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***SPOILER ALERT***
- **Spoilers for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows lie here. Read at your own risk***
I've tried to watch Fight Club a couple times, but couldn't stay with it, and somehow I never got spoiled-by-osmosis.
I mean, I knew what "Rosebud" signified years before I saw the movie, and I've never seen Soylent Green, but that spoiler's hard to avoid...but I didn't even know Fight Club
had
a twist. I thought it was just annoying.
(OK, not the movie thread, got it)
Hey! HP topic: How come only two of the Horcruxes could talk/seemed to have intelligence? I'm thinking of the journal and the locket, not Harry and Nagini, btw. And is it pronounced "hor-crucks" or "hor-crew"?
I hope it's the former.
Despite Rowling's tendency to name evil things à la française, I've always assumed it's "hor-kruks".
Speaking of spoilers, the onion weighs in on "Deathly Hallows":
Final Harry Potter Book Blasted For Containing Spoilers
NEW YORK—Harry Potter fans throughout the world were shocked, disappointed, and outraged to learn last week that J.K. Rowling's 750-page novel, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, blatantly answers every looming question in the 10-year-long saga, even going so far as to divulge what happens to key characters 20 years into the future.
"The whole experience is completely ruined for me," said 25-year-old fan Ethan Clay, adding that the book builds up suspense, and then, without warning, gives away vital, plot-altering information. "The least [Rowling] could have done was put a spoiler alert or something on the front cover."
I figure the journal had the most, because it contained so much of Tom Riddle. The locket had a rudimentary intelligence because of the contact with the bodies of the carriers. Maybe even it's contact with Harry set it off.
Well, the journal and the locket were the first two, right? So they contained arguably the most "human" parts of Riddle's soul. Maybe after that, the portions of his soul that were split off were so twisted by darkness that they didn't have that kind of power?
How come only two of the Horcruxes could talk/seemed to have intelligence?
I think because they were the two that people got emotionally involved with - Ginny and Harry with the diary, and Ron with the locket (even if only by letting it influence him). The others were hidden away and had no chance to develop social skills, so to speak.
Or, maybe they only trigger on Weasleys.
The movies are indeed:
"Highlights from Harry Potter."
Now, with added shrunken heads of wtf.
In total offa my lawn mode, it just grinds my guts that such a richly populated universe, filled with so much detail that it will spill over into an encyclopedia, gets adulterated in the movies with seemingly random rubbish.
t /still bitter about the scar getting moved for no apparent reason.
