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I got the impression he wasn't reading at all (and the next time he comes to post, he'll have read that part anyway), but okay.
Just to be sure, it's probably worth being circumspect. Particularly since we're all enjoying a vicarious re-read through Gud's synopses.
I like the way Gud is thinking about the book as he reads it. Maybe that's the benefit of an audiobook, or doing it in stages rather than one fell swoop, but I think it's just a difference between him and me. I sat back for the ride, so I'm enjoying it SO MUCH when Gud wonders about the Horcruxes or the significance of something.
It's better than if I re-read it myself.
Here lies Dobby. A free Elf. I didn't have a real strong attachment to the character, but that was still awfully sad. Maybe because he had a aura of innocence about him. He wasn't part of the war, just helping out of loyalty.
Harry has made the connection with Bellatrix's vault and asked Griphook to help break into Gringotts. Nothing really shocking there.
The interview with Ollivander was more interesting. I was thinking that Ollivander was going to be able to fix Harry's wand since they just found and rescued him, it felt like a cog snapping into place when they came across Ollivander in Malfoy manor. The whole wand ownership thing is sorta confusing, there hasn't been any hint of all that before. Well, the wand chooses the wizard stuff isn't new, but the changing of ownership was. Yanking a wand out of somebody's hand seems a pretty low bar for changing ownership. If disarming with a spell counts, then wands have been changing ownership all over the place.
I left off with Harry and Ollivander talking about the Elder wand.
Yanking a wand out of somebody's hand seems a pretty low bar for changing ownership. If disarming with a spell counts, then wands have been changing ownership all over the place.
I totally agree with these sentiments. Ah, well.
Here lies Dobby. A free Elf.
oh, man, now I'm crying about it AGAIN.
I didn't have a real strong attachment to the character, but that was still awfully sad.
That's totally it. Rowling took a character I really didn't like (I think the movie made him extra annoying) and made me feel for his death.
Count me among the "never knew how much I cared until he was gone" re: Dobby.
Yanking a wand out of somebody's hand seems a pretty low bar for changing ownership. If disarming with a spell counts, then wands have been changing ownership all over the place.
I totally agree with these sentiments. Ah, well.
Yeah. Me too. Maybe some wands are more fickle than others. Or, at first the want choses you and it SEEMS like love...
But after a while the bloom goes off the rose and the little things that used seem cute -- like scratching your head with it during potions -- become very annoying to the wand "I'm nothing but a tool to you... ok, fine, I AM a tool, but I'm not a damn head scratcher..."
Then one day in a DA meeting you end up flung and it feels like a relief...
Like that.
I really disliked Dobby but that "free elf" inscription very much made my allergies act up.
I cried when Dobby died. I didn't care one way or the other about him, but that was a well written scene.
I would have bet good money that she couldn't make me care about Dobby, and I found myself sobbing uncontrollably.