| Yippee! [message #270258] |
Mo, 29 Mai 2006 00:42 |
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I finally read Half Blood Prince. Now I can read any post I want. ;-)
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| Re: Yippee! [message #270280 ] |
Mo, 29 Mai 2006 10:04 |
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Razor wrote:
> I finally read Half Blood Prince.
When I finished Half Priced Book my reaction was not "Yippee".
Dave
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| Re: Yippee! [message #270294 ] |
Mo, 29 Mai 2006 15:37 |
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Razor wrote:
> I finally read Half Blood Prince. Now I can read any post I want. ;-)
Have you worked out that harry is a horcrux yet?
--
Jane Grey
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| Re: Yippee! [message #270303 ] |
Mo, 29 Mai 2006 20:43 |
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Jane Grey [jane.grey [at] hotmail.co.uk] said
> Razor wrote:
> > I finally read Half Blood Prince. Now I can read any post I want. ;-)
>
> Have you worked out that harry is a horcrux yet?
Do you have thumb screws?
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| Re: Yippee! [message #270310 ] |
Mo, 29 Mai 2006 21:58 |
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"Jane Grey" <jane.grey [at] hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message
news:1148909863.504968.183250 [at] j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Razor wrote:
>> I finally read Half Blood Prince. Now I can read any post I want. ;-)
>
> Have you worked out that harry is a horcrux yet?
>
> --
> Jane Grey
>
No...Fawkes is a Horcrux...for the other half of DD's soul.
He's not really gone.
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| Re: Yippee! [message #270316 ] |
Mo, 29 Mai 2006 22:38 |
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I should have stayed out in the backyard with the brisket and
watermelon...
M_m
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| Re: Yippee! [message #270319 ] |
Di, 30 Mai 2006 00:34 |
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Razor wrote:
> I finally read Half Blood Prince. Now I can read any post I want. ;-)
So . . . let's cut to the chase, shall we. Is Snape "evil" or "not
evil"?
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| Re: Yippee! [message #270340 ] |
Di, 30 Mai 2006 05:49 |
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Karnak17 wrote:
> Razor wrote:
>> I finally read Half Blood Prince. Now I can read any post I want. ;-)
>
> So . . . let's cut to the chase, shall we. Is Snape "evil" or "not
> evil"?
>
And is DD really dead?
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| Re: Yippee! [message #270353 ] |
Di, 30 Mai 2006 09:45 |
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On 29 May 2006 01:04:38 -0700, "David Sueme" <dsueme [at] comcast.net>
wrote:
>
>Razor wrote:
>> I finally read Half Blood Prince.
>
>When I finished Half Priced Book my reaction was not "Yippee".
>
>Dave
Most wasn't. One book left to go. Who knows when. Not a Yippie
moment.
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| Re: Yippee! [message #270354 ] |
Di, 30 Mai 2006 09:46 |
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On Mon, 29 May 2006 22:49:46 -0500, "angrie.woman"
<angrie.woman [at] ggmail.com> wrote:
>Karnak17 wrote:
>> Razor wrote:
>>> I finally read Half Blood Prince. Now I can read any post I want. ;-)
>>
>> So . . . let's cut to the chase, shall we. Is Snape "evil" or "not
>> evil"?
>>
>And is DD really dead?
Only his hair dresser knows for sure.
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| Re: Yippee! [message #270375 ] |
Di, 30 Mai 2006 22:06 |
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"angrie.woman" <angrie.woman [at] ggmail.com> wrote in message
news:e5geuc$l5k$1 [at] nntp.aioe.org...
> Karnak17 wrote:
>> Razor wrote:
>>> I finally read Half Blood Prince. Now I can read any post I want. ;-)
>>
>> So . . . let's cut to the chase, shall we. Is Snape "evil" or "not
>> evil"?
>>
> And is DD really dead?
Yes, Snape is "evil".
Yes, DD is "dead".
Yes, my two favourite characters have been killed in the last two books.
Yes, I can't help but see Richard Harris when I read about DD.
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| Re: Yippee! [message #270402 ] |
Mi, 31 Mai 2006 10:03 |
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Razor wrote:
> Yes, Snape is "evil".
I'm not at all sure about this. I think Snape might have been
maneuvered into a situation where he was forced to do what he really
didn't want to do. Snape made a mistake.
The theory is actualy simple: Snape gambled that the "unbreakable vow"
would never "come to a head" because Draco historically is so
incompetent that he would never come to a juncture between success and
failure. It's like, you can't actually lose the hand of whist until
you figure out how to shuffle and deal the cards. The Draco of old
would have muddled around making next to no progress at all. Draco's
unforseeable bought with competency placed Snape in a position he
(quite reasonably) never expected to be.
> Yes, DD is "dead".
If DD isn't dead I'm going to roast some marshmellows over a half-dozen
lousey books.
Dave
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| Re: Yippee! [message #270450 ] |
Do, 01 Juni 2006 07:27 |
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David Sueme wrote:
> If DD isn't dead I'm going to roast some marshmellows over a half-dozen
> lousey books.
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> Dave
Which one are you planning on keeping?
--
Experience schadenfreude turning any novel into a romance:
http://mr-writing-person.blogspot.com
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| Re: Yippee! [message #270452 ] |
Do, 01 Juni 2006 09:33 |
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On 31 May 2006 01:03:28 -0700, "David Sueme" <dsueme [at] comcast.net>
wrote:
>'m not at all sure about this. I think Snape might have been
>maneuvered into a situation where he was forced to do what he really
>didn't want to do. Snape made a mistake.
