Harry Potter reaction thread

[Imran Siddiqui]

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What?

[Drake Tungsten]

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I'm sure Stefu has found some Harry-Snape fanfic on the internet that Rowling could get some ideas from.

[Immortal Wombat]

I'm going to have to re-read this now. Loveit!

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JK did say we can't be sure Harry survives Book seven, and she said it with a totally straight face, no hint that she was just saying that to keep the mystery. She meant it.

(Mysterious bounce smilie )

But not in a duel with Volde I hope. Maybe after killing Voldemort, he dies of exhaustion or something. Or they fall together through the door into the whispering shadows.

[Imran Siddiqui]

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exhaustion? It has to be a better death than that! This is Harry Freaking Potter here! He has to go out in a blaze of glory... if not gory

[Drake Tungsten]

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I don't see how Harry could be ready to take on Voldemort in two years, even if he studied like Hermione. I wonder how Rowling is going to work this out.

[Immortal Wombat]

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Potter will die

[Imran Siddiqui]

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It'll be Neville! The surprise 2nd front!

[Drake Tungsten]

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I'm going to miss Fred and George. The best part of the book is when they flew off into the sunset.

[TCO]

stop with the formatted text. I am too lazy.

[Drake Tungsten]

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Tough.

[FrustratedPoet]

GP: all you have to do is Select-All (ctrl+a) and all the text in every spoiler box on the page will be highlighted. It doesn't look pretty, but is far less work.

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I understand what IW is saying about Harry dieing, and I don't think it's totally out of the question (I saw that JKR interview too), but I really can't imagine it happening. I just can't fathom that JKR would kill her off her little boy - the series is very much genre-fiction anyway, and a part of the genre is that the main character doesn't die.

I can imagine it being ambiguous, though, like Voldemort and Harry are fighting and there's some huge explosion and both of them vanish or something. Nobody can be certain if they're alive or dead. I could well imagine something like that ... only better ... happening.

On the subject of the "whispering portal behind the curtain": I'm pretty sure that it is some kind of doorway to the afterlife or something. Literally a "Door of Death" ... which is why Lupin could be so emphatically certain that Sirius was dead after he fell through it. That would also fit with the whispering and ... well it just makes sense more me to think of it like that.

[Drake Tungsten]

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Originally posted by FrustratedPoet

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On the subject of the "whispering portal behind the curtain": I'm pretty sure that it is some kind of doorway to the afterlife or something. Literally a "Door of Death" ... which is why Lupin could be so emphatically certain that Sirius was dead after he fell through it. That would also fit with the whispering and ... well it just makes sense more me to think of it like that.

I thought the same thing, but I still wish it would've been cleared up. Seemed like too major of a detail to be left hanging.

[FrustratedPoet]

It will be cleared up eventually I think, we'll just have to wait 18-24 months for the next book to get the answers/more clues.

A whole lot of stuff in OotP is laying groundwork for the final two books. There are a lot of unanswered questions.

[Drake Tungsten]

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I find myself wondering if two books are going to be enough to resolve all the questions Rowling has put forth. She has a lot of ground to cover, especially for two novels.

[FrustratedPoet]

On the will he/won't he die question ... JKR has already written the climax/epilogue for Book 7, which I find very intriguing. Obviously it's a given that she already has the major events planned out, but I think it's interesting that she has actually written it already (and did so a couple of years ago IIRC).