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Big Boy Laroux · 07-23-2007, 03:15 PM

yeah, like he just jumped in there. "remember me, guys?"

i think a better moment would have been Percy dying to save one of his family members... he could have saved Fred.

Flacolaco · 07-23-2007, 03:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Big Boy Laroux

yeah, like he just jumped in there. "remember me, guys?"

i think a better moment would have been Percy dying to save one of his family members... he could have saved Fred.

That would've been ideal.

But she probaby felt someone beloved should die, and who more loved than the twins? Those masters of comedy.

Big Boy Laroux · 07-23-2007, 03:23 PM

and plus, there's 2 of them. that's how i feel about all twins - that one's always expendable...

jthig32 · 07-23-2007, 04:42 PM

I personally didn't like the way she revealed the death of Lupin and Tonks. I was so keyed up on Harry needing to watch the memory, that I was almost numb to that news. My mind was completely elsewhere.

Dunno, just seemed to take some of the emotion away from it for me.

Chicken Diavlo · 07-23-2007, 09:21 PM

I didn't like Ron speaking parseltongue. That seemed... very bullshitty.

Flacolaco · 07-23-2007, 09:51 PM

Man, I totally forgot about the chamber of secrets.

I was so focused on thinking "why doesn't he go look in the room of requirement!?!" It took him forever to figure that out.

Boy would I have felt dumb if it were in the chamber.

Chicken Diavlo · 07-23-2007, 10:18 PM

I was thinking it was in the Chamber of Secrets myself...

Who thinks she is done completely with Harry Potter?

Flacolaco · 07-23-2007, 11:21 PM

With long narrative fiction, yes.

She has often stated that she has boxes and boxes and boxes of little back stories and details and spells and theory, and all kinds of little things like that. She said she may one day write a sort of encyclopedia or reference guide or something fun like that, and donate the money to charity.

I think she may do that, but I am positive that she is done writing stories in the wizarding world.

Flacolaco · 07-24-2007, 08:47 AM

I'm trying to find some articles where those crazy christian women attack HP as satanic and say it's bad for their children and should be banned from libraries....

We now have a hero who sacrificed himself for everyone else....
Who sort of "rose from the dead"...
quotes on his parents tomb stone from the bible
the idea of love triumphing
the idea of a whole intact soul beating a murderous one
the idea that "remorse" is the only thing that can save a maimed soul

I'd like to hear them bitch now. Rowling is now clearly influenced very strongly by her christian beliefs, and those people need to SHUT UP! and I think they have because I can't find much.

Big Boy Laroux · 07-24-2007, 09:42 AM

but... but... but... he uses magic! that's evil!

Flacolaco · 07-24-2007, 03:38 PM

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19935372/

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The character Rowling couldn’t bear to kill
One of the big stories that has been floating among fans for over a year is that one character gets a reprieve from death, while two others Rowling didn’t intend to kill end up dying in “Deathly Hallows.”

“Mr. Weasley, he was the person who got a reprieve,” Rowling said. “When I sketched out the books, Mr. Weasley was due to die in Book Five.”

Wow... I thought for sure it was Hagrid. Apparently he was always safe.

fluid.forty.one · 07-25-2007, 08:33 PM

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As for the book itself, I enjoyed it. I agree with everybody else here. The epilogue was ridiculously bad. It was like a child had written it.

"When we grow up, you can marry Hermione and I'll marry Ginny and our kids will be best friends like we were and we'll still be best friends too."

Yeah, I know it's fantasy, but c'mon. Every kid thinks stuff like that, but has it ever once really happened? It's going too far, by god!

While I agree with the fact that the epilogue was terrible and should have been left out.... are you really suggesting that there's any chance that Harry, Ron and Hermione would grow apart after all they've gone through? C'mon man.

DOMINATOR · 07-25-2007, 09:01 PM

she didn't do tonks and lupin justice especially after naming harry the god-father. i thought she would bring him around more in the crappy epilogue than just 2 lines on how he was on the train and ate at their house.
what happened to the snake, nagini or w/e? i missed where that was killed.

Kirobaito · 07-25-2007, 09:13 PM

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Originally Posted by DOMINATOR

she didn't do tonks and lupin justice especially after naming harry the god-father. i thought she would bring him around more in the crappy epilogue than just 2 lines on how he was on the train and ate at their house.
what happened to the snake, nagini or w/e? i missed where that was killed.

Neville pulls Gryffindor's sword out of the Sorting Hat and chops its head off.

Flacolaco · 07-25-2007, 09:18 PM

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Neville pulls Gryffindor's sword out of the Sorting Hat and chops its head off.

Yeah, what he said....how could you miss that??? What a tense moment with Harry lying at Voldemorts feet, presumed dead.

You knew Neville had something important to do before it was all said and done.

DOMINATOR · 07-25-2007, 10:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Flacolaco

Yeah, what he said....how could you miss that??? What a tense moment with Harry lying at Voldemorts feet, presumed dead.

You knew Neville had something important to do before it was all said and done.

i just remembered him as rushing voldemort and figured one of the death eaters would kill him or something... cuz sometimes i skip a paragraph because i wanna know what happens next. dunno

Flacolaco · 07-25-2007, 11:03 PM

Ah yes, good old speed reading.

I was guilty of some of that early on, but towards the end I took my time.

I'm about halfway through my second reading really taking my sweet time to enjoy the subtleties.

DOMINATOR · 07-26-2007, 12:34 AM

i think the funniest part was when Mrs. Weasley yelled "NOT MY DAUGHTER YOU BITCH" at bellatrix

did anyone else think in the epilogue harry would end up being the hogwarts headmaster? i figured that would be obvious since harry considered it his real home.

