Quietish

This morning the cover art for the deluxe edition of Deathly Hallows was debuted on NBC’s Today Show. Click here for article. While I’m excited to have seen it and thrilled with the design, it reminds me that I have intended to post about my plans for the Dealthy Hallows release and my personal spoiler policy.

We’re coming close to the release of both the last book and the new movie.

Many of you that come here are HP fandom folk, but I know that for many of you I’m like THE Harry Potter fan in your life. To be honest, on the days there are HP-related headlines, I get no less than several instant messages and a dozen emails. This of course is natural and I completely understand everyone’s excitement.

As the day of the book release in particular approaches though, I would like to respectfully ask for a little space. As completely dorky as it makes me sound, Harry Potter has been extremely special to me for some years now. I intend to spend the remaining time rereading the prior books yet again and thinking. There is so little time left before canon is done and set and whether it makes sense or not I would like to make sure I don’t miss the opportunity to finish forming my own conclusions about things.

I find myself almost totally uninterested in the theory and debate that is currently happening in the various communities. The most exciting thing about this fandom is that it has been the first one I’ve been involved in where the author in question was still active and writing. The books themselves are so deep and many-layered, but the status of “unfinished” has made the theorizing especially exciting. For now though, I have had my fill. I have felt for awhile like it is not really worth it to me to stress about what’s going to happen to who and why and how. The book is written and whatever happens, it’s going to be excellent and moving. I’d rather relax and enjoy my time with Harry as we know him til we know what happens next.

All that to say: Unless I’ve brought up XYZ HP headline, please assume that I either (a) know about it already or (b) don’t want to know. I haven’t completely decided which types of news I’m going to avoid, but from now until I meet up with Kelly in our undisclosed location to read through DH together I will be moving cautiously. I’d say that I’ll be glad to share my thoughts after the release, but judging by my general (non) response to Half-Blood Prince I can’t promise I’ll be very chatty about it.

Thank you so much in advance for your consideration, and for not laughing at me too much for how totally silly I sound. (Hm, the silliness is probably why I don’t actually talk too much about my love for Harry.)