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I've read all of the Harry Potter books and I love them so much! I have read hundreds of books and over the summer. I read a book every day, but the Harry Potter series by J.K.Rowling is by far my favorite. I love the way the characters develope and change throughout the novels. I also love all of the interesting names and creatures that flow from J.K.Rowling's imagination and into the book. When I read it, sometimes I cried, feeling the characters as if they were a part of me. Also when I read it, I felt as if I was in the story, where everyone was my friend and they all liked me for who I was, which doesn't always happen in real life. I love the books so much, I have memorized whole chapters and I can flip open to any page and go on a two-hour rant about it--(No, seriously, I timed myself and it was two hours and ten minutes!) I love the way everything fits together so smoothly and I love the way J.K. Rowling uses foreshadowing to a great wonder of all of her readers. I love them so much! Please read them if you haven't, and I am sure that you will fall in love with them the way I have! The movies are great represntors of the books as well; there are currently six movies out, and seven books, although they are making the seventh book into two movies becuase it is so long!
submitted by Caroline S., age 12, Orchard Park, N
(December 2, 2009 - 4:04 pm)
(December 2, 2009 - 4:04 pm)
(Sorry. I talk like that in RL, as do several of my friends, so it doesn't seem weird at all to me. I'm not a creepy stalker or anything, I promise!)
Mm, nooooo, DracoxHermione all the way. But while we're on the subject, I think RonxHermione makes more sense than HarryxHermione; Ron and Hermione squabble all the time *because* they're attracted to each other even though they're extremely different, whereas Harry and Hermione have zero chemistry. If that makes sense.
(January 14, 2010 - 12:02 am)
I think Hermione, mostly for the reasons TNÖ already states. Ron was positive he was never going to be friends with Harry again a few different times throughout the series. Hermione, while at times rather boring and practical, was almost always supportive of Harry, even when she thought he was wrong.
(January 14, 2010 - 10:56 am)
((As it happens, my friends and I do that too, 'specially Gianna, but we are, mm, different. ;D))
HarryxHermione has never made any sense to me (although it may be true that she was a better *friend*, generally speaking), whereas RonxHermione was obvious the entire series. I can't really speak for DracoxHermione (it's an AVPM thing, right?), but I do think Draco (who is about 100x cooler than Pansy) could've had a vaguely more interesting love interest, as Pansy was, y'know, sort of undimensional. I mean, I know that was intentional, but still.
(January 14, 2010 - 4:16 pm)
DxH isn't directly from AVPM, but they do seem fond of the ship. As am I. *shrug*.
And I believe JKR stated somewhere that Draco married someone by the name of Astoria Greengrass, not Pansy.
(January 14, 2010 - 6:59 pm)
Do we ever find out who Draco actually marries? Is it Pansy?
(January 14, 2010 - 8:11 pm)
Draco marries Asteria Greengrass. I found out on JKR's official website.
(January 16, 2010 - 1:28 pm)
Asteria Greengrass?? I thought Draco married Pansy Parkinson! B-b-b-b-but I thought it implied at the very end of the 7th that he had married Pansy! Oh well. (Who's Asteria Greengrass anyway?)
-☺☻
(January 18, 2010 - 7:44 pm)
No idea. Some person, I guess.
(January 18, 2010 - 11:10 pm)
There was a Daphnie or Delila or something like that with the surname of Greengrass that took the O.W.L.s exam with Hermione in the 5th book.......... maybe they are related.
(January 23, 2010 - 8:59 pm)
Hermione is a better friend. I will give no explanation; it is obious.
I disagree about the Harry x Hermione thing. A flashback is coming and I can't stop it, so here it is.
This last summer I saw a commercial at my grandmother's house when we were visiting her (at the time i was not into HP) about the half-blood prince and it was the part where Romilda Vane was liking Harry, and Hermione said she only wants to be your girlfriend because you're the chosen one, etc. etc., but what i thought she said was something about I'm your girlfriend and she only wants you 'cause you're the chosen one. That was fine at the time. I thought that, I coulden't care less, so before I read the books I thought Harry and Hermione were to get married eventually. That was fine until I read the booksI in 1 or 2 I started getting really mad at JKR. I told my mum that, and she asked me why. I told her it was because Harry and Hermione are boyfriend and girlfriend in the later books and I was mad at JKR because Ron and Hermione were meant to be together and JKR did not know what she was doing, putting Harry with Hermione. Mum laughed hysterically; you see she had read the books and knew that didn't happen (Harry and Hermione) and told me to keep reading and it would get better. I did and they are now some of my favorite books.
