Harry Potter book 7 title

[Kevin]

Harry Potter VII to be "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", discuss.

[Leader Desslock]

I suppose that sounds better than "Harry Potter and the Big Pile of Money", which is what I've been calling it.

I'll be glad to finish the series. It's good, but I really hate year-long breaks in a narrative.

[Daishikaze]

I'm just glad its ending, then maybe the whole thing will fall by the wayside in a few years.

[Old Ape Face]

i dono LOTR's been around longer then star wars i think harry potter will be among those modern literature pieces.

[Daishikaze]

I did say Maybe, I doubt it will, sadly (for me anyway)

LOTR wasn't as widely read as Harry Potter, at least not before the movies.

[Samurai Drifter]

i dono LOTR's been around longer then star wars i think harry potter will be among those modern literature pieces.
Harry Potter isn't particularly well written, though (LOTR wasn't either, in my opinion, but the writing was much more intellectually challenging than Harry Potter, which led more people to take it seriously). Also, HP has been a pop-culture phenomenon, whereas LOTR, before the movies, was mainly a sci-fi/fantasy fandom and academia thing.

Don't get me wrong, I really enjoy the Harry Potter books. They're just written to be read by the largest common denominator... i.e. at about a 4th grade reading level.

[ryushe]

I just hope it's not thicker than the Holy Bible this time.


(filler)

[Scandiadream]

I prefer Narnia to HP and LOTR. But I still have read all the Harry Potter books- or better yet, listened to them on tape/CD. The previous book I got the next day after it was released. No way I would stay up all night to get the copy immediately.

[sailornyanko]

LOTR wasn't as widely read as Harry Potter, at least not before the movies.

I hope you're referring to mexican laymen. :lol: People in my country NEVER read books, it's culturally frowned on for some reason. I'm heavily sure a lot of people think the Narnia books were published just 1 year ago when the first modern movie came out. Idiots.

I just read the 5th HP book and enjoyed it very much. I'm liking Snape more and more. He's just adorable, simply adorable. He has that unattractive/weird bishieness feel to him. Me likies. I feel like the 5th book had a minor plot error regarding the thestals. Didn't Harry see his teacher Quirrel die in front of him? (Better yet, Harry killed him)

Harry should of been capable of seeing those beasts immediately but the 5th book claims he could only see them after what happened to cedric just 2 months before classes began.

I haven't read the 4th book though, my university lost it. ¬¬ I ain't spending 20 dollars in a book I'm only going to read once. Plus most of the books are poorly translated to spanish. The 5th book is the first one I've read that doesn't suck in spanish.

I'll read the 6th and 7th books eventually (and hopefully the 4th as well) when my university gets them.

Curiously, I had a one-stop opportunity to buy the 6th HP book the very night it was launched for sale in the US. I was virtually inside the bookstore around 11 pm that night (but it was an accident, I just got in because I found it curious a bookstore would be open so late). I noticed immediately what was going on when I saw a bunch of annoying 12 year olds with plastic HP glasses squealing in excitement. *shudders* Needless to say, when I left the store past midnight and they didn't let anyone outside enter, a lot of people were looking at me with strange faces because I had a chance to buy the 6th book but didn't while they were staying outside hoping to get in before 2 am or something. :lol:

I enjoy the books as they are and praise the woman for making even mexican kids read books for once (god, everyone knows how hard THAT is!). But I have one big complaint against the books: all of the Slytherin kids are arses that slobber over Draco as if he were god and everyone has caveman-corpulent bodies and everyone hates Harry and the Weasleys equally. I find it stupid. They say that to enter Slytherin, you must come from at least a half blood wizard family and have great ambitions. It doesn't mean you have to think pure-blood is the work of god and you have to necesairly bash impure bloods like droids. They say that all of Voldemort's followers were forther Slytherins, but it isn't a rule that says if you studied in that house, you will become evil.
You could be in the house because you're a pure-blood with great ambitions and have an interest in the dark arts but you're not evil or cruel yourself. You don't mind other students origins as long as they don't get in your way. I'll always feel that the HP books keep on showing over and over again this weakness and overt bias which is annoying. I like Snape and he's kute kute kute. He only became a jerk because Harry's dad and Sirius were jerks with him.

[goddessofanime]

The only reason I really want to read this is to see if Harry and whomever dies.

[VidelCoolGirl]

Yeah, I just want to know who dies in this one, and if will finally step up, and knock up Hermione.

[Soaker87]

Ooh, I've been wondering what it would be called.

Now I wish I knew what the heck that's supposed to mean.

[Animematt55]

Snape kills......harry? Hermoni? himself?

[Alice Catherine]

Nice. We have a title. That betting pool that's on Gaia's gonna start.

[superplough]

Ron Dies.
(filler)

[Illusions-chan]

I think the title sucks personally. But then again, I guess after the sixth book, I've kind of lost my love for the series. It just went down hill for me.

But I will probably read it, and then ***** about it. So... oh well. Life goes on.

[{NG}Fidel]

The Druggies at my work seem to lust after Harry Potter Books.
God I hate working at a resturaunt.

