Book 6

[db44]

Just to be safe, I don't think I give anything away here (heck, I just started the book, so I can't give away much. I do hint at who I think dies though), but just in case, let me leave some spoiler room...
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Okay.

As I said, I've just started it. I'm fairly sure I know who dies, considering the reviews I've read and more-so from looking at the chapter titles.

I found this article on the wires which makes me chuckle though:

UNDATED (AP) _ "I love the book, I hated the ending.'' That's how one reader sums up the latest Harry Potter book.

As promised by author J.K. Rowling, there's a death at the end of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'' and readers are finding themselves grieving the loss of a character they've become attached to over the years.

A 13-year-old Minnesota girl says she was "so depressed'' when she finished the book. And a Connecticut teen-ager calls it an "awful betrayal.''

Rowling expects to start working on the seventh and final installment at the end of the year.

That's unsettling to one Potter fan, who fears Rowling "will have no pity'' and will "kill off'' favorite characters.

Did these readers not expect somebody big to die eventually? Haven't they been following the trends and the reports about these books? Why bother reading them if you can't handle the obvious? And how is it, if Rowling created this whole world, that she is betraying anyone? Betrayal would have been ending the series earlier than she had originally said.

So that all said, let's discuss the book and the surrounding stories.

[Nightingale]

I loved the book, but hated the ending, too. :(

[*MEmeME*]

I loved the book, but hated the ending, too. :(

yeah me too....and i dont think book 7 will be that great :bluesad: ....but i am excited about reading it though...but i hope it would be less depressing than the 6th one

[db44]

Just in case...






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The ending was pretty much what I expected. My guess was correct as to who died (and it's who I expected would die in book 6 since I started reading the series). It made sense.

Book 7 is going to be intruiging now, as it was always said the series would be all about Harry's time at Hogwarts. If he goes off as the book sounds, well, that plan is out the window... Could it also bw that now we may not see the end of the series with Book 7?

[pinkcrayon]

but what if hes not dead, and hes not really bad?

[db44]

No, I think he's dead. She kept hinting that someone died, and I don't think that means he can come back. After all, Voldamort can only come back through holocruxes, and there's no way that the recently deceased created one (just looking at the way they are created).








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Although while we're on the subject, here's what I'm wondering: Could Harry and the scar be a holocrux? After all, there were two murders that night, and we don't know what the curse truly was when Voldemort died. Could the series come down to Harry having to sacrifice himself in order to kill Voldemort?

[Dirrty4xtina]

^^^^ i do think that Harry would think that way , but he wont die im sure of it ..

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anyway the book was amazing with great plot .. but i knew who the half blood prince
was the mintue harry saw HBP written on his potion book , and i knew whose going to die along time ago . it's kinda obvious really ,,

i wouldnt say it became my favorite book but its not that bad .. i would just like to point out that im a H/Hr shipper and the story line didnt bother me , anyway if JKR wants to make the romance in the book that Childish its her problem . She could write her stuff and i'll take the best of it ..

Looking Forward for Book Seven ..

[db44]

In what way? That he wouldn't sacrifice himself to rid the world of Voldemort? I think he would. He doesn't have to come up with the idea, either. Maybe someone will think it up for him (the holder of the watch, perhaps). Rowling has always said she doesn't know if Harry will live or not, and I'm not so sure that the prophecy means only one will live or if both must die.

[tiger_rascal]

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I just finished book 6. I really dont know what to say, except that book 7 better be a really big, thick book, because it sounds like Harry will have quite an adventure finding and destroying all the horcruxes. Hopefully he will have time to get revenge on Snape also.

However, I would hate to see it end like that, Harry getting revenge and stooping to their level of evil and hatred. Dumbledore said that Harry has one thing they do not have, the power of love. It sounds to me like Harry needs to get control of himself and find another way of ridding the world of Voldemort and his minions.

Dave, I too thought that perhaps Harry, his scar, is a horcrux. However, only Harry has the power to destroy Voldemort, and in order to do that he has to destory all the horcruxes and then find Voldemort and destroy him. Harry could not destroy Voldemort if Harry had to sacrifice himself to destroy the last horcux, because Voldemort would still live on, the last piece of his soul within himself.

All I know is, Harry needs to calm his temper!

Hopefully there will be a book 8 so that book 7 wont be so crowded and jumbled, as if in a hurry to finish off the series.

Also, does anyone know who the initials R.A.B. is for?

[*dream*]

Also, does anyone know who the initials R.A.B. is for?

