If your Patronus was a cow, it would be a very, very stupid Patronus.
Mal: And I never back down from a fight. Inara: Yes, you do! You do all the time!
'Shindig'
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 26, 2007 7:52:09 pm PDT #1888 of 3301
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Laga - Jul 26, 2007 7:54:22 pm PDT #1889 of 3301
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Considering how I feel about ants my patronus may well be an anteater. But it's probably a rat.
billytea - Jul 26, 2007 8:02:01 pm PDT #1890 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.
If your Patronus was a cow, it would be a very, very stupid Patronus.
Of course it's stupid! It picks fights with Dementors, those things are freakin' scary!
ChiKat - Jul 26, 2007 8:02:36 pm PDT #1891 of 3301
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
DavidS - Jul 26, 2007 8:11:06 pm PDT #1892 of 3301
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Two tidbits gleaned from Slate's roundtable review of the book:
1. Victoire's name suggests she was conceived on the night of Voldemort's defeat. (Entirely plausible since my college roommate was conceived in Pittsburgh the night the Pirates beat the Yankees in 1960.)
2. Neville's story echoes and mirrors that of Peter Pettigrew, but since the Trio was kinder to Neville than the other Marauders had been to Peter it had a different outcome. I'd also argue that Neville was just made of awesome and Wormtail was made of snips and snails and rat tails. Still, one of the many interesting narrative parallels that JKR wove into the books and handled so well.
JenP - Jul 26, 2007 8:14:27 pm PDT #1893 of 3301
I got wolf on both. Of course, on the first one, there was an option to choose what you wanted, and I chose wolf, so...
DavidS - Jul 26, 2007 8:52:13 pm PDT #1894 of 3301
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Two bits from the Salon interview with the screenwriter of OotP, Michael Goldenberg.
Harry is being pulled between the poles of isolation and community. To me, that is one of the more effective things about the film -- that you do feel his struggle, and that in the end it is because of his connection with Ron and Hermione and something bigger than himself -- that's what gives him the advantage over Voldemort.
This is, of course, one of the central themes of BtVS. It is what Joss returns to again and again to distinguish Buffy from her predecessor (and predeceasing) slayers.
Also, the St. Mungo's scene is the one that he really hated to lose. And Snape's worst memory was much longer and more fully developed originally.
Aims - Jul 27, 2007 3:44:18 am PDT #1895 of 3301
Shit's all sorts of different now.
My patronus is a bear!
I got a bear!
Undo it! Undo it!
Sue - Jul 27, 2007 3:45:15 am PDT #1896 of 3301
hip deep in pie
I got Stag and Eagle. I was thinking cat or squirrel or something.
Miracleman - Jul 27, 2007 4:23:37 am PDT #1897 of 3301
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
I got Wolf on both, even though I chose Badger on the one. And I still think it would be a badger. It'd be bloody useless against dementors because it'd be all grumpy and snarly and it wouldn't fight dementors at all but it would go get me cigarettes and Michelob.
Then I, like the valiant billytea, would take down the dementors in a drunken brawl and smoke some cigarettes.