Warning- Few Spoilers in the post, so if you haven't read the book yet, do not read the post. Ok, finished reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I wouldn't give it the super positive review that everyone's been giving it, but a mixed one. How can Ron speak Parseltongue, albeit only once. ? Biggest, biggest fault in the book. JK has played it safe, making it a Harry/ Ginny and Ron/ Hermione in the end. The Deathly Hallows was not a concept that I had anticipated, but then nobody had predicted the Peverell name in the sixth book to have such importance. There is a little more on Grindelwald- who would have thought that he was Bagshot's nephew? And Mr. Potter vanquishes Lord Voldemort without using a single killing curse in the series Is this the best version of the seventh book ? Maybe yes, maybe no. But I have seen better versions of the seventh book on hpff and ff.net Sadly, one of the leaked spoilers was true- the chapters were exactly as the screenshot predicted it.
I have finished it, and honestly if you discount some pages in the middle of the story (Hunting down the horcruxes, Ron and Harry row etc, The book is superb, better than 6th part.) He cant, he only heard harry speaking parceltongue to the locket and tried to repeat the same hiss(it took him three or four chances to correctly repeat it). It's not impossible. so its not a flaw per say. It was pretty clear for a long time now.. Nothing surprising in it. Deathly hallows were a nice turn in the story. Pretty nice how JKR related Dumbledore's death, and deathly hallows. Preety nice. Yeah he didnt need to. Voldy used the killing curse that rebounded upon him(again..lol), What a loser he was, Voldy. didnt learn from his early mistakes. The other version? The one with extremely snogging and shagging between Harry and Ginny?? (Yeah that was nice one too.. proved Harry has a dick, he isnt the dick..lol) Dunno bout spoilers, but my analysis of the story based on previous books was almost correct. I didnt get too many shocks from reading the book.
Uff....uf..... ok ok, i didnt already read this book so I scroll down this topic and posts fast as lighting, because i dont want to read it I was in 00:01 in Empik but in my stupid country nobody read english books so it was 1. closed 2. in the morning they didnt have HP7 [Im polish] Ave HP!!!
I never read the book, but usually I rather watch the movies. Not much of a reader these days. I just wonder is reading the book better then watching the movie.. or it's the other way around.?
Just making a sound like a hiss isn't Parseltongue. It is a specific Slytherin blood gift- I might have understood it if they had used a tape recorder to record Harry's voice and then opened the Chamber of Secrets. Tom Riddle may have been a model Slytherin, but Lord Voldemort certainly wasn't one. The other versions do not involve snogging the hell out webby Both of Gabilian's stories were good- A Serpent's Sacrifice and Bottom of the Lake, although the second was written in a bit of haste. The Refiner's Fire was pretty good too. Still can't understand why somebody didn't try to blow Voldy's brains out using a muggle gun.
i found the book to be a nice end on a long series, although, i wanted someone of the main characters to die, and the others get all emo. But this is good in a way i guess, now if j.k rowling feels like it, she can write a followup like... Harry potter and the chambers of univeristy.
The seventh book had the largest number of deaths, and some of the previous books in the series were a bit dark and angsty. Breaking up the Golden Trio might have resulted in her not writing the epilogue.
You are quite right about the parseltongue, its a slytherin's blood property. But that involves TALKING to the snakes. Means speaking as well as understanding it. Ron didn't understand it, but he could repeat the same hissing sound. Lets take an example. Suppose there is a door that requires a vocal password in order to be unlocked. Now the password is a Spanish word. I cant understand Spanish but If I hear some one pronouncing the password, I can easily try to repeat the same sound. And probabl yafter two or three attempts I can get It right, without knowing the meaning or understanding the word. Agree?? Now thats what Ron did. Dunno about these stories, but now as you mentioned it and HP series has ended, I consider reading those stories as well. I wonder that too.. Uggghh, quite frankly HP movies suck compare to the original books, You will miss so many things in movies, which are quite essential in the story. Honestly, if they are going to try and make the 6th part is one movie. I'm not going to watch it. The 5th movie is pretty disappointing.
Speaking Spanish is more common than speaking parseltongue, webby Here is a list of all the certified guys who could speak Parseltongue in the book 1.) Herpo the Foul 2.) The Gaunts 3.) Tom Riddle, although he too is a Gaunt 4.) Salazar Slytherin ( The Gaunts and Riddle are descended from him ) 5.) Harry Potter ( Got his ability from Old Moldyshorts) Dunno about Herpo, but he is rumoured to have done something with the basilisk. As Tom Riddle said, he and Harry were the only Parselmouths to come to Hogwarts since Slytherin himself. People can possibly pass off Ron's hissing as a part time sound which just managed to work at the right time. Your theory is somewhat acceptable, but I can't believe that Slytherin would not have thought of imposters when he made the Chamber.
Well it took people 2000~ / 1000 years for them to figure out to get into the chamber, and it was done by a parseltongue (parselmouth?) so.............. i guess the chance of someone learning how to say "open" or whatever the keyword was, is quite slim?
No book has ever made me actually feel so many emotions at once...Fear, sadness, happiness, more fear and sadness. It was amazing. I can only imagine the movie being epic. Cant believe its over...