More Commentary on Spoiler Validity

[lls_mutant]

Warning: I DO discuss the content of the spoilers.



Yeah, you know what? Aside from my "coping with Lupin/Tonks" therapy here (and I think I pissed off a R/T shipper at FAP, who promptly responded to my "why I don't care for Lupin/Tonks" post with "why Remus and Sirius don't make a good couple." All the same arguments, although I really respect her honestly on preferring Lupin/Tonks.), I've just decided that spoilers are all crap.

ignipes, stop laughing at me and saying I told you so. I know you are.

Yeah. I've known it anyway. Well, I don't KNOW it. I do think some of these spoilers could be right. But as I said in my last spoiler post? I think some of them could be gotten to by good guesswork. Except for Bill the Werewolf (which I've now seen a conflicting spoiler on) and Draco joining the DA and being kidnapped (but I don't read much about Draco), I haven't seen a single spoiler that hasn't been a fan speculation.

Dumbledore dying. Krum being the DADA prof. Bill and Fleur getting married. Ron/Hermione. NO Ron/Hermione. Harry/Ginny. NO Harry/Ginny. Harry getting involved in the Dark Arts. Seamus the Half-Blood Prince. Snape the Half-Blood Prince.

Every single one of those has been a "spoiler", and how many of them

1.) contradict

or

2.) have been seen in countless places as theories?

Sure, I'm preaching to the choir. But I'm also reviewing a particularly boring paper and needing to feel like life has some meaning, because lipases SUCK.

So without further ado, a Lissa "spoiler" for every paragraph I read and comment on. (Yes, the paper sucks that badly. And no, I have absolutely NO access to the books.)

1.) Amos Diggory will be the new Minister of Magic. I'm very fond of this theory, because I think he'd be a Crouch-type. Not too helpful, but not too hindering either. Actually, he kind of reminds me of Bush, but let's not go there, shall we?

2.) The silver hand of Peter Pettigrew's cannot Transfigure. Therefore, Peter cannot Transfigure into a rat. The loss of his Animagus form keeps him even more tightly bound to Voldemort. (I'm very proud of that theory, by the way.)

3.) The popular concensous among the spoilers is that the DADA prof is not a new character for once. (I still like my Mr. Lupin, Sr. theory, but I've always admitted that was a long-shot.) But I like Bill Weasley. I think he'd make a good DADA prof. After all, he's a curse-breaker, member of the Order, and former Head Boy. And as a newlywed (because I still like the Bill-Fleur wedding as the reason for Harry to leave Privet Drive), he doesn't really want to travel much.

4.) We will see TONS of history (relatively speaking) in this book, including much Founder-age. It's about time. (Oh, thank God. I'm almost done this wretched paper.)

5.) Ron's friendship with Harry is one of the pivotal defining characteristics about him, and will have the potential to come between Harry and Mrs. Weasley, because Ron is willing to take risks for Harry that Mrs. Weasley doesn't want him to take.

6.) Screw shipping. There will be no shipping in this book. Well, all right. There will be some. But not nearly as much as fandom likes to believe.

Ah, screw it all. It's almost 7:00. I'm done reading this. I'm going home.

Comments

[ignipes.livejournal.com]

I'm not laughing.

*snicker*

I hope #6 is the truest of true spoilers ever. I never used to mind shippers and their, um, earnestness, but with the build-up to HBP they're all starting to annoy me. If I just want to knock people's heads together to make them shut up, does that mean I'm getting old?

But I do hope the Defence professor is someone knew, just because I like new characters.

because lipases SUCK

That sounds vaguely dirty, largely because I don't know what it means.

[ignipes.livejournal.com]

And, yeah, I meant 'someone new'. Which is totally different from 'someone knew'. Or 'someone gnu', for that matter.

*wanders away, looking dazed*

[lls-mutant.livejournal.com]

If you're getting old, so am I. That's actually the biggest reason I'm actually worried about Tonks/Lupin. But maybe I'll just stay away from FAP for a while.

New characters are cool, but I'm a fan of Bill Weasley, so I wouldn't mind seeing more of him on the page. (Of course, a returning Remus would be nice, too. But utterly unbelievable.)

[ignipes.livejournal.com]

Definitely staying away from FAP for a while. I rarely visit there anymore, but I imagine it will be just terrifying when everybody has new material to chew on. Sure, people will be doing it on LJ, too, but on LJ it's easier to have a discussion without all the scary fangirls. (Because the scary fangirls have no interest in my journal, or any of my friends journals, thank goodness.)

[lls-mutant.livejournal.com]

There's still some people on FAP I really like that haven't found my journal yet, or that may not because I do have such an R/S slant in my journal right now. But I agree- it is much easier to have a decent discussion on a LJ. Aside from avoiding many scary fangirls, it's usually a smaller group, and you can have a one-on-one discussion, which is hard to do on the Park. (Which I appreciate. When you have THAT many members, topics, and threads, you have to have some ground rules. Especially since I have seen what can happen on other boards. But it does make one-on-one discussion hard, especially since owls only carry a limited message size.)

But yeah. I'll probably wait a day or two to let it all filter through my head, first, and see what I'm interested in discussing, and then see where I want to venture in the Park. Especially since Draco-lurve really annoys me, and if any of the spoilers are true, there might be an alarming amount of it....