Deathly Hallows Book Discussion **LoTs Of Spoilers**

[swanie]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

But anyways, Griffindor has a sword, Hufflepuff has a cup, Ravenclow has (basically) a tiara. What does Slytherin have??

Slytherin had the locket. It was the horcrux that made Ron nutty while they were camping.

swanie

[innerSpaceman]

Yeah, but does he ever tire of Hermoine, and long for the days of Griffindor dormitory action???

[Gemini Cricket]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Yeah, but does he ever tire of Hermoine, and long for the days of Griffindor dormitory action???

I don't know, but for awhile he had a bent wand.

[Mousey Girl]

I gave up on ever getting the book from Amazon and bought it at Target last night (ty MW). I started it last night. I just finished it.

While I am pleased that everything came out the way it did, I just didn't feel anything. It was well written and a good read, but it just didn't pack the emotional punch I was expecting.

[lashbear]

Originally Posted by Mousey Girl

I gave up on ever getting the book from Amazon and bought it at Target last night (ty MW). I started it last night. I just finished it.

While I am pleased that everything came out the way it did, I just didn't feel anything. It was well written and a good read, but it just didn't pack the emotional punch I was expecting.

you didn't feel anything at the loss of:
Remus & Tonks?
Hedwigs death
The sad tale of Snapes true youth with the evans girls
Dobby Dying
Snape (adter being revealed nice) dying
His atempts to show harry the real truth in the pensieve
Kreachers change of heart and mission - I would have adopted him!
Dudders friendship

I give her a few good calls for emo moments.

[Mousey Girl]

Originally Posted by lashbear

you didn't feel anything at the loss of:
Remus & Tonks?
Hedwigs death
The sad tale of Snapes true youth with the evans girls
Dobby Dying
Snape (adter being revealed nice) dying
His atempts to show harry the real truth in the pensieve
Kreachers change of heart and mission - I would have adopted him!
Dudders friendship

I give her a few good calls for emo moments.

I'm not saying (I think) that I felt nothing, just that I didn't feel as much as I thought I would. Maybe because I knew ahead of time who was going to die, that affected how I felt when I read it. It could have also been because I read the book so fast, I didn't give myself time to absorb everything.

The things that did pull at my heart strings were Harry buriing Moody's eye, and his burying of Dobby. I cheered when Kreacher showed up with the other House Elves.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Oh, and Ginny Weasley was robbed. All that build-up, and then NOTHING. Nothing in the entire book except being the long-distance object of Harry's lovesick affection. Bah.

I was not surprised at all that Ginny was relegated to Fair Princess status. Rowling handled their "romance" so poorly in other books that it was true to form. I think she falls into the Tolkein trap of being rather bad at dealing with that subject. Ginny being underage and too young for battle was rather convenient - I could almost hear Rowling's sigh of relief.

(Yeah, that's where I really start stabbing her as a writer...I found their relationship disappointing all around.)

Originally Posted by Alex

Maybe they'll go the V.C. Andrews/Tom Clancy route and in a couple decades we'll start seeing something like this:

J.K. Rowling's® Harry Potter and the Last Crusade in Search of the Holy Grail by Alan Dean Foster

Actually, it's more like this...
J.K. Rowling's
Wizarding World Sequence
Harry Potter and the Last Crusade in Search of the Holy Grail
(Author not mentioned on cover, found on verso only, buried in the cataloging info.)

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

Question:
When Harry was 'dead' in the white Kings Cross station, what was the deal with the moaning fetus thing under the chair?

Originally Posted by BarTopDancer

I think it was the bit of soul of Voldie that ended up in Harry.

Hmm, now I can't decide between your idea, BTD, and my brother's. He thought that when Harry was there talking to Dumbledore, Voldie was there too, experiencing the awful torment of being that nasty thing. I guess they could both be right.

[innerSpaceman]

Hmmm, and Harry had a broken wand at one point. Considering J.K.'s rather obvious comparison of wands to, er, wands (on page 415) ... I wonder if there's some deeper meaning to be found in Harry and Ron's damaged wands.




Ok, the locket. Er, that wasn't a Slytherin House thing, was it? Or was it?



Another question:

A lot of folks have bemoaned that the Prophesy as revealed in the MOVIE version of Order of the Phoenix is only half of it, and not sufficient to understand what's going on. So my question is: What part of the prophesy unstated in the movie was necessary to the understanding of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows?

Off the top of my head, I can't think of any. I think the only part that proved relevant to the story was that neither Harry nor Volemort could live while the other survived. What else was there in the prophesy, and did any of the parts revealed in the OotP book (but not the movie) play out in the conclusion of the epic story??

[katiesue]

The locket was Salthazar Slytherins - and passed on to eventually be worn by Tom Riddle's (Voldemorts) mother. She sold it to Burkes & Borgin when she was preggers for cash. Then it was bought by the crazy lady Tom killed and took all the valuables from including the hefflepuff cup. Then Regulus stole it after Voldemort made it a horcrux but died before he could open it leaving it in the care of Kreacher who couldn't ever open it either. Then Mudungus stole it from the house and tried to sell it in Diagon Alley. But Umbridge caught him and made him give her the locket. Then Harry stole it and killed it with the Griffendor sword (the real one not the fake one).

[wendybeth]

The only part that wasn't included was the possibility that it could have been Neville- since they don't allude to that, they no longer have to go into any sort of explanation as to how Voldie sealed the deal with Harry by jumping the gun.