Also known as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part Two.
Isn’t he though? I love how the chubby kid in the dorky sweaters grew up to be awesome. Missed the ‘I’ll join you when hell freezes over’ line though. Also missed the death of poor old Fred, it was a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment. Actually, the whole thing felt a bit like they’d hacked it up, cut out a lot– you don’t even see Hagrid until he’s tied up by the Death Eaters. And they gave somewhat too much screentime to Helena Ravenclaw, instead. Ain’t that always the way?
Man, I remember being like twelve when the first HP film came out, these bloody things have been with me for a huge part of my life. I still have a poster for Philosopher’s Stone hanging up in my old room, Hogwarts and Harry and Hagrid look so childlike and serene. And now the whole castle’s gone boom. Huh…this is why I love that they left in the epilogue, because then you’re reassured that things have gone back to being childlike and serene again. Not sure that Dan, Rupert, Emma and Bonnie looked old enough to be parents to kids of that age, though. Still.
Did Neville/Luna happen? My god, Neville/Luna happened! (Which is fine by me.) And Tonks got no lines while Lupin got maybe three. It was terribly sad seeing them lying dead with their hands touching, though. And I did come close to tears at the Reserrection Stone scene, even though then we got Lupin mentioning the son that regular audiences will have no idea he had because the film cut that bit out.
When Harry goes to his death, he hugs Hermione but just nods at Ron. Are they too manly to hug or something? Ron’s shout of ‘He beat you!’ to Voldemort was, surprise, cut out. Ron really comes off worst of the trio in these films, wah. At least he still gets the odd good moment.
Loved pretty much everything with the Malfoys. Also noticed something I never noticed in the books before: Harry’s saving Draco’s life when he had every reason not to is what indirectly saves him, because Narcissa only spares Harry when she knows that Draco’s alive. I liked that Draco showed up in the epilogue. Maybe he turned out sort of okay after all.
I hate the demonisation of Slytherin in the books, hate it even more in the films. At least we got Slughorn (the One Good Slytherin, tm) played by Jim Broadbent, who is great even if he has maybe one line in the whole film.
I’m never going to like Snape, but I loved the whole Pensive scene, loved it. Loved that it used flashbacks from all the previous films. Tiny wee trio! And I liked the scene of Snape crying over Lily’s body as baby!Harry looked on, even if it was for very good reasons not in the book.
Plus we never got Snape saying he’d sacrifice James and Harry to save Lily. What a bastard. (One day I’ll actually write down some coherent thoughts on him, but I think my dislike of Snape stems from his cruel ‘I see no difference’ comment to Hermione back in POA. I hated him then, and everything after that- prejudice, murder, mass murder- was just the icing on the rotten cake.)
King’s Cross was cool. Except Dumbledore’s become Dumbledore the White!
And that is all I have to say about that, for now at least.
This is fabulous, fabulous, fabulous, all Harry Potter fans must read. Or something.
I went to see They Might Be Giants in London last night. It was awesome, but the awesomeness was marred by having a cold. (Whenever I have anything I have tickets for, something I can’t get out of, I always have a cold.) Anyhoo.
…..aaaaaaaaaaand then I realised I have plans for July 15. Not that those plans aren’t good, but then I have plans for the 16th too and I have to wait an extra couple of days!
Looking back over old fanfiction that I still have on my hard drive, because I’ve never actually cleaned out my hard drive…
…it is fabulously bad. Worse than most fanfiction written by a thirteen-year-old girl bad. fanficrants bad. That bad. Oh look, I seem to be posting them here. Please mock.
Digimon: Miyako/Yolei has a crush on Ken and no sense of punctation:
“And,well,I’ll understand if you don’t want to,but,um,would you like to meet me in the park tomorrow morning? I..I hope you can guess who this message is from. If you can’t here’s my number.” Yolei listened to the voice recite some numbers. “So who is it?” Hawkmon asked “It’s not Davis,it’s not TK,and it’s not Cody.” “Izzy? You do like him,maybe he likes you too.” “We’re just friends. Anyway,I know who it is,it’s Ken.” “Really? How did you know? So you’re gonna meet him?” “Of course!” Yolei pretended to yawn. “I’m going to bed.” “But it’s nowhere near your bedtime.” “The sooner I go to bed,the sooner I’ll wake up next morning and the sooner I’ll be able to see Ken!”
