Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Spoilerific)

[tobi14]

dont hate me for this, but i feel it has 2 b said. all of the harry potter stories, short of the third, HAD IDENTICAL PLOT LINES

[Squeek]

Not really, no.

1) The positive side of wizarding world.

2) The negative side of the wizarding world.

3) Secrets about the wizarding world and information on Harry's past. Has very little to do with Voldemort.

4) A break from the norm with a tournament. Crucial lead-in to the fifth book.

5) Battle of wits between those who believe and those who do not. Also, a return to a focus on education at Hogwarts with the exams.

6) Learning about Tom Riddle. Tools that will guide Harry in the final book.

7) A departure from the formula of the books and the destruction of Voldemort.

[tobi14]

things like the tournament just seemed like gimmicks to make the plot seem different to me, put ive no desire to proceed

[purebloodtexan]

Originally Posted by tobi14

things like the tournament just seemed like gimmicks to make the plot seem different to me, put ive no desire to proceed

There's no better opportunity (I'll spell check that later) than a grand tournament to get someone in by force, set them up, entrap them and kill them; if they wanted to, they might cause even more chaos.

[RB_IcePh0enix]

I personally thought the 7th book was the best. I'm a bit afraid of what the movie will be like though. If it is as bad and short as the 5th one I think Harry Potter fans will get extremely angry at the director.

On a not so important note, how come in the sixth book Dumbledore gets flown into the air from the killing curse when everybody else who was hit by the killing curse just fell to the ground. I thought this may be significant to the 7th book but it wasn't at all really. I have to wonder if she just made a mistake or if she did it to add more drama thinking people wouldn't have caught onto it.

I thought the epilogue was decent but it would have been better if she said who the new headmaster was and the new minister of magic was. It may have been Luna Lovegood, she seems like she might make a decent headmaster. I actually think Ron may be the minister of magic. Who knows. She probably just wants us to keep on guessing.

[ShastaTwist]

The fifth book was my favorite one.

Totally trashed the book with the movie. I wanted to cry.

[Squeek]

I liked the fifth the best myself, until I read the seventh. The sixth was just horrible compared to the fifth.

I thought the movie did some justice, but it was far too short. A lot less happens in the sixth book, so they don't have to worry about making that work, but the seventh movie seems problematic to make.

[Tokzic]

so i finally finished this book because i decided that i had to read the first six over again before i read the seventh lol

My major predictions going into the book were:

-Dumbledore didn't actually die - his death was an intentional hoax meant to spur Voldemort forward.
-Ron or Harry would die at the end, but definitely not Hermione.
-Metamorphagi or whatever would play a key role in the plot (this was my main theory concerning Dumbledore not being dead - a Metamorphagus died in his place).
-Snape was definitely a good guy.
-The White Tomb would play a key role in the plot (in Order of the Pheonix, Harry catches a glimpse of what appears to be "plans for a building", which are hidden from view hastily).

I was kind of disappointed at the ending because I expected something intricate and mind-blowing, like the end of Prisoner of Azkaban. Snape loving Lily all along was kind of obvious just from the way he acted in the present and in the memory in Half-Blood Prince, and I knew it was true when he asked Harry to look at him at the end - he wanted to look into Harry's eyes because they looked like his mother's and he could have a slightly awkward moment envisioning Lily from Harry etc.

I also hated the entire middle of the book - Harry and party just dicking around in random forests. I swear, I was supporting Ron full-heartedly when he left because ABSOLUTELY ****ING NOTHING HAPPENED for like 100 pages straight.

Favourite part of the book by far was the Seven Potters. That and the chapter following it were incredible.

On a slightly separate note EVERY SINGLE SPOILER I READ WAS UNTRUE WHAT THE **** I HATE YOU ALL FOR GIVING ME THIS EXTREME SENSE OF FOREBODING

EDIT: why the hell is everyone's favourite book the fifth

The entire fifth book can be summarized like so: There is an organization fighting Voldemort. Sirius dies. Everything else is just a typical year at Hogwarts who cares.

With these three sentences in mind, you can entirely skip the fifth book and never question continuity in the last two.

My favourite book is the fourth, closely followed by the third. The fourth was just so different and intense and unpredictable that I was blown away, and the third's ending clinched it well.

[Squeek]

I still think the third movie is the best, but I never really enjoyed the fourth that much. The first is better than the fourth in my eyes.

[Tokzic]

Movies are a completely different story rofl

They all came down to how well the script was put together. I don't even remember any of them except the first because it was a big bloody deal back then, and the rest were all like "oh hey let's read the book again only it'll be cut up and you won't have to use mental imagery"

fourth movie i remember being extremely disappointed at though because it was like TASKTASKTASKOHWAITIT'SVOLDEMORT THE END

[ShastaTwist]

Stop, Tokzic...

This is sirius.

[Tokzic]

i get it

[UnkownMan]

NOOO! I was going to get the book to.

[Tokzic]

why in hell would you come in a thread of a book you're planning on reading which is labelled (Spoilerific)

good ****ing job

[UnkownMan]

Originally Posted by Tokzic

why in hell would you come in a thread of a book you're planning on reading which is labelled (Spoilerific)

good ****ing job

I don't really know...

[purebloodtexan]

Originally Posted by UnkownMan

I don't really know...

Well done.

About the only problem I have with the fourth movie is that Harry didn't get the prize money that he eventually passed to Fred and George. I have yet to see the fifth movie, so it'd seem more likely that they'd start their business of a thousand galleons as opposed to out of nowhere (I don't know if they started the business in the movie or not. Someone please clarify for me). Also, it's pretty important to the plot up to the sixth book:

Book five: They have an extra purpose for leaving Hogwarts.

Book six: Malfoy ends up buying one of their products, which helps with the "invasion" of Hogwarts.

[Squeek]

The Weasley's future isn't really brought up at all in the movie, unfortunately.

It means you probably won't see their shop in the 6th movie.

[THEbigE]

I agree with Tokzic I felt that the plot was going now where during the time they were traveling all over the dam place...
I'd say the 3rd book was my favorite closely followed by the 7th.

I was hopeing that Harry Would End up with Hermoine though... Either that or Harry Having 12 children with Ginny (Professor Trelawny faked the predition in book 5) it would be perfect weasley type thing lol

[Afrobean]

Originally Posted by Squeek

The Weasley's future isn't really brought up at all in the movie, unfortunately.

It means you probably won't see their shop in the 6th movie.

Or Harry will be like "hey where are we going" and someone will say "to Fred and George's shop that they definitely have been planning on opening you just didn't hear about it until now" and the audience will go "oh ok I'll buy that."

And didn't they already miss out on the cabinet or some bull**** like that? And the Room of Requirement was WAY different than I thought it'd be, so they'll probably have a weird time explaining how the diadem was in the Room of Requirement all this time. Or they might just bypass it entirely and say it was on the bust in the common room (that's what I was thinking as I was reading it).

[SethSquall]

I liked the 5th book the least. I thought Harry was such a whiney litte bitch and If he had listened to some of his friends instead of being an little emo dick Sirius might just of lived.

I didn't enjoy reading Harry going through puberty to be honest.