this book, i thought would probably rank as the second worst of all so far. It lacked a plotline and seemed to just me somewhat of a filler between the 5th and 7th. I understand that killing Dunbledore was needed to stengthen Harry and allow him to grow, but i thought it should’ve came in the next book, that way it wouldn’t be so tragic (because harry would have defeated, or will defeate soon, Voldamort). I thought it was much more tragic than the last, and didn’t live up to the rumore or hipe i herd.
at first i was in shock of dumbledore’s death. it sould have happened in the 7th book. i am very dissapointed in the end. i mean it was so pradictable. the whole no ginny i cant stay with you because i want to be a hero…. lame….. im also so pissed that voldemort did not make one single appearance in this book. the entire thing was about figureing out his past so harry could beat him in the future yadda yadda but what about the present? i mean, what the hell was he doing all year? sitting around eatin’ bon-bon’s? over all the book was acceptional, even though ron and hermione still havent hooked up! i know theyve hinted at it at the end when hes comforting her, but i mean nothing actually happens! so my expectations for the next book are that ron and hermione finnally are a “couple”, harry realizes the whole thing about he posesses love that voldemort doesnt so he takes ginny back, and either harry finnishes voldemort off, or there will be like 5 more books. one for each of those little horcruxes that need to be found. raking in some more money for rowling…. lol
This book really left a whole bunch of questions unanswered. Its obvious that the seventh book is going to either be freakin long or super short; it all depends on Rowling but i really hope that it’ll be the longest one yet. I thought that the plot did lack many of the necessary elements that the other stories did have but it was still an exceptional book because of how crazy it was. After Dumbledore’s death i just couldn’t put the book down, hoping that the every next page would say something like…”and Dumbledore slowly stood on his shaking feet, murmuring, ‘Hope I didn’t worry you too much'” to one of the characters. Just couldn’t believe that he died or maybe it was that i just didn’t WANT to believe it. I remember having read a newspaper article in the Houston Chronicle about three years ago that said it had received a tip about the plot of the remaining three books (this article was published even before Order of Phoenix came out and i still have it). Although it was way off with the title…something like Harry Potter and the Fortress of…(can’t quite remember) it said that in the sixth book Harry was gonna die and dumbledore was gonna die bring him back to life. Ever since i read that it had always been at the back of my mind that Dumbledore was gonna die before Harry just so Rowling could disprove her article. This brings me to my most important argument. Rowling will try her very best to write what no one expects and her agents always pore over the net to read all the blogs, reporting to her the different theories that exist which help her to work her story around them. Quite like every other author, she’ll want to have the element of surprise for the readers. This is where we come in. Since this blog is more than likely going to be reported to her, we could all write what we wish the not happen in the book, limiting Rowling’s options regarding using that theory.
Along the same lines, i have had many theories about the seventh book myself but before that there needs to be a few points discussed about the Half-Blood Prince. First of all, can’t Harry still communicate with Dumbledore and ask for assistance by just using the portrait of him? I don’t know what it meant in the book that he had his head down in the portrait. Does that mean that he can’t talk to anyone, like the other portraits do? Otherwise, Harry could ask Dumbledore questions from his portrait and maybe that’s how Rowling wants to keep the deceased headmaster in the series. Also, i wouldn’t rule out the possibility that Snape may still be on the good side. Another neat point that Rowling made was that, if the reader hadn’t paid close attention they would’ve missed the part where we find out that all the time-turners of the ministry were destroyed. If only ONE had remained, then Harry and probably a few others could’ve gone back in time and maybe “saved more than just one soul.” Notice that the deatheater was also killed so by preventing his death, they may have been able to get some information out of him. Although Rowling could’ve easily incorporated the idea of the time turner at the end, i trust that she has a better twist to her story.
Well, now about the seventh book. I do think that it will, indeed, be the last book. I hope she takes her time with it. I always thought that somewhere in the future, the conversation that Harry had in the fifth book with Dumbledore about the form that a wizard could take after his death would pop up. I think that maybe harry would get thoughts about splitting his soul, knowing that he couldn’t afford to die since the fate of the wizarding world was in his hands. Sometimes i also think that Harry is gonna take the option of becoming a ghost after his death, and in my mind’s eye i can’t stop thinking that he would die with the invisible cloak on him, making him an invisible ghost. I also really like the notion of Harry leaving Hogwarts to go to some deserted place with Ron and Hermione and start practicing the Dark Arts on his own. He’s got the power of mind and talent in blood from his encounter with Voldemort, so he just needs to toughen up and become swift in casting spells without utterance. He also needs to close his mind, disapparate incredibly quickly (like how Dumbledore and Voldemort did in the scene from their battle at the ministry which was just plain AWESOME), and also to be able to at least USE the unforgivable curses. Who cares about the ministry? He’ll be on the run anyways. I am almost definite that the ending of the seventh book will be sort of a cliff-hanger. She’s already worked so much with her readers’ minds that she trusts them to each finish the book on their own. She’ll give her audience just enough information that they would draw the conclusions, many different ones, on their own. This is the psychological pleasure of an author. The author gives his reader just enough information about the characters so that the reader would draw the conclusions on his own. Rowling has DEFINITELY given her audience enough characterization and plot, so we’ll just have to wait and see what happens in the end.
