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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***


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.


Hil R. - Aug 17, 2007 6:24:39 am PDT #2452 of 3301
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Quick question to verify something: until the Malfoys at the end of OotP, there wasn't any family we knew of that had a parent in Azkaban and a child at Hogwarts, right? (I'm specifically thinking convicted Death Eaters, but really, anybody.)


Trudy Booth - Aug 17, 2007 6:26:57 am PDT #2453 of 3301
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

Dumbledore... but that was back in the day


Hil R. - Aug 17, 2007 6:34:08 am PDT #2454 of 3301
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Oooh, thanks! I'd forgotten about that!


Aims - Aug 17, 2007 6:54:40 am PDT #2455 of 3301
Shit's all sorts of different now.

Weren't Sr's Crabbe and Goyle in there when Malfoy went, or no?


Polgara - Aug 17, 2007 10:01:07 am PDT #2456 of 3301
Karma is a cat, sleeping in my lap cuz it loves me. ~TS

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.

Ha! That's funny, I do that too. And yup, I was rereading the Eddings' serious for the bazillionth time when I was posting at the Bronze, hence the chosen name. Who knew it would be so lucky for me?

Weren't Sr's Crabbe and Goyle in there when Malfoy went, or no?

Were they at the Department of Mysteries? I remember Crabbe and Goyle being pissed off at Harry at the end of GoF because Harry named their fathers as Death Eaters, but I don't remember them being at the Ministry of Magic in OotP.


Kathy A - Aug 17, 2007 9:22:17 pm PDT #2457 of 3301
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Crabbe and Goyle Srs. were both at the graveyard in GoF, so it's pretty safe to assume that they were out of prison by then, if they had ever been in.


Sue - Aug 20, 2007 3:26:04 am PDT #2458 of 3301
hip deep in pie

JK Rowling is rumoured to be writing a detective novel.

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