Hey, wreckage

[fera_festiva]

This is wanky and childish, so I won't be offended if you ignore it. :D

My heart sank when I saw this news:

"After playing around with a number of different ideas I decided to write a short (for me!) excerpt from a prequel to the Potter series. It is about 800 words long and the action takes place around 3 years before Harry is born."
This is

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[minnow_53]

Apparently, it's about Sirius and James -- or so one person on my list has said! As JKR seems incapable of writing about two boys without a LOT of pretty heavy subtext, this may mean we'll get a huge influx of Sirius/James fic. Just a thought. But I suspect you're right. Sadly. :( We really need a 'JKR pissed on my parade' icon. Or not. :/

[fera_festiva]

You know, I hadn't even thought of that - that's made me a little more optimistic about things, certainly! :D I hope you're right, but, I dunno, I can't help being pessimistic, I guess - I think I've got so used to being disappointed with interview canon I've forgotten her stories are often quite good.

*crosses fingers for hoyay*

[minnow_53]

Psst! I just want to add Happy Birthday for today, as you don't have an email on your user info. Hope you get many of your name, if I've understood it correctly, but not if I have it wrong. Does that make sense? At any rate, have an amazing day and wonderful year. ♥

[fera_festiva]

*hugs* Aww, thank you! ♥

Name is, roughly, party animal. The celebrations began last night and will end on Sunday, so it works. :P

[fera_festiva]

I hope you're right about the James/Sirius! Not that it's my OTP or anything, but I'm not averse to it (hey, it was boarding school, I'm told things happen). ;)

But yeah, I agree - I find it very easy to disregard interview stuff, but when it's there on the page and written down... it's different. (Because if I choose to ignore one element of canon, I start worrying about what else is true in "my" version of it and then my head hurts - although I suspect that, once again, I'm overanalysing!)

[fera_festiva]

That comm is an excellent idea - I'll be watching for sure.

[mushroom18]

Don't worry! *3* JK might write about James and Sirius' Extremely Heterosexual Adventures in London, No Doubt About It, but FANDOM SHALL PREVAIL

And she said, once, that Sirius was "too busy" for a girlfriend Haha, yes, that's why I wonder why most fanfics portray Sirius as a playboy, when he obviously didn't care much about the opposite sex xD

[fera_festiva]

Fuck yes, fandom shall prevail! :D We survived the veil and Tonks and everything, we'll get over whatever this throws at us. I'm just being a miserable bastard (a pessimist is never disappointed, as they say). :P

[iamstarmom]

I was also distressed at this news: at having *my* Prequel barely escape becoming irrelevant upon the release of DH, I'm totally dismayed at what havoc she may wreak with this new offering. If she's DONE writing this story, she should be DONE! And leave the guessing about the rest to us!

[fera_festiva]

Yeah, exactly. It's like, come on, you've had your fun - can't we play now? But no, even though the series is over she still has to knock over our sandcastles, as it were. Yeah, it's her series, she can do whatever she likes, but it's no fun being told your imagination is wrong. :(

[lefaym]

My thoughts when I heard about this were along the lines of, "My god, she really is writing her own fanfiction now." I mean, an 800 word ficlet!?

But yeah, I wouldn't be at all surprised if she attempts to completely kill R/S in this-- not that she'll succeed, but I think she'll try. And like with Deathly Hallows, she may actually inadvertantly make it seem more canon.

Editing to add: her words are that it's an "excerpt from a prequel"-- that really does not bode well.

[fera_festiva]

"excerpt from a prequel"

... Shit. :-/

not that she'll succeed, but I think she'll try

I agree. It'll be about as subtle as a sledgehammer too. A sledgehammer with a load of posters of girls in bikinis stuck to it.

[lefaym]

Heh, no kidding.

Have you ever read Making History by Stephen Fry? There's one part where the protagonist walks into the bedroom of a guy he's pretty sure is gay and closeted, and he sees that the walls are covered with pictures of girls, and he just looks at the other guy and says something like, "He who doth protest too much..."

That book was the first thing I thought of when I read that scene in Deathly Hallows-- it was eerily similar, except for the fact that Harry was too thick to pick up on it. ;)

[fera_festiva]

Oh my god, I love that book. :) The parallel with that scene hadn't even occurred to me, but yes! Perfect! I LOL'd.

... But yeah, Harry noticing any kind of subtext in anything? Never gonna happen. :D