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Cndeariso
Member
06-28-2004
| Friday, June 30, 2006 - 5:00 pm
yes, but she also said she was going to have to tweak it a bit now that she is into writing the rest of the book.
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Dolphinschild
Member
06-22-2006
| Friday, June 30, 2006 - 6:15 pm
She said she did make some small changes to the final chapter of the book. But like Mamie said, it is going to be hard to not look at the last page of the book. I have a bad habit looking at the last page, then I read the whole book. LOL
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Friday, June 30, 2006 - 6:19 pm
I knew about Dumbledore before the last book was released because I read an online spoiler. I swear I am not going to do that this time. I'm not gonna peek! LOL!
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Dolphinschild
Member
06-22-2006
| Friday, June 30, 2006 - 6:34 pm
Hermione your so cute lol
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Friday, June 30, 2006 - 8:38 pm
Hermes, you will peek and then you will tell me!
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Schoolmarm
Member
02-18-2001
| Saturday, July 01, 2006 - 8:06 am
Hermione...then it's a really good thing that I could figure out where all the characters to make a spoiler box are located on a German computer...GADS! I need to re-read the books when I get home. I've forgotten pretty much everything from the last two. There were previews for the next movie on in England (or maybe Germany, I can't remember which place I was in.) It will be great to see another movie. Do we know whether the next movie will come out before or after the last book?
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Reiki
Moderator
08-12-2000
| Saturday, July 01, 2006 - 9:45 am
The exact release date for the book still hasn't been announced. People suspect either 7/7/07 or 7/31/07 (Harry's Birthday). I think the movie is scheduled to come out on 7/13/07.
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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Monday, July 24, 2006 - 4:04 pm
Potter Podcast - there was a book club discussion detailed in our newspaper today (just got around to reading it lol) and I'll type some of it... Best Quip: "Whenever you're a chosen One you basically have no life... about Harry from a panel member Best gleeful not to resourceful fans.."we're not supposed to know this, but we're really cool and we do.. Best bets for ivotal roles: The Mirror of Erised; Aunt Petunia; Neville Longbottom OK. so apparently there was this event that webmistresses from The Leaky Cauldron fan site, and the Mugglenet fan site, and an editor at Arthur Levine Books (all 3 know Rowling, and 2 have been to her house)and Cheryl the editor will learn how the story ends before the rest of us" and it will be available for downloading from their sites... next week (www.PotterCast.com and MuggleCast.com) I got a little excited reading it on the front page, thought I'd share, guess the idea was better than the actual article!! lol
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Calamity
Member
10-18-2001
| Monday, July 31, 2006 - 2:11 pm
Thanks, Reader. I just started listening to the first book. It's been so long since I last read it, I forgot about things like Harry suspecting that Snape could read minds and other little details. But I gotta say, Jim Dale just doesn't read the book the way I hear it in my head, if you know what I mean.
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Monday, July 31, 2006 - 6:27 pm
Just out of curiosity, Calamity -- did you hear the audio books before or after you saw the first movie? DH and I have a theory that if you listen to the books first, the movie characters don't "sound" right, but for a couple of my friends who saw the movies first, they felt the same about the audio book.
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Calamity
Member
10-18-2001
| Tuesday, August 01, 2006 - 12:06 pm
Hi Teach. I always read the books first, then listen to the audio versions, and then see the films. It's so funny that you asked this question because I had just been thinking to myself about how my mental image of most of the characters is still how I pictured (and heard) them when first reading the books and not as how the movie actors appear and sound. Did that make sense? I just couldn't think of how to word that clearly. What I mean is, Dudley is blond in my mind, I don't care that he isn't in the movies, they're just wrong, lol! And I had always pictured Oliver Wood as a messy, brawny guy with longish, shaggy, dark blondish brown hair. And then in the movie, what do I see? Some crisp, well groomed fella who looks like he wandered over from the Junior Championships at Wimbledon. No, no, no! Now Snape, I really like Alan Rickman but I hate Snape so I guess I just have this mental block that keeps me from seeing AR as him, lol. There are some exceptions though - Robbie Coltrane was so convincing as Hagrid, he now IS Hagrid to me. And I never had a clear idea of what Lucius Malfoy looked like so now I think of him as how he appears in the movie. Same with Fred and George - they're supposed to be stocky and shorter than Ron but other than that my mental image of them was always kind of fuzzy. But, Harry, Hermione, Ron, Dumbledore, and most of the others? I still see/hear them as I always did. As for the audio versions, Jim Dale is okay but so often while listening to him, I'll think, "Oh, he didn't read that line the way I heard it in my head at all!". He voices some characters well but I've never cared for his female characters that much. He always makes Hermione sound like she's up talking (rising intonation, I mean). And his Luna makes me shudder. Probably my favorite voice he did was Kreacher's, lol! We discussed this before and I would really like to hear Stephen Fry's audio versions. I think he might possibly be funnier and more menacing than Dale, who seems to keep things pretty mild and light with his narration. Maybe I'm just being stubborn, lol. The first HP book I got was PoA, right after it was released in the U.S., which was early Fall 1999. But I didn't start reading the series 'til the next spring. I got the first two books and anticipation was building for the release of Book 4 and I figured I better get reading, lol. I remember going to meet some friends down at the Jake for a ball game. I didn't want to deal with downtown traffic so I drove part way and then took the Rapid (rail system) into the city. I brought SS with me to read on the train and got ambushed by three kids who spotted me with it and they surrounded me and started eagerly gabbing about the book. I was like, "Don't tell me what happens!!!", lol. At the ballpark, I was torn between the game and the book, lol. And I hate it when people don't pay attention to the game!
