Posted by: Roger
The Harry Potter VI thread (SPOILERS)... - 19/07/2005 09:38
No spoilers in this post, but just in case...
So, anyone else finished reading it yet?
Posted by: pgrzelak
Re: The Harry Potter VI thread (SPOILERS)... - 19/07/2005 10:01
Greetings!
Finished it on Sunday morning. At this point, I am waiting for the audiobooks so I can encode / load them. I expect the US / Jim Dale version (ick) today. The UK / Stephen Fry version (YES!) from amazon.co.uk when it is published in August.
Edit: I am pretty sure I know who R.A.B. is also...
Posted by: pgrzelak
Re: The Harry Potter VI thread (SPOILERS)... - 19/07/2005 11:51
You have a PM... <evil grin>
Posted by: Heather
Re: The Harry Potter VI thread (SPOILERS)... - 19/07/2005 13:10
Got it friday night. Finished it Saturday evening. I've got a pretty strong idea of who RAB might be as well.
So, my question is, who thinks Snape is still working for the order?
Posted by: pgrzelak
Re: The Harry Potter VI thread (SPOILERS)... - 19/07/2005 13:20
Moot point. Even if he was, he certainly would not be welcomed at the moment. The best he can hope for is to go it alone. I am sure he will not survive book 7.
Posted by: JeffS
Re: The Harry Potter VI thread (SPOILERS)... - 19/07/2005 13:30
It was delivered to my doorstep on Saturday afternoon . . . unfortunatly I left the house at 12:00 for Georgia so I missed. My sister did buy the CDs, though, so I've at least started the book (through the first chapter).
Jeff
Posted by: pgrzelak
Re: The Harry Potter VI thread (SPOILERS)... - 19/07/2005 13:31
BEWARE: You are in the spoilers thread. I strongly recommend you swap to
the other thread if you wish not to be, well, spoiled...
Posted by: pgrzelak
Re: The Harry Potter VI thread (SPOILERS)... - 22/07/2005 08:12
Valid points about Snape. I think you are right - he was protecting Harry with the unforgivable curses. But he will never be trusted, and will likely be attacked by the Order on sight. He may turn on Voldemort at the end (along with Pettigrew, perhaps), but I still doubt he will survive book seven, or that he will have anything but a neutral reputation (like Regulus or Karkaroff) at the end.
Speaking of Regulus Black, Sirius's younger brother... A former Death Eater, later tried to get away from it and was hunted down and killed by Voldemort and crew. They say it only took one day for him to be found and killed... He really must have really pissed someone off for some reason...
JKR has never given his middle name, but his uncle's name was Alphard...
Posted by: pgrzelak
Re: The Harry Potter VI thread (SPOILERS)... - 22/07/2005 11:31
That is also true.
Hmmm... A random theory that might be amusing to think about. Remember Dumbledore discussing horcruxes, and that the snake (a living thing) might be one? And how dangerous it was to make one from a living entity with a mind of its own?
I wonder if Voldemort might have tried making infant Harry one. That might explain why Harry was not killed, the strange link they have, etc.
Mere speculation.
Posted by: JeffS
Re: The Harry Potter VI thread (SPOILERS)... - 22/07/2005 12:33
Oh, one more thing about Snape. We're sitting here thinking that obviously Snape is evil because he killed Dumbledore when about one chapter earlier Harry did almost the same thing by force-feeding him that potion- doesn't that seem a bit coincidental? If the potion had killed Dumbledore we'd have forgiven Harry because Dumbledore knew it was for the best and asked Harry to do it. Now we know Dumbledor asked Snape to do something for him but we don't know what it was. It seems to me Harry was not the only one following difficult orders.
Posted by: JeffS
Re: The Harry Potter VI thread (SPOILERS)... - 22/07/2005 14:49
Here's an interesting
interview with JKR about the book. At first she seems a little amused at the idea of Regulus being RAB; however, at the end she really starts hinting that Regulus might come into the story some more. She doesn't really say much about Snape, other than she's not going to shut down the theory that he was working on DD's orders.
One the note for Regulus, it seems a lot of people are suggesting that he is still alive- that he is actually Stubby Boardman. We'll see I suppose . . .
Posted by: pgrzelak
Re: The Harry Potter VI thread (SPOILERS)... - 22/07/2005 15:26
Ah well. "All these questions, and many more, will be answered in the next episode..."