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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows!!!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here... and yep, that's the title of Book 7, the final book in the HARRY POTTER series. HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS. The title will take some getting used to. It doesn't have that immediately satisfying ring that something like HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE does, but I'm sure when we finish the book the title will fit better than any other.
Methinks the Deathly Hallows will be a place young Mr. Potter gets to visit some long lost friends, but that's just a guess. Probably 100% wrong since Mrs. Rowling always seems to be two or three steps ahead of me.
As a fan of the books and the films, I eagerly await this final book. Hope it's a perfect capper to the series... she has the chance to really solidify her work as being the Wizard of Oz for this generation, something that'll live for decades, if not centuries, after she's gone. I know in my travels this year, I went all over the world and one consistant was Harry Potter. From Spain (Harry Potter's face in ice cream store windows) to Prague (Harry Potter marionettes hanging in damn near every shop) to New Zealand and the UK... Potter's a world phenomenon the likes we haven't seen since perhaps 1977 when Lucas released Star Wars.
Here's hoping the legacy is cemented with a fantastic last book. At the very least it has to live up to HALF-BLOOD PRINCE which is one of the stand-out best books of the series so far.
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That is all.
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I have every confidence in her writing so I'm not worried about it. Title isn't bad, just not catchy or flowy like the others.
Oh and 1st...sorry couldn't help myself. -
first film was exiting .. and then .. well .. i cared less and less ...
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Actually, I found "Half-Blood Prince" to be the weakest Potter novel since "Chamber of Secrets." Still a good read, mind you, but not nearly as well put together as the "POA"-"GOF"-"OOTP" trifecta.
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Can't wait. For the book or the movies. Hope they DO finish the movie series....
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and not the title outside it. And I agree that Half-Blood wasn't nearly as good as the previous three books, specifically Prisoner and Goblet.
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Pardon me for spreading some Harry Potter hatred on this fine winter morning, but the ahrdcore Harry Potter fans I have encountered at the movie theater the past few movies have led me to such a path. Grown adults (with no children around them) dressing as wizards and witches make me weep for humanity as a whole. Hopefully in the 7th book, a Neutron bomb goes off at Hogwarts, vaporizing everyone, so there will be hope that one day grown men and women won't have an excuse to stand in line at the AMC making such embarassing scenes of themselves.
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..Like i said!
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This is gonna rock. I just know it - each book is better than the one before. I'm thrilled.
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Now THAT'S a title!
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Now THAT'S a title.
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But no matter, 'cause its contents are sure to amaze. Now give me a release date before I explode.
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was average too and actually added little to the universe of Harry Potter excpet for the Hocruxes
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it does not grab me, but hopefully she will go back to the genius of PoA and give a fitting finally.
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And I can't figure it out for the life of me. Death must be a big part of the book to be in the title... then again the Half-Blood Prince wasn't necessarily a HUGE part...
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I love these books so much that I kinda don't want the last book to ever come out. Cuz then it'll really be over and that's a pretty sad notion to me. On the other hand, I can't friggin wait for it!
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Can't wait to stand in line with 10,000 other people in the parking lot of BookPeople again! Thank God for the Drafthouse and their portable film screens!
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No creepy, perverted and/or disturbing Hermione-related parody titles?
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... I wouldn't say that Spain, UK Prague and New Zealand are exactly an accurate cross section of humanity, or indeed of the planet.
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Dec 21, 2006 11:11:01 AM CST
Never read the books but the last 2 movies have been AA
by godzillasushi
Anyway, I read everywhere that someone should be dead. For someone who has read the books....what main characters have died so far?
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anyone see the simpsons a couple weeks ago
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ITS CALLED SPOILER you knob... I really dont want to know alright.
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I got the second to last book at the midnight opening of the last book, not even THINKING of taking that chance this time. Half-Blood Prince was a favorite of mine over Order since it just moved better, and Harry was a better person because of what he learned from the previous book.
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dont come to the thread then Seph_J. Go out and read them then come back, but dont be a pussy. Suck it up little one.
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... I would like to explore the grounds of "Hermiones Deathly Hallows". You asked for it.
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Draco dies in book 5, and Ron dies in Book 6. All the kids die young in these books.
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Is it this summer?
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Are you joking? That sounds very odd....
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Book 4 - Cedric
Book 5 - Harry
Book 6 - Hagrid -
I think your all making stuff up....
