obsessed with Harry P?

[MrsWeasley]

Is anyone else getting really excited (borderline obsessed)about he new HP book?
I have re-read all the other 6 and everytime I scan down active convos and see "Potty" I heart skips a beat or I hold my breath whilst my eyes focus!!

Please tell me it isn't only me and my DC that are counting the days (hours, minutes, seconds...)

Lazyline, I disagree, I think that he would've thought Harry was a significant threat because he believed the prophesy so he would've wanted him dead (Herod, basically!).

And of course its real

DD1 is always talking about jumping into the book/tv so she can do stuff in the story, or help someone/talk to someone.
GOD how I wish you could.
Mind you then I wouldn't spend any time in rl

Also remember that V only knew the first part of the prophecy because thats all his spy heard! He tried to kill Harry to remain supreme in the eyes of his followers. They may have doubted his courage if he had ignored it!

Making Nagini a horcrux although foolish as it could die anyway, could have been the act of a desperate man, with no-one to help him!

Magic powers would be useful....

It would be nice to wave a wand and have all the cooking & housework done [sigh]

P77 Agreed would love magic for that very reason although with my cluttered mind have visions re mickey Mouse in fantasia.
Would end up with even bigger mess
Mind you that wouldn't take a lot right now as most things already all over house

DrDaddy apparently necklace only cursed or so was said when Draco looked at it in Borgin&Burkes (think thats right).It's mentioned while HP hiding in black cupboard

Would love to wave magic wand and have the spuds start peeling themselves, and the mop start cleaning the floor, A la Sleeping Beauty.
Or a cake baking itself.
COOL

Ah yes, the necklace was only cursed...you're right. What is HP going to find in Godric's Hollow? Is he somehow related to Godric Gryffindor I wonder?

I think there may be something we don't know about James' family. I cant recall any mention of them, except in the Mirror when Harry first saw his parents. He said his parents were surrounded by people who looked related (same nose, knees etc) But if they were about why didn't Harry go to them when James and Lily were killed! Did they die or were they Dark?

I see we're not letting the thread die!

Good point MrsW, not thought of that before. I think we will definitely learn more about Harry's parents & I think Petunia knows more than she's letting on. Still think there's something more to happen with Dudley as well, ie his reaction to the Dementors, that's never been brought up again.

Letting this thread die, I dont even know how you could think that.

Things will keep popping up as we are now re-reading all the books to look for things we have missed! Just read the 1st one again and was again surprised at how much it differs from the film!

I will continue this thread even if I am only going to be talking to myself! (wont be the first time I've had conversations with myself, I'm married afterall!)

Funnily enough I was watching the beginning of Philosopher's Stone with DS1 this morning (because it was pelting down with rain). McGonagall and Dumbledore have a conversation about whether it's right to leave baby HP with "the worst kind of muggles". Dumbledore says it's better, given what's happened to his parents and him and the inevitable notoriety that would bring, for him to grow up away from all that "until he's ready." I haven't checked whether this is faithful to the book...That seems to be the reason why he's placed with the Dursleys.

Also, it really irritates me in that first film that they're obviously tailoring it to the American market. I know it was renamed "Sorcerer's Stone" and they did a number of scenes twice where said stone is mentioned, but it's "Owl Post", not mail! And have you noticed how the teachers refer to the pupils as "Mr. Potter" or "Mr Longbottom"? Another sodding Americanism. Any self-respecting boarding school would definitely just use the surnames... (I haven't checked on this against the original JKR). Apols for being a purist pedant....

and also that by staying with the blood relative of his mother he was protected from HWMNBN. That is why he had to return to Little Whinging every summer

I thought it was agreed in the last marathon HP thread that all the male wizards were gay - this makes the question of Harry's paternity rather vexing .

DrDaddy, the conversation between MG & DD is in the book, I remember it along the lines of 'famous before he can walk & talk'. Have to say, the films do wind me up a little!

BoD -

Compared to the books the films are shite.
They haven't got time to develop the characters of the people enough even the main characters.

The films don't seem to flow either, they try too hard to get too much in and end up missing more stuff out iyswim

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It must be very difficult to make the films as there is just so much happening in all the books, the films would be 7 hours long each (now I wouldn't mind that one little bit. ) The film makers know who long an audience will sit for!

I am writing a HP quiz for a group of children and I have come to the conclusion I need to do one for the book readers and one for the film watchers because some memorable things in the films arent how it happened in the book etc No hardship really. HAD to watch Chamber of Secrets with my youngest DS today ..for research , of course

bugs me when they add stuff (like in GOF) then miss other stuff out and when they change lines which would have meant the same/taken the same legnth of time to say (graveyard in GOF)

Have just found this thread and am relieved to find so many HP dedicated fans. Have just started rereading books as I do each year in prep for the big one. Am v. interested in the theories esp. lily's eyes! always wondered why that was mentioned SO much.

I think Harry could well be a Gryffindor by blood - 'takes a true Gryff to pull a sword out of a hat' may not have referred to his school house. So something of Harry's could be Gryffindor - perhaps he was given it at birth? and which is still at Godrics Hollow. But wouldn't V have gone to retrieve it as soon as he could? As previously said, who the dickens are James' family and where are they now? Must be dead or dark or HP would be with them.

Wasn't there a locket in Sirius' house when they were clearing out a cabinet full of dark and urgh stuff? Did they bin it? Or did Kreacher or Mundungus steal it?

Be so sad when it's all over.

hello, can I have a treacle tart too please? wish asda did pumpkin juice, would be nice change from orange.