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Harry Potter aftermath
I got here at 10am yesterday due to going to the Everett Aquasox game and taking ninety years to bus back.
I got here at 10:30am today, because I stayed up until 5am finishing Harry Potter. Sigh. Well, next week I will endeavor to get in by 9:30 every day. There won't be baseball so it'll be easier.
It would be too much of a pain for me to remember who has Harry Potter posts I should read now, so if you want me to read a Harry Potter post of yours, please comment and link it.
I'd managed to figure out a good deal of what was going to happen before it happened... except I was wrong about Tonks (I think JKR made her seem like a polyjuiced person as a huge red herring and I caught the hint too early to dispel it), and I didn't realize Rosmerta was under the Imperius Curse. I even actually figured out that Snape was the Half-Blood Prince, and that he was going to kill Dumbledore because Malfoy couldn't. (I wonder, is the typesetting the same in all editions so you turn the page with just the slightest, slightest hope he's not going to kill him, and then you see "Avada Kedavra" at the top of the next in that scene?)
I expected more plot out of that McLaggen chap and out of Blaise Zabini, and the Slughorn parties.
I think I know who RAB is. I suspect most of you do too. I also have a sneaking suspicion I know what the final Horcrux is, although I would have to go back and reread some stuff from the earlier books to be sure. (The more and more she tried to make it look like Tom Riddle was the half-blood prince and the potions book was the last Horcrux, the more I became sure it wasn't. She should know better by now.)
I don't really remember the prophecy, but hm, isn't Draco Malfoy's birthday in June? Something really weird is going to happen in the next book, that's for sure.
I was surprised we didn't see the current incarnation of Voldemort close up in this book; that's gotta be the first since HP3, huh?
Oh yeah, and of course, there are some plotholes all over the place that come about when dealing with a world full of magic. I can't really go there until I reread, I think.
All in all, though, I enjoyed reading this one a LOT more than HP5; looking back on that entry I remember being so horrendously angry and pissed off that I threw the book across the room. This time, I put the book down, stared at the ceiling, and tried to get to sleep amidst all the swirling thoughts in my head as I thought about what to expect in book 7.
I got here at 10:30am today, because I stayed up until 5am finishing Harry Potter. Sigh. Well, next week I will endeavor to get in by 9:30 every day. There won't be baseball so it'll be easier.
It would be too much of a pain for me to remember who has Harry Potter posts I should read now, so if you want me to read a Harry Potter post of yours, please comment and link it.
I'd managed to figure out a good deal of what was going to happen before it happened... except I was wrong about Tonks (I think JKR made her seem like a polyjuiced person as a huge red herring and I caught the hint too early to dispel it), and I didn't realize Rosmerta was under the Imperius Curse. I even actually figured out that Snape was the Half-Blood Prince, and that he was going to kill Dumbledore because Malfoy couldn't. (I wonder, is the typesetting the same in all editions so you turn the page with just the slightest, slightest hope he's not going to kill him, and then you see "Avada Kedavra" at the top of the next in that scene?)
I expected more plot out of that McLaggen chap and out of Blaise Zabini, and the Slughorn parties.
I think I know who RAB is. I suspect most of you do too. I also have a sneaking suspicion I know what the final Horcrux is, although I would have to go back and reread some stuff from the earlier books to be sure. (The more and more she tried to make it look like Tom Riddle was the half-blood prince and the potions book was the last Horcrux, the more I became sure it wasn't. She should know better by now.)
I don't really remember the prophecy, but hm, isn't Draco Malfoy's birthday in June? Something really weird is going to happen in the next book, that's for sure.
I was surprised we didn't see the current incarnation of Voldemort close up in this book; that's gotta be the first since HP3, huh?
Oh yeah, and of course, there are some plotholes all over the place that come about when dealing with a world full of magic. I can't really go there until I reread, I think.
All in all, though, I enjoyed reading this one a LOT more than HP5; looking back on that entry I remember being so horrendously angry and pissed off that I threw the book across the room. This time, I put the book down, stared at the ceiling, and tried to get to sleep amidst all the swirling thoughts in my head as I thought about what to expect in book 7.
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Maybe the (intended) horcrux is something at Godric's Hollow.
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I guess we still don't know where exactly the sword was before Harry pulled it out of the hat. The sword could have been in the office if the hat was either a gateway to the sword stored in the office or the actual container of the sword. I'm tempted to go back and read the descriptions of the headmaster's office from PS and CoS pre-climax, and see if Harry notices the sword.
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After hundreds of years of experience, the hat probably no longer needs the items, which is why it still sorts students into Gryffindor even without the sword. Possibly three more items could be pulled out of it, though I'm not sure what they'd be.