Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

[Panache]

Bought Deathly Hallows yesterday and read it. Perhaps in a week or two we should have another thread to discuss it.

Cheers

Jamie

[jordanjm]

I picked up deathly Hallows Saturday morning, and read about half of it yesterday. I finished it today. For me the great authors I have read are Asmiov, Heinlein, Tolkien, Herbert, and Rowling. When I read fiction I like epic, hero cycle type story lines.

[Zardoz]

The world has gone crazy over the Harry Potter stories. Am I the only person, I wonder, who has never read any of those books nor seen any of the films? It is the same with Lord of the Rings: admittedly, I did TRY to read one of those books (still have it somewhere) but I just could not get into it - and I have not seen the films!

I'm with you on that one Hamish!

[sporranlegionaire]

Not my thing either. I've caught snatches of past films on TV and the special effects are applaudable, but fantasy is not my thing. A friend lent me some Lord of the Rings dvds and I've still got to get enthused to watch one. I prefer a diet of documentaries about the real world, and good comedies to counterbalance them.

[jordanjm]

I understand that some people do not like fantasy, or science fiction. For some it is hard to "suspend disbelief", for some it is not real enough. I just want to let those who are saying how they just can not get into fantasty know why I do like fantasy and science fiction. In speculative fiction an author, or creator can weave into the tail some type of lesson, social commentary, or other lessons, sort of like parables. They are there, waiting to be found, and sometimes we find them, sometimes we do not. I have read the same story, or seen the same movie three times at different ages, and not seen the deep idea behind the story, until I was mature enough. Sometimes when I have idenitfied a social commentary in a story the movie will remove the social commentary. An example of this when H.G. Wells the Time Machine was made into a movie. The story was about how wrong it was for those who were well off to mistreat factory workers. Thanks for listening, I do not want to disrespect anyone who does not like fantasy, Harry Potter, or Lord of the Rings, or science fiction because if everyone liked them the world would not be the brightly varied place it is today. I too do like a good documentary about history, or science, and "What About Bob" is one of the funniest movies I've ever seen.

[JimB]

OK.....here's how it ends.....
Harry and Voldamort find each other at Richenbach falls, they struggle...they both fall.... both apparrently die!!!
Oh wait...that's our friend Sherlock...never mind

[Panache]

OK.....here's how it ends.....
Harry and Voldamort find each other at Richenbach falls, they struggle...they both fall.... both apparrently die!!!

No it doesn't! The book ends with Harry and his 300 Spartans holding the pass of Thermopylae for three days against the Persian army. A traitor shows the Persian army a goat trail that allows the enemy to surround them. Harry and his men die in a hail of arrows but their sacrifice rally the Spartan nation to defeat King Xerxes of Persia. The Spartans place a large stone golden snitch where Harry fell. The epitaph reads:

"Go tell the Wizards, Stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws, we lie"

Or am I getting mixed up?

Cheers

Jamie

[McClef]

Ah but what about the flash scar on Harry's forehead being revealed as the original design for the 21st Century Kilts pin?

[Phil]

The world has gone crazy over the Harry Potter stories. Am I the only person, I wonder, who has never read any of those books nor seen any of the films? It is the same with Lord of the Rings: admittedly, I did TRY to read one of those books (still have it somewhere) but I just could not get into it - and I have not seen the films!

Somebody said Tolkien was "hobbit forming" and it seems Harry Potter is too. I too have never read any of the books but I have seen a couple of the films which seemed fairly entertaining. The author seemingly wrote the books while living a hand to mouth existence as a single mum in Edinburgh. She won't have to worry about paying the rent now though!

[Nick]

Somebody said Tolkien was "hobbit forming" and it seems Harry Potter is too. I too have never read any of the books but I have seen a couple of the films which seemed fairly entertaining. The author seemingly wrote the books while living a hand to mouth existence as a single mum in Edinburgh. She won't have to worry about paying the rent now though!

Well, we are Potterheads...

Just finished it. I didn't get all the way through Saturday (visiting with family), and Cassie got it all of Sunday.

Ham, I didn't start reading the books until after the second movie was released on video. Then I read them just out of curiosity. Sort of the same with Lord of the Rings, though I read those because I was a bit confused by the movie. Now I'm a big fan of both.