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.
Yeah. I think that's it.
I think I expected more to come of it. But maybe it's implied in the reminder that the protection vanishes when Harry turns 17.
It wasn't just him insulting Minerva; it was everything he'd learned about what the Carrows were doing at the school that caused such anger in Harry.
Sense and Sensibility is one of my favorite movies. I love the way he delivers his lines... he is fabulous in it.
Actually, she covers the "remember my last" part in Book 7. Remember that Petunia had actually written to Dumbledore as a child, begging to be let into Hogwarts. They had corresponded before. Dumbledore's refusal -- no doubt gentle, but final -- was what set her down the path to a jealous rejection of all that the wizarding world represented.
Petunia would be the poster child for how envy can consume you to the point where you're so busy hating somebody else for their life, that you forget to live your own.
She's kind of like a Muggle version of Aberforth, I suppose -- both she and he were eclipsed in all respects by their stellar siblings. But whereas Dumbledore acknowledges his brother as the better man, nobody could put Petunia in that position.
As always in the HP world ... it's our choices that define us.
Wouldn’t also mean that their protection from LV also ends when Harry turns 17? That would also put them in mortal peril.
It was Nagini, in a ‘Bathilda suit’.
She was wearing clothes, so "Bathilday suit" doesn't work. But a "Bathilda Robe" might... ;-)
Which reminds me... did Grayback actually bite Lavendar Brown? I could not tell, from re-reading the sentence, if he was intercepted on his way to attack her or if actually he had bitten her. Not that I was that worried about Lavendar. My fear all along had been one of the Weasley twins-- they were among my favorite characters.
Except for the fact that a letter came with Harry when he was dropped at the Dursleys. Right?
Or am I misremembering?
Yes. That’s why they had to leave.
Mayor Nagini, in the Bathilda suit, with the Horcrux.
Did I win?
< /Clue >
I was surprised that there was nothing else in the book re. Petunia's childhood correspondence with Dumbledore. I also was surprised that apparently some contact remained between the sisters, as Lily refers to baby Harry breaking a vase that Petunia had sent to Lily for Christmas. I had the impression that there was no contact. I also wonder what happened to the Evans parents? Lily was 21 when she died, so they probably were not that old, yet it seems both must have died.
I don’t think she did.
This is why I don’t think both parents should be deployed.
Molly Weasley was not in the OOP the first time around, because she had young children at home to protect.
The letter Petunia sent to Dumbledore would have been long before Harry was ever born.
Maybe they died in between when the girls were in school, and when Harry was born? I dunno... maybe that was one of the things to leave open-ended....
I got it. And laughed. :)
Yeah, that’s it.
I think I was just expecting to learn more of that. But I guess Snape’s memory was just supposed to be enough for us to realize that Petunia did know what was going on.
I think he would make a good Tom Riddle Sr. as a paramour for Merope. And Stuart Townsend could be Tom Riddle Jr. (or vice-versa...)
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