Harry Potter - eh?

The answer to all of your questions lies in, you know, reading the book.

Anyway:

(1) How did Volde-boy "kill" the central character toward the end if he (Voldemort) wasn't truly capable of wielding the central weapon?

He wasn?t capable of handling the true power of the wand, the full potential of it. Other than that it was still a wand and he was still a powerful wizard.

(2) What made Voldemort so mad in the first place? Why isn't this explained?

Hunh?

(3) Where exactly was that place where Harry and Dumbledore meet towards the end?

The gateway. The bridge. The lobby. That place between life and death. This can?t be a new concept to you.

(4) How did Draco become the "rightful owner" of the certain weapon when, best I can tell, he never actually had the weapon in his hands?

He didn?t have to hold it ? he still took it from Dumbledore on the tower when he blasted it out of Dumbledore?s hands. He won it.

(5) In a certain battle in book 7, bad guys are killed with arrows. If projectile weapons can kill, why not use guns?

The hell is wrong with you?

(6) How perfect was it when Snape asked Harry to look into his eyes? Remember how many people told Harry that he had Lilly's eyes?

Well, yeah. I mean, it was one of the sweetest, most subtle moments in 4000 pages, but feel free to break it down for us.

(1) Yeah, okay.

(2) I'd like more backstory on Voldemort over 4000 pages. Yeah he had a bad childhood and all, but it could have been fleshed out more.

(3) I expected Neo to show up there for a bit.

(4) Ah yes, that makes sense. I forgot that Draco expelled it from D's hand. I had Snape as the rightful owner. I'll need to re-read HBP now.

(5) Dude.

(6) Bow chicka bow bow.

--- cut me some slack here, i just finished the thing. thanks for the explanation though.

I am looking forward to Stampe seeing this..

Ill bet he has some answers for you

Harry decides to put away the elderwand and use his old wand instead to avoid spending his whole life being challenged by people wanting to defeat him and get rightful owner of the elder wand. But Harry himself became righful owner of it by taking Dracos old wan from him - defeating him. This means people can still defeat Harry and then force him to tell where the elder wand is.

he he ........ I actually saw this before chauncy and decided to leave it to an expert to answer but my answer would be much shorter and the same to all 5 ?: it's magic.

I just hope that people who hasn't read the book yet (if there is any) steer clear of this thread even if the header DOESN'T include a spoiler warning which it should.

But speaking of sweet moments - I kinda of liked the names Harry and Ginny gave their boys

I'm three chapters into the first book (been stuck there for a few weeks actually) and I guess now I'll just shit can the entire project. Thanks for freeing up some time for me.

At that rate, I saved you about 4 years' worth of trouble. You're welcome.

I can't believe I am going to say this, but...

It's still worth the read. The books will take you on a "journey" of sorts. A journey of the imagination. Spoilers of books are not as bad spoilers in movies. With books, its more about HOW you get to the end, rather than what the end is.

Did that make sense?

Anyway, I learned this from reading Stephen King for years. Anyone who reads King, and knows anyone else who reads King, finds out rather quickly that readers of King do not know how to contain secrets very well. Never ruined a book though.

Oh. You can always go the "audio-book" route too. I am. Its ...er... a different experience altogether. Not quite like the books, and yet, much better than the movies. RB got me on this with the Potter series and I admit it.... she was right.

Glad you gave them a try - I've never enjoyed audio books as much as this series; it's uniquely suited to be read aloud, particulary by someone as talented as Dale.

I'm currently listening to Audrey Hepburn's biography on audio book (long road trip to Iowa) and though the story's compelling, it reminds me that most written narrative just doesn't work out loud. At all.