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My favorite book title....
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Or my personal favorite, "Harry Potter and We're Selling the Last 30 pages for $129.99"
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COME ON JUST TELL ME.....
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Try it!
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in book 5 and 6, 2 people die and one of them is not dumbledore.
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Order of the Phoenix was a chore to get through, but I loved Half-Blood Prince. I'm way keen for the final book, even if it's partly to see if I win the bet I've made with a friend on what the last Horcrux is.
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I heard the book was due in July 2007.
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bunch of grown adults running around in capes throwing potions at eachother. But the movies are pretty good so im curious as to what will happen. Dont judge me Bean_, you probably think im a 500 foot lizard from old Japanese movies, but I read....just not about whimsy magic unicorns that battle the evil robot hobbits...
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Draco is thrown into a weird curtain thing (?) in Book 5 at the Ministry, and Ron is blown off a tower at Hogwart's in Book 6. Not as graphic as it sounds, but still intense.
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I bet yall are the kind of people that complain if the room temperature isnt perfect...yeesh lighten up. Harry Potter is fake ya know, yea its fake and after you finish reading it, life goes on. Yup its crazy, I know. Thanks BTW all your base. Everyone else, chill out lol. Im just a mysterious poster, dont waste your time getting angry over me.
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Oh.....k thanks lol
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Yeah, I'm still betting on 07/07/07 to be the release date. Imagine the firestorm that it will create with the fifth movie coming out the week after.
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i gave you a great hint, want another hint? one of them is not sirius black
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Yea that makes the most sense. Hype will be big.
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Nah, that's crap too...
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the web site? How do get the key to open the door?
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the web site? How do get the key to open the door?
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the web site? How do get the key to open the door?
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..a person that waste's time posting on a forum about something that apparently he dosen't give a shit about. Wow..just like you do. Sad. nuff said.
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It's funny that a guy with Darth in his name who frequents a movie news site like this is complaining about adults dressing up at movie premieres. Of course, to see them he'd have to be there opening night with them.
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there were intruigingly accurate theories about the harry and voldemort connection, referring to souls. On a more relevant note, what the fuck's a hallow? Or is it a verb?
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and First, losers.
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We already have such classics as "Harry Twatter and the Sorcerer's Bone" and "Harry Twatter and the Chamber of Secretions", but I'm at a loss for this latest one. Help!
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We already have such classics as "Hairy Twatter and the Sorcerer's Bone" and "Hairy Twatter and the Chamber of Secretions", but I'm at a loss for this latest one. Help!
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You're a genius.
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harry has his first mastubation session and says "FUCK this magic SHIT!"
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Harry falls in with the wrong crowd
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So many people are going to be SOOOOOO pissed off when this series ends. I think the anger at there being no more Harry Potter will overshadow what J.K. Rowling HAS written in 'the Deathly Hallows'. Nothing short of fucking PERFECTION will please people, and even then that wouldn't please everyone. There were so many whiners after Half-Blood Prince, everyone complaining about little things that JK hasn't explained, but they still cling onto some hope because there's one more book. Well here's a fucking newsflash for you all, she isn't going to answer every last thing in the final book, and she isn't going to come to your house and felate you, you are JUST GOING TO HAVE TO ACCEPT THAT. You can guarantee debates will rage for years and years about the series and the whining for further installments. Maybe eventually it will pass, but at first it's going to be crazy. By the way, 'Deathly Hallows' is pretty ominous, and is suggesting death and darkness, but maybe in the end that won't be the case. I mean, what does the title 'Goblet of Fire' conjure up in your head? You'd never think that it was just something to choose the champions for the Tournament.
