H. Potter. Book the Sixth. Spoilers maybe.

Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 2:26 pm

KLAW DID YOU ALMOST CRY?

BECAUSE I FREAKING CRIED

Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 3:46 pm

I DID ALMOST.

Joined: 31 May 2005 Posts: 870 Location: australia

I just finished reading it this afternoon. I have mixed feelings about it!

For instance, JKR has totally murdered the word "surreptitiously" for me. SIX TIMES IN ONE BOOK IS FIVE TIMES TOO MANY.

NOT THAT I WAS COUNTING

And the ending was very sad and also frustrating. It made me not want to read the last book, although I'm not entirely sure why.

Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 11:15 am

Surreptitiously is perfectly normal word. Why shouldn't she use it whenever it's appropriate?

Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 2:07 pm

What Rowling does do that I've noticed (not so much in this one) is use the word "bracingly" a lot. I mean, it's a perfectly good word, but in some of the books it's repeated far more than is typical and I notice it. And when you notice words it takes you out of the narrative flow and you're thinking about the writing rather than the content!

I MEAN WHO SAYS BRACINGLY, SERIOUSLY

Joined: 12 Jul 2005 Posts: 88

Nearly cried. Sad

But I bet Harry himself is knocked off at the end of book 7 Crying or Very sad

Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 4:47 pm

I will *personally* send J.K.R. hate mail if she kills off Harry.

I'll be like "OH NO YOU DI-INT!"

OMG, what?

Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 5:02 pm

Better Harry than Dumbledore!

Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 1:53 am

Sirius Black was so much better than Harry. Lupin was my favourite, though.

If you can't tell, I liked the third book the best.

Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 2:16 am

kundor wrote:

What Rowling does do that I've noticed (not so much in this one) is use the word "bracingly" a lot. I mean, it's a perfectly good word, but in some of the books it's repeated far more than is typical and I notice it. And when you notice words it takes you out of the narrative flow and you're thinking about the writing rather than the content!

I MEAN WHO SAYS BRACINGLY, SERIOUSLY

Timothy Zahn writes good books, but his characters spend a lot of time saying things "dryly." Sometimes I'm like "MAYBE YOU SHOULD GET A GLASS OF WATER HEY"

Joined: 28 Mar 2005 Posts: 889 Location: The Yay Area

I liked Harry in this book a lot better! He isn't all over emotional again, which was annoying. Also for whatever reason Ginny is my favorite character even though she is way lacking in character development.

Joined: 31 May 2005 Posts: 870 Location: australia

The Famous Mr. Klaw wrote:

Surreptitiously is perfectly normal word. Why shouldn't she use it whenever it's appropriate?

I would say that most of the time it wasn't all that appropriate. Sometimes it felt wrong. Also all six were used within the first half of the book. It felt like the word was stuck in her head and she couldn't think of any others. That happens to me sometimes. But when I do it I go back and fix it up later.

Besides me getting fixated on that one word and not noticing anything else, I did actually quite like the book. At first I thought I was underwhelmed but I've now come to terms with the fact that I enjoyed reading it. Although admittedly after I finished I did say "Sucks." out loud. And then "I'm not reading the next one."

I think that was more to do with the direction the story's now heading in....

...The direction in which the story is now heading...

Sometimes not ending sentences in adverbs is difficult.

Joined: 31 May 2005 Posts: 870 Location: australia

kier wrote:

Sometimes not ending sentences in adverbs is difficult.

I meant proposition of course! Gah.

The sad thing is, I came back online once I realised what I'd said, solely to correct that mistake.

I think I need a new hobby. Maybe something outdoor-sy.

Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Posts: 390 Location: Detroit, MI

kundor wrote:

YEAH YOU HEARD ME

KING RENLY

DAMN STRAIGHT HE'S THE FRAGGIN' KING

Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 1:22 pm

ALLENE WHAT IF HARRY IS ONE OF THOSE HORCRUXES AND VOLDEMORT'S LIFE FORCE IS IN HIM

HARRY HAS TO DIE SO THAT WE MAY LIVE

I'M SORRY

Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 2:54 pm

HARRY WOULD BE JESUS THEN

OMG HARRY POTTER MIGHT BE FREAKIN' JESUS

Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 4:56 pm

Code:

SO, WHAT ARE THE ODDS THAT GANDUMBLEDORE FAKED HIS OWN DEATH?

