The Harry Potter Thread!

[Watson]

DADA is cursed though!

Yeah, but it was cursed by Voldemort. Harry killed Voldemort, so I think it's a safe assumption he also broke the curse.

 

[StorminNorman]

Rowling said in some interview that Harry, Ron, and Hermoine become Aurors. But that he took such a lead role in the DA is another great reason he would have been a great professor at Hogwarts.

See, this is why I hate the fact I love Rowling, she spends years developing great characters and then instead of finishing with the same quality, she gets lazy. Instead of writing a decent romantic subplot for Harry, he gives her Ginny with no explanation. Instead of having Ron and Hermione and Harry actually grow up, she simply says they all became Aurors. Instead of closing the saga with grace, she gives us a terrible, horrible epilogue and a fairy tale book.

Ron has no business being an Auror and Hermione is wasted as an Auror.

 

[Watson]

See, this is why I hate the fact I love Rowling, she spends years developing great characters and then instead of finishing with the same quality, she gets lazy. Instead of writing a decent romantic subplot for Harry, he gives her Ginny with no explanation. Instead of having Ron and Hermione and Harry actually grow up, she simply says they all became Aurors. Instead of closing the saga with grace, she gives us a terrible, horrible epilogue and a fairy tale book.

Ron has no business being an Auror and Hermione is wasted as an Auror.

I actually agree here. She definitely could have ended it in a more creative manner.

As for Hermoine and Ron, I always saw her taking some high up position at the Ministry, and Ron would be a stay at home dad and take care of all the little Weasley's . But I would have never picked Ron to become a full-fledged Auror.

 

[Star]

Honestly I don't really think that Ron OR Harry would be smart enough to get accepted. Well, maybe Harry would be because he killed Voldemort but ... Ron was just average at everything

 

[StorminNorman]

Harry was naturally gifted in combat and defense.

Hermione would of been a terrible Auror, yes she was brilliant in books smart but DADA was always one of her weakest classes. A person like Hermione would of almost certainly joined the Ministry as an advocate for a cause like elf and other creature rights. Possibly with a side step at Hogwarts (they needed a Transfiguration teacher, right?).

Did she ever show any interest in being an Auror at all? Outside of being Harry's gal pal? In fact she failed fairly epically in their battle at the Ministry (simply silencing a Death Eater instead of actually attacking?). Stupid, stupid.

 

[Lobo]

Half Blood Prince was my favorite.

 

[StorminNorman]

What did you like about HBP?

 

[Star]

It was my favourite too. I did think that the romantic parts were a bit dragging and silly at times, though I didn't hate them. I liked learning about Voldemort's past

 

[chaseter]

It was cool to see him wanting to be DADA professor extremely bad and Dumbledore said no and that just made him further lament the man.

 

[04nbod]

I'm a snape fan so HBP was right up my alley

 

[StorminNorman]

Voldemort's past stuff was great, but it made up about a third of the book.

HBP may of featured both the highest and lowest point in the series. Sadly for every high point, IMO, there are 5 lows.

 

[Logan's Lady]

It's hard to decide... but I chose The Prizoner of Azkaban as my favorite book.

Of course I also loved Half-Blood Prince. That's a movie I'm looking forward to

 

[Star]

Voldemort's past stuff was great, but it made up about a third of the book.

HBP may of featured both the highest and lowest point in the series. Sadly for every high point, IMO, there are 5 lows.

Seeing as you clearly hate the book I'm interested to hear what parts of it you hated exactly. I'm just starting to re-read it now (re-reading the whole series) and so it'll be fresh in my mind while I read it ....

 

[chaseter]

I also liked about HBP the fact that Ron was now the star for a little moment. He was on the Quidditch team, helped them win the House Cup for the last time, was loved by girls, etc...

 

[Eggyman]

I'm a snape fan so HBP was right up my alley

I'm a Snape fan too. Me and my mate knew that he wasn't bad - we just KNEW it. All the way through the series I just kinda had a feeling deep in my gut that he was going to be a hero. He wasn't the hero they needed, but he was the one they deserved. A silent hero. An old goth.

 

[chaseter]

hahahahahahaha

 

[Star]

I also liked about HBP the fact that Ron was now the star for a little moment. He was on the Quidditch team, helped them win the House Cup for the last time, was loved by girls, etc...

So true. He finally got some recognition as opposed to always being in Harry's shadow.

Speaking of Ron, I thought it was so sad when he left in DH

 

[chaseter]

So true. He finally got some recognition as opposed to always being in Harry's shadow.

Speaking of Ron, I thought it was so sad when he left in DH

I thought it was odd that Snape's patronus is a doe

 

[Star]

Yeah me too... I was expecting.... I dunno, a lizard or maybe an eel haha.

I guess because Lily's was probably a doe his changed to look like hers? (I'm not even entirely sure if hers was a doe but I guess that would make the most sense because of James and everything)

 

[Watson]

I thought it was odd that Snape's patronus is a doe

Yeah me too... I was expecting.... I dunno, a lizard or maybe an eel haha.

I guess because Lily's was probably a doe his changed to look like hers? (I'm not even entirely sure if hers was a doe but I guess that would make the most sense because of James and everything)

See that's what I thought too, but it seems that Patronus's are almost like daemons from HDM in that they represent the person's spirit. For instance Harry having a stag, Hermoine an otter, and Ron a golden retriever seem pretty connected to their personality. So maybe Snape having a Doe is indicative of his true nature?

