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Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 2:07 am
by Menolly
I'm not very far in to the book, but there's no way I'm spoilering THAT post!!!
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 2:40 am
by Seafoam Understone
Menolly I can't believe that you haven't asked someone else to "temporarily" moderate the forum/threads so that you won't get spoiled.
That would seem to be the BEST solution for you ... no?
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 2:44 am
by Menolly
Seafoam, it's OK. I can glance quickly away while I scroll to the right spot if I need to quote a thread that has a spoiler tag.
Besides, I really wanted this forum, even though I was intitially shocked when my name was nominated (blame dlb! it was all his idea). I ain't letting go of the reins now when I just got them.
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 3:42 am
by dlbpharmd
Finished!
And.....WOW. Holy Cow, and all that. I'm blown away by this book.
I thought the first couple of hundred pages were pretty slow, and I kept getting distracted - but then the action really picked up and I couldn't put it down after that.
What happened to the major characters that were supposed to die? I don't really consider Fred, Lupin and Tonks "major."
There was one continuity goof that I saw - but otherwise I think JKR tied things up nicely.
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 4:37 am
by Seafoam Understone
dlbpharmd wrote:There was one continuity goof that I saw - but otherwise I think JKR tied things up nicely.
And which one was that?
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 4:46 am
by Dragonlily
Would that be the quick availability of Polyjuice Potion? It took Hermione a month to make it -- I think that was in CHAMBER OF SECRETS.
Harry and Voldemort are major characters. Plus there was Snape, Mad-Eye, and Dobby.
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 1:32 pm
by Seafoam Understone
Yeah I can see that... but also remember that Barty Crouch Jr was able to keep a good portion of it in a flask to maintain his ruse as being Mad Eye in GOF... so it stands to reason that once you make it, it can keep for a while, all you got to do when you need it is just add a few hairs or whatever.
Seems like that crap is an acquired taste too as they drank it more than once.
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 4:10 pm
by dlbpharmd
Seafoam Understone wrote:dlbpharmd wrote:There was one continuity goof that I saw - but otherwise I think JKR tied things up nicely.
And which one was that?
It's a very minor math error - but when
HP is talking to Griphook (I think that was his name - the goblin that helped him break into Gringott's) - he reminded Griphook that they first met "seven years ago." Of course, it was only 6 years. Like I said, very minor.
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 4:19 pm
by O-gon-cho
I have got to tear myself away from the Pantheon trouble I caused, and get back to DH! I'm only up to page 36!!!
*sigh*
At least it will keep me occupied until Turn results come back...
For those who don't know, this is Menolly...
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 5:04 pm
by Seafoam Understone
dlbpharmd wrote:Seafoam Understone wrote:dlbpharmd wrote:There was one continuity goof that I saw - but otherwise I think JKR tied things up nicely.
And which one was that?
It's a very minor math error - but when
HP is talking to Griphook (I think that was his name - the goblin that helped him break into Gringott's) - he reminded Griphook that they first met "seven years ago." Of course, it was only 6 years. Like I said, very minor.
Yeah I can see that... but it's odd that:
The goblin Griphook was willing to break into his own bank for the sake of getting the sword (which must be powerful if the Goblin is desiring of it) then he betrays them.
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 5:08 pm
by I'm Murrin
It would actually only be a few months short of seven years, since it's after the easter holidays by that point in the story.
As for him betraying them, he kept his end of the bargain and got them in, and he took the sword for their end because they weren't going to keep the bargain themselves--after that point, the deal was done and he was free to turn against them.
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 8:13 pm
by aliantha
Seafoam Understone wrote:Yeah I can see that... but it's odd that:
The goblin Griphook was willing to break into his own bank for the sake of getting the sword (which must be powerful if the Goblin is desiring of it) then he betrays them.
It's not so much the monetary value as the philosophical issue. Goblins apparently have a different view of ownership of the items they've crafted; once the original owner/borrower dies, the goblins believe the ownership reverts to the goblin who made the item. So from Griphook's viewpoint, this was a chance to right a wrong against goblinkind and stick it to the wizards.
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 8:20 pm
by Cameraman Jenn
I am currently on my second read through and afterwards be warned....dissertations to follow!
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 8:29 pm
by Menolly
Full fledged dissertations, Jenn?
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 8:36 pm
by Cameraman Jenn
Nah, but I gots some questions.
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 8:51 pm
by dlbpharmd
Someone help me on this:
I'm not clear on how it was that Harry came back to life.
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 8:59 pm
by Cameraman Jenn
Yeah, that's one of the things I was confused about too, hence the re-read
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 9:11 pm
by I'm Murrin
Voldemort took some of Harry's blood in GoF, including in it a little bit of the protection that Lily had placed on Harry when she died. This increased the strength of the bond between Harry and Voldemort. In the same way that Voldemort couldn't be killed as long as Harry had a piece of Voldemort's soul in him, Harry couldn't be killed (by Voldemort?) because Voldemort had the blood and Lily's spell in him. When Voldemort attacked Harry, he destroyed the piece of his own soul inside Harry and so lost his protection, but the thing in him that protected Harry remained and kept Harry alive.
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 9:57 pm
by Seafoam Understone
Murrin wrote:Voldemort took some of Harry's blood in GoF, including in it a little bit of the protection that Lily had placed on Harry when she died. This increased the strength of the bond between Harry and Voldemort. In the same way that Voldemort couldn't be killed as long as Harry had a piece of Voldemort's soul in him, Harry couldn't be killed (by Voldemort?) because Voldemort had the blood and Lily's spell in him. When Voldemort attacked Harry, he destroyed the piece of his own soul inside Harry and so lost his protection, but the thing in him that protected Harry remained and kept Harry alive.
What?
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 10:25 pm
by Auleliel
He wasn't all dead, he was only mostly dead. Lily's protection in Harry's blood that Voldemort took was still in Voldemort, who wasn't dead. Harry couldn't die unless Voldemort was already all dead.