June/Jun considers her life:
I only have two friends in the whole world. I do know some girls in my class,but they don’t hang out with me often. My first best friend is Jim. I met him ages and ages ago,at a concert. We always hung out,and talked. Then I moved schools,and didn’t see him for a while. But then,amazingly,I saw him again. He’s grown really cute. I pretended to Davis that I didn’t really know him as well as I did. I don’t know why. Perhaps it was because I was terrified that he’d tell Jim about Matt,and Jim wouldn’t like me. But anyway,we’re friends again. In fact,he’s coming over in a few minutes. My other friend isn’t even around anymore. He died in a car crash,ages ago. I can still remember the fun times him and me and Jim had. Like theme parks and the cinema. I can still remember how I met him…
*Flashback*
He was a genius,and everyone liked him. Once he stayed in the detention room,to clean up. And I happened to be the only one there. (for not handing in my homework four days in a row.) Anyway,I was whistling casully,and he rolled his eyes. “Would you please stop whistling?” “But I don’t want to.” “Well,I want to.” “I’ll tell the teacher if you don’t!” “Go ahead. My name’s Jun Motomiya and I’m in year four.” “Are you Davis Motomiya’s sister? I remember seeing him play football.” “Yeah.” “Right.” “Hey,did anyone tell you you’re sort of cute?” I asked
Things get romantic:
“Oh,Matt,I love you!” “I love you too.” “They make such a cute couple!” “I’ll get a picture of this!” “Hey Tai,what’s up? You look a little…down.” Tai sighed. He couldn’t stand it anymore. Matt and Sora’s wedding. His two best friends. Everyone thought he’d be so happy. But he just wasn’t. He wasn’t needed by his friends anymore….and he’d always been needed. “It’s just not fair…” he thought to himself. Sora chatted to Mimi about fashion designing. Tai remembered this was the same girl who he’d played football with. The girl who disliked fashion. They’d all changed so much. “We’ve all changed too much.” Tai thought to himself. “Sora and Matt grew apart from me,and closer to each other…”
Sweet little Sora reveals her true nature, possibly
“Give me your dinner money!” “No way! Why do you always have to be so mean to everyone? All the time you are!” “Gimme it!” The younger Sora reached out her hand,and snatched the younger girl’s wallet. She tipped out 20p. “Man,are you so poor you don’t even have a quid?” She reached inside the wallet,and took out a photo. “Give me that back!” the girl sobbed. “It’s a picture of my dad.” “Oh,really?” Sora picked it up,and threw it into a bush. The girl ran to retrive it. “I’m telling miss of you,Sora!” she cried. “I’m scared!”
I believe this particular one actually warned for OOC:
“Tai!” I called in the Digital World. “Tai! Being mad at Ken and me won’t help.”
Matt showed up. He ran to Tai. “It’s okay,I heard what happened. You okay,man?”
Davis,Yolei,Kari and their Digimon were next. I looked at Yolei. She nodded,and opened her mouth about to say something,then Joe,TK,Izzy and Mimi came out and fell on them. “Ouch…”
Then Cody showed up. Tai told them all very quickly exactly what was going on,all that I hadn’t said. “And I’m going to destroy you!” Tai screamed at Ken. I put my hand on his shoulder. “Tai,screaming isn’t going to do anything.”
Cody looked around nerveously. So did Yolei. She didn’t want to fight…
“Tai.” Ken gulped. “I’m sorry…”
“Well that’s no use!” Tai ran at him and rugby tackled him to the ground. He lashed out,while Ken was too scared to move.
Me,Yolei and Davis ran at him and pulled him off. “Tai Kamiya,get a hold of yourself!” Yolei yelled. “Tai,calm down!” Davis said. I stared at my best friend,then jumped forward and pulled Tai away.
Some Pokemon visit my school, in script format. Again, thirteen years old…
ME: *has come down after them* What’re you all doing down there?! It’s lunch time!
*a little while later,we are sitting in the dining hall*
TRACEY: *exmaines his food* Rubbery pizza,ice cold chips,mushy peas,tasteless sponge and lumpy custard.
ASH: Yeah,great isn’t it?
BROCK: If I didn’t know better,I’d swear that the cheese on this pizza was my yellow rubber melted down.
ME: *chewing the pizza* Hurry up an’ eat,englissh nest…
No excuse really, is there?
Eloise Midgen was a Hufflepuff, y’know:
Eloise Midgen was a Hufflepuff girl. She had Hufflepuff friends,like Susan Bones and Catherine Whitby. She hung around in the Hufflepuff common room,and slept in her Hufflepuff dorm.
