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The Buffista Book Club: the Harry Potter iteration  

This thread is a focused discussion group. Please see the first post below for the current topic and upcoming book discussions. While natter will inevitably happen, we encourage you to treat this like a virtual book club and try to keep your posts in that spirit.

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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  • **Spoilers for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows lie here. Read at your own risk***


Volans - Aug 10, 2007 11:02:52 am PDT #2414 of 3301
move out and draw fire

Presents on foot of bed = British.


Hil R. - Aug 10, 2007 12:38:28 pm PDT #2415 of 3301
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

So then does each person open presents in his or her bedroom, or do they bring them to a common area so everyone can open them together? I'm trying to remember how they did it at the Burrow during the Christmas scenes we've seen there -- I think I remember Harry and Ron opening their presents in their bedroom, and Ginny and Hermione and the twins coming in to show them what they got, and everyone else discussing it at the kitchen table.


buffysmglover - Aug 10, 2007 3:20:09 pm PDT #2416 of 3301
Tim Cox - Buffy: Anya, that thing you created burst through solid pavement and ate her dog. Anya (anguished): Oooh, puppy!

I think I remember Harry and Ron opening their presents in their bedroom, and Ginny and Hermione and the twins coming in to show them what they got, and everyone else discussing it at the kitchen table.

I believe you're right


Katerina Bee - Aug 10, 2007 9:01:41 pm PDT #2417 of 3301
Herding cats for fun

Oh my. I think I need to read all those Chinese Harry Potter knockoffs now. Snurk.

Also I've realized why, when I first read HP&tSS, I felt fiercely protective towards lil Harry and thought I'd be a far better parent for him than the Dursleys ever could. This surprised me, especially because this thought required quite a leap of imagination for a child-free person, but there ya go, the power of fiction strikes again. It turns out that I share James and Lily's birth year, so I'm exactly the right age to be Harry's mum. It feels like the author was aiming right at me all along.


Sue - Aug 11, 2007 5:39:40 am PDT #2418 of 3301
hip deep in pie

So,I have now re-reread Azkaban and GoF. Azkaban was a much better book than I remember. Victor is right, it's really where the story takes off. And GoF...well rereading goblet of fire was like reading it anew.There was so much I didn't remember. Mostly of mymemories of what happened in that book were from the movie (and those memories are dim) It seems to me that Rowling does really good endings. The last half of the GoF was quite good, but there seemed to be a lot in the the first half that could have been edited out. Did we really need the first chapter with Voldemort in his familyhome? Did we really need all that stuff about Bertha Jonkins? Sure it was a important point in theplot mechanism, but it took a lot of time to lay out one that one point.


Kat - Aug 11, 2007 12:22:55 pm PDT #2419 of 3301
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Azkaban was a much better book than I remember.

I think PoA is the best in the series. It's so beautifully and tightly plotted. Lots happens, but it has little fluff. And it's genuinely suspenseful.


Connie Neil - Aug 11, 2007 12:29:16 pm PDT #2420 of 3301
brillig

I love the end of PoA, when Harry gleefully tells the Dursleys that his godfather is a wanted killer who cares deeply about his welfare.


sumi - Aug 11, 2007 1:07:52 pm PDT #2421 of 3301
Art Crawl!!!

connie, I know! It's so perfect.


buffysmglover - Aug 11, 2007 1:22:45 pm PDT #2422 of 3301
Tim Cox - Buffy: Anya, that thing you created burst through solid pavement and ate her dog. Anya (anguished): Oooh, puppy!

PoA was my fav until ORDER. I need to reread them all to figure out which is my overall fav


Pix - Aug 11, 2007 2:41:24 pm PDT #2423 of 3301
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

I just caught up with the last ten days of posting here and want to give Nilly a big virtual hug for making me love her more every single time she posts.