<p>Hell yea!</p>
<p>Man I want to read the whole series all over again just to make sure when J.K Rowling decides to make a reference to a past event I wouldn't be all confused.</p>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p>But it would take soooooo long!</p>
<p>lol, it probably wouldn't take that long.
they're long books, but they go really fast.
I might reread the last one, but I've alraedy read the others often enough, I don't really feel like reading them.
honestly, I'm not really that interested anymore, I'll just be reading it since I've read all the others.</p>
<p>My opinions:
Dumbledore is dead
Sirius Black is dead
Snape is BAD
Harry Potter and Voldermort will die in Deathly Hallows</p>
<p>All I know is this book better be thick if it is going to tie up loose ends and be the big finale. I thought that the Book 6 was too small and was not one of my favorites. On the other the hand, I loved Book 5 even the ending was so sad. I hope that the movie does not butcher the story like the 4th movie did to Book 4.</p>
<p>I'm planning on watching the fifth movie the day it comes out, then that week we have before the release of the seventh book, i'm gonna be reading one book a day...well maybe combine SS/PS and CoS in one day cuz OotP will prob take more than a day to read if i dont read it continuously. Book 5 is my favorite! then im planning on going to the midnight release. thats gonna be one heckuva week!!! </p>
<p>yet it is so bittersweet cuz i've been a fan for 7 years now. it'll be sad to see it end.</p>
<p>My Opinions:</p>
<p>DD is dead
snape is evil
sirius is dead
RAB Is regulus black
voldy will die
trio will live
hagrid or molly might die (not sure on this one)
deathly hallows refers to the horcruxes</p>
<p>I started reading in 5th grade. What's weird to me is how I've literally grown up with the books. </p>
<p>Book 1...I was 10
Book 2...I was 10
Book 3...I was 10
Book 4...I was 14
Book 5...I was 14
Book 6...I was about to turn 16
Book 7...Comes out a week before my 18th birthday. </p>
<p>So basically I've read all the books when I was the same age as Harry. I will miss it :(</p>
<p>I find the series increasingly more irritating. I'm pretty ashamed that I still buy the books without question, but perhaps because I end up criticizing Rowling. She's just.... ugh, such a horrible writer. With her success, you'd think that she'd be able to afford to invest some time into developing her own style, or at least refining upon what she currently has -- no. That last book read like a bad fanfiction with all the "unexpected" plot twists and events galore.</p>
<p>The only thing I admire is her success. Even the story's turned pathetic.</p>
<p>My Opinions / Facts:</p>
<p>Dumbledore is very dead.
Snape is obviously good.
Sirius is also very dead.
RAB is definitely Regulus Black.
Voldermort will obviously be destroyed.
Trio will be separated for dramatic effect.</p>
<p>wow surfette, thats a long time. i will miss it too :(</p>
<p>i read books 1-4 the year book 4 came out, and i was 11 (6th grade). then for book 5 i was 14, book 6 age 16, and book 7 at 18 (i'll turn 18 this saturday).</p>
<p>well taggart, to each their own opinion.</p>
<p>While rereading HBP I came across some potentially important information. In a note that Harry recieves from the Ministry of Magic about precautions, he is told that the Death Eaters are using Inferi. (An Inferius (plural: Inferi) is a corpse controlled through a Dark wizard's spells. An Inferius is not alive, but rather just a dead body that has been bewitched into acting like a puppet for the witch or wizard.) I wouldn't be surprised if Dumbledore comes back in book 7 as an inferius.</p>
<p>I don't think Potter dies and I am pretty sure Snape isn't evil. Dumbledore is dead, but that doesn't mean he can't show himself. Serius Black is probably dead but that isn't conclusive. Voldermort will die.</p>
<p>Isn't Hallows the name of some saint? It might be some sort of a clue.</p>
<p>i think dd will communicate through the portrait in the headmaster/mistress' office.</p>
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<p>When I was reading book six and all the Inferi starting coming out of the lake and attacking, I thought that James and/or Lily would show up. It would be SO FREAKY/AWESOME if someone Harry knew became an Inferius, and he had to fight them. Which raises the questions of how people become Inferi - if their body is recovered and buried, can they become Inferi? Or does Voldie have to kill them and then enchant the body immediately afterward? I'm thinking that maybe Ollivander is an Inferius since he randomly disappeared and all.</p>
<p>oh i hope he isn't dead :( that would be terrible.</p>
<p>who do you guys think are the two characters that will kick the bucket, and the one character that got a reprieve?</p>
<p>i wonder if Jo is ever gonna tell us who got the reprieve.</p>
<p>when exactly is the book being published (in America)?</p>
<p>July 21st 2007 :D</p>
<p>oh okay, thanks</p>
<p>I think R.A.B. is Sirus's cousin or brother (can't remember) Regulus something Black who was killed by Voldemort.</p>
<p>When asked "What does 'Deathly Hallows' mean?" J.K. Rowling responded, "Any clarification of the meaning of 'Hallows' would give away too much of the story - well, it would, wouldn't it? Being the title and all. So I'm afraid I'm not answering."[7]. She also declined to say what her two other shortlisted titles had been, at least until after publication.</p>
<p>Hallow is a word usually used as a verb, meaning "to make holy or sacred, to sanctify or consecrate, to venerate". [8] However, in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the word hallows appears as a noun. In modern English, the word is used as a noun in "All Hallows' Day" or "All Saints' Day," which is the day after Halloween or "All Hallows' Eve". Hallows can refer to saints, the relics of saints, the relics of gods, or shrines in which the relics are kept.[9][10] Since the essence of these saints or gods were often considered present at their shrines and in their relics, hallows came to refer to the saints or gods themselves, rather than just their relics or shrines. So, the hallow (relic) of a hallow (saint) is hidden in a hallow (shrine). Hallow is not to be confused with hollow, such as in Godric's Hollow.</p>
<p>An example of a story where hallows play a crucial role is in Arthurian legend, where the Fisher King is the guardian of the four hallows, which include the Grail itself, the serving dish, the sword or dagger, and the spear. [11]</p>
<p>??????????????????</p>
<p>Well if you draw a parallel to the four hallows in the Fisher King story...</p>
<p>Hallows = Horcruxes?</p>