Posted on 08/01/2007 6:59:32 AM PDT by ParsifalCA
I am warning those who have not finished the series . . . and there must be still a few of them by now. . . that there are spoilers ahead. I have just finished the last book . . . having spent an enjoyable evening with it thanks to Sam’s Club and an indulgent wife.
I am done with Harry Potter and enjoying the literary aftertaste the way one enjoys a fine meal almost as much after it is done as when it is being consumed . . . though it is a bit sad that the series is finished.
And it is really finished . . .
Will one be able to re-read the books with pleasure?
I think the answer is only a tentative “yes.” If one knows the “puzzles” and “the secrets” of the book, it will not take away the charm of the characters or the fun of a good Quidditch match, but the first read will always be the best.
The strength of these books is in the plot and the second read, when everything is known, will be satisfying for finding all the clues to what happens . . . but I am hard pressed to know if I will want to re-read them a third or fourth time.
A really great book is as good on the fourth read . . . and some children’s books (Little White Horse) are better.
I deeply enjoyed the last book and thought the ending satisfying. For those who found them quite Christian, they will find much in this last book to give strength to their idea.
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An illustration of a fiction used to present a lie.
Y’know, I used to be a huge Kennedy-assassination-conspiracy buff.
I could find echoes of that conspiracy everywhere I looked.
If I tried, and not very hard, I could do the exact same with the Potter series; I could explicate how Rowling’s prose clearly demonstrates her presence on the grassy knoll, and points to her being one of the gunmen.
IOW, that list is rot.
Good Heavens, Mrs. Meade. Remember yourself!
Either this is false, or everything else in the post is pure fiction.
Watch out for those Bogarts under the kitchen sink; they could see up your skirt!
You’re making this stuff up as you go along, aren’t you?
“And that’s as far as I’m bothering to go. “
So you don’t like facts.
Were you on the thread where the guy was claiming that Harry Potter books were responsible for Earth Day? I was laughing so hard that I hyperventilated and Vlad kept patting me on the back saying, “Mama ... okay ... okay ...”
Stu probably likes facts as well as the rest of us.
What you posted doesn’t contain facts.
What you posted are assertions and connections and opinions. Not facts.
Book 1, page 90-94 to get to the school, people have to go through a portal and get on a train. Book 1, p. 131-133. The rooms shift places until the students can lock them down through visualization.
The entire school of Wizardry and Witchcraft is a creative visualization and exists on the astral plane- not on the physical plane. You can't get to it unless you go through the portal at the train station. This is why the rooms in the school move around. See Role-Playing Games & Popular Occultism
Yes you can; they did it in the second book and movie. They couldn't get through the portal; they got to it in a flying Ford Anglia which means that in the book it exists in the physical plane. Where do you get this crap?
Maybe the table was between the two sections. Maybe there was an HP movie coming soon and they wanted that front and center. The front side and back side of a display table aren’t like the front and back of a coin, they don’t necessarily have anything to do with each other. One side is to catch the attention of people walking in one direction and the other side is looking for people walking in the opposite direction. I’ve seen plenty of weird pairings in my time I don’t worry about it.
I missed that! How I missed that, I do not know.
Well, he was kind of fixated on teenage male prostitution earlier on. Maybe they were Mexican! ;o)
Continually spewing nonsense doesn’t bolster your position.
I was a teen in the 70's...a "bogart" was something COMPLETELY different then, and it had nothing to do with "Humphrey".
N-n-not that _I_ had any p-p-personal experience back then...uh...I...uh...was T-T-TOLD about "bogarting"...yeah, that's it! Second-hand knowledge, ya know. Saw it once on TV....maybe.
And non sequiturs.
I didn't think that they meant warmth from alcohol. I just assumed that it was a magical property of the drink, sort of like the candies that levitated you, or sent smoke out of certain bodily orifices... Though I also remember reading that Honeydukes did sell some firewhiskey candies.
Mark
You’ve seen all the movies? But not read any of the books because they’re evil? The movies were OK for you but not for your kids who apparently are unable to discern reality from fiction. Bummer for them. Some of that is a good skill in life. But no matter.
You watched *ALL* the movies? All of them?
Hmm... Watched all of a set of movies, even though you claim to abhor them... Hmmm.... Hmmm...
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It was in a dark corner of the Religion Forum, I think.
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