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procrastinatrix



Joined: 01 May 2006
Location: Sinchon

PostPosted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 9:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

my cousin got it for me from bandi & luni's and i read it in 5 hours the night i got it...boy did my eyes hurt the next day.
probably not my favorite. I think the epilogue was too happy and cutsey, a little much for me. i'm satisfied though. i didn't think it was amazing or terrible...it was good enough for me.
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cosmicgirlie



Joined: 29 Jan 2003

PostPosted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 4:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Am I the only one who felt like breaking out a ham for an Easter dinner after reading the book--and I'm not even Chrisitian?
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tomato



Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: I get so little foreign language experience, I must be in Koreatown, Los Angeles.

PostPosted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 4:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I finished it last night.
Here are some miscellaneous thoughts.

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Harry has never killed anybody, good or evil. We can't break that pattern, so I thought Harry was going to kill Voldemort unintentionally, like Dorothy kills the Wicked Witch of the West. Rowling must have thought this would be too easily predictable, so she has Voldemort shoot Harry with a wand which ricochets.

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I thought that the book was going to explain how Lily's mother's feelings of revulsion toward James happened to reverse. In Volume 6, Harry began wondering about that after watching his parents in the Pensieve.

Did Rowling forget to answer this question, or was that question answered and I somehow missed it?

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Juregen wrote:
Everything moved slow (the story wasn't advancing at all)


I agree.
By the time I got to about page 450, I got tired of H R and H running from one hiding place to another.
I also got tired of Harry pursuing one relic after another.
Why couldn't Rowling cut this?
Is it because previous volumes were 700 pages thick, so she was afraid that the public would also expect this one to be 700 pages thick?

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And the Epilogue? What was that all about?


I wondered about that, too.
Rowling must have changed her mind about retiring with only 7 books,
and decided to put out a line of books about Hogwarts: The Next Generation.
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Tiberious aka Sparkles



Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: I'm one cool cat!

PostPosted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 7:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What was with that effed-up skinless baby is what I wanna know.
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Thunndarr



Joined: 30 Sep 2003

PostPosted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 10:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Tiberious aka Sparkles wrote:
What was with that effed-up skinless baby is what I wanna know.


That's how Voldemort is going to spend eternity in the afterlife. It's how his fragment of a soul is represented, whereas Harry and Dumbledore have whole souls and are therefore healthy and, well, whole. All IMO, of course.
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Xerxes



Joined: 10 Jan 2006
Location: Down a certain (rabbit) hole, apparently

PostPosted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 1:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Are we now in spoiler mode?

Wouldn't some idjit just come by and kill ole Harriness and go look for the death stick (I would if'n I was thar). I'm with the Ron meister on the stick (although bid D had the right idea with no one knowing that he had it, but everyone knows that Harriness has it now).

He shoudda just snapped it (er maybe ye can't because it is too powerful), but just hiding it is stupid. Or have a duel with a terminally ill dude, a step away from death, and have the stick's power fade.

I think the epilogue is just a way to prevent all the sequels possibilities and there is no one good villains left anymore. Again, unless you do a stupid second generation version which will very nearly flop.

Rowling is leaving the stick and the second generation for her own second tour. Only she would know the intricacies of the older version to revive it well enough to take advantage of the built in plot mechanisms, I think.
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tomato



Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: I get so little foreign language experience, I must be in Koreatown, Los Angeles.

PostPosted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 7:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

tomato wrote:
Rowling must . . . decided to put out a line of books about Hogwarts: The Next Generation.


Now it turns out that my hunch was not true,
and Rowling is writing a detective novel:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070819/ap_en_ot/people_rowling

Boo hoo hoo!
I've never been so mortified in my life!
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