Thrawn's Revenge

Off Topic => The Lounge => Topic started by: Meyer on July 22, 2007, 08:07:19 AM

Title: New Harry Potter
Post by: Meyer on July 22, 2007, 08:07:19 AM
Simple question. My answer is yes. I like dit a lot!
Title: Re: New Harry Potter
Post by: Scarecrow63 on July 22, 2007, 01:20:39 PM
you already read it?
Title: Re: New Harry Potter
Post by: Meyer on July 22, 2007, 01:29:00 PM
yep. it was guite short but fraking good.
Title: Re: New Harry Potter
Post by: Scarecrow63 on July 22, 2007, 02:31:55 PM
whend you get it, my brother got his yesterday
Title: Re: New Harry Potter
Post by: Darth Dino on July 22, 2007, 03:22:29 PM
I didn't get it and probably won't for awhile.
Title: Re: New Harry Potter
Post by: Meyer on July 23, 2007, 02:37:10 AM
I got it july 21st. The first day it came out. VGB
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Post by: GrndAdmrlPellaeon on July 23, 2007, 08:20:09 PM
There should be an option for thinking Harry Potter is retarded. Because I do!
Title: Re: New Harry Potter
Post by: Raptor on July 23, 2007, 09:15:40 PM
The movies are ok, books suck.
Title: Re: New Harry Potter
Post by: Corey on July 23, 2007, 09:31:54 PM
Books are awesome, the movies suck. Hardly anyone can act in them. Sirius couldn't have been chosen better, though. Michael Gambon was a bad choice to play Dumbledore after the death of Harris. He is way too angry all of the time. though I can't see Harris actually doing any of the 'action' scenes... for example, the serach for the Locket with Harry, and the duel at the ministry.

Deathly Hallows is probably tied with HBP for my favourite. People say a lot of the deaths were unnecessary, though I only agree in the case of the Lupins and possibly Dobby. Remus and Tonks definately should have survived, though I never actually believed any of the Marauders would survive the series. The death of a Weasley was also not unexpected, so many of them had almost died in the past, though I assumed it would be Arthur or Percy. I liked the end with Voldemort and Harry, though I think there should have been another chapter that explains events directly after Voldemort's death in addition to the Headmistress' office (Assuming McGonagall took the title after his death) and the rather vague epil.
Title: Re: New Harry Potter
Post by: Scarecrow63 on July 23, 2007, 10:29:33 PM
thanks for screwing the book up for me, anyway i agree, Harris was amazing as Dumbledore
Title: Re: New Harry Potter
Post by: Corey on July 23, 2007, 10:32:52 PM
Hey, I just assumed that if anyone was gonna read this thread, they'd have read the book.
Title: Re: New Harry Potter
Post by: Scarecrow63 on July 23, 2007, 11:06:43 PM
i stopped halfway through #5 4 years ago
Title: Re: New Harry Potter
Post by: Meyer on July 24, 2007, 02:42:42 AM
I also thought that all the marauders will die in this last book. But the deaths of Dobby and Fred were horrible. Why they needed to die? Fred and George were my favourites thourgout the series.
Title: Re: New Harry Potter
Post by: Nezill on July 24, 2007, 02:43:59 AM
They needed to die to show how horrible the baddies were and to make Harry feel worse for everyone always dying in his place.
Title: Re: New Harry Potter
Post by: Meyer on July 24, 2007, 02:46:45 AM
you're right. but I still don't like the fact that Fred died. the fact that Snape died is great. traitors get what they deserve.
Title: Re: New Harry Potter
Post by: Wal-Mart Shoplifter on July 24, 2007, 09:46:28 AM
I haven't read any of the Harry Potter books, I doubt I'll ever get around to the new one.  :-\
Title: Re: New Harry Potter
Post by: Corey on July 24, 2007, 12:15:33 PM
the fact that Snape died is great. traitors get what they deserve.

He was just doing what Dumbledore told him to, he wasn't really a traitor. He probably could have easily killed Slughorn, or Sprout (But not Mcgonagall) in that corridor as well.
Title: Re: New Harry Potter
Post by: Meyer on July 24, 2007, 12:23:35 PM
he betrayed Voldemort.
Title: Re: New Harry Potter
Post by: Corey on July 24, 2007, 12:25:40 PM
Who cares? Voldemort never even pretended he was doing the right thing for the world.
Title: Re: New Harry Potter
Post by: Tyrant on July 24, 2007, 12:26:04 PM
I'm probably not gonna end up reading the Deathly Hallows. There are better books to read.
Title: Re: New Harry Potter
Post by: Meyer on July 24, 2007, 12:26:59 PM
I think it is one of the best books ever.
Title: Re: New Harry Potter
Post by: Tyrant on July 24, 2007, 12:30:49 PM
I'm sure I could find better books.  :P
Title: Re: New Harry Potter
Post by: Meyer on July 24, 2007, 12:35:38 PM
I'm sure you can. not everybody like the same books.
Title: Re: New Harry Potter
Post by: Tyrant on July 24, 2007, 12:47:09 PM
Indeed. Have fun finishing the book, if you haven't already.
Title: Re: New Harry Potter
Post by: Meyer on July 24, 2007, 12:49:40 PM
last sunday.
Title: Re: New Harry Potter
Post by: Scarecrow63 on July 24, 2007, 01:27:19 PM
I have three books to read for school and im only halfway through the Vong war
Title: Re: New Harry Potter
Post by: Meyer on July 24, 2007, 02:03:04 PM
Well I couldn't but only half of the Yuuzhan Vong War. library didn't have so many of those. sadly.
Title: Re: New Harry Potter
Post by: Slornie on July 29, 2007, 06:30:01 AM
Great book, well written, managed to reveal all of the secrets that fans had already guessed :P Lots of deaths, but that was to be expected.  I would have preferred it to start earlier, telling more of the Order's fight against Voldemort, and the chaos within the Ministry.  I was also disappointed with the epilogue, which i found to be an exceedingly lame ending to the series,  although the Horcrux and Hallows were excellent.  One of the key aspects for me was the uniting of the wizarding world; wizards, muggles, house-elves, centaurs, goblins - all of which were depicted in the former Ministry statue.
Title: Re: New Harry Potter
Post by: Meyer on July 29, 2007, 07:17:28 AM
I found it weird that the book didn't explain what happened to Harry and his friends after the school. Did Harry become an auror? and what professions did Hermione, Ron and Ginny take after school?
Title: Re: New Harry Potter
Post by: Kratas on July 29, 2007, 08:06:54 AM
not finished  yet but so far awesome
Title: Re: New Harry Potter
Post by: Corey on July 29, 2007, 11:05:55 AM
Rowling explained what the trio did. Ron and Harry became Aurors, with Harry as head. Hermione became a lawyer.
Title: Re: New Harry Potter
Post by: Meyer on July 29, 2007, 11:55:26 AM
where did you get that info?
Title: Re: New Harry Potter
Post by: Corey on July 29, 2007, 11:58:49 AM
This article

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19959323/
Title: Re: New Harry Potter
Post by: Meyer on July 29, 2007, 12:00:37 PM
Ah. that explains many things that I wanted to be answered