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relrel · Marc Jacobs

RE: Harry Potter! (spoilers, obviously)

blubirde · Chanel

relrel wrote:

blubirde wrote:

I have a question that I haven't seen answered anywhere yet (including JKR's chat although I could have missed it). How did the Death Eaters know where Harry, Hermione, and Ron apparated to right after the wedding? Any ideas?

Wasn't that because they could track somebody who said Voldemort's name out loud? There was some sort of spell or something to pinpoint where a person was who said his name. I'd have to go back and look that up but I'm pretty sure that's what was going on. That was why Ron was so adamant against saying his name after he came back.

I thought that might be it but I wasn't sure. I didn't know if the name saying thing happened right away or later on. And I'm not certain, but surely they said his name before Ron came back to tell them not to, right?

NCshopper · Hermes

blubirde wrote:

relrel wrote:

blubirde wrote:

I have a question that I haven't seen answered anywhere yet (including JKR's chat although I could have missed it). How did the Death Eaters know where Harry, Hermione, and Ron apparated to right after the wedding? Any ideas?

Wasn't that because they could track somebody who said Voldemort's name out loud? There was some sort of spell or something to pinpoint where a person was who said his name. I'd have to go back and look that up but I'm pretty sure that's what was going on. That was why Ron was so adamant against saying his name after he came back.

I thought that might be it but I wasn't sure. I didn't know if the name saying thing happened right away or later on. And I'm not certain, but surely they said his name before Ron came back to tell them not to, right?

Yup, there was a curse or whatever put on Voldemort's name so that anyone who spoke his name would lose any protective charms and the Death Eaters would be able to find them. I think they had been saying "You Know Who" or whatever they called him up until that point because Ron had insisted on it before he left.

tara t · Marc Jacobs

halleybird wrote:

emery- Stephen King is a great writer, actually. Dan Brown, not so much.

I agree with Blubirde about JK's writing ability. She doesn't have the precision of, say, Hemingway, but her characterization is fantastic. The books are technically children's lit, so it's natural that the sentences are fairly short and the vocabulary simplistic.

That said, I loved it. II thought Rowling did a great job integrating different elements from all of the previous books. I enjoyed the humanizing of Dumbledore, Petunia and Dudley, too, and the Lily/Snape love story actually explained a lot. I wish she'd done more with Malfoy, though. He was such a big character, especially in the early books, that I felt like something needed to happen with him -- he needed to move one way or the other. I thought I saw the beginning when he claimed not to recognize Harry at Malfoy Manor, but then he was back to his old tricks again later on.

I think there was quite a bit of deux ex machina going on, but that's part of all the books IMO. And I agree about the epilogue-- what was the point? We didn't really hear anything we didn't already know was going to happen. It does sound like it was written a long time ago. Was I the only one who thought Harry would end up as Headmaster at Hogwarts?

I didn't find it sugary-sweet at all. In fact, I got a little tired of everybody being killed off all the time.

dangergirl- the reason Harry didn't die is because Voldemort's wand wouldn't work against its rightful owner. So the only thing he did was kill the part of Harry that wasn't Harry -- Voldemort himself. I think that was the crying child thing.

ETA: can someone answer this for me? How did Neville get the Sword of Gryffindor to destroy Nagini? I thought the goblins took it?

-- Edited by halleybird at 18:50, 2007-07-31

i think you have to be a "true gryffindor" to recieve the sword when you really need it. i think it just appeared in the sorting hat or with fawkes when harry was fighting with the basilik, right?