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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Saturday, July 21, 2007 - 7:46 pm
All righty folks - we dont want to spoil, just discuss... I miss the chapter by chapter discussions we've done previously, so I ask you to go back and re read those first 200 pages and come talk to me about them!!
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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Saturday, July 21, 2007 - 7:50 pm
First off, who can say... spoilers for the first 200 pages only... I must remember to tag the first sentence!! The first 60 pages - how intense was that!! I love JK Rowlings writing!! I wondered if Harry would even head back to the Dursleys? And how did such a powerful spell last for those years? And why cant it be reporduced? The first death - the owl... yep I teared up... I remembered how it felt to lose a pet - I know dd is going to remember -we have to remember Hedwig fondly - I did wonder why Harry didnt send him on to the Weasleys? Why if the owl can fly - why did Harry feel the need to hand carry Hedwig?
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Saturday, July 21, 2007 - 8:11 pm
Reader, this is so funny. I've taken the Library off my favorites list for now so I don't get spoiled by any chance but had come looking at the topics page to see if anyone had started chapter threads. I'm glad you did! LOL, now I'm going to have to remember to come back the long way to see if there's more messages since it won't show up! I thought it was a rather sweet touch that Dudley was able, in his own way, to thank Harry for saving him! Maybe there's some hope for him later on! The only thing I could figure about not sending Hedwig alone was that the death eaters might have known Harry had him and how easy it'd have been to watch for him and follow him. Maybe carrying him in the cage, they thought they could more easily hide him and the real Harry. I have been reading like the wind today. Up to page 404 and trying to finish it cuz life has been so funky lately I never know when or how much free time I'll have. We had planned on having family game/movie night but decided to push it off til tomorrow (the kids got a new toy each today, lol) so I'm hoping I'll have the chance to finish before being forced to put it down for too long of a time, LOL!
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Rissa
Member
03-20-2006
| Sunday, July 22, 2007 - 5:54 am
Non-spoiler sentence. I completely avoided the net until I finished the book to avoid being spoiled. Now that my eyeballs are bleeding and I haven't slept properly since Thursday... LOLOL I had the same thought about Hedwig Wargod. Having a big white owl was sort of a give-away as to who the real Harry was. Why wouldn't they just open the cage door and have her meet them at the destination? The cynic in me thinks that there was no place in the story for the owl so Rowling just wrote him off for the sake of simplicity more than the storyline.
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Neko
Member
08-03-2001
| Sunday, July 22, 2007 - 6:35 am
Spoiler sentence right here.. Actually, they all had Hedwigs with them, remember that they all took cages filled with stuffed owls?? Either way, they didn't know that Harry was the real Harry until he didn't try to kill Stan. The opening the cage door and sending her to met them there would have work, except for the fact that they had that huge protection charm over the Tonks'. So I'm assuming Hedwig could get through it, but if she could, the Death eaters could fake a Hedwig and send it through and kill everyone in the house.
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Rissa
Member
03-20-2006
| Sunday, July 22, 2007 - 6:50 am
No way Neko. LOL Don't tell me it's been 6 hours and I already need to reread the dang book because I am old and forgetfull? 
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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Sunday, July 22, 2007 - 8:24 am
LOL spoiler tag... Yes all the fake Harry's had fake owls - and I understand about Hedwig now being able to fly to their destination - but I guess the way the Hedwig was acting before leaving the Dursleys - I guess I was thinking something simple - let him fly to Hagrid - and Harry would eventually meet up with both of them... That's me, that's why I wouldnt make it as a writer! I only read stories with happy endings!! Guess I have to start another thread for I need to get out some more of this "intense" feeling!
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Dolphinschild
Member
06-22-2006
| Sunday, July 22, 2007 - 10:31 am
That is why I don't watch City of Angels movie again. I don't like books or movies unless they have a happy ending. The world has a lot of unhappy endings and I want to read or watch tv/movies that gives me a since of happy, peaceful closure. I don't like the end where I feel I have something unfinished or where I am mourning. We get enough of that in our own daily lives. I watched the Titanic even though I knew the out come of ALL those people who didn't survive. Through the main character, there was a since of peace, but I also mourned and cried through the whole dang thing.
