Harry Potter 7.2: Lightning has struck!
Jul. 24th, 2011 02:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
schneefinkToday was Harry Potter Day! And it was awesome.
I met with friends from the debate club (who I'd seen just a few hours ago at a birthday party - one trainer's question at the debate seminar, "why do we debate?", R: "Because we don't have any friends" is clearly not true, at least not anymore xD) to watch the sixth and seventh movie at a friend's, with a huge comfortable couch and a big screen and lots and lots of food, and then we went to the cinema to watch the last one. So much fun.
And I was dressed up as Sybil Trelawney! A. and I talked about it at the birthday party, but I don't think I would have gone through with it if I hadn't seen Cosplay Fever: Raiser Your Glass this morning. Then I had to, of course.
I'd never done something like that before and I was mostly improvising. I had lots of bracelets, a colorful necklace and hairband, a purple shawl, half a crystal ball in a velvet box and, most importantly, big black glasses. The colors were wrong (too much blue) and Sybil would never wear jeans, but I thought I looked great, and it was so much fun! LB was embarrassed to be related to me, hehe.
A. dressed up as Luna, and she was brilliant: she has the perfect hair for it, colorful necklaces, a grape necklace, and earrings made from actual radishes! There are photographs, but I don't know who made them.
(We also painted a lightning scar on D.'s forehead. It took us three tries because he kept complaining our lightning bolt looked like a SS rune.)
It was the perfect atmosphere.
The sixth movie was okay, but not something I would bother watching again. The book is my least favorite, so I wasn't surprised. I've never seen Dumbledore that manipulative before, even worse here than in the book. Also fun because I had a discussion with L. about who is more manipulative, Gandalf or Dumbledore, just the day before.
And wth did they do to Lavender? Just because she's Ron's girlfriend doesn't make her vain or stupid. I think it would have made much more of an impact if she'd been an ordinary girl.
Also they forgot to show Ginny breaking up with Dean, which made me wince a few times when she and Harry flirted/kissed. Do not like.
7.1 was very well done. I especially liked Hermione, the scene where she erases her parents' memories is very well done. And Ron. And I loved the scene with Harry and Hermione dancing in the empty tent.
I loved 7.2. I think the movies for the seventh book were the best adaption of the series. Interesting, great character dynamics, good plot translation.
Minerva McGonagall was awesome. So was Neville. And Luna. And Hermione and Ron, awww, I'm so happy they showed that scene in the Chamber of Secrets.
Gringotts was very well made (no second thought to Harry and Ron using Imperio, but it would be difficult to show in a film.) Wheee, dragon!
I loved that their positions in the final scenes both before and after the time jump - Hermione in the middle - mirrors the way I saw their relationships: Harry and Hermione as best friends and soulmates forever, Hermione and Ron as girlfriend and boyfriend, and Ron and Harry as very good friends.
They skipped a few things in Snape's memories that I was glad to have read in the book, but overall it was well made. And god, the scene/s right after Harry sees those memories. Hit me right there. Much more intense than I remember it being while reading. Wow.
I think they handled the epilogue really well. The thing that always bothered me most about it was that 19 years later, Slytherin still has such a bad reputation. But in the movie that came out less, and it was much more understandable that someone from a Gryffindor family, whose father is known as a hero of Gryffindor who fought Slytherin bad guys, might have some prejudices, and it was clearer that Harry would be perfectly happy and supportive if his son was in Slytherin.
Now of course I could reread the books and refresh my memory, but I don't think I want to just yet. I'm going to enjoy having the movies in my head for a while, and maybe I'll reread the books later. (Also it turned out I still know almost all of the details, years later. In debate club, I am known as the person who knows more than you want to know about fantasy books and all the Ancient pantheons and mythology - a big exaggeration, but wow, what a cool thought - but has no clue about African and Arab politics. This means that I do not know the last fifty years of history in Angola and Kuweit.)
If I were in the mood to read fic for it - strangely, I'm not, and I think it's partly because I don't trust HP fandom to write the stories I want to read - it would be epic Harry&Hermione, platonic soulmates, going on Adventures.
This was the last movie! The grand final. I'm still on that "I saw a great movie"-high. Will be going to bed right now and hopefully have great dreams about it.
