@Smeagol92055: I am still bothered by that part of the movie. She said that damn plant was extinct but there was never any talk about how to bring back extinct flora. (Never mind the shot of her pulling the leaf off the plant, which was in the trailer AND the theatrical release of the film, but NEVER on the VHS or…

@cletar: Better than robots that just kill anything that movies. At least these can be aimed.

Yes. But will it help me kill them.

@1Opinion: Probably a little. If I were to counter my own argument I would say the pivotal point in the book is actually when Harry tries to save Dobby (sp?). That is a choice equal to Harry's level of kind heartedness and skill. It is in that action that he accidentally becomes the owner of the Elder Wand. So he…

@1Opinion: I have a soft spot for 'every man' stories. I can see why Children of Men came to mind for you, because I make the same argument with a different (but I think similar) film Die Hard. How's that for random.

@Adam-H: We can definitely agree on Artemis Fowl. I love those book. The best thing about reading Harry Potter for me was that it opened up this world of YA lit to me that I didn't even know existed.

@1Opinion: I really like your analysis. The idea that it is not the murder, but the disregard of his own humanity that makes him something truly evil (and maybe why he is feared even by 'normally' evil wizards). But I still think its placement in the story makes it hard for the concept to carry true weight.

@doubledeckard: A love Gambon, but I have to agree. Harris was a perfect Dumbledore and he will be missed, for that and many other reasons.

@Ruthless if you let me: High, and worth seeing part one twice.

@Spaceknight: Lots of wizard camping. I'm not actually joking, it was one of the few criticisms it got in early reviews. Too much time in the woods.

@Adam-H: Ok, well, I actually do like the books (all but the last two actually). And I do not think I'm over simplifying or being incorrect in my statements about what happens in the story.

@Ponies eat Unicorns: Sorry about that, but I thought at this point spoiler tags on Harry Potter conversations were done more for irony's sake than for real. The book has been out for over three years.

@1Opinion: I'm very ok with the idea that not all murder leads to horcruxes. That makes perfect sense, and what you describe is pretty much how she lays it out in the books. And I'm curtainly not calling for bloody, gross-out horror to be involved.

@1Opinion: I mean, Harry, unthinking and unknowing, becomes the 'true owner' of the Elder Wand. The means and importance of this has not once been discussed in the previous six books, yet it is of paramount importance in the last book. For me it would be like introducing Darth Vader in Return of the Jedi, and…

@DasStan: Very true. But I say let's assume it's worth trying.

@mykalt45: If life can be in the belly of some of the magma belchers in the ocean, I say we should give a good hard look at Venus before we count out the idea of life there.

@lavardera: It would be much harder (to my knowledge) to make a probe that could survive on the surface of Venus and transmit back data. It's extremely inhospitably and would be very dangerous for a probe.

@Origamido: It would be, if it hadn't been establish five books before that Voldemort does that all the time. He kills people just because they are in his way, or he doesn't like the cut of their jib. I'm supposed to be now horrified that he also does it to prolong his life? It just has no impact when we already…

@Origamido: It just being a recycled story isn't the real crime (how many great stories are just re-tellings), the real crime, as you point out, it doing it over and over again in the same series of books, and expecting it to have any impact at all in the last book.

@Adam-H: The end of the last book, when I read it however long ago.