Flacolaco · 07-26-2007, 12:45 AM

Harry as Head Master would be a stretch, I think.

While Harry was blessed with all of the good graces of courage, cleverness, bravery and tact, he was never a particularly skilled Wizard. He had no "raw" talent to speak of.

I have no idea who she will make MOM past Kingsley. Sirius and Lupin are gone, so if Mad-eye. I wonder who then?

Chicken Diavlo · 07-26-2007, 02:31 PM

Percy, duh.

Five-ofan · 07-26-2007, 02:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Flacolaco

Harry as Head Master would be a stretch, I think.

While Harry was blessed with all of the good graces of courage, cleverness, bravery and tact, he was never a particularly skilled Wizard. He had no "raw" talent to speak of.

I have no idea who she will make MOM past Kingsley. Sirius and Lupin are gone, so if Mad-eye. I wonder who then?

hermione being headmaster was actually my guess but your selling harry short. he had alot of natural power just wasnt as well read in terms of spells and things as hermione. As for the mom i think it would be kingsley but she didnt right an epilogue. actually im going to write my own epilogue i think.

Flacolaco · 07-26-2007, 02:53 PM

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19959323/

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As for his occupation, Harry, along with Ron, is working at the Auror Department at the Ministry of Magic. After all these years, Harry is now the department head.

That's what I figured.

It's so weird to hear her so forthcoming with information now. I've been used to reading interviews all these years and she answered every question about like this: "I can't comment on that."

fluid.forty.one · 07-29-2007, 02:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Flacolaco

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19959323/

That's what I figured.

It's so weird to hear her so forthcoming with information now. I've been used to reading interviews all these years and she answered every question about like this: "I can't comment on that."

great link, thanks.

jmwilliamson · 07-29-2007, 02:56 PM

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Originally Posted by fluid.forty.one

While I agree with the fact that the epilogue was terrible and should have been left out.... are you really suggesting that there's any chance that Harry, Ron and Hermione would grow apart after all they've gone through? C'mon man.

I'm not saying definitively that they WOULD, but I'm saying there is a strong chance. It's easy to imagine how it could happen too.

Examples:

Ron and Hermione start dating. Say that doesn't work out. What happens when they break up? Is it an ugly break up? Is Harry forced to choose a side? Even if he isn't, their trio is likely destroyed as a result.

Harry and Ginny start dating. What if that relationship doesn't work out? How does Ron react if he feels Harry, in the end, somehow wronged his sister?

What do they do for a living? Does their work put large distances between them? Is it possible that long distance puts a strain on their friendship? It's probably considerably less likely due to their wizard powers and what not, but that kind of thing happens all the time in reality. Does their workload leave little time for friends outside of work? What about the demands of raising a family of their own?

What if they grow in different directions? They are still children after all. Personally, I have a few old friends from my high school days that I'm still in contact with, but all we really have in common now is that we were once kids together. Our conversations consist of "Remember when?" and "Whatever happened to..." The most I talk to any of them is maybe once every few years.

In short - work, distance, family responsibilities, maturity, growth, and strained relationships can all lead to people growing apart.

I'll grant you that the strong bond created by all the things they've been through would give them a better chance than most, but by no means does that have to translate to them being inseparable for the rest of their days. The epilogue seemed to imply they were still as connected as they were as kids. If Harry marries Ginny and Ron and Hermione get married, that somewhat makes sense because of the family ties, but even that seems a bit unrealistic to me. How may high school sweet hearts do you know of that get married? It happens, but it isn't common - and in this particular case we're talking about kids who have basically been thick as thieves since middle school all ending up married and best friends forever? I don't know, man. I just found it hokey.

Flacolaco · 07-29-2007, 04:03 PM

It's a book about magic..... the main characters growing old together idoesn't seem that far fetched to me.

DevinFuture · 07-29-2007, 05:50 PM

How perfect was it to have Harry in the final battle with Voldemort calling him by his given name the way Dumbledore had always done.

And I loved Professor McGonagall taking charge and preemptively standing up to Slughorn and Slytherin house. "If any of you attempt to sabotage our resistance or take up arms against us within this castle, then, Horace, we duel to kill."

Flacolaco · 07-30-2007, 01:10 PM

Wow! This is a chat she did with www.the-leaky-cauldron.org

It is incredibly revealing in details.

Dorks, read on.....start at the bottom and read up.

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*READ THE TRANSCRIPT FROM THE BOTTOM UP*

J.K. Rowling: That's it... I'm Disapparating. Bye!
J.K. Rowling: Thanks very much everybody, I've had a great time, and I hope I've covered some of the outstanding questions (I hear a distant roar of 'YOU DIDN'T GET TO MINE!')

J.K. Rowling: I'm very aware I haven't answered everything... keep an eye on my website, and I'll try and answer some more questions in due course!

J.K. Rowling: Surely 'I did it my way' by Frank Sinatra.
Tess: What muggle song do you imagine would be played at dumbledores funeral
J.K. Rowling: I like this question, so I'll take it for my last.
J.K. Rowling: What can I say? Thank you so much for sticking with me, and with Harry, for so long. You have made this an incredible journey for Harry's author.

J.K. Rowling: We seem to have over-run. We've had over 120,000 questions, I've been told!

J.K. Rowling: what is really there.
J.K. Rowling: For many reasons. The name works rather well, and it has been established in the books as the gateway between two worlds, and Harry would associate it with moving on between two worlds (don't forget that it is Harry's image we see, not necessarily
Katie B: Why was kings cross the place harry went to when he died
J.K. Rowling: Eventually, but it left a few scars. I loathe a traitor!

