The Harry Potter topic.

[alicetama]

I LOVED HP 7.1 I have seen twice now it is so good

I've seen it twice now too. My sister wanted to see it yesterday. I don't see how a person does not tear up or doesn't feel like tearing up while watching Hermione do that thing to her parents.

Spoiler:

But boy, she did cry when Dobby died.

I started crying from that first point... and yeah, full-fledged sobbing at the second point. Downer ending much?

Well, where were they suppose to end it? There really was no way to make the ending a happy one with this one.

[Kor]

http://movies.yahoo.com/news/movies.ap.org/harry-potters-grave-draws-tourists-israel-town-ap

Anyway, a few problems I had:

Too many DEMs.
Killing characters off screen
Teleport is the answer for everything

[PT]

http://movies.yahoo.com/news/movies.ap.org/harry-potters-grave-draws-tourists-israel-town-ap

Is it bad that I'm actually kind of disgusted by that? Not the gravestone itself, obviously, but the fact that it's turned into a tourist location, basically.

[Kor]

http://movies.yahoo.com/news/movies.ap.org/harry-potters-grave-draws-tourists-israel-town-ap

Is it bad that I'm actually kind of disgusted by that? Not the gravestone itself, obviously, but the fact that it's turned into a tourist location, basically.

It's not bad. I think it's wrong as well.
From what I've heard though, it only turned into a tourist location because someone spread the word about this and then tourists came there to see it. Only because people started coming Ramle decided to put it in their website.
I don't find it odd that it turned into a tourist location (any city would turn something into a tourist location if it turned popular with the tourists), I find it odd that people are actually coming from all over the world in order to see a gravestone.

I have heard a rumor though that there is another Harry Potter buried somewhere near Jerusalem. If I ever go there again (and that's a big if), I'll probably go to check if it's true.

[Dus]

Shouldn't Harry Potter be a fairly popular name? I bet there are loads of them buried in British soil. And Harry Potter isn't even Jewish afaik.

[Kor]

Shouldn't Harry Potter be a fairly popular name? I bet there are loads of them buried in British soil. And Harry Potter isn't even Jewish afaik.

But Daniel Radcliffe is

Other Harry Potters? Rowling said she had a neighbor/friend called Harry Potter when she was young. There is a really bad movie (Troll, I believe it was called) that one of the characters was called Harry Potter.........and he had magical powers (:o)

[Dus]

I'm very tempted to say:

There are at least seven really bad movies where one of the characters was called Harry Potter and had magical powers.

[mangaluva]

Spoiler:

Snape's grave is in a graveyard I visit fairly frequently. Disturbingly, the headstone just says "Snape", nothing more. Even weirder, I first found it the day after Book 7 came out.

[alicetama]

MAXIMUS REVIVUS! *shot*

Well, yeah, considering how it's about 4 days until the premiere (though I'm seeing it on the 16th, with my friends ;.; ) I figured I'll revive this.

Oh, and I've got something for all the Snape fangirls/fanboys out there:
http://youtu.be/2nPyasEm3g0

(Whoa, it's so weird. A Harry Potter tv spot was on tv just I posted this. O.o I hope I am able to post this. *looks at red letters above* )

[Yukimi]

Well, Severus Snape won the MTV Harry Potter World Cup and they went to interview him and he knew about this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx1XIm6q4r4

[mangaluva]

We're going to the Edinburgh Dominion to watch it the night before we leave on a trip to Italy. The Dominion, FYI, is one of the classiest cinemas running; the screens are bigger than my house, and instead of getting tiny flip chairs to sit on, your ticket gets you half a plush sofa, a pouffe to rest your feet on and a little glass table for your classy juice and popcorn. The expensive tickets get you reclining massage chair and complimentary Pringles. It is more expensive, obviously, so we only go for the best movies, and damned if HP 7.2 isn't Dominion-worthy.

Incidentally, who agrees with that quote that "This movie is the end of childhood for many people"? Because for me, that was Toy Story 3 HP is something I can't not take on into my adult life.

[RubberStamp]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvgVMecNp0c
^^Pretty kick ass parody of a crapsack song.

