Marvin's being a real shit about the internet lately. Hopefully I'll be able to sign on to AIM later today.
Letter to JKR from the
Save Severus Yahoo group:
We ask you please do not make Snape the villain! Please demonstrate that he is a good man and he always cared very much, maybe too much, for Harry! Please let him be honored with recognition and dignity! And please don't let Snape die!
Please know that whatever you choose to do, we still look forward to your books. We will truly mourn if Severus does not survive. But because of our shared concern for his fate, we have made many new friends with wonderful people in countries all around the world. That may be one of the most special achievements of Snape, this great character you have created.
After reading this letter, I've decided that JKR should just give the fans what they want in HP7. Harry will maintain a double life, married to both Ginny and Hermione. Hell, let's toss Draco in for a little cuckoldy goodness! Voldemort will be killed by a renegade pile of rocks, and Lucius will rise as the new Dark Lord. He will be completely ineffective, of course, due to spending all of his time fighting with Bellatrix, conditioning his hair, and just plain Being Aristocratic. Peace spreads throughout the land. Meanwhile, through an elaborate clone/twin/polyjuice plot device, Snape will turn out to be both a wooby and the devil. Both of his selves will have lots of greasy sex. Best of all, zombies and velociraptors will make periodic raids on the text, mangling key passages in order to make room for "alternative interpretations".
People will stop complaining if they get what they want, right? It's a totally brilliant plan!
Note: Please to not be diluting the crazy by introducing them to logic--I like my crack pure.
I'm blaming
hermioneluna for my cramps. My body believes firmly in the the power of suggestion, or maybe just uses that as an excuse. On the bright side, it gave ME an excuse to call in "sick" to work. I greet this idea with a considerable amount of vindictive glee, as they call me in to pull shifts for people who just plain don't show (not always sure of the reason) a couple times a week. Unfortunately, my boss is not a native English speaker, and I'm not sure he understood that "cramps" is man-woman shorthand for "my uterus is falling out in bloody clumps". He told me to "get better" as we were saying our goodbyes. He's a sweetie, but that just makes me laugh.