View Full Version : Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows *****WILL CONTAIN SPOILERS*****
Right, it's predictions right now but as of Saturday it'll all be live and I know some of us are interested enough to talk about this.
J.K. Rowling has said some things which are of relevance for the new book, I'm going to list the ones I can remember here. I will add stuff as I think of it.
Nothing here is concrete, there are no actual spoilers yet, just feelings and thoughts.
Aunt Petunia will be important.
Luna will be much more involved.
Dumbledore is dead, he's not coming back but she has mentioned recently that 'Dumbledore' is causing her problems. This could be either the portrait version or possibly Aberforth Dumbledore, Albus' brother.
Dudley is just what he seems.
What happened during the missing 24 hours between James and Lily being killed and Harry being dropped at the Dursleys?
Who was at Godricks Hollow the night Voldemort killed James and Lily?
Harry's eyes, and the "you have your mother's eyes" comments.
It's being widely reported that two characters will die. This is incorrect. JKR actually said that she's written in an extra two deaths - I'm pretty sure that there will be more than just two important character deaths.
Peter Pettigrew owes Harry a debt for saving his life, will it be repayed?
Snape - Good or Evil?
I predict that all three of the trio (Harry, Ron and Hermione) will survive.
Theory of Mics:
Malfory will be a key part in Voldemort's downfall, possibly even the "hero" and the person who kills/stops him.
I like the idea the kid who shares Harrys birthday who I've forgotten the name off will have something more important to do/happen
You're thinking of Neville Longbottom. He does have an important role to play as his parents are both in St. Mungos having been tortured to insanity by Belatrix Lestrange 15 years previously. I think he's going to get his revenge.
I also wonder about Draco, but he won't kill Voldmort. Remember the prophecy.
Slightly off topic...
Do you feel too manly to read Harry Potter? Then print off your own book cover!
(possibly NSFW)
http://www.pointlesswasteoftime.com/pottercovers.html
You can continue now. ;D
The last one in that link is brilliant. :D
I'm not even going to read any theories before I read the last book. I know people like to try and work these things out but I prefer to not think about it and be completely surprised. That said, I am wondering if something mentioned in passing in Chamber of Secrets is going to be a part of the plot in the final book.
LOL! at those book covers!! ROFLMAOWTFBBQOMGTTFN!!!
That said, I am wondering if something mentioned in passing in Chamber of Secrets is going to be a part of the plot in the final book.
Go on then, what's your theory? :)
No theories! Stop trying to make me think!
I seem to remember from an age-old post on OcUK that you were more than certain about one thing, and this thing I've spotted goes against that. Therefore it will be extremely interesting to see if anything comes of it!
leowyatt
17-07-2007, 16:27
Seems a copy has appeared on bittorrent :shocked: but I'm sure we'll both be getting a copy. Might even shufty down to the local waterstones at middnight Friday.
I know very little of Potter-world, but I think Voldemort 'killed' Harry's parents like Darth Vader 'killed' Anakin Skywalker.
Seems a copy has appeared on bittorrent :shocked: but I'm sure we'll both be getting a copy. Might even shufty down to the local waterstones at middnight Friday.
I wonder if the one on the torrent sites is the fanfic that's been kicking around for a while now but is a complete book. Some unscrupulous bastards have been pushing it for a while as a leaked copy and even selling it as an 'advance copy'.
But on the chance that's it's genuine... And I make no excuse for shouting.
DO NOT POST SPOILERS OF THE ACTUAL BOOK UNTIL AFTER OFFICIAL RELEASE DATE AND DO NOT POST UNCOVERED SPOILERS. ALWAYS USE THE SPOILER TAG!
Piggymon
17-07-2007, 18:46
I WANT MY BOOK !!!!!!111111
Might give the last one a quick read this week just to catch up... if I can find the damn thing :p
Was thinking the same thing. Seems so long ago I read the last one.
My large blueness was aimed at everyone :)
Started the last one in the bath - up to chapter 13 - damn Mic being on nights and stealing it tomorrow and thursday night :(
Yeah I'm going to start the last one again - read them all in order just before my revision course but I feel a top up is in order :)
Flibster
17-07-2007, 22:06
I wonder if the one on the torrent sites is the fanfic that's been kicking around for a while now but is a complete book. Some unscrupulous bastards have been pushing it for a while as a leaked copy and even selling it as an 'advance copy'.
But on the chance that's it's genuine... And I make no excuse for shouting.
DO NOT POST SPOILERS OF THE ACTUAL BOOK UNTIL AFTER OFFICIAL RELEASE DATE AND DO NOT POST UNCOVERED SPOILERS. ALWAYS USE THE SPOILER TAG!
Yes, it's genuine
Yes,there are a lot of spoilers around because of it.
Someone got hold of a US copy of it and has taken a bad photo of every page. Not the best way to do it really.
I won't link to a page that has all the major plot points on it. Was emailed it at work and because of the absolute lack of interest I have in all things Potter I took a look.
Still don't want to read it.
Simon/~Flibster
LeperousDust
18-07-2007, 02:13
There are two pdf's flying around too, on the newsgroups. I've just grabbed them because i don't actually care about it and wondered if it were real. 659 pages and it seems real to me...
I got up to chapter 22 last night before Mic stole the book back from me :( Could have probably had it finished by about 4am (not sure I'd have gotten up for work but I could have finished the book :D )
LeperousDust
18-07-2007, 14:13
Upon closer inspection the pdf doesn't line up at all with the rar thats got pictures of every page. In fact i'm finding no relevance between either of them =/ Whats going on there hey!? Not that i actually care, i'm not that into the HP series myself it was just morbid curiosity because i heard it has been leaked on the net.
If it starts like this:
Chapter 1: Secrets Unraveled
Harry slowly raised his head and stared morosely at the familiar visage of number four, Privet Drive.
Then it's the version written by Melindaleo and is fanfiction.
Incidentally, your mobile number you posted ages ago doesn't work any more, Mr. Dust. I tried texting earlier and it bounced.
Del Lardo
18-07-2007, 14:27
not a happy chappy!!
For the previous 2 books I've bought them on the day of release and then locked myself away with a large pot of coffee until I've read it through.
This Saturday I have to drive up to Brum for a family gettogether on Saturday and Sunday so no reading time :(
Guessing that Sunday night will be a long one ;)
I'm picking mine up on Friday night at midnight from the local shop, can you do the same?
LeperousDust
18-07-2007, 14:41
If it starts like this:
Chapter 1: Secrets Unraveled
Harry slowly raised his head and stared morosely at the familiar visage of number four, Privet Drive.
Then it's the version written by Melindaleo and is fanfiction.
Incidentally, your mobile number you posted ages ago doesn't work any more, Mr. Dust. I tried texting earlier and it bounced.
Yes thats the one, haha, oh well i'm not actually bothered either way :) Although i better tell someone who's reading it now its not real, lol :embarassed:.
Yes you're right it will bounce, it still exists but its been blocked since i had a drunken phone losing incident (among worse things) on holiday in tenerife. T-Mobile are still larking around and not sending me a new one... So as it stands its still blocked :(. My facebook and msn explained it over this week (yeah i've actually been signed on for once!) so the force is weak in you feek!
