Wand.
IIRC, Rowling has stated that Tonks was a Hufflepuff. Hufflepuffs are more the hard-workers, loyal, good friends, and unselfish.
Two things:
“Look…at…me…” he whispered.
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Ginny was totally gonna give it up for Harry’s birthday.
He was never really dead. The Avada Kadavra only killed the piece of Voldy inside Harry.
Bill’s description of goblins is far more similar to European prejudices about Gypsies than it is about Jews.
Umm, what?
Anyone know what events from the book these are attempting to refer to?
-FrL-
If I had to guess, I think it’s the part at the end of Book Two where Harry tricks Lucius into freeing Dobby, and when Lucius threatens Harry in return, Dobby zaps him with house-elf magic and tells him to get lost. They appear to be interpreting Dobby as a subtle bit of stem-cell research propaganda, and Lucius as an angel (apparently for “impregnating” Ginny with the diary?). I don’t think the ankle thing happened in the book, and it’s been years since I saw the movie, but I guess Harry showed Lucius his wounded ankle as an accusation of his role in the attacks at the school. I’m assuming that’s where the basilisk bit him. The interpretation the author makes is so amazingly far out of whack it’s almost hard to believe they were reading the same book.
From what little I could stand to read from that link, I could have sworn it was a clever parody. Like this bit from 50 Reasons to Reject The Matrix :
Same thought processes. Only Mr. Wong was kidding.
I don’t think Rowling was anti-Semitic, but Tolkien didn’t have the Dwarves control all banking in his world. I think it’s more of an occupational hazard for writers in fantasy literature, since they’re creating races (which should properly be called species) and assigning characteristics to them in a broad manner.
It’s important to look at what the author was trying to do. I remember all the “blood of the kings of Numenor” stuff in Tolkien that I thought was dumb, but since he was trying to imitate a type of story where that sort of thing was important, he pretty much had to use that point of view. Otherwise, we’d have Aragorn happening upon an anarcho-syndicalistic commune.
Did anyone else find that Harry Potter’s final showdown with Tom was largely irrelevant? At that point, it was several hundred vs. 1… surely if they all pointed their wands at Voldemort and shouted Petrificus Totalus, Stupefy, or whatever, some would connect and disable him, right?
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I don’t think the ankle thing happened in the book, and it’s been years since I saw the movie, but I guess Harry showed Lucius his wounded ankle as an accusation of his role in the attacks at the school.
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It wasn’t in the book (just checked) but in the movie, Harry pulled up his pant-leg to show that his foot was now sock-less, showing that it was HIS sock that Lucius used to inadvertently free Dobby.
In the movie, Harry tricks Malfoy into freeing Dobby. I don’t remember exactly how it happened but he gives Malfoy the diary and the sock and Malfoy throws the sock aside, which Dobby catches. Dobby says he’s been freed(because his master gave him a sock), and then Harry pulls up his pant leg to show Malfoy where the sock had come from.
This makes sense. Voldemort thinks he has finally killed Harry Potter, but even then he [Voldemort] seems to have been knocked out or something, because his Death Eaters are crowded around him helping him up. Surely that came as a shock to him.
He knows that in the past Harry has defeated him on wand-to-wand combat (at the end of Goblet of Fire and during Harry’s departure from the Dursleys at the beginning of Deathly Hallows). When he tried to possess Harry in the Ministry of Magic at the end of Order of the Phoenix, he finds out that he can’t stand being in such close contact with Harry’s soul for more than a few seconds.
Is there any doubt that he is still afraid, especially since he fears death and the dead so much? Sending someone else to check out the body is totally in character.
But when Narcissa says “Harry Potter is dead”, then he checks the way someone like Voldemort would - let me try the Cruciatus curse on the body, and see if Harry screams! No one alive would be able to remain silent under such pain. And Voldemort does it three times. Little does Voldemort know that the Elder Wand which he is yielding will not harm its true master: Harry Potter.
The Elder Wand is like Dobby! They both can’t help but wuv Harry Potter! Yes they do… Yes they do! Awww…
I guess Harry’s lucky that Voldemort doesn’t take after the traditional movie villain and kick Harry in the gut a few times while he’s on the ground. These idiots really rely on magic far too much.
I didn’t find it irrelevant so much as I found it aggravating to see how little creativity and ability Voldemort actually showed. Once you’ve tried Avada Kedavra on Harry Potter twice, and it’s failed twice, maybe you should try a different trick, eh? Maybe some of that heavy dark magic that you’re supposed to know?
Something else that I was thinking about, and apologies if this has been covered upthread, but did Rowling’s interview comment that Harry wound up being an auror bug anyone else as bad as it’s bugging me? If the whole idea behind the Elder wand is that its power will only die if its master dies undefeated, doesn’t that make Harry’s career choice a phenomenally stupid decision? One lucky shot from a bad guy and the power of the Elder wand continues despite Harry’s best intentions. If he really wants to protect the wizarding world, it seems his only choice is to stay away from law enforcement entirely. Quidditch, anyone?
Feh. He’s management. When will he go out in the field?
Quidditch? Now that depends on how the Elder Wand defines defeat, now doesn’t it? Harry loses to his bitter rival in the league finals and who knows what would happen?
I think the Centaurs would be Arabians.
If a Centaur bred with a Human, would the offspring be a Quarterhorse?
I thought the whole going on in a room full of people about the Elder Wand to be phenomenally stupid. Any question where it once was or about it being a myth at all - gone. Now you have several hundred wizards (including the Malfoy’s) with intimate knowledge of the wand including who its master is and a good guess about where its current location is.
Well, that’s so gay!
Seriously, I think someone has too much time on their hands. I’m reminded of what a college-friend said to me of another mutual acquaintance who was really into political activism: “That guy could read political significance into a cheese sandwich.”
Re: the horcuxes.
[ul]
[li]Tom’s dairy[/li][li]Gaunt’s ring (also a deathly hallow)[/li][li]Nagini[/li][li]Hufflepuff’s cup[/li][li]Ravenclaw’s diadem[/li][li]Slytherin’s locket[/li][li]Harry (accidently)[/li][/ul] Three favorite goodies of Tom, three of the four houses’ founder’s favorite relics, and an accident. So why wasn’t anything of Gryffindor’s used? General distaste of the guy? Too well guarded (I can think only of the the sorting hat and the sword, both of which are in big D’s office)? Tom didn’t want to divide into seven pieces yet didn’t want to drop any of his favorites?
Also, what would have happened if Nagini died a natural death? Reinforces the idea that making a horcrux of a living being is a Bad Idea.
It doesn’t seem to me that the Elder Wand is really all that unbeatable. Grindewald, Super Powerful Dark Wizard Extraodinaire, had it and he got chumped by Dumbledore. Then Dumbledore has it, and gets Expelliarmus’d by Draco freakin’ Malfoy. Then Voldemort has it (albeit not as the master), and gets pwned by Harry ‘Lucksack’ Potter.
Seems that the Elder Wand is merely a powerful wand with a lot of marketing behind it.
All of the Deathly Hallows seem to be overyped, actually.