In My Heart I Know You're Gone, But in My Head...
I saw Harry Potter at 1159pm on Tuesday night, and again at 715pm on Wednesday night.
Strips/Plaid Count:
Ron: 7.
Neville: 7.
Hermione: 6.
Fred: 4.
George: 4.
Harry: 3.
Ginny: 3.
Umbridge: 2.
Percy: 2.
Luna: 1.
Arthur: 1.
Lupin: 1.
Cho: 1.
Minister: 1.
When I saw it at midnight, Brittany and I were commenting on how much plaid and strips there were in the movie, which we thought was really weird. So we kept a count. Everytime Ron and Hermione were with Harry, they were in either plaid or stripes. So were the twins, which you know, means they want to make out.
The movie opens on the dementor attack. Not with Harry underneath the windowsill in the garden trying to hear of any mysterious dissapearances which could be linked back to Voldemort. I didn't like that Harry pulled out his wand when Dudley was with his friend, considering Harry would never do that. When the dementors actually attack in the sewer [sewer? WHAT? It's supposed to be in an ALLEY.] they begin kissing Dudley. Dudley doesn't even begin to get kissed. So Harry fights him off with his really gross looking patronus. It didn't even look like a stag. It looked like whispy nothing. Then Mrs. Figg shows up and she wasn't nearly as crazy as I was expecting her to be. AND she doesn't tell Harry that she's a Squib. When Harry drags Dudley back to the house, I find out that somehow Richard Griffiths [Vernon] gained MORE wait and looks more like a walrus than humanly possible. Bleh. The Howler was left out. That was a very big part of the story. Without that, Harry and Dumbledore don't talk about it later and there is no set-up for the conversation Dumbledore had with Petunia fourteen years ago. Harry had to return to number4 Privet Drive in order to be protected. None of that was there. In the book, right before the Howler got there, Vernon was going to kick Harry out of the house. He threatens him and Vernon says that he's not allowed to use magic outside of school, and Harry says it doesn't matter, he's expelled. Then the Howler arrived and Petunia says he has to stay. All gone, pssh. So, Vernon and Petunia go to take Dudley to the hospital, I assume, and leave Harry alone. Then the members of the Order show up to take him away. I didn't like that the family left like that, because they were supposed to be all dressed nicely going to a "show" for people with nice lawns. A distraction to get them out of the house from Moody, I believe.
Natalia Tena [Tonks] is so gorgeous. I really liked her Tonks. She was the Tonks I was expecting. Completely cute while being independent and able to fend for herself. I cannot wait to see her and Lupin in the next movie. So the six of them [Harry, Tonks, Moody, Shacklebolt, another girl, another guy] took off for number12 Grimmauld Place. They ended up flying low, near civilians, whereas in the book they're really high up. They get to The Noble and Most Ancient House of Black and Mrs. Black is COMPLETELY out of the story. I mean really, is it THAT hard to add a shrieking portrait and quick explanation? fifteen seconds tops. When Harry is all bitter spice when he gets there [in the book] and doesn't know anything... Harry gets to stay, Fred and George argue that they're almost of age, and Ron and Hermione argue that Harry will tell them everything anyways... yea, that didn't happen. During the metting, we overhear Molly say, "He's not James!" and I really liked that line. I liked it because it just shows how much Sirius really misses James and that he just wants James to live through Harry... yea. I don't like Lupin!facial hair. I don't know why. I know he was like that in the other movies, but I don't like him like that. I think it may be because I picture Lupin really young. And without facial hair. And especially now when him and Tonks are whatever they are... I hope he shaves for the next movie when Tonks and him hold hands...
Answer me this: Why would one need Muggle money to enter the ministry? I don't know either. I didn't like the way the Ministry looked. I didn't picture it being all open and with Floo fireplaces everywhere. I liked that they kept the little paper airplane inter-department messages. I always liked those =]. When they're seeing harry off at the station, there were a few things... one: Tonks looks really cute. Two: I didn't like Snuffles that thin, I wish he was fluffier. Three: Moody gives Harry the picture of the Order! Because he gives it to him thinking that it's going to make him happy. In the movie, Sirius gave it to him. I really want to know why Ron and Hermione weren't prefects. Beause one of my favorite lines was revolving around that. When they get the letter and Mrs. Weasley says, "That's everyone in the family!" and Fred goes, "What're we? Next door neighbors?" I think that them being prefects is really important, especially since Ron uses is as leverage in getting Seamus to shut up about Harry. When Malfoy and harry get into it a bit, Malfoy gets scared when Harry jumps at him. I thought that was really funny. Also, the kids are supposed to be dressed in their robes when they get off the train. They weren't. It was a small error, but I thought it was funny. They get off the train and meet up with Neville. Man, has that boy matured a lot. His face isn't as fill anymore and he looks so much older. Evanna Lynch [Luna] is SO cute. She is seriously one of my favorite characters in the movie. I felt so bad for Hermione when she was introducing her and said, "Looney" instead of Luna. THe few seconds when Hermione turned aside embarassed was really cute, though =].
