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Courtesy Reminder - Harry Potter- NO SPOILERS PLEASE

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Just a quick request to all our members. Please be courteous to your fellow simmers, and do not discuss in board posts, or

in chat room, the outcome of the new Harry Potter book, for those that have not finished reading it yet.

 

Woot.....btw, I'm done! 1 thermos of Dunkin Donuts Coffee and a half dozen very sugary donuts, and about 3 hours of catnaps..<pun not intended>.......and I can now go take a nap. <won doorprize, was moved to 3rd in line, I was in an out and on my way home to read in minutes!>

 

Seriously though, may of our players have put years into reading this series and would like to see how it ends for themselves. Please

just be courteous and repectful of your fellow players, and not ruin it for others

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Thank you I havent even read it yet I had it mailed to my house but I decided to take a mini vacation

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well...ok blu.....will not ruin ::the end:: so happy reading you guys, :D

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I am about half way done. I really want to know what happens to ************

 

(Editor's Note: Be careful, even mentioning names could be a giveaway)

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Woo Hoo! I very much enjoyed the final Potter installment. I started reading sometime around 5PM Saturday, and finished 11PM Sunday night. The last 200 or so pages were definitely in the "all hell breaks loose" category.

 

Once more people have finished, we can totally kibbitz in the topic.

 

EDIT: On a side note, I am so tired today from the 2 day marathon on and off again reading session, and my shoulders, arms and neck are stiff/sore from sitting in almost the exact same position. Let's call it "Potter Syndrome." :-P

Edited by Kansas_Jones

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I got done reading it yesterday morning. I think it's the best one so far yet I am disappointed with one thing. As soon as it is safe to do so, I'll say what it is cuz it contains spoilers. What a 10 year ride tho !!!!!!!!!!

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::keeps his mouth shut::

 

I just saved myself the trouble and read the wiki for it an hour before the book came out in the US. :D

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I am about half way done. I really want to know what happens to ************

 

(Editor's Note: Be careful, even mentioning names could be a giveaway)

 

Oops sorry. I said that character because I like him/her/it. But thanks for the edit, its makes my post look more mysterious.

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Oops sorry. I said that character because I like him/her/it. But thanks for the edit, its makes my post look more mysterious.

 

IS it ok to mention things that are totally not involving or affecting the plot?

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IS it ok to mention things that are totally not involving or affecting the plot?

 

But how do you know that thing won't involve the plot? Or tip someone off about what may happen? Even if it isn't the direct plot, it may be part of a side plot. I'd love to post about this one part within the last few hundred pages, but I can't because any Potter fan (whether avid or casual) can figure out what happens based on my post no matter how I word it. I'll wait.

 

It only takes one little "thing" - anything Potter is a loaded subject with regard to book spoilers. This is just me - the post editor has the final say. ;-)

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What i wanted to say is something happens in the beginning of the book that is only mentioned like 2 times more at random parts in the book. If you would like to know what it is, ill PM you.

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I got my copy at 1 in the morning on Saturday, as I had to stand behind all those punks that "reserved" their copies. 29 hours later I had finished a seven book epic that had started before highschool, one of the few things in my life that lasted longer then STSF :P

 

As for spoilers, being the only one of my friends already done I dont have to worry much, but all in all I've found people are actually being rather decent in regards to those not lucky enough to have yet read it.

 

A word of advice to those who haven't read the book yet, take it slow. Although the entire book is a great read, there are several chapters that I wont name that contain the main meat of the story. A lot of things happen, a lot of things are revealed and by the end all the questions are answered. You learn alot of things in those chapters so take your time and digest it all and its meaning. So be patient and have faith fellow witches and wizards.

 

Oh, and one last thing, dont skip ahead, AT ALL. I went to the last word in the book because J.K. Rowling had said it would be scar and I felt like looking. I wont say what it is but even that brief look can ruin things.

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So how long did it take you guys to finish reading(those that did actually finish)?

 

Took me 9 hours. 7 hours on the plane from england to america, and 1 hour at each airport.

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I finally finished reading the book, too. YAY! Since most of my friends are really slow reading books in English or waiting for the German translation I kinda avoid the topic at the moment 'cos I was planning to still live for a little while.

Anyway, to all those who haven't read/finished the book yet...I'm sure you won't be disappointed.

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I finally finished reading the book, too. YAY! Since most of my friends are really slow reading books in English or waiting for the German translation I kinda avoid the topic at the moment 'cos I was planning to still live for a little while.

Anyway, to all those who haven't read/finished the book yet...I'm sure you won't be disappointed.

 

It was very dissapointing to me, and i'm a major fan of HP. =(

 

The fansites only got one major thing right in all of their theories.

