
long-armed weskit that ties up neatly at the back.

It bothers me that according to JKR less than a handful of fans appear
to have got close to "what it's all about". That's millions that have got
nowhere - after years of web-induced cross-fertilisation of ideas. 

Right. I'm not having that.
SFAIC until the last book arrives *nothing* is too crazy to think of. Fire
enough random shots and it's a statistical certainty that at least one will
hit the bulls-eye. 
Anything is possible. Except for theories I don't like.
And that's the problem - personal tastes get in the way.
Bugger. Here we go again.

Kneasy