I literally just finished the book (for something like the eleventh time--I actually loved it, sorry) this morning. Heather to the rescue!
Actually, the Snape-Dumbledore thing, it's only implied that he asked him to kill him, and only if you're a Snape fan (or, like me, a person who believes Snape isn't a nice guy, but still a good guy). If you hate Snape (does anybody?), then it seems like Dumbledore asked Snape not to. Certainly, that's how Harry perceived it. Everybody really hates Snape by then, especially Lupin, it seems.
Fenrir is a werewolf named Fenrir Greyback, who happens to be the guy who bit Lupin. He mauls Bill Weasley in the end. Bill lives on, to look like Mad-Eye Moody and Fleur proves she's worth marrying when she verbally bitch-slaps Molly Weasley for thinking she wouldn't want to marry him covered in scars.
Hermione did indeed shoot birds at Ron. It wasn't actually technically romantic tension, more like Hermione succumbing to teenage jealousy. I liked that, because I like it when Hermione acts her age; she almost never does. :-/ ::snuggles poor Ms. Granger:: You don't have to be perfect all the time, hon! It's okay! The Herbology scene...hmm. The only one coming to mind at the moment is when she basically dumbstrikes Ron by saying she was going to ask him to go with her to a party, and he's appropriately ashamed of himself for making deragatory remarks about her "hooking up with McLaggen."
Ginny hugs Harry because they won the match, then he kisses her. I admit, it was annoying their relationship is never shown. Especially since Harry breaks up with her in a noble way at the end to go search for Voldemort's Horcruxes (Rowling confirmed this was the plural form of the word). He's planning to go it alone, but Ron and Hermione plan to go with him. The Trio will not be returning to Hogwarts next year, because of the all-consuming importance of this quest.
Tonks and Remus, basically as you remember it. Tonks/Lupin and Harry/Ginny were 'ships I liked a lot better before they became canon. Ah, well.
There are six Horcruxes. The seventh part of Voldemort's soul is in his body. And actually, there are only three now, since Harry destroyed one (Voldemort's diary, back in "CoS"), Dumbledore destroyed another (a ring that belonged to Voldemort's maternal grandfather), and a locket that Harry and Dumbledore went to great lengths to obtain, only for Harry to discover after Dumbledore's death that the one they took was a fake. The fake had a note inside it that said the original was taken and will be destroyed. The note's signed "R.A.B." Most fans (myself included) believe it was taken by Regulus Black. There's even a mysterious locket mentioned in the house-cleaning montage of Number 12 Grimmauld Place.
It was a goblet of Helga Hufflepuff's that young!Voldy killed an old lady to steal, but he wasn't planning to make it a Horcrux yet, or if he was, it's not explicitly stated.
Just a recap: Horcruxes are objects that contain pieces of Voldemort's soul so that he's OMG Immortal. Whatever you do to his body, he'll live, 'cause his soul's in pieces all over Britain. So Harry's gotta destroy the Horcruxes before killing Voldemort. The remaining three (four, Harry thinks) are Slytherin's locket--which was Voldemort's mommy's--and Nagini, his big skeery snake, Hufflepuff's cup and "something of Ravenclaw's or Gryffindor's."
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Date: 2007-07-19 04:46 pm (UTC)Actually, the Snape-Dumbledore thing, it's only implied that he asked him to kill him, and only if you're a Snape fan (or, like me, a person who believes Snape isn't a nice guy, but still a good guy). If you hate Snape (does anybody?), then it seems like Dumbledore asked Snape not to. Certainly, that's how Harry perceived it. Everybody really hates Snape by then, especially Lupin, it seems.
Fenrir is a werewolf named Fenrir Greyback, who happens to be the guy who bit Lupin. He mauls Bill Weasley in the end. Bill lives on, to look like Mad-Eye Moody and Fleur proves she's worth marrying when she verbally bitch-slaps Molly Weasley for thinking she wouldn't want to marry him covered in scars.
Hermione did indeed shoot birds at Ron. It wasn't actually technically romantic tension, more like Hermione succumbing to teenage jealousy. I liked that, because I like it when Hermione acts her age; she almost never does. :-/ ::snuggles poor Ms. Granger:: You don't have to be perfect all the time, hon! It's okay! The Herbology scene...hmm. The only one coming to mind at the moment is when she basically dumbstrikes Ron by saying she was going to ask him to go with her to a party, and he's appropriately ashamed of himself for making deragatory remarks about her "hooking up with McLaggen."
Ginny hugs Harry because they won the match, then he kisses her. I admit, it was annoying their relationship is never shown. Especially since Harry breaks up with her in a noble way at the end to go search for Voldemort's Horcruxes (Rowling confirmed this was the plural form of the word). He's planning to go it alone, but Ron and Hermione plan to go with him. The Trio will not be returning to Hogwarts next year, because of the all-consuming importance of this quest.
Tonks and Remus, basically as you remember it. Tonks/Lupin and Harry/Ginny were 'ships I liked a lot better before they became canon. Ah, well.
There are six Horcruxes. The seventh part of Voldemort's soul is in his body. And actually, there are only three now, since Harry destroyed one (Voldemort's diary, back in "CoS"), Dumbledore destroyed another (a ring that belonged to Voldemort's maternal grandfather), and a locket that Harry and Dumbledore went to great lengths to obtain, only for Harry to discover after Dumbledore's death that the one they took was a fake. The fake had a note inside it that said the original was taken and will be destroyed. The note's signed "R.A.B." Most fans (myself included) believe it was taken by Regulus Black. There's even a mysterious locket mentioned in the house-cleaning montage of Number 12 Grimmauld Place.
It was a goblet of Helga Hufflepuff's that young!Voldy killed an old lady to steal, but he wasn't planning to make it a Horcrux yet, or if he was, it's not explicitly stated.
Just a recap: Horcruxes are objects that contain pieces of Voldemort's soul so that he's OMG Immortal. Whatever you do to his body, he'll live, 'cause his soul's in pieces all over Britain. So Harry's gotta destroy the Horcruxes before killing Voldemort. The remaining three (four, Harry thinks) are Slytherin's locket--which was Voldemort's mommy's--and Nagini, his big skeery snake, Hufflepuff's cup and "something of Ravenclaw's or Gryffindor's."