Comments | riffraff: one more book to go

riffraff

one more book to go

Sep 16, 2005 10:17

finally finished the latest harry potter book. i'm surprised nobody gave away the ending thus far.

the upshot is: now you can discuss what happens in the book with me! and now i can finally resume reading harry potter communities.

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retrev September 16 2005, 15:03:08 UTC

I'm on Confusion. Quicksilver was great at the end and it was easy to get into Confusion as it's a continuation. Actually, Quicksilver is really to books and so in Confusion but they are intermixed in the second instead of serial.

sajego September 16 2005, 20:23:39 UTC

I was really surprised... very un-Disney-like. There's so much magic in that book, why would anybody ever die? :) On the other hand, I don't think he's gone yet... book 7 shall be fun.

Un the subject of snape killing dumbledore. . . (exerpted from one of my posts) queen_merla September 21 2005, 17:05:37 UTC

it was very depressing. my theory is that, in the begining, when snape agrees to take the unbreakable oath to help Draco (at the insistance of Draco's Aunt, Bellatrix) he doesn't actually KNOW what the plan is. Remember--Narcissa never gets to tell Snape--she is inturrupted by his insistance that he knows the plan ( ... )

Re: Un the subject of snape killing dumbledore. . . (exerpted from one of my posts) riffraff September 21 2005, 17:20:56 UTC

here's my beef with the book: why couldn't dumbledore use felix to be lucky at persuading slughorn into revealing the true memory of tom marvolo asking about horcruxes? does he want harry to do it to set a challenge for him so when he succeeds it will bolster his confidence? it seemed like a weak bit in the plot.

Re: Un the subject of snape killing dumbledore. . . (exerpted from one of my posts) queen_merla September 22 2005, 22:02:58 UTC

I gather from the book that dumbledore was pretty much sure what voldermort was doing--after all, how does one turn from handsome tom riddle to ugly emperior palpati. . .i mean, lord voldermort, before one turns 50?

i think he knew it was horcruxes. my guess is that he was hoping harry would convince slughorn more for slughorn's sake than anything else--to make him come face to face with his role in the voldermort situation.

not that it worked, mind you, but nothing dumbledore really ever does seems to work the way he plans. i mean, he was partially responsible for sirrus's death, by not telling harry enough of what was going on; he didn't make harry a prefect for a pretty stupid reason, etc, etc