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Post by limbowoman on Jul 26, 2007 1:48:20 GMT -5
Nobody gets it...
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Post by Aindel on Jul 26, 2007 10:59:52 GMT -5
I'm not even sure how I do it sometimes. It's kinda creepy. I guess being friends with a bunch of different sets of twins throughout my life just trained me to pick up on it or something. Or I'm psychotic, take your pick.
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Post by Clover on Jul 26, 2007 14:21:40 GMT -5
See, I saw my pairing coming from the first book. The question in the first potion class in the first book? I saw it and went "BAAAA HAA HAA HAEEEE!" And oh my god, when I went to Chapters, there was a girl dressed up as Sybil Trelawney. It was awesome. Also, in House standing, I'm a Slytherin through and through--- for me, though, the only difference between Ravenclaw and Slytherin is their use of knowledge. Slytherin likes knowledge for what it can do for it. Ravenclaw just likes knowledge for its own sake. Mmm...Slytherin. Slytherin rules.
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Post by limbowoman on Jul 26, 2007 23:20:02 GMT -5
I'm not even sure how I do it sometimes. It's kinda creepy. I guess being friends with a bunch of different sets of twins throughout my life just trained me to pick up on it or something. Or I'm psychotic, take your pick. Don't worry, I have an uncanny ability to be able to know a plot in a book before it happens...
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Post by child-of-fae on Jul 27, 2007 1:36:40 GMT -5
i only know two sets of identical twins and i constantly need to ask them which one they are, sometimes more than once in the same day...
i think it's cause i've fangirl'd enough to learn the slight differences to look and listen for. like the things such as goerge/oliver's left eye get's slightly squinty when he smiles, or that fred/james's voice is slightly higher and that his hair was longer then his brother's in GOF.
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Post by Aindel on Jul 27, 2007 9:55:22 GMT -5
Oliver also hunches his shoulders forward a bit more. I spotted that one back in the first movie at the train station.
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Post by child-of-fae on Jul 27, 2007 18:44:07 GMT -5
oliver's smile is seemingly bigger.
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Post by Aindel on Jul 27, 2007 19:51:09 GMT -5
We need lives.
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Post by Clover on Jul 27, 2007 21:59:05 GMT -5
Yeah, maybe a bit. Oooh... am I the only one curious as to who they'll pick to play Hogwarts!Lily? It'd better be someone pretty, damnit.
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Post by child-of-fae on Jul 27, 2007 22:52:23 GMT -5
i hope they do. but if you ask me, daniel radcliffe is't very nice looking....
and to the comment suggesting we need lives....Ya Think?
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Post by bubbles on Jul 28, 2007 15:50:00 GMT -5
Harry Potter was good before J. K. Rowling started thinking she could appeal more to teenagers by making everyone angsty.
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Post by limbowoman on Jul 28, 2007 22:39:12 GMT -5
*Nods to Poppy* Death and blood don't mix well with names like 'potbellied squeak' and 'oobledooblby'...
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Post by Trey on Jul 29, 2007 6:42:17 GMT -5
I didn't like book five or six, personally, and I barely liked four, but I'm enjoying seven so far.
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Post by Aindel on Jul 29, 2007 15:22:41 GMT -5
I like 2 the best, personally. I'm not even sure why, I just do. This is followed by six, then four, then seven, then five, and then one. Three, in my opinion, kinda sucked. It was pages upon pages of NOTHING HAPPENING. We got lots and lots of backstory, followed by Harry running about Hogwarts mad at Snape for taking over Lupin's classes and being the generally very creepy man that he is, and then more backstory. All of this culminates in a confrontation in a creepy house where even more backstory is revealved, followed by a lack of spells from drawn wands, and going back in time to reveal things the readers knew about five chapters ago.... Poppy: But without Wizard Angst, where would Potter Puppet Pals be?
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Post by Clover on Jul 29, 2007 20:39:43 GMT -5
See, my favourite books are those that feature Snape as some variety of predominant character. Any book that focuses on the Golden Trio instantly loses a lot of appeal for me. I can't empathize with those three, and I don't know why. Hermione rubs me the wrong way--- she's intelligent, and I respect that, but she's so damned BOSSY and anal-retensive about everything; Ron is far too disorganized and lackadaisy, and he strikes me as somewhat.. uh... dumb, and Harry is just... I mean, I know he's got all the reasons for his various neurosis, but he judges people way too quickly, and then holds grudges for soo long. It makes my head spin.
But any book with Snape seems to appeal to me, just because he ISN'T cut and dry. He's not a hero. He's not a particularily nice person. He is, however, ridiculously loyal and ridiculously principled. He just isn't obnoxious about it.
I think the difference, and the reason that I prefer Snape to the Trio is this: The Trio and Snape both seem to be working in the same direction, and a lot of the times, Snape is working behind the scenes to assist the kids. The difference is that the kids seem to want the accolades--I mean, sure, Harry gets a little miffed with all the attention, but the other two seem to thrive on it: Hermione likes validating her intelligence, and Ron likes anything that puts him in the limelight as RON, not just as one of many Weasleys.
Snape, on the other hand, does his job and then lets it rest. He doesn't run around wanting accolades or metals-- we know he wants some recognition [the whole 'turning Sirius in for an Order of Merlin' thing], but at the time he did think Sirius was a convicted mass-murderer, and he only wanted his just desserts. He seems more withdrawn.
That having been said: My favourite books are the first (Because you're introduced to everyone), the sixth (Snape-centric novel if there ever was one!), and possibly the seventh, because it vindicates a theory I've been sitting on for ten years.
And haaa, Potter Puppet Pals. XD
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