Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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I bought it and read it in a weekend.
Was a good read.
Some of it was very "Clancy-esque", in that there were about 100 pages of the main characters "blundering around trying to figure out what the next move was.
And the ending was a bit abrupt.
I think ms. R could have used the 100 pages of blundering to enhance the end.
 
Gil
ISome of it was very "Clancy-esque", in that there were about 100 pages of the main characters "blundering around trying to figure out what the next move was.
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Wait, I thought that was what Harry spent every book doing from the moment he got to school until just before the end of term exams, when all hell broke loose.
 
She's probably making it easier for the film adaption. No fan is going to complain that they missed seeing the characters sit in a forest for months.
 
FoolKiller
OK, I cracked. I have thus far refused to buy them new because I refuse to pay $35 for a book, but Kroger had it for $20, so I bought it. I will read it once I finish Clive Cussler's The Treasure of Khan.
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Recommended Retail Price over here is $40 or $50 (can't quite remember), department stores had it out for around $25 - $30 as did the major book stores.
What I found amusing was the book went on sale at 8.31am. We got to the shopping centre around 8.40am (I blame Jack and his drunken friends for me not getting there earlier). We walked past one book store that had about 10 people in queue to buy at $29.95, into Big W (which was oposite the book store) picked up the book walked to checkout, no queue, and paid $24.95. I then went and bought a coffee while Zoe went to another shop to buy something else. In the coffee shop there was a girl all decked out in her Harry Potter robes bragging how she got the 4th book on sale at Dymocks (another book shop) - the 4th book on sale in one store, in one shopping cente, in one state, in one country, woohoo big deal! So anyway we continue on with our shopping and walk past Dymocks, the book store the girl got her book from, they had been taking pre-orders for months, there was a queue outside the store of around 150-200 people all lined up to get their book at $5 more than the discount stores. Of course it did come in a pretty purple HP bag which must be worth the extra 5 bucks and the wait of up to an hour.
 
I got a little stuffed owl with mine :) I got it all for free because Matt pre-ordered it and I got a friend to collect it while I was at work. After all the hard work I didn't do to get a copy, I'm glad it was awesome.
 
ExigeExcel
She's probably making it easier for the film adaption. No fan is going to complain that they missed seeing the characters sit in a forest for months.
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D'oh... that explains it...
 
I've just finished reading the book also ...

... and I don't understand how Neville gets Gryffindor's sword to kill Nagini. The goblin took it and ran away with it from the Lestrange's vault, didn't he?

I guess Rowling made a mistake. And, for me, that's the second. The first being that Harry sees Quirrel's death in the first book, but he only sees Thestrals in the fifth book, acording to Rowling because he saw death for the first time when Cedric was murdered.

Am I wrong?
 
For you football fans (?) Gregg Easterbrook of ESPN has an entertaining article concerning Harry Potter, plot holes, and plagarism right here

Scroll down until you find the bold title: Spoiler Warning! Harry's Fine at the End of "Harry Potter and the Global Marketing Campaign of Doom"
 
Neville pulled the sword out of the sorting hat, just like Harry in the second book, because he's a true Gryffindor.

Also, Dumbledore arrives just in time to rescue Harry, thus not seeing Quirrel die.
Also, Speedy, put things in
tags.
 
Oh... I forgot the sorting hat thing... so while it was pulled around his ears and on fire, he just reached up in there and pulled it out?
... I've got to re-read that chapter again. :lol:
 
OK, I finished it last night. Now, I can finally go and highlight this entire thread.

nissan350z
I got kinda choked up when Dobby died. :(
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That is the only one that got to me, and I don't know why.

Gil
Some of it was very "Clancy-esque", in that there were about 100 pages of the main characters "blundering around trying to figure out what the next move was.
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Try 500 pages. I am absolutely positive that we could have moved that along a bit better without actually making me feel like I sat there for months on end.

Now for my thoughts:
I'll start from the end and move forward. That ending was horrid. It wreaked of a situation where the writer has no frickin' clue how to end her story. Not only are we all happy and married to our high school sweethearts, but there are no more bad wizards of any kind and the world is perfect?

