I guess it is safe to poke my head in these parts again.

A clear four of of five for me.

One thing that I must say I find disappointing in the epilogue is a trope common to YA lit. It isn't a huge knock since it is pretty much a given for the genre but I'd be happy to see it sidestepped.

That is the assumption that the romantic feelings of teenagers are permanent and significant. Of course, sometimes they are, but not often. I'd be happier to read of Harry taking the kids to the platform and he's having a conversation with Ginnie but it both turns out that they're married to other people and just remain good friends.

I didn't find book 6 OR 7 dry. But that's just me.

Here's something that hasn't been brought up here (I don't think.) If the three fairy-tale-but-real brothers who received the original hallows passed them down as family heirlooms... and Harry is the heir who received the cloak... and Riddle is the heir who received the stone... then way, way back, they're related!

I know JKR denied that Harry and Voldemort are related a la Empire Strikes Back, but it rather seems to me that it *is* a recreation of the Spaceballs "I am your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate."

Hahahaha, that's true.


Oh, and I'd find Snape the hero ... if he had more "screen" time in the book (and hopefully the movie will give more time to "off-screen" stuff such as events at Hogwarts under Snape's headmastery, and Hermoine's destruction of (and likely torment by) the Hufflepuff Horcrux).



Snowflake: Oliver Wood is my biggest Potter crush, 'cause I was hooked on him for two of the movies. I have to print a correction: The unlikely, but :eek: name of the actor who played Wood was Sean Biggerstaff ... not Jack Biggerstaff (which was obviously a freudian mistake on my part).

If Frodo Potter ever does his full Halloween costume again, will he wear a locket horcrux on the same chain as his One Ring?

O, the weight!

Party pooper, if ever there were a venue in which you could wear a really splashy tiara, this would be it.

Oh, bwahahahahaha. Poor Sean, now forever rechristened on LoT, Olver Wood as played by Jack Biggerstaff.

Laughing all the way to the bank on that one!

Since we're discussing actor crushes - my movie-going companion and I were fighting over Sirius, which is odd, because normally I'm not terribly attracted to Gary Oldman. But add that hair and some jail house tattoos and we were swoon city.

I'm so happy that so many remember and loved The Witch of Blackbird Pond. That was the first book I read of my own accord (a.k.a. not school-related, and no one shoved the book in my face). I don't even remember how old I was, but I went to a bookstore, picked it out and devoured it. Must've read it at least a dozen times.