(BTW, I'm quite enjoying having the current discussion being on such a famous character, because everyone is likely to be able to chime in, regardless of what they've read)
If you want me to leave, you can put your hands on my hot, tight little body and make me.
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The Buffista Book Club: the Harry Potter iteration
This thread is a focused discussion group. Please see the first post below for the current topic and upcoming book discussions. While natter will inevitably happen, we encourage you to treat this like a virtual book club and try to keep your posts in that spirit.
By consensus, this thread is reopened specifically to discuss Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. It will be closed again once that discussion has run its course.
***SPOILER ALERT***
Connie Neil - Oct 07, 2005 10:11:19 am PDT #1337 of 3301
brillig
Wolfram - Oct 07, 2005 10:16:48 am PDT #1338 of 3301
Visilurking
From Carbuncle:
"After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief feature."
To me, it felt like Holmes was letting him go because he was eager to move on, and the rest is just rationalization.
Betsy HP - Oct 09, 2005 3:18:29 pm PDT #1339 of 3301
If I only had a brain...
I was wondering if there had ever been a Holmes story where he hadn't figured out the corrent answer.
He doesn't figure out the right answer in A Scandal in Bohemia until the criminal has made a clean escape.
libkitty - Oct 10, 2005 4:15:27 pm PDT #1340 of 3301
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
Strega - Oct 11, 2005 9:49:05 am PDT #1341 of 3301
Holmes is wrong in "The Yellow Face." That's the one where he tells Watson to whisper "Norbury" in his ear when he gets too cocky. I feel like there's another one, but I'm not sure.
Jesse - Dec 17, 2005 5:57:48 am PST #1342 of 3301
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Hey y'all. I proposed that this thread be closed. Jesse "Voting Discussion: We're Screwing In Light Bulbs AIFG!" Dec 17, 2005 5:28:24 am PST Please discuss.
§ ita § - Dec 24, 2005 7:11:56 am PST #1343 of 3301
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The proposal passed: msbelle "Sunnydale Press" Dec 24, 2005 8:51:57 am PST and this thread is now closed.
Liese S. - Jul 20, 2007 9:40:50 pm PDT #1344 of 3301
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
This thread is now reopened and repurposed to contain discussion of the most recent and final Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
***SPOILER ALERT***
***Spoilers for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will follow shortly. Read at your own risk.***
We really mean it about the spoilers. Probably stuff happens in the book. And we'll talk about it. And it's out now. Some of us have it. And like, read it and stuff.
Don't say we didn't warn you. Honest, we tried.
Enjoy.
Laura - Jul 21, 2007 5:18:14 am PDT #1345 of 3301
Our wings are not tired.
It's been over 10 hours on East Coast and no posts. I think the midnight book purchasers partied at the stores too late to actually read. Don't have my copy yet, but subscribed because spoilers ahoy!
Gris - Jul 21, 2007 5:19:58 am PDT #1346 of 3301
Hey. New board.
I posted some thoughts in Literary. Maybe I'll X-Post them.
ETA: done
How rude.
I finished it about 7 and half hours ago. It was 7:30 a.m. in Edinburgh, so I decided to go to bed rather than surf the interwebs at the time, since I figured I was done before most people.
A few thoughts (I'll talk more after others post later):
I thought that, overall, it was a good read. Very plot-heavy, which makes sense considering how much she needed to stick in there, and is good because that's where JK's strengths lie.
I liked the idea of the Hallows vs. the Horcrux, and Dumbledore as fallible, and the fact that nearly ALL of my predictions came true (Snape hearts Lily, Snape is a badass, Harry's a Horcrux, Neville plays a major plot point role) and I liked Kreacher's turnaround, speaking of SPEW. Yay for Ron/Hermione finally getting some snog time. I still think it would have been more emotionally wrenching and satisfying if somebody really major died - Neville or Luna at least - but I can't really complain that the ending was happy. I like a happy. Re: the epilogue, I'm glad Draco didn't end up dead or imprisoned and has a chance to continue the tradition of providing Weasleys with enemies, and I love Neville as a Hogwarts prof.
I wish there had been more Neville, Ginny, and Luna time. I feel like there's a novel somewhere about their adventures at Hogwarts, and if JKR doesn't write it I hope somebody with good fic-writing skills does, without shoving in a romance story (though Neville/Luna can be cute if done correctly, there's simply no basis for it in canon, and I want to read a story that fits the canon there.)
I'ma read it again. Slowly. I know I missed things, especially as I was still a bit tipsy for the first 100 pages or so.