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.

Comments

Spoiler Alert!!!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

Milk left at room temperature goes bad on page 298.

Re:Spoiler alert

[hunterkll]

SNAPE KILLS DUMBLEDOR!

Spoilers within

[dirk]

To steal from Joel McHale, who would have thought Hermione was a dude? I certainly didn't see it coming!

So unbelievable

[antifoidulus]

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!

Re:What?

[arth1]

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.

Re:I haven't read SINGLE Harry Potter book

[Anonymous Coward]

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...

Re:Spoiler alert

[eric76]

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.

Voldemort: "No Harry, I AM your father"

[jolyonr]

Or something like that.
 
Jolyon

Re:Plot mistakes? (spoilers)

[toddhunter]

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...

It's very gay, is it?

[StarKruzr]

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.

Re:What's this "my" Sweet Pea?

[Anonymous Coward]

He has a 6-digit UID. That 8-digit number you were looking at is the post number, old man.

Re:Plot mistakes? (spoilers)

[STrinity]

I noticed the plethora of continuity errors, and have rewritten the book to fix them. For example:

Hermione: We knew we needed something to destroy the Horcruxes, and then Ron remembered there's a dead basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets, so we went to get some of its teeth. Harry: Neither of you speak parseltongue. Ron: No, but I've heard you do it, so I imitated the sounds you made to the sink in Moaning Myrtle's bathroom. Harry: And it worked? That makes no sense. And how did you get out? Last time we had to use Fawkes to carry us. And wasn't the tunnel caved-in? Ron: Look, mate, there are only about 125 pages left. Do you really want to spend twenty of them helping us get into the Chamber and extract teeth? Just let it go and pretend it makes sense.

I know what happened to Luna

[ccmay]

She is now teaching Divination at Hogwarts, and rocking Prof. Neville Longbottom's world every night.