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It's the day after The Book and I keep wanting other people to be done with it so that I can discuss it with them. *sigh* They'll get there eventually and I imagine that the fandom will eventually come to terms with The Book and reorganize themselves (like those swarms of octopus robot things in The Matrix so that they're heading on the new bearing. Eventually.

Just... I want someone to talk to NOW.

Thing I most expect to see from the fandom: Assloads more Snape-and-Draco. I am not complaining about this in the slightest. It'll probably be relatively unpleasant circumstances for them, too, because I reckon they're going to be either (a) pretending to be excruciatingly loyal Death Eaters or (b) on the lam from both Death Eaters and the OotP folks. I think scenario A is more likely because if they were just going to run away from everyone in the end, Snape wouldn't have had to swear to Narcissa in the first place. Also, it'd have been way stupid to off Dumbledore if Snape wasn't going to use that action to get in good with Voldie. Snape himself admits that Voldie is legilimens from hell, which means that Snape has got to be [Kid Rock voice] worldclass [/Kid Rock voice] in more than just fucking potions. I don't see them (Draco and Snape) getting a very happy reception back into OotP unless Dumbledore was a lot more forthcoming to his underlings than he appeared to have been. Hell, he didn't tell Harry about the whole "I'm the sacrificial queen" thing, now, did he? And Dumbledore freaking petrified Harry SO THAT HARRY WOULD NOT MESS THINGS UP. Harry was invisible and he now has the power to do voiceless magic -- he could have "helped" without blowing his cover -- there was no need to petrify him unless he would have obstructed the point of the meeting. I bet Dumbledore didn't tell the rest of the OotP team because they can't spill what they don't fucking know. There's no point having truly deep cover (like Snape has now ensured himself) unless it's unbreakable. If some ass from OotP got caught and spilled that Dumbledore MADE Snape kill him, that'd screw the pooch indeed. Also, since they didn't know, they couldn't then be wasting valuable time and effort trying to STOP him from lettings things occur as they must. Yeah, I can see why D. didn't inform folks he was planning on taking a dive in the tenth round.

Also, as in Buffy with the Ben/Glory problem, practically everyone who plays for the Good Guys has trouble with expediency. True, this is part of what makes 'em the Good Guys... but it also reduces the number of options for waging a war. The successful candidate can make the difficult, unkind, entirely not-raindrops-on-roses-and-whiskers-on-kittens choices for the greater good. Of course, lots and lots of unsuccessful candidates confuse their own ends with the greater good, and we call those people the Bad Guys.

Problem: How in the hell is Rowling planning to get around the fact that every-fucking-body (Characters in the book, I mean) thinks Snape is a traitor to make use of his proximity to Voldie to further the side of the right? I mean, honestly, he's not bad. Perhaps ten year olds, reading the book, will think that Snape is bad... but come on. He's not bad. If he were EEEEVIL, he would have killed Flitwick, not stunned him. If he were EEEEVIL, he would have gloated a bit more over the dead Dumbledore, a bit of a やった or something, but we didn't get that at all. He didn't look gleeful or triumphant or anything. He looked very angry. Snape is still one of the good guys, even if Harry doesn't particularly think so... so how in the hell is he going to pass information to the OotP folks now that his name is mud in their book? Maybe he'll just undermine Voldie from within the camp and/or set up some kind of thing to mass-slaughter the rest of the DE crowd so that Voldie will be left alone, relatively easier pickings for our man Harry. I suppose we shall see.

Do we see any way for Snape to come out of this whole thing alive? Bueller? Bueller?

Hey, now that the phoenix is gone, can they still be OotP or are they going to be Order Of The Missing Bird now? Hell, they don't have a mascot OR a leader. That's kind of problematic, innit?

Finally, if we get to the end of book 7 and don't find out why Dumbledore trusted Snape, I am personally going to fly to Scotland (or wherever) and strangle the bitch. She's referred to it way, way too many times not to tell us. Fucking HARRY has noticed and asked for a reason. We've gotta get told about that... what we get thus far is not enough. 'S not.