(Another) Harry Potter Book thread...

The last book that was released prompted at least 2 AO members to stay up the whole night just to read the book. Unfortunately the series is coming to an end. While the book is unfinished the title now takes shape. The ending of the last book left us all in silence: I think a comment from Deb was "wow". I simply put the book down and said "****", and now:

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows....

In HP fashion it wasn't revealed through normal Muggle Channels, but as a puzzle on J.K.'s web site. That kicks ass. ;)

my brother-in-law is a teacher and acting librarian for a Christian school in Taiwan(English speaking)... He had to fight tooth and nail to keep the Harry Potter books in the library... some old fogeys on the board wanted them out of there... he finally got the library to keep the books, but the students are required to have permission from their parents to read them. I am not a huge fan of Harry Potter... but have read the 1st book, and watched the movie... I just don't understand the controversy...

I read the first book and enjoyed it to an extent. Didnt seem to carry on with it.

When one of the books were released I actually got taken out in a mall from all the people going crazy for the book to be released.

I guess JKR is doing something right?

the 6th book pissed me off to no end... It didn't make any since and at the same time made total sense.... It's just dumbledore is the most powerful wizard alive, and he was a skilled occlumen(sp) as well. He would of know if snape was untrue, and he would of never completely trusted him... It doesn't make sense that he would trust snape without making him do an unbreakable pact.

There are too many things that just don't make sense... Second I wanna know whose initials those were on the locket.

Why is harry going to allow hermione and ron to continue being his friend when he broke up with ginny? These things just didn't make much since for me at the end of the book. I could probably go on for hours about the problems that I saw...

And my biggest problem with the entire series is... Harry is suppose to be just a regular kid that lucked up... but at times they show just how good of a wizard harry is... case and point in book 3 when he summoned the (can't remember the name of it... but the thing that protected him from the dementors.) Only a powerful wizard could of done that... but all the time the book shows that harry is normal...

sorry, but some of those things have been bugging me since I finished the book.

and is the release date for the 7th book still 7/7/7?

I've got to admit, whenever the new books are released, I tend to buy them and read them straight away - but at the same time I don't actually like them that much. I thought the first book was quite good, and the second not bad, but now I just want to know the story :)

ac

I've read the first two books....

Actually my entire family has read them... My little sister gets them and then they are passed from person to person... When book three finally made it to me, I'd made the mistake of seeing the movie first... After that the books just didn't do it for me (which is unusual.. usually I prefer the book to the movie)... so I stopped reading there.. now I just wait for each movie to come out... but maybe I'll attempt to pick the books up over the holidays.

Peace,
HT

PS: just a suggestion... For those of you that are going to mention happenings in the books (lin_lover for example)... It might be better if you mark them hidden... and we make that the "spoiler alert" marker for this thread.

HT~

I don't think that you can mark posts as hidden anymore. I think that was one of the old system's hacks? :(

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HT~

I don't think that you can mark posts as hidden anymore. I think that was one of the old system's hacks? :(

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Wow.. apparently you can't.... I guess it shows how often I actually used it.

I guess that is about the best you can do with this system?

Lin_Lover,

"the 6th book pissed me off to no end... It didn't make any since and at the same time made total sense.... It's just dumbledore is the most powerful wizard alive, and he was a skilled occlumen(sp) as well. He would of know if snape was untrue, and he would of never completely trusted him... It doesn't make sense that he would trust snape without making him do an unbreakable pact."
In my exp with all the books, I think JKR has kept many aspects hidden from book to book. Like abt hoxocrux (excuse the spells pls) etc. This should get revealed in the upcoming book. Along with some other questions : How did dumbledores arm get injured, who is the other guy who is looking for hoxocrux (RAB) etc etc.

"and is the release date for the 7th book still 7/7/7?"
I guess that would be too late. Jan/Feb should be a pretty accurate guess.

HT I hated Harry Potter, I thought the whole affair with people on line at the book store was goofy. Just more American's going out on the Cabage Patch bandwagon (reference to a toy and the 80s).

Then I read one as a promise to an old girl friend. Book 4 was already out. So I started reading it and ......


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Damn I love it. Now I am one of those going to the movie on opening nights to see all the people dressed up. I really is a wonderfull story. Part of me wishes it stayed more child like and less dark. Those last two books are dark and excellent stories. The ending of the last movie was also excellent in a dark and sinister way.

To children these events must be like the spider and the orcs in Lord of the Rings... another story read by children. To me, it's just my fellow Slytheryn. ;)

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HT I hated Harry Potter, I thought the whole affair with people on line at the book store was goofy. Just more American's going out on the Cabage Patch bandwagon (reference to a toy and the 80s).

Then I read one as a promise to an old girl friend. Book 4 was already out. So I started reading it and ......
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Damn I love it. Now I am one of those going to the movie on opening nights to see all the people dressed up. I really is a wonderfull story. Part of me wishes it stayed more child like and less dark. Those last two books are dark and excellent stories. The ending of the last movie was also excellent in a dark and sinister way.

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This was exactly me until my significatn other got me to read the first book. Then I proceeded to read the next three in just a couple days. As for the last book, Harry has a crapload of stuff to do. I hope its a long book and does not feel rushed. :)

Talk about reviving an old thread...in my defense on 12/21 when the thread was new, I had a 6 day old baby. ;)

Already pre-purchased my copy. I can't wait. I agree with CXGJarrod, I really hope the last book is done right.

Sadly, my oldest son has lost interest - he was the reason I started reading the books. He hasn't even finished the 6th book, but I'm totally addicted to the series too. I wish in a way it had stayed lighter and not quite so disturbing, but I'm not sure it would have been the same if it had.