//Edit: In fact i'm gonna ring them up again right now and ask whats going on!
I bet that's caught a lot of people out - It's not badly written but there are far too many Americanisms in it and it's so obviously not the style of JKR. The thing which stands out the most is the way the author has the kids swearing from time to time and it just doesn't work. Americans don't know how to swear in English.
"The bloody ****er does look like a ferret."
and "Come on," he said, panting. "Come and get me now, you bloody ****er."
and "You prats have no idea what you’re getting into."
etc etc etc.
Understood about the phone, bah :(
LeperousDust
18-07-2007, 15:13
I wouldn't catch onto that since i havent read the last 3 books or however many. But you're right the swearing isn't very english so speak.
And yeah phone sucks, i'm sorely missing out being able to keep in touch with people, and i've gotta get all my numbers again! Why oh why didn't i back up?!
Del Lardo
18-07-2007, 15:22
I'm picking mine up on Friday night at midnight from the local shop, can you do the same?
I might do but my GF will be up on Friday and I suspect she'll have other plans for me ;D
"No dear, I'm sorry that I can't jump your bones on Friday evening, I've got to go to a bookshop to get the new Harry Potter book. Hello, hello. Bah, she hung up."
Rhiannon said JKR will never do another Harry Potter book after this?
I'm not a fan of the series but I have to commend her for that, there's a major opportunity to milk it and release more books and films, but she's ending the story where it should. Good on her. :)
Del Lardo
19-07-2007, 16:32
Rhiannon said JKR will never do another Harry Potter book after this?
I'm not a fan of the series but I have to commend her for that, there's a major opportunity to milk it and release more books and films, but she's ending the story where it should. Good on her. :)
She's already got more money than she knows what to do with so I very much doubt she'd ever need to milk it.
I saw an interview with her on Jonathan Ross the other week and IIRC she said that the series finished in a very definitive way and she had no plans to write another book but wouldn't discount the possibility alltogether.
She's said she's likely going to do another kids series but it'll probably be under a pen name. She's also dropped hints that there may be a Harry Potter encyclopaedia at some point so she can share the details of all the characters she's created. She actually created 40 schoolkids for the series with their family details and backstory all sorted out so that if she needed someone then she had the characters all prepared. Kinda cool I think.
She certainly doesn't need any more cash!
*bounce* *bounce* *bounce* *bounce* *bounce*
:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
Just to point out I have a US version of the Order of the Phoenix and there are a lot of americanisms that differ completely from the English version, so that wouldn't have put me off it if I had been reading it.
I know what you mean - I've read the US versions as well but the fanfic one is trying to write it in English style and failing badly, that's what's frustrating.
Anyway!
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee it's nearly heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeereeeeeeeeeeee!!! \o/
Won't be long, but today is going to go sooooo slowly!
*bounce* *bounce* *bounce* *bounce* *bounce*
:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
I *like* bouncing :D
*bounces with Takhisis*
*bounces some more*
wewt!
I'm going away for the weekend - duh!!! My book will be happily sat in a post office all weekend and everyone will have read it before me :(
Piggymon
20-07-2007, 09:22
I'm going to TRY and wait until I have seen the film before I start reading the book to refresh my memory !
Del Lardo
20-07-2007, 12:56
OMG Childline have put on extra staff to cope with the children who are upset by the characters dying.
LINK CONTAINS SWEARING
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/health/childline-tells-potter-fans-to-****-off-20070720296/ sums it up really.
edit2: site back up and you don't even need to replace the **** :)
Looks like the site is down even before the book is released!
Edit: Ah that's a news site, not Childline!
Waitaminnit!
Is it out tonight?! I thought it was Saturday night?!
Del Lardo
20-07-2007, 13:09
Midnight tonight.
There is always the chance that the prophesy is wrong as Dumbliedore does state that most of the ones in the Hall of Prophesy never come to pass
Flibster
20-07-2007, 14:56
*bounce* *bounce* *bounce* *bounce* *bounce*
:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
*pervs*:evil: :D
There is always the chance that the prophesy is wrong as Dumbliedore does state that most of the ones in the Hall of Prophesy never come to pass
True, but he also says that Sybill has now made two accurate prophecies.
Was just wondering if Draco's parents will defie Voldermort another couple of times in the last book as his mum defied him at the start of book 6 by talking about the job he had been given to Snape.
Admiral Huddy
20-07-2007, 17:21
I have no idea what this fuss is all about!!
Harry dies and we all live happily ever after.
... all i do know is my daughter is in Chelmsford tonight buying this book at midnight and I'm not to happy about it.
damn over-hyped commercialism!!
... are you going tonight?
Is it midnight yet? Not that I'll be getting the book until lunchtime tomorrow. None of the bookshops in town are open tonight, and it's torrential rain here, so I have to wait until we go to Tesco tomorrow.
I will be spending the weekend reading, and my sunday lunch will be spoon fed to me whilst I continue to read, lol.
I have too many theories to possibly share.
Nearly we'll be heading to Tesco's in about 15 mins. :)
Nearly :D
Off in about 15 minutes as mic wants to buy supplies while we're out :D
I'm off in about 15 as well :) Taking the kids!
My sodding friend has just sodding told me what sodding happens. Sodding hell! I'll pop out in a bit if I can be arsed. Maybe.
http://www.ukrm.org/feek/potty.jpg
We were first in the queue :D
Pebs, that would be an ex-friend.
Ta ra
It wasn't deliberate, she had no idea I liked it. We were chatting in the pub and I said Harry Potter was out tonight, she laughed and said it's been all over the bloody news.
Have harry potter, red bull and pro plus
May see you tomorrow sometime
Piggymon
21-07-2007, 00:31
Hopefully mine will be coming tomorrow via Amazon but I really want to wait until I have seen the film so the previous events are fresh in my mind :)
Piggymon
21-07-2007, 01:16
Bollocks !
I'll just read the book then ;D
Dymetrie
21-07-2007, 07:07
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*joins the party 7 hours late (but with 7 hours more sleep :p)*
*gets coffee*
*gets comfy*
*begins*
Chapter One....
Hooray for Amazon and the Royal Mail - I never doubted them for a second!
Much.
http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/4002/pict0001nt1.th.jpg (http://img504.imageshack.us/my.php?image=pict0001nt1.jpg)
May I inquire as to why everyone else has purchased the children's cover version? Just curious.
Piggymon
21-07-2007, 14:17
Hmph.. no book this morning ! :/
Just finished it.
Went to sleep about 4:30 this morning and got up about 9:30.
Lots of bits made me cry
Kitten if you cried at that bit pgs 385-389 will make you sob too
Completely enjoyed it, will undoubtedly re-read it so bits can sink in better
I'm on page 512, if you're before that, don't read this, it's a major spoiler
I've almost lost count of the number of deaths now - Six major characters I think it's been and the last one was a bit of a shock. I was expecting one of the twins to die but it's a bit unsettling when you actually read it.
Creature
21-07-2007, 15:26
6! Bloody hell, didn't think there'd be that many.
