So...

[trinityofone]

Please tell me some of the rest of y'all have done the naughty and read you-know-what and want to talk about it here. 'Cause I just don't know enough HP people. (And there's something I've never before regretted. ;-) )

ETA: So far, no actual spoilers in the comments. If/when that changes, I promise to edit with the appropriate warning IMMEDIATELY.

ETA2: I would say that there are some spoilers here now! BACK AWAY.

Comments

[chrissie-m.livejournal.com]

Um, I admit that I read a certain something, along with a whole lot of debates about whether or not that certain something is real or faked.

If it's faked, wow, that's a lot of effort to go to.

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

Yeah, if it's faked, that's gotta be one of the most elaborate hoaxes ever. I can't wrap my head around it, really.

So...what did you think? *toes floor*

[chrissie-m.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I don't know what I think.

The first thing I saw floating around was the epilogue, and it just seemed like so much drivel (although the ships were totally expected). So I was primed to think the whole think must be faked, but having read the rest of the book, I'm having a hard time agreeing with those who say it's just not JKR's style. Nothing seriously pinged for me as wrong, and it seems a decent enough ending to the epic.

But so does a lot of fanfic, and there've been enough hints over the last couple of years for someone or a group of someones to come up with something believable.

I'm just finding the whole thing fascinating and kind of fun.

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

akukorax was telling me that supposedly Rowling wrote the ending—and by that I assume the epilogue—YEARS ago. So maybe she was just like, "Well, I could revise it, BUT ON SECOND THOUGHT MAYBE NOT." Those names, God. *cries*

But yeah, the rest of the book sounds so much like her. I mean, really a lot. With the actually funny stuff AND the soppy stuff, AND the bad tendencies to infodump and have lots of, "I, the Dark Lord" or "I, Remus Lupin" or "I, the Half-Blood Prince" statements. I will be really surprised if it's not real.

Either way, I can't wait to find out.