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Reply 15 of 56 (Originally posted on: 07-28-05 07:14:07 AM)
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Skye found this thread and has nothing to contribute because she hasn't read Half Blood Prince yet. When a new book comes out, I always have to reread the old ones so I get a good handle on the story. For this one, I didn't go further back than Prisoner of Azkaban because the introduction of Sirius is when most of the action tied to the later books begins. In my opinion, that is.
I saw the big spoiler pages all over the internet recently ( omg snape kills dumbledore ) and I thought it made sense. I have a feeling that we'll discover eventually that Snape is a double agent, and Dumbledore isn't actually dead. With Snape "murdering" Dumbledore, it would be easier for the Order to track Voldemort and his actions. Plus, how best for Snape to show his loyalty by killing the ringleader of Voldemort's main opposition? Plus that whole line from Harry -- "As long as one person is loyal to Dumbledore, he is alive" -- makes me really suspicious because it's one of Dumbledore's enigmatic sayings. (Think Chamber of Secrets with the Fawkes incident.)
A friend of mine who's bought the book also told me about Harry, Ron, and Hermione leaving Hogwarts. I think that's a load of crap. They'll end up back there in this next book -- especially Hermione. At least Hermione. I can see Hermione and Ron returning, leaving Harry to fight by himself. But then again, I haven't read the book yet, so this could just be my own idealism speaking.
And what the fuck? Harry and Ginny? Ginny Weasley? Sure they were close from the chamber incident, and Ginny's had a longstanding crush on him, but what happened to Cho? Ginny just seems like a stretch and a Rowling surprise because everyone expected the Harry/Cho thing.
One last thing, since I just finished reading Prisoner of Azkaban and my memory of the books after are foggy: has Pettigrew returned yet?
"It is hard to say if this sermon had any effect on our townsfolk. M. Othon, the magistrate, assured Dr. Rieux that he had found the preacher's arguments "absolutely irrefutable." But not everybody took so unqualified a view. To some the sermon simply brought home the fact that they had been sentenced, for an unknown crime, to an indeterminate period of punishment. And while a good many people adapted themselves to confinement and carried on their humdrum lives as before, there were others who rebelled and whose one idea now was to break loose from the prison-house."
--Albert Camus, The Plague
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