Posted on 07/21/2007 5:18:11 PM PDT by JenB
So you finally know what happens to Harry. All our questions are answered. Or not. What are your reactions? Whose death hurt the most? Do you want more, and about whom?
SPOILERS are ok on this thread! You have been warned!
Wow. It's over.
That being said - he's still a man. And while he may not have loved Bellatrix I found it interesting they way he spoke to Bella in chapter 1 and then his reaction to her death in the last chapter. I could be reading more into it.
Just showed how even MORE evil Voldemort was than we thought.
The last WORD may not have been scar, but the last sentence was about how his scar had not hurt since Voldemort died.
Bellatrix was his most ardent supporter; one who had never betrayed him. Maybe he just was pi$$ed because his only TRUE follower was dead.
People will read and understand it at the level they are capable of. Personally, I think the child readers of today will be delighted to find new and more intriguing themes as they grow up and re-read.
Odd, I found it obvious by book 2.
I thought he was a bit tall!
Like Ron reading Harry’s tea leaves and saying “Well you’re going to die a horrible death but you are going to be happy about it?” Or was it youre going to have a horrible accident?
Hermione has her magical flaws. She’s horrible at riding brooms. She had to be on a Thestral during the decoy operation. She can cast a patronus but as Harry says, “She always has trouble with that one.”
Have you read the add’l books Quidditch Through the Ages or Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them? If you have are they worth reading? I thought about putting them on reserve, I’ve never read them, in fact it was just recently that I found out about them.
DH movie doesn’t come out until 2010, HBP comes out in 2008; I predict the encyclopedia will come out in 2009.
I thought it a little humorous that Luna's patronus was a hare, a well known crazy character from "Alice in Wonderland."
2009 sounds about right for the encyclopedia.
Heee I posted a thread that got over 1300 replies...
Heh, a stallion strikes me as being a very "girl" sort of Patronus, knowing how often girls seem to love horses. As for Luna's hare, there are also the old sayings "wild hare" or "crazy as a hare", either of which could apply to Luna. Not to mention her name, taken from the Latin name for the moon, and the root of the word "lunacy". ;)
Good point. But in this book, Hermione comes to the rescue so often and so miraculously, Rowling almost made her a Deus Ex Machina device.
Gosh ... I have one at home right now. She can and does.
That's why I made a point not to speed-read this book. It took me five days instead of five hours. And as it was, I still skimmed back a couple of times. I missed Lucius Malfoy's wand exploding and I wanted to reread the letter when we found the second page.
No, it suggests that your criticisms are as ill-thought-out as your posts, honestly. There was a person on another Harry Potter thread who claimed her misuse of grammar and punctuation (and she had previous claimed an English Lit degree) were because she was talking to us stupid people. Not a good way to try to score points.
Obviously you are one of the few who feels the epilogue was badly written. Sorry you feel that way but she can't please all of the people out there, especially when some wanted Harry dead and many wanted him to live. Too bad you didn't enjoy the book, but a lot of us did, including people older and more mature than yourself, so don't act like we're all stupid immature teenagers because we don't see things like you do.
You are SOOOO RIGHT! We should NOT trust the word of the person who actually wrote the series, but we should believe YOU!
Thank you, Accygirl, for opening my eyes to the trickery, deceit, and blatant PANDERING that is J.K. RowlingS. I am now going to go start a bonfire with all my HP books and publicly renounce J.K. RowlingS!!
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