ETA: Waking up an hour later vomiting on the carpet was much less fun. That's life.
I met with friends from the debate club (who I'd seen just a few hours ago at a birthday party - one trainer's question at the debate seminar, "why do we debate?", R: "Because we don't have any friends" is clearly not true, at least not anymore xD) to watch the sixth and seventh movie at a friend's, with a huge comfortable couch and a big screen and lots and lots of food, and then we went to the cinema to watch the last one. So much fun.
And I was dressed up as Sybil Trelawney! A. and I talked about it at the birthday party, but I don't think I would have gone through with it if I hadn't seen Cosplay Fever: Raiser Your Glass this morning. Then I had to, of course.
I'd never done something like that before and I was mostly improvising. I had lots of bracelets, a colorful necklace and hairband, a purple shawl, half a crystal ball in a velvet box and, most importantly, big black glasses. The colors were wrong (too much blue) and Sybil would never wear jeans, but I thought I looked great, and it was so much fun! LB was embarrassed to be related to me, hehe.
A. dressed up as Luna, and she was brilliant: she has the perfect hair for it, colorful necklaces, a grape necklace, and earrings made from actual radishes! There are photographs, but I don't know who made them.
(We also painted a lightning scar on D.'s forehead. It took us three tries because he kept complaining our lightning bolt looked like a SS rune.)
It was the perfect atmosphere.
The sixth movie was okay, but not something I would bother watching again. The book is my least favorite, so I wasn't surprised. I've never seen Dumbledore that manipulative before, even worse here than in the book. Also fun because I had a discussion with L. about who is more manipulative, Gandalf or Dumbledore, just the day before.
And wth did they do to Lavender? Just because she's Ron's girlfriend doesn't make her vain or stupid. I think it would have made much more of an impact if she'd been an ordinary girl.
Also they forgot to show Ginny breaking up with Dean, which made me wince a few times when she and Harry flirted/kissed. Do not like.
7.1 was very well done. I especially liked Hermione, the scene where she erases her parents' memories is very well done. And Ron. And I loved the scene with Harry and Hermione dancing in the empty tent.
I loved 7.2. I think the movies for the seventh book were the best adaption of the series. Interesting, great character dynamics, good plot translation.
Minerva McGonagall was awesome. So was Neville. And Luna. And Hermione and Ron, awww, I'm so happy they showed that scene in the Chamber of Secrets.
Gringotts was very well made (no second thought to Harry and Ron using Imperio, but it would be difficult to show in a film.) Wheee, dragon!
I loved that their positions in the final scenes both before and after the time jump - Hermione in the middle - mirrors the way I saw their relationships: Harry and Hermione as best friends and soulmates forever, Hermione and Ron as girlfriend and boyfriend, and Ron and Harry as very good friends.
They skipped a few things in Snape's memories that I was glad to have read in the book, but overall it was well made. And god, the scene/s right after Harry sees those memories. Hit me right there. Much more intense than I remember it being while reading. Wow.
I think they handled the epilogue really well. The thing that always bothered me most about it was that 19 years later, Slytherin still has such a bad reputation. But in the movie that came out less, and it was much more understandable that someone from a Gryffindor family, whose father is known as a hero of Gryffindor who fought Slytherin bad guys, might have some prejudices, and it was clearer that Harry would be perfectly happy and supportive if his son was in Slytherin.
Now of course I could reread the books and refresh my memory, but I don't think I want to just yet. I'm going to enjoy having the movies in my head for a while, and maybe I'll reread the books later. (Also it turned out I still know almost all of the details, years later. In debate club, I am known as the person who knows more than you want to know about fantasy books and all the Ancient pantheons and mythology - a big exaggeration, but wow, what a cool thought - but has no clue about African and Arab politics. This means that I do not know the last fifty years of history in Angola and Kuweit.)
If I were in the mood to read fic for it - strangely, I'm not, and I think it's partly because I don't trust HP fandom to write the stories I want to read - it would be epic Harry&Hermione, platonic soulmates, going on Adventures.
This was the last movie! The grand final. I'm still on that "I saw a great movie"-high. Will be going to bed right now and hopefully have great dreams about it.
ETA: Waking up an hour later vomiting on the carpet was much less fun. That's life.
