Put any and all spoilers in spoiler tags or I will kill you. <span style='color:#000000;background:#000000'></span>Lotso deaths, but I see this isn't a safe thread to visit. Talk to yall in a couple days when I'm done with the book.
I got it at midnight in an independent book store. 3rd person to get my book in the store. I stayed up till 4:40 reading.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (P0W3RBALLIN @ Jul 21 2007, 12:38 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Can anyone tell me if all those spoilers posted on the internet are false? Burbage dies on pg 12 Scrimgeour dies on pg 15 Hedwig dies on pg 56 At least these?</div> <span style='color:#000000;background:#000000'>Pages are wrong.</span>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Michael Bryant @ Jul 21 2007, 10:58 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Maybe I'm just too old for this but, what is the f*cking deal with this Harry Potter?</div>it's for people who were around 3rd or 4th grade when the series started because it keeps growing for that age group. I find it somewhat enjoyable, though a little bit too caricatured.
I got the book today along with my school's summer reading so I think I'm going to start tonight on reading it and F*ck the summer reading and just goto spark notes or something =]
So anyway, now to tell my short tale. I went to Borders at around 10:30 to check out the crowd and wait till midnight. Oh man....there were tonsa nerds there. And you know the sad part? I felt like I fit in. But yeah...these were nerdy people that couldn't spell, I woulda whipped them all in that spelling bee. They missed such easy words. All throughout the night I was careful, watching out for people who would spoil it for me, but they didn't come. =D> But then I had to wait in line for an hour and a half for the book. It sucked...I was so tired...then I went home and read till 3:30. Yay!
Man I'm going through this one a lot slower than the last one. I'm only around 250 right now. I finished the last one in 3 days. This one will probably take me like a week if I don't start reading it more.
<span style='color:#000000;background:#000000'>Anyone else find Snape's obsession with Lily more creepy than anything? I still liked hearing that he really was on Dumbledore's side, but that part did bug me.Also glad neither Harry, Ginny, Hermione nor Ron died. I was so sure at least two of them would.Sad to see Lupin go. He was one of my favorite characters, but there needed to be some death in this book.Also, McGonagall is awesome and Kingsley is a BEAST! </span>
Good article:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19935372/For the millions in the midst of the seven stages of mourning for the end of the Harry Potter era, take heart.In her first tell-all interview since the release of ?Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,? J.K. Rowling told TODAY?s Meredith Vieira she will most likely publish a Potter encyclopedia, promising many more details about her beloved characters and the fate of the wizarding world beyond the few clues provided in the seventh book?s epilogue.?I suppose I have (started) because the raw material is all in my notes,? Rowling said.The encyclopedia would include back stories of characters she has already written but had to cut for the sake of narrative arc (?I've said before that Dean Thomas had a much more interesting history than ever appeared in the books?), as well as details about the characters who survive ?Deathly Hallows,? characters who continue to live on in Rowling?s mind in a clearly defined magical world.Hogwarts, for example, would have a new headmaster (?McGonagle was really getting on a bit?), and Rowling said she can see Harry going back to ?give lectures on Defense Against the Dark Arts.? That class, by the way, would be led by a permanent professor since Voldemort?s death broke the jinx he placed on the position which didn?t allow a teacher to stay for more than a year.Rowling offered up these details freely to Vieira and the 14 fans who asked her questions at Edinburgh Castle in Scotland on Tuesday. In fact, now that she is now longer burdened with having to guard the secrets of book seven, Rowling seemed to delight in discussing her plot choices and clearing up the mysteries that have previously surrounded the books.The character Rowling couldn?t bear to killOne of the big stories that has been floating among fans for over a year is that one character gets a reprieve from death, while two others Rowling didn?t intend to kill end up dying in ?Deathly Hallows.??Mr. Weasley, he was the person who got a reprieve,? Rowling said. ?When I sketched out the books, Mr. Weasley was due to die in Book Five.?Instead, another father in the book ? Remus Lupin ? and his wife, Tonks, die in the Battle of Hogwarts, leaving their newborn child, Teddy, an orphan.Even though Rowling couldn?t bear to kill off Arthur Weasley, Rowling said every character was extremely difficult for her. Given the blood bath that is ?Deathly Hallows,? the writing of it was bound to be an emotional roller coaster.But nothing in the entire process of the series was more difficult than writing the scene when Harry, accompanied by his deceased lost loved ones ? James, Lily, Sirius and Lupin ? walks into the forest with the intent of sacrificing his life in the name of defeating Voldemort, Rowling said, adding it is her favorite passage in all seven books.?I didn't cry as I was writing (that chapter), but when I finished writing, I had enormous explosion of emotion and I cried and cried and cried,? Rowling said.?That was partly because of the content-- and partly because it had been planned for so long and been roughed out for so long. And to write the definitive version felt like a-- a huge climax.??The Deathly Hallows? is a climax to the last 17 years of Rowling?s life, a time when she has gone from a single divorced mother living on public assistance to a married mother of three and one richest women in the world.It?s now time to sit back for a bit and enjoy the life that Harry has given her, Rowling said. And, when she?s ready, there?s always that encyclopedia waiting in the wings.?I?m not going to do it tomorrow because I?d really like a break,? Rowling said, laughing. ?So you may be waiting.?
That's pretty cool, Mr. Weasely got badly injured in book 5, I guess the original plan was to kill him. She should wait at least like 2-3 years before the encyclopedia, I'll probabely get that but I doubt sales will be even half of what 7 was.
I doubt it too. I don't think it'll even be as big of a deal as the regular books either. Just a step up from the "Care of Magical Creatures" book and the other one's like that.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (PrimeTime @ Jul 25 2007, 12:34 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>So does harry potter ever get laid? :HAHAHA:</div>Well yeah...and some bi*ch got raped in this one too.
<span style="font-family:Arial">I'm surprised to see all of you guys read Harry Potter. I can't see how anybody over the age of 10 could get into it. (no offense)</span>
