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It would be wonderful, IMO, if book 7 could span more than one year. I know it would be stepping way outside of J.K. Rowling's normal practice,
Another possibility is that J.K. Rowling's "power of love" may permit Harry to defeat Voldemort without the use of uber-enchantments. Dumbledore keeps saying "there are things worse than death." Dumbledore said that in the Hall of Mysteries there was a door that studied a strange power, which Harry had a great deal of. The prophecy also says, "he will have power the Dark Lord knows not". Love, sure, but perhaps actually useable in a practical sense? Lily's love was certainly useful to Harry in a practical way. Quote:
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i was just thinking on i think mercutios thing about snape an dumbledore having the polyjuice, wouldnt it have worn out during the funeral, and also, the r.a.b. is probably regulas because his name was mentioned quite a lot in book 6.
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also, that could explain harry beginning to use the dark arts more frequently, that is, him being a horcrux. . .
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I think Harry being a horux would be an intresting speculation but I would.nt like it to be true, that would mean that the only way to defeat voldimort would be to kill himself and I don't think the death of the main character that you have been following over the course of seven novels will end the seies well enough, I would quite like to see a happy ending to the series, I think the four main character MUST survive:
Harry could then become the new Defence against the dark arts teacher (the curse would be lifted now voldi was dead) or if Mgonegal dies the new headmaster Now that is my Idea of a good ending to the story Nothing unusual or unexpected, Just a nice ending to a very long and series of books that are close to my heart! PS: I remember reading somewhere that JK would give harry a happy ending but who knows in the world of Harry Potter PPS: You might think the killing off of harry at the end of the books is intresting NOW but if that really was the ending to the series in two years you will all probably be complaining about it and saying things like "JKR took the easy way out" etc -crosses fingers for happy ending-
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yes, harry would be a good teacher, he would have to forgo his dream of aurordom though, and i think harry should marry ginny, and hermione ron (eventually of course) so than theyd all be family, in a legal sense!
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well, fawkes could've left to follow dumbledore who looked like snape cause he went away with draco, and snape wouldnt have to be alive for the potion to work, they would just need him to make MORE of the potion.
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i also like it though its probably not true, and like hedwig goes where harry goes, fawkes could be going to dumbledores next hideout, and, to merge science and magic, snapes hairs are still his dna even if he dies.
here's a new speculation, what if the "ironclad evidence" dumbledore had was an unbreakable vow, and snape took it to always do dumbledore's will. he then(supposing that above theory is false) had to kill dumbledore, again supposing that dumbledore was in fact pleading for snape to kill him, but snape didnt want to, and that was why he had a face of hatred.
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Well... I've read a lot of the reactions to and thoughts on the book, but I'm going to post this now and finish reading all your thoughts after.
Firstly, I loved the book. It's definitely taken the title of my second favourite HP book, after PoA. Secondly, there was a one thing that I really stood out as something that I didn't like: Though it was title Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the revealing of the Prince's identity was completely anti-climactic. I think that the reveal should have been a bit more exciting, but because of all of the other stuff going on, it was kind of just tossed aside. And I wonder,
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It's annoying to have to spoiler everything, and even more to have to highlight entire lengthy posts to read them. Can't we just create a different thread, or split this one, so that one can be titled *SPOILERS INCLUDED*?
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