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Deathly Hallows / OOTP Movie Discussion
At midnight on Friday Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was released, ending the ten year run of J.K. Rowling's extremely popular book series. I imagine that there are a few folks here who have already read the book and want to talk about it. Likewise, the movie version of Order of the Phoenix was recently released (a film I was kind of underwhelmed by). So ... what did you think of them? Be forewarned: I imagine the comments will be filled with spoilers.
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To steal from Joel McHale, who would have thought Hermione was a dude? I certainly didn't see it coming!
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What really spoils the story is that Harry Potter dumps a hot asian girl. I mean come on, give the audience some credit. I can believe in kids whipping up spells, but dumping a hot asian girl, now that is just the realm of fantasy!
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Yes, you do. If all you potterheads went back and re-read the books, over and over again, the rest of us could get on with more important things, like having a row over GPL2 vs GPL3 and emacs vs. vi.
Oxygen is pretty popular amongst humans. There is in fact very broad agreement on the matter, and persuasion to "the cause" usually involves the persuadee being held under water until (s)he agrees...
Any half-decent author should be richer than the Queen IMHO. Off with her head, I say!
My "wrong ending" that I was giving people yesterday:
Harry and Voldemort fight a duel at Hogwarts in front of the students and faculty.
Voldemort hits Harry with a sex-change spell and Harry becomes Harriet.
The fight ends with that.
Voldemort and Harriet get married, go bowling every Friday night, and live happily ever after.
So far, noone has believed me at all.
Or something like that.
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It is Harry Potter. You are not supposed to think about it, just enjoy it.
If you start to think about it, you might come up with questions like:
* Why didn't they keep using the time turner thing to go back in time to save people?
* Why didn't the bad guys use the same?
* Sure luck potion takes 6 months to make, but surely someone could have gone to a bit of effort? They spent a lot of time sitting around doing nothing...
So what you're saying is that it has sex with other children-to-young adult-range series of fantasy and adventure books?
My goodness. What an aberration. What a sin against the will of God.
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So Argumentum ad populum is not a Wizarding spell like accio or expelliarmus?
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
He has a 6-digit UID. That 8-digit number you were looking at is the post number, old man.
or Burroughs even
Yeah, I grew up on Edgar Rice - those Barsoom books made me a life long fan of reading!
Good on you - Uh, wait, you mean William don't you?
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also:
Harry not moving when Voldemort cast a Crucio on him?
I understand not screaming, since the pain can be resisted somewhat. But not even twitching?
Obviously, Harry was still semi-transparent and flickering with immunity after having cashed in a +1UP, and didn't feel the pain.
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I'm surprised that she didn't throw in a reference to a north american wizarding school as a nod to her large american audience. Who wouldn't want delegates from Brooklyn's own Honest Vinny's Academy of Sorcery and Automotive Repair in the triwizard tournament?
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
She is now teaching Divination at Hogwarts, and rocking Prof. Neville Longbottom's world every night.
Too much Law; not enough Order.
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All I know is, if I find a magic hat, and I reach my arm in and pull a sword out. I'm keeping it. I don't care who says they own it.
The writer is commenting on Rowling's nihilistic perspective on the neopaganist movement.
The theory he puts forward in this sentence is that as a women she feels betrayed by the misogynistic class structure, and that neopaganism reinforces true classlessness. You see, in the wizard school those most proficient in magic rise to the top, not those born into a higher class. The writer postulates that Rowling is encouraging such a meritocracy.
... except to tell a story people want to hear. In this sentence he follows on by noting that she is telling the public what they want to hear. When people read Harry Potter they see through the eyes of someone talented but downtrodden. The story of Harry's rise to the top is an inflection of the American Dream, but with friendship and knowledge in place of money.The supposed naivety of the dream is amplified through the eyes of the protagonist, Harry.
I hope you all memorized what I just said, because you'll have to repeat it in your own words ad verbatim in the exam. You'll also have to be able to recite it while being monitored by a lie detector so we know that you really believe it. Class dismissed.
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My grandfather started reading to me when I was about 1, and by 2-3 I was reading full-on novels.
I don't remember most of them now, but on occasion I see a book that I don't QUITE remember having read, and then it hits me that I read it when I was 5, like Green Mars. I need to pick up a copy of it one of these days and re-read it. I only remember the basic storyline now.
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People who reference first person shooters as if it were a literary device shouldn't comment....period.
In book 2, maybe it's a deux ex machina, after that, it's more like a recurring convenient feature.
kinda like turbo boost in Knight Rider
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