General Chat / Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

And you further prove why you are an idiot...

Hmm never thought I'd say that [you're an idiot]...buyou've finally given me a reason...

And I've always beleived [that you're an idiot]. You finally gave me enough proof...

Minnimee, I'm not even going to bother...

MA must be British.

Try Stephen Ambrose.  A real historian who writes about real history and real stories.  Not a dickhead like Clancy who pretends he has some idea of what he's talking about.

Of course.  True stories will always be more interesting than fiction.  Especially formulaic, shitty fiction, like Tom Clancy.

Yup.

I enjoyed Band of Brothers.

Try Stephen Ambrose.  A real historian who writes about real history and real stories.  Not a dickhead like Clancy who pretends he has some idea of what he's talking about.

Of course.  True stories will always be more interesting than fiction.  Especially formulaic, shitty fiction, like Tom Clancy.

Yup.

I enjoyed Band of Brothers.

Too bad it is an amalgam of stolen work.

Fuck all that shit, I've read Clancy and Ambrose and seemingly millions of other books, but I'd rather read Harry Potter, or Narnia, or Hitchhiker's Guide, or the Hardy Boys any day. Fiction is fiction, and stories are stories. This is entertainment. Not a reading level contest.

By the way, The Chronicles of Narnia aren't supposed to be read according to the timeline. You don't get the full effect that way. Oh yes, and I don't know what collection you've got, but my copy of the Magician's Nephew says "book 1" on it. Weird.

I never did like the Chronicles, something about them just never worked.

Fuck all that shit, I've read Clancy and Ambrose and seemingly millions of other books, but I'd rather read Harry Potter, or Narnia, or Hitchhiker's Guide, or the Hardy Boys any day. Fiction is fiction, and stories are stories. This is entertainment. Not a reading level contest.

By the way, The Chronicles of Narnia aren't supposed to be read according to the timeline. You don't get the full effect that way. Oh yes, and I don't know what collection you've got, but my copy of the Magician's Nephew says "book 1" on it. Weird.

Yours must be in the correct order, at least some. The set I read was ancient, from the 70s I believe and it was all out of order.

Anywho...

ride6

ok then!
anyway. the movies of both look good. yes?

Try Stephen Ambrose.  A real historian who writes about real history and real stories.  Not a dickhead like Clancy who pretends he has some idea of what he's talking about.

Of course.  True stories will always be more interesting than fiction.  Especially formulaic, shitty fiction, like Tom Clancy.

Yup.

I enjoyed Band of Brothers.

Check your PMs, sluggo.

Oh yes, and I don't know what collection you've got, but my copy of the Magician's Nephew says "book 1" on it. Weird.

That's because you have a recent publication of the series. As the series was originally written, The Magician's Nephew didn't exist. It was written later than the rest, but it takes place before the Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe. It's all a little weird and some people get into arguments about which book is really the first in the series...either listing them in chronological order based on publication date or the order of events in the series itself.

Minnimee, I'm not even going to bother...

Its probably better that way..

MA must be British.

How so? I have good teeth.

Spoilers below...



























Well after 5 days I finished this book, suprising coz book 5 took me 3 weeks, but now I can do about 200 pg's in a day and with this book the action keept going so it was not hard at all to keep on reading. The end sucks coz of Dumbledore dieing, him and Hagrid are my fav characters in the book so it was sad for him to die like that. I really liked this horcrux angle, very cool idea and haveing many spraed out is intrusting coz now Harry needs to go on many adventures to find them. I really want to find out who R.A.B. is, off hand the only person in the books I can think of with those inatials is sirius's brother rebuless black or something. Book 7 should be really good, this one imo was the best yet, just above book 2.

I've heard R.A.B is Regulus A. Black, who was a might wizard who got on Voldemorts wrong side.

Just finished it. Spoilers following.

Decent book, but I like how Harry now has a clear mission and goal. The books were starting to become really formulaic (go to Hogwarts, get dragged into random mystery, do some other random stuff and some school work, climatic battle with Voldemort or similar, and lots of pages where everyone just tell each other what happened and how it all fits together), so I hope that now the story will become more varied, especially as Harry is leaving Hogwarts soon.

How many books are planned?

How many books are planned?

Book 7 will be the last book in the series...bottom line. Jo is adamant that she doesn't write anymore than that in a novel like fashion with the series because she knows if she keeps going, the magic will disappear from the series...similarly to your thinking of the growing formulaicness of the series. She has stated that should she write an 8th book about the series, it will only be a sort of encyclopedia of characters, subcharacters, removed characters, events, etc. and nothing more.

After finishing the book in three days...most of it read on the second day, I thought it was pretty good. I think I like it better than Chamber, Sorceror's Stone, or Order, but I think Prizoner and Goblet beat it out by a little. They just had plots that I really liked the most of any of them so far. Well, onto other things.

I wonder how long it'll be until the 7th book comes out. 10 years?

Prolly two. It's been that way since GoF.

Anyway, I read it on Tuesday and Wednesday.















Pretty intense stuff. It's really got me hooked onto the characters and stuff. Sucks that Harry can't keep a relationship longer than a few weeks, but at least this time he's got a chance to get back together. I was surprised who they paired with him tho. I thought she was over him, but I suppose not. At least we can put all the "Hermione and Draco" rumors out tho.

You kinda feel sorry for Draco after all of this. Kinda. But then you remember he's a whiney penis, so we'll see if Harry saves his life. R.A.B. is quite the intriguing fellow. It would ruin things if this was just some new guy JKR introduces in the final book. Hopefully, it's someone we've met. She loves giving out clues and foreshadowing, so maybe we can solve this mystery based on past clues and such.

Snape's turn had me surprised. But I'm not completely sure he's evil. There's always that theory that Dumbledore meant to die. I mean, they still didn't explain why he trusts Snape so much, and JKR promised that it would be revealed. Furthermore, when Potter runs into his office just before Albeus invites him to destroy the horcrux and yells about Snape, Dumbledore looked like he was going to say something, then decided not to and stated, "I trust Severus completely" instead. Something tells me we'll find out precisely why. Either Snape is so deep into his role that he's even willing to kill Dumbledore (who himself often says his life isn't really that valuable, and that it's Potter who holds the key), or maybe Snape is a double agent hoping to kill Harry after Harry kills Voldemort and thus rule the dark wizarding world. Who knows... there are arguments for whether he's still "good" or not. But Book 7 is bound to be long, especially if Harry still has three or four horcruxes to destroy before Voldemort himself. It took them six books to destroy two of them, so this should be interesting.

I can't wait for the last book.

Just finished it...and I started reading the day it came out. It was a great read, and now I'm going to read all the books again because I just realised how bored I was when I wasn't reading.

I think the 'Harry Is A Horcrux' theory is the one that appeals most to me. Voldemort murdered his mother, so he could make Harry a horcrux. Also it explains why the two of them are 'linked', because Harry has part of Voldemort's soul in him. Also it means Harry would have to kill himself to defeat Voldemort - how awesome would that be?!

Anyway, good book. I preferred it to the Order because it seemed to hark back to the days of the Philosopher's Stone - hanging around at school, enjoying cool lessons...general fun Hogwarts stuff, rather than all the high-tension Ministry crap.

GoF trailer looks pretty damn good too.

Spoilers, maybe....

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Supposedly, R.A.B. is Regulus Black, who was killed by Voldemort for turning away to the good side (hence, the letter being addressed to "the Dark Lord"- it came from a death eater). The horcrux could therefore be the locket that they couldn't open in Sirius's house in book five. By that token... there could be more than one horcrux that Regulus found and kept at the Black house...