Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - Page 20

Lief Erikson · 10-01-2005, 04:34 PM

I rather doubt that we'll see a headmaster in action, so the point doesn't matter very much to me. The story will be focused on Harry still, and Harry isn't going to go back to Hogwarts until, in my opinion, he goes there to accept the job of "Defense against the Dark Arts" teacher, at the end of book 7. So who is the new headmaster, since we will hardly see anything of him or her in action anyway, at that point won't really make much difference, will it?

Lord Choc Obo · 10-01-2005, 07:16 PM

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Originally Posted by tolkienfan

Harry or Hermione? (once they're a lot older)

once they're older???? we're talking about the next book here, so they can't just suddenly get older or become headmaster without reason

sorry, no harry or herms as headmaster/mistress

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Originally Posted by Lief Erikson

and Harry isn't going to go back to Hogwarts until, in my opinion, he goes there to accept the job of "Defense against the Dark Arts" teacher, at the end of book 7.

he would be too young to take the job, even though he's very good at it in the DA classes, he does not have the ability to really teach classes, remember, even voldy tried to get the job after leaving school and even though his powers were way bigger than Harry's, he still didn't get the job, because he had no "life-experience", so harry won't go back for that.

Lief Erikson · 10-01-2005, 08:58 PM

You don't think that at that point Harry will have had "life experience"?

tolkienfan · 10-02-2005, 01:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Lord Choc Obo

once they're older???? we're talking about the next book here, so they can't just suddenly get older or become headmaster without reason

sorry, no harry or herms as headmaster/mistress

Not in the 7th book, there would have to be someone else first. But maybe someday?

Lord Choc Obo · 10-03-2005, 06:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Lief Erikson

You don't think that at that point Harry will have had "life experience"?

quite right, but still... 18 isn't really adult, ya know...it wouldn't be right

and yes idd tolkienfan, maybe someday (maybe hermione first "mudblood" headmistress???) but it wouldn't be treated in the 7th book now, would it??

durinsbane2244 · 10-03-2005, 09:03 PM

we don't know that everyone headmaster/mistress was pure...

tolkienfan · 10-04-2005, 12:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Lord Choc Obo

quite right, but still... 18 isn't really adult, ya know...it wouldn't be right

and yes idd tolkienfan, maybe someday (maybe hermione first "mudblood" headmistress???) but it wouldn't be treated in the 7th book now, would it??

There might be an epilogue...

Lord Choc Obo · 10-07-2005, 09:50 AM

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Originally Posted by tolkienfan

There might be an epilogue...

I'm afraid she's gonna get stuck on HP, ya know, like Chucky mauchalkin got stuck on Home Alone and such

it's not gonna be easy to write anew after HP for her....on the other hand she made enough money for several generations of her family to live a wealthy life

Elanor · 10-07-2005, 03:49 PM

I don't think she'll have trouble coming up with more subject matter to write. She's already said something about writing crime novels. Also she has mentioned that she'll probably put together a Harry Potter index, with her sketches and more background info on characters such as Dumbledore. I really hope she does!

Spock · 10-07-2005, 03:52 PM

She's given "us" so much already that I'm happy if she and her family can live well.

durinsbane2244 · 10-07-2005, 07:54 PM

a noble sentiment indeed, spocko

Lord Choc Obo · 10-08-2005, 05:56 PM

well offcourse, I don't wanna say that we have to take away all of her money

but it really takes down the stimulans of writing now more, doesn't it?

Elanor · 10-08-2005, 06:50 PM

I don't think so. She writes for fun, and she's not going to stop just because she doesn't need the money. She's a writer through and through. I'm sure that if more stories come to her (and they will), she'll write them. Maybe not at such a rapid pace, but she'll definitely keep writing.

***Rían*** · 11-03-2005, 02:59 PM

Went to library at 4 pm yesterday, got HP and the HBP. Finished it at 1 am. Great book!

inked · 11-03-2005, 03:17 PM

Pssst, Rian! Check out www.hogwartsprofessor.com on the HBP.

