Comments | zsenya: Vanishing Cabinet

zsenya

Vanishing Cabinet

Oct 19, 2005 21:48

Okay, about a zillion other people probably figured this out already, but I decided to relisten to the entire HP series on my iPod while commuting this fall and I just started Chamber of Secrets, which, for some reason, I am starting to put in my category as "favorite book" even though it's never been there before. It's so great to hear all about ( Read more... )

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hildigunnur October 20 2005, 02:08:50 UTC

Yes, I totally agree with you about Ginny defending Harry there. It's the line I've always used when I've tried to explain how I see herself and her feelings for Harry. This is the line that should convince people that Ginny didn't have a personality transplant in OotP and that Ginny never "hero-crushed" on Harry.

peachespig October 20 2005, 02:57:30 UTC

Yeah, that's the cabinet. As for the Hand of Glory, best friend of thieves and plunderers... since reading HBP I always get shivers when I reread Lucius reacting to Draco's interest in the Hand by saying "I hope my son will amount to more than a thief or a plunderer... though if his school marks don't pick up, that may indeed be all he is fit for." Poor Draco, all those years later still trying to prove his fitness to his awful father, clever enough to find a murderous use for that very same Hand.

I always imagined that the only part of HBP that at one point was actually planned to be in CoS was the potions book, as some kind of parallel of Riddle's diary; but all the echoes that carry through from one book to the next are great.

lilac_bearry October 20 2005, 04:57:29 UTC

Such brilliant planning, Jo!

Yes, we were so right about Ginny. That one line let us know so much. Defending Harry seems to just come naturally for her

edeainfj October 20 2005, 14:35:26 UTC

AND. When Ginny defends Harry in front of Malfoy in Flourish and Blotts. That is so... Ginny.

Word. That moment is usually the first thing I point to when people start saying that Ginny came out of nowhere.

dalf October 21 2005, 02:11:15 UTC

I dont think the vanishing babinet at borgin and burks was broken. The one at hogwarts was not broken untill book 3 when Nearly headless nick taunts Peeves into dropping it to cause a distraction on Harrys behalf.

As to improvments in writing style. I agree though book for still has approximatly 10 gaziliions instances of 'said harshly' or 'said sharply' (every time McGonnigal speaks I think).