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

[EmilyGeiger]

I found this on wikipedia... Rowling has stated in an interview that she MAY write a book about Albus Dumbledore's life. I hope she does.

[sockmonkey]

Must not look....must not look!

I looked last night. I had to iron my hands, and bang my head with a lamp. I am more psyched than ever to get my book now.

[TightyRighty]

Is the ending that good? I’m worried that I’m going to get to B & N and someone is going to spill the beans. Can you believe that’s the worse thing I have to stress about this week?

[athelass]

You may really be onto something about the phoenix coming back to Harry as DD. I, too, don’t think all that symbolism is going to go to waste. I’d forgotten about the fight with Grindelwald. I wonder if that is a foreshadow of how Harry’s fight with LV will go? DD was able to vanquish his foe without losing his soul in the process. Harry must be able to do the same. I was also reminded in my reading today about the fact that LV has Harry’s blood in his veins from the ceremony in the cemetery and DD was pleased when he heard about it. I think that is going to be very significant in the end. In OOP Luna says “Things that you’ve lost have a way of coming back to you, though not always in the way you expect.” That didn’t refer to Sirius, at least not in HBP, so maybe it refers to DD. I really hope so. That would be totally cool if he becomes the phoenix.

[Explorer89]

The final part of my theory is that Grindelwald as Grindelwald is “dead” in that what is left of him is actually Aberforth Dumbledore, DD’s brother, who JKR has said is the bartender of the Hog’s Head. (The guy who got in trouble for indecent spells with goats, or was that inappropriate?) I was heartily castigated for that theory a couple of years ago on the Harry Potter Lexicon Forum. So, while not his brother in the biological sense, Aberforth-formerly-Grindelwald is DD’s brother in that they are united through the power that was G’s.

I finally realized where my original theory came from: in the second Thomas Covenant trilogy, two disparate entities forge to become an inanimate object. Also, in the second book in the Shanarra series, a girl and an object fuse to become an inanimate guardian. So, I didn’t really make it up.

As for Aberforth, I got that idea from “Tigana” by Guy Gavriel-Kay, in which someone gets something “worse than death” by getting a spell put on him that basically turns him into a fool, and gives him only enough sense of his former self to remember what he had been. Didn’t DD tell Voldemort in the Ministry that there are things worse than death?

Can anyone tell I’ve been reading Sword & Sorcery books for about 25 years?

[Aggie Mama]

LOL!

[Tanniker Smith]

Same Flitwick, different makeup, I believe.
The new look is awful.

[Tanniker Smith]

That would be nice.

Hopefully, I can check in again before the end of the week. I'm camping this week.

[retrokitten]

I found this on wikipedia... Rowling has stated in an interview that she MAY write a book about Albus Dumbledore's life. I hope she does.

Oh wow!! I hope so, too!

[sockmonkey]

I found this on wikipedia... Rowling has stated in an interview that she MAY write a book about Albus Dumbledore's life. I hope she does.

Maybe she is going through withdrawals, too..Since she has created such a rich universe, it would be easy to draw on it to pen more books. The idea this is the last book is just so final.

[Politicalmom]

He looks like Groucho Marx’ Mini-Me.

[Politicalmom]

Isn’t anyone going to post a link? *Pout*

[sockmonkey]

Isn’t anyone going to post a link? *Pout*

I think the link I read it on is gone. JKR's lawyers are working overtime to squash this.

I saw at one of the torrent sites there were eight million "leechers" who had downloaded the book. Woe to the person in California who uploaded it initially. He's probably already in Azkaban.

If you type in "deathly hallows" and "epilogue" or "ascending" or "chapters" you might find one that hasn't been yanked.

I didn't download the book. I can wait until 12:01 AM on Saturday. Gotta go work on my Umbridge costume, and my friend's Bellatrix costume. Obviously we are going overboard down here in TX.

[Tax-chick]

Didn’t DD tell Voldemort in the Ministry that there are things worse than death?

That's not exactly a novel insight, I have to say. Living as a horrible person is its own punishment - just look at any liberal. Would you rather be dead ... or Ted Kennedy?

[cuz_it_aint_their_money]

Would you rather be dead ... or Ted Kennedy?

You mean there is a difference????

[Tax-chick]

Bad example, I admit. Ted’s body is just so pickled that it doesn’t realize it’s dead.

[cuz_it_aint_their_money]

Since were all counting down till 12.01 on the 21st, here is a cartoon that I think says it all! And I bet a lot of folks would agree.

[Tax-chick]

LOL!

[Tanniker Smith]

Worse than death would be things like eternal torment, living a half-life as described in the first book, the soul kiss, anything that is ultimate and final. Remember death is not a final step; it's a next step to something beyond.

For voldemort, living the rest of his life as a muggle would be horrifying, but nowhere near satisfying to the readers.

[cuz_it_aint_their_money]

According to Wikipedia:
Warwick Davis played Flitwick in the Harry Potter film series. During the first two films, Flitwick is an old half-goblin with a big white moustache.
In the third film, this same character does not appear, although Warwick Davis plays another different, character, a short human with brown hair and moustache, not very similar to the Flitwick in the previous movies. This character, the chorus conductor, is identified in the credits as "Wizard" and not Flitwick. Davis was hired because Flitwick had no role in the story, but the producers wanted him nonetheless.
The character reappeared in the fourth movie, with the same make-up and still being the conductor, although in a speaking role. His make-up was not returned to that of the first and second because Mike Newell, director of the fourth, liked the younger-looking Flitwick better. He was not named in the movie, but was seen eating at the staff table and was identified in the credits as "Filius Flitwick," suggesting that Flitwick is also a music conductor.
His role as conductor was again featured in the fifth movie.

And per the Internet Movie DataBase (IMDb.com) Warwick Davis is credited in the movies as:
Professor Flitwick/Goblin Bank Teller in HP&SS
Professor Flitwick in HP&Cos
Wizard in HP&PoA
Filius Flitwick in HP&GoF
Filius Flitwick in HP&OoTP