I have seen some theories on other boards that think RAB is Regulus Black...Sirius's brother. In OotP they found a locket at Sirius's house that they could not open so this could be so.

[tiger_rascal]

Interesting, I forgot about the locket at the House of Black.

If a Black had something to do with finding one of Voldemorts horcruxes, that would be odd, since they are supposed to be pure bloods and would usually support Voldemort, with the exception of Sirius. This could give way to a storyline that could give Harry some closure to his godfathers death.

Perhaps the fall of Voldemort and the pure blood higher than thou attitude will come from the inside of the pure blood wizarding community. Maybe Harry will have some unexpected help.

When I was reading the HBP I thought that it was very odd what had went down with Dumbledore and Snape, as though it was planned. Afterall, there was no reports that Snape was fighting anyone, other than defending himself against Harry. Snape was only protecting Malfoy, which afterall is still underage and is caught up, even if purposely, in a big mess. We may have some big surprises in book 8!

[MrMojoRisin]

Most of the Black's would have been supporters of Voldemort, but remember that Regulus was killed for some unspecified reason, by the followers of Voldemort. The note in the locket also says he expects to be dead before Voldemort find's out he took the horcruxe. It makes sense that RAB could be Regulus Black.

[bekahbeans]

Anyone else think Harry's gonna die in book 7?

I was talkin' to my buddy the other day and told him I hoped Harry died. He gave me a look of horror. But really, it's not like Harry's the most likeable character in the books. Kill him off, I say. It'll make a good ending.

And Chad, you're wrong. You're just like my grandma all hoping everything will be sunshine and roses in the end. All Harry has to do is destroy the other Horcruxes, then he fights Voldy and they kill each other simultaneously. Voila! A perfect ending.

[tiger_rascal]

You have a rather simplistic view on book 7.

I do not think that everything will be sunshine and roses. However, just as Dumbledore has always said, Harry has the one thing that Voldy does not, love. Now, why would this be said over and over again if it were not used in the final book? Will Rowling throw everything out the window or will she stick with the story that she has started? Perhaps Harry will die. But, that will not be a bad or sad ending. He will at least be reunited with his mother and father and Sirius and the world will be rid of Voldy. Im sure Rowling will make it very interesting, or at least I hope so.

Time will tell!

[bekahbeans]

Yes but DUMBLEDORE IS DEAD, Chad, DEAD!!!!


Harry's gonna die too. It all makes sense. I will relish in my rightness. And then you will kiss my feet and beg for me to forgive you for ever contradicting me. Mwahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!

[db44]

I think he'll die, especially if the holocrux idea is correct. I doubt he could get rid of the scar through laser surgery, afterall.

[tiger_rascal]

Bekah, what does Dumbledore being dead have to do with Harry having and knowing love, something that Voldy does not have?

Harry will kill himself thus killing Voldy and they all live happily ever after the end. blah

[bekahbeans]

Everything and nothing! Harry's love has clearly run out - even Dumbledore can't keep it together! No, not really, I was just being facetious

And good job, you finally admitted the inevitable. I'm so proud. *tears*

[db44]

Looking back at this thread and thinking of something that just came to mind...

I'm starting to think Dumbledore is still alive.

In the line Chad mentioned: Snape also promised to keep Malfoy alive and help him carry out the task, so he was just waiting for this moment. He wasn't fighting as far as we know and he wasn't just protecting Draco for the sake of being underage. We know he had to carry out the deed because of the spell he was part of in the beginning of the book (and did anyone not figure that was Malfoy's assignment?).

We also never found out what the deal was with Dumbledore's arm, did we? Here's my latest hypothesis: Dumbledore killed his arm somehow as his sacrifice to the cause. So, perhaps the attack really hits his arm, or maybe because of the arm Dumbledore is part-dead already? Maybe the spell can't kill what's already dead?

And another idea as to what could be an ultimately shocking end: Potter is killed by Dumbledore. That's in the train of them both knowing Harry is a holocrux. Harry/they kill Voldemort (perhaps in the very scene where we find out Dumbledore's not dead) and he explains everything to Harry, including that the boy must die... I think that would be a great ending. The fans will hate it, but it would have the world crying (except Bekah :p). A book that can provide so much emotion is a good book, even if you don't care for the outcome.

[MrMojoRisin]

Didn't the ring Dumbledore had have a curse on it, and that's why his hand was black and stuff.

[db44]

Did it? I don't remember...