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I didn't mean to completely shut down the conversation sweatdrop Sorry if I did that. Any predictions and such for the last book and what Rowling might as far as stories go in the HP world?

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In regards to Judaism and other religions. As far as I can recall, I don't really think any religion is specifically mentioned in any of the books. That asside, I know that there are still cultural Jews, and other such cultural sub-sets, but to JKR 'defence' she's writting from a perspective that she grew up in. England. Her settings are typically British in that sence, but it also goes into how you read them. I mean, I never picture the Pavash (is it Pavash?) sisters as being Indian. My upbringing has also been very Anglo-Celtic based, so that's how I read into it. I suppose there's the Scottish girl Cho. I mean, that's quite obviously asian. But reading through the books, nothing like that ever really bothered me.

Of the books, Prisoner of Azkaban was my favourite, though I thought The Goblet of Fire and Half-Blood Prince were also pretty good. Movie wise, I thought the first two were terrible, the third to be much better, and the fourth the standout of the movies so far.

I havn't tried reading Harry Potter in a different language, thuogh it would be an interesting experience, seeing is the book still comes across in a similar fashion, or if it has to have its own quicks to it.

Nor have I read any of the other side books that Rowling has written on the world of Harry Potter, though I do love the mysticism of it all. It's like a whole new world you're discovering, and discovering it with Harry is a wonderful feeling, knowing there is someone else just as lost as you are.

Certainly things such as mental health and other aspects of a health-care system never bothered me, but I only really read the books is a consumer might: to simply enjoy them on face value. Which I did.

It's actually Patil if I'm not mistaken.

And I think when he said that she was Scottish he meant that she and her family lived in Scotland, not necessarily that she had Scottish blood.

Anyway, I don't think Harry will die. I have no idea why, but I just don't think he will. Though if he does die I might not really care - I don't really care how she ends the series as long as it's good and dramatic enough of an ending for such a ... big thing. I'm really excited to see how everything unfolds in the end domokun

I've heard that theory too but I disagree because:

arrow when Sirius died in book 5 people were coming up with theories that he wasn't actually dead and people came up with reasons why he might really be alive. In my opinion this is just the same thing repeating itself again.... people are shocked that he's dead and they don't want to admit that he's gone.

At any rate, I think it makes sense that he died. He helped Harry a lot up to that point and in the end, Harry will have to find the horcruxes and destroy Voldemort himself. It would suck if the series ended with Dumbledore fighting Harry's battle, you know? exclaim

I'm not even gonna start on the language sides of it, because I really do not notice that. I read it for the stories and so I know what is going on in the fanfiction world; which I much prefer to the real books, I might add.

POA and GoF are my two favorites. I think that the characters evolve more in those two, especially the Golden Trio. They grow and you suddenly have hormones interfering with the situations. Which is great, now we just need Harry to realise he was gay, that Ginny is a b***h and that Draco really isn't his father and then fall in love with Snape. Then everything is the way it should be. biggrin xd xp blaugh

Sorry, I'm a Snarry addict... sweatdrop

About the movies... The first two were confusing if you hadn't read the books and they were too kiddy-like. The last few were a bit better, but as formerly mentioned, there were not enough detail in them. They had enough time to put in a scene that doesn't exist, but they dont put in some of the scenes that holds the clues. And what is worse, Jo actually says good for them. I could smash her head in for that, I really could.

I have said it many times in many HP discussions, but I lo repeating this: Every book should have as many playing minutes as there are pages. I do not care if that means the movie get 5 hours long, then make it a double episode. I really dont give a s**t. Pardon my language, but I dont.

Agreed, I think a TV series would allow all the right things to get in.

To be completely honest though, I'm pretty happy with the 3rd and 4th movies. Sure, they could be quite a lot better... but after the 1st and 2nd movies.... (which were COMPLETE BS...)

But if it were a TV series, not every body would be able to watch them at the same time, thus spoilers would be all over the media in some countries, while others are still waiting for the series to be released to their country. I see this a lot with Denmark. Some of the TV series that are the newest here, you can already buy on DVD online from a danish seller, because it takes so frigging long for the different TV channels to get the damn series.

I still prefer the movies, but a TV series would have been nice, agreed, because of the extra details.

Amen. I actually waited for the extended versions to come out, and watched them instead of going to the theatrical releases.

A TV series has its pros and cons. The first book of one of my favorite book series, The Sword of Truth by Terry Goodkind (a marvel of use of the English language to be sure, the books are HUGE), is going to be made into a miniseries by the same guy who directed the Spiderman movies.

Good: There's a lot more room for detail that can't be achieved in a feature film.
Good: The director will (hopefully) do it right the first time.

Bad: It's still unsure as to whether it will actually go through.
Bad: As it has been said before in this thread, not all countries will be able to access it at the same time.

I suppose it really depends on the story. For HP, there are details that you either can or can't live without for that one novel. For TSoT, the books tie in to one another so intricately it's insanely difficult to translate into a movie.