[ms_gwyn]

I have to chime in the Auntie Mame bandwagon, I love THAT movie....of course with Ms. Russel, I tried to watch the one with Lucille Ball (because I love her, but it just wasn’t the same, they changed Anges too much for me).

I don't know how many of you have been reading fanfiction, but I do a lot and sometimes its really hard to separate cannon with AU. For me sometimes I wish Draco would come over to the "good" side after the fall of his father, but I KNOW THAT IT WILL NOT HAPPEN...Draco is the witless foil of these stories, they usually don’t change sides during the stories.

As I was re-reading OoTP in preparation for PoA (I have crazy logic) and some questions have just keep popping in my head as I read it....please indulge me. This is also sort of a stream of consciousness thing, I wrote it as I was reading the book.

We know that JK is excellent with foreshadowing, she should teach a class, a perfect example:

Chapter 4 - Number 12 Grimmuld Place, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
The other's hushed voices were giving Harry an odd feeling of foreboding; it was as though they had just entered the house of a dying person.

I'm not sure if this has been discussed fully so I'm going to bring it up again...can meet worms.

Do you think part of what fueled Harry's anger towards Dumbledore is his connection to Voldermort? We see snippets of this throughout the book and the explanation at the end of OoTP, but in the very beginning we have no clue. I think Voldie old boy is using Harry at the very beginning of the book. This will lead to a break in the "Trio" in the later books and will lead to Ron to crossover, but will not stay there for long.

As for our dear Neville, I also think he will be very important and I'm starting to think that Ginny will be also. Again JK is a master of foreshadowing and this book is just chalked full of it.

IMO I think Harry was acting like a selfish child, yes a child with the weight of the world on his shoulders, but selfish nonetheless. I had very little sympathy for Harry at the beginning of the book but it grows at the end.

Yes, in very simplistic terms Harry is an abused child in one world and is a hero and worshipped in another world....when all he wants is to be normal and loved...classic makings of a very screwed up adult. Then he finds out it's killed or be killed. To me, this is no longer a children's story, not that I ever believed it was in the first place. Not that I want to shield children from reality, but still. I thought GoF and OoTP were dark, just imagine how book 6 & 7 are going to be. JK has said that in book 6 the war is in full force and all that it entails. This is going to be very bad and a lot of Deaths and most probably will be of characters we love.


{edited because I can't spell}