Another thing I forgot, where was Snape's portrait in the Headmaster's office?
Now, replying to kumarmohit
kumarmohit said:
This was to show, that if you try, you can even do the impossible, its a children's book, for heaven's sake
First of all, I really don't think it's a children's book any more. It involves concepts like death, torture, dark arts, violence, swear words, surely not a children's book anymore is it?
Anyways, I am just saying that Parseltongue was always seen as a very rare gift, and you needed a special power to speak it. Now, it seems like everybody can speak it. That's it.
kumarmohit said:
That is because, Harry was protected from the Dark Lord's spell, Dumbledore had no protection, nor was he the chosen one, he destroyed the Horcrucxes sheerly becasue of his brilliance, both magical and non magical.
The cave with locket needed protection because it was not as protected as Hogwarts, nor as Nagini, the horcrux in the hut had so much protection that it killed Dumbledore.
Dumbledore took all those horcruxes himself, which would have busted Harry's life
Do you mean the protection that Lily gave to Harry? If so, then even Ron and Hermione were not affected by the protection (if any) that Voldy had placed on his Horcruxes. Neither the Cup nor the Diadem had any protective spells on them. It just seems wierd that Voldy was protective about a couple of his Horcuxes, but the rest were just left unprotected.
You can say that the Cup was in Gringotts, which had enough protection in itself, but alteast the Diadem should have had some protective spells.
kumarmohit said:
Remember book one, Hermione used common sense and logic to defeat Snape's potion barrier. She again used common sense and logic. Most of the people would not have thought that Dumbledore would have wanted anyone to see Horcrux books.
I really, really doubt that saying Accio Horcrux Book was more of a fluke than common sense. Really, if Dumbledore was against horcruxes so much, he would have taken some measures so that any child could not just Summon it. Remember the age line, it was also 'common sense' but Dumbledore had thought about that.
kumarmohit said:
He already had 1 hallow, the cloak right from book 1.
I am not saying that he did not have any Hallow, but the thing is, they just did not fit in the plot. They did not help Harry, or take part in any other plot whatsover. And why did Dumbledore give hints about the Hallows to Harry anyways. Didn't he himself lost his family because of them. So, it did not make any sense.
kumarmohit said:
Portraits could have been instructed in advance, if they can visit othe portrats when being asked to surely some advance instruction is possible.
Advanced instruction by whom? This does not make any sense.
kumarmohit said:
Since he had 2 souls in his body, rather 1 and a 1/7 soul, it seems ( I am not sure), that the dark lord busted his own soul while Harry was protected by love.
Again, the container has to be destroyed for the horcrux to be destroyed. I hope Jo herself explains this.
kumarmohit said:
Since the first book, dint Ollivander say that the wand chooses the wizard. As for being disarmed, it generally occurs when someone very less powerful than you disarms you, like draco disarming Dumbledore.
This does not answer my question. I am saying if a wand changes it's allegiance when it's master is disarmed, then why didn't the other wands change their allegiance. So many people have been disarmed throughout the book. What happens then?
kumarmohit said:
I dont see any goof there.
It's not a goof, but does it really make any sense. Hermione says that she has changed her parent's memory so they don't remember her, and she might not even fix it afterwards. I mean really, what sort of person does that?!
kumarmohit said:
That's because he knew that Ron might get provoked if someone else provokes, but this provocation is short term, he will do something properly only when he himself felt that he had to do it. Hence Dumbledore knew it that Ron was first gonna go with harry coz he thot that his friendship demanded him to, but them later he realized that if he left harry alone,he would be doing a grave mistake, he wud be acting as a deserter and wud want to come back.
I still don't believe Dumbledore could have predicited that. Then, why didn't he think Hermione would go away as well. Again, shortcut
Anyways, thanks for reading my post
Well let me say the things I liked about the book.
- Battle of Hogwarts was just awesome. Great to see the stautes coming to life, Prof Sprout's plants, Thestrals fighting the giants, and Kreacher and the other house elves attacking the Death Eaters.
- Mrs. Weasley killing Bellatrix was immensely satisfying. I really, really hated Bellatrix. She was as bad as Voldy; Nevill's parents, Sirius, torturing Hermione, Dobby. Though I did wish Neville would have killed.
- Voldy conquering the Ministry was extremely well written. It really created a feeling of Voldism (like Nazism
) in the wizarding community. All the policies of the Ministry really made it feel like Voldy was going for the so called purification of the wizarding world.
- Potterwatch was again brilliant. Againt giving the feeling like this was WWII times.
- Godric's Hollow chapter was fantastic. I could feel exactly what Harry was feeling, seing his parents' graves. And then seing the statue of the Potters, their house, and the messages of the people wishing Harry best of luck.
