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queensthiefI know--the While She Knits posts have become more "occasional" than bi-weekly. Part of this is Fridays are no longer a good blogging day for me, the other part...
Well, I don't like it when there are as many OT posts as there are ones on the books!
It's probably time to do something to reintroduce ourselves, or make up a contest or something. But for today, here's my ON topic While She Knits query:
What are your "prophecies" about coming books in the series? Hopes? Random plot-bunnies?
and if you must, Add One Non-MWT book prophecy/hope/plot bunny to your list.
Since so many of us have read the same books outside, since we've done so much recommendation swap, that should prove fun.
[For example: Does the Magus get heart-broken when Eddis marries Sophos for love & politics? Does Sophos come back from the dead, having escaped a captive engagement to a pirate queen who rescued him from the Sounisian guerrillas? Does Cassandra Mortmain in "I Capture the Castle" ever hook up with Simon?]
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Date: 8/15/08 01:31 pm (UTC)I would like to think:
1) Costis falls in love with the one Queen's attendant (no books to hand to check: Ipheginia or something?) who is watching when he tells Gen to go back to sleep. WHY--there is a bit of actual description of her looks, as if he's noticing her.
Deny it if you will.
2) Something really nice is coming Heiro's way.
3) George Weasley, once he recovers somewhat from losing his twin, marries Luna Lovegood. Why: she's a perfect muse for the crazy and unreal, who better to play straight-man in a joke shop? And I don't care if Rowling had a different pairing in mind for either of them.
I don't know why no one else thinks this, that I've come across. (Then again, I've never been in fic circles; I'm sure it's surfaced there somewhere.)
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Date: 8/15/08 05:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 8/15/08 06:27 pm (UTC)And yes, in my world, because I need happy endings, Cassandra does get together with Simon.
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Date: 8/15/08 06:29 pm (UTC)I mean, it was a great ending. I do not quibble with it. But the hope escaped me the first time through.
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Date: 8/15/08 06:30 pm (UTC)Is Iphegenia the goddess in the story? I was just reading that part to my siblings, it must have been the only odd Greek name to hand. ^_^
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Date: 8/15/08 06:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 8/15/08 06:58 pm (UTC)On the Luna/George thing - I actually like JKR's pairing for Luna - she marries Newt Scamander's (the author of Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them, on their first year reading list) grandson, and they spend their lives chasing fantastic and fictional beasts. :D
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Date: 8/15/08 08:05 pm (UTC)(Oh, I'm sure there was a pairing for him, too. This is one of the few times I've indulged in this sort of thing, though, so I'm sticking to my guns.)
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Date: 8/15/08 11:18 pm (UTC)Little do they know that every few months or so Luna stops by in the midst of one of her whirlwind worldwide adventures and they rent a room in the Three Broomsticks and SHACK IT UP LIKE CRAZY MONKEYS. Oh yes. Those little Hufflepuffs' hair would curl (...more than it already does...) if they knew what a little firepistol Neville could be. And then, when the weekend's over, Neville goes back to being a quiet professor, and Luna goes back to chasing Crumple-Horned Snorkacks*.
Yep. That's my canon, and I'm sticking to it.
*note: at this point, I fetched my copy of OotP to look up the name of said Snorkacks, and instead spent about an hour rereading it. Oh HP, never die.
This is my canonical view
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Date: 8/16/08 01:20 am (UTC)[I'm fairly demonstrably Hufflepuff, so watch what you say, kiddo--what makes you think we can't curl peoples' hair, too?
[[Granted, my hair's already pretty curly.]]
And what about GEORGE!?
I mean, I'd take him. I'd GO GET him, but that's not the point.
And I think Luna's more into commitment than that, but again...whatev.
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Date: 8/16/08 01:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 8/16/08 01:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 8/16/08 01:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 8/16/08 01:39 am (UTC)I also can't guess what use Gen is going to put Costis to.
My only real prediction is that I will be surprised, because I always am with these books.
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Date: 8/16/08 02:15 am (UTC)That's what Rational Red was saying, while Romantic Red was like, *but, but, but...!*
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Date: 8/16/08 02:20 am (UTC)How boring is that, anyway?
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Date: 8/16/08 02:22 am (UTC)Hey, me too!
Date: 8/16/08 02:58 am (UTC);)
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Date: 8/16/08 04:32 am (UTC)My non-MWT hope is that Eoin Colfer would stop writing Artemis Fowl books. They went steadily downhill from book one. I liked the series and he's mangling all that was good about it.
Re: Hey, me too!
Date: 8/16/08 05:00 am (UTC)*maybe ships it on the side*
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Date: 8/16/08 05:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 8/16/08 05:02 am (UTC)In a friendly, respectful, all-in-good-fun sort of way.
My hope is that...uh, there aren't too many more AF books? 'cause it seems like he's starting to hit the edge of the road. I think one or two more, max.
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Date: 8/16/08 05:05 am (UTC)(Hahaha, I understand. I wanted to say "Hufflepuffs and...well, really, all of his fifth-year-and-younger students," but that didn't have a very good cadence at all.)
Well, I mean, GEORGE, yes, George is awesome, but...I just love the idea of Neville's students taking his love life (or complete and utter lack thereof) for granted, while in fact it is awesome. I mean, eventually they'll settle down, but while she's still traveling the world, y'know, they'll take what they can get.
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Date: 8/16/08 05:06 am (UTC)(Did I ever mention how sad I was that Ron never took Luna on a date?)
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Date: 8/16/08 05:19 am (UTC)But more importantly, book six had the most laughable time travel I have ever seen. And that's saying something. Okay, it wasn't as bad as Clockstoppers, but that's the only exception.