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.
Wow, Cholera thanks for telling me about the Lexicon website! I didn’t know about it and googled it and love the info. that it contains. It’s like the Encyclopedia that Rowling talked about writing.
Here’s a link for those that didn’t know about it...
But my gosh, in this book, again and again she *instantly* does the right thing. You're wondering why H and R aren't turning her every 5-10 minutes and saying, "Well, anyway, thank God for you!"
Maybe so. He’s already achieved his life’s ambition of owning an ice cream truck.
You’re welcome, Emily. Rowling’s Encyclopedia will no doubt contain details that have never been mentioned in the books but are in her notes.
If there is a hot topic store near you, they have all the licensed WB stuff. I saw the messenger bags there, and they are cute. I also bought two DA shirts there, and a Snape friend or foe shirt-oops. I knew it would be outdated in a week when I bought it. They also had the tank tops for $12.50 each.
Doesn’t matter how much you quibble and complain about the designation, modern tragedies are tragedies. Any existential roots they might have are really just a demonstration of the problem of boxing stories not the bastardization of the form. And in modern tragedies the death is ALWAYS the main character, main enough that they’re often even the title character. The structure exists, you just need to accept that it’s real and legitimate, you might not like it but that’s not the structure’s problem.
But his pseudo-death didn’t actually beat Voldemort, only part of him. Voldy would still be plenty of a threat even with no horcruxes, so without actually accomplishing the defeat the death lacks meaning. It might not be completely meaningless but it’s still hollow.
She said she wrote the end years and years ago. Maybe the way she wanted to end it all along was just exactly how editors would request. At this particular juncture I don’t think editors and publishers have much power over JKR. She’s the goose that can choose to stop laying golden eggs whenever she wants, they need to keep her happy not the other way around.
Exactly! That's why Ginny had such a hard time talking when Harry was around!
You are obviously the best judge of your own kids, but Mugglenet was started by a 12 year old, and while the writing may not meet professional standards, it's more intelligent and more literate than most of the stuff posted on FR.
ROTFL!! I love Baldrick!
I was at scout camp last week and a handful of the younger ones went around all week singing the song from the "Harry Potter and the Mysterious Ticking Sound".
Well, yeah ... that was pretty much the whole point. He's a third wheel and knows it. His battle with the Locket Horcrux wouldn't have been nearly so desperate if he hadn't been painted as such.
I'm sort of surprised that Rowling didn't flesh out the "I wish I had more money" piece of Ron's personality that she'd been building since Book 1. It would have made a further temptation to sharpen his distress.
That said, you'll note that after he defeats the locket, Ron suddenly gains confidence and becomes much more of a leader in the group. He finds his footing once again -- he's once again the killer chess player we met in Book 1.
It's sort of like his experience as Keeper on the quidditch team.
American Indians in the South west also see the rabbit in the moon. A mad hare patronus fits Luna on soooo many levels.
Did you see the interview with JKR on the Today show? Harry and Ron are Aurors at the Ministry of Magic,Harry is department head. Hermione is in Magical Law Enforcement. Apparently there will be two more interviews with J.K. Rowling, Friday and Sunday on NBC. This will the first time in ages I’ll be watching Dateline.
Thanks! Wasn’t nearly as much in that article as the headline hints though...
lol Yes she is! And, they are!
I like Hermione, too. I like them all. I just had hoped that Rowling would have Ron shine a little brighter in this book, considering this is the climax to the whole epic.
Colin Creevy. ~ r9etb
Ah. That's whe he died. I felt bad about it.
Wow, thanks for the info!
One of my favorite lines in the book is when someone tells Hermione that he’d disarmed a Death Eater, and she gasps, “He did?”
And Ron drolly says something like, “Always the surprised tone.”
My favorite line from the book, by far, is after Ron saves Harry from the water, gets the sword and destroys the locket:
"That makes me sound a lot cooler than I was," Ron mumbled.
"Stuff like that always sounds cooler than it really was," said Harry. "I've been trying to tell you that for years."
That's what I love about Harry Potter the character. He isn't a muscled bulging commando, an invinciple secret agent, and in this story, an ultra-powerful wizard.
He's just a regular Joe.
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