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and btw, you're right, i screwed up my "wpm" calculations, i was thinking 1 hour (3,600 seconds) but he said 6 hours (21,600 seconds) so it's really more like 10 words/sec. but that's still pretty damn fast. (you think you could read 50 words in 5 seconds?)SonicTheMonkey

Yeah, 6 hours could be a little extreme... but reading it in 8/9 hours is definitely doable, since it's not like Harry Potter is a narrative masterpiece (i.e. you don't have to soak up the meaning of every word as you read, so you can read some slower sections by semi-skimming and still not miss anything).

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To all those people asking whether Bill and Fleur had a baby, don't you think(in the epilogue) that when James said Teddy Lupin was kissing Victoire(Their cousin) that it was Bill and Fleur's child. I mean, it's a french name. And also, Teddy was 19 in the epilogue so Victoire must only be a few years younger.

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To all those people asking whether Bill and Fleur had a baby, don't you think(in the epilogue) that when James said Teddy Lupin was kissing Victoire(Their cousin) that it was Bill and Fleur's child. I mean, it's a french name. And also, Teddy was 19 in the epilogue so Victoire must only be a few years younger.

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gameblastr

I thought that.

#SPOILER#

To all those people asking whether Bill and Fleur had a baby, don't you think(in the epilogue) that when James said Teddy Lupin was kissing Victoire(Their cousin) that it was Bill and Fleur's child. I mean, it's a french name. And also, Teddy was 19 in the epilogue so Victoire must only be a few years younger.

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gameblastr

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#SPOILER#

To all those people asking whether Bill and Fleur had a baby, don't you think(in the epilogue) that when James said Teddy Lupin was kissing Victoire(Their cousin) that it was Bill and Fleur's child. I mean, it's a french name. And also, Teddy was 19 in the epilogue so Victoire must only be a few years younger.

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Koolsen

Or that, yes...

I read it and i loved it. the only thing i wish is that I know everyone who died.

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I mean it said harry say dozens of dead bodies so u have to assume that he knew at least a few more.

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why do some of you say the ending was a dissapointment? realy if you didnt guess that harry was gunna kill tom then you shouldnt be allowed to read any form of literaturemgreener_34

the harry potter series is crap...read the halo series instead way better or even read the book mass effectBLEACH22

[QUOTE="BLEACH22"]the harry potter series is crap...read the halo series instead way better or even read the book mass effectSolidSnake35

[QUOTE="SolidSnake35"][QUOTE="BLEACH22"]the harry potter series is crap...read the halo series instead way better or even read the book mass effectmgreener_34

[QUOTE="SolidSnake35"][QUOTE="BLEACH22"]the harry potter series is crap...read the halo series instead way better or even read the book mass effectmgreener_34

Book 2 was supposed to be named Harry Potter & The Half Blood Prince, actually. JK just thought that it wasn't the right time to to fit in the HBP story, though.

the harry potter series is crap...read the halo series instead way better or even read the book mass effectBLEACH22

:lol: Now that is hilarious.

I FINISHED IT! Took me 6 days :)

The ending was extremely CORNY though. I was honestly hoping for more people to die. I wish that Rowling expanded more on the ending afterwords like [spoiler] what the hell Harry's job is. Or if the wizarding public ever found out what happened between Harry, Snape, and Dumbledore. [/spoiler]

It was mildly surprising, but i think i would have been surprised no matter what happened.

I FINISHED IT! Took me 6 days :)

The ending was extremely CORNY though. I was honestly hoping for more people to die. I wish that Rowling expanded more on the ending afterwords like [spoiler] what the hell Harry's job is. Or if the wizarding public ever found out what happened between Harry, Snape, and Dumbledore. [/spoiler]

It was mildly surprising, but i think i would have been surprised no matter what happened.

helium_flash

Harry became an auror. Confirmed on the TODAY show.

[QUOTE="SonicTheMonkey"]and btw, you're right, i screwed up my "wpm" calculations, i was thinking 1 hour (3,600 seconds) but he said 6 hours (21,600 seconds) so it's really more like 10 words/sec. but that's still pretty damn fast. (you think you could read 50 words in 5 seconds?)Funkyhamster

Yeah, 6 hours could be a little extreme... but reading it in 8/9 hours is definitely doable, since it's not like Harry Potter is a narrative masterpiece (i.e. you don't have to soak up the meaning of every word as you read, so you can read some slower sections by semi-skimming and still not miss anything).

My friend, who is pretty much a prodigy, finished the book in 3 hours... I'm serious.