[Delta-Pheonix]

http://www.potterpuppetpals.com/

Makes me luagh every time i watch it :lol watch bothering snape and trouble first, Angst is'nt as good.

[DazzleKitty]

I guarantee Snape or Draco will die. My favorite characters ALWAYS die.

[Kali-chan]

I heard this about 4 months ago, so it may not be accurate, but just in case, I'm spoiler tagging it
Someone(Lucius Malfoy?) is trying to kill Harry, and Ron sacrifices himself for Harry's sake(maybe to find/kill Voldemort?)
What a friend!!!
Like I said, don't trust this, it's possible that this idea never existed or was forgotten, so don't read the book and get disapointed when it doesn't happen, or you can thabk me if it does happen!

[Lord Timaeus]

If Ron dies even in the middle, I will personally burn my copy of the book, never to read it again. The franchise may have already jumped the shark after book 5, but that would be going too far.

[Soluzar]

The franchise may have already jumped the shark after book 5, but that would be going too far.
You actually thought book 5 was good? You're more forgiving than I. The fourth book, Goblet of Fire, was excellent, and actually made up (to an extent) for the occasionally shoddy writing that I had noticed throughout the first three books, but I found The Order of the Phoenix to be unreadable trash.

I couldn't finish it. I just couldn't stand to see the English language treated in such a manner. It really felt like a much less competant piece of writing than the previous volumes, and just seemed desperately in need of an editor. These qualities had always been inherent in Rowling's work, but to a leser extent. I lost all desire to finish reading the series, especially since they are getting longer with each volume.

[Lord Timaeus]

You actually thought book 5 was good? You're more forgiving than I. The fourth book, Goblet of Fire, was excellent, and actually made up (to an extent) for the occasionally shoddy writing that I had noticed throughout the first three books, but I found tThe Order of the Phoenix to be unreadable trash.

I couldn't finish it. I just couldn't stand to see the English language treated in such a manner.

Actually, I found book 5 to be the shark jumping book, not book 6. The only good point I can find about the fifth book was the characterization of the Weasley twins. Everything else pissed me off.

[Soluzar]

Actually, I found book 5 to be the shark jumping book, not book 6. The only good point I can find about the fifth book was the characterization of the Weasley twins. Everything else pissed me off.
Ahh. We agree then. I would still have continued reading, even though the narrative direction was not to my taste, had Rowling not lost her ability to write coherent English, though. Any student in creative writing classes would have received a failing grade for that piece of work.

The first three volumes would have earned the student seven out of ten, with a note reading "Watch your grammar. You can do better than this. Far too chatty."

[Lord Timaeus]

My main gripe with the latest books was actually that the plot didn't really go anywhere for the most part, while the only reason I kept reading was for the big twist in the end. That gave me quite a dilemma in book 6, as I already knew all the twists before the book was officially released. While I still hate YTMND for spoiling that one important plot point, it made me realize that the series has become just another easter egg with an empty shell as I read book 6.

[Alice Catherine]

...you know.
I'm a kid. I like Harry Potter. Give me credit for that. Most kids my age don't read at all. At least not in my school.

[goddessofanime]

Rocks fall....Everybody dies!

[Lord Timaeus]

Rocks fall....Everybody dies!

If Rowling actually used that ending, she would be my new roleplaying goddess. XD

[Alice Catherine]

...I think that Lupin kicks it.

[Kali-chan]

what!!!!!!!! I like Lupin!!!!!!!

[Alice Catherine]

Well, I think that both of them kick it; Wormy and Moony...
Wormy hasn't repaid his debt to Potter yet, and if he's gone, it'd be symbolic to kill the last of the Marauders. See? They all die for Harry Potter.

[superplough]

heh thats not a bad idea..
but seriously, either Ron or Hermione's going to die.

[JamBoy]

I reckon that it would be a good twist if Harry was one of those horcrux things

[Kali-chan]

heh thats not a bad idea..
but seriously, either Ron or Hermione's going to die.


didn't you read my earlier post? With the spoiler tags?


And in response to the comment about Harry and the horcruxes, that WOULD be interesting

[superplough]

no sorry, i didnt. but its rather obvious lol

[Alice Catherine]

Whatever. It doesn't count as a spoiler if:
A) It hasn't already happened and really has nothing to do with the central plot

Ron and Hermione die. That's just speculating which characters are going to die. Anyone who's read any of the books can take that in and be like "OK."

But "Harry is a horcrux!" is a major spoiler to anyone that hasn't read HBP. Which is still a lot of people.

[drgenestarwind]

The new title has a lot of connotations. it seems a bit dry at first, but i've warmed up to it a lot. for more information and an exclusive interview with Evanna Lynch (who will be playing Luna Lovegood in the 5th movie) go to http://www.leakynews.com/pottercast/

[MonkeyBoy0314]

Forget all you haters, I'm stoked! I still love this series, and the fact that they're dragging darker elements into it makes it more intriguing, kinda like the progression of Pink Floyd's subject matter leading up to The Wall

[Alice Catherine]

^Yup. Because Pink Floyd compares to Harry Potter in EVERY WAY.
*has a father he brought her up on Pink Floyd and made her watch The Wall when she was 7*