One Day to Go
Jul. 20th, 2007 02:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
meddowThis is 100% Spoiler free post, everything contained within is my own fanon (I haven’t read any so I couldn’t spoil even by accident).
I don’t want to read Deathly Hallows.
If I do, then the fanon in my head has to die and I think this crappy feeling I have now it that I am pre-emptively mourning the little endings for characters that I made up, all the stupid little things that never made it into fic and probably never will now.
Tonks won’t be showing up to shareholder meetings of the chocolate frog company with popcorn ready to watch the twins. Percy won’t have had a revaluation of his life, grown his hair, fallen in love with Cho, gone to law school and become an activist. Remus won’t be struggling with his autobiography detailing the first and second war while at the same time campaigning with Hermione and Percy to bring about better human rights by getting large groups of wizards to amass in Muggle places and start singing “It’s a Kind of Magic.” Tonks, Ron and Cho won’t have to mope about the Ministry wishing they were their instead of performing crowd control and wondering if their jobs are in danger.
Luna and Susan won’t be living in Neville’s house, one that is overrun by magical plants. In the course of assisting Tonks and Ron in an investigation, Neville will not run into an equally shy and somewhat insecure Muggle botanist, sparking a romance that will survive misunderstanding and Ron’s terrible “how to date Muggles” advice. Draco won’t be let out of Azkaban after ten years and retire to a quite life away from the public glare, forced to live in the world he never wanted to see. Gregory Goyle won’t befriend Hogwarts students as their groundskeeper.
Molly will not host large meals every Sunday for the extended Weasley clan. Bill and Fleur won’t have their hand full with a pair of female twins with Fred and George’s minds and their parent’s looks. Ron and Hermione will not have to struggle to adjust after they find out their first born child is a squib. Harry and Ginny won’t be going on a very very long holiday leaving the defence of British magic in the capable hands of everyone else. Snape won’t have escaped to Russia and send Harry letters every now and again to torture him with the reminder that despite everything he did and every sacrifice he made, evil can never be eradicated.
I know it's a bit silly, but I’m really going to miss having that ending in my head.
I don’t want to read Deathly Hallows.
If I do, then the fanon in my head has to die and I think this crappy feeling I have now it that I am pre-emptively mourning the little endings for characters that I made up, all the stupid little things that never made it into fic and probably never will now.
Tonks won’t be showing up to shareholder meetings of the chocolate frog company with popcorn ready to watch the twins. Percy won’t have had a revaluation of his life, grown his hair, fallen in love with Cho, gone to law school and become an activist. Remus won’t be struggling with his autobiography detailing the first and second war while at the same time campaigning with Hermione and Percy to bring about better human rights by getting large groups of wizards to amass in Muggle places and start singing “It’s a Kind of Magic.” Tonks, Ron and Cho won’t have to mope about the Ministry wishing they were their instead of performing crowd control and wondering if their jobs are in danger.
Luna and Susan won’t be living in Neville’s house, one that is overrun by magical plants. In the course of assisting Tonks and Ron in an investigation, Neville will not run into an equally shy and somewhat insecure Muggle botanist, sparking a romance that will survive misunderstanding and Ron’s terrible “how to date Muggles” advice. Draco won’t be let out of Azkaban after ten years and retire to a quite life away from the public glare, forced to live in the world he never wanted to see. Gregory Goyle won’t befriend Hogwarts students as their groundskeeper.
Molly will not host large meals every Sunday for the extended Weasley clan. Bill and Fleur won’t have their hand full with a pair of female twins with Fred and George’s minds and their parent’s looks. Ron and Hermione will not have to struggle to adjust after they find out their first born child is a squib. Harry and Ginny won’t be going on a very very long holiday leaving the defence of British magic in the capable hands of everyone else. Snape won’t have escaped to Russia and send Harry letters every now and again to torture him with the reminder that despite everything he did and every sacrifice he made, evil can never be eradicated.
I know it's a bit silly, but I’m really going to miss having that ending in my head.
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Date: 2007-07-20 02:41 am (UTC)That being said, I'm writing the first and only post-DH fic I've ever written, on the cusp of things changing. So incredibly weird...
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Date: 2007-07-20 02:57 am (UTC)I'm quite strict with canon too. I've only ever managed to write one AU fic and that a challenge fic, but everything else I've writen has always been canon compatible. That's actually part of the fun for me, trying to work my imagination around strict rules.
Though lately I've become a little bit more flexible because of other fandoms, mainly PotC, because if I don't go against canon, where else am I supposed to go with Norrington? And Doctor Who because DW canon is such a mess anyway.
But if something happens like Remus announcing that all this time he hasn't been in love with Tonks or something like that, I can't get over that, and the thought of something like that happening, is frightening.
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Date: 2007-07-20 03:14 am (UTC)I've decided, if all else fails, I'll write AU. We write in a fandom where m/m and mpreg are popular options and it's almost ridiculous to be so canon-complient when it's thrown to the wind. So, that being said, I'm still writing my AU.
You guys get the book in a number of hours, right? I'm waiting with bated breath for someone to confirm the validity of the leaked book!
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Date: 2007-07-20 03:19 am (UTC)Love the icon BTW.
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Date: 2007-07-20 03:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-20 03:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-20 03:13 am (UTC)But I get where you are coming from. It is the end of an era, so to speak, and I think a lot of people in the fandom will be feeling this way.
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Date: 2007-07-20 03:23 am (UTC)It is an end of an era. Half the internet seems to be Harry Potter speculation. What will we all do with ourselves?