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dvpierce wrote:

That's great - the first item on his itinerary can be explaining to Ron's dad how airplanes stay up.

Man, I was far too into the book at that point. Immersed.  I got all excited to tell him, 'cause I know. 

And then I looked around my living room, feeling like an idiot.  Time to put the book down for a few minutes,  grab a soda.

Mollywobbles.

not adult either, more to teens/late teens.

If the first three books were PG, the last three, maybe last two, would be PG-13.

The book is selling 13 copies per second in England.

i just discovered that the Guardian Unlimited had a contest for alternate ways of whacking Dumbledore - some of the entries are massively funny!

read them here:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/potter/page … 82,00.html

debbiedowner wrote:

My son went to the WalMart in South Portland, Maine, at 7:30am on Saturday

That's where I live!  (In Portland)  nice

oatmeal wrote:

maxintosh wrote:

(also, I wonder what will happen to him becoming an Auror... no NEWTs?)

Me too.

jhota wrote:

Harry's an idiot if he thinks Ginny is going to just let him go. at the same time, i'm sure she (being a not particularly foolish person) will most likely continue with her sixth year at Hogwarts - she can always lean on Ron, wimp that he is, to find out what the "big three" are up to.

Yup.  Somehow, though, I think the order will manage to impress upon him to complete his final year (if the school is even open... as if it wouldn't be ).

This is debbiedowner's son speaking:

No, I have to disagree. Ginny is just going to let him go (at least for the majority of book 7), since she knows she has to: "She met Harry's gaze with the same hard, blazing look that he had seen when she hugged him after winning the Quidditch Cup in his absence, and he knew that at that moment they understood each other perfectly, and that when he told her what he was going to do now, she would not say, 'Be careful,' or 'Don't do it,' but accept his decision, because she would not have expected anything less of him."

Also, after "fiercely saying 'What if I don't care?' " she goes on to acquiesce "Well... I can't say I'm surprised. I knew this would happen in the end. I knew you wouldn't be happy unless you were hunting Voldemort. Maybe that's why I like you so much."

She also says, "I never really gave up on you, not really. I always hoped.... Hermione told me to get on with life...." So what makes you think she'll give up on their relationship now instead of waiting until he's done doing what he's destined to do to in order to devote himself completely to her?

So what I think will happen is that Ginny, Neville, and Luna will work together at the school and continue honing their skills (in order to prepare for the Final Battle) while HRH are off getting and destroying the other horcruxes. Then in the end the six of them (assuming Ron and/or Hermione don't need to die in order to destroy a horcrux) will fight Voldemort together in the Final Battle. Who will live, and who will die? That remains to be seen, but I have a feeling that Ginny and Harry will be able to live happily ever after together (there has to be some sort of catharsis other than the bad guy dying). Then again, Ginny might have to do the same thing Lily did (i.e., use the strongest possible magic, the one type Voldemort doesn't have, pure love) in order to save Harry.

teh max wrote:

Also, when Sirius died, Harry tried everything to talk to him again. There was no way. In this book there was a way, and he didn't try

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