p.s. WOW! my first blog and look how incredibly long it got!! Well, thanx for reading and say what you think about it.
Well I certainly hope that JK does not go out of her way to disprove some of the theories on the web with regards to the future of the Harry Potter cast.
There is lots of clues I think to the theory that Snape is still on the good side, the ones I have mentioned already. But in the scene where Snape kills Dumbledore, there is a moment where Dumbledore speaks Servius’s name softly but it incites fear into the surrounding death eaters and the warewolf as well as Harry. It reminded me of the voice in the howler that Dumbledore sent to Aunt Petunia in Pheonix. It scares the people in earshot as well as holds the reciver to a promise that they have made even if its distasteful, in aunt Petunia’s case, to keep Harry in here house.
All the theories except for 1 on this site assume that Harry will win the fight between himself and Voldermot, as it is right now, Voldermot would easily win in any duel between them.
I think you have to assume that he will attack the ministry asap in the next book very early on. I am not sure if RAB is dead, or if he is, that he did not discover and destroy other hidden horcuxes. I dont think Harry can be a horcurx, Dumbledore would have seen that right at the beginning, he would also have told Harry that he was. I think the cup that Mundungas stole from 12 Gimmauld Place might be more important than we think, otherwise there was no need to mention it at all.
I think that the bok was very exciting. It was superior to Book 5, which felt forced, but the author did a nice job setting the stage for book 7. This is the only book of the series that i’ve felt compeled to re-read. I have to add though that it was a sad event when dumbledore was killed and completely unexpected that it would be snape who killed him. I like the fact that we now have an idea of what it’ll take to kill voldemort as well. Overall, a very good book. Worth the hype.
Theories:
1. RAB = Regulus Black
2. The jeweled cup mundungus stole could be the Horcrux
3. The necklace is still at sirius’ house
4.Harry IS a horcrux ( if the snake could be one, why not harry)
5. snape is not a traitor (not a complete traitor)
6. All these events were set up by dumbledore (for some reason i’m sure he knew about the fake horcrux)
7. Dumbledore really IS dead, never to return
Hi, I’m from Argentina, and the 6° book is not going to apear until december, it’s sad. Well…you all talk about Dumbledoren death, and Snape and also draco…but what about Sirius and Lovewood?
Tell me what happened with them. Here Harry Potter’s books are very expensive, so many people can’t read them. Please answer me,
my e-mail is [email protected]
Good luck people!
I think tis unlikely that tonks and Lupin will form a family with harry, it’s more likely that harry alrady has his surrogate family… namely the weasleys.
I think a previous book mentioned that Sirius’ brother switched sides and that was why he was killed.
I think Harry will use Sirius’ home, but I am not sure he would live there. I think it must have either the necklace or some other possession in it that will be of interest in book 7.
Sirius fell through the veil, thus no body to bury.
I assume since Harry was a toddler (1 year old) and unable to recall his parents death (until being introduced to the truth and voldemort) it didn’t qualify as witnessing a death.
I think Snape killing Dumbledore had more to do with the promise to Malfoy’s mother. I think JK will try and make him somewhat remorseful, but he has alway hated Harry and I don’t think he would protect him now that Dumbledore is gone.
There are no dementors guarding the prison, they are among the normal population and breeding.
I am curious to know what everyone thought about the beginning of the book. She opened it differently and I found the dialogue with the muggle prime minister fantastic.
i didn’t like the opening. I mean, it’s nice for a change, but it was kind of pointless, especially because we don’t hear of muggles or their prime minister any time later in the book really.
Nice story for Potter fans who’re now so emotionaly moved that they’d gladly queu up and cough up money just to see Harry fight off those people who almost systematically erased his trusted elders: parents, godfather sirius and mentor/benefactor dumbledore in the next Potter book.
Can anyone explain how some dead wizzards can communicate through paintings and some dead come back as talking ghosts but not the importent dead people ie. Harry’s parents, Dumbledore, Sirius? I just don’t get it.
