Fannish Five, and HP news
Dec. 21st, 2004 10:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenakB7 fans: happy Gauda Prime day. * g* I wonder whether Chris Boucher remembers?
Now, another fannish five: five Christmas presents for five fictional characters from five fandoms I'm fond of.
Londo: Carl Sandburg's poems. Admittedly because of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
theatrical_muse stuff, but I think strictly canonical Londo would have liked them as well.
Buffy: tickets for her and Dawn, for the next ice skating revue in Rome, London or wherever else they spent the holidays.
Connor: A Best of Barry Manilow CD, in memory of Angel, and a Caritas recording of the song his mother (who actually could do that) sang there, in memory of Darla.
Quark: A Monopoly game. He'd love it, and he and Ezri would team up and rob Julian blind, genetics or no genetics.
Rygel: Belgian chocolate, to give him another sugar high. He's cute when he has one, and gets kissed by John.
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In other news, yay to the news of new Harry Potter! Although you know that since it's guaranteed not to feature fanon Draco, some quarters of the fandom will inevitably complain about it. (My own personal guess about Draco: he won't end up either a dead Deatheater or a living hero. He's simply going to become his generations' Gilderoy Lockhart, and our last glimpse of him, after the defeat of Voldemort, will be bragging and telling people how he always was friends with Harry and single-handedly won the war.) Now let the death poll start, since JKR has said she'll kill another one of.
Last time everyone thought it would be Hagrid; I don't think many people went for Sirius. Dumbledore is almost certainly guaranteed to die, but probably not before the last volume; still, he's a candidate. Snape I think is safe until the last volume as well. But it might be one of the kids. Cho would be anticlimactic because readers don't care about her the way they do about Sirius, which makes me rather afraid for Neville, who got a lot of endearing build-up in OotP. Conversely, it might be one of the Weasleys. Love 'em or hate 'em, the twins have been a distinct presence in all the previous volumes, so to kill them of, or one of them, would certainly have a major impact on the HPverse.
Speaking of HP, I try to avoid works-in-progress because they frustrate me so much, but one of the few exceptions I fell for was![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fernwithy's "Shifts". Which centres around Remus during OotP. I like it for many reasons, not least because of one of the basic plot ideas - Remus going undercover as a teacher on a Muggle school to keep an eye on Dudley Dursley (as Dudley and Petunia are Harry's sole living blood relations, and Voldemort is bound to figure out that blood magic thing). I also must say that this story finally gave me something I never found before. Which is Remus and Sirius as friends, and moreover, friends who despite their deep affection have to work on the inevitable estrangment that twelve years in Azkaban and past issues have caused. Since they don't want to jump each other's bones, sex as a solution is never on the menu. I must say, I find them far more interesting together in this story than in most (not all) of the S/R ones I've read.
Now, another fannish five: five Christmas presents for five fictional characters from five fandoms I'm fond of.
Londo: Carl Sandburg's poems. Admittedly because of
theatrical_muse stuff, but I think strictly canonical Londo would have liked them as well. Buffy: tickets for her and Dawn, for the next ice skating revue in Rome, London or wherever else they spent the holidays.
Connor: A Best of Barry Manilow CD, in memory of Angel, and a Caritas recording of the song his mother (who actually could do that) sang there, in memory of Darla.
Quark: A Monopoly game. He'd love it, and he and Ezri would team up and rob Julian blind, genetics or no genetics.
Rygel: Belgian chocolate, to give him another sugar high. He's cute when he has one, and gets kissed by John.
***
In other news, yay to the news of new Harry Potter! Although you know that since it's guaranteed not to feature fanon Draco, some quarters of the fandom will inevitably complain about it. (My own personal guess about Draco: he won't end up either a dead Deatheater or a living hero. He's simply going to become his generations' Gilderoy Lockhart, and our last glimpse of him, after the defeat of Voldemort, will be bragging and telling people how he always was friends with Harry and single-handedly won the war.) Now let the death poll start, since JKR has said she'll kill another one of.
