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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.

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-t - Jul 22, 2007 6:42:37 pm PDT #1451 of 3301

I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

That was nifty.

It occurred to me just now as I was catching up in here that someone different took out each Horcrux, but my memory is bad enough that I'm not completely sure that's true. What I remember:

1. Diary, Harry 2. Ring, Dumbledore 3. Locket, Ron 4. Cup, Hermione 5. Diadem, I don't remember? Draco? No, Crabbe with the fire. 6. Snake, Neville 7. Harry, Voldemort

Hm, I think there should be 8, the 7 that V set out to make and then Harry the Accidental Horcrux.

Anyway, I was thinking that each one was destroyed by the person who got most involved with it, but that doesn't work.

Content? Me?

Also, loved Harry calling him Tom at the end. That was a great bit in the movie, too, Dumbledore calling him Tom when he confronted him. It's both cutting him down to size and extending him the tiny possibility of rejoining humanity - have some remorse, Tom.

Hil R. - Jul 22, 2007 6:46:50 pm PDT #1452 of 3301

Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Hm, I think there should be 8, the 7 that V set out to make and then Harry the Accidental Horcrux.

There were six that he planned to make, so that his soul would be in seven pieces.

megan walker - Jul 22, 2007 6:46:57 pm PDT #1453 of 3301

"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

It occurred to me just now as I was catching up in here that someone different took out each Horcrux, but my memory is bad enough that I'm not completely sure that's true. What I remember:

There was a chart of this on one of the Wikipedia pages, but now I can't find it. That list looks right though.

-t - Jul 22, 2007 6:50:14 pm PDT #1454 of 3301

I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Thanks, Hil. Brain was refusing to count the leftover piece. It's a common problem I have with counting.

billytea - Jul 22, 2007 7:01:45 pm PDT #1455 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.

It occurred to me just now as I was catching up in here that someone different took out each Horcrux, but my memory is bad enough that I'm not completely sure that's true. What I remember:

1. Diary, Harry 2. Ring, Dumbledore 3. Locket, Ron 4. Cup, Hermione 5. Diadem, I don't remember? Draco? No, Crabbe with the fire. 6. Snake, Neville 7. Harry, Voldemort

That's rather neat, I like that.

I'm looking forward to the movie of this. I think it'll translate better than OOTP (for example). It won't need to be compressed as much, and the tent-based period will be easy to skate over.

Hil R. - Jul 22, 2007 7:02:52 pm PDT #1456 of 3301

Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Oh! There was one reference to a past book that I couldn't remember. Harry remembers putting a wig and tiara on a statue of an old warlock in the Room of Requirement -- when was that? They only found out about the Room of Requirement in Order of the Phoenix, right? And the only time I can remember him going to the place where things are hidden was that once in Half-Blood Prince when he was hiding the potions book, and he didn't really take any extra time in there.

Also, was Voldemort then the first one to use the room for hiding something? Because he seemed to think that he was, but that room was full of stuff, so did that all get there in the 50 years since he left?

Ginger - Jul 22, 2007 7:03:58 pm PDT #1457 of 3301

"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

I'm looking forward to the movie of this.

It will be more action oriented, anyway. Flying out of Gringotts on a dragon! The battle of Hogwarts!

Hil R. - Jul 22, 2007 7:04:31 pm PDT #1458 of 3301

Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

And, I'll have to check this on reread, but I think that Hermione says at some point that she's never done a memory charm before, but this is after she said she's modified her parents' memories. Did I misread something there?

Kathy A - Jul 22, 2007 7:29:07 pm PDT #1459 of 3301

We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Harry remembers putting a wig and tiara on a statue of an old warlock in the Room of Requirement -- when was that?

IIRC, he did that to remember where he put the Half-Blood Prince's potions textbook. He didn't have much time there, but he took a few seconds to make the hiding place more distinguishable.

billytea - Jul 22, 2007 7:49:19 pm PDT #1460 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.

IIRC, he did that to remember where he put the Half-Blood Prince's potions textbook. He didn't have much time there, but he took a few seconds to make the hiding place more distinguishable.

A quick hunt suggests it's in Chapter 24 of HBP.

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