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Dolphinschild
Member
06-22-2006
| Sunday, July 22, 2007 - 12:01 pm
Whoo Hoo NO headache or migraine today. I was able to get through Chapter 1 last night, but that was all my eyes could handle. So now I have to choose, clean house or Harry Potter! LOL *giggles* HARRY POTTER! Whooo hooo.
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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Sunday, July 22, 2007 - 1:34 pm
I've not seen that movie and I know what you mean about Titanic!! I watched it once, when it first came out, my mil was determined and my kids were determined - I was so nervous how they were taking the movie, that I wasnt really watching the movie - Glad I'm not the only one with a dirty house!! LOL
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Dolphinschild
Member
06-22-2006
| Sunday, July 22, 2007 - 1:59 pm
LOL Reader234, it is good to know we are not a lone huh? Yeah City of Angels is a good movie, but there is NO happy Ending and it is a HUGE tear jerker. I will PM you if you want to know what makes it a tear jerker and not a happy ending.
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Sunday, July 22, 2007 - 2:05 pm
City of Angels spoiler:
Spoiler Click below to view spoiler | I have to admit I LOL over one of Ebert's comments about City of Angels. He suggested that people should walk out of the theater when she starts making the salad! |
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Nickovtyme
Member
07-29-2004
| Sunday, July 22, 2007 - 8:53 pm
Having a slow go at it this time around. Last potter book I read in a weekend, but this time it's just not happening. I just finished chapter 10 and came here to see if anybody else was upset about Hedwig and to my delight....I'm not the only one. I also had a little pang when Mad-Eye was pronounced dead...unless he's not really dead, but I guess I'll find out for sure later in the book. I know alot of you are probably already done with the book and know how it ends...but I don't really understand the Regulas/Kreacher thing. Regulas drank the potion so Kreacher wouldn't have too? Then he was dragged into the water? Why?...and am I to assume that Regulas had a change of heart where Voldemort was concerned or with the whole "Purity of Bloodline" thing? Am I just slow?
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Dolphinschild
Member
06-22-2006
| Monday, July 23, 2007 - 3:21 pm
I am taking my time with reading the book. I didn't read the first 4 books even though I have them. I just watched all the movies. I started reading them at book 5, 6 and now 7. After reading book 5 and watching the movie last weekend, I see how much of the story I missed. A LOT was left out of the movie that was in the book. I have debated not reading book 7, until I start with book 1 and read them all from there. The debate didn't last that long lol. I will probably start reading from book 1 this winter and take my time through them all. I know it will be like a new adventure since I haven't opened books 1-4.
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Monday, July 23, 2007 - 3:45 pm
That will be fun. I'm re-reading the whole series. Normally, I wouldn't do that (I rarely re-read anything) but this series is so much fun and full of interesting references from start to finish that I think it is worth it!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, July 23, 2007 - 3:55 pm
I am too Jimmer. Well, me and Kota are going to start reading Sorcerers Stone tonight. She started reading it about a year ago and gave up, but has asked if I'll read them with her.
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Monday, July 23, 2007 - 4:13 pm
That should be really nice. 
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Scotchbright
Member
10-05-2006
| Tuesday, July 24, 2007 - 7:49 am
Nickotyme: I believe that Regulas told Kreacher to 'Come Back' when Voldemort had him drink all the poison covering the locket/horcrux - so he didn't die but came back. But, when Regulas and Kreacher went back, Regulas drank the poison instead of Kreacher - because he had had a change of heart about the Dark Lord. He was trying to stop Voldemort and took the locket to do so. I believe this is so anyway. I need to re-read the book already!
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Dolphinschild
Member
06-22-2006
| Tuesday, July 24, 2007 - 8:42 pm
That is what I read and interpreted it too Scotch.
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