Credit where credit is due....

[melclaros]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Barry Arrowsmith"
<arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:
> --- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "mooseming" <josturgess at e...>
wrote:
> Not
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> Need For
> Spoiler
> Space


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> 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.



I think more of us have got closer than she wants to admit. I've never
been one to memorize all the acronyms for the thousands of theories
that have come and gone over the years over on That Other List, but
for instance, I know for sure that the idea of Snape having to hand DD
 his mortality papers to prove his loyalty to both VD and the Right
Side came up more than once.

Ok, so she got us on the Birdbath of Doom, and I personally think the
Half Blood, Prince was a rip-off and blatant cop-out of a plot device
but as far as the Important things, I think she's running just *one*
step ahead of the crowd. If that.

Mel