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I'm starting a new topic just in case someone feels this incredible urge to say something about the new Harry Potter and forgets to add "SPOILERS" to the subject. I'll be back to this folder once I finally get my copy. El
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I've only gotten through the first three chapters, but boy is it great already! Mrs. Figg is a witch and there are dementors in Little Whinging?! And what the heck does Petunia know about the non-Muggle world that she's not saying? I can't wait to find out! BTW, Hermione is my fave, how about everyone else? ~Anna (off to keep reading)
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Can someone PLEEEEEASE get rid of that Umbridge *person*.
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OMG, I just went to the bookstore and they aren't getting any copies until the END OF THE MONTH!!!!! I'm so cheesed... Howabout someone scan some of the first few chapters and mail them to me? I'm dying over here!
Melisma (under her Rock, normally a spoiler virgin, but unable to wait this time)
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I just would love to kill Umbridge. That is all. (On Ch. 20 at the time of this writing)
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GAAH! I wanna read it, too! Unfortunately, I had this crazy idea never to buy a HP book. I read the first four volumes....borrowing them from my neighbour who's a native English speaker... I just don't dare to go there and ask her if she has already gotten it....
Well, it's all my own fault. For now I'll have to feed off of these wonderful comments here (which make me want to read volume 5 even more!!)
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*deep sigh* Just finished...wow...that was a very involved book... it was almost 900 pages and yet I didn't want it to end. ok, JK! Where's book 6?!?! (Nag to JK to write!) -Breanna
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Was sobbing during the time when ***incoherent mumble*** died...it's not fair!!!!
Re Karen...think we *all* wanna kill Umbridge!
Sara
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think we *all* wanna kill Umbridge! I just *loved* the name, though... Umbrage. <g>
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At page 700 right here. Her little "detentions" ARGGH!!! I would have told on her a long time ago. And Dumbledore taking the fall for DA?!?!?! This whole book has just been one big ?!?!?! Jen
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Heh. Keep reading, Jen. What Fred & George do is priceless.
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I haven't finished yet, but I read the last couple of pages, so I know who dies. (I cheat, so sue me) And I agree with you, Jen, *incoherent mumble* was one of my favorite characters too. I read an interview with JK Rowling and in it, she said that she cried after she wrote the death scene. I don't blame her!
Caroline (who has to start at the front of the book instead of the back. It's really getting to be a bad habit. But, to borrow a quote from When Harry Met Sally, "When I buy a new book I always read the last page first that way in case I die before I finish I know how it ends.")
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Whoa!!! ), but what really made me cry was reading this: Harry looked up at him and saw a tear trickling down Dumbledore's face into his long silver beard. El
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btw, do we really need to be careful and not say anything in a topic titled "SPOILERS!! etc."? Yes :p If you use the Today\'s Active Topics link to see what posts have been added since your last visit it gives you the first few sentences of the post (a very handy innovation btw...) So class, repeat after me... S P O I L E R S P A C E It's JK's take on Hamlet... everyone dies at the end Just editing to add I've realised you need to put a 'fool yahoo' paragraph in there as well... except this isn't yahoo, so a 'fool UBB' paragraph... that is a paragraph or so of random text at the top of the post. Poems and songs are much appreicated... Helga (who doesn't have the new HP because she has no money, but doesn't mind being spoilled anyway... but she's sure there are others who will...)
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Okay, I'm writing this in as vague a way as possible, but just on the off-chance: s p o i l e r s p a c e Well, I finished reading OofP at about one o'clock last night and... Did anyone else spend the first half of the book wondering when the plot was going to kick in and then suddenly think, 'Duh! This is the plot?' The pacing seemed a little 'off' somehow -- but that may well have been me. Oddly, the death didn't do much for me. Maybe it was because that was the part that had been hyped so much, maybe it was who died, or maybe it was the fact that it happened so [not saying more]... I don't know. However, I felt that Cedric's death in Goblet actually was more powerful. What did get to me though, was Dumbledore's revelations. Now, that / they were sad. (Can anyone here say angst? ) What did impress me, though, was the way JKR used all sorts of things from the first books that had seemed merely quirky at the time were used here to great effect. (I'm thinking things like the quality of teaching etc.) Oh, and those detentions were horrible. Overall, a good book, and one that I would recommend more than most. I mean, I read it avidly (and from front to back without looking ahead to see what was going to happen later on); it was a page turner. However, it didn't leave me thinking at the end that I had to go back and start at the beginning again (which has happened once or twice with other things). Nor did it leave me with that terrible bereft feeling of having just lost a great friend (which also happens from time to time.) Oh, and Prisoner of Azkaban remains my favourite. Chris (who, having finished the fun stuff might actually be reduced to reading articles on housing policy this weekend!)
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J E L L O I T S ALIVE! Originally posted by Krissie: [QB] Did anyone else spend the first half of the book wondering when the plot was going to kick in and then suddenly think, 'Duh! This is the plot?' The pacing seemed a little 'off' somehow -- but that may well have been me. Kinda sort of. I kept expecting the whole book to be at Hogwarts like the others, and then I finally had my 'duh' moment. The first half was by no means bad, I just didn't predict the setting correctly. Oddly, the death didn't do much for me. Maybe it was because that was the part that had been hyped so much, maybe it was who died, or maybe it was the fact that it happened so [not saying more]... I don't know. However, I felt that Cedric's death in Goblet actually was more powerful. Yeah, I agree. And there's something about Harry dragging a dead body back with him after battle in Book 4 that's a whole lot more powerful for me. COUGH's death in OotP was extremely sad for me because COUGH was my favorite character, but battle-wise, it wasn't the biggest thing. If it was some random character that I had no attachments to, it would have been like, "Oh, well, so n so's dead, let's get on with it." Oh, and Prisoner of Azkaban remains my favourite. Ah, I still can't pick after 5 books! Jen :p
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I just finally finished the book and I'm most impressed. S P O I L E R S P A C E It's a great book, even though I sometimes had ideas like 'oh, now this is gonna happen later' and I was right. I already had the feeling that the person might die, and indeed at the end it happened. (my other guesses were pretty close too, they got nearly killed). But I'd never expected Dumbledore's story. So now I can't wait to read what's going to happen in the next parts. But I noticed two things while reading the book I thought were funny. First, it seems that the first of September *always* falls on a Sunday. The train always leaves on Sunday, since there term starts a day later, which is always Monday. Now magic can be very nice and do lots of cool stuff, but fiddling with dates like that just isn't possible. And then there were the Thestrals, whom you can only see if you have seen death. I find it weird that Harry can only see them at the start of his fifth year, after Cedric died. Harry has seen his parents die as a baby. He may not remember it, but he still saw it. So I believe he should have seen the animals earlier. Anyway, I'd like to know what other people think of it, or if I'm totally losing myself. Saskia (going to read her favourite chapters again now)
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S P O I L E R S P A C E ok... i can say that... Chiara P.s I love the Book...
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S P O I L E R S P A C E And NOW HE'S DEAD?!?!?!?!? LOL Maybe it'll be like L&C where nobody is ever *really* dead. Luthor came back *how* many times? <g> Caroline
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