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Tuesday, August 01, 2006 - 1:21 pm
Thanks for responding. Guess our theory is shot, now, isn't it? LOL Since we have a "younger" reader (DS started reading HP at age 8 and is now 11 and read the last book in TWO days!), I appreciate the less menancing atmosphere Dale creates. Have you listened to the Lord of the Rings trilogy? That's another narrator I really enjoy. I'm listening to Wicked and A Breath of Snow and Ashes right now. The Wicked narrator took a LOT of getting used to, but now that I have, I enjoy him. Davine Porter read ABOSAA, and I absolutely LOVE her!
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Tuesday, August 01, 2006 - 2:02 pm
Stephen King and John Irving are apparently Harry fans as they have pleaded with JK not to kill him off! LOL! LINK
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, August 01, 2006 - 2:05 pm
LOL, like Stephen King has room to talk!
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Calamity
Member
10-18-2001
| Tuesday, August 01, 2006 - 2:48 pm
I didn't mean to shoot down your theory, Teach . I think it's just that Rowling is so darn good at creating vivid, memorable characters who have made a lasting impression on me. And since I always read the books first, it's her words (and my imagination) that I base things on. Probably if I had seen the movies first or listened to the audios first, their character depictions would have had more influence on me. I've read LotR but never listened to the audio versions. I know my library has them though. Maybe I'll check them out one day. Oh and I tried to listen to Wicked but found it so difficult to get in rhythm with that narrator. I eventually gave up and just read the rest of the book myself, lol. How are you liking the story so far? Some of my favorite audio book readers are Barbara Rosenblatt, Nathaniel Parker, George Guidell, and Victor Garber. I'm not sure if I spelled all their names correctly. That was a great link, Hermione. I'll be devastated if Harry dies.
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Tuesday, August 01, 2006 - 9:40 pm
Wicked is great! LOVING it, and DH just ordered Son of a Witch for me, so I'll be able to read it when I'm done listening to Wicked. No worries on the theory -- it wasn't widely tested! LOL
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Calamity
Member
10-18-2001
| Thursday, August 03, 2006 - 10:10 am
I have mixed feelings about Wicked. I'm glad I read it, it was provocative and daring and strangely moving. But I was also frustrated at how confusing it could be at times and also found it to be a bit pretentious. Not to mention borderline (over the line?) offensive in some parts. I didn't react as strongly as I did when reading Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy (I loved that series but they don't call it the anti-Narnia for nothing) but there were some parts in Wicked that really got me frothing, lol. That challenge is part of what makes it so good though, I suppose. I haven't read Son of a Witch but I heard it incorporates the changes made for the musical and is also rather different in tone than Wicked, the book. At least that's what I read on a theater message board a while ago. I just remember a post in which someone confessed to still being unsure just what happened at the Philosophy Club, and thinking to myself, "Whew, I'm not the only one!", lol. I know it had to be freaky but I don't know if I want to know more than that. Maguire does that though - he doesn't explain everything.
