Comments | rionaleonhart: Hogwarts Will Always Be There To Welcome You Home.

rionaleonhart

Hogwarts Will Always Be There To Welcome You Home.

Jul 19, 2011 18:25

It was my birthday yesterday, and to celebrate I went to see Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part II! Here are my thoughts on the film.

( Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part II. )

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Comments 15

jlh July 19 2011, 18:36:59 UTC

The short answer is that they didn't end up in Azkaban because the whole point of the books is that it doesn't matter what the good guys actually do because they're good.

The Slytherin thing is my least favorite thing that happens in the entire series of books. So disappointing.

rionaleonhart July 21 2011, 11:24:24 UTC

it doesn't matter what the good guys actually do because they're good.

I love Harry Potter, but you're right, and that's a subtext that makes me really uncomfortable. I don't care how unpleasant someone is: hexing him is not hilariously good fun.

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rionaleonhart July 21 2011, 11:43:27 UTC

If I recall correctly, the Slytherins didn't get shut away in the book; they left of their own accord. Which still isn't great for Slytherin's image, but at least they had the choice, rather than having McGonagall go 'well, obviously all the Slytherins are going to be a hindrance, let's lock them away' while everyone cheered. The conscious departure of the Slytherins still annoyed me, but it annoyed me less.

I think that you're right about Ron; any jealousy he feels is going to be just as much of Hermione as of Harry. When the locket Horcrux tried to screw with his head by showing him a vision of Hermione and Harry together, it wasn't messing with him just by going 'Hermione loves Harry more than she loves you'; it was saying 'neither of them needs you.'

rowanberries July 19 2011, 18:54:13 UTC

How on Earth did I manage to hallucinate a kiss between Harry and Voldemort?

Well, you ARE in fandom. :P

rionaleonhart July 21 2011, 11:48:10 UTC

I'm genuinely unsettled by the fact that nobody else saw it. IT DEFINITELY DEFINITELY HAPPENED IN THE VERSION I WATCHED.

vzg July 19 2011, 19:59:15 UTC

Perhaps I am crazy (oh, hell, it's a given by now) but I didn't see the Slytherin thing as that bad? She only said they were to be brought to the dungeons. That's where their common room is. I saw it more as a "get them out of their way, plenty of them have parents out there and aren't going to fight against them" deal ( ... )

heidi8 July 20 2011, 13:21:48 UTC

Percy was there from the start of the battles at Hogwarts, and in one of the posters, he's in the background right between Harry and Hermione which I find adorably amusing. Chris says he did have lines in scenes that were filmed so may e we will see them on special features?

kestrellan July 19 2011, 20:25:55 UTC

I COMPLETELY AGREE ABOUT THAT RON THING. Seriously, that's just one in a long line of snubs the films have given Ron, and I'm sure I remember reading that it's partly because Steve Kloves is a huge Harmonian, and that Ron is generally consigned to the role of comic relief (I mean, I honestly think Rupert Grint does humour very well, but Ron is so so much more than that). I remember Harry and Ron kind of looked at each other mournfully as Harry and Hermione hugged, but...geez, c'mon, Harry is about to DIE, let them show some fucking affection. Argh, that bugged me ( ... )