The Great Hall looks a lot smaller. Like, I was thinking about it and comparing it in my head and in the first book, the tables looked SO much more spread out whereas in this one, they were really close together. Seamus' accent got way thicker. It almost sounds Irish. So when Harry is having a go at Seamus' mother and Ron intervenes, he doesn't say he is a prefect, obviously, but then I felt really bad for Ron because Harry was being such an ass to him. Defense Against the Dark Arts. Wow, Umbridge wears a lot of pink. Wow. But she hands out the books and they should already have them, because Hermione already read the entire thing. That was a simple thing they shouldn't have changed. There is a kid in the back of the class that kind of looks like he could be Draco. Was Tom out that day? The guy covers his face in all the shots, so I don't know what was going on with that. Because Tom Felton wasn't in the scene at all, even though Crabbe and Goyle were. Then Harry gets detention and he's writing "I will not tell lies" and it doesn't begin etching into his skin until he's finished with the sentence, and in the book, it happens as he writes. Again, a little detail that should've been kept the same. There is a cute Hermione-Ron moment when she's agreeing to help him on his homework. I just thought it was cute =].
There is an overhead shot of Hagrid's cabin and the Forbidden Forest and Harry has a voice-over and it's his letter to Sirius. He begins it, "Dear Padfoot." Whoa whoa whoa. They refer to him as SNUFFLES in the book. Wtf? That's another simple thing. So Harry and Luna are in the forest with the threstals. Which doesn't happen in the book, because they meet the threstals in Care of Magical Creatures when Grublyplank is the teacher. Anyways, so they're there and there's a really cute Harry-Luna scene, when Luna says, "People avoid them because they're-" and Harry finishes with "-different." 'Them' being the threstals, but also Luna and Harry. I just thought that was really cute dialog. There was NO Valentine's date in Hogsmeade with Cho, therefore no Cho getting jealous that he was meeting Hermione, therefore no Rita Skeeter, therefore no interview in the Quibbler, therefore Umbridge never banned it, therefore everyone didn't read it. Yea, I was mad about that sequence of events. I liked the little battle-esque thing between McGonagal and Umbridge on the stairs, but I was looking in the background and Malfoy leaned back and whispered something to George, and I think he laughed. Which really doesn't make sense, because Malfoy hates that gingerkid. =]. I didn't like Trelawney's departure. It was supposed to be really loud and Parvati and Lavender were supposed to be crying her and comforting her. But no, Parvati and Padma were the ones crying while McGonagal comforted her. Grr. They left out a few of the Educational Decrees, such as the one that lets Filch whip kids again, and the one that says there is no outside communication that isn't screened. The latter was important because when Sirius uses the Floo network to contact Harry in the common room, Umbridge knows Harry is talking to someone because her hand goes through the fire because she's watching from her fireplace. And then the Decree comes into affect and her's is the only one not being watched. That's why Harry has to sneak in to use it after he had the vision about Sirius. He contacted number12 Grimmauld Place and asked Kreacher if Sirius is there and he lies. That's a big thing, because it shows that Kreacher is working for two different sides. When they had the conversation after the first meeting about the DA, recruiting people to join, and Hermione makes the comment about Cho not taking her eyes off of Harry, Ginny has this really sad look on her face and I feel bad for her =/.
What was up with Nevile telling Harry about the Room of Requirement? Neville DID NOT walk past three times. Harry was the one that knew about it, not Neville. And when the I.S. breaks in, all they would've found was a broom closet. I liked the book version because it included everyone scattering a few people getting tripped by the invisible trips wires and Malfoy being all sinister and greasy-haired. The Marauder's Map wasn't in the movie at all, there wasn't supposed to be another exit from the RoR and yea. And what was up with Cho being under Veritaserum and telling about the DA? Where was Marietta? She wasn't in there at all! Therefore, she didn't have SNEAK on her forehead. Which was a big point that she couldn't be trusted, and plus, in the next book, she comes back to school and it still says SNEAK but she caked a lot of makeup on trying to conceal it, unsuccessfully. When they're in the Room of Requirements, they're practicing "levicorpus," and isn't that the spell that the boys use on Snivellus in the Penseive in the sixth book? I think so, and it's supposed to be a really bad spell. When Harry has the vision of Mr. Weasley being attacked, he's not in the actual department. He's in the hallway outside. I thought that was weird that they made him inside of it. When McGonagal takes Harry to go see Dumbledore, he's supposed to have company because it's supposed to be like, "Why is Harry getting dragged in here in the dead of night," type of thing. I was kind of depressed that we didn't get to see the who "levicorpus" scene, and that it was in Snape's invasion rather than the Penseive. I was looknig forward to it because I really wanted to see young James, Lily, Lupin, and Sirius. OH and Snape says that Voldemort was reading his mind... Voldemort doesn't read minds, he gets inside of them. I thought that was a big deal in the book because Snape says reading minds is for Muggles and The Dark Lord actually gets inside of them and knows everything and uses it against you.
