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Harry Potter Countdown Thread

Posted on 06/27/2007 1:30:44 PM PDT by Tanniker Smith

The countdown is on! We're all waiting. Let's talk about it while we're waiting.

This countdown ticks down the time to both the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows book and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix film.

Countdown clocks can be found at http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/#static:countdowns


TOPICS: Books/Literature; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: books; deathlyhallows; harrypotter; hogwarts; hugh; orderofthephoenix; rowling; series
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To: CholeraJoe
Would you like me to freepmail it chapter by chapter?

That is a very sweet offer. Actually, I love having the book and racing away from my office each evening to curl up with it and read it until I just zonk out.

And there'll be people who DIDN'T order waiting anxiously to borrow it when I'm done. I learned how this works last time around. ;-)

21 posted on 06/27/2007 2:03:03 PM PDT by Allegra (Socks.)
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To: Politicalmom
I stopped doing that several books ago. My husband always called from Walmart before mine arrived and said “There’s a huge pile of HP books. Want me to get you one?”

There aren't any WalMarts or Barnes and Nobles or anything like that where I live.

There are some Targets, though....OK, OK....that was bad.

22 posted on 06/27/2007 2:04:46 PM PDT by Allegra (Socks.)
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To: abner; altura; Androcles; andyssister; Bigs from the North; Blue Eyes; Caipirabob; ccmovrwc; ...

Potter Ping!


23 posted on 06/27/2007 2:08:24 PM PDT by retrokitten ("That's why her hair is so big, it's full of secrets!"- Damian, "Mean Girls")
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To: Allegra
There are some Targets, though....OK, OK....that was bad.

You really HAVE been there too long, darlin'...

24 posted on 06/27/2007 2:11:33 PM PDT by Old Sarge (This tagline in memory of FReeper 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub)
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To: retrokitten
Potter Ping!

Badda Bing!

25 posted on 06/27/2007 2:12:15 PM PDT by Tanniker Smith (I didn't know she was a Liberal when I married her.)
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To: Old Sarge; Allegra
You really HAVE been there too long, darlin'...

Only if you start calling it "Tar -- zhay"

26 posted on 06/27/2007 2:13:23 PM PDT by Tanniker Smith (I didn't know she was a Liberal when I married her.)
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To: Tanniker Smith; Old Sarge
I'll sign off for the night with this:

Think Ron and Hermione will finally make it official?

Harry and Ginny?

Will all four of them be standing at the end?

Did Dumbledore really die and is Snape secretly a good guy?

27 posted on 06/27/2007 2:17:33 PM PDT by Allegra (Socks.)
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To: Tanniker Smith

UGGHHH.

Wife and bought two copies this time after fights over whose turn to read it was last time. Hoping Amazon doesn’t get too behind in shipping them.


28 posted on 06/27/2007 2:18:37 PM PDT by Steelerfan
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To: Allegra
Think Ron and Hermione will finally make it official?

If they do, then Ron is definitely a goner . . .

. . .

. . .

. . .

. . . and he might get killed, too!

Ba dum dump!

29 posted on 06/27/2007 2:21:31 PM PDT by Tanniker Smith (I didn't know she was a Liberal when I married her.)
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To: Allegra
Yes
Yes
Yes
and Yes.

My guess is that Hagrid and Percy get whacked. One of the Potter sites just reported this week that Kreacher the elf plays a big role in book 7.

30 posted on 06/27/2007 2:22:17 PM PDT by CholeraJoe (July 11, 2007. The Rebellion begins!)
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To: Tanniker Smith

In previous books, it’s been established the Voldemort’s ability to exist is closely tied to Harry’s life. If Voldemort dies, does Harry also have to die?


31 posted on 06/27/2007 2:23:47 PM PDT by knittnmom (...surrounded by reality!)
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To: Tanniker Smith

It’s going to be the end of an era for me. Almost ten years of waiting for the next book.

My husband has been informed that I get the book first. I can always put another copy on preorder at B&N if he has a problem but my HP fan cred is better. Heh, I was at a friend’s last weekend and he was showing off his deluxe edition HP books and asking me if I thought he should get that again, so I mentioned how I collect the series in British... guess I won that geek contest.


32 posted on 06/27/2007 2:27:29 PM PDT by JenB
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To: Allegra

Sorry. Forgot where you were. There ARE a lot of FReepers, you know. :p


33 posted on 06/27/2007 2:34:23 PM PDT by Politicalmom (Nearly 1% of illegals are in prison for felonies. Less than 1/10 of 1% of the legal population is.)
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To: Tanniker Smith

Rowling has said that someone will die in the last book. Who do you think it is?

I certainly wouldn’t mind if that annoying Draco Malfoy turned out to be one of them.


34 posted on 06/27/2007 2:35:36 PM PDT by TBP
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To: CholeraJoe

I hope it’s Percy. I know a Weasley gets whacked, and I don’t think I can give up any of the others. At lease we know it won’t be a massacre....don’t we?? *Whimper*


35 posted on 06/27/2007 2:36:07 PM PDT by Politicalmom (Nearly 1% of illegals are in prison for felonies. Less than 1/10 of 1% of the legal population is.)
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To: Tanniker Smith
I remember when the last book came out, some git worker at a Borders told a child when they finally got their hands on the book, "Oh you are going to cry when Dumbledore dies at the end."

There ought to be a law.

36 posted on 06/27/2007 2:40:04 PM PDT by mware (By all that you hold dear..on this good earth... I bid you stand! Men of the West!)
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To: JenB

Actually the original UK version had a different title than the US title.


37 posted on 06/27/2007 2:42:34 PM PDT by mware (By all that you hold dear..on this good earth... I bid you stand! Men of the West!)
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To: mware

That’s reason 001 why I have the British versions as my “permanent collection”. It’s “Philosopher’s Stone”, thank you very much.


38 posted on 06/27/2007 2:46:49 PM PDT by JenB
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To: Politicalmom

JKR has said that only 2 characters (besides Voldemort) die in “Deathly Hallows.” The Weasleys have taken their share of heartache so far - Molly’s brothers killed (Gideon and Fabian Prewitt), Ginny kidnapped, Arthur bitten by a snake, Ron poisoned, and Bill maimed. Since Percy’s such a snot, I figure he will either get whacked or see the error of his ways.


39 posted on 06/27/2007 2:49:35 PM PDT by CholeraJoe (July 11, 2007. The Rebellion begins!)
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To: JenB

In British? What’s the difference?


40 posted on 06/27/2007 3:05:16 PM PDT by LongElegantLegs (<--- "Crazy Aunt" Conservative)
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