Why would Grimmauld Place still be in Sirius' name? I would have thought the Ministry would seize it when he was sent to Azkaban.
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Connie Neil - Aug 08, 2005 3:19:33 pm PDT #1025 of 3301
brillig
Wolfram - Aug 08, 2005 3:25:03 pm PDT #1026 of 3301
Visilurking
I have a hard time believing DD is alive, although it is possible. For one thing, Hagrid carried the body. Hagrid can't keep a secret to save his life. But it's also really easy to fool him. Secondly, Harry unfroze at the moment of DD's "death". But DD could have just released the spell. And thirdly, the portrait appeared in the headmaster/mistress office. But that could also have been pre-arranged, although McGonagall would have probably been in on it.
And JK in her interview was very dodgy on the subject of DD and HP7. Very. Dodgy.
Okay, now I've switched camps, and he is alive. Or is he?
DebetEsse - Aug 08, 2005 3:30:08 pm PDT #1027 of 3301
Woe to the fucking wicked.
DD may have intervened in the distribution of Sirius' stuff/house as it would have gone to Harry, which would have been a bad.
I don't think DD is alive. I'm not sure what the payoff for the unspoken spells.
I think there's going to be a limited number of new things and people she can introduce in 7, which it why I'm firmly in the Regulus is RAB camp. With so much to pay off, I don't see a lot of new stuff (that hasn't been at least hinted at) coming into play.
Connie Neil - Aug 08, 2005 3:42:03 pm PDT #1028 of 3301
brillig
think there's going to b a limited number of new things and people she can introduce in 7,
wrod. Harry becomes of age before the next book, right? I wonder if he'll move into Grimmauld Place, though Kreacher would probably pull a Home Alone scenario that would have Harry's blood painted on the walls. "Kreacher didn't hurt Harry Potter! Kreacher just braced paint cans on half-open doors."
I'm glad JKR has broken with only using Harry's POV. There's just too much happening that we need to know for that to work, and she can't everyone conveniently dumping memories into the Penseive.
libkitty - Aug 08, 2005 3:49:46 pm PDT #1029 of 3301
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
I do think that D is dead, but that we haven't seen the last of him. Wolfram makes good arguments - on both sides - but the portrait is the clincher for me.
In this book, I was actually starting to feel sorry for Draco; I do think we may see a change of heart on his part, although I don't think he'll ever get to the point of liking HP. Ew. Now I'm getting a picture of the two of them buddies, and it's kind of creepy.
I have a hard time believing that D would have been set up to so vehemently make such a serious mistake as getting Snape wrong. I think I spy the mother of all plot twists in our future. I also fear that the next book may have to be 1500 pages long to tie things up satisfactorily. But I'll still get through it in a day and a half.
Kathy A - Aug 08, 2005 4:08:29 pm PDT #1030 of 3301
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
JKR did say in her Mugglenet/Leaky Cauldron interview that, after Book 7 is finished, she is considering doing an encyclopedia of the HPverse, so she can fill in all the interesting backstory and details on everyone, no matter how minor.
Anne W. - Aug 08, 2005 4:30:30 pm PDT #1031 of 3301
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
the portrait is the clincher for me.
True, but the portrait wasn't moving, was it?
libkitty - Aug 08, 2005 4:31:50 pm PDT #1032 of 3301
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
Yeah, but it seems only fair for him to get a brief rest period, what with being killed and all.
Hil R. - Aug 08, 2005 4:32:11 pm PDT #1033 of 3301
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
True, but the portrait wasn't moving, was it?
The portrait was asleep.
Fred Pete - Aug 08, 2005 4:32:23 pm PDT #1034 of 3301
Ann, that's a ferret.
I have a hard time believing DD is alive, although it is possible.
JKR spent too much ink hammering it in that he'd dead, dead, dead. It would be too much of a cheat for him to be alive (though I can see him making a cameo appearance as a ghost or a talking portrait.)