**Nurvingiel** · 11-18-2005, 08:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Lord Choc Obo

well offcourse, I don't wanna say that we have to take away all of her money

but it really takes down the stimulans of writing now more, doesn't it?

Bwahaha!

Writers do not write for money. How was she supposed to know, as she typed the first book on a typrewriter, that she was going to publish a major best seller? She tried a number of times to get it published before Raincoast Books picked it up.
I think we can safely say that Rowling will finish this series, despite her millions of pounds.

Then who knows what she'll do? Maybe she has other plans after her wonderful books are finished.

"Looking for God in Harry Potter"

You can publish anything these days! (Actually maybe it's a good book. I have no idea.)

durinsbane2244 · 11-18-2005, 08:53 PM

hehe, the lotr one was alright...but, oddly, dumbledore uses the term "sin" in the movie, which wasn't in the book....

Master'sBaneSwiftSnowmane · 11-20-2005, 07:22 PM

Well, he uses it in reference to curiosty...which Harry has proved that he has a lot of. Dumbldore does talk about what is right and wrong, maybe the director felt that Dumbldore could be talking about sin...geuss it'd be his interpertation of it.
Is a bit odd...I suppose.

durinsbane2244 · 11-20-2005, 10:13 PM

well, i just found it odd because of the religious controversy that has been going on, and the fact that people claim that magic "comes from satin" even though these people use it for good...

Lord Choc Obo · 11-21-2005, 04:28 AM

yes magis does come from satIn sheats and stuff like that

I guess you meant satan, right? well yeah that's kind of a strange thing, but as you may know there have always been tales of good witches through out history too, like Charmed for instance :-p so even if magic was created by the devil, it can be used both for good and evil, cfr. HP contra Voldy

10-01-2005, 04:34 PM	#381
Lief Erikson Elf Lord Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Fountain Valley, CA Posts: 6,343	I rather doubt that we'll see a headmaster in action, so the point doesn't matter very much to me. The story will be focused on Harry still, and Harry isn't going to go back to Hogwarts until, in my opinion, he goes there to accept the job of "Defense against the Dark Arts" teacher, at the end of book 7. So who is the new headmaster, since we will hardly see anything of him or her in action anyway, at that point won't really make much difference, will it? __________________ If the world has indeed, as I have said, been built of sorrow, it has been built by the hands of love, because in no other way could the soul of man, for whom the world was made, reach the full stature of its perfection. ~Oscar Wilde, written from prison Oscar Wilde's last words: "Either the wallpaper goes, or I do."

10-01-2005, 08:58 PM	#383
Lief Erikson Elf Lord Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Fountain Valley, CA Posts: 6,343	You don't think that at that point Harry will have had "life experience"? __________________ If the world has indeed, as I have said, been built of sorrow, it has been built by the hands of love, because in no other way could the soul of man, for whom the world was made, reach the full stature of its perfection. ~Oscar Wilde, written from prison Oscar Wilde's last words: "Either the wallpaper goes, or I do."

10-03-2005, 09:03 PM	#386
durinsbane2244 Dreamweaver Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: The Misty Mountains, where the spirits go... Posts: 3,560	we don't know that everyone headmaster/mistress was pure... __________________ Lord, what fools these mortals be! ---------------- We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams; World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever, it seems. ---------------- Shanti, shanti, shantih...

