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    I'm not saying that Neville should have actually killed Lestrange, because then you have his character losing his innocence just like if Draco had gone ahead with killing Dumbledore. I just think it should have been him who took her down, whether he just disarmed her and was like "I'm not going to kill you because I'm better than you" or stunned her or whatever, it doesn't really matter. In my opinion his parents should have been avenged.

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    From Mugglenet

     

    JKR announces character reprieve and encyclopedia

     

    In an interview with the Today Show, JK Rowling revealed who the character is that received a reprieve in Deathly Hallows. Highlight between the arrows to read who it is! --> Arthur Weasley <--

     

    Additionally, Jo announced that she "probably will" create a Harry Potter encyclopedia! From NBC's website:

     

    The encyclopedia would include back stories of characters she has already written but had to cut for the sake of narrative arc (“I've said before that Dean Thomas had a much more interesting history than ever appeared in the books”), as well as details about the characters who survive “Deathly Hallows,” characters who continue to live on in Rowling’s mind in a clearly defined magical world.

     

    http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/19935372/

    Why not milk this cash cow?

    Hell, I'd buy it.

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    If I get spoiled before reading the book I'M GOING TO BE SO FUCKIN PISSED.

     

    And if ANYONE spoils the book here, they are gone.

    We have spoiler tags for a reason, Mole.

     

    I agree, intentional spoiling without the tags should be immediately punishment.

     

    But we have spoiler tags for a reason.

    I thought that was what he was talking about.

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    It's released at 9am Saturday over here to coincide with midnight in London or NYC or something. I'm supposed to drive 2 hours for a wheelchair rugby training camp for the weekend and be there at 9:30. I'm going to pick up my book before I leave, and try and get my girlfriend to drive so I can spend the trip reading.

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    You're probably right, they're trying to have the movies stand alone for people who are too lazy to read the books. The problem that I had with this movie is just that a lot of the things that they changed and a couple that they left out, at least in my opinion, would have made it easier for people who haven't read the books to follow what was going on.

     

    It's the same kind of reason why I was pissed that they didn't explain that James was an animagus too, and why he, Sirius and Pettigrew became that way in the first place. EDIT: In the Prisoner of Azkaban movie, I mean.

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    I just saw Order of the Phoenix and I agree with Mole and feel sort of mixed about it. My biggest issue wasn't so much them leaving things out, because OOTP is probably the most bloated of the books and its easy to get a little bogged down in it. And some of my favourite scenes were left out like Fred, George and Harry going apeshit after the first Quidditch match, and the reunion with Lockhart in St. Mungos. I thought that some of the things that were changed didn't need to be changed. They weren't any more difficult to film than what was in the film, and they wouldn't have dragged the film on much. As it was, the whole thing felt a bit disjointed because the first half of the story especially was so hacked up. I'm talking about things like:

     

    Henrietta betraying them to Umbridge rather than Cho, and Dumbledore's escape.

    Ron and Hermione being made prefects.

    Dobby finding the Room of Requirement and warning them about Umbridge coming.

    More detail about Hagrid and Maxime's trip to find the giants.

    More detail about Fred and George developing their joke shop products and Harry funding them.

    Ginny introducing them to Luna rather than Hermione.

     

    I also thought that they should have given Ginny a lot more lines. She's a secondary character along with Luna and Neville in the book, and more important than both of them for Half-Blood Prince, but she didn't do much except hover in the background for most of the movie. There were a couple of times where her looks and movements were hinting that she maybe didn't approve of Harry and Cho, and the scenes with the DA and in the Ministry where they showed how powerful she is, but she had practically no dialogue at all.

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    What is insane is that the fans were chanting "WE WANT BENOIT" at a point where he was likely inside his house with his dead wife and dead son inside it.

     

    Morbid.

    Talking morbid, I keep wondering what I was doing during the same moments that a man I respected and revered was tying a slipknot to hang himself after murdering his wife and child. It almost seems like something that happened in a different world. If only it had.

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    Bad marriage + unspoken "snap potential" + roid rage looks like the combination that's responsible, but it still blows my mind that he would kill his 7 year old son. I could see him going into a rage if Nancy was cheating on him and with that combination anything is possible, but his son? It's such a tragedy.

     

    Like I said before, I really feel bad for the young Benoit fans who don't understand the reality of the pro wrestling business. To them, Benoit was a real-life superhero. How can they understand something like this when they have no ability to separate Benoit the character and Benoit the person?

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