tigresacanela24
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Harry Potter 7 Discussion --- Spoiler!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted: 07-22-07 10:06am
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just want to get some other thoughts on
Book 7. I was highly disappointed by it
and don't feel that it was up to the
standard of books 4,5 and 6. anyone else?
Thoughts, feelings?
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Posted: 07-22-07 10:26am
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wow, you're done already? that was a huge
book!!!
sorry i dont have anything else to add, i
didnt read it 
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tigresacanela24
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Posted: 07-22-07 10:27am
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| HcoBrunette06
wrote: | wow, you're done already?
that was a huge book!!!
sorry i dont have anything else to add, i
didnt read it |
I thought it was pretty short. It looked
shorter than the rest. But I didn't check
to see if it actually was. Plus it was
more fast paced than the others so that
helped the reading along.
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Posted: 07-22-07 10:43am
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I wasn't disappointed at all with it, I
thought it was the best one out of the
seven.
It was certainly an emotional journey
reading it!
What didn't you like about it? 
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Posted: 07-22-07 10:46am
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| Jules
wrote: | I wasn't disappointed at all
with it, I thought it was the best one out
of the seven.
It was certainly an emotional journey
reading it!
What didn't you like about it? |
First of all I don't understand why
Dumbledore had to be villified. It just
didn't make sense to me at all and seemed
like overkill. I also didn't like the
ending, it just seemed too pat. I also
thought that I would see some reason as to
why Harry was "the chosen one" like some
hidden talent or ability or something.
Once again that wasn't there. I felt like
the books should have been titled Harry,
Ron and Hermione. Because it really
wasn't about Harry Potter it was about how
once again his friends save his ass.
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Posted: 07-22-07 11:03am
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I enjoyed it, I agree that it would have
been better if she had explained why Harry
was the chosen one. The ending was a bit
short what did they do between Voldermot
dying and the 19 years.
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tigresacanela24
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Posted: 07-22-07 11:18am
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| abba
wrote: | | I enjoyed it, I agree that
it would have been better if she had
explained why Harry was the chosen one.
The ending was a bit short what did they
do between Voldermot dying and the 19
years. |
Some parts of it I definitely enjoyed.
Some parts of it even made me cry like the
death of Mad-Eye and Dobby. But when
Fred, Tonks and Remus died it was thrown
into the middle of the battle and I
couldn't really feel too bad for them.
The pace of the story at that point was
too fast to really notice that they had
died. I thoroughly enjoyed Mrs. Weasly's
battle with Bellatrix. That one made me
laugh. 
Last edited by tigresacanela24 on 07-22-07 12:27pm; edited 1 time in total
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Posted: 07-22-07 12:22pm
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tigresacanela (sorry i'm so bad with
remembering names) you sound so cute
talking about the book. sorry if cute
sounds like a bad word but the names in it
are kinda funny you know? anyway, you're
the first person that's made me even
remotely interested in picking one of
these books up. i love reading but don't
like bandwagons lol. still, i could use
something good to read right now. maybe
i'll check them out. i like fantasy books
like the dune series and tolkein's books
and the mists of avalon and watership down
are two of my favourites. anyhoo, sorry i
don't have anything to add to the topic as
i haven't read it yet. just wanted to say
your enthusiasm seems so genuine that i am
thinking about getting the books and
reading them.
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Posted: 07-22-07 15:34pm
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I've never had a book make me cry so much,
like, ever. 
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Posted: 07-22-07 15:55pm
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| AyaMiyaki
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I've never had a book make me cry so much,
like, ever. |
I know it's going to sound horrible but I
wish Draco hadn't lived.
What did you think about Neville growing a
spine? I thought that it was wonderful.
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Posted: 07-22-07 16:05pm
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I actually felt a lot of sympathy towards
Draco, in spite of myself.
Neville was splendid! I was so proud of
him. I was proud of Percy too (prat that
he is).
I cried like a baby when Hedwig died. I
thought it was so sad that she was too
annoyed to even look at Harry, and then
she just... was gone...
And I cried when Kreacher did his 180. And
again when Dobby died. And... *sigh*
I was right about Snape being in love with
Lily  I feel
clever! I didn't have all the
details right (my story sounded better, I
thought) but... yeeaaaah baby!
What were your favorite moments, Kay?
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Posted: 07-22-07 16:17pm
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| AyaMiyaki
wrote: | I actually felt a lot of
sympathy towards Draco, in spite of
myself.
Neville was splendid! I was so proud of
him. I was proud of Percy too (prat that
he is).
