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Man, I'm old.
Ha ha ha ha ha
You know me! I'm like, "Go school! It's your birthday!" Or something to that effect.
Willow ,'Empty Places'
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***
Ginger - Jul 24, 2007 8:33:11 am PDT #1585 of 3301
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
beekaytee - Jul 24, 2007 8:35:50 am PDT #1586 of 3301
Compassionately intolerant
I loved all the fucking callbacks. The closet under the stairs!
I know!
If pressed, I would have remembered the closet and the spiders and the events that led to Harry getting his own room, but so much has happened that it just slipped my mind.
His 'it's so small' reaction to the space is exactly what crossed my mind when I remembered quarters being much bigger than they are.
Sniff. Our little boy is all grown up. And scarred...in so many ways. And wise...and brave and well...
Thanks JK for this great gift. And you too JRR and PJ. And...to a lesser degree cuz I'm still miffed with him...George.
I'm so grateful for all the fun my mind has had in this lifetime.
Atropa - Jul 24, 2007 8:45:02 am PDT #1587 of 3301
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
My favorite callback begins in book 5.
The first time I read book 5, I hit that scene and knew, KNEW!, that Petunia was talking about Snape. That's the point where I became absolutely certain that Snape was not evil, and that he had renounced the Death Eaters because of his feelings for Lily.
(Makes "Snape+Lily!!" handwavey gestures at Fay)
megan walker - Jul 24, 2007 8:45:46 am PDT #1588 of 3301
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Ha ha ha ha ha
My sentiments exactly!
In other news, the French title for this volume is really much less subtle: Harry Potter et les reliques de la mort
Aims - Jul 24, 2007 8:50:43 am PDT #1589 of 3301
Shit's all sorts of different now.
With re: to Lily/Snape.
Where did Lily and Petunia and Snape grow up? Is Spinner's End close to Privet Drive, or is it another part of England altogether?
Connie Neil - Jul 24, 2007 8:57:10 am PDT #1590 of 3301
brillig
It would be neat if Lily and Petunia turned up to have grown up in a moderately magical town and that fueled Petunia's dislike even more.
I think it's neat that there's so much unknown about all these things. JK has a quote saying fanfic is like people moving furniture around in her house. She doesn't mind that it's out there, she just doesn't want to see what people are doing.
tommyrot - Jul 24, 2007 9:14:56 am PDT #1591 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.
Where did Lily and Petunia and Snape grow up?
For some reason, I'm picturing their childhood as the subject of some animated cartoon. Jim Henson's Wizard Babies, or somesuch....
Connie Neil - Jul 24, 2007 9:19:20 am PDT #1592 of 3301
brillig
t am picturing Sev holding Lily's hand while waiting for the Hogwarts Express on that first day, and Lily's parents telling her to stick close to him . . . am tearing up
victor infante - Jul 24, 2007 9:37:48 am PDT #1593 of 3301
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
Shut up and read.
Heh. That about sums it up. I was saying on LJ that DH is where all the meandering of the previous books landed. Not all of it was vitally relevant, but I'm impressed at how it all came together.
Polgara - Jul 24, 2007 10:08:54 am PDT #1594 of 3301
Karma is a cat, sleeping in my lap cuz it loves me. ~TS
There was a nod in there to Dean Thomas' backstory as well, which I think she said was cut from Book 2. He and his mother always assumed his father left them, but wasn't his father actually killed by Voldemort?
Where does it say his father was killed by Voldemort? I don't remember that part.