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!
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The Buffista Book Club: the Harry Potter iteration
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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
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.
Hil R. - Jul 22, 2007 7:58:14 pm PDT #1461 of 3301
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Ah, thanks. I loaned my copy of HBP to a friend, so I couldn't look it up, and didn't remember that.
billytea - Jul 22, 2007 8:06:27 pm PDT #1462 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.
Ah, thanks. I loaned my copy of HBP to a friend, so I couldn't look it up, and didn't remember that.
Oh, me either. I really need to go back and read it again now. But the internet is, as always, a marvellous reference.
Hil R. - Jul 22, 2007 8:16:20 pm PDT #1463 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 trying to remember now, when's the first time we saw each Horcrux? 1. Scar -- since the beginning. 2. Diary -- Chamber of Secrets. 3. Locket -- Order of the Phoenix. 4. Cup -- Half-Blood Prince. 5. Ring -- Half-Blood Prince. 6. Snake -- somewhere pretty early. 7. Diadem -- Half-Blood Prince.
That all right?
-t - Jul 22, 2007 8:30:55 pm PDT #1464 of 3301
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
We first saw the snake when Wormtongue was with Voldemort, beginning of Goblet of Fire? The rest looks right.
Scrappy - Jul 22, 2007 8:34:21 pm PDT #1465 of 3301
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
My mom got it for me yesterday, and I had no time to start it until arriving at the airport this afternoon to come home from Chicago. LOVED it. I am with all of you who felt horrible for poor woobie Snape, loved Neville's glory and were heartbroken about Hedwig. I had predicted that Harry was a Horcrux, Snape was secretly on Harry's side because of Lily and that Harry lived. I seriously thought Ron, Hagrid or Hermione was going to die, and am very glad I was wrong about that--I didn't think the story needed a more "major" death after Snape, Tonks and Lupin. I couldn't wait to what read all of you had to say.
billytea - Jul 22, 2007 9:11:48 pm PDT #1466 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.
I am with all of you who felt horrible for poor woobie Snape, loved Neville's glory and were heartbroken about Hedwig.
Harry had a lot of things familiar and comforting in previous books stripped from him in this one: Hedwig, his brromstick, even his wand. Put me in mind of the end of Season 2 of Buffy. And, for some reason, Stephen Donaldson's Thomas Covenant series.