[the_old_crowd] Re: What do we lose?

[rebecca]

>Pippin:

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> But that is classic misdirection. The howls of outrage by fans who feel 
> they were misled about shipping will
> be nothing to those who feel they were misled about Snape, especially if 
> the real villain turns out to be Lupin. :)

Rebecca:

Or that Snape turns out to be the villian instead of Voldemort, or any other 
countless scenarios and theories that have developed over time. What is 
classic misdirection to you is just the mystery upon mystery path over 7 
years with little discernable answers to me.  That's part of the reason I 
think fanfiction around HP took off like it did - when one writes with such 
ambiguity and vague references to "clues", well naturally the fanfiction 
takes off, since imagination is what "can be" rather than "what is."

I don't need to re-write the books to what I or others speculate might 
happen and I'm not married to any theory about how the series ends.   To me, 
I feel that a majority of what's posted and discussed online at the moment 
deals mostly with characters and not necessarily with looking at the plot 
development over the last 6 books as whole - how often do you see poster tie 
in something that happened in CoS with something in GoF and HBP now? That 
model was much more in vogue back during books 1-4, and if you do that same 
thing now, most folks reading it are as interested in that as the Hogwarts 
students are in Magical History class. It's too far in the past for most 
readers' attention spans.

Just what I'm observing in my Internet travels.  Feel free to disagree -

Rebecca