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Rowling is raffling off the rights for future Harry Potter novels to the highest bidder, and there are already a bunch of new titles in the works by various unpublished authors, Dean R. Koontz. For example: Harry Potter and the Meat Packers Union. Harry Potter and the Ill-fitting Bloody Glove. Harry Potter and the Senate Sub-committee. Harry Potter and the League of Angry Lesbians. Harry Potter and the Infinite Wheel of Cheese. Harry Potter and the Potentate of Hot-n-Tots. Harry Potter and the Inifinte Series of Increasing Moronic and Irritating Puns. Harry Potter and the Big, Hairy Monster. Harry Potter and Hermione's Secret Garden. Harry Potter and the Society of Ethnically Diverse Wizards. Harry Potter and the Magical Mystery Tour. Harry Potter and the Attack of the Fabulous Cross-Dressing Dance Troupe. Harry Potter and Muggle Pie. Harry Potter and the Church of the Poisoned Mind. Harry Potter and the Oppressive Bureaucracy. Harry Potter and the Expired Script Options. Harry Potter and the Theft of the Galleys (where the theif is caught trying to sell the galleys on eBay--like magic!). And then, they reboot the series with: Harry Potter Returns: The Final Countdown to the Silver Surfer, where Harry Potter comes back from wizarding to become a professional boxer.
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I like the movies...the movies based on these very books....I do recall saying that more then once. You know the movies are based on the books right? My goodness, im going to go cry in the corner now, Jugs has hurt my feelings. But before I do that im going to troll the internet making other people mad.... Psh lol. "nuff said"
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This title is hard to pornify.
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Too soon!
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i have 2 coins worth 30 cents. one of them is not a nickel. what do i have? (i have a quater and a nickel) now you have all the info to solve your inquiry.
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HARRY POTTER AND THE HALLOWS OF DEATH.
See, isn't that much better?
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Or if you're into Max Hardcore style stuff, Harry Potter and the Messy Bowels...
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You are one coy fellow....a trickster even. Fascinating. A riddle to bring forth great techniques of trickery....brilliant but how shall I decode what is undecodable?......odd.......
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What's a quater? :)
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is Christmas, I bet it takes place at Christmas, I bet you, that's a bet. A bet I say!
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The titles for these books become less and less compelling as the series progresses. Although I have to admit I'd see a movie witht he title I suggest above. It might have a better chance of helping me sustain consciousness than the Harry Potter films so far, especially if Hermione is the one who gives said itch to Harry.
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Word from an editor at Harper Collins is 7/7/07.
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your right dude, I always think the same thing. consider it discussed!
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for us "stupid Yanks". Just like the philosopher's stone was changed to the sorceror's stone. One possibility: Harry Potter & the Struggle of Child Actors to Avoid Typecasting.
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It has seen the end of Rocky and Star Wars. What franchise should they close the book on next? I know! The American Pie movies.
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but the last book pissed me off, so we'll see.
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They'll finally go where Sam & Frodo never could...
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I think my hatred of this series all boils down to the fact that it posits that all wizards ride around on brooms. It is the most awkward, stupid thing in the books. Brooms in legend were ridden by demented, child-eating baba Yaga type witches and nobody else, and certainly not by male wizards. Seriously, the kid wizard thing had already been done about a dozen times, and better in literature, before the first HP book with its hideous jacket design even came out.
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Is that a good one? I hated the last book, most of it took place in the pensieve, and the person that died went down without a fight. It wont be a very good movie, I fear...
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All Hallows eve is the name that ancient celts gave to the end of the summer (in old times the summer season ended on october 31st). taken back to modern times, all hallows eve would be something like "the day of all souls" or "day of the dead" or Halloween for us. not xmas
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In a few years, say 16... there will be a new book where harry, now old and out of magic will be approached with the news that a new computer simulation has him as a winner of a magic duel against a new foe, even more formidable than he-who-must-not-be-named. In light of this Harry decides to retake his magic road to prove to himself that he is still a wonderful wizard. At the same time we'll learn that the Ministry of Magic is being attacked from the inside. This nobody is elected as a new Minister of Magic and will try to create an empire. But he will need help. he will need the help of somebody who is very strong in magic, well Harry of course. He'll get close to Harry, he'll feed him lies and tell him that he's seen the future and he's seen Harry wife (now pregnant with wizard twins) will die unless he can do something about it. This will take Harry to a feud with his best friend Ron, Who's now an Auror and will battle Harry in the most amazing wizard duel ever written. The Battle will end with Ron as a winner and Harry as a loser with horrible scars all over. Then he'll be put in a life-sustaining suit and he'll learn that his wife has died while giving birth. The Book will end with harry braking down, falling on his knees and yelling "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO"
This is all true, all takes from behind the wall at Rowling's own site. All true I tells ya! -
Believe that!
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C'mon, we know how dark this book is going to be so why not a title just as dark? The Deathly Hallows....It just sounds creepy. I'm on board.
