Depends on whether she likes ears.

...I watched film!Luna feeding the baby thestral...

First it is seeing a clip of Voldemort in a suit appearing before Harry on a crowded train station. Then it is reading that Umbridge blasts open the Room of Requirement--thus necessitating a major fanwank to include it in the next two movies--and now this. I've seen the first three but is there any wonder I have no desire to see any more of the movies? If you're gonna cut shit out of the book in the interest of time, then you can't be making shit up and adding it instead. They did it to LotR and they're doing it to Harry.

I was so sure he was good even after the events of HP6, and then for so much of book 7 it seemed like he might be all evilified after all, which made me really upset, so I was extremely relieved to find out where his true loyalties lay.

Oddly enough, I was oblivious to so much (Snape/Lily, Harry the Horcrux etc.) but I never doubted where Snape's loyalties lay, even after he snuffed out Dumbledore. There was too much emphasis placed on "please" at the end of HBP. Dumbledore kept saying "Please Severus" but he never added "Don't kill me", which made it sound like he was actually begging to be killed. I admit, the reason he was begging for death--only having 12 months to live anyway--was a surprise because I thought it was merely to save Draco's soul and because he didn't fear death the way Voldemort did.

First it is seeing a clip of Voldemort in a suit appearing before Harry on a crowded train station

That wasn't real, just a figment of Harry's imagination, I think.

I watched film!Luna feeding the baby thestral...

What's so bad about this?

If you're gonna cut shit out of the book in the interest of time, then you can't be making shit up and adding it instead.

Huh. I thought it fit perfectly. Plus, Luna being able to see the thestrals is well-established, and I thought the movie version handled it beautifully.

Plus, there was that great cut to Ron eating a sausage. Win-win.

That wasn't real, just a figment of Harry's imagination, I think.

I got the impression it was but it didn't happen in the book.

What's so bad about this?

Again, not in the book.

Huh. I thought it fit perfectly. Plus, Luna being able to see the thestrals is well-established, and I thought the movie version handled it beautifully.

Yeah, I know Luna could see the Thestrals but there was no baby Thestral in the book.

And that's my arguement. If you have to cut whole chapters out of a book, so that the movie can come in at a reasonable length, you can't then go adding brand new stuff.

Sorry, this is an old sore point for me, and isn't really suitable in this thread.

Directionless and lost for 200 pages is much more endurable (if that's a word) than directionless and lost and written by Marti Noxon for 23 episodes.

I may have to tag this.

People have pretty much said the things that I would have said.

I knew that Aberforth was the Hog's Head bartender, and during the Slough of Despond section (see Kat's quote above) kept saying, "Just freaking go ask Aberforth if you can't arse yourself to go to Godric's Hollow!" I don't read anything other than the books themselves, so I figure it had to be in one of them somewhere.

I heard somewhere that Scholastic did the Who-Shot-JR thing and put several versions of the book through the production process to discourage early leaks, etc. Based on the Seven Harrys, I'm thinking there were 7 versions.

Although, the 7 Harrys parallel the 7 Horcruxes nicely.

And speaking of - if Polyjuice Potion recreates a person down to their vision...and you are a 17yo boy...wouldn't you be a little uncomfortable with your best friend and your "sister" suddenly having *all* your physical characteristics?

Sorry, this is an old sore point for me, and isn't really suitable in this thread.

It's totally suitable in this thread! And I totally get where you're coming from on the stance of book vs. movie. I don't have a huge issue with a lot of what they choose to cull between the book and the movie when it comes to HP, and I never read LOTR so I have no opinion there and just love the movies on their own, but Kevin Sullivan royally FUCKED with Anne of Green Gables when he made that horrid third "thing" he calls a film. None of what happened in that movie happened anywhere in the books and in fact, it was Anne's children who fought and were killed in WWI in the books. NOT GILBERT!

Which is to say, I am with you on having that same sore spot and you are totally in the right thread!!

(Joe doedn't like watching the HP movies with me because I mutter "Wrong. Wrong. Nope, that wasn't McGonagall - that was Flitwick. Wrong." all through them. I've come to view the movies almost as I view the fic. A good retelling.)

I have had "Lily's Eyes" from The Secret Garden stuck in my head for the past week. It is driving. me. mad.

Me too! I don't even know if Lily Potter had hazel eyes....

I was so worried about Snape and whether or not he was evil and what Neville was doing that I was not enjoying the middle section at all, so I skipped until I found Snape. And I read to the end. It relieved me enough that I could go back and enjoy the rest.

I skipped until I found Snape.

I did that, but with Ron. After a chapter of him being gone, I couldn't bear it any more and had to check and see when he showed up again. I flipped forward a few chapters, saw the words "Ron said..." and was content that he returned, so I went back to where I was and happily continued reading.