I thought it was a cute reference to "Weasley is Our King" when Arthur was sitting at the table all bruised and he was wearing a crown =]. That family tree was not at all how I was expecting it. I wasn't expecting a whole room devoted to it. I didn't think it would be that big. But there was Andromeda Black on there, and I don't remember reading about her. So I looked Andromeda up in relation to Greek mythology and I found out she was chained to a rock to be eaten by a sea monster and was saved by Perseus, whom she later married. I thought that was weird, I don't know if she was in the book or not. If so, I'm sure it's significant. If not, then I just found it interesting =]. I thought there was a really cute comment by Sirius about them going to be a famly after everything... that was really optimistic and sadenning. In the book, Hagrid returns from his trip at night. And the the three kids have to sneak out under the invisibility cloak and visit him, and then Umbridge comes. In the movie, she was there, and then they showed up. They changed the littlest things... OH and I swear both time I heard Hagrid says that Dumbledore sent him to "party with the giants." Yeaa.
Azkaban was not at all as I was expecting. I wasn't expecting it to be in the middle of the ocean, although I did like that it was like Alcatraz. And high security like it and there were people who escaped. Also, that it was in the shape of a triangle, as in the Bermuda? I don't know. I was really depressed face that we never got to see St. Mungo's. I was really looking forward to seeing the interaction with Frank and Alice Longbottom, seeing the guy with the Devil's Snare, and seeing Lockhart again. Sad face that none of that was in there =/. There was something that really bugged me about when they kids got caught in the RoR. They wouldn't have been able to break in because once they broke the wall down, they would've only found a broom closet. Proof being Harry trying to find out what Malfoy is up to in the HBP. Back in the Headmaster's office... I like that they kepoy Shacklebolt's line about Dumbledore having style. OWLs... not at all as I was expecting them. First of all, the twins don't leave during the OWLs... AND when they DO leave, they had a swamp that the teachers kept around because it was too hard to clean up and it was a reminder of what they had done =]. And I didn't like that they didn't advertise WWW and that there was going to be a discount to anyone wanting to run her out of school. HAGRID DIDN'T GET SACKED. I thought that sucked.
Brittany and I were surprised that Lucius' mask wasn't in the format of the KKK... smiles. I gasped when Bella asked about Neville's parents and then laughed when Neville said, "Great, now that I'm about to avenge them," which apparently was said in the book? I don't remember it, but I really liked that line =]. I thought it sucked that Lucius broke the orb. Harry was supposed to. And no one was supposed to hear it. Trelawney, Dumbledore, Snape [?], and Harry were the only ones that were supposed to hear it because it was Dumbledore's memory from the Penseive. I thought it was kind of cool/depressing that Bella had Neville. Yea. Lucius was in leather! Kinky much? Jason Issacs describes Malfoy's costume as "a fabulous leather armor/S&M outfit. It makes me feel much cooler than I am." He is definitely a kinky fella =]. I really want to know how the Order got there. Because there are only certain areas in the Ministry where you can apparate and dissapperate. Also, I want to know how Bella got out of there via the Floo network when a- she didn't say where she was going, and b- she didn't use any powder. She just kind of slid in. I liked the line they gace to Sirius when he says, "Nice one, James!" I thought that was totally cute even though it wasn't in the book. The most depressing scene in the whole book... Sirius died... but in the movie is was all wrong. The veil isn't supposed to be transparent. Because if Harry saw him fall through and DISAPPEAR, he wouldn't have been waiting for him to reaappear. And Bella doesn't use the killing curse on him, she stupefies him. Because she knows what the veil is and she wouldn't kill him to get him through. That was dumb.
The last thing was I really liked Luna's line about how things come back to you, even if they are in unexpected ways.
It took me a long time to type all that up =].
I'm going to go sleep, or watch Spring Awakening.
Probably the latter.