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Post by Mutagen on Jul 20, 2009 10:41:44 GMT -4
Except Neville, who in my head is Ralph Wiggum. HAHA!! Before the HPB movie, I was trying to explain the characters to my non-Potter reading sister, and that's exactly the descriptor I used. She immediately went "Oh, 'my cat's breath smells like cat food'?" And I was like "Well yes, except he grows up to be a total badass!" |
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Post by Shanmac on Jul 21, 2009 5:14:09 GMT -4
I don't get how he is able to wait so long between movies to find out what happens without reading the books inbetween just to satisfy his curiosity--it was hard enough waiting for the last couple of books to come out! I know! [/Monica Gellar] I don't get it. Plus, the books are so huge and so many people read them, I don't know how he thought he could avoid being spoiled. |
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Post by bklynred on Jul 30, 2009 1:16:13 GMT -4
I'm rereading Deadly Hallows after two years, and it's a great ride. Just enough time has passed for the info to be kinda new again. They're just getting to the MOM now.
I've gotta say though, some of it is starting to blend in my head. When I saw HBP, I realized I had no idea who died when and where...it's a blur after Azkaban. The bad news just keeps coming.
And yeah, it's still kids' reading, JKR needed a stricter editor but damn...Twilight, this is not. That was just reassuring.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2009 10:29:41 GMT -4
bklynred, I just reread Deathly Hallows, too! And like you, I had forgotten a TON. I was in such a rush to read it when it came out, I never took in a lot of the details. But the second time around, I was pretty damn impressed with the twists and turns it takes, and all those jaw-dropping moments... the attack at Bill and Fleur's wedding, Bathilda Bagshot shedding her skin, Dobby's death, Hermione's torture. On the one hand, I've always been sad that the last book didn't take place at Hogwarts (except, of course, the end), but on the other, I like the whole trio-against-the-world theme.
One of the things that struck me most when rereading DH was the gutsiness of calling Dumbledore's character into question in the last book of a series in which he's been the moral center. It was a great way to demonstrate that it really is a person's choices that show who he is, rather than his abilities.
<whisper>I still really dislike the epilogue, though. It was completely unnecessary.</whisper>
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Post by incognito on Jul 30, 2009 14:00:57 GMT -4
I really liked that JK Rowling made Dumbledore into a fallible character. One thing that annoyed me throughout most of the series was how Dumbledore was considered so perfect. Not by the antagonists, of course, because they're eeeeevil, but Harry was always like, "OMG HOW DARE U CRITICIZE HIM!!!" Book after book we were told how Dumbledore was the most powerful wizard, he's wise and all-knowing, and he's so benevolent and good and...blah. So to have Harry get the wake-up call in book 7 that maybe, just maybe, Dumbledore wasn't as perfect as he'd thought, was awesome.
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Post by Mutagen on Jul 30, 2009 14:21:54 GMT -4
I'm rereading Deadly Hallows after two years, and it's a great ride. Just enough time has passed for the info to be kinda new again. They're just getting to the MOM now. After watching the HBP movie, I was like "Hey, I remember the locket sequence in Deathly Hallows being pretty cool, maybe I'll go look that part up." Next thing I know, it's 11 o'clock at night and I'm wrapped up in the battle at Hogwarts. And it was still just so goddamn awesome when the most minor comic characters (like the house elves and Trelawney) got in touch with their inner badasses. The one death that made me still go HOLY SHIT, even the second time around, was << Colin Creevey.>> |
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Post by Nysha on Jul 30, 2009 15:56:37 GMT -4
I had to reread HBP after seeing the movie, too. There was just so much stuff left out of the movie for me to enjoy it as much as I wanted to.
I still cry every time I read Deadly Hallows. I so glad they made that into 2 movies.
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Post by sugarhigh on Jul 31, 2009 15:40:21 GMT -4
Like you guys, I read Deathly Hallows after seeing the HBP movie. Unfortunately, my irritation with Ginny in the movie totally travelled over to the book so all the moments where Harry was pining and missing her just irritated me. I just wanted the action to keep going.
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Post by prada on Jul 31, 2009 16:14:46 GMT -4
I just reread Deathly Hallows after watching HBP too. And for the life of me, I can't understand WHY Harry ends up with Ginny. I always thought Luna or Hermione would've been better matches for him, and Ginny for Neville. Oh well.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2009 16:43:04 GMT -4
I've always read it as Ginny being Harry's safe choice. He's an orphan, lied to through his childhood by his abusive relatives. He's yanked into this unknown world where he flounders for quite a while and never feels completely safe and secure. Ginny has a passion for quidditch (the quidditch pitch was where Harry was happiest) and as a Weasley, she represents familial acceptance. Hermione is the loner only child of two astonishingly hands off parents (did she ever spend more than four or six weeks a year with her folks). Luna is slightly nuts and half-orphaned herself. Ginny is the logical (if boring) spouse for the lonely little boy under the stairs.
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