Who Likes Harry Potter Rumors? [Archive]

Phaethon

July 13th, 2007, 07:47 PM

Because I've invented the best one yet.

In the last book, in order to destroy Voldemort, Harry Potter goes back in time to when Voldemort was his age. He kills Tom Riddle but - oh no! - his time-turner breaks and he's stuck in the past. In order to cover up the murder and his time-traveling, Harry assumes the identity of the deceased Riddle. But the struggle with Voldemort has taken its toll on Harry, and the young wizard now sees it as his mission to cleanse the wizarding world of all potentially dangerous (read: all) wizards. And, without even realizing it, Harry Potter becomes Lord Voldemort. He is, at the end of the book, forced to take his own life to defeat the dark lord.

This is absolutely the way Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows ends. Absolutely.

Jason Rainville

July 13th, 2007, 08:02 PM

I really, honestly, truly, could not care less.

Elwell

July 13th, 2007, 08:17 PM

This is absolutely the way Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows ends. Absolutely.
I think you've been reading too many DC and Marvel crossover "events.":P

CaptainInsano

July 13th, 2007, 08:32 PM

I know how it ends...

**SPOILER******

DO NOT READ ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO RUIN THE ENDING FOR YOURSELF....

Harry & Ron wind up together after years of built up sexual tension.

****END SPOILER ALERT*****

Snarfevs

July 13th, 2007, 10:00 PM

Did you perhaps mean to post in Movie, Game & Music Talk (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=54)? Yes?

Phaethon

July 13th, 2007, 11:03 PM

- You care enough to post that you don't ;)

- Unfortunately, I don't read "teh comix" as the kids call 'em nowadays.

- Yes, this happens too.

- I was under the impression that Harry Potter was primarily a series of books, not games, movies, or music.

AlexC

July 13th, 2007, 11:09 PM

Snarfevs

July 13th, 2007, 11:27 PM

I was under the impression that Harry Potter was primarily a series of books, not games, movies, or music.

Touché! Nevertheless it's still a better place for discussion of any gargantuan holistic multimedia franchise that happens to be primarily a series of books. It's where people who for instance could care less hang out.

Oh what the hell - here are my predictions:

- Magic will be explained in terms of midichlorians
- Harry will be forced to arm the nuclear self-destruct system beneath hogwarts
- CTHULHU

BuckWeisel

July 14th, 2007, 01:22 AM

Dumbledore dies...again.

Art Print-ce

July 14th, 2007, 02:40 AM

A good end for a nice story, really. But anyway I don't believe this is the last movie about Harry. Who knows :)

dkounios

July 14th, 2007, 03:38 AM

Magic Man

July 14th, 2007, 04:47 AM

Professor Kumbledick seduces mumple fumble, and they both cast spells on Harry's lover Shungleshingle, who in turn developes a nasty case of wibble wobbles and succumbs to the plagiarism of democles demostrius.

Upon learning of this, Harry cries and fall off a step ladder impaling himself on the world's largest butt plug made of magical fairy crystal, causing an immediate if not subtley sexual vortex that pries open the eyes of the dead and spins the world THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION.

Everyone vomits at the same time, and the world drowns in puke.

The end.

lefran

July 14th, 2007, 06:55 AM

for those who do want to read some rumours try-
www.beyondhogwarts.com

edit: oops typo cheers asoir

asoir

July 14th, 2007, 07:15 AM

A fansite thats spelt hogwarts wrong? The audacity!

worxe

July 14th, 2007, 07:23 AM

Snape kills Dumbledoor?

DavePalumbo

July 14th, 2007, 11:18 AM

I'll take this opportunity to recommend that, if you haven't heard it already, you check out Wizard People, Dear Reader (http://www.illegal-art.org/video/wizard.html). I personally could not care less about the actual Harry Potter franchise, but I *heart* Wizard People.

Steph Laberis

July 14th, 2007, 02:43 PM

- I was under the impression that Harry Potter was primarily a series of books, not games, movies, or music.