BOOK FINISHED - MAJOR SPOILERS
Death count of major character:
Hedwig
Mad-Eye
Wormtail
Dobby
Fred
Tonks
Remus
Crabbe
Snape
Harry (technically for a bit anyway)
Bellatrix
Voldemort
May I inquire as to why everyone else has purchased the children's cover version? Just curious.
Because thats what we've always got before - when I got the first couple there weren't any "adult" covers and when they did release them I couldn't be bothered to replace the ones I had so stuck with getting the kiddy covers
Mic pointed out on the kiddy cover - the background looks very much like a stargate ;D
May I inquire as to why everyone else has purchased the children's cover version? Just curious.
Because it's a children's book? :p ;D
Because it's a children's book? :p ;D
comments from our IRC channel at work..
16:03 < b > every where where I go (tube, dlr, coffee shops) people are busy reading harry potter
16:10 < Garp> yup
16:10 < Garp> it'll all be over soon (apart from the slow readers)
16:20 < n> i find it helps if i tell them "have you tried reading adult books?"
Piggymon
21-07-2007, 16:58
*resists urge to highlight text* :undecided:
I'm all done.
And a bit disappointed really if truth be told. I enjoyed it but I think it's one of the weakest books of the series.
Piggymon
21-07-2007, 17:41
I want my book !!! :'(
Dymetrie
21-07-2007, 19:14
I disagree with Feek (although I do feel that Ms Rowling has seen too many blood-filled blockbusters recently :p).
I thought it was a very good close to the series and was very clever with references to earlier books included as well as some fantastic plot twists which closed previous storylines.
I shall no doubt read it again in a month when I get it back from the friends I lend it to tomorrow :)
Flibster
22-07-2007, 00:08
comments from our IRC channel at work..
*snigger*
I had to go pick up the other halfs copy of the book today.
One of the women there said "they just appeal to everyone"
My comment: Nope, cliche filled, badly written and just dull...
Then I realised that I was surrounded by lots of people weilding quite thick books.
I retreated to the comfort of a cake shop. :D
Simon/~Flibster
My comment: Nope, cliche filled, badly written and just dull...
Which one(s) have you read, Flibs?
This is me answering the things I said in the first post that I thought were going to be cleared up...
Aunt Petunia will be important.
Maybe not important, but we learn an awful lot about her, like her begging to be allowed to go to Hogworts.
Luna will be much more involved.
Absolutely
Dumbledore is dead, he's not coming back but she has mentioned recently that 'Dumbledore' is causing her problems. This could be either the portrait version or possibly Aberforth Dumbledore, Albus' brother.
Aberforth is very important, and Albus is as well.
Dudley is just what he seems.
Yes, but his character has changed a lot - BigD :)
What happened during the missing 24 hours between James and Lily being killed and Harry being dropped at the Dursleys?
No explanation
Who was at Godricks Hollow the night Voldemort killed James and Lily?
No explanation
Harry's eyes, and the "you have your mother's eyes" comments.
Very useful in book 6 with Slughorn and the true memory and almost as relevant in DH with the whole Snape thing.
It's being widely reported that two characters will die. This is incorrect. JKR actually said that she's written in an extra two deaths - I'm pretty sure that there will be more than just two important character deaths.
Oh yeah!
Peter Pettigrew owes Harry a debt for saving his life, will it be repayed?
Yup
Snape - Good or Evil?
Good, but just because he was shown to be good, doesn't mean he wasn't a bad man!!
I predict that all three of the trio (Harry, Ron and Hermione) will survive.
I was right :)
I just can't get into it :( But that is because I have absolutely no recollection of the Half Blood Prince....I don't even remember Dumbledore going. I've abandoned it until I've gone over the last one again.
Flibster
22-07-2007, 18:21
Which one(s) have you read, Flibs?
Tried to read the first... Got so bored and gave up.
Went to see the film, fell asleep.
Have listened to the first 5 audiobooks - was pretty much forced to sadly. Not wasting any more time on them. Best bit about them is Stephen Fry doing a 13yr old girls voice. :D Makes me laugh.
Well I'm very much happy with the last book/ending. It's so intricately woven I'm surprised Rowling isn't autistic somehow!
Del Lardo
23-07-2007, 17:25
Just read it today and while it was pretty good I can't say that I enjoyed it as much as the previous books though maybe that's something to with being very tired and depressed at the moment. Will read it again on the flight to America in a few weeks and will hopefully enjoy it more.
Maybe I'm a cold hearted barsteward but the only death that bothered me what Hedwigs though I'm sure that my Gran would be proud that I value a bird life above that of humans or maybe it's that I've always found the ancillary characters very one dimensional so didn't really care about them.
Piggymon
23-07-2007, 17:29
Someone, who ordered it from Amazon for me, didn't change the delivery address so it got delivered to someone's work :rolleyes: ;D
Will hopefully start on it tonight :)
I just got these stamps from the post office, very cool thought ! not a stamp collector but each stamp is each book cover, comes in a plastic and card wallet thing too. ;) oh, it was £4.60 and I think its a limited run only.
http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/9356/img0920rv2.jpg
Presentation packs are great, I'm going to get a set of those.
Piggymon
29-07-2007, 09:49
Finished !!
I really enjoyed it, lots of things explained :)
I'm going to read book one again and work my way through.
Blackstar
29-07-2007, 12:12
I read my little sisters copy in just under 10 hours on Tuesday because she left it to stay over at her friends house. I liked it but my heart just wasn't in it the same way it was when i was 12 and my mum bought me the first 3 books to read. :(
Had to tell my dad everything that happened because he didn't want to read it but wanted to know what happened.
I'm re-reading it now and I'm enjoying it more than originally. I think I was suffering from over-hype the first time and also that there were so many theories kicking around that a lot of the book wasn't a surprise.
I know that's a contradiction as I'm enjoying it more now and I know exactly what happens but it's definitely the case. I didn't overly rush to read it the first time but I did read quicker than usual so as to avoid any definite spoilers that may have appeared.
Blackstar
29-07-2007, 13:35
I didn't mean to read it so quickly, i am normally a fast reader but i did have the added push of my sister wanting to read it before me. :p
Will probably read it again in a few weeks.
Piggymon
29-07-2007, 21:25
I think I read it too quickly as well, I just couldn't put it down and kept bloody rushing through it because I was so excited ;D
I always read them too quickly the first time round, just started it again :)
Matblack
31-07-2007, 13:26
I finished it today, and liked it, again I didn't have a lot of recollection of the previous book but it didn't really matter.
For people who enjoy this sort of thing and haven't already read it, I highly recommend the His Dark Materials trilogy by Phillip Pullman (Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass) they are better written, have a better plot and are altogether a better series of books. Thats not denigrating the Potter books, I do like them, its just that HDM is better ;)
MB
Piggymon
31-07-2007, 13:49
HDM are wonderful books... I really must get round to re-reading them :)
HDM were really good books, I just felt after all the build up the ending fell a bit flat - maybe if I re-read them it'll be different.
Dymetrie
31-07-2007, 17:07
Two thirds of the way through Northern Lights atm and it's as good as I remember :)
Now just need to go round to my brother's house and thieve the second and third books from his girlfriend...
bwahahahahhahah
:D
I've got the Deathly Hallows audiobook now, both the Stephen Fry and the Jim Dale readings. Dale does more characterisation on the voices but I much prefer the Stephen Fry version.