Louie: Did mariettas pimply formation ever fade
J.K. Rowling: To be honest, because it's a cool shape. I couldn't have my hero sport a doughnut-shaped scar.
Koen Van Der Voort: Why is the scar on harrys forehead lightning shaped
J.K. Rowling: Snape entered the house immediately after Dumbledore's death, before Moody put up the spells against him.
Lou: How did snape get into grimmauld place to get the second half of the letter, if there were protection spells on the house stopping snape getting in

Lou: How did snape get into grimmauld place to get the second half of the letter, if there were protection spells on the house stopping snape getting in
J.K. Rowling: I'm elated! It is great to be able to do this at last, I've looked forward to it for so long!

Tracie: How relieved are you that you can finally talk about the series no more secretkeeping!
J.K. Rowling: Naturally. They would be like badges or medals of honour - proof that the owner had been at the heart of the fight against Voldemort from the start! I like to imagine Neville showing his to his admiring pupils.

Brian: Did the da keep the coins?
J.K. Rowling: I'd like Harry's wand - holly and phoenix feather.
Leo: What would your wand be made of
J.K. Rowling: No, he loved only power, and himself. He valued people whom he could use to advance his own objectives.

Darchey: Did voldemort ever love a girl
J.K. Rowling: He was careful not to use the talking Patronus means of communication with them. This was not difficult, as his particular job within the Order, ie, as spy, meant that sending a Patronus to any of them might have given away his true allegiance.
jenny: How did snape keep his patronus secret from the rest of the order?
J.K. Rowling: She took a pureblood husband, because that was what was expected of her, but her true love was always Voldemort.

Isabel: Did bellatrix ever love her husband, or did she have love only for voldemort
J.K. Rowling: She's dried out a bit now.
Nicofr: Does winky still drink a lot of butterbear
J.K. Rowling: Mostly female, I might add.
J.K. Rowling: Thank you very much, Camille, and I'm sorry about Sirius. That man's got a lot of fans.
Camille: Dear mrs rowling, while im here I want to thank you for making me laugh, cry (a lot! Most of all for sirius!) since im 11 quite a long time for me as im 20 harrys magic and yours will be with me forever! Thanks!
J.K. Rowling: Pretty well, actually. It has returned to its usual condition of advanced lunacy, and is appreciated for its unintentional humour.

Katie Mosher: How is the quibbler doing these days
J.K. Rowling: Like Harry's, these scars would no longer burn or hurt.

J.K. Rowling: My pleasure, Finchburg! The Dark Mark would fade to a scar, not dissimilar to the lightning scar on Harry's forehead.

Finchburg: Does the dark mark remain on those that voldemort has branded after his death or does the tattoo dissapear now he is gone thanks for considering my question!
J.K. Rowling: Wearing the ring would not make the stone work. The stone existed outside the ring originally, and to use it you had to turn it three times in your hand.
The Stoic Cycle: Why is it that voldemort is unaware that the gaunt ring is a hallow, when he has worn it (such as in the memory the diary shows harry in book 2)
J.K. Rowling: I'd like an otter, like Hermione, but I've got a feeling it might be a large dog.

Iglooanne: What would your patronus be
J.K. Rowling: The two other possibilities were 'the Elder Wand' (used instead as a chapter title) and 'the Peverell Quest', which I decided against quite quickly. I think the word 'Quest' is a bit corny!

Chucky: Have you had another alternatives as book title apart from deathly hallows
J.K. Rowling: Snakes' sense are very different from human ones. They can detect heat and movement in a way that we can't.
Jess: How did nagini could see harry and hermione if they were under the invisibility cloak
J.K. Rowling: Yes, because a Patronus is used against things that the Death Eaters generally generate, or fight alongside. They would not need Patronuses.

Samantha: Was snape the only death eater who could produce a full patronus
J.K. Rowling: I cannot possibly tell you. Some things are better left unsaid.
Mike: What is the incantation for creating a horcrux
J.K. Rowling: Definitely, and Ron will describe this as his finest hour.
Lecanard: Will we see harry and his friends having their own history on chocolate frogs cards
J.K. Rowling: The loss of Hedwig represented a loss of innocence and security. She has been almost like a cuddly toy to Harry at times. Voldemort killing her marked the end of childhood. I'm sorry... I know that death upset a LOT of people!

Twinkletoes: Why did you feel that hedwigs death was necessary
J.K. Rowling: Of course, though he had to go back to his native Bulgaria to do so.

Gandalfxj9: Did krum ever find love
J.K. Rowling: He is losing control, and unable to prevent Harry seeing into his mind. The connection between them is never fully understood by Voldemort, who does not know that Harry is a Horcrux.

Maura: How come voldemort was no longer employing occlumency against harry, as he was in the 6th book
J.K. Rowling: They are two different charms. She has not wiped her parents' memories (as she later does to Dolohov and Rowle); she has bewitched them to make them believe that they are different people.
Laura Trego: Did hermione really put a memory charm on her parents she says she did but then about 50 pages later tells ron shes never done a memory charm

J.K. Rowling: Yes, Voldemort accidentally broke his soul into eight parts, not seven.
Angela Morrissey: Were there seven horcruxes not six as dumbledore intimated to harry if so, does this mean that voldemort had an 8 part soul not a 7

Jon: Since voldemort was afraid of death, did he choose to be a ghost if so where does he haunt or is this not possible due to his horcruxes
J.K. Rowling: No, the Patronus often mutates to take the image of the love of one's life (because they so often become the 'happy thought' that generates a Patronus).
Chely: James patronus is a stag and lilys a doe is that a coincidence?
J.K. Rowling: Chapter 34: The Forest Again.
Kristy: What was your favorite scene to write in deathly hallows?
J.K. Rowling: Yes, the rest of the herd was forced to acknowledge that Firenze's pro-human leanings were not shameful, but honourable.
Chelatina: Was firenze ever welcomed back into the herd
J.K. Rowling: Yes, I do. Through Harry's account of Ron, and from reports of the professors who taught Ron, Dumbledore understood Ron better than Ron ever knew, and liked him, too.

