Who is the Half-Blood Prince...?

Nightgaunt · Post by **Nightgaunt** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 12:41 pm

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Mr.Bob · Post by **Mr.Bob** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 12:43 pm

christwriter wrote:I will probably read the next Harry Potter book, but I probably won't BUY it.

Duhhh. Now she gets it.

*Mr bob loves libraries & friends who buy things*

Nicotine · Post by **Nicotine** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 12:43 pm

I can't wait for the next one! I really want to know what's gonna happen. Harry Potter is definatly not the best thing I've ever read but it's interesting and I read the other 5 so why not?

Mr.Bob · Post by **Mr.Bob** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 12:52 pm

christwriter wrote: What I don't like is that Rowling published the last two books as obese monsters. A LOT of those books could and should have gotten chopped. A lot of the parts were good, but there were too freaking many of them. Goblet was fat but it DID have a lot going on, so maybe only fifty to a hundred pages less. Phoenix was obese and probably diabedic as well, because NOTHING HAPPENED until the last fifty pages. You've got a SEVEN HUNDRED PAGE NOVEL. The only interesting part should NOT be the last fifty pages. A two hundred-three hundred page novel? Sure. Seven hundred pages? Every one of those pages should sizzle.

I'm a fast reader. I can read a seven hundred page novel in a day-two days, depending on when I get started. It took me a week to read Phoenix. That's bad. I can't understand how it got published so big, either, because an editor should have caught it, sent it back and told her to remove another hundred pages before they started publication. So either she's turned into a snot-head writer with too many pretentions, or the novel was so big to begin with that seven hundred pages where nothing happens until the last fifty seems sane.

Well... these books have to last a year, you know.

Since this book is all we're going to get of the potter till our next dose is made availiable in 2006, I say the thicker the better.
If a two chapter narrative of Ron gracefully doing up his shoelaces means that it'll take me a year to finish the book that would be awesome.

Komiyan · Post by **Komiyan** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 1:52 pm

ManyWorlds wrote:It'll either be Harry, Voldemort, an entirely new character... or some secondary character from the arse-end of nowhere that hasn't been mentioned for at least a book.

It's not Harry OR Voldemort. She's already said this. Plus, the former would make the book 'Harry Potter and the Harry Potter', which is just silly.

Hagrid is half blood. *shrug*

ManyWorlds · Post by **ManyWorlds** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 4:01 pm

Komiyan wrote:Plus, the former would make the book 'Harry Potter and the Harry Potter', which is just silly.

Hagrid is half blood. *shrug*

Good point about Harry. ^_^

And I had the same thought about Hagrid... interesting...

MariaAndMichelle · Post by **MariaAndMichelle** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 4:29 pm

Komiyan wrote:It's not Harry OR Voldemort. She's already said this. Plus, the former would make the book 'Harry Potter and the Harry Potter', which is just silly.

That just struck us as very funny, we're not quite sure why...

Also... we've deicded that the HBP is Hagrid. Because Hagrid is cool.

Also, also... the movies suck.

(Also, also, also... anyone who knows of any good Remus/Sirius fics... feel free to send 'em our way. :p)

Mvmarcz · Post by **Mvmarcz** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 4:31 pm

MariaAndMichelle wrote:
Komiyan wrote:It's not Harry OR Voldemort. She's already said this. Plus, the former would make the book 'Harry Potter and the Harry Potter', which is just silly.

That just struck us as very funny, we're not quite sure why...

Also... we've deicded that the HBP is Hagrid. Because Hagrid is cool.

Also, also... the movies suck.

(Also, also, also... anyone who knows of any good Remus/Sirius fics... feel free to send 'em our way. :p)

:points to her newly updated sig: I liked ti too

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 4:48 pm

Mr.Bob wrote:
legostargalactica wrote:I am completely convinced that our own Mr.Bob is the half-blood prince!
hahaha

...I totally clicked this thread with the sole intention of blaring out "I AM THE HALFBLOOD PRINCE!"

But you beat me to it you damn pre-empter you.

Vampires drained half of your blood, I hear?

BrownEyedCat · Post by **BrownEyedCat** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 4:53 pm

I really liked the third movie. I'm not sure why, it leaves out crucial details and doesn't work without having read the book . . . I was just impressed that the director cut so much stuff out.

I think I had especially low expectations for that one, since the entire plot is revealed in a massive expository monologue. It's my favorite part of the book, but in movie form? Ehhh . . . wouldn't work.

I'll probably buy the next book, because I'd have to wait through several months worth of holds at a local library, and if I'm going to throw away my hard earned money on something, it might as well be books.

If Harry manages to express an emotion other than deadpan or rage in the coming book, I'll be satisfied.

Jim North · Post by **Jim North** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 5:33 pm

Like a few other folks, my money's on Hagrid.

PS, why isn't this thread a poll?!

Sortelli · Post by **Sortelli** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 5:45 pm

I was really disappointed by the last book. I know it was supposed to be a big ass deal over the character who died, but by the time it finally happened I was so sick of it that I wanted to say WELL DUH FINALLY. Harry better not be an angsty teenage punk in this book either.

ManyWorlds · Post by **ManyWorlds** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 5:48 pm

No, he was a teenaged, angsty, (quasi)punk in the LAST book. In this one, he'll probably be depressed a lot. ^_^

Sortelli · Post by **Sortelli** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 5:49 pm

THEN HE MUST BE KILLEd.

Jen_Babcock · Post by **Jen_Babcock** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 6:16 pm

I'm looking forward to the next book.

I don't really expect too much from these stories though- nothing profound or anything. They're just fun, interesting reads that take me away from my everyday annoyances.

On a slightly unrelated note, I think The Da Vinci Code is one of the most overrated things I've ever read- it was ridiculous, had poor character development, and was (for me) predictable.

Steverules · Post by **Steverules** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 6:20 pm

What is wrong with you people????? I think all books should be burned. They are so primative. That's why we have TV. So we don't have to read. Go now and burn down your local libraries and settle down in front of your TV for hours and hours of fantastic entertainment.

Cortland · Post by **Cortland** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 7:23 pm

I'm betting the half-blood prince is Neville Longbottom. He was originally tossed into the mix as a bit of comic relief, but in books four and five he's been creeping quite a bit into the back story. We still don't know much about his parents (and no spoilers you guys for readers who don't know about them!). It's quite possible one of them is a muggle.

The only other notable half-blood I can think of is Seamus Finnegan. I wouldn't rule out a new character either, but Neville is the obvious "unexpected" choice. Who would have guess that the little klutz was a prince?

Sortelli · Post by **Sortelli** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 7:27 pm

My money is also on Neville. That character's been constantly tailored to be a surprise.

Warofwinds · Post by **Warofwinds** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 7:46 pm

And here I thought this was about Prince of Persia 3....but I can't help that. I finally rented and beat the 2nd and now can't wait until the release of the third.

...I know I'm in the minority here, but I am not very impressed with HP. At all. Even with the movies. I mean, they're all right, but I isn't the target audience like....13-year-olds?

*waits to be hit*

Dr Legostar · Post by **Dr Legostar** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 7:48 pm

Mr.Bob wrote:
legostargalactica wrote:I am completely convinced that our own Mr.Bob is the half-blood prince!
hahaha

...I totally clicked this thread with the sole intention of blaring out "I AM THE HALFBLOOD PRINCE!"

But you beat me to it you damn pre-empter you.

bwahahahaha!