Dymetrie
31-07-2007, 20:12
I've got the Deathly Hallows audiobook now, both the Stephen Fry and the Jim Dale readings. Dale does more characterisation on the voices but I much prefer the Stephen Fry version.
Wouldn't mind copies of the Stephen Fry readings tbh....
Would probably help me with my decision as to who gets the bed next wednesday ;)
1.2Gb of pure rar goodness to you sunshine.
Del Lardo
31-07-2007, 23:02
Any chance you can upload it to the ftp site that NokkonWud has so kindly provided?
I can upload the HDM audiobooks there is anyone is interested?
EDIT:
First book is uploading to music section at the moment. Should be there by morning.
Let me know if you want the rest.
Uploading now - It'll take some time though but I've killed all my p2p so it's got full bandwidth. It's estimating 10 hours so I hope IE (don't have an ftp client on that box) doesn't fall over.
Looks like it's complete \o/
I was thinking about a few things and readin Mugglenet too.
On Mugglenet they were asking 'who was the one that got his powers later in life'? Surely that was Neville, who really came into his own at the last year of Hogwarts, then became a teacher there!
If Harry was Teddy Tonks' Godfather, why did he not look after him - who did?
And isn't it obvious that Victiore was Bill and Fleurs son? James refers to him as their cousin at one point, but a load of people are asking who she was meant to be. :/
I was thinking about a few things and readin Mugglenet too.
On Mugglenet they were asking 'who was the one that got his powers later in life'? Surely that was Neville, who really came into his own at the last year of Hogwarts, then became a teacher there!
There's an interview linked on TLC and probably Mugglenet as well from the web chat with JKR where she was asked about that.
J.K. Rowling: My very earliest plan for the story involved somebody managing to get to Hogwarts when they had never done magic before, but I had changed my mind by the time I'd written the third book. I'm sorry about this, but I changed my mind!
Regarding Teddy:
Tineke: Did teddy grow up living with his grandmother?
J.K. Rowling: Yes, Teddy was raised by Andromeda.
Aaah i see. Probably Petunia then.
Here's the full text of her web chat at Bloomsbury. Some very interesting stuff in here.
J.K. Rowling has just answered a whole onslaught of post-DH question in a Web chat on Bloomsbury.com. We have reordered the questions so that it reads top-down; answers are here about the characters’ future lives, the state of the wizarding world, the other two title potentials for Deathly Hallows, and much, much, more. More than 120,000 questions were sent in; and as it’s the first time J.K. Rowling has been able to answer questions so freely in a fan chat, there are spoilers and details GALORE. Read on! But here is some…
SPOILER SPACE
HAVE YOU READ DH?
IF NOT YOU’RE GOING TO BE SPOILED
Transcript coming:
J.K. Rowling: I’m here and I can’t wait! Bring on the questions!
Leaky Cauldron: What, if anything, did the wizarding world learn, and how did society change, as a direct result of the war with voldemort? (i.E., not as a result of harry, ron and hermione’s future careers.)
J.K. Rowling: The Ministry of Magic was de-corrupted, and with Kingsley at the helm the discrimination that was always latent there was eradicated.
J.K. Rowling: Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny et al would of course play a significant part in the re-building of wizarding society through their future careers.
Ryan Love: From your fans at thesnitch.Co.Uk. Weren’t we supposed to see ginny display powerful magical abilities in “deathly hallows” and find out why it’s significant that she’s the seventh child? Was her main role in the books only to be harry’s love interest?
J.K. Rowling: Hi Ryan! Well, I think Ginny demonstrated powerful magic in the final battle, and that for a sixteen year old witch she acquitted herself pretty well. I don’t remember ever saying that her ‘seventh child’ status would prove particularly
J.K. Rowling: important in the last book, though – are you sure I said that?!
Georgina: Did lucius malfoy, and all the other escaped death eaters, go back to azkaban
J.K. Rowling: No, the Malfoys weaseled their way out of trouble (again) due to the fact that they colluded (albeit out of self-interest) with Harry at the end of the battle.
Elisabeth: In the chapter of kings cross, are they behind the veil or in some world between the real world and the veil?
J.K. Rowling: You can make up your own mind on this, but I think that Harry entered a kind of limbo between life and death.
Renee: From reading about the original owners of the deathly hallows, the peverell brothers, i’m wondering if harry and voldermort are distantly related voldermorts grandfather ended up with the resurrection stone ring?
J.K. Rowling: Yes, Harry and Voldemort are distantly related through the Peverells.
J.K. Rowling: Of course, nearly all wizarding families are related if you trace them back through the centuries. As was made clear in ‘Deathly hallows’, Peverell blood would run through many wizarding families.
Fomy: What did you feel when you finally wrote the kiss, awaited so much by the fans, of ron and hermione
J.K. Rowling: I loved writing it, and I loved the fact that Hermione took the initiative!
J.K. Rowling: Ron had finally got SPEW and earned himself a snog!
Angela Morrissey: Why is it that albus dumbledore can see harry under his invisibility cloak at certain moments? (during the series is the cloak only infallible to those who do not own a deathly hallow).
J.K. Rowling: Dumbledore, who could perform magic without needing to say the incantation aloud, was using ‘homenum revelio’ -
J.K. Rowling: – the human-presence-revealing spell Hermione makes use of in Deathly Hallows.
Jamie Lewis: What ever happened to winky
J.K. Rowling: She’s still at Hogwarts, and she was one of the oncoming house-elves who attacked the Death Eaters in the final battle.
Katieleigh: Does hermione still continue to do work with spew and is life any better for house elves!
J.K. Rowling: Hermione began her post-Hogwarts career at the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures
J.K. Rowling: where she was instrumental in greatly improving life for house-elves and their ilk. She then moved (despite her jibe to Scrimgeour) to the Dept. of Magical Law Enforcement
J.K. Rowling: where she was a progressive voice who ensured the eradication of oppressive, pro-pureblood laws.
Tineke: Did teddy grow up living with his grandmother?
J.K. Rowling: Yes, Teddy was raised by Andromeda.
J.K. Rowling: However, unlike Neville, who was also raised by his grandmother
J.K. Rowling: Teddy had his godfather, Harry, and all his father’s friends in the Order, to visit and stay with.
Blodeuwedd: Hi jk, first of all thank you for all the books I have enjoyed each and every one of them could you tell us what professions harry, hermione, ron, ginny and luna go on to have did the trio do their final year at school and take their newts who became hea
J.K. Rowling: Harry did so (just because Voldemort was gone, it didn’t mean that there would not be other Dark witches and wizards in the coming years).
J.K. Rowling: Ron joined George at Weasleys’ Wizarding Wheezes, which became an enormous money-spinner..
J.K. Rowling: After a few years as a celebrated player for the Holyhead Harpies, Ginny retired to have her family and to become the Senior Quidditch correspondent at the Daily Prophet!
Camille: What or who is peeves exactly, is he linked with the blood barons story?