Lulu: Do you think dumbledore was a little more fond of ron than either ron or harry believed
J.K. Rowling: Of course, and it ended up in Harry's possession.
Emzzy: Did mr weasley ever get around to fixing sirius motorbike
J.K. Rowling: No, she never had the Dark Mark and was never a fully paid-up member. However, her views were identical to those of her husband until Voldemort planned the death of her son.
Abjoppotter: Is narcissa malfoy really a death eater
J.K. Rowling: Hm. I would advise a trip to Arkie Alderton's Kwik-Repair Shop. Never attempt to mend a broom at home, the consequences can be disastrous.

Lee: I recently purchsed nimbus twothousand it has a terrible knack of veering left is their anything I can do (wihout the use of a wand it was broken by a hippogriff) to repair it back to it original straight flying state

J.K. Rowling: He is still there, at the Hog's Head, playing with his goats.
Emily: What ever happened to aberforth
J.K. Rowling: He was teaching at Hogwarts for more than a year, but NOT in the post of D.A.D.A. teacher. He was previously Muggle Studies professor.
J.K. Rowling: Yes, at last! Incidentally, I know some have asked about Quirrell with regard to this question.
Adwait313: Has the jinx on the dada teaching post at hogwarts been lifted

Ea: Will the stone ever be found, since it was left just sitting on the forest floor
J.K. Rowling: I think it more likely that he valued other qualities in himself!
J.K. Rowling: Hmm. Good question. Poor eyesight? Did he look in the mirror and believe he was gorgeous as he was?
Hannah: Why was snape so badly groomed
J.K. Rowling: Real friendship would be out of the question, though. Too much had happened prior to the final battle.

J.K. Rowling: Not really. There would be a kind of rapprochement, in that Harry knows Draco hated being a Death Eater, and would not have killed Dumbledore; similarly, Draco would feel a grudging gratitude towards Harry for saving his life

Lona: Did draco and harry lose their animosity towards eachother when voldemort died
J.K. Rowling: I am clearly getting better at Legilimency.
J.K. Rowling: Sorry, technical hitch - just answered a question before seeing it!
Stephval: Is scorpius as misguided as his father, or has draco improved and taught his child(ren) better
J.K. Rowling: Scorpius has a lot going against him, not least that name. However, I think Scorpius would be an improvement on his father, whom misfortune has sobered!

J.K. Rowling: He was not prepared for the reality of life as a Death Eater. It was Voldemort's attempted murder of Kreacher that really turned him

Hayleyhaha: Why did regulus have a change of heart
J.K. Rowling: Bless them, perhaps. But they'd need to replace the entire team and down several cauldrons of Felix Felicitas.
Abbey: Will the chuddley cannons ever win the quidditch world cup
J.K. Rowling: James always suspected Snape harboured deeper feelings for Lily, which was a factor in James' behaviour to Snape.
J.K. Rowling: Yes, it was known that they were friendly and then stopped being friends. Nothing more than that would be widely known.
J.K. Rowling: Thank you for your thank you!
Rachel Nell: Jkr, thank you for such amazing books! I would like to know how come noone seemed to know that lily and snape were friends in school they were obviously meeting for chats, etc didnt james know their past
J.K. Rowling: No! Not everybody falls in love with everybody else...
Lola Victorpujebet: Was minerva in love with albus

J.K. Rowling: Yes, she brought them home straight away.
Maggie Keir: Was hermione able to find her parents and undo the memory damage
J.K. Rowling: Naturally, what could stop Rita? I imagine she immediately dashed off a biography of Harry after he defeated Voldemort. One quarter truth to three quarters rubbish.
Maggie: Is rita skeeter still reporting
J.K. Rowling: Muggle-borns will have a witch or wizard somewhere on their family tree, in some cases many, many generations back. The gene re-surfaces in some unexpected places.
Katie Mosher: How exactly do muggleborns receive magical ability

J.K. Rowling: We are having a heavily Dementor-influenced summer here in the UK.
J.K. Rowling: Yes, the world seems a much sunnier place (literally - with the Dementors gone the weather gets better!)
Tina: Do the muggles notice that there arent any weird things going on now that voldemorts gone
J.K. Rowling: She was arrested, interrogated and imprisoned for crimes against Muggleborns.
J.K. Rowling: Glad to see you like her as much as I do!
Pablo: What is toadface umbridge doing now
J.K. Rowling: The corpse of his sister.
Lucy: What is dumbledores boggart?
J.K. Rowling: Yes, he could wear a false ear (I'm starting to giggle at the thought. Perhaps he's better off with the hole!)
Tierney Roth: If moody got a magic eye, and wormtail got a magic hand, couldnt there be some way to form a magical ear, if only to cover up the hole and make george look more symmetrical
J.K. Rowling: You see Aberforth meeting Mundungus in Hogsmeade. That was the occasion on which Dung, who had taken Sirius's mirror from Grimmauld Place, sold it to Aberforth.

Nikki: How did sirius twoway mirror end up with aberforth or is it another twoway mirror
J.K. Rowling: No, he loses the ability, and is very glad to do so.
Nigel: Can harry speak parseltongue when he is no longer a horcrux?
J.K. Rowling: No, sorry... except to illustrate what an old bat she is.
Nora: Is auntie muriels tiara important
J.K. Rowling: And I couldn't say that, even when asked 'what do you wish you'd been asked...' because it would have sign-posted just how significant that wand would become!
J.K. Rowling: I must admit, I always wondered why nobody ever asked me what Dumbledore's wand was made of!
J.K. Rowling: Oooo, you're tough.

