07-03-2003, 11:14 PM | #121 |
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Nevertheless, it makes for a great conversation piece, IMO.
I think I'll get another copy of the US (Scholastic) edition and sell it as a collectible in a few yrs time. It'll probably fetch a niftier price if you talk to the right people.
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07-04-2003, 11:26 PM | #122 |
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Arathorn! Long time no see bouncing boot.
What'd you think of Book 5? Btw, I finished Jane Eyre (go me!) and came across the word "ejaculated" used in that sense (in place of "said" or "yelled") at least four more times. For ladies, too.
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07-05-2003, 12:13 AM | #123 |
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Hi Tano!
<hem hem>
I enjoyed Book 5 for all the surprises it sprang. But I think I enjoyed those revelations a lot more than the main plot. As with Sheeana, I still enjoyed book 3 the best and it's sort of a toss-up between books 4 and 5 for the number 2 slot. I like/hate the new characters. Well, I liked all the new characters, good and bad, but there's nothing to hate more than that <hem hem> toad. My favorite has now been replaced. Sirius is now my 2nd favorite character to (don't laugh too hard) Luna! She's one of the most cumfy of all the people there. She must have been exposed to some nirvana state as everything's just fine and dandy with her. And Nymphadora's loads of fun too, heheh. I do hope they keep developing Neville's character. He's starting to come out of his shell. Perhaps one of his parents gets back to normal?
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I finished the book long ago, but have not been on in awhile. I like the book overall. Percey was an arse. Fred, George, and Peeves were incredible. The sixth book isn't going to be the same without the twins. Umbridge was terrifically evil. And Dumbledore... just magnificent.
Luna was interesting and I'm really liking the way that Neville's character is developing. I read a spoiler while I was only partway through the book, so... I spent the last half of it dreading the death of... yeah. That. Sleep is good.
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For all of you that are complaining that we won't see as much Fred and George because they left - are you forgetting that it was their 7th year? They just wanted to leave with a bang because of Umbridge and they were sick of school - they only left a month or two early. (im pretty sure that it was, if I am wrong just correct me )
They were going to finish their schooling that year ANYWAY and they wouldn't be back at Hogwarts the next year, now would they? And I, like JD, assumed that ejaculated must have been part of the original British text. It is never used here in that context - why changed it from 'exclaimed,' which is used all the time.
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07-05-2003, 10:43 AM | #127 |
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Me thinks Fred and George ought to be back but probably not in Hogwarts itself. They should open a franchise next to the joke shop in Hogsmead(sp?). They know the market and have a captured one when the students go out.
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07-05-2003, 12:04 PM | #128 |
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The joke shop will make a good venue for further story lines. I'm sure F&G's skills will come in handy in the last two installments.
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If they get sucessful enough, they can always buy the jokeshop in Hogsmeade.
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I sincerely doubt that Gred and Forge will not be around. I think them having a shop in Hogsmeade would be awesome.
Plus I can just see them forcing a canary cream down Voldemort's throat..."I am the Lord of Darkness! I am invinci--TWEET!" Arathorn: YAY! Another Luna lover! I adore that child. She makes me very happy.
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Luna is great! Definitely a personality type that was too long in coming. I think she would be a good romantic interest for Neville. I think the HP+ LL allusion at the end of the book is a diversion.
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Neville and Luna would be sweet...but it's really hard for me to see Luna "with" anyone. She seems a very single soul, in that sense anyway.
HP and LL would be ridiculous. I hope that doesn't happen... tano
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It may be she is the other half of the Neville equation like Ron and Hermione are paired as the lead supporting cast. They do have the crazy family element in common, and Neville is a loner for the most part, too. I don't think it would happen becuase it would be a distraction from Harry and... Hermione?
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What?? No more Hermy and Grawpy??
Luna's great to be a kid sister, for me. She can take care of her emotional self. Perhaps being both the loner types, she and Neville can help each other learn to interact more with other people.
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I love Fred and George's swamp on the corridor and how Pro Flitwick left a corner in memory of them! lol!
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My favorite character list would be as follows: 1) McGonagall 2) Umbridge 3) Luna
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But even so, they're not made of gold. They've already spent 'a good bit' of the Triwizard money, and premises in Hogsmeade must be as expensive if not more so then Diagon Alley. They'll have to wait a few years, until they start making a profit.
And why would they open a shop right next to Zonko's? Thats heavy competition. I would put mine waaaaay over on the other side of town.
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And besides, it's Fred and George.
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Well, we'll see. (In another 3 years, most likely! A pox on JKR!)
I just realized, if it takes her another 3 years, I will be the same age as Harry when the next one comes out.
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