Joined: 12 Jul 2005 Posts: 88

justinpie wrote:

ALLENE WHAT IF HARRY IS ONE OF THOSE HORCRUXES AND VOLDEMORT'S LIFE FORCE IS IN HIM

HARRY HAS TO DIE SO THAT WE MAY LIVE

I'M SORRY

Would that mean Harry contains 1/7th of Voldemort?

Urghh! Ginny kissed you-know-who!

Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 5:44 pm

Voldemort?

Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 5:49 pm

More like Lo, since it's only 1/7th of him.

Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 1:43 am

VS[BRO] wrote:

kundor wrote:

YEAH YOU HEARD ME

KING RENLY

DAMN STRAIGHT HE'S THE FRAGGIN' KING

Trying to bait Stannis did not work nearly as well as I had hoped!

WHERE AM I TO GET MY STRIFE NOW

WHERE

Also, if that Harry = Horcrux theory is right it would be kind of great! Terrible, but great! Terribly great.

Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 4:37 am

ARE WE IMPLYING SOMETHING ABOUT MY SLOWNESS OF WIT HERE?

I WAS JUST CAUGHT UP WONDERING ABOUT THE POSSIBILITIES OF HOT JON-SLASH-HARRY-SCENES OKAY

Joined: 31 May 2005 Posts: 870 Location: australia

justinpie wrote:

ALLENE WHAT IF HARRY IS ONE OF THOSE HORCRUXES AND VOLDEMORT'S LIFE FORCE IS IN HIM

HARRY HAS TO DIE SO THAT WE MAY LIVE

I'M SORRY

Did Voldemort ever actually properly try to kill Harry? I actually would like to know, I wasn't really playing attention while I was reading books one through four.

BECAUSE IF HE DIDN'T...!

I kind of hope Harry will die at the end, not because I don't like him, but just because if he doesn't there'll be so much pressure on JKR to write follow-up books. And that would be sad.

Joined: 12 Jul 2005 Posts: 88

kier wrote:

Did Voldemort ever actually properly try to kill Harry? I actually would like to know, I wasn't really playing attention while I was reading books one through four.

--------SPOILERIFIC!--------

Yup. With the killing curse, which only Harry has survived. It seems it rebounded on Big V, killing him (or would have, if not for the Horcruxes)

kier wrote:

I kind of hope Harry will die at the end, not because I don't like him, but just because if he doesn't there'll be so much pressure on JKR to write follow-up books. And that would be sad.

Bah, people will want books in the same universe anyways, and rightly so. It's all so fun and magical!

Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 10:29 am

Kier, I think Voldemort properly tried to kill him at the end of the fourth book when he transported him over by having him touch the trophy. The had a "fight" which was really them just sending beads to each other on a string of light between their wands.

Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 10:57 am

He also sort of tried to kill him with the snake in book two, but that was dumb little Tom Riddle who may not have known what he was doing.

Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 10:58 am

He didn't have anything to do with the third book. Maybe that's why I liked it the best?

Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 1:00 pm

Was he really trying to kill him in Book 4? Or just extract the soul-bit that was sitting in him? Which probably involves killing, of course!

EH?

Was he really using the killing curse on Harry when he was a baby? Or inserting part of his SOUL, a process which suddenly went terribly wrong? All the killing-curse stuff is mere hearsay and speculation on the part of the wizarding community! Everyone who was there died except Voldemort, after all.

That would explain all the "Harry has Voldemortish traits and can feel what he's feeling" far better than the "mystical connection because he tried to kill you" claptrap.

Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 1:41 pm

kundor wrote:

Everyone who was there died except Voldemort, after all.

Don't you mean except Harry?

Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 2:36 pm

Everyone except Voldemort and Harry who was just a baby and thus not capable of understanding or anything, sheesh!

I mean, c'mon, babies aren't people.