Leaky Cauldron: Please pose and answer the question you'd most like to address about the series! (a ha, turned it back on you.)
J.K. Rowling: But she couldn't do it; years of pretending that 'normal' was best had hardened her too much.
J.K. Rowling: I think that for one moment she trembled on the verge of wishing Harry luck; that she almost acknowledged that her loathing of his world, and of him, was born out of jealousy.
Karin: What did petunia wanted to say to hary at the end of the dursleys departing
J.K. Rowling: I've got a feeling he didn't give it to any of them, but that James sneaked it out of his father's desk one day.
Courtney: What child did harry give the marauders map to if any
J.K. Rowling: It sounds very vain to answer this! My favourite in this book is probably that line of Ron's 'really captures the scope and tragedy of the thing, doesn't it?'
Nicole: What do you think is the funniest moment you have written in the series

J.K. Rowling: On this occasion, he is very angry and acts accordingly. He is also in an extreme situation, and attempting to defend somebody very good against a violent and murderous opponent.
J.K. Rowling: Harry's faults are primarily anger and occasional arrogance.
J.K. Rowling: Harry is not, and never has been, a saint. Like Snape, he is flawed and mortal.
Barbara: I was very disappointed to see harry use crucio and seem to enjoy it his failure to perform that kind of curse in the past has been a credit to his character why the change, and did harry later regret having enjoyed deliberately causing pain
J.K. Rowling: It is not about striving for immortality, but about accepting mortality.

Alborz: What does it mean to be the master of death
J.K. Rowling: He wanted Lily and he wanted Mulciber too. He never really understood Lily's aversion; he was so blinded by his attraction to the dark side he thought she would find him impressive if he became a real Death Eater.
J.K. Rowling: Well, that is Snape's tragedy. Given his time over again he would not have become a Death Eater, but like many insecure, vulnerable people (like Wormtail) he craved membership of something big and powerful, something impressive.
Nithya: Lily detested mulciber,averyif snape really loved her,why didnt he sacrifice their company for her sake
J.K. Rowling: Slytherin has become diluted. It is no longer the pureblood bastion it once was. Nevertheless, its dark reputation lingers, hence Albus Potter's fears.

Natalie: Are house divisions as prevalaent in harry’s children’s hogwarts as in the previous generations
J.K. Rowling: I think it was his hair. Every individual has very distinctive-smelling hair, don't you find?
Jess Mac: What was the third smell that hermione smelt in the amortentia potion in hbp (ie the particular essence of ron)
J.K. Rowling: No, that's what makes them frightening!

Carol: Do dementors have souls
J.K. Rowling: Dumbledore understood Ron's importance in the trio. He wasn't the most skilled, or the most intelligent, but he held them together; his humour and his good heart were essential.
J.K. Rowling: Because he knew that Ron might need a little more guidance than the other two.
Sampotterish: Why did dumbledore want ron to keep his deluminator
J.K. Rowling: The diadem - an Albanian peasant. The ring - Tom Riddle snr.
J.K. Rowling: The diary - Moaning Myrtle. The cup - Hepzibah Smith, the previous owner. The locket - a Muggle tramp. Nagini - Bertha Jorkins (Voldemort could use a wand once he regained a rudimentary body, as long as the victim was subdued).

Lady Bella: Whose murders did voldemor use to create each of the horcruxes
J.K. Rowling: Nothing deep and significant, I'm afraid. They're just a comedy item.
Nippy23: We see socks a lot throughout the series, such as dobby’s love for them and dumbledore’s claim to see them in the mirror of erised, what’s the reason behind all the socks
J.K. Rowling: No, he's a Metamorphmagus like his mother.
Vio91: Is teddy lupin a werewolf
J.K. Rowling: Of course, that would not stop Rita Skeeter writing 'Snape: Scoundrel or Saint?

J.K. Rowling: Harry would ensure that Snape's heroism was known.
Annie: Does the wizarding world now know that snape was dumbledores man, or do they still think he did a bunk
J.K. Rowling: No. Nor would I want him to. He's happy where he is, and I'm happier without him!
Jessie: Will lockhart ever recover?
J.K. Rowling: Dumbledore understood Mermish, Gobbledegook and Parseltongue. The man was brilliant.
Delailah: How does dumbledore understand parseltongue?
J.K. Rowling: Colin wasn't a student. He sneaked back with the rest of the DA, along with Fred, George and the rest. He ought not to have stayed behind when McGonagall told him to leave, but alas - he did.

Roseweasley: Why was colin creavey still a student at hogwarts when he was muggleborn surely he would have been locked up and interogated, not allowed back to school therefore, he shouldnt have died
J.K. Rowling: Something had to leave the school for good when Dumbledore died, and I decided that would be Fawkes. Dumbledore was a very great and irreplacable man, and the loss of Fawkes (and the fact that he was 'non-transferable'!) expresses this symbolically
Michael: Why didnt fawkes come back to help harry I would have thought that since harry was so loyal to dumbledore, fawkes would have been harrys new pet
J.K. Rowling: the Ministry no longer used them to torment its opponents.
J.K. Rowling: You cannot destroy Dementors, though you can limit their numbers if you eradicate the conditions in which they multiply, ie, despair and degradation. As I've already said, though,

Cornersoul: So what happens to all the dementors where will they go will they be destroyed if so, how
J.K. Rowling: My temptation would be Harry's, ie, the Stone. But I believe, as does Harry ultimately, that the greatest wisdom is in accepting that we must all die, and moving on.
Boggo: Would you choose the hallow that is the cloak, like youre supposed to, and would you be tempted to use the others
J.K. Rowling: Yes. She might even have grown to love him romantically (she certainly loved him as a friend) if he had not loved Dark Magic so much, and been drawn to such loathesome people and acts.

