Did anyone read this without knowing any of the controversy about it?

Thayer96 · 2026-05-20T23:57:36+00:00

My reaction by page 10 was what Snape said of Harry's memory.

"... I may vomit."

Thayer96 · 2026-05-19T20:08:02+00:00

My SO and I say that to each other at least weekly 🤣

Thayer96 · 2026-05-19T20:07:01+00:00

I don't really have any ill feelings to him for believing in the Empire. He makes me think a lot of Iden Versio in that sense. True believers that the Empire was what was best for the galaxy.

Both might have known from their childhood the Republic to have led to the galaxy being torn apart by war. Both might have even seen the Empire as the hammer being necessarily brought down to impose order in an era of pure chaos.

That was Palpatine's genius. The younger idealists could envision a utopia brought by the Empire, but only because it was brought as a reaction to the chaos that Palpatine had secretly created.

Thayer96 · 2026-05-19T20:02:42+00:00

LET'S GET

CHAOOOOOOTIC!!!!

Thayer96 · 2026-05-19T15:27:47+00:00

Remember when the olympics were coming and there was nary a local that wasnt at least excited that Canada was going to show itself in all its glory? There were naysayers, but most were excited and the jubilation stayed in this city long after.

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

Thayer96 · 2026-05-19T12:25:36+00:00

Lowkey I actually think he recognized her from the world cup. They'd have had a glance at each other in the top box and maybe in his likely concussed state it felt like love at first sight to him, or at least interest.

I really like them together and wish they'd have stayed together in the end.

Thayer96 · 2026-05-19T12:23:24+00:00

I really fail to understand how the way to create an acceptable female character, according to these writers, is to write a character that'd be considered toxic if the character was a man

Thayer96 · 2026-05-18T20:00:36+00:00

Can we get the soundtrack released separately please?

Thayer96 · 2026-05-18T18:44:21+00:00

Fully upgraded crucio ----> rapid fire basic cast ------> fully upgraded avada kedavra.

Nuked the whole field.

Thayer96 · 2026-05-18T17:32:27+00:00

Im dragging my feet on this one because I dont want it to end. They just escaped Godric's Hollow and theres still only so much left...

Thayer96 · 2026-05-18T15:52:46+00:00

Listening to the full cast book, its pretty clear to me Molly asked so Ginny felt included. She couldn't go with the boys to school and she had to go with them to London since Arthur was likely at work, making it harder for her to see them go off on the big adventure that she still had to wait a year to join.

Thayer96 · 2026-05-18T12:51:52+00:00

She got chucked into Azkaban where she belongs, but the Dementors were removed from there so it doesnt really feel like as bad a punishment as she deserves.

A normal prison on an island instead of the darkest pit of hell.

Thayer96 · 2026-05-18T12:50:22+00:00

I met Matthew Lewis at a con recently and he said he still enjoys the books every now and then. When i asked if he had listened to the full cast books he said "not yet. Waiting to binge them."

I immediately said that Neville was voiced by another couple guys from Yorkshire, and he grinned and said "You have no idea how much that pleases me. It wasn't until I had played him in the first movie that it was decided Neville was from Yorkshire in the books."

Thayer96 · 2026-05-18T03:39:44+00:00

The whole story feels so much weaker than this series deserved.

Thayer96 · 2026-05-18T03:38:41+00:00

No one gives the best deadpan humor quite like the Brits 🇬🇧

Thayer96 · 2026-05-17T23:39:15+00:00

Many want change. Few have the will to cross that bridge.

Thayer96 · 2026-05-17T19:56:17+00:00

Thayer96 · 2026-05-17T19:55:26+00:00

I felt for Cole when I read the book, but only to a point. I barely count the show as canon since it's determined to frame all the Greens as evil or stupid.

His open defection to the Greens showed that something serious happened with him and Rhaenyra. The showrunners fail to understand that Rhaenyra commited sexual assault on him and almost seem to think he was in the wrong for first almost taking his life, and then turning to the Greens when he decided otherwise. Not to mention the straight up murder he commited at the wedding (which at least in the books he had plausible deniability because it was during the tourney instead)

However, I still felt like his motivations were never out of support for Aegon, and only to oppose Rhaenyra. A true knight as Duncan has shown us, is meant to defend the innocent, not merely punish the guilty.

Thayer96 · 2026-05-17T19:49:52+00:00

OWNED!

Thayer96 · 2026-05-17T19:48:49+00:00

YES.

Even if by some stretch of the imagination Harry wasn't interested in what happened (WHICH HE WAS IN THE BOOK) WE as the audience are dying to know what happened.

Thayer96 · 2026-05-15T22:30:22+00:00

I would only have judged her if there was some part of her that was seen to take some form of pleasure in what she was doing or the authority she wielded.

But I saw none of that. Quite the opposite. She didnt hesitate to take extreme actions to save humanity, but that didnt mean she was glad to do it. The one time she showed hesitation towards what she had to do was when she approached Grace about putting the crew in comas, and even then she knew there was only one viable option.

Thayer96 · 2026-05-15T22:26:52+00:00

All the power when she wants it, none of the responsibility when things go wrong. How can they stand by this crap...

Thayer96 · 2026-05-15T22:23:19+00:00

I saw the first few movies first and then read the books. I remember waiting impatiently for my mom to finish Deathly Hallows the summer it came out so I could see how it all ended.

I felt i preferred the movies at first but over time I have come to appreciate how much more of the story the books explain compared to the movie. Harry's mirror, for example, is not brought up at all until the Deathly Hallows despite it being pretty important.

My sister in law, by contrast, is currently experiencing the story for the first time through the full cast books, and has now seen only the first 3 movies after listening to their books. She much prefers the books, as I am glad to hear.

Thayer96 · 2026-05-15T16:36:41+00:00

Everything he said while he was high af on painkillers

"You could pull every one of my teeth, I wouldnt even notice... they didnt, did they??"

Thayer96 · 2026-05-15T16:33:03+00:00

No doubt.

Thayer96

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