how did you feel about book 6 overall?

[thestral]

after my intense disappointment of OotP and even GoF, i wasn't expecting to be wildly excited, in fact i was prepared for the worst, so as not to let my hopes get too high.

but.....it was GREAT!!!! it was the best one so far and even surpassed PoA which had previously been my favourite. my favourite aspects of the book were:

1) harry and DD's relationship, it got really close and touching, especially after the distance between them in OotP. which made DD's death even sadder

2)harry himself!!! his angsty annoying mood of OotP was gone and i liked the way he coped with sirius' death. he dealt with it without high drama and acted like a man about it.

3) Love is in the air!!!! yay!! finally harry and ginny. and ron and hermione will get there but there was a bit more of an acknowledgment of each other's feelings. they came close but not close enough. but i just hope that harry will stick with ginny in the next one and not do the whole 'pushing her away to protect her thing'. fingers crossed.....

4) voldemort's history. now THAT was interesting. and the whole thing of the horcruxes. we have direction!!! you know as in direction in how to actually kill the goddamn son of a snuffles.

5) tonks and lupin!!!! yay!! i want lupin to have love, he's been through so much he deserves it. it made me feel all tingly inside.

6) errrr... the whole thing!!!! i'm sad DD died but it's as i suspected for harry to come into his own now, DD had to die. and i liked it when harry in the funeral realised that he had no one to rely on anymore or protect him. it was himself on his own two feet. no more sad, self-pitying excuses from harry now. open a can of whoop ass!!!!

7) snape!!! snape!!! what can i say?? haven't figured that one out yet. too much to digest at the moment. but not the way i expected it to go. although sometimes people are what they seem and harry was right all along. sometimes if someone acts like a mean b*****d than sometimes that's what they are.

what were everyone else's favourite bits?

[Imelyen]

Books was too bloody predicatable, the only thing i have to think about now is what those stupid initials are supposed to mean?

Snape's actions are obvious (he's actually a good guy in the next book, kind of obvious)

Dumbledore didnt teach Harry cr*p? how is he supposed to beat voldemort if he couldn't even hit snape.

Tonks was an annoying whiner.

Wasted like 400 pages on all that relationship garbage.

The new minister is a moron.

Totally obvious who the HBP was (once i got to the first potions lesson).

The only cool part was Malfoy actually did something....but then he had to ruin it by turning into a cry baby.

Major disappointment IMO

[thestral]

interesting, i really didn't see it like that at all. i loved it. but hey that's the beauty of literature, each reader reads the story with fresh eyes. no character or story is the same any 2 people. and that is what makes literature great.

by the way, just out of interest, what did you think of book 5 Imelyen? cos i hated book 5. so much i nearly gave up on the series. but maybe you loved book 5 and hated book 6 in which case i could form a theory of sorts....

[Imelyen]

Although, book 5 was rather boring...She keeps finding a way to bore the snot out of me. Book 5 it was the entire Occlumency/cho thing...in this one it was the 400 pages of worthless romance cr*p that ultimately led where.

[Tanuki]

So what would impress and entertain your vulgarness? Please beg, tell our unworthy eyes. You strike me as one who refuses to be entertained unless blood and violence is liberally splashed throughout the books. However, knowing Harry Potter, and listening to you; why, praytell, are you even here? Is it merely to offend and anoy those of us here, or do you have some more devious reason.

Also, I must ask, if you find the books so boring, why do you continue to read them?

[Imelyen]

Also, I must ask, if you find the books so boring, why do you continue to read them?

I didnt say the entire book was boring...the portions that I find interesting generally make up for the boring parts. The point i was trying to make, was that she put in all this romance with Ron/Lavander, Ginny/Dean and Ginny/Harry (albeit briefly) and it didn't lead anywhere, as far as I could tell, it was just filler junk. And, actually, I am not a fan of gore. Now I'm vulgar too? You really should learn how to read people before you start insulting them.