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[QUOTE="SonicTheMonkey"]and btw, you're right, i screwed up my "wpm" calculations, i was thinking 1 hour (3,600 seconds) but he said 6 hours (21,600 seconds) so it's really more like 10 words/sec. but that's still pretty damn fast. (you think you could read 50 words in 5 seconds?)Codename33

Yeah, 6 hours could be a little extreme... but reading it in 8/9 hours is definitely doable, since it's not like Harry Potter is a narrative masterpiece (i.e. you don't have to soak up the meaning of every word as you read, so you can read some slower sections by semi-skimming and still not miss anything).

My friend, who is pretty much a prodigy, finished the book in 3 hours... I'm serious.

I finished the book earlier and Im going back through them all and reading them all over again. I love it, and

[spoiler] btw, Harry didnt die and come back, he was basically knocked out and dreaming. [/spoiler]

Its goo so far, im upto chapter 16.serbsta69

my take on the book,i just finished it

[spoiler] the book was good,i was shocked when kingsley's patronus bursts into the wedding saying the ministry has fallen scrimgeor is dead,they are coming,good action.It got very slow in the woods when they were deciding what to do,basically they kept arguing about the same things over and over again.I thought the end of the book was great harry sacrificing himself,facing death,but didn't actually die then explaining everything to voldermort and asking him to just show remorse then voldermort tries to kill harry but it bounces back and hits him,i thought the epilogue was a bit pointless since it would only seem natural that harry marries ginny,ron with hermoine,i found it quite nice that harry named one of his kids after snape because i liked snape and always thought he was actually working for dumbeldore [/spoiler]

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I FINISHED IT! Took me 6 days :)

The ending was extremely CORNY though. I was honestly hoping for more people to die. I wish that Rowling expanded more on the ending afterwords like [spoiler] what the hell Harry's job is. Or if the wizarding public ever found out what happened between Harry, Snape, and Dumbledore. [/spoiler]

It was mildly surprising, but i think i would have been surprised no matter what happened.

IsNotInterestes

Harry became an auror. Confirmed on the TODAY show.

That's cool. I watched that segment, but I missed part of it.

the harry potter series is crap...read the halo series instead way better or even read the book mass effectBLEACH22

My friend, who is pretty much a prodigy, finished the book in 3 hours... I'm serious.

Codename33

once again, not possible. period. maybe i'd do the calculations again if i were a bit more awake, but it's like 2 am. just double my numbers for the 6 hour guy

impossible, in 6th grade I was reading at a collage levelmgreener_34

>_>

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[QUOTE="SonicTheMonkey"]and btw, you're right, i screwed up my "wpm" calculations, i was thinking 1 hour (3,600 seconds) but he said 6 hours (21,600 seconds) so it's really more like 10 words/sec. but that's still pretty damn fast. (you think you could read 50 words in 5 seconds?)Codename33

Yeah, 6 hours could be a little extreme... but reading it in 8/9 hours is definitely doable, since it's not like Harry Potter is a narrative masterpiece (i.e. you don't have to soak up the meaning of every word as you read, so you can read some slower sections by semi-skimming and still not miss anything).

My friend, who is pretty much a prodigy, finished the book in 3 hours... I'm serious.

It's mathematically impossible. He should have read something like 1-2 pages per second, which is impossible. You friend's a liar.

Well, I finished it yesterday after savoring every page. Heres my random thoughts, reactions and responses (sorry if its long, please read though because I think I have some good thoughts)

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1) Many people seem to have misinterprted the last section of the book. Heres what I took from it:

When Voldemort went to kill Harry for the first time (someone said that they cant believe that none of Voldemorts killings before have been shielded by love and its weird that harrys the only one....the difference is harry was the prophercy kid) his soul was so unstable from the other horcruxes he inadvertantly blew off a chunk of his soul when the curse backfired....it latched onto harry. This left voldemort "dead" but only still alive thru his horcruxes. WHen he used Harrys blood to rebuild his body in book 4, he unknowinlgy accepted Lily Potters Protection into his blood. Even after it had worn off of Harry it still remained in Voldemorts body, so as long as voldemorts body was alive Harry had his mothers protection.

