I didn't realize there were adult versions of the books. Are there more wand innuendos?
Zoe: What's that, sir? Mal: Freedom, is what. Zoe: No, I meant what's that? Mal: Oh. Yeah. Just step around it. I think something must've been living in here.
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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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omnis_audis - Aug 01, 2007 11:14:29 am PDT #2185 of 3301
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Polter-Cow - Aug 01, 2007 11:17:27 am PDT #2186 of 3301
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
They're just different covers, omnis. The text is the same. But they look so much more respectable.
tommyrot - Aug 01, 2007 11:18:25 am PDT #2187 of 3301
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Are there more wand innuendos?
Hot wand-on-wand action!
omnis_audis - Aug 01, 2007 11:19:44 am PDT #2188 of 3301
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Ya, I figured Polter-Cow. Just being silly. And thankfully tommyrot picked up on it! I knew it! HP is gay and he converted Ron!
victor infante - Aug 01, 2007 11:21:36 am PDT #2189 of 3301
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
Are there more wand innuendos?
There couldn't possibly be more wand innuendos. DH already owns all the wand innuendos there are.
DavidS - Aug 01, 2007 2:20:51 pm PDT #2190 of 3301
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Chinese Market Awash in Fake Harry Potter Books
It's like...fanfic in the marketplace. People wrote their own versions and sold them as HP7. Then there were the pirated versions.
It's crazy no-intellectual-rights land!
Btw, Aimee, did you know that the A&E Biography on JKR is available to be seen on YouTube? It's interesting.
From the Times story:
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Some homegrown “Harry Potter” authors are also unabashed about their forays into publishing.
One such writer is a manager at a Shanghai textile factory named Li Jingsheng. “I bought Harry Potter 1 through 6 for my son a couple of years ago, and when he finished reading them, he kept asking me to tell him what happens next,” he explained. “We couldn’t wait, so I began making up my own story and in May last year, I typed it up on my computer. I had to get up early and go to bed late to write this novel, usually spending one hour, from 6 to 7 in the morning and 10 to 11 in the evening to write it.”
The result was “Harry Potter and the Showdown,” a 250,000-word novel, the final version of which he placed recently on Web sites, followed by a notice saying he was looking for publishers. The book quickly logged 150,000 readers on a popular Chinese site, Baidu.com’s Harry Potter fan Web page.
“This is fantastic,” Gu Guaiguai, an admiring reader, wrote online about “Showdown.” “I wonder if Rowling would bother to continue to write if she had read it.”
Another reader was even more breathless. “You are the pride of our Harry Potter fans,” he wrote, adding, “We expect you to go on and write Harry Potter number eight,” which Mr. Li has in fact already begun.
Aims - Aug 01, 2007 6:38:06 pm PDT #2191 of 3301
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Btw, Aimee, did you know that the A&E Biography on JKR is available to be seen on YouTube? It's interesting.
I did not! I shall find it!! Thank you muchly, kind sir.
Gris - Aug 02, 2007 5:17:15 am PDT #2192 of 3301
Hey. New board.
For some reason it reminds me of the schoolboys in the Spring Awakenings Musical
That image is my desktop wallpaper. Coincidence.
I bought the adult version in Scotland, because I really, really hate the children's cover for Deathly Hallows. Trudy is right in that the UK versions are MUCH easier to carry around - smaller in all directions. Which was a blessing on my limited-space trip.
Volans - Aug 02, 2007 8:21:33 am PDT #2193 of 3301
move out and draw fire
I really sense the possibility of Hogwarts: The Next Generation, starring Teddy Lupin. Like Harry, he lost his parents to the Battle with EEEVIL, and he has a wacko godfather. He's also pre-damaged, what with being half-werewolf.
And I think the fanfic author is right about few non-purebloods surviving. I notice that the Death Eaters went light on the half-bloods (presumably due to Tom Riddle's status as one), but yeah, the off-screen deathcount was probably high.
The "missing generation" is an oft-discussed aspect of British sociology, though. Since WWI there have been towns in England completely lacking men of a certain age. WWII provided more of the same. It could make for an interesting B or C line in a new series.
Connie Neil - Aug 02, 2007 8:24:15 am PDT #2194 of 3301
brillig
Does any of the information we've seen say what Draco's doing with himiself? Or is he staying at home doing the life of "reformed" evil and managing the vast estate? I picture occasional interviews between Mr. Malfoy and Auror Potter wherein our good Auror is making sure Mr. Malfoy's staying on the straight-ish and narrow-ish.