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Tinsel_the_Elf wrote:

bad, underage fanfic writer wrote:

Draco was nervous. He had always knownhw would get his veela inheritance at sixteen but he didn't know it would slowly drive him crazy.

Must have been a bummer to find out after all that time Draco was a she

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Thank you, Meneltarma, for directing us to the link for that site!

Yes Melly, that was fab, stunning, I am in awe

Hmmm...Tolstoy fanfic...I mean, Napoleonic Russia might as well be a fantasy land...

You're welcome. That site is an important part of my life...last week's entries included one where Dumbledore was pregnant with Voldemort's baby.

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I love you, Albus, and this is how you repay me? With lies and lack of erections?

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Erectus Disappearus!

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Erectus Disappearus!

Don't mean to get technical... but it should really be more along the lines of Erectus Disapperatus, right? :rolls:

Wow, never knew slash was so disturbing...

Not all slash is disturbing.


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Just Harry Potter slash. :P;)

Alright, I'll fess up, a while back I actually followed Satch's(?) link and read 'Time Out of Place' (?). Loved every moment, and it actually changed the way I view the Harry Potter universe, and how I interpreted the end of HBP.

*~Pips~*

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OK, I finally have read both the book and this thread...

Late as I am, about everything has been discussed to death already, but a couple of comments still:

I also wondered if that was the real Tonks in the corridor, because she acted so strange.

Wormtail will certainly play a role in Voldemort's demise. He has done anything and everything for his master and gets only treated like dirt in return; he owes his life to Harry; and I don't think he was at school sorted as Gryffindor for nothing...

Interesting point about Wormtail being in Gryffindor, Rowan. I had forgotten that!

His middle name isn't Grima or anything is it? Just askin'

Pippin4242 wrote:

Alright, I'll fess up, a while back I actually followed Satch's(?) link and read 'Time Out of Place' (?). Loved every moment, and it actually changed the way I view the Harry Potter universe, and how I interpreted the end of HBP.

*~Pips~*

I admit i read it too, and loved it. Nasty, but sooo well written. Ack...

I hope it's not out of line to say this, but I would really like to be able to discuss Harry Potter without having all the fan fic brought into the mix. I don't read it and don't want to read it. Would it be possible to take that discussion to a new thread? I don't want to stifle discussion here, but I'm a little frustrated that serious talk about the book keeps veering off into the world of slash/ships.

If I'm the only one who thinks this, carry on.

Actually, I'm with you on this Wampuscat, but since the thread had slowed down anyway I wasn't too pushed.

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I'll third that.

So what is going on with Tonks? I just don't buy the love-lorn maiden explanation for her being outside the RoR and touching her arm. And what was she doing in Hogsmeade when Harry fell over Mundungus' stash? She seemed pretty cool about that. Has Harry misread the situation (again) or are Tonks and Dung in cahoots in lifting Sirius' possessions?

Has she been Imperiused? Or was that Draco + Polyjuice outside the RoR?

Well, Tonks is part of Harry's guard at Hogwarts, I think it'd be typical of her to show up in odd locations...

Or was Tonks possibly planted by Dumbledore? She convinces Mundungus that she's helping him go through Sirius' possessions, while on the lookout for a particular object (she doesn't know why).

Just a theory. I'm not sure it holds up.

Personally, I don't think there's anymore to the Tonks storyline in HBP than we discovered. I fully believe that all her appearances were due to Order-related matters, aside from the time when she was outside the Room of Requirement, where I believe that she was indeed looking for Dumbledore. I buy her story completely.

But let us consider, for the sake of objectivity and covering all the bases, that Tonks wasn't exactly Tonks... that perhaps [she] was Draco in disguise. What purpose would it serve? How could it come into play in book 7?

And as a sort of fun aside note:

I go to Mugglenet nearly every day, and a few nights ago while browsing said site I ran across a nifty little invention that I found quite interesting (and entertaining ). Maybe all of you already know about this and I'm just a little late catching the wave, but it seems that Scholastic has an online pronunciation guide for names, places, spells, etc. in the HP books. Naturally I pulled up the site and started clicking like mad, listening to the lovely animated voice say every word on the list. And much to my horror, I found out that I have been saying several words wrong since the very first time I read the books nearly a year ago , and I'm still getting used to the fact that some of the words aren't what I thought they were... it's just not the same now. Here's a link to the Pronunciation Guide, if anyone would care to take a look. Erm, I mean a listen. Whatever.

All (or most of) the ones I've been pronouncing wrong...

Accio
Anamagus/Animagi
Beauxbatons
Bezoar
Dedalus Diggle
Firenze
Legilimency
Nigellus [as in Phineas Nigellus Black]
Rubeus
Seamus
Veritaserum
Voldemort [with a damn silent "T" ]

Yeah, it's a pretty long list. Sad, I know.

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Personally, I don't think there's anymore to the Tonks storyline in HBP than we discovered. I fully believe that all her appearances were due to Order-related matters, aside from the time when she was outside the Room of Requirement, where I believe that she was indeed looking for Dumbledore. I buy her story completely.

I do too. I think the only mystery surrounding Tonks through most of the book had to do with JKR trying to throw a red herring to the audience and mislead us into thinking she was in love with Sirius.

Anything else just seems unnecessarily cruel to Lupin's character (I mean, what else can JKR do to the poor man? Drop a baby Grand piano on his head? )

Just finished Book 6. Hmmmmmmmm interesting



I don't know why but the past two books have made me teary eyed. Especially Book 5, I cried like twice I can't wait for Harry to kick major ass in Book 7 LV's going down. To think I felt bad for Snape

I would read the rest of the thread but I just don't have the attention span right now . I was pleased with this book if not a little stunned by the outcome, didn't see that coming (and thankfully I didn't even hear if someone was dying). I hesitate to really say anything that might spoil it even though this is a dicussion thread, or maybe I just can't bear to say "it".

*Question* Has anyone heard the rumor that by the last couple of movies they are going to be rated R. I think a mandatory PG-13 is in store for this book and maybe Order, but wouldn't rating a HP movie R be bad for buisness? Not that I wouldn't like to see Harry deliver the Sectumsempra spell to Malfoy in living color, grr.

i duno about the pronounciation guide, i saw it the other day, cause surely they say voldemort in the movies?

JKR says 'Voldemorr'.

Rowling leaves off the T, and in the first few audiobooks, that's how Voldemort is pronounced (obviously at her direction).

When the first movie came out, the T was pronounced, probably because that's how 99.9 percent of readers did it. Interestingly, in the later audiobooks -- which have the same narrator -- it is Voldemort, with a T.

I stumbled across that pronunciation guide after reading the first book but before hearing an audiobook or seeing a movie, and was appalled to discover that I had been mentally pronouncing "Hermione" wrong. I bet I'm not the only one, since Rowling made a point of having Hermione explain to Krum how to pronounce her name in Goblet of Fire.