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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.

***SPOILER ALERT***

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


Trudy Booth - Aug 29, 2007 7:04:34 am PDT #2732 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

I'd guess Crookshanks stayed with the Weasleys since that's where Hermione was when she skedaddled.


Fay - Aug 29, 2007 7:07:25 am PDT #2733 of 3301
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

Speaking of cats. My re-listen of Deathly Hallows brought up the question of Cruckshanks. What happened to the bottle-brush tailed, Whomping Willow taming, friend of Sirius?

True - we really did need a line from Ginny guiltily mentioning that time when she had the accident with the crossbow.


beekaytee - Aug 29, 2007 7:08:46 am PDT #2734 of 3301
Compassionately intolerant

But he's only mentioned once! And in retrospect. You'd think he'd at least have gotten an nice bow to wear at the wedding...or tripped up a couple of Ministry goons along the way.

eta:

True - we really did need a line from Ginny guiltily mentioning that time when she had the accident with the crossbow.

HA!! That would have been perfect.


DavidS - Aug 29, 2007 7:09:48 am PDT #2735 of 3301
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

But he's only mentioned once! And in retrospect. You'd think he'd at least have gotten an nice bow to wear at the wedding...or tripped up a couple of Ministry goons along the way.

This is the reason why there is cat-fic.


DCJensen - Aug 29, 2007 7:17:12 am PDT #2736 of 3301
All is well that ends in pizza.

The city manager in town is named Cruikshank. I am amused.


Sue - Aug 29, 2007 7:19:58 am PDT #2737 of 3301
hip deep in pie

According to Wikipedia, Crookshanks is half-cat, half kneazle: [link]


Kathy A - Aug 29, 2007 7:47:21 am PDT #2738 of 3301
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

And Sue beats me to the kneazle info. Oh, well.

I wonder if Harry ever got another owl. I'm sure the family had one, and we know the two boys have one each for school, but did Harry ever find another Hedwig for himself?

These are the things that spawn fic.


Gudanov - Aug 29, 2007 9:33:53 am PDT #2739 of 3301
Coding and Sleeping

I've got my Deathly Hallows audiobook and I'm ready to "read" while commuting. Somehow I've managed to avoid hearing spoilers.

I'm predicting the two things that loads of people have predicted, Snape is on the anti-Voldamort side because he loved Lilly and will betray Voldamort at a crucial point (although I can't really figure out how the killing of Dumbledore fits in this, did Dumbledore arrange it? If so, why?). I'm also going with the idea that a part of Voldamort's soul is in Harry as it explained so much when I heard the idea. Going on from the popular stuff, I'm thinking that Harry will die and be reborn at some point wagering on the symbolic meaning of both the pheonix feather and holly wood of his wand. I'm thinking it will involve the veil and the locked room in the department of mysteries. I have no idea how the other missing horcuxes (I've been listening on audiobooks so I can't spell anything) will be found. At the end of the story, Voldamort is dead, Bellatrix is dead (Neville's doing, but not with a killing curse, maybe a stunning and falling sort of time), Draco or his dad is dead (by Voldamort, not the good guys), Snape is a goner (by Voldamort after Snape betrays him to save Harry), unfortunately a Weasly(Mr. Weasly, Bill, or Percy), some member of the DA, and some other really tough to take death like maybe Hagrid.

Stay tuned for commute and post (not at the same time though).

Note: I apologize in advance for the abuse of spelling and grammer as I'll be writing these very fast and pasting them in without looking at other posts.


DavidS - Aug 29, 2007 10:18:01 am PDT #2740 of 3301
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

It's fun watching Gud make a blind stab after knowing how it turns out.


DCJensen - Aug 29, 2007 11:16:06 am PDT #2741 of 3301
All is well that ends in pizza.

Indeed.