[the_old_crowd] Re: Whatever happened to nostalgia?

Kat Macfarlane katmac at lagattalucianese.yahoo.invalid
Mon May 15 19:24:39 UTC 2006


First, let me felicitate Kneasy on his devious, underhanded, duplicitous, shifty, sneaky, underhanded, and utterly meritorious gambit to get this list moving again!
Second, what got me interested in the list in the first place was Something Silmariel said about floating the theory that Snape's patronus, and perhaps his animagus form as well, was a thestral, and having Kneasy take up arms against it. I've searched the archive and haven't turned up anything on the subject, and short of reading the entire archive, which I'd love to do but don't have time for, I am simply left feeling curious, a common enough affliction for creatures of my species. I would be most grateful if someone on the list could enlighten me.
My own views in regard to Snape and thestrals are to be found at HP4GU#145637.

--La Gatta

  > 
  > To some extent, perhaps, we have only ourselves to blame.  After 
  > years of brilliant posts regaling us with in-depth analyses on all 
  > aspects of mythology, symbology, astronomy, and alchemy (not to 
  > mention conspiracy theories of positively labyrinthine proportions) . 
  > well, JKR's children's books seem to pale by comparison.  
  > 
  > For many of us, the beginning of the end came with The List. That's 
  > right, that "list of plots, mysteries and unfinished character arcs 
  > to be completed in Book Seven" posted back in October by Pippin et 
  > al. It was, well, long. Very long. And we began to see that the 
  > volumes of theories, mysteries, hints, conspiracies, and 
  > inconsistencies which we had amassed over the years could never be 
  > resolved within the confines of one final book and we would be, 
  > ultimately and inevitably, disappointed.
  > 
  > So, maybe Kneasy is right. Maybe this general disinterest is just a 
  > symptom of growing up and growing older. But perhaps it is something 
  > more.  Perhaps we see the promise of the early books fading away 
  > under the weight of thousands of hours of meticulously written 
  > analyses and brilliantly surmised conclusions. Maybe we've just been 
  > too smart for our own good.

  The list ::toots own horn::

  http://www.hp-lexicon.org/essays/essay-the-list.html

  Is it unmanageable though? All Harry has to do is decide, following
  Dumbledore's lead, that knowledge of the past will lead him to the
  horcruxes, and presto! the hunt leads us through the backstory 
  and the mysteries grow knottier as the darkness falls over the
  wizarding world, and then Jo-style, it's all resolved at breakneck
  speed in the last three chapters, and we emerge, blinking, as day
  breaks on the Saturday morning after release with the mother of all HP
  hangovers.


  Pippin





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