I don’t think it’ll happen, but i HOPE that Bellatrix won’t make it past the second page–Sirius Black was my favortie character. How could she kill him–kill her own cousin!!!
voldemort didn’t actually come into the book!! it seems like he’s chilling somewhere while his frantic death eater kill off the ministry. dissapointing……..
K, u kno wuts stupid, snape says ‘your father wouldnt have fought unless it was 4 against 1’ and snape KILLED dumbledore when it was 6 AGAINST 1. so what this means is……snape is a filthy buffalo
I just read the book today and I really can’t believe Dumbledore died…. and I think about Malfoy having trouble killing Dumbledore by the end of the sixth book was kinda out of place… remember, he tried to curse Harry at the bathroom. That time, he looked like he didn’t care if he killed Harry. Good thing Harry defended himself or else…..
hola people,
snape kills dumbledore. malfoy is a death eater. voldemort split his soul into 7 parts and thats why he can’t die. harry and dumbledore try to find the 6 horcruxes but dumbledore is murdered and harry has to finish finding them all. ron and hermione hook up. bill is bitten by a werewolf. neville and luna are the only faithful D.A. members left. ginny and harry are dating for a couple chapters. harry and hermione are part of the slug club.
it was a really really really good book. the last chapter in the SEVENTH book is going to explain what happens to all the remaining characters. i was on a site that was told that by J.K. Rowling. have a nice day. oh and bob, i like cheese too.
Dumbledores picture is still in the Headmaster office that now will belong to Mcgonacall. I’m sure that at least one conversation in the next book between the picture and Harry will take place in the next book. Dumbledore’s too much of a main character for her write off completely. And I still think the real question about which side Snape is on it still there. If he hadn’t of killed Dumbledore he himself would of died because of the vow. Through out all of the book it has seemed like snape is evil but he turns out not to be. So I really don’t know what will happen. I just know I want no. 7 to be out soon or im gonna be pissed.
whatever happened to dumbledore’s hand?
this book, i thought would probably rank as the second worst of all so far. It lacked a plotline and seemed to just me somewhat of a filler between the 5th and 7th. I understand that killing Dunbledore was needed to stengthen Harry and allow him to grow, but i thought it should’ve came in the next book, that way it wouldn’t be so tragic (because harry would have defeated, or will defeate soon, Voldamort). I thought it was much more tragic than the last, and didn’t live up to the rumore or hipe i herd.
oh yea, way too much was on their love lives
i spelt dumbledore’s name wrong……….s—
at first i was in shock of dumbledore’s death. it sould have happened in the 7th book. i am very dissapointed in the end. i mean it was so pradictable. the whole no ginny i cant stay with you because i want to be a hero…. lame….. im also so pissed that voldemort did not make one single appearance in this book. the entire thing was about figureing out his past so harry could beat him in the future yadda yadda but what about the present? i mean, what the hell was he doing all year? sitting around eatin’ bon-bon’s? over all the book was acceptional, even though ron and hermione still havent hooked up! i know theyve hinted at it at the end when hes comforting her, but i mean nothing actually happens! so my expectations for the next book are that ron and hermione finnally are a “couple”, harry realizes the whole thing about he posesses love that voldemort doesnt so he takes ginny back, and either harry finnishes voldemort off, or there will be like 5 more books. one for each of those little horcruxes that need to be found. raking in some more money for rowling…. lol
This book really left a whole bunch of questions unanswered. Its obvious that the seventh book is going to either be freakin long or super short; it all depends on Rowling but i really hope that it’ll be the longest one yet. I thought that the plot did lack many of the necessary elements that the other stories did have but it was still an exceptional book because of how crazy it was. After Dumbledore’s death i just couldn’t put the book down, hoping that the every next page would say something like…”and Dumbledore slowly stood on his shaking feet, murmuring, ‘Hope I didn’t worry you too much'” to one of the characters. Just couldn’t believe that he died or maybe it was that i just didn’t WANT to believe it. I remember having read a newspaper article in the Houston Chronicle about three years ago that said it had received a tip about the plot of the remaining three books (this article was published even before Order of Phoenix came out and i still have it). Although it was way off with the title…something like Harry Potter and the Fortress of…(can’t quite remember) it said that in the sixth book Harry was gonna die and dumbledore was gonna die bring him back to life. Ever since i read that it had always been at the back of my mind that Dumbledore was gonna die before Harry just so Rowling could disprove her article. This brings me to my most important argument. Rowling will try her very best to write what no one expects and her agents always pore over the net to read all the blogs, reporting to her the different theories that exist which help her to work her story around them. Quite like every other author, she’ll want to have the element of surprise for the readers. This is where we come in. Since this blog is more than likely going to be reported to her, we could all write what we wish the not happen in the book, limiting Rowling’s options regarding using that theory.
