Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Reaction Thread - SPOILERS!!!!

me | 7/21/2007 | me

[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.

[retrokitten]

I guess I just grew past the cartoons a few years ago. For a myriad of odd reasons I find the potter scenario boring just as I do video games and sending 50 text messages a day to people down the hall. I just don’t find the books entertaining or interesting.

Well, I envy you, Neoliberalnot. I wish I had so much free time that I could spend it on the internet discussing topics that I have proclaimed multiple times, and publicly, do not interest me.

Then in the afternoon I'd sit on my porch with the hose threatening all those kids to "Get off my damn lawn!"

[PapaBear3625]

It is a kids movie after all, and if people on this thread are even afraid to spell out the word as it was used in the book, I can't imagine a kids movie actually using the word.

With all the deaths and violence, I would guess they'll just have the last movie be PG-13

[ksen]

I don't have the book here but I recall the scene where Dumbledore says "You disgust me." IIRC, Dumbledore says something like, "it didn't matter to you that two people were going to die as long as the girl you loved lived." Snape then hesitates and says, "Okay, save them all."

He didn't care that Harry and James were going to be killed - his only worry was for Lily.

I thought Dumbledore reacted so harshly because he was reminded of his younger days when he was willing to sacrifice family members in order to pursue what he wanted.

[Politicalmom]

And of course, YOUR opinion is definitive.

[SuziQ]

a tremendous waste of time when so much good literature is out there.

Good literature isn't useful unless it's actually READ by kids. They have to have gotten some spark that causes them to WANT to read the good stuff. The Harry Potter stories may not be the BEST literature, but if they're a gateway to the good stuff, they're doing a great service!

[Mygirlsmom]

Harry did win the wand. Draco was the master because he disarmed DD before Snape finished him off. Then Harry disarmed Draco and won his wand - or wands in this case. They never said you have to kill - only win in a head to head contest.

[Artemis Webb]

You might try reading Usher II from Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles. You remind me of the Moral Climate Monitors.

[Mygirlsmom]

RE: OCclumency - Harry was also secretly tempted by the ability to take a peek at things he really wasn’t supposed to be watching - almost like battling an addiction.

[Sloth]

Seesh. Conference room?!? I meant common room, of course. I like the "conference room" imagery, though: Harry Potter and the Endless Meeting.

I've been in a few where I thought somebody was using a Time Turner.

[Tijeras_Slim]

I've been in a few where I thought somebody was using a Time Turner.

I've been to some where the powerpoint slides were obviously lifted from the Forbidden Section when Madame Pince wasn't looking.

[schwing_wifey]

Isn’t the line “only the journey is written, not the destination”?

Quiz Time : Can you name that movie???? (One of my all time favorites for those of us who enjoy fantasy..)

;D

[r9etb]

That could mean what Bill had said about goblin made artifacts always being in the ownership of goblins, and other beings simply "rent" them--but maybe it's more sinister. Maybe Gryffindor had murdered to get the sword.

But here's the deal: the second to last time we saw the sword, Griphook was making a run for it in the Gringott's vault. The last time we saw it, it was once again coming out of Gryffindor's hat, into Neville's hands.

How did it do that? It had to be Gryffindor's in some very special sense.

[r9etb]

Actually, I thought that Grindelwald managed to stun the owner as he was making a getaway, so the implication is unclear.

He stunned the guy after he'd already stolen the wand ... he didn't have to win the wand in a duel.

[knittnmom]

Different strokes - I always enjoyed Timothy Zahn’s SW novels. Got to meet him at a con - seems like a really nice person, as well as a good author.

[cuz_it_aint_their_money]

OK, guess I’ll weigh in with my thoughts.

It took me about 12 hours to read the book, (not counting the 4 hour nap from 3 am to 7 am) and I was ticked JK killed Hedwig and Mad-Eye right off the bat!

Then, I was ticked that she had Harry, Ron and Hermoine stumbling around for the middle half of the book. Don’t get me wrong, the chapter with Harry and Hermoine visiting Godrick’s Hollow was pretty good, but did she really need them to go stumbling around the woods all the rest of the time?

Then, she had the nerve to go and kill off Dobby! And then when the action finally started to pick up with the battle at Hogwarts, she was offing so many characters I thought the title of the book should have been Harry Potter and the Final Bloodbath!

Anyway, I do have one question. In the final showdown between Harry and Voldy, there in the Great Hall, Harry just gets through telling Voldy that the reason he couldn’t get the wand he got from DD’s hand to work correctly was because he (Voldy) didn’t have the Elder wand. Draco took it from DD during the battle at the top of the Astronomy Tower and that since Harry took the very same wand from Draco he now possessed the Elder Wand. Then they both square off and the book says that “Avada Kedrava” and “Expelleramus” (SP???) were both uttered at the same time, but she didn’t indicate which one uttered which. So my question is,

Am I the only one who thinks that Harry threw the AK curse while Voldy was snookered by Harry into casting the Expelleramus charm thinking he could get the wand away from Harry?

Anybody?

[Mygirlsmom]

He was only mostly dead

LOL! I was just going to post that when thankfully I read down a few posts and saw yours! Rob Reiner may be a total fat slob liberal, but he's made some of my favorite movies in the whole world!

[Tijeras_Slim]

Draco never physically posessed the Elder Wand, he merely became it’s “owner” by disarming Dumbledore in HBP.

[TalonDJ]

I guess I just grew past the cartoons a few years ago. For a myriad of odd reasons I find the potter scenario boring just as I do video games and sending 50 text messages a day to people down the hall.

Nope, you have grown past all that to the stage where you go around and insult things people like on internet forums to try and get a rise out of them. Yes, you are clearly the most mature person on this thread.

[EmilyGeiger]

I wouldn’t consider him dead, he just faced death....it was in his mind. I mean I understood that whoever had all three hallows would face death but not succumb to it...JMO.

[TalonDJ]

If I recall right is specifically said that Voldy was killed by his own reflected spell.