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OFFICIAL thread for Half Blood Prince ***WARNING**SPOILERS

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by Midknight, Jul 15, 2005.

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  1. ChuckDaTruck

    ChuckDaTruck Overlord

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    Ginny has always sucked. OMG, its Harry Potter, and he looked at me!

    Quick, find a dairy product to dunk a body-part in!!

    Narcissa, I don't think they trashed. I mean, they showed her being desperate to protect her child. That was okay by me. Bellatrix I thought they ruined. I loved her as cackling psycho mocking Harry with the baby-voice. She was WAY too sane.
     
  2. Midknight

    Midknight Middy is SPAI! DLP Supporter Retired Staff

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    Cissy was fine for me, she was beyond desperate to save Draco.

    The fact that this big bad spell is corny as fuck named "Unbreakable Vow" is what ruined the chapter.

    Bella being a little punk didnt help things.
     
  3. IndoGhost

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    yes that Unbreakable Vow was unorignal
     
  4. Midknight

    Midknight Middy is SPAI! DLP Supporter Retired Staff

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    unimaginative is the word I'd use. She could create any kick ass spell, name it anything and it would be basically as if from the word of god as far as the series goes.

    But nooooo, she names it the Unbreakable, nope you can't break it, so you'll be found out as a prick while helping my pussy son get over with the fangirls, Vow
     
  5. ChuckDaTruck

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    yeah it was pretty weak. And why don't people like Voldemort make EVERYONE take this vow to join the death eaters. Pretty simple huh?


    Voldemort: Kneel down.
    (Voldemort and Death eater recruit kneel)

    Voldemort: Do you swear eternal allegiance to me, the Dark Lord Voldemort.

    Recruit: Yes

    Voldemort: Excellent. We've just removed every chance of treachery possible.

    She could have done it a million different ways. Use mix blood, drink very special, very difficult and rare potion, do vow words in latin. This would be more exciting AND explain why people don't use this more often to ensure fidelity.
     
  6. IndoGhost

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    you know i would off profered a blood pact
     
  7. Vecna

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    Anyways i was just reading a story a came up with this idea, if voldemort "dies" while he still has his phylacterys around does he lost hte part of his soul in his body and takes the next one to use, so one could kill him 6 times to kill him for real, or is it like as long as they are about they work like a real phylactery and he just comes back forever
    :?:
     
  8. Midknight

    Midknight Middy is SPAI! DLP Supporter Retired Staff

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    Aye, I've got something like this in my story coming up, Harry has them swear to him by taking part of their magic, if they betray him at any level, they die, and their magic is forfeit.

    How freaking hard would it be to truth serum the OOTP or DE members before entry? I mean get a effing clue JKR, it was a horrible plot device.
     
  9. ChuckDaTruck

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    I don't give a fuck about spelling, but I have no clue what a "phylactery" is, and I'm too lazy to go to dictionary website if its beyond my vocabulary. But I got the intent from the other stuff you said, and I think that the horcruxes prevent a person's soul (inside them) from passing on to the other side :Cue scary music:.


    So all you really need is one, and you could pull it off and feel guilty, but never die, so long as you are content to Never die and NOT try to take over the world. I mean, Voldemort could have just become a very important person, without the ambition of wiping over half of humanity and with one horcrux he never would have died. He probably would have looked relatively normal too. Maybe slightly "off" and with a bloodshot eyes all the time, but certainly not scarlet. (remember in the teacher scene he didn't look nearly so fucked up.)


    Shit, this looks bad. It kind of looks like I'm advocating murder, huh? Ahh fuck it this a fictious world anyway. Although....
     
  10. Midknight

    Midknight Middy is SPAI! DLP Supporter Retired Staff

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    A phylactery is a device liches/undead wizards used extensivley in Dungeons and Dragons/various role playing games to make themselves either unkillable, or way more powerful.

    She just ripped off an idea that's been used 100's of times already ...

    oh wait a sec...


    -boy hero who is always tragically alone and abused fighting against all odds...

    -sadistic old wizards abound

    -crazy mentor *cough*Gandalf *cough*

    ya know what? never mind, rofl the whole book, with very small bits, may as well be copy & paste and change a few names here and there.
     
  11. IndoGhost

    IndoGhost Dark Lord

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    sad but true
     
  12. ChuckDaTruck

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    HEY, HEY, HEY! STOP RIGHT THERE MIDKNIGHT!!!



    She invented the scar. :wink:




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    Seriouly, Midknight, don't do that though, because if you do, you'll have to explain why DUmbledore and Voldemort don't do this. Its a major plot hole JK created. Don't fall into the same trap just to show her how stupid it is. But if you can work it in so it fits than go for it. I'll certainly be impressed. :D
     
  13. Lord Ravenclaw

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    Harry Potter is a rather imaginative universe of ideas to grow and expand ideas upon.

    The books are not.
     
  14. ChuckDaTruck

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    well put. I'll JK credit for very loosely and vaguely defining things as it left a lot of room for growth.


    (That compliment was meant to be backhanded by the way)
     
  15. Giovanni

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    HBP made me very angry. It will be used for kindling the next time I am trapped in the woods and need to start a fire... Assuming it wont get used for kindling before that.

    Canon Harry/Ginny- EXCUSE ME!?!?!?!? But I sincerely doubt Harry would date one of his stalkers, especially if she is his best friends little sister

    Canon Ron/Hermione- She would kill him... Or at least leave him. I'm sorry but you all know it's true. He would say the wrong thing at the wrong time of the month one to many times.

    Snape Kills Dumbledore- Dumbledore dying made me happy, the way he went out didn't. I wanted to see him go down like Tony Montana in Scarface... Or Fat Joe (Iforget what name he was going by in that movie) in Empire. Not stabbed in the back (figuratively) like my all time hero Julius Caesar.

    Harry Gets Over Sirius- I don't oppose this action, I just oppose the way it was done, and the grand total of 3 pages it took to do it.

    Quidditch + Friends Parents Deaths = Quidditch Trials- ??? WHY JKR WHYYYYY???

    Ron's Casual Attitude- "Hey guys your reading the paper... Umm who died?" You know THAT attitude. I mean at least show SOME genuine concern.

    Horcrux's- BAD BAD BAD idea JKR, now how are you going to write the last book in under 2000 pages? Seriously destroying the Horcrux's = An entire book by itself, Killing Voledmort is another, combine the two and you have NO ROOM FOR ANYTHING TO DO WITH TH CHARACTERS.

    Now for what I liked about the book.

    Stan Shunpike's "arrest"- *coughs* GUANTANAMO BAY *coughs* *coughs* USA PATRIOT ACT *coughs* The political statement of locking up people to make it look like your doing your job is wrong... Well done, but just a bit cliched.

    Malfoy is a little punk- Doesn't have the balls to kill Dumbledore when actually presented with the opportunity. Fits his character perfectly.
     
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    But that’s good. Now she can’t destroy them anymore. The characters really suck now but if she get the chance it will only get worse. It will be like a black whole with no turning back.
     
  17. Giovanni

    Giovanni God of Scotch

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    Charcaters... Get... WORSE!!!!!


    IT'S NOT POSSIBLE!!!


    And if it is I don't even wanna think about it.
     
  18. ChuckDaTruck

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    I kind of agree with Zev. THe characters are beyond fucked up now. They stopped being hers after ORder of the PHoenix.
     
  19. IndoGhost

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    the only the reason i'm going to read next canon book is so i can i read the whole series... you know the "finish what you started" thing...
     
  20. ChuckDaTruck

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    true
     
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