Harry Potter Thread: Warner Brothers and the Cash Grab Series

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  1. OopsPowSurprise

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    7 is easily the best
    then 4, 6, 1, 5, 3, 2

    4 really had to be good to set the tone of the series. 2, 3, and 6 were all plot setters, but 6 had such a great second half.

    and 7 is just legendary
     
  2. skrouse

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    7 is by far the best IMO
    3 & 4 are a tie for my 2nd favorite
    6 is next
    then 5
    and 1 and 2 were good but once 3 came out it blew them outta the water soo...
     
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    4 isn't too high on my list just because of how contrived the story line was

    tri-wizard happens every 4 years yet harry just so happens to only do it once? :cmonson:
     
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    it was the first tri-wizard tourney in over 100 years iirc, even voldemort didn't do it in his time in school

    it was a plot filler but was really entertaining, plus the death of diggory was just fucking well done
     
  5. OopsPowSurprise

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    there are a couple things I wish they could have done with the series. everyone who died was fitting (minus fred weasley), but they should have killed off sirius later.

    dobby's death was really sad though
     
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    Hedwig's and Fred's deaths were pointless. :curses:

    I'm just a cunt, by I'm gonna give this a shot...

    3, 7, 4, 6, 2, 1, 5
     
  7. NCHusker

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    you're definitely mis-remembering the plot. The book says they stopped having it because students were always dying.
     
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    god that was awesome. Also I actually liked the 5th book. I guess it was kind of pointless in terms of the story, but i liked the whole prophecy thing, even though it was obvious it was harry not neville.

    I'd say 7,4,6,3,5,1,2.

    I liked two a lot when i read it, but compared to the rest of the books it was just lame.

    Also I'm probably going to cry when doby and fred die, and I am not ashamed of that at all.
     
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    And if you entered the year after one of them, you'd only see one in your 4th year and that was it. So it was possible for someone to only see one.
     
  11. naganole

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    Voldemort chose Harry, mainly because Harry was 1/2 mugblood like himself...
     
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    my problem with the series, and i may have written this a few pages back because i complain about it a lot, is that harry just wasnt that great of a wizard. good skills + bravery should not > great skills. compare the dumbledore-voldemort fight (if thats the standard for what the g.o.a.t. wizard duel is) to harrys and hes a fraud. even comparing his father/his father's friends... making the mauraders map + becoming an animagus is greater than anything, from a purely magical perspective, than anything harry did. look at snape's potions text book to see how much he was learning...

    he allegedly becomes this great auror at the conclusion of the story.... but does he just use stunning spells in every duel?

    dude shouldve been a prodigy-type wizard, not just good.
     
  13. IanBoyd

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    Well the point of the entire series was to stress the fact that Harry, this skinny orphan kid, was NOT a prodigy but still had to endure all he did at the hands of Voldemort with nothing but above average skills, friends and bravery etc. Writing him out to be the next Dumbledore would have cheapened the entire series and all the characters in it. There would have been no need for Hermione Granger, no need for the Weasley family and no need for the epicness that is Dumbledore if Harry was this genius wizard that could have solved everything based on his own intellect and skill and took on Voldemort by himself at the age of 11.

    The fact that Harry WASN'T a prodigy like Voldemort thought was the entire foundation of the story imo, had Voldemort known that this Harry Potter kid would have grown up to only be a decent Quidditch player that was pretty good at Defense Against the Dark Arts, he wouldn't have even bothered murdering his parents and Harry would have grown up to be exactly that, a normal kid. But since he did, 7 books worth of stories happened where we read about how this normal kid wizard who was left homeless has to carry the burden of defeating the most powerful dark wizard of all time while also dealing with life as normal and growing up through the awkward teenage years.


    /2cents
     
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    He knew the Elder wand would not kill him, as it had chosen him, and he wanted Voldemort disarmed. That's why he used it in the end...
     
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    I think the best explanation of what happened at the end was just...destiny, like Dumbledore said in the King's Cross chapter, Harry and Voldemort's physical and magical bond were beyond any of what has previously been experimented with, and because Harry chose the "right way" to face death, he was able to have that perfect moment of clarity where everything that happened in book 6-7 made sense to him, the whole deal with the Elder Wand and its true master and whatnot.


