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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***


victor infante - Oct 05, 2007 3:28:40 am PDT #2924 of 3301
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.

I was just assuming that the passing of ownership thing only applied to The Elder Wand, not to wands in general.

Olivander seemed to imply it applied to all wands, but really, with anything less than the elder wand, it didn't seem to make much difference. With a normal wand, it only means you can use a captured wand about as well as your "chosen" wand, and it doesn't seem to have much effect on the wands original owner being able to use it. On the other hand, with the elder wand, it puts a pretty big weapon in your hand.


Fay - Oct 05, 2007 4:51:08 am PDT #2925 of 3301
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

See, that last sentence just amuses the hell out of my inner twelve-year-old.

Um.

Sorry, sorry. Carry on.


Jars - Oct 05, 2007 4:53:08 am PDT #2926 of 3301

That's quite alright Fay. In the lunch room earlier, one fellow was unfortunate enough to use the phrase "Why is my meat so wet?" All our inner twelve-year-olds had a ball with that.


Gudanov - Oct 05, 2007 5:34:10 am PDT #2927 of 3301
Coding and Sleeping

Loads has happened, including most of the budget for movie seven. Anyhow they penetrated Bellatrix's vault and got the cup horcrux. It seemed a little too easy given Gringott's reputation, but then it is no longer under Goblin rule so standards have probably declined.

The hot metal defense actually seemed like a pretty good anti-theft measure. It seemed from the description that they would be hurt much worse than they were when all of them got bathed in cursed treasure. This is really a minor quibble though. The dragon escape strategy was great however, it wasn't a cheap way to get out of their dire situation. Griphook demonstrated why it doesn't pay to trust goblins too much.

Anyhow they got out of the dragon and got healed up thanks to Hermione and her potion of healing (that dit... stuff I don't know how to spell). Ron was funny. Thanks to Voldemort's anger, Harry got the general location of the last horcrux which, thanks to Luna, we know is the headdress of Ravenclaw. Voldemort now knows that the secret is out. It would seem impossible to know how the heck Harry would know about them and their location, I can see why that would get Voldemort all worked up. Shooting the messenger is a bad policy though, dude should totally read the evil overlord list.

Now off to Hogsmead. Harry just heard Voldemort say that Hogsmead was being guarded so I don't know why they would go someplace close to Hogwarts that isn't Hogsmead. On the other hand they didn't have much time and Harry is not one of the world's great planners when under time pressure.

Now I'm at the point where they have been saved by Aberforth and his ability to talk the death eaters into thinking he set off the charm. There is no way his patronus could not be a goat. They have discovered that Aberforth was the one in the mirror, which makes total sense. They also discovered how he got the mirror and that makes total sense as well. A satisfying end to that mystery. There still remains the mystery of the silver doe however. I think that has to come down to some totally mystical thing dealing with Harry's mother or Snape as he is the one who had a potential connection to their location through Finnius's portrait. However I don't really think Snape's patronus would be a doe and Aberforth pretty much confirmed that your patronus is not something that can be changed at will. Maybe it has something to do with the snitch but that doesn't really seem to fit with "I open at the close" which I still think is something for after Voldemort is defeated, a last message for Harry. Ok enough rambling.


Trudy Booth - Oct 05, 2007 5:38:19 am PDT #2928 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

this. is. so. much. fun.


Sue - Oct 05, 2007 5:40:04 am PDT #2929 of 3301
hip deep in pie

Loads has happened, including most of the budget for movie seven.

Har! Yet there's much more budget busting to come.


megan walker - Oct 05, 2007 7:45:38 am PDT #2930 of 3301
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

this. is. so. much. fun.

Agreed. It is such a great way to revisit the book.

Semi-related to HP: the fact that Jim Dale narrates Pushing Daisies drives me crazy since I so associate him with the world of HP. I guess I've taken too many car trips with the WCNs.


Fay - Oct 05, 2007 8:39:42 am PDT #2931 of 3301
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

Conversely, it would remind me of the Carry On films.


Gudanov - Oct 08, 2007 4:44:30 am PDT #2932 of 3301
Coding and Sleeping

This morning I resumed the commute and listen. Aberforth has told the sad tale of his sister Arianna. Obviously this is the event that changed everything for Dumbledore. He made different choices after that. It's interesting how much of this book is about Dumbledore and how Harry has come to accept who Dumbledore actually was.

Neville has turned up from the odd magical tunnel to Horwarts and it looks like he's having a difficult year at school. It looks like they'll be going back to Hogwarts, as we all knew they must, to find the last Horcrux.


Dana - Oct 08, 2007 4:45:24 am PDT #2933 of 3301
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

Neville!