SPOILERS [the_old_crowd] Re: HBP: spoiler rolling balls

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On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 10:16:54PM -0000, dorbandb wrote:

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> Yes, Jo - That was definitely the first (only?) person I thought of. 
> But I couldn't remember where his middle name was mentioned.  Thanks
> for that.  I'm not sure what that gets us though.  Regulus is dead,
> and the horcrux that cost AD his life isn't really the horcrux at all.
>  Granted, it will take a slow-witted guy like me several readings to
> see things more clearly, but my first thought is that the real
> horcrux, that Regulus had at one point, is among the trinkets at 12GP
> - unless Diadulus Diggle has pilfered it already - unaware of it's
> significance, of course.  Since Harry now owns 12GP, he'll find that
> one easily enough.  That still leaves 3 others...

A shrewd guess. Harry should take a better look at Sirius' mirror, don't you
think? What has Kreacher hidden? And just to fan the pro-Snape flames a
little, do you think Snape has one?

I'm certain someone on the List has applied the soul-in-a-box concept to
Voldemort at some point: it's a classic bad-guy tactic, and Voldemort's
wrinkle on the theme is a good one. It didn't surprise me. Harry & Ginny
surprised me (pause for penguin retching sounds), but not his Mills&Boon
attempt to fob her off at the end, which of course is doomed.

> I thought the scene where Snape AK's Dumbledore was powerfully
> written.  I readily admit to shedding several tears during the last
> hour or so of reading.  The notion that it was effectively a mercy
> killing never entered my mind.  I heard Dumbledore's "pleading" as
> just that - "Please Severus, don't let me down now..."  Of course,
> I've never thought Snape was anything close to a good guy, regardless
> of Dumbledore's trust.  When he entered into the unbreakable oath,
> that sealed the deal for me in terms of his trustworthiness.

For Snape is BRAVE and promised to do something for DD he _didnt want to do_.
Beware of his "blank unreadable stare". Like you, I really thought ESE!Snape
was in the bag on first reading, but on second...I believe they (Snape & DD)
saw this coming. And I read Snape's parting shots to Harry in a different
light. He keeps trying to tell Harry that he must be able to close his mind
and not to signal his shots. Of the  "new" stuff in HBP, the concept of
non-verbal spells is most intriguing.

I didnt miss Percy at all.

ewe2, the little penguin that could (whatever it was).

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