J.K. Rowling: Thank you! I’ve already answered about Hermione. Kingsley became permanent Minister for Magic, and naturally he wanted Harry to head up his new Auror department.
Camille: What or who is peeves exactly, is he linked with the blood barons story?
J.K. Rowling: No, Peeves is not linked to the bloody Baron’s story.
J.K. Rowling: He is a spirit of chaos that entered the building long ago and has proved impossible to eradicate!
Jessie: Were the deathly hallows based on any realworld myth or faerie tale
J.K. Rowling: Perhaps ‘the Pardoner’s Tale’, by Chaucer.
Alicepie: What happend to luna, did she get married who to?
J.K. Rowling: She ended up marrying (rather later than Harry & co) a fellow naturalist and grandson of the great Newt Scamander (Rolf)!
Rosi: What does in essence divided mean?
J.K. Rowling: Dumbledore suspected that the snake’s essence was divided – that it contained part of Voldemort’s soul, and that was why it was so very adept at doing his bidding.
J.K. Rowling: This also explained why Harry, the last and unintended Horcrux, could see so clearly through the snake’s eyes, just as he regularly sees through Voldemort’s.
J.K. Rowling: Dumbledore is thinking aloud here, edging towards the truth with the help of the Pensieve.
Superhans: What was duldeys worst memory?
J.K. Rowling: I think that when Dudley was attacked by the Dementors he saw himself, for the first time, as he really was. This was an extremely painful, but ultimately salutory lesson, and began the transformation in him.
Superhans: What was duldeys worst memory?
J.K. Rowling: I think that when Dudley was attacked by the Dementors he saw himself, for the first time, as he really was. This was an extremely painful, but ultimately salutory lesson, and began the transformation in him.
Casey Kunze: Who killed remus and tonks I think if I knew this, I would get some closure over the very sad, but understandable, death of two of my favorite characters
J.K. Rowling: I’m so sorry! I met a couple on launch night who had come dressed as Lupin and Tonks, and I felt dreadfully guilty as I signed their books!
J.K. Rowling: Remus was killed by Dolohov and Tonks by Bellatrix.
Laura Trego: Was the absence of snapes portrait in the headmasters office in the last scene innocent or deliberate
J.K. Rowling: It was deliberate. Snape had effectively abandoned his post before dying, so he had not merited inclusion in these august circles.
J.K. Rowling: However, I like to think that Harry would be instrumental in ensuring that Snape’s portrait would appear there in due course.
Stephanie: If the wand chooses the wizard, then why do wands work when passed down from father to son eg neville had his fathers wand
J.K. Rowling: As established by Ollivander, a wizard can use almost any wand, it is simply that a wand that chooses him/her will work best. Where there is a family connection, a wand will work a little better than a wand chosen at random, I think.
James Farrell: How did umbridge manage to conjure a patronus while wearing the locket when harry wasnt able to
J.K. Rowling: Because she is a very nasty piece of work. She has an affinity for this horrible object, which would help rather than hinder her.
Tineke: What happened to percy did he return to his job at the ministry
J.K. Rowling: Yes, the new improved Percy ended up as a high-ranking official under Kingsley.
Su: How did neville get the gryfindor sword, is there a link to the hat
J.K. Rowling: Yes, there is very definitely a link to the hat!
J.K. Rowling: Neville, most worthy Gryffindor, asked for help just as Harry did in the Chamber of secrets, and Gryffindor’s sword was transported into Gryffindor’s old hat
J.K. Rowling: – the Sorting Hat was Gryffindor’s initially, as you know.
J.K. Rowling: Griphook was wrong – Gryffindor did not ‘steal’ the sword, not unless you are a goblin fanatic and believe that all goblin-made objects really belong to the maker.
Steph: Will azkaban still use dementors?
J.K. Rowling: No, definitely not. Kingsley would see to that. The use of Dementors was always a mark of the underlying corruption of the Ministry, as Dumbledore constantly maintained.
Smallbutpowerful: On behalf of all harry potter fans who consider themselves to be hufflepuffs could you please describe the hufflepuff common room as it is the only common room harry hasn’t visited
J.K. Rowling: The Hufflepuff common room is accessed through a portrait near the kitchens, as I am sure you have deduced.
J.K. Rowling: Sorry – I should say ‘painting’ rather than portrait, because it is a still-life.
J.K. Rowling: It is a very cosy and welcoming place, as dissimilar as possible from Snape’s dungeon. Lots of yellow hangings, and fat armchairs, and little underground tunnels leading to the dormitories, all of which have perfectly round doors, like barrel tops.
Camille: How is george getting along without his twin
J.K. Rowling: Well, I don’t think that George would ever get over losing Fred, which makes me feel so sad. However, he names his first child and son Fred, and he goes on to have a very successful career, helped by good old Ron.
Jessica Lynn: Did hagrid have to be able to see thestrals in order to train them if so, whose death did hagrid witness
J.K. Rowling: Hagrid has seen many deaths in quite a long life, so yes, he can see Thestrals.
Allie: What did dumbledore truly see in the mirror of erised
J.K. Rowling: He saw his family alive, whole and happy – Ariana, Percival and Kendra all returned to him, and Aberforth reconciled to him.
Snapedinhalf: You promised that someone will do magic late in life in book 7. I’ve now read it three times but cant work out who it might have been! Please help!!
J.K. Rowling: I’m sorry about this, but I changed my mind!
J.K. Rowling: My very earliest plan for the story involved somebody managing to get to Hogwarts when they had never done magic before, but I had changed my mind by the time I’d written the third book.
Christiana: How did voldemort get his wand back after he was in was exile
J.K. Rowling: Wormtail, desperate to curry favour, salvaged it from the place it had fallen and carried it to him. I admit that would have been a bit of a feat for a rat, but they are highly intelligent creatures!
Amanda: Hiya, ive grown up with harry and the gang, did any of the characters change in any unexpected ways as they grew up
J.K. Rowling: They all became pretty much what I expected/planned them to become.
J.K. Rowling: Of course they changed as I wrote, but nobody surprised me very much!
Ravleen: How much does the fact that voldemort was conceived under a love potion have to do with his nonability to understand love is it more symbolic
J.K. Rowling: It was a symbolic way of showing that he came from a loveless union – but of course, everything would have changed if Merope had survived and raised him herself and loved him.
J.K. Rowling: The enchantment under which Tom Riddle fathered Voldemort is important because it shows coercion, and there can’t be many more prejudicial ways to enter the world than as the result of such a union.
Lechicaneuronline: Do you think snape is a hero
J.K. Rowling: Yes, I do; though a very flawed hero. An anti-hero, perhaps. He is not a particularly likeable man in many ways. He remains rather cruel, a bully, riddled with bitterness and insecurity – and yet he loved, and showed loyalty to that love
J.K. Rowling: and, ultimately, laid down his life because of it. That’s pretty heroic!
James Farrell: Voldemort never told anyone about his horcruxes, so how on earth did regulus black discover his secret
J.K. Rowling: Horcrux magic was not Voldemort’s own invention; as is established in the story, other wizards had done it, though never gone as far as to make six.
J.K. Rowling: Voldemort dropped oblique hints; in his arrogance, he did not believe anybody would be clever enough to understand them.
