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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - read this review, quick!

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DumbledoresGirl · 19/07/2007 09:48

Just found this review - yikes!

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kneazlechick · 19/07/2007 11:04

I don't like spoilers and would be mightily p*ed off if someone deliberately spoiled the book for me ... however, I read that review as I want to be prepared for the "blood bath" that JKR has warned us about

I'm even more intrigued now!!! Only 37 hours to go!!! (Unless, like me, you're waiting for the postie the Only 2 more sleeps to go!!!)

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DumbledoresGirl · 19/07/2007 10:17

I have to admit I am terrible about spoilers. I simply cannot wait for anything - I was the sort of child who went looking for Christmas presents hidden in the house!

I may as well admit to you all now that the very first thing I will do when my copy arrives on Saturday is turn to the last page. I was telling my sons this today and they asked why. It is simply that, if Harry is to die, I need to know that before I invest all my emotional energy into him throughout the 600+ pages of the book. It gives me time to prepare. I don't find it takes anything away from the reading the story. I knew about Dumbledore before I read HBP - you lot on MN told me about him! (unwittingly).

Don't worry though: I will not come on MN to spoil it for those of you who can bear not knowing. I am staying right off MN until the book is finished as I know someone will read it before me and if they do, I will be right in there, reading their posts, trying to find spoilers, before I have even got past Ch 1!

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mistypeaks · 19/07/2007 10:08

i'm getting sooo excited. I normally go for spoilers, but I'm determined not to this time. I must say though if dudders ends up helping Harry out - I will cry. Oh I'm gonna cry anyway aren't I?

ProfessorGrammaticus · 19/07/2007 10:06

Oohh that's very interesting! And if there is one review, does that mean there will be more before Saturday?

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DumbledoresGirl · 19/07/2007 09:52

Just hints of what might be. Please read it!

I must confess I went looking for spoilers as I heard someone has posted the ending on the web, but this is not a spoiler.

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cazzybabs · 19/07/2007 09:52

I am have suddenly realised I cannot remember the story in the 6th book and am trying to read that before Sat (well and NOT enterain the 2dds)....I can't wait!

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DumbledoresGirl · 19/07/2007 09:51

No not really spoilers as such.

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IdrisTheDragon · 19/07/2007 09:50

Do I really want to read this or not? CanI resist? Are there major spoilers?

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DumbledoresGirl · 19/07/2007 09:50

This bit is the most interesting:

"Harry?s journey will propel him forward to a final showdown with his arch enemy, and also send him backward into the past, to the house in Godric?s Hollow where his parents died, to learn about his family history and the equally mysterious history of Dumbledore?s family. At the same time, he will be forced to ponder the equation between fraternity and independence, free will and fate, and to come to terms with his own frailties and those of others. Indeed, ambiguities proliferate throughout ?The Deathly Hallows?: we are made to see that kindly Dumbledore, sinister Severus Snape and perhaps even the awful Muggle cousin Dudley Dursley may be more complicated than they initially seem, that all of them, like Harry, have hidden aspects to their personalities, and that choice ? more than talent or predisposition ? matters most of all."

I knew Snape was a goodie but I really don't want Dumbledore to be confirmed as a baddie

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