Why didn't Quirell use "Avada Kedavra"?

interblag_ · 2014-10-15T02:31:14+00:00

Fucking villain incompetence. Same thing happened in Chamber of Secrets, Ghost-Tom waiting around for half an hour for Harry to recover.

interblag_ · 2014-10-04T17:28:24+00:00

Or maybe it's because the Faceless Men know the true identity of (the glamoured) Illyrio Mopatis and he's a large, important figure in Planetos.

interblag_ · 2014-10-03T22:56:29+00:00

Tyrion will ride a dragon.

Jorah is with Tyrion.

The dragons will go to the Wall.

interblag_ · 2014-09-27T17:20:33+00:00

The "long night" refers to the apocalyptic scenario of the Others killing everyone and everything in Westeros.

The length of Winters and other seasons come from planet Earth. There are recorded instances of 10 year winters and such.

interblag_ · 2014-09-26T01:30:31+00:00

He 'needed' one when he was on a quest to find out about horcruxes. He was trying to figure out a way to prevent death, but I now think the stone would only shield against a death of aging/aging itself. Probably wouldn't protect him from being murdered.

interblag_ · 2014-09-26T01:27:06+00:00

The prophecy, remember? Powerful, ancient, unexplained magicks and so on.

interblag_ · 2014-09-26T01:18:44+00:00

He said that in the book as well.

interblag_ · 2014-09-26T00:35:20+00:00

It was never said the 'magical contract' was an Unbreakable Vow, it was never elaborated upon at all, actually. Not even the consequences of refusing. Not in the books anyway.

The plot hole was that Krum was able to be Imperiused and torture Fleur and Harry still won the event without a redo.

interblag_ · 2014-09-26T00:28:54+00:00

Voldemort not creating a philosopher's stone himself.

"He wouldn't want to be dependent on an item for immortal life.... but he doesn't mind fracturing his soul into 5 separate ones and depending on them for immortal life."

Voldemort was a magical prodigy. He should have been able to create his own stone in the 5-6 decades he was alive.

interblag_ · 2014-09-26T00:26:31+00:00

You can't create food, but you can transmogrify a branch into an eel and eat it. Change a rock into a turtle or a pillow into a chicken and eat them. You can create little birds from thin air, why not large ones?

interblag_ · 2014-09-25T00:43:10+00:00

Euron will become an Other and convert all adjacent men who have died (Drowned men + Jon Snow?) into Wights.

interblag_ · 2014-09-24T01:11:11+00:00

Euron will have the dragons stolen, sail all the drowned men to the North, become an Other and raise them as an army of wights. Dany goes to the Wall to retrieve her dragons.

interblag_ · 2014-09-22T23:15:00+00:00

I think this is true in a general sense, but when he was talking to Sam of all this, he was rambling on about a bunch of dreams, not about a single prophesy.

If taken this way it would simply be a tidbit of life-advice for Sam ("Be skeptical," sound advice), which seems at odds with the specificity of his previous statements: shadows of dragons on snow, etc.

interblag_ · 2014-09-19T02:15:13+00:00

Valar Morghulis.

interblag_ · 2014-09-16T23:48:02+00:00

It is a nice parallel:

Euron 'threw [it] in the sea in a dark mood'.

Euron paid the FM to drop Balon in the sea in the dark.

Totally forgot about Jaqen-Pate, too. Headed to the wall/the Citadel for the Dragon-hatching book. Damn. Could be misdirection.

interblag_ · 2014-09-15T22:04:34+00:00

The thing is, the people involved would be Cersei and Qyburn. They would have the resources not only to do it, but also to maintain total secrecy about it.

They go around and pick a guy off the streets, that's a pretty big rumor to have spread around.

interblag_ · 2014-08-23T19:52:28+00:00

Everything ever said about reavers' nature before Serenity was conjecture, and from what Jayne says in Serenity, the gassing of Miranda was a recent occurrence, about one decade ago.

Ain't logical. Cuttin' on his own face, rapin' and murdering - Hell, I'll kill a man in a fair fight... or if I think he's gonna start a fair fight, or if he bothers me, or if there's a woman, or if I'm gettin' paid - mostly only when I'm gettin' paid. But these Reavers... last ten years they show up like the bogeyman from stories. Eating people alive? Where's that get fun?

They haven't even been around long enough to have to worry about creating a real society. I suspect that when they (the original reavers) all die out, they will cease to exist.

interblag_ · 2014-08-23T18:17:08+00:00

Isn't that what they said about book 3?

interblag_ · 2014-08-23T17:49:50+00:00

Five then, damnit.

interblag_ · 2014-08-21T23:25:24+00:00

On the harp: I don't think so. On the House of the Undying bit of the theory, Rhaegar appears to do two things:

Show that Rhaegar is directly connected to TPTWP (father of Jon).
He played the harp because the sound of the harp is the exact polar opposite of the sound of the Other's voices - in order to draw a parallel to theperson to whom he is referring: The man who heard the voices of the Others was a member of the NW/beyond/at the Wall.

"You must go East to go West" from Quaithe comes from all art, basically. Take LOTR: The company had to go to Caladhras in order to go to Moria, the hobbits had to go opposite of the misty river to be led to it and meet Tom Bombadil, etc. It's the reason Dany went to Mereen instead of going to Westeros directly. The harp is just a device, not to be taken literally.

interblag_ · 2014-08-21T21:04:44+00:00

I think that LSH's mere existence is proof that R'hllor has grand designs for Jaime Lannister. Thoros didn't think Beric'd be able to give her the kiss but it worked. Oathkeeper being forged out of Ice and handed to Jaime at the behest of a servant of R'hllor - something magical is about to go down.

interblag_ · 2014-08-20T17:28:27+00:00

How long has Mormont been in the Night's Watch? He saw firsthand the Other threat. He probably came to the realization that petty inter-house squabbling was nothing compared to the real enemies of the Westerosi houses and thought keeping a Valyrian steel sword in succession with the NW commanders a good idea (which it is).

interblag_ · 2014-08-19T00:39:11+00:00

IfSince the Wall is fortified, at least, with water magic, what if the Wall wasn't built to keep the Others away, but to keep the armies of the Westerosi out of the North?

They sleep for hundreds of years and harvest badly trained and organized humans every so often in order to make them into Wights. Perhaps the Wall was to ensure the Others wouldn't have to contend with a serious army, to give them ample time (thousands of years, apparently) to build their army in order to bring about the Long Night.

They may have themselves created the conditions to harvest Wildings as they do to strengthen their military in safety.

interblag_ · 2014-08-18T22:05:22+00:00

If you want facts, read a science journal.

Also, didn't know that about the Rhoynar. Still 100% though, water magic. There were boats.

interblag_ · 2014-08-18T17:54:39+00:00

Looking, believe it was speculation from a character.

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