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
My daughter writes fan-fiction of various kinds. It’s harmless enough - an opportunity to practice plots and dialogue without having to build characters and setting from start.
The website you provided is great. I found this over there and thought the article quite good...
http://www.beyondhogwarts.com/harry-potter/articles/neville-longbottom-the-other-chosen-one.html
Neville is one of my favorite characters.
He’s the favorite of many. From discussions online as well as panel discussions at sci-fi conventions (mostly Lunacon), there’s one truth that I can sum up: the fans are prepared (though neither happy nor satisfied) with the possibility of Harry’s death, but if anything happens to Neville, J.K. Rowling will be bunking with Rushdie.
The one thing that ruins the rest of a well-thought-out piece about Neville: if Gran is afraid that he’s remembering something horrible from his infancy that she doesn’t want him to remember, why would she give him a Remembrall that would immediately tell him that he’s forgotten something?
Yes that was problematic. I do think she wants him to remember something though...what I’m not sure. I do think Neville is going to be a hero in the last book, but I am afraid he is going to die. :(
Here’s another good article from your website. Of course there are things mentioned that I don’t think are correct, but it is interesting that the movie foreshadowed unknowingly things that will happen in the last book.
http://www.beyondhogwarts.com/harry-potter/articles/foreshadowings-in-prisoner-of-azkaban.html
Now, I really have to get off this website so I can get some things done today! ;)
Neville, and the Weasley twins.
I don't find the blogger's analysis very persuasive, but it does bring up (as if we didn't know) the point that there's more to Neville than has yet been revealed. The person's quotes seem drawn out of context; the writer is making them into "clues," when in fact Neville's words and actions were not particularly peculiar in their positions in the story.
It's remarkable how the actor has matured!
Just as long as someone doesn't say, "Kill the spare"
Okay, the part about Hermione is just silly. If she was an older witch, then I guess she must’ve been adopted by her Muggle parents who have been bewitched or something.
Sad that it's all over, I'm guessing. A large chunk of her life was invested in a character that she created and no one had ever heard of that became something the whole world knows.
Harvey also refered to her as the world's only billionare author. Never thought of it like that, but it's true: writers don't (usually) make a lot of money from their writing.
I thought that part was bizarre too, and I hope that she didn’t make Lupin and Sirius gay. That wouldn’t be right. But I would like to know what was foreshadowed. Probably Snape protecting the three friends.
I hope she was crying because she was finishing the book and not because of a certain character meeting his death.
I think if something happens to Fred or George, they’ll make sure they go down with a wisecrack.
I had read the theory before about him having the same charm put on him as was put on Lockhart. And if I remember right, in OoTP, Lockhart three years later is already beginning to come out of his stupor. Someone latched on to the scene in OoTP when they are at St. Mungo's and the group sees Neville there visiting his parents. Neville's mom keeps handing him bubblegum wrappers and instead of throwing them away he keeps them. He says she gives them to him all the time. This person was wondering if she was trying to communicate something important to him.
As to Gran - she was described as wearing a long green dress with green gloves and a vulture hat and she greeted the kids royally - she's pureblood and acts like royalty.
Ew, Sirius and Lupin? Tonks would be ticked!! I do think Lockhart was a little light in the loafers - Flitwick too. That poses an interesting quandry...blech!
That was just so silly as to be dismissed outright. Playing around with Hermione, having something there beneath the surface that we hadn't expected, would fit right in, but the details don't support this particular theory.
Even since we found out about the Weasley's family rat in Book THREE (not even book 1, mind you), I've learned that you have to expect the unexpected right in front of you. And yet, I still never seem to expect it when it happens. Probably why I like Rowling: she does what I used to tell others that wanted to be writers (and tried to follow myself). If you want a surprise twist, you can't make the reader think white and then give him black. You have to give him orange.
"Bake the hall in the candle of her brain."
TS
yeah, I know that I already used that reference once in one of these threads, but I liked that show as a kid.
I agree.
And the suggestion of Sirius' and Lupin's being a gay couple is idiotic. There has been, thank goodness, no tiresome imposition of perversity in the series at all. What a relief to just not have to deal with gays for a while!
The suggestion of Sirius' coming back "through the veil" as a dog is interesting.
Okay, it was only a boggart of Snape, but isn't that want forshadowing is all about?
Snape dimay have liked Lily, but he was annoyed that she stole James away from him. Severus decided that if he couldn't have James, then no one could.
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