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OSC admitted himself that the whole affair with this book on Snape is a blatant attempt at a quick cash out. I am all for that but isn't it obsolete now when the last HP book is just around the corner? I would expect that this debate should have been published months ago, if ever...
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HP won't be out for a whole month. Of course, I'm not sure if I'll be through the first six by then.
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A "whole month" is not a long time, when the sixth book has been out for nearly two years. I don't know how long the Snape book has been out, but I don't think it's been more than a month or so...I agree that this book definitely should have been out sooner.
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quote:Originally posted by Noemon: Hasn't the Great Snape Debate been available for some time now?
I thought so. I posted this right after I saw the announcement on the main page that the book will be available soon. Perhaps, it is the announcement that is obsolete...
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quote:Originally posted by pooka: HP won't be out for a whole month. Of course, I'm not sure if I'll be through the first six by then.
I finished rereading Half Blood Prince this morning. Argh. I should have started later, or read slower.
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Well, I'm happy to report I finally sought out a Borders store here in Memphis and shelled over the money (happy to support Hatrack & OSC) for this little ditty. I'll be reading it for the next few days I'm sure. Not really in the mood tonight though.
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lol.. I don't really care all that much. Harry Potter lost it's charm for me in book 5. I keep reading, so I know what happens, but I do it more as a chore now than anything else. When it stopped being fun, and started getting depressing, I lost any amount of real interest I had.
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I'm probably going to finish Half Blood Prince today. I still might buy this sucker, something to tide me over to July 21.
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Okay, I've never read Harry Potter, but I do enjoy reading OSC discussing fiction and morality, etc., and so I read his snape dabate linked from the front page. I know the last book is out, and I'm curious what ended up happening--but not enough to read the book, let alone the whole series (maybe when I have kids )
So, anyone want to spoil it for me? Why did snape kill Dumbledore?
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Like OSC predicted, it's because Dumbledore told/asked him to. There are a copule of reasons for this -- Dumbledore was already dying and had only months to live anyway adn to keep Malfoy, who had been given the assignment to kill him, from turning into a murder.
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That's exactly what my father predicted when I first told him the almighty "Snape killed Dumbledore" greeting. And the really funny thing is that he hasn't read any of the books.
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Actually what OSC had predicted was that Dumbledore wasn't dead in the first place -- OSC was wrong about that prediction.
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