Jaclyn: Did lily ever have feelings back for snape
J.K. Rowling: (He does so in the graveyard of Little Hangleton, in front of Harry). He did this before Regulus and Regulus guessed, correctly, what it was that made Voldemort so convinced he could not die.
J.K. Rowling: Voldemort dropped oblique hints; in his arrogance, he did not believe anybody would be clever enough to understand them.
J.K. Rowling: Horcrux magic was not Voldemort's own invention; as is established in the story, other wizards had done it, though never gone as far as to make six.
James Farrell: Voldemort never told anyone about his horcruxes, so how on earth did regulus black discover his secret
J.K. Rowling: and, ultimately, laid down his life because of it. That's pretty heroic!
J.K. Rowling: Yes, I do; though a very flawed hero. An anti-hero, perhaps. He is not a particularly likeable man in many ways. He remains rather cruel, a bully, riddled with bitterness and insecurity - and yet he loved, and showed loyalty to that love

Lechicaneuronline: Do you think snape is a hero
J.K. Rowling: The enchantment under which Tom Riddle fathered Voldemort is important because it shows coercion, and there can't be many more prejudicial ways to enter the world than as the result of such a union.
J.K. Rowling: It was a symbolic way of showing that he came from a loveless union - but of course, everything would have changed if Merope had survived and raised him herself and loved him.

Ravleen: How much does the fact that voldemort was conceived under a love potion have to do with his nonability to understand love is it more symbolic
J.K. Rowling: Of course they changed as I wrote, but nobody surprised me very much!
J.K. Rowling: They all became pretty much what I expected/planned them to become.
Amanda: Hiya, ive grown up with harry and the gang, did any of the characters change in any unexpected ways as they grew up
J.K. Rowling: Wormtail, desperate to curry favour, salvaged it from the place it had fallen and carried it to him. I admit that would have been a bit of a feat for a rat, but they are highly intelligent creatures!
Christiana: How did voldemort get his wand back after he was in was exile

J.K. Rowling: My very earliest plan for the story involved somebody managing to get to Hogwarts when they had never done magic before, but I had changed my mind by the time I'd written the third book.
J.K. Rowling: I'm sorry about this, but I changed my mind!
Snapedinhalf: You promised that someone will do magic late in life in book 7. I've now read it three times but cant work out who it might have been! Please help!!
J.K. Rowling: He saw his family alive, whole and happy - Ariana, Percival and Kendra all returned to him, and Aberforth reconciled to him.
Allie: What did dumbledore truly see in the mirror of erised
J.K. Rowling: Hagrid has seen many deaths in quite a long life, so yes, he can see Thestrals.

Jessica Lynn: Did hagrid have to be able to see thestrals in order to train them if so, whose death did hagrid witness
J.K. Rowling: Well, I don't think that George would ever get over losing Fred, which makes me feel so sad. However, he names his first child and son Fred, and he goes on to have a very successful career, helped by good old Ron.

Camille: How is george getting along without his twin
J.K. Rowling: It is a very cosy and welcoming place, as dissimilar as possible from Snape's dungeon. Lots of yellow hangings, and fat armchairs, and little underground tunnels leading to the dormitories, all of which have perfectly round doors, like barrel tops.
J.K. Rowling: Sorry - I should say 'painting' rather than portrait, because it is a still-life.
J.K. Rowling: The Hufflepuff common room is accessed through a portrait near the kitchens, as I am sure you have deduced.
Smallbutpowerful: On behalf of all harry potter fans who consider themselves to be hufflepuffs could you please describe the hufflepuff common room as it is the only common room harry hasn’t visited
J.K. Rowling: No, definitely not. Kingsley would see to that. The use of Dementors was always a mark of the underlying corruption of the Ministry, as Dumbledore constantly maintained.
Steph: Will azkaban still use dementors?
J.K. Rowling: Griphook was wrong - Gryffindor did not 'steal' the sword, not unless you are a goblin fanatic and believe that all goblin-made objects really belong to the maker

J.K. Rowling: - the Sorting Hat was Gryffindor's initially, as you know.
J.K. Rowling: Neville, most worthy Gryffindor, asked for help just as Harry did in the Chamber of secrets, and Gryffindor's sword was transported into Gryffindor's old hat -
J.K. Rowling: Yes, there is very definitely a link to the hat!
Su: How did neville get the gryfindor sword, is there a link to the hat
J.K. Rowling: Yes, the new improved Percy ended up as a high-ranking official under Kingsley.
Tineke: What happened to percy did he return to his job at the ministry
J.K. Rowling: Because she is a very nasty piece of work. She has an affinity for this horrible object, which would help rather than hinder her.
James Farrell: How did umbridge manage to conjure a patronus while wearing the locket when harry wasnt able to
J.K. Rowling: As established by Ollivander, a wizard can use almost any wand, it is simply that a wand that chooses him/her will work best. Where there is a family connection, a wand will work a little better than a wand chosen at random, I think.
Stephanie: If the wand chooses the wizard, then why do wands work when passed down from father to son eg neville had his fathers wand
J.K. Rowling: However, I like to think that Harry would be instrumental in ensuring that Snape's portrait would appear there in due course.
J.K. Rowling: It was deliberate. Snape had effectively abandoned his post before dying, so he had not merited inclusion in these august circles

