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Jun. 19th, 2003 11:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
person4Warning- Speculation on the next HP book with what I suppose is a spoiler for anyone who's managed to keep there head buried under a rock for the past few years.
The closer I get to having the new Harry Potter book, the more apprehensive I feel about actually reading it.
Everyone knows that there's going to be a (presumably) importent death in the next one. I couldn't care less about most characters dying, I trust JKR enough to do it well and make the death meaningful, but there're all those people who can logically point out reasons they think Percy's going to die.
I didn't really mind that the first time I read an article discussing why they believed this, it was a few years ago (possibly before book four, though I'm not positive) and at the time I hadn't discovered my love of Percy. But now the very thought makes my stomach twist in awful ways, and I know I'm going to bawling like a baby if it happens. Not to mention the fact that everytime I sit down to write H/P it'll hit me again and again that there's no way this'll happen because Percy's gone, and he's never coming back, and... *snifflesniffle* *sob*
Logically I know from the clues we've been given that it's not going to be him. I don't think there's anyone who'd call him a "fan" of Harry's, and I've never heard of an interview where JKR lets everyone know how much she loves him. Still, there's this big traitorous hunk of my mind that's already positive he's dead, and that part of me's in mourning (well, as much as can be had over a fictional character) despite the fact that I'm sure it'll be proven wrong.
I know that the second my copy's in my hands I'm flipping right to the end to see who died. This isn't actually abnormal, whenever I'm reading a book and realize that there's no way it's going to end without someone dying I flip to the end and make sure it's not my favorite character (I need to know so I can brace myself for it if it is them, and do my best to keep down my affection for them), but if my logical side is wrong and it is Percy I have this horrible mental image of myself breaking down in the middle of the bookstore with all these little kids in robes and pointy hats staring as I spoil the book for them by screaming "NOOOOO, PERRRRRCT, WHY?!" to the skies.
So, in brief, I'm pathetically obsessive, and Percy-love brings out my melodramatic side.
The closer I get to having the new Harry Potter book, the more apprehensive I feel about actually reading it.
Everyone knows that there's going to be a (presumably) importent death in the next one. I couldn't care less about most characters dying, I trust JKR enough to do it well and make the death meaningful, but there're all those people who can logically point out reasons they think Percy's going to die.
I didn't really mind that the first time I read an article discussing why they believed this, it was a few years ago (possibly before book four, though I'm not positive) and at the time I hadn't discovered my love of Percy. But now the very thought makes my stomach twist in awful ways, and I know I'm going to bawling like a baby if it happens. Not to mention the fact that everytime I sit down to write H/P it'll hit me again and again that there's no way this'll happen because Percy's gone, and he's never coming back, and... *snifflesniffle* *sob*
Logically I know from the clues we've been given that it's not going to be him. I don't think there's anyone who'd call him a "fan" of Harry's, and I've never heard of an interview where JKR lets everyone know how much she loves him. Still, there's this big traitorous hunk of my mind that's already positive he's dead, and that part of me's in mourning (well, as much as can be had over a fictional character) despite the fact that I'm sure it'll be proven wrong.
I know that the second my copy's in my hands I'm flipping right to the end to see who died. This isn't actually abnormal, whenever I'm reading a book and realize that there's no way it's going to end without someone dying I flip to the end and make sure it's not my favorite character (I need to know so I can brace myself for it if it is them, and do my best to keep down my affection for them), but if my logical side is wrong and it is Percy I have this horrible mental image of myself breaking down in the middle of the bookstore with all these little kids in robes and pointy hats staring as I spoil the book for them by screaming "NOOOOO, PERRRRRCT, WHY?!" to the skies.
So, in brief, I'm pathetically obsessive, and Percy-love brings out my melodramatic side.