Harry Potter - Page 6

BeardofPants · 06-06-2002, 08:31 PM

I think it's got a lot to do with the fact that she's made her pile of dough now, and therefore her incentive for writing has gone. I mean, if you were rich, and in love, would you really want to write books?

Sicirus · 06-07-2002, 06:46 AM

well we do not know exectly if she is realy in love. But if I wrote a series book I would continue to write it nomatter what unless a tragity happend. Plus people may lose interest which would mean less richess for her.

TwirlingString · 06-07-2002, 09:12 PM

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Originally posted by BeardofPants
I think it's got a lot to do with the fact that she's made her pile of dough now, and therefore her incentive for writing has gone. I mean, if you were rich, and in love, would you really want to write books?

I don't think so. I mean, I think she would keep writing either way. While a reader always wants to know what happens next, so would the author. She'd have to at least figure out what she meant by those cryptic remarks. I don't think even SHE knows.

sun-star · 06-09-2002, 10:47 AM

Well, I think she has the whole series planned out, and millions of fans waiting, so she couldn't exactly stop now. It just takes time to write books, especially when there's so much expectation for them.

TwirlingString · 06-09-2002, 05:17 PM

Even so, she'd no the pertiant details, but she wouldn't know exactly how it would go.

Sicirus · 06-10-2002, 05:27 PM

Yeh. She has all the outlines planned;
she just needs the details.
Writing a book can be difficult

Lady of Darkness · 06-10-2002, 08:40 PM

Phew. Daddy almost kept me from coming on Entmoot forevery. Meany. Anyway. One of my friends was at a book signing with JK Rowling and she picked him out of the line to be her perfect Harry Potter but wouldn't take him because he wasn't English. How stupid is that??!! Honestly!! Dude, where's her common sense. And as ShireChild says" Dude, why couldn't you fake an English Accent??!!"
HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE

LOD

Coney · 11-23-2002, 11:57 PM

Got the first 4 books tonight.............these are great

(read the first one, half-way through no.2).

I had read a bit of philosophers stone to my friends kids a while ago (random bits they wanted me to read) but since then I'd always fobbed the books off as "kids stuff", how wrong I was - these are a right laugh, and have some cracking plot twists as well

Still 2 and a half books to go!!

Ah to be a kid again

Edit: The Gilderoy Lockhart character is just sooo funny, more cheese than a quardruple cheese pizza made by hungry mice

- brilliant characters

Sween · 11-24-2002, 07:28 AM

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Originally posted by Coney
Got the first 4 books tonight.............these are great (read the first one, half-way through no.2).

I had read a bit of philosophers stone to my friends kids a while ago (random bits they wanted me to read) but since then I'd always fobbed the books off as "kids stuff", how wrong I was - these are a right laugh, and have some cracking plot twists as well

Still 2 and a half books to go!!

Ah to be a kid again

Edit: The Gilderoy Lockhart character is just sooo funny, more cheese than a quardruple cheese pizza made by hungry mice - brilliant characters

i too used to think harry potter what a load of rubbish then i read the books and they are ace. The best is yet to come the forth book is excelent

Coney · 11-24-2002, 09:55 AM

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Originally posted by Sween
The best is yet to come the forth book is excelent

Sounds good to me!

How many will there be in the entire series then?

Sween · 11-24-2002, 10:33 AM

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Originally posted by Coney
Sounds good to me! How many will there be in the entire series then?

should be 7 but she needs to get her ass into gear

Coney · 11-24-2002, 10:50 AM

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Originally posted by Sween
should be 7 but she needs to get her ass into gear

Yeah but she'll be waiting for the films to catch up so the book sells millions more as kids who only watch the movies get frustrated for more HP

Sween · 11-24-2002, 10:59 AM

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Originally posted by Coney
Yeah but she'll be waiting for the films to catch up so the book sells millions more as kids who only watch the movies get frustrated for more HP

she better not or ill slap her silly

Coney · 11-24-2002, 02:45 PM

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Originally posted by Sween
she better not or ill slap her silly

It's probably more the publishers who are holding it back...........JK seems to have a love of writing (apparently she wrote the first book(s) under not-ideal conditions) I can't see her giving up the writing, or putting it on too much hold, for getting married, spending her millions, etc.