J.K. Rowling: (He does so in the graveyard of Little Hangleton, in front of Harry). He did this before Regulus and Regulus guessed, correctly, what it was that made Voldemort so convinced he could not die.
Jaclyn: Did lily ever have feelings back for snape
J.K. Rowling: Yes. She might even have grown to love him romantically (she certainly loved him as a friend) if he had not loved Dark Magic so much, and been drawn to such loathesome people and acts.
Boggo: Would you choose the hallow that is the cloak, like youre supposed to, and would you be tempted to use the others
J.K. Rowling: My temptation would be Harry’s, ie, the Stone. But I believe, as does Harry ultimately, that the greatest wisdom is in accepting that we must all die, and moving on.
Cornersoul: So what happens to all the dementors where will they go will they be destroyed if so, how
J.K. Rowling: You cannot destroy Dementors, though you can limit their numbers if you eradicate the conditions in which they multiply, ie, despair and degradation. As I’ve already said, though,
J.K. Rowling: the Ministry no longer used them to torment its opponents.
Michael: Why didnt fawkes come back to help harry I would have thought that since harry was so loyal to dumbledore, fawkes would have been harrys new pet
J.K. Rowling: Something had to leave the school for good when Dumbledore died, and I decided that would be Fawkes. Dumbledore was a very great and irreplacable man, and the loss of Fawkes (and the fact that he was ‘non-transferable’!) expresses this symbolically
Roseweasley: Why was colin creavey still a student at hogwarts when he was muggleborn surely he would have been locked up and interogated, not allowed back to school therefore, he shouldnt have died
J.K. Rowling: Colin wasn’t a student. He sneaked back with the rest of the DA, along with Fred, George and the rest. He ought not to have stayed behind when McGonagall told him to leave, but alas – he did.
Delailah: How does dumbledore understand parseltongue?
J.K. Rowling: Dumbledore understood Mermish, Gobbledegook and Parseltongue. The man was brilliant.
Jessie: Will lockhart ever recover?
J.K. Rowling: No. Nor would I want him to. He’s happy where he is, and I’m happier without him!
Annie: Does the wizarding world now know that snape was dumbledores man, or do they still think he did a bunk
J.K. Rowling: Harry would ensure that Snape’s heroism was known.
J.K. Rowling: Of course, that would not stop Rita Skeeter writing ‘Snape: Scoundrel or Saint?’
Vio91: Is teddy lupin a werewolf
J.K. Rowling: No, he’s a Metamorphmagus like his mother
Nippy23: We see socks a lot throughout the series, such as dobby’s love for them and dumbledore’s claim to see them in the mirror of erised, what’s the reason behind all the socks
J.K. Rowling: Nothing deep and significant, I’m afraid. They’re just a comedy item.
Lady Bella: Whose murders did voldemor use to create each of the horcruxes
J.K. Rowling: The diary – Moaning Myrtle. The cup – Hepzibah Smith, the previous owner. The locket – a Muggle tramp. Nagini – Bertha Jorkins (Voldemort could use a wand once he regained a rudimentary body, as long as the victim was subdued).
J.K. Rowling: The diadem – an Albanian peasant. The ring – Tom Riddle snr.
Sampotterish: Why did dumbledore want ron to keep his deluminator
J.K. Rowling: Because he knew that Ron might need a little more guidance than the other two.
J.K. Rowling: Dumbledore understood Ron’s importance in the trio. He wasn’t the most skilled, or the most intelligent, but he held them together; his humour and his good heart were essential.
Carol: Do dementors have souls
J.K. Rowling: No, that’s what makes them frightening!
Jess Mac: What was the third smell that hermione smelt in the amortentia potion in hbp (ie the particular essence of ron)
J.K. Rowling: I think it was his hair. Every individual has very distinctive-smelling hair, don’t you find?
Natalie: Are house divisions as prevalaent in harry’s children’s hogwarts as in the previous generations
J.K. Rowling: Slytherin has become diluted. It is no longer the pureblood bastion it once was. Nevertheless, its dark reputation lingers, hence Albus Potter’s fears.
Nithya: Lily detested mulciber,averyif snape really loved her,why didnt he sacrifice their company for her sake
J.K. Rowling: Well, that is Snape’s tragedy. Given his time over again he would not have become a Death Eater, but like many insecure, vulnerable people (like Wormtail) he craved membership of something big and powerful, something impressive.
J.K. Rowling: He wanted Lily and he wanted Mulciber too. He never really understood Lily’s aversion; he was so blinded by his attraction to the dark side he thought she would find him impressive if he became a real Death Eater.
Alborz: What does it mean to be the master of death
J.K. Rowling: As Dumbledore explains, the real master of Death accepts that he must die, and that there are much worse things in the world of the living.
J.K. Rowling: It is not about striving for immortality, but about accepting mortality.
Barbara: I was very disappointed to see harry use crucio and seem to enjoy it his failure to perform that kind of curse in the past has been a credit to his character why the change, and did harry later regret having enjoyed deliberately causing pain
J.K. Rowling: Harry is not, and never has been, a saint. Like Snape, he is flawed and mortal.
J.K. Rowling: Harry’s faults are primarily anger and occasional arrogance.
J.K. Rowling: On this occasion, he is very angry and acts accordingly. He is also in an extreme situation, and attempting to defend somebody very good against a violent and murderous opponent.
Nicole: What do you think is the funniest moment you have written in the series
J.K. Rowling: It sounds very vain to answer this! My favourite in this book is probably that line of Ron’s ‘really captures the scope and tragedy of the thing, doesn’t it?’
Courtney: What child did harry give the marauders map to if any
J.K. Rowling: I’ve got a feeling he didn’t give it to any of them, but that James sneaked it out of his father’s desk one day.
Karin: What did petunia wanted to say to hary at the end of the dursleys departing
J.K. Rowling: I think that for one moment she trembled on the verge of wishing Harry luck; that she almost acknowledged that her loathing of his world, and of him, was born out of jealousy.
J.K. Rowling: But she couldn’t do it; years of pretending that ‘normal’ was best had hardened her too much.
Leaky Cauldron: Please pose and answer the question you’d most like to address about the series! (a ha, turned it back on you.)
J.K. Rowling: Oooo, you’re tough.
J.K. Rowling: I must admit, I always wondered why nobody ever asked me what Dumbledore’s wand was made of!
J.K. Rowling: And I couldn’t say that, even when asked ‘what do you wish you’d been asked…’ because it would have sign-posted just how significant that wand would become!
Nora: Is auntie muriels tiara important
J.K. Rowling: No, sorry… except to illustrate what an old bat she is.
Nigel: Can harry speak parseltongue when he is no longer a horcrux?
J.K. Rowling: No, he loses the ability, and is very glad to do so.
Nikki: How did sirius twoway mirror end up with aberforth or is it another twoway mirror
J.K. Rowling: You see Aberforth meeting Mundungus in Hogsmeade. That was the occasion on which Dung, who had taken Sirius’s mirror from Grimmauld Place, sold it to Aberforth.
