It's fun watching Gud make a blind stab after knowing how it turns out.
Handsome brooding vampire guy has to swoop in all sensitive mouth and overhanging forehead. How 'bout leaving some scraps for the homely-looking fellows who don't turn evil when they get some?
Doyle ,'Life of the Party'
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.
***SPOILER ALERT***
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."
DCJensen - Aug 29, 2007 11:16:06 am PDT #2741 of 3301
All is well that ends in pizza.
Indeed.
Theodosia - Aug 29, 2007 12:04:41 pm PDT #2742 of 3301
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Looking forward to the commute&post, Gudanov!
Hil R. - Aug 29, 2007 12:55:24 pm PDT #2743 of 3301
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I'm rereading Sorcerer's Stone. Just got to Voldemort's first appearance. (Though, I noticed, Fred and George actually got in the first blow against the newly-appeared Voldemort -- they got detention for throwing snowballs at the back of Quirrell's turban.) So anyway, he says
See what I have become? Mere shadow and vapor ... I have form only when I can share another's body [...] and once I have the Elixer of Life, I will be able to create a body of my own.
So after his soul split the last time, the last remaining piece was just kind of floating out there? And when he got re-bodified, was the new body his old one, or something brand new? And what happened to his body in Godric's Hollow?
(If there isn't a real answer, I'm going to say that the last bit of soul jumped into the Potters' cat. Because we never did find out what happened to that cat, did we? And hybrid cats seem to be a theme lately.)
Hil R. - Aug 29, 2007 1:03:56 pm PDT #2744 of 3301
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I'm also noticing a bunch of things that Rowling seemed to change her mind on later. Like, we're told that James was Head Boy, but in Order of the Phoenix they say that he wasn't a prefect. Also, Voldemort tells Harry that his father bought bravely for his life.
Gudanov - Aug 29, 2007 5:08:48 pm PDT #2745 of 3301
Coding and Sleeping
Due to some errands I managed to get through chapter 1. I beginning to wonder about Snape, I'm sure his information is correct and it seems like too much to give away. I thought the revolving person was Lucius at first until Voldamort asked for his wand. Of course, it was impossible to know who it was since it was somebody new. Sounds like the Ministry is pretty much doomed, no real surprise there.
Vortex - Aug 29, 2007 5:10:17 pm PDT #2746 of 3301
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Maybe some of it is what Harry imagined, or what he was told to build up his father.
Gudanov - Aug 29, 2007 5:10:40 pm PDT #2747 of 3301
Coding and Sleeping
Er... I am beginning I just noticed in my text editor. If I take time to edit, I'll be too tempted to look at other posts.
DCJensen - Aug 29, 2007 8:04:55 pm PDT #2748 of 3301
All is well that ends in pizza.
Gud
Bah, don't bother. enjoy the book, post what you can. Do not look at the spoilers.
Edit later, if you want, while reading other people's posts.
BigDuluth - Aug 29, 2007 8:27:52 pm PDT #2749 of 3301
"I am the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world"
I'm just really interested to see what her next creative work will be. I really liked how eventually she stopped writing for a specific audience (kids) and just started writing because she had a wider ranged audience