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DH:34 - The Forest Again (Bloomsbury 2007)

Sep 03, 2007 00:10

Italics are impressions from my first read, when I did not yet know what was going to happen.

( DH:34 - The Forest Again )

dh: 34

Comments 8

james_padfoot September 3 2007, 07:12:09 UTC

6) "Nearly half of the hour alloted by Voldemort for his surrender had elapsed." Bullshit. First of all, he had to make his way all the way from the Shrieking Shack back to the castle and up to the Headmaster's office, and then he saw all those Snape memories including half of a Hogwarts Sorting. Unless watching memories actually takes no time at all, the passage of so little time is not possible.

No bloody way. "Time is making a fool of us again, Harry" says Dumbledore in HBP. They spend their nights looking through memories and discussing them. We have too much proof from HBP about pensieves to assume that being in a pensieve disrupts the space-time continuum. Jo should have allocated two hours, which would have been more believable.

pica_scribit September 3 2007, 18:33:16 UTC

Exactly. I thought maybe there was a chance that the Pensieve works like dreams do, where time seems to pass, but everything really happens instantaneously, but it really does not seem to be the case.

nessaancalime September 3 2007, 14:32:16 UTC

4) Harry perceives Dumbledore as cold and calculating. I still can't see it that way. I think that *somehow* Dumbledore was able to predict what would happen, just as it seems he predicted every other thing that happened in this book. But it was essential for Harry to believe that he was going to his death, and for him to willing choose it. I wish I could explain this better. Harry knows that Dumbledore chose rightly as well; he does not begrudge him arranging things like he did, and when he talks to Neville, he even consciously tries to be like Dumbledore. There is no room for anger or bitterness; only the task which must be done.I would take it one step further and say that Harry's belief in needing to die was the one thing that would keep him alive. It's all about what Dumbledore preached about there being stronger and older magics than the ones you can do with a wand, like they way Lily saved Harry. And in this context you comment on Aslan is very appropriate ( ... )

pica_scribit September 3 2007, 18:34:09 UTC

Thanks! I'm looking forward to exploring other kinds of magic when I get around to writing my Founders Fic. It's going to be fun.

banana_cave September 3 2007, 18:13:17 UTC

Wow, looks like you guys are almost done. I got way behind. (I'm still on chapger 9...)

pica_scribit September 3 2007, 18:32:00 UTC

I suppose there is no real time limit. I hope everyone will keep posting until they are done, however long that takes.

leenah September 3 2007, 23:58:17 UTC

my favorite chapter. cried thru the whole thing.

many problems with this book, but this chapter redeems much of it for me.

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pica_scribit September 10 2007, 04:14:34 UTC

Religious nutters are not worth bothering with, for the very reason that they rarely even attempt to employ logic in their arguments. God gave us big, squishy brains, people! Learn to use them or something....