Crud, didn't we have a books forum? Am I crazy?

Anyhoo, a thread like this is a reminder that it's nearly time for me to take my leave of absence from the internet. Last year, literally hours before I had book 6 in-hand, I saw a completely disguised spoiler on YTMND (and the spoiler was, unfortunately, 100% true) so I've vowed to turn off my net connection on July 21st and not resume until I've finished reading.

It might just be the best thing I've ever done for myself ;)

Brendan N

July 14th, 2007, 03:25 PM

chaosrocks

July 14th, 2007, 04:34 PM

heheh
my theory

Harry IS the last horcrux and in a flurry of self sacrifice he has to kill himself to destroy it.

I hope he gets laid first.

chaos

light

July 14th, 2007, 04:54 PM

I wish there was an interesting twist, this one is probably just going to end with "harry dies", doesn't pack a punch like snape kills dumbledore :(

Steph Laberis

July 14th, 2007, 05:02 PM

heheh
my theory

Harry IS the last horcrux and in a flurry of self sacrifice he has to kill himself to destroy it.

I hope he gets laid first.

chaos

My theory exactly ;) I wonder if she actually will cop out and kill him to secure the Potter franchise...

|NTeRN

July 14th, 2007, 05:31 PM

i think you guys are forgetting that if harry is a horcrux harry would have to fight volde with 2 horcruxes still up (the part of voldemorts soul inside him, and the piece in harry)

also voldemort was going to uses harrys murder for the horcrux, not his moms or dads murder. the spell backfired, leaving voldemort a spirit for a time. he never had time to to make a horcrux.

also if this did happen volde would take on attributes that harry has. like how cause his snake is one of horcrux and voldemort is snake like in appearance.

Phaethon

July 14th, 2007, 06:02 PM

Wizard People is amazing.

Sorry if I didn't make this clear before, but the implication is that Harry-now-Voldemort decides to kill himself as a baby to prevent himself from growing up, going back in time, and becoming Lord Voldemort. Naturally, the spell backfires, setting up the events of the first book.

D.Labruyere

July 14th, 2007, 09:00 PM

heh, I think voldermort is going to kill harry, but by doing so he kills himself also because he used the blood of harry to get alive and walking again. :)

pyrohex

July 14th, 2007, 09:31 PM

Stop trying so hard guys, you don't even come close to the actual, as in, heavily debated rumors flying around out there.

So sweeping aside the try-too-hard-humor, WHO ELSE IS EXCITED FOR BOOK SEVEN?

Justin.

July 14th, 2007, 10:45 PM

Harry gets shot by a sniper.

Yes, just like Captain America.

Slash

July 14th, 2007, 11:03 PM

Snape kills zombie dumbledore.

Oh, and captain america wasnt sniped, that was just a coverup.. in truth he died from complications after a burst implant.

DavePalumbo

July 14th, 2007, 11:14 PM

Harry gets shot by a sniper. Yes, just like Captain America.

I read that the sniper is Captain America :$

Elwell

July 14th, 2007, 11:30 PM

Harry won't die.

Steph Laberis

July 15th, 2007, 01:19 AM

Harry won't die.

Proof plz. :confident

You remind me of that parent that lies to comfort their child... "Don't worry, the vet will be able to save Fluffy... once they peel him out of the tire treads..."

Elwell

July 15th, 2007, 01:29 AM

But your theoretical Fluffy is (theoretically) a real, (no longer) breathing organism, and Harry is a fictional construct. The whole story is a lie told by adults to children. For all the increasing "darkness" of the series, we're still talking about kid's books, and in kid's books good eventually triumphs over evil and the hero doesn't die. Unlike real life. Just ask Fluffy.

0kelvin

July 15th, 2007, 01:31 AM

Didn't the prophecy in Order of the Phoenix say something along the lines that one must die for the other to live? It wouldn't really make sense that one must die for the other to die for the first one to live.

