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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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Connie Neil - Jul 30, 2007 8:26:31 am PDT #2037 of 3301
brillig

What about being a git and stomping off all the time? Was that helpful?

I was half hoping Ron would go evil so he could be smacked around some.


Kathy A - Jul 30, 2007 8:39:18 am PDT #2038 of 3301
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Hah--love this!

Abbey: Will the chuddley cannons ever win the quidditch world cup

J.K. Rowling: Bless them, perhaps. But they’d need to replace the entire team and down several cauldrons of Felix Felicitas.


DavidS - Jul 30, 2007 8:40:05 am PDT #2039 of 3301
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Alicepie: What happend to luna, did she get married who to?

J.K. Rowling: She ended up marrying (rather later than Harry & co) a fellow naturalist and grandson of the great Newt Scamander (Rolf)!


Volans - Jul 30, 2007 9:07:16 am PDT #2040 of 3301
move out and draw fire

One of the things I'd like to know is; what happened to Umbridge? It would've been nice to see her get her comeuppance.

See, I'm okay with her not being all of that. It's like...it's like, I'd be pissed if Condoleeza Rice got a state funeral. Umbridge thought she was Somebody, all important and stuff, but without either cheating or dominating children, she wasn't much at all.

And I liked that where they'd been all terrified of her before, now Harry just blew her away.


Connie Neil - Jul 30, 2007 9:52:59 am PDT #2041 of 3301
brillig

So Harry and Draco will never be friends. They don't have to be, because as Spike says, "You'll never be friends."


Polter-Cow - Jul 30, 2007 11:51:56 am PDT #2042 of 3301
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

What's odd about that interview (which I loved) is that she gives Ron a different future. I'd believe that one more than that he became an Auror, gallivanting about and fighting Dark Wizards with his ol' chum Harry Potter. He'd have way more fun with the joke shop.


sumi - Jul 30, 2007 11:52:46 am PDT #2043 of 3301
Art Crawl!!!

Well, I can see that he could have done both - - started off in the jokeshop and then later become an aurer - having been brought in by Harry.


Polter-Cow - Jul 30, 2007 11:56:01 am PDT #2044 of 3301
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Yeah, that's true. I could buy that.

Someone noted the irony that Voldemort possessed the former Muggle Studies professor.


Vortex - Jul 30, 2007 11:57:12 am PDT #2045 of 3301
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

One thing that kind of bothers me. If Harry wanted to die a natural death and break the spell of the wand, why did he become an auror? Now, if a dark wizard beats him, and figures out the secret, the wand is back in play. Or maybe that's JKR's plan.


Dana - Jul 30, 2007 12:08:10 pm PDT #2046 of 3301
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

He said he was putting the wand back in Dumbledore's tomb. Though I suppose, anyone who knows the story could theoretically kill Harry (assuming that's possible) and then swipe the wand.