Everyone just wants to see Dumbledore alive again.

Dumbledore's homosexuality never comes up in the books because DUMBLEDORE'S HOMOSEXUALITY DIDN'T COME UP IN THE BOOKS.

This is about as big of a deal as Rowling thinking she made up the words "Hagrid" or "Dumbledore" she just needed to do a bit more research.

It's even more great that this is something Dumbledore would probably do.

gandalf vs dumbledore is one of my favorites.

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I dunno, Abe Lincoln vs Chuck Norris was fairly bad.

>> ^FancyL:

The rapping was the worst yet. The intro/outro were the best part.

I thought the films got Snape dead wrong. They have him vaguely menacing and cryptic. He doesn't even really act like an authority figure.

In the books he's openly sarcastic, insulting, and threatening. He's wickedly intelligent and disdainful of those who aren't.

Probably the main place the films fail for me is not in plot simplifications or ill-conceived action sequences, but the fact that characters like Snape and Dumbledore are warped beyond recognition.

r10k, I studied the Bible with a respected religious man; one of the few Americans allowed to view and help decipher the Dead Sea Scrolls. We used an annotated version of the Bible that explained the puns, double meanings and other linguistic aspects that would be lost on someone who just picked up a King James at Barnes & Noble. My Prof. provided context, historical and cultural. He showed us more ancient Mesopotamian mythology that contained stories remarkably similar to those in the Bible. He, a religious man (Jewish), presented the book for what it was, with no apologies or attempts to shield us from the books' many contradictions and logical inconsistencies. Warts and all.

I seem to meet all your criteria for being able to have an opinion on the Bible. I've got context, depth and the instruction of a very wise religious scholar. No offense, but I probably understand this book better than you ever will, and yet....

My critical mind tells me this is mythology, like Zeus, or Beowulf, or Gilgamesh, or Frodo, Bilbo and Dumbledore. These are campfire stories from pre-scientific times that attempt to explain the -then many- mysteries of existence. Those days are gone, and we now know that we are not at the center of the universe, that space isn't made of water, that stars are not lights, that the world is not flat, that humans are part of an evolutionary chain and that the earth is billions of years old. Perhaps it's time to embrace the future, r10k, and leave the cave drawings behind you.

Just one person's opinion.... I could be wrong.

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What about Knockturn Alley? "Nocturnally"? Rowling puts a hell of a lot of thought into all her madeup names. I hope she writes another book - she's a treasure.
>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

Sadly, yes. >> ^Ryjkyj:
Did anyone else read the entire Harry Potter series before they realized that Diagon Alley was a pun?

Sadly, yes. >> ^Ryjkyj:

Did anyone else read the entire Harry Potter series before they realized that Diagon Alley was a pun?

Dumbledore IS a poof. Crisis averted.

He was SO much better a dumbledore...

@blankfist I suppose one interpretation is that the authors of the Island is the people on oceanic 815, and they fill in elements they need until they could get some closure and move on.

My interpretation is that what happened on the Island during the whole show was real in the same sense as when Dumbledore talks to Harry after he's dead:

"Tell me one last thing," said Harry. "Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?"
"Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?"

I think everything that happened on the Island was "invented" by the "survivors", who for their own reasons could not move on, on their own. They got caught in a limbo of their own creation. The different people who actually popped up once in a while like libby, ana-lucia etc. might have been on the plane, but actually moved on already, explaining why they weren't in the church at the end.

I still have unanswered questions about Jacob, MIB and stuff like that, but many of the smaller things like the hatch, which was portrayed as a "Big Thing" might not have been all that important, it was what locke needed at the time, so it sorta popped up. (yeah, it's a bit of a cop-out solution, but it works.)