The obligatory Harry Potter 7 thread with spoilers

[Guynemer]

One thing that baffles me:

How did Neville (Christ Almighty, how I love Neville) get the sword? Didn't Griphook make off with it?

[Guynemer]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
I thought that 2 main characters were going to snuff it in book 7. If so, who was #2?

Here follows, in no particular order, a list of characters killed in The Deathly Hallows. There are likely others that I forgot to include.

Spoiler:

Voldemort
Severus Snape
Rufus Scrimgeour
Hedwig
Mad-Eye Moody
Dobby
Remus Lupin
Nypmhadora Tonks
Ted Tonks
Fred Weasley
Peter Pettigrew
Gregorovitch
Grindelwald
Vincent Crabbe
Colin Creevy
Charity Burbage
Bellatrix Lestrange (suspected, unconfirmed)
at least 50 other unnamed characters, including Hogwarts Professors, Order of the Phoenix members, and members of Dumbledore's Army

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by Guynemer
One thing that baffles me:

How did Neville (Christ Almighty, how I love Neville) get the sword? Didn't Griphook make off with it?

The Sorting Hat grabbed it back.

[Guynemer]

Doh! Can't believe I missed that.


I was quite surprised, and a bit disappointed, that two particular OOTP/DA vs. DE duels that seemed pre-ordained never came to pass.

Spoiler:

Neville vs. Bellatrix
Remus vs. Fenrir

[LordShiva]

So if Harry and Hermione can traipse around the country chanting little spells that hide them, and if anyone can put a little hiding charm around their house, whyTF did Voldemort leave his horcuruxi lying around for anyone to pick up?

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by LordShiva
So if Harry and Hermione can traipse around the country chanting little spells that hide them, and if anyone can put a little hiding charm around their house, whyTF did Voldemort leave his horcuruxi lying around for anyone to pick up?

Cause Voldy would need any potential followers or other random folks to bring him back. Remember the diary semi-possessing Ginny? Voldemort would have been brought back to life if Harry hadn't dropped into the CoS.

[LordShiva]

So he could've left one unguarded. Most of them were hidden such that he didn't want anyone to ever find them.

[Nostromo]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui


The Sorting Hat grabbed it back.

You have an explanation for everything, don't you? Its lame, BTW

[Will9]

Originally posted by LordShiva
So he could've left one unguarded. Most of them were hidden such that he didn't want anyone to ever find them.

He could have told someone where they were when he knew he had a loyal enough follower. He hadn't told anyone where they were before his first death since he didn't think he was close to death and that he wasn't sure who to trust.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by nostromo
You have an explanation for everything, don't you? Its lame, BTW

Well, it isn't like the Sorting Hat hasn't done it before .

He could have told someone where they were when he knew he had a loyal enough follower. He hadn't told anyone where they were before his first death since he didn't think he was close to death and that he wasn't sure who to trust.

True... as was proven when the AK spell backfired on him the first time, he didn't really have anyone he could really trust. Then again, we don't know if he told Bellatrix, who wouldn't be able to do anything because she was in Azkaban.

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui


Well, it isn't like the Sorting Hat hasn't done it before .

How convenient that it could do it again, snatching it out of the bewildered hands of some goblin somewhere, delivering it to a kid who'd been bound and burned by a powerful wizard's spell but who somehow came free so that he could cut off the head of Voldemort's last surviving horcrux that he had been protecting in an impenetrable bubble (unlike any of the others) but had then chosen to unprotect for some reason.

[Nostromo]

J.K Rowling loves deus ex machinas. Someone should have told her that its bad writing.

[Guynemer]

Originally posted by LordShiva


How convenient that it could do it again, snatching it out of the bewildered hands of some goblin somewhere, delivering it to a kid who'd been bound and burned by a powerful wizard's spell but who somehow came free so that he could cut off the head of Voldemort's last surviving horcrux that he had been protecting in an impenetrable bubble (unlike any of the others) but had then chosen to unprotect for some reason.

"Only a true Gryffindor could have pulled that out of the hat." There is no doubt that Neville embodies the very best of the traits of Gryffindor.

Riddle had released the snake from the cage because he believed she was no longer in danger, as he believed Harry to be dead.

[Jon Miller]

Originally posted by nostromo
J.K Rowling loves deus ex machinas. Someone should have told her that its bad writing.

It is magical though. She goes for magical over other realism, or the rules of literature, and that is what gives her books that special quality.

JM

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Guynemer
"Only a true Gryffindor could have pulled that out of the hat." There is no doubt that Neville embodies the very best of the traits of Gryffindor.

Yeah but the goblin had it.

Originally posted by Guynemer
Riddle had released the snake from the cage because he believed she was no longer in danger, as he believed Harry to be dead.

It's still stupid. If you were teh master of teh world and believed that teh only thing that could bring you down was someone killing teh last bit of your soul after all teh others had been destroyed, you'd probably want to keep it safe, or at least not parade it around in front of a castle full of your enemies.