Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - the SPOILER thread!

I was thinking of two things today:  Firstly, did anyone else deep down want Harry to go on and be with his parents/Sirius/Lupin/etc.  Don't know why, but I did. 

At first I did.  But then, I'm a mother, and the thing a mother wants most for all her children is a happy life.  She will sacrifice literally anything for this or to give her child a chance at this, as Harry's mother did.  That was their generation, and is n the past so it was good to see him live in the end, although I didn't like the Shakespearean tragedy/Passion meet Who Killed JR? way she went about it.

I wish she'd whacked Mr Weasley rather than Fred, though.

I wish she'd whacked Mr Weasley rather than Fred, though.

Or Percy instead of Fred! I couldn't believe she separated the twins!!!

just followed JKR's live chat on bloomsbury's website.  It was interesting.  She answered a couple of questions that have been on here.  One being the one about Hermione and memory charms.  She said that Hermione hadn't fully wiped her parents' memories as a memory charm would, but that she had bewitched them to believe that they were someone else, which was different than a memory charm.  It was an interesting chat and you got to find out many of the fates of the characters. 

ie. Ron went into business with his brother at the joke shop and was very successful.  Hermione and Harry both revolutionized the auror dept and magical law enforcement for the ministry which was cleaned up when Kingsley Shackelbolt became the permanent minister.  Ginny played on a professional quiditch team until she chose to raise a family.  Luna became famous as a magical naturalist and was able to document many previously unknown species of animals, but alas, never found the crumple-horned snorkack and was forced to concede that her father may have been wrong about that one.  She married another well-known naturalist later in life.  Krum also found love, but it was back in his native land.

Fun stuff.  I know it's just a book, but somehow they've all become very real in recent years.  The rest of the transcript will be posted tomorrow at www.bloomsbury.com/harrypotter.

i think i figured out what bothered me about ginny.  if you do the maths- ginny's 2 years younger than harry, right?

1980 harry born
1982 ginny born
1998 final book set
2017 epilogue

that means that she would have had to have had the oldest of her three kids (with harry) at the age of 20-22.  i know it's a kids book.  but that seems so young to me (yes, i know my own mother had her first at 21).

Darn, I wish I had known that was going on!  Will wait for the transcript with baited breath...

that means that she would have had to have had the oldest of her three kids (with harry) at the age of 20-22.  i know it's a kids book.  but that seems so young to me (yes, i know my own mother had her first at 21).

Um, yeah, some people have kids younger.  Nothing wrong with that.  Don't see what the big deal is with that, tbh.

Um, yeah, some people have kids younger.  Nothing wrong with that.  Don't see what the big deal is with that, tbh.

Most kids wouldn't do the math either. 

ie. Ron went into business with his brother at the joke shop and was very successful.  Hermione and Harry both revolutionized the auror dept and magical law enforcement for the ministry which was cleaned up when Kingsley Shackelbolt became the permanent minister.  Ginny played on a professional quiditch team until she chose to raise a family. 

Gee, that's strange. On the Today Show last week JK Rowling had this to say:

We know that Harry marries Ginny and has three kids, essentially, as Rowling explains, creating the family and the peace and calm he never had as a child.

As for his occupation, Harry, along with Ron, is working at the Auror Department at the Ministry of Magic. After all these years, Harry is now the department head.

“Harry and Ron utterly revolutionized the Auror Department,” Rowling said. “They are now the experts. It doesn’t matter how old they are or what else they’ve done.”

Meanwhile, Hermione, Ron’s wife, is “pretty high up” in the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, despite laughing at the idea of becoming a lawyer in “Deathly Hallows.”

“I would imagine that her brainpower and her knowledge of how the Dark Arts operate would really give her a sound grounding,” Rowling said.

Harry, Ron and Hermione don’t join the same Ministry of Magic they had been at odds with for years; they revolutionize it and the ministry evolves into a “really good place to be.”

“They made a new world,” Rowling said.

She needs to make up her mind!

oops, I hadn't noticed that!!  That's funny.  I can picture Ron doing better with the joke shop though than as an auror.

I looked at the transcript and got a few other details.  Ginny retired from quidditch to have a family and also became the quidditch correspondent for the Daily Prophet.  Hermione, while she became pretty high up in the Dept of Magical Law Enforcement, began her career at the Dept for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures, where she helped make life a lot better for house elves and such.

i purchased my book at Barnes and Nobles on opening night.
12:35 am Sat. july 21st 2007- book purchased
12:40 am Sat. July 21st 2007- waiting for neice to get her official DO NOT OPEN box and waiting to get out of store as sombody got sick as they paid for their book 1:35 am Sat. July 21st 2007- leaving B&N for car...
 1:35 am Sat. July 21st 2007- at home in bed, beginning HP&TDH
 7:30 am Sat. July 21st 2007- to tired to keep eyes open..(been up 24 hours)
 7:30 pm Sat. July 21st 2007- woke up after TWELVE HOURS OF SLEEP!! OMG
 9:30 pm Sat. July 21st 2007- Began redding again
 7:30 am Sun. July 22nd 2007-Asleep and again twelve hours of sleep~ AH
 7:30 pm Sun. July 22nd 2007-AWAKE and reading again
 1:35 am Mon. July 22nd 2007-Read final words of HP&TDH

So there is my timeline.. haha..
So 12:35 am sat -1:35am Mon. With 2 12 hour sleeping sessions,  and an extra 3 hours of not reading, I finished the book exactly 49 hours to the minute of when i purchased it for a total time of 22 hours exactly to the minute. wowza.  but once i'm done with "vampire diaries"   -The awakening and The struggle. (harperteen) i am going to re-read the harry potter series.. if i can find 1,2, and 4.   I've got 5 and 7 in my room. my neice has her copies of 3, 5, 6, 7 at her house.. which 3 was mine.. but i jsut gave it to her cause i want the new box set thats comming out in september.. Goodness i can't wait to clean out this apartment and get a bookself for me.. i've got all my books spread out around the place.. a few here a few there.. most of the once that are new purchases are in my green "beach" bag which i bought w/ a few books go figure.
ugh crap its 4am.. i need to get some more sleep
i wasn't planning on writting this much. right now.

Im a bit confused...where do i find the transcript on the bloomsbury site?

 

Um, yeah, some people have kids younger.  Nothing wrong with that.  Don't see what the big deal is with that, tbh.

to each their own.

to each their own.

Exactly!  I hope my daughters don't have to wait as long as I did, but it's their decision at the end of the day.   

Im a bit confused...where do i find the transcript on the bloomsbury site?

either go here: http://www.bloomsbury.com/harrypotter/default.asp?sec=3 and click on the webchat link, or you can find it at muggglenet too.

either go here: http://www.bloomsbury.com/harrypotter/default.asp?sec=3 and click on the webchat link, or you can find it at muggglenet too.

Oh Lovely!! Thanks for that!

I can finally read this thread! Yaye!!

All I can say is ... (sigh) ... I loved it. Every page of it.   

My only criticism is that there should have been more Luna. I love Luna. Luna and Neville were my favourite characters - far better than Harry, Ron or Hermione.

But that's OK.

I still loved it.

To all of you criticising it as not being well-written, I don't understand that at all. I don't even feel the need to make the excuse that it's a book for children. For any age, the Harry Potter books are damned well-written books.

I just hope JK Rowling gets bored very soon and starts another series!