It's time to dig them out and read from Book 1 again, so that I can be ready for the last one!

yeah, last book looks good. Snape good or evil? I mean, making people think he is evil then showing he is good wouldn't exactly be a new trick.

What a summer! The new book, the new movie, more talk on The Hobbit Movie, the Transformers movie, I get to meet Leonard Nimoy in 2 days!, and **** I am a geek. Not to mention I just got Seson 2 of Battlestar Galactica.

I think it's time for a nerd intervention.... :D

Deb, you should check out 'The Bartimaeus Trilogy'. I've been reading it to the kids and it's pretty good so far.

http://www.amazon.com/Amulet-Samarka...7254717&sr=8-1

http://www.amazon.com/Golems-Eye-Bar...7254717&sr=8-1

http://www.amazon.com/Ptolemys-Gate-...7254717&sr=8-1

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I think it's time for a nerd intervention....

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Hmmm.... I am a geek not a nerd. ;)

In general it is safe to say... Chicks dig computer geeks. And computer geeks dig goth chicks? Or is it just me?

welll... I'm gonna go with just you.

Although they are really very similar personality types. Geeks hate themselves and so deal with computers all day, goths hate themselves so wear black all day.

:>

I guess i am not your typical geek. I don't hate myself and I think goth is sexy. I think it's the black lipstick.

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welll... I'm gonna go with just you.

Although they are really very similar personality types. Geeks hate themselves and so deal with computers all day, goths hate themselves so wear black all day.

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I disagree. I'm a huge geek and I do not hate myself.

Last I heard, nerds do it for love, geeks do it for money.

<freud mode>Ja, but zis is deep within your subconcious. It is all related to your mother.</freud mode>

Juri, I'll have to check those out. So far, I've read Matthew Lord of the Rings and we're working on the second HP book. I've got to get him caught up by the time the last one is released.

I have to tell you, when you're reading to a 2 month old baby, you have to go easy on the scary Gollum voice. They're not too in to that. Apparently when Mommy sounds all Gollum-y, it's startling.

Oh, and RoadClosed - I've never understood why painting my face funny colors was supposed to make me prettier. I'm certainly not going to start using black. :P

Juridian == geek
geek == money
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Juridian == sweet moola

so whats the release date on the next book? I wanna read it bad. I feel as if either my heart will be crushed by the end of the series or that my heart will be crushed at the horrible end of the series. Hopefully there is a good ending. So many stories close out a series on a horrible ending.

ie.. lord of the rings... I still dont understand why it took 3 books to throw the damn ring in the volcano. I could wrote that in 5 lines and had enough room left over to proclaim my love of beer.

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I could wrote that in 5 lines and had enough room left over to proclaim my love of beer.

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linlover > "Three books to throw the damn ring in the volcano" were three books full of sentences that were written very well, unlike the sentences that you tend to throw at us.

I'm sure you could "wrote" in 5 lines how someone throws a "damn ring in the volcano" - unfortunately for you, your sentences make my brain hurt, and I wouldn't buy your account of throwing a damn ring in a volcano...

Tolkien, for example, knew how to properly use the Latin abbreviation "i.e.", as opposed to the equally Latin abbreviation "e.g."

As a last note: many people have proclaimed their love for beer quite eloquently - Michael Jackson (The Beer Hunter, not the smuck) comes to mind. Please save us 3 books minus 5 lines of your beer-drivel-induced writings.

Haha...that's why I'm starting the new midget off with more mello stories and dr. seuss.

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I've never understood why painting my face funny colors was supposed to make me prettier. I'm certainly not going to start using black.

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Ah It's just a little lipstick. In actuallity I have always been attracted to woman who look smashing without makeup and been turned off by the cakers.

My wife doesn't even own any, I don't think. Not that I go looking for black lipstick or anything. ;0

RoadClosed. When did you get a wife? Last time I knew, you had a gf. Did you go and do one of those big life events and not tell us, or did I just miss the announcement while I was having one of my big life events? And does she know you wear lipstick?

The release date for the book in the US is July 21st, I believe Linlover. Other than that your post confused me and I stopped reading it.

Actually lord of the rings was written as a single novel consisting of six books. It was not actually 3 books.
Secondly and more importantly Deb is right Road did you do an unannounced upgrade from GF to WIFE without telling us?
Thirdly Goths Mmmmmmmm! For me it is the..... Well I'm not going to get into that as I will start drooling on my keyboard and it doesn't go down very well at work.

Did you know the reason LoTR wasn't released as one book is because at the time, printing and paper costs would have been so prohibitive that none but the very richest people would have been able to purchase it at one go?

Just another useless tidbit! :D

that and a book you can't lift is annoying to read :P

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RoadClosed. When did you get a wife? Last time I knew, you had a gf. Did you go and do one of those big life events and not tell us, or did I just miss the announcement while I was having one of my big life events? And does she know you wear lipstick?

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It took about 2 years to even admit she was my girlfriend and another 2 to marry her. Sept 2006 began my prison sentence. Life with no possibility of parole. ;)

Spent 11 days mucking about England for the Honeymoon. I only wear lipstick on Holloween so I can get away with it.

Haha. Apparently, she's a very patient woman. Took me about 4 years to say yes to marriage too though, so I can't give you too much grief.

Considering I made a promise to never ever ever under any circumstance get married.... EVER! After a couple of relationships... 4 years isn't too bad.

Stupid me has been waiting 12 years for my man to marry me. :|

The best thing about goth girls is the corsets , maybe i should post a pic of mine.

Re; RAB on HP

I believe it is Sirius Black's brother. Its the only person with the initials R.B that i can recall. For anyone that has read "Order of the Phoenix" , you would have heard about R.Blacks murder

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The best thing about goth girls is the corsets , maybe i should post a pic of mine.

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Don't let me stop you.

lol make a new section on the forum for that!