Last time everyone thought it would be Hagrid; I don't think many people went for Sirius. Dumbledore is almost certainly guaranteed to die, but probably not before the last volume; still, he's a candidate. Snape I think is safe until the last volume as well. But it might be one of the kids. Cho would be anticlimactic because readers don't care about her the way they do about Sirius, which makes me rather afraid for Neville, who got a lot of endearing build-up in OotP. Conversely, it might be one of the Weasleys. Love 'em or hate 'em, the twins have been a distinct presence in all the previous volumes, so to kill them of, or one of them, would certainly have a major impact on the HPverse.
Speaking of HP, I try to avoid works-in-progress because they frustrate me so much, but one of the few exceptions I fell for was
fernwithy's "Shifts". Which centres around Remus during OotP. I like it for many reasons, not least because of one of the basic plot ideas - Remus going undercover as a teacher on a Muggle school to keep an eye on Dudley Dursley (as Dudley and Petunia are Harry's sole living blood relations, and Voldemort is bound to figure out that blood magic thing). I also must say that this story finally gave me something I never found before. Which is Remus and Sirius as friends, and moreover, friends who despite their deep affection have to work on the inevitable estrangment that twelve years in Azkaban and past issues have caused. Since they don't want to jump each other's bones, sex as a solution is never on the menu. I must say, I find them far more interesting together in this story than in most (not all) of the S/R ones I've read.
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Date: 2004-12-21 09:35 am (UTC)Wow, this idea is deeply satisfying on so very many levels.
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Date: 2004-12-21 03:18 pm (UTC)You mean, you're not?
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Date: 2004-12-21 10:32 am (UTC)Perfect, just perfect. Monopoly was invented purely for Quark to play.
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Date: 2004-12-21 11:05 am (UTC)That is evil and oh too plausible.
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Date: 2004-12-21 01:26 pm (UTC)And the monopoly for Quark is great!
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Date: 2004-12-21 02:56 pm (UTC)...however, the twins, or one of them, are equally good candidates, and you could say Molly's boggart foreshadowed the death of a Weasley.
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Date: 2004-12-21 04:38 pm (UTC)I think all the Maruaders will end up dead in the end. Call it a gut feeling. Lupin (and Peter) might not bite it till the next book, but they're *going* to bite it.
I think it will be a Weasleys who dies. *Not* Ron . . . he and Hermione will make it till the seventh book at least. I don't think it will be Percy because, woah, obvious. However, if Ginny makes it out of this book alive, then I'll say she'll survives book seven as well.
If not . . . I see her, and possibly one other person dying. Hagrid wont die before Dumbledore, I'll say that much. And Dumbledore, of course, *has* to die before Harry has his final confrontation with You-Konw-Who.
So, you know, Dumbledore *could* die at the end of book six, to prepare for the final showdown in book seven. (JKR did say books six and seven are like Part I and Part II. Dumbledore's death at the end of Part I would make for a really big emotional climax to the end of the first part of this two part story).
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Date: 2004-12-21 08:54 pm (UTC)I think so, too. But I think Lupin is safe until 7 because Sirius bought it in 5. Peter I'm not sure about - it depends on whether or not him owing Harry is life is going to work out in a positive fashion. If he's going to repent, he'll die in the last volume sacrificing his life for Harry's. If he's going to stay on the Dark Side, he could die in 6.
Or, he could be Gollum, tettering at the edge for a while, and then inadvertendly ensuring victory.
I think it will be a Weasley who dies.
Me too. Not Charlie or Bill, because they're too obscure - we hardly know them. Not Ginny, because we just got the reminder in the last volume that Ginny was possessed by Voldemort, too, and that's going to come in handy in the final volume, I think. Not Percy, because as you say, obvious. So either Fred or George. They were anarchic childhood, are out of Hogwarts now (so couldn't be part of the plot anyway), and to kill one of them will really be another brutal step to adulthood.
Unless it's Neville, which I really don't hope it will be.
Dumbledore at the very end of 6: true, that's another possibility. Presumably McGonnagal will then take over as headmistress.
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Date: 2004-12-21 06:35 pm (UTC)Bwahahah! That's perfect!
And if this is the same Fernwithy I know, I'm not surprised that you like her stuff. I think I've read some LOTR fic of hers on FF.net or HASA, and remember that I loved it. She's stuck in my mind as A Good Writer.
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Date: 2004-12-21 08:43 pm (UTC)And yes, she wrote some LotR as well. And some great Star Wars fanfic, which is where I knew her from as a writer.