J.K. Rowling: It was deliberate. Snape had effectively abandoned his post before dying, so he had not merited inclusion in these august circles.
Laura Trego: Was the absence of snapes portrait in the headmasters office in the last scene innocent or deliberate
J.K. Rowling: Remus was killed by Dolohov and Tonks by Bellatrix.
J.K. Rowling: I'm so sorry! I met a couple on launch night who had come dressed as Lupin and Tonks, and I felt dreadfully guilty as I signed their books!
Casey Kunze: Who killed remus and tonks I think if I knew this, I would get some closure over the very sad, but understandable, death of two of my favorite characters
J.K. Rowling: I think that when Dudley was attacked by the Dementors he saw himself, for the first time, as he really was. This was an extremely painful, but ultimately salutory lesson, and began the transformation in him.
Superhans: What was duldeys worst memory?
J.K. Rowling: Dumbledore is thinking aloud here, edging towards the truth with the help of the Pensieve.
J.K. Rowling: This also explained why Harry, the last and unintended Horcrux, could see so clearly through the snake's eyes, just as he regularly sees through Voldemort's.
J.K. Rowling: Dumbledore suspected that the snake's essence was divided - that it contained part of Voldemort's soul, and that was why it was so very adept at doing his bidding.
Rosi: What does in essence divided mean?
J.K. Rowling: She ended up marrying (rather later than Harry & co) a fellow naturalist and grandson of the great Newt Scamander (Rolf)!
J.K. Rowling: Luna became a very famous wizarding naturalist who discovered and classified many new species of animals (though, alas, she never did find a Crumple-Horned Snorkack and had, finally, to accept that her father might have made that one up).
Alicepie: What happend to luna, did she get married who to?
J.K. Rowling: Perhaps 'the Pardoner's Tale', by Chaucer.

Jessie: Were the Deathly Hallows based on any realworld myth or faerie tale?

J.K. Rowling: He is a spirit of chaos that entered the building long ago and has proved impossible to eradicate!

Camille: What or who is peeves exactly, is he linked with the blood barons story?

J.K. Rowling: After a few years as a celebrated player for the Holyhead Harpies, Ginny retired to have her family and to become the Senior Quidditch correspondent at the Daily Prophet!

J.K. Rowling: Ron joined George at Weasleys’ Wizarding Wheezes, which became an enormous money-spinner..

J.K. Rowling: Harry did so (just because Voldemort was gone, it didn’t mean that there would not be other Dark witches and wizards in the coming years).

J.K. Rowling: Thank you! I’ve already answered about Hermione. Kingsley became permanent Minister for Magic, and naturally he wanted Harry to head up his new Auror department.

Blodeuwedd: Hi jk, first of all thank you for all the books I have enjoyed each and every one of them could you tell us what professions harry, hermione, ron, ginny and luna go on to have did the trio do their final year at school and take their newts who became hea

J.K. Rowling: Teddy had his godfather, Harry, and all his father’s friends in the Order, to visit and stay with

J.K. Rowling: However, unlike Neville, who was also raised by his grandmother

J.K. Rowling: Yes, Teddy was raised by Andromeda

Tineke: Did teddy grow up living with his grandmother?

J.K. Rowling: where she was a progressive voice who ensured the eradication of oppressive, pro-pureblood laws.

J.K. Rowling: where she was instrumental in greatly improving life for house-elves and their ilk. She then moved (despite her jibe to Scrimgeour) to the Dept. of Magical Law Enforcement

J.K. Rowling: Hermione began her post-Hogwarts career at the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures

Katieleigh: Does hermione still continue to do work with spew and is life any better for house elves!

J.K. Rowling: She’s still at Hogwarts, and she was one of the oncoming house-elves who attacked the Death Eaters in the final battle.

Jamie Lewis: What ever happened to winky

J.K. Rowling: – the human-presence-revealing spell Hermione makes use of in Deathly Hallows.

J.K. Rowling: Dumbledore, who could perform magic without needing to say the incantation aloud, was using ‘homenum revelio’ -

Angela Morrissey: Why is it that albus dumbledore can see harry under his invisibility cloak at certain moments? (during the series is the cloak only infallible to those who do not own a deathly hallow).

J.K. Rowling: Ron had finally got SPEW and earned himself a snog!

J.K. Rowling: I loved writing it, and I loved the fact that Hermione took the initiative!

Fomy: What did you feel when you finally wrote the kiss, awaited so much by the fans, of ron and hermione

J.K. Rowling: Of course, nearly all wizarding families are related if you trace them back through the centuries. As was made clear in ‘Deathly hallows’, Peverell blood would run through many wizarding families.

J.K. Rowling: Yes, Harry and Voldemort are distantly related through the Peverells.

Renee: From reading about the original owners of the deathly hallows, the peverell brothers, i’m wondering if harry and voldermort are distantly related voldermorts grandfather ended up with the resurrection stone ring?

J.K. Rowling: You can make up your own mind on this, but I think that Harry entered a kind of limbo between life and death.

Elisabeth: In the chapter of kings cross, are they behind the veil or in some world between the real world and the veil?

J.K. Rowling: No, the Malfoys weaseled their way out of trouble (again) due to the fact that they colluded (albeit out of self-interest) with Harry at the end of the battle

Georgina: Did lucius malfoy, and all the other escaped death eaters, go back to azkaban

J.K. Rowling: important in the last book, though – are you sure I said that?!

J.K. Rowling: Hi Ryan! Well, I think Ginny demonstrated powerful magic in the final battle, and that for a sixteen year old witch she acquitted herself pretty well. I don’t remember ever saying that her ‘seventh child’ status would prove particularly

Ryan Love: From your fans at thesnitch.Co.Uk. Weren’t we supposed to see ginny display powerful magical abilities in “deathly hallows” and find out why it’s significant that she’s the seventh child? Was her main role in the books only to be harry’s love interest?

J.K. Rowling: Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny et al would of course play a significant part in the re-building of wizarding society through their future careers.

