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Post by moira on Aug 16, 2004 13:00:22 GMT -5
....wow. I'm amazed that she personally gave out so many clues as she did. It's fun in a way, but then it isn't, because part of what's fun about her books is the mystery of not knowing all the crucial information until it's time to reveal it in the book. Are we dying to know? Of course, but....hmm, those seem like major clues, and I'm highly favouring the Salazar Slytherin/HBP theory. That seems very much like JKR's style. I think the bit about letting us know that Harry will be dying at some point is a bit disappointing. Although I had pretty strongly suspected that, it's just...now there's not as much mystery anymore...
So where did you read a piece from HBP Herm? Sorry if you've already answered this question in another place and I just haven't seen it yet.
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Post by hermoine on Aug 16, 2004 14:19:57 GMT -5
Well Harry must die at some point. Don't forget the prophecy. "Either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives." Something like that.
I sent it to you by PM.
So come on! Let's talk of the HBP scoop!
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Post by Sphi on Aug 16, 2004 14:25:12 GMT -5
....wow. I'm amazed that she personally gave out so many clues as she did. It's fun in a way, but then it isn't, because part of what's fun about her books is the mystery of not knowing all the crucial information until it's time to reveal it in the book. I agree. I mean, some of the things we've already figured out, like the Aberforth thing, but the one thing that I'll always come back to is the Mark Evans thing. She just shouldn't have told us that, seriously. Same with Arthur Weasley not being the Minister of Magic.
(Moira, the excerpt is in JKR's new site. )
Who's this new character, Mc Claggan? Do you think he might be the guy in the excerpt?
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Post by hermoine on Aug 16, 2004 14:37:58 GMT -5
Personally I hadn't figures out the Aberforth thing. Well, I think it's good that she did it. Now we can focus on more important things, instead of continuing fantasysing on things which aren't true.
JK said she liked the name Mc Claggan and decided to use it. The first impression I got from the exerpt was that it might be the new DADA teacher. Some are saying it can be a centaur, which honestly! A centaur with glasses! ;D
Here's the exerpt: He looked rather like an old lion. There were streaks of grey in his mane of tawny hair and his bushy eyebrows; he had keen yellowish eyes behind a pair of wire-rimmed spectacles and a certain rangy, loping grace even though he walked with a slight limp.
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Post by Sphi on Aug 16, 2004 15:24:29 GMT -5
I'm getting so confused because we're talking about the same thing in both threads. I keep jumping back and forth.
Where on the site does it mention McClaggan? I wanna take a look at that... So he might be the DADA professor and the guy in the excerpt? Rita brought up a good point in the other thread () that the guy in the excerpt sounds a lot like Godric (!!). ...Could it be possible that the DADA professor is some relative of Godric Gryffindor? Possibly the heir? McClaggan is an Irish name, right? Is Godric supposed to be of Irish descent?
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Post by hermoine on Aug 16, 2004 15:27:28 GMT -5
I know.
I think there's something about it in the News section, where she talks of the Edinburgh event. Well he might be. We don't know much of Godric Gryffindor, at least me that is. So I dunno if he is or isn't of Irish descent.
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Post by Will on Aug 16, 2004 17:22:33 GMT -5
Hmmm... this is all very interesting...
Like 'Moine said, we don't know much about Gryffindor. However, the sorting hat did say that he came "from wild moor".
From the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary:
Taken from the HP Lexicon:
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Post by Sphi on Aug 16, 2004 17:43:12 GMT -5
That sounds like Godric is just from some part in England. But McClaggan could still be related to him, I suppose.
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Post by Isbister15 on Aug 16, 2004 18:13:54 GMT -5
I think the bit about letting us know that Harry will be dying at some point is a bit disappointing. Although I had pretty strongly suspected that, it's just...now there's not as much mystery anymore... JKR did not say Harry would survive through book seven, but TO book seven, which means he will be alive at the beginning of the book. Based on what Hermoine wrote and the quotes from JKR that I've read, I don't believe it's clear-cut that Harry will definitely be dying. She affirmed that he will make it into book 7 but she neither confirmed nor denied that he will for sure die at the end of the series. ((Although I'm quite sure that both Harry and Voldemort will indeed die at the conclusion, and the final sentence of the last book will have the masses raising their glasses and toasting to "Harry Potter; the man who died so that others could live." ;D ;D ;D))
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Post by Will on Aug 16, 2004 18:54:13 GMT -5
So I’m reading through the HP Lexicon… ((Yipee))
This is what they have on HBP: Click
I wouldn’t really call them clues, but just the basic things you will most likely see in the 6th book. Some stuff you already know.
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Post by Sphi on Aug 16, 2004 19:00:14 GMT -5
((Although I'm quite sure that both Harry and Voldemort will indeed die at the conclusion, and the final sentence of the last book will have the masses raising their glasses and toasting to "Harry Potter; the man who died so that others could live." ;D ;D ;D)) I got shivers reading that, Izzy. It would be a pretty cool ending, and you just know that JKR would make it even more spectacular as book 7 draws to its end.
But yeah, I agree with you that there's no clear cut answer that Harry is going to die in those given hints. It's pretty obvious that he won't die before the seventh (or else what would the title be?), but we don't know what'll happen by the end.
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Post by Rubes on Aug 16, 2004 21:37:11 GMT -5
You got shivers as well Sphi? Weird
Aberforth is stomping around Hogsmeade? (That is where the Hog's Head is, right?) I want to hear more about Aberforth
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Post by KoNeko on Aug 16, 2004 22:14:40 GMT -5
From that description of McClaggan, I think he is some sort of animagus. Only I think that a lion running rampant in the English moors is kind of... improbable.
Why does Harry have to die such a melodramatic end? I'd prefer it if he got like, hit by a bus or got cancer or something. It's like, come on. His life was so drastic, let him at least die a normal death.
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Post by Sphi on Aug 16, 2004 23:12:36 GMT -5
Rubes, that is weird. Either Izzy has a really good idea there or something strange is going on.
Hey, weren't you the one who suggested that it might be Aberforth who was the bartender in the Hog's Head? Or am I thinking of someone else?
Neko, we don't necessarily know that the guy in the excerpt is McClaggan. We just know that there's going to be some new guy named McClaggan. Personally, I think the guy in the excerpt is going to be the DADA professor.
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Post by Ritsu on Aug 17, 2004 1:53:24 GMT -5
Precisely, if she said Harry would live, it would be one of the biggest spoilers she had ever done, and we know how clear she is with the clues and answers she gives us
Lol! Harry Potter and the Veil Behind the Door
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