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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: Corin Stormhands
I forget which of the last books had the letter from Dumbledore(?) reminding Petunia of his last letter.

OotP, after the Dementor attack, when the Dursleys are preparing to throw Harry out.

Somewhere upthread someone mentioned that might have been the letter that came with Harry, but I’m not so sure.

I can't think of any particular reason why Dumbledor would have needed to correspond with them after that.

I don’t think Snape’s memory answered that question.

No particular reason Snape would ever even know of the letter.

981 posted on 07/24/2007 10:03:03 AM PDT by null and void (We are a Nation of Laws... IGNORED Laws...)
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To: Maigrey

My view on Tonks dying was that she was going to follow Lupin no matter where he went or what he did.

In an earlier book she left her “post” unguarded to find out if Lupin was alright. That is why she was wandering the halls in Hogwarts when Harry ran into her.

Then she again left her “post” which this time would have been her obligation to stay alive for the sake of their new baby to follow Lupin into the fight.

It seems to me her highest priority had always been Lupin, so it made sense if he died, she would die also.

Maybe?


982 posted on 07/24/2007 10:07:57 AM PDT by KarenMal
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To: null and void; All
Mugglenet has a little casting news for The Half-Blood Prince.

Naomi Watts, Joseph Fiennes (brother of Ralph Fiennes, who plays Voldemort), and Stuart Townsend will join the Half-Blood Prince cast when filmimg starts in September. Naomi Watts will play the mother of Draco, Narcissa Malfoy. It is still unknown what roles the other two actors will play.

I pictured Narcissa Malfoy to be really tall, at least 5'10" and more snooty looking then Naomi Watts.

Anyone have any guesses on who the other two will be portraying? If a Mundungus is ever cast I vote for Bob Hoskins. He's looks exactly like what I picture Dung to look like.

983 posted on 07/24/2007 10:09:10 AM PDT by retrokitten
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To: Corin Stormhands
IIRC, it was book five, when Harry was about to be thrown out of the Dursley house, and a letter came to the house, addressed to Petunia, saying, remember my last.

His last could have either been the letter he left with Harry when Harry was dropped off at their house 15 years prior, or when Dumbledore replied to Petunia years ago, when she was trying to get into Hogwarts, that she could not do magic, but be use in the muggle world.

Personally, I think it was the letter that Dumbledore left with Harry when he was dropped off 15 years prior.

984 posted on 07/24/2007 10:11:43 AM PDT by Maigrey (The wand chooses the wizard, as much as the wizard chooses the wand... Mr. Ollivander)
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To: retrokitten

Who knows? Just so long as they don’t cast Michael Moore as Slughorn.


985 posted on 07/24/2007 10:13:03 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: retrokitten
Narcissa? No.

Not guilty, though...

986 posted on 07/24/2007 10:14:37 AM PDT by null and void (We are a Nation of Laws... IGNORED Laws...)
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To: KarenMal
!t seems to me her highest priority had always been Lupin, so it made sense if he died, she would die also.

Or be doomed to live a sad shadow life in mourning.

987 posted on 07/24/2007 10:16:47 AM PDT by null and void (We are a Nation of Laws... IGNORED Laws...)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

If there were some kind of MM fan club they’d be hard pressed to find a better name then Slug Club!


988 posted on 07/24/2007 10:18:33 AM PDT by retrokitten
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To: Maigrey
Yea, but why did she have to kill off Tonks? That I don’t understand... besides plot expediency?

There's no real expediency to killing her off -- Rowling killed them off for a reason. Lupin, in going to war, was doing what men have always done.

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?

That's a very tough choice to make, and Rowling sets out the worst possible result. The question we have to answer is: did Tonks choose right? Why or why not?

989 posted on 07/24/2007 10:20:53 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: retrokitten

Prepare for crystalized pineapple shortages.


990 posted on 07/24/2007 10:21:27 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: null and void

I can’t imagine who they would play. Stuart Townsend and Joseph Fiennes are both pretty young and good looking. Too young to be Scrimgour (sp?) or Slughorn.

Maybe Townsend is going get a dye job and be Bill Weasley?

Joseph Fiennes has a kind of dark, mysterious look to him, so maybe a death eater? I can’t think of any prominent DE in HBP aside from the usual suspects.


991 posted on 07/24/2007 10:23:33 AM PDT by retrokitten
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To: Tijeras_Slim

LOL!


992 posted on 07/24/2007 10:23:50 AM PDT by retrokitten
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To: r9etb
The question we have to answer is: did Tonks choose right? Why or why not?

I'd say she did. She IS an Auror, after all.

Women in our armed services have to make the same hard decision.

993 posted on 07/24/2007 10:24:48 AM PDT by null and void (We are a Nation of Laws... IGNORED Laws...)
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To: retrokitten
The Scabbers-is-really- Peter Pettigrew is what blew me away.

Maybe because I was reading very quickly, and late into the night, but I fell for every one of her tricks in the POA. I felt true terror when Sirius Black was in the castle, and somehow "mistook" Ron's bed for Harry's. The events in the Shrieking Shack later in the book were mind-boggling to me. No longer could the most insignificant of mentions of anything be treated lightly.

I remain in awe of the complexity of this tale. Those who scoff at it don't know of what they speak.

994 posted on 07/24/2007 10:25:04 AM PDT by Mygirlsmom (I practice Calorie Offset Trading. I eat a candy bar & pay my kid 10 bucks to run around the block)
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To: retrokitten

Naomi Watts -- a plausible Narcissa.

995 posted on 07/24/2007 10:26:49 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: retrokitten
Joseph Fiennes has a kind of dark, mysterious look to him, so maybe a death eater?

I would guess it's Tom Riddle, Sr, as Harry meets him in the pensieve. The added benefit is that you get a true family resemblance to the older Voldemort.

996 posted on 07/24/2007 10:29:59 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: r9etb

Oh yes! That is a very decent guess!

He could even be the after Hogwarts, but pre-Voldemort Tom Riddle who works for Borgin and Burkes. Like you said, built in resemblance.


997 posted on 07/24/2007 10:35:30 AM PDT by retrokitten
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To: Tax-chick

I haven’t seen the Horation Hornblower series, though I have heard others mention that they liked them. I’ll have to order them up from Netflix.


998 posted on 07/24/2007 10:37:43 AM PDT by SuziQ
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To: JenB

Remus was just so dang sweet and vulnerable! I’m sure that’s why Tonks was attracted to him.


999 posted on 07/24/2007 10:40:15 AM PDT by SuziQ
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1000 ??


1,000 posted on 07/24/2007 10:41:41 AM PDT by CT-Freeper (Said the frequently disappointed but ever optimistic Mets fan)
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