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- How was your morning? Mine involved maggots, possibly in punishment for oversleeping.

- capslock_hood rewatch today! SO. EXCITED. I put my own Robin Hood rewatch on hold so I could jump on board with the capschat, so I think it's only going to overlap with what I've been watching by one episode (1.07, but I honestly do not mind watch that one as often as

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Word! I was also struck by the parallel of Draco being mentored by Snape while Harry is by Dumbledore, and it was so obvious to me as soon as I realized it that I couldn't believe I have apparently missed it all these years, well, it was still cool.

Yes! That was the exact feeling I had all through the movie! While I did actually like a lot of the changes made for the film, I think what I liked most about it was when it took things that were in fact in the book, that did in fact bother me in the book, and that instead in fact ROCKED MY FACE OFF in the film. As I just commented above to sistergrimm36, I feel a bit guilty being like "OMG OMG they totally did this part way better than JKR" because it's like... okay, technically all of those parts are from the book already so of course I have to give our lovely lady due props for coming up with it in the first place -- but I think the film really highlighted that good storytelling isn't just in the scattered ideas and moments themselves, but in the arrangement of them, too. I mean, when I say things like, "oh man, that parallel just totally jumped right out at me and ate my face off and was amazing!" I'm suddenly stricken with panic that I'm one of those fans who just plain doesn't get anything unless its spelled straight out for me and shoved in my face ten times, but... I don't know. I think there's a difference between "subtle narrative building" and "throwing bunches of things all together and hoping the reader will take it upon themselves to sort through it and make it elegant," and I do think sometimes HBP (book) veers into the latter... so anyway, I thank the filmmakers for having such a practiced eye when going through the book to emphasize all of the most striking parallels that help give structure to the narrative and now, wow, suddenly it's this very clever, very cohesive whole unfolding for me and it. is. beautiful! And I love that it can make me look over the book in a completely different way, which just seems like such a miracle for a series that I've read over dozens of times and that has been rattling around in my brain for almost half my lifetime. The first few films I regard as fun shiny visual companions to the books, but the Yates films are just such good storytelling in their own right.

Now if only they could fix that ending... (YES I must follow up every praise with some constant whining. WHY GUYS WHY, you did everything else so perfectly!??!!? I can only conjecture that they wanted to keep their PG rating? FENRIR CAN DO NOTHING PG.)