Deathly Hallows Book Discussion **LoTs Of Spoilers**

[wendybeth]

Here's the link.

[BarTopDancer]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

I was hoping Harry really was dead, just so's the series could not continue (as the "Harry Potter" series at any rate) after J.K. shucks this mortal coil.

You aren't alone. I didn't necessarily want him to die but I did not want any possibility for the story to continue. I think the epilogue did a decent job of preventing any more HP vs. Voldie story lines but there are a lot of openings for other paths...

[Gemini Cricket]

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.

Well, on page 631, Crabbe did call Ginny the Whore of Hogwarts...

















Haw haw. Made you look.

[Alex]

Unless there are some really weird contracts out there Scholastic wouldn't have any rights to the characters, just publishing rights for the 7 books. Any continuation after Rowling's death would have to have the involvement of her estate.

So you'll have to hope that David and Mackenzie won't go against her wishes should Rowling make it to death without doing more on her own.

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

[wendybeth]

Ooooh...... I can just see the movie.....Harrison Ford can play Dumbledore, and instead of riding around on thestrals they can just bang coconuts together!

[FEJ]

just finished it. So tired. More later

[Nephythys]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Oh, and why is Ravenclaw's mascot an eagle, and not a raven?

And why is Gryffindor's mascot a lion and not a gryffin? Hogwarts is messed up![/size]

I think the bird is a raven, but is sometimes shown in gold so it looks eagle like. Otherwise every picture I could find was a black raven.

A lion represents bravery- the trait of Gryffindor House. A lion best suits that (Gryffindor is not a literal Griffon)

Hufflepuff is a badger- so what does one have to do with the other?

Slytherin matches snake very well- of course.

[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.

[innerSpaceman]

Originally Posted by Nephythys

I think the bird is a raven, but is sometimes shown in gold so it looks eagle like. Otherwise every picture I could find was a black raven.

Nope, it's an eagle. Looked it up. What with how J.K. names her characters, I'm just surprised the interpretation of house mascot wasn't more literal.

Originally Posted by Nephythys

A lion best suits that (Gryffindor is not a literal Griffon)

Ah, but what a wasted opportunity, in a place with centaurs and unicorns, not to have the mascot be a griffin. Just sayin'.

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Ok, what with Snape's final communication to Harry being his death-throe thoughts viewed in a pensieve, I'm now thinkin' the choice in the Order of the Phoenix movie to change the Snape kidhood flashback from the book's pensieve to a simple mind invastion during Occlumancy lessons will prove, in the long run, to be a poorly chosen time-saving device.

Doesn't J.K. fill the filmmakers in if they're going to make a decision that bodes ill for future episodes??

[Snowflake]

Originally Posted by Eliza Hodgkins 1812

Man, now I'm even more sad. I really thought he was going to project something into Harry's mind until he bled his memories all over the place. So you're probably right...twas Harry's eyes he wanted to see. GAH . GAH!

Well, one can hope that when Snape died, he was able to see Lily again, and here's hoping James was not a schmuck about it. I was so happy to confirm that Snape was on the side of good. Snape was/is my favorite character. This also may be colored by the splendid Alan Rickman (sigh) and I am looking forward to seeing more of him in the final two films.

I finished the book last night. I loved the starkness of the begining, the trio on the run and wept when Ron left. I kept thinking oh no, he's going to be captured by Voldemort. When he came back, I practically hugged the book. I wept.

I loved all the backstory and the plugging of many holes and was shocked by all the Dubledore revelations/suspicions and then was so pleased at his eternal wisdom in realizing he did not trust himself to be Minister of Magic. It rounded him out so much more, not just a merlin-like, gandalf-like fuzzy wizard, a great wizard with flaws like everyone else.

The Prince's Tale chapter really got me.

Molly Weasley kicked death eater butt! Neville was awesome and ended up a Professor, how cool is that?

In no particular order:
Here Lies Dobby - A Free Elf (sob)
Snape (sob)
Hedwig (sob) and
Fred (sob sob sob)

That was so hard to take, Fred getting it. The sudden appearence of Percy did nothing to asuage the mourning for Fred. Percy was a twit.

The book moved along at record pace for 700+ pages and I think that I would have left the epilogue off. Some things are better left to the imagination. But, seeing what happened so many years later to the characters in Gone With the Wind, perhaps Rowling was wise to put something on paper to avoid another author regurgitating her characters.

I loved this book, while like everyone else I would have liked a little more explanation of what happened, I think we'll get our wish in the end. I saw a news report with Rowling last night in which there was an indication of a sort of encyclopedia of Potter in which all the back story, etc. not used in the books would be brought out.

Bravo to Rowling for her achievement, there was some good storytelling in there and I will enjoy these books for years to come.