Next, the sword thing bothers me to no end. So, no matter where it is and no matter what is going on a true Gryffindor can summon it at any time? Or is it only from the Sorting Hat, because that seems fairly inconvenient unless you happen to have a phoenix handy. And no wonder the goblins think it has been stolen. This time around it technically was. Little goblin dude earned the sword in a deal and now wizards have it again.

I was finally glad to see Ron using a radio because up until now wizards never used any kind of technology. Magic is great and all, but a light bulb causes less eye strain than firelight. I'm surprised they don't all wear glasses. And if you have the most dangerous wizard in the world then get a freaking gun and enchant that sucker. People are stepping out of the way of spells and seeing them go by. You don't see a bullet and you can't dodge it without anticipating the shot. I just don't get why the wizarding world refuses to use some muggle technology. Cell phone is easier and quicker than an owl. The Internet is faster than a library, and searchable. Plus, if it is in runes, there is a good chance Google will translate it for you.

And if nothing else knowing how to use muggle stuff can only help you blend in. It would work a lot better than the crazy old lady twirling her funny stick around act.


And if Voldemort is such a big bad wizard why can't he find a spell that protects him against killing curses?

What happened to Hagrid with the giant spiders? One minute they are dragging him off and the next he is being held by Voldemort.

And did no one in London see a dragon flying overhead? Really?

So, is the Ministry of Magic just over English wizards or all wizards? So, does Voldemort just want to rule England or is he out for world domination? Considering all that's out there he is thinking pretty small if he just wants England. I would imagine he would want world domination.

And if the Ministry of Magic is just over England, how is it that every wizard all over the world chose to go into hiding together? These people can't agree how to run a school, much less the planet. So, I guess there were no muggle-hating wizards leading at the time?

Finally, the final battle, the end of it all ended with one shot? It felt like Dracula, only an even bigger let down. In Dracula it is culminating in this huge chase back to his castle, trying to catch him before he gets home and the sun goes down. It looks like the sun is about to set and we will have a fight on our hands when the hero catches up, overturns the casket and cuts off his head. The final battle lasted less than a paragraph.

This was worse because I had a seven book build just to discover Voldemort, like Dr. Evil, loves to talk his victims to death more than anything. Then after seven years of story time it all comes down to one killing curse backfiring off a disarming spell. The fighting lasted less than a second.

In the end, the entire series created a good story, but the telling of it was horrible.

And with that, I am off to read Earthcore by Scott Sigler.
 
I don't know, there's something about using Google, capping people with your nine and calling up Ron on his brand new iPhone that would take away from the feel of the story.
 
Jimmy Enslashay
I don't know, there's something about using Google, capping people with your nine and calling up Ron on his brand new iPhone that would take away from the feel of the story.
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It just seems to me that the idea of wizards in modern times still living like it's the dark ages is a bit odd. It isn't as if they suddenly lose their power when they touch silicon. Rowling tries to cover it up by making it seem as if using muggle "artifacts" (we aren't dead yet) is illegal, yet they have a radio and in the end Ron got a driver's license. So, by law they must blend in with muggles, but they cannot use muggle items?

It just seems like the wizarding world is stuck in a temporal bubble.
 
There is no law about using muggle artifacts, note the radio, the Bus, the train, flying cars (used by the Ministry) but the general derision and contempt with which wizards hold muggles means that very few wizards seem to hold much by using Muggle technology. Who needs cars when you can apparateor go by flue? Sure, E-mail is nice, but talking portraits and owls are much cooler...

RE: Bullets... you can cure bullet wounds with a swipe of the wand. An "unforgiveable curse" is more or less permanent death. And bullets can't hurt dementors or inferi.

Notice that there is "progress" of sorts in the ministry... where they use flying missives instead of owls. Hopefully somebody will invent a crystal-ball phone, sooner or later... :lol:

But, in the end, it's also probably a convenient plot device to keep Harry isolated from the Wizarding World when he's at Privet Drive.
 

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