Along the same lines, i have had many theories about the seventh book myself but before that there needs to be a few points discussed about the Half-Blood Prince. First of all, can’t Harry still communicate with Dumbledore and ask for assistance by just using the portrait of him? I don’t know what it meant in the book that he had his head down in the portrait. Does that mean that he can’t talk to anyone, like the other portraits do? Otherwise, Harry could ask Dumbledore questions from his portrait and maybe that’s how Rowling wants to keep the deceased headmaster in the series. Also, i wouldn’t rule out the possibility that Snape may still be on the good side. Another neat point that Rowling made was that, if the reader hadn’t paid close attention they would’ve missed the part where we find out that all the time-turners of the ministry were destroyed. If only ONE had remained, then Harry and probably a few others could’ve gone back in time and maybe “saved more than just one soul.” Notice that the deatheater was also killed so by preventing his death, they may have been able to get some information out of him. Although Rowling could’ve easily incorporated the idea of the time turner at the end, i trust that she has a better twist to her story.
Well, now about the seventh book. I do think that it will, indeed, be the last book. I hope she takes her time with it. I always thought that somewhere in the future, the conversation that Harry had in the fifth book with Dumbledore about the form that a wizard could take after his death would pop up. I think that maybe harry would get thoughts about splitting his soul, knowing that he couldn’t afford to die since the fate of the wizarding world was in his hands. Sometimes i also think that Harry is gonna take the option of becoming a ghost after his death, and in my mind’s eye i can’t stop thinking that he would die with the invisible cloak on him, making him an invisible ghost. I also really like the notion of Harry leaving Hogwarts to go to some deserted place with Ron and Hermione and start practicing the Dark Arts on his own. He’s got the power of mind and talent in blood from his encounter with Voldemort, so he just needs to toughen up and become swift in casting spells without utterance. He also needs to close his mind, disapparate incredibly quickly (like how Dumbledore and Voldemort did in the scene from their battle at the ministry which was just plain AWESOME), and also to be able to at least USE the unforgivable curses. Who cares about the ministry? He’ll be on the run anyways. I am almost definite that the ending of the seventh book will be sort of a cliff-hanger. She’s already worked so much with her readers’ minds that she trusts them to each finish the book on their own. She’ll give her audience just enough information that they would draw the conclusions, many different ones, on their own. This is the psychological pleasure of an author. The author gives his reader just enough information about the characters so that the reader would draw the conclusions on his own. Rowling has DEFINITELY given her audience enough characterization and plot, so we’ll just have to wait and see what happens in the end.
p.s. WOW! my first blog and look how incredibly long it got!! Well, thanx for reading and say what you think about it.
Well I certainly hope that JK does not go out of her way to disprove some of the theories on the web with regards to the future of the Harry Potter cast.
There is lots of clues I think to the theory that Snape is still on the good side, the ones I have mentioned already. But in the scene where Snape kills Dumbledore, there is a moment where Dumbledore speaks Servius’s name softly but it incites fear into the surrounding death eaters and the warewolf as well as Harry. It reminded me of the voice in the howler that Dumbledore sent to Aunt Petunia in Pheonix. It scares the people in earshot as well as holds the reciver to a promise that they have made even if its distasteful, in aunt Petunia’s case, to keep Harry in here house.
All the theories except for 1 on this site assume that Harry will win the fight between himself and Voldermot, as it is right now, Voldermot would easily win in any duel between them.
I think you have to assume that he will attack the ministry asap in the next book very early on. I am not sure if RAB is dead, or if he is, that he did not discover and destroy other hidden horcuxes. I dont think Harry can be a horcurx, Dumbledore would have seen that right at the beginning, he would also have told Harry that he was. I think the cup that Mundungas stole from 12 Gimmauld Place might be more important than we think, otherwise there was no need to mention it at all.
Keep the theories comming :-)
Jase LLP
I think that the bok was very exciting. It was superior to Book 5, which felt forced, but the author did a nice job setting the stage for book 7. This is the only book of the series that i’ve felt compeled to re-read. I have to add though that it was a sad event when dumbledore was killed and completely unexpected that it would be snape who killed him. I like the fact that we now have an idea of what it’ll take to kill voldemort as well. Overall, a very good book. Worth the hype.
