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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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07-20-2009, 05:06 PM | #62 |
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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.... |
07-20-2009, 07:12 PM | #63 |
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You're JOKING! You liked it?! It was so horribly terrible in my opinion, the movie did absolutely no justice to the fantastic book. Biggest disappointment ever.
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07-20-2009, 08:40 PM | #65 |
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I really liked some parts, especially with Malfoy, and I enjoyed watching the movie. But, after I started to remember what the book was like (it's been 2 years since i read it) I like it less. But if I pretend i never read the book, I like the movie. Well, there were still some other issues, like things that weren't explained very well (why is he the half-blood prince? etc.), plot holes, some parts of the movie dragged. I had a good time at the theater though, so I'm not complaining.
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07-20-2009, 11:11 PM | #66 |
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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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07-21-2009, 07:26 PM | #67 |
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After reading the book five times, I pretty much know the in & outs of the story. Firstly, they never really explained the importance of a Horcrux - or any other possible Horcruxes (i.e. when Dumbledore was explaining to Harry about how something from Ravenclaw & Gryffindor could be a huge possibility for Voldy's Horcruxes) - so, Harry is pretty much going into the next movie blind. They completely made up a pointless sequence in the middle of the film when they return to the Burrow for winter holidays, whatever that was it had nothing to do with the story line anyway - & was a completely useless scene. They could have turned that scene into another memory - potentially the memory that features Hepzibah Smith (I could be wrong with the name) which shows a future Horcrux. Another thing that realllllllly bothered me was that the whole importance of this book was learning all there is to know about Voldemort, his past, present, & future - the viewers still know squat about him. This is very, very, VERY crucial information for Harry in the next book on how to defeat him. I thought Dumbledore's death was all very touching but he does NOT fall out of the Astronomy tower! He'd probably be in pieces when he landed! I thought that was an absolutely awful thing to do (although I understand why they did it that way...I think) - and Dumbledore's burial was out of the film completely which was a huge shocker. That is a very important scene - firstly I think it's significant to know that Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore is the ONLY Headmaster to ever be buried on school grounds & it is the scene where Harry breaks up with Ginny. The whole film was wrong from start to finish. However, Draco was absolutely fabulous and was about the only good thing that came from this film.
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07-22-2009, 12:35 AM | #68 |
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I agree Link, Draco was fabulous! (and all your other comments) I was reading some comments on a movie site or something somewhere (maybe just imdb...) and a lot of people pointed out that Ron's love life was waaay overemphasized. It was funny, at times, but they spent a lot of time on that which could have been spent on explaining more important things, like Voldemort and the horcruxes and more about the half-blood prince thing. I mean, that is the title of the movie after all, but I don't think people who haven't read the book but saw the movie have any idea about it at all. My bf (as an example of that crowd) pointed that out (and says he now plans to read the books). Maybe it's not as important as Tom Riddle, but, I'm a big Snape fan so I find it important. ;]
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Oh, dear. Really?! That's depressing - I wish Rowling wouldn't have done that. I'm going to fetch my book in a second and check that out.
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A full week after the release of the latest movie and not one comment in the Harry Potter forum?
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We saw it - general feeling was that it was pretty slow. Some gorgeous scenery, though. And for me, Voldy just isn't as scary as before - seeing him chair a meeting made him just lose something - wait, did they have doughnuts on the table? Did he show some viewgraphs? Also reminded me of the Evil Overlord thing - that was hilarious - wonder if that list is still floating around the net ...
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I like the new movie, but the new movie is OK too.
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Harry and Zionism? The Dark Lord rising ..........
Abysmal. You really have to read this for yourself. But in all the Potter boards I've been involved with over the years, and all the discussions I have had with folks pro/con Harry, nothing ...NOTHING... quite rushes in like this.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/141433 Then, again, consider the source, I suppose, for the remarks (not the reporting).
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Very amused by the amount of work that went into this video-any. They can find as many horrible themes in it as they want; it won't change what the book actually centers around. Nothing! It's a kids book! They might as well be saying that my favorite children's book, Goodnight Moon incorporates the Greek paganistic views of praying to the moon. Sorry for my rant. That was a ridiculous video. In response to the first post, I like all the movies. They are very entertaining and I've watched them each many times. I don't really see a difference from the different directors, but then again I haven't read the books. Too much very light pleasure reading for my schedule. Too busy reading Tolkien and studying! But the movies are very fun to watch.
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Unhallowed, unhonoured, and unsung............
Part two of the Hollywood version of the end of Harry Potter, uselessly prolonged, apparently.
Having divided it into two parts, they could have done Nagini’s death properly after having done Neville’s speech and torture properly. They went all Hollywood at that point and rendered a most powerful scene virtually pointless – unless you just “luv” Hollywood chase scenes as a crude attempt to build tension. The whole bit with Snape’s death by Nagini striking 3 times after the useless sectum sepra spell by Voldemort was overdone. Frankly, I’m really shocked that JKR allowed those crucial changes. They could have presented them as written without difficulty. I also found the whole tenor of the story hollywoodized (in the sense of bowdlerized) by the interactions of Lord Voldemort with the death of the horcruxes and their secondary impact on Harry. I thought it crucial in the books that Voldemort had passed beyond the capability of knowing such because of the mutilation of his own soul, in fact, I seem to recall Dumbledore telling Harry that. On the other hand, it followed the conventions of the Hollywood action-adventure movie and one can see how the limitations of the medium limited the story. No surprise, really. And it could have been worse, I suppose. I shan’t be making a second trip to the theatre to see it. I’ll wait till I get the movie as a DVD as a gift to see it again. It unimpressed me that much.
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