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.
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
There’s one question answered. If Lupin was one person to die that was supposed to live who was the second?
The early bird gets the worm, but it's the second mouse that gets the cheese!
If Lupin was one person to die that was supposed to live who was the second?
Tonks, maybe?
I got married at 19. So you can understand my horror at having to wait that long! ;)
Yeah...
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.
Oh cool! I’d love to have a copy of THAT!
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!
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Sigh. I so enjoyed having seven really long books to read without that kind of cr*p.
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
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.
That will be really cool!
And we’ll all line up for it...again. LOL!
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