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  1. h_carnahan

    Harry Potter Seventh Book Pre-Sales Speculations and Discussions

    I doubt that it will be Summer '07 since that is when the next movie is due out. They normally don't have 2 big HP events so close...
  2. h_carnahan

    Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - Discussion *Spoiler Alert*

    I am confused. She seems so loyal...its hard to believe. Although I must say I would give her more credit to figure it out that Regalus.
  3. h_carnahan

    Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - Discussion *Spoiler Alert*

    I don't think Dumbledore can come back. His portrait was only tacked on the wall after he was killed. Only the dead headmasters grace the office walls.
  4. h_carnahan

    Harry Potter Seventh Book Pre-Sales Speculations and Discussions

    I am on the fence on this one. I would like to think it is Regalus because it would give Harry another reason to return to Grimmuald Place which I would like him to do. Also, there is the locket that was found when he was cleaning out the house with Ron, Hermione, Mrs. Weasley and Sirrius in the...
  5. h_carnahan

    Alice Sebold: The Lovely Bones *spoilers*

    I just finished the book, my only incentive to read it was that it was listed as a recomended reading for the AP Literature exam. I found the book to be very interesting. I enjoyed the narrator and Sebold's description or creation of heaven for Susie. Earlier on in the thread someone said that...
  6. h_carnahan

    Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - Discussion *Spoiler Alert*

    What suggested to you that someone that he was Harry's father?
  7. h_carnahan

    Harry Potter Seventh Book Pre-Sales Speculations and Discussions

    I don't think rowling wpuld allow the kids to "fall through the cracks in the educational system" as you put it Oberon. Can you imagine the grief rowling would get from angry parents saying that rowling is encouraging children to drop out of school and go on your own quest? I don't even think...
  8. h_carnahan

    Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - Discussion *Spoiler Alert*

    That sounds more like Snape. Doing what he has to in order to achieve his own agenda. I think we have all generally agreed that he and Dumbledore acted out the death, but now the question is did Dumbledore truly understand Snape's motive and agenda or is he naive?
  9. h_carnahan

    Harry Potter Seventh Book Pre-Sales Speculations and Discussions

    But words said in anger or sadness are sometimes exaggerations of the truth.
  10. h_carnahan

    Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451

    I didn't really like this book until I had read all the literary criticism that was written on it. (Maybe I just needed to be lead in the right direction) I found that this book was very complex and contained so much more that the surface. After rereading it I got so much more out of Bradbury's...
  11. h_carnahan

    Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - Discussion *Spoiler Alert*

    But why would it be mortifying to him? It would be a great and noble deed which he would be forever remembered for, leading to the end of Voldermort. I can see that as being his fear since he secretly did (maybe still does) fear for Harry's safety.
  12. h_carnahan

    Difference between British and American Order of the Phoenix

    That's a fun bit of trivia. Who added it in then?
  13. h_carnahan

    Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis

    I took a Spanish class that had Harry Potter (in spanish) as a required outside reading. I passed with flying colors!
  14. h_carnahan

    Rate the new Potter book here

    Yes but Snape has had so much practice using that curse (at least I would imagine) that he probably didn't need to mean it as much as someone who was trying to use it for the first time.
  15. h_carnahan

    Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - Discussion *Spoiler Alert*

    Reading the 5th book? Why? I really enjoyed the 5th book!
  16. h_carnahan

    Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - Discussion *Spoiler Alert*

    I agree with that to an extent. I don't think Dumbledore was a fool and wouldn't take Snape onto his side without assurance of his loyalty. Assurance that he wouldn't divulge to anyone...maybe we will return to Dumbledore's pensive again? I thought that we had seen the last of it in book five...
  17. h_carnahan

    Philippa Gregory: The Other Boleyn Girl

    I think that Gregory would put an interesting spin on King Henry, she has a way of making her characters point out all of his flaws and making the read dislike him very easily. I would wonder what she would think he would have thought about his wives and children. Did he ever question his...
  18. h_carnahan

    Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle

    When I was little and we would have substitues we would always have "read-aloud" Mrs. Piggle Wiggle stories. I had always thought that they were only stories that the substitues could buy until I saw them in the library three or four years ago! Sadly they aren't that popular anymore, everyone...
  19. h_carnahan

    The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe

    I'm not a Narnia fan, haven't even read the books, but I saw the movie and was amazed by the vast amount of Christianity symbols. All the main characters and some of the major events relate back to prominent people and events in the history or basis of Chrisitianity. From what I heard the movie...
  20. h_carnahan

    Philippa Gregory: The Other Boleyn Girl

    Not yet, I actually didn't even know it was out. But it looks interesting. I have read Queen's Fool and Other Boylen I liked both of them but they did go by very slowly. It seemed that there were pages of nothingness. I find it interesting that Gregory's focus is on the Tudor women. I think it...
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