No, no no! I'm not ready!

[emmagrant01]

Okay, The Title: I played the hangman game and literally stared at the screen with two letters left and thought, bzuh? Then got the title and still went bzuh? I'm not sure what I think. I wasn't too happy with HBP either, until I had finished the book and it made sense.

But mostly I'm thinking, noooooooo!!! I am SO not ready for book 7 to come out. The HP fandom has been a huge part of my life for the last three years, and I don't know what will happen after book 7 comes out. Fandoms fade when canon closes, and there's not much to be done about it. What if my favorite characters die? Will people stick around to read AUs? Will AUs finally be accepted by the mainstream of this fandom? Next year at this time, will we be anxiously reading holiday exchange fics, or will people be moaning about the death of the fandom? Will there still be meta? When the good-or-evil Snape dilemma is solved, will he remain an interesting character for people? What will we talk about at cons?

*wibbles*

I still have fics to write that are set after HBP, and I know I won't write them after the last book comes out. That will change everything. I doubt JKR is going to leave a lot of stuff unfinished for fanfic writers to tackle.

I'm not ready. I want another year.

Edit: Haha, CNN just got the title WRONG. :-P

Edit 2: My god, could Amazon's mock-up cover be any more ominous?? (Spoiler)

Comments

[darth-kittius.livejournal.com]

I totally agree... I still had fic from pre-HBP that I wish I could have gotten around to writing because now... well they don't translate to post-HBP universe really well. And I still want to read new fic after book 7... but will as many people be writing? I kinda doubt it.

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

I also have several pages of pre-HBP fics I started and never got to. And I doubt I will now. I can't see myself writing H/D fic set at Hogwarts from here on out, not that I did much of that anyway. :-P