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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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Glamcookie - Aug 14, 2007 8:11:18 am PDT #2442 of 3301
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
DavidS - Aug 14, 2007 4:38:17 pm PDT #2443 of 3301
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Lookie what I got at Comic-Con! [link]
I think I might like that Harry better than the movie version or the book cover illustration version.
Hil R. - Aug 15, 2007 2:18:57 pm PDT #2444 of 3301
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Do we know when Dumbledore started teaching at Hogwarts? Because, if we go with the information that he's 150 years old (which, according to hp-lexicon, isn't from any of the books -- it's from an interview with JKR), then that makes the summer with Grindelwald into the summer of 1858, and then the next definite date of him doing anything that we have is that he was already a teacher at Hogwarts when Riddle started, in the late 30s. So that's eighty years where we know he was on the Wizengamot and discovered the uses for dragon's blood and published some papers, but there don't see to have been any more significant events there.
And also, that's eighty years of Grindelwald doing -- stuff. Seems like a lot of time to wait between getting the Elder Wand and gaining power.
Polgara - Aug 15, 2007 2:22:52 pm PDT #2445 of 3301
Karma is a cat, sleeping in my lap cuz it loves me. ~TS
According to the chronology listed in wikipedia, Dumbledore started teaching in 1891, but it's missing a citation so I don't know how accurate it is.
ETA for bad spelling
Fay - Aug 17, 2007 2:40:30 am PDT #2446 of 3301
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
I'm terribly anal about crossovers, actually - the fact that Dawn specifically mentions the existance of the Harry Potter books, and Xander (and the Trio) making all their Spiderman/Superman comments really make it hard for me to suspend disbelief for crossovers with other canons.
Sometimes I can sling a rope around disbelief's neck, hang it from the rafters and go 'lalala I can't hear you' while reading something good, though.
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Oooh! Polgara, I was watching Smallville Season 6 earlier today, and there was a big strapping dude who did the whole built-in-impalement-device thing, and I was all "You're a Polgara Demon!" at the screen. And then reflecting upon how insanely referential things are, when their monster reminds me of a Buffy monster named after your good self, whom I assume to be named after the David Eddings character? It's like six degrees of, er, something.
Sue - Aug 17, 2007 3:20:09 am PDT #2447 of 3301
hip deep in pie
I was noticing on that timeline that Hermione's birthday is the day before mine (And ten fictional years apart.). But have they ever celebrated Hermione's birthday? I don't think so.
Vortex - Aug 17, 2007 4:15:45 am PDT #2448 of 3301
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I'm terribly anal about crossovers, actually - the fact that Dawn specifically mentions the existance of the Harry Potter books, and Xander (and the Trio) making all their Spiderman/Superman comments really make it hard for me to suspend disbelief for crossovers with other canons.
Alternate dimensions! waves hands frantically.
And then reflecting upon how insanely referential things are, when their monster reminds me of a Buffy monster named after your good self, whom I assume to be named after the David Eddings character?
and also the way that every supernatural/fantasy/sci fi shows steals or adapts from Buffy.
Fay - Aug 17, 2007 4:40:13 am PDT #2449 of 3301
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
and also the way that every supernatural/fantasy/sci fi shows steals or adapts from Buffy.
wrod.
...it's fun, watching the same tropes get played out in different shows, though. The 'Oh Noes, I'm crazy! It was all a dream!' schtick being the most recent one I've rolled my eyes over.
tommyrot - Aug 17, 2007 5:12:08 am PDT #2450 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.
...it's fun, watching the same tropes get played out in different shows, though. The 'Oh Noes, I'm crazy! It was all a dream!' schtick being the most recent one I've rolled my eyes over.
How about a Buffy episode where a demon or curse transforms everyone into LOLCats?
Connie Neil - Aug 17, 2007 5:54:51 am PDT #2451 of 3301
brillig
The 'Oh Noes, I'm crazy! It was all a dream!' schtick being the most recent one I've rolled my eyes over.
Hardly original to Buffy. I nearly hurt myself eyerolling over that ep.