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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.

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megan walker - Jul 25, 2007 7:41:46 am PDT #1663 of 3301
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

We can guess that Bill and Fleur had a daughter pretty quickly after the war ended (if she's old enough to snog Teddy Lupin but still be going to Hogwarts, she's most likely in her sixth or seventh year in the epilogue)

Also, her name implies that she was born pretty soon after the war.


Connie Neil - Jul 25, 2007 7:42:38 am PDT #1664 of 3301
brillig

I wonder who Draco married. I don't remember, what happened to Pansy, do we know?


Aims - Jul 25, 2007 7:45:28 am PDT #1665 of 3301
Shit's all sorts of different now.

Last we saw Pansy she was being typical Pansy in trying to get McGonagll to give up Harry.

And in looking at the imdb entry for her, it's kind of funny that the actresses last name is "Gaunt".


Steph L. - Jul 25, 2007 7:49:59 am PDT #1666 of 3301
I look more rad than Lutheranism

::snerk:: A "dramatization" of the final chapter, script-style.

VOLDERMORT: Yeah, because if there's one thing driving this scene it's the Mamet like realism of the colloquy.


Jessica - Jul 25, 2007 7:57:15 am PDT #1667 of 3301
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Bwahaha!

V: Are we going to rehash the entire plot here?

H: Look, I just got back from The Afterlife Of Lengthy Obtuse Exposition, cut me some slack.

V: I'm getting nauseous from all this circling.


Polter-Cow - Jul 25, 2007 8:09:43 am PDT #1668 of 3301
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

MRS. W: Not my daughter, you bitch!

RON: Yippie kay yay, motherfucker!

HERMIONE: Were gonna need a bigger boat.

MRS. W: What the-?

RON: Sorry, we thought quoting other movies was some sort of magic. Just lazy writing? Carry on.

Heh.

VOLDERMORT: You mean he was weak! To weak to dare, too weak to take what might have been his, what will be mine! To weak to be stronger than weakness which takes nothing which is mine in weak strength!

Heeee. That was all very amusing.


tommyrot - Jul 25, 2007 8:12:33 am PDT #1669 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.

Heeee. That was all very amusing.

Yeah. Plus that Voldermort is much more likable than Rowling's.


§ ita § - Jul 25, 2007 8:13:50 am PDT #1670 of 3301
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

So other people found the wand succession dizzying too...I thought I just hadn't been paying enough attention.


tommyrot - Jul 25, 2007 8:16:22 am PDT #1671 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.

So other people found the wand succession dizzying too...I thought I just hadn't been paying enough attention.

Yeah, me too.

Maybe it all just comes down to "The wand chooses the owner." And maybe Voldi just wasn't very nice to his wand.


Trudy Booth - Jul 25, 2007 8:20:03 am PDT #1672 of 3301
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

Or maybe a little TOO nice to his wand.

Those long disembodied nights, fleeing from magically concealed cave to magically concealed cave... you do the math.