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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Reaction Thread - SPOILERS!!!!
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Posted on 07/21/2007 5:18:11 PM PDT by JenB
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To: grellis
Ah, thanks.
And I've since seen a couple of your other posts. I gather you are like my wife and me. We mocked the first book -- and marveled at the last two. Particularly DH.
Dan
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posted on
07/24/2007 8:41:38 PM PDT
by
BibChr
("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
To: andyssister
There’s one question answered. If Lupin was one person to die that was supposed to live who was the second?
To: BibChr
There is a lot to be said for not being an early adopter:
The early bird gets the worm, but it's the second mouse that gets the cheese!
1,123
posted on
07/24/2007 8:43:59 PM PDT
by
null and void
(We are a Nation of Laws... IGNORED Laws...)
To: andyssister; TightyRighty
Yes, great article!
If Lupin was one person to die that was supposed to live who was the second?
Tonks, maybe?
To: null and void
I got married at 19. So you can understand my horror at having to wait that long! ;)
To: TightyRighty
1,126
posted on
07/24/2007 8:54:17 PM PDT
by
null and void
(We are a Nation of Laws... IGNORED Laws...)
To: Bear_in_RoseBear
<waving at DaBear> Hi, Fuzz!
I think perhaps Slughorn intentionally gave that particular book to Harry. We know that Slughorn is a name-dropper ... who better to have in your debt than The Boy Who Lived? Not to mention that the Boy in question is the son of one of your favorite students from years gone by?
If not for Snape, Harry might have been quite the dab hand at Potions.
To: Rose in RoseBear
1,128
posted on
07/24/2007 9:39:34 PM PDT
by
null and void
(We are a Nation of Laws... IGNORED Laws...)
To: andyssister
Oh cool! I’d love to have a copy of THAT!
1,129
posted on
07/24/2007 9:41:45 PM PDT
by
SuziQ
To: SuziQ
Yes, an encyclopedia would be perfect! I was (and still am) dreading the sappy and quickly written knock-offs (i.e. “Tales from Hogwarts”. I hope the writer who tries finds they are on the receiving end of a Bat-Bogey Hex!
1,130
posted on
07/24/2007 10:12:56 PM PDT
by
Mygirlsmom
(I practice Calorie Offset Trading. I eat a candy bar & pay my kid 10 bucks to run around the block)
To: Mygirlsmom
Maybe, but it seemed that the knowledge of the Horcruxes was late in coming to Dumbledore - he only suspected in the later years and then sought to interview those who could confirm his suspicions. I'm catching up here. Dumbledore started to suspect horcruxes when Ginny was possessed by the diary. So it was fairly recent.
We know the original Order was trying to fight Voldemort. We know Voldemort was particularly afraid of Dumbledore. Maybe V was just successful in avoiding him?
To: r9etb
Tonks is essentially a soldier, too -- and her choice is more complicated. Does she stay home with her kid, relying on Lupin and everybody else? Or does she, too, fight, so that even if she dies, her child will grow up free from Voldemort's control -- either that, or die trying? I think this is another instance of coming full circle. James and Lily died (directly) protecting Harry. Tonks and Lupin were also fighting to protect their boy, but less directly. Both losses occur during a major Voldemort battle. Both children lose their parents. One at the beginning. And one at the end.
To: r9etb
But a lot of folks have wondered why a howler from Dumbledore, saying "remember my last," would affect Petunia as it did. "My last" seems to imply more than one letter was exchanged between them. Book 7 fleshes it out a bit more: she had actually corresponded with Dumbledore before, begging to be "taught" magic. It helps to explain why Petunia was affected more than perhaps she ought to have been by a seemingly cryptic message. The howler was related to sending Harry from the house. The letter with baby Harry must have explained the "Mother's blood" protection in some way.
What I don't quite get, is what induced Petunia to agree to raise Harry in the first place? Love for her sister seems the only answer, and yet Petunia was so bitter.
To: andyssister
Well that’s good, but part of me would like other series of books and with an encyclopedia that would most likely stop that from happening.
To: Tangerine Time Machine
Yeah, I did catch that, but it’s not the same. It doesn’t change things like, for example, the pointlessness of the rest of Aragorn’s life.
1,135
posted on
07/25/2007 4:31:03 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
("Go ahead and water the lawn - my give-a-damn's busted.")
To: JenB
What about Dumbledore though? Ok, so Grindelwald probably wasnt the master of it but surely Dumbledore won it by force, yet Draco took it away from him...Dumbledore and the wand were occupied putting a full body bind on Harry when Malfoy attacked. In effect, D surrendered to Malfoy, since he could have defended himself, but decided not to. He wanted to be sure that he wasn't the last "master" of that wand before his death.
Mark
1,136
posted on
07/25/2007 4:32:01 AM PDT
by
MarkL
(Listen, Strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government)
To: TightyRighty
What I found to be the REAL tragedy of this story was - that at 38 - Severus Snape died a virgin. Sigh. I so enjoyed having seven really long books to read without that kind of cr*p.
1,137
posted on
07/25/2007 4:32:58 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
("Go ahead and water the lawn - my give-a-damn's busted.")
To: grellis
She must have been a hell of an Occlumens, like Snape, if you think about it. Within a second of speaking with the very much alive HP, she turns around and lies to LV. It's been stressed a number of times how LV could almost always detect a lie--"The Dark Lord always knows!"Remember from HBP, where Snape tells Draco that it seems his mother's been teaching him oclumency, since he couldn't break into Draco's mind?
Mark
1,138
posted on
07/25/2007 4:48:25 AM PDT
by
MarkL
(Listen, Strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government)
To: MarkL
Remember, Malfoy actually disarmed him. Malfoy used expelliarmus on Dumbledore the moment he arrived at the tower. Malfoy actually did win it by force, just by getting the drop on him.
1,139
posted on
07/25/2007 5:05:45 AM PDT
by
Obi-Wandreas
(We gotta go to the crappy town where I'm a hero)
To: andyssister
That will be really cool!
And we’ll all line up for it...again. LOL!
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