Jack
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Post by Jack on Aug 4, 2007 0:21:40 GMT -5
I was, actually, sad when Bellatrix died. I don't know why. I have always just loved her character. What is wrong with me?! Maybe it is from the role playing. But I was more sad when Dobby died.
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Post by idiotj on Aug 4, 2007 15:57:44 GMT -5
I have to stop every couple of pages and mourn Lupin, Tonks and their suckass deaths.
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Post by ineedyourhelp on Aug 4, 2007 16:19:52 GMT -5
I was, actually, sad when Bellatrix died. I don't know why. I have always just loved her character. What is wrong with me?! Maybe it is from the role playing. But I was more sad when Dobby died. We don't know for sure that Bellatrix died. And, she is a very complex character. She was just looking for the love and affection of a father figure that she apparantly did not have as a child. She turned to Lord Voldemort for this, but unfotunetely for her, he is incabable of love.
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Post by idiotj on Aug 4, 2007 21:20:29 GMT -5
When Harry was looking for the second half of his mom's letter, why didn't he say "Accio letter?"
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Post by ineedyourhelp on Aug 4, 2007 21:27:49 GMT -5
I guess that would have been too easy.
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Post by Jack on Aug 5, 2007 1:34:46 GMT -5
I was, actually, sad when Bellatrix died. I don't know why. I have always just loved her character. What is wrong with me?! Maybe it is from the role playing. But I was more sad when Dobby died. We don't know for sure that Bellatrix died. And, she is a very complex character. She was just looking for the love and affection of a father figure that she apparantly did not have as a child. She turned to Lord Voldemort for this, but unfotunetely for her, he is incabable of love. I think I just died a little bit. YES! Maybe Bella didn't die! Wow. I just got, like, 14 times happier. Thanks!
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Post by idiotj on Aug 5, 2007 16:17:18 GMT -5
Is it just me, or is JKR overly fond of using the phrase "with a [feeling] that had nothing to do with [something mundane, like firewhisky], Harry [verb + feeling]?" I've caught it three times and I'm only on page 250.
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Post by Wizz on Aug 5, 2007 16:51:19 GMT -5
We don't know for sure that Bellatrix died. And, she is a very complex character. She was just looking for the love and affection of a father figure that she apparantly did not have as a child. She turned to Lord Voldemort for this, but unfotunetely for her, he is incabable of love. I think I just died a little bit. YES! Maybe Bella didn't die! Wow. I just got, like, 14 times happier. Thanks! I think many of us need to re-read the chapter. It clearly states that Mollys curse hit Bellatrix square on the chest, and Voldemort was furious that his last Death Eater had fallen. Edit: Quote: "You - will - never - touch - our - children - again!" screamed Mrs. Weasley. Bellatrix laughed the same exhilarated laugh her cousin Sirius had given as he toppled backward through the veil, and suddenly Harry knew what was going to happen before it did. Molly's curse soared beneath Bellatrix's constreched arm and hit her squarely in the chest, directly over her heart. Bellatrix's glounting smile froze, her eyes seemd to bulge: For the tiniest space of time she knew what had happened, and then she toppled, and the watching crowd roared, and Voldemord screamed.
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Post by Persnickety Raven on Aug 5, 2007 19:33:17 GMT -5
Is it just me, or is JKR overly fond of using the phrase "with a [feeling] that had nothing to do with [something mundane, like firewhisky], Harry [verb + feeling]?" I've caught it three times and I'm only on page 250. I'd chalk it as one of her writing idiosycranies, much like Snicket and "this way and that", "which here means...", etc.
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Post by idiotj on Aug 5, 2007 20:41:55 GMT -5
Is it just me, or is JKR overly fond of using the phrase "with a [feeling] that had nothing to do with [something mundane, like firewhisky], Harry [verb + feeling]?" I've caught it three times and I'm only on page 250. I'd chalk it as one of her writing idiosycranies, much like Snicket and "this way and that", "which here means...", etc. Snicket goes out of his way to be gimmicky, though. It sticks out like a sore thumb in a HP book.
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Post by sushi on Aug 6, 2007 0:53:13 GMT -5
actually i noticed that too...
and in the Half Blood Prince, i noted that she used the word surrepticiously about 6 or 7 times...when you really think about it though, its not that many times in a 600 something page book, but you seem to just noticed these things for some reason...
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Post by Jack on Aug 6, 2007 2:14:47 GMT -5
Is it just me, or is JKR overly fond of using the phrase "with a [feeling] that had nothing to do with [something mundane, like firewhisky], Harry [verb + feeling]?" I've caught it three times and I'm only on page 250. Yeah, I noticed that too. And I wouldn't really consider that to be the same little thing like: which here means, because that is Snicket's trademark and it's his own little thing. When JKR says that it sticks out in my mind. There are other books that do the same thing, and it drives me absolutely insane.
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Post by ineedyourhelp on Aug 6, 2007 8:52:53 GMT -5
actually i noticed that too... and in the Half Blood Prince, i noted that she used the word surrepticiously about 6 or 7 times...when you really think about it though, its not that many times in a 600 something page book, but you seem to just noticed these things for some reason... I noticed in the first 6 books, she would use the word "thuderstruck" alot, but I don't think she used it at all in DH. I also noticed that in DH she used a lot of colon's, which I didn't think were needed.
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Post by idiotj on Aug 6, 2007 17:24:35 GMT -5
I was about to mention the colon thing too: it was as though she disliked having small sentences: so she used a unique way of surreptitiously making compound sentences: last book, or was it the fifth one, she seemed fond of semi-colons; though it thunderstruck me in a way that had nothing to do with electricity.
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Post by ineedyourhelp on Aug 6, 2007 17:36:27 GMT -5
though it thunderstruck me in a way that had nothing to do with electricity. Or the song by AC/DC That's what first came to mind when I had read her use thuderstruck so many times, because the only other time I saw the word was in that song. But I'm sure she wasn't thinking about the song.
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