Dumbledore is dead????
Just getting it started...
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Wolfram - Aug 08, 2005 8:29:52 am PDT #981 of 3301
Visilurking
Anne W. - Aug 08, 2005 8:30:21 am PDT #982 of 3301
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Sirius is still dead??
Wolfram - Aug 08, 2005 8:31:28 am PDT #983 of 3301
Visilurking
I really need to reread previous books. I totally forgot that Sirius was dead. I still can't remember exactly how he died.
DebetEsse - Aug 08, 2005 8:33:35 am PDT #984 of 3301
Woe to the fucking wicked.
He fell through the gate-veil thing at the Dept. of Mysteries.
I need to go back and read through all of them, and see what seeds have been sown but not yet reaped. Also, who Regulus was, apart from Sirius' brother.
Aims - Aug 08, 2005 8:34:46 am PDT #985 of 3301
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I don't think V wins, but I do think (hope) Harry dies. I'd like to have it end that way.
DebetEsse - Aug 08, 2005 8:36:22 am PDT #986 of 3301
Woe to the fucking wicked.
It would be nice, but, IMO, highly unlikely. Like Snape-is-actually-evil unlikely.
Wolfram - Aug 08, 2005 8:39:47 am PDT #987 of 3301
Visilurking
I'm thinking Snape isn't evil, and Dumbledore ordered his own hit. And from the whitefont in Literary that I skimmed, it looks like that's almost the consensus of this board. Do you think the typical Whedonverse villian path of redemption has ruined us?
Beverly - Aug 08, 2005 8:40:48 am PDT #988 of 3301
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I actually went back and re-read all the books but Philosopher's Stone and Chamber of Secrets. I didn't finish Order of the Phoenix until HBP had been out a few days, and while I was reading it I realized I'd forgotten most of Goblet of Fire, so before I reread that, I reread PoA. The re-reading really enhanced and unmuddled a lot of OotP, which was still very fresh in mind, and I fairly raced through HBP.
I do still feel that OotP was terribly muddly, though, unecessarily so. I know there was a lot of ground to cover, but I don't think it was as linear as it could have been. It was like following a rat through a maze at times. I'm not sure a re-reading would actually be all that beneficial, either. Even if I was so inclined.
Scrappy - Aug 08, 2005 8:43:32 am PDT #989 of 3301
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Aimee, why do you want it to end that way? I've heard a couple of people say that and I am interested in what is satisfying about that ending?
Glamcookie - Aug 08, 2005 8:44:48 am PDT #990 of 3301
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
SNAPE KILLED DUMBLEDORE!!!
Sorry, I've been wanting to shout it for days and can't cause I'll spoil my peeps. I definitely think it was planned between S and D. Poor Snape. Poor Dumbledore. Poor Harry.