So!! Who's finished Deathly Hallows??
POSTED BY: PhoenixRose
UPDATED: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 19:03
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*snicker*
Now, I have a completely different version of the future, myself.
It involves the flying motorbike, an unexpected animagus,some nastiness with six inch roofing nails, and a really pissed off snake demon in Europe.
Just a thought - some of these folk have another year of school to go, or to make up. (Hermione miss out on examinations? I don't think so.)
Would you like to be the Auror Recruitment Officer that tells Harry Potter that he doesn't have the paper qualifications for the job?
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I've got a quick question. I might have been reading too quickly, but I didn't get who "Victoire" was in the epilogue. She seemed to be a female who was perhaps going to marry Ted. Harry then states that such a marriage would make Ted truly part of the family. Does this make her Harry's daughter? Her name seems appropriate, given Harry's "victory" over Voldemort.
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With the french name, I'm thinking Victoire is Bill and Fleur's daughter.
I am also a Snape fan although I thought after book 6 that it would turn out he had made an unbreakable vow with Dumbledore. I knew he had a thing for Lily. The "look at me" and "always" were heart-breaking. Snape really had no choice but to see Harry as his father, to recognize Lily in Harry would have been too hard for him knowing he was somewhat responsible for her death.
I originally thought the epilogue idea was kind of cheesy but liked that Harry honored Snape and recognized his bravery in the end. Also nice to see that Percy was still Percy and that Neville had found his place at Hogwarts (and in my version of the future as head of Gryfindor, while McGonagall was Headmaster).
I really thought Narcissa's final motivation to lie was seeing that Harry had once again survived Voldemort's killing curse. She was already angry for what Voldemort was doing to her child and now Harry appears unkillable.
Dobby was really the hardest loss (I knew Snape would have to die so it wasn't as shocking), Tonks and Lupin were done for as soon as they made Harry godfather.
I liked that JKR let Dumbledore have some weaknesses instead of making him a saint. I also don't think Dumbledore could have told Harry the full story before he chose to sacrifice himself. I think Harry had to truly think he was going to die. If he knew that he wouldn't then the old magic would not have been invoked.
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JKR has confirmed that Victoire is Bill and Fleur's oldest child.
That scene can be a bit misleading, if you imagine that Teddy is there to get on the Hogwarts train. He's too old, being nineteen at that point. But JKR was clever -- James says "he came to see her off", so he's not on the way back to school. Victoire must be at least a couple years younger than Teddy.
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I'm pointin' right at it!
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Originally posted by SpaceAnJL:
Just a thought - some of these folk have another year of school to go, or to make up. (Hermione miss out on examinations? I don't think so.)
Would you like to be the Auror Recruitment Officer that tells Harry Potter that he doesn't have the paper qualifications for the job?
I think that defeating the most evil and powerful Dark wizard to ever walk the Earth would qualify one for graduating with honors, don't you?
I <3 the future history of all the characters there! That's just what I would have chosen for most of them. Wasn't sure where Ginny would have gone, but that's a great wrapup for her.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
A troll's hair is still pointy, even when it's wearing a hat.
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Originally posted by SpaceAnJL:
Would you like to be the Auror Recruitment Officer that tells Harry Potter that he doesn't have the paper qualifications for the job?
Only important if Harry wants the job. He did say he'd had all the excitement from life he wanted already so the only reason for him to apply would be if he needed the money. Which from the very first book it is shown that he doesn't.
David
"Looks like we got here just in the nick of time."
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The only thing I wanna say was that the Harry as a Hurcrux dealie got me excited that my prediction that both Harry and Voldemort would die... which I wouldda frakin' loved!!! It's not that I hate Harry or anything, but be realistic folks, a 17 year old kid would probably NOT be able to kill a (centuries? ) old, POWERFUL dark wizard... also it would have broken from tradition and that in and of itself would have given Rowling a HUGE boost in my eyes as an author... the whole "19 years later" thing got way to cutesie for me after all the deaths in the book... what was with that? and the Remus and Tonks getting married, haveing a kid, and then getting axed without them ever really being in the story 
Lupin/ Tonks are my two most favorite characters in the entire series next to Mad Eye... Mad Eye died the way I felt he should have though, and for that I am greatful... and, yes, the Dobby death really got my tears going, but for some reason, the Fread death didn't do much for me... I guess because it was just so sudden and all "Fread's dead... moving on" ... and this has become much longer than "the only thing I wanna say..." 
But, yeah, best Potter EVER next to "Goblet of Fire"
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Originally posted by PhoenixRose:Quote:
Originally posted by SpaceAnJL:
Just a thought - some of these folk have another year of school to go, or to make up. (Hermione miss out on examinations? I don't think so.)
Would you like to be the Auror Recruitment Officer that tells Harry Potter that he doesn't have the paper qualifications for the job?
I think that defeating the most evil and powerful Dark wizard to ever walk the Earth would qualify one for graduating with honors, don't you?
Work with me here. All you need is one little jobsworth having a Percy moment, and he could have himself a very bad day.
I was rather sad that the only way forward for the female characters seems to be 'wife and mother'. (Then, I feel that way about life most of the time...)
Interesting thought on another character here - Lavender Brown got bitten by Fenrir, didn't she? That's going to put a cramp in her social life. I just had a flashback to Willow - 'three days of the month, I'm a bitch to be around, too.'
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Originally posted by BrownCoat2007:
(centuries? ) old
71 years assuming my math is correct. Riddle was 16 when he first opened the chamber of secrets and made the book horcrux. That happened 50 years before the events of Chamber of Secrets. Add 5 years to get to Deathly Hallows.
David
"Looks like we got here just in the nick of time."
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Originally posted by SpaceAnJL:
I was rather sad that the only way forward for the female characters seems to be 'wife and mother'.
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Ginny Weasley stuck with her athletic career, playing for
the Holyhead Harpies, the all-female Quidditch team. Eventually,
Ginny left the team to raise their three children -- James, Albus and
Lily -- while writing as the senior Quidditch correspondent for the
wizarding newspaper, the Daily Prophet.
Hermione Granger furthered the rights of subjugated creatures,
such as house elves, in the Department for the Regulation and Control
of Magical Creatures before joining the magical law enforcement
squad. The couple had two children -- Rose and Hugo.
Uh-huh.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
A troll's hair is still pointy, even when it's wearing a hat.
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