[Tanuki]

snot and cr*p are generally considered vulgar words

[Imelyen]

If you think snot and cr*p are vulgar, then you lead a very sheltered life.

[Tanuki]

the severity of the vulgarity does not change the fact that it IS vulgar. Comparrison does not lessen it

[Mistress Siana]

Not that i'm a mod in here, but this thread is for your opinions on book six, not on swear words, and least of all for personal insults! We'll have so much to discuss, so please stay on topic or I'll report you to Paul.

Anyway, I absolutely enjoyed the first 500 pages...and I'm still too shocked about the rest that I don't know what to think of it. I also think it was somewhat predictable, but all the way I was like "I have this feeling about Snape, but it soo cannot be right" - and then came Avada Kedavra. I guess I still need to figure it all out.

[darby]

I just finished the 6th book.....I was still crying after I closed the book. I didn't start reading th HP books until this past January and I've been through the first five books 3 times so far, I admit I'm hooked. I felt angry for so much of the 5th book, but I think I preferred those emotions to the intense sadness at DD's death in the 6th. I enjoyed some of the predictability of the past books. Harry, Hermione, Ron and Dumbledore safety, and the end of the year trip back to the Dursleys for the summer...... I new all would be well. I am trying to recover from DD's death.

[Scarlet Lioness]

I thought the book was too predictable I guessed who the HBP was after the first potions class ended...

But I still enjoyed it...not the best though!!!
I was crying when DD died I still have tears in my eyes...

[Dacre]

I think saying the book was predictable is a little harsh. We know the characters by now, there's only a certain amount of things that can happen with dramatic change of them tbh. I mean, if Harry and McGonagle started going out then that would be less predicatable, but hardly fitting with everything else really.
I wonder if DD wanted to be killed as he realised that Snape had taken the Promise, and that ultimately Snape would be more usefull to the order. Either that, or DD planned this, and isn't really dead (though I admit that I also was hoping against hope this was true for the last few pages of the book, but no clue was given (have re-read last bit again too))
Also, the relationship stuff? Remeber this is for kids - it's all going to be understated, and presented that way. Harry is 16, I remember that sort of stuff pretty much ruling life at that age.

[Scarlet Lioness]

I was secretly hoping at the end that DD would somehow come back to life because of the Phoenix song or something...

[thestral]

i don't know why people keep on saying they thought it was predictable?!? or maybe i'm just really really stupid? well there were obviously bits that we predicted harry and ginny, DD dying. but i don't think i was completly predictable the whole way through. new characters like slughorn and scrimgeour weren't predictable (as we didn't know them enough yet). the whole felix felicis thing, no-one predicted that, or that spinners end was snape's house, or about draco's detour.. etc etc

i think it's being a bit harsh to say it was all predictable. alot of it took me by surprise, the history of voldemort and learning about the horcruxes. admittedly we knew about it cos of the diary, but it was like a satisfying 'ahhhhh, right..' as the bits fell into place. quite alot of the storylines sort of tied themselves up with past books and that made it really enjoyable for me, it wasn't just a bunch of clues it was going somewhere. like the diary, that always niggled at me, i knew it was significant in some bigger way but didn't know why.

DD's death although i was sad, it was like the moment where harry became a man. he grew up and took responsibilty knowing that he only had himself to rely on now and to protect himself. the new improved harry, no more stupid temper tantrums or pig-headed-ness, and what he said about sirius' death about not shutting himself up surprised me, from the harry of the last book i thought he was going to be all mopey but he didn't let it stop him from getting on with what he now knew he had to do. harry grew up so much in this book, that i stopped hating him for OotP.

also on predictability, we're on a forum and have discussed everything from hermione being a werwolf to harry actually being voldemort. so i think unless harry actually turned out to be the giant squid who then went on to terrorise the wizarding world with his squidish evil, well there isn't much we haven't predicted so most things we've thought about too much being the sad freaks we are so therefore consider the events predictable.