Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince-SPOILERS!!!!

[Melkor Lord Of ALL!]

Is this Zabini an interesting character?

I haven't read it yet, but I know who the HBP is.....

 

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OK, Snape is evil? I don't buy it. Lame plot twist. Dumbledore's not that much a fool.
ok.

You see, Dumbedore believes that there is good with everybody, but sometimes even he might make mistakes.

 

[Barendd Nobeard]

Does the phrase "hook up" have the same 'one-night-stand' connotation in the UK as it has recently developed here in the US?

"Yes," said Hermione angrily. "But obviously if you'd rather I hooked up with McLaggen. . ."

Or is Hermione just a slut?!

 

[Barendd Nobeard]

You see, Dumbedore believes that there is good with everybody, but sometimes even he might make mistakes.

Right. And Dumbledore could be playing a (very dangerous) game of using Snape until Snape openly returns to Voldemort's fold. I hope Snape is just trying to double-cross the Dark Lord--I guess I want Harry to be wrong about Snape. And given how often Harry is wrong, well, maybe he is wrong about Snape. But chapter 2 is pretty compelling that Snape is a bad guy---which is why I think he isn't.

 

[Barendd Nobeard]

There are some really funny lines in the book.

p. 313 - "Girls were very strange sometimes."
p. 314 - "Harry was left to ponder in silence the depths to which girls would sink to get revenge."

As the father of a 14-year-old girl, I can only anticipate with dread the remainder of my daughter's teen-age years.

 

[Psion]

Omigod, Hermione's in love with Ron!!!!!!!!

Is this news?

 

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Is this news?

No, but I thought it wouldn't "happen" until book 7.

It's real teen-age stuff, which I haven't had to witness in years.

 

[Psion]

Does the phrase "hook up" have the same 'one-night-stand' connotation in the UK as it has recently developed here in the US?



Or is Hermione just a slut?!

Even in the US, I often understood it to principally mean "get in a relationship with."

Not that I haven't heard it in the way you make out... but it's sort of a context thing. In a bar or a party, it means what you are talking out. In a schoolyard, it sounds like a bf/gf thing.

 

[Dakkareth]

Mmmhhhh. Some random observations and theories:


I was wrong about the Half-Blood Prince.

Malfoy can be turned.

Snape isn't evil either.

Harry and Ginny, either way it couldn't have lasted.

Multiple phylacteries, nice idea.

I also like the 'competition between dark wizards' bit I read out of the R.A.B. letter. No idea who it might be, though.

It should have been 'inferii'.

It felt to me like the book was rather short.

Or maybe that was just the way things seemed to fall in place miraculously even without magic at work.

Harry will meet Dumbledore again, in some form.

My sister is already waiting to get the book.

I need to read it again soon, I read rather fast in my curiosity.

Let's hope, Rowling doesn't lose her touch. Potential for that I sense.

I'm going to stop annoying you now.

 

[Melkor Lord Of ALL!]

Is there a big battle with Death Eaters similar to end of 5th book?

What happened with Death Eaters captured in Department of Mysteries?