Dumbledore said he thought this would happen all along....this is why he left Harry clues about the Hallows, so after Harry had done his duty and destroyed the Horcruxes and himself, he would be able to fight voldemort using the hallows after he came back to life. When Voldemort killed Harry in the woods he also destoryed his soul inside him, but it wasHarrys mothers (that voldemort kept alive)protection that kept him living after Voldemort had done this. The fact is Harry was WILLING to die. It was something DUmbledore needed Harry to wil himself to do and realize it for himself which is why he gave him the stone....so it would be easier. Harry cants die as long as VOldemort lives

2) Snape DIDNT hate Harry. After her learned that Harry was to die in Dumbldores office he cried and said he'd always cared for him. I think he showed so much hatred to disguise his care from Harry and not compromise his undercover status

3) I think that little crying baby in Kings Cross was Voldemort in his form when he was just living off the Horcruxes (right after he tried to kill baby harry, before his body was rebuilt

4) I thought it was weird how Draco was master of the Elder Wand. I assume it was because Dumbledore was marked for death by A) The curse from the ring B) His agreement with Snape to die and C) Dracos assingment to kill him. I assume the wand realized dumbledore has been marked for death and moved onto the one who was supposed to kill him....draco. And then I guess harry "defeated" draco by stealing his wand in the manor thus becoming the true master. What I think happened in the final showdown is both the expelliarmus AND the killing curse hit Voldemort. In the woods harry wasnt defending himself agaisnt the wand and accepted the death it brought so it worked for Voldy and killed him. But now Harry, assuming the role of the true master of the wand, was defending himself causing the spell to backfire as well as the expeliarmus to hit Voldemort.

who was tht kid inthe end at kings cross??

ND_basic

[spoiler] James, Albus Severus and Lily are Harry and Ginny's children. Hugo and Rose are Hermione and Ron's children. [/spoiler]

[spoiler] I'm going to say that the wand cast the spell at Harry because he knew he wouldnt die. Then in the final duel it cast again, and it WOULD have it harry, but harry overpowered it with Expelliarmus thus deflecting it back. [/spoiler] sk8ter33157

[QUOTE="sk8ter33157"][spoiler] I'm going to say that the wand cast the spell at Harry because he knew he wouldnt die. Then in the final duel it cast again, and it WOULD have it harry, but harry overpowered it with Expelliarmus thus deflecting it back. [/spoiler] deepdreamer256

I do not now how to use the nifty SPOILER buttons, so I marked my post above with spoilers buddy

[QUOTE="deepdreamer256"][QUOTE="sk8ter33157"][spoiler] I'm going to say that the wand cast the spell at Harry because he knew he wouldnt die. Then in the final duel it cast again, and it WOULD have it harry, but harry overpowered it with Expelliarmus thus deflecting it back. [/spoiler] sk8ter33157

I do not now how to use the nifty SPOILER buttons, so I marked my post above with spoilers buddy

[QUOTE="ND_basic"]who was tht kid inthe end at kings cross??

Jacojac

[spoiler] James, Albus Severus and Lily are Harry and Ginny's children. Hugo and Rose are Hermione and Ron's children. [/spoiler]

Don't forget there's also Draco's son, Teddy Lupin, and Victoire is Bill and Fleur's daughter.

I do not now how to use the nifty SPOILER buttons, so I marked my post above with spoilers buddysk8ter33157

Thats why you should read the first post.

[QUOTE="Jacojac"][QUOTE="ND_basic"]who was tht kid inthe end at kings cross??

nishamuffypuppy

[spoiler] James, Albus Severus and Lily are Harry and Ginny's children. Hugo and Rose are Hermione and Ron's children. [/spoiler]

[spoiler] Don't forget there's also Draco's son, Teddy Lupin, and Victoire is Bill and Fleur's daughter. [/spoiler]

Pfft...

[spoiler] The Ron-Hermoine drama was so blunt, first 6 books they just hint at it, then suddenly they kiss eacother during the epic battle? :? [/spoiler]

Sajo7

[spoiler] Tell me about it. At least with Ginny and Harry they actually dated for a while. With ron and hermoine, nothing. Nothing for years and then because he wants to save some elves she loves him? Would have been nice if the relationship could have built up to that point instead of it just falling through the cealing. [/spoiler]

hmmm did anyone else notice that she killed off the old gang *James, Sirius, Peter, Lupin*? I just noticed thatmgreener_34

[spoiler] I realized that right after I read about Lupin's death.. :( It's so sad though, I mean, THEY WERE FRIENDS ! :'(!!!!! 1.James/Lily

2. Sirius

3. Peter

4. Lupin [/spoiler]

[spoiler] hmmm did anyone else notice that she killed off the old gang *James, Sirius, Peter, Lupin*? I just noticed that [/spoiler] mgreener_34

[spoiler] Yeah, Lupinand Tonks dying was one of the saddestmoments in the book. In fact all my favorite characters: Lupin, Tonks, Mad-Eye and Scrimgeour died:( [/spoiler]

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I thought it was really sad that Fred died. I couldn't believe it. I me4an why Fred?

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