Must. Write. Fic. -- and some DH Thoughts

[thescarletwoman]

I want to have ONE final piece of fic up before Pötterdämmerung.

Okay -- side note? The Musician/Historian in me is friggin' DYING over this. And seeing Harry et all wearing the stereotypical Viking helmets with Ride of the Valkyries playing in the background. Er... don't ask.

In any case -- It's Snape!gen. And I'm about one part away from it being completely finished. But it's a fic I just want to write as I'm sure DH will either a, go into this or b, completely destroy the fic.

I'm really... not ready for DH to come out. I've been seeing everyone discuss what this means for fandom, and even I've had a poll about it. I'm not planning on going anywhere to be certain. But I know things won't be the same after Saturday.

Yes, there will be fic. And I know we writers are quite the resilient lot and we'll find ways around anything in canon. It's where we find subtext. It's how we all found ways to bring Sirius back from beyond the veil. I just have this feeling it's going to be different having closed-canon now.


I have this very sinking suspicion that I'm going to lose Remus to this book. Sirius' death hit me hard, but after RPing Remus for upwards of 4 or 5 years, it's going to be devastating. I won't lie. And I'm sure Snape is a dead man, though I really don't want him tossing himself between Voldemort and Harry and sacrificing himself. Come out as being good, yes, but no huge self-sacrificing thing.

To be perfectly honest? I don't want everything spelled out for me. It's the ambiguity that makes things so interesting. If Remus is going to die, have him go down in an explosion wherein you don't see a body. It lets the creative mind come up with ways he could have survived, etc.

But really? I'd almost love a fade to black, as horrible as that probably sounds. I wouldn't mind if the final battle comes. The hexes are fired... and it fades away. Because then, the true ending is up to YOU. Sort of like the final episode of The Sopranos, though not as shoddily done. The best example I can give is the end of Sideways. He goes up to her door, knocks and the movie ends. It's up to you to decide what happens. Does he go in? Does he turn around? Do they fight?

That's what I want to have in this book. That we choose what lives on. Good or Evil.

Don't tell me to the nth degree what happens to each and every character. I want the ability to decide who ends up with who and what happens in the long run.

Really -- I'm just not ready for this book.

Comments

[wook77.livejournal.com]

*pets*

You know my thoughts on the chances of Remus living. I just really think that Harry needs something that drives him over the edge.

As much as I'm a canon-nazi, I'm thinking that I'm going to be going AU after this one...

[thescarletwoman.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I do know your thoughts. Doesn't make me wibble any less though. *sniff*

I know the feeling. It's a hybrid between keeping what I like from canon and dismissing the other stuff. Which is horrible, I know... but there you have it.

[r-grayjoy.livejournal.com]

Really -- I'm just not ready for this book.

Neither am I. But since I can't stop it coming out, I really want to start finding ways to work around whatever she hurls at us ASAP. And I will find ways. I'm not going anywhere.

[thescarletwoman.livejournal.com]

*clings to*

That's where I'm at too. And we will work around it. *nods defiantly*

[neshel.livejournal.com]

I stopped watching the Sopranos long before the end. I couldn't take what was happening to my favourite character.

But anyway, I think I would about die (in agony) if things weren't resolved. I'm pretty sure most of it will be, but not knowing how it all ends, that would be rather horrid for me. I mean, there's always being able to imagine what happens in the future, but the book has to have closure.

"His Dark Materials" (Golden Compass, et. all.) had an ending that hinted at future possibilities, but left it up to the reader to decide whether the characters would ever see each other again, and while this isn't as bad as, say, the "black-out" ending, I was not exactly thrilled.

Which, I suppose is kinda odd since it rather reminded me of the ending of Pirates 3, which I won't go into for Spoilery reasons... but I really liked that ending.

But you only have to look to Sailor Moon fanfiction to see that cannon is no barrier to the fanfic writer. How many people have re-written season 1? A LOT. (as an example)

Still, I'm feeling trepeditious about it all myself. Not because I want it to end one way or another, I believe in the author's right to take her creation wherever she wants, and I've loved JKR thus far, why wouldn't I accept her ending? Sad endings, endings that don't turn out the way you want them too, they're still good endings, just as good as a happy ending, as long as they're written well. But I'm sad about Saturday just because its the end on an era. There will be no more Harry Potter after this...

More than anything else, that is on my mind.

I speculated with all the rest after HBP, but now that DH is here I can't speculate at all. Its weird....

Ya, um, sorry, that was a really weird reply.

[thescarletwoman.livejournal.com]

I've only seen through... the first three seasons I believe. Not because I stopped watching it, but because I haven't stolen the last few seasons from my cousin to watch. I used the fade to black only as I knew it was something that happened to end a series.

I don't know -- there's something about the ambiguious ending that I LIKE. I know it'll never happen, but still. It gives me room to move should I want it.

Yes, exactly like HDM (which rocked, omg). It let you decide what happened. Yes, I wanted more -- but I still liked the ending.

