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Spoilers of All Sorts
Jul. 16th, 2007 01:10 pm1.) Saw OotP yesterday. LOVED it, aside from niggling little things which are behind the cut. I'm saving most of my thoughts for my MRFH review, but my shipping thoughts won't make it in. So...
( OotP commentary. )
2.) The ULTIMATE spoiler. (Don't worry. It doesn't need to be under a cut.)
I made my appointment for my 20 week ultrasound. For those not versed in pregnancy, that's the one where they can tell you the gender. SQUEEE!!!! I can't WAIT to find out! I'm kind of hoping for a boy, but really, I don't care that much. But yes, we're so finding out. A brief discussion of girls' names last time led us to the conclusion that only having to argue out one name would be a good thing.
The funny thing is, I found out Toby's gender right before HBP was released. Kind of cool, huh?
3.) My thoughts on on-line spoilers.
Honestly? I don't think most of them are real. Maybe they are, but you know why I don't? All of fandom knows about them and yet, they're still on line. Last time, lawyers were sending cease and desist letters to individual journals when the spoilers were right. These spoilers can be found on a community called SPOIL ME DH. While it's moderated, I don't believe the requirements for joining are really that stringent. Come on- is it really possible that the suits can't find this site?
Maybe they are real. Maybe they aren't. Some of the ones I've heard have really made me doubt it, because they just seem TOO pat or too unrealistic. I mean, I did lose some faith in JKR's writing of romance in HBP. But on the other hand, I didn't lose all of my faith. To that end:
( Ten cool things about HBP. )
I will admit I do expect the epilogue to be a bit glurgy and anti-climatic. Why? Never read one that wasn't, to be honest. And it's anti-climatic because, well, it's after the climax. As long as the climax of the book is exceedingly awesome, I am happy. However, if that speech Harry made in OotP is how he defeats Voldemort (and I really doubt it will be), I WILL be puking. But I suspect her editors would have been, too.
So, yeah. Not believing spoilers yet, and praying I have the willpower to avoid the ones I will believe.
4.) AIL. Don't know what's going on with it. I don't think I'll finish chapter 14 by DH, especially since it REALLY needs a good beta. There's a page-long monologue by Fenrir in there, and I suck at writing speech patterns. I don't know what will happen post-DH.
It's not that I think JKR will blow the possibility of R/S out of the water. The way I've written AIL, very few people know about it, and the rules are that R/S can in no way influence how 1981 went down. No lover's quarrels, no suspicions of cheating, etc. But I do think JKR might answer some questions like what any of MWPP did for a living, or if Remus was spying at all pre-1981, or whatnot. On the one hand, I'm only up to 1980, so I can incorporate the events that go right around 1981. On the other hand, we'll see what happens.
On to frantically finishing a story that is due ASAP. Five days until fandom totally changes. Wow. It feels strange.
( OotP commentary. )
2.) The ULTIMATE spoiler. (Don't worry. It doesn't need to be under a cut.)
I made my appointment for my 20 week ultrasound. For those not versed in pregnancy, that's the one where they can tell you the gender. SQUEEE!!!! I can't WAIT to find out! I'm kind of hoping for a boy, but really, I don't care that much. But yes, we're so finding out. A brief discussion of girls' names last time led us to the conclusion that only having to argue out one name would be a good thing.
The funny thing is, I found out Toby's gender right before HBP was released. Kind of cool, huh?
3.) My thoughts on on-line spoilers.
Honestly? I don't think most of them are real. Maybe they are, but you know why I don't? All of fandom knows about them and yet, they're still on line. Last time, lawyers were sending cease and desist letters to individual journals when the spoilers were right. These spoilers can be found on a community called SPOIL ME DH. While it's moderated, I don't believe the requirements for joining are really that stringent. Come on- is it really possible that the suits can't find this site?
Maybe they are real. Maybe they aren't. Some of the ones I've heard have really made me doubt it, because they just seem TOO pat or too unrealistic. I mean, I did lose some faith in JKR's writing of romance in HBP. But on the other hand, I didn't lose all of my faith. To that end:
( Ten cool things about HBP. )
I will admit I do expect the epilogue to be a bit glurgy and anti-climatic. Why? Never read one that wasn't, to be honest. And it's anti-climatic because, well, it's after the climax. As long as the climax of the book is exceedingly awesome, I am happy. However, if that speech Harry made in OotP is how he defeats Voldemort (and I really doubt it will be), I WILL be puking. But I suspect her editors would have been, too.
So, yeah. Not believing spoilers yet, and praying I have the willpower to avoid the ones I will believe.
4.) AIL. Don't know what's going on with it. I don't think I'll finish chapter 14 by DH, especially since it REALLY needs a good beta. There's a page-long monologue by Fenrir in there, and I suck at writing speech patterns. I don't know what will happen post-DH.
It's not that I think JKR will blow the possibility of R/S out of the water. The way I've written AIL, very few people know about it, and the rules are that R/S can in no way influence how 1981 went down. No lover's quarrels, no suspicions of cheating, etc. But I do think JKR might answer some questions like what any of MWPP did for a living, or if Remus was spying at all pre-1981, or whatnot. On the one hand, I'm only up to 1980, so I can incorporate the events that go right around 1981. On the other hand, we'll see what happens.
On to frantically finishing a story that is due ASAP. Five days until fandom totally changes. Wow. It feels strange.
