The Deathly Hallows SPOILER THREAD OF DOOM™

[Mega Horny]

HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF BLOOD PRINCE

You do realize I was kidding...?

Chris, good find there. And I'd completetly forgotten about 'that awful boy' from book 5, but I remember now. Maybe it was in the movie, which I didn't see?

And I also just realized that if you switch around the last two letters in Gavin's name, it's Gaver Lupin. :O

[Gavin Luper]

And I also just realized that if you switch around the last two letters in Gavin's name, it's Gaver Lupin. :O

You found out my secret! Hehe ... 'Luper' was actually inspired by Lupin in the first place, all those years ago now.

[Chris 2.1]

Good point about the eyes. I didn't realize JK scrapped the idea of magic in desperate circumstances, thanks for letting me know!

I quite liked the resolution of the gleam of triumph in Dumbledore's eyes. Why didn't I think of that?

(I'm re-reading Book 7 - just finished the escape from the Ministry. Ahh memories!)


Edit: More from J.K:

“I wanted to kill parents,” she said, quickly adding that sounded “terrible” to say. “I wanted there to be an echo of what happened to Harry just to show the absolute evil of what Voldemort's doing.”

The theme resonates throughout the books with the deaths of Sirius Black and Albus Dumbledore, Harry’s flawed father figures. And that’s why, in the Battle of Hogwarts, Remus Lupin, Harry’s only remaining father figure, and Nymphadora Tonks die, in the process creating another orphan in their son, Teddy.

“I think one of the most devastating things about war is the children left behind,” Rowling said. “As happened in the first war when Harry's left behind, I wanted us to see another child left behind. And it made it very poignant that it was their newborn son.”

Why Fred and not George?
Lupin and Tonks may have taken the fall for Arthur Weasley, but the entire Weasley clan could not be saved. Fred Weasley, one half of the fun-loving twins, was another casualty in the Battle of Hogwarts.

But why Fred and not his brother George?

“I always knew it was going to be Fred, and I couldn't honestly tell you why,” Rowling said.

Rowling guessed most people would have expected George to die before Fred because Fred was the ringleader, George the “gentler” twin.

“Fred is normally the funnier but also the crueler of the two. So they might have thought that George would be the more vulnerable one and, therefore, the one to die.”

She didn’t make her decision because it was easier to kill one twin over the other, however.

“Either one of them would have been terrible to kill,” she said. “It was awful killing Fred. I hated that.”

She hated it, but doesn’t regret it.

“The deaths were all very, very considered,” said Rowling. “I don't kill even fictional characters lightly”

*

Many fans feared for Hagrid’s safety in the run up to “The Deathly Hallows.”

Hagrid, actually, had been safe in Rowling’s mind from the very beginning. Before her first book, “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” was even published, Rowling planned for Hagrid to carry Harry out of the forest at the end of “Deathly Hallows,” believing that Harry was dead.

“It was very significant,” Rowling said. “Hagrid brings Harry from the Dursleys. He takes him into the wizarding world … He was sort of his guardian and his guide ... And now I wanted Hagrid to be the one to lead Harry out of the forest.”



I agree with the Teddy Tonks thing...I can't remember off the top of my head but did Tonks parents both die, too? I know they were tortured. It does reflect in a way; harry is in a happy family and sees Teddy, orphaned at a young age. It's sad really

[Katie]

You do realize I was kidding...?

Guess I missed the joke, as the previous sentence is something practically half of all HP fans were assuming was just a trick of the light or something.

Not plot related, but this portion of the book's wiki is just completely blowing me away. Incredible.