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    Quote Originally Posted by Gadget Girl View Post
    What's the point? She can always say "no, Dumbledore is Dumbledore and he was in love with McGonagall when they first met". It would be fascinating!
    Well, that might have seemed very obvious. Dumbledore being gay seems like an information most of us (it seems to me) were not probably expecting and authors love to give a thrill you know.
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    I know that, Pensive. It's just that Dumbledore and McGonagall being together is a good pairing. Look at Ron and Hermione for example -- it was VERY obvious! I'm a Harry and Hermione shipper because the both of them can be a good couple than Ron and Hermione. I thought that Rowling was just using Ron so that people won't think that Hermione will end up with Harry. I really, really thought that they would be together because it was not expected.
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    Dumbledore and McGonagall?
    Now you are just getting too wierd.....
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    It's better than Dumbledore and Grindelwald.
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    i am a 15 year old reader of all the HP books, and i am saddened by the fact that there wont be any more.
    also, you said that they dont supply increase IQ blah blah blah.
    that doesnt matter. the thing is, these books are written NOT so that literature people like you can disect them and point out that they dont have good grammar blah blah blah, but they are written for entertainment. it makes me angry with people like you, especially adults, who have never read the books, and are talking about how they are bad and shouldnt have made as much money as they did.
    Rowling is an excellent writer and there is nothing i wouldnt give for another harry potter book. the reason kids/teens like them so much is because they take kids away from their current setting and throw them into a different world, if only for a moment. when you read these books it almost feels like you are there. and THAT is why these books make so much money.

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    Welcome to the forum, andy!

    Just look at the poll above and you will see that a vast majority likes the HP books - and they're not all teenagers. These books can even charm adults, "throw them in a different world", as you say. I get the impression that most of the critics that find fault with HP are LOTR fans (or some other fantasy books).

    And as for the 7th volume being the last - who knows? Event Conan Doyle had to write another Sherlock Holmes story although he had even gone so far as to kill him!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gadget Girl View Post
    It's better than Dumbledore and Grindelwald.
    Actually i thought that they were a nice couple. (oddly enough! Amazing how that came to be true! Its discreetly hinted at in the book.)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Levenbreech Vor View Post
    Although Harry Potter is a nice, quick, entertaining read, I was wondering whether anybody on this forum shares my view that it is incredibly overrated.

    Harry Potter is the bestselling book in history, better then great literary classics, suspenseful mystery novels, and in-depth sci-fi and fantasy worlds. WHY? J.K. Rowling's characters are poorly developed, the plots are full of annoying angst, the villains are cliché, and the writing style is childish.

    I have often, on other message boards, expressed by views on Harry Potter and was shunned. I was hoping that on a forum full of well versed, literate people, I could find someone that would agree with me.

    Whether or not you agree with me, tell me your views on Harry Potter.
    you know wy harry potter best..............well people don't want to boring people's peoms going bla bla bla people want exiting edventures and coll magic now isn't that better than bla bla bla boring bla bla zzzzzzz the maker probly bored himself to sleep writing poems i woul rather jump off a cliff than listen to bla bla bla boring boring bla bla bla.
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    I'm sorry to disagree with those who hate HP because it's commercial but in my job in a primary school I see children glued to these books, children that would normally be playing computer games or watching tv, I do think there is to much detail in JKRs writing she doesn't leave much to the imagination but she has got a great many children reading again..

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    Quote Originally Posted by yummymummy View Post
    I'm sorry to disagree with those who hate HP because it's commercial but in my job in a primary school I see children glued to these books, children that would normally be playing computer games or watching tv, I do think there is to much detail in JKRs writing she doesn't leave much to the imagination but she has got a great many children reading again..
    It's true that she doesn't leave much for the imagination, but I am not sure that is needed though. Because of how she describes everything (people, areas, events) you can feel like you're already there, and you don't need to imagine, when you already feel the place.

    Just a theory.

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    Quote Originally Posted by thelastmelon View Post
    It's true that she doesn't leave much for the imagination, but I am not sure that is needed though. Because of how she describes everything (people, areas, events) you can feel like you're already there, and you don't need to imagine, when you already feel the place.

    Just a theory.
    I completely agree with you. It makes it more real in the mind of the reader.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Niamh View Post
    Actually i thought that they were a nice couple. (oddly enough! Amazing how that came to be true! Its discreetly hinted at in the book.)
    actuall i like the pair hari and dumbledor yay i can see it now dumbledor keeping secretes telling hagrid than harid slowly telling harry through the whole thing perfect hey basicly harid gets secretes and telles em to harry and harry tells his freins and dumbledor does not know.
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    Quote Originally Posted by andypants1792 View Post
    i am a 15 year old reader of all the HP books, and i am saddened by the fact that there wont be any more.
    Don't be. The Harry Potter mania is still there! Rowling will publish HP encyclopedia to support the things that she didn't mention in all seven books like the background of Dean Thomas, the kid at the train station (7th book), McGonagall, etc.
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    In third grade I kind of liked the first book. Not enough to read the others though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gadget Girl View Post
    Don't be. The Harry Potter mania is still there!
    Whoah, that's for sure. It won't go away. No worries. That's the benefit of liking very popular things.

    Anyways, I read up to the fourth book enjoyably over a span of...a year or two, when I was nine or ten, but I became intensely bored when my mom wanted me to read the fifth one to her. I find that it's the same plot over and over again and that irritated me.

    So no, I dont like it, but I do enjoy seeing millions of rabid fans in line to get their books or to get into a Harry Potter party or get their books signed by Rowling herself.


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