She was not a unusual girl,despite being a witch. She looked perfectly normal-light brown hair,blueish eyes,and incredibly annoying acne. She’d once tried to curse it off,with disasterous results. Her nose was still off-centre,giving her another thing to be self-consious about.
And today,she thought,had been a really rotten day.
In 2001 I wrote something stupid called ‘The Harry Potter Epilogue”. Wow. Believe it or not, I was slightly wrong in my predictions:
Harry I’m not telling…
Ron Ron went evil,nearly killed Harry and Hermione and became Voldemort’s best friend. Except he didn’t.
Hermione Hermione failed all her exams,couldn’t join the ministrey and was depressed for the rest of her life. Just kidding…
Hagrid Hagrid sold rocket parts to various countrys,using bits of Blast-Ended Skrewt.
Sirius Sirius got his name cleared,took Harry to live with him,and knocked down Azkaban *crosses fingers*
Lupin Is cured of being a werewolf *also crosses fingers*
Dumbledore Dumbledore became evil,tried to kill everybody and joined the Death Eaters. Then again,maybe not…
The Twins They started Weasely’s Wizard Wheezes,and it’s going well,except the shop explodes a lot.
The Troll Got a part in a low-budget horror movie
Fluffy Fluffy met a pink three-headed dog and they had some three-headed puppies.
Voldemort Voldemort…ummm…I’ll leave it up to you!
Wormtail Wormtail went on a mission for Voldemort,and accidently got eaten by Sirius when he was living in a cave. All together now: ‘Yayy…”
The Sorting Hat Met a beautiful sun hat,got married and became a solicitor.
Rita Skeeter Rita Skeeter met her worst enemy…bug spray.
Snape Snape forgot all about potions and opened Simply Snape’s School Of Super-Duper Flower Arranging and Ballet Dancing
Draco Draco became a world-famous pop-star. He also dyed his hair red,and decided to join Gryffindor because death-eating wasn’t for him. (He was also yelled at by everyone when he made fun of the name)
Trelawny,Parvati and Lavender Opened up their own fortune-telling Muggle hotline. It was closed when little kids became tramatised because of Trelawny predicting their horrible deaths,having them kicking the bucket in various different ways,including drowing,beheading,hanging,stabbing,jumping into firery bottomless pits,etc.etc.
The Durselys Were labelled by the neighbours as ‘the abnormal lot’. They were so shocked,horrified,depressed and mad,that they spent the rest of their life in St Mungo’s Hospital For Magical Maladies.
(It was meant to be a joke. An unfunny one.)
I think that’s all I and everyone else can take for today.
Okay, that sounds pretty silly, but I was wondering…could a wizard concieveably Appriate right into space? And maybe use some sort of breathing charm to be able to breathe there? And heck, would a wizard even be bothered about that kind of thing?
This is in the name of research. For a Harry Potter fanfic. :p
The people in question getting nekkid were fake!Hermione and Harry when Ron stabs the Horcrux. It was weird, they were all naked and steaming and it felt very out of place but still sort of worked.
And then there was the BIT IN ANIMATION, which was the same thing except this TOTALLY WORKED. (It was the Three Brothers story, and, well, I think it was animation. Could have been really really brilliant stop motion or something?) Seriously, it was like that one thing made all the movies worthwhile. Not that they weren’t worthwhile of course, but yeah…
Ooh, everything else…
LUNA IS AWESOME even though she wasn’t in it much. The bit of Harry and Hermione dancing sadly together and slowly cheering up is now my personal canon, Ron is awesome and Rupert has turned into a really good actor, Snape wasn’t in it enough, Dobby’s death was sad and the beginning with Hermione wiping her parent’s memories nearly made me sob. Actually, I loved that she actually mentions her parents in this, because she didn’t in the book, she just wiped their brains and never talked about it again. That always bugged me…we never even saw her un-wipe them! Maybe we will in the movie…
Tonks got a grand total of one line, sigh.
This also functions as a wonderful advert for Britain, the camera was always panning slowly over pretty fields and places…
Yeah, I felt a little sad after the movie, because I remember when Philosopher’s Stone came out and the kids were all little, and now they’re adults. JKR said once she always thought the Harry Potter books grew up along with the kids reading them, and they totally did…
Oh wow I’m looking so very forward to this now! There’s so much stuff in there- Voldemort in Dumbledore’s tomb! And the wedding! And I love Ron’s line “Your parents are dead! You have no family!” The acting’s really impressive now, actually. I can’t believe we’ve ‘known’ these actors since they were children…
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