Sicirus · 11-24-2002, 06:02 PM

She says she is taking so long because not only is she dealing with the movies, she also has a bay coming, and she is perfecting the book. I hope Lupin will come back. I read that the next DADA teacher is going to be a female.

My favorit book so far is the third one. I am a big Lupin fancier.

Coney · 11-24-2002, 06:57 PM

OK book 2: The plot was crap (gods I haven't used crap for years but this BB has a language filter)..........but the characters are still cool

Anyone who has even a cursory knowledge of fantasy would have guessed that is was a Basalisk (even though the author changed its physical desciption).

The "bad guy was pretty transparent as well

Hey Ho...........guess they were written with kids in mind

***IronParrot*** · 11-25-2002, 12:45 AM

Even as a huge Potter fan, I do agree that the second book is the weakest of the lot. Not for the reasons you pointed out, though - my gripes with it have to do with the fact that unlike #3 and #4, it's rather episodic, still expository, and doesn't really expand upon the material to develop the saga as a continuous epic.

Coney · 11-25-2002, 12:52 AM

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Originally posted by IronParrot
Even as a huge Potter fan, I do agree that the second book is the weakest of the lot. Not for the reasons you pointed out, though - my gripes with it have to do with the fact that unlike #3 and #4, it's rather episodic, still expository, and doesn't really expand upon the material to develop the saga as a continuous epic.

Ah now that fulfills a bit of faith (the 3rd and 4th being better), I cracked about 70 pages out of the 3rd book tonight.........and it seems to be telling a much larger tale

........maybe I should have replaced the word crap with linear.......cos that is all the second book was to me

..........still fun tho'

Aeryn · 11-26-2002, 12:01 AM

About Gilderoy, He makes me ill! What an imbecile! I hate those kind of people! When I reread the much worn copies, I want to rip out every page that Lockharts in except of course, when he gets his just desserts

Lief Erikson · 11-26-2002, 02:23 AM

I'm very sorry that your sense of humor can't appreciate him- he gets me in stitches whenever I run into a scene with him in it!

06-06-2002, 08:31 PM	#101
BeardofPants the Shrike Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA <3 Posts: 10,647	I think it's got a lot to do with the fact that she's made her pile of dough now, and therefore her incentive for writing has gone. I mean, if you were rich, and in love, would you really want to write books? __________________ "Binary solo! 0000001! 00000011! 0000001! 00000011!" ~ The Humans are Dead, Flight of the Conchords

06-07-2002, 06:46 AM	#102
Sicirus Elf Lord Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Down the road on your left...No your other left. Posts: 1,825	well we do not know exectly if she is realy in love. But if I wrote a series book I would continue to write it nomatter what unless a tragity happend. Plus people may lose interest which would mean less richess for her. __________________ "I know less then half of you half as well as I should like. And I like less then half of you half as well as you deserve." Bilbo Baggins

06-09-2002, 10:47 AM	#104
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	Well, I think she has the whole series planned out, and millions of fans waiting, so she couldn't exactly stop now. It just takes time to write books, especially when there's so much expectation for them. __________________ And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool.

06-09-2002, 05:17 PM	#105
TwirlingString Elven Warrior Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: My mother would say somewhere between the adult mystery section and the YA sci-fi Posts: 489	Even so, she'd no the pertiant details, but she wouldn't know exactly how it would go. __________________ "The Astels are an emotional people. They cry at the drop of a handkerchief. Their culture is much like that of Pelosia. They're extremely devot and invincibly backward. It's been demonstrated to them over an over that serfdom is an archaic, inefficent institution, but they maintain it anyway--largely at the connivance of the serfs thmselves. Astellian nobles don't exert themselves in any way, so they have no concept of human endurance. The serfs take advantage of that outrageously. Astellian serfs have been known to collapse from sheer exhauston at the very mention of such unpleasant words as 'reaping' or 'digging'." ----------------------------------------------- “They lost him?!” Lupin asked , amazed. “Voldemort has been after Harry for 15 years, and then he misplaces him?!”

