Rhu's Journal: The Half-Blood Prince Experience Part 2 is now added!
#17
Posted 24 July 2005 - 12:03 AM
The only thing I hope is that in book 7 Rowling decides to show war. I was expecting this book to read about the Magical War not the Magical Romance. You know, stuff like magic guns or something.
#21
Posted 24 July 2005 - 07:03 AM
Killing Dumbledore was the most prudent course of action. If he didn't kill Dumbledore when Draco couldn't, whatever magic created the Unbreakable Vow should bring about his death. If the Vow isn't as deadly as we're lead the believe and he doesn't kill Dumbledore, then we're left with a Snape with a blown cover which will lead to a dead Snape and possibly still a dead Dumbledore. By killing Dumbledore he's able to keep himself, Draco, and Harry alive. All of them are now free to play their roles in the final chapter and, in keeping with tradition, Hogwarts is out a DADA professor again.
This post has been edited by LiocModnar: 24 July 2005 - 07:05 AM
#22
Posted 24 July 2005 - 10:14 AM
Its a bit convenient, really, that just before the last book in a very profitable series (ie, before Harry leaves Hogwarts), the school closes and Harry decides to bugger off Horcrux hunting with his friends. Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but perhaps Harry graduating with a shitload of NEWTs and becoming an Auror got discarded as "way to drag out the franchise".
And here's something that's just occured to me in relation to the series as a whole. How big is Hogwarts supposed to be? I ask, because they make a big furore about having two Divination teachers, and how "the" DADA post never stays filled longer than a year. But assuming there's only about, oh, we'll say twenty subjects at most (and that's just wildly guessing), and apparently hundreds per house, if there's only one teacher per subject, then there must be overcrowded classes that'd give any teachers internal hemmoraging, let alone nightmares.
EDIT: And to throw my hat into the Snape debate: personally, methinks she just succumbed to the desire to make him a black-and-white baddie, purely and simply. Yes, him being evil does contradict a shedload of backstory, but isn't Voldemort supposed to be the greatest Legicimens (sp?) there's ever been? So in order to hide his good intentions from Voldemort, Snapes either got to be the best Occulemus (definatly spelt wrong) there's ever been (which I doubt, seeing as in the last book, Harry managed to get a look inside his head just by shielding from his Legicimens -hardly complicated stuff, you'll agree), or he's bad, he's bad, he's really really bad, oh yeah.
This post has been edited by Chyld: 24 July 2005 - 10:31 AM
Less Is More v4
Now resigned to a readership of me, my cat and some fish
#23
Posted 24 July 2005 - 10:56 AM
PM me, we'll talk.
#24
Posted 24 July 2005 - 12:19 PM
But what you fail to realize is that Beatrix's opinion doesn't matter. He already blatantly said that Voldemort trusted him and he explained all of her questions to Volde. She wouldn't be stupid enough to question V's opinions, so it doesn't matter either way.
#25
Posted 24 July 2005 - 05:12 PM
With the Occlumens thing, I'm guessing Rowling either messed up a bit, or she'll explain it later. Harry's managed to block Voldemort before too, remember. Anyway, perhaps Snape's motives are actually ambiguous. Well, they'd have to be.
I do so love Snape. Man, when I first read the books I was like, "OMG Snape is so fucking awesome," and my friends were like, "Ewww, you like Snape? But he's awful!" And now I have the Internet and suddenly discover that there's a whole clique of freaks who obssess and swoon over him and write horrible slash fiction about him. I feel... dirty.
#26
Posted 26 July 2005 - 04:59 PM
He didn't need to make the Vow, he had to follow Voldemort's orders. Maybe he cares for Draco and Narcissa? Maybe he didn't really know what the task was about.
#27
Posted 26 July 2005 - 07:52 PM
#30
Posted 30 July 2005 - 12:57 AM
Hahahahaha. Two Objects of Power destroyed, and four to go before the Chosen One must face the Great Evil! This is totally video game logic. I wonder if there's a minecart sequence in the last book
Thats pretty much the way I thought about it, until after I finished it and decided that the final Horcrux is obviously Harry Potter himself. I think Dumbledore said that Voldy only had 6 when he killed Potters parents. This is probably going to be the real meaning of the prophecy. If this is true, it should lead to a nice satisfying climax.