Harry Potter reaction thread

[Imran Siddiqui]

Damn you and your editing ways!

[Guynemer]

Just finished it.

My take on the R.I.P.:

Spoiler:

Sirius was on my short list before I started, and especially with all the references to him being reckless. I was also very, very worried about Ron and Hagrid, quite a bit of foreshadowing their deaths as well. I'm not optimistic about them surviving the next two years.

However, that wasn't the book's saddest moment for me. There was one moment when my ears got a little watery:

Spoiler:

At St. Mungo's, when Neville takes the candy wrapper from his mother, and puts it in his pocket despite his grandmother's instruction to throw it away, that his room is already covered in them. Absolutely heartbreaking. Neville came a long way in this novel; far enough, in fact, that I'm also very worried about his fate.

Great book. Not sure where I put it, either #1 or #2...

[Pekka]

I have never read anyh Potter books, or seen the movie, or intend to do so.. I don't know what it is but he is obnoxious to me.

[monolith94]

Yes, I can understand how you would feel that way, being a gullible victim of unreasonable backlash and all...

Guynemer - I totally agree with you on Neville. The most amazing moment of book 4 for me was when we found out about Neville's parents... I nearly cried.

[reismark]

My take on the RIP:

Spoiler:

I had the death originally pegged as Neville or Snape (or both) but JK blew it two weeks ago with her comments on it. We were all caught up in how she cried when she wrote the death (yawn) that we missed the crucial clue: how painful it is to lose someone that you're really close to. The only person Harry had like that was Sirius.

It's a bummer to see Sirius go now, because I thought he would have a huge role to play in the war and I wanted to see him publically redeemed and exonerated before he went, but it was inevitable, so godspeed, Padfoot.

And Guynemer:

Spoiler:

I have this feeling, after Dumbledore revealed that Neville could have been the One, that while Harry will vanquish Voldemort in the end (c'mon, these are children's books, you really think evil is gonna triumph in the end?) he'll only be in a position to do so because of something Neville does.

[Stefu]

OMG THE WIZARDING WORLD PAIN!!1!!!!

IT IS INSANE!!1!!!

LIKE A DRANE!1!!!

OR MEBBE A (muggle) PLANE!!1!!1!

I excepted there to be a scene where Harry uses magic to help himself sullenly masturbate, but nooooo.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Spoiler:

Wouldn't it be cool if Voldemort killed Harry in the end? Mwhahahaha .

[GePap]

Spoiler:

So Neville is Gollum?

[FrustratedPoet]

Spoiler:

No, that's Kreacher ... or whatever his name is. I've forgotten already.

[reismark]

Imran:

Spoiler:

Unless JKR really wants to kill off the marketing potential for the series - inclusive of merchandising and the last few movies - I highly doubt that Voldemort will kill Harry in the end. And even if she did want to, I'd doubt it.

[Drake Tungsten]

Spoiler:

I think it would be cooler if Harry killed Voldemort and then took over as the most powerful Dark Wizard in the world. Muwahaha...

[Stefu]

BTW, who else was getting Anakin Skywalker vibes from all of Harry's OMG THE PAIN whining?

Maybe in the next book ("Harry Potter and the Attack of the Clones") Harry slaughters a tribe of centaurs and tells Cho Chang about it and Cho decides he's got the hots for Harry now.

[monolith94]

Cho is older than Harry, after all...

Stefu, honestly, have you read these?

[TCO]

I got some impressions of Harry being tempted to evil. Perhaps this will develop a bit more.

[Imran Siddiqui]

It's like Empire in SW... evil Harry... tempted to Dark Side, only to be swung back by seeing the evil of Voldemort.