Very true in regards to Sailor Moon. (oooh. you bring up my first fandom. Oh the memories over at ASMR. XD) And we will continue to re-write what we like of the series. Really, things set in the school rather than a post-war atmosphere tend to be more interesting anyway.

Agreed on why you're scared for Saturday. It's hard to imagine there won't be any more hype and waiting for a book. The films, yes, but even in a couple of years that'll come to an end too. Woe. :(

[neshel.livejournal.com]

Ahhhhh the ASMR days, sometimes I really miss it. It was my first fandom too. ^_^

And er, sorry if I just spoiled the end of the Sopranos, its been all over the news and every comedian's taken a shot at it... I wasn't thinking.

I really disappointed my roommate when I stopped watching though, because I was the only person who watched it with him (when he borrowed the DVDs from a friend). It was... hrm... 4th or 5th season, maybe? I won't tell you which character I angsted over, cause I don't wanna spoil that too, lol.

[thescarletwoman.livejournal.com]

I still, actually, have my original login. I think I was member #117 if that gives you any indication of how LONG ago I was involved then.

No, don't worry about it. I read all the reviews about the last episode so it's not a huge issue. It was a show I enjoyed, so spoilers are fine. ;)

[neshel.livejournal.com]

Lol, I've been back recently, I check the art forum every now and then.

Hehe, I'm pretty sure we've talked about running into each other there before we met at AaH, but I was... *checks* #1910, Tiana. But then the messageboards weren't created until 2001, and I know I was there reading (and shortly after writing) as early as 1997/98, cause that's how I met Stef.

[avengangle.livejournal.com]

It kind of bothers me that I have this odd suspicion that she will end it in a weird way just to thwart the people who think they know how it's going to end. What kind of respect for the Story is that? (And I mean Story in its non-corporeal, metafictional, Jungian-archetypal sense. Stories go a certain way and end a certain way, which is often dictated by the beginning. I see her fighting it, sometimes, which bothers me.)

In any case, I just posted my very generic predictions. Tada! they are time-stamped.

And I hope Remus doesn't die, either.

[thescarletwoman.livejournal.com]

It's what I fear may happen too. Or that, if the epilogue I read is really the ending of the book? It cheapens the others because it... reads like something from the Pit of Voles, IMO.

I saw (and agree with most) of your predictions. We'll see in a day, eh?

*fears for her Remus*

[sensorium.livejournal.com]

I'm so so not ready for this book either. And I'm not even very much into HP fandom! I'm going to be in Scotland when the book comes out, hanging out with relatives. So I suspect I'll have to wait until I get back to get the book. I'm so taking a day off of work just so I can read it--I'll be too scared to get online until I've read it.

[thescarletwoman.livejournal.com]

With the spoilers already out, I suppose it's like running the gauntlet even now. All I know is that I'll be staying away from the computer until I've completely digested the book.

[sensorium.livejournal.com]

I was kind of amused by all the fake spoilers. I sort of skimmed a little bit of some spoilers I assumed to be fake. But then I found out that there were real spoilers out. Ugh. So so hoping those ones were fake.

Do you know how the spoilers got out? I'm too scared to google Harry Potter spoilers to find out *how* they got out.

[idleleaves.livejournal.com]

Oh god, I've been so terrified since HBP that Remus isn't going to survive the last book. I've had that same sinking feeling, to the point where I've been 99% sure that he won't live, but where I'm just wishing that he'll make it through.

As far as the ending goes... since this is a children's book, though, I see no fade to black coming. I see a final ending, one way or another.

[thescarletwoman.livejournal.com]

I'm... yes, that's exactly how I feel about Remus. I've come up with as many ways as I can think of that may save him, but at the end of the day, I just have a feeling he's on the chopping block. Which makes me so completely and totally depressed. Woe.

I know she couldn't in a children's book... as much fun as that WOULD be though...

[judas-iscariot.livejournal.com]

Blargh, I made the mistake of starting to read that leaked copy. I'm hoping it is just a fake, an elaborate, elaborate fake. I was not ready for it, so I don't know why I let myself be spoiled like this. It IS going to change things, and that's what I feared from the start. Things won't be the same when it is officially done.

[thescarletwoman.livejournal.com]

I could read a few things posted, but once the book was leaked -- I couldn't anymore. Just in case it WAS real.

I really, really hope that was one massive gigantic hoax. I seriously do.

[neshel.livejournal.com]

Given the legal action currently being taken, I rather doubt it was a hoax. Looks like this one company shipped a bunch of copies early.

Idiots....

[jouez-moi.livejournal.com]

I fear you may well be right. It is funny though, I was thinking the same thing in regards to a fade to black... when the fifth movie ends I was like you know... that could just be an end. I was wrong, movie 6 in production planning for November 08 release but still. If the epilogue that is 19 years in the future and spells everything out is legit, I may just... I don't know. I don't believe in the concept of AU on principle and yet there are certain things that I am just too fond of to let go. I let Sirius die. I did not let Sirius/Remus die, I just found wiggle room, and that is likely what it will be all about.