The Official Harry Potter thread (SPOILERS - NO tags)

[sleepyjeff]

Originally Posted by wendybeth

Hmmm...So, Hagrid is actually...Peggoty?

Wonder if Madame Maxime is 'willing'?

I don't know about that but I did notice Sir Cadogan, The Fat lady, Madame Hooch, Professor McCoganal, and Harry.......and of course Gandalf from LOTR.

[Not Afraid]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Ahem, amid all the theories and mysteries and postulations, has anyone ever considered that this was a really crummy book?

I liked this book! It was MUCH better then the last one (which bored me to tears). I felt this story, the writing, the situations were much more mature and flushed out.

Just my thoughts after the read:

If Draco has killed Dumbledore, I believe his "death" would've been permanent. Because Dumbledore spent so much time talking with Draco then begged Snape to kill him seems to indicate that his "death" is of a less permanent sort. I do believe he died, but I don't believe it is permanent at all. The Phoenix in the smoke reference confirmed that for me. He will return from the dead. It's all magic, you know.

Snape IS a double agent. The extremity of Harry's active hate for Snape throughout the books gives it away for me. He hated Voldemort and Draco too, but it seems to be such a competative thing with Snape. I think Snape plays the hate card on purpose to keep his "cover". It is just too manipulative.

I'm glad Harry is leaving school, but this conclusion was actually more shocking to me then Dumbledor's death. Is he really ready to go out on his own and do what's necessary to exterminate Voldie? I'm glad he got to apperate once by himself in an important and stressful scieniero.

Me, too! That's what I thought Dumbledore meant, as well. He's going to turn into a wreck of a grown up, that Dudley. They've ruined him. But Heidi wonders what it was that got Dudley so horribly upset when the Dementor's attack. They seem to work best against those who have had a tragic or disturbing past, so maybe there *is*more to what Dumbledore had to say. Rowling's answered a lot of questions recently and I'm surprised none of them were about the Dudley/Dumbledore thing.

I'm with Heidi on this part. There's something going on there that is much more than we're seeing. I bet lots more will be revealed here about the Dursley's "powers".

As for the other minutea, I could barely remember what happened in the last book at the end let alone minutea. I really should re-read the books before a new one is released so I'm on the same page when it starts out. But, not gonna happen. I put a lot of trust in the fact that Rowlings will replay things to jog our memories - and I was right for much of it.

I'm sure as I read more missed discussion my thoughts will be jarred about other things, but this is just what's left in my brain after finishing at 4 am.

Good, quick read though. I'm very pleased from a readers' standpoint.

[wendybeth]

Oh, Dudders was just reliving the awful experience of having to give up his second bedroom.

JK has firmly stated that Aunt Petunia is non-magical, or at least not a squib, but what about the other Evans'? Is it established or just assumed that Lily was an aberration in an otherwise totally Muggle family? I am heading off to the Lexicon to see what I can see, but I think that the whole Dudley/dementor thing is a non-issue. They state during the hearing that Muggles can sense dementors, and be affected by them- look at the dementor induced miasma that is afflicting the Muggle world in book six. He was almost lip-locked (or snogged-lol) by the dementor- of course he would be uncomfortable.

(Edit)
Okay- checked the Lexicon, and nowhere does it state that they are one or the other, just that they were "delighted to have a witch in the family".. Could be one is a Muggle, and the other magical- otherwise, why the 'delight'? Remember when Neville was thought to be a squib, and how ecstatic his family was when he started showing magical abilities? I wonder if a mixed parent family can have a non-magical member who is just that- not a squib, like Filch. JK emphatically states that Petunia is not a squib, so ....(sigh) Off to the Lexicon again.......