06-10-2002, 05:27 PM	#106
Sicirus Elf Lord Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Down the road on your left...No your other left. Posts: 1,825	Yeh. She has all the outlines planned; she just needs the details. Writing a book can be difficult __________________ "I know less then half of you half as well as I should like. And I like less then half of you half as well as you deserve." Bilbo Baggins

06-10-2002, 08:40 PM	#107
Lady of Darkness Elf Lord Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: the wild or my home Posts: 733	Phew. Daddy almost kept me from coming on Entmoot forevery. Meany. Anyway. One of my friends was at a book signing with JK Rowling and she picked him out of the line to be her perfect Harry Potter but wouldn't take him because he wasn't English. How stupid is that??!! Honestly!! Dude, where's her common sense. And as ShireChild says" Dude, why couldn't you fake an English Accent??!!" HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE LOD __________________ Conform Consume OBEY!!!! I am Morwen, Lady of Darkness. Her head was bowed, from all the tears and pain, but she would rise again

11-23-2002, 11:57 PM	#108
Coney The Buddy Rabbit Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Trapped in the headlights.. Posts: 3,372	Got the first 4 books tonight.............these are great (read the first one, half-way through no.2). I had read a bit of philosophers stone to my friends kids a while ago (random bits they wanted me to read) but since then I'd always fobbed the books off as "kids stuff", how wrong I was - these are a right laugh, and have some cracking plot twists as well Still 2 and a half books to go!! Ah to be a kid again Edit: The Gilderoy Lockhart character is just sooo funny, more cheese than a quardruple cheese pizza made by hungry mice - brilliant characters __________________ Blessed are the cracked, they let the light in Beatallica Last edited by Coney : 11-24-2002 at 12:02 AM.

11-24-2002, 06:02 PM	#115
Sicirus Elf Lord Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Down the road on your left...No your other left. Posts: 1,825	She says she is taking so long because not only is she dealing with the movies, she also has a bay coming, and she is perfecting the book. I hope Lupin will come back. I read that the next DADA teacher is going to be a female. My favorit book so far is the third one. I am a big Lupin fancier. __________________ "I know less then half of you half as well as I should like. And I like less then half of you half as well as you deserve." Bilbo Baggins

11-24-2002, 06:57 PM	#116
Coney The Buddy Rabbit Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Trapped in the headlights.. Posts: 3,372	OK book 2: The plot was crap (gods I haven't used crap for years but this BB has a language filter)..........but the characters are still cool Anyone who has even a cursory knowledge of fantasy would have guessed that is was a Basalisk (even though the author changed its physical desciption). The "bad guy was pretty transparent as well Hey Ho...........guess they were written with kids in mind __________________ Blessed are the cracked, they let the light in Beatallica

11-25-2002, 12:45 AM	#117
*IronParrot* Fowl Administrator Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Calgary or Edmonton, Canada Posts: 53,420	Even as a huge Potter fan, I do agree that the second book is the weakest of the lot. Not for the reasons you pointed out, though - my gripes with it have to do with the fact that unlike #3 and #4, it's rather episodic, still expository, and doesn't really expand upon the material to develop the saga as a continuous epic. __________________ All of IronParrot's posts are guaranteed to be 100% intelligent and/or sarcastic, comprising no genetically modified content and tested on no cute furry little animals unless the SPCA is looking elsewhere. If you observe a failure to uphold this warranty, please contact a forum administrator immediately to receive a full refund on your Entmoot registration. Blog: Nick's Café Canadien

11-26-2002, 12:01 AM	#119
Aeryn Bank'ress of Sith Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: In a hot-hot place, heh Posts: 913	About Gilderoy, He makes me ill! What an imbecile! I hate those kind of people! When I reread the much worn copies, I want to rip out every page that Lockharts in except of course, when he gets his just desserts __________________ my new account name feigndeath. This one is deactivated, I think.

11-26-2002, 02:23 AM	#120
Lief Erikson Elf Lord Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Fountain Valley, CA Posts: 6,343	I'm very sorry that your sense of humor can't appreciate him- he gets me in stitches whenever I run into a scene with him in it!

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