Harry Potter Speculation (book & movie Spoilers)

[Rubywolf]

Please, someone, tellme how many pages your book is! It's important!

[Rhi]

759 in mine, but are you sure that yours isn't just another version or something? Sorry for the one-liner, but gotta run!

[alla]

Ruby: mine is 607 pages. If yours is and its the UK cover, you're alright. The US editions always seem to have more pages. I would say they'd have a bigger font or something like that.

I finished it yesterday afternoon. I bought it on Sunday afternoon. I have to say that I enjoyed it, but I didn't cry for any of the characters who died.

[spyells]

Originally posted by young reader:
happy late birthday, spyells. i'm reading the seventh book...IT RULES! i'll be so sad when i finish it though...on the bright side, we have two copys, one a delux edition with AMAZING illistrations i'll be taking a look at after i finish the book. :P some give things away, so their best not to look at until the end.

Thank You Young Reader for the birthday wish. I enjoyed my birthday highly. And yes for all of you who are wondering I just had a sweet sixteen thank you very much.

Okay people!! I changed the name of the title to include the word ' spoilers' so that we can post them. I also changed it so that we wouldn't have to white out anything. That gets annoying to me.

I finished the book. I didn't cry for anyone who died but that didn't stop me from being upset about a couple of them.

I'm not going to post spoilers until you guys reply to this post. I'm not so sure what you guys think yet. But that is the reason why spoilers is in the title.

[Rubywolf]

I really enjoyed how much Lupin grew in this book. Spoilers- <span class="ev_code_WHITE">First, how he was ready to leave his wife and unborn son to help Harry and the others out of fear and frustration. His death, I think was unnecessary. It wasn't made into a big deal like Sirius's death, even though after Sirius's and Dumbledore's deaths, Harry seemed to see Lupin as a father/brother figure. I thought that was poorly done, with his death not being a big deal and stuff, but other than that, it was great. </span>Snape was great, too. Spoiler- <span class="ev_code_WHITE">I thought it was a great moment when we learned that Harry had named the son that he was closest to (that much was obvious) after Snape. That was more moving than any of he deaths. </span>

[Garrett Fitzgerald]

More spoilers: <span class="ev_code_white">I think that Rowling killed Lupin off so that he'd finally be at peace: as a werewolf, he'd never be accepted in the wizarding community, even with Voldemort gone.</span> And I thought that it was heart-wrenching when <span class="ev_code_white">the last thing that Snape ever saw was Lily's eyes. And wasn't it cool that Snape never broke cover? Voldemort wasn't killing a spy, he was killing his strongest ally, who just happened to be in the way of what Voldemort wanted</span>.

[Rubywolf]

<span class="ev_code_BLUE">Oh of course!spoiler-</span> <span class="ev_code_WHITE">now I get it! Snape was seeing Lily, because he was staring at Harry's eyes. I didn't catch that the first time.....</span><span class="ev_code_BLUE">spoiler-</span><span class="ev_code_WHITE">I know, but Lupin was my favorite, and it just seemed that he was going to make it, and then I find out that he's dead. Sirius was happier in death than in life, but Lupin's life had really just started. Did anyone catch if Teddy Lupin was a werewolf? If so, I can switch my favorite charachter vote over to the /alive/ werewolf. *shoots JK Rowling a nasty look* *Shoots Remus a nasty look as well* You should just have ducked, or something, you traitor! *cries some more*</span>

[marina salem]

I completely agree with Garrett. <span class="ev_code_WHITE">I had suspected that Snape was in love with Lily, but not so much that he cried over the letter that gave her love sixteen years after her death, and I wonder if she ever knew. But how did he know that her Patronus was a doe? And the deal between Snape and Dumbledore was very well done...and Voldemort never knew, or suspected.

I can see why JK killed Remus (if Garrett's theory is right), but that didn't make it any easier to read about. Tonks would never have been happy without him. Fred... It's horrible to say, but I'd rather she'd had Percy die. I was pleased that he and the family reconciled. It was about time he saw some sense.

I believe Teddy Lupin is a Metamorphmagus, Rubywolf. I was hoping Ron and Hermione would name their kids Fred and Nymphadora.</span>

How come the title of this thread says "spoilers", and we're whiting it all out? Just asking...

JK Rowling did a very good job with this book.

[Rubywolf]

<span class="ev_code_RED">spoiler-</span><span class="ev_code_WHITE">Teds definately a metamorphagus, but is he also a werewolf? I think he is. Lupin said it would be a miracle if he wasn't. </span>

[Dragon Writer]

i'm not sure how big mine is...the delux edition has more pages, for illustrations (and apparently, mine comes with a signed box) though it's just a copy of the signiture...it's STILL AWESOME! *cheers and celebrates* anyways, i'll be finished with it tonight...*should probably have put more effort into reading it sooner, but is easily distractable...* *is putting more time then usual in at th emoment though*

[spyells]

I don't know why you guys are whiting everything out.

I liked the part when Molly Weasely cursed. I know it isn't good to cuss but that was classic. I was angry when Fred died. I loved the twins. I was also hoping that J.K. would go into more detail in the epilogue of what happened to the characters. Like what they do now and stuff. I wasn't to pleased about Hedwig either. But I have to admit that it would've been to dangerous for Harry to use her to send letters while he was in hiding. Who was the person that used magic later in life? Some people say Dudley because of the power to love. But I'm not so sure.

[Rubywolf]

<span class="ev_code_RED">Weren't we supposed to find out what Dudley saw when the dementers attacked him?</span>

[Rhi]

Weren't we supposed to find out what Dudley saw when the dementers attacked him?

I recall JKR saying something of that sort, but maybe it got edited, or maybe it was just supposed to be inferred that it was something about Harry; good question, I really have no idea

I can't believe she killed Fred!!! *sends a Howler to JKR* YOU MEAN AUTHOR, HOW DARE YOU KILL FRED WEASELY, I WILL BE SENDING MY ARMY OF RAVENOUS PINK BUNNIES TO WRACK MADNESS AND MAYHEM ON YOUR HOUSE FOR YOUR AWFUL CRIME!!! Okay, calming down now...oh wait, not just yet, I still have to yell at her for killing Lupin and Tonks...

I was hoping Ron and Hermione would name their kids Fred and Nymphadora.

Well, Tonks always did hate the name "Nymphadora" and they had a girl child (Rose) so they couldn't exactly name her Fred...plus then I would have cried again if they had named her after Tonks, so...yeah. I cried a lot in this book, pretty much every time someone died (esp. when Snape died) I knew that he was innocent all along! Yay, my theory was correct!

I can't believe the series is actually over! Hey, I know, I should read the whole series over again

[spyells]

They did have boy and they named him Hugo.

I'll add more later I have to go eat right now.

This link explains some things about the deaths in the book. If you haven't read the book yet though I would suggest you don't read it.
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/19935372/

[Rhi]

Oh yeah, forgot about Hugo...well, then why didn't they name him Fred?!?! *is confused* and what sort of a name is Hugo ?!?! Maybe it would have been too painful or something, I really don't know...