Scary, Scarier and Scariest, What sent your spine tingling in HBP ? |
 Oct 22 2008, 09:25 AM
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Dumbledore's Personal Secretary  Posts: 4,684 Joined: 10:28am December 31, 2006 Location: At a violin concert with my boss.  |
The prospect of Dementors breeding is quite scary enough to people who know what they can do. And that's merely the beginning of the chills HBP gives. There are many happenings that are calculated to freeze our blood throughout the book.  So tell us, which particular scenes did you find most frightening ? You can vote for more than one option. 
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Nov 1 2008, 02:10 PM
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Madame Pince's House Elf Posts: 4,596 Joined: 5:46pm January 28, 2005 Location: In HP Book Club 4, awaiting the HBP film's release  |
I'd have to go for Dumbledore being killed as the most scary event plus the inferi in the cave and the whole atmosphere of the cave. These events are scarier even than Katie Bell's mishap with the necklace and Ron's being poisoned.
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Nov 1 2008, 02:13 PM
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Kibble Boy/Girl at the Magical Menagerie  Posts: 276 Joined: 4:50pm March 28, 2007 |
The scene in DH when the snake erupts out of Bathilda's neck is pretty creepy too. Especially the fact that it was inhabiting a body that had been dead for months already.
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Nov 1 2008, 07:16 PM
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Kibble Boy/Girl at the Magical Menagerie Posts: 287 Joined: 2:42pm June 20, 2008 Location: At home drowning in my IB homework |
The scariest scene in HBP is when Harry used Sectumsempra on Draco. When it described what happened I thought that Harry had actually killed him. Poor Draco
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Nov 1 2008, 10:59 PM
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Kibble Boy/Girl at the Magical Menagerie Posts: 305 Joined: 11:06am July 8, 2007 Location: helping Harry, Ginny, Ron, Hermione, Luna and Neville at an order meeting |
the cave scared me quite a bit. well it didnt scare me, but the atmosphere was like really creepy. then the little boy Riddle, being so powerful, and controling...*shudders*
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 Nov 3 2008, 06:19 PM
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Third Place Winner of The Headless Scavenger Hunt! Posts: 244 Joined: 1:27pm January 25, 2006 Location: A small village on Mars just outside the capital city Wibble |
The Inferi. Definitely. The image of them being cut by the spells that Harry sends their way and the cuts being bloodless... *shudders* goes right through me. I hope they get that right in the film, if it turns into a Sean of the Dead remake I will be very angry.
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Nov 4 2008, 09:56 AM
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Getting Fitted for New Dress Robes Posts: 57 Joined: 8:27pm August 1, 2007 |
The Inferni definitely. Also the beginning of Goblet. Where you are the old man's point of view.
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Nov 4 2008, 11:40 AM
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Professional Diagon Alley Window Shopper Posts: 72 Joined: 4:57pm July 23, 2008 |
The Inferi were definitely creepy, but what scared me the most I think were the effects of the potion on Dumbledore. Before this, we thought of Dumbledore as someone who was invincible, almost (I know I did). Then we see him at his moment of weakness in this book. It was quite terrifying, at least to me.
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Nov 15 2008, 10:20 AM
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Flesh-Eating-Slug Catcher Posts: 198 Joined: 11:53am April 21, 2008 Location: Managing Mischief with Elvendork |
So tell us, which particular scenes did you find most frightening ?
I chose, Something else. The most scariest scenes for me were Tom Riddle taking the orphans to the cave. Always I feel that something very bad happened to them. Reading it makes me fear for them, and think they had something very bad done to them. Dumbledore's death was unexpected and very sad for me, it made me cry! It was also scary because he had said, Hogwarts and the students would always be safe while he is there. Now he is gone and it was a panic to think, what will become of everone now? --------------------   W.L.Y.J. 1 of the 99.99% Images curtesy of Hagiographer13 & Moose_Starr |
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Nov 15 2008, 10:44 AM
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Dumbledore's Personal Secretary Posts: 4,684 Joined: 10:28am December 31, 2006 Location: At a violin concert with my boss. |
I don't know why but reading the part about Dumbledore looking out of his window at the sunset after he asks Harry to go get his cloak was very scary to me. It sort of boded something and made me shiver a little. Then of course, the whole thing right from the cave to the dark mark was spooky. The idea of dead bodies floating about in the water gave me the creeps too like Harry. *shudder*  Special mention of Greyback who absolutely sickened me with his bestial brutality. I knew he wouldn't be allowed to get at Dumbledore but for a moment, I was really scared at what that monster would do to him. Strangely enough, the sight of Snape was reassuring and not frightening to me. I admit I was shocked when he killed Dumbledore, but on my second read, I just knew that it was all part of Dumbledore's plan and I never had any doubts about that.  -------------------- |
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