Tierney Roth: If moody got a magic eye, and wormtail got a magic hand, couldnt there be some way to form a magical ear, if only to cover up the hole and make george look more symmetrical
J.K. Rowling: Yes, he could wear a false ear (I’m starting to giggle at the thought. Perhaps he’s better off with the hole!)
Lucy: What is dumbledores boggart?
J.K. Rowling: The corpse of his sister
Pablo: What is toadface umbridge doing now
J.K. Rowling: Glad to see you like her as much as I do!
J.K. Rowling: She was arrested, interrogated and imprisoned for crimes against Muggleborns.
Tina: Do the muggles notice that there arent any weird things going on now that voldemorts gone
Tina: Do the muggles notice that there arent any weird things going on now that voldemorts gone
J.K. Rowling: Yes, the world seems a much sunnier place (literally – with the Dementors gone the weather gets better!)
J.K. Rowling: We are having a heavily Dementor-influenced summer here in the UK.
Katie Mosher: How exactly do muggleborns receive magical ability
J.K. Rowling: Muggle-borns will have a witch or wizard somewhere on their family tree, in some cases many, many generations back. The gene re-surfaces in some unexpected places.
Maggie: Is rita skeeter still reporting
J.K. Rowling: Naturally, what could stop Rita? I imagine she immediately dashed off a biography of Harry after he defeated Voldemort. One quarter truth to three quarters rubbish.
Maggie Keir: Was hermione able to find her parents and undo the memory damage
J.K. Rowling: Yes, she brought them home straight away.
Lola Victorpujebet: Was minerva in love with albus
J.K. Rowling: No! Not everybody falls in love with everybody else…
Rachel Nell: Jkr, thank you for such amazing books! I would like to know how come noone seemed to know that lily and snape were friends in school they were obviously meeting for chats, etc didnt james know their past
J.K. Rowling: Thank you for your thank you!
J.K. Rowling: Yes, it was known that they were friendly and then stopped being friends. Nothing more than that would be widely known.
J.K. Rowling: James always suspected Snape harboured deeper feelings for Lily, which was a factor in James’ behaviour to Snape.
Abbey: Will the chuddley cannons ever win the quidditch world cup
J.K. Rowling: Bless them, perhaps. But they’d need to replace the entire team and down several cauldrons of Felix Felicitas.
Hayleyhaha: Why did regulus have a change of heart
J.K. Rowling: He was not prepared for the reality of life as a Death Eater. It was Voldemort’s attempted murder of Kreacher that really turned him.
Stephval: Is scorpius as misguided as his father, or has draco improved and taught his child(ren) better
J.K. Rowling: Scorpius has a lot going against him, not least that name. However, I think Scorpius would be an improvement on his father, whom misfortune has sobered!
[The previous question was posed after the answer appeared.]
J.K. Rowling: Sorry, technical hitch – just answered a question before seeing it!
J.K. Rowling: I am clearly getting better at Legilimency.
Lona: Did draco and harry lose their animosity towards eachother when voldemort died
J.K. Rowling: Not really. There would be a kind of rapprochement, in that Harry knows Draco hated being a Death Eater, and would not have killed Dumbledore; similarly, Draco would feel a grudging gratitude towards Harry for saving his life.
J.K. Rowling: Real friendship would be out of the question, though. Too much had happened prior to the final battle.
Hannah: Why was snape so badly groomed
J.K. Rowling: Hmm. Good question. Poor eyesight? Did he look in the mirror and believe he was gorgeous as he was?
J.K. Rowling: I think it more likely that he valued other qualities in himself!
J.K. Rowling: I think not. I imagine that it was squashed into the ground by a centaur’s hoof as the centaurs dashed to the aid of the Hogwarts fighters, and thereafter became buried.
Adwait313: Has the jinx on the dada teaching post at hogwarts been lifted
J.K. Rowling: Yes, at last! Incidentally, I know some have asked about Quirrell with regard to this question.
J.K. Rowling: He was teaching at Hogwarts for more than a year, but NOT in the post of D.A.D.A. teacher. He was previously Muggle Studies professor.
Emily: What ever happened to aberforth
J.K. Rowling: He is still there, at the Hog’s Head, playing with goats
Lee: I recently purchsed nimbus twothousand it has a terrible knack of veering left is their anything I can do (wihout the use of a wand it was broken by a hippogriff) to repair it back to it original straight flying state
J.K. Rowling: Hm. I would advise a trip to Arkie Alderton’s Kwik-Repair Shop. Never attempt to mend a broom at home, the consequences can be disastrous.
Abjoppotter: Is narcissa malfoy really a death eater
J.K. Rowling: No, she never had the Dark Mark and was never a fully paid-up member. However, her views were identical to those of her husband until Voldemort planned the death of her son.
Emzzy: Did mr weasley ever get around to fixing sirius motorbike
J.K. Rowling: Of course, and it ended up in Harry’s possession.
Lulu: Do you think dumbledore was a little more fond of ron than either ron or harry believed
J.K. Rowling: Yes, I do. Through Harry’s account of Ron, and from reports of the professors who taught Ron, Dumbledore understood Ron better than Ron ever knew, and liked him, too.
Chelatina: Was firenze ever welcomed back into the herd
J.K. Rowling: Yes, the rest of the herd was forced to acknowledge that Firenze’s pro-human leanings were not shameful, but honourable.
Kristy: What was your favorite scene to write in deathly hallows?
J.K. Rowling: Chapter 34: The Forest Again.
Chely: James patronus is a stag and lilys a doe is that a coincidence?
J.K. Rowling: No, the Patronus often mutates to take the image of the love of one’s life (because they so often become the ‘happy thought’ that generates a Patronus).
Jon: Since voldemort was afraid of death, did he choose to be a ghost if so where does he haunt or is this not possible due to his horcruxes
J.K. Rowling: No, he is not a ghost. He is forced to exist in the stunted form we witnessed in King’s Cross.
Angela Morrissey: Were there seven horcruxes not six as dumbledore intimated to harry if so, does this mean that voldemort had an 8 part soul not a 7
J.K. Rowling: Yes, Voldemort accidentally broke his soul into eight parts, not seven.
Laura Trego: Did hermione really put a memory charm on her parents she says she did but then about 50 pages later tells ron shes never done a memory charm
J.K. Rowling: They are two different charms. She has not wiped her parents’ memories (as she later does to Dolohov and Rowle); she has bewitched them to make them believe that they are different people.
Maura: How come voldemort was no longer employing occlumency against harry, as he was in the 6th book
J.K. Rowling: He is losing control, and unable to prevent Harry seeing into his mind. The connection between them is never fully understood by Voldemort, who does not know that Harry is a Horcrux.
Gandalfxj9: Did krum ever find love
J.K. Rowling: Of course, though he had to go back to his native Bulgaria to do so.
Twinkletoes: Why did you feel that hedwigs death was necessary
J.K. Rowling: The loss of Hedwig represented a loss of innocence and security. She has been almost like a cuddly toy to Harry at times. Voldemort killing her marked the end of childhood. I’m sorry… I know that death upset a LOT of people!
Lecanard: Will we see harry and his friends having their own history on chocolate frogs cards
J.K. Rowling: Definitely, and Ron will describe this as his finest hour.
