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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Reaction Thread - SPOILERS!!!!
me | 7/21/2007 | me

Posted on 07/21/2007 5:18:11 PM PDT by JenB

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To: Tijeras_Slim

Or shooting hexes at the kids feet just to watch them dance.


621 posted on 07/23/2007 12:14:18 PM PDT by TightyRighty
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To: EmilyGeiger
I'm just at pg 405!

But the spoilers aren't gonna spoint my reading.

(Alright! I peeked!)

622 posted on 07/23/2007 12:14:21 PM PDT by Pippin (World's tallest hobbit)
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To: WV Mountain Mama
Harry didn’t want to learn occlumency. Period. He wanted to see what was behind the door

But, in the end, he did learn it, and furthermore, learned how to peek out from behind it. Crucial plot points....

623 posted on 07/23/2007 12:14:25 PM PDT by r9etb
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To: TalonDJ

As you know I wasn’t particularly enamoured of Dumbledore’s plotting before this book and am even less so now. I don’t think he ever did really understand what he asked other people to sacrifice for him because I don’t think he ever outgrew his boyhood arrogance and feeling he knew better than others. Ariana’s death saved him from being the worst he could be, but he never still never got over that desire for power, for leadership, did he?

I think his attitude was like his father’s (extrapolating) “do what I have decided to do, accept the consequences for myself” without ever thinking about what the consequences meant for other people. Like how his father attacked those Muggle boys in revenge and ewnt to Azkaban, probably proud of himself - and left his family alone, his wife with a daughter she couldn’t manage, his sons without a father... Dumbledore did the same thing, didn’t he? It’s most clear when he asks Snape to kill him. He is obviously only thinking of using his own death to the best he can, maximising the good and avoid torture, and not about the fact that he is asking Snape to murder him.


624 posted on 07/23/2007 12:14:27 PM PDT by JenB
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To: Tijeras_Slim
I'm wearing my Golden Snitch Jammies.

We'll let that slide- just don't wear them outside. ;-)

625 posted on 07/23/2007 12:14:59 PM PDT by retrokitten
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To: r9etb
He stunned the guy after he'd already stolen the wand ... he didn't have to win the wand in a duel.

I understand that, but still there was some form of conflict

626 posted on 07/23/2007 12:15:39 PM PDT by Smedley (It's a sad day for American capitalism when a man can't fly a midget on a kite over Central Park)
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To: EmilyGeiger
...because on p. 743 it says that Harry saw Voldemort’s green jet meet his own spell, saw the Elder Wand fly high.....

Thank you! I guess I missed that part in my haste to read what happened next.

627 posted on 07/23/2007 12:15:59 PM PDT by cuz_it_aint_their_money (Fred Thompson & Duncan Hunter in '08)
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To: Pippin
(Alright! I peeked!)

OBLIVIATE! Now go and sin no more.

628 posted on 07/23/2007 12:16:37 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: r9etb

He also used the Imperius curse at Gringotts. Using the Cruciatus curse on Professor Carrow wasn’t his first try, either. In OotP he tried it on Bellatrix and it just knocked her across the room.


629 posted on 07/23/2007 12:16:54 PM PDT by CholeraJoe ("It's like being a house elf, but without the job satisfaction.")
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To: Tijeras_Slim
I'm wearing my Golden Snitch Jammies.

How do you catch them to put them on?

630 posted on 07/23/2007 12:17:26 PM PDT by Corin Stormhands (I drink coffee for your protection.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim
ARGH!

Ain't he supposed to be (put away)?

631 posted on 07/23/2007 12:17:32 PM PDT by Pippin (World's tallest hobbit)
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To: retrokitten
We'll let that slide- just don't wear them outside. ;-)

OK I'll take them off before I leave the office.

632 posted on 07/23/2007 12:17:47 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Pippin

Pippin! How are you? :) Sorry if I ruined that for you. :) The book is wonderful you will enjoy it!


633 posted on 07/23/2007 12:18:36 PM PDT by EmilyGeiger
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To: Tijeras_Slim

LOL, some of us Freeper Hobbit Hole people did just that a couple years back! Rented a beach house in Florida and hung out for a week, it was awesome.


634 posted on 07/23/2007 12:19:41 PM PDT by JenB
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To: Tijeras_Slim
Yup, him and Filtch writing rambling letters to the editor in the Daily Prophet.

He'd be like Grandpa Simpson.

"Ehh, why didn't you get something useful, like storm windows, or a nice pipe organ? I'm thirsty. Ew, what smells like mustard? There're sure a lot of ugly people in your neighborhood. Oh! Look at that one. Ow, my glaucoma just got worse. The president is a Demmycrat. Hello? I can't unbuckle my seat belt. Hello?"

635 posted on 07/23/2007 12:19:43 PM PDT by retrokitten
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To: Corin Stormhands
How do you catch them to put them on?

I used to use a Comet 260, but there was this ceiling fan, doncha know?

636 posted on 07/23/2007 12:20:10 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: JenB

I left too soon...


637 posted on 07/23/2007 12:20:23 PM PDT by Corin Stormhands (I drink coffee for your protection.)
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To: CholeraJoe

I was really happy to see Harry do that. I was ticked when he spit in McGonagals face.


638 posted on 07/23/2007 12:20:31 PM PDT by TightyRighty
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To: r9etb
But, in the end, he did learn it, and furthermore, learned how to peek out from behind it. Crucial plot points....

It seems to me Snape taught him all he needed to do it he just was rejecting it at the time. When he needed to do it the knowledge was there, already learned.
639 posted on 07/23/2007 12:20:59 PM PDT by TalonDJ
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To: EmilyGeiger
Thanks!

How have you been doing?

I was watching an episode of DR WHO this past Friday, the one with David Tennant, Y'all would have liked it, they made a lot of allusiond to HP. :o)

640 posted on 07/23/2007 12:21:10 PM PDT by Pippin (World's tallest hobbit)
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