10-07-2005, 03:49 PM	#389
Elanor Hobbit in the Music Join Date: Nov 1999 Location: Westmarch Posts: 1,111	I don't think she'll have trouble coming up with more subject matter to write. She's already said something about writing crime novels. Also she has mentioned that she'll probably put together a Harry Potter index, with her sketches and more background info on characters such as Dumbledore. I really hope she does! __________________ Middle Earth Crossword Puzzle on the Tolkien Site of DOOM Segovia Mazes

10-07-2005, 03:52 PM	#390
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	She's given "us" so much already that I'm happy if she and her family can live well. __________________ Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL?! INCONCEIVABLE!!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

10-07-2005, 07:54 PM	#391
durinsbane2244 Dreamweaver Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: The Misty Mountains, where the spirits go... Posts: 3,560	a noble sentiment indeed, spocko __________________ Lord, what fools these mortals be! ---------------- We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams; World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever, it seems. ---------------- Shanti, shanti, shantih...

10-08-2005, 05:56 PM	#392
Lord Choc Obo Elven Warrior Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 101	well offcourse, I don't wanna say that we have to take away all of her money but it really takes down the stimulans of writing now more, doesn't it?

10-08-2005, 06:50 PM	#393
Elanor Hobbit in the Music Join Date: Nov 1999 Location: Westmarch Posts: 1,111	I don't think so. She writes for fun, and she's not going to stop just because she doesn't need the money. She's a writer through and through. I'm sure that if more stories come to her (and they will), she'll write them. Maybe not at such a rapid pace, but she'll definitely keep writing. __________________ Middle Earth Crossword Puzzle on the Tolkien Site of DOOM Segovia Mazes

11-03-2005, 02:59 PM	#394
*Rían* Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!) Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Not where I want to be ... Posts: 15,254	Went to library at 4 pm yesterday, got HP and the HBP. Finished it at 1 am. Great book! __________________ . I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç å ™ æ ♪ ?* "How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva!

11-03-2005, 03:17 PM	#395
inked Elf Lord Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: sikeston, MO, usa, earth, sol Posts: 3,114	Pssst, Rian! Check out www.hogwartsprofessor.com on the HBP. __________________ Inked "Aslan is not a tame lion." CSL/LWW "The new school [acts] as if it required...courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that requires real courage to say, and that is a truism." GK Chesterton "And there is always the danger of allowing people to suppose that our modern times are so wholly unlike any other times that the fundamental facts about man's nature have wholly changed with changing circumstances." Dorothy L. Sayers, 1 Sept. 1941

11-18-2005, 08:53 PM	#397
durinsbane2244 Dreamweaver Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: The Misty Mountains, where the spirits go... Posts: 3,560	hehe, the lotr one was alright...but, oddly, dumbledore uses the term "sin" in the movie, which wasn't in the book.... __________________ Lord, what fools these mortals be! ---------------- We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams; World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever, it seems. ---------------- Shanti, shanti, shantih...

11-20-2005, 07:22 PM	#398
Master'sBaneSwiftSnowmane Elven Warrior Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 103	Well, he uses it in reference to curiosty...which Harry has proved that he has a lot of. Dumbldore does talk about what is right and wrong, maybe the director felt that Dumbldore could be talking about sin...geuss it'd be his interpertation of it. Is a bit odd...I suppose. __________________ "Not only did my encounters with voters confirm the fundamental decency of the American people, they also reminded me that at the core of the American experience are a set of ideals that continue to stir our collective conscience; a common set of values that bind us together despite our differences; a running thread of hope that makes our improbable experiment in democracy work..." Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope

11-20-2005, 10:13 PM	#399
durinsbane2244 Dreamweaver Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: The Misty Mountains, where the spirits go... Posts: 3,560	well, i just found it odd because of the religious controversy that has been going on, and the fact that people claim that magic "comes from satin" even though these people use it for good... __________________ Lord, what fools these mortals be! ---------------- We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams; World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever, it seems. ---------------- Shanti, shanti, shantih...

11-21-2005, 04:28 AM	#400
Lord Choc Obo Elven Warrior Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 101	yes magis does come from satIn sheats and stuff like that I guess you meant satan, right? well yeah that's kind of a strange thing, but as you may know there have always been tales of good witches through out history too, like Charmed for instance :-p so even if magic was created by the devil, it can be used both for good and evil, cfr. HP contra Voldy