Please post yours....the only reason I am using the spoiler tag is out of respect for someone that has not read the book and accidently hit this thread. DD
Spoiler I would rather have my balls cut off than read and/or watch a Harry Potter story/movie. Freaking nerds.
You call yourself a parent? What about your daughter? Do it for her, man! I won't touch anything HP with a ten foot pole...but I have no kids. Are there any adults reading it who do not have kids? Losers.
Spoiler I know, I know but my wife and daughter know how I feel about that. I've watched "Over the Hedge", "Meet the Robinsons", and other similar type kiddie movies but I draw the line at Harry Potter.
Pretty foolish attitude...Is Harry Potter amazing literature? No, but it(the book, at least) is definitely much more stimulating and entertaining than any Pixar film. They're quick reads, and I haven't met anyone who considered it a waste of time. I'm not saying, "Go read it NOW," but I don't understand why the line is being drawn at Harry Potter, when it is in fact worlds more grown up than the films you mentioned(I did like Over the Hedge, though) As for Harry Potter vs. Lord of the Rings, LOTR may have been the better series, but I was WAY more entertained by Harry Potter. Rowling doesn't waste as much time setting moods, and Rowling takes you to a fantasy world mixed with issues that people(especially teenagers) can relate to. At some points, you forget you're even reading about wizards, then Rowling brings that element back to keep the readers' interest. Spoiler As for book 7, I thought it ended way too perfectly. I'm not saying kill everyone off and leave the readers in a world of darkness run by Voldemort, but don't take us to a scene where disaster seems imminent and then have Dumbledore come along and explain how everything is actually okay and Harry can still save the day without a single main character dying. I wouldn't be surprised if the publisher pressured her into writing this epilogue. I did like how Snape was actually on Dumbledore's side...everyone knew it was coming, but it made no sense...he KILLED him. So yeah, kudos to Rowling for that.
Spoiler See I don't see Snape as ever being on Dumbledore's side, I read it as Dumbledore had something over him and he manipulated Snape for his own agenda. I guess I missed the "Why Snape protected Harry" bit.....
Spoiler I think Severus did it for Lily's sake. It was redemption for him. At least, that's how I see it.
Spoiler I took it as Snape was upset with Lily's death. Protecting Potter was more payback against Voldy than Snape really being a nice person.
Spoiler That's pretty much what I thought. Snape was responsible for Lily's death by informing Voldemort of the prophecy and Dumbledore made sure he understood exactly what he had done when he told Snape that Lily and James died. I think Snape did it out of pure guilt and the need to protect Lily's legacy. (Dumbledore points out that Harry has Lily's eyes and all that jazz to further the guilt trip)
Spoiler Best book of the series, but had a few points that disappointed me. The intensity of book was like 700 pages of the car chase in Bourne Supremacy. I didn't like Ginny's diminished role. I expected her to be an important part of her bringing Harry back or at least join up with the Big 3 when she came of age. I didn't like that Trelawney wasn't in book. With end of book 6, it would seem Harry would have wanted to take over responsibility for hiding her. I loved part when Ginny pulls back Chu and has Luna take Harry to Ravenclaw's tower instead. It seemed very real. I wish Harry would have been able to defeat Voldy on his own merits instead of the fact that Voldy was using a wand that held allegiance to Harry even though Voldy had just landed the killing curse on him. I figured harry's power, based on love, would spike since he no longer had a remnant of Voldemort's soul holding him back.
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lmao....you guys each turn in 7 man cards one for each Harry Potter book you read. I in turn shall turn in only one (damn that English teacher who forced me into reading that book )
I may have mentioned this in another thread but someone wrote an alternate Book 7 and it was out on BitTorrent prior to the release of the real book. I downloaded this and read the entire thing. While I liked the real story, I may have liked the alternate story better. Its as long a read as the real story but if anyone wants a copy of it to read (its a text file) I'll email it to you. Just email me through the board. As for the real book, I thought it was good but like someone has said already, it was very safe. Safer than I wish it had been. I think there should have been more twists and turns. I did like Kreacher and everyone battling at the end. I liked how she tried to integrate a lot of characters into the story. I thought the way she did Dudley at the beginning was hella lame.
I liked OoTP and HBP more, but the ending book was good. Spoiler I think Snape's montage at the end, all of those memories being described one after the other was beautiful. I'm a sappy kind of guy. so reading the part when Dumbledore asked Snape if he was growing attached to the boy, and Snape responds, "For him?", then he casts his patronus (a doe like lily's), Dumbledore says after all this time?, and Snape just responds yes, after all this time." And then at the end when he tells albus severus that about the bravest man he know was a slytherin, that was just beautiful man!
Spoiler I liked that part. It made more sense with the characters and what had happened previously, in that Harry did escape Voldemort repeatedly because he was lucky, or that Voldemort overlooked some ancient magic, magic folklore, etc. and was too over-confident. I guess you could say it was too "perfect" or too "easy," but the thing is that this was the only way to really end it in a happy way. Voldemort kills himself (curse backed on himself) and Harry survives sort of luckily because Voldemort did not respect old magic laws. Any ending in which Harry kills him (which isn't Harry. He even saves Draco.), or shows himself to be even as powerful as him would have been wrong.
To all the haters....HP is not really a children's series; it's evolved into something so much more than that...As the characters have grown and have aged so has the material, the trials and tribulations facing them, which makes it all the more interesting. Ive never read the first four books (though love the movies), but am sure glad I decided to read OotP while I was waiting to give the book to a friend for her birthday. Of book seven... intense the whole way through but with some slow areas here and there. Spoiler I know it's sappy, but the one thing I wanted more than any other happened...Harry and Ginny were together in the end (and Ron and Hermione too). But man I was pissed when I THOUGHT Harry had died...to come all that way....endure all his suffering only for him to die in the end...that would have been wrong. So I like how it all unfolded and ended...thought the whole Elder Wand business at the end was mighty confusing...similarly confusing to the Architect scene in the Matrix
