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Is Voldemort a virgin?

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OhShutUpThomas · 21/02/2016 21:07

And any other Harry Potter mysteries!

Can anyone answer mine?
Is Voldemort a virgin?
What happened to Rodolphus Lestrange?
Why do some spells take weeks and hours of homework to learn, yet Harry can imperious people by just saying it?

Anyone else? I've got more, can't think just now. Just finished re-reading!

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VertigoNun · 23/02/2016 13:14

I thought that was a SW accent too. Shock

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OhShutUpThomas · 23/02/2016 13:42

I hate pretty much everything about the films wondering!

Where IS all this stuff on Pottermore??

And I can't believe Michael Gambon never read the books. Surely that should have been compulsory!?

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Tfoot75 · 23/02/2016 14:09

Peter Pettigrew was a member for the original order of the Phoenix wasn't he? So makes perfect sense that he was in Voldemort's inner circle, even if he is cowardly and all the rest! Presume he was just as much double agent as Snape, although ultimately acting for the other side.

Dumbledore himself was never able to prove that it wasn't hagrid who opened the CoS, so didn't really have a right to remove the trophy even though he suspected.

Lookingforward2016 · 23/02/2016 14:16

I think he is so evil and hates women so much in general. It makes sense to me that he probably was shagging Bellatrix before he killed Harry's parents. Not to mention many other evil witches on the side. After coming back to his new body? I am not sure about that now. To be fair, one reason Bellatrix was always so submissive to him so one reason could be that he was keeping her on a leash, holding and not giving enough so she is always there with him hoping for more one day. Lol
DH says I have a very dirty mind though. :)

00100001 · 23/02/2016 14:17

You just have to click around and look for the stuff on Pottermore.

00100001 · 23/02/2016 14:19

I agree looking Bellatrix was madly in love with Voldemort, but it was not reciprocated.

MagentaSpunkTrumpet · 23/02/2016 17:12

Have yet to read the full thread but a quick heads up for fiderer
If you take out an Audible subscription which is (I think) £7.99 monthly, you get one free credit every month. And guess what's just been added?!
Considering I paid in excess of £70 Shock for the DH cd's I think that's something of a bargain :)

Fiderer · 23/02/2016 17:55

Thanks Magenta - one reason our cassettes got worn out was the price of the CDs so am looking into Audible.
Might do one UK trial UK & one here in Forrin

glowfrog · 23/02/2016 18:06

I like the GoF scene where Dumbledore grabs Harry! It shows how worried he is because that's how dangerous the tournament is.

Makes more sense than Dumbledore ignoring Harry for most of OftP!!

I thought Gambon was a great Dumbledore. Wonderfully understated and felt like a "real" character. Not sure if McKellen would have done that after seeing his Gandalf.

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OhShutUpThomas · 23/02/2016 18:06

Yep I've been listening to them on audible! And you can return the last audiobook you got if you want, and exchange it so I've listened to them all in about 3 months Blush

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Hulababy · 23/02/2016 18:21

The CDs are so expensive - I know you get a lot of actual CDs per book, and the amount of time involved in the recording them would have been immense. But they outlay watch time felt big! DD loved(s) them though and they have been listened to many times. We have lost the first book on audio though :(

Trills · 23/02/2016 19:23

Is it just me or is Pottermore rubbish?

Every page I end up on has big pictures and only about 50 words.

gabsdot45 · 23/02/2016 19:38

Michael Gambon is Irish, so maybe that's why dumbledore had an Irish accent. Richard Harris was Irish too incidentally. His Dumbledore had an Irish accent too come to think of it.

YoureAllABunchOfBastards · 23/02/2016 19:50

When one of the books came out - possibly Order of the Phoenix - me and DH drove to buy it at midnight in Stratford on Avon. I stayed in the car. DH went to queue in Waterstones and was behind Richard Griffiths (Uncle Vernon) who was telling everyone he couldn't wait to see what he did in this one....

Bloody wish I had gone with him!

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OhShutUpThomas · 23/02/2016 20:06

I find that too Trills!

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Condorwoman · 23/02/2016 21:08

Youreall Shock

WonderingAspie · 23/02/2016 21:08

I saw an interview with Gambon where he says himself he gave Dumbledore an Irish accent so it was deliberate on his part. And yes he should have had to read the books! I would have thought that would have been essential really!

PolkadotsAndMoonbeams · 23/02/2016 23:11

The old Pottermore when you could play through the stories was better I think.

I'm only really interested in the extra writing (not the film stills or anything) but there's no easy index where you can click through.

bruffin · 24/02/2016 06:54

Gambon has grown on me, but i dont like the way his accent changed woth each film. I originally hated the way he portrayed the scene where Harry is chosen as the champion, and dreaded how he would portray the scene in the cave drinking the water, but in the end he was ok.
I did prefer Richard Harris as Dumbledore. I would have liked to see John Hurt in the part but he was originally Ollivander

00100001 · 24/02/2016 08:18

Gambon was better than Harris, Harris didn't even want to do it and played Dumbledore as some old dothery git. When he wasn't anything of the sort!

LottieDoubtie · 24/02/2016 08:44

Gambon (who I normally love) just didn't 'get' what he was doing as dumbledore I don't think, it's a really shame he was allowed to play it as he isn't a fan.

bruffin · 24/02/2016 08:48

But that is how dumbledore does give himself the old doddery git himself in the earlier books especially, but you still see the wize old man in RH potrayal. Michael Gambon made me cringe in GOF

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OhShutUpThomas · 24/02/2016 10:05

The most cringey but I remember is when, in HBP, the go to see Slughorn, then D says 'Professor Slughorn will try to collect you Harry' and Harry goes 'do you want me to let him, Sir?' all grim seriousness. It's rubbish, and totally missed the characters and relationship between them completely.

Urgh the films are just such utter shite. They're SO bad. None of the children could act either, and even for the ones who could the lines they were given were just awful.

Oh and the other Worst Bit Of The Films - the last stand off between HP and V - in the books that bit is AMAZING. The circling, Harry giving V all these revelations, everyone watching in silence.
But the film? A mess of CGI as they have a comedy game of tag around Hogwarts, including the terrible 'let's finish this how we started it - TOGETHER!' as Harry for some reason grabs V and they jump off a tall building together.

Why?? It's beyond shit.

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BoyFromTheBigBadCity · 24/02/2016 16:08

I also hate the end of V in the last book. I finished them all last night.

,y dad used to take me to see the films - we both read them, the films were a year older than me I term of HP and gang at the beginning, but I hated them. The centaurs were awful! We did go and see the last one together, it was a big thing for me growing up.

I realised though, the marauders, Snape etc, all died before they even made it to 40. They were still so young.

BoyFromTheBigBadCity · 24/02/2016 16:08

Last FILM!