Now I just wish I could look forward to my son going to Hogwarts.
You want him in Ravenclaw. Admit it.
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***SPOILER ALERT***
DavidS - Jul 25, 2007 9:47:53 am PDT #1696 of 3301
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Aims - Jul 25, 2007 9:51:04 am PDT #1697 of 3301
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Now I just wish I could look forward to my son going to Hogwarts.
I wish the same for Emeline.
Miracleman - Jul 25, 2007 9:51:32 am PDT #1698 of 3301
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
You want him in Ravenclaw. Admit it.
Hell, I wanna be in Ravenclaw. I'd be an awesome Research Mage.
"Look, I found if you combine an Inferno Curse with an Embiggenation Hex and throw in a bit of bat saliva you can wipe out a whole city! Without the radiation!"
"Joe. Step away from the wand. Now."
megan walker - Jul 25, 2007 9:52:33 am PDT #1699 of 3301
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
That was another thing I loved, the password as question for Ravenclaw.
beekaytee - Jul 25, 2007 9:57:11 am PDT #1700 of 3301
Compassionately intolerant
Voldemort's soulshard as an abandoned baby left under a seat in King's Cross was gutwrenching. That was just a nightmarish image, all the worse for knowing it was the best-case scenario.
It creeped me major that they just left it there...squalling.
Hell, I want to finish my PhD at Hogwarts. Since most schools are offering 'professional degree' courses to keep the galleons rolling in, why couldn't they?
PeruniaDuring much of my reading of the series, my dyslexia addled brain read Petunia as "Purina". Must have been the on-going 'horsey-faced' description of her.
Typo Boy - Jul 25, 2007 9:57:43 am PDT #1701 of 3301
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
And that's my arguement. If you have to cut whole chapters out of a book, so that the movie can come in at a reasonable length, you can't then go adding brand new stuff.
Film and text are very different media. Sometimes, to tell the same tale you have to tell a different story.
beekaytee - Jul 25, 2007 9:58:34 am PDT #1702 of 3301
Compassionately intolerant
That was another thing I loved, the password as question for Ravenclaw.
YES!
Makes me wonder if, to get into Slytherin, you had to turn around and punch a classmate.
Polter-Cow - Jul 25, 2007 9:59:36 am PDT #1703 of 3301
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I am glad that Neville took out the penultimate Horcrux, making the prophecy pertain to him as well as Harry.
When I realized he was totally going to do it (I suspected when Harry told Neville to do it as a backup, but I wasn't sure until the opportunity appeared to present itself, with Nagini out of the protective shield and Neville defying Voldemort openly), I honestly whooped out, "Yes yes yes yes yes yes!!" How often do books make you do that?
(I was glad I wasn't in public, so I could do that with no abandon.)
I keep thinking about Neville getting the sword of Gryffindor out of the Sorting Hat, wriggling out of the Body-Binding Spell, and slicing off Nagini's head, all in one fluid motion.
SO BADASS.
Hell, I wanna be in Ravenclaw.
Me too. I think that's where I'd fit best.
Aims - Jul 25, 2007 10:01:58 am PDT #1704 of 3301
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Makes me wonder if, to get into Slytherin, you had to turn around and punch a classmate.
Hee! Sadly, they also had a password.
Ya know, I was really kind of hoping that Draco and Harry would have ended up as allies/friends, etc. I thought she might have been foreshadowing that when in the song the Sorting Hat sings at the beginning of OotP, they mention Slytherin and Griffyndor being the best of friends.
Course, Lily and Severus kind of fill that role nicely, also.
I would be in Hufflepuff.
Sophia Brooks - Jul 25, 2007 10:02:01 am PDT #1705 of 3301
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
That was another thing I loved, the password as question for Ravenclaw.
I loved this, too.
I kept waiting for their to be some good Slytherins. And I am trying to parse why Hermione is in Gryffindor and Luna in Ravenclaw. I would say, even though Luna is "looney", she is just as brave as Hermione.