The third movie was my least favorite movie. It probaly took the most liberties with the book, I did not like the way they characterized Lupin and Harry's budding relationship, and it was just a cluster fuck. I hated it, maybe because it was my favorite book at the time and I'm super nit picky. To be fair, I haven't really enjoyed any of the movies, except for part 1 os the seventh. They finally have time to explore the plot!! Oh, and I thought the Triwizard tournament was fun (in the book)! After all, Voldemort had not regained his powers completely yet and had to be tricky in order to capture Harry! If you remember he was being very careful about being public, he needed to hold on to wizards disbelief for as long as he can so he could properly set up his operation! Yes, I'm a huge nerd.
I can out-nerd you. I've given this some thought, and it seems like the train goes to Hogsmeade, rather than directly to Hogwarts (there are places in the books where they say this, but I'm entirely too lazy to go find them). So I think it normally makes stops throughout magical villages, or whatever, and then runs a special express on certain days for Hogwarts kids.
The problem is the books are too long to adapt with the way Rowling writes. Since they have to shove 2 hours (can't be longer than 2 hours because kids have no attention span), stuff gets cut and the movies end up just coming off as Cliff Notes.
Voldemort's plan was to ostracize Harry from his friends. If you kill him when he's at the top, he'd be a fucking martyr. Can't have that happen. Get his classmates to make "Potter Stinks" badges and then murder him. He's less of a liability that way.
Maybe in the interest of public transportation and saving fuel (it's a COAL FIRED locomotive, for Chissakes & that can't make for a good carbon footprint...) the Hogwarts Express could make a stop at Narnia? We could call it the Magical Mystery Tour Limited or something. As it is they only have that wardrobe so this could really perk up the local economy even if it's only kids and wizards bankrolling the local tourist economy....
Best thing about the movie series: family get-together for opening night, every single time.
Every family needs traditions. Now what are we going to do?
Umm yeah. its a fucking fairy tail. Doesn't have to be literal. And if movies followed books to the letter. We would have seven hour boring ass movies. So lighten up.
Even better Logistics question- In The Prisoner of Azkaban, Hermoine borrows an object called a "Time Turner" from Dumbledore in order to go back in time and take multiple classes. So then Dumbledore has the ability to go back in time at his leisure, but chooses not to?
Wait, Lindy, you left out the inevitable attempt at a TV series. If we're lucky, it'll be on HBO or something like that... if we're not lucky, it'll be on the CW.
To Lindy and others: The Triwizard Tournament was not set up for Harry to be Portkeyed. The schools were already planning the tournament and Voldemort took advantage of that. Also, the reason Moody/Crouch couldn't just do the "Hold this pen." thing is that a) Voldemort wasn't prepared or strong enough yet to return; that's why the Dark Mark on the Death Eaters' shoulders got darker THROUGHOUT THE YEAR and b) Moody/Crouch wanted to get away with it; if he had done the pen trick, everyone would've known he did it.
To #25: Hermione did not borrow the Time-Turner from Dumbledore; is that what the movie said? Because that's not true. I wouldn't know; I haven't seen the movies. Anyway, McGonagall got Hermione's Time-Turner approved by the Ministry so she could get to all her classes on time since she was taking more classes than possible. It is said that the Ministry is very strict about time-turners and McGonagall had to promise she would ONLY use it for classes, etc. So no, Dumbledore could not have used a time-turner whenever he wanted.
Oh, how I love these books. Our daughter started reading them when she was about 11 or 12. By the time she was 15 we were attending our first HP con, the very first one in Orlando. We went to 6 over the years, and I gave a paper at the last one we went to. I was also lucky enough to be working in a bookstore when 7 came out and was able to plan part of our party. It's been a literary experience like no other.
DD is probably the last person who would want to revisit the past, judging from his conversation with Harry in Kings Cross in book 7. And even if he had wanted to, he knew that he wasn't allowed to change anything, so what would have been the point?
I really don't like or enjoy the way you write Lindy. It's just that I care about what people think about movies, but you write like a college student (that knows everything) with a Myspace blog.
I stopped watching the movies after number two, cause I had just hated both of them. I didn't like the way they built the setting, Hogwarts castle just looked so dirty, I hate looking at dirt, and I preferred my imagination. Loved the books. Couldn't stand those stupid movies.
I hate myself for thinking about this.
I love her more.
Voldemort's plan was to ostracize Harry from his friends. If you kill him when he's at the top, he'd be a fucking martyr. Can't have that happen. Get his classmates to make "Potter Stinks" badges and then murder him. He's less of a liability that way.
Every family needs traditions. Now what are we going to do?
There, I just saved you 20 hours and $100 bucks.
Now go watch the new Winnie the Pooh movie or admit you hate America.
To #25: Hermione did not borrow the Time-Turner from Dumbledore; is that what the movie said? Because that's not true. I wouldn't know; I haven't seen the movies. Anyway, McGonagall got Hermione's Time-Turner approved by the Ministry so she could get to all her classes on time since she was taking more classes than possible. It is said that the Ministry is very strict about time-turners and McGonagall had to promise she would ONLY use it for classes, etc. So no, Dumbledore could not have used a time-turner whenever he wanted.
The End.
DD is probably the last person who would want to revisit the past, judging from his conversation with Harry in Kings Cross in book 7. And even if he had wanted to, he knew that he wasn't allowed to change anything, so what would have been the point?
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Yeah---what was up with Snape? He started looking like a crying raccoon at the end!
Thanks, Lindy!!