Theories:
1. RAB = Regulus Black
2. The jeweled cup mundungus stole could be the Horcrux
3. The necklace is still at sirius’ house
4.Harry IS a horcrux ( if the snake could be one, why not harry)
5. snape is not a traitor (not a complete traitor)
6. All these events were set up by dumbledore (for some reason i’m sure he knew about the fake horcrux)
7. Dumbledore really IS dead, never to return
Hi, I’m from Argentina, and the 6° book is not going to apear until december, it’s sad. Well…you all talk about Dumbledoren death, and Snape and also draco…but what about Sirius and Lovewood?
Tell me what happened with them. Here Harry Potter’s books are very expensive, so many people can’t read them. Please answer me,
my e-mail is [email protected]
Good luck people!
Why couldn’t Sirius be in a portrait like his mother, grandfather, dumbledore, etc.?
Does anyone think that Lupin and Tonks will stay together and become a family to Harry?
I think tis unlikely that tonks and Lupin will form a family with harry, it’s more likely that harry alrady has his surrogate family… namely the weasleys.
I think a previous book mentioned that Sirius’ brother switched sides and that was why he was killed.
I think Harry will use Sirius’ home, but I am not sure he would live there. I think it must have either the necklace or some other possession in it that will be of interest in book 7.
Sirius fell through the veil, thus no body to bury.
I assume since Harry was a toddler (1 year old) and unable to recall his parents death (until being introduced to the truth and voldemort) it didn’t qualify as witnessing a death.
I think Snape killing Dumbledore had more to do with the promise to Malfoy’s mother. I think JK will try and make him somewhat remorseful, but he has alway hated Harry and I don’t think he would protect him now that Dumbledore is gone.
There are no dementors guarding the prison, they are among the normal population and breeding.
I am curious to know what everyone thought about the beginning of the book. She opened it differently and I found the dialogue with the muggle prime minister fantastic.
i didn’t like the opening. I mean, it’s nice for a change, but it was kind of pointless, especially because we don’t hear of muggles or their prime minister any time later in the book really.
Nice story for Potter fans who’re now so emotionaly moved that they’d gladly queu up and cough up money just to see Harry fight off those people who almost systematically erased his trusted elders: parents, godfather sirius and mentor/benefactor dumbledore in the next Potter book.
to NYCBlues from July 23–
i think everything of that is true now except #5–snape i think is a real traitor. besides, he made the unbreakable vow!
Can anyone explain how some dead wizzards can communicate through paintings and some dead come back as talking ghosts but not the importent dead people ie. Harry’s parents, Dumbledore, Sirius? I just don’t get it.
I don’t think it’ll happen, but i HOPE that Bellatrix won’t make it past the second page–Sirius Black was my favortie character. How could she kill him–kill her own cousin!!!
voldemort didn’t actually come into the book!! it seems like he’s chilling somewhere while his frantic death eater kill off the ministry. dissapointing……..
Even though Harry said he wouldn’t go to Hogwarts next year I belive he will be talked into it by Ron’s parents.
K, u kno wuts stupid, snape says ‘your father wouldnt have fought unless it was 4 against 1’ and snape KILLED dumbledore when it was 6 AGAINST 1. so what this means is……snape is a filthy buffalo
I just read the book today and I really can’t believe Dumbledore died…. and I think about Malfoy having trouble killing Dumbledore by the end of the sixth book was kinda out of place… remember, he tried to curse Harry at the bathroom. That time, he looked like he didn’t care if he killed Harry. Good thing Harry defended himself or else…..
hola people,
snape kills dumbledore. malfoy is a death eater. voldemort split his soul into 7 parts and thats why he can’t die. harry and dumbledore try to find the 6 horcruxes but dumbledore is murdered and harry has to finish finding them all. ron and hermione hook up. bill is bitten by a werewolf. neville and luna are the only faithful D.A. members left. ginny and harry are dating for a couple chapters. harry and hermione are part of the slug club.
it was a really really really good book. the last chapter in the SEVENTH book is going to explain what happens to all the remaining characters. i was on a site that was told that by J.K. Rowling. have a nice day. oh and bob, i like cheese too.
I wonder where Fawks is going.
Dumbledores picture is still in the Headmaster office that now will belong to Mcgonacall. I’m sure that at least one conversation in the next book between the picture and Harry will take place in the next book. Dumbledore’s too much of a main character for her write off completely. And I still think the real question about which side Snape is on it still there. If he hadn’t of killed Dumbledore he himself would of died because of the vow. Through out all of the book it has seemed like snape is evil but he turns out not to be. So I really don’t know what will happen. I just know I want no. 7 to be out soon or im gonna be pissed.