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Don't you remember in the very first book, how the Weasley twins turned Ron's teddy bear into a spider? They are only 2 years older than him, so they would be certainly underage as well. Where is the ministry in this situation? |
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06-23-2009, 07:51 PM | #2 | |
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That's right. The Trace is actually really unfair because it doesn't have any proof that the underage wizard actually did the magic he's being accused of. Not that the Ministry cares though, they're rotten to the core. (That's another thread though. )
When Dobby smashes a pudding at the Dursleys (third book?) Harry is blamed - a prime example of this. Edit: Hermione is pretty in the books, and quite good looking when she applies loads of some sort of magical hair product to de-frizz her hair.
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I have recently seen HBP and liked it.
I simply must say it: Jim Broadbent played a superb, completely perfect Slughorn Here is another wonderful actor - such eyes.... |
12-20-2008, 11:37 AM | #6 |
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They are broadcasting them all in 3 days around Christmas. I might get inspiration for discussion
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12-21-2008, 06:39 PM | #7 |
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Haha they always do that because of the one Christmas scene in the whole movie.
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12-22-2008, 02:56 AM | #8 |
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Like Sound of Music. They broadcast it EVERY year.
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02-04-2009, 12:10 PM | #9 |
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Say, does anyone know when the next film is due?
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02-07-2009, 10:18 PM | #10 |
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Why yes! Of course I do! 17 July, the day before my birthday!!!
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02-08-2009, 04:14 AM | #11 |
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Hmmm, so plus minus a month or so before release here... Okay, thanks!
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02-08-2009, 09:17 PM | #12 |
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No problem. I can hardly wait. Half Blood Prince is my favorite book
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02-09-2009, 03:08 AM | #13 |
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I find the movies enjoyable enough to watch, but I'm not all that into them. I could care less that the release date was moved from November to the summer. I don't think I'd care if I never saw any more Harry Potter movies.
I loved the books and I know how the story ends. My Harry Potter world is my own, not the one that the movies depict. I've never liked how Voldemort looks in the movies, for example. Of course I usually see the HP movies on their opening weekends. And I enjoy watching them. I'm just not crazy about them. They are far far inferior to the books, it's not even funny. The LoTR movies were epic and instant classics - great art that sits apart from the great books they are adapted from. The HP movies are missing heart and soul of the books. It's like they are cheapening the books. I actually saw the first HP movie like 3 times in theaters. But I couldn't even fully get through it on DVD when I got it.... consequently I have no desire to own any other Potter movies on DVD - I know that I'd never watch them. They are just milking this cash cow for as long as they possibly can.... they are making the 7th book into two movies. What a shocker. And there was talk of trying to make Tales of the Beetle Bard into a movie... I can't even imagine that working for the big screen.
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I just re-watched Chamber of Secrets. I think it's better, the further I get away from reading the books.
I agree that it's fair to compare the book/movie experiences of the two series, and I think the flaws of the translations are similar. Both books derive a lot of their charm from the small details, and those are imperfectly moved to the movies. But I think, in the end, we have to deal with the fact that the Harry Potter books are just a smaller idea than LOTR. They're not as epic in content. So when you look at them you wonder why more of the "feel" can't remain. It's like the emotional graphics card is still 8 bit.
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I look forward to the HP movies simply because there is nothing else to look forward to in Harry Potter, after Beedle and the Bard, I don't think there is much left. I enjoy watching the movies, though, if I watch them I can't start thinking about the book, or I'll get angry. I have to pretend that I've never read the books. TOotP was the biggest dissapointment of my life (well of course thats an overgeneralization), and I hope they dont ruin HBP as much as they did with OotP...
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I've been trying to figure out what TOotP and OotP stands for without cheating.. but I don't get it
Tell me!
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02-26-2009, 03:45 PM | #17 |
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I'm assuming one of them, if not both, stand for The Order of the Phoenix?
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Haha brilliant.. what did that take you... 10 seconds?
*runs away screaming*
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02-28-2009, 12:48 AM | #19 |
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haha, yeah they both stand for the same thing, I like to change it up sometimes
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I really liked the movie. They did change some things, but they were less aggravating changes than in #5. The movie had that charm that the first four had, and that alone was enough to make it truer to the books than the Order of the Phoenix movie (then again, half the Phoenix book was almost unendurable).
I started out with really low expectations for the movies. I hadn't seen any of them until after I finished the series (which was in May this year). So, when I watched the first four movies I was continually surprised at how good they were. You'd think they would start messing up with Goblet of Fire, since it is such a long book, but they pulled it off great in my opinion. The biggest problem the movies face are details that seem dispensable at first, but then reveal themselves as extremely relevant. Take the Percy Weasley storyline, for example. The movies (accurately) take him out of the picture in Phoenix, but didn't bother to explain why or how in Goblet of Fire. As for casting, I would say it's mostly very good. I'm not going to quibble about Harry's hair---that's minor, I think, for the movies. In the case of Lupin, the casting actually was better than the version I imagined.
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