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Harry Potter
- Thread starter Severus Snape
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goldenquagsire
Rubber dinghy rapids, bro!
Severus Snape
"Detention, Potter,"
goldenquagsire
Rubber dinghy rapids, bro!
i don't think you don't understand what "the shit" means.
yes they were cheesy movie tie-ins and probably weren't that good, but childhood nostalgia overrules everything.
oh god no.
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Ahhh I love Harry Potter. It was pretty much my entire childhood and I still adore them to pieces. :D
My favourite book tends to vary - it's been the third, fifth and sixth. The fourth is my least favourite but I still think it's great. Might just be lingering anger about the disappointing fourth film.
The other films have been okay, but they started to degrade a bit after the first two (and possibly the third, even though they skipped out everything thanks for telling us about the Marauders! oh wait you didn't). I'm really looking forward to the seventh film, totally gonna go to a midnight release for both parts. :D
Ahh I'm not saying anything else because I know I'll end up rambling for ages. There's so much to say about HP!
My favourite book tends to vary - it's been the third, fifth and sixth. The fourth is my least favourite but I still think it's great. Might just be lingering anger about the disappointing fourth film.
The other films have been okay, but they started to degrade a bit after the first two (and possibly the third, even though they skipped out everything thanks for telling us about the Marauders! oh wait you didn't). I'm really looking forward to the seventh film, totally gonna go to a midnight release for both parts. :D
Ahh I'm not saying anything else because I know I'll end up rambling for ages. There's so much to say about HP!
Severus Snape
"Detention, Potter,"
nastypass
that bitch what arranges the blocks
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FUCK YOUR SHIT
3RD WAS BEST
HATERS GONNA HATE
Not Meowth
Cat, are you drilling?
Murkrow
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My favourite books were the third and fifth. Third because it still had the fun and magic thing that the first two had going on but had darker elements too. Also I generally like time travel. I would like the fourth one more than the third but for some reason I don't. No idea why I like the fifth, I think I just liked the idea of the Order and also how the ministry was refusing to believe them, making the ministry and Umbridge like a second bad guy.
I think the films started going really downhill after the fourth one. The fifth was just so rushed and the sixth I just didn't like at all for some reason. I have no idea where the fight scene at he Burrow came from.
I hope splitting the seventh into two will help with the rushedness, but I still have a bad feeling about it. The first few films felt all innocent but then once Voldy came back it seemed to turn generic action scenes but with magic. When Sirius died in the film, did anyone else think "Fly, you fools!"?
Best video game is the third one, where you get to play as all three main characters and not just Harry. Not sure if there are other games like that but I still love it!
I think the films started going really downhill after the fourth one. The fifth was just so rushed and the sixth I just didn't like at all for some reason. I have no idea where the fight scene at he Burrow came from.
I hope splitting the seventh into two will help with the rushedness, but I still have a bad feeling about it. The first few films felt all innocent but then once Voldy came back it seemed to turn generic action scenes but with magic. When Sirius died in the film, did anyone else think "Fly, you fools!"?
Best video game is the third one, where you get to play as all three main characters and not just Harry. Not sure if there are other games like that but I still love it!
octobr
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Oh god third game was the most amazing, the smartest most awesomest, most practical -- most beautiful game in the whole fandom. The kicker for that? Exploring the castle ... on Buckbeak.
verne biggest harry potter nerd end thread
HEADS UP: I am coolest because I, THIS WEEKEND, am going to the HARRY POTTER PARK IN UNIVERSAL thank you, thank you
Also I love the series as a universe, less so as books, because honestly JK Rowling is not much of a writer (she only started developing a sense of her own style in book seven, really) but she is a fantastic storyteller, and I definitely respect that. She has spun up this big and also completely malleable universe in which Harry's storyline, though undoubtedly important, is also just one small part of a great whole. I think it's great because it gives fans a place to exist within her space.
verne biggest harry potter nerd end thread
HEADS UP: I am coolest because I, THIS WEEKEND, am going to the HARRY POTTER PARK IN UNIVERSAL thank you, thank you
Also I love the series as a universe, less so as books, because honestly JK Rowling is not much of a writer (she only started developing a sense of her own style in book seven, really) but she is a fantastic storyteller, and I definitely respect that. She has spun up this big and also completely malleable universe in which Harry's storyline, though undoubtedly important, is also just one small part of a great whole. I think it's great because it gives fans a place to exist within her space.
