Harry Potter

[PW_Elle]

Dumbledore is really dead.

Sorry, but Dumbledore is truly dead. JK Rowling said so in her interview with Mugglenet.com.

BUT, we don't know where Snape's loyalties lie. Rowling said we won't find that out for sure until the final book.

PW_Elle

[crazylegs]

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Another thing that bugs me is that they always hold them unitl the local clock strikes midnight. 12:00 am July 21 in London will be 4:00 PM July 20 in San Diego. Why should I have to wait?

I think its Rowlings influence, as she's fiercly protective over the fact that HP is British (hence why the film actors are all britsh where appropriate, its part of the film licence)., in answer to why you have to wait? maybe she belives that everyone has access at exactly the same time, its only fair on everyone else.

[Mark Healey]

in answer to why you have to wait? maybe she belives that everyone has access at exactly the same time, its only fair on everyone else.

Midnight BST and and 4:00pm the previouday day PDT are exactly the same time.

[HYHYBT]

I don't get how people rail against Harry Potter for being 'evil', but they turn around and praise Chronicles Of Narnia, which contains many of the exact same elements.
There's no difference in my eye.

I can explain part of the difference, anyway: the magic in the Narnia books is always, as best I can remember, done either by someone evil (even not taking magic into account) or by someone higher up than humans and clearly under license by Aslan. You don't see the good humans, or Talking Animals, for that matter, performing magic except for the incident with the rings, which was forced on the children. Well, I suppose you could include Tumnus's first meeting with Lucy and Digory's ringing the bell, but again although they're generally good they are very definitely doing what they shouldn't at those points.

[squall]

This was probably said some time ago, but it boggles my mind that some representatives of certain religions expect the rest of society to believe in the same things that they do. If somebody doesn't, it's like "FIRE THEM!" GET THEM OUT OF MY SIGHT!" They even go as far as trying to change the laws. This country was built on the principles of separation of church and state, and here we got people who either didn't read their constitution, or want to wad it up and throw it in the dumpster in favor of a theocracy.

[gregmaddux17]

Sorry, but Dumbledore is truly dead. JK Rowling said so in her interview with Mugglenet.com.

BUT, we don't know where Snape's loyalties lie. Rowling said we won't find that out for sure until the final book.

PW_Elle

I have wondered since the end of the HBP what will happen to Snape and Malfoy. As for Dumbledore I figured he would exist in the mirror and give out some occasional advice.

[IT Grunt]

BUT, we don't know where Snape's loyalties lie. Rowling said we won't find that out for sure until the final book.

That's been a subject of debate between my wife and her friends. My wife and I are of the belief that Snape's showed his true colors and is one evil SOB. Their stance is that he did it only because he had to fulfill the vow, and had no real desire to kill him. I base my theory on the description of the moment he did it, describing his facial expression as one of deepest loathing.

Still, there's still plenty of room for twists and turns in the next book, so it's all guesswork anyways.

[Banrion]

Now i'm gonna say this right off. I don't like Rowling much(She seems to diss Hufflepuff House)

She's allowed to, she created it.

I have enjoyed the HP books and I am currently collecting them on CD so I can listen to them at bedtime. I have books 2,4 and 6 so far.

[repsac]

Some time ago, while going to the theater to see one of the movies, I remember this group out front protesting it. You know the typical drivel, Evil this, satanic that, burn for watching it type of thing. Over and over, this one guy was going on and on about how bad it was.

After a good ten or fifteen minutes of listening to this, an older gentleman in front of me wandered over and started asking a host of questions to the protestor's leader. Specific questions like "Well where does it say this, or that" and asking for which books the fellow had read and what not.

Long story short, it turned out the protestor had never read the books or watched the films, and seemed to think he knew everything. The elderly gentleman just laughed, shook his head and started to walk off about then. Not to be outdone, the protestor asked the guy if he was saved, since (protestor's words) he mustn't be to watch something evil and such.

The older man just beamed at the guy and nodded. "I sure am." he said smiling. "At least, I'd hope so. I mean, my parish would have a fit if I wasn't wouldn't they?"

Yes dear friends. The older fellow was a priest.

[GayleShy]

When the third movie came out, my niece was just getting to the age where she loved Harry Potter. My sister let her watch the movies and she dressed up like him, popping the lens out of her sunglasses and everything. Well, my sister's inlaws are very much against HP and all that stuff, and when they came over and saw Little sally (not niece's real name) playing on my sister's broom and pretending that she was Harry, they almost died.

Fastforeward a couple nights. Sally is watching TV and my brother-in-law asked her if she wanted to turn off the TV and go play Harry. She looked sad and shook her head no. When asked why, she told BIL that her uncle told her Harry was bad and God didn't like him. After my sister and brother-in-law got her straightened out, they had a LONG talk to Uncle about brainwashing their child.

(To keep this about SCs, these are also the same people who boycotted Wal-Mart on Black Friday because of other things that happened to be against their personal beliefs.)

[NightAngel]

I will be very angry if Snape is actually evil.

I think that he and Dumbledore had a pretty darn good idea of what was to come and they had probably discussed in detail the way things could come out. I don't think it was too much to assume that Voldemort would strike at Dumbledore through a student and Draco was the obvious choice. Crabbe and Goyle are both simply too stupid to pull off that kind of a coo.

My personal theory is that Draco will turn his back on Voldemort and his father for putting him up to killing Dumbledore. He certainly didn't want to kill him- that was painfully obvious in my opinion. Draco may even become a hasty ally to Harry in the end.

[IT Grunt]

My personal theory is that Draco will turn his back on Voldemort and his father for putting him up to killing Dumbledore. He certainly didn't want to kill him- that was painfully obvious in my opinion. Draco may even become a hasty ally to Harry in the end.

I agree with you there. You get the impression that Draco's heart truly wasn't in the task he was assigned, and you get an insight into the possibility that for all his bravado and all his holier-than-thou act, deep down, he may just have some good in him. Book 7 should be an interesting read.

[Reyneth]

Long story short, it turned out the protestor had never read the books or watched the films, and seemed to think he knew everything. The elderly gentleman just laughed, shook his head and started to walk off about then. Not to be outdone, the protestor asked the guy if he was saved, since (protestor's words) he mustn't be to watch something evil and such.

The older man just beamed at the guy and nodded. "I sure am." he said smiling. "At least, I'd hope so. I mean, my parish would have a fit if I wasn't wouldn't they?"

Yes dear friends. The older fellow was a priest.

I love it.
One comeback I've heard in regards to the ignorant type people who protest people exercizing free will and reading and watching what they want........ "I am sorry you hold so little confidence in your faith that one book can shake everything you believe." Civil, polite, yet insulting of their convictions and faith - exactly what they are attempting to do to you, but nicer.

[gregmaddux17]

I agree with you there. You get the impression that Draco's heart truly wasn't in the task he was assigned, and you get an insight into the possibility that for all his bravado and all his holier-than-thou act, deep down, he may just have some good in him. Book 7 should be an interesting read.

This is the exact same feeling I got about Malfoy at the end of the HBP. The Deathly Hallows should be a very good book and hard to put down.

My theory is, if your kids (or anyone, really) have so little strength of character and intelligence to understand the difference between reality and fiction, Harry Potter is not the problem here.

Good point.

[Tria]

My personal theory is that Draco will turn his back on Voldemort and his father for putting him up to killing Dumbledore. He certainly didn't want to kill him- that was painfully obvious in my opinion. Draco may even become a hasty ally to Harry in the end.

GAH! Warn a girl before putting in spoilers! I haven't read order of the Phoenix yet!