J.K. Rowling: The Ministry of Magic was de-corrupted, and with Kingsley at the helm the discrimination that was always latent there was eradicated.

Leaky Cauldron: What, if anything, did the wizarding world learn, and how did society change, as a direct result of the war with voldemort? (i.E., not as a result of harry, ron and hermione’s future careers.)

J.K. Rowling: I’m here and I can’t wait! Bring on the questions!

Big Boy Laroux · 07-30-2007, 05:47 PM

You couldn't have turned it around for us? Thanks for being so lazy.

But seriously, nice find. Thanks.

mavsangel · 07-31-2007, 10:31 PM

I guess I really am a dork cause I loved reading that.
Thanks for the post!

fluid.forty.one · 08-05-2007, 02:44 PM

J.K. Rowling: Eventually, but it left a few scars. I loathe a traitor!

that woman is a genius

StackAttack · 08-05-2007, 04:05 PM

I seem to be the only one who liked the "Snape is evil" twist. I'd much rather him stay evil.

jthig32 · 08-05-2007, 04:34 PM

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Originally Posted by StackAttack

I seem to be the only one who liked the "Snape is evil" twist. I'd much rather him stay evil.

A very large majority of readers never thought he was evil to begin with.

Flacolaco · 08-05-2007, 04:38 PM

I maintain that he was neither "evil" or "good"

He was simply out for his own motives. He was perfectly fine with hating mudbloods and hanging out with Voldy until he killed Lilly.

jthig32 · 08-05-2007, 07:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Flacolaco

I maintain that he was neither "evil" or "good"

He was simply out for his own motives. He was perfectly fine with hating mudbloods and hanging out with Voldy until he killed Lilly.

Well yeah, but once he killed Lilly, he was on the good team. For different reasons, but still, he was on the right side. And was very instrumental is everything, obviously.

DevinFuture · 08-06-2007, 08:19 AM

He's a hero because of his actions, but he's still not a very likeable hero.
If he had not loved Lily, he would not have helped Harry.

Flacolaco · 08-06-2007, 08:25 AM

He definitely turned out to be (at least in my opinion) or was all along, the most interesting character of the series. The flawed and somewhat unwilling hero.

I thought she could've given him a better death....maybe a fight. Snape seemed pretty powerful. But she had to kill him while keeping momentum with Harry's narrative, so.... oh well.

DevinFuture · 08-06-2007, 08:45 AM

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He definitely turned out to be (at least in my opinion) or was all along, the most interesting character of the series.

Agreed. Hell, Borders was giving out Snape stickers to Harry Potter fans in their stores in the months before the DH release. You could choose from "Snape is evil" or "Snape is loyal"

nikeball · 08-07-2007, 12:50 PM

Flacolaco...

I thought I had read every interview/article on HP until that chat transcript. Wow. very nice find.

a few thoughts after reading through the book a second time:
-this book made me chuckle more than any other book..for example george&fred "saintlike" and kreacher beating mundungus on the head
-i actually liked the epilogue. many people thought it was too tidy/cheesy but it gave a glimpse into their life..until the encyclopedia comes out!! happy endings > bad endings > open endings
-i really liked how everything came together. if you didnt read books 1-6..there are little things you would have been confused about.
-i liked how neville..the least and arguably the weakest in the first few books..was now one of the strongest and leader of the resistance at hogwarts. how he developed so much made me happy.
-the final battle is going to be amazing to see on the big screen
-just going back and noticing little things..for example i believe when the twins stole the car to get harry from privet drive (in CoS?)..mrs. weasly tells fred you could have died. "died" in italics. or how about when petunia was talking about her sister and "that boy"...alot of us assumed "that boy" was james..but it was actually severus.

questions:
-was the mangled small body that was "beyond help" at king's cross 1/7th or rather 1/8th of voldemort's soul (scar horcrux?)
-some people think mad-eye is still alive..the one eyed beggar at gringotts..opinions?

i have alot more tohughts/questions but i had so many in past 2 weeks i cant remember them all so i will post more as they come.

nikeball · 08-07-2007, 12:54 PM

some points paralleling the gospel/christ story which rowling said was big influence in her works..

some people's thoughts and opinions.
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"Harry, whose death threat as a baby reminds us of Herod's attempt to kill Jesus, Harry, the one who doesn't seek power and thereby gains it (elder wand), Harry, the one who communes with spirits in the forbidden forest as Jesus prayed in the garden of gethsemane, Harry who lays down his life for his friends and thereby grants them protection (the chapter right after this is called 'Kings Cross'

And in the end he even offers his enemy repentance!

I particularly liked how Harry's struggle with belief and doubt in Dumbledore potrays the believers' common doubt about God's will and what is required of us, even when we don't have all the facts and understand as much as we wish. This in fact parallels Rowling own struggle to 'keep believing', as she puts it in interviews.

We can all be thankful that when we keep believing as Jesus did, and trust God's will as Harry trusted Dumbledore's, it all works out.
"

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On p. 483 of the American version, there is something like prayer. At King's Cross, Dumbledore's hand is restored, and Harry has no scar, anticipating an eschatological healing of all creation. The resurrection stone almost ties him in with the cloud of witnesses who have gone on before him.

DevinFuture · 08-07-2007, 12:57 PM

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questions:
-was the mangled small body that was "beyond help" at king's cross 1/7th or rather 1/8th of voldemort's soul (scar horcrux?)
-some people think mad-eye is still alive..the one eyed beggar at gringotts..opinions?

That was definitely my impression on the mangled small body.
I hadn't heard that theory about mad-eye, but I very much doubt it because I think Jo would have mentioned it by now, now that the book has been released and she has done interviews.