The Harry-has-to-die ending seems too obvious. I think that would be a bit of a letdown.

Eric

D.Labruyere

July 15th, 2007, 02:30 AM

if I'm right, it says something along the lines "one can not live without the other" or it could have just been one can not live with the other, which would give it a totally other meaning. :er:

0kelvin

July 15th, 2007, 03:14 AM

Okay, it was "One cannot live while the other survives". Which means that one of them has to die, but doesn't really discount both of them dying. But you'd think both of them having to die would be a pretty important thing for a prophecy to forget to mention.

Eric

Steph Laberis

July 15th, 2007, 12:52 PM

But you'd think both of them having to die would be a pretty important thing for a prophecy to forget to mention.

Eric

Are we really bound to that fact though? Like you implied, the prophecy does leave room for both to die so long as one of them dies, but the buck stops there. Perhaps after Voldie goes, Harry dies of his wounds or something silly. Remember the whole righteous spiel when Harry chose Griffindor over Slytherin in the sorting ceremony and how we all learned it was better to choose your destiny, blah blah blah? Prophecies aren't the be all end-all.

Even if I'm being strung along by an obvious plot bunny, I'm still erring on the side that Harry croaks in some noble way. Yes, it's a kid's book in the end. But can't a book grow with its readers? I mean, all those little nippers who started on the first book now have armpit hair and SATs to worry about ;)

chaosrocks

July 15th, 2007, 01:05 PM

all fiction is lies......elegant ones though... and as illustrators of ideas we are in the business of building beautiful lies.

it all pretty much depends on the "willing suspension of disbelief"

I just want to kill off the little whiner

chaos

young paddy1

July 15th, 2007, 04:24 PM

harry's got a part of voldemorts soul in him, it split off when he killed his mum so he shoved it into the person he believed could kill him to make it impossible for him to do so.

harry cops it

I want him to, annoying wizard boy.

joelhinxman

July 15th, 2007, 05:16 PM

my guess is.

harry dies on the crapper after a 4hr binge at the local indian food buffet. while the whole of the hogwarts students and staff get laid off from magic due to buget cutbacks. which causes voldemort to go crazy becuase hes got nothing to take over so he ends on of the streets danceing for quaters so he can make anuf to go to the local indian food buffet and binge of a few hrs.

but mabey if ive read any of the books i might have some idea of whats been going on up till now a could make a better guess. but oh well

Phaethon

July 15th, 2007, 05:22 PM

The prophecy only lends further support to my time-travel paradox.

CaptainInsano

July 15th, 2007, 09:54 PM

seriously tho, I think Hermione and all them will figure out some way to seperate Harry from the horcrux that's in him. the power of love and friendship or some cheesy shit like that. Anyway, it's be neat if doing so created an evil Harry, which Harry has to defeat (which ultimately kills Voldemort because that's the last horcrux). Regulas Black will come into the fray at some point, maybe as a ghost or be resurected since he clearly has some stake in the last book as foreshowded in the Half Blood Prince. Snape's true motivations will finally be revealed, and I think it'll be a shocking thing (perhaps Snape is related to Harry?).

The last chapter would be cool if it talks about what happened to everyone in the future. Like Hermione becomes the Head Mistress of Hogwarts, Ron is minister of magic, and Harry becomes an alcoholic. Something like that.

Sept13

July 16th, 2007, 12:55 AM

Dumbledore is alive, nothing else matters. And he's after revenge!

Steph Laberis

July 16th, 2007, 02:53 AM

seriously tho, I think Hermione and all them will figure out some way to seperate Harry from the horcrux that's in him. the power of love and friendship or some cheesy shit like that.

Wouldn't surprise me one bit. Plus now Draco's show of cowardice makes him all set up to be Harry's 7th and final ally, since we know the number 7 is so significant in the series. 7 books, 7 years at Hogwarts, etc.

