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whirrledpeas in ireadtheleak

Thoughts: Chapter One

Jul 18, 2007 00:06

I'm not going to say one way or another whether I think the leak is real or not. I don't care. I just find it an interesting read, and would like to discuss it with other people ( Read more... )

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va32h July 18 2007, 04:24:41 UTC

Actually, Voldemort planned to feed Wormtail (live) to Nagini in Goblet of Fire - and then he got the news that Barty Crouch Sr. had been killed, so he told Wormtail to relax - that they'd be feeding Harry to Nagini instead ( ... )

whirrledpeas July 18 2007, 04:29:32 UTC

Thanks for pointing out that first part...I completely spaced about that!

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whirrledpeas July 18 2007, 04:43:55 UTC

Now it actually makes less sense to me than ever before...I went back and re-read the line from that to get the full quote, and it goes:

"I have been careless and so have been thwarted by luck and chance, those wreckers of all but the best laid plans. But I know better now. I understand those things that I did not understand before. I must be the one that kills Harry Potter, and I shall be."

The way it's worded here (or is it just me...) it sounds like this is a relatively recent revelation that's had. How did Snape already know about it in HBP?

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leniarianna July 18 2007, 04:25:59 UTC

If this is the real DH, then I want to know before I spend any money on it. If it's real, I will not buy it and will pitch the Potter books I do have. I find the whole thing so hideously unsatisfying that I cannot imagine staying in the fandom. I will regret ever having read PS all those years ago and felt that I have wasted years of my life on a pointless piece of drivel.

equinoccio July 18 2007, 04:27:33 UTC

Awwww, I feel exactly the same. If the leaked is real, I WON'T BE PART OF THE FANDOM ANYMORE.

equinoccio July 18 2007, 04:26:17 UTC

You forgot the whole Hermione Jean thing. But yeah, I agreed with everything you posted, you're pretty clever :)

whirrledpeas July 18 2007, 04:31:35 UTC

Where's the Hermione Jean thing? I'm only about a chapter and a page into it so far - did I miss something already? lol

Hermione Jean? aussiehpnut July 18 2007, 06:18:29 UTC

I think it's somewhere around the bottom of page 125.

Re: Hermione Jean? whirrledpeas July 18 2007, 06:20:03 UTC

Ah ha. I'm not that far yet. That explains it :)

jvienna July 18 2007, 04:29:33 UTC

I agree with all your observations except the last; that sentence is not a run-on. :)

whirrledpeas July 18 2007, 04:36:03 UTC

Maybe it's just the way that the sentence is structured that bugs me. To me, as at least a one time writer, I probably would've phrased it as:

"Dinner, Nagini" said Voldemort softly. That said, the great snake swayed and slithered from his shoulder onto the polished wood. ...or something like that.

Then again, I've been told that I'm a control freak, so that may be why that sentence bothers me :-D

crackjaw July 18 2007, 04:32:25 UTC

I haven't read the leak as I have no way to (I don't have WinRar on this computer, and it isn't mine, so I'm not about to download it), but I'm interested in some actual discussion rather than "It's fake!" "It's real!" arguments--mind if I stalk?

I must admit all of that sounds fishy--but no, that last sentence is not a run-on.