And let's not forget that the love potion idea is apparently 'parent-approved' by Molly! She gives Ginny and Hermione the impression that she used one to get Arthur to notice her.
I am thankful I don't remember that part of the books.
I also wonder if the books would be significantly improved if JKR had never attempted to put any romance in them. The more she talks about a pairing, the more wildly disastrous it gets. I used to think Grindelwald/Dumbledore was particularly persecuted on that front, but no - every pairing she discusses overlong tends to acquire a rancid stink.
Oh well. Let's just hope Next-Gen doesn't get hit too badly...
/Professor Trelawney: It’s Umbridge! She’s…she’s put me on teaching probation, sold my prized children’s book to Disney, and forced me to read fanfiction pairing me with Professor Snape!/
OMG how can I've only just caught the joke? [Spoiler (click to open)]Emma Thompson played P. L. Travers who wrote the Mary Poppins books.
In the movie Saving Mr. Banks, which came out last year, Emma Thompson, who plays Trelawney in Harry Potter, plays the role of the author who created Mary Poppins, and because the book means so much to her she's reluctant to give Disney the rights (of course, she comes around in the end).
I mentioned fanfiction of her and Snape for a similar reason, since there have been movies made where Emma Thompson and Alan Rickman are love interests of one another.
There's a lot of Retroactive Recognition involving HP actors and actresses. For instance the 1996 Scottish film "Trainspotting" had the actresses who played The Grey Lady (Kelly Macdonald) and Moaning Myrtle (Shirley Henderson), and the 1995 Sense and Sensibility would basically blow your mind with all the familiar faces: Emma Thompson->Trelawney/Elinor Dashwood; Alan Rickman->Snape/Col. Brandon; Imelda Staunton->Umbridge/Charlotte Jennings Palmer; Gemma Jones->Madam Pomfrey/Mrs. Dashwood; Robert Hardy->Fudge/Sir John Middleton; Elizabeth Spriggs->Fat Lady (in Philosophers Stone)/Mrs. Jennings.
I mentioned fanfiction of her and Snape for a similar reason, since there have been movies made where Emma Thompson and Alan Rickman are love interests of one another.
It's kind of ironic that in the films where Alan and Emma are/had been in a romantic relationship, they're always bad ones or in-crisis, like in Love, Actually and The Song of Lunch. Alan Rickman also directed a film of his own in 1997 called The Winter Guest which starred
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*cough* Merope Gaunt *cough*
/I put a curse on the parchment to punish anyone who talked./
AFTER they talked. Which means that the secret would still be out anyway.
/I just might hate Snape even more than I hate the woman who tried to cut up my hand and read The Draco Trilogy to me./
*snorts*
Oh, Harry, you really can’t make your mind up about who you hate the most. I notice that Voldemort is never on that list.
/Hermione: No, I think she’s a fraud in a good way, while Umbridge thinks it in an evil way. It’s totally different./
That’s a good point.
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I also wonder if the books would be significantly improved if JKR had never attempted to put any romance in them. The more she talks about a pairing, the more wildly disastrous it gets. I used to think Grindelwald/Dumbledore was particularly persecuted on that front, but no - every pairing she discusses overlong tends to acquire a rancid stink.
Oh well. Let's just hope Next-Gen doesn't get hit too badly...
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OMG how can I've only just caught the joke? [Spoiler (click to open)]Emma Thompson played P. L. Travers who wrote the Mary Poppins books.
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I still don't get it, despite your link. Clue me in, please?
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I mentioned fanfiction of her and Snape for a similar reason, since there have been movies made where Emma Thompson and Alan Rickman are love interests of one another.
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I mentioned fanfiction of her and Snape for a similar reason, since there have been movies made where Emma Thompson and Alan Rickman are love interests of one another.
It's kind of ironic that in the films where Alan and Emma are/had been in a romantic relationship, they're always bad ones or in-crisis, like in Love, Actually and The Song of Lunch. Alan Rickman also directed a film of his own in 1997 called The Winter Guest which starred ( ... )
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