And lookie, roughly 7 days until we all find out for sure! Woooo....

rustikof

July 16th, 2007, 04:16 PM

no one cares about neville.

what about neville longbottom??

WHAT ABOUT NEVILLE?!?!??!

tomwaits4noman

July 17th, 2007, 03:48 AM

I would like to see a reimagining of Harry in public school as a wizard, smoking getting drunk getting in to fights casting spells to seduce girls. now taht would be a franchise.

It turns out Voldemort is his real father. what a twist.

Steph Laberis

July 18th, 2007, 12:44 AM

OK, when Yahoo's front page features an article about the spoilers on the net, I know I am tempting fate. I'm off the net until sometime next week, guys.

Ciao! :hatsoff:

Grendel Grack

July 18th, 2007, 01:03 AM

Remember how Voldemort reacted when he posessed Harry? He couldn't do it because Harry had such powerful feelings of love and friendship. In short, my theory is Harry will love Voldemort to death, which will kill them both. Something will happen in the last book to change Harry's feelings about Voldemort. Rowling has already foreshadowed this. The epic battle will commence between the two and Harry will reveal at the last moment that he wants to save the last bit of Voldemort's soul by trying to love him like no other person has ever done. Harry will sacrifice himself FOR Voldemort, not because of him.

GunTrouver

July 18th, 2007, 07:06 AM

I think Voldemort wants to force Harry to hate him (even more than he did before) so he turns to the dark side of magic. During the endfight Harry becomes more and more angry but tries to control his hate. But than it happens!! Voldemort tells Harry that he's his father! Harry kills Voldemort with the Avada Kedavra and becomes the new Dark Lord;)

I don't know why but the story always reminds me a bit of Star wars:P
But I'm very curious how it really ends, I want to see Harry die! That would be a brave step from K. Roling...

N D Hill

July 18th, 2007, 08:25 AM

I find it odd how many stories are out there such as Harry Potter which put the reader in the role of an alienated youth who discovers that he is special by advantage innate super powers or something. It's sort of a re-hash of the superman mythos and a signification of the end of the Haratio Alger myth of the self-made man. You can see them everywhere, especially in super hero stories. A saturation of fantasies like this where characters rely on the circumstance of their birth to explain their alienation, empower them and allow them to escape mundacity as opposed to confronting struggle without. I'm finding it all to be sad archetypal trend that reflects a populace that feels increasingly powerless to affect change.

Haha. Just kidding. Harry's scar is a horocrux.

Katfayheirti

July 18th, 2007, 10:08 AM

I can't tell you how many alienated youths I know who think they're special...

Mungus

July 18th, 2007, 12:36 PM

The most plausible rumour I've heard ....

.....is that Voldemort slays Dumbledore (by dropping him from the highest tower of Hogwarts onto a carelessly propped Firebolt broomstick), so Harry turns his owl into a remote controlled Wattle-Expunger, <he did this using an occlumency vial that Hermione regurgitated up just before she succumbed to a lethal dose of thimble-prick accidentally given to her by Hagrid when he sat on her sandwiches >. With a pinch of Wurzlenip on the end of his Expunger, Harry brings the dark lord down with a well placed aim at Voldemorts' crabstick, who disappears in a fiery purple cloud of feathers, None-such, bovine dandruff and rodent pellets and Harry almost becomes headmaster of Hogwarts because everyone's spirits are so high.....but he's denied the honour for failing to repay student loan fees accrued over five years.

Noë

July 18th, 2007, 02:01 PM

hmm.. right :)

I'm just looking forward to start reading the book that will be delivered to my and my bf's house this saturday!
It would be pretty cool if Harry loved voldemort to death..

I'm just wondering how he will get all the knowledge of magic he needs to seek and destroy some of the other horcruxes.
Oh, and about R.A.B. is he Regulus Black (you know, Sirius's little brother) ?
I'm thinking this because in the dutch version it's translated as R.A.Z. and in the Dutch version 'Black' is translated to 'Zwarts'

Ah well..
I'm just curious :)

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