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Sirius was on my short list before I started, and especially with all the references to him being reckless. I was also very, very worried about Ron and Hagrid, quite a bit of foreshadowing their deaths as well. I'm not optimistic about them surviving the next two years.
However, that wasn't the book's saddest moment for me. There was one moment when my ears got a little watery:
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At St. Mungo's, when Neville takes the candy wrapper from his mother, and puts it in his pocket despite his grandmother's instruction to throw it away, that his room is already covered in them. Absolutely heartbreaking. Neville came a long way in this novel; far enough, in fact, that I'm also very worried about his fate.
Great book. Not sure where I put it, either #1 or #2...
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I have never read anyh Potter books, or seen the movie, or intend to do so.. I don't know what it is but he is obnoxious to me.
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Yes, I can understand how you would feel that way, being a gullible victim of unreasonable backlash and all...
Guynemer - I totally agree with you on Neville. The most amazing moment of book 4 for me was when we found out about Neville's parents... I nearly cried.
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I had the death originally pegged as Neville or Snape (or both) but JK blew it two weeks ago with her comments on it. We were all caught up in how she cried when she wrote the death (yawn) that we missed the crucial clue: how painful it is to lose someone that you're really close to. The only person Harry had like that was Sirius.
It's a bummer to see Sirius go now, because I thought he would have a huge role to play in the war and I wanted to see him publically redeemed and exonerated before he went, but it was inevitable, so godspeed, Padfoot.
And Guynemer:
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I have this feeling, after Dumbledore revealed that Neville could have been the One, that while Harry will vanquish Voldemort in the end (c'mon, these are children's books, you really think evil is gonna triumph in the end?) he'll only be in a position to do so because of something Neville does.
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I excepted there to be a scene where Harry uses magic to help himself sullenly masturbate, but nooooo.
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Wouldn't it be cool if Voldemort killed Harry in the end? Mwhahahaha .
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Unless JKR really wants to kill off the marketing potential for the series - inclusive of merchandising and the last few movies - I highly doubt that Voldemort will kill Harry in the end. And even if she did want to, I'd doubt it.
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BTW, who else was getting Anakin Skywalker vibes from all of Harry's OMG THE PAIN whining?
Maybe in the next book ("Harry Potter and the Attack of the Clones") Harry slaughters a tribe of centaurs and tells Cho Chang about it and Cho decides he's got the hots for Harry now.
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It's like Empire in SW... evil Harry... tempted to Dark Side, only to be swung back by seeing the evil of Voldemort.
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That can't happen because that would break the rule that every dark wizard/witch from Hogwarts came out of Slytherin... but I do suspect Harry will be tempted by Voldemort, since Voldemort will never know the rest of the prophecy...
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Has every dark wizard come out of Slytherin? I know the vast majority did, but I'm not sure if every single one did. Besides, even if you're right (which you probably are), it wouldn't be that shocking if Harry became the first non-Slytherin to turn bad. He was almost sorted into Slytherin, after all.
I still don't think Harry will become evil, but it would be a hell of a suprise.
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So, my biggest question after reading the OoP is "what the hell happened to Sirius"? I was waiting for the usual "Rowling explains everything in the second to last chapter" deal, but she never did explain what that old archway was or what happened to Sirius when he fell through it. Where did he go? What were those voices coming from within the arch? Is there possibly a way of rescuing him? Rowling's silence on the matter makes me think that this arch will be very important in the next two books. I'm very interested to see what will become of it.
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It's called suspense... he is gone, but is he? And how and why . There is a reason it is called the Department of Mysteries... maybe it'll be one of those things that will be talked about for years
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BTW, I agree with your view on Luna Lovegood. I sense a love-triangle coming up between Loony, Ronnie and Hermy. Maybe even a love-quadrilateral if Viktor Krum gets involved.
OTOH, I don't know if Harry is going to have another love interest. I think that the knowledge of his destiny is going to change him, making him a loner who is more concerned with preparing for the inevitable clash with Voldemort than with mundane matters like puppy love. Harry has a lot to deal with, as Dumbledore said, and I think it is going to profoundly change the way Harry interacts with other people. We were already given hints of this at the end of OoP.
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Ha ha... A harry who is able to be tempted by the dark side... very nice indeed. And love-quadrangles ... well they are getting older, I guess. I can just see the fanfic orgy scene from that one. hehe... anyway, I think Hermy drops Krum, basically telling Ron they are just friends and were simply writing each other about something of great importance... or something. That would keep with Hermione's character, somewhat.
Anywho, maybe if we keep posting in spoilers people will wonder and read this fine book .
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Now that was just , and you know it!
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- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)
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... well they are getting older, I guess. I can just see the fanfic orgy scene from that one. hehe... anyway, I think Hermy drops Krum, basically telling Ron they are just friends and were simply writing each other about something of great importance... or something. That would keep with Hermione's character, somewhat.
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