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Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2014 2:45 pm
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Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2014 2:55 pm
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Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2014 3:17 pm
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Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2014 3:28 pm
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Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2014 11:08 pm
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golden-priestess2 The thing that made me upset when tonks died was the fact that they left there son alone. i think she could have used the character more, if she had it would have probably made her more liked among the readers. i like the idea of being able to shape shift your appearance but i also have to say that the way she was written in she was quite Mary-sueish. On the subject of shapeshifting within Harry Potter in general, after learning about animagi, I was expecting one of the main trio to learn how to do it. Probably not Harry, since he was special enough as it was, but maybe Ron or Hermione. When that wasn't happening and Tonks showed up, and Hermione seemed to spend a decent amount of time with her during the summers, I thought maybe Hermione would learn the ability. But she didn't. Honestly, the whole shapshifting thing was a little disappointing in the books because it was only ever discussed and shown on the peripheral. Other characters shapeshifted then were gone. James was an animagus, but is dead. Sirius is an animagus, but he's almost never around, then dies. Peter is an animagus, but he spent three of the seven books as a rat, then ran away and was barely ever around, then died. Rita Skeeter was an animagus, but we didn't learn that until the end of the book, then she disappears. Tonks is a shapeshifter, but we only ever see her during the summers, then she dies. Overall, the shapeshifting in Harry Potter felt like one giant Chekov's Gun to me.
On the subject of both Tonks' and Remus' deaths. All I have to say is, Harry became a godfather really, really young! Only seventeen and already responsible for an infant. On top of that, he didn't finish his last year of school and so is placed in an awkward position to get a job and support himself, never mind a baby. I know all turned out well in the end because of the epilogue (which read more like a fan fiction than part of the actual series), but still, Things are supposed to become less difficult for the hero after the Big Bad is defeated, not just morph into a different kind of difficult.
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Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2014 4:09 pm
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Renkon Root golden-priestess2 The thing that made me upset when tonks died was the fact that they left there son alone. i think she could have used the character more, if she had it would have probably made her more liked among the readers. i like the idea of being able to shape shift your appearance but i also have to say that the way she was written in she was quite Mary-sueish. On the subject of shapeshifting within Harry Potter in general, after learning about animagi, I was expecting one of the main trio to learn how to do it. Probably not Harry, since he was special enough as it was, but maybe Ron or Hermione. When that wasn't happening and Tonks showed up, and Hermione seemed to spend a decent amount of time with her during the summers, I thought maybe Hermione would learn the ability. But she didn't. Honestly, the whole shapshifting thing was a little disappointing in the books because it was only ever discussed and shown on the peripheral. Other characters shapeshifted then were gone. James was an animagus, but is dead. Sirius is an animagus, but he's almost never around, then dies. Peter is an animagus, but he spent three of the seven books as a rat, then ran away and was barely ever around, then died. Rita Skeeter was an animagus, but we didn't learn that until the end of the book, then she disappears. Tonks is a shapeshifter, but we only ever see her during the summers, then she dies. Overall, the shapeshifting in Harry Potter felt like one giant Chekov's Gun to me.
The moral of the story is shapeshifting = death, that's why none of the main characters learned it. xd
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Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2014 4:19 pm
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Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2014 10:11 pm
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Maze353 Renkon Root golden-priestess2 The thing that made me upset when tonks died was the fact that they left there son alone. i think she could have used the character more, if she had it would have probably made her more liked among the readers. i like the idea of being able to shape shift your appearance but i also have to say that the way she was written in she was quite Mary-sueish. On the subject of shapeshifting within Harry Potter in general, after learning about animagi, I was expecting one of the main trio to learn how to do it. Probably not Harry, since he was special enough as it was, but maybe Ron or Hermione. When that wasn't happening and Tonks showed up, and Hermione seemed to spend a decent amount of time with her during the summers, I thought maybe Hermione would learn the ability. But she didn't. Honestly, the whole shapshifting thing was a little disappointing in the books because it was only ever discussed and shown on the peripheral. Other characters shapeshifted then were gone. James was an animagus, but is dead. Sirius is an animagus, but he's almost never around, then dies. Peter is an animagus, but he spent three of the seven books as a rat, then ran away and was barely ever around, then died. Rita Skeeter was an animagus, but we didn't learn that until the end of the book, then she disappears. Tonks is a shapeshifter, but we only ever see her during the summers, then she dies. Overall, the shapeshifting in Harry Potter felt like one giant Chekov's Gun to me. The moral of the story is shapeshifting = death, that's why none of the main characters learned it. xd This made me lol greatly.
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Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2014 10:13 pm
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golden-priestess2 Maze353 The moral of the story is shapeshifting = death, that's why none of the main characters learned it. xd ha ha. Maze you made me giggle when i read that. although i agree with you, nearly all of the characters that could change into something else died. Well apart from mcgonagall. I don't think Rita Skeeter died either, but she was only in one book so you may not want to count her.
But McGonagall is a BOSS! Nothing can kill her!
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Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2015 8:58 pm
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