Harry Potter and the Very Much Belated Movie Reaction Post

[cloudsinvenice]

I'm becoming a cliche of myself with all this "I'll post more often/*weeks of tumbleweeds*" stuff, but I've been both busy and run-down, which is always a sucky combination. In happier news, though, I've finally seen the last three Harry Potter movies. Yeah, I know, but better late than never. :P

I haven't read the books since Deathly Hallows was

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[pointedulac]

I still haven't seen the last two movies. I was so irritated by Half-Blood Prince. The whole point of Snape is totally ignored and like you said, he just shouts it at the end and the audience is like "You're the what now?" Very poorly done.

[cloudsinvenice]

And those books are SO much about the big reader-wrongfooting reveals... I'm not sure why they felt they couldn't do that. Also, they'd obviously decided from the OotP stage to save almost everything Snape-related until the last movie (I seem to remember that in OotP they didn't get into the bullying and that really pissed me off).

I've been reading cleolinda's old posts and recaps, and either she or a commenter mentioned the way they also cut out a lot of Voldemorte's backstory, and how this has the effect of also ripping out most of the Horcruxes plot, so at the end of HBP we have Harry making what feels like a completely daft vow to go... somewhere... and seek... well, he's not actually sure.

And that does mean that the DH wanderings (which many criticised in the book; I loved that part but YMMV) end up seeming to be purely about being on the run, and you don't get that cool forced-to-be-adults-before-their-time thing of their having to go on a quest themselves because they no longer have anyone telling them what to do.

[cloudsinvenice]

And in answer to your icon, ME! I'm a Hufflepuff! :D