Well, I on the other hand love Michael Gambon's Dumbledore, but as I read only the sixth and seventh books (btw, they are making hte last book into TWO films, I understand)I can also understand what you mean about Book Dumble vs Film Dumble
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I don't know, it's not that Gambon's Dumbledore is bad, it's just... I find it hard to care about him, whereas the book Dumbledore is probably my second favorite character (Hagrid is my absolute favorite. Not enough Hagrid in this film). I liked Richard Harris, I really felt like he captured the essence of Dumbledore. People always rag on the first two films, but I thought they were the closest to the books than any of them (maybe that's why people rag on them? Too close to the original to be it's own art form, I guess).
they are making hte last book into TWO films, I understand
Seriously? Why on earth are they doing that? Ugh. It took me two weeks to read that book because I found so much of it so utterly boring, whereas I had read all the other Potter books in three days. Bah, they should just show Ron and Hermione being adorable and then show Harry get killed and just skip that nonsense in the white room with Dumbledore and keep Harry dead and DESTROY THAT NAUSEATING EPILOGUE.
I think they are doing the two films because when you think about it, there is ust SOMUCH in the book to cover in one film. Oh, and uh, two would make even more $$$$????
I'm glad Ron has progressed past just screaming and looking terrified while Harry saves him from something.
Confession! I have never read past book 4 and consider myself fairly ignorant on all things HP fandom from thereon out. Having said that, during the 6th film I was like ..... HOLY CRAP SNAPE/DRACO IS HOTaslkdfjalskjfd and then I went home and read fic for hours durrrrr good job me.
WHO COULD RESIST SNAPE/DRACO? ESPECIALLY AT SLUGHORN'S CHRISTMAS PARTY?!! Not I. Honestly though, the homoeroticism was running rampant in this film. Harry/Draco, Harry/Ron, Harry/Snape, Ron/Slughorn, SNAPE/DRACO, Hermione/Ginny (there, I threw in some womanlove, are you happy?), Snape/Dumbledore. I'm sure there were more.
And just to show you that my crazy shipping whims aren't always manlove, I was kind of shipping Slughorn/Lilly after his story about the goldfish...
A couple days before the movie came out, a couple coworkers and myself got into a conversation about Snape.
I said that throughout the entire series, you get hints that he's good, and hints that he's really evil. But JKR never actually comes out with the real answer. (I am almost done rereading 6 + then gonna reread 7, so maybe I'm just forgetting?). I called it a total copout.
One coworker kind of agrees w/me, the other totally doesn't. She thinks you have to decide for yourself and that Snape does show he's good.
I've always loved Alan Rickman's Snape, though. :)
Actually, what I did enjoy about Book Snape was his ambiguity. It was so damn hard to distinguish what his intentions were, and Dumbledore trusted him so fiercely that I was kind of hoping he would turn out to be evil, but in the end he was neither good nor bad. He always had his own motives and sided with whoever fit those motives. I've only read the seventh book once, but I think I remember something about him only joining the Death Eaters because he felt betrayed by Lily or something like that? I don't know. I can't remember. But basically, Lily broke his heart, and he blamed James Potter, so he joined the opposing team. He could be something great within the ranks of the Death Eaters, whereas he was insignificant and mistreated by the so-called good guys. I guess. So, Snape was always acting selfishly, really, and the only thing that kept him from going dark was Lily's friendship, and after that it was Harry himself that kept him rooted to Dumbledore's side, because he thought protecting Harry would somehow redeem him in
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Oh but this is why we love Snape! He's such an important character, and you can never really fully figure him out.
I also have this thing where I prefer my evil characters to just be evil. Because it never fails, when you get into the "why" it's always because they were in love and something went wrong. And I find that so disappointing. Can't they ever just be EVIL? (Voldemort might be the ONLY exception ever. And even then, we can trace some of it back to his mommy issues).
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they are making hte last book into TWO films, I understand
Seriously? Why on earth are they doing that? Ugh. It took me two weeks to read that book because I found so much of it so utterly boring, whereas I had read all the other Potter books in three days. Bah, they should just show Ron and Hermione being adorable and then show Harry get killed and just skip that nonsense in the white room with Dumbledore and keep Harry dead and DESTROY THAT NAUSEATING EPILOGUE.
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I'm glad Ron has progressed past just screaming and looking terrified while Harry saves him from something.
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And just to show you that my crazy shipping whims aren't always manlove, I was kind of shipping Slughorn/Lilly after his story about the goldfish...
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I said that throughout the entire series, you get hints that he's good, and hints that he's really evil. But JKR never actually comes out with the real answer. (I am almost done rereading 6 + then gonna reread 7, so maybe I'm just forgetting?). I called it a total copout.
One coworker kind of agrees w/me, the other totally doesn't. She thinks you have to decide for yourself and that Snape does show he's good.
I've always loved Alan Rickman's Snape, though. :)
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I also have this thing where I prefer my evil characters to just be evil. Because it never fails, when you get into the "why" it's always because they were in love and something went wrong. And I find that so disappointing. Can't they ever just be EVIL? (Voldemort might be the ONLY exception ever. And even then, we can trace some of it back to his mommy issues).
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