Vampires - Who dies - Crush - R/H - Ages - Creeveys

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 20739

Koinonia wrote:

>Well, you know how I am.  I can't seem to get enough of those
>vampires.

>Draco also exibits some fine flying skills.  True, he is not as good
>as Harry, but then who is?

If flying excellence is a sign of vampirism, maybe we should turn our 
vampire-seeking eyes toward Harry.  Hmmm . . . not only does he fly well, 
but he has pale skin and black hair.

Rebekah wrote:

>For one thing (can't remember the *exact* words)
>JKR said in a chat, something like "As if i would kill Harry's best
>friend" about Ron..

Unfortunately, I don't think she said it quite like that.  She observed that 
kids always ask her anxiously about Ron, and wondered why they all think 
he's going to die--she thought it was because the hero's best friend is so 
often the one to die in movies, etc.

Let's hope that if she sees killing the hero's best friend as a cliche, she 
won't do it.

I know, I need to write out a reality check to "self" and remember that Ron 
Weasley is just ink on a page.  Remus Lupin, however, is real, and I'm not 
going to forgive CMC for his coldhearted prediction of disaster in that 
corner.

One thing I'm sure of:  JKR is going to kill people we really, really love.  
She is determined to make us feel the real impact of evil, and killing 
Cedric Diggory, as much as it might have upset her personally, doesn't do 
the trick.  We're going to shed real tears before this saga comes to a 
close.

MMMfanfic wrote:

>Since we are on the topic of death, what do you guys make of the JKR 
>frequent hinting of Harry's Death by the end of BK. 7?  Red Herring? 
>Preparing us for the worst?

Three possibilities:  (a) she's trying to write scary books and they're a 
lot scarier if you have a niggling fear that Harry might not get out of this 
particular dilemma alive.  Naturally, we won't get really nervous 'til the 
end of Book 7--did anyone have the slightest doubt that Harry was going to 
get out of that graveyard intact?--but at least she can scare us about that.

(b) she just wants to nudge our assumptions a bit--"don't think just 'cause 
the books are named for him, he's invulnerable" (anyone ever hear of Anna 
Karenina?)

(c) she's a nasty, nasty person.

Heidi the heretic wrote:

>There's been NOTHING in book 4 to indicate that she is mooning over
harry

One thing.  She stops smiling when Harry says he asked Cho to the ball, and 
then she is miserable when she has to say she can't go with Harry.  You can 
interpret the latter as her being embarrassed that Ron's laughing at her 
date, and upset on Neville's behalf, but I don't see any explanation for the 
former except that she doesn't like hearing about Harry liking anyone else.

I agree with Devika, though--I doubt her crush, even if it's still going 
strong, is the same as it was when she was 10.

Devika wrote:

>Harry has gotten used to the fact that Ginny likes him, just as he has 
>gotten used to being famous.  Both of these things embarassed him before, 
>but now he seems to have accepted them.

IMO, Harry is a lot =less= used to being famous in 4--he certainly seems to 
be feeling the burdens of fame more than at any other time.

>Devika (who also thinks that those Potter men might just like redheads :))

Harry/Ron shippers, are you listening?

Jim Ferer wrote:

>JKR did say there's something going on, but it's *RON* who doesn't know it 
>yet ['typical boy', JKR says] meaning it's Hermione who "knows."

It's possible that neither of them knows.  I think Hermione may have twigged 
to it by now, but the only one we know for sure sees the picture is Harry.

Steve wrote:

>Ron was born on March 1, 1980, so he's five months older than Harry.

I assume your confidence comes from the fact that it would be very unlikely 
for someone to start at Hogwarts a full 6 months before his 11th birthday?  
Or is there some other source that tells us for sure it's 1980?

Melanie wrote:

>Harry will be 15 in OOF..I figured this out because he turned 11 on July 31 
>in
>SS/PS...so that would make him 12 in COS...13 in POA..and 14 in GOF

Correct, but that makes him just shy of 18 when he graduates.  At the end of 
book 4 it's almost his 15th birthday; at the end of 5, his 16th; at the end 
of 6, his 17th; at the end of 7, his 18th.

Jamieson wrote re: the brothers Creevey:

>Anyone have any guesses why I dislike them?

Because you were Greta Garbo in a former life and hate paparazzi?

Amy Z

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Harry remembered how touchy Myrtle had always
been about being dead, but none of the other
ghosts he knew made such a fuss about it.
                  -HP and the Goblet of Fire
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