Spoiler, book discussion of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows.

[Uponastar]

I want to know about George and how he went on without his twin.

 

[nibblesandbits]

The sentence immediately before that is where Harry says the scar hadn't hurt him in nineteen years. "All was well" followed that.

that's what I was thinking. It was in the last line of the book.

 

[nibblesandbits]

I want to know about George and how he went on without his twin.

I actually do too. That was so sad that she broke them apart.

 

[Nemo14]

wait...I thought dateline was tonight.

It's on Sunday too.

 

[nibblesandbits]

It's on Sunday too.

oohh...thanks!

 

[Connor002]

Question:

Whatever happened to the last word of the last book being 'scar'?

She said it had been for the longest time, but when it came down to it, she decided to change.:shrug:

 

[Number_6]

I remembered another question that occurred to me. She makes a big deal in the book about how Harry's cloak offers perfect concealment, but just a few chapters before, the Bathilda-snake senses Harry and Hermione underneath it in Godric's Hollow and gets them to follow her/it back to the house.

And then in Book 4, isn't it a recurring theme that the fake Mad-Eye seems to know when Harry is there, even though he's under his cloak?

The only thing I can think of is that they "sensed" Harry under the cloak without actually seeing him...but that still doesn't seem like perfect concealment to me. :shrug:

Nagini had been watching the graveyard for someone going to visit the Potter's grave. Seeing two people placing flowers there, the most likely thing was that it was Harry in disguise. After Harry and Hermione went to put the invisibility cloak on, they still had to contend with the issue that originally made them not bother with it when walking into town... footprints. All you really need is to watch where the footprints are and make sure you are right there with them. The cloak does conceal the wearer perfectly, just it can't conceal where the wearer has been if there is something like snow or mud.

Oh, I'm brimming with questions today....

How did Dumbledore beat Grindelwald in a duel when Grindelwald was using the Elder Wand? Was the "unbeatable wand" part something assigned to it by legend, when in reality it was just the world's most powerful wand? That would leave some room for an immensely skilled wizard with a less powerful wand to defeat it. If it was truly unbeatable, though, it could never be won in a duel, right? Only through treachery or surprise.

It's possible that's one of the things that Rita Skeeter's book got right. It may have been that after all those years, Grindelwald just couldn't bear to fight his old friend Dumbledore and he agreed to surrender. Thus, the mastery of the wand would be transferred to Dumbledore. They had to come back and say there had been a grand duel that ended in his capture to keep Dumbledore's past out of the spotlight. If it came to be known that Grindelwald just surrendered outright to Dumbledore, people might have started questioning why that was, when he wouldn't surrender to anyone else.

 

[Wilt Dasney]

Well thought out and perfectly plausible answers, 6. Since JK didn't explain any of that, we'll go with those. :lol:

 

[Uponastar]

Someone just told me that, roughly translated, "Xenophilius" means "lover of strange things." How fitting.

 

[CaptainMichael]

Someone just told me that, roughly translated, "Xenophilius" means "lover of strange things." How fitting.

Jo has apparently done some serious research while writing Harry Potter.

Is anyone else bothered by the fact that Ron was able to open the CoS??? Also, I think Voldemort should have hidden the diadem in the CoS...it would have been safer because, you (allegedly) have to be a parselmouth to get in.

 

[Number_6]

Also, I think Voldemort should have hidden the diadem in the CoS...it would have been safer because, you (allegedly) have to be a parselmouth to get in.

But Voldemort was under the impression that he was so clever hiding the diadem where he did because he thought he was the only one that knew where that hiding place was located. It hadn't occurred to him that anyone else had ever found the Room of Requirement looking that way. So from his point of view, that was the safest place to put it. He didn't realize that tons of students has already found it and that was why it had been so full of stuff in the first place. Just goes to show that even dark wizards can out think themselves.

 

[sissa216]

Is anyone else bothered by the fact that Ron was able to open the CoS??? Also, I think Voldemort should have hidden the diadem in the CoS...it would have been safer because, you (allegedly) have to be a parselmouth to get in.

Very. Although the book was brilliant, there were a few moments like this one where I feel she just went for a quick solution....I mean, doesn't Ron say something like he had listened to Harry very closely and figured out how to say it himself?? It was kind of a cop out.
If she'd spent a little less time focusing on the dragged out months of despair in hiding, and a little more time giving us improved versions of scenes such as this one, it would have been perfect.
As it stands, it still blew me away though :sohappy:

 

[JimboJones123]

But Voldemort was under the impression that he was so clever hiding the diadem where he did because he thought he was the only one that knew where that hiding place was located. It hadn't occurred to him that anyone else had ever found the Room of Requirement looking that way. So from his point of view, that was the safest place to put it. He didn't realize that tons of students has already found it and that was why it had been so full of stuff in the first place. Just goes to show that even dark wizards can out think themselves.

Your overconfidence will be your downfall.

 

[EPCOT Explorer]

Finished it in 10 hours and cried my eyes out at the end...I LOVED the book 1 references!

I miss Hedwig.

 

[Nicole220]

Is anyone else bothered by the fact that Ron was able to open the CoS??? Also, I think Voldemort should have hidden the diadem in the CoS...it would have been safer because, you (allegedly) have to be a parselmouth to get in.

That bugged me as well. Speaking parseltongue does not sound like something you can hear once and try and repeat it, let alone actually get it right!

 

[lunalovegoddess]

Here's a link to Mugglenet, where JK Rowling might be able to shed some light on your queries...http://www.mugglenet.com/app/news/full_story/1156

 

[Uponastar]

Jo has apparently done some serious research while writing Harry Potter.

Is anyone else bothered by the fact that Ron was able to open the CoS??? Also, I think Voldemort should have hidden the diadem in the CoS...it would have been safer because, you (allegedly) have to be a parselmouth to get in.

Very. Although the book was brilliant, there were a few moments like this one where I feel she just went for a quick solution....I mean, doesn't Ron say something like he had listened to Harry very closely and figured out how to say it himself?? It was kind of a cop out.
If she'd spent a little less time focusing on the dragged out months of despair in hiding, and a little more time giving us improved versions of scenes such as this one, it would have been perfect.
As it stands, it still blew me away though :sohappy:

I saw that scene as a quick fix, too.
Definitely one of the weaker parts.
But still. . . I loved the book. It is a great ending to a brilliant series.

 

[JimboJones123]

Is the Scar gone? Was it gone when Harry died? Is it still around now? I don't remember if it was said?

 

[BiggerTigger]

If I recall (and I finished reading last night) when he was in King's Crossing the scar was gone. But when he was on platform with his kids getting ready to go to Hogwarts some people were staring at his scar. So I do believe he still has it.

 

[Raven66]

Is the Scar gone? Was it gone when Harry died? Is it still around now? I don't remember if it was said?

I thought in the epilogue when he was sending his kids off to school he reached up and felt his scar saying that it has been 19 years since it hurt.