Harry Potter

likem · 07-27-2007, 07:15 PM

That’s right I like Harry Potter and I don’t care who knows it.

So have any of you read the last book? I just got finished and I would love to know what you think about it.

I thought it was the best Potter book of them all. I think it was a little confusing at the end especially for kids or young adults. I’m referring to the reasoning behind Harry being the true owner of the elder wand.

I think the people she chose to eliminate (kill) in the book were a little safe. No doubt some very important characters died but nothing terribly shocking.

I like how Snape turned out to be a good guy in the end…I knew he would.

So if you’ve read it what are your impressions of her last book?

cani · 07-27-2007, 10:14 PM

i like Harry Potter too
read the first 3 books so far,
but that was several years ago
getting ready to read the 4th soon,
just to get caught up
and so far,
she hasnt gotten into anything important in these books
i like all that magical stuff
the movies are fun,
but i like reading the books first
i'll be on the look out for that wand tho

likem · 07-28-2007, 07:42 PM

I enjoy the movies as well. But as with most things the books are always better.

I definitely recommend that you finish the series. My favorite book was her last book. Maybe thats because I just finished it.

clevemire · 07-30-2007, 07:32 PM

I've seen all of the movies except for the one currently in theatres (I think it's 'Order of the Phoenix' right now). I like them a lot.

I finally ordered the first book from Amazon a few months ago. I've read the first chapter. That's it... lol. Might finish it someday.

likem · 08-01-2007, 07:40 AM

Enjoy the books Clevemire...I've also seen "Order of the Phoenix," it was very good.

Maryjanemama · 08-01-2007, 03:00 PM

I've never read any of the books but I've seen most of the movies. I hear that a lot of the parts of the books are often left out of the movies, which makes me want to read the books, too.

likem · 08-01-2007, 06:19 PM

Yeah there is a lot left out of the movies. The movies are good though and they do a decent job of hitting the highlights. But the books give you a lot more background and depth.

The books seem to get thicker and thicker as they go but it's an easy read and the pages seem to fly by. I read the last one in about four or five days and I wasn't constantly reading. It just goes fast.

Columboalreadyknows · 08-02-2007, 08:12 PM

not a big fan of reading im always out stopping felons. but i do have found memories of making out with my wife during the first Harry Potter movie didnt really see much of the movie. Columbo likes bond movies

bongzilla420 · 08-10-2008, 07:26 PM

i have read all those books(most of the twice) and seen all the movies.they do make it really confusing with all that wand stuff and i thought snape was bad the whole time but i guess i was wrong.i thought it was crazy how harry was supposed to kill himself to save everyone

anonnymouse · 10-10-2008, 10:04 AM

I've read all the books quite a few times, lol
I started reading them to my kids & got into them myself.

I think they're great, much better than the films, a lot more detail in the books.
Harry Potter books are like my 'comfort' books, they're what I read when I want to escape from it all.
I loved the 7th book tho but I think my favourite one was the 3rd one.

nerdgonomic · 10-15-2008, 05:57 AM

I thought the wand stuff was ok to follow. But I could be wrong

Here is how I understood it.

In order to get the elder wand you have to "beat" the owner out of it. The wand will only fully work for the new user if they directly disarm, stun or kill the previous user. Also the wand has no true owner. It only responds to power and will do no real harm to its current owner.

Dumbledore had the wand from his duel with Grindelwald. Draco Malfoy got the drop on Dumbledore and disarmed him but Malfoy didn't kill Dumbledore. So technically the wand belonged to Malfoy when Dumbledore died. Harry "beat" Malfoy in the room of requirement so the wand belonged to Harry. Dumbledore hoped by having Snape kill him Snape would end up the owner of the wand. But since Malfoy disarmed Dumbledore first that did not happen. Voldemort got the wand from Dumbledore's grave. He thought it belonged to Snape. When Voldemort killed Snape he thought he would be the owner of the wand. Since the wand will not harm its real owner, when Voldemort tried to kill Harry with it...it turned the spell on Voldemort. So Harry is the owner of the elder wand until he dies naturally or is "beat". Dumbledore believes that natural death of the owner of the wand will end the power of the wand.

That is my sorta short take on it. Obviously if you read the books you know it is a much longer story than that

I am addicted to those books. I read all of them in about three weeks. I couldn't put them down. I have pre-ordered the beetle bard book already.

I am interested to see what they do with the last two movies. There is a lot of stuff in those two books. The movies are going to have to be really long or they are going to have to assume that you read the book like they did with The Order of the Phoenix. There was a lot left out of that movie.

HighFlyin5 · 10-15-2008, 01:38 PM

I've read all of them, and yes the 7th was the best

saturnlily · 10-16-2008, 10:31 AM

i own all 7 books in paperback and hardcover as well as the 5 movies that are out so far the movies have gone way off from books and sceanery as well as keeping conections from one book to anoth as the first book/movie was the closest to each other than any other of the movies only leaving out small bit and not changing things like they did in the others. the last to me was a major dissapointment. it had good graphics and all ya but alot of the important parts of the book were either changed or left out.as for the books loved them i enjoy how they became darker yet no matter how much they did they were still an adventurous and comedic read.as for the last i undoorstood how he got the wand in the end but it took me 3 reads of that chpter to get it. as the wording didnt fit right in my head after the 3rd read i had it figured in my head how it would have worked. i got all excited at the end when it was talking about all thier kids even Draco's,lol.

nerdgonomic · 10-17-2008, 03:56 AM

One of the things that stuck out to me in the 7th book is the thing about Hermoine and the memory charm.

At the beginning of the book she says she altered her parents memory and then later she says she doesn't know how to do memory charms.

I liked the movies but I think they should have stayed more true to the books in the last two. I would have loved to see a drunk house elf LOL

saturnlily · 10-17-2008, 07:16 AM

ya i was hoping to see the statues in the last movi com to life to block "he who must not be named"s attack on harry. instead what happened in the movie was dumblydore turned it to sand how lame

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