Comments on: An observation on HP theorizing http://bit-of-ivory.com/2004/02/02/an-observation-on-hp-theorizing/ "on which I work with a brush so fine as to produce little effect after much labour" -- Jane Austen Wed, 28 Apr 2010 20:57:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.41 By: LizardLaugh http://bit-of-ivory.com/2004/02/02/an-observation-on-hp-theorizing/#comment-685 Wed, 04 Feb 2004 13:11:18 +0000 http://bit-of-ivory.com/?p=515#comment-685 hmm… I disagree about what the theorizing leads to (disapointment), at least in my case personally. If Ron isn’t Dumbledore and the whole K2K thing is crap, I’d actually be rather pleased because it would mean that JKR has thrown me for another loop.

I had a few of my pet theories dashed in OotP, but I had a few of them work out exactly as I thought they would (Room of Requirement, most notably). OotP is, hands down, my very favorite of the books. While I LOVE thinking about future plot developments and what I think might happen next, I am not emotionally invested in a way that would make me disapointed should my pet predictions not come to pass. Quite the contrary, in fact, I want to be surprized and go back and pick over the clues I missed or mis-interpreted. Being right or wrong isn’t all that important to me, I just like figuring out puzzles. JKR will write what she wants to write, and I’ll probably love it, even if I was wrong about every single thing.

There were a lot of people disapointed with OotP, but I have to wonder why they thought everything would/should go the way they thought it would. The fans were right about a lot of things… they were also wrong about a lot of things… such is following an unfinished mystery, lol. I didn’t get the disapointment or the ‘it’s like fanfic!’ comments at all.

I think the attitude you have with looking at the theories and enjoying them without getting emotionally invested is a good way to go about it. The bottom line is that none of us know how it will shake down. I look at shipping in a similar way. I have my favorites, I have the ones I KNOW will never happen in canon, the one I hold out for despite being a long shot, but ultimately, I have no idea how it will turn out. I kind of like that way :-)

]]> By: Emily http://bit-of-ivory.com/2004/02/02/an-observation-on-hp-theorizing/#comment-684 Tue, 03 Feb 2004 11:50:18 +0000 http://bit-of-ivory.com/?p=515#comment-684 Alec’s is posted in 10 parts on his Live Journal (that RJA created for him when all of our badgering to do so did absolutely nothing. :P). It’s amazing. Definitely going to be incorporating his ideas into my Albus fic. :D

]]> By: Lu http://bit-of-ivory.com/2004/02/02/an-observation-on-hp-theorizing/#comment-683 Tue, 03 Feb 2004 10:50:56 +0000 http://bit-of-ivory.com/?p=515#comment-683 Can you send me a link to Alec’s, Peach? Haven’t seen that one yet.

I agree wth the Knight@King statement. Very well written and thought out but I wasn’t convenced either.

Book 7…I’d just settle for a tidbit of 6! If it were book 7 then where does that leave all of us? Once the production is over and the cast party calls it quits…there’s no place else to go but home. I’m not ready to go home yet. :c

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