I didn’t read your entire post in the thread.
Tom
I didn’t read your entire post, Tom!
PS He can’t die, there is another book yet to be written.
It’s OK Tom, honest. I haven’t read any of the HP books and likely never will. Not my cup of tea. 
But the ending is already known. It was known from the beginning. It is written, “And he shall get his comeuppance.”
djm
Gary: Actually, although I did not read your entire post, I really didn’t think you gave anything away.
Surely that would be beyond the bounds of decency, even in an online community.
Besides, I’m cheering for your side in the Test matches.
Tom
[Weekender holds hands over ears] NOT READING< NOT READING.
We got two copies of the dang thing (Brit and American version) but my local library decided on a new 14-day rule for new books. Got a GREAT book on the history of British Navy (To Rule the Waves by Arthur Herman) and I’m 9 days in. Got another one about Bush that I wanted to read so I could argue with Gilder some more about whether he’s a chimp or a theocrat…probably won’t finish that one, though…
Oh my dear fellow. My bottom lip’s all a-quiver. Of course, the upper one’s stiff as ever.
Don’t cheer too loud though. A quietly-murmured ‘oh good shot’ and little ripple of applause is quite acceptable. We leave the loud stuff to the oicks in the ‘barmy army.’ Then, when England are batting, a quietly-murmured ‘oh dear god’ is usually sufficient.
Thanks for the tips. I guess loud, raucous, obnoxious NFL style cheering is out then? No painting my face in England’s colors?- umm, which, since this is cricket would be white, and as I am already a Caucasian…
Yeah, in my 3 years living over there, 81-84, in part because of the vast number of television channels that we had to choose from I spent the good part of many a Saturday “watching” cricket. One good thing is you can do a lot of other things and come back and not have missed much- Much like our Soap Operas.
Tom
Harry Potter was shot on the Tube?
(sorry, I often fail to read all the posts).
No, I think he becomes a soccer mom.
You don’t do the wave?!?
Susan
Nah. Harry had been having prophetic dreams about Hermione dying, and Voldemort (disguised as Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge) convinced him that together they could rediscover Salazar Slytherin’s spell for preserving life. After Voldy (still disguised as Fudge) gets Harry to eliminate Mad-eye Moody (who had come to confront Voldemort), Hermione and the Weasley twins follow Harry to a steel refinery, where Harry, out of his mind with rage, hits Hermione with the Avada Kedavra curse, apparently killing her. Fred and George duel with Harry, and eventually push him into a vat of molten steel. Harry saves himself by using a modified bubble-head spell, but is horribly mutilated. Voldemort, no longer in disguise, rescues Harry and gives him magical limbs to replace the ones that burned. He also tells him that Harry killed Hermione, thus completing Harry’s conversion to the Dark Arts. However, Hermione miraculously survived the Avada Kedavra curse and was hidden away by Fred and George, where she later died in childbirth. (Three books later, the evil Darth Potter believes that Hermione’s children are his, but the fact that the children were twins indicates some behind-the-scenes hanky-panky with the Weasley twins. The father could’ve been Ron, but most experts believe he was too much of a wanker to get beyond first base.)
I just didn’t read any of that.
@JS: That ^^^ reminds me of the lead-in at the beginning of an episode of Soap. 
Neither did I. I try to avoid reading spoilers, even the ones I write.
SNORT
Well, so that’s what Sprite looks like when it’s sprayed all over the monitor.
Any of what?
Truthfully, I got as far as “Voldemort”, and began asking myself, “What the hell is a ‘voldemort’?”
"Truthfully, I got as far as “Voldemort”, and began asking myself, “What the hell is a ‘voldemort’?” "
AHHHH - don’t say THAT NAME!!! It’s “you know who” or “he who mustn’t be named”.
Chud!!!
I just didn’t read it, either!
Shame, shame, shame! Spoiling all the fun! After we’ve waited so long!
Hmpf! I’m rationing out my copy, reading a little bit at a time to make it last longer. Forcing myself to read sloooowly instead of whole pages at a gulp.
Reading the Miles Vorkosigan series in between. Heading off to do that right now, in fact . . . going to curl up in bed with a cup of tea and “The Vor Game.”
Geez. Try to write a parody synopsis of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Sith and nobody reads it. Hmph. Just for that, I think I’ll reveal who really dies at the end of HP6.
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Hedwig!