Aimee!
I just checked out the SparkNotes this morning,
and it says that Bellatrix fired something red at Sirius. I haven't reread in a while, but I thought that the AK was described as green in the books as well.
They really did right
by Sirius. Oldman was fabulous. Seriously, all he needed was eyeliner. (Maybe he was wearing eyeliner? I disremember because I was waiting for Lupin to stop looming and jump him I was distracted by the velvet jackets.)
There should
have been very much more Tonks. And also Ron, poor niblet.
Yes. Yes. Yes!
I'm nodding myself into whiplash.
Sirius saying
James' name
covered a HUGE piece of story, i.e. Mrs. Weasley's
struggles with him at OotPHQ,
Sirius' potentially
dodgy motives for championing Harry so hard.
In just one word. That was one of the most masterful strokes of condensation, I thought. And Harry's expression spoke greater volumes than I ever expected our Danny's skill to achieve. Phew.
One detail that gave me a huge, "huh. Why on earth shift canon with that, was
implying that everyone had fallen victim to Umbridge's torture quill.
Even to the extent that the Twins
had scars on their hands.
It didn't seem necessary to belabor the point that everyone had suffered at her hands. And that particular detail did not appear anywhere in the book.
Yeah, I would really have liked to see more Tonks.
As in see more of Tonks.
As in, see her naked.
Mmmmm.
Beej, I agree on the
handwriting scar. It kind of took away the point that Umbridge was out to get just Harry and her obvious huge grudge against him.
OH! OH! OH!
They also
left out Umbridge's confession in the forest that she was the one who sent the dementors after Harry. I wonder why?
11 days til DR is legal!!
11 days til DR is legal!!
Isn't he already legal in England?
Aimee, that was totally it for me. Not that we really needed to see more of her
hatred and lunacy
, or anything, but it took a huge bite out of Harry's
suffering and isolation.
And, right, not mentioning Umbridge's Bush-like tactics in re:
sending the Dementors without Fudge's knowledge
will make it more difficult to set up the political satire of book 6. Perhaps they've already decided to ax that bit.
Oh, oh, and how come they changed the visual of the
Dementors
so much? It made Mrs. Figg's testimony not make much sense. If I didn't have every. freaking. detail of these books committed to memory, I'd have been confused by that.
Oh! And I thought that Big D was depicted much more closely to my vision of him than ever before. On the other hand, when did Aunt Petunia get to be such a hottie? That dress seemed a) too 80's to be borne and b) like the washer broke down and she was forced to borrow something from a slutty neighbor.
Jehoshaphat!...so sad am I that these details bother me?
What I didn't like:
The appearance of the Dementors. Totally wrong.
and
The difference in the effect of the "Sirius in the Fireplace". I liked the way it was done before when it looked like Sirius' face was made of the embers and coals.
Beej, you are not sad. I agree with all of your whitefont.
My handwave on the
Dementors is that they were all rogue and badass, and therefore were not sporting their huge robes.
Also, yes, Petunia was working some fabulous gams.
*books tickets for me and Aimee to England*
