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.
The words were for intimidation, where silently, they confer more power, and less opportunity for the opponent to block or avoid the spell.
Perhaps, though I recall Imperius being used a few times in the book; I was a bit tired, so I forget all the details.
Otherwise, another possible 'out' for Harry would be that there was no legitimate government once the Ministry had fallen. That would probably protect him legally, though it should have no impact on the moral wrongness of such actions. And use of Unforgiveable Curses on innocent sentient targets would seem to be morally wrong whether or not such targets were human.
IMO, they embody what Phineus Nigelus said about Slytherins- they look out for themselves first. They weren’t concerned with the other Hogwarts students, but when it was their kid they were all sorts of cooperative.
when so much good literature is out there.
I'm curious to know what you would regard as "good literature"?
Dumbo.
Couldn’t fly without that magic feather...
Dr. Seuss
So, in the extended Potterverse, after the Battle of Hogwarts, The Malfoy family would have each other, but their power outside of their relm, into magic, would be finished, or would be reduced to something archaic - nothing more.
Here’s my take on the Elder Wand. When Draco disarmed Dumbledore on the Astronomy tower, the Elder Wand became his property, though, I believe the wand fell off the tower with Dumbledore. That’s how it came to be buried with Dumbledore, even though he was no longer the owner that was ‘chosen’ by the wand. Harry disarmed Draco at the Malfoy house, so had Draco’s wand. Voldemort broke into Dumbledore’s tomb to steal the Elder Wand, then assumed that since he now possessed it, he would have unlimited power, but it never worked right for him. In the final battle, Harry explained why it didn’t work, since he was not the wizard chosen by the wand, Draco was. Voldemort still tried to use it against Harry, and like Ron’s wand in COS, wielded by Gilderoy Lockhart, the curse rebounded on the one doing the spell, and Voldemort was done in by his own killing curse. Appropriate, isn’t it?
In, perhaps, the same sense that the Bible is about people, not Jesus.
He believed what he wanted to believe; that now he was invincible.
Some of the Tolkien fans in the Hobbit Hole did just that when the third movie came out! We rented a HUGH house on the beach, and just had fun getting to know each other in real life! And we're still chatting, four years on!
I saw her awhile back in an airport. I looked at her, and my jaw dropped, and she gave me this look like, "yep, I'm who ya think I am", and then she was gone.
I didn't think to ask for an autograph, or anything. I just stood there like a doofus with my mouth hanging agape.
Galaxy Quest is probably my all-time favorite comedy. It always entertains when I go back and watch it again.
Maybe because I was a Star Trek fan back in the 60’s and it is a terrific spoof.
This is, in fact, one of the central themes in the books. Many wizards, like Umbridge, see nonhumans as subhuman. They don't really believe them to be fully sentient, or belonging on the same level as humans. At best, they are things which need human protection to keep them from hurting themselves.
Contrast this with someone like Hermione who fought for (what she believed was) the well-being of house-elves. Contrast this with other Wizards who treated non-human sentients as equals. In many cases, the way a Wizard treated non-humans was used to demonstrate their character.
As far as Harry goes, I see him using the methods he did at Gringott's only as a last resort. Destroying that horcrux and vanquishing Voldemort topped off everything else. He couldn't allow anything to stop him. I'm sure using the Imperius Curse and releasing the dragon were the last things he wanted to do. He knew innocent people might be hurt. Then again, if he failed, all those people would end up dead anyway.
I thought she was perfectly cast in OOTP. Perfect! She didn’t get nearly enough scenes.
I meant to respond earlier too... Galaxy Quest has got to be one of the funniest, tongue-in-cheek SciFi movies of all time...like an “Airplane” or “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” - a classic.
and I LOVE seeing Alan Rickman in a comedy role....
Heck, I enjoy Rickman in any role.
Certainly that's how he saw them, but I still see it as reflecting poorly on his character.
Further, I would have liked for him to have been a little more straightforward in telling the goblin his intentions--to wit: to destroy certain dark magic artifacts, one of which was likely in Bellatrix's vault. He did not want to remove anything from the vault--merely destroy something that was there--but he needed Godric Griffindor's sword to do so.
Given the difference between Goblins' and humans' perceptions of ownership, I would think presenting things in that way might have caused him to be seen as less of a thief.
Yeah. The french are very grateful for us pulling their butts out of the fire in TWO world wars, aren't they?
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