Who you callin' a half-blood?
Ok...several milestones this weekend. First, Much Ado About Nothing is open and I can now return to the land of the living.
Second, I saw Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at the IMAX (full-ish review to follow tomorrow night)
Most importantly, I finished the new Harry Potter. I'd really like to discuss but I hate spoilers. Just comment to this once you are finished.
Sooooooooooo many new theories!
posted by K-Lyn @ 10:57 AM
11 Comments:
At 8:08 PM,
K-Lyn said…
I said the spoilers should go in the comments and I fully expected such.
I totally knew it would be Dumbledore and I must be a totally insensative bitch but I barely felt a twinge. Only because it was so expected. The emotion came for me by the betrayal by Snape. I was with Dumbledore and in trusting him (perhaps because he was played by Mr. Kick-Ass Rickman in the movies) and I was SOOOOOO picced off that it was him that did it! I can still come up with stupid explainations (JR? It was all a dream) where he's innocent. Grrrr.
As for the snogging. Yes, I always knew he would get Ginny (when I made Bo and I costumes for Halloween I kept telling people I was Ginny instead of Hermione). But unlike you I did not care for the Mary Jane/Peter Parker split. I just didn't feel it...too contrived. I mean, if she'd been carrying a torch for him for THAT long she's just going to say "oh, sure, whatever"?. nope.
Horcrux stuff is WAY COOL. I so dig it! RAB...that will plague us for the next few years. My guess...Regulus Black. Sirius' younger brother joined the Death Eaters during the first Wizarding War. He was reported to have been killed on Voldemort's orders when he tried to leave. However, reported dead and dead are two different things as we've come to understand in these books.
Discuss...
At 2:03 PM,
K-Lyn said…
Are you kidding? I AM going through the first 5 as we speak. Starting with 5 and working backwards. I'll write in with what I find.
Lucius? I thought fangirls were into Draco...I, however, am still mourning the graduation of Oliver Wood.
At 11:23 AM,
K-Lyn said…
Wow...who knew. Not me.
In talking with my cast last night we girls decided that the young Tom Riddle deserved to be up there with Oliver Wood as well...
At 8:18 PM,
K-Lyn said…
OMG...a friend came up with a theory we did not, and one that I can not disprove. Harry is, himself, a horcrux...perhaps the last one...and rather that trying to kill Harry he was trasferring a part of himself...thoughts?
At 12:49 AM,
Neel Mehta said…
Harry is, himself, a horcrux...perhaps the last one...and rather that trying to kill Harry he was trasferring a part of himself...thoughts?
Brilliant, just... brilliant. We already know Voldemort "inadvertently" transferred Parseltongue to Harry, and that living things can themselves be Horcruxes. I hope the eventual explanation is as good as this one.
But then, while this would make Harry the Gryffindor Horcrux, why the hesitation by the Sorting Hat? And was James Potter a direct descendant of Godric? We don't know.
Obviously, I finished the book. Comments:
1. I knew Obi-Wandledore was gonna die, but I thought Voldemort would be more involved. I'm greatly disappointed that Voldemort was not involved in the book's plot, at least actively.
2. I knew Snape Reznor was the HBP (it was a Potions book, after all) but was hoping it was someone a little less obvious. And I can't begin to express my disapproval that JKR has depicted Snape in any shade other than gray.
3. I'm so glad I wasn't the only one to see that Spider-Man was so ruthlessly cribbed here.
4. If ever a book needed to release an extended version with deleted scenes, this is it. So many plot threads fell by the wayside. I wonder how many she'll pick up next time.
Book 7 thoughts:
1. The seeds of Ronmione will grow. That stuff's been fertilizin' for 6 years.
2. There'll still be a Hogwarts, but Harry may be less involved than the average 7th year student.
3. Dumbledore prepared for this. Anything he hasn't told Harry he's stored in accessible memories that McGonagall will soon find.
4. Crabbe and Goyle will at last find love -- with each other.
At 10:48 AM,
Anonymous said…
Hey Kristy, and others--
I'm so glad there's somebody out there that I'm acquainted with to discuss it!
About Dumbledore, yeah, I figured he was probably the one to go, 'cause it's such a time-honored formula, and puts Harry in a much more precarious position.
But let's try out a different idea about Snape--I propose that Dumbledore put him up to it: Remember the argument (overheared by Hagrid) Dumbledore and Snape have where Dumbledore wants Snape to do something and Snape is obviously reluctant to comply? What we learn of it ends with Dumbledore saying something to the effect of "You agreed to do it and that's the end of it!" And then there's Harry's description of Dumbledore pleading with Snape at the pivotal moment, and Snapes look of revulsion--
So, clever attempt by Dumbledore to cement Snape's in with Voldemort? Dumbledore suffering with the wizard equivalent of terminal cancer, wanting Snape to put him out of his misery? Or me just grasping at straws because I'd hate for Dumbledore to have been so wrong about something so major?
On Snogging--yeah, I was unsurprised by the Ginny angle--lots of groundwork laid for that--
I, too, mourn the matriculation of Oliver Wood!
Love the Regulus Black angle on RAB, since although it's been a while since I read any of the other books, it seems to me that she made much of him in this one, and I don't really remember her mentioning him much previously. Those of you who are taking the time to review, I salute you!
Diana
(Yeah, Nat hooked me up with your blog since she hadn't finished reading yet and knew I was anxious to discuss!)
At 11:05 AM,
Neel Mehta said…
Welcome, Diana.
A quick scan of message boards revealed that Regulus Black's middle name was never mentioned, but he and Sirius have an uncle named Alphard who was disowned by the Black family.
Others have theories: that Alphard and Regulus (who could have been no older than 20, as he died the year Harry was born) went to the cave to get the Horcrux, or that Regulus and Kreacher did it. Either could account for how the boat would allow only one full-grown wizard aboard.
Or R.A.B. is not a person's initials at all, but a nickname like H.B.P.
At 4:18 PM,
K-Lyn said…
Diana! Long time no type!Thrilled. Welcome.
I'm with you on Snape following following orders. I just can't figure out what the exact orders were. I think JKR is going a darker shade of gray with Snape but he has not crossed over to the dark side. I don't buy it. There is much to be revealed about WHY Dumbledore trusted him so completly. While, I don't know about a wizard cancer, certainly Dumbly has lived a full life and would be the first to sacrifice himself if needed.
If ever a book needed to release an extended version with deleted scenes, this is it.
Could not agree more. The last two needed editing badly and I think she might have overcorrected just a tad.
But then, while this would make Harry the Gryffindor Horcrux, why the hesitation by the Sorting Hat?
If anything it explains the sorting hat's hesitation. You have a part of a Slytherin soul sharing a body with a young Gryffindor one. Things that make you go hmmmm...at least if you are a storting hat.
At 1:03 PM,
K-Lyn said…
I swear! That's the one that is troubling me the most. At least I have theories on all sorts of things. Regardless of if they are right it feels good to have them. The Ravenclaw one though has me stumped. It just doesn't appear that the clues are in there. I've been thwarted in my reread of Book 6 because by comparison...it's not a very good book. I just can't get into it again. Harry was so whiny!!!
At 1:24 PM,
K-Lyn said…
Book 5...the reread of book 5 I mean.
At 2:19 PM,
Neel Mehta said…
The Ravenclaw one though has me stumped. It just doesn't appear that the clues are in there.
Yeah, I don't think we'll be introduced to that horcrux until book 7. My guess is that Hermione will figure it out.
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