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

[sophieisgod.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Snape's completely central to the plot in the sixth one, so they won't be able to get away with just wheeling him out for a bit of comic relief like they have with some of the others! They'll have to let him do proper acting with anger and frustration and I CANNOT WAIT!!! And all the reviews I've read so far mention him as being awesome (and Sirius, lol).

OotP has a new writer so hopefully the story will progress a bit more smoothly than it has in the past. It'll be interesting to see what they edit out; I'm rereading it now and I keep thinking "ooh, I hope they keep that bit!"

There was something magical about the Columbus ones, because it *was* the first time we got to see that whole world on screen, and I still enjoy them, they're just a bit clunkier. I didn't mind the action in GoF, I thought it was pretty well done, but I can understand why people might have preferred more dialogue and character stuff. I aso thought that having a British director like Mike Newell helped, because it just made the setting a little bit more authentically British, if you see what I mean.

Ooh, and Luna looks really good.

EXCITED NOW!

[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