Mike: What is the incantation for creating a horcrux
J.K. Rowling: I cannot possibly tell you. Some things are better left unsaid.
Samantha: Was snape the only death eater who could produce a full patronus
J.K. Rowling: Yes, because a Patronus is used against things that the Death Eaters generally generate, or fight alongside. They would not need Patronuses.
Jess: How did nagini could see harry and hermione if they were under the invisibility cloak
J.K. Rowling: Snakes’ sense are very different from human ones. They can detect heat and movement in a way that we can’t.
Chucky: Have you had another alternatives as book title apart from deathly hallows
J.K. Rowling: The two other possibilities were ‘the Elder Wand’ (used instead as a chapter title) and ‘the Peverell Quest’, which I decided against quite quickly. I think the word ‘Quest’ is a bit corny!
Iglooanne: What would your patronus be
J.K. Rowling: I’d like an otter, like Hermione, but I’ve got a feeling it might be a large dog.
The Stoic Cycle: Why is it that voldemort is unaware that the gaunt ring is a hallow, when he has worn it (such as in the memory the diary shows harry in book 2)
J.K. Rowling: Wearing the ring would not make the stone work. The stone existed outside the ring originally, and to use it you had to turn it three times in your hand.
Finchburg: Does the dark mark remain on those that voldemort has branded after his death or does the tattoo dissapear now he is gone thanks for considering my question!
J.K. Rowling: My pleasure, Finchburg! The Dark Mark would fade to a scar, not dissimilar to the lightning scar on Harry’s forehead.
J.K. Rowling: Like Harry’s, these scars would no longer burn or hurt.
Katie Mosher: How is the quibbler doing these days
J.K. Rowling: Pretty well, actually. It has returned to its usual condition of advanced lunacy, and is appreciated for its unintentional humour.
Camille: Dear mrs rowling, while im here I want to thank you for making me laugh, cry (a lot! Most of all for sirius!) since im 11 quite a long time for me as im 20 harrys magic and yours will be with me forever! Thanks!
J.K. Rowling: Thank you very much, Camille, and I’m sorry about Sirius. That man’s got a lot of fans.
J.K. Rowling: Mostly female, I might add.
Nicofr: Does winky still drink a lot of butterbear
J.K. Rowling: She’s dried out a bit now.
Isabel: Did bellatrix ever love her husband, or did she have love only for voldemort
J.K. Rowling: She took a pureblood husband, because that was what was expected of her, but her true love was always Voldemort.
jenny: How did snape keep his patronus secret from the rest of the order?
J.K. Rowling: He was careful not to use the talking Patronus means of communication with them. This was not difficult, as his particular job within the Order, ie, as spy, meant that sending a Patronus to any of them might have given away his true allegiance.
Darchey: Did voldemort ever love a girl
J.K. Rowling: No, he loved only power, and himself. He valued people whom he could use to advance his own objectives.
Leo: What would your wand be made of
J.K. Rowling: I’d like Harry’s wand – holly and phoenix feather.
Brian: Did the da keep the coins?
J.K. Rowling: Naturally. They would be like badges or medals of honour – proof that the owner had been at the heart of the fight against Voldemort from the start! I like to imagine Neville showing his to his admiring pupils.
Tracie: How relieved are you that you can finally talk about the series no more secretkeeping!
J.K. Rowling: I’m elated! It is great to be able to do this at last, I’ve looked forward to it for so long!
Lou: How did snape get into grimmauld place to get the second half of the letter, if there were protection spells on the house stopping snape getting in
J.K. Rowling: Snape entered the house immediately after Dumbledore’s death, before Moody put up the spells against him.
Koen Van Der Voort: Why is the scar on harrys forehead lightning shaped
J.K. Rowling: To be honest, because it’s a cool shape. I couldn’t have my hero sport a doughnut-shaped scar.
Louie: Did mariettas pimply formation ever fade
J.K. Rowling: Eventually, but it left a few scars. I loathe a traitor!
Katie B: Why was kings cross the place harry went to when he died
J.K. Rowling: For many reasons. The name works rather well, and it has been established in the books as the gateway between two worlds, and Harry would associate it with moving on between two worlds (don’t forget that it is Harry’s image we see, not necessarily
J.K. Rowling: what is really there.
J.K. Rowling: We seem to have over-run. We’ve had over 120,000 questions, I’ve been told!
J.K. Rowling: What can I say? Thank you so much for sticking with me, and with Harry, for so long. You have made this an incredible journey for Harry’s author.
J.K. Rowling: I like this question, so I’ll take it for my last.
Tess: What muggle song do you imagine would be played at dumbledores funeral
J.K. Rowling: Surely ‘I did it my way’ by Frank Sinatra.
J.K. Rowling: I’m very aware I haven’t answered everything… keep an eye on my website, and I’ll try and answer some more questions in due course!
J.K. Rowling: Thanks very much everybody, I’ve had a great time, and I hope I’ve covered some of the outstanding questions (I hear a distant roar of ‘YOU DIDN’T GET TO MINE!’)
J.K. Rowling: That’s it… I’m Disapparating. Bye!
Thanks Feek, that answered a question I had too.
I was wondering about the stunted creature in KX. I did think it was Voldemort but it never really says that!
First book is uploading to music section at the moment. Should be there by morning.
Let me know if you want the rest.
Missed this, and am downloading the first one now. Yes please to the others.
Looks like it's complete \o/
Was that of any use to anybody?
May have been had I known where to look (just spent the last 15 minutes sleuthing and solved that one), but since I've not read/listened to the other six, I'm not sure whether or not there would be any benefit. :undecided:
Del Lardo
07-08-2007, 17:50
Missed this, and am downloading the first one now. Yes please to the others.
I am in the US at the moment so will do it when I get back to the UK on the 19th and have an internet connection I control.
Hope you can wait till then :)
OMG.
Dumbledore is gay!
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7053982.stm
leowyatt
20-10-2007, 11:29
:shocked:
Finally read this last week, how I managed to to hear/read any spoilers, I don't know!
Not bad :)
The butler did it!
leowyatt
24-10-2007, 15:53
OMG.
Dumbledore is gay!
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7053982.stm
Not only that but People magazine (http://www.bestweekever.tv/2007/10/23/bwe-presents-exclusive-look-at-this-weeks-shocking-new-issue-of-people/) have covered it too ;)
Not only that but People magazine (http://www.bestweekever.tv/2007/10/23/bwe-presents-exclusive-look-at-this-weeks-shocking-new-issue-of-people/) have covered it too ;)
;D;D
I always thought it was weird that they had that scene in “Prisoner of Azkaban” where, without any segue or build-up, they cut to Dumbledore just ABSOLUTELY RAILING Snape. Like full-on pile driving him over that dusty globe in a long, two-minute single take. Then they totally cut to Harry flying on a griffon or something and never mention that scene again.
I just assumed that was Alfonso Cuaron’s little touch or something because I had read he kind of changed everything around from the previous movies.
Hahahahahahahaha!
Not only that but People magazine (http://www.bestweekever.tv/2007/10/23/bwe-presents-exclusive-look-at-this-weeks-shocking-new-issue-of-people/) have covered it too ;)
That's funny!
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