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Schoolmarm
Member
02-18-2001
| Thursday, August 03, 2006 - 11:15 am
I think that the musical 'Wicked' is much better than the book. The book was just TOO much. I just bought Chamber of Secrets in German as an audio book. I am trying to get better at listening to German and get more vocabulary. I got the Wizard of Oz last year and now know how to pronounce Löwen correctly (Lowenbrau beer is NOT pronounces correctly in German).
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Thursday, August 03, 2006 - 11:06 pm
I get Spanish podcasts so I can "practice" my listening skills before school starts and I have to teach it again. Only problem -- the gal I listen to is from Spain, so her accent is MUCH different from the Mexican ones our students have! LOL Hmmm -- wonder if audible has any downloadable books in Spanish? I love to flip out DS by changing the audio selection on his favorite cartoons so they start speaking Spanish or French. 
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Friday, August 04, 2006 - 2:54 pm
This thread is starting to discriminate against my hearing loss! I am feeling churlish and forlorn! 
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Friday, August 04, 2006 - 2:55 pm
I wonder if I can sue?
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Calamity
Member
10-18-2001
| Friday, August 04, 2006 - 3:48 pm
Snips from a new article about JKR - One of the questions brought up on Wednesday night — surprisingly, from author and audience member Salman Rushdie — addressed a murder committed by Severus Snape at the end of "Half Blood Prince," and its true motivation: Could he have been acting as a double agent, or did he ultimately reveal where his allegiance lies? "Snape, unlikeable as he is, is essentially one of the good guys. Is Snape good or bad? In our opinion, everything follows from it," Rushdie said. "Your opinion was correct," Rowling responded vaguely, perhaps confirming that despite his actions, Snape is more Harry's ally than he realizes. (Note from Calamity: Rats.) (Or perhaps not.) Rowling did hint that Harry's archrival, Draco Malfoy, who was supposed to commit that murder but failed at the last moment, has a chance at redemption. "Harry believes that Draco, even given unlimited time, would not have killed," she said. "But for Draco's future, you'll have to wait and see." As for the future of Harry's best pals Hermione and Ron, Rowling hinted more romance was in the air for the would-be couple. "Hermione most likely wants to see the three of them alive, unscathed and Voldemort finished, but I think she also wants to see herself closely entwined with another person," Rowling teased. "I think you can probably guess." To cheers in the audience, she responded in disbelief, "There are people who wanted Harry and Hermione. They're still out there. Come on now." Though Rowling said she was amazed at the 'shipping wars — the "gang warfare" between fans who want certain relationships to happen between characters — she doesn't need any more feedback about "weird couplings." "Jane Austen probably got less feedback," she joked. Also to come in book seven is more information about the relationship between a wizard and his wand, Harry's seemingly cruel Aunt Petunia ("There's more to Aunt Petunia than meets the eye," Rowling said), and Harry's mom, Lily Potter. Even though Rowling wrote the final chapter of the yet-untitled book seven back in 1990, and has steadily been working "towards the end I planned from the beginning," she acknowledged that she'd made some "fairly major changes," not the least of which is the title, which she claimed to have revised while in the shower on Wednesday afternoon, although she wouldn't reveal either the new or old title. As for the plot, she said, "A couple of the characters I expected to survive have died, and one character got a reprieve ... But you shouldn't expect Dumbledore to do a Gandalf," she noted, referring to a similar character in "The Lord of the Rings." She also said she won't shy away from including more death scenes in the final book just because "fans accuse me of sadism." "I feel I'm toughening them up to go on to read John Irving's and Stephen King's books," she said. "They've got to be toughened up somehow. It's a cruel literary world out there. I'm doing them a favor!"
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Karen
Member
09-07-2004
| Wednesday, September 20, 2006 - 2:14 pm
I haven't read any of the books and the movies bored me to tears... but please don't hit me for that as I ask this question... Anyone know why the security agents at the airport would not allow her to take a paper manuscript on the plane with her? I can't for the life of me, even in this world of tightened security, figure why a stack of papers would be deemed a threat that she couldn't keep with her on the flight? Sounds to me like someone wanted a sneak peek... any thoughts?
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Nickovtyme
Member
07-29-2004
| Friday, September 29, 2006 - 6:52 pm
My wife found this pic somewhere and I thought I'd share...supposedly it's a Picture of Dumbledore's Army...the DA..from the next movie.. Order of the Pheonix.
Look how big everybody is...it's weird watching these kids grow up.
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Cndeariso
Member
06-28-2004
| Friday, September 29, 2006 - 6:54 pm
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0373889/ there are more pictures from the movie here.
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