Isn't that basically how he joined the DE's originally? He was
pressured by his friends. and judging by that one scene during the
OWLs, he needed all the friends he could keep. He just keeps paying
for the mistake of joining.
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| Re: Yippee! [message #270457 ] |
Do, 01 Juni 2006 09:56 |
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lord trousers wrote:
> David Sueme wrote:
> > If DD isn't dead I'm going to roast some marshmellows over a half-dozen
> > lousey books.
> Which one are you planning on keeping?
None. The ending of HP7 will be "spoiled" before any of us get a hand
on a book. The financial incentives will be just too great - someone
will leak. It will be published on the "Drudge Report".
I think it is inevitable - unless you hide in your basement for two
months prior to UPS delivering the book, you will know the ending even
as you pick up the book.
That was basically the way it was for HP6, wasn't it? I knew DD was
going to die.
Dave
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| Re: Yippee! [message #270489 ] |
Do, 01 Juni 2006 20:34 |
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David Sueme wrote:
> lord trousers wrote:
>> David Sueme wrote:
>> > If DD isn't dead I'm going to roast some marshmellows over a half-dozen
>> > lousey books.
>
>> Which one are you planning on keeping?
>
> None. The ending of HP7 will be "spoiled" before any of us get a hand
> on a book. The financial incentives will be just too great - someone
> will leak. It will be published on the "Drudge Report".
>
> I think it is inevitable - unless you hide in your basement for two
> months prior to UPS delivering the book, you will know the ending even
> as you pick up the book.
I'm afraid this will happen. I particularly don't trust the news in my
country TV. I'm sure that if there's a leak, they will show it in
primetime, in the same way they no longer warn before showing the guts of
some poor soul killed somewhere at lunchtime.
> That was basically the way it was for HP6, wasn't it? I knew DD was
> going to die.
Here I disagree (softly). I knew it too, but I was spoiled in a website I
shouldn't have visited (and I knew beforehand, but couldn't resist). But
the pressure on media for book 7 will be even bigger, and the clues will be
there. For example, with book 6 a bet site had to close the bets on DD
being killed some days prior to release. This was a strong clue (and also
very covered in media), but you could ignore it as a fluke of the market. I
know that if the same happens with book 7, I'm not going to think "woah,
whatever" so easily.
In any case, I plan to unsubscribe from the group and any online news sites
I visit a month prior to release, just as a try. I'm not completely
hopeless that maybe I will get my hands in the book without being spoiled.
Also being in Spain, where the translated release is many months later, may
help, because you can still get the english edition the release day in many
libraries, but the national media is not so focused.
--
Take the Snape polls: http://snape.mosteo.com [Updated 16/Aug/05]
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| Re: Yippee! [message #278029 ] |
Fr, 02 Juni 2006 20:42 |
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Jano wrote:
> David Sueme wrote:
>
<snip>
> > I think it is inevitable - unless you hide in your basement for two
> > months prior to UPS delivering the book, you will know the ending even
> > as you pick up the book.
>
> I'm afraid this will happen. I particularly don't trust the news in my
> country TV. I'm sure that if there's a leak, they will show it in
> primetime, in the same way they no longer warn before showing the guts of
> some poor soul killed somewhere at lunchtime.
>
> > That was basically the way it was for HP6, wasn't it? I knew DD was
> > going to die.
>
> Here I disagree (softly). I knew it too, but I was spoiled in a website I
> shouldn't have visited (and I knew beforehand, but couldn't resist). But
> the pressure on media for book 7 will be even bigger, and the clues will be
> there. For example, with book 6 a bet site had to close the bets on DD
> being killed some days prior to release. This was a strong clue (and also
> very covered in media), but you could ignore it as a fluke of the market. I
> know that if the same happens with book 7, I'm not going to think "woah,
> whatever" so easily.
>
> In any case, I plan to unsubscribe from the group and any online news sites
> I visit a month prior to release, just as a try. I'm not completely
> hopeless that maybe I will get my hands in the book without being spoiled.
I had no problem with Book 6, which was the only one I read just as it
came out. (Having read Books 1-5 in a gulp not too long after Book 5
came out. I wasn't spoiled for them either.) If I see an article on
Harry Potter, I simply don't read it. So far I haven't had a problem.
I think I did know someone was going to die, but that was it.
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| Re: Yippee! [message #278075 ] |
Sa, 03 Juni 2006 14:25 |
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"Jano" <devnull [at] mailinator.com> wrote in message
news:4e8qa1F1d4bpqU1 [at] individual.net...
> David Sueme wrote:
>
> In any case, I plan to unsubscribe from the group and any online news
sites
> I visit a month prior to release, just as a try. I'm not completely
> hopeless that maybe I will get my hands in the book without being spoiled.
> Also being in Spain, where the translated release is many months later,
may
> help, because you can still get the english edition the release day in
many
> libraries, but the national media is not so focused.
>
I think I may have to emigrate to Spain for a few months next year...
DaveD
--
Who will be booking leave for the first few days after the weekend when the
book's finally released, and switching of the phone and doorbell, and buying
in 4 day's worth of convenience "meals" so as not to waste any time
cooking...
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