HBP - all spoilers behind the cut, honest!

[graculus]

My day so far:

7am - postie arrives with my copy of HBP. Go looking for torrents for Avalon and BSG premiere. Back to bed.

11am - get up, check livejournal, am amused by amount of squeeing about SG-1 already. Make coffee, watch download of Avalon. Enjoy immensely other than the moments of sheer blandness when the Destroyer of Episodes appears, which are far too frequent for my liking. Am looking forward to next week, and already not so much to when the D of E returns full-time.

12.30am - make lunch, start reading HBP.

3pm - check livejournal, make more coffee, go back to HBP.

5.15pm - finish HBP, brain still spinning.

So, that was interesting. I wonder if JKR decided it would be a good time to hit as many characters as possible with the heterosexuality stick in order to entertain herself? And I can only imagine the amount of entries Fandom Wank will be having over the next couple of weeks as the various enraged shipper elements whine or gloat, depending on their pairing of choice... I know it's mostly HP anyway but it's like JKR was trying to stir up as many people as possible.

My theory on the Snape thing? I know, I'm in serious denial, but I still don't believe he's OMGtehev0l!!11!!!!! Let's face it, the guy is a skilled Occlumens, as is Dumbledore, so both of them would have known that Dumbledore probably thought he was dying because of the potion he'd ingested (and nicely sadistic touch, JKR, making Harry the one to make him finish it off!). What exactly was Dumbledore asking Snape for when he said 'please'? If it was as straightforward as Harry currently believes, what missed angst potential!

Comments

[lovellama.livejournal.com]

JKR systematically wiped out large numbers of fanon standbys, pissed off many segments of both shippers and slashers

Are they really mad? 'cause I don't see how one can be. JKR is finishing out a plot she formed years ago, and if some fans create a ship out of a few lines here and there from the different books, they can't complain if that's not what will happen. We don't know where JKR is going with the books, and if we bitch because we end up someplace we didn't think we'd be going, that's our own fault. Generic 'we', btw. :)

[graculus.livejournal.com]

Are they really mad? 'cause I don't see how one can be. JKR is finishing out a plot she formed years ago, and if some fans create a ship out of a few lines here and there from the different books, they can't complain if that's not what will happen. We don't know where JKR is going with the books, and if we bitch because we end up someplace we didn't think we'd be going, that's our own fault. Generic 'we', btw. :)

I think you're working from a disadvantage here because you're assuming that all fans are reasonable and logical. ;)

There are people out there flipping out because JKR made Blaise Zabini black, so having one part of your pairing of choice murder Dumbledore apparently in cold blood is more than enough to have people rending their clothes and proclaiming that their life is over OMGWTFBBQ!!!11!11!!!!

And then there's the whole vindication shit that some people are going to be pushing now - having been in a fandom where there's been much gloating and preening over the stupidest of 'proof' that one faction is right and everyone else is wrong, I wouldn't wish that on anyone (except maybe those doing the gloating and preening last time around).

If anything, I'd say it's been my experience that slashers tend to be quite a bit more mentally flexible when it comes to dealing with canon, so I doubt (as I've said on someone else's livejournal) that little things like death, murder and canon sexuality will have too much of an impact overall.