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Creative Arts and Media => Creative Writing => Books and Comics => Topic started by: Daemon on March 28, 2011, 09:04:29 PM
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I was kinda surprised this one wasn't up here already! X3
So, who are fans?
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I really liked these books, I finished the last one two years back..... I think......
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Yeah, I finished it barely a week after it came out. My grandparents got it Pre-Ordered or something.
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I've read every single book.. however translated to Swedish, rather than the original English versions, but I've loved every single one of them! Got the last one shortly after it was released here in Sweden and finished it fairly quickly, took me about 1-2 months, but I am generally slow at reading since I tend to read through every word pretty carefully and that I only spend 1-2 hours a day for reading...
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it took me about... 16 days to read the whole series.
<==has no life
Anyway, what was your favorite part? :?
Mine was in hte very last one as Harry is fighting Voldemort, and Voldemort does the wuss thing, calling him out. >:[
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it took me about... 16 days to read the whole series.
<==has no life
Anyway, what was your favorite part? :?
Mine was in hte very last one as Harry is fighting Voldemort, and Voldemort does the wuss thing, calling him out. >:[
WOW, haha.. I'm not sure if I could beat that even if I read them constantly without any breaks, not even for sleep xD
My favorite part... I used to love the whole 'snake speech' thing when I was younger, but for a specific scene.. I don't know actually... possibly the last fight at the graveyard at the end of the 4th book.. The burial at the end of the 6th book can also be considered among my favorites tbh... ooh, and lets not forget when Lupin turns into a werewolf /Typical furry
For the last fight with Voldemort, I actually thought the whole ending of the book felt quite rushed and simple... I had expected, -I'll try to not spoil too much for those who have not read the last book yet-, something bigger for a ending, it was rather unexpected, but felt quite unrealistic in my opinion, I had rather had something rather predictable but more epic and a bigger fight, but that's just my opinion as said.
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it took me about... 16 days to read the whole series.
<==has no life
Anyway, what was your favorite part? :?
Mine was in hte very last one as Harry is fighting Voldemort, and Voldemort does the wuss thing, calling him out. >:[
WOW, haha.. I'm not sure if I could beat that even if I read them constantly without any breaks, not even for sleep xD
My favorite part... I used to love the whole 'snake speech' thing when I was younger, but for a specific scene.. I don't know actually... possibly the last fight at the graveyard at the end of the 4th book.. The burial at the end of the 6th book can also be considered among my favorites tbh... ooh, and lets not forget when Lupin turns into a werewolf /Typical furry
For the last fight with Voldemort, I actually thought the whole ending of the book felt quite rushed and simple... I had expected, -I'll try to not spoil too much for those who have not read the last book yet-, something bigger for a ending, it was rather unexpected, but felt quite unrealistic in my opinion, I had rather had something rather predictable but more epic and a bigger fight, but that's just my opinion as said.
i have to agree with you, but for authors, extended fights are hard to write out. I know this, I tried.
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i have to agree with you, but for authors, extended fights are hard to write out. I know this, I tried.
I can imagine that, however I still feel that she could have made something better if she tried a bit harder considering what she've written in previous books... Chamber of secrets had an excellent fight for example.
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That was probably one of the best, actually. So much drama...
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That was probably one of the best, actually. So much drama...
I totally agree!
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Love the series. :)
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Love it to death. :3
I think because of the huge fight at Hogwarts, having a huge drawn-out fight with Voldemort would have been too much. I personally like what happens in that Voldemort fight.
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Ah, well. I guess we'll have to disagree there. TO me it seemed to rushed and incomplete.
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Many people may vehemently disagree with me here, but I felt that Book Seven was the biggest letdown of the series. Mainly because so many of the characters we've grown to love over the source of the series are killed off left, right, and center, with no preamble or build up to them. And some of them seem to happen "off screen" entirely! I get that she wanted to make it feel like a real war, but I feel she took it WAY too far. I'm writing a war story, and deaths in these types of stories are always more powerful when you spend time with them, like she did with Sirius and Dumbledor. So many of the characters who die in Deathly Hallows deserved better.
That said, I loved the final confrontation between Harry and Voldemort. It works beautifully as the ultimate ideological climax of the series. As an actual fight, it leaves a fair bit to be desired, but a full blown brawl would have come of as lame for one simple fact. Voldemort knows far more deadly and offensive magic than Harry does, and Harry was never seriously trained in magical combat, especially not to the degree that he would have needed to actually go toe to toe with Voldemort and win. It would have been awesome if he had been, but he wasn't. As the fight stands, it was a perfect representation of J.K. Rowlings idea that Love is the most powerful form of magic. Think about it, Love is so powerful, it defeated Voldemort in one blow!!! That, my friends, is epic.
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So yeah, those are my primary thoughts on the finale. My favorite book has to be Book Five. I never though she could write a character I hated more than Lockheart. And then she gives us Umbridge... *shudders*
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I have to agree with you on the Umbridge thing. And I agree that the people who died, mostly *ajkhjkashC-sdfijafjahO-ajfhjisL-dhjkfhL-sdfasdiofI-sdgfasdhuN-* (look at the words in caps tho find out who, if you havent read the book, then dont try to decipher) Deserved better. However, I do not agree with you in that it wasnt heartfelt enough. Most of the deaths you see clearly, and those you dont are still powerful enough to cause emotion.
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I have to agree with you on the Umbridge thing. And I agree that the people who died, mostly *ajkhjkashC-sdfijafjahO-ajfhjisL-dhjkfhL-sdfasdiofI-sdgfasdhuN-* (look at the words in caps tho find out who, if you havent read the book, then dont try to decipher) Deserved better. However, I do not agree with you in that it wasnt heartfelt enough. Most of the deaths you see clearly, and those you dont are still powerful enough to cause emotion.
Well to be fair, I probably need to read the book again. I was just really put off that major characters feel like they're dropping off like flies.
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Well, she did warn the readers that there would be a lot of deaths. And you have to remember that not all the major characters get killed, and a certain couple of the deaths I believe were done the way they were because there's more of an impact to another person (both people I'm talking about had someone extremely close to them in one way or another; I know everyone has people they're close to, but these two are different slightly) associated with them. (I'd say which ones I mean but I don't want to ruin anything for anybody.)
I pretty much cried for every one of them, even the ones where the scene moves around to people looking at the dead body and you didn't actually "see" them die.
That's just me though because I cry over books easily, especially with ones like these where I got so connected to the characters then bam! they're dead.
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I went from detesting it to loving it to resenting it to being "meh" about it to waiting 10 years to read the last book to thinking, "Hey, Deathly Hallows is actually much better than the movies!"
Yes, while not my all-time favorite book series, my opinion of them is considerably high. I'd like to reread "The Science of Harry Potter," more closely than I did the first time. I also ought to take another look at Fantastical Beasts and Where to Find Them, which was originally a field guide with annotations by Harry, Ron and Hermoine.
Although I do think its influence on other authors was awful. After it was published, several people thought school dramas were the way to go. R. L. Stine tried to cash-in by writing a gross-out themed school drama series called "Rotten School." Some guy with the pen name Derek the Ghost wrote a horror-themed series called "Scary School." It's like they read Harry Potter, got jealous, then started playing Mad Libs with the content.
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Medium fan, definitely not a diehard fan.