So here is why I think Ron should be with Hermione and not Harry,
1 Hermione is furious when she sees Ron snoging Lavendar.
2 Hermione picks at Ron; if she did not care for him she would not care what he did.
3 Ron is jealous of Krum in book 4.
4 Hermione is patient with Harry; she is not with Ron. Harry is more like the ignorant little brother that Hermione never had in the early books, and then they just become like brother and sister in the later books (Harry says so himself in book 7).
5 In book 6 Hermione picks a date most likley to annoy Ron.
6 JKR has dropped hints that Hermione likes Ron, more than hints, like hailstones the size of my fist.
7 The list goes on and on and on, but I can't think of any more right now, maybe later.
Elizabeth
PS Draco x Hemione is vile on soooo many levels. Imagine a slime ball like Draco marrying Hermione, *shudders* but it could happen. Draco hates Hermioneand ususlly (notice i said USUALLY) that means some where in there Draco likes Hermione a little bit.
E.H.
(January 14, 2010 - 6:47 pm)
He isn't a slimeball! Just... misguided... and wrong about a few things. Anyway, He Got Better after DH.
(January 15, 2010 - 9:03 am)
Draco is certainly not a slimeball, at all. Misguided is a good word choice... But not a *slimeball*. And he's pressured by his father/rest of family, and Voldy isn't terribly nice to him because he's angry at Lucius. So you see, it's not really his fault.
Draco is actually probably one of my favourite characters, FWIW. *lazy typing*
(January 15, 2010 - 4:11 pm)
It is in my opinion that everyone makes their own decisions and their own actions, no one makes you do anything, in a sense...... even fictional charecters, if Draco did not believe in his father's choices, then he could have done something about it, he could have run away, he could have sided with Dumbledor and been sort of a double agent, Dumbledor offers to Draco in #6 that he could protect his mum if Draco wanted to side with the good, Draco could have done something about it. Yes he was pressured, but if he was really against it or thought it was wrong (which it was, in my opinion) he could have done something about it.
Just saying
Elizabeth
P.S. In my opinion, Draco is a slimeball, look at the way he treats muggleborns, look at the way he treats Hermione in the early books, like I said, people make their own decisions and actions, he chooses to treat people like that, so in my opinion, he is a slimeball, yes, he was misguided, but that is not an excuse for his choices, actions, and words, he could have not listened to his father in the matter of muggleborns, and found out that they were actually half decent, one thing to say for Draco is that he did form his own opinion about Harry, he wanted to be Harry's friend in book 1, that is one thing to say for him
P.P.S. I tend to write things that offend people by writing my opinion a lot on this website
(January 15, 2010 - 7:34 pm)
Well, I'm not offended, but, no. Not all characters can be good, you have to realize that. What made Draco such a great character, in /my/ opinion, was that he was, as we've said, pressured and misguided by his father/family, and that even though Dumbly offered him protection and all, he didn't accept it, because, jha know, that's just how his character acts, he's driven by the need to please Lucius. /run-on sentence If he'd sort of given in and stopped being so desperate and all, his character would've been totally messed up. What you call "slimeball-ishness" is kind of what makes Draco the character he is.
Have I expressed myself right, or was that garbled?
(January 16, 2010 - 9:41 am)
Well, yes, obviously people have free will. That doesn't mean there isn't such a thing as brainwashing. I mean, Draco essentially grew up with the message "muggle-borns are scum" coming in from all sides- parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, friends... He comes from a family where you get disowned if you fraternize with muggle-borns or even with people considered to be blood-traitors. And he's spoiled beyond belief. What else is he supposed to think?
And then in HBP he gets in way too deep and suddenly he's being told to go kill somebody or he and his family will be tortured and eventually killed. At this point he's realized that the dogma he's been taught almost religiously for sixteen years is complete nonsense, but he can't do anything about it because, well, he's got Voldemort breathing down his neck. Despite that, given a few more minutes he would've agreed to Dumbledore's offer, he was lowering his wand and certainly wasn't in a state to actually kill anyone. Only problem was the others burst in and Snape killed Dumbledore before Draco could do anything about it.
Yeah?
(January 16, 2010 - 1:09 pm)