In any case, I for once am finally catching the midnight premiere of a HP movie. It has been tradition that I see every HP movie in theatres with my sisters, but we've never caught the first showing.

In any case, I am feeling a mixture of sorrow, anxiety and excitement. I am absolutely thrilled to see the 8th movie. But they really better not mess this up. It is literally the last chance for them to get things just right, just perfect.

I started reading HP when I was in 3rd grade. Harry Potter is a part of my childhood and I shall miss it because even if Rowling revisits the HP universe it most certainly will not be the same. I almost wish I could obliviate myself so that I could keep reading the series over and over again without knowing what happens in the end anyways.

[dilbertschalter]

~two hours!

and yeah, this is pretty sad. i started reading them when i was 8 and when the series ended i was almost exactly 17, so aside from the books being awesome i've felt quite connected to the series like so many others. that being said, to shamelessly steal mangaluva's phrasing, harry potter isn't something to be left behind going into adult life.

[Yukimi]

I started reading them with 10 years for a lucky coincidence (they weren't known in Spain) and I'm now 23 years old so they've acompanied me through more than half of my life and they will continue to

Also, I remember we were on the fist line on the cinema watching GoF and we left saying we hadn't seen the film but the pimples of Harry Potter XP

[RubberStamp]

Good bye Harry Potter, I was there when the books began and I was there when they ended. Even when I read the last book, Harry Potter wasn't over for me, since I still had the films to watch. Now that DH 2 has finally been watched, I feel the full emotional impact of knowing that it's over.

I just came back from the midnight premiere. I am sad but happy too. I am, without being very spoiler-y, very satisfied with the movie.

There was a lot of clapping and cheering in the theatre room I was in, before the movie and during the epic parts of the movie too, but what could I expect? Midnight premiere AND Harry Potter? Amaaazing. My sisters and I arrived two hours before the movie began and there was already a huge line wrapping around the building. One funny thing that happened was that during the previews there was a new Taylor Lautner movie showing and as soon as everyone saw his face there was an overwhelming boo that surged from the crowds. Pretty hilarious.

Spoiler:

There are a few things I'd like to complain about, but then this is just be me being nit-picky. I was worried they wouldn't do the resurrection stone scene and a few other things but I suppose it would have been really flipping stupid for them to leave those sorts of things out. I kept crying during the film, it was really well done. I had to hold back my tears otherwise I would've just started bawling haha.

Several things that bugged me:

1) Bank robbery (loved how Helena played Bellatrix in those scenes. Hilarious) I had wished those items that duplicated also burned and harmed them like in the book; what were they so worried about, being suffocated to death (unlikely) or being crushed by the weight of the items?

2) Throughout the movie when Harry was destroying the Horcruxes, Voldemort became visibly weaker, which bothered me; especially when he was so in front of his own followers. The pieces of his soul had been apart from him for so long, why should he have felt them being destroyed? Voldemort prized strength and power above all else and I felt it really undermined his character to weaken him like that.

3) It bothered me that when Voldemort "killed" Harry, the Dark Lord also passed out as well (though it was totally worth it because he pushed Bellatrix away and that was funny). I also wanted Voldemort to gloat more about Harry's Death.

4) I honestly wished they showed Percy, Fred and George reuniting during the Hogwarts Battle (even if we were never shown that Percy 'betrayed' the family) and Fred's death.

5) How Neville didn't kill Nagini after the speech he gave and how the final showdown between Harry and Voldemort was in the courtyard and witnessed by no one rather than in the Great Hall and witnessed by everyone.

6) How Voldemort died. I didn't like that he just crumbled away, that was pretty lame.

7) I also wish that after the battle, that Harry, Hermione and Ron, went up to the headmaster's office to mend Harry's broken wand rather than going out to the bridge to break the elder wand and throw it away. I was like ZOMGWTFBBQ

But otherwise I'm pretty happy with it all and I'm also greatly saddened. It is an end of an era, but I'm sure HP will continue to be shared around the world. It is such a great book.

If Rowling returns to the universe...I don't think it'd be the same. What can she do after Voldemort and Harry Potter?

Mischief managed,
RubberStamp