Are you saying that Harry is Dawn?
And Voldi is Glory. Or maybe Buffy.
We'll be in our bunk.
Wash ,'War Stories'
The Buffista Book Club: the Harry Potter iteration
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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***
tommyrot - Jul 22, 2007 5:26:02 pm PDT #1430 of 3301
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
DavidS - Jul 22, 2007 5:27:32 pm PDT #1431 of 3301
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
of the three kids cringing back while Snape shields them
I think that's the image that Rowling referred to as being prescient of what happens in the books.
Hil R. - Jul 22, 2007 5:29:21 pm PDT #1432 of 3301
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I don't remember from the previous books, but it seems like in this one the good guys used a lot of spells that petrified or controlled the bad guys, or knocked them out or whatever - did I miss any actually killing?
In the first escape scene, I think he Stuns one guy, who then falls to his death.
tommyrot - Jul 22, 2007 5:30:48 pm PDT #1433 of 3301
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
In the first escape scene, I think he Stuns one guy, who then falls to his death.
Oh yeah - that rings a bell.
Hil R. - Jul 22, 2007 5:33:57 pm PDT #1434 of 3301
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I'm rereading now and just got past that scene, so it was fresh in my mind. Also, Hagrid does a lot of stuff with the motorcycle that leads to Death Eaters falling off their brooms.
I'm still a little thrown by the "Oh, by the way? Voldemort can fly." When did that happen?
Kat - Jul 22, 2007 5:34:47 pm PDT #1435 of 3301
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
While yes, there is a lot of poor Snape, there is also something really still unlikeable some of his interactions with students. Sure he was impossibly brave on a metalevel, but did he do a good job of following his promise to Dumbledore to protect the students.
Even when he was a teacher, he was sort of an ass. I'm thinking specifically about his treatment of Hermione and Neville.
Dana - Jul 22, 2007 5:35:06 pm PDT #1436 of 3301
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
When did that happen?
Probably when she decided that Ultimate Evil would look a little silly flitting around on a broom.
Pix - Jul 22, 2007 5:35:50 pm PDT #1437 of 3301
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Probably when she decided that Ultimate Evil would look a little silly flitting around on a broom.
I so want to COMM this. Won't for a bit, though. But want to.
sumi - Jul 22, 2007 5:36:20 pm PDT #1438 of 3301
Art Crawl!!!
But the fact that he stuns or disarms somebody told the Deatheaters exactly which Harry Potter was the real one, right? Which must mean that other none-Deatheaters were using other sorts of curses. (Did Molly's curse kill Bellatrix because it hit her in her heart? Or was it a killing curse in and of itself?)
billytea - Jul 22, 2007 5:38:20 pm PDT #1439 of 3301
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
But the fact that he stuns or disarms somebody told the Deatheaters exactly which Harry Potter was the real one, right? Which must mean that other none-Deatheaters were using other sorts of curses. (Did Molly's curse kill Bellatrix because it hit her in her heart? Or was it a killing curse in and of itself?)
It was specifically the Expelliarmus that gave him away, so the others could've been using stuns and stupefies.
I did get the impression that Molly was shooting to kill.