OT: July 16th, 2005 HARRY POTTER SPOILER THREAD

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OT: July 16th, 2005 HARRY POTTER SPOILER THREAD

I noticed that Kremtok didn't want any spoilers posted in the other one SO I figured I would start the spoiler thread. He can fill you in on the whole book because as to keeping me company at the laundry mat he finished his sad sad book. Got questions?? Ask him, he is the man. Although he did tell me what happens it is best ask THE KREMTOK!
 
I think we need an extra-special top secret thread that houses this spoiler alone, so nobody will expect the average, boring spoilers and read it accidentally.
 
Unfortunately, those of us who care about it probably already know who it was. Naturally, we expected Dumbledore's death, but not quite so early, and not like it happened. It makes him look like a fool to have trusted Snape, and the rest of the Order of the Phoenix naive for simply trusting Dumbledore.

And Snape is the Half-Blood Prince? What's up with that? He doesn't deserve to be in the title of the book! The only thing that slimy, filthy traitor deserves to have named after him is a tombstone. He should have been the one to die. We knew that he wouldn't be Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher again the following year; I was hopeful in thinking this meant he would valiantly sacrifice himself for the greater Cause. Well, that must make me a fool, as well.

And why did Harry have to break up with Ginny? It was just meant to be!

Crap. I'm off now to cry myself to sleep.
 
Well, I kind of care, but don't want to spend thirty bucks on it. I'll be waiting a few more days for my grubby library copy to come in.
 
I'm planning on doing the "borrow it off someone you know and then never give it back" move. Who would have picked snape to be the bad guy huh? :p
 
Well, it only cost me $17.

PM me if you have trouble getting a copy at the library. I'll have at least four by week's end, and if postage isn't too bad, I may send you one one loan ;)

As terrible as I think the book is, you all should go and read it right this minute. Stop playing Diablo 2 for just 10 hours -- that's as long as it took me to read -- and do this book.

Hey, it's a spot better than those Diablo books were.

EDIT: That was intended for JicamaEater, not you, you dirty thief you.
 
My daughters are Australian Big Brother fans, and I thought that I'd brought them up so well, and someone posted a thread with the subject line "Snape kills Dumbledore" about six hours after the Australian release. I hear that there's a lynch mob looking for the person concerned.
 
TheNix said:
My daughters are Australian Big Brother fans, and I thought that I'd brought them up so well, and someone posted a thread with the subject line "Snape kills Dumbledore" about six hours after the Australian release. I hear that there's a lynch mob looking for the person concerned.
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Yeah, I can understand. Big Brother eh? Interesting. You should have them read the book 1984 by George Orwell so they can know where Big Brother came from! Of course not until they are old enough, but its a great book!
 
Kremtok said:
Hey, it's a spot better than those Diablo books were.
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It's not really any worse than other cheesy $5 fantasy books. Of course, they don't sucker you in like the title of the most addictive game ever.
EDIT: That was intended for JicamaEater, not you, you dirty thief you.
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I will cherish this moment forever.
 
Bunny_Usagi said:
Yeah, I can understand. Big Brother eh? Interesting. You should have them read the book 1984 by George Orwell so they can know where Big Brother came from! Of course not until they are old enough, but its a great book!
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My eldest, now 16, read 1984 at the age of 13 and at the age of 12 Ann Rice was her favourate author.
 
necrolemming said:
Did the whole Snape's Pots textbook sub-plot thing actually add anything to the storyline of the series? :x
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Appearantly, it was supposed to, as it was incorporated into the title of the book.

Whether or not it actually did, I can't answer now, because I've been reading for quite some time now now, and I'm too busy thinking how to word my letter to Madam Rowling about how I somehow got a defective copy of her newest book and would she please send me a corrected one?
 
@TheNix: OMg hwo could they stand 1984. We had to study it last year in english, it's so boring!! Or maybe that I just don't think deep enough to understand the true meaning :D


-Slayer
 
necrolemming said:
Well.

It better.

Because I want a $16 refund.

Although I can't see any way Snape having a mom surnamed Prince is gonna have any effect whatsoever.

Grr.

And you'd think that Dumbledore would have thought about the Vanishing Cabinet, instead of overlooking it. Meh.

How'd Dumbledore get so stupid in the course of one book?
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He got distracted?

Anyway, there are plenty of theories going on now. Mine is Snape had to kill Dumbledore, he made an unbreakable vow, remember. Even if he hate the idea of it, he still went with it to save his own skin. Read about his redemption in book 7 :lol:

The half-blood prince does seem like quite a red herring.
 
I haven't bought the book, but my friends "kindly" told me everything that happened in it. Friends. :rolleyes:

Well, the book was supposed to be 50 years old. Snape didn't go to Hogwarts 50 years ago. (50 years was obviously trying to make us guess it was Voldemort.) It turned out to be Snape's mother who first owned it. So what's the big deal about the half-blooded "prince"? :rolleyes:

Immortal_Slayer said:
@TheNix: OMg hwo could they stand 1984. We had to study it last year in english, it's so boring!! Or maybe that I just don't think deep enough to understand the true meaning :D
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Weren't you thirteen last year? That's awfully early for 1984.
 
I told you "half blood prince" would mean something we didn't expect it too. Just based on the previous one and the family tree wall hanging.


essojay said:
Weren't you thirteen last year? That's awfully early for 1984.
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Don't tell me I'm the only freak who started reading all the great sci fi-ish classics when I was 12 (and enjoying them). I'd say 1984 and Animal Farm were a lot easier to appreciate fully than Stranger in a Strange Land or Dandilion Wine at that age. Espically if you've had any WW2/Cold War history yet at all.

@IS, you did realize that it was a commentary on society being "improved" on by the government, right? And that at the time it was written that was the big movement for everybody. The children reporting the parents was directly from the what Natizies had done. The big brother caring for you rather than some cold sterile government came from the running of the Marxist revolutions and the evening of the playing field aspect was already adapted by the US gov during the Great Depression.

Look at all the distruction and poverty that comes from leaving people to their own devices *shakes head* let's legislate happiness. [/leading socio/political/economic minds] But in the end, people will try to escape such regimes, and be happy when they do, even if the only way out is death.
 
Immortal_Slayer said:
@TheNix: OMg hwo could they stand 1984. We had to study it last year in english, it's so boring!! Or maybe that I just don't think deep enough to understand the true meaning :D


-Slayer
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You are 14, so I think that maybe that is why you didn't like the book very much. Because you are probably too young to really get into it as much as I did. I read it last year in english so i was 17 and I found a deeper meaning to it because I think that it describes how corrupt our society really is. On account that this isn't a 1984 thread I think we should just back away from the book or it could turn into an entire literary thread when this is a Harry Potter Spoiler thread.
 
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