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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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Laga - Aug 03, 2007 2:25:38 pm PDT #2249 of 3301
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Kathy A - Aug 03, 2007 3:18:10 pm PDT #2250 of 3301
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Someone was talking about HP crossover fic upthread, right? Well, I found The End of the Beginning, which I'll admit I haven't read yet, but reading the description sounds...intriguing:
London, 1981. Rupert Giles and Ethan Rayne may not be wizards, but they thought they understood magic -- until the night they saw a glowing green skull in the sky above a quiet London street. Now they're caught up in a civil war in a world they never imagined existed. But can their "Muggle" magic really win the war? And for which side?
I love the author's very old (written between Gof and OotP) fic, "Harry Potter and the Polka Dot Plague," which is a pretty light fic that really nails Snape's character and dialogue.
Matt M. - Aug 03, 2007 3:28:34 pm PDT #2251 of 3301
"I'm finished being everyone's butt-monkey."
Tangent warning. It's pretty much agreed that either Giles or Rayne would kick the a*s of The Boy Who Lived, right? Mainly 'cause of the fact Potter has to use a wand, whereas Giles/Rayne gets by with his hands.
Potter: Stay back. Or I'll...point this 12-inch long stick at you.
And then Giles/Rayne kills him with a flaming thingamabob.
Connie Neil - Aug 03, 2007 3:28:56 pm PDT #2252 of 3301
brillig
Rayne/Giles and HP? Nifty.
sumi - Aug 03, 2007 3:31:03 pm PDT #2253 of 3301
Art Crawl!!!
But it starts the year that Harry is born - right?
Kathy A - Aug 03, 2007 3:55:31 pm PDT #2254 of 3301
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Well, the year after--Halloween 1981 was when he got that lightning scar.
Matt M. - Aug 03, 2007 6:52:17 pm PDT #2255 of 3301
"I'm finished being everyone's butt-monkey."
So the entire HP series takes place between the years of 1991 and 1998. Just now realized that.
Kate P. - Aug 03, 2007 6:56:20 pm PDT #2256 of 3301
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
So the entire HP series takes place between the years of 1991 and 1998.
Yeah, I just realized that when I was reading HP7 and saw the dates on James & Lily's graves. Which means Harry was born in July 1980, which means he's almost exactly my age. Weird!
sj - Aug 03, 2007 7:56:25 pm PDT #2257 of 3301
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I was just thinking about how few grandparents there are in the Potterverse. There's Neville's grandmother and then Tonks mother is a grandmother at the end. Do we meet any Weasley grandparents at the wedding? Do we ever know anything about Lily and Petunia's parents?
Kathy A - Aug 03, 2007 8:56:08 pm PDT #2258 of 3301
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
We met Great-Aunt Muriel (I'm guessing she's Molly's aunt, since she refers to the Weasleys as "breeding like rabbits"). Just about all the older generation old enough to be grandparents are either of unstated marital status (Hogwarts faculty) or dead (Sirius's mom).