Murkrow
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I still look like Harry Potter.
...According to all of the people across the street who shout stuff at me to annoy me when I walk to school :(
Though some of my friends have actually noticed I act very Hermioneish at school!
And in other Harry Potter related news, I have an injoke with my brother where I try to bring up mention of Ludo Bagman, and that makes him annoyed. I guess it's like our version of Rickrolling. Sometimes I leave a Harry Potter book open on a page that mentions him on his bed, or write his name on a piece of paper and hide it underneath his DS. Also last week I was doing a crossword and asked him "Children's board game, four letters, begins with L" it was unintentional but I acted as if it wasn't.
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Blastoise Fortooate
Geographical!
Third movie almost made me pee myself because soda + long movie + years ago = full, hard-to-control bladder.
I actually started the series with HBP (my mom bought it thinking I had already read the first five) and then I worked my way down or something I don't remember. '~'
Timeturners were an overall bad plot-point in my opinion, but they were written out pretty well.
I actually started the series with HBP (my mom bought it thinking I had already read the first five) and then I worked my way down or something I don't remember. '~'
Timeturners were an overall bad plot-point in my opinion, but they were written out pretty well.
Dannichu
Tragically unbeyachted.
I actually like the later films more than the first ones. The child actors are a bit more bearable.
But I love the films not because they bring to life a wonderful, magical world or anything, but because they have just about all my favourite actors ever in one place <3
Similarly, while I love the books because a) they're great, b) were my childhood, I love rereading them now because I love stuff like JKR took the British school system and twisted it into something great like Hogwarts; the politics and sociology of the Wizarding World is so much fun to examine XD You can so tell that JKR votes Labour.
But I love the films not because they bring to life a wonderful, magical world or anything, but because they have just about all my favourite actors ever in one place <3
Similarly, while I love the books because a) they're great, b) were my childhood, I love rereading them now because I love stuff like JKR took the British school system and twisted it into something great like Hogwarts; the politics and sociology of the Wizarding World is so much fun to examine XD You can so tell that JKR votes Labour.
Saith
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It's the only series I ever spent time wanting the next to be released.
Like, I used to go on the HBP website thing, which had clues and new from JKR, and all that jazz.
I cried at the end of the last book, not because of plot, but because it was the last one.
I, uh... Ignore that last bit.
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I also think the films have only been getting better. It always really ticked me off that the first film removed Hermione solving the logic puzzle, because that was one of my favorite bits in the book (so what if it wouldn't have worked on film?!) and yeah, the actors have at least somewhat improved.
Though I really didn't like the fifth film. It felt like a clip show, with all these really short, disjointed scenes just strung together and none of the gradual development and mood-building of the book that made me like it so much. They cut out everything that made me love to hate Umbridge (everybody talks about how good that actress was in the role, but she always felt to me like a clueless old lady to me instead of the calculatedly cruel Umbridge in the book), Snape's worst memory was cut down into being about ten seconds long (and completely left out the bit where Harry subsequently realized his wonderful father wasn't so wonderful after all), we didn't get as good a sense of Sirius or the rebellion going on within Hogwarts, etc.
Meanwhile, the sixth movie was my favorite of the bunch so far, probably because I liked the book less and the romance felt less silly on screen than when written out and going on about chest monsters. So I have high hopes for the final two.
Though I really didn't like the fifth film. It felt like a clip show, with all these really short, disjointed scenes just strung together and none of the gradual development and mood-building of the book that made me like it so much. They cut out everything that made me love to hate Umbridge (everybody talks about how good that actress was in the role, but she always felt to me like a clueless old lady to me instead of the calculatedly cruel Umbridge in the book), Snape's worst memory was cut down into being about ten seconds long (and completely left out the bit where Harry subsequently realized his wonderful father wasn't so wonderful after all), we didn't get as good a sense of Sirius or the rebellion going on within Hogwarts, etc.
Meanwhile, the sixth movie was my favorite of the bunch so far, probably because I liked the book less and the romance felt less silly on screen than when written out and going on about chest monsters. So I have high hopes for the final two.
