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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 ( Read more... )
- 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 ( Read more... )
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If the battle isn't in then my favourite scene out of the later books (Tonks telling Lupin why he's an idiot in the infirmary) wouldn't really have a place. But I would still love some content with them. Am I in luck? :)
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Slughorn's speech with the fish and the lily/Lily just broke my heart. I agree with you--it's good to have someone who's not EVIL but not perfect, either.
Seriously, Tom Felton. GOOD GOD, when he's all crying and saying that he has to kill Dumbledore or else Voldemort will kill him...I wanted to give him a hug, and I don't even LIKE Draco that much.
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Me too! I'm not always hugely on board when the films add in fantastical whimsy tidbits that aren't in the books -- like, what, there wasn't enough MAGIC in the books for you that you had to make some up?? (this would be the talking heads in PoA, btw. Whhhhyyyy) -- but I thought that addition was so beautiful and so poignant. Ditto the hourglass in Slughorn's office. Basically, Sluggy = AWESOMEST EVER. (And, heeee I am so glad they left in the Slughorn-is-an-armchair bit. When he tries to shake Harry's hand with an armrest? Heh. Easily amused, that's me.)
Seriously, Tom Felton. GOOD GOD, when he's all crying and saying that he has to kill Dumbledore or else Voldemort will kill him...I wanted to give him a hug, and I don't even LIKE Draco that much.
While fandom has certainly had a lot of fun with Draco -- myself included -- in the early books he's kind of a lackluster bad guy because all he gets to do is run around a be a snot, but never actually do anything. ( ... )
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Yeah, I'm a little unnecessarily mean to Draco. I think it's because I read the first 3-4 books without any fandom exposure (cause I was like 12), and then I didn't reread them for a while, and it seemed like everyone on the internets was ALLLL about Draco, so when I finally started re-reading, I was just like...seriously? This little brat? But now I'm starting to appreciate him for what he is, and I'm like obsessed with his family, so that helps. Poor kid is what I would say if he weren't fictional.
When every single Slytherin bails at the end of Deathly Hallows from participating in the defense of Hogwarts? SORRY BUT I FUCKING LOATHE THAT MOMENT SO MUCH.UGH SERIOUSLY WHYYYY. LET'S SHOW SOME INTER-HOUSE UNITY, JO. It's like all the books kind of hinted that hey, maybe Slytherins aren't all bad, and it's our choices that define us, and YOU might have been a Slytherin, Harry! and ( ... )
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Again, more parallels that struck me much more in the film than in the book -- obviously all of the "I'm the chosen one!" links between Harry and Draco, but then I like how it turned into some daddydrama, too -- Draco's just lost his father to Azkaban, and Harry's just lost his godfather to drapery
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.
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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 ( ... )
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