Harry Potter Countdown Thread

[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

[Tax-chick]

I suspect you’re right. There’s no point in killing off a character nobody likes anyway.

I’ve been finding Molly irritating in the last couple of books, so I wouldn’t mind too much if she died heroically. After umpteen years of failing to discipline her children, she’s surprised that they’re out of control. If you’re going to be a laissez-faire parent, you’ve got to be prepared for the children to assume total autonomy at the earliest opportunity!

[Tanniker Smith]

That's been my figuring since the last book came out. One or the other, but not both. Possibly Percy, trying to redeem himself. Snape's a goner, whichever side he's one. Dumbledore, if not dead, will be, so let's not argue it. And if Hermione tells Ron she loves him, or he decides to ask her to marry him, he's a goner(*).

TS
(*) ... and he might get killed, too! ba-dum-dump! Crash!!

[Tax-chick]

I think Hermione will end up a crazy cat lady.

[Explorer89]

That was bloody brilliant!!!!

(best set of predictions I’ve seen ANYWHERE!)

But what is the repeated significance of the phoenix?

[Tanniker Smith]

But what is the repeated significance of the phoenix?

Hogwarts will relocate to Arizona.

[TightyRighty]

Forget what you saw in the movie. Harry didn’t see his parents die.

However, judging from the Blues Clues jumper he wore the night his parents died - they shopped at Muggle clothing stores.

[Explorer89]

Ugh, I get enough of that humor at home.

Wait! If I know binary, and I know hex, does that mean I can throw hexes?

[Tanniker Smith]

However, judging from the Blues Clues jumper he wore the night his parents died - they shopped at Muggle clothing stores.

Okay, now you've done it. When I figure out how this is all going to end based on all the clues in the text so far, I'm going to jump up on my thinking chair and start singing:
"We just figured out Jo's clues! We just figured out Jo's clues!! We just figured out Jo's clues! Because we're really smart!"

Now where did I put my handy-dandy notebook?

TS

[Tanniker Smith]

Wait! If I know binary, and I know hex, does that mean I can throw hexes?

Hey, now my witty little tagline is actually on topic!
Hex away, but be charming about it.

[Tanniker Smith]

So how many is it NOW?

[Tanniker Smith]

Any Hermione fans out there??

Someone put together a bunch of Hermione clips (among others) and put it to the tune of the Irish Rovers' "Lily the Pink".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI0oITcz19o

[andyssister]

Seven!

:)

[Tax-chick]

Morning! I just spent three hours in the Urgent Care Clinic with Vlad; he’s got the croup.

I think I’ll order the tapes of “Goblet of Fire.” I didn’t like the movie all that much, but the book had lots of fun stuff.

[darkangel82]

Ick. Not a good way to start a Saturday.

[Tax-chick]

Nope. It was a bad night, too - high fever, cough, and the awful wheeze. He’s watching a show with the girls two rooms away, and I can hear him breathing!

[Tanniker Smith]

Seven!

Oh, right. Thank you.
8-)

[TightyRighty]

I just read in an interview with JKR from awhile back that there will be a new DADA teacher in book 7. I know there’s been alot of speculation about whether or not Hogwarts will be open in Book 7.

[Tanniker Smith]

No reason why Hogwarts shouldn’t be open. The question is whether or not Harry will go, and if so, how long he will stay. I would add “and if Hermione and Ron leave with him”, except that there isn’t much of a question to that.

[Tanniker Smith]

So here's an interesting topic for discussion:

Names always seem to mean something in Harry Potter.
So why are the "Weasley" family "weasley"?
And for all the taunting that Ron suffers, how come no one ever called him a weasel, calling attention to his surname?

You would think that a character like Malfoy (maybe Crabbe or Goyle) would be the weasely one, wouldn't you?

[Tanniker Smith]

Just a bump so that I could hit post #500!