The Great Big Harry Potter Squee Bonanza

[sophieisgod]

This is it, my friends. The end is near. In a fortnight, it will all be over.

Basically, my Harry Potter Hysteria is reaching unchartable levels of nostalgia and squee, so I thought I would do the decent thing and encourage my fellow fanatics to engage in a wise and nuanced exchange of ideas (and SQUEE) about this monumentous literary occasion (I told you I was getting excited. This isn't healthy).

Basically... I want theories, I want memories, I want fic and video recs, I want favourite moments, favourite characters, thoughts on the films and any other jazz that might apply.

Please, guys. If I don't have an outlet for my excitement my head will explode and I'll die. Do you want that on your collective conscience, flisties? DO YOU?

Yours in pathetc desperation (and SQUEE),
Sophie

Comments

[agguss.livejournal.com]

(Haha, way to fuck up the coding in the last comment lol)

Yeah, I see what you mean with Mike Newell being British too. It might be a little bit hypocrite to ask for a all-British-cast and have, lets say, a Mexican director. However, I think they are more anti-Hollywood than pro-British, if you know what I mean. I love it though ^__^

[sophieisgod.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'd agree with that. I definitely think the films are better when there's not a "Hollywood" director *coughChris Columbus*... He directed Home Alone, for crying out loud! And it's not that I think that everything not-British is evil, I love Alfonso Cuaron, and I think he was really right for PoA. I just think that Mike Newell really enhanced the 'British boarding school' vibe rather than being "OMG ITZ HOGWATRTZ!!!!"

And David Yates is definitely un-Hollywood, having only ever done TV. I think because there's such a sense of Britishness in the books, with the behaviour and the dialogue and stuff (Lupin's so 'stiff upper lip', bless him!) that a non-Brit writer or director might not pick up on. I'm not trying to suggest it's essential to the story, it's just something that I like.

So yes, I agree with you. Anti-Hollywood. :D