 

[StorminNorman]

Seeing as you clearly hate the book I'm interested to hear what parts of it you hated exactly. I'm just starting to re-read it now (re-reading the whole series) and so it'll be fresh in my mind while I read it ....

The romantic subplot was just lazily done, I mean Harry really just finds this "monster" in his chest randomly some day with Ginny after showing no signs at all of being even remotely interested in her?

Or how about Hermione who suddenly cares about Quiditich and has no problem breaking rules (bewitching the other Keeper, attacking Ron with birds). I mean if JKR was trying to show that Hermione's hormones are making her irrational and acting out of character, she succeeded.

I also have a big problem with Ron and Hermione ignoring Harry's suspicions about Draco - these are the same kids that flew to London on one of Harry's hunches, these are the same kids regularly engaged in adventures due to Harry's hunches.

And then you had the Felix Felicis that was a bafflingly bad idea that just opened up huge questions in the logic of the universe.

The flashbacks to Voldemort were fantastic, but everything else was just poorly written.

 

[chaseter]

See that's what I thought too, but it seems that Patronus's are almost like daemons from HDM in that they represent the person's spirit. For instance Harry having a stag, Hermoine an otter, and Ron a golden retriever seem pretty connected to their personality. So maybe Snape having a Doe is indicative of his true nature?

After finding out that was Snape's patronus...I was like what a wimp I know it was meant to confuse us because no one would associate a Doe with a male character so in that sense it worked. It was just so imasculine in the sense that Snape produced it. But yes, I agree that the patronus represents the true nature of the indivdual...Ron's was a dog I believe = loyal friend btw!

 

[chaseter]

The romantic subplot was just lazily done, I mean Harry really just finds this "monster" in his chest randomly some day with Ginny after showing no signs at all of being even remotely interested in her?

Or how about Hermione who suddenly cares about Quiditich and has no problem breaking rules (bewitching the other Keeper, attacking Ron with birds). I mean if JKR was trying to show that Hermione's hormones are making her irrational and acting out of character, she succeeded.

I also have a big problem with Ron and Hermione ignoring Harry's suspicions about Draco - these are the same kids that flew to London on one of Harry's hunches, these are the same kids regularly engaged in adventures due to Harry's hunches.

And then you had the Felix Felicis that was a bafflingly bad idea that just opened up huge questions in the logic of the universe.

The flashbacks to Voldemort were fantastic, but everything else was just poorly written.

Cho betrayed Harry so I guess he was single and ready to mingle and Ginny was the first to tickle his pickle.

Hermione cared about Quidditch because Ron cared about Quidditch

Ron wasn't in his right mind anyways due to the love potion and being now involved with Quidditch...his mind was else where. Hermione does hate Malfoy but she has always questioned Harry's hunches by giving alternative explanations to it and this was no different. I think also because Snape was protecting Malfoy's interests to save him and that was something the students saw and just let it go...unlike Harry.

How did Felix Felicis defy the logic of this world?

 

[amazingfantasy15]

The romantic subplot was just lazily done, I mean Harry really just finds this "monster" in his chest randomly some day with Ginny after showing no signs at all of being even remotely interested in her?

I think it was done fine, didn't you ever have a female friend or classmate that you never really thought of in a romantic sense as a kid, then one day you notice how hot she's become. That's the way I saw it, Harry finally realizing he's attracted to Ginny. They did have a lot in common, both liked Quittich, both very personally affected by Voldemort, both good at Defense Against the Dark Arts, Rowling made sure to mention how well she performed as a member of the DA.

Or how about Hermione who suddenly cares about Quiditich and has no problem breaking rules (bewitching the other Keeper, attacking Ron with birds). I mean if JKR was trying to show that Hermione's hormones are making her irrational and acting out of character, she succeeded.

Hermione always cared about Quittich in terms of supporting her friends and house. As for attacking Ron, that was just being upset, she is a teenage girl after all, let's also not forget this was the girl brewing polyjuice potion to interogate another student in her second year. Hermione wasn't exactly squeaky clean during the series.

I also have a big problem with Ron and Hermione ignoring Harry's suspicions about Draco - these are the same kids that flew to London on one of Harry's hunches, these are the same kids regularly engaged in adventures due to Harry's hunches.

For 6 years, Harry tried to pin things on both Snape and Malfoy and they always turned out to be innocent. Call out Harry crying wolf too many times.

And then you had the Felix Felicis that was a bafflingly bad idea that just opened up huge questions in the logic of the universe.

It's a magical world again there were plenty of things that defied logic.

The flashbacks to Voldemort were fantastic, but everything else was just poorly written.

This I agree with, my favorite parts of Half Blood Prince were learning about Voldemort's past. Really sucks we're going to be limited to only 2-3 of those in the movie.

 

[Ugfugly]

See that's what I thought too, but it seems that Patronus's are almost like daemons from HDM in that they represent the person's spirit. For instance Harry having a stag, Hermoine an otter, and Ron a golden retriever seem pretty connected to their personality. So maybe Snape having a Doe is indicative of his true nature?

That he was gay for Harry?

What about Tonks' new patronus being a werewolf?

I think it represents what's in your heart and the idea that Lilly may have had a doe patronus and Snape taking that makes alot of sense.