I don't think any of us will ever get over Dobby.

Oooh, it's like picking a child. I love The Half-Blood Prince, parts of Deathly Hallows (The Prince's Tale still guts me), and of course Prisoner of Azkaban.

It's weird... I had no intention of turning into an anglophile, but after my Austen phase came HP and now Sherlock... doesn't take a consulting detective to deduce a pattern.

I thought Prisoner of Azkaban was a terrific film. Apart from Dobby's death I was so sad at the death of Sirius Black and thought the scene with Luna's father in the last film was very sad and touching too.

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jimella wrote:

If I remember correctly, didn't JKR said she originally planned to kill off Arthur Weasley? Then she decided against it, but one of the Weasleys had to go...

What? NO. But... NO. NOT FRED! ARGH. HOW.

sorry, still emotional about this...

Yeah--  In an interview, JKR  said she had considered killing off Arthur in OOTP  when he was bitten by that evil snake Nagini.   But then  she decided against it,  only to be able to put more deaths into the DH book.  that's my opinion anyway.   Poor fred.   even to this day,  I keep forgetting WHICH twin got killed. 

I have both parts of DH  now, and they are still unopened.

yeah,  sad that they had to die, too,  there could have been a whole new series  devoted to them and their son Teddy Lupin.  I can't tell the twins  apart either.

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The HP books are my favorite books of all time. I started reading the books before the movies came out. I was into the movies until the fourth one. I mean, I really like them and they're fun but they're still a little "meh" to me. I think my favorite movie is Chamber of Secrets. Possibly Prisoner of Azkaban. I think my favorite book is Goblet of Fire...or Azkaban. Hard to choose!

sherlockskitty wrote:

I've read all of the books.   took me 4  days  just to read Deathly Hallows. I stood in line for 5  hours,  at  midnight at Barnes and Noble, to get that book.   I  still can't believe I did that,  but that was my  FIRST  experience doing that.  It  was  fun  to see all the costumes.  Alas,  my  book was not one of the 1st editions, sorry.

Glad you went! I went to the midnight release parties for Phoenix, Prince, and Hallows. So fun. I dressed in costume the last two times. I went to most of the midnight showing for the movies as well.

SusiGo wrote:

I read all the books in English and then I read all of them aloud in German to my son. I love them. It's a wonderful universe and there's so much fun to be had for children and adults alike. And of course we own all the DVDs. 

Susi, I've read them all in six languages, but so far, not German. I suppose that's because I don't read German. But by now I should be able to figure it out, no?

Anyway, I went to a presentation about inter-generational communication a while back, and the speaker gave HP as a specfic example of something different generations can enjoy together.

lol, I have the same "problem" with movies. E.g. I talk to my colleague about "Love Actually". She goes: "Hm???"  "Err.. Tatsächlich Liebe." "Ahh! THAT movie! Now I know!"