Harry Potter July 16th (Half Blood Prince) **contains plot spolier** - Page 4

Ness · 14th July 2005, 6:29pm

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Originally Posted by Reno

This is the way it was spoken (hidden for spoilerness)

'The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches, born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the 7th month dies. And the Dark Lord shall mark him as his equal, but he will have powers the Dark Lord knows not. And either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives.'

Basically the only person who can kill Voldemort was born at the end of July to parents who had evaded him 3 times, he'll be marked as a symbol of his future and his destiny is to be decided as killer or be killed.

not so much evaded, as stood up to him.

i think the person in that prophecy is deffo neville....neville kills voldemort, but in turn kills himself also.

Reno · 14th July 2005, 6:33pm

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Originally Posted by Deenessonfire

i was at borders for the Goblet of Fire going on sale...hilarious watching wee kids getting thrown out of the way by adults to get books...

im taking the easy way out. My copy is getting delivered thanks to Amazon on Saturday morning.

Just hope HBP is better that Order of the Phoenix

It should be. CoS was the only 'duff' book in the series I feel.

Said it before and I'll say it again. I don't care it's a 'kids' book, if there isn't a massacre of wizards/Death Eaters in HP 7 I'll be unimpressed.

There's only going to be 1 death in this book, I expect at least a dozen in the last one

Deenessonfire · 14th July 2005, 6:36pm

see i thought Chamber of Secrets was ok...especially as it was only the 2nd book. i expected so much from OotP and i just felt it was really inconsistant. i just remember reading it and thinking "waaaait thats not right..."

dont ask for examples, cannae remember any cuz i read it when it came out. but aye, i know i was a bit

bout it

PhantomMenace · 14th July 2005, 8:01pm

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Originally Posted by Reno

It should be. CoS was the only 'duff' book in the series I feel.

Said it before and I'll say it again. I don't care it's a 'kids' book, if there isn't a massacre of wizards/Death Eaters in HP 7 I'll be unimpressed.

There's only going to be 1 death in this book, I expect at least a dozen in the last one

I second that.

OOTP was good but it was sad when Sirius died because he was my favourite character,it would be good for something along the lines of that to happen again,i think JK Rowling might just come out with something pretty great in this one.

Deenessonfire · 14th July 2005, 10:01pm

i just thought Sirius' death was a bit shite...he was such a good character, and he just fell through some hole and taht was that

if he had to die, he should have at least had a good death!

Hammer · 14th July 2005, 10:06pm

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Originally Posted by Ness

not so much evaded, as stood up to him.

i think the person in that prophecy is deffo neville....neville kills voldemort, but in turn kills himself also.

I was thinking that as well.

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Originally Posted by Deenessonfire

i just thought Sirius' death was a bit shite...he was such a good character, and he just fell through some hole and taht was that

if he had to die, he should have at least had a good death!

Same. My Dad (who was a massive HP fan...

) told me Sirius died before I'd got to that part of the book, and I was expecting some kind of big battle or something. Bit disappointed really.

If it's sunny tomo, I'm going to lie in the garden and re-read the fifth book

Quiz Bhoy · 14th July 2005, 11:27pm

Thing I found with OOTP was that it plodded along over explaining everything for most of the book and in the last 3rd it kicked off. If only JK had been less verbose in the 1st 3/4 it would have been a brilliant read.

To date it is my least favourite of the series and the death of Sirius was a case of "blink and you'll miss it".

Hopefully HBP will be back on form again!

Ness · 14th July 2005, 11:31pm

think il do the same hammer.

err i dont think hes dead, she says shes not bringing him back....but his death is to inconspicuous for me. hell be back in book 7.

mark my words.

Mrs.Evil of Hesselink · 14th July 2005, 11:31pm

I'm gonna pre-order this tomorrow and go to WH Smith at midnight tomorrow.

xph0ria · 15th July 2005, 12:00am

Can't wait. Twenty-four hours to go and I'll be kicking little children out of my way to get my copy, then spend the whole of Saturday kicked back and reading it.

Reno · 15th July 2005, 10:33am

I'm a fairly fast reader, but if I haven't finished the book by Sat night Rammstein can go fuck itself

Crystal Mighty · 15th July 2005, 10:37am

I was reading about how that Canadian bookshop sold 14 copies by accident and they made the people who bought them give them back and they weren't allowed to talk about it or anything, if I had bought one then, I'd have read it and lent it to my friend by the time they found me.

How much is this going for in the shops anyway?

Hammer · 15th July 2005, 10:42am

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Originally Posted by Reno

I'm a fairly fast reader, but if I haven't finished the book by Sat night Rammstein can go fuck itself

Blasphemy!!

Reno · 15th July 2005, 10:43am

Point is caller?

Neil. · 15th July 2005, 10:51am

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Originally Posted by Zooropa quoting AS Byatt

[Harry Potter is] for people whose interests are confined to the worlds of soaps, reality TV and celebrity gossip.

Nah, comments like that really wind me up, its just not true. For example, the last book I read was "goodbye to Berlin" by Christopher Isherwood, which is by all accounts a "proper" book, the next book I read will be the next Harry Potter book. Theres too much litterary snobbery in this world I feel. There are a lot of people I'm sure, who have never read a book before Harry Potter and probably never will after, but then again, there are plenty of well read people, who like Harry Potter because its a simple un pretentious read which allows you to kind of "switch off".