Harry Potter General Discussion

[Bubba]

You should! Everyone do a mass re-read!

Way ahead of you, partner.

Halfway through book six at the minute. I'm already excited to start The Deathly Hallows. The seventh book is the best one by a long way.

"The genital herpes had not pained Harry for nineteen years, All was well."

[Jinx]

Finished HBP this morning! I'll probably start Deathly Hallows this evening. I need a little bit of an HP break.

Also, I like to think that me and my incessant Facebook posts are the inspiration for this mass re-read.

[Shorty]

I'm nearly halfway through Deathly Hallows for the first time!

I'm surprised how far I am into the book with the events that have transpired. Perhaps it was the two installments of the Deathly Hallows movies that is making me feel like the book should be much longer and that I should only be a quarter of the way into it by now.

I am enjoying it! Prisoner of Azkaban has been my favorite all these years, but I think Half-Blood Prince might have stolen the spot now and I'm eager to see how Deathly Hallows will fare.

e; and who was it who inspired you to reread the series

[Jinx]

I was inspired to read the series because Rob and I talked about how he'd only ever seen the first two movies, and so we watched them together.

AND YES HALF-BLOOD PRINCE IS BEST

I'm honestly not a huge fan of Deathly Hallows. I love it until they've been to the Ministry; after that, it really goes downhill for me. I hate, hate, hate the introduction of the Deathly Hallows so late in the series. Hate. It's like, "Oh hey, we already have like a million Horcruxes to find and destroy, now it's just more trout to collect."

[Shorty]

interesting that it happened the very next day after our lengthy discussion about HP when you and rob tried to thrash me for my rating of OotP on Facebook

[Jinx]

MY POINT STILL STANDS THAT PEOPLE HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT IT MORE BECAUSE I'VE BEEN SUPER ANNOYING ON FACEBOOK ABOUT IT OKAY

[Scotty_ffgamer]

If I reread it, it will be in part due to your posts on facebook, haha. They reminded me how much I kind of miss the long discussions I had with a couple of my friends about theories on how the series would end and how I interpreted some of the events in the books.

[Jinx]

I do find that as I get further in the series, I have less comments to make.

[Shorty]

We should do a mass summer rewatch HP month. Around the Ciddies because the forums are most fun during that time of the year.

[Shauna]

I have been meaning to reread the series for a long time, and I will admit that your Facebook posts did inspire me to get to it faster. Although, playing the LEGO HP games, and the fact that I frequently chat with my manager about Harry Potter and the Studio Tour also had a large impact on this. :3

I am 4 chapters in to PS. Because I read slowly, apparently. I will need to get Matt to read too, he read a whole chapter when we were in London. xD

[Jinx]

OH MY GOD I WANT TO PLAY LEGO HARRY POTTER AND CURSE MY FELLOW CLASSMATES AND WATCH THEM EXPLODE INTO LITTLE LEGO BITS

[Psychotic]

Honestly, running around in Lego HP as Bellatrix spamming Avada Kedavra indiscriminately is the most fun a girl can have without taking off her clothes.

[Bubba]

I think the last book was perfectly written. The Deathly Hallows were a great addition, I thought. They were what Voldemort chose in order to gain complete power for himself. Harry had the choice to pursue those or the horcruxes and went for the latter. The horcruxes themselves were only addressed halfway through book six.

The chapter The Prince's Tale is the best chapter in the whole series.

[Jinx]

I disagree with that, but that's just my opinion. I'm not a Snape fan.

And while I guess you could say Harry's cloak as an exception, the Horcruxes are actually mentioned from book two...just not by name. Even still. Rather by name in book six (and really allusions to Horcruxes are made throughout the entire book), than the very last book. Introducing the catalyst for the final quest in the penultimate book was fine. Introducing a whole new thing in the last book was something I didn't care for.

[Bubba]

I know. That's why I said they were only "addressed" in the sixth book. I actually really like the way it referred back to the previous books. I thought the fact they found the locket whilst cleaning Grimmauld Place and had no idea what it was... was brilliant.

Introducing a whole new thing in the last book was something I didn't care for.

You could argue that considering one of the deathly hallows was introduced in book one... they've been a part of the books longer than the horcruxes have