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Wow, which fansites were you reading? The Potter communities I hang out on were ablaze with "yep, we called it!" about 5 hours after the book was released, when people started finishing. (I didn't start reading them until 8 hours after, since my friends and I went to a party and didn't get to crack open the books until almost 3 am. Anticipation... woo!) Very few surprises in the book, I felt. Except for the very first death - that was a sad surprise.

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Wow, which fansites were you reading? The Potter communities I hang out on were ablaze with "yep, we called it!" about 5 hours after the book was released, when people started finishing. (I didn't start reading them until 8 hours after, since my friends and I went to a party and didn't get to crack open the books until almost 3 am. Anticipation... woo!) Very few surprises in the book, I felt. Except for the very first death - that was a sad surprise.

 

Mugglenet. =P They only guessed who R.A.B. was.

 

They also guessed who's allegiance Snape lies with, and whether or not Harry was gonna get killed.

Edited by Greg Nirvana

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So when do we get to post spoilers? None of my friends have finished yet and I am dying to talk to someone.

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So when do we get to post spoilers? None of my friends have finished yet and I am dying to talk to someone.

You could post a topic called: SPOILER DISCUSSION: Harry Potter 7- DO NOT ENTER IF YOU ARE STILL READING.

 

EDIT: I'm sure whoever is still reading the book is intelligent enough not to enter that room.

Edited by Greg Nirvana

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I am curious - I thoroughly enjoy the Potter universe, both the novels and movies. I think both the novels and the films are high quality entertainment.

 

However - the films "ruined" the novels for me. The characters, locations, action sequences and such that I had in my imagination when reading the novels were changed when the first film was made, due to the computer images, locations and actors that were used. I have never quite gotten back to those original mental images I had, and in a way, this is unfortunate.

 

What about y'all? Same thing? Never really noticed?

Edited by Kansas_Jones

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I am curious - I thoroughly enjoy the Potter universe, both the novels and movies. I think both the novels and the films are high quality entertainment.

 

However - the films "ruined" the novels for me. The characters, locations, action sequences and such that I had in my imagination when reading the novels were changed when the first film was made, due to the computer images, locations and actors that were used. I have never quite gotten back to those original mental images I had, and in a way, this is unfortunate.

 

What about y'all? Same thing? Never really noticed?

 

It's funny that you say that. Before the first movie came out my cousin and I both re-read the books. We would talk about what we thought things would look like and how we imagined everything. Like I thought the Dorm rooms would look similar to what they were in the movie and she thought they were a little more bare. I thought it was rather interesting to see what I had imagined vs. what the movie put out.

 

Yes I have been swayed by the movie and have lost some of my mental images, but at the same time it has helped. I think the teacher are a great example, McGonagall was never fully fleshed out in my mind. But when I saw Maggie Smith I suddenly understood the teacher and as I was reading the couple books she made more sense to me. Also I hated Umbrage in the books, but in the movie I wanted to punch her in the face. Between her clothes, cats and stupid little laugh. Now that is an actress taking a character and expanding on it

 

::throws in her 2 cents::

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I am curious - I thoroughly enjoy the Potter universe, both the novels and movies. I think both the novels and the films are high quality entertainment.

 

However - the films "ruined" the novels for me. The characters, locations, action sequences and such that I had in my imagination when reading the novels were changed when the first film was made, due to the computer images, locations and actors that were used. I have never quite gotten back to those original mental images I had, and in a way, this is unfortunate.

 

What about y'all? Same thing? Never really noticed?

 

It happened to me. For every book i read, i have these mismatching mental images of all the characters(mismatching meaning the way they look, like this one book, one of the people seemed to me like they look like paper mache turned into a person, another person from that story was like 2D graffiti, etc.)

And they totally were destroyed by the actors and the scene layouts, etc.

 

::Throws in an ingredient for the recipe of life:: (wow, what a nice metaphor)

 

EDIT: For porters comment, i agree with mconagall. It was hard to kind of imagine her, until the movies came out.

Edited by Greg Nirvana

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See, that's the problem when you take a book and convert it into a movie series. I, for example, never thought of Alec Baldwin as Jack Ryan or Sean Connery as Marco Ramius, in The Hunt for Red October when I first read the book, but I thought the movie was a faithful adaptation. When you read a book, any book, you place yourself as all the characters, and how you see them. But when you watch a movie of the same book, it gets condensed down to 2 and a half hours, and you're watching everything as a passive participant, not an active member of the story; and what you see is the producer's and director's interpretations. Just like watching Shakespeare. A live performance of Hamlet is as different from the Sir Laurence Olivier version is to the Mel Gibson movie.

 

My two cents (now that I've rambled on long enough): Use the movies to flesh out the books, use what you know of the books to flesh out the movies.

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