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".
Wesley: Illyria can be...difficult. Testing her might be hard without getting someone seriously hurt. Angel: We'll make Spike do it. Wesley: Good.
'Underneath'
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***
megan walker - Jul 31, 2007 2:22:07 pm PDT #2127 of 3301
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Narrator - Jul 31, 2007 2:24:05 pm PDT #2128 of 3301
The evil is this way?
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."
DCJensen - Jul 31, 2007 2:25:47 pm PDT #2129 of 3301
All is well that ends in pizza.
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.
Ailleann - Jul 31, 2007 2:26:18 pm PDT #2130 of 3301
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
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?
Polter-Cow - Jul 31, 2007 2:26:35 pm PDT #2131 of 3301
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Speaking of spoilers, the onion weighs in on "Deathly Hallows":
Ahahahaha.
-t - Jul 31, 2007 2:45:47 pm PDT #2132 of 3301
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
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.
Volans - Jul 31, 2007 3:56:24 pm PDT #2133 of 3301
move out and draw fire
Or, maybe they only trigger on Weasleys.
beekaytee - Jul 31, 2007 7:40:28 pm PDT #2134 of 3301
Compassionately intolerant
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.
DCJensen - Aug 01, 2007 12:31:56 am PDT #2135 of 3301
All is well that ends in pizza.
In which movie did his scar move? I know there was one point in Azkaban where it appeared it moved, but it was because they were filming his reflection in the wardrobe with the Boggert.
I have not seen OoTP. I might see it tomorrow, so if it's there, let me know, so I will know when to look.
ETA: unless you are talking about the move from a central scar to a side scar between the book illustrations and the movie. I'll have to read the first book again. I don't recall if she wrote exactly where the scar was. I do know the original illustrations were very cartoony.
Anne W. - Aug 01, 2007 2:11:54 am PDT #2136 of 3301
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Happy Anniversary, Sheryl and DH!
BTW, Sheryl, check your email. I'm in St. Louis these days, so I sent you my contact info just in case you wanted to try to meet up (time permitting, of course).