Posted on 07/17/2005 5:16:14 PM PDT by grellis
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I think I need to stop by the store on my way home and pick up some more tinfoil. My imagination is in overdrive today. :-)
Same here. I thought the saddest part of the book was not just D's death, but a kind of death for Hogwarts. Harry does say he's not returning--he's going to "drop out."
And it was distressing to see how helpless McDonigall seemed to be...she had very little to do with this sixth book.
Harry feels he has bigger fish to fry this next year, but in order to be an Aurer he'll need to complete his 7th year. How do you suppose Rowling will reconcile that?
Good analyis, but don't forget that Hermoine, Ron, Luna and Ginny had taken the Felix Felicious.
Snape also stopped Harry from using one of the Unforgivable Spells, don't forget. He also saved Harry from the Death Eaters.
Do you suppose that by doing all he needs to do to get the remaining horcrux's and killing Voldemort, he would "qualify" to be an auror?
Besides, if it's the last book, JKR could just leave us hanging on that! LOL!
It was a good theory, so I checked it out!
Gosh, I would hope so! :-)
Dumbledore wanted Snape on the astronomy tower for a reason that had nothing to do with his being ill (as I was thinking at the time).
I think the members of the OOTP and especially the Weasleys will talk him into returning. Will he stay there all year? I don't know.
Ah nuts. I did think that there would be more about her death somewhere in the book, and she was the only AB I could think of yesterday. Today, when the topic of Regulus came up, it seemed so obvious.
I have a feeling that JKR is sitting in her castle, reading this and many other threads and laughing hysterically.
I've been thinking the same thing. If she is reading this, I hope she's in her PJ's.
She is going to give us a chapter of their post Hogwarts lives. Yippee
JK Rowling: "That is very good that, is assuming that anyone survives, I may kill the whole lot not really, don't write me letters. There is already a chapter written in which you find out about the survivors post Hogwarts fates, so, I will have to rewrite it when I get there, because that was written years ago and it wasn't really written on the assumption that I would use it as it is written in the hooks, it is really an act of faith, it was me saying to myself "I will get here and this information is the end point and that is where I'm trying to get to. So yes, there will be."
Sorry, but the hand turned black from the ring.
p. 503
Yes indeed," said Dumbledore, and he raised his blackened, burned-looking hand. "The ring, Harry. Marvolo's ring. And a terrible curse there was upon it too. Had it not been--forgive me the lack of seemly modesty--for my own prodigious skill, and for Professor Snape's timely action when I returned to Hogwarts, desperately injured, I might not have lived to tell the tale. However, a withered hand does not seem an unreasonable exchange for a seventh of Voldemort's soul. The ring is no longer a Horcrux."
It seemed like a shocked sort of response to me. Dumbledore, of course, never feared death; he however was shocked that a man he forgave and trusted (despite knowing what Snape did) would turn on him. Plus, Snape was described as having a pretty vindictive, sneering look on his face before he killed Dumbledore.
While I wasn't that shocked with Dumbledore's death, I was shocked that Snape killed him. Rowlings spent five books convincing us that Snape was a creep, but was on the right side. However, it turns out that Snape really was a bad guy all along.
I just finished this book... First I don't believe that he is really dead. I think Snape killed the part of Voldermorts soul that was in the locket. I think the locket that was left was a decoy.
Malfoy was suppose to kill Dumbledore, not Snape.. if Snape was truely evil he would have followed the orders of Voldermort...I think he knew what to do by reading the thoughts of Dumbledore as he did with Harry. I believe we will see Dumbledore, Snape and Malfoy in the final battle against Voldermort.
Now I'm going to read this thread and see if anyone else thinks this way.
I was disappointed with the Dumbledore in the last movie also, I thought Anthony Hopkins with his piercing blue eyes and calm voice would have made a wonderful Dumbledore.
You are probably right but somehow I remember something about the Avakadrava curse hitting him...either way DD was getting weaker...
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