    In conclusion, the last few chapters of book 7 = GOAT writing and creativity
     
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    Im definitely gonna have to read the 7th book again before the new movie comes out. The books go 7, 3, 6, 4, 2, 1, 5
     
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    hurt my heart
     
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    6 was my favorite. Getting that background on Voldemort was pretty cool
     
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    book 7 still blows my mind
     
  21. OZ

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    I thought 4 was the best book tbh, it took the leap from making it a "good series that sells a lot of books" to a series that even literature nuts can say will go down as some of the best writing/young adult literature ever.

    Very seldom do you find something that is not only popular, but also very well done. New trailer looks awesome.
     
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    I think something great about this is it got million's of kids interested in reading.
     
  23. slhorn

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    Absolutely.

    I was in middle school when the first book came out and refused to read it because I thought it was gay. I think I watched the third movie and was really into so I said fuck it and started reading them all. Blew my mind and how retarded I was being for not reading them. My favorites go like this.

    7,6,4,5,3,1,2

    I really liked 4.

    New trailer looks bad ass.

    I'll have to re read the 7th book. I'm still considering reading them all before the final movie gets here.
     
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    Yeah same here except we were visiting my aunt and uncle and saw the first one and got caught up before the 5th one came out.
     
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    CANT FUCKING WAIT
     
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    7 was obviously the best book then I think its a toss up between 4/6 then the rest are just okay. I thought 5 was awful. Reading about Umbridge made me want to kill myself.

    My only qualm with the serious is how Harry only used stunning spells. He's fighting dark witches throwing avada kadavra or whatever at him and hes countering with stupefy and other bullshit.
     
  28. NCHusker

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    he's a good guy. good guys don't kill people ever.
     
  29. naganole

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    Best part is that it seems from the trailers that the 7th movies will most closely resemble the books.
     
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    As it should. But they've left a lot of shit out in the movies that I can't help but wonder how they are going to introduce in the 2 movies. It should be good.
     
  31. NCHusker

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    they could just say fuck it and throw them in there with no explanation assuming most people have read the books anyways.

    I'd be fine with that.
     
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    That would probably be the best scenario.
     
  33. skrouse

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    That trailer looked awesome... I cannot wait for that to come out... sucks we gotta wait a while for the 2nd part to come out :tebow:
     
  34. NCHusker

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    they could salvage an otherwise disappointing movie series if they did that with the last two.
     
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    I mean how badass would it be if Harry started dropping Shitty AMC Show curse in book 7, and started dropping death eaters left and right

    should have happened
     
  36. Cornelius Suttree

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    :laugh:
     
  37. NCHusker

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    Harry threw a few unforgivable curses around IIRC. He tried to use Crucio on Bella after she killed Sirius, then tried to use that cutting spell on Snape at the end of book 6.

    Not killing curses but better than nothing.
     
  38. Hank Scorpio

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    they don't teach a lot of fighting spells at Hogwarts.
     
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    where would you suggest a prospective wizard look into applying if he is interested in learning fighting spells?
     
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    :loldog: this is my argument, too
     
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    I have only seen the first one . . . how are the other 27?
     
  42. Hank Scorpio

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    Durmstrang
     
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  43. OZ

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    honestly the first 2 movies sucked balls.....some hardcore fans don't like how they leave certain things out, but honestly the books are long as shit and in 3 hours it's impossible not to leave out some important stuff. Reason why book 7 being 2 movies is great for them financially and great for us from a perspective of it will follow the storyline even closer.
     
  44. bigCUM

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    With them leaving so much out of the last 2 movies we really could have made both of them into 2 movies. Im still pissed of that TBP didnt start off with the Minister of Magic talking to the Prime Minister.
     
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    infuckingdeed




    she killed it with that one



    new trailer looks p epic
     
  46. NCHusker

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    dude the first two movies were the best ones.
     
  47. Hank Scorpio

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    the first 2 movies were the best only in that they stuck closest to the book. But as far as stand alone movies are concerned, the others were better.

    The most disappointing movie is easily half blood prince. Not only did they leave out so many important parts vital to the 7th book/movie, but the movie as a whole was extremely slow and dull. I still mad about the scene at the Burrow. It was completely made up and served absolutely no purpose.
     
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    Especially since the new one is in the 7th book, he opens the new trailer.

    But certainly only the two memories of Riddle were disappointing.
     
  49. Cornelius Suttree

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    mad epic yo

    p sure it's going to be bomb as hell
     
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    7,6,3,5,4,1,2

    Looks awesome.

    I read them all 2 summers ago in about 9 days. Being jobless :feltbadman: but got to do a lot of awesome reading!