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Seriously, why weren't there any XANTH movies? Piers Anthony's series are WAAAAY beyond the literary capabilities of Rowling. Much more imaginative, too. BAH.
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Finally saw it after a week, funny as shit! When is Rowling doing a Playboy spread?
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i think this will end with Ginny becomeing pregnant with Harrys basterd son...and hopefully lesbians, becuse lets face it. everything is better with lesibans...
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Methinks the deathly hallows could be what Harry said, in combination with something to do with the final battle between Harry and Voldemort. Or maybe the location of an all-important horcrux. Can't wait till this book comes out.... it's going to be sad, but i expect this to be one of the best, if not the best.
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Anything with the word "death" in the title sounds pretty final.
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Harry spends the whole book posting on AICN.
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I'm a big fan of the series, and it was still a pretty darn great book. But there was a whole lotta nothing that happened for pretty much the entire middle of the book: Voldemort's backstory got told, but there was a lot of filler surrounding it. On the bright side, we got the awesomely entertaining scenes with the Luck Potion, finally the Harry/Ginny coupling, and the great climax. Still, I thought the series reached a major high point with the classic Order of the Phoenix. I have high hopes for Deathly Hallows, and I think once we stir the name around for a while it will sit well. (I always thought Goblet of Fire was the worst title, anyway.)
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Sure it was mostly set up for the final book but I'd say some pretty big events took place namely the actions of Malfoy Jr. and Snape and the fate of Dumbledore. Order of the Phoenix is my favorite as well thought it certianly has its faults. Waaaaay too much time was spent on Harry moping around feeling sorry for himself and hating Dumbledore who was acting pecuiliarly out of character. But when they finally throw down with the death eaters at the end of the book, it redeemed itself tenfold.
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Oh boy
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You're right, glad no one took me up on the bet.
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Thank fuck that wankers disappeared. As for the title, Spyguy is absolutely correct, HARRY POTTER AND THE HALLOWS OF DEATH is infinitly better.
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You know you'd seet it
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See it before it grows back!
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...and on and on and on and....
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would be so predictable... i haven't ever been so into a series like this ever... if the next 3 movies are done just as well as the previous ones, it will go down as the best movie series ever. done.
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I can't wait to see my guess confirmed - that Harry inadvertantly became a Horcrux for Voldermort when he was a baby, and that only by killing himself can V. really die. And if Potter doesn't die, I'll be surprised. So maybe that'll be a good thing.
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In Goblet of Fire, Cedric died.
In Order of the Phoenix, Sirius Black died.
In Half Blood Prince, Dumbledore died. (Many still think that he knew Snape would have to kill him in order to totally gain Voldy's trust...so he made prior arrangements to come back some how.)
In Deathly Hallows, JK has said that 2 major characters will die.
Most people are guessing Voldemort and Harry, or Voldy and Snape. Some people have even specualted that it's going to be all out war since Dumbledore died, and a WHOLE LOT of minor characters will bite it, like Draco's dad, maybe Draco, Ron's dad, at least one of the Dursleys, and so on. -
Yep.
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Turtle power!
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Why didn't I think of that? If you are right my hat will be off to you. After which you will rot in the deathly hallows for ruining the my idiot surprise.
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Followed by the spin off: Ron Weasley and the Unlubed Asscrack
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It just seems inevitable.
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Godzilla Sushi, I agree, Harry should be put into more sexually explicit situations, positions, quandaries...much like the whole "massage parlor" incident of 1975...YEAH BABY!!!
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Or "to sanctify", when used as a verb. If the title were referring to a place, the word would be "Hollows".
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I've long believed that while it is possible that Harry may have to die to finish off voldemort, I think there is another way. I think that it will involve Harry having to rid himself of the Horcrux, but in so doing he will also rid himself of all magic making him a muggle. At that point voldemort will regain his full strength but without a Horcrux he can then be killed once and for all. This alternative allows the ending of the books to leave us with a poingant life lesson as Harry has to leave his childhood world of magic and integrate into the world of muggles and normalcy, imparting the wisdom that as childhood ends, we must let go of our illusions and embrace reality.
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beat it suckers
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beaten...
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I interpret "deathly hallows" to mean to be made holy (or revered, or simply honoured) thru death. That sounds pretty final and is a fitting title to end the series. ** Predictions: Ron and Hermione spend some quality alone time together, Harry is not around for the final chapter, but Snape is.
