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
That's really cute. In Oak Park, IL they have a big party where they turn the shops in to shops from the books, have live wizard chess (less violent I am sure, kids are the pieces), costume contests, the whole 9 yards. It looks really cute. Schedule
Actually (engage geek mode) the books aren’t “current”. Chamber of Secrets is the one we can date, thanks to Nearly Headless Nick’s Deathday party. He died in 1492 and it was his 500th Deathday, making CoS set in 92/93. That means Harry was born in 1980, Voldemort was defeated in 81.
Ron was also born in 80. His brothers Charlie and Bill had both finished Hogwarts before he started, making Charlie at least 8 years older and Bill 9 years older than him. Assume Bill was 9 years older, he was born in 1971. That means the Weasleys most likely graduated Hogwarts no later than 1970.
Now, this does create a slight continuity error, since Voldemort was apparently around for 10 years before Harry vanquished him (1971-1981) and as Ginny pointed out, Mr and Mrs. Weasley got married (eloped) during his first reign of terror. It doesn’t seem to add up, quite...
Interesting. I doubt the author made a particular effort to sort those things out!
Actually I suspect she has a timeline written out of a lot of events. When we found out Snape’s age, in OotP, it fit exactly with what fans had calculated.
She probably just uses “ten years” as an approximate time. It might have been eleven, but ten is a nice round scary number.
Well, that makes sense, too.
So, how old is Snape?
What an event! Even the bank is participating. Very cool.
Um, off the top of my head can’t remember but about 22 years older than Harry. I believe 37 in OotP but I don’t have the book at work so I can’t check.
He’s pretty young... Harry’s parents were very young when they died... especially for wizards, Dumbledore was something like 150 years old.
It certainly is.
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Yeah, they better finish the movies soon because Rickman isn’t getting any younger! Lucius Malfoy is older than Snape in the books and yet looks younger in the movies.
Lucius is probably using some Dark-Arts botox. And Snape, of course, looks older than he is because of his miserable personality.
Snape looked good in the OOTP movie. Maybe botox or lots of makeup.
Maybe the new director changed his “look” a bit.
That’s good. My mom can’t fathom the crush my 20 year old sister and I have on Snape.
I think Lucius Malfoy is much more elegant ... but Snape is so complex!
And there are just no redeeming qualities in Lucius - he’s just mean. Hot but mean.
True. I love his long, silver hair!
And here’s a quote from the actor, who seems like a very smart man: “I imagine like most of us that I’d like obscene amounts of money but the people I met and worked with who have those obscene amounts of money and have obscene amounts of fame have awful lives. Really. I mean hideously compromised lives. And I can go anywhere. No one knows who I am. I can go on the tube and bus and wander through the streets.”
The first time I ever saw him was in The Patriot with Mel Gibson - he does bad so good ;) - he was also in a BBC show called the State Within which was pretty good too.
I went to bed partway through “The Patriot,” but I’m sure he was a terrific villain. Such a supercilious sneer!
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