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[Tom_C]

Way back in the first page of all this crap someone said about how Harry Potter's voice changed half way through the film. A few years ago when I was in Westminster with a friend, his 11 year old cousin claimed that one of his school friends (at a very respectable public school apparently) voiced over for Radcliffe for the rest of the entire film, or was asked to? I can't prove this is true but crazy if it is.

I like Harry Potter, I think its well written and its nice to just switch off to and read when it's raining or something. ( For all you haters).

I find J.K Rowling pretty annoying after an interview with her on BBC2, she was talking about how all the ideas, characters, phrases etc are all made up from her imagination and that she hasn't taken any inspriration from similar themed books, media etc = BOLLOCKS! Unicorns, Avada Kerdavra and millions of other examples that everyone has heard of through stories and films. Obviously J.K Rowling is so intelligent she doesn't need to plaigerise anything out there.

Plus, Back the damn topic, kind of, if she killed off Dumbledore just because the actor in the movie remake died :S , and the hype of "a major character dies', Harry Potter should be a f**king soap opera not a series of books.

Tom

Edit: Spellcheck is stupid sometimes.

Edited July 21, 2005 by Tom_Leeson

[D-L-B]

what about stephen king, rights a book or two a year doesn't he?

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I never said anything about Stephen King...

The difference to note is that a large amount of King's books are about different things, i.e. not just eeking out a weak story just to try and capitalise on merchandise and so on.  His stories are typically unrelated, which takes more skill to write than just "Harry and that other guy from the last book went to the place they said they should" or whatever.

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Thank you Mark. That yid's all ways picking on me. Us gentiles should stick together too, you know.

Div, You should be happy as a sand boy with this thread, with being a Scot and a Jew, wouldn't that make you twice as tight fisted as the rest of us?...

Now that you know the ending, there's no need to buy the book. :S" :D

Dan

[Alexx]

I don't think there is enough controversy in this topic...

... so may i interject... BOOKS ARE GAY!

:S :D

[DrEvil270183]

Anything released in the past few years under the Harry Potter brand (yes, it is a brand now, with merchandising to the max!) isn't realeased purely on the basis that the previous 'novels' were good, as if, or that JK Rowling is such a prolific writer, she isn't. No, the latest book is a direct result of her increasing greed. You won't catch her writing any new non Potter books any time soon, put it that way. She's just milking the fat Potter cash-cow for as long as she can and all you suckers out there, waiting for the next big Potter release evrerytime, deserve to have your money taken off you. Losers.  :(

Go out and discover some good literature yourself, don't just buy what you're sold on the TV.

Of course all of you Potter-heads who read this were all into Harry Potter waaaaaay before it was ever popular, weren't you?........

Dan

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as someone has said, J.K has pretty much always said there would be 7 books, planned from the start :)

if you planned a story for 7 books which happened to take off and companies began merchandising it and you got some more cash im sure you wouldnt be complaining. so why should she say "no, piss off i dont want any cash or kids to enjoy potter toys etc.

so long as she keeps writing til the 7th i aint fussed what she does.

plus, i managed to read it without finding out the end..no spoiler for me (Y)

Edited July 29, 2005 by DrEvil270183