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Harry..Potter....and the Deathly Hollows.
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Just stop it now.
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I've been saying that all along. I forget how many are unaccounted for. One was in the Order of the Phoenix HQ and was most likely stolen. That still leaves a couple more if Harry is indeed the final Horclux. My wife thinks the book will end with Harry eventually replacing Dumbledore as headmaster of Hogwarts. She also thinks Hermione will eventually become Minister of Magic. All I know is Neville will be kicking some ass in the last book.
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is that everyone thinks theirs is actually funny or at least funnier than all the ones above them.
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that she will kill Harry out of sheer paranoia. Reason being that she's so afraid someone will write a sequel after she's gone. What she does not seem to realize is that "Harry Potter Dead" is about as final as "Star Trek Dead." If Harry lives to the conclusion of this book, I'll be surprised. Seems to me she has not a care for the millions of kids that will be crushed if she does it. For the richest woman in the world, she seems very bitter, and more than a little bit the man-hater. He ex did her the biggest favor in history by walking out, leaving her little choice but to write for hours in the coffee shop.
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need to suck it up. Harry Potter is a mass market multi media product - but it's a story first. The only obligation an authour has is to an honest telling.
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What are you her biographer? Lighten up a bit. Besides, it's Daniel Radcliffe that made the comments that caused the rampant speculation of Harry's death. Whatever Rowling does, I have no doubt she'll stick true to her story.
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It's the ridiculous argument about which of Rowling's titles are the "best". Deathly Hallows slips off the tongue way better than Half-Blood Prince! No way, Order of the Phoenix is way cooler sounding than Deathly Hallows! Blah wah beh blah bwah. I admit I was susceptible to it myself in my first post on here when I said "Goblet of Fire" was clunky, but reading back some of these is just hilarious. They're friggin titles and we feel the need to weigh in on our scientific reasons why one sounds cooler than another. (And while I'm on the topic, the best "fake humorous title" for a HP book, in my opinion, is "Harry Potter and the Mysterious Wad of Tissues".)
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If I am going to be stuck on an airplane for hours and hours I might as well have something good to read.
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the spooky door to no where(OOTP) is connected to the Deathly Hallows? Definitely agree with those that think Harry is a horcrux and that he will need to die in order for LV to be killed. Then Snape can step in and do the job he promised Dumbledore he would do. BTW I read somewhere that we would learn a lot more about Dumbledore in the next book. In the first book it mentioned that he helped bring down an evil wizard Grindewald(sp). Wonder if he was actually a spy like Snape and that is why he trusts him so much. Can't wait to read it! Oh, and I do not dress up in wizards robes etc to go to the movies. I am way to cool for that. I wear my Slytherin T from Hot Topic.
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translates back to english as
the Deadly Sanctuary. Maybe it has something to do with that room in the Minestry of Magic. With the souls. -
Personally wasn't greatly impressed with the title. Thinks the books are pretty fun, but very lightweight (in nearly every sense except the literal one...). Many other superior books and authors deserve the recognition and following that Potter has now. But then, that's just my opinion. At least she's got kids reading again, and reading fantasy (think the LOTR films helped there too). In 10-15 years time, when these readers are all grown up, we should get a new generation of decent fantasy work again. That, or more lamentable rip-off. *cough* Eragon *cough*. What?! I didn't say anything...
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...I wonder what other people have been thinking about the hints she's given us for this book? Like one of the DA becoming a teacher, but not necessarily one you would expect. I'd say Hermione is the one you'd expect, and perhaps Neville is therefore destined to teach his beloved Herbology...but then, I've always liked the idea of Neville dying. You know, his destiny was nearly Harry's, he started off weak but his spirit and courage have helped him become a decent enough wizard - he has tragic hero written all over him. Was trying to work out how he could die instead of Harry, seeing as how their births were both relevant to the prophesy (and I also like the idea of Harry being the final Horcrux, but I'm not yet convinced he will die). On a different note, I think it's obvious that Snape is a good guy, killed Dumbledore because the old bumblebee told him too, and will be a great help in the war. Not sure if he will die or not. Can see it going either way (revealing his true nature to Harry as he lies dying, probably after saving him by giving his own life; his true nature being revealed at the last moment, saving the day, and he lives on). Whatever.
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