I think it will die off... but never die off to nothing. It'll always be around, and there will be new people joining all the time, but it will never reach the heights it has in the past few years and will for the next two or so. There'll be a sharp spike of fandom activity with the new canon, but after that it's all downhill. But it'll still be a pretty high hill!
Personally, I reached the point where I'd pretty much read everything I could, and anything else I find now is just same old plots, same old theories, over and over again. But I've been in this fandom for five years, which is a relatively long time considering how intense it is as a fandom (Star Trek of course I've been into for far longer, but that has a massive, massive canon to work with, and I was never as in-depth involved as HP with it.) After DH comes out, I'm sure I'll go back to fic reading and theorizing and discussing for maybe a year more, and then there'll just be more fandoms with active canon to get involved in :) HP by then, barring any, very unlikely sequels, will be a closed canon. AU will be the only thing left.
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Date: 2007-04-07 11:53 pm (UTC)Personally, I reached the point where I'd pretty much read everything I could, and anything else I find now is just same old plots, same old theories, over and over again. But I've been in this fandom for five years, which is a relatively long time considering how intense it is as a fandom (Star Trek of course I've been into for far longer, but that has a massive, massive canon to work with, and I was never as in-depth involved as HP with it.) After DH comes out, I'm sure I'll go back to fic reading and theorizing and discussing for maybe a year more, and then there'll just be more fandoms with active canon to get involved in :) HP by then, barring any, very unlikely sequels, will be a closed canon. AU will be the only thing left.