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Jun. 23rd, 2007 03:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
commotiocordisHey, mister Harry Potter VII hacker? Here's a tip. You want people to take your little posting seriously? Post the whole book. Try using things like grammar in your post. I mean, hell, I can barely figure out what you're saying. I can't figure out what you're saying in bits. *shakes head* Supposedly you can write code enough to take down a v. well protected corporation's system, but you can't write intelligibly. yeahsure.
I think that this book is going to be the one that people in fandom ignore. Not ignore as in don't read, but ignore as in regarding fic. There's always the one, you know? "Divided Loyalties" in Babylon 5, "Loss" in SVU, etc. HP fandom has been surprisingly closely tied to the books, that I've seen, though I've seen the ignoring to a certain extent with OotP, ignoring Sirius's death (though I'm not always sure if those were written before or after the book came out). But it's going to be huge with this one, methinks, with the whole Snape debate. People have come out strongly on one side or the other (me? I'm strongly on the wanting to believe he's a good guy side, but I've got the sneaking suspicion she's going to make him not), and especially with those pairings that involve him/the Death Eaters, I don't think people are going to change their HPverse-view one way or the other when the book comes out.
I've got to admit, I'm excited about July. I was in HP fandom before I knew what HP fandom was (my first website at age 8 or so was running an HP RPG-ish thing that a bunch of people played in until the big Warner Bros takeover/legal scare), and though I've become somewhat disenchanted with JKR's work as I've gotten older (I just didn't like HBP very much, plain and simple) and have never quite gotten into modern HP fandom (it was so small before; now it's practically unmanageable and yet nobody seems to write the rarepairings I want), the prospect of a movie and the last book in the same month is catching me back into the same excitement that was there years back when the 3rd book came out, and the fourth, and the first movie, etc.
I think that this book is going to be the one that people in fandom ignore. Not ignore as in don't read, but ignore as in regarding fic. There's always the one, you know? "Divided Loyalties" in Babylon 5, "Loss" in SVU, etc. HP fandom has been surprisingly closely tied to the books, that I've seen, though I've seen the ignoring to a certain extent with OotP, ignoring Sirius's death (though I'm not always sure if those were written before or after the book came out). But it's going to be huge with this one, methinks, with the whole Snape debate. People have come out strongly on one side or the other (me? I'm strongly on the wanting to believe he's a good guy side, but I've got the sneaking suspicion she's going to make him not), and especially with those pairings that involve him/the Death Eaters, I don't think people are going to change their HPverse-view one way or the other when the book comes out.
I've got to admit, I'm excited about July. I was in HP fandom before I knew what HP fandom was (my first website at age 8 or so was running an HP RPG-ish thing that a bunch of people played in until the big Warner Bros takeover/legal scare), and though I've become somewhat disenchanted with JKR's work as I've gotten older (I just didn't like HBP very much, plain and simple) and have never quite gotten into modern HP fandom (it was so small before; now it's practically unmanageable and yet nobody seems to write the rarepairings I want), the prospect of a movie and the last book in the same month is catching me back into the same excitement that was there years back when the 3rd book came out, and the fourth, and the first movie, etc.