I cried like a baby when Hedwig died. I
thought it was so sad that she was too
annoyed to even look at Harry, and then
she just... was gone...
And I cried when Kreacher did his 180. And
again when Dobby died. And... *sigh*
I was right about Snape being in love with
Lily I feel
clever! I didn't have all the
details right (my story sounded better, I
thought) but... yeeaaaah baby!
What were your favorite moments,
Kay? |
Oh, I had a million and one! I adored
that the guys actually cursed! I was
thinking to myself that I'd be highly
skeptical if they were constantly in fear
for their lives and not one swear word
slipped out. I loved when Harry told off
Lupin for wanting to leave Tonks behind
and otherwise being a "git". Then when
Kreacher did a turn around and at the end
was leading the fight in Harry's name. I
actually like the break in to Gringotts.
And shivers went down my spine when they
went to Bathilda's. I noticed that you
Snape/Lily theory was there! You get sooo
many points for that one. It knocked me
back a good one! I totally didn't see it
coming! However I truly hated all the bad
things that came out about Dumbledore. I
thought that it was uneccessary. He's
been a paragon of virtue for six books,
why muck it all up now? And I was
exceptionally angry at the reason why
Harry was able to win. It was like she
ran out of ideas and pulled that one out
of her butt. 
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Posted: 07-22-07 16:35pm
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I thought that the "Harry is the 7th
horcrux" plotline was brilliant! But I did think
that the whole "that wand is mine and not
yours" thing was kind of lame. It's pretty
much like Voldermort was undone by his own
hand, not really because of anything Harry
did.
Although I did really like that Harry
faced death willingly, where Voldermort
spent all of his time trying to escape it.
I thought that was a nice touch. I would
have liked to have seen Harry really step
into his element though and was looking
forward to a real knock-down drag-out
fight between them at the end.
I loved when Hermione was freaking out on
Ron. Loved it loved it loved it.
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Posted: 07-22-07 18:01pm
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So...did Ron really die? It will be months
before I get to read the 7th since I am
still on the fourth. My dh just came home
and told me about everybody that died.
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Posted: 07-22-07 18:04pm
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| monkeygirl22
wrote: | | So...did Ron really die? It
will be months before I get to read the
7th since I am still on the fourth. My dh
just came home and told me about everybody
that died. |
Err... is that what he told you? 
(no, he didn't die)
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Posted: 07-22-07 18:10pm
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Ok, thanks Laura. He got this from some
online source that supposedly scanned the
entire book including that part onto a
website. I was thinking since you guys
hadn't said anything about it that it was
a hoax. What about Snape? He said he died
too.
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Posted: 07-22-07 18:12pm
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Well I don't really want to spoil the
whole book for you unless you really want
me to...
does your husband read the books at all?
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Posted: 07-22-07 18:22pm
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No...he found it on that same website. He
likes to watch the movies but he's not a
reader at all. I just started reading the
books about two months ago. You don't have
to spoil it cuz I do plan on reading and I
don't have a great attachment to Snape
anyways. Thanks for letting me know Ron
didn't die. I was worried about that one.
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Posted: 07-22-07 19:11pm
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i'm only on page 200 right now so i just
scrolled through this with my eyes closed.
i just wanted to say how completely
annoyed i am...
last night i was reading another forum i
go to and i opened a thread that had
absolutely nothing to do with harry
potter... there at the top of the page in
huge letters was an ad that said
"BELLATRIX KILLS RON AND ANYONE OVER 12
THAT READS HARRY POTTER IS A LOSER".
you know what the saddest part about that
spoiler is? the person PAID MONEY to have
it appear as a banner at the top of the
page.
anyway, nick and i are trading on and off
so who knows when i'll finish it. i'm
going to try to plow through it while he's
at work if finn will let me.
sometimes i hate the internet!
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Posted: 07-22-07 21:15pm
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I'll just tell you...nothing, nevermind.
Bridget don't read the rest of this post!
Laura, I thought the King's Cross thing
was pretty lame too. I guess I just
expected more fireworks. Also it doesn't
help that this is the last book. I guess
it's just that there's no more
speculation. Now we know, and it wasn't
as amazing as I thought it would be. That
wand thing was exactly what I was talking
about. That was just ridiculous, he had
no better plan, no better power? For
goodness sake he actually died!! She
couldn't work in any special superpower as
a reward for returning from the dead. Or
she couldn't have gone the whole route
with that "master of death" thing and let
him actually control death or something?
Actually when I started reading the book,
I couldn't figure out how she was going to
get away with not killing Harry. Now that
I know it's a bit of a letdown is all.
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