Harry Potter
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kengrOk, as previously noted I got the new book last night.
I did other stuff and went to bed around oh-dark thirty. Then I got stupid. I started reading it.
I finished 5 hours later. (mid morning).
Spoilers below
Ok, I'm not willing to bet any large sums that Dumbledore is actually dead.
First off, I'm suspicious about the combination of that potion that the fake amulet was hidden in and the water from the "lake".
Second, that bit in potions about the antidote to a mixed poison being more than the sum of the antidotes to the individual poisons. Dumbledore got hit by the potion, by the lake water (which I suspect was a poison, potion or *something* from the way he kept telling Harry not to touch it) *and* got hit by (we assume) Abara Kadavara. That combo could do *anything* we don't have the data.
The appearance of the tomb is odd as well.
And if you want to get weird *nobody* except Hagrid and (maybe) McGonnigal gets anywhere *near* the body after Harry finds it. So we don't even know if that was Dumbledore's body that got buried.
Now we get to Snape. I'm not willing to believe he betrayed Dumbledore.
Snape's an arrogant asshole, but he also has his own sort of honor. There's more here than we have yet been told.
Harry is out in left field again.
BTW, if Rowling hadn't said there were only going to be seven books, I'd expect the bit with Harry and friends leaving the school to be a way of continuing past the "natural" endpoint at the end of the seven years at Hogwarts.
Interesting to see that Draco isn't quite the little shit he's been painted as by much of the other books. I agree with Dumbledore. Draco wasn't trying very hard to kill him.
I suspect that contrary to Harry's statements, there are only *three* Horcruxes left. We know that two were destroyed. And I'm more inclined to believe that RAB destroyed the locket than that he took it and didn't get a chance to destroy it.
I did other stuff and went to bed around oh-dark thirty. Then I got stupid. I started reading it.
I finished 5 hours later. (mid morning).
Spoilers below
Ok, I'm not willing to bet any large sums that Dumbledore is actually dead.
First off, I'm suspicious about the combination of that potion that the fake amulet was hidden in and the water from the "lake".
Second, that bit in potions about the antidote to a mixed poison being more than the sum of the antidotes to the individual poisons. Dumbledore got hit by the potion, by the lake water (which I suspect was a poison, potion or *something* from the way he kept telling Harry not to touch it) *and* got hit by (we assume) Abara Kadavara. That combo could do *anything* we don't have the data.
The appearance of the tomb is odd as well.
And if you want to get weird *nobody* except Hagrid and (maybe) McGonnigal gets anywhere *near* the body after Harry finds it. So we don't even know if that was Dumbledore's body that got buried.
Now we get to Snape. I'm not willing to believe he betrayed Dumbledore.
Snape's an arrogant asshole, but he also has his own sort of honor. There's more here than we have yet been told.
Harry is out in left field again.
BTW, if Rowling hadn't said there were only going to be seven books, I'd expect the bit with Harry and friends leaving the school to be a way of continuing past the "natural" endpoint at the end of the seven years at Hogwarts.
Interesting to see that Draco isn't quite the little shit he's been painted as by much of the other books. I agree with Dumbledore. Draco wasn't trying very hard to kill him.
I suspect that contrary to Harry's statements, there are only *three* Horcruxes left. We know that two were destroyed. And I'm more inclined to believe that RAB destroyed the locket than that he took it and didn't get a chance to destroy it.
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The book
Date: 2005-07-18 06:22 am (UTC)