Posted on 07/21/2007 5:18:11 PM PDT by JenB
So you finally know what happens to Harry. All our questions are answered. Or not. What are your reactions? Whose death hurt the most? Do you want more, and about whom?
SPOILERS are ok on this thread! You have been warned!
Wow. It's over.
Huh? Where’d all that come from?
Books by David McCullough, Steven Ambrose, Bacon, Milton, Twain, Lewis Carroll, W. Cather, Crane, et al. This is the stuff of life. Just finished Magnificent Destiny by Paul Wellman.
And because apparently you didn't understand what I wrote the first time, I'll quote myself. I'll even put the important parts in bold!:
If you have something you want to contribute to the discussion- other then we are all a bunch of idiots for reading books that you don’t approve of- then we would love to hear it.
If you are just here to bash us and bash the series, then please move along. No one is suddenly going to go, “Oh my God! Neoliberalnot is right! They ARE dumb!”
And, once again, thanks for bumping our thread!
I have read part of the first. Sorry, I wasn’t really trying to insult but some people have different opinions. Most video games out there are also about good v evil.
That is what I thought, too.
My Walmart had the book the cheapest. No line, no fuss, just good service.
Heh...there’s a lot of that goin’ around.
As far as I can tell, this is an open forum and just because I don’t share the fantasy obsession doesn’t mean I can’t post. Reality remains.
Um...she wrote the ending 17 years ago and had it locked in a safe deposit box after the series got popular (pre-movie popular). I doubt she was "pandering".
That was for Dumbledore’s funeral in “Half-Blood Prince.”
Post all you want. We just find it amusing that you've spent so much time on something that doesn't matter to you.
Absolutely!
Oh, good! What great last words ~ I would want the same thing.
Or maybe I’d just want to warn someone about the rotten cucumbers in the fridge, or when to pick up the dry cleaning ~ important stuff like that.
Consistency, they say, is a bugaboo of small minds. :-)
Little things like that just bother me, like a dripping faucet: Why do wizards have flush toilets, but not pencils, for example? Why do they have radios, but not televisions or telephones?
(I know, just shut up and clean something ...)
“More champagne, please!”
If you find out which ones please post them. I love his voice. :)
I want to know, too!!
That'd be an interesting psychoanalytic question for Rowling to answer. It's probably not a conscious thing.
I'm thinking it's a cultural British/Scots "take care of your own" mindset. I'm betting she never really even considered having "non-locals" come to help.
And perhaps she even sees the modern-day UK as already being in the grips of a corporate state that is less evil, but just as repressive as that in the final book ... and the shape of the final battle maybe represents her wish that the normal British people would finally wake up and take a hand once more in their own freedom. (That would definitely be the Scotswoman in her....)
Well, they don’t need telephones or email because they can communicate using owl post, talking patronuses, or 2-way mirrors.
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